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Monday, October 31, 2011
The9 launches new game channel to combat Android Market shutdowns in China
When the Android Market goes down in most places, people freak out for a couple of hours and then go back to their business until the next failure happens weeks or months later. In China, Market failures are more frequent and annoying since its outages last for days, not hours. Chinese gaming company The9 is launching its own Android app distribution channel, powered by OpenFeint , in order to combat the ?common disruption? caused by Market failures. Partnering with three Chinese carriers, The9 will set-up a Game Zone that enables smartphone users in China to have continued access to games during outages. ?Official Android shutdowns ?
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
J. WHO? Courtney Crangi Revealed as Jenna Lyons' Mistress!
J. Crew president and creative director Jenna Lyons has been making news as of late because of her messy divorce from husband Vincent Mazeau, who's seeking a HUGE settlement, with whom she shares a son, and who she allegedly left for a woman.
Courtney Crangi has been identified as that woman.
Here's Jenna Lyons (left) and her new girlfriend ...
The fashionable pair heretofore known as Jourtney. On THG at least.
Courtney Crangi also works in the fashion industry, the NY Post reports, presiding over the business side of her brother Phillip Crangi's high-end jewelry line.
An insider tells Page Six that it was over between Lyons and Vincent Mazeau before their involvement: "After the breakup, Jenna fell in love with Courtney."
"The two had been close friends for some time."
"She and Courntey known each other for years through the fashion business. Courtney is an attractive blonde who balances working hard with her family."
Reportedly Jenna and Courtney have been seen out and about together in NY City's West Village and are quietly open about their new relationship.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Is the man from Dragon's Den Ireland's next president?
He was leading the polling, but a damaging allegation this week could have hurt Se?n Gallagher's chances of becoming Ireland's next president.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Ireland went to the polls today to choose a new president from a colorful cast of candidates that includes a reality TV star, a former Irish Republican Army leader, and a gay rights campaigner.
Skip to next paragraphFive men and two women are standing for what is, officially at least, the highest office in the land. But Ireland's presidency has no real power ? something the public appears to understand only too well.Turnout was low according to reports from polling stations, averaging around 20 percent in some areas at 5 p.m. tonight.
Executive power in Ireland, a parliamentary republic, resides with the Cabinet in the lower house, the D?il, but the presidency has symbolic power and this is being exploited for all it's worth by the candidates. Each claims to want to shine a light amid the economic gloom that pervades the nation.
The man to beat is an unlikely figure for political office: a farmer turned property developer and TV star: Se?n Gallagher, a businessman and star of "Dragons' Den," a reality TV show about entrepreneurs.
"Se?n Gallagher has surprised the Dublin media bubble but he has the common touch, something that can be seen in the numbers of his Facebook fans," says Ciar?n McMahon, a psychologist at the Dublin Business School who has been studying the impact of social networks during the election campaign.
Many feel Mr. Gallagher represents Ireland's transformation in the past two decades, though supporters and opponents mean different things when they say that.
Gallagher's candidacy came under a cloud Monday, Sinn F?in's Martin McGuinness, one of his opponents, claimed that Gallagher had fund-raised for the Fianna F?il party.
Fianna F?il, long the dominant political party in Irish life, failed to stand a candidate, such was the likelihood of humiliation at the polls. Many see Gallagher as a proxy candidate for a party that was trounced at the general election on February 25.
The allegations linking Gallagher to Fianna F?il, along with questions about his business and accounting practices, were aired on a televised debate Monday. There hasn't been an opinion pol since, so it's difficult to tell if he has been damaged.
"I think the [real] winners, politically, will be Fianna F?il and Sinn F?in," said David Farrell, professor of politics at University College Dublin, saying many had written Fianna F?il off and that a victory for Mr Gallagher would be a major coup for the party.
"[The] Labor [party] will come out pretty well, too," he said.
Gay Mitchell, candidate of the main governing party, the conservative Fine Gael, is trailing badly in opinion polls, likely to come fifth, a result that some feel could damage party morale.
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APNewsBreak: US northern border checks scaled back
In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Senior Border Patrol Agent Sheldon Cooper monitors the International Railroad Bridge in Buffalo, N.Y. In a move that is supposed ease an overburdened immigration system, U.S. Border Patrol field offices around the country have been told to stop the controversial practice of routinely searching buses, trains and airports for illegal immigrants at transportation hubs along the northern border. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Senior Border Patrol Agent Sheldon Cooper monitors the International Railroad Bridge in Buffalo, N.Y. In a move that is supposed ease an overburdened immigration system, U.S. Border Patrol field offices around the country have been told to stop the controversial practice of routinely searching buses, trains and airports for illegal immigrants at transportation hubs along the northern border. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
FILE- In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Border Patrol Agent Sandy Walters, Field Operations Supervisor, shows a check point station for boaters entering from Canada along the Erie Canal near Buffalo, N.Y. In a move that is supposed ease an overburdened immigration system, U.S. Border Patrol field offices around the country have been told to stop the controversial practice of routinely searching buses, trains and airports for illegal immigrants at transportation hubs along the northern border. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
In this Nov. 20, 2007 file photo, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Sector Enforcement Specialist John King monitors the border between the United States and Canada in the Border Patrol's communication center in Grand Island, N.Y. In a move that is supposed ease an overburdened immigration system, U.S. Border Patrol field offices around the country have been told to stop the controversial practice of routinely searching buses, trains and airports for illegal immigrants at transportation hubs along the northern border. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
SEATTLE (AP) ? The U.S. Border Patrol has quietly stopped its controversial practice of routinely searching buses, trains and airports for illegal immigrants at transportation hubs along the northern border and in the nation's interior, preventing agents from using what had long been an effective tool for tracking down people here illegally, The Associated Press has learned.
