2009年9月27日星期日

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Attorney: OKC bombing tapes appear edited (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 01:26 PM PDT

AP - Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.

Woman charged in Smart case expects life in prison (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:28 PM PDT

AP - In letters written to her mother, the woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart has sought forgiveness for any pain she has caused and says she expects to spend the rest of her life in prison.

William Safire, speechwriter, NY columnist, dies (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 1996 file photo, New York Times columnist William Safire holds up a pair of boxing gloves in this file photo taken in Washington. Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire has died. He was 79. His assistant Rosemary Shields says Safire died Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 at a Maryland hospice. She says he had been diagnosed with cancer. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, File)AP - William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79.

Report: Stanford to be released soon from hospital (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:25 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford may be released from an undisclosed hospital either Sunday or Monday following a fight with another inmate.

Study: Fewer terrorism suspects going to trial (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:48 PM PDT

In this photo released by the New York City Police Department, Najibullah Zazi, center, is escorted off an NYPD helicopter by U.S Marshals after being extradited from Denver, Colo., Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Zazi was sent to New York to face charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in a plot law enforcement has said was focused on blowing up commuter trains. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)AP - The government is prosecuting only about one out of four of those charged in connection with terrorism, according to a study that suggests federal agencies don't agree on who is a terrorist.

Migrant kids take long step from fields to schools (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 01:51 PM PDT

This Aug. 17, 2009 photo shows children of migrant and seasonal laborers playing at Redlands Christian Migrant Association La Guadalupana Child Development Center, which is a federally funded Migrant and Seasonal Head Start program in Ocala, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - Elizabeth Pineda climbs out of bed, her 4-year-old son Adrian asleep nearby. She lays out a tiny pair of shorts and a white T-shirt for his first day of school, gathers her purse and tiptoes outside. Her cousin will get the boy up and off to class in a few hours.

Intense tracking for swine flu shot's side effects (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2009, file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, talks with Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group Director Dr. Gregory A. Poland , center, and American Academy of Pediatrics President Dr. David T. Tayloe, at the National Press Club in Washington. The government is starting an unprecedented system to track possible side effects as mass flu vaccinations begin next month. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you're one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?

What's ugly, smells, kills dogs? Blue-green algae (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 01:11 PM PDT

This photo provided by John Kuglin shows some green algae on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, on Lake Pokegama near Chetek, Wis. Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that's killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people. (AP Photo/John Kuglin)AP - Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that's killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people.

Risky business: States tax the rich at their peril (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:24 PM PDT

AP - This year, New York's deep-pocketed rich were required to dig even deeper to help shore up state finances.

Paper: Dialysis patients not told of transplants (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:54 PM PDT

AP - Thousands of kidney patients in the United States start dialysis without first being told of kidney transplants that would be cheaper and lead to longer lives, according to a four-month newspaper investigation published Sunday.

Bloomberg, others press for federal security funds (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:43 AM PDT

AP - The arrest last week of former coffee vendor Najibullah Zazi on charges of plotting to attack New York City gives added urgency to the city's pleas for federal funding to deter nuclear attacks, Mayor Bloomberg and area lawmakers said Sunday.

In Cheyenne, glass pile shows recycling challenges (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:57 PM PDT

In this Sept. 15, 2009 photo, Monty Lander looks over discarded glass containers at the Cheyenne, Wyo., landfill. Glass been piling up at the Cheyenne landfill while the city struggles to find a market for the jars and bottles it collects for recycling. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)AP - After working out at a gym, Amy Mahaffy dropped off a half-dozen glass jars in a city recycling container before heading home.

Analysis: NY gov pushed to quit, goes it alone (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama is greeted by New York Gov. David Paterson as he arrives in Albany, N.Y. Battered by a faltering economy and with poll numbers hovering around dismal for nearly a year, Paterson learned this week the Obama administration is worried he'll drag other Democrats down in 2010 if he runs, perhaps even threatening the narrow margin the party needs to ward off filibusters in the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - David Paterson thrived politically as a state senator, working his way up in a nearly all-white Albany political structure.

Welcome tradition: Old Home Days endures 110 years (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:54 AM PDT

Rod Dore looks over some fresh produce with farmer Ray Helgemoe of Eric's Farm Stand during Old Home Days in Pelham, N.H., Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Old Home Days: New Hampshire's original economic stimulus plan.

What's true cost of a Starbucks latte, author asks (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:28 AM PDT

This Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 photo shows author Bryant Simon outside a Starbucks in Philadelphia. If Simon owned a coffee shop, it would not have conversation-killing Wi-Fi. It probably wouldn't offer to-go cups. But it would have a big, roundtable strewn with newspapers to stimulate discussion. That sense of community is what's missing from Starbucks, a conclusion he reached after visiting about 425 of its coffee shops in nine countries. And yet millions of people patronize the outlets each day. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - If Bryant Simon owned a coffee shop, it would not have conversation-killing Wi-Fi. It probably wouldn't offer to-go cups. But it would have a big, round table strewn with newspapers to stimulate discussion.

Ben & Jerry's, GE work on greener freezers for US (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 09:56 AM PDT

In this photo made Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009, a Ben & Jerry's hydrocarbon cooler, at left, is seen inside The Market at Columbia Place in Washington. Some of the world's largest consumer product companies are promoting freezers and refrigerators in the U.S. that use propane, butane and other coolants that don't trap heat in the atmosphere as much as Freon and other conventional refrigerants. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Think propane and butane are just for barbecuing? Think again: The common cooking fuels can also chill your drinks and ice cream with less energy and almost none of the global warming worries of current refrigerants.

More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:01 PM PDT

Seventh grade students at Edwards Middle School work on guinea-pig heart during their science class Thursday, June 18, 2009, in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)AP - Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.

Calif. GOP looks to 2010 races for gov., US Senate (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:11 PM PDT

Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman speaks at a news conference at the California Republican Convention in Indian Wells, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009. Whitman is seeking the Republican nomination for Governor of California.(AP Photo/Francis Specker)AP - The Republican race to challenge liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat next year is shaping up as a likely contest between a socially conservative state lawmaker and a former Silicon Valley chief executive whose views are barely known to GOP voters in the state.

Feds: Zazi trips, shopping led to NY terror threat (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 04:27 AM PDT

This image made Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 from security video made available by CNN shows a man believed to be Najibullah Zazi shopping at Beauty Supply Warehouse in suburban Denver. Court papers say that during the summer, Zazi and three unidentified associates bought 'unusually large quantities' of hydrogen peroxide and acetone, a flammable solvent found in nail-polish remover, from beauty supply stores in the Denver area. (AP Photo/CNN) --NO SALES, FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY--AP - It was midsummer in suburban Denver when an unassuming, bearded man pushed a red shopping cart between shelves stacked with hair coloring and nail polish remover.

Glenn Beck gets ceremonial key to hometown city (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 01:16 AM PDT

AP - Glenn Beck received a ceremonial, plaque-mounted key to the city from the mayor of his hometown, as well as a minute-long standing ovation as hundreds of protesters gathered outside.

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