2010年12月25日星期六

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Winter storm blasts NC, takes aim at East Coast (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 05:23 PM PST

A road grader pushes snow and ice to the side of the Hudson Memorial river bridge in Decatur, Ala. on Christmas morning, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Residents of Decatur awoke to a rare Christmas morning snow. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Brennen G. Smith)AP - A rare white Christmas in parts of the South was complicating life for some travelers as airlines canceled hundreds of flights, while snow was predicted for the nation's Capital and travel authorities warned of potentially dangerous roads.

Schwarzenegger leaves mixed legacy in California (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 10:25 AM PST

FILE - in this file photo taken Oct. 7, 2003, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger is joined by wife Maria Shriver as he celebrates his victory in the California gubernatorial recall election. Schwarzenegger will be leaving office in January with a mixed record, winning praise for his precedent-setting environmental activism and criticism for his failure to tame the fiscal mess as promised when voters elected Schwarzenegger to replace Gov. Gray Davis in the historic 2003 recall election. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)AP - Arnold Schwarzenegger landed in the governor's office after announcing his upstart bid on late night TV and railing against government spending during raucous campaign rallies — at one playing a spirited round of air guitar to the rock anthem "We're Not Gonna Take It."

Armed man at Mormon temple killed in Utah shootout (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST

AP - A man armed with a shotgun outside a Mormon temple near Salt Lake City was shot and killed by police Christmas Day, a television station reported Saturday.

Web Legend "TRON Guy" Banned from Seeing TRON: Legacy in Famed Suit (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 12:10 AM PST

Time.com - When you've become an Internet meme for your love of TRON, a movie theater really ought to let you watch the film in costume

Biologists head to bunkers to fight bat disease (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 11:30 AM PST

In this March 31, 2010 photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Susi von Oettingen, bats are seen in a bunker in New Hampshire. Oettingen is part of a team that will study the habitat of the bats over the winter. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Susi von Oettingen)AP - Biologist Susi von Oettingen walked into the dark World War II-era military bunker and took out her flashlight. Among the old pipes, wires and machinery parts, she saw some bats hanging from cracks in the cement walls and ceiling.

Haitian orphans settling in with adoptive families (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:21 AM PST

In this Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 picture, Brian and Emily Fletcher pose for a photo with their children, Cora, middle left, Isaac, center, and newly-adopted Sevil, middle right, at their home in Penfield, N.Y. Amid so much death and destruction in post-earthquake Haiti, an unprecedented commitment by the U.S. government allowed children in the adoption pipeline to be airlifted swiftly to America even though their paperwork was incomplete. In all, about 1,150 Haitian children have been placed with adoptive families across America. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Under a towering Christmas tree, 3-year-old Sevil Fletcher giggled in delight amid some not-so-rough roughhousing with his brother and sister.

Black Harvard doctor pens memoir of Jim Crow South (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 12:00 PM PST

In this Dec. 21, 2010 photo, a proof copy of the book, 'Seeing Patients,' rests on Harvard Medical School professor Augustus White's desk in Boston. White's memoir calls for more diversity in the medical field and an end to health care disparities. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)AP - Growing up in segregated Memphis during the Jim Crow era, Augustus White III knew about those certain places off-limits to him as a black man — restrooms, diners and schools.

Lawyer: Feds probe pilot critical of air security (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 01:15 AM PST

AP - A pilot who posted videos on YouTube that were critical of security at San Francisco International Airport is now the subject of an investigation, the pilot's attorney says.

Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:13 AM PST

In this Jan. 14, 2009 image shows a Civil War bottle with a message that was tucked inside at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. The message to Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton says reinforcements will not be arriving. The encrypted dispatch was dated July 4, 1863 — the date of Pemberton's surrender to Union forces led by Ulysses S. Grant in what historians say was a turning point in the war. (AP Photo/Museum of the Confederacy)AP - A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago.

AP Exclusive: Jackson Jr says 'everyone has erred' (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 03:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2010 photo, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., right, and his wife Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, left, applaud as President Barack Obama is introduced at Ford Motor Company Chicago Assembly Plant. Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. says he's a 'public servant' not a 'perfect servant.' The Democrat tells The Associated Press that even as he's been dogged by links to disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and questions about his relationship with a female 'social acquaintance,' he's never deviated from his mission of bringing jobs to his Chicago area district. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who has largely avoided the public eye of late, said in a rare interview Saturday that he is a public servant, not a perfect one, and didn't rule out a future run at higher office.

Venezuelan ex-president Carlos Andres Perez dies (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 04:49 PM PST

** CORRECTS OBJECT NAME ** In this undated photo released by Carlos Andres Perez's family, Venezuela's former President Carlos Andres Perez looks on at his home in Miami. Perez died on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, in Miami of a heart attack, his daughter Maria Francia Perez said. (AP Photo/Carlos Andres Perez's family)AP - Former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, whose popularity soared with his country's oil-based economy but who later faced riots, a severe economic downturn and impeachment in his homeland, has died in Miami, his family said Saturday.

Holiday 2010: The year shoppers came back (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:29 PM PST

Bert Carpenter, of Jackson, secures two last minute Christmas purchases into his automobile, outside Cowboy Maloney's Electric City appliance store in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Carpenter, who admits he is a last minute shopper each Christmas season, purchased the two televisions for his wife and daughter and earlier in the day bought a bike for his son as well as a number of DVDs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Shoppers came back in force for the holidays, right to the end. After two dreary years, Christmas 2010 will go down as the holiday Americans rediscovered how much they like to shop.

Surfing Santas hit waves on Florida's Space Coast (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 12:17 PM PST

AP - Nineteen surfing Santas brought some cheer to beach-goers as they hit the waves on Florida's Space Coast.

Santa braves sardines, tear gas on Christmas trip (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:06 PM PST

Dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, a diver swims with sardines at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in South Korea, where over half of the population are Christians. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - It's been a busy, busy day today for the plump man in red with wire glasses and a bushy white beard.

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