NEW YORK (AP) — The fur is flying at New York City's Algonquin Hotel, where the literary lights of the Round Table used to exchange witty remarks over lunch.
One of the hotel's other traditions is the succession of cats that have had free run of the place for 80 years. But that tradition has ended.
The New York Post reports (http://nyp.st/tS5dnn ) that city health inspectors have banned the current cat, Matilda, from roaming the lobby.
The city Department of …
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Seattle Mariners' game in Cleveland against the Indians was postponed by heavy rain that at one point flooded the outfield at Progressive Field on Saturday.
No makeup date was immediately announced.
A series of showers hit with two outs in the bottom of the first inning with …
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JERUSALEM - Israeli deputy prime minister Moshe Ya'alon canceled a trip to Britain out of fear that he would be arrested, it was revealed Oct. 5.
Ya'alon was to attend a fundraising dinner by the British Jewish National Fund.
But the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that proPalestinian …
Moldova's President Vladimir Voronin will meet the leader of the separatist Trans-Dniester region for the first time in nearly seven years, the presidential office said Monday.
Voronin and Igor Smirnov discussed plans for their first meeting since June 2001 in a telephone call Monday but a date has not yet been set, Voronin's office said Monday. A statement said the two sides would try to improve relations and build confidence.
Later, Smirnov's office said the separatist leader was willing to meet Voronin "as an equal partner, renouncing any kind of pressures and unilateral decisions that could harm …
A police anti-drug raid in a Sao Paulo slum has enraged inhabitants who burned vehicles and tires in protest.
CBN Radio says residents set fire to a van, a bus and a truck during 90 minutes of upheaval in the Tiqautira neighborhood.
CBN says police arrested a group of young men suspected of being drug dealers.
News footage broadcast by Bandeirantes TV …
NEW ORLEANS The basic problem is, he's too normal to be hip, toonice to be obeyed and too tolerant to be respected. In the sneakylittle world of college basketball, an apple-cheeked, Jethro-voicedfellow named Steve Fisher can't control the runaway publicitylocomotive called the Fab Five. They are an overhyped,underachieving group of doggin', bustin', yip-yappin' players wholack measures of discipline and sportsmanship.
Whither Fisher? He's still back there in Herrin, Ill., hisdot-on-the-map hometown in the downstate wilds. Whither Fisher?He's still back at Rich East High in Park Forest, coaching conferencechampions as cheerleaders kick and moms bake cookies. As he …
LONDON (AP) — UK PM David Cameron says ex-aide Andy …
Alejandro "Bong" Reblando, a veteran Filipino journalist and former Associated Press stringer, was among at least 18 reporters killed in an attack on an election caravan, authorities said. He was 53.
The attack Monday left 57 dead in the Philippines' worst election massacre.
Reblando and the other journalists were accompanying relatives and supporters of a gubernatorial candidate in Maguindanao province when they were ambushed and shot dead.
Media groups say it was the highest number of reporters killed in a single …
This is the time to consider grabbing desirable 1997 cars thatwill be dropped or given major changes for the 1998 model year, whichbegins Oct. 1.
For instance, the Ford Thunderbird coupe is being discontinuedat model year's end and doesn't return until 2001, when it becomes asporty convertible.
A new Mazda Miata arrives for the first time since the car's1989 debut, but the sporty Ford Probe is being dropped forever. TheMercury Cougar goes away for just one model year - returning as asmaller, sporty coupe that also will be sold in Europe innear-identical form.Cars undergoing significant changes for 1998 include the hotHonda Accord. The Geo Prizm returns for the …
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Strikes halted ferries to the Greek islands Monday and left rotting trash piling up in Athens for the 16th straight day, as unions fought back against more austerity measures at the start of a crucial week for both Greece and the 17-nation eurozone.
The unions orchestrated a barrage of strikes, protests and sit-ins. Tax collectors and customs officers walked off the job, several hundred firefighters and police officers staged a central Athens protest in uniform, and protesting civil servants occupied the finance and labor ministry buildings in the Greek capital.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A manufacturer of medical radioactive substances says it was very likely a source of the increased radiation levels measured in Hungary in the past weeks.
