2011年3月11日星期五

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Tsunami grazes U.S. West Coast, South America next (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:11 PM PST

A man stands next to the border fence separating Mexico and the U.S. at the beach in Tijuana, March 11, 2011. REUTERS/Jorge DuenesReuters - Thousands of people fled their homes along the California coast on Friday as a tsunami triggered by the massive earthquake in Japan began hitting the U.S. West Coast after rolling through Hawaii.

American energy companies brace for tsunami (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 02:20 PM PST

In this video image taken from Japan's NHK TV, a tsunami surge carrying debris sweeps between houses to reach poly tunnels on farmland near Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture Japan Friday March 11, 2011 following a massive earth quake. A magnitude 8.9 earthquake slammed Japan's northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of debris miles inland. Fires triggered by the quake burned out of control up and down the coast. (AP PHOTO/NHK TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLYReuters - Energy companies with operations along the Pacific coast of North and South America were on alert on Friday for the possibility of a tsunami set off by a massive earthquake off Japan.

Kia recalls more than 70,000 Optima sedans (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:25 PM PST

Reuters - Kia Motors Corp is recalling more than 70,000 Optima sedans because the shift cable may have been installed incorrectly and cause parked vehicles to roll away.

Forbes's Youngest Billionaire: Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Edges Out Mark Zuckerberg (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:50 AM PST

Time.com - Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz beat out Mark Zuckerberg as the youngest person on Forbes's billionaires list published Thursday. Moskovitz was born eight days after Zuckerberg, his Harvard roommate

The Third Rail Dems Won't Touch in Budget Fight (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:50 AM PST

Time.com - What's missing from Dems' budget cuts? Social security

Walgreen accused of selling patient data (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 02:19 PM PST

Reuters - A lawsuit filed in California this week accuses national drug-store chain Walgreen Co of unlawfully selling medical information gleaned from patient prescriptions, another front in the battle over personal information.

Mel Gibson pleads no contest to battery charge (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:51 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, actor Mel Gibson looks on during a photocall to promote the movie 'Edge of Darkness', in Paris. Gibson is expected to be charged Friday March 11, 2011 with misdemeanor battery and appear in a Los Angeles courtroom to plead guilty and be sentenced. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, file)AP - Mel Gibson used some lightning legal moves Friday to abruptly end a domestic violence case involving a fight last year with his then-girlfriend.

Grass fires destroy homes near Oklahoma City (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:08 PM PST

AP - Wind-driven grass fires burned dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of hundreds more in the parched suburbs of Oklahoma City on Friday, chasing students from two schools, threatening a casino and nursing home and causing some minor smoke-related injuries.

Twitter must give user info in WikiLeaks probe (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PST

AP - A federal magistrate ruled Friday that prosecutors can demand Twitter account information of certain users in their criminal probe into the disclosure of classified documents on WikiLeaks.

'Survivor' star Hatch gets 9 months on violation (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:52 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2101 file photo, 'Survivor' TV star Richard Hatch leaves federal court in Providence, R.I. Hatch is due to be sentenced in Friday, March 11, 2011 in Providence, for violating the terms of his probation by failing to file amended tax returns for the years 2000 and 2001. He was ordered to file those returns when he was sentenced to prison four years ago. Hatch was convicted in 2006 of failing to pay taxes on the $1 million prize he won on the debut season of 'Survivor,' the CBS reality TV show. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)AP - Reality TV star Richard Hatch was ordered back to prison Friday to serve a nine-month sentence for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million he won on the first season of the hit CBS show "Survivor."

Calif., Ore. sustained most damage from tsunami (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST

A boat sinks into the ocean in the aftermath of the surge caused by a tsunami on the harbor in Santa Cruz, Calif., Friday, March 11, 2011. A ferocious tsunami unleashed by Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it carried away ships, cars and homes, and triggered widespread fires that burned out of control. Hours later, the waves washed ashore on Hawaii and the U.S. West coast, where evacuations were ordered from California to Washington but little damage was reported. The entire Pacific had been put on alert — including coastal areas of South America, Canada and Alaska — but waves were not as bad as expected. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - The warnings traveled quickly across the Pacific in the middle of the night: An 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan spawned a deadly tsunami, and it was racing east Friday as fast as a jetliner.

