Blame the potato chip. It’s the biggest demon behind that pound-a-year weight creep that plagues many of us, a major diet study found. Bigger than soda, candy and ice cream.
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A middle-income family could spend an average of $226,920 to raise a child born in 2010 to the age of 18, the US Department of Agriculture reported yesterday.
There are 304,805 letters in the Torah. The Jewish holy book that was specially commissioned for Chabad Jewish Community Center of Riverside is missing only 98.
Aharon (ben Michoel) Chazan (Crown Heights) and Leah (bas Simcha) Piekarski (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
Ilyas Kashmiri, one of al-Qaida’s most active leaders, has been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region, locals, officials and spokesman of the dreaded ‘313 Brigade’ said on Saturday.
A massive and unprecedented outbreak of bacterial infections linked to contaminated vegetables claimed two more lives in Europe on Tuesday, driving the death toll to 16. The number of sick rose to more than 1,150 people in at least eight nations.
Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same “carcinogenic hazard” category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.
Goldman Sachs was proclaiming that oil was soon set soar to $135 a barrel and likely have US service stations jacking up fuel prices to $5 a gallon, just like the summer of 2008 that preceded the recession, the New York Post reported Sunday.
The website is awash with neo-Nazi symbolism and even sarcastically refers to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp as Austria’s largest open-air museum. But attempts to cripple the xenophobic “Alpen-Donau” forum have been hindered by the fact it’s housed on a U.S. server, an example of how free speech on one side of the Atlantic can help spread hate speech on the other.
Oklahoma City is in shambles following a series of tornadoes that plowed through the capital city and its environs around rush hour Tuesday evening.
Electrical impulses sent to a paralyzed man’s spinal cord allow him to walk again, researchers say. Rob Summers, 25, can voluntarily move his feet and hips and walk on a treadmill with support, in what could be a major breakthrough for the treatment of paralysis.
Crownheights.info presents the widest parade coverage. These full dimension photos will allow you to view the parade from stage, on a car and even from inside a float.
AT&T are ’systematically overcharging’ up to 20 million Americans who use their iPhone or iPad to access data on the go, an investigation has uncovered.
At the central Lag B’omer bonfire on Kingston Avenue at Wingate Highschool, local photographer Chaim Perl captured the massive scene in a single 360 degree photo!
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