Jozsef Kornyei, director of the Budapest-based Institute of Isotopes Co., said Thursday that they first noticed the heightened release of iodine-131, used in the treatment of thyroid disorders, during the first half of 2011.
Production restarted in September after new filters were installed, but the release of radioactive material stayed above normal, so the process was halted again this month.
Kornyei said it was "extremely unlikely" that their leak was the cause of trace levels of iodine-131 measured in the atmosphere of several European countries, first reported last week by the U.N. nuclear agency.
When Highland Park's Leah Silverstein was in Russia in October,she was given a list of the latest anti-Semitic activities in Moscow:rock-throwing, window-busting and swastika painting.
"Death to Jews" was scrawled on Moscow's main synagogue, saidSilverstein, chairman of the Chicago Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Russia's anti-Semitism is now echoing around the world with thisweek's political success of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whoseultranationalist party won about a quarter of the vote inparliamentary elections.
"Everyone is talking about this. It's a major concern to theJewish community here," Silverstein said.
Chicago Jewish leaders and immigrants from the former SovietUnion said Wednesday that the Zhirinovsky's success means danger forJews in Russia.
This week, Zhirinovsky said he is not anti-Semitic butmaintained that Jews control the media in Russia and that peoplethere want to see more "good, Slav faces" on television.
"In environments of political instability, certain people turnto strong leaders. History has taught us that this is bad forminorities. In Russia, Jews are a minority," said Richard L. Wexlerof Chicago. He is national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal'sOperation Exodus, which provides money to help Jews leave the formerSoviet Union.
Though Zhirinovsky won nearly 6 million votes in the 1991presidential election, the 47-year-old lawyer was seen as a "figureof ridicule" among Jews, Wexler said. His success "has put the worldon notice just how strong revolutionary forces can be," Wexler said.
Mikhail Gurevich, a Jewish journalist and critic who immigratedto the North Side from Russia a year ago, said "the hard conditionsof everyday life" experienced by Russia's downtrodden helped pushZhirinovsky into power. Zhirinovsky's core of support is said to besoldiers, sailors, disaffected youths, military industry workers andpensioners.
Gurevich said, "I had a strange feeling just before I left (thatRussia was) entering into a new vulgar era."
LONDON (AP) — London's Olympic Park will be renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after the 2012 Games.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company said Thursday the name will take effect once the 500-acre park reopens to the public in 2013.
"We chose the name because there is no more durable institution in this country than the monarchy," Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.
Queen Elizabeth II gave her permission for her name to be used, while the International Olympic Committee and British Olympic Association also approved the change.
The queen will mark the 60th anniversary of her ascendancy to the throne in 2012.
"Her Majesty has been supportive of London 2012 from the start and the event taking place in her Diamond Jubilee year, it is fitting that the park bears her name," Hunt said.
By 2013, construction will have begun on housing alongside the athletes' village to take the number of homes on the site to 11,000. The legacy company said its plans will ensure the site becomes a new suburb of London.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said 40 percent of the homes on the site in the traditionally deprived east of the city will contain three or more bedrooms and be suitable for families, marking a change from the past 15 years when construction in the city was dominated by small apartments.
Johnson said the design of the homes will be inspired by the terracing and public squares of central London's 18th century and Victorian developments.
Government sports minister Hugh Robertson said the housing would be built by private business.
"We look to public money to put in the infrastructure and private money to put the housing up and that's exactly what's happening," Robertson said.
Much of the housing will be close to the Olympic Stadium, which last week was subject to rival tenancy applications from Premier League football clubs Tottenham and West Ham.
The head of UK Athletics has criticized the joint bid by Tottenham and American sports and entertainment company AEG because it includes no plans for a running track, which was one of the post-Games commitments in the London bid.
Robertson, Johnson and legacy company chair Margaret Hodge confirmed Thursday that an athletics track remained one of the necessary commitments, but did not say whether the track had to be inside the stadium or whether a tenant could agree to build a replacement elsewhere as part of its bid.
"It was core to our bid to leave an athletics legacy and that is unchanged," Robertson said.
Five-time Olympic swim champion Ian Thorpe, a lifelong Tottenham fan, said he preferred the club to pursue the option of rebuilding its White Hart Lane stadium in north London rather than relocating east.
