2009年5月30日星期六

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Study: Drug combos may raise breast cancer risk (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 01:13 PM PDT

AP - Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows.

Immune system taught to fight deadly skin cancer (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 02:00 PM PDT

In this Wednesday May 27, 2009 photo, Dr. Patrick Hwu, left, talks with his cancer patient Hilde Stapleton during an examination at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stapleton has been receiving an experimental treatment for melanoma. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - For the first time, a novel treatment that trains the immune system to fight cancer has shown modest benefit in late-stage testing against the deadly skin cancer melanoma.

FEMA working to move Gulf Coast trailer-dwellers (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 02:48 PM PDT

Nancy Menne poses outside her Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailer in New Orleans, Louisiana May 20, 2009. Menne has been living here since August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina swamped her home in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans in 9 feet (3 metres) of water. Come May 30, the deadline for the FEMA to repossess the trailers, Menne may be sleeping in her truck. REUTERS/Lee Celano (UNITED STATES DISASTER POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - The only thing keeping Gerard Rigney from getting back into his home is the FEMA trailer in his front yard.

Has economic twilight fallen on nation's Sun Belt? (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 02:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 8, 2009 file photo, Manhattan West, a stalled condominium project, stands unfinished behind a fence in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - We first heard the term decades ago: The "Sun Belt" was just starting a run of phenomenal growth — and no wonder. It conjured a sunny state of mind as well as a balmy place on the map.

Conn. lawmakers won't take up wild animal ban (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 12:01 PM PDT

AP - The Connecticut General Assembly won't take up a bill this session banning a long list of wild and potentially dangerous animals as pets.

Prince Harry plays polo match in NY for charity (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 11:40 AM PDT

Britain's Prince Harry (R) talks with Geoffrey Canada, the head of the school, during a tour of the Harlem Children's Zone school in the Harlem region of New York May 30, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES EDUCATION POLITICS ROYALS)AP - Prince Harry is playing polo in New York and following in his mother's footsteps by helping raise money for a charity for AIDS orphans.

New ID rules begin June 1 for Mexico, Canada trips (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 12:23 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 29, 2008 file photo shows an electronic message board warning those crossing the border at the San Ysidro Border Crossing Tuesday Jan. 29, 2008 in San Diego of the new rules for crossing the border. New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States' northern and southern borders are taking effect Monday, as some rue the tightening of security and others hail it as long overdue. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)AP - New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States' northern and southern borders are taking effect Monday, as some rue the tightening of security and others hail it as long overdue.

Anticipated hurricanes leaving consumers exposed (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 11:10 AM PDT

Chart shows the financial cost in damages of the top 10 hurricanes to hit the U.S.AP - As the 2009 hurricane season arrives, many homeowners are finding insurance is either more expensive, or harder to get.

Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 11:24 AM PDT

Map shows proposed barriers to protect New York City from storm surgesAP - When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list.

Paying taxes comes back to bite illegal immigrants (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 10:02 AM PDT

Horacio Arturo Cervantes, 42, poses for a photograph at his home in Greeley, Colo., on Monday, May 3, 2009. Cervantes, from Mexico was honest about paying his taxes even though he was in the U.S. illegally. The seizure of his tax records led to his arrest and now he is facing deportation charges. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Immigrant advocates say they've seen nothing like it before or since: A prosecutor looking for illegal immigrants seized thousands of confidential tax records from an income tax preparer popular with Hispanics in this northern Colorado city.

Quick-thinking pizza man leads cops to rape victim (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 09:06 AM PDT

Pizza deliveryman Chris Turner is photographed Friday, May 29, 2009 outside the Capelli's Pizza and Subs shop in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Turner helped rescue an Atlanta woman who had been kidnapped and raped when he saw her during a delivery to a rental cabin Tuesday, May 26, 2009 and called police. Turner said that he noticed the woman pop up from a couch while her abductor signed the credit card slip. (AP Photo/Duncan Mansfield)AP - Chris Turner normally wouldn't drive into the remote Tennessee mountains just to deliver a pizza. The one time he did, he came upon a scene that drained the color from his face and made him "numb from head to toe" — a woman with her hands tied, silently begging him to call 911.

2 murderers escape Ark. prison in guard uniforms (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 10:07 AM PDT

AP - Two convicted murderers put on corrections-officer uniforms and walked out of an Arkansas prison during a shift change, officials said Saturday as they searched for the men.

