2010年10月27日星期三

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NJ governor stands by decision to kill tunnel (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gestures Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, in Trenton, N.J., as he announces that he's standing by his decision to kill the nation's biggest public works project, a train tunnel connecting New Jersey to New York City. Christie, a rising star in the Republican Party for his fearless budget-slashing, has argued that his cash-strapped state can't afford to pay for any overruns on the $9 billion-plus rail tunnel under the Hudson River. The state is on the hook for $2.7 billion plus overruns. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - The biggest public works project in the U.S. — a $9 billion-plus train tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City — is dead in its tracks.

Ind. parents told drop disabled kids at shelters (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:41 PM PDT

Twenty-two year old Cameron Dunn waits in his step-father Ron Holladay's truck while Holladay goes to work in Battle Ground, Ind., Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Dunn suffers epilepsy, autism, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. His mother Becky Holladay says that when she called Indiana's Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services to ask about a Medicaid waiver to pay for services that support disabled people living independently, a bureau worker told her that leaving severely disabled people at homeless shelters is one option families have if they can't be cared for at home. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AP - Indiana's budget crunch has become so severe that some state workers have suggested leaving severely disabled people at homeless shelters if they can't be cared for at home, parents and advocates said.

Air Force: Teams working to isolate ICBM glitch (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 02:02 PM PDT

AP - Work has begun to try to replicate an electronics glitch and determine what disrupted communication between 50 nuclear missiles and a launch control center at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, a U.S. Air Force official said Wednesday.

Lardcore: Modern Southern Food with Hard-Core Attitude (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - As a culinary movement, lardcore is meticulous, it's ballsy and it doesn't care what you think of it. In that, it's very Southern

Q&A: 'God and Sex' Author Michael Coogan on the Bible (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - In God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says, Michael Coogan discusses everything from marriage to abortion to prostitution. You may find yourself surprised by what the ancient texts have to say

APNewsBreak: Urgent plea for testing Jackson items (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 03:15 PM PDT

AP - Arguing that evidence is deteriorating, defense lawyers for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death are seeking urgent testing of two syringes and an IV bag found in the singer's mansion after his death.

Ark. school official accused of anti-gay screed (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 02:42 PM PDT

AP - A member of a northern Arkansas school board, commenting on a campaign to get people to wear purple to show support for bullied gay and lesbian youth, purportedly posted on Facebook that the only way he would wear purple is "if they all commit suicide."

Riches shadow both candidates in Conn. Senate race (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 08:53 AM PDT

In this Oct. 20, 2010 photo, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Richard Blumenthal, right, talks to Jim Leone of West Hartford, Conn., during a visit to supporters at a home in Manchester, Conn. The Connecticut Attorney General faces former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon on Nov. 2 for the senate seat being vacated by the retiring Sen. Chris Dodd. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Richard Blumenthal isn't flashy. Typically dressed in a plain dark suit, he switched his gas-guzzling state vehicle to an austere Honda Civic hybrid when fuel prices jumped. A fixture at potluck suppers, he's built a political career over 20 years of taking on the causes of everyday citizens in Connecticut.

Prosecutor: Encouraging suicide not free speech (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 03:19 PM PDT

AP - A Minnesota prosecutor says a former nurse charged with aiding the suicide of two people online shouldn't be protected by a free-speech claim.

More not always better with in vitro fertilization (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 12:31 PM PDT

AP - More tries aren't necessarily better when it comes to in vitro fertilization. New research found that about 1 in 3 women had a baby the first time they tried a test tube embryo, and that improved to nearly 1 in 2 with a second try.

Army study seeks best suicide prevention programs (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 11:07 AM PDT

Peter Gutierrez, Ph.D., of the VA's Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center at the Denver VA Medical Center, talks about a study at a news conference in Denver on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, that he will co-direct to study military suicides. Thomas Joiner at Florida State University will also co-direct the study. Researchers hope the new three-year, $17 million study will help them reduce the rising number of suicides in the military by determining for the first time which prevention programs work and which don't. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Military medical researchers say their efforts to reverse the rising number of suicides among servicemembers are based on "good ideas," but they don't know which prevention programs work and which don't. They launched a $17 million study Wednesday to find out.