Quake is 5th biggest, but Japan best prepared (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 02:19 PM PST

In this video image taken from Japan's NHK TV, a tsunami surge carrying debris sweeps between houses to reach poly tunnels on farmland near Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture Japan Friday March 11, 2011 following a massive earth quake. A magnitude 8.9 earthquake slammed Japan's northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of debris miles inland. Fires triggered by the quake burned out of control up and down the coast. (AP PHOTO/NHK TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Take the world's most earthquake-prepared country, jolt it with one of the biggest quakes in history and add a devastating tsunami minutes later. In the classic battle of Man vs. Nature, Nature won again.

Obama: Japan earthquake potentially 'catastrophic' (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 02:11 PM PST

A mother and child crouch on a street in Tokyo while an earthquake hits Friday, March 11, 2011. Japan was struck by a magnitude-8.8 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, triggering a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast near the epicenter.(AP Photo/Kyodo News) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - President Barack Obama said he was "heartbroken" by images of devastation in Japan following Friday's deadly earthquake and tsunami, and pledged U.S. assistance to help the country recover.

Maryland gay marriage bill dies with no final vote (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 04:37 PM PST

AP - A bill to legalize gay marriage in Maryland fell short Friday after supporters failed to find enough votes to overcome Republican opposition and misgivings by some Democrats in the deeply Catholic state.

Another blow for NM border town with dicey past (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:59 PM PST

FILE - In this April 21, 2009 file photo, Columbus, N.M. Police Chief Angelo Vega is seen in Columbus. Vega, the mayor and a trustee of Columbus, the tiny border community known for its attack by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa nearly a century ago, were arrested by federal agents Thursday, March 10, 2011, on drug and weapons charges. (AP Photo/Bill Faulkner)AP - Two years ago, when Angelo Vega took over the Columbus police force, he vowed to push back forcefully against the dusty New Mexico border town's rough recent past: rampant drug and human smuggling, an economy awash in narcotics cash from Mexico, and a revolving-door department that had been led by six police chiefs in three years.

EPA: Abandoned Calif. mercury mine a toxic hazard (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:47 PM PST

AP - An abandoned mercury mine that for decades has sent polluted, orange waste into a creek that eventually feeds into San Francisco Bay is a threat to human health and should be added to a list of the nation's worst polluted places, federal environmental regulators say.

Giffords makes 'leaps and bounds' in recovery (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 04:11 PM PST

Dr. Imoigele Aisiku, right, speaks as Dr. Gerard Francisco, left, and Dr. Dong Kim, center, listen as they give a medical update on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords during a news conference Friday, March 11, 2011, in Houston. Doctors say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been told by her husband that she was shot, but has no memory of the episode. Medical staff for the congresswoman provided an update on her progress Friday at a news conference in Houston. They said she is making 'leaps and bounds' in her recovery, and is walking and talking in complete sentences. Giffords was shot in the head Jan. 8 at a political event outside a grocery store in an attack that killed six people and wounded 12 others. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - She can talk, even saying short sentences. With some help, she can walk. She also knows that she was shot.

'Tightening noose' on Gadhafi, weighing more steps (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:57 PM PST

President Barack Obama answers questions during a press conference on the White House complex in Washington, Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Pledging a relentless drive to kick Moammar Gadhafi out of power, President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. and the world community are "slowly tightening the noose" on the leader of Libya and will keep up the pressure. But he would not commit to intervening at any cost, warning of potential perils in military action.

Federal cuts could hit US housing agencies (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:33 PM PST

In this March 8, 2011 photo, Kevin Gaines shows reporters where a hot water pipe broke and was subsequently patched in his apartment in New York. Proposed federal cuts could decimate New York City’s housing enforcement efforts, forcing tenants who live in hazardous conditions and decaying apartments to wait longer for help and preventing the city from paying for emergency repairs and suing negligent landlords. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Kevin Gaines and his family got rashes soon after they moved into their new apartment. His son kept getting nosebleeds. The dust made it hard to breathe. When Gaines, a liver transplant recipient, saw yellow mold creeping over the ceiling, he said doctors warned it could cause him to reject his new organ.

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