2011年1月22日星期六

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Congresswoman Giffords on road to rehab in Texas (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 02:05 PM PST

Gerard Francisco Chief Medical Officer of Memorial Hermann Hospital's Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR),stops and poses for a photo during a news conference and guided tour of the facility where U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) will receive treatment in Houston January 22, 2011. REUTERS/Richard CarsonReuters - Representative Gabrielle Giffords has begun what will likely be a months-long recovery at a Houston rehabilitation center two weeks after being shot in the head by an Arizona gunman, medical staff said on Saturday.

U.S. shivers from season's coldest weather (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:03 PM PST

A woman skis through Brooklyn's Prospect Park with her dog in New York January 21, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - Bitter cold gripped most of the nation on Saturday, with wind chills pushing the mercury to its lowest temperatures of the winter so far, forecasters said.

Indiana mother, three children found shot dead in burned house (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:39 PM PST

Reuters - A 30-year-old southern Indiana woman and her three children were found shot to death in a burned home, state police said on Saturday.

Marriage Meets Macabre: Funeral Homes Doubling As Wedding Venues (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 10:15 PM PST

Time.com - Saying your vows alongside the recently deceased receiving their last rites? It's not as unusual as you might think

The Spy Who Loved Me: Undercover Cop Marries, Then Divorces His Target (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 10:15 PM PST

Time.com - This true story of assumed identities, eco-terrorism and undercover romance makes Octopussy look realistic

Obama pushes trade agenda ahead of big speech (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 12:58 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama called on Saturday for new efforts to open global markets to U.S. goods, highlighting trade before a big speech on Tuesday that will lay out his policy priorities for the coming year.

Officials fear bath salts are growing drug problem (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 05:44 PM PST

In this Jan. 18, 2011 photo, Itawamba County inmate Neil Brown describes at the jail in Fulton, Miss., self-induced injuries he incurred while having hallucinations after ingesting a bath salt powder that is being sold at convenience stores and over the Internet. The product, which can be legally purchased, contains stimulants which authorities claim can cause hallucinations, paranoia and suicidal thoughts and are now among the newest substances law enforcement agents are having to deal with in the streets. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - When Neil Brown got high on bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.

Updated rehab aims to give Giffords her life back (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 05:44 PM PST

Patient Luis Gonzalez works with occupational therapist Eric Lantz, left, on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 at TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is expected to be moved Friday to the Texas Medical Center hospital to begin the next phase of her recovery from a gunshot wound. (AP Photo/Smiley N. Pool, Pool)AP - She inspired the nation with her fairy-tale recovery. Now Rep. Gabrielle Giffords must inspire herself through the ordeal of rehabilitation, and doctors say it's likely to be the hardest work she'll ever do.

Warrant issued for woman who raised stolen child (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:45 PM PST

In this May 24, 2010 photo provided by the Wake County (N.C.) Bureau of Identification, Ann Pettway is shown. Local, state and federal authorities are searching for Pettway, who is involved in raising a child who recently reunited with her long-lost mother. Carlina White was stolen as an infant from a hospital crib two decades ago and was reunited with her mother Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 in New York. Authorities would like to speak with Pettway about her involvement in the case. (AP Photo/Wake County Bureau of Identification)AP - The woman who raised a child kidnapped from a New York hospital two decades ago has violated her probation and is believed to be on the run from authorities, North Carolina officials said Friday. A warrant was issued for her arrest.

MLK daughter's exit leaves SCLC's future in doubt (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 12:17 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2010 file photo, Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at a news conference in Atlanta. King said Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, that she will not assume the presidency of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights group co-founded by her father more than 50 years ago. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)AP - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded by the giants of the American civil rights movement, has spent years in decline and power struggles. Now the once-proud organization faces what might be a final blow with the refusal of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter to take the helm.

Mourners recall Sarge Shriver's charity, idealism (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 05:44 PM PST

Robert 'Bobby' Shriver III pauses while speaking about his father, R. Sargent Shriver, at his father's funeral Mass at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic church in Potomac, Md., just outside Washington Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011. Shriver, an in-law of the Kennedys, and the first director of the Peace Corps, died Tuesday. He was 95. At right is Bobby's sister, Maria Shriver. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, Pool)AP - R. Sargent Shriver was always an optimist, pioneering the Peace Corps and running the War on Poverty during the turbulent 1960s — an idealist even as the running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket doomed for failure.

