2010年8月8日星期日

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Slain doctors brought medical care to Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 02:16 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by Kay Shaw of Global Dental Relief, a Denver-based group that sends teams of dentists around the globe, Dr. Thomas Grams, 51, formerly of Durango, Colo. is shown. Grams was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 along with five other Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton, Shaw said. (AP Photo/Global Dental Relief) NO SALESAP - Members of a medical team gunned down in Afghanistan brought some of the first toothbrushes and eyeglasses villagers had ever seen and spent no time talking about religion as they provided medical care, friends and aid organizations said Sunday.

Far from ground zero, opponents fight new mosques (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 01:16 PM PDT

FILE - This July 14, 2010 file photo shows protester Greg Johnson, right, and counter protesters Ina Marshall and Tim Foster, left, arguing during a demonstration against a planned mosque and Islamic community center in front of the Rutherford County Courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Mosques around the country are facing resistance similar to the opposition against a proposed Islamic center near ground zero in New York, but the anger and fear is a little sharper. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey, file)AP - Muslims trying to build houses of worship in the nation's heartland, far from the heated fight in New York over plans for a mosque near ground zero, are running into opponents even more hostile and aggressive.

US immigrant's dream ends with genocide allegation (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2010 file photo, the home of Beatrice Munyenyezi, 40, is seen in Manchester, N.H. Federal prosecutors say Munyenyezi directed kidnapping, rape and murder during the genocide, in which about 800,000 people were killed during an ethnic bloodletting. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Beatrice Munyenyezi brought her three daughters to the United States from war-ravaged Rwanda in 1998 and focused on the American Dream: private schooling for her girls, a home with a swimming pool, a sport utility vehicle.

Gulf shrimpers pray for good season despite oil (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 04:44 PM PDT

Rev. Gervis Burns blesses fishing boats docked in Bayou Delarge in Theriot, La., during the pre-shrimp season tradition known as the 'Blessing of the Boats,' Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Louisiana fishermen can once again fish for shrimp when the season officially opens Aug. 16. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook)AP - Docked boats were bedecked with fluttering red, white and blue streamers and rainbows of balloons in a bayou-country, pre-shrimp season tradition known as the "Blessing of the Boats."

Ariz. escapees believed to be in Yellowstone area (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 01:55 PM PDT

In this combination of undated photos provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office, Tracy Province, left, John McClusky, center, Daniel Renwick are shown. New Mexico State Police spokesman Peter Olson said Province, McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, who helped them escape, have been linked to a couple's killing. Renwick was arrested in Colorado on Aug. 1. (AP Photo/Mohave County Sheriff's Office,File)AP - The search for two men who escaped from a private Arizona prison and their suspected accomplice has turned to the vast Yellowstone National Park area after one of the inmates was linked to a double homicide in New Mexico and efforts to find them intensified.

Forced to retire, some take Social Security early (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 03:01 PM PDT

In this Aug. 5, 2010 photo, Paul Skidmore, stands with his wife Kathy, at their home in Finksburg, Md. Skidmore's office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18-month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned. Social Security is facing its first-ever shortfall this year as a wave of people like Skidmore opt to collect payments before their full retirement age. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)AP - Paul Skidmore's office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18-month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned.

Difficult task to lower risk of workplace violence (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:18 PM PDT

**ADDS LOCATION PHOTO WAS TAKEN** This June 2010 cell phone photo provided by Kristi Hannah, shows her boyfriend Omar Thornton in Niantic, Conn. Police said Thornton killed eight people and wounded two, then turned the gun on himself in a rampage Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in Manchester, Conn. (AP Photo/Kristi Hannah) NO SALESAP - Criminologists call it murder by proxy — rampages by employees who go after their boss, supervisors and even co-workers they link to the source of their outrage. The message is: Look who's doing the firing now.

Ancient bison kill site uncovered in Montana (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 11:54 AM PDT

AP - Archaeologists working on the Blackfeet Indian reservation in northwestern Montana say they have uncovered a vast former hunting complex where bison were stampeded over a cliff at least 1,000 years ago.

Colin dissipates as it passes by Bermuda (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 02:59 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows a swirl of clouds in the Atlantic Ocean associated with Tropical Storm Colin as it moves north then northeastward over the next few days. No major landmasses will be affected by this storm, but Bermuda is currently experiencing strong wind and heavy rain. An area of clouds over the Upper Midwest is associated with heavy rain and thunderstorms, while the rest of the East is mostly dry. Hot and humid conditions are expected to continue in the Plains and Southeast. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Colin has weakened even further to a remnant of a tropical depression as the storm passed by Bermuda.

