http://manticeye.com/ Mantic eye is a diverse source with a wide selection of news reports, analysis, theories, opinions, historical documents, buried truths, and biographical profiles... en-us Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:27:35 GMT Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:27:35 GMT info@manticeye.com info@manticeye.com pMachine 2.4 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://manticeye.com/RSSlogo.jpg http://manticeye.com/ Mantic eye is a diverse source with a wide selection of news reports, analysis, theories, opinions, historical documents, buried truths, and biographical profiles... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1300_0_2_0_C A-list movie stars have long been measured by their ability to fill theaters on opening weekend. But never have so many failed to deliver, resulting in some rare soul-searching by motion picture studios about why the old formula isn’t working - and a great deal of anxiety among stars (and agents) about the potential vaporization of their $20 million paychecks. "The cratering of films with big stars is astounding,"said Peter Guber, the former chairman of Sony Pictures who is now... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1300_0_2_0_C Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:21:35 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1299_0_8_0_C I know, this is personal and with so much substantive news going on today, it really means nothing in the big picture. However, to me, it means more than words can express. I'm scared. My insurance company has priced me out entirely. It was awful before, but now I've lost even my 30 hours a week employment, so I have no hope of procuring health insurance. Whatever happens with reform is not going to be in time to help me. With all my heart, I fervently desire that something... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1299_0_8_0_C Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:09:37 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1298_0_2_0_C International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category, deeming them as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas. For years, scientists have described tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation as "probable carcinogens." A new analysis of about 20 studies concludes the risk of skin cancerjumps by 75 percent when people start using tanning beds before age 30. Experts also found that all types of ultraviolet... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1298_0_2_0_C Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:21:21 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1297_0_3_0_C An object, probably a comet that nobody saw coming, plowed into the giant planet’s colorful cloud tops sometime Sunday, splashing up debris and leaving a black eye the size of the Pacific Ocean. This was the second time in 15 years that this had happened. The whole world was watching when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fell apart and its pieces crashed into Jupiter in 1994, leaving Earth-size marks that persisted up to a year. That’s Jupiter doing its cosmic job, astronomers like to say. Better... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1297_0_3_0_C Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:22:06 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1296_0_8_0_C Dear Mr. President: I am writing you today because I am outraged at the notion of involving government in healthcare decisions like they do in other countries. I believe healthcare decisions should be between myself and my doctor. Well, that is not strictly true. I believe healthcare decisions should be between myself, my doctor, and my insurance company, which provides me a list of which doctors I can see, which specialists I can see, and has a strict policy outlining when I can and... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1296_0_8_0_C Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:00:28 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1295_0_8_0_C A young Iranian woman named Neda is gunned down in one of the most iconic images of the last week. Another walks down the street, defiantly showing off her hair and body in a revealing dress. And still another woman says she's not scared of paramilitary forces -- no matter how many times she gets beaten. Women have taken to the streets of Tehran. "This shows the new face of Iran," one expert says. "When they want to hit me, I say hit. I have been hit so many times and... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1295_0_8_0_C Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:26:47 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1294_0_8_0_C It was not, to put it mildly, a new technology I found impressive. Twitter, the social networking website, allows for only a tiny number of characters to be broadcast in each “tweet”, or message, and much of the early tweeting was being done by bored teens or Hollywood celebrities: the illiterate speaking to the impatient. When Ashton Kutcher, the film star and avid tweeter, opined the following in April, I couldn’t stop laughing: “Years from now, when historians reflect on the time we... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1294_0_8_0_C Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:27:56 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1293_0_8_0_C Americans strongly support fundamental changes to the healthcare system and a move to create a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll published on Saturday. The poll came amid mounting opposition to plans by the Obama administration and its allies in the Democratic-controlled Congress to push through the most sweeping restructuring of the U.S. healthcare system since the end of World War Two. Republicans and... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1293_0_8_0_C Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:12:29 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1292_0_2_0_C Among the demonstrators who joined Thursday's protest in Tehran in support of pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi was a 29-year-old engineering graduate. Reached on the telephone by Associated Press correspondent Lee Keath in the United States, he spoke on condition of anonymity because he said he feared retaliation from the government. Foreign news organizations have been barred from reporting on Tehran's streets. Today most of the people wore black. It was a largely silent... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1292_0_2_0_C Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:56:00 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1291_0_8_0_C In 2007, medical problems and expenses contributed to nearly two-thirds of all bankruptcies in the United States, a jump of nearly 50 percent from 2001, new research has found. Since the data used in the study were collected prior to the current economic downturn, it's likely that the current rate of medical-related bankruptcies is even higher, said the researchers at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University. They randomly surveyed 2,314 bankruptcy filers in... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1291_0_8_0_C Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:53:54 GMT