2009年11月21日星期六

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A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 11:03 AM PST

This Nov. 17, 2009 photo shows Betsy Charlesworth holding her son, Marty, as son, Myles, right, takes a turn at Monopoly in their kitchen in Jericho, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.

EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 03:31 PM PST

AP - Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.

NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 09:38 AM PST

AP - A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death.

More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 04:10 PM PST

Travelers line up at Delta counter at Reagan National Airport on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, in Washington. The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year than in 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.

Fort Hood suspect ordered held until court-martial (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 05:27 PM PST

Mourners attend the funeral of one of the Fort Hood shooting victims. US Army Major Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people earlier this month at Fort Hood, Texas, intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric just months before the shootings and began discussing with him surreptitious financial transfers, The Washington Post reported Saturday(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Banks)AP - The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds, his attorney said Saturday.

Atheist student groups flower on college campuses (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 04:46 PM PST

This Nov. 13, 2009 photo shows Iowa State University senior Scott Moseley, of Bettendorf, Iowa, left, talking with ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society president Anastasia Bodnar, right, while stopping at the Ask an Atheist booth at a campus community center, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist."

Astronauts finish another spacewalk, still no baby (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 02:32 PM PST

In this video frame grab taken from NASA television, space shuttle Atlantis Mission Specialist Randy Bresnik works during the the second spacewalk of the STS-129 mission at the International Space Staion, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 05:07 PM PST

FILE - This Bexar County Sheriff's Office 2007 booking file photo shows Capt. Michael Fontana after he was arrested for racing on a highway in San Antonio. Fontana, 35, an Air Force nurse, goes on trial Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 accused of killing three terminally ill patients at last summer in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Bexar County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - A court-martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder Saturday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of painkillers to hasten the deaths of three terminally ill patients at the Air Force's largest hospital.

Hawaii anxiously watching year-end tuna supply (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 09:00 AM PST

AP - On New Year's Eve each year, thousands line up at fish counters across Hawaii to buy blocks of raw tuna, hoping that eating it will bring good luck and prosperity in the new year. This year, the long tradition may get a little more difficult to observe.

Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:30 AM PST

AP - Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown.

Report finds wide disparities in gifted education (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 09:02 AM PST

AP - When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school.

Losing Winfrey would be big blow for Second City (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 09:38 AM PST

Linda Gerber, from Chicago, and a member of the live broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show, holds a copy of the Chicago Sun-Times as she departs Harpo Studios Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 in Chicago. Winfrey announced during the broadcast Friday, that her powerhouse daytime television show will end its 25-season run in 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Step outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and into the near west side neighborhood that's been home to her television talk show for two decades, and it's easy to get a sense of what she's meant to Chicago.

Motown caps 50th anniversary with hometown gala (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:44 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2009 file photo, Music producer Berry Gordy arrives to the premiere of 'Michael Jackson's This Is It,' in Los Angeles. Gordy founded what would become Motown Records a half-century ago with an $800 loan. Today, that would get you two tickets with a bit to spare to the Motown 50 Golden Gala. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - Berry Gordy founded what would become Motown Records a half-century ago with an $800 loan. Today, that would get you two tickets with a bit to spare to the Motown 50 Golden Gala.

Postal Service to resume North Pole Santa letters (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 06:31 AM PST

Santa Claus, also known as Patrick Farmer, at Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009, holds letters from children sent this year that the U.S. Postal Service says they will no longer deliver. Citing privacy concerns, postal officials say that generically addressed letters to 'Santa Claus, North Pole' will no longer be forwarded to volunteers in the Alaska town as has been done for years. (AP Photo/Sam Harrel)AP - Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.

Michael Jackson glove among items at music auction (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 01:30 PM PST

FILE -This undated file photo released by Julien's Auctions shows Michael Jackson's glove from his 1983 performance of Billie Jean at the Motown 25 television special where he performed the Moonwalk for the first time. The glove and othe Jackson items will be auctioned on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City's Times Square. (AP Photo/Julien's Auctions, File)AP - A collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia, including the rhinestone-studded glove he wore when he unveiled the moonwalk in 1983, is being sold at auction.

'New Moon' takes record $72.7M box office bite (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 09:41 AM PST

AP - Vampires and werewolves have vanquished a dark knight. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" took in $72.7 million in its first day to break the single day domestic box office record previously held by "The Dark Knight," which had a $67.2 million opening day last year.

Levin: More e-mails from Ft. Hood suspect possible (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 03:49 PM PST

file - This Oct. 2008 file photo by Muhammad ud-Deen shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. The imam, who communicated with the Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, said he did not pressure Hasan to harm Americans, The Washington Post reported Monday, Nov 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File) MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALESAP - WASHINGTON — The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials.

UC students occupy buildings to protest fee hike (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 09:29 PM PST

Demonstrators struggle with police with a barricade in front of a closed off building on the University of California, Berkeley on the Berkeley, Calif., campus, Friday,. Nov. 20, 2009, during a demonstration against university fee hikes and layoffs. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end, university officials said.

Warrant: Drug in Jackson case came from Vegas firm (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 01:24 AM PST

Dr. Conrad Murray, a physician for the late pop star Michael Jackson, appears at a child support hearing at Clark County Family Court, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, pool)AP - A powerful anesthetic recovered from Michael Jackson's bedside after he died had been purchased in Nevada by his doctor who had it shipped to California, court documents show.

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