2010年12月27日星期一

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Flights resume at NY airport following blizzard (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:06 PM PST

Air travelers wait in line to find out the status of their flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Planes began landing again Monday at one of the nation's busiest airports after a blizzard clobbered the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow and closed the New York metropolitan area's three airports, stranding thousands of travelers trying to get home after the holidays.


SC's governor mum on plans, affair as tenure ends (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:47 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 photo, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford talks with Associated Press reporters in his office in Columbia, S.C. about his time in office and his future. (AP Photo/Virginia Postic)AP - Things are looking up for Gov. Mark Sanford as he prepares to leave office on his own terms more than a year after the international affair that derailed his once-promising political career.


Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:07 PM PST

Linda Reaves poses for a picture at the Jewish Council for the Aging in Rockville, Md., Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Reaves never had much opportunity to save as a single mother raising two sons and a daughter. After holding a variety of positions over the years — hotel office manager, research analyst for a mortgage company, hospital mental health counselor — she was still living paycheck to paycheck. Reaves, who turns 60 this month, plans to work until she’s at least 70 and then wants to travel, even if she doesn't know where the money will come from. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - Through a combination of procrastination and bad timing, many baby boomers are facing a personal finance disaster just as they're hoping to retire. Starting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years.


Behind Google's Holiday Doodle (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:55 AM PST

Time.com - If you're into Google Doodles then Micheal Lopez is your very own Santa

Web Legend "TRON Guy" Banned from Seeing TRON: Legacy in Famed Suit (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:55 AM PST

Time.com - When you've become an Internet meme for your love of TRON, a movie theater really ought to let you watch the film in costume

Snowbound New Yorkers upset about unplowed streets (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 03:20 PM PST

People pass a city bus stuck in the snow, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A powerful East Coast blizzard menaced would be travelers Monday. Two buses and two sanitation trucks were stuck on the same block in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - A windy winter storm that dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on New York City also whipped up criticism about how the city responded to it.


Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 07:22 AM PST

AP - Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them.

Snail mucus, potheads add to strange Fla. news (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 08:15 AM PST

AP - This year, Floridians learned that burials at sea don't work if the body doesn't sink, giant snail mucus can make you sick and that an underwire bra can stop a lawyer from visiting her client in prison.

Miller lifts opposition to certifying AK election (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:39 PM PST

In this Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 picture, Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, right, confers with his lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, before the Alaska Supreme Court convened in Anchorage, Alaska. On Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, the Alaska Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision in the disputed U.S. Senate race, saying the state correctly counted write-in votes for Sen. Lisa Murkowski. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)AP - Alaska's certification of results showing U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski winning re-election over Republican rival Joe Miller could come as soon as Thursday.


Mass. officer shot dead with suspect during holdup (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 02:57 PM PST

This undated handout provided by the Woburn Police on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 shows Officer John Maguire. Officer Maguire was responding to reports of a robbery at a department store jewelry counter and was killed in a shootout that also claimed the life of a suspect, authorities said Monday. (AP Photo/Woburn Police Department)AP - Two men pleaded not guilty Monday to charges they were involved in the shooting death of a veteran police officer who responded to an armed robbery at a department store jewelry counter. One suspect was also killed.


More farmers markets expand to year-round (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:33 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 9, 2010, Weston Lant, of Rochester, Mass., owner of Lucky Field Organics, right, assists customer Dean Wong, of Plymouth, Mass., at Lant's indoor farm stand at the visitor center at Plymouth Plantation, in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Gretchen Ertl)AP - A steady stream of customers filled baskets and shopping bags with vegetables, cranberries, cheese, fresh-baked breads and pies while chatting with the dozen or so farmers selling goods in the visitor's center of a local museum.


Daley now Chicago mayor 1 day longer than father (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:38 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2010 file photo, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley laughs as he meets with the media after a city council meeting. Daley on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010 surpassed his father's tenure, becoming the longest-serving mayor of Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Richard M. Daley on Sunday surpassed his father's tenure, becoming the longest-serving mayor of Chicago.


'Octomom' faces eviction from Southern Calif. home (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:15 PM PST

FILE - This March 9, 2009 file photo shows the house in which Nadya Suleman, mother of octuplets, has been living in for nearly two years in La Habra, Calif. The man who sold the home to Suleman says he is going ahead with eviction proceedings because she can't come up with a $450,000 balloon payment. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)AP - The man who sold his Southern California home to "Octomom" Nadya Suleman said Sunday that he's going ahead with eviction proceedings because she hasn't made a long overdue $450,000 payment.


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