2012年5月23日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Senate grills Secret Service on ‘pattern of misconduct’

Posted: 23 May 2012 11:18 AM PDT

U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 201, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Mark Sullivan, director of the U.S. Secret Service, defended his agency on Wednesday against accusations it has displayed a "pattern of misconduct" during a Senate hearing prompted by a recent scandal involving agent solicitation of prostitutes in Colombia. This is "not a systemic problem," Sullivan told members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. [...]


Romney fires back: Election is about Obama's record

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:58 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Mitt RomneyMitt Romney says he welcomes scrutiny of his business record at Bain Capital, but insists the upcoming election is more about the state of the economy and whether President Obama has made things "better" for the American people. In an interview with Time Magazine's Mark Halperin, Romney defended his assertion that his tenure at Bain [...]


Nikki Haley capitalizes on pinata bashing

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:08 AM PDT

South Carolina AFL-CIO Leader Bashes Nikki Haley PinataRepublicans are trying to capitalize off a recent video featuring a South Carolina AFL-CIO leader bashing a piñata bearing the face of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley sent out a donation request via Twitter, calling on people to stand with her against what she calls...


Colin Powell has 'no problem' with gay marriage

Posted: 23 May 2012 01:49 PM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in Seoul in this May 13, 2010 file photoTwo weeks after President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that he has "no problem with it." Powell, who is doing a series of television interviews to promote a new book, endorsed Obama in the 2008 election but hasn't said who [...]


HP laying off 27,000 workers in restructuring

Posted: 23 May 2012 01:22 PM PDT

HP beats the Street in Q2; confirms plans to cut 27,000 jobs as Q3 guidance missesHewlett-Packard says it's laying off 27,000 workers, 8 percent of its work force, as it restructures the business.


FAMU drum major beaten to death with drumsticks, mallets

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:49 AM PDT

FAMU Hazing Suspects Escorted Robert Champion's Casket at FuneralRobert Champion Jr., the Florida A&M University band member who died last fall following a hazing ritual on a bus, was beaten to death with drumsticks and bass-drum mallets, according to more than 1,500 pages of evidence released by prosecutors on Wednesday. Eleven band members are facing felony hazing charges in Champion's Nov. 19 death. [...]


Obama: In Libya, U.S. ‘led from the front’

Posted: 23 May 2012 11:39 AM PDT

To match Feature LIBYA-RELIGION/SHRINESIn a wide-ranging, campaign-style rebuttal of Republican attacks on his handling of world affairs, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that "exceptional" America had "led from the front" in the Libyan war. Delivering the commencement speech at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Obama was clearly taking aim at conservative criticisms that [...]


Romney embraces voucher system

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:27 AM PDT

Romney: U.S. kids get 'third-world education'Mitt Romney said Wednesday that under his new K-12 education plan, federal education funds will follow low-income or disabled American children so that they can attend any school in their state, including private ones. Under Romney's plan, $26 billion in annual federal education money that flows to districts based on the number of low-income and [...]


Egyptians back at the polls to pick president

Posted: 23 May 2012 03:35 PM PDT

A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote at a polling station in CairoEgyptians relished their first free leadership vote on Wednesday, with Islamists pitted against secular figures in a contest unthinkable before a popular revolt swept President Hosni Mubarak from power 15 months ago. Voting passed off calmly for the most part, but candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was Mubarak's last prime minister, came under attack from protesters who threw stones and shoes at his convoy as he voted at a Cairo polling station late in the day. Shafiq, 70, was not hurt in the melee, witnesses said. ...


Pakistani doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden jailed for treason

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:23 AM PDT

This photo taken on July 9, 2010 shows Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi taken in Pakistani tribal area of Jamrud in Khyber region. Pakistani doctor Afridi, who helped the U. S. track down Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring against the state, officials said. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for treason. Shakil Afridi, 48, had been accused of running a fake hepatitis B vaccination program, collecting DNA samples reportedly used by U.S. intelligence officers to track bin Laden to Abbottabad, where Navy SEALs killed him [...]


Student activists broadcast debt owed with ball and chains

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:54 AM PDT

A handful of student activists are expressing their displeasure at the rising cost of college by wearing inflatable ball and chain accessories over their graduation robes. The props state the amount of debt with which they're graduating. The silent commencement protest, dubbed "Occupy Graduation" by its organizers, is taking place at seven universities around the [...]

Romney's record at Bain Capital: Does it matter?

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:25 AM PDT

Is Bain Capital fair game?Romney is a portrait in business success rather than selfless altruism, Yahoo!'s Walter Shapiro writes.


Obama aides gave Hollywood team rare access on bin Laden raid info

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:26 AM PDT

Barely one month after Navy SEALs staged the daring raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Hollywood came knocking at the Pentagon. "Hurt Locker" screenwriter Mark Boal's late-night June 5, 2011, email to a Defense Department spokesman led to unlocked doors at the Pentagon, the White House and the CIA—even getting him access to a SEAL [...]

Woman mistaken as dead 6 years ago now married; husband to be deployed to Afghanistan

Posted: 23 May 2012 11:21 AM PDT

Whitney Cerak lives a pretty normal life nowadays. Which seems just fine with her. Six years after being mistaken for dead, Cerak is now a wife and mother. In fact, she married her soldier boyfriend, Matt Wheeler, in the same church where her family had held her funeral. When Matt Lauer of "Today" asked her [...]

Most call high school off-limits in evaluating candidate character

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Most Americans by far dismiss the relevance of accusations that Mitt Romney bullied a high-school classmate, calling it off-point in the election debate – and indicating they'd say the same about Barack Obama's behavior as a high-school student, as well. Three-quarters in this ABC News/Washington...

Man survives 2,400-foot helicopter jump without a parachute

Posted: 23 May 2012 12:25 PM PDT

Stuntman Gary Connery has pulled off a truly amazing feat, jumping 2,400 from a helicopter and landing safely on the ground without the use of a parachute. The 42-year-old Connery made his landing on top of 18,600 cardboard boxes in a stunt captured live on video by the London Telegraph. "I feel absolutely wonderful, I [...]

Video: Dog bites into spray can; explosion ignites kitchen fire

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:13 AM PDT

In the words of his human mom, 8-year-old Yogi is one "rotten" dog. But after the incorrigible Corgi caused a kitchen fire that was caught on film, she's just happy he's safe and sound. Hali Hudson had agreed to let Yogi appear on an episode of the new animal Web series, "Pet Sense," being produced [...]

Wealthy Silicon Valley exec arrested for complicated Lego theft

Posted: 23 May 2012 11:55 AM PDT

Was it compulsion, a desire to beat the system, or just pure greed? Authorities — and indeed, the public at large — are struggling to understand the "why" behind a complicated theft scheme where wealthy Silicon Valley executive Thomas Langenbach … Continue reading

British designer behind Apple iPhone is knighted

Posted: 23 May 2012 08:22 AM PDT

Ive said his most important work is yet to be revealedThe Briton credited with designing some of Apple's most revolutionary products -- the iPod, iPhone, iPad and iMac computer -- was knighted by Princess Anne Wednesday.


MIT, Harvard battle to create non-stick ketchup bottles

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT

It's the world's biggest non-problemic problem: getting the last bit of ketchup out of the jar. Ketchup is so viscous, and it seems so eager to stick to glass and plastic. But leave it to students at the Massachusetts Institute of … Continue reading

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