2010年5月9日星期日

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Inferno on the Gulf: Witnesses recount rig blast (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 12:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning. The day before, contractors from Halliburton Energy Services Inc. had finished cementing the well's pipes nearly 5,000 feet below the water's surface. Workers were busy setting a second seal at the well head, one of the last steps before the rig could move off, and the exploration well — in an area of the Gulf known as Mississippi Canyon Block 252 — could make the transition to a production well. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Oleander Benton was chatting with a friend in the laundry when the lights went out. The other woman had just gotten up to find a maintenance person when the deep-sea oil rig shook with an ear-shattering "BANG," followed by a long, loud "hisssss."

Obama: Education a responsibility of all Americans (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 08:29 AM PDT

President Barack Obama waves to graduates during the commencement ceremonies at historically black Hampton University in Hampton, Va., Sunday, May 9, 2010. Obama told the nearly 1,100 graduates assembled in the university's sun-splashed Armstrong Stadium, that they also have the added responsibility of being role models and mentors in their communities. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - President Barack Obama, addressing graduates at historically black Hampton University on Sunday, said that it is the responsibility of all Americans to offer every child the type of education that will make them competitive in an economy in which just a high school diploma is no longer enough.

What next? After failure, BP mulls gusher options (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 05:13 PM PDT

An oil soaked bird struggles against the side of the HOS Iron Horse supply vessel at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana Sunday, May 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - A day after icy slush clogged the massive box they hoped would contain an out-of-control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials on Sunday said they may try again — this time with a smaller box.

NTSB: No engine alarms before NY ferry dock crash (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 05:22 PM PDT

Damage is seen on the front of the Staten Island ferry Andrew J. Barberi on Saturday, May 8, 2010, as it is pushed by tug boats to a dock in the Staten Island ferry terminal in the Staten Island borough of New York, after it crashed into a pier. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)AP - Engine conditions appeared normal and no engine alarms sounded before a Staten Island ferry malfunctioned while approaching its terminal and slammed into a pier, injuring dozens of people, federal investigators said Sunday.

For more children, dinner is coming from Uncle Sam (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 01:08 PM PDT

AP - While the other preschoolers were warming up to the vegetable pesto lasagna, 3-year-old Avery Bennett dived in with no hesitation.

1st lady echoes King's call to brace for hardship (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 05:24 PM PDT

First lady Michelle Obama speaks at commencement exercises at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in Pine Bluff, Ark., Saturday, May 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Michelle Obama told graduates Saturday to prepare to overcome adversity, building on Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at the same university, when he told students to summon their courage to fight segregation.

DA seeks hate crime charges in NM swastika case (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 04:17 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors in northwestern New Mexico said they will pursue hate crime charges against three men accused of branding a swastika on a mentally challenged man's arm using a heated metal clothes hanger.

A bullet in Baghdad, a son's need, a mother's love (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 09:01 PM PDT

In this April 8, 2010 photo, Eva Briseno secures her son Joseph Briseno Jr., to his wheelchair at their home in Manassas, Va. A bullet to the back of his head in a Baghdad marketplace in 2003 left him paralyzed, brain-damaged and blind, but awake and aware of his condition. Eva takes care of 'Jay' in her suburban Virginia home where the family room has been transformed into an intensive care unit, with the breathing machine and tubes he needs to stay alive. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - There are mothers who will spend today missing sons and daughters fighting overseas. There are women who have lost children in those wars, for whom Mother's Day will never be the same.

Alaskans mourn death of former Gov. Walter Hickel (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 06:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo from June 12, 1970, Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel studies a question during an interview in his office in Washington. Hickel, who was Richard Nixon's interior secretary until he was fired after criticizing the handling of Vietnam protests, died Friday night May 7, 2010 at Horizon House, an assisted living facility in Anchorage.. He was 90. (AP Photo, File)AP - Alaskans on Saturday mourned the loss of former Gov. Walter J. Hickel and remembered him as a visionary and a maverick.

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