2011年3月18日星期五

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National Guard to leave Mexico border in June (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:31 PM PDT

Reuters - More than a thousand National Guard troops brought in last year to shore security on the U.S.-Mexico border will go home in June, authorities said on Friday.

Judge temporarily blocks Wisconsin anti-union law (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 01:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talks to the media at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis. Walker told reporters he had received 8,000 e-mails, the bulk of which were in support of his plan to strip public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights. Walker released to The Associated Press on Friday, March 18, 2011, tens of thousands of e-mails he received in the days after introducing his plan to strip public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights providing a first glimpse of the extent of public support that he said he was receiving from Wisconsin residents. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)Reuters - A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked a controversial new law in Wisconsin that strips public employee unions of key collective bargaining rights.

Libya set to release NY Times journalists: report (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 09:51 AM PDT

Reuters - Four New York Times journalists who were captured by Libyan forces while covering the conflict there will be released on Friday, the Times reported.

U.S. Reacts to Nuclear Danger: Panic for Potassium Iodide (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:05 AM PDT

Time.com - The news from Japan has tapped into an irrational fear of faraway disasters sneaking into California by the speed of the wind

Pleading to Iran: Boxing Great Muhammad Ali Appeals for U.S. Hikers' Release (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:05 AM PDT

Time.com - America's arguably most prominent Muslim wrote a letter to the spiritual and political leader of Iran requesting the release of two American hikers captured in 2009

No radiation levels of concern detected in U.S.: government (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:28 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. government on Friday said that "miniscule" amounts of radiation were detected in Sacramento, California, but that no radiation levels of concern have been uncovered in United States.

Business opposition doomed Ariz. immigration bills (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:43 PM PDT

Opponents to the new Arizona immigration bills, Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, left, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix, middle, talk as proponent to the new bills Sen. John McComish, R-Ahwatukee, concentrates on paperwork, as the latest series of Arizona immigration-related bills are debated on the Senate floor at the Arizona Capitol Thursday, March 17, 2011, in Phoenix. The Senate debates and plans on voting on the bills, the measures deal with citizenship, health care, public services and everyday activities ranging from hiring to driving. (AP Photo)AP - Dozens of Arizona CEOs from hospitals, construction companies and other major businesses joined to turn back new get-tough legislation on illegal immigration, citing worries that emphasis on the issue could hurt the state's struggling economy and cost jobs.

Decades-old toxic gas threat lifts from W.Va. town (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 01:54 PM PDT

In this Feb. 16, 2011 photo, a chain link fence separates the campus of West Virginia State University in Institute, W.Va., from a sprawling, 460-acre chemical complex owned by Bayer CropScience in Institute, W.Va. Residents of the tiny town in West Virginia have been fighting to get the toxic chemical manufacturer out of their backyard for nearly three decades, since the days after a cloud of the same deadly gas killed thousands in Bhopal, India. Now, the people of Institute have finally won. Bayer CropScience, which had wanted to resume making methyl isocyanate for use in pesticides, says it is dropping those plans and shuttering its plant, permanently lifting a threat that had loomed over the town for a generation. (AP Photo)AP - For the first time in 26 years, Barbara Oden can let go of the image that has haunted her — poisonous gas leaking from a Union Carbide tank and killing thousands of people in Bhopal, India, in the world's deadliest industrial disaster.

3 states seek to kick habit of raising cig taxes (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Map shows cigarette taxes by stateAP - As some states look to tobacco tax increases to plug budget holes, a few are bucking the national trend and saying, "If you smoke 'em, we got 'em," looking at dropping the rate to boost cigarette sales.

Experts knock notion of burying Japanese reactors (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:15 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 10, 2000 file picture shows solidified foam and piles of lead and boron powder, dropped by helicopters in an attempt to suppress the nuclear reaction, at the Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear power plant. The idea of smothering and sealing Japan's overheated nuclear reactors in sand or concrete to stop the crisis is appealing. But experts say that it's too early for something that desperate and that it could be a big mistake that could make matters worse. Alex Sich, a nuclear engineer at Franciscan University in Ohio, who has lived in Chernobyl and published research on the disaster there, noted that Russian authorities dumped some 5,000 tons of sand, clay and other materials from helicopters in an attempt to smother that dangerous reactor. But the Japanese situation is different, he said. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - Why not just bury them?

