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With the plant's cooling systems still out of order, the utility has been pumping in fresh water on an ongoing basis. While this has prevented a dangerous heating of the reactor cores, it has also created a large quantity of water contaminated with radiation that it has only limited capability to store safely.
Following step two, the company hopes to be able to bring the units to a "cold shutdown" at which point they would no longer pose a risk. Trade Minister Banri Kaieda, who had been urging Tepco to come up with the road map, said it was a significant move towards resolving the crisis, which has been defined as a Level-7 accident, on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. "This is an important first step," Mr. Kaieda said. "We have moved on from a situation where we were forced to take emergency measures to one where we can |
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in Scotland when everyone else is rushing around trying to organise all the final details.
‘Charles is overseeing the entire evening reception with William and Kate, and it’s not the most convenient thing having him in Scotland. ‘Most of the work is done but there are still final details to sign off. Thankfully he has agreed to come back for a planning meeting.’ The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will lead a line-up of around 40 British Royals at the pre- wedding dinner on April 28 at the exclusive Mandarin Oriental hotel in Knightsbridge, overlooking Hyde Park. The party is being organised by the Queen’s cousin, Lady Elizabeth Anson. Those attending include the Duke of York, Pr |
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The Orlando Magic have entered a very critical period that will determine whether or not they are contenders for the foreseeable future. As long as they have Dwight Howard at the center position they're going to have a chance to beat anyone in the league, but he's only under contract through next season and rumors that he's set to make his departure just won't go away.
To Dwight's credit, he's done absolutely everything in his power to keep all talk focused on this season and not what he's going to do 15 months from now. However, the questions are going to continue to come until he's locked up to a long-term extension. Until then Dwight will hear his name associated with teams like the Los Angeles Lakers, New Jersey Nets and just about every other team because who wouldn't want to add the most dominant center in the game today? |
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he vote caps a week in which Obama belatedly entered the deficit debate with a partisan speech that hammered Ryan's proposal, and the US Congress finally agreed to fund the federal government for the rest of this fiscal year after down-to-the-wire haggling between Republicans and Democrats.
In the run-up to Friday vote, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Republicans were united on the plan that aims to stop a runaway national debt of nearly USD 14.3 trillion. He said he expected to see a "resounding vote" of support for Ryan's plan, in stark contrast to Thursday, when dozens of of House Republicans abandone |
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how to subdue quality hitters, over and over again, without the benefit of a 90-plus mph fastball. The stocky righty threw an even mix of 25 fastballs and 24 changeups, sprinkling in assorted splits and sliders - five different pitches in all, according to him - in breezing to his first win as a Yankee. There is reason to believe there will be many more, which would be a welcome relief for the beleaguered Cashman, embarrassed as he is by the failures of his homegrown starters along with the Pedro Feliciano signing fiasco.
"(Garcia's effort) just goes to show you don't have to throw 95 if you locate, change speeds, use the whole strike zone and have command of all your pitches," Joe Girardi said admiringly. Said Garcia: "I don't throw hard anymore so I've got to pitch to contact ... go out and compete. That's all I can do." Actually, what Garcia did in his Yankee debu |
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ut talks have dragged on over issues such as Saleh's immunity from prosecution and the timetable for a transition.
"We will explain our point of view to our brothers in the Gulf Cooperation Council about their initiative," said Yassin Noman, president of Yemen's umbrella opposition group. The opposition wants Saleh gone within weeks and to keep open the option of prosecuting him. More than 116 protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces since late January, fuelling fears that violence could spiral out of control in the poor and politically fragmented country where al Qaeda has been active. Continued... |
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Mr Jonathan has staked his reputation on the the election, repeatedly promising it would be free and fair. Counting began as soon as polls closed on Saturday, and the BBC's Caroline Duffield, in the Nigerian capital Abuja, says most votes have now been counted. Official results are expected on Monday. Reports of partial results showed that Mr Jonathan was leading the field in the south of Nigeria - he hails from the oil-rich Niger Delta region - but that Gen Buhari was mounting a strong challenge in the mainly Muslim north. |
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hes could tap, most notably a team-first, share-the-ball (occasionally) mentality. Rose, having survived two years of Vinny Del Negro’s deer-in-the-headlights tutelage, is flourishing under Tom Thibodeau, an old N.B.A. soul with a knack for maximizing a player’s talents while neutralizing his shortcomings. Their relationship is likely to produce the league’s most valuable player as well as its coach of the year.
Skeptics maintain that the Bulls are too young and untested to win the title, though they entered the playoffs as the Eastern Conference’s top seed. The N.B.A. is star powered, especially at playoff time, and the Bulls have none besides Rose. (But the Thibodeau Effect on Luol Deng’s tidy all-around game can’t be discounted: Deng, the 2 |
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Asked about the constant questions about when his first goal of the season would come, Henry said: “It was more annoying than important today. My goal didn’t have an effect on the game, but I tried everything today to score and finally did. The most important thing is to say that we worked really hard up front, Luke and I. It really doesn’t matter who scores.” As relieved as Henry seemed, Coach Hans Backe, too, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief that Henry, his highest-paid player, got on the sco |
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r that home run, a 5-1 lead is pretty tough to come back from, especially when they're playing the way they are right now," Kershaw said. "They're swinging the bats really well."
Carpenter (0-2, 5.82 ERA), 6-0 with a 1.77 ERA in eight starts against the Dodgers, will try to stay in Sunday's game longer than his last start as the Cardinals go for their first four-game sweep in Los Angeles since July 1-4, 1968. The veteran right-hander lasted just four innings in Tuesday's 13-8 loss at Arizona. It was the first time in 163 starts with St. Louis that Carpenter gave up eight hits and two home runs in the same game. "It's just one of those nights. I don't really have a lot to say," he told the Cardinals' official website. "I made good pitches, I made bad pitches. No matter what I threw in there, they hit it. I'm not going to concern myself a whole lot with it. Get ready to go on Sunday." Carpenter's last 0-3 start was with Toronto in 2000. |
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debate. Republicans would no longer have to have 21 votes to cut off debate.”
