2010年12月19日星期日

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Students look to 2012 after immigration bill fails (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:54 PM PST

Undocumented UCLA student Leslie Perez, 22, weeps while watching a televised debate of the Dream Act in the Senate at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Perez is an undocumented student at UCLA. The Dream Act would give provisional legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)AP - Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, hunger strikes and sit-ins, a group of college students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states and the 2012 election after Senate Republicans blocked a key piece of legislation.

Gays see repeal as a civil rights milestone (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 07:52 AM PST

Cassandra Melnikow, foreground left, and her sister Victoria Melnikow, right, sit in New York's Times Square as news of the Senate approving the repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' is displayed outside ABC Television's Times Square studios Saturday Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military is a step toward equality, advocates say, but a fight for other social changes such as gay marriage still lies ahead.

Holiday lights can mean more than meets the eye (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:06 AM PST

This photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 in New York shows 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan decorated with Christmas lights. Facing an impossibly tight budget, the board that oversees the neighborhood's main thoroughfare, 125th Street, made a difficult decision: They cut funding for holiday lights. But Barbara Askins, president and CEO of the 125th Street Business Improvement District had an idea. What if she and her staff could persuade the community to donate the $60,000 needed to decorate the entire length of the street? (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - A string of illuminated glass bulbs, hung for the holidays, may seem like no big deal, so common it's easy to pass them without really noticing. But we humans are simple beings who sometimes communicate best in the most basic ways.

2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 02:31 PM PST

FILE - In this July 29, 2010 file photo, Moscow's St. Bazil's Cathedral, background, is seen through a smog covering Moscow during a heat wave. The mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin is at right. The excessive amount of extreme weather that dominated 2010 is a classic sign of man-made global warming that climate scientists have long warned about. They calculate that the killer Russian heat wave, setting a national record of 111F (nearly 44 C), would happen once every 100,000 years without global warming. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)AP - This was the year the Earth struck back.

Young wife, mother of 2 killed by a simple pothole (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:27 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Public Safety shows the damage caused by a chunk of concrete that flew through a truck windshield, fatally injuring Jo Maureen Fisher of Goose Creek, S.C., on March 15, 2010. State troopers determined the concrete came from a pothole on Intersate 20 near Heflin, Ala., and her family blames the state for her death. (AP Photo/Ala. Department of Public Safety)AP - His wife riding beside him with their two children in safety seats in the back, John Fisher drove home toward South Carolina along a stretch of Interstate 20 covered with ruts, bumps and crumbling concrete.

On a barrier island, mystery deepens on 4 corpses (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:13 AM PST

State Police block the entrance to Ocean Parkway near the area where four bodies were found earlier this week, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, on New York's Long Island. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - A week after police accidentally discovered the bodies of four women strewn over a quarter-mile stretch of marshy grasslands, overgrown shrubbery and sea grass on a barrier island, mere paces from an oceanfront parkway, investigators are vexed by the basic questions: Who are they and how did they get there?

Girl, 11, seriously injured in Colo tour bus crash (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:10 AM PST

AP - An 11-year-old girl was seriously injured and seven other passengers had moderate injuries after their tour bus veered off an icy mountain highway in central Colorado, the Colorado State Patrol said Sunday.

Wanted: Buyer for controversial Cape Wind energy (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:48 PM PST

In this July 19, 2009 photo, blades blur on a spinning windmill on Stetson Mountain in Range 8, Township 3, Maine. A study released in December 2010 shows New England's onshore and offshore winds blow strong enough to supply up to 24 percent of the region's total annual electricity needs by 2020. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Cape Wind has outlasted a decade of government review, a slew of court brawls and fierce opposition from mariners, fishermen, Indian tribes and Kennedys just to win the right to sell its wind-fueled electricity.

With gay ban debate over, military impact in doubt (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., left, gives thumbs up with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine., right, and Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., as they head into a new conference about the passage of the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' bill during a rare Saturday session on Capitol Hill in Washington Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The debate over gays in the military has been settled with a historic decision to allow them to serve openly, but big questions lie ahead about how and when the change will take place, how troops will accept it and whether it will hamper the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Benefits: Jobless relieved life raft still afloat (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 01:01 PM PST

In this Dec. 17, 2010 photo, Kimberly Smith holds up a medical assistant diploma in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Smith was laid off from her job as a department manager at a jeweler a year and a half ago. She went back to school and became a certified medical assistant and still cannot find a job. President Barack Obama extended unemployment benefits for Smith and millions of other Americans when he signed tax-cut legislation Friday. For unemployed people who spoke to The Associated Press across the country, the extension is a relief, but a shadow of the relief a new job would provide. 'We, the middle class, are just trying to keep our heads above water,' she says. 'And you know what? We're drowning.' (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - Kimberly Smith holds up the piece of paper that is the only thing keeping her from bankruptcy: an application for extended unemployment benefits. She's not happy that she needs it. And she's upset that it was nearly taken away.

Early Christmas treat: 2010's total lunar eclipse (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:03 AM PST

FILE - This five picture combination shows various stages of a total lunar eclipse over Baghdad, Iraq, between 1:30-2:30am local time on March 4, 2007. Weather permitting, skygazers in North and Central America and a tiny sliver of South America will boast the best seats to this year's only total eclipse of the moon, scheduled for Dec. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)AP - 'Twill be nights before Christmas and high overhead, the moon will turn brown or maybe deep red. The Earth and the sun with celestial scripts will conspire to make a lunar eclipse.

3 states in regional compact raid pollution funds (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:31 AM PST

AP - Two of the 10 Northeast states that agreed to dedicate millions of dollars to reduce carbon emissions and promote green energy have reneged on their promise, instead diverting substantial funds to saving their budgets.

Images of 2010, gobbled up by a nation of watchers (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 01:02 AM PST

In this Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010 picture, Lady Gaga, left, accepts the award for Video of the Year presented by Cher, right, at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. If you needed any evidence that the U.S. has become a nation of watchers, look no further than 2010. The spectacle that was the past year made certain that the image — the weird, wonderful, horrifying, mesmerizing image — reigned supreme. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - There it was, gazed upon by millions in horror, anger and pure fascination: a grainy, sputtering image of the deep blue sea and its interloper — the bubbling brown goo that was spewing into the water from the depths of the planet.

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