2008年11月11日星期二

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Gov't wants to change course of forest experiments (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 03:14 AM CST

Ram Oren, an associate professor of ecology at Duke University, stands atop an observation tower overlooking the Duke Forest in Durham, N.C., Sept. 29, 2008, where he oversees a long-standing experiment measuring how elevated levels of carbon dioxide expected under global warming will affect forests. The U.S. Department of Energy is changing course on the research, prompting some climate scientists to say an opportunity is being missed to improve the accuracy of climate change models. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)AP - For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years.

Hawaii's quarter marks end of nationwide program (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 02:49 AM CST

Quarters commemorating the state of Hawaii are shown on Friday, Nov. 7, 2008, in Honolulu. The Hawaii quarter is the last of the 50 state quarters to be released during the decade-old program because Hawaii was the final state to join the union. As with all quarters, the face of the Hawaii quarters will feature a profile of George Washington. But the rear displays King Kamehameha I and the eight Hawaiian Islands. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - Still reveling in the election of the first Hawaii-born U.S. president, the islands marked the issuance of its state quarter — the last in the 50-state quarter program.

Amid poor economy, even mighty Harvard struggling (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:22 AM CST

This undated photo released by the Harvard Law School shows Langdell Hall at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/ Harvard Law School)AP - Despite amassing an almost $37 billion endowment, Harvard University is warning that the economic slowdown has reached America's richest university.

Ex-Wash. priest agrees to pay abuse victims $5M (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 09:11 PM CST

AP - A former priest accused in many of the child sex-abuse claims that bankrupted the eastern Washington Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $5 million to victims, who'll likely never be paid.

Exclusive Yellowstone Club files for bankruptcy (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 08:53 PM CST

AP - The Yellowstone Club, an exclusive mountain retreat for the ultra-rich, said it filed for bankruptcy Monday after failing to secure new financing — underscoring that even the elite can't escape the country's current economic troubles.

Dallas nixes 2 proposals to name road for Chavez (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 07:21 PM CST

AP - An effort to rename one of two Dallas streets for Cesar Chavez failed Monday, but the city plans to find another road to name after the late labor and civil rights activist.

Police: Slaying of NY immigrant was a hate crime (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 06:18 PM CST

AP - Seven high school students looking "to beat up some Mexicans" attacked an immigrant from Ecuador on a Long Island street, with one of them fatally plunging a knife into the man's chest during the brawl, police said.

Gag order in case of boy charged with killing 2 (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:19 AM CST

Attendees of Vincent Romero's funeral service stand together around the hearse as Romero's casket is carried from St. John the Baptist church in St. Johns, Ariz., on Monday morning, Nov. 10, 2008. Romero's son, eight-years-old, has been charged in the death of his father and another man in their home earlier this week. (AP Photo by Dana Felthauser)AP - An 8-year-old boy charged in the shooting deaths of his father and another man appeared in handcuffs at a court hearing, drawing tears from some in the audience, and the judge slapped a gag order on the shocking case.

Jewish group wants Mormons to stop proxy baptisms (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 05:41 PM CST

Holocaust survivors Ernest Michel, 85, left, and Roman Kent, 83, look at a list of Holocaust victims who were posthumously baptized following a news conference in New York, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. Michel, honorary chairman of the America Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Kent, the group's chairman, said they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps. The pair are standing beside photograph of Michel's family arriving at Auschwitz. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.

Group finds, buries remains of forgotten veterans (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 02:55 PM CST

The remains of four war veterans are saluted by a military guard during a ceremony with full military honors at the Vermont Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Randolph , Vt., Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. The remains were located by the Missing in America Project , a national nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying and honoring the unclaimed remains of American veterans. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - In World War II, Samuel Mazur was a tail gunner on a B-17 bomber that flew over Europe.

New Times Square ball to hang around for Halloween (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 06:54 PM CST

Doug Lehman helps to attach the last pieces of Waterford crystal to the 2008 New Year's Eve ball in Yonkers, N.Y. on Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. This year's ball is 12 feet in diameter - double last year's, weighs 11,875 pounds and is lit by more than 32,000 LEDs shining through 2,668 pieces of crystal. As opposed to the previous ones, this will remain on the top of Times Square providing a year-round attraction. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Next month, it'll be the famous New Year's Eve ball. Next year, it could be the Great Pumpkin.

Closing arguments begin in Hamas financing retrial (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 07:03 PM CST

AP - A Muslim charity funneled more than $12 million to Palestinian schools and charities controlled by the militant group Hamas, prosecutors said in closing arguments Monday at the charity's second trial for allegedly financing terrorism.

Hawaii switching to digital TV early for the birds (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 05:54 PM CST

AP - Hawaii will switch to digital TV faster than the rest of the country to make way for an endangered, volcano-dwelling bird.

Report: Government must revise wild horse program (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 07:24 PM CST

AP - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management needs to consider euthanizing wild horses or selling many of them to reduce spiraling costs of keeping them in long-term holding pens, said a government report Monday.

Suicide evidence likely out of MySpace hoax trial (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 03:41 PM CST

AP - Prosecutors in the trial of a woman accused of a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to kill herself will likely be prohibited from presenting evidence of the suicide, a federal judge said Monday.

Ohio homeowner who found money in walls bankrupt (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 03:21 PM CST

This undated handout photo supplied by Bob Kitts shows money he found at a home in Cleveland. The discovery amounted to little more than grief for Kitts, who couldn't agree on how to split the money with homeowner Amanda Reece. (AP Photo, Bob Kitts)AP - A Cleveland woman who ended up in a feud over $182,000 in Depression-era currency found in the walls of her home has filed for bankruptcy.

Ohio woman who made up kidnapping admits to theft (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 04:06 PM CST

AP - A former Toledo, Ohio, lawyer who made up a story about being kidnapped after a client accused her of stealing his money has admitted she took $624,000 from about two dozen people.

Informant: 2 Fort Dix suspects weren't in on plot (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 04:33 PM CST

This artist's drawing shows defendants Shain Duka, bottom left, Eljvir Duka, Dritan Duka, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer and Serdar Tatar in a federal courtroom in Camden, N.J., Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. Opening arguments were presented Monday in their trial on charges the five men were planning to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The suspects were arrested in May 2007 and are accused of attempted murder, conspiracy to murder uniformed military personnel and weapons offenses. U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler is seen top center. (AP Photo/Shirley Shepard)AP - The government's star witness in the case against five men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers at the Army's Fort Dix said two of the men "had nothing to do" with the scheme.

Studies: Elderly fare well in open-heart surgery (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 04:49 PM CST

AP - Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of much younger people, new studies show.

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