Democrats in the Senate have used filibusters frequently this session to present their side of an issue or delay votes. Republicans have used cloture, a decision by 21 or more senators, to cut off debate. Democrats used cloture in past years but much less frequently than Republicans have used it during this session. Beason, the Rules Committee chairman, said the rule change is one he proposed before the session began. Other Senate Republicans rejected the idea. |
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gns of an end to the war, immigrants have scrambled to flee the nation.
International Organization for Migration said Saturday that a boat rescued 1,200 migrant workers and their families who had been stranded around the port cit of Misrata. The area has been bombarded daily by Gadhafi's forces, according to witnesses. Witnesses have reported dire conditions in the city, including food shortages and the fear of pro-Gadhafi snipers taking aim at anyone walking on the streets. At least 700 people have died since violence erupted in Misrata two months ago, a medical director said. Despite weeks of aerial bombardment by internat |
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ernment also declared a wider evacuation zone than the Japanese.
Asked if the Japanese government had acted with enough transparency, Mrs. Clinton said: “We have been very supportive of what Japan is doing to take the appropriate steps.” Mrs. Clinton later met with Emperor Akihito and his wife, Michiko, at the imperial palace. The emperor shook her hand, and Mrs. Clinton kissed Michiko on both cheeks. “I’m so, so sorry for everything your country is going through,” she told them, before they entered the palace for tea. She added, “If there was anything we can do. . .” Keith Bradsher, Ken Ijichi, Yasuko Kamiizumi, |
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At least on paper, the program marks a turning point in the company’s struggles to shut down the reactors. For weeks, workers have fought to cool the reactors and spent fuel pools by pouring water on them. The deluge has created other problems, including a flood of contaminated water that seeped into the site and into the ocean.ls are part of a two-part plan that represents Tokyo Electric’s most concrete timetable yet for controlling the reactors and improving safety conditions at the plant, which was damaged by 15-meter-high tsunami wav |
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me then, and it’s been that way throughout Ed’s tenure, is his amazing ability to engage other people, both professionally and personally.”
She eventually became Montana’s wolf management coordinator until the position recently was discontinued. “He always pushed us to really make data and science the basis of the state plan, and that set us up to succeed,” Sime said. “It was a real privilege and honor to work with him. I’ve learned so much and it’s been a priceless experience.” Mike Jimenez, who is now in charge of Wyoming’s wolf recovery program, also worked with Bangs in the early years, and said he created the blueprint for bringing together people with a |
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w he managed to charm many on both sides of the wolf wars, with a mix of humor tinged with a reputation for fairness.
“He would get in front of a group trying to ridicule and criticize him, and Ed would beat them to the punch,” recalled Carter Niemeyer, a former Wildlife Services supervisor who worked closely with Bangs for decades. “One time, we were in Grangeville, Idaho, in front of a hostile crowd, with one guy leading the charge. He said ‘Tell me what the hell good the blankedly-blank wolves ever did.’ Ed chimed up and said ‘They gave me this cushy job’ and the whole audience cracked up. The man got up and left because he was so angry. “He would win the crowd over, because they thought he was kind of funny, and that would ge |
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her flaws in this arrangement. For example, because traditional Medicare would remain in place for today's retirees and near-retired, the difference between their health program and that of younger retirees after 2022 could generate political pressure for Congress to increase the latter's benefits. The proposal assumes that raising patients' out-of-pocket costs leads to more cost-efficient care, a notion that is unproven at best and has been questioned by some experts.
The proposal overlooks the fact that the cost of healthcare for the elderly can't easily be wished away. The CBO observes that some elders unable to pay for their care might end up in the government's disability or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs, both of which are already overstressed. Others may require help from their children, which wo |
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The two political bookends of the deficit debate were established over the last two weeks, first in a long-term budget road map issued April 5 by Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, and passed by the Republican majority of the House on Friday, and then by President Obama in his budget speech Wednesday. If there was any doubt that the debate over deficits is not about numbers but philosophies of government — it just exploits the vocabulary of fiscal policy — these two eve |
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ut Perkins, this will be the third time the Celtics' core of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo has been together for a playoff run. Garnett missed their entire '09 run to the Eastern Conference semifinals due to a knee injury. Otherwise, the Celtics' nucleus that the Knicks will have to contend with starting Sunday night has played in eight playoff series. That's 50 games, compared to the Knicks being together for all of 54 days since the Anthony trade.
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test power forward.
"He's got to be No. 1, and if not he's right there with No. 1," Mavs power forward Dirk Nowitzki said. "He has the rings to back it up, the stats, and he's an amazing player. "What's made him tough is he has the whole package down there. He's very bottom-heavy, so it's hard to keep him out of the lane." When the Spurs open the playoffs at noon today against Memphis, it could be Duncan's last hurrah in the postseason. He's under contract with the Spurs for next year at $21.3 million. But if a lockout wipes out next season, Duncan will be trying to get his aging body in shape -- at age 36 -- and the body may not want to cooperate. "He probably is at the tail end of his career, but just his presence in being out there is priceless," New Orleans Hornets power forward Carl Landry said. "What he can do as far as rebou |
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xual encounter with another man. Unfortunately, Clementi was just one of several teens who took their own lives recently after being bullied for their sexual orientation.
