2010年7月3日星期六

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Giant oil skimmer being tested in Gulf of Mexico (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 03:22 PM PDT

Pelicans sitting on an oil boom drink water from a marsh that is impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill near Point Lydia in the Southeast corner of Biloxi Bay on the coast of St. Bernard Parish, La., Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Gulf of Mexico cleanup crews working to block millions of gallons of oil from reaching land may soon have a giant on their side, if a weekend test of a new skimmer goes well.

Officials: Arrests linked to Calif. police attacks (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 03:36 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say there have been two arrests linked to a series of booby trap attacks on police in a small Southern California town.

Essay: Spy arrests offer bit of Cold War nostalgia (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:51 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, an alleged deep-cover Russian agent, who appeared at a New York federal court hearing June 28, 2010, after her arrest. Chapman, the spy suspect with a heavy presence on the Internet and New York party scene, quickly became a tabloid sensation with the obvious references to her as a James Bond girl. (AP Photo/File)AP - The capture of those alleged deep-cover Russian agents has — for a moment of nostalgia — taken Americans back to a day when their enemy was sneaky but familiar, ensconced right there behind the crenelated red-brick Kremlin walls.

NY spy suspect wants to stay here, lawyer tells AP (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:47 PM PDT

This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The caption on Odnoklassniki reads 'Russia, Moscow. London, Stone age.' (AP Photo)AP - The Russian diplomat's daughter accused of being a spy is "embarrassed" by photos of her that have turned up in media reports and fears she will be deported, her lawyer said.

Churches, nonprofits fight for survival amid spill (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 11:43 AM PDT

In this June 30, 2010 photo, pastor Dan Brown, of the Anchor Assembly of God in Bayou La Batre, Ala., talks about the claim that his church filed with BP PLC stemming from lost revenue because of the Deepwater Horizon incident. Months after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and its well started gushing oil, the British petroleum giant says it has yet to decide how to handle claims filed by religious groups and other charitable organizations that are endangered because people can no longer afford to contribute. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - God only knows what will happen to churches and other nonprofit organizations who say they are struggling for survival because of the Gulf oil spill crisis.

Sororities' antics spur school alcohol efforts (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 11:17 AM PDT

In this June 4, 2010 photo, Larissa Spreng, president of the Miami Panhellenic Association governing campus sororities, speaks on campus in Oxford, Ohio. Two sororities at the university have been suspended and one put on probation recently for unruly behavior linked to alcohol. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - Sorority spring formals call up visions of young women in colorful dresses dancing the night away — not vomiting on tables, urinating in sinks or having sex in closets.

Ship in Boston Harbor runs aground, is evacuated (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 03:39 PM PDT

In this photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, citizens, and state and local agencies assist the Coast Guard in evacuating 168 passengers and six crew members from passenger vessel The Massachusetts that ran aground and began taking on water in Boston Harbor Saturday morning, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)AP - A tour boat headed on a whale watch with 174 people on board was evacuated Saturday after it ran aground on a rocky ledge in Boston Harbor and began taking on water.

Calvin Coolidge, born July 4: Hero to tea partiers (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 02:52 PM PDT

In this June 25, 2010 photo, a couple sits in the shade at the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth Notch, Vt., where this weekend a hometown celebration for President Calvin Coolidge, who was born on the 4th of July in 1872, will take place. A Vermont National Guard contingent and a color guard trailed by hundreds of people: Coolidge descendants, presidential history buffs and locals, will walk down the road to the Plymouth Notch Cemetery, where Coolidge is buried. Coolidge was born in the small plain wood-sided home on the far left. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)AP - In the Vermont hamlet where Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge was born, folks will celebrate his star-spangled birthday the way they always do.

2 slain Fla. cops mourned as suspect denied bond (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 10:55 AM PDT

In this 2003 Hillsborough County Jail booking photo, Dontae Rashawn Morris, is said to be a person of interest in the shooting death of two Tampa, Fla., police officers Tuesday, June 29, 2010 in Tampa. (AP Photo/Hillsborough County Jail, Ho)AP - Two police officers gunned down during a traffic stop were remembered Saturday as family men devoted to protecting the public, while the convicted felon accused of killing them was ordered to remain in jail the day after he surrendered.