Mystery surrounds Idaho winner of $190 million (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:40 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Idaho Sheriff's Office, Holly Lahti is shown. Lahti burst into the spotlight a week ago in a feel-good story about a single mother who won a $190 million Mega Millions jackpot. Then came the mugshot: a thin young woman with disheveled brown hair, sporting a black eye and cuts and bruises on her face and neck. It turned out she was separated from a man who court records indicated had abused her, and now has a possible claim to some of the money through a quirk in Idaho law. Friends of Lahti are upset at all the attention paid to the decade-old mugshot, and say it does not reflect the devoted and hardworking young mother who has moved on from a troubled marriage. (AP Photo/Idaho Sheriff's Office)AP - Holly Lahti burst into the spotlight a week ago in a feel-good story about a single mother who won a $190 million Mega Millions jackpot. Then came the mugshot: a thin young woman with disheveled brown hair, sporting a black eye and cuts and bruises on her face and neck.

Oldest living member of 'Band of Brothers' dies (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 02:52 PM PST

AP - A member of the "Band of Brothers" who fought in some of World War II's fiercest European battles, Ed Mauser shunned the limelight and kept his service with the Army unit a secret, even from some of his family.

Despite hurdles, families pursue Nepal adoptions (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 11:15 AM PST

In this Jan. 18, 2011 photo, Celia Bergman plays with her adoptive Nepali daughter, Karina, during a visit to the Boudhanath Buddhist stupa in Katmandu, Nepal. Since the U.S. government suspended adoptions of abandoned children from Nepal due to concerns about unreliable and fabricated documents, about 80 U.S. families were put on hold and subjected to lengthy re-investigations requiring the families to provide solid evidence that the children were indeed legitimate orphans. Many of the families have formed close bonds, sharing skepticism over the U.S. government's decisions and unwavering commitment to seeing their planned adoptions through to completion. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - Last summer, Vicki and Jed Taufer excitedly traveled from their home in Illinois to Nepal to adopt a baby girl. "We'll be back in September," Vicki wrote Aug. 4 in a new blog named after their daughter-to-be.

Women: Pa. abortions left us sterile, near death (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 05:44 PM PST

In this Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 photo, Davida Johnson, 30, relates her story of her 2001 abortion at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's clinic during an interview with the Associated Press in Philadelphia. Johnson believes she contracted a venereal disease while undergoing the abortion at Dr. Gosnell's clinic, and says she has since had four miscarriages. Gosnell was arraigned Thursday on eight counts of murder in the deaths of seven babies and one patient. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - When Davida Johnson walked into Dr. Kermit Gosnell's clinic to get an abortion in 2001, she saw what she described as dazed women sitting in dirty, bloodstained recliners. As the abortion got under way, she had a change of heart — but claims she was forced by the doctor to continue.

Sargent Shriver remembered for idealism at DC wake (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 12:51 AM PST

FILE - In this June 19, 1996 file photo, President Clinton embraces R. Sargent Shriver in the Rose Garden of the White House Wednesday June 19, 1996 during a ceremony to honor the 35th anniversary of the Peace Corps. Shriver was named the first director of the Peace Corps by President John F. Kennedy. Shriver, the exuberant public servant and Kennedy in-law whose singular career included directing the Peace Corps, fighting the 'War on Poverty' and, less successfully, running for office, died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. He was 95. (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson, File)AP - R. Sargent Shriver, the ever-upbeat Kennedy in-law who served as the nation's first Peace Corps director and later led a national assault on poverty, was remembered Friday evening as an energetic idealist who left a legacy of public service.

Hawaii law bars release of Obama birth info (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:56 AM PST

President Barack Obama acknowledges photojournalists as he departs the White House in Washington, January 21, 2011, en route to Cambridge, Maryland to attend the Democratic Issues Conference. REUTERS/Hyungwon KangAP - A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says.

Miami shootout suspect considered career criminal (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 06:48 PM PST

**CORRECTS BYLINE** Police officers is stand near the location of a shootout that erupted in a Miami neighborhood on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011, killing two Miami-Dade police officers and a suspect, authorities said. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said the first officer had been shot once and died at the scene. The second officer, who was shot several times, was taken to a hospital and later died, Alvarez said. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - The Miami man killed in a Thursday shootout that left two police officers dead was what police called a career criminal: He'd been arrested for cocaine and marijuana trafficking, burglary, car theft and armed robbery, according to a copy of Simms' criminal history obtained Friday by The Associated Press. He was arrested 11 times as a juvenile and became more violent as the years passed.

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