Massive storm brings 2nd day of snow, rain, winds (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 02:08 PM PDT

Steps to a landing is all that remains from a mobile home destroyed in Vale, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 after powerful thunderstorms moved through the area. At least eleven people were hurt and eight homes damaged when a possible tornado touched down in Lincoln County in western North Carolina Tuesday evening, emergency officials said. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - Yolanda Corona prayed she wouldn't die.

US air travel security rules spark Europe debate (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 03:58 PM PDT

A British Airways passenger jet taxis past parked BA jets at Heathrow airport in London July 30, 2010. REUTERS/Luke MacGregorAP - European officials accused the United States of imposing unnecessary and overly intrusive air travel security measures, calling on the Obama administration Wednesday to re-examine policies ranging from X-raying shoes to online security checks for Europeans.

Vt. governor race could be decided by Legislature (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:58 PM PDT

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Brian Dubie, gestures during a debate, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 at WCAX-TV studios in South Burlington, Vt. (AP Photo/Alison Redlich)AP - For months, Democrat Peter Shumlin and Republican Brian Dubie have been wooing voters in hopes of becoming Vermont's next governor.

US judge OKs sharpshooters' Valley Forge deer hunt (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge has approved a plan to use sharpshooters to cull the bulging deer population at Valley Forge National Historical Park.

Government: Ohio fraud fugitive deported to US (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:37 AM PDT

This undated image provided by the F.B.I. shows Rebecca S. Parrett who was picked up by Mexican authorities on Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010 and will be turned over to U.S. authorities in Los Angeles. Parrett disappeared in March 2008 following her conviction on securities fraud, wire fraud and other charges in a $1.9 billion fraud scheme at health care financing company National Century Financial Enterprises. She was sentenced to 25 years in prison in absentia. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - A fugitive on the loose for more than two years following her conviction in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case was back in the United States Wednesday following her arrest in a Mexican resort town where the government said she often went out dancing and consulted an anti-aging specialist.

DA: Pa. bomb defendant overstated home robbery (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:52 PM PDT

AP - A woman who told a courtroom Wednesday that she was a victim of the schemes of others is trying to cover up her role in a heist in which a man was killed by a bomb locked to his neck, a prosecutor said at her trial.

Jury submits questions in Anna Nicole Smith case (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:48 PM PDT

Dr Khristine Eroshevich leaves Los Angeles Superior Court August 2010. Physicians Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich prescribed medication for Anna Nicole Smith, in collaboration with her former companion Howard K. Stern, which fueled her addiction, prosecutors said during the trial.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AP - A judge told jurors in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy case Wednesday they should not hesitate to declare a deadlock if they can't agree on some or all of the charges.

Victim's husband on stand in HN home invasion case (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:07 PM PDT

Dressed in a suit, defendant Steven Spader enters the courtroom on the first day of his trial in Hillsborough Superior Court Tuesday, October 26, 2010, in Nashua, N.H. Spader is charged with allegedly killing Kimberly Cates of Mont Vernon in her bed with a machette, and severely injuring her daughter in the nighttime attack. (AP Photo/Bob Hammerstrom, Pool)AP - A man whose wife was hacked to death and whose daughter was maimed during a home invasion glared from the witness stand Wednesday at the man prosecutors say struck his loved ones repeatedly with a machete.

Military, gov't increase investment in algae fuels (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 06:58 AM PDT

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, sailors assigned to Riverine Group 1 conduct maneuvers aboard Riverine Command Boat (Experimental) (RCB-X) at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. on Oct. 22, 2010 The RCB-X is powered by an alternative fuel blend of 50 percent algae-based and 50 percent NATO F-76 fuels to reduce total energy consumption on naval ships. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy,Specialist 2nd Class Gregory N. Juday)AP - The forest green algae bubbling in a stainless steel fermenting tank in a suburban warehouse may look like primordial pond scum, but it is a promising new source of domestically produced fuels being tested on the nation's jets and warships.

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