2011年3月21日星期一

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Americans appear wary over U.S. role in Libya (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:25 PM PDT

F/A-18F Super Hornets assigned to Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1) launch from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in the Red Sea in this U.S. Navy handout photo dated March 17, 2011. REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jared M. King/HandoutReuters - Early comments online and in newspapers point to cautious American support for a limited role in bombing Libyan air defenses but wariness over entangling the United States in an ill-defined military mission.

New York Times journalists released from Libyan custody (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Journalists, including New York Times photographers Tyler Hicks (R- in glasses) and Lynsey Addario (far L), Getty Images photographer John Moore (2nd L), freelance photographer Holly Pickett (3rdL) and freelancer Philip Poupin (4th L) run for cover during a bombing run by Libyan government planes at a checkpoint near the oil refinery of Ras Lanuf March 11, 2011. REUTERS/Paul ConroyReuters - Libya released four New York Times journalists on Monday, nearly a week after they had been captured by Libyan forces while covering the conflict there, although three journalists for other outlets remained missing.

Rising gas prices eating into shopping budgets (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 10:13 AM PDT

A woman walks with shopping bags past an advertisement on 5th Avenue in New York December 22, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonReuters - Shoppers plan to wait until next year and beyond to spend generously again, a survey on Monday showed, in an early sign that rising gasoline prices could make the spring selling season tough for retailers.

Reality Check: Four Out of Ten U.S. Millionaires Do Not Feel Rich (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 07:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Don't have $7.5 million? Most American millionaires wouldn't define you as rich

No Child Left Behind: Can Obama Revamp the Education Law? (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 07:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Why George W. Bush's landmark and contentious education law is proving so hard to revamp

Bribe-taking federal attorney jailed for 18 years (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 05:21 PM PDT

Reuters - A federal attorney who took nearly $500,000 in bribes from immigrants seeking to remain in the United States has been jailed for almost 18 years, authorities said on Monday.

Trial starts in alleged Obama-inspired church fire (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 01:57 PM PDT

This Oct. 20, 2009 photograph shows Michael Jacques during a hearing on arson-related charges in Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, Mass. A trial begins Monday, March 21, 2011 in federal court in Springfield, where Jacques is charged with burning down the predominantly black Macedonia Church of God in Christ church in November 2008, just hours after Obama was elected the nation's first black president. (AP Photo/The Republican, Michael S. Gordon) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A federal prosecutor told a jury Monday that a man and two friends were racists who were so upset when Barack Obama was elected president that they burned down a predominantly African-American church just hours after the voting ended.

Legendary bluesman Pinetop Perkins dead at 97 (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 04:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2009 file photo, Grammy winning blues pianist Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins motions a 'thumbs up' gesture during the annual festival at Hopson Plantation in Clarksdale, Miss. Perkins, one of the last old-school bluesmen and oldest Grammy winner, died at his home of cardiac arrest Monday, March 21, 2011, his manager said. He was 97. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - Pinetop Perkins, one of the last old-school bluesmen who played with Muddy Waters and became the oldest Grammy winner this year, died Monday at his home of cardiac arrest. He was 97.

AP Enterprise: Terror suspects seek to clear names (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 5, 2011 Yasir Afifi stands near his car at his home in San Jose, Calif. In early October, Afifi took his car to a mechanic for an oil change. As the mechanic hoisted the car into the air, Afifi spotted something strange under the chassis - a tracking device. A few days later, FBI agents showed up at Afifi's house accompanied by four police cars. He is part of the collateral damage of the U.S. war on terror - a growing list of people who have had their lives turned upside down after being unjustly linked to terrorism. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - As the U.S. ramps up efforts to root out homegrown terrorism, hundreds of people who have fallen under suspicion are in a state of limbo: Many say they have been singled out unfairly for scrutiny but have been neither charged nor cleared.

Gas, food prices double whammy for rural families (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 02:25 AM PDT

AP - Twice a week, Myriam Garcia puts snow chains on her 22-year-old gas guzzler and noses two miles down the hill from her trailer in rural western Montana. Then, instead of turning south and driving the 45 miles to Helena for grocery shopping like she used to, she parks on the side of the road and waits for a friend or neighbor heading into town to give her a lift.

Agency: SC train ride inspector faked report (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:14 PM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday, March 19, 2011, rescue workers look over the scene of an accident after a children's train ride at Cleveland Park derailed in Spartanburg, S.C. A state inspector falsified a safety report and never tested the children's train ride that crashed over the weekend, killing a boy and injuring dozens, officials said Monday, March 21. (AP Photo/Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Alex C. Hicks Jr.)AP - A safety inspector admitted he never tested a children's train ride that derailed over the weekend, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring dozens of others, state officials said Monday, and witnesses described the small engine increasing its speed just before it went off the tracks near a bridge.

Ala. leaders apologize for handling of 1944 rape (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 02:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2010 file photo, Recy Taylor, now 91, is seen her home in Winter Haven, Fla. Black and white leaders from a rural southeast Alabama community apologized Monday, March 21, 2011 to relatives of Taylor, who was raped in 1944 by a gang of white men who escaped prosecution because of what officials described as police bungling and racism. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)AP - Nearly 70 years after Recy Taylor was raped by a gang of white men, leaders of the rural southeast Alabama community where it happened apologized Monday, acknowledging that her attackers escaped prosecution because of racism and an investigation bungled by police.