Ryan jurors know what Blagojevich jury is facing (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 04:19 PM PDT

FILE - This July 28, 2010 file photo shows former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaking to the media at the Federal Court building in Chicago. As jurors in Blagojevich's corruption trial enter their second full week of deliberations, another group of 12 has an inkling of what's going on behind their closed door: The jurors whose 2006 verdict put George Ryan, another former Illinois governor, behind bars. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, file)AP - They wanted a law book to help them understand the jury instructions, and wondered why the judge wouldn't give it to them. Bunched together, with the restroom so close, they got to know each other intimately. And the nonsmokers groused when the others were allowed a cigarette break.

NYPD officer shot by another in gunfight with man (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:37 PM PDT

AP - An argument at a block party escalated into gunfire, killing one man and wounding several others, including a police officer shot by a colleague in the hail of bullets, authorities said.

Former HHS secretary questioned at Israeli airport (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 09:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 19, 2008 file photo, President Bush places the Presidential Medal of Freedom on University of Miami President, and former Health and Human Service Secretary, Donna Shalala as he takes part in a ceremony for the 2008 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room at the White House in Washington. Shalala says she was interrogated at the Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel last month. Shalala, who is of Lebanese descent, was visiting Israel in July, 2010 as part of a delegation of university leaders invited by the American Jewish Committee's Project Interchange. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - A former secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department says she was interrogated at the Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel last month.

Well capping brings relief but fear of abandonment (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 09:01 PM PDT

In this Thursday Aug. 5, 2010 picture, A.C. Cooper, vice president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, holds a bottle of oil as he pleads to Ray Mabus, U.S. secretary of the Navy, to ensure the safety of Louisiana seafood during a town hall meeting for fishermen and residents in Buras, La. Cooper said that he collected it from an inland bay in southern Plaquemines Parish earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook)AP - The gusher has finally been beaten back, and from 400 miles up government satellites assure that the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is disappearing. But Dave Marino only wishes he could put that kind of distance between himself and the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Storms spawn tornadoes in North Dakota, Minnesota (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 10:27 AM PDT

In this Aug. 7, 2010 image made from APTN video, debris flies through the air as a tornado touches down in rural Wilkin County, Minn. The National Weather Service says several tornadoes touched down in southeast North Dakota and western Minnesota. No injuries appear to have been reported. Meteorolgist Tom Grafenauer says a line of storms that started in North Dakota and moved east into Minnesota appears to have generated several tornadoes. He says touchdowns were reported near Tyler, N.D.; Tenney, Minn.; and Fergus Falls, Minn. (AP Photo/APTN)AP - Strong storms spawned several tornadoes that touched down in southeast North Dakota and western Minnesota, including one that appeared to have struck a farm house. No injuries appear to have been reported.

Allen gives BP mixed grade for oil spill response (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 08:29 AM PDT

National Incident Commander Thad Allen speaks during the Daily White House Press Briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on August 4. US officials on Sunday urged further study of the damage done to the environment by BP's broken well, and said clean-up efforts must continue despite claims that much of the oil had vanished from the Gulf of Mexico.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AP - The U.S. government's point man overseeing BP's response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico gives the company high marks for its engineering response, but low marks in dealing with people.

Calif. city official's salary package topped $1.5M (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 08:51 PM PDT

Bell, Calif. resident Miguel Sanchez waves a dollar bill at city councillors during a city council meeting addressing city leaders' pay, Monday, July 26, 2010, in Bell, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP - A former city manager's huge $787,000 salary is only half of the unusually generous total compensation given to the official in the small California blue-collar city of Bell, according to a city official.

Russian spy wants to live under fake name in Peru (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 09:09 PM PDT

This combo of ten undated booking photos provided by U.S. Marshals on Thursday July 29, 2010 shows from top left, Cynthia Murphy, whose real name is Lydia Guryev, Patricia Mills whose real name is Natalia Pereverzeva, Anna Chapman, Tracey Lee Ann Foley whose real name is Elena Vavilova, Vicky Pelaez, and bottom, from left, Richard Murphy, born Vladimir Guryev, Michael Zottoli whose real name is Mikhail Kutsik, Mikhail Semenko, Donald Howard Heathfield whose real name is Andrey Bezrukov and Juan Lazaro whose real name is Mikhail Vasenkov. The FBI arrested the ten on June 27 charging them with acting as unregistered foreign agents for Russia. All pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals)AP - A Russian secret agent sent home in a highly publicized spy swap wants to leave the country and return with his wife to her native Peru, while continuing to live under the false name he used for 34 years, the man's attorney said.

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