2010年11月21日星期日

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St. Louis tops list of most dangerous US cities (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 05:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2007 file photo, the depressed section of Interstate 70 passes in front of the Gateway Arch and the grounds of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis. A national study released Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 finds St. Louis overtook Camden, N.J., as the nation's most dangerous city in 2009. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam, File)AP - A national study finds St. Louis overtook Camden, N.J., as the nation's most dangerous city in 2009.


Cadmium, lead found in drinking glasses (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 04:48 PM PST

This Sept. 9, 2010 photo shows an Olympus Innov-X Delta Handheld XRF Analyzer testing glassware decorated with a Ronald McDonald character for cadmium, lead and other toxic elements in Los Angeles. The device is used for the analysis of environmental, geological, biological, industrial and other samples. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)AP - Drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz" exceed federal limits for lead in children's products by up to 1,000 times, according to laboratory testing commissioned by The Associated Press.


The Last Temptation of Facebook: Pastor Advises Congregation to Abandon Adulterous Social Network (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 06:15 AM PST

Time.com - Facebook makes it a tad too easy for 'friends' to become friends with benefits, a New Jersey pastor claims. That's why he's given his married staff an ultimatum: log-off, or lose your job

TIME/Pew Poll: What Is Marriage Good For? (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 06:15 AM PST

Time.com - The state of our unions is shifting in unexpected ways. A TIME/Pew special report shows how income, age and experience alter our chances of wedded bliss

Ex-Playboy bunny convicted of murder dies in Ore. (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:48 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 1992 file photo, flanked by her attorneys Frank Morocco, left, and Sheldon T. Zenner, right, Lawrencia Bembenek answers questions at a new conference in Chicago, Ill. Bembenek, a former Milwaukee Police officer who escaped from prison after she was convicted of murder in a wild criminal saga that later became a TV miniseries, has died. She was 52. Bembenek's attorney, Mary Woehrer, says she died Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010 at a hospice care center in Portland, Ore. Woehrer says the cause of death was liver failure. (AP Photo/Mark Elias, File)AP - The prison escape of former Playboy Club bunny and Milwaukee police officer Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek popularized the phrase "Run Bambi Run" and seemed tailor-made for the TV movie it inspired.


NY-to-Moscow jet returns safely after engine fails (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 04:48 PM PST

In this frame grab taken from WABC-TV video, airport personnel wait for passangers to disembark near an Emirates airliner at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Friday Oct. 29, 2010, after the aircraft was escorted from the Canadian border to New York City by two military fighter jets. U.S. officials said there is no known threat associated with the plane, but it was being escorted to JFK as a precautionary move. Authorities on Friday were investigating whether suspicious packages shipped aboard cargo planes from Yemen to the U.S. were part of a terrorist plot. (AP Photo/WABC-TV) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A Moscow-bound flight carrying about 200 people returned safely to John F. Kennedy International Airport after an engine failed Sunday night, authorities said. No one was injured.


N. Calif. cities bring pot growing into the light (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 01:30 PM PST

Marijuana advocate Debby Goldsberry sits among pot plants in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010. Goldsberry founded Berkeley Patients Group, one of the Bay Area's first marijuana dispensaries, more than 10 years ago. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - As numerous cities get set to levy voter-approved taxes on medical marijuana retailers, some municipalities in Northern California are already moving aggressively toward creating government-sanctioned marijuana farms to help supply them.


BP claims a gamble: Get check now, risk less later (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 01:25 PM PST

Ed Cake, left, president of Gulf Environmental Associates in Ocean Springs, Miss., speaks during the International  Conference on Shellfish Restoration in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 as Earl Melancon, a biology professor at Nicholls State University in Louisiana, listens. The conference session focused on the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon spill on shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)AP - Fishermen and business owners stung by a summer of lost revenue from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have until Wednesday to file their compensation claims for short-term damages, and then they have to ask themselves: Do I feel lucky?


Huckabee says ousting of Iowa judges historic move (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 03:03 PM PST

AP - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Sunday that Iowa voters likely launched a national movement when ousting three state Supreme Court justices who agreed with a decision to strike a ban on gay marriage.

Believers find mixed blessings in Pope's comments (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 02:04 PM PST

Matthew Alexander worships during mass at St. Dominic's Catholic Church on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010, in San Francisco. Some Catholic believers in the Americas greeted Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments on condoms as a sign that the church was stepping into the modern debate in the fight against AIDS, though the church was adamant Sunday that nothing has changed in its views banning contraception. There was praise and wariness for the pope's comments that condoms could be morally justified in some limited situations, such as for male prostitutes wanting to prevent the spread of HIV. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - Some Catholic believers in the Americas greeted Pope Benedict XVI's comments on condoms as a sign that the church was stepping into the modern debate in the fight against AIDS, though the church was adamant Sunday that nothing has changed in its views banning contraception.


A grope too far: Fliers' anger at TSA boils over (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 04:37 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2010 file photo, passengers move through the line at a security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta.  The TSA has demonstrated a knack for ignoring the basics of customer relations, while struggling with what experts say is an all but impossible task. It must stand as the last line against unknown terror, yet somehow do so without treating everyone from frequent business travelers to the family heading home to visit grandma as a potential terrorist.  (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)AP - How did an agency created to protect the public become the target of so much public scorn?


Coroner: 2 Ohio women, boy stabbed and dismembered (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 04:10 AM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Routt County Sheriffs Office, Matthew J. Hoffman is shown. Knox County Sheriff David Barber said  a 13-year-old girl missing for days was found bound and gagged but alive in the basement of Hoffman's home, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010, and authorities hoped Hoffman, charged with kidnapping her, might lead them to her mother, brother and another woman who disappeared with her. (AP Photo/Routt County Sheriffs Office)AP - Blood covered so much of an Ohio home where two women and an 11-year-old boy were stabbed to death that several rooms have to be gutted, a family friend said.


Officers broaden search for Utah shooter (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 01:25 PM PST

This undated photo provided by Utah State Parks and Recreation, shows Utah State Ranger Brody Young. Nearly 100 officers tracking a gunman in a rugged Utah canyon Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010, were believed to be closing in on the suspect accused of shooting and critically wounding a park ranger, authorities said. Young, of Moab, was shot three times Friday, Nov. 19 while patrolling the popular Poison Spider Mesa Trail, authorities said. Young remains in critical but stable condition. (AP Photo/Utah State Parks and Recreation)AP - The search for a gunman accused of critically wounding a Utah park ranger stretched into a second day Sunday as helicopter and boat crews combed a rugged Utah canyon and law officers broadened their pursuit to include a railroad line.


Twin in suicide pact wrote to Columbine survivor (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 07:51 PM PST

The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department released this photo on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, of  Kristin A. Hermeler, 29, of Australia  who died in the double suicide attempt at the shooting range at Cherry Creek State Park south of Denver on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. Her twin sister Candice K. Hermeler remains hospitalized. (AP Photo/Arapahoe County Sheriff)AP - One of the Australian twin sisters who shot themselves in a suicide pact at a Colorado shooting range wrote several letters to a survivor of the Columbine school shooting in the months after the tragedy, a Denver television station reported Saturday.


Facebook-banning NJ pastor acknowledges threesome (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 10:02 PM PST

AP - A pastor who said Facebook was a "portal to infidelity" and told married church leaders to delete their accounts or resign once testified that he had a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant.
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