BALLPENS AND UMBRELLAS may be the usual giveaways at seminars or corporate parties, but what’s in nowadays is giving something more personal, perhaps more useful, and definitely more thought about — like homemade biscuits.
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.
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.
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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.”
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.
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.
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.
