2012年6月7日星期四

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Is Germany's debt crisis immunity fading away?

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:14 PM PDT

This German press office picture shows Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David CameronWhat's to become of Europe? As Spain's straits become newly dire and the whole euro zone convulses over its debt crisis, the common prayer is that Germany will rise up, reject outside help and protect the European household.


Clinton: I'm ‘very sorry’ for tax cut comments

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:12 PM PDT

Former U.S. President Clinton speaks at fundraiser for U.S. President Obama in New YorkFormer President Bill Clinton apologized on Thursday for making comments this week that appeared to be at odds with President Barack Obama's position on extending the Bush tax cuts. "I'm very sorry about what happened," Clinton said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "I thought something had to be done on the 'fiscal cliff' [...]


Captured soldier's controversial emails published

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT

U.S. Army Private Bergdahl watches as one of his captors displays his identity tag at an unknown location in AfghanistanRolling Stone published on Thursday a story—"America's Last Prisoner of War"—about Bowe Bergdahl, a 26-year-old U.S. soldier from Idaho captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009. The 8,000-plus word piece—written by Michael Hastings, whose "Runaway General" profile in 2010 led to the dismissal of U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal—includes excerpts of the last email Bergdahl [...]


Obama campaign chief: ‘We got beat,’ so ‘let’s ‘fight like hell’

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:42 PM PDT

FILE - Then Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina listens as President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters after meeting with his staff and Cabinet members in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, in this Nov. 4, 2010 file photo. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said Thursday that more than 600,000 people donated to the campaign in the most recent quarter, more than the previous three months. President Barack Obama's campaign says he raised more than $70 million combined for his re-election and the Democratic party during the summer. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)President Barack Obama's reelection campaign manager bluntly urged the incumbent's supporters to "fight like hell and win this thing" after Mitt Romney out-fundraised the president in May. "For the first time in this campaign, we got beat in fundraising," Jim Messina said in an email to Obama supporters, urging them to open their wallets after Romney [...]


'Failure': Romney slams Obama on economy

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:51 AM PDT

Romney, Obama woo middle class votersMitt Romney called President Barack Obama's handling of the economy a "moral failure of tragic proportions," suggesting he's failed the American people by enacting policies that have been "muddled, confused and simply ineffective." Speaking at a campaign event in St. Louis, the Republican nominee said it is "painfully obvious" that Obama was "inexperienced" and "simply [...]


Millions in U.S. gear wasted in Pakistan

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:25 AM PDT

Millions of Dollars of U.S. Gear to Combat IEDs Wasted in PakistanMillions of dollars of U.S. gear meant to combat the threat of roadside bombs is being wasted in Pakistan which refuses to let the equipment leave its customs warehouses.


White House: ‘No’ to independent probe of leaks

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 4, 2012 file photo, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney briefs reporters at the White House in Washington. The White House continues to push marginal jobs initiatives in the wake of the latest bleak economic reports. Republicans counter that acting now to extend all of the Bush tax cuts can best give the economy a summer jolt. But there's little common ground for doing much of anything before the November elections. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)President Barack Obama opposes the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether vital national security secrets were improperly disclosed in a wave of news reports detailing sensitive operations, the White House said Thursday. "No," press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked whether Obama would support such a move. Carney [...]


Y! Big Story: Facebook slap

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:55 PM PDT

Facebook to let users vote on privacy changesAs if the IPO fumble and lawsuit pile-on weren't a couple black eyes for Facebook, now comes an insult even more wounding: People are just bored with the social network. A Reuters/Ipsos poll counted 34% of its users slacking off, compared with six months ago. The most frequent Facebook users are aged 18 to 34, [...]


97-year-old gets high school diploma

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:05 PM PDT

Students take their seats for the diploma ceremony at Harvard University in CambridgeHere's one graduate who may feel a little more senior than most: Ann Colagiovanni, 97 years old, is finally receiving her high school diploma. The Depression-era student quit school at the age of 17, back in 1930s, to work in her father's market. The Ohio resident never returned to finish her education but instead became [...]


