2011年3月28日星期一

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Smoke seen, controlled at New Hampshire nuclear plant (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 12:12 PM PDT

A fishing boat is anchored in the water in front of the nuclear power station in Seabrook, New Hampshire March 14, 2011. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - Smoke billowing from an equipment elevator at a New Hampshire nuclear plant briefly triggered an "unusual event" on Monday but did not impact operations or affect any employees, officials said.

Saudi accused in bomb plot pleads not guilty (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:41 AM PDT

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, is seen in this Lubbock County, Texas, Sheriff's Office booking photograph released to Reuters on February 24, 2011. REUTERS/Lubbock County Sheriff's Office/HandoutReuters - A 20-year-old Saudi student indicted in a bomb plot with targets including the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Carter meets Cuban Jews, no talk of jailed U.S. man (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:37 PM PDT

Reuters - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met with Cuban Jews on Monday at the start of a private three-day visit to the island, but he did not discuss with them a U.S. aid contractor jailed for allegedly providing illegal Internet access to Jewish groups.

The Pioneer: Geraldine Ferraro (1935-2011) (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 12:15 PM PDT

Time.com - She had one brief but historic moment in the center stage of American politics. But her political afterlife also provides important lessons

Sign of the Apocalypse? Bunker Sales Increase After Japan Earthquake (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 12:15 PM PDT

Time.com - In times of natural disaster, war and nuclear fears -- not to mention the Mayan calendar predicting that the world will end in 2012 -- it's only natural that people would consider buying space in luxury fallout shelters

Miami couple to face death penalty in child murder case (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Florida state prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Miami-Dade County couple charged with torturing and killing their 10-year-old adopted daughter and abusing her twin brother, a spokesman said on Monday.

Prosecutors to seek death penalty in girl's death (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:20 AM PDT

Jorge Barahona sits with handcuffed, and wearing chains on his ankles in a Miami-Dade courtroom Monday, March 28, 2011. He and his wife Carmen Barahona were arraigned on first degree murder charges in the murder of foster child Nubia Barahona. State prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. (AP Photo/Tim Chapman, Pool)AP - Prosecutors said Monday they would seek the death penalty for a Miami couple accused in the slaying of their 10-year-old adopted daughter, who was found dead in the back of her father's pickup truck while her brother sat in the front seat badly burned by chemicals.

Army: Photos of soldiers with corpses 'disturbing' (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:52 PM PDT

Apple Wilson, 2, holds a flag wearing a shirt that says Marines as she waits for her uncle, Marine Corps SSgt. Reyes Buntello, as he returns from a tour in Afghanistan Monday, March 28, 2011, at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Members of the 1 Marine Expeditionary Force Command Element based in Camp Pendleton returned Monday, after commanding Marine operations in Southern Afghanistan since April 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - The U.S. Army on Monday apologized for any distress caused by recently published photos of American soldiers posing with dead Afghans, calling their content "disturbing" and "in striking contrast" to the Army's standards and values.

Pa. Lutheran college hot among Jewish students (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:32 AM PDT

In this March 19, 2011 photo, Sara Cohen, from left, a sophomore from Livingston, N.J., Lexie Rosenberg, a senior from Roslyn Heights, N.Y., and Jena Verlin, a freshman from Narberth, Pa., enjoy a conversation during a Purim Party at the Hillel House on the campus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. Muhlenberg College, which is named for the patriarch of the American Lutheran church, has become one of the hottest campuses in the country for Jewish students who make up approximately 34 percent of its 2,200 students. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - One of the hottest college campuses in the U.S. for Jewish students is also one of the unlikeliest: a small Lutheran school erected around a soaring stone chapel with a cross on top.

Maine labor mural comes down on governor's orders (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 01:38 PM PDT

AP - A mural depicting Maine's labor history was removed from the lobby of the state Department of Labor headquarters and put into storage over the weekend after a directive from the new Republican governor that it come down.

