Usain Bolt Wins Gold In 100 Meters, Setting Olympic Record At London Games (PHOTOS)

Jamaica's Usain Bolt crosses the finish line to win gold in the men's 100-meter final during the athletics competition in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan) Usain Bolt is back. Racing against a star-studded field in which every qualifier ran faster than 10 seconds in the semifinal, Bolt successfully defended his 2008 gold medal in the 100 meters by setting ...

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How To Burn Calories Like An Olympian

A week into London's 2012 Olympic games, we at Healthy Living are hooked, watching live streams from our desks andre-watching the broadcasts from the couch at night. But while we've been, um, sitting, our favorite athletes have been torching serious calories on their way to the medal stand. Not to state the obvious, but as those flawless abs, strong shoulders and rock-solid thighs illustrate, our Olympians are intip top ...

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Michelle Rounds Desmoid Tumors: Rosie O'Donnell's Fiancee's Condition, Explained

Michelle Rounds, fiancee of Rosie O'Donnell, is recovering after undergoing surgery for desmoid tumors, according to news reports. People magazine reported that Rounds hadthe surgery in June. The couple has decided to postpone their wedding until next summer because of Rounds's illness, O'Donnell wrote on her blog. "Desmoid tumors, odd and curious beasts, strong and sneaky, a non cancer that acts cancerous," O'Donnell wrote ...

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Twitter And Facebook Might Soon Replace Traditional Teacher Professional Development

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Twitter and Facebook might soon replace traditional professional development for teachers. Instead of enduring hours-long workshops a few times a year, teachers could reach out to peers on the Internet in real time for advice on things like planning a lesson (or salvaging a lesson that's going wrong), overcoming classroom management problems, or helping students ...

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L.A. Community High School Closing: USC Students Launch Indiegogo Campaign To Keep It Open

Two University of Southern California students have launched an Indiegogo campaign in hopes of raising $10,000 by Aug. 10 so Los Angeles Community High School will be able to reopen for the 2012-13 school year and continue to serve its 35 students. Located in Watts -- an area that ranks among the worst in California in school dropout rate, crime and poverty -- L.A. Community High School is a private credentialed ...

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Spiral Galaxy, Supernovas Shown In ESO PHOTO Of NGC 1187

By: SPACE.com StaffPublished: 08/01/2012 10:59 AM EDT on SPACE.com A scintillating spiral galaxy that played host to two supernova explosions in the past 30 years takes center stage in a new image captured by a telescope in Chile's high desert. The galaxy NGC 1187 is located about 60 million light-years away, in the constellation of Eridanus (The River). The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile captured the most ...

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Mars Rover: Crash Of Curiosity Would Throw NASA's Red Planet Program Into Doubt

By: Mike WallPublished: 08/04/2012 09:18 AM EDT on SPACE.com If NASA's newest Mars rover doesn't touch down safely Sunday night (Aug. 5), the future of Red Planet exploration could be thrown into serious doubt. The 1-ton Curiosity rover's main goal is to determine if Mars can, or ever could, support microbial life. But the huge robot is also carrying the hopes and dreams of NASA's venerable Mars program on its back to some extent, so a ...

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Ryan Lochte's Parents Face Foreclosure In Florida

DELAND, Fla. -- The parents of U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte are facing foreclosure in Florida. According to a lawsuit filed in May in Volusia County, CitiMortgage is suing to foreclose on Steven and Ileana Lochte. The bank is seeking to recoup $250,000. The news was first reported by TMZ. Court records show that Ileana Lochte asked the court to dismiss the case last month. Messages left Saturday for her attorney were not immediately ...

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London 2012: What It's Like To Cover The Olympics From New York

NEW YORK — Between Olympic soccer matches, NBC analyst Marcelo Balboa fields texts and emails from friends who ask him, "How's London?" He wouldn't know. The three-time World Cup participant turned sportscaster is one of many at NBC covering the Olympics from a cubby equipped with a television monitor in New York, one of a warren of them lined up in the studio where "Saturday Night Live" usually originates. NBC has a team of 650 people ...

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NBC: 'No Offense Was Intended' By Commercial That Played After Gabby Douglas Win

NBC says no offense was intended by a poorly timed promotional ad featuring a monkey on gymnastics rings that aired on the network directly following a commentary by Bob Costas on Gabby Douglas' gold medal inspiring other African-American girls to take up the sport. The gymnastics-themed ad for the upcoming NBC comedy "Animal Practice" was specifically timed to run late Thursday night following the women's gold medal competition. NBC said it was scheduled to run before the network knew about Costas' commentary. "Much of America has fallen in love with Gabby Douglas," Costas said. "Also safe ...

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Mihaela Ursuleasa Dead: Renowned Romanian Pianist Dies At 33

BERLIN — Internationally renowned Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa has been found dead in her apartment in the Austrian capital, Vienna. She was 33. The musician's agent, Andreea Butucariu, said in a statement from Berlin Friday that Ursuleasa had died on Thursday from the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage and asked for her family's privacy to be respected. Police in Vienna confirmed the cause of death. Butucariu told Romanian media ...

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18th-Century Mummies Help Medical Researchers Study Tuberculosis In Hungary (PHOTOS)

One of the 265 mummies which is resting in cardboard box in the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, Hungary. BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — One wears a prim white bonnet. Another sticks out its tongue, hands resting over abdomen. A third clutches at its chest, mouth seemingly frozen in a scream. They are faces from the past, trapped in the appearance they bore when laid to rest nearly 300 years ago. And disturbed from their eternal ...

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Derek McGlone, Teacher, Tries To Get Out Of Work By Lying That He Ran Over And Killed A Girl With His Car

Music teacher Derek McGlone, 42, lied to school officials, saying that he had just run over a girl with his car, in order to get off work for the day. There's faking sick, and then there's telling your employers that you just killed a small child. 42-year-old teacher Derek McGlone was well known at Calderhead High School in Scotland for making up stories to get out of work, the Telegraph reports. At an August 1 hearing ...

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Eric Glisson, Convicted Of Murdering Baith Diop, Says He Was Wrongfully Convicted

Eric Glisson (R), 37, with his attorney, Peter Cross, at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York. NEW YORK -- Earlier this year, a man locked up more than 15 years for murder wrote federal prosecutors in Manhattan telling them what he'd said all along and what authorities hear from inmates all the time: that he was wrongly convicted. But in this instance, Eric Glisson also named members of a violent drug gang he suggested were the ...

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Child Porn Ring Uncovered Using Stuffed Toy Bunny

These undated booking photos, taken by the national police in The Netherlands and provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, show Robert Mikelsons, who was sentenced in Amsterdam on May 21, 2012, to 18 years in prison for abusing dozens of babies and toddlers. A child pornography investigation, which began when a Massachusetts man sent a photo of a young Dutch boy to an undercover federal agent in Boston, led to the arrests of 43 ...

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