2012年9月10日星期一

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ABCs of the Chicago teacher strike: New evaluation system looms large

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Chicago teachers walk the picket line outside the headquarters of Chicago Public Schools in ChicagoOn Monday morning, 350,000 kids in Chicago found themselves without a classroom as the city's teachers went on their first strike in 25 years.

So far, 2012 is hottest year on record for the United States

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT

U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Monique Miller drinks from a bottle of water as she delivers mail in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia on Saturday July 7, 2012. Temperatures of more than 100 degrees were forecast in Philadelphia and excessive heat warnings were issued for several states in the Midwest as a heat wave continued. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first eight months of 2012 have been the warmest of any year on record in the contiguous United States, and this has been the third-hottest summer since record-keeping began in 1895, the U.S. National Climate Data Center said on Monday. Each of the last 15 months has seen above-average temperatures, something that has never happened before in the 117 years of the U.S. record, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at the data center. ...

Syrian Army defectors say many soldiers 'forced to fight'

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:48 AM PDT

Syrian army soldiers hold the Syrian revolution flags as they stand in front their armored personnel carrier shortly after they defected and joined the rebels at Khaldiyeh neighborhood, in Homs province, central Syria, Saturday May 12, 2012. Syria's uprising started in March 2011 with mostly peaceful protests inspired by successful revolts elsewhere calling for political reform. The Syrian government responded with a brutal crackdown, prompting many in the opposition to take up arms to defend themselves and attack government troops. (AP Photo/Fadi Zaidan)In the months before Mohammad Qadri defected from the Syrian Army to the rebels, he got news from his family that a government jet had bombed his house.

Taliban threatens to kill Prince Harry

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 01:54 PM PDT

Britain's Prince Harry gestures after passing the Apache helicopter flight line at Camp Bastion, AfghanistanA Taliban spokesman said Monday that the terror group would use "all our strength" to kidnap or kill the U.K's Prince Harry, who has just begun serving a four-month tour of duty as a chopper pilot in Afghanistan.

GoDaddy Web outage takes out small-business sites

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:28 PM PDT

Thousands and possibly millions of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com went down for several hours on Monday, causing trouble for the mainly small businesses that rely on the service.

Guantanamo detainee found dead in cell

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Guantanamo Detainee Found Dead in CellAn unidentified detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba who had been on a hunger strike earlier this year died over the weekend.

Pizza man bear hugs Obama, starts 'Yelp' troll war

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:07 PM PDT

Raw Video: Voter Lifts ObamaIn the world of the web trolls, this was an unqualified call to arms. When Big Apple Pizza owner Scott Van Nuzer bear-hugged and hoisted President Obama off the ground during their brief meeting in Fort Pierce, Fla., Sunday, it wasn't only the (startled) press...

At ground zero, can there be a politics-free 9/11?

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:10 AM PDT

Roses and a U.S. flag are laid amid the names of the First Responders along the South Pool of the 9/11 Memorial in New YorkThe 911 anniversary ceremony at ground zero has been stripped of politicians this year. But can it ever be stripped of politics?

Why Elizabeth Warren wants to repeal part of Obamacare

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Elizabeth Warren, candidate for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, addresses the second session of the Democratic National Convention in CharlotteSenate candidate Elizabeth Warren is a superstar within the Democratic Party and a lightning rod for GOP anger over tax fairness. But there is one tax that Warren doesn't like and it's part of Obamacare.

Memos show U.S. hushed up Soviet massacre at Katyn

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 1943 file photo, a group of American and British POWs being held by the Germans, including Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. and Capt. Donald B. Stewart, look over a mass grave where murdered Polish officers are buried, near Smolensk, Russia. The Soviet secret police killed the Poles in 1940, hoping to eliminate an elite that would have resisted Soviet control of Poland. Van Vliet and Stewart were among a group of British and American prisoners forced to see the horrifying site by the Germans, who wanted word to get out to the world of the Soviet atrocity. Newly declassified documents being opened to the public on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, by the U.S. National Archives show that Van Vliet and Stewart sent coded messages to Washington after their visit saying they believed the German account of Soviet guilt. It is credible evidence that Washington had relatively early on, but of which it still chose to ignore in order not to jeopardize the alliance with Joseph Stalin. (AP Photo/File)American POWs sent secret messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943, they saw corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia.

