2010年11月23日星期二

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3 big developments make AIDS outlook more hopeful (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:02 PM PST

FILE - In a May 2006 file photo, Gilead Sciences Inc. Chief Executive John Martin holds a Truvada pill bottle in a lab in Foster City, Calif. Scientists have an exciting breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. Daily doses of Truvada, a pill already used to treat infection with HIV, the virus that causes the disease, helped prevent healthy gay men from catching it through sex with an infected partner. In a study of gay and bisexual men in six countries, the pill, Gilead's Truvada, cut the risk of infection by 44 percent when given with condoms, counseling and other prevention services. Men who took their pills most faithfully, at least 90 percent of the time, had even more protection — 73 percent. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - In the nearly 30 years the AIDS epidemic has raged, there has never been a more hopeful day than this. Three striking developments took place Tuesday: U.N. officials said new HIV cases are dropping dramatically worldwide. A study showed that a daily pill already on pharmacy shelves could help prevent new infections in gay men. And the pope opened the way for the use of condoms to prevent AIDS.

Lost in frenzy over searches, travelers hit roads (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:43 PM PST

A passenger walks to catch a train at Union Station in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, at the start of the Thanksgiving holiday travel rush. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Michael Sommermeyer's Thanksgiving plan goes like this: Load his wife and children into their Ford Taurus, hand his teens an iPad stocked with movies and drive 15 hours — from Las Vegas to Texas.

Don't touch my junk: TSA workers face a tough job (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:33 PM PST

A traveler gets a pat-down as she goes through airport security at the screening area of the Richmond International airport in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - They've been called molesters, threatened with violence and ordered not to touch "my junk." One woman headbutted a TSA officer who was searching her laptop. Other screeners report being punched, kicked and shoved during pat-downs. Security officers know the new searches are more invasive but want Thanksgiving travelers to keep in mind they are just doing their jobs to keep people safe.

Barnes & Noble's Nookcolor E-Reader Challenges the Kindle (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:10 AM PST

Time.com - The book merchant's second-generation touchscreen e-reader isn't perfect, but it's Amazon.com's most formidable competitor to date

Please Remove Your Prosthetic Breast: The TSA Horror Story to Trump Them All (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:10 AM PST

Time.com - Here's the TSA horror story that will leave you heartbroken and outraged: The flight attendant (and cancer survivor) who was forced to remove her prosthetic breast.

Deputy: Map led to arrests in home invasion case (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:03 PM PST

Mara Skinner shows her injuries in court in Port Huron, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 during a preliminary hearing for her 17-year-old daughter Tia Skinner, and two 18-year-old men Jonathan Kurtz, and James Preston who are charged in the murder of her husband Paul Skinner. Mara Skinner described how her mortally wounded husband fended off two masked men who stabbed them in their bedroom in the middle of the night, chasing them from the home before collapsing and dying. All three have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, assault and conspiracy in the attack on the couple. (AP Photo/ Andre J. Jackson, Pool)AP - It was evidence so glaring detectives could hardly believe it, and it led them straight to their suspects: a hand-drawn map found outside the scene of a horrific home invasion with the words "my house" scrawled on it.

Conviction in Chandra Levy case overcame long odds (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:08 PM PST

This undated file photo released by DC Police authorities shows Chandra Levy. A Salvadoran man accused of killing government intern Chandra Levy nine years ago was found guilty of her murder Monday, capping a case that scandalized US politics when a congressman admitted having an affair with her.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Attorneys prosecuting the man ultimately convicted of murdering Chandra Levy didn't have much to work with.

Butterball, Hostess, others going easier on salt (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 12:56 PM PST

AP - The makers of Butterball turkey, Twinkies and Wonder Bread have agreed to use less salt in some products as part of a national campaign against high blood pressure.