Current and former Border Patrol agents said field offices around the country began receiving the order last month ? soon after the Obama administration announced that to ease an overburdened immigration system, it would allow many illegal immigrants to remain in the country while it focuses on deporting those who have committed crimes.
The routine bus, train and airport checks typically involved agents milling about and questioning people who appeared suspicious, and had long been criticized by immigrant rights groups. Critics said the tactic amounted to racial profiling and violated travelers' civil liberties.
But agents said it was an effective way to catch unlawful immigrants, including smugglers and possible terrorists, who had evaded detection at the border, as well as people who had overstayed their visas. Often, those who evade initial detection head quickly for the nearest public transportation in hopes of reaching other parts of the country.
Halting the practice has baffled the agents, especially in some stations along the northern border ? from Bellingham, Wash., to Houlton, Maine ? where the so-called "transportation checks" have been the bulk of their everyday duties. The Border Patrol is authorized to check vehicles within 100 miles of the border.
The order has not been made public, but two agents described it to the AP on condition of anonymity because the government does not authorize them to speak to the media. The union that represents Border Patrol agents planned to issue a news release about the change Monday.
"Orders have been sent out from Border Patrol headquarters in Washington, D.C., to Border Patrol sectors nationwide that checks of transportation hubs and systems located away from the southwest border of the United States will only be conducted if there is intelligence indicating a threat," the release says.
Those who have received the orders said agents may still go to train and bus stations and airports if they have specific "actionable intelligence" that there is an illegal immigrant there who recently entered the country. An agent in Washington state said it's not clear how agents are supposed to glean such intelligence, and even if they did, under the new directive they still require clearance from Washington, D.C., headquarters before they can respond.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman, Bill Brooks, repeatedly insisted that any shift in enforcement tactics does not amount to a change in policy as local commanders still have authority to aggressively pursue illegal immigrants near the border and at transportation hubs.
"It's up to the local commander to position his agents the way he wants to position them. What we've done is gone to a risk-based posture," he said.
In a separate statement, the agency said, "Conducting intelligence-based transportation checks allows the Border Patrol to use their technology and personnel resources more effectively, especially in areas with limited resources."
Shawn Moran, vice president of the union that represents agents, was outraged at the changes.
"Stated plainly, Border Patrol managers are increasing the layers of bureaucracy and making it as difficult as possible for Border Patrol agents to conduct their core duties," the National Border Patrol Council's statement said. "The only risks being managed by this move are too many apprehensions, negative media attention and complaints generated by immigrant rights groups."
The Border Patrol, which patrols outside the official ports of entry handled by customs officers, has dramatically beefed up its staffing since 9/11, doubling to more than 20,000 agents nationally. Along the northern border, the number has jumped from about 300 in the late 1990s to more than 2,200.
At the same time, the number of Border Patrol arrests nationwide has been falling ? from nearly 1.2 million in 2005 to 463,000 in 2010, and 97 percent of them at the southern border, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics. The office cited the recession as a likely factor in the drop.
Along the northern border last fiscal year, the agency made 7,431 arrests. It was not immediately clear how many stemmed from routine transportation checks. The public affairs office for the Border Patrol's Blaine sector said it doesn't break down the data that way.
But of 673 arrests in the sector, roughly 200 were from routine transportation checks, according to a Washington state-based Border Patrol agent who has been with the agency for more than 20 years and spoke to the AP.
Until receiving the new directive, the Bellingham office, about 25 miles from the Canadian border, kept agents at the bus and train station, and at the local airport 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Now, the agents have little work to do, the agent said.
The situation is similar in upstate New York, where an agent told the AP ? also on the condition of anonymity ? that a senior manager relayed the new directive during a morning roll call last month. Since then, instead of checking buses or trains, agents have spent shifts sitting in their vehicles gazing out at Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, where few illegal immigrants cross.
"They're already bored," the agent said. "You grab the paper every day and you go do the crossword."
In the Buffalo sector, where there were more than 2,400 arrests in fiscal 2010, as many as half were from routine transportation checks, the agent estimated.
The change was immediately obvious to Jack Barker, who manages the Greyhound and Trailways bus station in Rochester, N.Y. For the past six years, he said, Border Patrol agents boarded nearly every bus in and out of the station looking for illegal immigrants.
Last month ? one day after the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and all of the hype that surrounded it ? the agents stopped coming. They haven't been back since, Barker said.
"What's changed that they're no longer needed here?" Barker asked. "I haven't been able to get an answer from anybody."
Doug Honig, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, welcomed the news.
"If the Border Patrol is indeed not boarding buses and trains and engaging in the random questioning of people, that's a step in the right direction," he said. "People shouldn't be questioned by government officials when there's no reason to believe they've done anything wrong."
Kent Lundgren, chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, said the transportation checks have been a staple of the agency for 60 years. His organization has heard from agents around the country complaining of the change, he said.
Gene Davis, a retired deputy chief in the Border Patrol's sector in Blaine, Wash., emphasized how effective the checks can be. He noted that a check of the Bellingham bus station in 1997 yielded an arrest of Palestinian Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer. Abu Mezer skipped out on a $5,000 bond ? only to turn up later in Brooklyn, where New York police shot him as he prepared to bomb the city's subway system. Davis also noted that would-be millennium bomb suspect Ahmed Ressam was arrested at the border in late 1999 when he left a ferry from British Columbia to Washington in a rented car full of explosives.
