2010年4月18日星期日

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Fee-weary air travelers get a break — for now (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 12:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2009 file photo, passengers wait to check in at Logan International Airport in Boston. Five major airlines have agreed not to follow Spirit Airlines in instituting fees for carry-on luggage, and New York Sen. Charles Schumer said he was hopeful other carriers would follow suit. Schumer said Sunday, April 18, 2010 that he had received commitments from American, Delta, JetBlue, United and US Air. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)AP - U.S. airlines never met a fee they didn't like. Until now, it seems.

SF crime lab at center of growing scandal (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 04:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 5, 2010 file photo, former San Francisco lab technician Deborah Madden appears for her arraignment for drug possession in South San Francisco. Forensics experts say Madden is not the first crime lab worker suspected of stealing drugs or other illegality, and San Francisco's lab joins several other cities in suffering a loss of credibility. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - The tape recorder started rolling as two police investigators sat in their car in a hospital parking lot with Deborah Madden on Feb. 26. "You're causing a huge nightmare for the city," said one officer.

Counting sea life, sometimes little things are big (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 09:05 AM PDT

This undated handout image provided by the Census of Marine Life shows, the acantharians are one of the four types of large amoebae that occur in marine open waters. Their fragile skeletons are made of a single crystal of strontium sulfate that quickly dissolves in the ocean water after the cell dies. If the Census Bureau thinks it has it;s hands full counting Americans, imagine the problems of scientists trying to tally everything living in the oceans, including microbes so small they seem invisible. (AP Photo/Bob Andersen and D. J. Patterson, Census of Marine Life)AP - If the Census Bureau thinks it has its hands full counting Americans, imagine what scientists are up against in trying to tally every living thing in the ocean, including microbes so small they seem invisible.

NASA to astronauts: Rain delays likely for return (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 10:05 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 2010 file photo provided by NASA the space shuttle Discovery intersects the thin line of Earth's atmosphere photographed by an space shuttle crew member while Discovery remains docked with the International Space Station. NASA is already warning the space shuttle astronauts to expect rain delays as they get ready to come home. Discovery and its crew of seven are scheduled to land Monday morning, April 19, 2010 in Florida. (AP Photo/NASA, File)AP - NASA warned space shuttle Discovery's astronauts Sunday to expect rain delays as they wrapped up their two-week mission and got ready to come home.

A royal widow takes on the 'realists' over nukes (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 06:41 PM PDT

In this April 13, 2010 photo, Queen Noor al-Hussein of Jordan talks about reducing nuclear weapons during an interview in McLean, Va. Noor al-Hussein, the American beauty whose storybook romance with the late King Hussein captivated the world a generation ago, is now telling a story of nuclear calamity and how to avoid it, as co-leader and omnipresent voice for Global Zero, a growing movement crusading for abolition of atomic weaponry. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Tweeting, Skyping and blogging on Huffington Post, holding forth on CNN or al-Jazeera, debriefing arms negotiators and parleying with generals, the queen is perfecting her nuclear strategy.

Gas drilling debate rages in Del. River watershed (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 02:40 PM PDT

In this March 5, 2010 photo, Lee Hartman, the Delaware River chairman for Trout Unlimited, is shown at the west branch of the Lackawaxen River in Pleasant Mount, Pa. Stone Energy Corp. wants to withdraw water from the creek as part of its plan to drill for natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation in the Delaware River watershed. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)AP - A few hundred yards from Louis Matoushek's farmhouse is a well that could soon produce not only natural gas, but a drilling boom in the wild and scenic Delaware River watershed.

Solo trans-Atlantic rower coped with iPods, candy (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 07:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 14, 2010 file photo, Katie Spotz, 22, of Mentor, Ohio, smiles as she rows toward shore in Georgetown, Guyana. The Ohio woman who became the youngest person to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone says she got through the journey with four iPods, 300 chocolate bars and 100 audiobooks. Spotz spent more than two months alone at sea before completing her feat in March. The 22-year-old athlete spoke about the adventure at a welcome-home party Saturday, April 18, 2010 in suburban Cleveland. (AP Photo/Jules Gibson, File)AP - An Ohio woman who became youngest person to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone says she got through the journey with four iPods, 300 chocolate bars and 100 audiobooks.

Ex-mentor: Sharpton is Obama's link to the streets (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT

Rev. Al Sharpton smiles while posing for photographs at the National Action Network Convention Wednesday, April 14, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - The Rev. Al Sharpton is a "lightning rod" for President Barack Obama on inner city streets, Obama's former Harvard mentor and friend said Saturday at a forum in Harlem.

Early apple blossom triggers fears of killer frost (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 10:26 AM PDT

In this April 14, 2010 photo, John Burns, general manager at Lookout Farm, holds a blossom on a Cortland apple branch at the farm in Natick, Mass. Burns said that due to the warm weather his apple trees are blooming about 24 days early. Fruit farmers in New England are concerned that a killing frost might affect their trees this season.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - Frank Whittemore has been growing fruit for a lifetime and can't ever remember a year when the buds started peeking out on his 30,000 apples trees so early in the spring. And that's what has him worried.

Pot enthusiasts gather at California cannabis expo (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 06:58 PM PDT

T.J. Sheen, who lost his leg in an accident and now wears a prosthetic, smokes marijuana during the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo on Saturday, April 17, 2010, in Daly City, Calif. The event featured speakers, panel discussions, growing aids, smoking paraphernalia and an area for people with medical marijuana cards to light up. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - Medical marijuana users near San Francisco lit up Saturday at the opening of the two-day International Cannabis and Hemp Expo, where vendors displayed bongs, vaporizers, hash brownies and other marijuana-related products.

US soldier dismissed for threats in Iraq protest (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 07:11 AM PDT

This undated photo released by stoplossmusic.org shows Army Spc. Marc Hall. The U.S. Army has dismissed Hall, who threatened fellow troops and sent the Pentagon a violent rap song he wrote to protest his Iraq redeployment orders, officials said Saturday, April 17, 2010. (AP Photo/stoplossmusic.org)AP - The U.S. Army has dismissed a soldier who threatened fellow troops and sent the Pentagon a violent rap song he wrote to protest his Iraq redeployment orders, officials said Saturday.

Doctor: Luci Baines Johnson improving at hospital (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 09:25 AM PDT

AP - Luci Baines Johnson, the youngest daughter of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, is making what her doctor calls "significant improvement" at the Mayo Clinic.

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