AP Enterprise: Rig victims' kin feel left out (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:18 AM PST

In this Nov. 14, 2010 photo, family members of Dale Burkeen, one of 11 oil rig workers killed during the April 20, 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, gather at his grave near Philadelphia, Miss. The grave only holds mementos of Burkeen, as his body was never recovered. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Roy Wyatt Kemp's family is waiting for his headstone, black marble engraved with the deer and ducks he loved to hunt. The grave, however, lacks a body.

Passenger finds ammunition clip on flight to Ariz. (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:28 PM PST

AP - A passenger aboard a Southwest Airlines flight found a full ammunition clip from a law enforcement officer's service weapon during a flight Tuesday from Burbank, Calif., to Phoenix, an airline spokesman said.

Storm that smacked Northwest moves to Utah, Idaho (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:29 PM PST

A sledder starts downhill after a push as the Space Needle is seen behind Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in Seattle's Gasworks Park. A vicious storm struck the Pacific Northwest and other western states at the start of the holiday travel season, dumping heavy snow on roads, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people and causing a cargo plane to overshoot its runway in Seattle. At least three deaths in Washington state have been blamed on the storm, including a man struck and killed outside his car Monday night on snowy Interstate 5 in Tacoma. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - A ferocious storm that crippled much of the Pacific Northwest barreled into the Rockies on Tuesday, causing whiteout conditions on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

Former priest accused of trying to hire hit man (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:03 PM PST

This Nov. 18, 2010 photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff's Department shows John Fiala. Fiala, a former Roman Catholic priest charged with sexually abusing a teenage boy in 2008 in his rural Texas parish is now accused of plotting the alleged victim's murder, authorities said. (AP Photo/Dallas County Sheriff's Department)AP - In a murder-for-hire case worthy of a Dan Brown novel, a Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on charges that he solicited a hit man to kill a teenager who had accused him of sexual abuse.

Victims whose remains were found in tree mourned (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 02:50 PM PST

AP - Mourners carried sunflowers and baseballs as they left a visitation service Tuesday for a mother and son who were stabbed to death and dismembered in central Ohio, and a family friend who died with them was remembered as full of life and always smiling.

Former NC Gov. Easley guilty of 1 finance charge (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 01:38 PM PST

Former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley arrives at the Wake County Courthouse for a court hearing in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. The hearing follows a yearlong probe into Easley's campaign finances. The State Board of Elections fined Easley's campaign committee $100,000 in October. Board members referred the case to prosecutors, determining there was enough evidence to show the committee failed to report dozens of flights between 1999 and 2004. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - Former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley was convicted Tuesday of a low-level felony and agreed to pay a $1,000 fine for an improperly filed campaign finance report, the lone accusation to emerge after sweeping investigations into his personal and professional life.

Mass. serial killer pleads guilty to 8th murder (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:44 PM PST

AP - A serial killer from western Massachusetts added an eighth murder to his record Tuesday, admitting that a woman he strangled in 1995 was his first killing.

All-clear given at Boston airport cargo area (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:47 AM PST

A Transportation Safety Administration official talks on his mobile phone at a command center outside a portion of Logan Airport's cargo center in Boston, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. A suspicious package has forced the evacuation of the cargo area of Boston's Logan International Airport. Airport spokesman Phil Orlandella says the suspicious package with a Nigerian address was found Tuesday and sparked federal officials to order an evacuation of the area. He said agents in bomb suits were investigating the matter in the Delta Cargo building. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - A bomb squad has issued the all-clear after examining two suspicious bags found in a cargo area at Boston's Logan International Airport.

Man charged in 4 Boston killings held without bail (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:50 AM PST

Kimani Washington attends a court hearing at the Manchester District Court in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. The Boston man wanted for questioning in the shooting deaths of four people, including a toddler, agreed Monday to return to Massachusetts without fighting extradition from New Hampshire, where he was arrested last week on a fugitive-from-justice charge. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter, Pool)AP - An ex-convict was ordered held without bail Tuesday as a prosecutor described how he allegedly fatally shot four people — including a 2-year-old boy and his mother — during a drug robbery in Boston.

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