Border Patrol halts free flights back to Mexico for illegal immigrants

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:15 PM PDT

Antonio Perez joins dozens of immigrants, many of them Mexican citizens, as they gather in sleeping quarters at a well known immigrant shelter, as many are making tough decisions on whether to try their luck at trying to make it to the United States, by illegally crossing the border, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in Nogales, Mexico. The U.S. government has halted flights home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally in the deadly summer heat of Arizona's deserts, a money-saving move that ends a seven-year experiment that cost taxpayers nearly $100 million.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)The U.S. government has halted flights home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally, a move that ends a seven-year experiment that cost taxpayers nearly $100 million.

Dog killed while saving owner from train

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:07 PM PDT

A heartbreaking story out of Kazakhstan: According to reports, a dog was killed while trying to save its owner from an oncoming train. The suicidal owner had passed out on the train tracks after drinking a bottle of alcohol. According to Russian news site Ria Novosti, the man told authorities that his dog dragged him [...]

Romney strategist: Obama’s convention bounce is a ‘sugar high’

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 07:56 AM PDT

Obama says he'll work with GOP on debt, with conditions"Don't get worked up about the latest polling," Neil Newhouse, Mitt Romney's pollster, wrote in a memo distributed to reporters Monday.

Photos of dead police officer posted outside Tennessee farm

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:05 PM PDT

Two brothers who shot and killed a sheriff's deputy have placed photos of the slain lawman outside the entrance of their farm, calling it a "warning" to other law enforcement officials. The Associated Press reports that the photos show the "bullet-riddled bodies" of Roane County Deputy Bill Jones and ride-along Mike Brown, who were shot [...]

'Culinary diplomats' winning hearts and minds with food

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:44 AM PDT

When it comes to diplomacy, food matters. That's the message Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to send by championing the State Department's global chef program. Launched Friday in a reception with expertly prepared American cuisine, The Diplomatic Culinary Program showcases 80 of America's top...

Grandmother gives birth to daughter’s baby

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Not to be confused with the popular iPhone app, but a Chicago woman became an "instagram" of sorts when she gave birth to her own daughter's baby. Cindy Reutzel, 53, gave birth to a healthy baby girl who was conceived using a fertilized egg from her own daughter, Emily Jordan. Reutzel offered to carry her [...]

Corn maze set record for the world's largest QR code

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:31 PM PDT

Corn Maze Becomes World's Largest QR CodeIn a triumph of both technology and agriculture, the Guinness World Record for largest Quick Response code has been claimed by a corn maze. The maze was the brainchild of the Kraay family of Lacombe, Alberta, Canada, farmers who decided to add a technological twist...

Calif. lifeguards fired over Gangnam parody video

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:25 AM PDT

Fourteen employees at an El Monte, Calif., aquatic park are organizing an effort to get their jobs back after they were fired for filming a parody video they say was meant to highlight how much they loved working at their jobs. In the video, a group of lifeguards dances in humorous choreographed moves in an [...]

Md. lawmaker sacked on free speech for football players

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 07:27 AM PDT

Lawmaker Sacked on Free Speech for Football PlayersAfter a testy exchange of scathing letters, Maryland state Delegate Emmett C. Burns has changed his mind and conceded that professional football players have First Amendment rights to freedom of speech. Last week Burns wrote to Baltimore Ravens Owner Steven Biscoitti, saying he found it...

Caribbean coral reefs on verge of collapsing: study

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:15 PM PDT

Less than 10 percent of the coral reefs in the Caribbean show living coral cover and are on the verge of utter devastation, a new study reported in the Guardian states. Global warming, pollution and overexploitation are the main causes for the damage to reefs, Carl Gustaf Lundin, a director at the International Union for [...]

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