2011年5月12日星期四

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Levees shored up against record Mississippi floods (Reuters)

Posted: 12 May 2011 02:47 PM PDT

Peyton Creech walks in water in front of his grandmother Jo McDaniel's home near a rising Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi, in Satartia, Mississippi May 11, 2011. REUTERS/Eric ThayerReuters - The government scrambled to shore up the levee system in the Deep South on Thursday to prevent the mighty Mississippi River from overflowing and flooding populated areas.

In tough economy, more people begging off jury duty (Reuters)

Posted: 12 May 2011 03:58 PM PDT

Reuters - The toll of the Great Recession can be counted in lost jobs and foreclosed homes, or by the large number of Floridians who say they cannot afford to serve as jurors for the Casey Anthony murder trial.

Taming floods a familiar, contentious job for Army Corps (Reuters)

Posted: 12 May 2011 11:08 AM PDT

Flood water swamp the Chickasaw subdivision as water from the rising Mississippi River engulfs homes in low lying areas in Vicksburg, Mississippi May 11, 2011. REUTERS/Sean GardnerReuters - As floodwaters have surged across the central United States over the past month, the names of the towns in danger have changed: Grand Forks, North Dakota; Cairo, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee.

The Education Crisis Everyone Is Ignoring (Time.com)

Posted: 12 May 2011 08:25 AM PDT

Time.com - Hispanics -- the fastest growing ethnic group in the country -- are woefully underserved by our public schools. And the problem is only going to get worse

Pakistan PM Gilani Blames U.S. for Fraying Ties After Raid (Time.com)

Posted: 12 May 2011 08:25 AM PDT

Time.com - TIME exclusive: A combative Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani warns that his government won't be able to work with the U.S. unless Washington changes its ways

Immigration crackdown raises identity-theft risk (Reuters)

Posted: 12 May 2011 11:41 AM PDT

Reuters - In 2008, California tax authorities sent Miguel Chavez a letter saying he failed to file a return on income earned at Ashley Furniture Industries. But Chavez never worked there.

Panel says US must act now to curb global warming (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 03:52 PM PDT

AP - An expert panel asked by Congress to recommend ways to deal with global warming said Thursday that the U.S. should not wait to substantially reduce the pollution responsible and any efforts to delay action would be shortsighted.

Official: 2 students among 3 dead at CA university (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 04:47 PM PDT

AP - The husband of a graduating business student at a Northern California university shot and killed her and a male classmate in a car in a campus parking garage then turned the gun on himself, officials said Thursday.

Man accused of trying to break into Mo. Army post (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 04:57 PM PDT

Authorities apprehend a male suspect gunman south of Rolla, Mo. on Thursday, May 12, 2011. Police say they captured the man who tried breaking into an Army base and fired on police during a high-speed chase before entering and leaving a university building. Fort Leonard Wood spokesman Mike Warren said a man tried entering the base through its west gate but was told to leave by a security guard, who determined the man's identification card didn't look legitimate. Instead of leaving, the driver accelerated rapidly and drove through the gate, then led military police on a chase that ended when he drove back out through the front gate and the St. Robert Police Department began the pursuit, he said. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Huy Mach)AP - A Missouri man is in custody after a four-hour chase that began when officials said he tried to break into an Army post.

Lunch break leads police to Granny Bandit suspect (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 11:49 AM PDT

AP - Victims who reported being robbed at gunpoint by an old lady wearing big sunglasses, a scarf and a muumuu can breathe easier — police are saying the "Granny Bandit" has been arrested.

APNewsBreak: Pearce claims payments to Fiesta Bowl (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 03:37 PM PDT

AP - Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce is releasing documents that he says show a "clear pattern of compliance" with state laws restricting acceptance of gifts and of making reimbursements to the Fiesta Bowl for game tickets.

