2011年3月22日星期二

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U.S. public support for more nuclear power slips (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Official in protective gear talks to a woman who is from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama March 13, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonReuters - U.S. public support for expanding nuclear power appears to be slipping after Japan's nuclear crisis while New York's governor said on Tuesday an aging plant near New York City will be the top priority in a federal review of earthquake risk to such facilities.

New York nuke plant seismic review gets top priority (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 03:42 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. regulators have promised to make the Indian Point nuclear power plant north of New York City their top priority in a review of seismic risk at U.S. nuclear plants, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday.

Detroit population drops to lowest level in 100 years (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 02:28 PM PDT

Fall leaves blow past an empty home seen in a well kept neighborhood where the house is listed on the auction block during the Wayne County tax foreclosures auction of almost 9,000 properties in Detroit, Michigan, October 22, 2009. REUTERS/Rebecca CookReuters - Detroit's population dropped 25 percent over the last decade to its lowest level in a century, according to Census figures released on Tuesday.

Facebook Flub: Man Charged with Polygamy After Posting Second Wedding Photo Online (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 12:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Here's a tip we never thought we'd have to share: If you’re already married, don't post pictures of your new wife on Facebook

E-Book Era: Will Digital Best Sellers Force End of Print? (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 12:20 PM PDT

Time.com - In the still sluggish publishing business, e-books are rising stars

Judge's study finds New Jersey budget cuts fail schools (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 03:38 PM PDT

Reuters - A New Jersey judge on Tuesday said the state's school budget cuts fail to meet constitutional standards for education, dealing a political blow to Republican Gov. Chris Christie who has slashed education spending by more than $800 million.

NY judge calls off plans for Google library (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 04:52 PM PDT

AP - A judge on Tuesday rejected a deal between Internet search leader Google and the book industry that would have put millions of volumes online, citing anti-trust concerns and the need for involvement from Congress while acknowledging the potential benefit of putting literature in front of the masses.

Taylor gets probation, teen says he deserved jail (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 02:53 PM PDT

Former New York Giants football star Lawrence Taylor arrives at the Rockland County Courthouse for formal sentencing in New City, N.Y., Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The 52-year-old ex-linebacker pleaded guilty in January to sexual misconduct and patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) — The teenage girl at the center of the sex-crimes case against football great Lawrence Taylor made a surprise appearance at his sentencing Tuesday, eager to declare that he should be behind bars.

Transgender people contest NYC birth-record rule (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 03:46 PM PDT

Attorney Noah Lewis, far left, and transgenders filing a lawsuit against New York: Joan Marie Prinzivalli, second from left; Patricia Harrington, second from right; and Sam Berkley, far right, listen during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The trio are suing New York City, claiming the city makes it too difficult for them to change their birth certificates to reflect the people they have become. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Joann Prinzivalli has gone through a lot to be a woman, and she wants her birth certificate to show it.

1st national spelling bee winner Neuhauser dies (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:20 PM PDT

AP - Frank Neuhauser, who in 1925 won the first national spelling bee with the word "gladiolus," has died. He was 97.

AP IMPACT: US spent-fuel storage sites are packed (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:17 PM PDT

FILE - This April 14, 1998 file photo shows the defunct Maine Yankee nuclear power plant in Wiscasset, Maine. The nuclear crisis in Japan has laid bare an ever-growing problem for the United States — the enormous amounts of still-hot radioactive waste accumulating at commercial nuclear reactors in more than 30 states. The U.S. has nearly 72,000 tons of the stuff, according to state-by-state numbers obtained by The Associated Press. But the nation has no place to permanently store the material, which stays dangerous for tens of thousands of years. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)AP - The nuclear crisis in Japan has laid bare an ever-growing problem for the United States — the enormous amounts of still-hot radioactive waste accumulating at commercial nuclear reactors in more than 30 states.

