2009年9月5日星期六

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Naked Cowboy drops bid to become NYC mayor (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:52 PM PDT

FILE- In this March 2, 2009 file photo, Robert Burck, a.k.a. the 'Naked Cowboy,' sings while standing on a small clear patch of concrete in the middle of Times Square in New York. Burck, who threw his hat into New York City's mayoral race in July 2009, is dropping out. Burck says the only way to be taken seriously is to appear in a suit and tie. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)AP - The Naked Cowboy of Times Square says he's dropping out of the race for mayor of New York City.

Some Catholic bishops question gov't health care (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:38 PM PDT

This Aug. 24, 2009 photo shows a copy of a news magazine addressing the current debate over health care in the United States sitting on a chair as Dr. Marius Laumans, left, talks to his patient Lynnette Drake, right, at a Group Health facility in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have taken a consistent line on a health care overhaul: It's vital, but they cannot support proposals that go too far in covering abortion and not far enough in protecting health workers who don't want to provide that procedure.

Garrido's mental state likely to be issue at trial (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 10:45 AM PDT

File - In this file photo taken Thursday Aug. 27, 2009 and provided by the El Dorado County Sheriff's office shows Phillip Garrido. In the days before his arrest, cracks showed in the elaborate facade authorities say Phillip Garrido built to conceal the girl he kidnapped, raped and imprisoned and those cracks were of Garrido's own making. The registered sex offender and parolee hand-delivered to the FBI's San Francisco office on Aug. 24 a screed declaring that the voices he heard came from God. The next day, he took the two daughters he had with his alleged kidnap victim to the University of California, Berkeley, where he blurted out to already suspicious campus police officers that he was a convicted rapist. (AP Photo/El Dorado County Sheriffs, File)AP - In the days before his arrest, cracks showed in the elaborate facade authorities say Phillip Garrido built to conceal the girl he kidnapped, raped and imprisoned — and those cracks were of Garrido's own making.

L.A. man left 'piece of heaven,' returned to hell (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:35 PM PDT

Lew Johnson, 74, a real estate broker, and his employee Avianna Veneto survey the ruins as he returns for the first time to his home on Stonyvale Road in Big Tujunga Canyon in the Angeles National Forest, just outside the Sunland area of Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - After five grueling days in bush planes and on horseback, 74-year-old Lew Johnson was returning from the forests of British Columbia with his prize â€" a cooler full of meat from a 43 1/2-inch spread moose in the bed of his pickup.

Christian couples staying faithful online (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:38 PM PDT

AP - Lance Maggiacomo was out of work, bored and lonely when he started hiding his online relationships from his wife.

Missing boy found alive, hidden at grandma's home (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 09:14 AM PDT

In this Aug. 2007 photo provided by Michael Chekevdia, Richard Chekevdia, right, poses with his father Michael Chekevdia at a wedding in West Frankfort, Ill. Authorities say the boy, allegedly abducted in a custody dispute two years ago, has been found alive, hidden behind a wall at his grandmother's southern Illinois home. Franklin County authorities found 6-year-old Richard Chekevdia on Friday, Aug. 4, 2009 in a small room hidden behind a wall in Diane Dobbs' rural home. The boy's mother, Shannon Wilfong, is charged with felony child abduction. Dobbs is charged with aiding and abetting. (AP Phoito/Chekevdia Family)AP - A boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute nearly two years ago has turned up alive, hiding with his mother in a small, specially built secret room at his grandmother's Illinois home, investigators said.

Small plane crashes into Okla. park, 5 dead (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:49 PM PDT

AP - A small aircraft plummeted into an Oklahoma park and burst into flames on Saturday after hitting a guide wire from a communications tower, killing all five people on board, investigators said.

Debts closing in on photographer Annie Leibovitz (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:49 PM PDT

FILE- In this Oct. 9, 2007 file photo, photographer Annie Leibovitz speaks about her portrait of Queen Elizabeth II at her gallery exhibition, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005, during a press preview of the exhibit at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington. Leibovitz, who has photographed musicians, presidents and Hollywood glitterati, is in danger of losing the copyright to her vast body of work if she doesn't pay back a $24 million loan by Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP - Annie Leibovitz's artsy, provocative portraits of celebrities regularly grace the covers of Vanity Fair and Vogue, images that have made her as famous as her subjects and earned her millions.

Astronauts take mission's 3rd and final spacewalk (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:10 PM PDT

In this image provided by NASA astronaut John 'Danny' Olivas participates in the mission's second session of extravehicular activity Thursday Sept. 3, 2009 as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 39-minute spacewalk, Olivas and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang (out of frame) installed the new Ammonia Tank Assembly on the space station. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Two spacewalking astronauts took on a shelving job at the international space station Saturday in their final trek outside.