In the wake of these deaths, "Savage Love" columnist Dan Savage started the "It Gets Better Project," a YouTube video archive of testimonials from celebrities, politicians, and everyday people telling their own stories or offering to support those who are suffering. Savage won a $500 award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation for his efforts, which he donated to the Trevor Project, which has also supported the "It Gets Better" project on its Web site. "The bullies seem like the powerful people, but the secret of the real world is they're at the peak of their power at 15 and 16, and there will come a time when the bullies are not successful and the people they bullied are, and you just have to out-survive them |
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Helm scored in the last minute of the first period when he converted Pavel Datsyuk's rebound with a quick shot. Datsyuk would have liked to see Helm try harder, though. "He dominate today," Datsyuk said. "He does lots of skating and make D ti Helm scored in the last minute of the first period when he converted Pavel Datsyuk's rebound with a quick shot. Datsyuk would have liked to see Helm try harder, though. "He dominate today," Datsyuk said. "He does lots of skating and make D tired |
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When nature calls, most of us head to the nearest toilet to do our business. If the bathroom has the Kohler Numi that launches in the U.S. at the end of the month, you might be tempted to hang out awhile.
The customizable "smart toilet" lets you adjust seat position, water temperature and pressure, ambient lighti |
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lf an hour after the broadcast, they got their wish, as Egypt's new authorities - anxious to head off further unrest - announced that Mr Mubarak would be questioned.
Dr Emad Gad, a political expert from the Al Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, said: "When he stepped down the Supreme Military Council gave him guarantees that they would protect him and his family and not allow them to be investigated, if he stayed out of politics. "I think Gamal broke that understanding and started to meddle again. They were planning a counter-revolution and trying to cause |
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ew ever really expected to see Mr Mubarak and his family under arrest, let alone facing serious charges, which could carry 25 year prison sentences for the corruption allegations alone.
"Hosni Mubarak was a thief, he ruined all our lives, killed our friends and stole our money," said a protester in the square on Friday, where a hard-core of activists still gather every week. "I want to see him hanged." Even Egyptians who once admired Mr Mubarak have been appalled at the claims about the family's epic corru |
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amal, 47, had been expected to succeed his father Hosni, president for 30 years until he was toppled in February.
In recent years, Gamal was considered the real power behind his ailing father, who is 82 and believed to be dying from cancer. His brother Alaa had a less prominent rule in running Egypt, but amassed a vast fortune with apparently minimal |
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he Chicago Cubs 8, Colorado 3; and St. Louis 9, the Los Angeles Dodgers 2.
Rain pelted Philadelphia and Washington, forcing the Marlins-Phillies game to be rescheduled to June 15 as a double- header, and the Brewers-National contest to be played in a double-header today. To contact the reporter on this story: Nancy Kercheval in Washington at nkercheval@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael S |
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FAA officials late Saturday night were still unclear whether the changes will require hiring or training additional controllers, according to people familiar with the situation. That could pose huge challenges at a time Republican House leaders want to roll back FAA funding to 2008 levels.
The changes are partly aimed at eliminating schedules believed to pose the greatest fatigue risks, such as working four consecutive overnight sh |
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ansportation Secretary Ray LaHood--and also spelled out in appearances by Obama administration officials on Sunday morning news interview shows.
(This story and related background material will be available on The Wall Street Journal website, WSJ.com.) The aim of the changes is to put a lid on the public and congressional furor sparked by a recent spate of incidents in which controllers fell asleep while on duty, these people said. They come amid a growing imbroglio over dozing controllers that last week forced the nation's top air-traffic control official to quit under pressure. The resignation followed several high-profile incidents in which controllers nodded off in front of radar screens, forcing pilot |
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered assurances of support while Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto vowed that Tokyo would 'fully disclose' information about the ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the business federation Nippon Keidanren, |
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arly five weeks later, on the final leg of a global trek that took her to Berlin for NATO talks on the Libya conflict and to Seoul to tackle the North Korean nuclear stand-off.
The quake and tsunami killed up to 28,000 people, and, with the resulting nuclear crisis, seriously rattled the world's third-largest economy. Damages from the quake and tsunami have been estimated at $300 billion, making it the world's costliest n |
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from the government to attend the University of Florida. He became a successful financial planner. “When we were released from a Cuban prison and returned to Miami 20 months, I wanted to catch up on lost time. I think many of us did,’’ he said.
One brigadista is the father of a South Florida’ icon — Gloria Estefan. Jose Fajardo eventually served in Vietnam, where is believed to have been exposed to Agent Orange. He died in 1980. “The brigadistas are very close to our |
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these men did 50 years ago was an act of bravery not seen again by our community,’’ said U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who last week honored a delegation of veterans in the nation’s Capitol.
Prominent exile activist Ninoska Perez Castellon also dedicated much of her dai |
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not be able to return for 10 or 20 years.
"We would like to present objective facts to help the government make judgment and outlook on when those who have evacuated can come back home," TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata told a news conference at which the timeframe was unveiled. Katsumata also said the company was taking steps to cope with the possibility of another big tsunami. The area has been rocked by large aftershocks since the magnitude 9.0 quake struck and triggered the devastating tsunami. |
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ver the accident, but that he couldn't say when.
"This is the biggest crisis since the founding of our company," Katsumata told a news conference at which the timetable was unveiled. "Getting the nuclear plant under control, and the financial problems associated with that... How we can overcome these problems is a difficult matter." |
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The day included other festivities, among them the annual Pink Parade, in which more than 2,000 pink-clad cancer survivors marched through a series of balloon archways. Michael Baden, 26, Anderson, accompanied his grandmother, Rose Baden, 85, who celebrated 22 years of survival. |
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ets because of his finances.
He sued his former business manager in October 2009 for $20 million, claiming the man's advice led him to financial ruin. Cage won an Academy Award for his performance in 1995's "Leaving Las Vegas." Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redis |
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e government needs to do more to tackle corruption and reduce unemployment, which is Syria’s “biggest problem,” Assad said in his televised address to the cabinet, which is headed by former agriculture minister Adel Safar.
Success Unlikely “This is something Middle East autocrats do, appoint somebody to be a lightning rod for things that go wrong,” said Andrew Terrill, a Middle East specialist at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, referring to the ne |
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s been solid for them all year and just got overlooked a little bit," Sixers swingman Andre Iguodala said. "He is a six-, seven-time all-star and has definitely shown his capabilities and is always going to be a threat from the perimeter and very skilled on the block."
