2010年11月11日星期四

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Experts fear copycat suicides after bullying cases (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:25 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2010 file photo, people participate in a candlelight vigil for Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi at Brower Commons on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J. (AP Photo/Reena Rose Sibayan, File)AP - The experts call it "contagion" when a suicide or rash of suicides inspires others to follow in an attempt at martyrdom or solidarity in death.

Clinton-Netanyahu meeting produces no breakthrough (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:19 PM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, gestures as he speaks to reporters during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held lengthy talks here Thursday but failed to break an impasse that has stalled Middle East peace negotiations.

UN: Iraqi Mandaeans hard to resettle in 1 place (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:19 PM PST

Vincent Cochetel, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees representative for the U.S. and the Caribbean, speaks with an Associated Press reporter, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, in Boston. Cochetel said no single country wants to take all of the Iraqi Mandaean refugees and that's putting the tiny population at risk. Around 60,000 Mandaeans recently have fled Iraq and Iran because of persecution with about 450 settling in the Boston area. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - A United Nations refugee official says no single country wants to take all the Iraqi Mandaean (man-DAY'-an) refugees who seek to resettle, and acknowledges that's putting the tiny religious group at risk.

Did George W. Bush Vote For Barack Obama in 2008? (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:00 PM PST

Time.com - Over the past week, former President George W. Bush has been giving us little appetizers in advance of the main course that is his new book

What We Learned in Detroit (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:10 AM PST

Time.com - Assignment Detroit: From a house in the city, Time Inc. magazines covered Detroit's struggle to survive. The moral: the city brims with tales of shock, inspiration and hope

DNA test casts doubt on executed Texas man's guilt (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 04:34 PM PST

FILE - This June 29, 2010 file photo shows convicted murderer Claude Jones in family snapshots taken at Texas' death row visitors' room the day before he was was executed for capital murder in late 2000. A DNA test on a single strand of hair has cast doubt on the guilt of Jones who was executed for a liquor-store robbery and murder. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)AP - A DNA test on a single hair has cast doubt on the guilt of a Texas man who was put to death 10 years ago for a liquor-store murder — an execution that went forward after then-Gov. George W. Bush's staff failed to tell him the condemned man was asking for genetic analysis of the strand.

AWOL soldier returns on Veterans Day (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 04:25 PM PST

AP - AWOL soldier Jeff Hanks said he walked away from the Army in the middle of a deployment to Afghanistan because his problems with anxiety and stress from combat have been ignored. On Veterans Day, he returned to face the consequences.

Fla. newspaper finds lead in reusable grocery bags (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 04:57 PM PST

AP - The Publix supermaket chain is asking suppliers to find ways to make reusable grocery bags with less lead after a newspaper investigation found elevated levels in some Florida bags.

Coziness between jails, ICE worries immigrants (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:38 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 photo, Luis Guerra leaves the stage after speaking at a rally in New York against the city's Department of Corrections' involvement with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and deportation program. Guerra was caught in ICE's web after he was picked out of a police lineup and accused of a crime he didn't commit. But instead of getting out of jail, Guerra ended up in federal immigration detention in Texas before being allowed to return to Manhattan, and he's now waiting for an immigration hearing that could force him back to a country he hasn't seen since he was 9. City authorities made 'a mistake, and now I'm paying for their mistake,' he said. 'I was living a normal life before.' (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Luis Guerra swore he had nothing to do with any murder, that whoever picked him out of a lineup was wrong. Still, he was held at the Rikers Island jail for more than a year before the charges were dropped.

GOP victory could boost natural gas drilling (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:57 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2008 file photo, the drilling rig for a natural gas well into the Marcellus Shale is seen behind a foundation for equipment that remains on site after the well is tapped in Houston, Pa. The Republicans' big Election Day victories in Pennsylvania and on Capitol Hill could mean an early Christmas for the drilling companies that are rushing to exploit the Marcellus Shale, one of the biggest known natural gas deposits in the nation. Republican Gov.-elect Tom Corbett is a lot friendlier to the industry than outgoing Democrat Ed Rendell. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)AP - The Republicans' big election victories in Pennsylvania and on Capitol Hill could be Christmas-come-early for the drilling companies that are rushing to exploit the Marcellus Shale, the biggest known deposit of natural gas in the nation.

Travelers disembark 'nightmare' cruise amid cheers (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 05:07 PM PST

Sabrina Klinge, right, a passenger who was onboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship for her honeymoon, leaves the cruise ship terminal in San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - They can call it a nightmare. A cruise from hell. Even a Spamcation.

Hearing over Tennessee mosque puts Islam on trial (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:27 PM PST

FILE - This July 14, 2010 photo shows protesters, left, and counter protesters, right, shouting at each other during a demonstration about a planned mosque and Islamic community center in Murfreesboro, Tenn. With testimony planned to resume Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, Islam is on trial in a booming Nashville suburb, where opponents of a new mosque have spent six days in court trying to link it to what they claim is a conspiracy to take over America by imposing restrictive religious rule. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)AP - Islam is suddenly on trial in a booming Nashville suburb, where opponents of a new mosque have spent six days in court trying to link it to what they claim is a conspiracy to take over America by imposing restrictive religious rule.

Champion elm Herbie to be sold in artful pieces (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:46 PM PST

A guitar made by Andrew Olson is displayed Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, in Yarmouth, Maine. Nearly nine months after being cut down, artisans have transformed some of the wood from New England's 217-year-old champion elm tree into a variety of products including an electric guitar. The items will be auctioned off on Saturday. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - In life, New England's champion elm tree, nicknamed Herbie, stretched more than 100 feet skyward, towering over its neighbors and becoming a local landmark.

NH hotel sparking mountain of a legal challenge (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:17 PM PST

AP - New Hampshire's Mount Washington is famous for its bad weather. But a different storm is brewing as the new owners of a historic hotel fight to keep the peak's name for themselves.

Companies yank cord on residential phone books (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 11:06 AM PST

This photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, shows Emily Goodmann sitting with a small stack of phone books at the Northwestern University Library in Evanston, Ill. Goodmann is a doctoral student who is doing her dissertation on the history of the telephone book. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - What's black and white and read all over? Not the white pages, which is why regulators have begun granting telecommunications companies the go-ahead to stop mass-printing residential phone books, a musty fixture of Americans' kitchen counters, refrigerator tops and junk drawers.

Lockdown causes radio host to quit US House job (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:44 PM PST

AP - A conservative radio talk show host tapped to be chief of staff for an incoming Florida congressman stepped down Thursday from her congressional job, a day after 300 schools were locked down when a threat was linked to her show.

ACLU challenging half-pay for discharged gays (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:57 PM PST

AP - The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the government on behalf of a gay former Air Force sergeant denied full separation pay after he was forced out under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Murkowski camp cries foul in ballot count (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:53 PM PST

A challenged ballot is shown Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, in Juneau, Alaska. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's campaign on Thursday accused observers for rival Joe Miller of making petty challenges in the counting of voters' write-in ballots in an attempt to tilt the Alaska Senate race in their favor. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's campaign on Thursday accused observers for rival Joe Miller of challenging properly cast write-in ballots in an effort to drag out the heated Alaska Senate race and "delay the inevitable."

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