Hundreds march for gay marriage in central Calif. (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 10:46 AM PDT

Attorney David Boies (2nd L) addresses a news conference announcing a federal lawsuit to halt California's same-sex marriage ban, in Los Angeles May 27, 2009. Ted Olson and Boies, who squared off in the legal case that determined the 2000 U.S. presidential election joined forces on Wednesday to ask a federal court to stop the ban, despite warnings from gay rights advocates not to mount a federal challenge. Also present were Chad Griffin (L), board president of American Foundation for Equal Rights, plaintiffs Jeffrey Zarrillo (2nd R) and Paul Katami (R). REUTERS/ Fred ProuserAP - Hundreds of same-sex couples are marching through dusty California farm towns in the state's conservative center to kick off the latest front in the battle over gay marriage.

Oklahoma druggist arrested for killing holdup man (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 07:46 AM PDT

Jerome Ersland is lead to the courtroom by Oklahoma County sheriff deputies for a bond hearing at the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City, Thursday, May 28, 2009. Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away. Then, in a scene recorded by the drugstore's security camera, he went behind the counter, got another gun, and pumped five more bullets into the wounded teenager as he lay on the floor. Now Ersland has been charged with first-degree murder in a case that has stirred a furious debate over vigilante justice and self-defense and turned the pharmacist into something of a folk hero. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul B. Southerland)AP - Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away. Then, in a scene recorded by the drugstore's security camera, he went behind the counter, got another gun, and pumped five more bullets into the wounded teenager as he lay on the floor.

Hormone pills may make lung cancer more deadly (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 11:08 AM PDT

AP - There's more troubling news about hormone therapy for menopause symptoms: Lung cancer seems more likely to prove fatal in women who are taking estrogen-progestin pills, a study suggests.

Washington ponders who its Real Housewives will be (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 11:16 AM PDT

FILE-This undated file photo released by NBC shows, from left-right, Lisa Wu Hartwell, Sheree Whitfield, NeNe Leakes, DeShawn Snow and Kim Zolciak the cast of 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta.' (AP Photo/NBC,File)AP - Barack Obama has just named his pick for the Supreme Court and is still filling out the ranks of his administration. But it's another casting process, also being conducted in the strictest secrecy, that's really got them whispering in Washington.

Civil War battlefield recovering after hurricanes (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 09:56 AM PDT

AP - The bronze likeness of Confederate Lt. Dick Dowling has survived two hurricanes in the last five years, as against the odds as the few dozen rebel Texas soldiers he led to victory against a huge Union force almost 150 years ago.

Terrorist flees to Lebanon, FBI confirms (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 06:23 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file artist sketch, originally provided in March 2009 by the FBI, shows a likeness of master bomb maker Abu Ibrahim, whose real name is Husayn al-Umari. A master bomb maker who once targeted commercial airliners and was suspected of aiding the Iraq insurgency has fled to Lebanon, an FBI official confirmed Friday, May 29, 2009. (AP Photo/FBI, File)AP - A master bomb maker who once targeted commercial airliners and was suspected of aiding the Iraq insurgency has fled to Lebanon, an FBI official has confirmed.

SC manual labels former black speakers as 'Negro' (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 07:47 AM PDT

AP - The official manual of South Carolina's Legislature continues to label some of the state's former politicians as "Negro" or "scalawag" — apparent remnants of disgruntlement over Reconstruction that are drawing fresh scrutiny.

Pa. woman held in abduction hoax freed on $1M bail (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 03:38 PM PDT

This image provided by the Orange County Florida Sheriffs department shows the booking photo of Bonnie Sweeten. Sweeten and her daughter, Julia Rakoczy, were taken into custody Wednesday night , May 27, 2009, at the Grand Floridian Hotel in Orlando, Bucks County District Attorney Michelle Henry said. The woman at the center of an abduction hoax that began near Philadelphia and ended at Disney World faces a hearing Friday May 29, 2009 to determine whether she will head back home to face charges. The 38-year-old woman from Bucks County, Pa., has been charged with filing a false report and identity theft. (AP Photo/Orange County Sheriff's Department)AP - A woman accused of staging an abduction hoax that began near Philadelphia and ended at Florida's Walt Disney World was released on $1 million bail, authorities said Saturday.

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