"We've had two terrorists who have come through the northern border here. To put these restraints on agents being able to talk to people is just ridiculous," Davis said. "Abu Mezer got out, but that just shows you the potential that's there with the transportation checks."
The Border Patrol informed officials at the Bellingham airport on Thursday that from now on they would only be allowed to come to the airport "if there's an action that needs their assistance," said airport manager Daniel Zenk.
"I'm shocked," Zenk said. "We welcome the security presence the Border Patrol provides."
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Alicia Caldwell in Washington, D.C., Manuel Valdes in Seattle, Ben Dobbin in Rochester, N.Y., and Carolyn Thompson from Buffalo, N.Y.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Ericsson sells its Sony Ericsson stake to Sony
STOCKHOLM (AP) ? LM Ericsson AB will sell its 50 percent stake in mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson to Sony Corp. for euro1.05 billion ($1.46 billion) in cash, the Swedish wireless equipment firm said Thursday.
Ericsson said Sony Ericsson will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony and integrated into Sony's broad platform of network-connected consumer electronics products.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, but has been approved by appropriate decision-making bodies of both companies.
Ericsson said the transaction gives Sony an opportunity to rapidly integrate smartphones into its portfolio of network-connected consumer electronics device, such as tablets, televisions and personal computers.
Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, said the acquisition will afford Sony operational efficiencies in engineering, network development and marketing.
"This acquisition makes sense for Sony and Ericsson, and it will make the difference for consumers, who want to connect with content wherever they are, whenever they want," Stringer said.
The deal will also provide Sony with an intellectual property cross-licensing agreement, covering all products and services of Sony as well as ownership of five essential patent families relating to wireless handset technology.
Helena Nordman-Knutson, an analyst with Ohman Fondkommission in Stockholm, said the deal was expected and Ericsson received a good price for its stake.
"Sony Ericsson has no strategic value for Ericsson anymore," Knutson said.
She added the licensing agreement will be positive for both Ericsson and Sony.
Shares in Ericsson rose by 5.4 percent to 70.3 kroner ($10.7) when the Stockholm stock exchange opened, while Sony stock climbed 5.4 percent to 1.65 yen ($21.7) in Tokyo.
Ericsson said the shift in the mobile market, from simple mobile phones to smartphones that include access to internet services and content, means the synergies for the company in having both a telecoms services portfolio and a handset operation have decreased.
The transaction is a logical strategic step that takes into account the nature of this evolution and its impact on the marketplace, the company said in a statement.
"Ten years ago when we formed the joint venture, thereby combining Sony's consumer products knowledge with Ericsson's telecommunication technology expertise, it was a perfect match to drive the development of feature phones. Today we take an equally logical step as Sony acquires our stake in Sony Ericsson and makes it a part of its broad range of consumer devices," said Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg.
Ericsson said it will now focus on the global wireless market as a whole and how wireless connectivity can benefit people, business and society beyond just phones.
Ericsson and Sony will also set up a wireless connectivity initiative aimed at driving and developing the market's adoption of connectivity across multiple platforms, they said.
The agreement is expected to close in January 2012.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Review: `Anonymous' is much ado about nothing (AP)
A flamboyant, funny, sexy performance from Rhys Ifans livens up "Anonymous," which is often a heavy-handed and needlessly complicated exploration of the theory that maybe William Shakespeare didn't really write all those plays and sonnets after all.
Instead, the film suggests, Ifans' Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, was the true author but he had to disguise his identity because his writing so often provided pointed criticism of royal scandals and foibles, and because the mere thought of involvement with the theater seemed so indecent. It's a provocative, intellectual idea, the implications of which turn increasingly soapy and irrelevant as the film progresses.
Roland Emmerich works from his meatiest and most sophisticated script yet, the work of John Orloff ? then again, we are talking about the director of "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012." And all the rich period detail is in place, alongside the kind of big, sweeping aerial shots you'd expect from the maker of blockbusters.
But the script jumps back and forth in time so quickly and without rhyme or reason, it convolutes the narrative rather than propelling it forward. You will have to stop several times to remind yourself who is who; you may even need a flow chart to keep track of all the sons, and sons of sons. At the same time, "Anonymous" is too often on-the-nose, quoting Shakespeare's most famous words: the "To be or not to be" speech from "Hamlet," or the "Now is the winter of our discontent" soliloquy that opens "Richard III." Perhaps that seemed necessary to make this type of specific, academic material accessible to the widest possible audience, but it also seems too obvious.
Still, "Anonymous" has its moments. In a bit of stunt casting that pays off beautifully, Vanessa Redgrave and her daughter, Joely Richardson, both play Queen Elizabeth I at different times, and both infuse the figure with vibrancy and quick wit. (The younger version of Edward, Jamie Campbell Bower, doesn't blend nearly so seamlessly; his features are too soft and pretty for the man he will become.) And it is sort of an amusing thought that the actual person whose name was William Shakespeare, an actor who takes credit for the work played by an unapologetically brash Rafe Spall, was a drunk, lascivious, illiterate lout.
Edward takes in these performances with a detached demeanor, but internally he's seething with conflict ? with the thrill of seeing his words brought to life, as well as the frustration of not being able to bask in the adulation. Anyone who comes into contact with him knows how devastatingly verbal he can be, though, in both seduction and confrontation. It's a thrilling, surprising performance from Ifans, who's probably best known for comedy.
As the initial whiff of scandal eventually gives way to great, repetitive blubbering about the brilliance and significance of Shakespeare's works, "Anonymous" ultimately feels like much ado about nothing. The debate may keep scholars busy, but the actual authorship doesn't really matter. The words themselves do, and they've withstood four centuries; we quote them all the time and may not even realize it.