New US satellite to monitor debris in Earth orbit (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:29 AM PDT

This 2009 photo provided by the Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., shows technicians working on the Space-Based Space Surveillance satellite in Boulder, Colo. The satellite is a $500 million U.S. Air Force spacecraft that will provide the first full-time, space-based eye on thousands of other satellites and pieces of debris that could crash into American assets circling the Earth. (AP Photo/Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.) NO SALESAP - A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth.

Inmates adjust to new Ky. prison after sex scandal (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:53 AM PDT

In a Wednesday June 16, 2010 photo, inmates walk through the dorms at Western Kentucky Correctional, in Fredonia, Ky. Kentucky ordered female inmates moved from Otter Creek in January after widespread allegations of sexual misconduct involving the predominantly male corps of corrections officers. (AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)AP - Life was just fine for Tina Quarels at the Otter Creek women's prison in eastern Kentucky — rules were relaxed, she didn't have to work and the staff was familiar.

Climber missing near Mount Rainier summit (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 09:55 PM PDT

AP - A day of searching for a 57-year-old climber who unclipped his rope and vanished near Mount Rainier's summit has ended without locating the man, a National Park Service spokeswoman said Friday night.

Federal judge tries to streamline oil spill suits (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:17 AM PDT

AP - A federal judge in New Orleans is trying to streamline the legal process for more than 30 lawsuits arising from the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Man charged in boat crash near Statue of Liberty (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 02:09 PM PDT

In this July 2, 2010 image taken from video and released by WCBS-TV in New York, rescue teams respond to a fatal boat accident near the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. One man was killed and two others injured when their 17-foot boat was struck and cut in half by a 30 -foot boat. The operator of the larger craft, Richard Aquilone of Jersey City, N.J., has been charged in New York with vehicular manslaughter. (AP Photo/WCBS-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALESAP - A New Jersey man was charged with vehicular manslaughter after a boat crash near the Statue of Liberty that killed a groom-to-be and injured two other men.

Moynihan, as Nixon aide, warned of global warming (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 02:53 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 1970 file photo, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, presidential urban affairs adviser, and President Richard Nixon, left, are seen discussing the progress of work at the U.S. Capitol Building in front of the construction of the reflecting pool in Washington. Newly released documents show Moynihan urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, decades before the issue of global warming came to the public's attention. (AP Photo, File)AP - Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.

City where drive-through eating began is full (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 08:59 AM PDT

In this June 8, 2010 photo, In-N-Out Burger signs, two in the foreground from the fast food chain's original location, and one in the background at a new location across the Interstate 10 freeway, fill the skyline in Baldwin Park, Calif. Amid complaints of obesity and lines of idled cars stretching into neighborhood streets, this blue-collar town is banning new drive-throughs in hopes of shedding its reputation as a haven for convenient, fatty foods. (AP Photo/Adam Lau)AP - The birthplace of California's drive-through craze has had its fill of fast food restaurants.

Old technology foils Schwarzenegger's wage order (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 03:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 9, 2010 file photo, California Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at news conference to applaud the passage of Proposition 14 in Los Angeles. Schwarzenegger's order to pay 200,000 state workers just the minimum wage sent a signal to California lawmakers: In the impasse over closing California's $19 billion budget deficit, the governor is ready to play hardball. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - As the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the technology of the future, feared by humans. As governor, he's being foiled by the technology of the past.

Paris Hilton's companion ordered to leave SAfrica (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 08:05 AM PDT

US socialite Paris Hilton is seen here in Brazil, in June. A South African judge dropped drugs charges against Hilton early Saturday, after she was arrested for possession of marijuana at the World Cup.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AP - The former Playboy playmate convicted of possessing marijuana while accompanying Paris Hilton to a World Cup game is persona non grata in South Africa.

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