Screenwriter exposes past sex abuse at elite NYC prep school

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:45 AM PDT

In a riveting story in this week's New York Times Magazine, screenwriter Amos Kamil exposes disturbing stories of sexual abuse at one of New York City's most prestigious prep schools in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Kamil, who attended Horace Mann 30 years ago, reveals the stories of unnamed former classmates who say they were abused [...]

Obama targets Congress in new jobs ad airing in swing states

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:39 AM PDT

Obama speaks about college affordability while on the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus in Las VegasOne week after a grim jobs report, President Barack Obama on Thursday unleashed a new campaign ad meant to pressure Congress to pass his stalled plan to battle historically high unemployment—his biggest political vulnerability. "We're still fighting our way back from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression," Obama says. "Our businesses have created [...]


World War I veteran’s missing medal turns up on eBay

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:21 AM PDT

Martin Riley holds his grandfather's World War I Victory Medal. (BBC)The grandson of a decorated World War I veteran had searched in vain for years for his late grandfather's missing war medals. One of them finally turned up, a Victory Medal being auctioned for less than $2 on eBay. "I sent a message to the seller straight away. I suppose I should have bid for [...]


'Vampire' graves unearthed near Black Sea town

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:07 PM PDT

'Vampire' Graves Unearthed Near Black Sea TownSokopol, Bulgaria, could soon join the ranks of popular vampire sites, such as Dracula's Castle in Romania and the Vampire Museum in Paris. Archaeologists excavated two  suspected "vampire"  graves  in the Black Sea town last Sunday, and each 700-year-old skeleton had an iron rod pinned into its...


Students petition for female moderator at 2012 presidential debates

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:39 AM PDT

FILE - I this Feb. 22, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidates, from left, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich share the stage during a Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz. If he can manage it, now is the time for Mitt Romney to mend his Republican fences and bring around those dubious voters who kept spurning him for Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and others on the right. After a nasty Republican primary battle, he's got to somehow fire up the party's staunchest conservatives without alienating independent voters he'll need to defeat President Barack Obama in the fall. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)It's been 20 years since a woman moderated a presidential debate, but three New Jersey high school students are hoping to change that this year. Emma Axelrod, Sammi Siegel and Elena Tsemberis, high school sophomores from Montclair, N.J., have launched a petition on Change.org calling for the Commission on Presidential Debates to select a female [...]


Feds plan to chop down Idaho man’s $14,000 treehouse

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:12 PM PDT

Tremain Albright has spent more than $14,000 building and renovating a treehouse along the Kootenai River in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. But the Army Corps of Engineers says the house must be torn down or the city could lose more than $128,000 in federal funding. KTVB reports that the Army Corps of Engineers says the house [...]

Veteran’s letters make it home 43 years after his death

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:21 AM PDT

When 22-year-old Army Sgt. Steve Flaherty of Columbia, South Carolina, was killed in the Vietnam War in 1969, his body was recovered, but not before the North Vietnamese government confiscated letters he had written to his family but hadn't yet sent. Now, 43 years after his death, the letters have finally made it home. Some [...]

‘Slutty Wednesday’: NY high school students protest dress code

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:44 AM PDT

Stuyvesant High School is considered one of New York City's top public high schools, but some of the students there think a recently imposed dress code is just dumb. The New York Post reports that about 100 students decided to protest the code, which bans girls from exposing their shoulders, midriffs, lower backs, bras and [...]

Artist sculpts Mark Zuckerberg’s face out of books

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:04 AM PDT

Yi Hong — the Malaysian artist who can paint using nothing but a coffee cup — proved she's as pun-loving as she is creative by sculpting Mark Zuckerberg's face out of books. (Get it?) Hong, who lives in China, spent time in the … Continue reading

Sidewalk tile converts dance moves into electricity

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 12:53 PM PDT

A lot of attention is given to how much energy humans consume, but this week we're looking at the energy humans create, and some of the innovations that are taking place to capture that energy. There's a harmless virus, yes a virus, that's been created by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that generates energy when [...]

Man calls police on ‘cougar’; turns out to be house cat

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:53 PM PDT

Police in Salem, Oregon, responded to a call about a cougar invading a man's backyard. A neighbor who spotted the beast estimated it weighed 45 to 55 pounds. Police were quick to respond, as even a young cougar, or mountain lion, could pose a serious risk, were it to attack. However, after reviewing pictures of [...]

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