"Anonymous," a Columbia Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for some violence and sexual content. Running time: 129 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
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Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions:
G ? General audiences. All ages admitted.
PG ? Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
PG-13 ? Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.
R ? Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
NC-17 ? No one under 17 admitted.
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"Shame" slapped with NC-17 rating (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Director Steve McQueen's "Shame," a no-holds-barred movie about a man in the grip of sexual addiction, has officially received an NC-17 rating.
The rating was widely expected and Fox Searchlight knew the film, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, would likely receive an NC-17. It includes full frontal male and female nudity and graphic sex.
The movie opens in limited -- and with the NC-17, extremely limited -- release on December 2.
According to the Motion Picture Association of America, which rates movies, NC-17 films are "patently adult." Children are not admitted, even with their parents.
An NC-17 rating affects a movie's ability to make money for a number of reasons. Among the most important, many theaters won't show them. The rating also makes advertising difficult.
The movie is an Oscar contender, and Fox Searchlight is aggressively pushing it for a number of awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Director.
"Shame" stars Fassbender as Brandon, a man who is addicted to sex, whose private life is disrupted when his sister, Cissy, played by Mulligan, shows up for an unannounced -- and indefinite -- visit.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Libyan plan to trace mass graves and missing people
As Libyans celebrate the fall of Muammar Gaddafi following his death last week, the country's transitional government has already set up a commission that it says will ensure the transparent and orderly exhumation and identification of bodies from mass graves.
"It will take a few months to work out the number of people missing," says Salim Al-Serjani, vice-president of the newly formed National Commission for Tracing and Identifying Missing Persons.
Speaking to New Scientist from Libya's capital Tripoli, he said that 4000 to 5000 people went missing during the 42 years of Gaddafi's dictatorship, on a crude estimate, and around 20,000 to 25,000 more are thought to have gone missing in the nine-month conflict that ended last week. "The old regime didn't like to give out any information, so it will take a while to know more exact figures," he said.
Outside help
Al-Serjani said that Libya's National Transitional Council has already been working with organisations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross to get Libyans trained to do exhumations properly. "We've already had people trained by outside experts on how to deal with mass graves to avoid misidentifications and collect and store ante-mortem data," he said. "We're training our team how to take and handle DNA samples from corpses, and how to take GPS readings for each new grave."
Al-Serjani also acknowledged the importance of leaving exhumations to experts and of not disturbing evidence vital for identification of remains, as urged last month by the Red Cross and the International Commission on Missing Persons in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was set up to investigate mass graves following the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. He said that the National Transitional Council has used radio bulletins and newspaper reports to urge former rebels not to disturb or despoil newly found graves.
Al-Serjani said that Libya's new commission for identifying missing persons would remain neutral on the subject of criminal prosecutions, leaving investigations of possible war crimes to international bodies such as Human Rights Watch. The reason: to ensure justice for the dead on all sides of the conflict. For example, the bodies of 53 executed Gaddafi supporters have been discovered in Sirte. "Regarding criminal justice and human rights, we're trying to be neutral," Al-Serjani says. "The idea is that we are completely transparent."
So far, the largest mass grave identified contains an estimated 1270 bodies close to the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. Inmates protesting about prison conditions were massacred there in June 1996, according to Human Rights Watch. The Red Cross has helped in the orderly identification of 125 buried victims of the recent fighting from 12 locations around the country.
Souad Messaoudi, a spokeswoman in Tripoli for the International Committee of the Red Cross, told New Scientist that the organisation has set up a database to store reports of mass graves, missing people, arrests and detentions. She said that these would be made available to Libya's new missing persons commission.
Crime scenes
Outside observers, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, say it's important to record any information from mass graves that might later be useful as evidence in criminal investigations.
"Each site should be treated as if it's a crime scene, and you must presume there might be criminal investigations in the future," says Ian Hanson, a forensic archaeologist at Bournemouth University, UK, and a veteran adviser on the exhumation procedures that followed the Balkan and Iraq conflicts.
Hanson says that creation 15 years ago of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the Balkans was the first systematic effort to document evidence from mass graves properly and identify remains. So far, about 17,000 bodies have been identified of the estimated 30,000 who went missing during the Balkan conflict, mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina . Around 20,000 bone samples and 80,000 blood samples have been taken since 1996, he says.
In Iraq, where Hanson says at least 300,000 went missing during the rule of Saddam Hussein, a law was introduced in 2006 to protect mass graves. At present, around 2000 to 4000 Iraqi cases are being resolved each year, and Hanson says it will be decades before all the country's "missing" are identified.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Phillies decline options for Oswalt, Lidge (AP)
PHILADELPHIA ? The Phillies have declined the 2012 options for pitchers Roy Oswalt and Brad Lidge.
Oswalt gets a $2 million buyout instead of $16 million next season. Lidge receives a $1.5 million buyout instead of $12.5 million next year.
Oswalt was 9-10 with a 3.69 ERA in 23 starts for the Phillies this past season. The three-time All-Star right-hander was acquired in a trade with Houston on July 29, 2010. He was 16-11 with a 2.96 ERA in 35 starts for Philadelphia.
Lidge went 0-2 with one save and a 1.40 ERA in 25 appearances for the Phillies in 2011. In four seasons with Philadelphia, Lidge was 3-11 with 100 saves and a 3.73 ERA. He was 1-1 with 12 saves in 12 opportunities and a 1.77 ERA in the postseason.
Lidge was 48 for 48 in save chances, including postseason, in helping the Phillies win the 2008 World Series.
