2010年6月4日星期五

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Israel vows to stop aid ship as it approaches Gaza (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 04:17 PM PDT

FILE -- In this May 12, 2010 file photo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, poses alongside the cargo ship MV Rachel Corrie, named after a after a human rights activist killed by the Israeli military, before it departed from Dundalk , Ireland, for the Middle East with a cargo of cement and supplies for Gaza. The ship, on which Maguire is one of 11 passengers, could reach Israel's 20-mile (32-kilometer) exclusion zone by June 4, according to activists, but Israel's prime minister has vowed the ship will not reach land. The dueling comments suggest a potential new clash over Israel's three-year-old blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip - and come only four days after an Israeli commando raid on a larger aid flotilla left nine activists dead.(AP Photo/Niall Carson-pa, file) **UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:**AP - Israel vowed Friday to keep an Irish aid ship from breaching its blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip, appealing to pro-Palestinian activists to dock at an Israeli port and avoid another showdown at sea.

Recall raises questions about promotional glasses (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 02:27 PM PDT

AP - A recall of 12 million cadmium-tainted "Shrek" drinking glasses sold by McDonald's raises questions about the safety of millions of similar cheap promotional products that have been sitting in Americans' kitchen cabinets for years.

Millionaire's test rocket reaches orbit on 1st try (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 04:06 PM PDT

The SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket lifts off of pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The privately-owned US firm SpaceX launched a rocket on its first test flight Friday, in what observers say is a milestone for the space industry and in the race to develop commercial carriers.(AFP/Getty Images/Matt Stroshane)AP - A multimillionaire's test rocket blasted off on its maiden voyage Friday and successfully reached orbit in a dry run for NASA's push to go commercial.

Army: Soldier charged in 3 Afghan civilian deaths (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 05:16 PM PDT

AP - The Army said Friday a soldier has been charged with murder in three Afghan civilian deaths.

Former eBay CEO rewrites campaign spending book (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 01:28 PM PDT

Meg Whitman, Republican gubernatorial candidate hopeful, smiles as she walks to the podium for an appearance in Roseville, Calif. on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Whitman, who is challenged by Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, spoke to a group of senior citizens about her support for Proposition 13. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Chartered jets that offer "white glove service," fancy fundraisers in Beverly Hills and beyond, and enough high-priced political consultants to fill an auditorium.

Marines return to roots with Calif. beach-storming (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:32 PM PDT

FILE - This July 28, 1999 file photo shows Marines racing onto the beach from a amphibious landing craft during a mock invasion of Red Beach at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in northern San Diego County. Thousands of Marines and sailors set out to sea Thursday June 3, 2010 for an exercise to storm a picturesque beach in Southern California on Friday, in a training mission that comes amid a debate in the military about whether D-Day-style amphibious landings are becoming obsolete in modern-day warfare. The effort is the largest amphibious training exercise on the West Coast since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, involving more than 4,500 Marines and sailors. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - Brig. Gen. Rex McMillian watched proudly Friday from a scrubby bluff as hundreds of Marines in seafaring tanks hit the Southern California beach in perfect unison with support helicopters buzzing overhead.

Brazilian man, Mass. husband rejoin in asylum case (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 02:35 PM PDT

Tim Coco, 49, of Haverhill, Mass., left, sits with his husband Brazilian-born Genesio Oliveira, 31, at their home, in Haverhill, Friday, June 4, 2010. The couple were reunited this week after U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., pressed immigration officials to temporarily allow the gay man back into the country on humanitarian grounds. The couple were married in 2005 but separated after Oliveira was denied asylum in the U.S. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - A Brazilian man was reunited with his Massachusetts husband this week after U.S. Sen. John Kerry pressed federal officials to temporarily allow the 31-year-old gay man back into the country on humanitarian grounds.

Gas, fluids spew for hours from blown-out Pa. well (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:46 PM PDT

AP - A blowout at a natural-gas well in a remote area shot explosive gas and polluted water as high as 75 feet into the air before crews were able to tame it more than half a day later, officials said Friday.