Immediate end to 'don't ask, don't tell' urged (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:54 PM PDT

The New York City Fire Department bagpipes make their on 5th Avenue during the 250th New York City St. Patrick's Parade. The massed march-by of soldiers, bagpipers, fire fighters and hundreds of uniformed New York Police Department officers is a deep-rooted Big Apple ritual celebrating the city's Irish history.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)AP - Gay rights advocates are challenging a request by the Obama administration to keep the military's repealed "don't ask, don't tell" policy in place while the Pentagon prepares for an end to the practice.

Obama strongly defends US military action in Libya (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:49 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Defending the first war launched on his watch, President Barack Obama declared Monday night the United States intervened in Libya to prevent a slaughter of civilians that would have stained the world's conscience and "been a betrayal of who we are." Yet he ruled out targeting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, warning that trying to oust him militarily would be a costly mistake.

Father, son died in San Diego sailboat expedition (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:30 PM PDT

Police work the scene as two bodies lie covered on a dock in San Diego, Calif. Sunday, March 27, 2011, after a sailboat with nine people aboard capsized and sank in the San Diego Bay, leaving two men drowned and seven people injured, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jim Grant)AP - Authorities on Monday identified a father and son who died after a rented sailboat carrying 10 family members on an outing organized for people with special needs capsized in calm water and good weather in San Diego Bay.

APNewsBreak: Border agent killed man climbing wall (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:35 PM PDT

AP - A Mexican man was climbing a ladder when a Border Patrol agent fatally shot him three times, a sheriff's spokeswoman told The Associated Press on Monday.

Amid Japan crisis, hunt for better radiation care (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:27 PM PDT

Medical workers in protective gear gather around an ambulance which arrived at a hospital in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, carrying two workers from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after they stepped into contaminated water while laying electrical cables in one unit Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Jun Yasukawa) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITAP - Japan's nuclear emergency highlights a big medical gap: Few treatments exist to help people exposed to large amounts of radiation.

SC lawmakers take a dim view of new light bulbs (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:39 PM PDT

Linda Smith, front, and Pat Leonhard place screw bases on the bottoms of light bulbs at American Light Bulb Manufacturing Inc. in Mullins, S.C. Monday, March 28, 2011. With incandescent bulbs being phased out under federal law in favor of energy-efficient compact fluorescents, legislators want to exempt South Carolina from the measure, saying Washington has no business telling the state how to light its closets and countertops. American Light Bulb is the last manufacturer of incandescent light bulbs in the United States. (AP Photo/Willis Glassgow)AP - South Carolina lawmakers are taking a stand in favor of states' lights.

Wis. contract talks stall amid union law fight (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:27 PM PDT

Protesters march around the the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Saturday, March 26, 2011. Wisconsin Republicans insist that the anti-union law that sparked weeks of protests at the state Capitol and that is being challenged in court takes effect Saturday because a state office decided to post it online. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - Gov. Scott Walker's administration took steps Monday to adjust state workers' paychecks to reflect a new collective bargaining law, while the state Justice Department asked a court to agree the law was in effect and stop cases related to blocking its implementation.

Crash kills Ala. man, 4 Ind. teens on spring break (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:25 PM PDT

AP - Four northeastern Indiana high school seniors returning from a spring break trip and another man were killed in a three-vehicle crash over the weekend in Alabama.

Ind. Democrats end boycott, return to Statehouse (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:21 PM PDT

Minority Leader Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, enters the Democrats side of the House at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Monday, March 28, 2011. Indiana House Democrats who fled the state nearly six weeks ago to protest a Republican agenda they considered an assault on labor unions and public education returned to the Statehouse on Monday after nearly six weeks in Illinois. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)AP - Indiana House Democrats who fled the state five weeks ago to protest a Republican agenda they considered an assault on labor unions and public education returned to the Statehouse on Monday and resumed work.

NYC needs runways, but 'ghost airport' stays quiet (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:26 PM PDT

AP - Two airports sit less than five miles from each other, their wide-open runways tracing big Xs along the same stretch of Atlantic shoreline.

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