General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said the team will consider re-signing both players. The five-time defending NL East champions lost to St. Louis in five games in the division round.
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Libya leader orders investigation of Gadhafi death (AP)
TRIPOLI, Libya ? Libya's transitional leader has ordered an investigation into the death of Moammar Gadhafi after the U.S. and other international powers pressed for the probe.
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil told a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi that the National Transitional Council formed a committee to investigate the killing on Thursday, amid conflicting reports of how the dictator who ruled Libya for four decades died.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? A human rights groups says it has discovered 53 decomposing bodies, apparently of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists, some of whom may have been executed by revolutionary forces.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Monday that the discovery in Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte "seems part of a trend of killings, looting and other abuses committed by anti-Gadhafi fighters who consider themselves above the law."
The group urged Libyan authorities to rein in armed groups.
The latest discovery of the grave came to light as Libya's new leaders declared the country liberated, following a brutal eight-month civil war. The declaration was overshadowed by continued questions about whether Gadhafi was executed after capture last week.
The U.S. and Britain have called for an investigation.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
The Only Way to Save the Economy: Break Up the Giant, Insolvent Banks from zero hedge by George Washington
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Pole who spirited Jewish woman from Auschwitz dies
FILE - In this May 11, 2010 photo Jerzy Bielecki is seen speaking to the AP, in his home in Nowy Targ, southern Poland. Bielecki, a Polish inmate who led his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, died Thursday at age 90, it was announced Saturday Oct. 22 2011. From a fellow Polish inmate working at a uniform warehouse he secretly got a complete SS uniform and a pass. Pretending he was taking a Jewish inmate out of the camp for interrogation, he led Cybulska to a side gate, where a sleepy SS-man let them go through.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
FILE - In this May 11, 2010 photo Jerzy Bielecki is seen speaking to the AP, in his home in Nowy Targ, southern Poland. Bielecki, a Polish inmate who led his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, died Thursday at age 90, it was announced Saturday Oct. 22 2011. From a fellow Polish inmate working at a uniform warehouse he secretly got a complete SS uniform and a pass. Pretending he was taking a Jewish inmate out of the camp for interrogation, he led Cybulska to a side gate, where a sleepy SS-man let them go through.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
FILE - In this 1944 photo Jerzy Bielecki, right, is seen with his brother Leszek . Bielecki, a Polish inmate who led his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, died Thursday at age 90, it was announced Saturday Oct. 22 2011. From a fellow Polish inmate working at a uniform warehouse he secretly got a complete SS uniform and a pass. Pretending he was taking a Jewish inmate out of the camp for interrogation, he led Cybulska to a side gate, where a sleepy SS-man let them go through.(AP Photo/Bielecki Family Archive)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? The young Catholic man spirited his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, saving her life. Yet it took 39 years for them to see each other again.
Jerzy Bielecki, a German-speaking Polish inmate at the same Nazi death camp, lived to age 90 and died peacefully in his sleep Thursday at his home in Nowy Targ in southern Poland, his daughter, Alicja Januchowski said Saturday.
Januchowski, a New Yorker, spoke to The Associated Press from Nowy Targ, where she had been with her ailing father.
The Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem awarded Bielecki the Righteous Among the Nations title in 1985 for saving the girlfriend, Cyla Cybulska. It all happened in July 1944, when the 23-year-old Bielecki used his relatively privileged position in Auschwitz to orchestrate a daring escape for both of them.
Bielecki was 19 when the Germans seized him on the false suspicion he was a resistance fighter, and brought him to Auschwitz in April 1940 in the first transport of inmates, all Poles. He was given number 243.
Cybulska, her parents, two brothers and a younger sister were rounded up in January 1943 in the Lomza ghetto in northern Poland and taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her parents and sister were immediately killed in the gas chambers, but she and her brothers were sent to work.
By September, 22-year-old Cybulska was the only one left alive, with inmate number 29558 tattooed on her left forearm.
They met and their love blossomed, making Bielecki determined to find a way to escape.
From a fellow Polish inmate working at a uniform warehouse, Bielecki secretly got a complete SS uniform and a pass. Then dressed as SS officer, he pretended he was taking a Jewish inmate out of the camp for interrogation. He led Cybulska to a side gate, where a sleepy SS-man let them go through.
The fear of being gunned down himself reverberated through his first steps of freedom.
"I felt pain in my backbone, where I was expecting to be shot," Bielecki told the AP in an interview in 2010.
For more than a week they hid in the fields during the day and marched during the night, until they reached the house of Bielecki's uncle. There, they were separated, as the family wanted Bielecki back home in Krakow, and Cybulska was sent to hide with a farm family.
They failed to meet back up after the war.
Bielecki stayed in Poland and settled in Nowy Targ, where he raised a family and worked as the director of a school for bus and car mechanics. Cybulska married a Jewish man, David Zacharowitz, with whom she went to Sweden and then to New York.
Sheer chance allowed them to meet again. While talking with her Polish cleaning woman in 1982, Cybulska related her Auschwitz escape story.
The woman, stunned, said she had heard Bielecki tell the same story on Polish TV. She then helped Cybulska find Bielecki in Poland.
In the summer of 1983, they met at the Krakow airport. He brought 39 red roses, one for each year they had spent apart.
Cybulska died in New York in 2002.
Bielecki is survived by his wife, two daughters, four grandchildren and a great-grandson. A Catholic funeral Mass and burial are to be held in Nowy Targ on Monday.