"I'd prefer not to. I really would," said Thorpe, in London for a tour of the 2012 Aquatics Center. "But that's tradition for me. People have different feelings on this, but I prefer to have them at White Hart Lane."
PORTLAND, Ore. When Francis E. George arrived in Chicago thisweek for the announcement of his appointment as archbishop, hereceived a message from the grave: a personal note from the lateJoseph Cardinal Bernardin listing his concerns and priorities for theChicago archdiocese.
"It was his last gracious gift to his church and to hissuccessor," George said in a Chicago Sun-Times interview Wednesdaynight. "It was a typically gracious Cardinal Bernardin gesture."
George earlier said there were "10 or 13" items on Bernardin'slist, including concerns about schools and relations with Chicago'sHispanic community. He said Chicago's auxiliary bishops wereprioritizing the list for him and that he would "rely heavily ontheir advice."George said he showed the list to the bishops at a dinnerTuesday night and asked them which items - he would not elaborate onBernardin's list - were the most important. They will give him ananswer on his return to Chicago April 17, when he will attend apreviously scheduled religious conference.Sitting in his personal library lined with theology andphilosophy books, George also said it may be time in Chicago - andaround the country - to "take stock" in efforts to combat "the sin ofracism.""What we ought to look at now is to see whether or not othermethods other than programs and political solutions and analyses ofthe sinfulness of racism might be necessary at this time," Georgesaid, noting that plans already are under way in the Chicagoarchdiocese for a series of meetings addressing the topic.Earlier, George offered an apology to the people of Portland,admitting he feels uncomfortable leaving after only 10 months in thearchdiocese. He added he was happy to be returning to his nativeChicago for a job that likely will earn him an appointment ascardinal.George will be in Chicago May 5 for a special prayer servicewith archdiocesan priests May 6 and his first mass May 7.In the news conference that touched on several issues, Georgediscussed his opinions about Bernardin's controversial Common Groundinitiative, which seeks to heal divisions within the church over suchissues as abortion, birth control and women as priests.Asked how he might reconcile "toeing the Vatican line" with thepeople who leave the church over disagreements on Roman Catholicdoctrine, George said, "You can't stop people from leaving thechurch. They are free agents. And it's not the Vatican line, it'sthe Catholic faith.""One good thing about Common Ground is that it is getting peoplewho aren't talking about these issues to talk about them."George also said the church must move with extreme caution inthe area of reassigning priests with histories of pedophilia. Hesaid psychologists have learned a lot in the past years about theproblem of child molesters."Most of them (psychologists) would say a pedophile should neverbe placed in a position of trust like that," he said, referring to aparish assignment where a priest might come in contact with children.But he added that some psychologists would disagree.George, who was praised for reaching out to the Hispaniccommunity while a bishop in Yakima, Wash., said he looks forward toworking with Chicago's large Mexican and Puerto Rican communities,including the problems they face in dealing with racism."I will listen to the Hispanic community because I think theyhave some concerns about the church," George said. "And I think thechurch will cooperate with them as a faith community and in workingto change what has to be changed so they can live in justice."
Some notable films at this year's Tribeca Film Festival:
_ "Baghead": Mark and Jay Duplass are part of the "mumblecore" movement specializing in authenticity and awkwardness. Their funny "The Puffy Chair" proved that they're young filmmakers to keep an eye on. "Baghead," which played at Sundance, takes them into horror.
_ "Trucker": Distributors will be watching this buzzed-about film starring Michelle Monaghan as a carousing truck driver whose 11-year-old son suddenly shows up.
_ "Theater of War": John Walter ("How To Draw a Bunny") documents the scene behind the scenes of a Bertolt Brecht play with Tony Kushner and Meryl Streep.
_ "Lou Reed's Berlin": Julian Schnabel ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") films a 2006 concert by Lou Reed in which he plays his 1973 album "Berlin."
_ "The Caller": Frank Langella stars as a whistle-blowing executive at a corrupt energy corporation.
_ "Finding Amanda": Television writer-producer Peter Tolan ("The Larry Sanders Show," "Rescue Me") helms his first feature, a comedy about a TV writer (Matthew Broderick) who makes a desperate trip to save his niece from prostitution and fix his own life.
