2010年8月2日星期一

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AP IMPACT: New ID theft targets kids' SS numbers (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT

Graphic outlines a new kind of credit fraud scheme involving credit privacy numbers;AP - The latest form of identity theft doesn't depend on stealing your Social Security number. Now thieves are targeting your kid's number long before the little one even has a bank account.

Gulf seafood declared safe; fishermen not so sure (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 3, 2010 file photo, William Mahan of the University of Florida demonstrates how to smell for taint in seafood as he moves the air across a red fish filet at NOAA's seafood inspection program in Pascagoula, Miss. Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swallowing the government's assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy waters just offshore must be safe to eat because they don't smell too bad. Fresh splotches of chocolate-colored crude, probably globules broken apart by toxic chemical dispersants sprayed by BP with government approval, still wash up almost daily on protective boom and in marshes in reopened fishing grounds east of the Mississippi River. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)AP - Seafood from some parts of the oil-fouled Gulf of Mexico has been declared safe to eat by the government, based in part on human smell tests. But even some Gulf fishermen are questioning whether the fish and shrimp are OK to feed to their own families.

BP: Upcoming kill attempt might do the trick alone (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:28 PM PDT

Two men fish from a boat amidst oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay, on the Louisiana coast, Saturday, July 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - After insisting for months that a pair of costly relief wells were the only surefire way to kill the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials said Monday they may be able to do it just with lines running from a ship to the blown-out well a mile below.

Grizzly in Mont. maulings was light, not starving (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:31 PM PDT

In this photo provided by provided by ZooMontana, one of the female grizzly bear cubs who's mother killed one person and mauled two others in a late-night attack at a Montana campground bears is shown on Aug. 1, 2010 at ZooMontana in Billings, Mont. The cubs have arrived at their new home at ZooMontana in Billings. Zoo executive director Jackie Worstell said Sunday the two female cubs and one male cub were underweight, possibly explaining their mother's unusually aggressive behavior. (AP Photo/ZooMontana)AP - A grizzly bear that preyed on three campers outside Yellowstone National Park was underweight but not starving, and it was in an area with ample natural food supplies, wildlife officials said Monday as they worked to figure out why the animal attacked.

We're No. 1! UGA tops party schools ranking (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2008 file photo, Uga VII, the seventh English bulldog mascot for the University of Georgia team, who died last football season, keeps to the sidelines in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)AP - The University of Georgia won a national title this year — top party school.

Space station breakdown has NASA scrambling (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:42 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 19. 2010 file photo provided by NASA shows the International Space Station with Earth's horizon as a backdrop. Several power systems have been shut down aboard the International Space Station after a cooling system malfunctioned. NASA says in a posting on its website that one of two cooling loops aboard the space station was shut down Saturday, July 31, 2010. A module that pumps ammonia coolant to prevent equipment from overheating was still shut down early Sunday, Aug. 1. (AP Photo/NASA, File)AP - Astronauts in orbit and on the ground practiced Monday for a major repair job later this week at the International Space Station, struck by a massive cooling system failure.

Va. health care reform lawsuit clears 1st hurdle (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:36 PM PDT

Participants attend a town hall style meeting on health care reform at the South Lakes High School gymnasium in Reston, Virginia, August 25, 2009. REUTERS/Larry DowningAP - Virginia's lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's health care reform package cleared its first legal hurdle Monday when a federal judge ruled the law raises a host of complex constitutional issues.

Low-carb diet trumps low-fat on 'good' cholesterol (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:16 PM PDT

AP - Over the long term, a low-carb diet works just as well as a low-fat diet at taking off the pounds — and it might be better for your heart, new research suggests.

Digital signs enlisted in hunt for Granddad Bandit (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:53 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a billboard that will be featured in a 40-state campaign in hopes of catching a bank robber dubbed the 'Granddad Bandit.' The FBI announced the plan Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, to use digital billboards to identify and catch the bald, stocky man who the agency believes has robbed 25 banks in 13 states. The robberies began in December 2008 in Richmond and spread to other states in the eastern and central U.S. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation)AP - Photos of a balding, stocky man believed to have robbed 25 banks in 13 states will be plastered on billboards around the country as authorities try to catch the "Granddad Bandit," the FBI announced Monday.

Minn. pastor back in pulpit after gay report (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:52 PM PDT

AP - A Lutheran pastor in Minneapolis who opposes homosexuals being allowed to lead congregations said Monday he is attracted to men, but that he's not a hypocrite because he never acted on his urges.