"He did not think he was a hero, but he was. He will be missed," said Stanlee Stahl, a vice president at the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Labor talks break off putting more games in doubt (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Marathon talks between NBA players and owners to resolve a long-running labor dispute that has put the entire season on hold broke off on Thursday with little sign of progress toward a deal, raising the likelihood of more games being canceled.
The two sides met for five hours on the third straight day of talks with federal mediator George Cohen but emerged without a breakthrough, nor any schedule to re-convene.
"Ultimately, we were unable to bridge the gap that separates the two parties," NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver told NBA TV. "We understand the ramifications of where we are. We're saddened on behalf of the game."
NBA Commissioner David Stern was unable to attend Thursday's meeting with the flu, but the outstanding differences between the parties will likely see him scrap more games.
The pre-season and the first two weeks of the regular season had already been canceled due to the protracted lockout that began on July 1 after the players and owners failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement.
NBA owners contend the league lost $300 million last season with 22 of 30 teams in the red and initially demanded players cut their share of basketball-related income from 57 to 47 percent from the previous collective bargaining agreement, along with a firm salary cap and shorter contracts.
The players offered to reduce their share from 57 to 53 percent, and lowered that to 52.5 percent on Thursday.
The owners have formally proposed a 50-50 split but the players union rejected the offer and both sides remain divided on the core issues.
(Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles; Editing by Ian Ransom)
(This story removes reference to NBA's re-start date in sixth paragraph)
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Flooding fears loom large for Bangkok residents
A woman walks past a window of a coffee shop piled up with sand bags for a flood protection in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra acknowledged Thursday that efforts to block floodwaters from entering the capital are failing and authorities will instead risk potential overflow with a controlled release of water through the city's canals. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
A woman walks past a window of a coffee shop piled up with sand bags for a flood protection in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra acknowledged Thursday that efforts to block floodwaters from entering the capital are failing and authorities will instead risk potential overflow with a controlled release of water through the city's canals. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
A Thai girl talks on her cellphone at a flooded bus stop in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Thailand's new premier acknowledged the country's flood crisis has overwhelmed her government, pleading for mercy from the media and solidarity from the country in battling the relentless waters. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thai people ride on a military truck to wade through floodwaters in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Thailand's new premier acknowledged the country's flood crisis has overwhelmed her government, pleading for mercy from the media and solidarity from the country in battling the relentless waters. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thai women on floats flee from the flood in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Floodwaters have been seeping into some northern neighborhoods as Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra acknowledged the country's flood crisis has overwhelmed her government. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thai people wade through floodwaters in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok,Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Thailand's new premier acknowledged the country's flood crisis has overwhelmed her government, pleading for mercy from the media and solidarity from the country in battling the relentless waters. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
BANGKOK (AP) ? The threat has loomed large over this giant metropolis for weeks: Floodwaters could rapidly swamp glitzy downtown Bangkok, ruining treasured ancient palaces and chic boutiques on skyscraper-lined avenues in the heart of the Thai economy.
The floods haven't come, but the sense of imminent doom is growing by the day, seeping in through worried conversations, school closings and emptied store shelves. One measure of the fear: the protective walls of sandbags scattered across the city's canals, homes and shop-fronts are expanding in number and height daily.
Many Bangkokians are girding for the worst after a week of mixed government messages that have failed to answer their most pressing question: Will the capital succumb to the worst floods to strike Thailand in half a century?
"The water is coming, it's inevitable," said Oraphin Jungkasemsuk, a 40-year-old employee of Bangkok Bank's headquarters. Its outer wall is protected by a six-foot-high (two-meter-high) wall of sandbags wrapped in thin plastic sheeting.
"They are fighting a massive pool of water. They cannot control it anymore," Oraphin said. "There are barriers, but it can come into the city from any direction, even up through the drains."
A long season of monsoon rains and storms has wasted a vast swath of Asia this year, killing 745 people ? a quarter of them children ? in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines, according to the United Nations.
Thailand's government says at least 320 of those deaths occurred here, mostly from drowning as floodwaters crept across this Southeast Asian nation since July, submerging whole towns under water more than six-feet-high (two-meters-high) and damaging as much as one-tenth of rice fields in the world's top rice exporter.
About two weeks ago, the capital itself began waking up to the reality of potential catastrophe as floods dramatically overwhelmed neighboring provinces. The drama has fueled panicked exoduses from the hardest-hit areas and, in Bangkok, shopping sprees as residents stocked up on emergency supplies.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday acknowledged the crisis has overwhelmed her nascent government. On Thursday, she announced authorities were opening floodgates that had been keeping water out of the city. It's an attempt to let the vast flood pools empty into the sea, but the move risks a potential overflow as water runs through already inundated canals.
"We must allow the water to flow through. Very little has been driven to the sea," Yingluck said. She added: the water is "all over the place and has nowhere to go."
Much is at stake. Economic analysts say the floods have already cut Thailand's 2011 GDP projections by as much as 2 percent. Damages could run as high as $6 billion ? an amount that could double if floods swamp Bangkok.
This week, Bangkok's governor called for 1 million sandbags to reinforce vulnerable spots ? on top of 1 million more called for earlier this month. The Thai military and volunteers have been bolstering flood walls that ring Bangkok for miles (kilometers), many of them along a complex network of swamped canals.
Record water levels have already sent water spilling over the city's main Prapa canal, spattering the streets Bangkok, which has so far escaped unharmed.
Still, there is plenty to worry about. Authorities have urged residents in seven of the city's northern districts to prepare for inundation and move belongings to higher ground.
On Thursday, vehicles began parking on elevated expressway bridges on the northern outskirts of the city, snarling traffic as trucks piled high with people apparently fleeing flood-hit zones moved through the streets.