Email to Wis. gov. initially favored union rights (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:17 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. Seeking a counter to the thousands of protesters opposed to his plans to eliminate union bargaining rights for state workers, Walker found it in his email: The majority of notes, Scott Walker said, urged him to “stay firm, to stay strong, to stand with the taxpayers.' But what the new Republican governor didn’t say is that for close to a week, his inbox had been home to overwhelming opposition that ran roughly 2-to-1 against his plans. It was only in the moments just before he discussed the emails for the first time, and hours after a group of desperate Democrats fled the state to stop a vote they knew they would lose, that the tide had turned in his favor. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)AP - Seeking a way to counter a growing protest movement, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker cited his email, confidently declaring that most people writing his office had urged him to eliminate nearly all union rights for state workers.

Screams fill 911 calls after fatal SC train crash (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 03:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday, March 19, 2011, rescue workers attend to injured children 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, Tim Kimzey)AP - Witnesses flooded authorities with calls pleading for help for screaming, bloodied passengers of a derailed children's train ride whose driver was quoted as telling police in reports that he was going too fast before the crash that killed a boy.

Residents fight mega-mansion in 90210 neighborhood (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:17 PM PDT

A television news crew leaves the site of a proposed mega-mansion in the Benedict Canyon area of Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday March 22, 2011. Wealthy Los Angeles residents are banding together to fight plans for this mega-mansion that would create a compound roughly the size of the famed Hearst Castle. AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - In the wealthy hillside neighborhoods bordering Beverly Hills, neighbors are blase about the famous names who live next door and keep to themselves.

US victim in Japan fulfilled dream in Asia (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 02:21 PM PDT

In this July 17, 2010 photo provided the Anderson family, Taylor Anderson, right, poses with one of her students in Ishinomaki, Japan, where she taught English. Anderson's family said in a statement that the U.S. Embassy in Japan on Monday, March 21, 2011 informed them by telephone of the discovery of their 24-year-old daughter's body. (AP Photo/Anderson Family) NO SALESAP - Taylor Anderson spent more than two years overseas, fulfilling her longtime dream to live in Japan, immerse herself in Asian culture and befriend new people.

FBI eyes cross-burning in prosperous Calif town (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PDT

AP - An 11-foot cross was stolen from a church and set on fire next to the home of a black family, igniting anger and disbelief in a prosperous, mostly white Central California community that hasn't seen a hate crime in nearly a decade.

Historian tweets about Civil War to bring back era (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 02:02 PM PDT

AP - Two months before the start of the Civil War, a North Carolina belle named Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston tapped out a frustrated message about her secession-opposing sibling in a tweet to her followers: "Sister Frances is a terrible Unionist!"

Wind grounds aircraft fighting Colorado wildfire (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 04:42 PM PDT

Smoke from the wind whipped fire that is threatening homes and buildings north of Boulder, Colo. Friday, March 11, 2011. High winds on the front range akes the fire difficult to manage. A wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of more than 200 homes north of Boulder, Colo., has spread to about 200 acres.(AP Photo/Will Powers)AP - Air tankers and ground crews battled a wind-whipped wildfire in the foothills west of Denver as officials warned that eastern Colorado's worst drought in nearly a decade makes that part of the state vulnerable to more burning.

SD governor signs 3-day wait for abortion into law (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PDT

AP - Women who want an abortion in South Dakota will face the longest waiting period in the nation — three days — and have to undergo counseling at pregnancy help centers that discourage abortions under a measure signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Dennis Daugaard.

Salazar opens 750M tons of Wyo. coal to mining (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 04:20 PM PDT

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar answers a question during a news conference on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Cheyenne, Wyo. Salazar is making a vast amount of coal available for mining in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, saying the substance will remain an important source of the nation's energy supply. The coal leases Salazar announced Tuesday in Cheyenne amount to 750 million tons and will take several years to mine. (AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, James Brosher)AP - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced plans Tuesday to auction off vast coal reserves in Wyoming over the next five months, unleashing a significant but controversial power source amid uncertainty about clean and safe energy development.

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