Scientists lack complete answers on radiation risk (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:21 PM PDT

Mother and daughter receive radiation exposure scanning in Fukushima, northern Japan Friday, March 18, 2011, one week after a massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - Thyroid cancer for sure. Leukemia, probably. Too much radiation can raise the risk of developing cancer years down the road, scientists agree, and the young are most vulnerable. But just how much or how long an exposure is risky is not clear.

Testing finds no health threat along West Coast (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:10 PM PDT

Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), center, goes up the stairs to the venue of a press conference at the Japan National Press Club, Friday, March 18, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. The U.N. atomic agency chief flew into Japan to get firsthand information to assess nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Federal and state officials sought Friday to dispel fears of a wider danger from radioactivity spewing from Japan's crippled nuclear reactors, saying testing indicated there were no health threats along the West Coast of the U.S.

Judge blocks contentious Wisconsin union law (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Judge Maryann Sumi listens to arguments during a hearing Friday, March 18, 2011 in Dane County Curcuit Court in Madison, Wis. Sumi heard a request from Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the secretary of state from publishing the controversial budget repair bill. Ozanne claims the conference committee meeting that advanced the bill violated state open meetings laws because it was not properly noticed. (AP Photo/Pool, Mark Hoffman)AP - The monthlong saga over Gov. Scott Walker's plan to drastically curb collective bargaining rights for public workers in Wisconsin took a turn Friday that could force a dramatic rebooting of the entire legislative process.

Wis. governor releases e-mails about union rights (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talks to the media at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis. Walker told reporters he had received 8,000 e-mails, the bulk of which were in support of his plan to strip public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights. Walker released to The Associated Press on Friday, March 18, 2011, tens of thousands of e-mails he received in the days after introducing his plan to strip public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights providing a first glimpse of the extent of public support that he said he was receiving from Wisconsin residents. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)AP - In the days after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced plans to strip the state's public workers of nearly all their union bargaining rights, his office was flooded with a deluge of e-mail.

Super full moon to shine on Saturday (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PDT

In this Thursday, March 17, 2011 picture, the moon rises above the Jackson Building tower in downtown Asheville, N.C. as the building is bathed in orange light from the setting sun. There's a full moon Saturday, March 19, 2011 but it won't be just any old full moon. It'll be bigger and brighter. It will appear larger than normal as it makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 20 years. Scientists estimate the “supermoon” rising in the East at sunset will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter at its peak. It will be more than 221,000 miles away — the closest to Earth since March 1993. (AP Photo/The Asheville Citizen-Times, Bill Sanders)AP - There's a full moon Saturday, but it won't be just any old full moon. It'll be bigger and brighter. It will appear larger as it makes its closest approach to Earth in 18 years.

Ex-CIA agent's attorneys say reporter exaggerated (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT TO FORMER NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER ** Former New York Times reporter Ann Louise Bardach poses for a portrait, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at the El Paso Federal Court in El Paso, Texas. Bardach is testifying about an interview she did with Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles, who is on trial for immigration fraud. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca)AP - Attorneys for a former CIA operative on trial for perjury argued Friday that a journalist exaggerated when she reported that their client admitted planning deadly 1997 bombings at Cuban tourists sites and that her career flourished as a result of the flawed reports.

Member of original 29 Code Talkers dies in Arizona (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2009 file photo, Navajo Code Talker Lloyd Oliver displays a photo of himslef in what had been his home on the Yavapai Indian reservation in Camp Verde, Ariz. Willard Varnell Oliver, a member of the Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, died Wednesday, March 16, 2011. He was 88. The death of Oliver this week means that only one member of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers survives. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, File)AP - Lloyd Oliver wasn't much of a talker, but it was clear that he was proud to have his native language serve as a key weapon during World War II. As part of an elite group of Marines, he helped develop and implement a code based on the Navajo language that helped win the war.

Report: Libya agrees to free NY Times journalists (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 01:39 PM PDT

In this 2002 photo provided by The New York Times, Times photographer Tyler Hicks is shown. Hicks and three other Times journalists covering the fighting in Libya were reported missing Wednesday, March 16, 2011, and the newspaper held out hope that they were alive and in the custody of the Libyan government. (AP Photo/The New York Times, Fred R. Conrad) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALESAP - Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have said they will release four New York Times journalists who were captured during fighting in the eastern part of the country, the newspaper said Friday.

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