2009年12月13日星期日

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La. Indian village holds out against plea to move (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 12:42 PM PST

This Nov. 23, 2009 photo shows Edison Dardar standing near his bottle collection in his backyard on Isle de Jean Charles, La., Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Holdouts in the hurricane-damaged Indian village refuse to give in to urges from a tribal chief, scientists and public officials to relocate inland, despite frequent floods and disappearing marshland that brings the Gulf of Mexico closer every year. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - A day in the life of Edison Dardar starts with a caterwaul of a shout. A yawlp. His chest puffs up: "Yay-hoooo!" Morning cries down the road greet him. "Wa-hoooo!" .... "Yaaaah!" .... "Aaaahh-eee." The Indian fisherman smiles. His cousins and nephews are doing well.


Feds weigh public risk, evidence in terror probes (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 09:46 AM PST

AP - A small group of FBI agents huddled outside a Home Depot in Atlanta in January 2006, watching a young man suspected of being linked to terrorists as he walked out the door with materials that could be used to make a bomb.

Calif. rains ending, no major mudslides reported (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 12:04 PM PST

Sand bags and barricades are setup in the La Canada Flintridge area of Los Angeles in expectation of flash floods on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009.  Authorities say as many as 90 vehicles were stranded after mud and debris flowed down the hillside along a 12-mile stretch of Angeles Crest Highway in Southern California.(AP Photo/Jon Vidar)AP - Heavy rain tapered off, skies cleared and residents of the Los Angeles area foothills started returning home Sunday, a day after they fled because of fears that heavy rains would cause mudslides.


Economist Samuelson, Nobel laureate, dead at 94 (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 10:48 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 1998 file photo, Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson listens to remarks during a program in Chicago to mark the 50th year and the 16th edition of his book 'Economics.' Samuelson, one of the leading economists of the 20th century, died Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009, at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94. (AP Photo/Daniel Lippitt, File)AP - Economist Paul Samuelson, who won a Nobel prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, helped shape tax policy in the Kennedy administration and wrote a textbook read by millions of college students, died Sunday. He was 94.


Adultery still crime in NH after 200 years (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 12:22 PM PST

AP - The original punishments — including standing on the gallows for an hour with a noose around the neck — have been softened to a $1,200 fine, yet some lawmakers think it's time for the 200-year-old crime of adultery to come off New Hampshire's books.

Nev. brothel aims to offer 1st male prostitutes (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 01:29 PM PST

AP - The owner of a brothel more than two hours' drive from Las Vegas said she hopes to hire Nevada's first legal male prostitutes within a month, now that state health officials have approved a method to test men for infectious diseases.

Gill takes over at Kansas (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 11:43 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2008, file photo, Buffalo head coach Turner Gill looks on during the Mid-American Conference championship game at Ford Field in Detroit. A person familiar with Kansas' coaching search tells The Associated Press on Saturday, Dec. 12,2009, that Buffalo's Turner Gill has been offered the job. Gill is 20-30 in four years with the Bulls. There was no indication when a deal with Gill, a former Nebraska quarterback, might be finalized.  (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)AP - Kansas hopes that Turner Gill can do for the Jayhawks what he did for Nebraska.


Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 08:51 PM PST

Erin LaBarge, of Norwood, N.Y., presses shirts at Potsdam Laundry & Dry Cleaners, in Potsdam, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 11 2009.  (AP Photo/Gary Walts)AP - As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network.


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