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The Torch

5:51 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

London 2012 Games Set A Viewership Record, At 219.4 Million

By Bill Chappell

It's nearly time to extinguish The Torch, and end NPR's little marathon of Olympic coverage. Before we do, we must note that the games have now become the most-watched television event in U.S. history, with a total of 219.4 viewers over 17 days of coverage.

Those high ratings push the London Games past Beijing 2008, which held the previous record of 215 million viewers. The number seems to include only NBC's TV audience, not mobile or online.

5:48 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

Thousands Of Hospitals Face Penalties For High Readmission Rates

Credit Lon Horwedel / AP

C.S. Mott Women and Children's Hospital is part of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Health System, one of the organizations Medicare is penalizing for its high readmission rate.

By editor

Originally published on Wed August 15, 2012 6:17 am

Medicare is cracking down on hospital readmissions in a way that is going to hurt the bottom line of facilities in most parts of the nation.

5:42 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

Google To Buy Frommer's Travel Guides

Credit Kimihiro Hoshino / AFP/Getty Images

Google will buy the Frommer's travel guides from John Wiley & Sons.

By Krishnadev Calamur

Google will buy the Frommer's travel guide from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the publishing company announced Monday.

5:36 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

Favored In GOP Senate Primary, Linda McMahon Faces Critics Left And Right

Credit Stephan Savoia / AP

Connecticut GOP Senate candidates Rep. Christopher Shays and Linda McMahon shake hands at a June 14 debate in Storrs. State Republicans vote Tuesday on which candidate will move on to the general election.

By editor

Originally published on Mon August 13, 2012 6:12 pm

Two years ago, Republican Linda McMahon ran for an open U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut, spent $50 million of her own money in the process, and lost.

In an otherwise Republican year, the former top executive at World Wrestling Entertainment was easily beaten by Democrat Richard Blumenthal.

Now, McMahon is trying again — running for the seat of outgoing Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent.

5:26 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

From Curiosity, Another Martian Landscape

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Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

This image of the crater wall is north of the landing site, or behind the rover. Here, a network of valleys believed to have formed by water erosion enters Gale Crater from the outside. This is the first view scientists have had of a fluvial system - one relating to a river or stream — from the surface of Mars.

Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

With the loose debris blasted away by the rockets, details of the underlying materials are clearly seen. Shown in the inset in the figure are pebbles up to 1.25 inches across (upper two arrows) and a larger clast 4 inches long protruding up by about 2 inches from the layer in which it is embedded.

By Eyder Peralta

NASA has released two more pictures from the Curiosity Mars rover.

One is a color image that shows that wall of the Gale Crater and the other is a close up shot of the area excavated by the rover's descent stage rocket engines.

We've posted the white-balanced version of the photos. In theory those should appear more like what Mars would look like if you were using your eyes.

4:55 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

Gabby Douglas Gets One More Gold, For Winning Facebook Fans

Credit Alex Grimm / Getty Images for adidas

Gabby Douglas sits in the Olympic Media Lounge at Westfield Stratford City in London. During the Olympics, Douglas' Facebook fanbase grew by nearly 4,000 percent.

By Bill Chappell

Originally published on Mon August 13, 2012 4:56 pm

They've been called the first "Social Games" — and the London Summer Olympics have delivered on that promise, making social stars out of athletes like gymnast Gabby Douglas, who saw her Facebook fanbase grow by nearly 4,000 percent during the games.

Gymnasts Marcel Nguyen and Jordyn Wieber were also among the big winners on Facebook, according to a research firm that tracked athletes' fan numbers during the games.

4:51 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

'Cosmo' Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies At 90

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Credit G. Paul Burnett / AP

When Helen Gurley Brown took the reins at Cosmo in 1965, it was a foundering monthly known for fiction. She remained at the helm for more than 30 years. Here, Brown poses at her office in New York in September 1985.

Credit Marty Lederhandler / AP

Brown holds the last copy of Cosmo she edited, in January 1997.

By editor

Originally published on Tue August 14, 2012 5:22 pm

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Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died Monday in New York at age 90.

If Cosmo was her biggest legacy, it was her 1962 best-seller, Sex and the Single Girl, that launched her to fame. She was 40, with a high-paying job in advertising and a recent marriage to Hollywood producer David Brown.

But she was writing for the single girls, not her privileged peers, says Jennifer Scanlon, author of a Brown biography called Bad Girls Go Everywhere.

San Francisco Symphony

Since its beginning in 1911, the San Francisco Symphony has been known for innovative programs that offer a spectrum of traditional repertory and new music. Today, the Orchestra's artistic vitality, recordings, and groundbreaking multimedia educational projects, carry its impact throughout American musical life.

"At a time when America's major orchestras are struggling to define their missions and maintain audiences, the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas is an exception."
--The New York Times

Co-founder and President of WCLV, Robert is the dean of orchestra commentators, having been the host for the broadcasts of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1965. Research indicates that Robert has been the continuous commentator for an orchestra broadcast series longer than anyone else in the history of American radio. Also, he hosts Weekend Radio (Saturdays at 10:00 pm on WCLV), a unique and award-winning conglomeration of comedy and light classical music heard on some 80 radio stations throughout the country.

Alec Baldwin hosts the New York Philharmonic. He last appeared on stage in The Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2004 Broadway revival of Hecht and MacArthur’s The Twentieth Century. His other stage appearances include Gross Points (Bay Street Theatre, 2001). His Broadway credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Gregory Mosher (Tony Nomination), Joe Orton’s Loot, directed by John Tillinger (Theatre World Award), and Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money. Baldwin's Off-Broadway appearances include Macbeth, in the 1998 New York Shakespeare Festival production, directed by George C. Wolf, Prelude to a Kiss at Circle Rep, directed by Norman Rene (Obie Award), and David Mamet’s Life in the Theatre at the Hartman, directed by A.J. Antoon.

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