_ "Man On Wire": This Sundance hit is a portrait of French daredevil Philippe Petit, who walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers in 1974.
_ "Chevolution": Documents Che Guevara's strange journey from Cuban revolutionary to ubiquitous pop culture icon.
_ "Idiots and Angels": Bill Plympton, nominated twice for the Oscar for best animated short, expands his unique and surreal drawings into an animated feature.
_ "The Secret of the Grain": This story about a family of Maghrebi immigrants in southern France won best picture at the Cesars, France's Oscars.
_ "Gunnin' for that No. 1 Spot": The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch films a documentary about a high school basketball all-star game at New York's historic Rucker Park.
_ "President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy": Robert Drew compiles behind-the-scenes footage of John F. Kennedy. Alec Baldwin narrates.
_ "Katyn": Director Andrzej Wajda tells the story of the Katyn massacre of 1940, in which 12,000 Polish soldiers were systematically murdered by Russia's Red Army. It was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign film, but is still without distribution.
_ "War Inc.": John Cusack returns to "Grosse Point Blank" territory playing a hit man operating in a war zone that doubles as a corporate marketplace. With his sister Joan, Marisa Tomei and Hilary Duff, it's a zany satire of the confluence of war, capitalism and politics.
ALSO OF NOTE: "The Auteur," "Elite Squad," "Old Man Bebo," "Bart Got a Room," "Somers Town," "The Wackness," "Lake City," "The Zen of Bobby V," and "Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha"
WASHINGTON - President Bush will tell Americans Tuesday night he has important plans for health care, education and other kitchen table topics that have little to do with Iraq. Yet if the state of the union is strong, so is the nation's skepticism that he can deliver.
For the first time, Bush will give his State of the Union address with Democrats in power and looking over his shoulder - literally, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seated right behind him. Most people have no confidence that Bush and a Democratic Congress can solve problems together, a troubling sentiment that has only deepened since the November election, an Associated Press-AOL News poll finds.
The 9 p.m. EST speech is a chance for Bush to pull his domestic agenda out from the shadow of the Iraq war, if only briefly. So Bush will focus on issues he hopes will appeal to mainstream America - and to Democrats on Capitol Hill, shifting pressure onto them to govern.
"He's got to be convincing, so that the American people believe that he's serious about working in a bipartisan way," said Charlie Black, a longtime Republican strategist and informal White House adviser. "If there's one headline they'd like to have out of this, that would be it."
The president is expected to address:
- Health care: Bush will propose a tax deduction of $7,500 for individuals and $15,000 for families regardless of whether they buy their own health insurance or receive medical coverage at work. Health care insurance would be considered taxable income, and people with more generous policies could face tax increases unless they change plans. The administration says its plan will help people who buy insurance individually rather than through their employers. The administration says the tax deductions will allow more Americans to buy insurance.
- Energy: Bush is expected to call for a sharp escalation of corn-based ethanol as a gasoline blend. He also may seek the power to raise fuel economy standards for passenger cars, probably as part of a plan to offer financial incentives for increasing alternative fuels. The auto industry has resisted upgraded mileage requirements and stressed a need for vehicles fueled by alternatives such as ethanol, diesel and eventually hydrogen. Bush asked for the same authority last year. Some Democrats worry the plan would give transportation officials overly broad authority to change the system and note the measure would not have any impact on current gas prices.
- Education: Bush will push for Congress to renew his education law, No Child Left Behind, which expires this year. Democrats have already signaled their intention to work with him but will expect him to go along with increases in spending. The law pushes schools that receive federal poverty aid to show yearly progress or face sanctions, including allowing students to transfer or demand extra tutoring.
Bush will also push for an immigration strategy that includes more than tougher border security.
Meanwhile, bitter feelings over the war stand in the way of the principal goal of the speech - a bipartisan agenda.
Just about everything Bush wants to do is dependent on a Congress in which even some Republicans are resisting his ideas. Within a day of his speech, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is likely to vote on a resolution condemning his move to send more troops to Iraq.
No matter the emphasis on domestic issues, Bush cannot skirt the war, and he has no intention of trying.