Shaq and controversy on final day of Spelling Bee (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:34 PM PDT

Matthew Zisi, 13, of Fredericskburg, Va., celebrates on spelling his word correctly in the third round of the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Even Shaquille O'Neal got overshadowed by a bit of controversy at the spelling bee.

Mass. grand jury examines '86 killing by Ala. prof (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT

AP - A grand jury has been convened in Massachusetts to hear evidence in the 1986 shooting death of the brother of a former university professor accused in Alabama of killing three colleagues.

Feds get picky over what makes oil 'extra virgin' (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:48 PM PDT

In this photo from Friday, May 28, 2010, olive grower Dean Griggs holds up olive oil he produces in Carmel Valley, Calif. The U.S. Department of Agriculture adopted scientifically verifiable standards for oil oil terms like 'extra virgin' in April. They will start enforcing them in October, just in time for the harvest of trees that are now in full flower. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Extra virgin, light, with lemon, unfiltered, cold-pressed: the variety of olive oil on most supermarket shelves is dazzling. But what does it all mean?

Big Tobacco fights NYC over anti-smoking posters (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:16 PM PDT

AP - The tobacco industry wants to snuff out a New York City regulation requiring cigarette retailers to post blunt warnings about the dangers of smoking.

NYC offers ceremonies for domestic partner unions (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:17 PM PDT

AP - Gelixa Ortiz and Elizabeth Rivera waited years for the chance to formally join their lives and declare their union in front of their loved ones. On Friday, they had their moment as one of New York City's first couples to have an official domestic partner ceremony.

'Raghead' remark causes latest flap in SC gov race (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 02:34 PM PDT

AP - A GOP lawmaker hoping to be the state's first female governor is getting publicity for all the wrong reasons.

Sotomayor revisits her NYC school, housing project (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 01:11 PM PDT

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, center, reacts as she is surrounded by students during a visit to her childhood alma mater, the Blessed Sacrament School, in the Bronx borough of New York, Friday, June 4, 2010. She presented The Sonia Sotomayor Leadership Award, the first annual award in her honor for a student at the school, and gave a speech about her time at the school and her road to the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned Friday to the Bronx housing project where she spent part of her childhood, recalling how an unlikely encounter there with Robert F. Kennedy ignited her passion for public service.

Calif. high school ends 'Beat the Jew' game (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 01:18 PM PDT

AP - Seven seniors at a Southern California high school were facing disciplinary action for participating in a game called "Beat the Jew" in which losers were subjected to "incineration" or "enslavement," a school administrator said Friday.

4-day school weeks gain popularity across US (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 06:16 AM PDT

The cafeteria of Hunt Elementary School in Fort Valley, Ga., is seen empty on Monday, May 17, 2010. The school is in Peach County, one of more than 120 school districts nationwide where students attend school just four days a week to save money. (AP Photo/Peter Prengaman)AP - During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center.

Waves of oil tar mount on Fla. Panhandle beaches (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 06:18 AM PDT

AP - Waves of gooey tar blobs were washing ashore in growing numbers on the white sand of the Florida Panhandle and nearby Alabama beaches Friday as a slick from the BP spill drifted closer to shore.

'79 Gulf oil spill leaves sobering lessons for BP (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 08:55 AM PDT

In this undated aerial photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a fire burns near the Ixtoc exploratory well that blew out on June 3, 1979 in the Bay of Campeche, off Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico. Three decades later, the 1979 Ixtoc disaster remains the Gulf's, and the world's, worst oil spill. The parallels between that disaster and the current BP oil spill offer sobering lessons. There were no quick fixes for Ixtoc: It took 10 months to stop the leak, with Mexico's state-owned oil company, Pemex, trying methods similar to those that BP has attempted at its Deepwater Horizon rig. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - It started with a burst of gas through the drilling well. Workers scrambled to close the safety valves but within moments the platform caught fire and collapsed. Tens of millions of gallons of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico. Numerous attempts to stanch the spill failed.

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