White House: No more photo re-enactments (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 12:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 1, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama reads his statement to photographers after making a televised statement on the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House in Washington. After an extraordinary week of events in the United States and abroad, one thing is clear: Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of American forces has the potential to ripple out into global affairs in countless ways — political and military, diplomatic and cultural, and of course national security in the United States. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - The White House said it is ending its long-running practice of having presidents re-enact televised speeches for news photographers following major addresses to the country, a little-known arrangement that fed suggestions of fakery when Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden.

Study: It's not teacher, but method that matters (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 12:42 PM PDT

This undated handout photo, taken in 2010, provided by the University of British Columbia shows an unidentified student at the University of British Columbia using an interactive clicker in a classroom. A study by Nobel Prize winning physicist Carl Wieman at the university found that students learned better from inexperienced teachers using an interactive method — including the clicker — than a veteran professor giving a traditional lecture. Student answers to questions and quizzes are displayed instantly on the professor’s presentation. (AP Photo/Martin Dee, University of British Columbia)AP - Who's better at teaching difficult physics to a class of more than 250 college students: the highly rated veteran professor using time-tested lecturing, or the inexperienced graduate students interacting with kids via devices that look like TV remotes? The answer could rattle ivy on college walls.

Rising Mississippi takes aim at Cajun country (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Workers build a temporary levee in Krotz Springs, La., Thursday, May 12, 2011, in advance of possible flooding if the Morganza Spillway north of Baton Rouge is opened. Crews were rushing to build temporary levees to protect properties that have been built outside of the town's permanent ring levee over the last few decades. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - In the latest agonizing decision along the swollen Mississippi River, federal engineers are close to opening a massive spillway that would protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans but flood hundreds of thousands of acres in Louisiana Cajun country.

Schwarzenegger sheds old life as he plots return (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 12:06 PM PDT

Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives at the Israel 63rd Independence Day Celebration hosted by the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Schwarzenegger was honored at the event. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - As Arnold Schwarzenegger plots his return to Hollywood, he will in some ways resemble the young Austrian who came to California many years ago: single and not a politician.

How bin Laden emailed without being detected by US (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 1998 file photo, al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in the mountains of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. Foreign and Pakistani analysts, former operatives of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency and military men interviewed by The Associated Press say that some ISI agents, local police and local officials most likely did know about bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The question is, at what level, and how close to the top? (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai, File)AP - Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government's best eavesdroppers.

Earlier HIV therapy protects against virus spread (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 04:13 PM PDT

AP - Treating HIV right away, before patients are too sick, dramatically lowers their chances of spreading the AIDS virus to a sexual partner, says a major international study that may convince more doctors to offer medication sooner.

2 charged with terrorism in alleged NY plot (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 04:34 PM PDT

In this photo released by the New York City Police Department, police intercept a vehicle carrying two Americans who allegedly bought guns and a grenade to launch an attack on a New York synagogue, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. According to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Ahmed Ferhani, a 26-year-old of Algerian descent, and Mohamed Mamdouh, a 20-year-old of Moroccan descent, plotted to bomb a 'major synagogue' in Manhattan and bought several weapons and an inert hand grenade from an undercover officer before being arrested. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)AP - Two U.S. residents, including one who complained that the world was treating Muslims "like dogs," bought guns and a grenade and wanted to carry out a terror plot against a New York synagogue, officials said Thursday.

McCain: Torture did not lead to bin Laden death (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 02:13 PM PDT

U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) addresses the Washington Conference on the Americas at the State Department in Washington May 11, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)AP - Waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques were not a factor in tracking down Osama bin Laden, a leading Republican senator insisted Thursday.

Astronauts back for next-to-last shuttle flight (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 08:24 AM PDT

Space shuttle Endeavour commander Mark Kelly addresses members of the media after he arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, May 12, 2011. Kelly will lead a crew of five other astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station. The astronauts for NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight returned to Florida on Thursday for another try at launching to the International Space Station.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - The astronauts for NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight returned to Florida on Thursday for another try at launching to the International Space Station.

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