2012年12月4日星期二

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GOP leaders pluck conservative lawmakers, reveal growing divide

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 03:38 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio arrives to speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, after private talks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the fiscal cliff negotiations. Boehner said no substantive progress has been made between the White House and the House" in the past two weeks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The decision to boot four Republicans from committees isn't going over well with advocacy groups that saw them as role models.

Palestinians ask U.N. for settlement intervention

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 02:35 PM PST

Palestinian labourers work at a construction site in the Jewish settlement of Maale AdumimThe Palestinians will ask the U.N. Security Council to call for an Israeli settlement freeze, President Mahmoud Abbas and his advisers decided Tuesday, as part of an escalating showdown over Israel's new plans to build thousands more homes on war-won land in and around Jerusalem.

Texas teen wins $100,000 national science prize

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:10 PM PST

Kensen Shi, a senior at A&M Consolidated High School in College Station, Texas, right, is applauded at George Washington University in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, after winning the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Individual category of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology National Finals. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)A high school student from Texas has won a $100,000 scholarship for a developing a computer algorithm that helps robots navigate around obstacles, an algorithm that could be used in applications like driverless cars.

Middle school wrestler lets boy with cerebral palsy win match

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 02:22 PM PST

Middle school wrestler lets boy with cerebral palsy win matchJustin Kievit, a middle-school wrestler from Tennessee, showed off his sportsmanship when he matched up against a boy who has cerebral palsy.

DNA from 'In Cold Blood' killers may help solve '59 murder

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 11:24 AM PST

Perry Edward SmithA Florida detective trying to crack a 53-year-old unsolved murder case will ask a Kansas judge for permission to exhume and get DNA from bodies.

Paralyzing L.A. port strike to go to federal mediation

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 02:54 PM PST

Clerical workers carry signs in protest at the Port of Long Beach, Calif. on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says both sides in a strike at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have agreed to federal mediation. However, the union representing clerical workers says the strike now in its eighth day will continue. Clerical workers are striking 10 terminals at the nation's busiest port complex and dockworkers won't cross picket lines. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)The ports handle more than 40 percent of the cargo arriving in the U.S. by water. The clerical workers' strike is now in its 8th day.

Ex-Sen. Chuck Hagel reportedly on short list for Defense Secy.

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 02:18 PM PST

FILE - This Dec, 18, 2008 file photo shows then-Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel in Omaha, Neb. Senior administration officials tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama could name his next defense secretary in December, far sooner than expected and perhaps in a high-powered package announcement along with his choice for secretary of state. The top names under consideration for defense secretary are former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter, former top Pentagon official Michele Flournoy, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver, File)Hagel is believed to have met with the president this week to discuss a possible post on his national security team..

Like Pinocchio, your nose shows when you lie

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 07:26 AM PST

Like Pinocchio, Your Nose Shows When You LieYour nose could reveal that you're lying, new research claims.

Fighting surges around Syrian capital

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:03 PM PST

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, an injured Syrian student, lies at a hospital bed after he was wounded when a mortar hit the al-Batiha school in al-Wafideen camp, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northeast of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday Dec. 4, 2012. A mortar slammed into a ninth-grade classroom in the Damascus suburbs on Tuesday, killing 29 students and a teacher, according to state media, as the civil war closed in on President Bashar Assad's seat of power. (AP Photo/SANA)The civil war is closing in on President Assad's seat of power in Damascus, raising fears the capital will become the next major battlefield.

Terminally ill woman mounts Ireland's first right-to-die case

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 11:06 AM PST

DUBLIN (Reuters) - An Irish woman who is terminally ill with multiple sclerosis made an impassioned plea in her battle to seek the lawful right to die at the start of a landmark case in Ireland's High Court on Tuesday. "I've come to the court, whilst I still can use my speech, my voice, to ask you to assist me in having a peaceful, dignified death, to die peacefully, I need assistance," Marie Fleming, 58, said, giving evidence from a wheelchair to three senior judges. ...

Micro-bots could make a lot of macro-jobs much easier

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:41 PM PST

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing the world's smallest chain robot, less than the size of a dime, designed to link up to others like them and shape-shift into a range of micro-tools. Put together, four of these machines, with a specialized engine and covered with rings and fittings, look like a tiny, [...]

Photos: Cool home furnishings for man’s best friend

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 12:00 PM PST

Photos: Cool home furnishings for man's best friendThe Beagle House, by the Dutch architecture firm of MVRDV, is both a hideaway and an interactive plaything for the breed. "The curved shape invites the dog to enter the house, stimulates play, and offers a comfortable and quiet space," says its designer. (Photo by Hiroshi Yoda / Architecture for Dogs )

Video: Fake dinosaur unleashed in ‘Jurassic Prank’

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:58 PM PST

How do you think you would react if a T. rex suddenly appeared, jumping out of hiding in your own neighborhood? That's a question most of us will thankfully never know the answer to. But a few dozen people in Columbus, Ohio, got close to the real thing, being surprised by an animatronic dinosaur set [...]

Duchess of Cambridge likely to skip palace birth

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:44 PM PST

When it comes to giving birth, Kate Middleton will likely follow the example of Princess Diana, who bucked the royal tradition of palace births in favor of welcoming her sons into the world at a hospital.

Obama: Republicans must raise rates to create revenue

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:14 PM PST

U.S. President Obama meets with members of the National Governors Association Executive Committee in WashingtonPresident Barack Obama and the White House on Tuesday continued to pressure Republicans to agree to raise tax rates on the nation's highest earners, saying a "fiscal cliff" deal is impossible without it. Their "math doesn't work," the president, in his first post-election interview, told Julianna Goldman of Bloomberg TV. "We're going to have to have [...]

Share the story behind your holiday photo

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

Heidi, Christmas 1982. Castle Grayskull, Christmas 1982. I don't remember Heidi, not really. She was our family's first dog, a Dachshund my parents adopted about 1968. Only two memories of Heidi linger for me. The second, and saddest, is of her last visit to the vet in the mid '80s when we had to put [...]

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