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ouls that limited his playing time to under 36 minutes, said Bosh's heroics could be a recurring postseason theme.
"There are going to be some games when he leads the way for us," Wade said. "He is a guy we go to for relief. He did a great job today of mixing it up." |
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, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Sunday with her Japanese counterpart Takeaki Matsumoto, reaffirming Japan-U.S. cooperation in post-quake reconstruction efforts.
Clinton said the United States will continue to provide every possible support for Japan to solve the nuke crisis in the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, and will pledge firm U.S. disaster relief. |
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ttle for territory in Libya's east left six anti-Gaddafi fighters dead and 16 wounded on Saturday.
"We were in our vehicles and they opened fire with rockets," said an injured fighter named Abdulrazek in Ajdabiya hospital. Fresh air strikes Meanwhile, anti-aircraft fire was heard in the skies above the capital Tripoli on Saturday, and Libyan state TV said NATO air strikes targeted Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte. |
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n Julia Jarema. To the west, hikers were rescued after being briefly stranded by flash floods brought on by the heavy rains. Hundreds of thousands of people were without power in the Carolinas and storm shelters were opening in various communities.
In Virginia, emergency preparedness officials told The Associated Press early Sunday that they were poised to head out at dawn to determine the extent of the damage, search for the missing and for anyone who might possibly have been trapped in rubble. "The big thing is to see what the damage is with the first light; then we'll get a better idea of what we're really facing," said Bob Spieldenner, director o |
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acted as a makeshift shelter as the weather rolled in.
The storms began in Oklahoma on Thursday, then roared through Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Seven people each were killed in Arkansas and Alabama, which was hit a day earlier. A father, his son and his daughter were killed near Montgomery; a mother and her two teenage sons died in a mobile home in the southwest part of the state, and the storm claimed the life of an elderly man whose trailer was tossed nearly a quarter of a mile across a state highway. Gov. Robert Bentley visited some of the devastated area |
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CINCINNATI 11, PITTSBURGH 2: Ramon Hernandez broke open a close game with his sixth career grand slam, and host Cincinnati sent Pittsburgh to its fifth loss in six games. Hernandez's fifth-inning homer was his third hit off James McDona |
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porters how her new show will differ from The Simple Life. "On The Simple Life, I was playing a character. Now people will get to see my real world, my friends, my house, my business."
Paris Hilton also explained why she decided to go in a different direction with The World According to Paris. "I would never have done a show like this five, ten years ago," admitted Hilton. "I wasn't really comfortable with myself. I have been through so much. I have nothing to hide. It's like, what else can |
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in many areas; instead, piles of battered Chinese generators wait at a mechanic's workshop for repair. With state school facilities in a poor state, private schools with names such as Wisdom Academy advertise educational miracles on every corner. A wheelbarrow sells dubious medications, many of them fake, potentially deadly, concoctions.
Instead of buses, motorcycle taxis swarm like angry wasps amid traffic. Sometimes a family of four will pile on behind the driver. In Internet cafes, gr |
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ing alliances split between the mainly Muslim north and mainly Christian south, Jonathan, a southern Christian, faced a substantial challenge from former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim northerner.
But although the north has 38 million voters to the south's 35 million, analysts predict that Jonathan will win in the first round, with the Muslim vote split between several contenders. An Ipsos opinion poll in Saturday's This Day newspaper predicted tha |
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ke sure to keep a smile on your face. Memorize lots of platitudes like 'Let the best man win' and 'It's not whether you win, it's how you play the game.' And know when to give up and accept that you were the loser, that you failed," he said in Abuja on Capital Radio's "Daybreak" program as gridlocked cars sat steaming in the early heat two days before Saturday's election.
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ying. And he said Chara actually wasn’t all that close.
“He deserves so much credit for what he did tonight coming to the rink and going out there for the warmup,” Julien said. “He came off the ice and he was sweaty and he was dizzy and there was no way in the world that we could have used him tonight. Absolutely no way. The doctors told him the same thing. I spoke to him. “Even attempting to come was courageous on his part, bu |
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e MAT-120 fires 12 sub-munitions and has a high "dud rate", leaving children at danger of being blown up by unexploded ordnance.
He said: "We have no doubt whatsoever. Photographs of the sub-munitions, photographs of the motor which carried the sub-mu |
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of Misurata had further weakened the Libyan leader's position.
He said: "We want to act within the law, within international agreement and therefore we should be arguing the case to not accept a stalemate, not to put our own boots on the ground, but to properly arm those boots that are on the ground. "They are Libyan boots. Let the Libyan people have the wherewithal to choose a new government for themselves," he told Today – warning that a stalemate would create a vacuum likely to be filled by extremists. |
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ze frame with words that say so)). He is the enigma of the story, and the question “Who is John Galt?” is uttered half a dozen times in varying scenarios. It’s a non sequitur (and I can’t imagine how someone who hasn’t the read the book would react to th
e shoe-horning), but it’s eventually worked into the story as Dagny’s top employees end up with their faces on milk cartons. So the question gets raised more and more as the story goes on, but every conversation broaching the topi |
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Henry. The characters do a lot of telling when it comes to what the next business catastrophe means, but without any showing, it’s all face-value pointlessness unless you connect with the two leads.
As for that, the actors are fairly solid with only a few missteps (that come in the form of moronically flaky lines being uttered with zero effort). Schilling is in high heel lock step with Dagny, playing her as a preternaturally adept business mind in the body of a supermodel who is about as no nonsense as Gordon Gekko without the need for hair gel. Bowler is dashing and direct, carrying himself like a man walking on air while wearing cement shoes. |
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es on a group of survivors that are in large part completely unbothered by the brain-eating hordes. This is most notable in the scenes of railroad construction where a group of seemingly unmanned machines are doing all the work. The camera specifically keeps low to avoid showing people (although there are a few shots that
prove people are hanging around the site). The result is a movie which claims the country is going to hell in a 99 Cent Store Basket but only shows people in expensive suits eating the best food and drinking the best wine even while gas is apparently at $37.50 a gallon. |
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rcent of households earn 11.6 percent of US income and pay 10.3 percent of taxes. The lowest 20 percent account for just 3.5 percent of income, and pay 2 percent of all taxes.
