2010年3月14日星期日

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Regulators accused of lax oversight at LA oilfield (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 03:29 PM PDT

A rig pumps oil from the Inglewood oil field, seen from the nearby Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, in the unincorporated Windsor Hills area of Los Angeles Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. The Inglewood field, one of the richest oil basins in the world where crude was discovered in 1924, sits adjacent to an area of homes once known as the 'black Beverly Hills.' Rather than eventually playing out and becoming an elaborately planned urban park, a new operator in 2004 began drilling what was planned to be the first of some 600 new wells over the next 20 years, without environmental review. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - This sprawling metropolis is built atop one of the richest oil basins in the world. Wells dot the city landscape, some hidden behind hollow building facades much like a Hollywood movie set, or, in the case of Beverly Hills High School, encased in a tower painted with flowers.

Lawyer refutes doubts about runaway Prius driver (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 04:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm for the driver who says his Toyota Prius sped out of control in California doesn't plan to sue the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - The mystery surrounding a Toyota Prius whose driver reported a stuck accelerator deepened Sunday as the motorist's attorney dismissed a congressional memo that questions his client's version of events.

No word from woman freed in alleged plot, mom says (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 12:12 PM PDT

AP - A Colorado woman who says she is the mother of an American held and later released in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist said Sunday she does not know where her daughter or grandson may be.

Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Swedish artist Lars Vilks talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 10 2010. The Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog says he believes the suspects arrested in Ireland and the U.S. in an alleged plot to kill him were not professionals . (AP photo/Scanpix, Bertil Ericson)AP - With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?

Red River rising faster than expected in ND, Minn. (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 03:43 PM PDT

AP - North Dakota and Minnesota residents who fought off record flooding a year ago in a frantic one-week sandbagging effort were jolted Sunday by the prospect of doing it over again.

Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 04:25 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan listens to students, teachers and former students about their educational experience as he visits Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., during brief stops at schools in Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.

NY women's 'summit' unites activists worldwide (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 02:37 PM PDT

AP - A secretary of state. A top presidential adviser. An iconic film star. Fashion designers, TV anchors, and a queen.

Firing of all teachers at RI school roils students (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 11:15 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 photo, former student Ashley Delgado, left, stands with a sign next to Joe Clavin outside Central Falls high school in Central Falls, R.I. Instructors and staff will be fired after the end of the school year in a desperate move to improve student performance at the school. The firings were provoked by dismal student performance: In 2009, fewer than half of its students graduated within four years. And standardized tests last fall showed just 7 percent of eleventh graders passing math, 33 percent passing writing and 55 percent proficient in reading. The school educates just over 1,000 students. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - Ashley Delgado graduated from one of Rhode Island's worst-performing high schools and wanted to go to college — if only she could get there.

Despite brashness, Bunning still a hero in Ky. (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 08:40 PM PST

Retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., speaks to a gathering of the party faithful in Hebron, Ky., Saturday, March 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - Irascible Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has been a pariah among his congressional colleagues. Back in the conservative swath of northern Kentucky he calls home, though, he's being heralded as a hero.

In rural NH, deer-car crashes bring free 'dinner' (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 11:28 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, March 4, 2010, deer watch as a car drives along Route 3 in Pittsburg, N.H. A 10-mile stretch of road in northern New Hampshire has seen a large increase in deer population getting hit by cars. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Up here, folks have another word for roadkill. It's "dinner."

Probe questions account of runaway Prius (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 09:20 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm for the driver who says his Toyota Prius sped out of control in California doesn't plan to sue the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - Investigators with Toyota and the federal government were unable to make a Toyota Prius speed out of control as its owner said it did on a California freeway, according to a memorandum obtained Saturday by The Associated Press. A congressional spokesman said the finding cast doubt on the driver's story.

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