2010年1月18日星期一

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Mass. Senate candidates battle to the end (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:05 PM PST

Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, right, campaigns outside the T.D. Garden before a Boston Bruins hockey game in Boston, Mass., Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Brown is running against Democrat Martha Coakley and Joseph Kennedy, a Libertarian who is running as an independent, in a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left empty by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Nearly one year to the day after President Barack Obama was sworn into office as an agent of change, Massachusetts Senate candidates battled to the wire Monday in an election that threatened his agenda and reflected voters' frustration with the status quo.

Rapes of elderly women terrify central Texas towns (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:24 AM PST

Jennings Retirement Villave where an elderly woman was attacked in attempted rape is seen in Luling, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Authorities are investigating 12 incidents, at least eight of them rapes, that happened across South and Central Texas from January to November; Many of these cases have been linked by physical evidence, including DNA, according to officials.(AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - With a serial rapist on the loose, Cassandra McGinty has developed a new routine when she arrives home: search room to room, a handgun or stun gun drawn.

Worshippers urged not to 'sanitize' King's legacy (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:05 PM PST

A crowd of about 1,000 marched along St. Paul's Marshall Avenue to celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Monday Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Brian Peterson)AP - A scholar and activist invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday at the civil rights icon's church, urging the audience not to "sanitize" King's legacy or let the president off the hook on issues like poverty.

Colorado surgery tech details stealing painkiller (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 01:48 AM PST

In this photo released by the Denver County Sheriff's Department, Kristen Diane Parker, 26, is shown. Parker pleaded guilty to tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a controlled substance by deceit or subterfuge. (AP Photo/Denver County Sheriff)AP - A surgery technician who infected three dozen people with hepatitis C and may have exposed thousands of others by switching used syringes with ones filled with a powerful painkiller says she got careless while at two Colorado hospitals and doesn't expect to be forgiven.

Hamtramck builds homes to atone for discrimination (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:38 PM PST

Sallie Sanders runs out of her new house in Hamtramck, Mich., Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Nearly 50 years after her family was forced out of their rental house, Sanders cut the ribbon to her new home in the city — the remedy in one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the United States. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - More than 40 years after her family was forced from their home because they were black, Sallie Sanders received the keys to a new house built to settle one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the United States.

Recession takes toll on university president pay (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:15 AM PST

FILE - In this July 13, 2007 file photo, Ohio State University President Gordon Gee talks to students on the university campus in Columbus, Ohio. Gee is the highest-paid school president in this year's public school survey, whose pay is worth more than $1.5 million including salary, retirement and deferred compensation. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)AP - The recession has reached the executive suites of the nation's public universities and colleges, putting a stop to a string of large annual pay increases for school presidents.

Reputed al-Qaida supporter set for NYC trial (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:51 AM PST

FILE- In this undated file photo originally released by the FBI on April 23, 2003, Aafia Siddiqui is shown. Jury selection began ,Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010, at federal court in New York where Siddiqui is on trial accused of grabbing a U.S. Army officer's rifle in Afghanistan in July 2008 and firing at U.S. soldiers and FBI agents. The U.S. trained neuroscientist has refused to work with her defense lawyers and lambasted the court since her case began last summer. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - The strange case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is riddled with curious questions.

Soldier guilty of cruelty and maltreatment in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 10:38 AM PST

AP - A military panel in Kuwait convicted a U.S. soldier of being cruel and mistreating fellow soldiers, a case undertaken after an Army private from Ohio committed suicide in Iraq.

Haitians seeking US refuge will be returned (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:26 PM PST

Busloads of refugees from Tuesday's Haiti earthquake leave the Haitian capital of Port au Prince in this United Nations handout picture taken and released on January 15, 2010. REUTERS/UN Photo/Logan Abassi/Handout (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - U.S. authorities are readying for a potential influx of Haitians seeking to escape their earthquake-wracked nation, even though the policy for migrants remains the same: with few exceptions, they will go back.