But much of downtown looked totally normal, if eerily calm, and a quiet panic was palpable.
Oraphin Milintanon, who works at a camera shop in the capital where customers must step across sandbags to get inside, has watched the floods advance with increasing alarm.
The water first swept through her hometown in the now-heavily submerged city of Ayutthaya, just north of Bangkok. Then it poured through her current home in Nonthaburi province.
Oraphin now lives with a sister in a dry part of Bangkok, but tales of water creeping closer are spooking residents. She said her brother, living elsewhere in Nonthaburi, was recently awaken by the flood water itself ? which welled up suddenly into his home as he slept on his bed.
"It can come very fast ... the problem is, nobody knows from where it will come," Oraphin said. The only thing certain, she added, "We know it is coming soon."
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Associated Press writers Vee Intarakratug, Thanyarat Doksone and Grant Peck contributed to this report.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Germany, France grappling to agree debt deal
Foto del 9 de octubre del 2011 del presidente franc?s Nicolas Sarkozy, derecha, y la canciller alemana Angela Merkel tras dialogar en Berl?n sobre la crisis financiera europea. Un desacuerdo entre Francia y Alemania quiz? impida a los l?deres de la eurozona concordar el martes, 18 de octubre del 2011 en un plan de rescate para Grecia. (Foto AP/Martin Meissner)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her speech during a farewell ceremony for the outgoing president of the European Central Bank (ECB) Jean-Claude Trichet at the old opera house in Frankfurt, Wednesday Oct, 19, 2011. (AP Photo//Kai Pfaffenbach, Pool)
RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the old opera house in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/dapd, Thomas Lohnes)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 to attend the farewell ceremonies for leaving President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Jean-Claude Trichet. (AP Photo/dapd, Thomas Lohnes)
BERLIN (AP) ? Germany tried to put an optimistic face on discussions with France over a strategy to deal with Europe's crippling debt crisis Friday, despite a warning from a French minister that the euro currency itself was under threat.
Markets appear to be giving Europe the benefit of the doubt that they will eventually be able to agree to a comprehensive package of measures in time for a second summit, which a German government spokesman said was tentatively scheduled for Wednesday. Europe's main stock markets are all trading higher Friday, with the Stoxx 50 of top European shares up 1.6 percent.
Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to discuss any differences between Germany and France in talks with lawmakers a day after the two countries conceded that a new strategy won't emerge this weekend. Members of her government repeatedly stressed Europe's two biggest economies were in agreement on the broad outlines of a deal.
But French Agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire, who has been involved in the negotiations, indicated the spat was more critical than the Germans seemed willing to concede.
"It's the first time Europe has faced a crisis this serious, because it is a crisis that puts in doubt European solidarity, it's a crisis that risks exploding the main political achievement of recent years, the euro; and it's also a crisis that has stripped us of our outlook and vision," Le Maire told French BFM TV.
Finance ministers from the 17 countries that use the euro will be looking to thrash out differences of opinion later Friday as they gather in Brussels, ahead of the arrival of the leaders on Saturday. Ahead of their meeting, the chairman of the eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker, said the delay to a debt crisis deal created a "disastrous" image of the eurozone to the outside world and that it's not necessarily just France and Germany that have differences of opinion.
Sunday's leaders' summit had been earmarked as the time Europe would finally deliver a comprehensive plan to get a grip on the currency union's debt troubles, which has seen three countries bailed out and threatened the future of the euro currency itself.
Leaders had been expected to detail new financing for debt-ridden Greece, produce plans to make Europe's banks fit to sustain worsening market turbulence and further empower the eurozone bailout fund.
Though Merkel insisted in discussions with lawmakers Friday that there are no major differences of opinion between herself and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Europe's two biggest economies appeared to be at loggerheads over how to make best use of the bailout fund, the so-called European Financial Stability Facility, or EFSF.
Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said Merkel and Sarkozy held a telephone conference on Thursday with President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the summit and that leaders agreed the outcome must involve sending "a clear signal of an end to the debt crisis."
Seibert said the decision to split the summit into a two-step process ? with Sunday envisioned as a chance to hammer out the details of how the EFSF is to be used and the overall package to be passed on Wednesday.
A spokesman for Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats said the chancellor refused to be drawn in talks early Friday with lawmakers from her party on reports of the split between her and Sarkozy.
"She would not say anything other than that they were in agreement," Dominik Geissler told reporters in Berlin.
Yet, while France proposes turning the EFSF into a bank that would have access to unlimited credit from the European Central Bank, Germany has refused to sanction such a move, arguing it would compromise the ECB's impartiality.
"Considering the importance of the discussions and there potential impact upon the European economy, global capital markets and the future of the EU itself a delay of a few days is neither here nor there in the overall scheme of things," said Gary Jenkins, an analyst at Evolution Securities. "However the suggestions that they are still far apart on how to make best use of the EFSF is of some concern."
What to do about the euro440 billion ($607 billion) EFSF doesn't seem to be the only point of contention.
Germany and several other rich countries have been pushing for banks and other private investors to take steeper losses on their Greek bondholdings, before the eurozone can sign off on a second multibillion euro rescue package for the struggling country.
France and the European Central Bank had so far opposed forcing banks to write off more Greek debt, fearing that would destabilize the banking sector and worsen market turmoil.
France is thought to be particularly worried about losing its cherished triple A credit rating, a scenario which Standard & Poor's said was possible if Europe slides back into recession or its borrowing rises even further. In a stress test report, S&P warned that France Spain, Italy, Ireland and Portugal could have their ratings reduced by one or two notches.
