May goes down as Earth’s hottest on record: NASA
WASHINGTON — May’s temperatures broke global records yet again, as the northern hemisphere finishes its hottest spring on record, statistics released Tuesday by NASA showed.
Second study this week links whole grains with long life
BUMPING up whole grain intake even slightly may lower the risk of death from heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases, according to review published Tuesday in The BMJ.
McDo stresses strength after heartbreak
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Nanette Franco-Diyco
THE NEWEST McDonald’s television commercial is a far cry from the happy adult situations that have captivated many of us month after month. Director Joel Limchoc states that “pain is something that is not often tackled in commercials. Most of the time, we paint a picture of the ideal, and present that as a reality. That’s not an indictment of ads: it’s just something that is.”
The Manilay Ancestral House, a goldmine of the rusty, chipped, and vintage
By Maya M. Padillo
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Apart from tuna, they say there’s nothing more to see in this city. But that is not necessarily so, because sprawling in a half hectare property in the downtown area is a goldmine of valuable things that are rusty, weathered, chipped, and vintage.
Pixar’s Finding Dory banks on Nemo’s enduring appeal
MONTEREY — With the phenomenal box office achievements of Finding Nemo a fading memory, Pixar is attempting to succeed where many studios have failed — with a hit sequel years after the original.
The Kamasutra, froggy style
PARIS, FRANCE — The Bombay night frog, scientists revealed Tuesday, favors a mating position previously unknown among the amphibian group’s 7,000 species, only the seventh catalogued in what might be called the Kamasutra for frogs.
Health tips for a happier, healthier you
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
WHILE aware that health is wealth, in pursuit of worldly wealth we sacrifice our wellness, thinking that perhaps money can buy anything including fitness. But it can’t. Not really.
How macho ads for assault rifles might backfire
By Erik Larson, Bloomberg
“FORCES OF OPPOSITION bow down. You are single-handedly outnumbered.” That’s how one advertisement reads for a semiautomatic rifle made by Bushmaster, whose AR-15 is increasingly the gun of choice for America’s mass shooters, including the suspect in Sunday’s massacre at a gay dance club in Orlando, Florida. “Consider your man card reissued,” another one reads, the text adjacent to a black AR-15 against a stark white background. The bright red logo of the gun’s maker stands out: a red cobra coiled around a rifle, bearing its fangs.
Spain, the El Dorado of fertility treatment
MADRID — “Making parents out of our patients,” reads an ad in Madrid’s metro for one of Spain’s many fertility clinics that have opened their doors to husbands and wives, same-sex couples and single women thanks to lenient laws.