The numbers were reported by Citizens for Tax Justice, a research group that supports progressive tax rates, and drawn from calculations by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Note that these numbers look at the broad mix of US ta |
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re the facts behind the debate? How much do wealthier Americans already pay in taxes?
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After the indictment of its chief executive in a federal crackdown on Internet poker sites, Full Tilt Poker defended its business as a legal and harmless game enjoyed by players around the world.
Raymond Bitar, the company's chief executive, and employee Nelson Burtnick were charged Friday in New York with bank fraud and money laundering, along with nine other people, including executives at rival sites PokerStars and Absolute Poker. Bitar and Burtnick are outside the country and have yet to be arrested, the U.S. at |
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Aftershocks centred near the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant have also repeatedly forced emergency crews there to evacuate, and led to fears the charred reactor buildings and water pipes may be further compromised. In video footage shot on April 12, a water sample-collecting vessel is seen being lowered into reactor No 4 and towards the water in the cooling pool. |
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For years, skeptics scoffed at the childlike simplicity of Genesis 1. But with the Hubble telescope and the discovery of cosmic background radiation, the early moments of the Big Bang are revealed. Today Genesis takes on a deeper meaning. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. We now find that indeed, matter, |
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e of a hidden quasar, that’s a sign that the quasar has essentially shut down in the last 30,000 to 50,000 years,” Mr Keel said.
WISE ran out of coolant in October, making it unable to chill its heat-sensitive instruments and observe faraway objects. So it instead spent the next four months seeki ng out near-Earth asteroids and comets that should help scientists better calculate whether any are potentially threatening. The spacecraft went into hibernation in February. The mission, managed by Nasa’s Jet Propulsion La |
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Crews have uncovered at least 10 sets of human remains along the coastline in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties, including a skull, the bones of a toddler and the remains of four missing prostitutes. Law enforcement sources told CBS News there may be two patterns and two killers, perhaps separating the first four remains, who have all been identified as prostitutes who advertis |
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allegedly associated with the poker companies and others as a part of a separate civil forfeiture action. They are seeking at least $3 billion in civil money-laundering penalties and forfeiture.
Prosecutors also seized five Internet domain names used by the poker companies. This is the first big crackdown on online poker sites, though similar charges have been made in the last few years against sports betting sites and online payment processors. The charges are likely to disrupt a fragile ecosystem that |
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Steve Vernon, Vice President of Tea Party Manatee, said it's time for the movement to be taken seriously.
"One year ago, we met here at our last Tax Day rally," Vernon said. "Since then, we've been mocked, we've been criticized, we've been ridiculed and we've been defamed by the media and politicians. And I'm tired of it." Others said Tea Partiers are making their presence felt, especially at the local level. "We've got people going to school board meetings, we've got people going to the (county) commissioners' meetings, we've got people going to Tallahassee," said event hostess and Mixon Fruit Farms co-owner Janet Mixon. "We're learning what's happening, and we do make a difference." |
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Activists and eyewitnesses reported protests in other cities across the country including the coastal cities of Banias and Latakia, Homs, the eastern city of Deir Ezzor and Qamischli in the Kurdish northeast.
Elsewhere in the capital, protesters took to the streets in the Barzeh area, where activists said they had been beaten and live fire used to disperse them. Initial reports suggested protests in Deraa were largely peaceful, after |
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ere once labeled as "extremists" — just as Tea Party members have been today, Atwater said.
Several speakers threw their support behind beleaguered Gov. Rick Scott, crediting Tea Party voters with helping Scott get elected last November in an effort to fix Florida's financial woes. "If he wasn't doing something right, they wouldn't be trying to recall him," said conservative radio host Eddie Adams Jr. The Tea Party, onc e criticized as a fringe movement, was hailed Friday as a deciding factor in elections past and future. Aranibar said she owed the crowd "a huge thank you and a debt I cannot repay" for helping her win a contentious school board election in 2010. Steve Vernon, Vice President of Tea Party Manatee, said it's time for the movem |
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But Brett Cecil (1-1) would not allow any more damage and Toronto made its way back into it in the middle innings. Patterson's triple cut the deficit to one at 3-2 and knotted the contest in the sixth inning when Travis Snider doubled in a run. The Blue Jays g rabbed the lead in the seventh, scoring four runs off Bobby Jenks (0-1) on four singles, a walk and a wild pitch. Boston took one more stab at it in the eighth, pushing across three runs, but Jon Rauch came on in the ninth and retired the side to earn his third save for Toronto. |
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money you lose, the more freedom you lose," said Yaghjian. "You don't have the choices anymore. You're not as free as you were."
Freedom was a central theme at Saturday's Tax Day Rally, sponsored by Tea Party Manatee and hosted by Mixon Fruit Farms. The event drew a crowd of more than 100 as well as some big names in local and state politics, including Manatee County School Board member Julie Aranibar, District 4 County Commissioner Robin DiSabatino, former State Rep. Bill Galvano and keynote speaker Jeff Atwater, the state's chief financial officer. |
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Commissioner Robin DiSabatino, former State Rep. Bill Galvano and keynote speaker Jeff Atwater, the state's chief financial officer.
Speakers hammered President Barack Obama for what they said was a failure to create jobs and railed against the nation's runaway debt, which they see as a trampling of individual liberties. "Fiscal responsibility is just as much a part of freedom as anything else I know," said Galvano, a Bradenton Republican who is seeking Mike Bennett's Florida S |
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functioning democracy is important for Africa's most populous country and the largest oil producer in the continent. Nigeria is a major supplier of crude oil to the United States, and hosts many Western oil companies and workers.