Masked gunmen pull off 'alarming' heist in Mo. (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 02:38 PM PDT

Police Officers investigate the robbery of an armored car Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, in St. Louis' theater district where four armed bandits overpowered two workers at an ATM-servicing business, then used an armored vehicle to haul away possibly millions of dollars in a well-orchestrated heist. Police said the robbers subdued the workers at ATM Solutions Inc., with duct tape and locked them inside a vault, but neither was injured. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Emily Rasinski) MAGS OUT; EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUTAP - Four armed bandits clad from head to toe in black overpowered two workers at an ATM-servicing business Monday, then used an armored vehicle to haul away containers filled with cash in a well-orchestrated heist.

De Niro, Brooklyn, India on last Kodachrome roll (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:53 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 15, 2008 file photo shows a roll of Kodachrome 64 in Tonawanda, N.Y. Betting its future on digital photography, Kodak discontinued the slide and motion-picture film with a production run last August in which a master sheet nearly a mile long was cut up into more than 20,000 rolls. Photographer Steve McCurry was entrusted with shooting the last roll of Kodachrome film. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)AP - What should a photographer shoot when he's entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome?

NY jury convicts 2 in JFK Airport fuel-tank plot (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:11 PM PDT

AP - Two men were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a plan that authorities said was meant to outdo the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and avenge perceived U.S. oppression of Muslims around the world.

Sun storms may bring northern lights farther south (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:10 PM PDT

In this x-ray photo provided by NASA, the sun is shown early in the morning of Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. The dark arc near the top right edge of the image is a filament of plasma blasting off the surface — part of the coronal mass ejection. The bright region is an unassociated solar flare. When particles from the eruption reach Earth on the evening of Aug. 3-4, they may trigger a brilliant auroral display known as the Northern Lights. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - The sun may be about to put on a colorful light show.

Hail yes, it's big: Colo lab gets record hailstone (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:10 PM PDT

This photo taken July 24, 2010 provided by the NOAA National Weather Service shows a hailstone that was found by a ranch hand in Vivian, S.D., on June 23, 2010. The hailstone has set U.S records. It measured 8 inches in diameter and weighed 1 pound, 15 ounces. The previous record for diameter was 7 inches for a hailstone found in Aurora, Neb., in 2003. The previous record for weight was 1.67 pounds for a stone in Coffeyville, Kan., in 1970. (AP Photo/National Weather Service)AP - North America's heaviest hailstone ever might also be its most-traveled.

Adult stem cell research far ahead of embryonic (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:59 AM PDT

In this photo taken July 26, 2010, Dr. Gabriel Lasala talks with his patient Rodney Schoenhardt of Metairie, La during a check up in Covington, La. Mr. Schoenhardt has regenerated tissue on his foot since receiving a TCA Cellular Therapy Treatment from Dr. Lasala. (AP Photo/Derick E. Hingle)AP - A few months ago, Dr. Thomas Einhorn was treating a patient with a broken ankle that wouldn't heal, even with multiple surgeries. So he sought help from the man's own body.

1 of 3 Ariz. fugitives caught in Colo. shootout (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 02:30 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office, Daniel Renwick is shown. Renwick and two other inmates, all convicted of murder, escaped from a northwest Arizona prison on Friday, July 30, 2010. The men are considered armed and dangerous. (AP Photo/Mohave County Sheriff's Office)AP - Arizona authorities pressed forward with their search of the state Monday for two fugitives, as corrections officials looked into whether shoddy security allowed the inmates to cut a hole in a fence and slip away undetected.

3 killed in Alaska cargo plane crash on Denali (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 03:32 AM PDT

Map locates cargo plane crash near Denali National Park in AlaskaAP - A big cargo airplane that crashed Sunday in Denali National Park was registered to an Alaskan freight company and had three people onboard who are presumed dead, the National Park Service said.

Last Carnegie Hall resident forced out of towers (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 06:18 AM PDT

AP - All of her neighbors are gone, forced out. Now Elizabeth Sargent, the last holdout tenant of Carnegie Hall's towers, is preparing to leave the affordable studios that for more than a century housed some of America's most brilliant creative artists.

'Lunch ladies' go gourmet as school food gets new look (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 04:50 AM PDT

A photo taken Monday, July 19, 2010 at the Bruce Randolph School In Denver, shows Chef Daniel Young choosing winner fruit salad tray made by Denver Public School food service personnel during a half day of instruction on how to make healthier options with fresher foods for students. The instruction culminated with a competition and feast of what they had made. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)AP - They still wear sensible shoes, but the nation's lunch ladies are trading in their hair nets for chef toques as they undergo a gourmet makeover.

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