On the future of Greece, the French and German statements Thursday indicated that the two countries may be edging toward a solution. They have asked Greece to immediately start negotiations with the private sector to reach a deal "that would improve (Greece's) debt sustainability."
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Associated Press writers Gabriele Steinhauser in Brussels and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this story.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
A look at economic developments around the globe (AP)
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday:
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BRUSSELS ? The eurozone's efforts to solve its escalating debt crisis plunged into disarray, when Germany and France called a second emergency summit after it became clear that they would not be able to bridge their difference in time for a first crisis meeting Sunday.
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LONDON ? Seesawing expectations about this weekend's summit of European leaders remained the main driver in markets, with investors growing skeptical again about governments' ability to agree on a strategy to deal with the debt crisis.
Germany's DAX closed down 2.5 percent, while the CAC-40 in France fell 2.3 percent. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares ended 1.2 percent lower.
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TOKYO ? In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 1 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng slid 1.8 percent, and South Korea's Kospi tumbled 2.7 percent. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.9 percent, and the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index plunged 2.9 percent.
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ATHENS, Greece ? Greek protesters rampaged outside parliament with firebombs and stones, leaving one construction worker dead as lawmakers inside gathered to vote on deeply unpopular new cutbacks demanded by international creditors.
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BEIJING ? China's Foreign Ministry defended the government's censoring of the Internet, saying it meets international norms, as the U.S. questions whether the practices amount to a trade barrier.
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BEIJING ? China's biggest producer of rare earths is suspending production for one month in hopes of boosting slumping prices of the exotic minerals used in mobile phones and other high-tech products.
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SHANGHAI ? China has given the go-ahead for several local authorities to sell bonds as it moves to bridge financing shortfalls and prevent debt defaults by overextended provincial governments.
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BERLIN ? Germany sharply lowered its 2012 growth forecast to 1 percent, from 1.8 percent previously, in response to uncertainty in global markets.
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MADRID ? Spain easily raised $5.4 billion in an auction of bonds maturing over the next decade, in its first big-scale foray in the markets since the three major ratings agencies downgraded their views on the government's debt.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia ? Slovakia is imposing a special tax on the country's banks as it attempts to bring its deficit down.
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BERN, Switzerland ? Swiss officials say they will meet with a delegation from Greece next week to explore a possible agreement aimed at boosting the debt-laden Mediterranean country's tax income.
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SEOUL, South Korea ? The leaders of South Korea and Japan agreed to expand the size of a currency swap deal and push to resume stalled free trade negotiations, as Tokyo returned looted Korean royal documents in a goodwill gesture.
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Poll: Dim outlook on Obama's policies (Politico)
A majority of Americans want President Barack Obama?s agenda to succeed, but ultimately believe it won?t, according to a new poll out Monday.
Asked whether it seemed more likely that Obama?s policies will succeed or fail, 59 percent of those surveyed in a CNN/ORC International poll said they believed they will fail, while 36 percent said they believed Obama?s policies will succeed.
Continue ReadingMembers of the president?s political party were more optimistic than Republicans about the president?s policies ? 60 percent of Democrats said they believed Obama?s policies will succeed, while just 11 percent of Republicans indicated the same. Thirty-four percent of independents said they believed the president?s policies will be successful.
A majority of people, 67 percent, said they hoped Obama?s policies will be successful, while just 25 percent of those polled said they hoped the president?s policies will fail.
Democrats were more likely to root for Obama?s success than Republicans, with 92 percent saying they hoped the president?s policies would succeed, while just 39 percent of GOPers said the same.
More than half of Republicans ? 51 percent ? said they hope Obama?s policies will fail.
The poll was conducted via telephone, and surveyed 1,007 adult Americans ? 925 of whom were registered voters ? on Oct. 14-16, and has a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Paths Taken
Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser [left]
Image: Courtesy of Darren Santos
One of the pleasures of Scientific American, I?ve always thought, is that it offers armchair travelers a vicarious expedition to the exciting worlds uncovered through science. I reflected on that fact recently as I sat on the tarmac, my flight 23rd in line for takeoff at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. I was reading over this issue?s articles and again became absorbed by our cover story, ?The First Americans,? by Heather Pringle. Time rolled back in my mind?s eye, and I imagined a wholly different journey than the one I was taking.
What might it have been like to step across Beringia, the bridge between Asia and the Americas, during the last ice age? You are wearing warm, tailored clothing of hides, stitched together with bone needles. You are expert at reading the land for clues about the presence of prey and edible vegetation. Massive ice sheets cover much of your Arctic world. One day, ahead of you, you see a grassy plain?the dry winds whistling across it have made snowfall scant. Behind you are campfires, but none lie ahead. Drawn by the open path and the promise of richer hunting, you step toward a New World.
Studies of genetics and the recently discovered trove of more than 19,000 stone tools and other evidence from 15,500 years ago are helping scientists piece together those trailblazers? paths and what their lives were like. The findings indicate that humans arrived thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
Other science excursions in this issue include going to the Red Planet (?Digging Mars?), to Central America and elsewhere to battle dengue (?The Wipeout Gene?), and to the frontiers of medicine (?The Medical Sleuth?).
As for me, I was headed to Washington, D.C., where we held a reception with policy leaders on Capitol Hill to celebrate the magazine?s September single-topic issue on cities. Joining me was Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser, author of two pieces, who spoke about how, done right, with an emphasis on education, the greater density of humanity afforded by urban living can help us innovate our way out of the problems facing us today. That?s a journey we?ll all be making together.
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