Nigerians are harnessing the power of the internet to demand accountability and encourage citizens to get involved in the voting process. The west African nation has 43 million internet users -- the largest in Africa -- and they are increasingly using Twitter, Facebook and blogs to report cases of voting problems during the election season. |
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e Bautista and Adam Lind both drove in a run and scored a run in the decisive seventh inning as the visiting Toronto Blue Jays handed the Boston Red Sox their third straight loss, 7-6, on Friday.
Aaron Hill added three hits and an RBI and Corey Patterson tripled in a pair for the Blue Jays, who moved back above .500 at 7-6 on the season. The Red Sox own the worst record in the majors at 2-10. Clay Buchholz escaped a jam in the first inning and it looked as though Boston was in good shape when home runs by Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis in the third gave it a 3-0 edge. |
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, to avoid a runoff, the winner must get at least a quarter of the vote in two-thirds of the 36 states and the capital.
The ruling party has a tradition of alternating power between the mostly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south after two terms in office. The rhythm was broken when Jonathan, a southerner, succeeded Yar'Adua during his second term in office. Some ruling party leaders have demanded a candidate from the north. Outbreaks of deadly violence have affected parts of the oil-producing Niger Delta region since the west African nation returned to democracy in 1999. Ethnic strife has also left scores dead in some parts of the west African nation, including in the city of Jos. On the eve of the parliamentary vote, a bomb exploded at the Independent National Electoral Commission office in Suleja in central Nigeria, officials said. |
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s in Maiduguri city in Borno state, according to a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency.
Gunfire also rang out in the city, the spokesman said. It was unclear whether there were any casualties. Nigerians voted April 9 for 360 House of Representatives seats and 109 Senate seats. After the presidential election on Saturday, a gubernatorial vote will be held on April 26. A new election chief promised free and fair elections, but the electoral commission was forced to put off elections by a week after logistical problems, including party logos missing from ballot papers, were reported nationwide. It was a major setback reminiscent of the nation's 2007 elections, whic |
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their first Stanley Cup, defeated the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 to take a 2-0 advantage in their Western Conference series.
Daniel Sedin scored two goals for the Canucks, who move to Chicago for their next game against the Blackhawks. cored two goals for the Canucks, who m At Honda Centecored two goals for the Canucks, who mr in Anaheim, California, the Anaheim Ducks beat the Nashville Predators 5-3. Bobby Ryan had two goals for t he Ducks, who split their Western Conference series at one game each. The Predators host Game 3 tomorrow in Nashville. To contact the reporter on this story: Nancy Kercheval in Washington at nkercheval@bloomberg.net |
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t Goodluck Jonathan is the presidential front-runner despite a poor performance in the parliamentary and senate elections by his People's Democratic Party
The former vice president assumed office after President Umaru Yar'Adua died last year following treatment for a kidney ailment in Saudi Arabia. Jonathan has led the natio n of about 150 million people since May. About 73 million people are registered to vote. Nigeria's crucial vote Behind the scenes of Nigeria election The battle for Nigeria's presidency RELATED TOPICS Nigeria Other candidates include Nuhu Ribadu and current Kano state governor, Ibrahim Shekarau. The winner faces tough challenges in the former British colony that has been mostly under military rule in its 50 y |
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nsol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-1 to tie their Eastern Conference series at one game apiece.
Eric Brewer scored 2:02 into the game to put Tampa Bay ahead 1-0. Vincent Lecavalier scored on a power play five minutes later, followed by Nate Thompson’s goal for a 3-0 lead late in the first period. Martin St. Louis scored on a power play late in the second period for Tampa Bay, and Mattias Ohlund scored an empty net goal with 2:05 left in the game. r a 3-0 lead late in the first p Craig Adams scored Pittsburgh’s only goal in the second perio |
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k Rangers in the National Hockey League Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
Jason Chimera and Jason Arnott scored two minutes apart in the second period last night at the Verizon Center in Washington to give the Capitals a 2-0 victory against the eighth-seeded Rangers. Michal Neuvirth stopped 22 shots for his first playoff shutout as the Capitals took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.rk Rangers in the National Hockey League Eastern Conference quarterfinals. Jason Chimera and Jason Arnott scored two minutes apart in the second period last night at the Verizon Center in Washington to give the Capitals a 2-0 victory against the eighth-seeded Ra Game 3 between the Capitals and the Rangers will be played tomorrow when the first-round series moves to New York. |
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pen letter published earlier on Friday, Barack Obama, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy said Nato must maintain military operations to protect civilians and maintain pressure on Col Gaddafi.
To allow him to remain in power would "betray" thepolitical course and proceed with a political and diplomatic settlement," he told a Berlin press conference. Only a few of Nato's 28 members - including France, the UK, Canada, Belgium, Norway and Denmark - are conducting air strikes. In their open letter published earlier on Libyan |
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up all that talk Friday night, but not before a few flashback moments.
Daniel Sedin scored his second goal midway through the third period and the Canucks survived three near comebacks and a frantic final few minutes to beat the Blackhawks 4-3 and take a 2-0 lead in the first-round playoff series. "Yeah, but it's a different team," Sedin, who also had an assist, said when ask |
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ective in humans, Price said.
The American Medical Assn., the World Health Organization and other medical groups have warned that the misuse of antibiotics in food animal production may be creating a serious problem for human health by fostering development of drug-resistant bacteria. Studies in Canada and Denmark show that taking |
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ndle raw meat. "It's making us rethink our advice to the public," she said.
The American Meat Institute, which represents producers, said Friday that the country's meat and poultry supply was safe. And data from the CDC show that cases of food-borne illness in the U.S. have declined 20% in the last decade. William Marler, a leading food safety attorney, said it was helpful to test meat samples available in stores because the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service focused its testing on meat production facilities. |
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esistant to antibiotics.