Without rehashing the Iraq speech he gave two weeks ago, Bush will defend his stand that Iraq is part of a war on terror that will make Americans safer. That contention will come during a foreign policy passage in which Bush will also tout U.S. humanitarian efforts abroad.
Since Bush announced his latest Iraq plan, the White House has pointed to signs of progress by the Iraqi government on both political and security fronts. Yet U.S. forces and Iraqi civilians have also endured some of the heaviest, bloodiest attacks of the war.
Coming after his Iraq speech, which had an enormous buildup, Bush's sixth State of the Union approaches with an anticlimactic feel. The Democrats and Republicans who want his job are already making headlines even though the 2008 election is still 22 months away.
With that in mind, Bush's aides took steps to keep the speech concise and relevant. Topics that might have made the cut in other years - such as recent advancements in cancer research and a drop in cancer-related deaths - have been set aside, often for separate events.
RNC NOT SO CRAZY
Though described as "subdued" and "not crazy," as BW went to press, the Republican National Convention, which kicked off Monday, was already getting interesting for Idaho's delegation.
After the news that John McCain's VP pick was born in Sandpoint and attended the University of Idaho (for journalism), Idaho delegates headed to Minneapolis-St. Paul eager to meet Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
But as Hurricane Gustav wracked the Gulf Coast, much of the early program for the convention was called off. No music. No sign waving.
"They were going through the motions," said Kevin McGowan, an alternate in the Idaho delegation and Republican candidate for Idaho's District 19 House seat, probably the most heavily Democratic district in the state. He is running against Democrat Brian Cronin.
McGowan said that most of the parties were cancelled Monday night, but that the Idaho delegation was bused from its Minneapolis hotel (not an airport hotel, mind you) to a gala hosted by Union Pacific in a series of train cars.
Because of McCain-Feingold campaign finance rules, they could not sit down, but ate finger food all night, McGowan said.
"There's all this food around, and you never know if you're getting a full meal or not," he said.
Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, the highest ranked official in the delegation, and the other delegates were delighted to get a police motorcycle escort back to their hotel after the party, McGowan said.
McGowan likes McCain because of "the war hero thing," though the New York Republican took a while to get used to Idaho Republicanism when he moved here four years ago. He feels that Palin seals the McCain ticket as a true outsider ticket, but he gets why people are drawn to Barack Obama as well.
"I get his karma, the essence of who he is, I like watching him speak, I think he's a neat charismatic figure," McGowan said.
CITIZEN-GOVERNOR PAUN
Speaking of Sarah Palin, Idaho officials from Mike Crapo to Butch Otter to Democratic candidate Walt Minnick heralded her blast off into national politics.
"In the short time that I have known Gov. Palin ... she has been very involved in the Western Governor's Conference, in the National Governor's Association on primarily education matters, criminal justice, natural resources and transportation, and she has always provided a lot of leadership and a lot of input to the other governors that I don't believe that understand as much of the Western problems that we have," Otter stated.
Emphasis on short time. Even Idaho Republicans barely know Palin, who has a shot at being the first woman vice president in U.S. history. Idaho GOP Chairman Norm Semanko, who is at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul this week, hopes to meet her and called her a "smoother Helen Chenoweth."
Minnick, who stood on stage with Obama when he came to Boise, called her a champion of reform and enemy of corruption and said, "both parties are ready for change in Washington, D.C."
CWI RACE IS ON
Change in D.C. is a long shot, but change in Nampa at the nascent College of Western Idaho is possible with two heavily challenged open seats in the November election.
Three incumbents remained unchallenged at press time-former Nampa Chamber of Commerce chairman M.C. Niland, Associated General Contractors director Mark Dunham and retired Boise Cascade executive Guy Huributt. But there are competitive races in the remaining two districts: Gordon Brown, Tammy Ray, Martin Scheffer and Jim Rice all want to hold seat two. And Daniel Dunham (no relation to Mark), retired Air Force CoI. Bruce Wong and state Sen. Stan Bastian, who was recently upset in a four-way Republican primary race seek seat one.
The seats are at large, meaning each candidate gets to choose which race they want to enter. Incidentally, Jesse Holmes, son of Democratic congressional candidate Debbie Holmes, filed for the board when it looked like no one else would, but withdrew his name at the last minute after other candidates filed.