RI tent city residents moving again this summer (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 02:19 PM PDT

In this photo taken, Sept. 2, 2009, Mike MacEwen, 35, a resident of 'Camp Run-a-Muck,' a tent city located under the I-195 Washington Bridge in East Providence, R.I., since January 2009 rubs his head. Nine months after dozens of homeless formed a high-profile tent city called Camp Runamuck, residents prepared this weekend to leave a second campsite under an East Providence highway ahead of a Tuesday deadline to clear out. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Dozens of homeless who formed a high-profile tent city called Camp Runamuck are packing up and moving for the second time this summer, facing a Tuesday deadline to clear out their latest campsite under an East Providence highway bridge.

Transgender activist runs for mayor of Idaho town (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 11:29 AM PDT

This Aug. 29, 2009 photo shows Melissa Sue Robinson discussing her run for mayor at the Flying M coffee shop in Nampa, Idaho. Robinson, 58, was born male and still carries the slightly larger than average build of Charles Staelens Jr., who legally changed his name and underwent surgery in 1998 to become a woman. (AP Photo/Jessie L. Bonner)AP - About a block from a street concert in downtown Nampa, Melissa Sue Robinson strolls with purpose into a trendy coffee shop — the unofficial liberal embassy of this sprawling Republican stronghold in southwest Idaho.

Airborne car rips through 2nd floor of NY house (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 02:01 PM PDT

AP - Police say a drunken driver sped through a stop sign and hit an earthen mound before going airborne and smashing his Jeep into the second floor of a New York home.

Calif. kidnap suspect recorded love songs to girls (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 11:19 AM PDT

Phillip Garrido looks out at the courtroom during his arraignment on 28 felony counts stemming from the abduction of Jaycee Dugard,11, in 1991, in the El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. Garrido pleaded not guilty on charges including forciable abduction, rape, sexual assault and false imprisonment. At left is El Dorado County Public Defender Suan Gellman who represented Garrido.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido recorded love songs years ago that suggested he was fond of young girls, a former customer of Garrido's home-based printing business said.

Wash. health co-op part of health reform debate (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 01:53 PM PDT

This Aug. 24, 2009 photo shows Dr. Rosemary Beck, right, listening to the heart of Winona Smith, left, at a Group Health facility in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Group Health Cooperative was created in Washington state more than six decades ago, started up by members of local granges, unions and cooperatives who were inspired by a physician who had established America's first cooperative hospital in Elk City, Oklahoma.

After 8-year delay, VA program hopes to help vets (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 10:19 AM PDT

This Aug. 28, 2009 photo shows Vietnam veteran Bill Callahan talking to his service dog Tailor outside his home in Baytown, Texas. Callahan, a paraplegic, is working to get service dogs like Tailor for other injured servicemen. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - The drone of helicopters still haunts William Callahan decades after Vietnam combat left him paralyzed, but he said government bureaucracy stood in the way of getting the one thing that made the echoes stop and kept him independent: a service dog.

Abandoned mines can threaten homes, schools, roads (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 02:47 AM PDT

In this photo taken Aug 27, 2009, Gillespie School District superintendent Paul Skeans shows off cracks on the wall and floor inside the Benld Elementary School caused by mine subsidence and the ultimate condemning of the building in Benld, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - The way a few teachers tell it, the elementary school in the central Illinois farming town suddenly started giving off freakish cracking and popping sounds on a Saturday not too long ago. Walls sprouted lightning bolt-shaped cracks and floors buckled, dooming the building on a day no students thankfully were inside.

U.S. general: Afghan civilians wounded at bomb site (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 04:38 PM PDT

An Afghan soldier walks, near one of the two fuel tankers, seen in the back ground, which were bombed by in a NATO airstrike on Friday in Kunduz, Kunduz province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has confirmed villagers were injured at the site of a NATO airstrike on hijacked fuel tankers. (AP Photo)AP - The top NATO commander confirmed Saturday that civilians were wounded by a devastating airstrike targeting insurgents in northern Afghanistan, a major test of his policy to curb airpower to reduce civilian casualties and win over Afghans to the war against the Taliban.

After first year, Smithsonian chief has big ideas (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 12:48 AM PDT

In this July 9, 2009 photo, Christine Kreamer, Acting Deputy Director of the National Museum of African Art, left, gives a tour to Wayne Clough, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, at the African Art Museum in Washington, A year into his new job as head of the world's largest museum and research complex, Wayne Clough — an engineer by training — is quietly refocusing the sprawling Smithsonian Institution. Where his predecessor sought to maximize the institution's potential as a visitor attraction and business enterprise, Clough is intent on maximizing its science, research and educational impact through what he calls the issues of the day — climate change, immigration, biodiversity and sustainability. (AP Photo/Stephen J Boitano)AP - Wayne Clough pulls a thumb-sized computer flash drive from his pocket and marvels at how many of the Smithsonian Institution's millions of objects can be captured on it.

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