However, Caroline DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, D.C., said the study results suggest that consumers might benefit by wearing gloves when they handle raw meat. "It's making us reth |
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gh not everybody immediately thinks of BlackBerry users as people who are crying out for “party machines”, Lazaridis argues, “We crossed over years ago into the consumer space very successfully. Nobody else has been able to do that. And why is that? Because we have a killer app called BlackBerry Messenger [BBM]. Blackberry basically transcended its buttoned-d
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eat in the U.S. may be widely contaminated with strains of drug-resistant bacteria, researchers reported Friday after testing 136 samples of beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased at grocery stores.
Nearly half of the samples — 47% — contained strains of Staphylococcus aureus, the |
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sn’t so long ago that the corporate BlackBerry was a badge of a serious business. But then along came the iPhone and Google’s advanced Android operating system – such seriousness started to look like a staid rejection of the latest technology.
Now, as every major technology company strives to launch a tablet computer to catch some of the iPad’s magic, BlackBerry is launching one too. The 7” PlayBook will go on sale in America ne |
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ing as job applicants. Daniel Hauff, director of investigations with Mercy for Animals, said the proposals would effectively criminalize investigative journalism by putting restrictions on documenting a range of abuses. "Without undercover investigations, there a |
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tioned the timing of the latest bills. "Iowa is looking to do this after it had one of the biggest food safety scares in American history," he told FoxNews.com. The new bills, in Iowa and elsewhere, would outlaw a string of activities associated with undercover farm investigations. They call for some combination of the following: a prohibition on damaging property at a farm, harming the animals at a farm, producing any video or audio |
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rathon is also creating unique issues for both the transport network and the police, with road closures and disruptions to bus, train and Tube services.
The elite women's and wheelchair races start from Greenwich Park at 0900 BST, followed by the elite men and all other runners from 0945 BST. Will you be affected by the closure of the M1? You can send us your experiences using the form be |
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work will be dealt with by our officers."
Warning letters have been sent by police to 196 people with football banning orders advising them to stay away. Virgin Trains has put on extra services between London and Manchester, which will be held at Euston railway station if the game goes to extra time. |
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On Sunday, along with the London Marathon, thousands of fans are expected at the 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium for another FA Cup semi-final involving Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City. Marathon runners have to collect their accreditations at Excel in east London by 1700 BST on Saturday. However, London's police and transport |
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ins has put on extra services between London and Manchester, which will be held at Euston railway station if the game goes to extra time.
Meanwhile, Transport for London has vowed to "keep London running" despite disruptions caused by the marathon. About 36,000 runners will take part in Sunday's marathon, with thousands more people expected to line the streets. The marathon is also creating unique issues for both the |
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British Transport Police (BTP) have banned alcohol on all trains between Manchester Piccadilly and Euston station before and after the game. "Throughout the day, we will have officers patrolling stations and on-board trains between Manchester and London," said BTP Supt Dave Roney. "We are warning anyone who steps out of line while travelling on the rail network will be dealt with by our of |
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ravelling to Wembley later for the FA Cup semi-final between Manchester City and Manchester United were advised to find an alternative route or means of travelling.
A diversion is in place and motorists can check the Highways Agency website for further details. |
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ing out of money. He is running out of supplies," Obama said. "The noose is tightening, and he is becoming more and more isolated. And my expectation is, is that if we continue to apply that pressure and continue to protect civilians, which NATO is doing very capably, then I think over the long term, Gadhafi will go and we will be successful."
On terrorism, the president declined to guarantee that the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terrorist suspects would close during his presidency. He had once |
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ompacts and priorities of a nation. Elaborating on his description of a Republican "pessimistic vision," he said: "It's one that says that America can no longer do some of the big things that made us great, that made us the envy of the world."
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ned that anything less would undermine the solvency of the government, roil financial markets and potentially "plunge the world economy back into a recession." Yet when pressed on how the stalemate withs not going to happen w House Speaker John Boehner would end, Obama said: "I think he's absolutely right that it's not going to happen without some spendi
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re's no shelter big enough to put 100,000 people, of course," he said.
Cody Buchanan was one of the many fans determined to ride out the storm. "If it gets bad, we'll just take everything down," he told CNN affiliate WBMA. "We're going to get inside the camper and hold on." In Georgia, the National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for the western and northern parts of the state, predicting hail, |
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redicted a continued threat of thunderstorms and tornadoes in parts of the Southeast and Midwest through Saturday as the storms moved northeast.
Of immediate concern were the tens of thousands of fans gathered for a weekend of races at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, which was under a tornado watch until 9 p.m. |
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National Weather Service reported a very large tornado on the ground in Washington County, in southern Alabama. It was located about nine miles east of Leakesville, Mississippi, and moving east at about 35 miles per hour Friday night.
The city of Clinton, Mississippi, suffered "extensive damage" when a tornado touched down, according to Mississippi's Emergency Management Agency. The city's mayor said no one was injured in |
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't the first time Sanchez has played identity politics. During her re-election campaign last fall against Vietnamese challenger Van Tran, she came under heavy criticism for telling a Spanish-language TV station that the "Vietnamese" were trying to take her seat.
"The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take away this seat -- this seat that we have done so much for our community – take away this s |
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swoman, who represents Anaheim and other parts of Orange County, laughed and said she knows how to get along with people. Then she used a mock Southern accent to describe how conversations with them play out.
"Hey what's your name? 'My name is M-o-e,'" Sanchez said, feigning a Southern drawl that drew howls of laughter from Miller and her co-host. "Ok Moe. Moe-ster, how you doing baby? What are we going to do today? What's your interest? What can w |
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ly law-abiding lives but secretly working for ETA. Police seized 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of explosives in those raids.
