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Ground Zero

Steve Miller's existential moment came on the 55th floor of 2 World Trade Center, where he paused on the way down from his 80th-floor office just long enough to use the men's room. It was a little past 9 a.m. on Tuesday; 15 minutes earlier, a 767 had flown into the north face of the neighboring 110-story tower and burst into flames, sending Miller and most of his colleagues straight for the exit signs.

Los Angeles Times to lay off significant number of employees, union says | Media News

LA Times Guild announces one-day walk-out to protest planned layoffs. The Los Angeles Times is planning to lay off a “significant” number of journalists, the newspaper’s union has said, becoming the latest media outlet to shed employees in an era of collapsing advertising revenues. The LA Times Guild said that it would organise a one-day walk-out on Friday to oppose the planned layoffs. “The management of the Los Angeles Times has announced that it intends to imminently lay off a significant number of journalists, and is asking the Guild to gut seniority protections in our union contract so they have vastly more freedom to pick whom to lay off,” the guild said in a statement on Thursday.

Oscars: Stars Bringing Family Members Over the Years

A family affair! Jonah Hill, Jared Leto and more celebrities have walked the Oscars red carpet with their parents and siblings. The 22 Jump Street star brought his mom, Sharon Lyn, to the Academy Awards in 2014. “She’s flirting with Bradley [Cooper], Channing [Tatum], and everybody,” the actor joked with ABC at the time. “It’s kind of a disaster.” Lyn chimed in, “He’s so cute!” Earlier that same month, the Los Angeles native told David Letterman that the fashion designer had “gotten a little carried away with the pride” in her son’s success.

This is why onions make you cry and five ways to stop it happening

EVEN the most hardened people around have come a cropper thanks to the humble onion. It doesn't matter how happy you're feeling, all it takes is a particularly pungent version and as soon as you start chopping it'll have you in floods of tears. The reason onions make you cry is because they contain molecules called amino acid sulfoxides. When you cut into them the molecules are released and they form a type of acid.