Ga. man appeals conviction in serial killer hoax (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 04:39 PM PDT

AP - Andrew Scott Haley used the online moniker "catchmekiller" to post a video claiming he killed 16 people, a callous lie that led investigators down dead-end trails and wasted countless hours of detective work, prosecutors said Monday.

Sheriff: More human bones scattered at cemetery (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:48 PM PDT

This image from video taken Dec. 3, 2010 and provided by the Cook County Sheriff's Department Monday, March 21, 2011, shows long bone fragments, right, along with casket hardware, casket lining and a lot marker No. 82 at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., found after an examination by archaelologists. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Monday more examination of the grounds of the suburban Chicago cemetery suggests that the remains of hundreds more people than originally thought were dug up as part of an alleged scheme to resell burial plots. Dart thinks the remains of at least 500 people were moved — not the 300 that detectives estimated in 2009 when his office arrested four employees at the cemetery. (AP Photo/Cook County Sheriff's Department)AP - An area of a suburban Chicago cemetery is so saturated with human remains that bones have been rising to the ground's surface, and workers may have discarded the remains of some 200 more people than initially thought as part of an alleged scheme to resell burial plots, a sheriff said Monday.

Prosecutor: Woman killed co-worker after fight (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:58 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Montgomery County (Md.) Police Department shows Brittany Norwood. Police in an affluent Washington suburb say on Friday, March 18, 2011, Norwood killed a woman found dead inside a yoga clothing store in Bethesda, Md. last week, then made up a story about the two being attacked by masked men. (AP Photo/Montgomery County (Md.) Police Department)AP - An employee at an upscale Maryland yoga clothing shop is accused of killing a co-worker who found suspected stolen merchandise in her bag, then trying to conceal the crime by tying herself up and blaming the attack on two masked men.

Calif. panel weighs nuclear safety after quake (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:27 PM PDT

Steve David, director of site services at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, displays a picture of the nuclear power plant, located near San Luis Obisop, as he discusses the plant's safety in case of an earthquake, during a hearing at the Sacramento, Calif., Monday March 21, 2011. A Senate select committee took testimony from various state agencies, natural gas utilities and the operators of California's nuclear power plants on the state's ability to handle an earthquake and possible tsunami like the one the struck Japan last week. At right is Daniel Hirsch, lecturer in nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - State lawmakers raised sharp questions Monday about whether California's nuclear power plants can withstand a major earthquake and tsunami like the ones that have left Japan scrambling to control radiation coming from some of its reactors.

Deal to combine AT&T, T-Mobile raises questions (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:53 PM PDT

In this photo released by Newscast Monday, March 21, 2011, Deutsche Telekom Chairman and CEO Rene Obermann, left, and AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson pose for photos in New York. AT&T Inc. said Sunday it will buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $39 billion that would make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S. (AP Photo/Newscast, Mark Dye) NO SALESAP - AT&T's surprise announcement that it plans to acquire T-Mobile USA will force federal regulators to confront a difficult antitrust question: Can American consumers get good wireless service at a fair price if they must choose between just two national companies?

Texas man gets first full face transplant in US (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 02:03 PM PDT

**CORRECTS YEAR PHOTO TAKEN TO 2010, NOT 2011** FILE - EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this Oct. 13, 2010 file photo, Dallas Wiens, 25, speaks during an interview in Fort Worth, Texas. Weins was critically burned in a 2008 high-voltage power line accident and received a full face transplant at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, during the week of March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - A Texas construction worker horribly disfigured in a power line accident has undergone the nation's first full face transplant in hopes of smiling again and feeling kisses from his 3-year-old daughter.

Parks dept: SC train ride opened 1 week early (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 02:25 PM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday, March 19, 2011, rescue workers look over the scene of an accident after a children's train ride at Cleveland Park derailed in Spartanburg, S.C. A state inspector falsified a safety report and never tested the children's train ride that crashed over the weekend, killing a boy and injuring dozens, officials said Monday, March 21. (AP Photo/Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Alex C. Hicks Jr.)AP - Officials say the children's train ride that crashed over the weekend, killing a 6-year-old boy, opened a week early to accommodate an early blast of spring weather.

Woman charged in Texas fire waives extradition (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 01:58 PM PDT

In this photo released Monday March 21, 2011 by the Fulton Country Sherriff's Office shows Jessica Tata. Tata was arrested in Nigeria and transferred to the U.S. to face manslaughter charges relating to a Feb. 24, 2011 fire at her Houston, Texas day care center that killed four children and injured three others. Tata had left the children alone while she shopped in a nearby store when the fire broke out according to authorities. . (AP Photo/Fulton County Sherriff's Office, HO)AP - A woman who fled to Nigeria last month after a fire at her Houston home day care center killed four children was returned to the U.S. on Monday and has waived extradition to Texas, authorities said.

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