Top government officials have said ETA appears to be weaker than ever, but they have warned that the group still has the capac |
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"The killing of one's own child is more than just a violation of the law," Montgomery said in a press release. "It is an offense against parenthood itself and the awesome responsibility parents have for nurturing and protecting their children." Noor Faleh Almaleki died in November 2009 at an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after being run over by |
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Noor Faleh Almaleki died in November 2009 at an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after being run over by a Jeep in a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, authorities said |
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Speaking to supporters at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night -- a day after giving a speech that revises his budget outlook, but offers no new budget proposal -- Obama acknowledged that if the government doesn't deal with the causes of long-term debt, "all the issues we care about we're not going to be able to solve." Carney said Friday that any effort to bring down the debt will require cooperation. "Though our approaches differ, our goal remains the same," he said. |
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at led to Congress passing the fiscal year 2011 budget on Thursday.
Lawmakers are now looking to the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. On the Senate side, no budget blueprint has been proposed yet. Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and five other members of Presiden |
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"They end the Medicare guarantee," said top Budget Committee Democrat Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. "They force seniors to leave the Medicare program and go into the private insurance market where costs continue to rise day in and day out." "Spin can't change the fact that (the) Republicans' plan |
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ith a fundamental restructuring of Medicare and Medicaid, Democrats, including President Obama, blasted it as an attempt to leave seniors and poor holding the bag on health care costs.
"The president agrees with House Republicans that we must reduce our deficit and put our country on a fiscally sound |
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Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery applauded the judge's decision, saying "Mr. Almaleki will have an appropriately long time in prison to ponder this truth." "The killing of one's own child is more t |
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the basis for some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time - The Terminator, Back to the Future, Black Knight, just to name a few.
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w morning, about 5am, things get a little crazy.
For start, Monday's night's discovery of GP 59 was just that - a discovery. It was picked up by astronomers at the Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca in Andalusia, Spain, who've since determined that it's heading towards us. Tonight, it will miss pass just outside the moon's orbit - again, comparatively speaking because this is space, |
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Amateurs capture it on film AMATEUR astronomers across the world have fallen for a cheeky asteroid that passed the Earth on Monday night. Asteroid 2011 GP59 was caught winking at our planet from a distance away barely 10 times that of the moon. |
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nated water as one of the biggest headaches. "I expect there would be more mountains that we have to climb over."
TEPCO began dumping sandbags filled with zeolite, a mineral that absorbs radioactive cesium, into the sea in areas heavily contaminated with radiati |
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lant, causing Japan's worst-ever nuclear plant disaster.
Since then, explosions, fires and other malfunctions have compounded efforts by TEPCO to repair the plant and stem radiation leaks. Japan's nuclear safety agency told plant operators Saturday to check and improve outside power links to avoid earthquake-r |
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ne years ago that he was ordered to rewrite his statement, which mentioned a lack of advice from senior officers, but he refused to do so.
Yet Mr Hughes defended the changes made to statements. "They are not changing the words, what they are doing is removing comments. |
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en he delivered a reading called "To the Families" which ended: "For 22 years you have watched judges putting the niceties of law above justice itself, and still you have battled on."
Mrs Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son was attending his first away match when he was caught in the crush, said she was "annoyed" by talk of bringing back terraces. "We will never ever want standing ever again," she added |
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Lord Mayor of Liverpool Steve Rotherham MP told fans at an Anfield memorial service that the families have asked him to table an Early Day Motion.
The motion would request the Queen to knight the Liverpool manager. Dalglish was manager at the time of the disaster when 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death at an FA Cup semi-final on 15 April 1989. |
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ousand people attended a memorial service at Anfield to mark the Hillsborough disaster.
Ninety-five Liverpool fans were crushed to death during the team's tie with Nottingham Forest at the stadium in Sheffield. The disaster's 96th victim was fan Tony Bland, who died in hospital on 3 March 1993, afte |
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e facial features on the Las Vegas replica are more sharply defined than on the original.
The image was taken from a stock photography service, the New York Times reported. Designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi and French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the statue - entitled Statue of Liberty Enlighten |
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points out that the photo used on the stamp shows a rectangular patch on the crown that is present on the 14-year-old statue at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, but not on the 305ft (93m) copper statue in New York.
In addition, the facial features on the Las Vegas replica are more sharply defined than on the original. The image was taken from a stock photograp |
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im of the organisers is that he will not be forced to drop his case because of the possibility he would have to pay the prosecution's legal costs were he to lose.
Few of the stars were prepared to assign wisdom to Chambers' original tweet, however. Sitting inconspicuously in the stalls, he was variously described as a knucklehead, a nerd and a "donut". Murray even branded the gig the "Save Paul Chambers from his own stupid destiny event". But everyone seemed united by a desire to protect freedom of speech or at least the ability to recognise the difference between jokes and menacing terrorist threats. |
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palling" that Libya was using such weapons, especially in a residential area.
"They pose a huge risk to civilians, both during attacks because of their indiscriminate nature and afterward because of the still-dangerous unexploded duds scattered about," he added. HRW said it could not determine whether any civilians had been hurt by the cluster bombs which "appear to have landed about 300 metres [yards] from Misrata hospi |
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Continue reading the main story Libya Crisis Letter on Libya: Full text Layers of reality in Tripoli Libya crisis mapped Where is al-Qaeda? Pro-government forces in Libya have been accused by a human rights campaign group of using cluster bombs, which are banned by more than 100 countries. Human Rights Watch said one of its photographers had seen three mortar-launched projectiles explode over a residential area of Misrata. A Libyan government spokesman denied the allegation. Government troops have intensified their sieg |
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e there because of protests.
Bolivia's trade union movement was until recently a close ally of Mr Morales, and helped him win election in 2005 and 2009. The left-wing Bolivian president is himself a trade union leader, and some of his ministers are former leaders of the COB. But his popularity fell sharply last December when he attempted to cut fuel price subsidies, only to back down in the face of nationwide protests. Since then, rising transport and food prices and shortages of some basic goods, such as sugar, have caused rising discontent. |
