2011年4月17日星期日

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Tornadoes pummel Southern U.S., 43 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 05:34 PM PDT

The remains of a destroyed Lowe's Home Improvement store is pictured after a tornado in in Sanford, North Carolina, April 17, 2011. REUTERS/Chris KeaneReuters - Three days of violent storms and tornadoes across the southern United States killed at least 43 people, wrecked hundreds of buildings and downed power lines, officials said on Sunday.

West Texas ranchers lose cattle, livelihood to fires (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 02:44 PM PDT

Reuters - Bobby McKnight knew fire was coming when he saw the pall of white smoke rising into the blue West Texas sky April 9 and, within an hour, a 20-foot wall of flame had reached the rancher's Fort Davis home.

FAA issues new rules to keep controllers awake (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 10:58 AM PDT

Air traffic controllers are seen at the BAA operated Edinburgh airport in Scotland March 30, 2011. REUTERS/David MoirReuters - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday issued new work rules aimed at preventing air traffic controllers from falling asleep on the job during overnight hours.

Restricted Reading: South Carolina Jail Bans All Books Except for the Bible (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Time.com - If you're a criminal who likes to read -- and/or is religious but not Christian -- then the last place you want to be jailed in is Moncks Corner, S.C.

Tax Study: Scientists More Likely to Cheat Than Lawyers (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Time.com - A recent study looked at tax cheats and found that one of the best indicators of whose likely to pay their taxes in full is their profession

Machine arrives to aid rescuers at N. Idaho mine (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 03:15 PM PDT

AP - Mining company officials brought in a remote-controlled digging machine Sunday to help try to reach a worker missing since a tunnel collapsed deep inside an Idaho mine.

In North, Civil War sites, events long 'forgotten' (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:04 AM PDT

In this March 25, 2011 photo, a workman does repairs at the Framingham History Center behind a statue of a Union soldier in Framingham, Mass. Volunteers also hope to raise about $1 million to repair the cracked walls and leaky ceiling of the History Center, which houses much of the town's memorial to the Civil War. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - The gravesite of a Union Army major general sits largely forgotten in a small cemetery along the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Palin: Wis. gov doing the right thing with unions (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 06:01 AM PDT

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a tax day tea party rally Saturday, April 16, 2011, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)AP - Sarah Palin defended Wisconsin's governor at a tea party tax day rally Saturday, telling hundreds of supporters that his polarizing union rights law is designed to save public jobs.

New climate change case headed to Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 12:09 PM PDT

A detail of the West Facade of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Monday, March 7, 2011. The court is taking up a climate change case for the second time in four years. On Tuesday, April 19, the court will hear arguments in the case American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, 10-174. The Obama administration is siding with American Electric Power Co. and three other companies in urging the high court to throw out the lawsuit on grounds the Environmental Protection Agency, not a federal court, is the proper authority to make rules about climate change. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - The Obama administration and environmental interests generally agree that global warming is a threat that must be dealt with.

NC gets worst of storms that ravaged swath of US (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 04:08 PM PDT

Mary Grady sits in her neighbor's yard where she rode out a tornado in Askewville, N.C., Sunday, April 17, 2011. Her home was destroyed in the storm. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - A tornado-spewing storm system that killed at least 45 people across half the country unleashed its worst fury on North Carolina, where homes broke apart, trees snapped and livestock were swept into the air. Residents in the capital city and rural hamlets alike on Sunday mourned the dead, marveled at their own survival and began to clean up devastated neighborhoods.

FAA gives tired controllers an extra hour to rest (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2010, file photo Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood listens to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt talk about proposed rules to help prevent dangerous pilot fatigue at the Transportation Department in Washington. Saturday, April 16, 2011, Babbitt said in a statement that the FAA will be making changes to controllers' work schedules most likely to induce fatigue and that those changes will take place within 72 hours. The announcement followed another incident Saturday in which a controller fell asleep while on duty, this time at a radar center in Miami. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - The government said Sunday it is giving air traffic controllers an extra hour off between shifts so they don't doze off at work, a problem that stretches back decades. But officials rejected the remedy that sleep experts say would make a real difference: on-the-job napping.

Winds-stoked wildfires threaten Texas communities (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 05:44 PM PDT

A Travis Co. Star Flight helicopter drops water on a wildfire that destroyed homes in southwest Austin, Texas on Sunday, April 17, 2011.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)AP - Strong winds and tinder-dry conditions presented more challenges Sunday for firefighters battling a spate of wildfires threatening communities across Texas, including a blaze in Austin that destroyed several homes and prompted an aerial water attack in the capital city.

Blood ties unite Wis. brothers in union bill fight (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:05 AM PDT

In this April 7, 2011 photo, Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, left, R-Juneau, and his brother Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon talk under a portrait of former Gov. Tommy Thompson at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker needed help twisting arms to get his polarizing bill eliminating most public employees' union rights through the Legislature, he turned to Scott and Jeff Fitzgerald. The Irish Catholic brothers hold the top two legislative posts in the state, and they said their success was due to blood as much as political skill. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker needed help twisting arms to get his polarizing bill eliminating most public employees' union rights through the Legislature, he turned to Scott and Jeff Fitzgerald. The Irish Catholic brothers hold the top two legislative posts in the state, and they said their success was due to blood as much as political skill.

Officials: No nuclear risk to North Pacific fish (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 05:39 PM PDT

AP - North Pacific fish are so unlikely to be contaminated by radioactive material from the crippled nuclear plant in Japan that there's no reason to test them, according to federal and state of Alaska health officials.

Lobster shells valuable for golf balls, plant pots (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 02:05 PM PDT

In this photo made Thursday, March 31, 2011, University of Maine engineering professor David Neivandt, left, and junior bioengineering major Alex Caddell pose on an athletic field in Orono, Maine where they are testing a golf ball made using ground lobster shell. Neivandt says the golf balls are intended for use on cruise ships or at driving ranges that are on lakes or the ocean, where golfers would drive them into the water. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Lobsters aren't just for eating anymore.

In Illinois, Blago's retrial elicits many feelings (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 09:18 AM PDT

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich waves before reading a statement about his retrial outside his home in Chicago Wednesday, April 13, 2011. The 54-year-old faces 20 charges, including that he sought to sell or trade President Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - He was fired by Donald Trump, sent his wife to the jungle of Costa Rica to eat a tarantula on a reality show and sat there smiling as the likes of David Letterman ridiculed him.

2 protesters arrested at IMF/World Bank event (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:24 PM PDT

World Bank President Robert Zoellick arrives for a briefing on work by the Development Committee at the IMF/World Bank meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Two protesters have been arrested during weekend demonstrations of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

Film fans head for 'Rio,' shrug over new 'Scream' (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT

In this publicity image released by 20th Century Fox, animated characters, from left, Raphael, voiced by George Lopez, Blu, voiced by Jesse Eisenberg, and Jewel, voiced by Anne Hathaway, are shown in a scene from 'Rio.' (AP Photo/20th Century Fox)AP - Movie fans are going to "Rio" in big numbers, but they're not quite screaming over the latest installment of a horror-comedy franchise.

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