FDA debates tougher cancer warning on tanning beds (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:37 PM PST

Katie Donnar, 18, shows her scar from where the melanoma was on the calf of her leg Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 in Vincennes, Ind. in front of a tanning bed like the on she used at her home and at the tanning salons. Donnar was in the sixth grade when she started using tanning beds. (AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)AP - Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk. Yes, sunburns are particularly dangerous. But there's increasing scientific consensus that there's no such thing as a safe tan, either.

Man questioned after 5 found dead in Texas home (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 03:33 PM PST

Texas Rangers Dave Maxwell, right, and Bryan Taylor, center, speak with Leonard Davis Monday Jan.18, 2010 in Bellville, Texas. Davis is a family friend of the five found slain in their residence Sunday Jan. 17 in Bellville, Texas. (AP Photo/Bob Levey)AP - Authorities working to determine what spurred a flurry of gunshots that left five people dead in southeast Texas are questioning a 20-year-old man who lived with the victims in the isolated house surrounded by pasture land.

Leno gets support from NBC staff (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:00 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2009 file photo, Jay Leno speaks during the panel for 'The Jay Leno Show' at the NBC Universal Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - Jay Leno staffers say their boss isn't the bad guy in NBC's late-night upheaval.

Chemicals coat apples decades after Alar scare (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:06 AM PST

Apples for sale are on display at the Pike Place Market Nov. 12, 2009, in Seattle. Two decades after some parents dumped apples out of their kids' lunch boxes over health concerns about a chemical applied to the crop, most researchers agree apples today are safer even though pesticide residue still can be found on most of the fruit. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - More than two decades after parents dumped apples from children's lunch boxes because of concerns about a chemical applied to the fruit, most researchers agree the crop is safer although most of it still carries pesticide residue.

Analysis: Campaign traits carry over to presidency (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:10 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photo, Barack Obama, left, with his wife Michelle at his side, takes the oath of office to become the 44th president of the United States from Chief Justice John Roberts, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - Turns out Barack Obama is the bill of goods America thought it was buying.

Anti-death penalty movement wooing conservatives (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 03:36 AM PST

In this Friday, Jan. 15, 2010 photo, Montana state Sen. Roy Brown, left, a conservative, and Shari Silberstein, executive director of Equal Justice USA, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based anti-death penalty organization, talk about the death penalty during an interview in Louisville, Ky. The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is making a stronger attempt to woo conservatives to the anti-death penalty movement. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - Roy Brown seems like a rarity — a conservative who's against the death penalty.

Gravel beaches trapping oil from 1989 Exxon spill (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 08:46 PM PST

In this 2008 photo provided by Temple University, Temple engineering students dig one of numerous wells along the beach in Alaska. Over a total of six weeks during summers from 2007 to 2009, Michel C. Boufadel, chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and his team dug about 70 pits between 3-feet and 5-feet deep on six beaches. An estimated 20,000 gallons of crude remain in Prince William Sound, even though oil remaining after the nearly 11-million-gallon Exxon Valdez oil spill had been expected to biodegrade and wash away within a few years. (AP Photo/Temple University) -- NO SALES --AP - An engineering professor has figured out why oil remains trapped along miles of gravel beaches more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Prince William Sound.

Turner's bid for park bison stokes wildlife debate (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 08:37 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2008 file photo, Ted Turner smiles during an interview with the Associated Press, in Omaha, Neb. With 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park facing possible slaughter, Turner has swept in and offered to hold the animals for five years on his sprawling Montana ranch while a new home for them is found. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)AP - With 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park facing possible slaughter, billionaire Ted Turner has swept in and offered to hold the animals for five years on his sprawling Montana ranch while a new home for them is found. But Turner, ever the shrewd businessman, won't do it for nothing. The media mogul says he will care for the bison only if he can keep up to 90 percent of their offspring.

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