2010年9月26日星期日

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Ga. pastor: I'll fight like David battled Goliath (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 02:59 PM PDT

Bishop Eddie Long, right, embraces a friend Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010, at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta. Long, the pastor of a Georgia megachurch accused of luring young men into sexual relationships, has told his congregation of thousands that all people must face painful and distasteful situations. (AP Photo/John Amis, Pool)AP - Casting himself as the Bible's ultimate underdog, Bishop Eddie Long went before thousands of faithful supporters at his megachurch Sunday and promised to fight accusations that he lured four young men into sexual relationships.


Calif measure shows state's conflicted link to pot (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 10:44 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 1997 file photo, Denis Peron, founder of the Cannabis Cultivators Club, smells a northern lights marijuana plant in the club's growing room in San Francisco. Some medical marijuana supporters have said Proposition 19, the ballot measure to legalize pot, could undermine the credibility of the drug as a medical treatment, including Peron, the San Francisco activist who was the driving force behind the 1996 ballot measure that legalized medical marijuana in the state. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)AP - California has a long history of defying conventional wisdom on the issue of marijuana, including its embrace of the drug in the 1960s and its landmark medical pot law 14 years ago. So it may not be all that surprising that a November ballot measure to legalize the drug has created some odd alliances and scenarios.


Officials say levee fails near Wis. park (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 04:03 PM PDT

Water that overflowed from the Big Sioux River sits in the town of Renner, S.D., in this aerial photograph from Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers)AP - A levee along the Wisconsin River failed on Sunday, flooding the access road leading to a park area and cutting off any residents who did not heed daylong warnings to evacuate.


After 10 years in US, abortion pill still divisive (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 10:17 AM PDT

AP - Ten years ago, after long and bitter debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of the abortion pill by American women. It is hailed as safe and effective, but new turmoil may lie ahead as the pill's proponents consider using telemedicine to make it more available.

$93,000 cancer drug: How much is a life worth? (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 12:12 PM PDT

In this Aug. 16, 2010 photo, patient Bob Svensson is hooked up to a blood infusion machine at the American Red Cross in Dedham, Mass., as he undergoes a $93,000 prostate cancer treatment. The Provenge therapy, approved in April, adds four months' survival, on average, for men with incurable prostate tumors. Bob Svensson is honest about why he got it: insurance paid. 'I would not spend that money,' because the benefit doesn't seem worth it, says Svensson, 80, a former corporate finance officer from Bedford, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Cancer patients, brace yourselves. Many new drug treatments cost nearly $100,000 a year, sparking fresh debate about how much a few months more of life is worth.


Report: Oman talking to Iran on US prisoners (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 02:05 PM PDT

This photo provided by Sarah Shourd on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, shows her with her two hiking companions Shane Bauer, left, and Josh Fattal after they were detained in Iraq.  Shourd was released from confinement in Iran on Sept. 14, after 13 months inprisonment, most of the time in solitary confinement. Bauer and Fattal remain in Iran.  (AP Photo) **NO SALES**AP - A delegation from Oman was expected to visit Iran to pursue the release of two American men imprisoned for more than a year, an Iranian newspaper said.


Unruly passenger forces flight's return to Seattle (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 04:05 AM PDT

AP - A Delta spokeswoman says an unruly passenger on a flight bound for Amsterdam forced pilots to return the plane to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport shortly after take-off.

Descendants of 1st black US doctor mark NYC grave (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 04:23 PM PDT

A flower lays atop the new tombstone of Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation's first professionally trained African-American doctor, as Smith's great-granddaughter Antoinette Martignoni, left, and Smith's great-great-granddaughter Judy Gerlitz share a moment during a ceremony honoring Smith, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010 at Cypress Hills Cemetery in the Brooklyn borough of New York.  Smith's gravesite had been unmarked since his death in 1865. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - White descendants of the nation's first professionally trained African-American doctor gathered in a cemetery on Sunday to dedicate a tombstone at the unmarked grave where he was buried in 1865.


Attorney: Feds trying to quiet anti-war activists (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 05:17 PM PDT

AP - FBI agents in Chicago took a laptop and documents from the home of a Palestinian-American anti-war activist in an attempt to silence his advocacy, an attorney said Sunday.

8 shot, 3 stabbed, 1 dead at east LA house party (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 12:02 AM PDT

AP - Eight people were shot — one fatally — and another three stabbed Saturday after a fight broke out at a birthday party, authorities said.

Newark hopes Facebook gift translates to results (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 10:25 PM PDT

DILE - In this May, 26, 2010 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the social network site's new privacy settings in Palo Alto, Calif. Schools in New Jersey's largest city are poised to receive $100 million Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, from the founder of Facebook. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)AP - New Jersey has already thrown enough money at its largest school district to make it among the nation's best-funded, yet it remains in the pits. Can a $100 million gift from the founder of Facebook really turn it around?


Sparks flying, wing aground, flight lands in NYC (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 01:22 PM PDT

AP - With a flight attendant yelling "heads down, stay down," passengers cowered and prayed on a tense descent into John F. Kennedy International Airport as malfunctioning landing gear sent sparks flying and left one of the plane's wings dragging along the tarmac.

NYC mother, boyfriend arrested in death of boy, 2 (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:55 PM PDT

AP - A 27-year-old woman and her boyfriend have been arrested in the beating death of the woman's 2-year-old son in New York City.

Abbas says settlements block Mideast peace deal (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 12:01 AM PDT

Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, at United Nations headquarters.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday there will be no peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state stops settlement construction in areas the Palestinians claim for their future state.


Calif. inmate asks federal court to halt execution (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 04:30 PM PDT

In this June 2007 photo released by the California Department of Corrections is condemned inmate Albert Greenwood Brown. Brown is scheduled to die at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., on Sept. 29 for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Riverside County girl abducted on her way home from school in 1980. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections)AP - A death row inmate on Sunday asked a federal appeals court to halt his execution as he declined to choose a method for the lethal injection.


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