The deadline for filing fell after BWs deadline. Check citydesk.boiseweekly.com for an update.
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From citydesk correspondent and BW Features Editor Deanna Darr: The battle for Boise legal ads is over, finally.
After nearly two years of legal wrangling, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled on Aug. 26 in favor of the Idaho Business Review's right to print legal ads from non-governmental sources, overturning an earlier lower court decision.
The Idaho Statesman sued IBR in 2006, claiming that Idaho law gave the daily paper the sole right to print the ads-which are used to fulfill the legal requirement of public notification on a variety of issues. The Statesman argued that since it was the paper of largest paid circulation, the ads could only, legally, be run in its pages. The Statesman's paid circulation Is roughly 64,000, while IBR1S is just more than 3,300.
But the Supreme Court agreed with IBR that the law only applies to governmental agencies. Statesman publisher MhAi Parrish's only comment so far has been, "We're disappointed," according to an article published in the Statesman.
IBR officials are far more ecstatic.
"The Supreme Court just reinforced the opinion that we already had from our attorney and had on our Web site," IBR publisher Rick Carpenter told BW.
"[The ruling] vindicates the right of private parties to choose the newspaper in which they publish their notices," said IBR attorney Newal Squyres in a story published in IBR.
"The Statesman was attempting to gain a monopoly on the publication of a broad scope of legal notices, contrary to the Idaho Constitution," Squyres said.
The paper has continued publishing non-governmental legal ads free of charge while the case has been on appeal, advising clients that the ads had to run in the Statesman prior to being printed in IBR.
Carpenter said the paper has lost a "significant" amount of revenue in the two years it has been unable to charge for the ads, but said publication of paid legals will begin again this week.
TUBE RENTAL DONE
Labor Day was the official end of the Boise River floating season, unless you bring your own boat and want to freeze your butt off, of course. Epley's Incorporated, which rented rafts and tubes at Barber Park for Ada County for the first time this year, closed up shop on Sept. 1. Until this year, the county ran the raft shop at Barber Park. The Epley's guys even offered guided river tours and a shuttle back to Barber.
war in Iraq
U.S. CASUAUlES: As of Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008, 4,154 U.S. service members (including 31 ldahoans) have died since the war in Iraq began in March 2003: 3,375 in combat and 779 from non-combat-related incidents and accidents. Injured service members total 30,568. In the last week, five U.S. soldiers died.
Since President George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, 4,004 soldiers have died.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Defense
IRAQI CIVIUAN DEATHS: Estimated between 86,756 and 94,654.
Source: iraqbodycount.net
COST OF IRAQ WAR:
$550,648,881,634
Source: costofwar.com
-Nathaniel Huffman
Jacksonville Jaguars offensive tackle Tony Boselli collapsed tothe turf Sunday with an injury to his surgically repaired right knee,but the early diagnosis showed no cartilage damage.
Coach Tom Coughlin said an MRI and a thorough doctor's examindicated nothing more than a bone bruise, a much better outcome thananyone anticipated after the scene at practice.
"It's a positive outlook right now," said Coughlin, who offered noestimate about how long Boselli would be out.
Boselli was blocking defensive lineman Renaldo Wynn on the playthat resulted in the injury, but he didn't collapse until well afterthe block. He fell, got up, then fell again and screamed. Trainersrushed out and helped him to a cart.
Quarterback Mark Brunell took a quick break and jogged over totalk with Boselli. Moments later, Boselli was wheeled off the field,the knee heavily wrapped, his hands held over his face in despair.
"When I saw Tony on the ground, I was kind of sickened by it,"linebacker Hardy Nickerson said. "I was like, 'Man, that's the end ofour day right there.' But we've got to keep moving."
Coughlin said if another exam today shows no cartilage damage,Boselli will begin an "aggressive rehab, then we'll have to see howhe tolerates it."
CHRISTY OUT: Tampa Bay Buccaneers center Jeff Christy likely willmiss three to five weeks with a sprained medial collateral ligamentin his left knee. He suffered the injury during the second quarter ofan exhibition game Saturday against the Cleveland Browns.
"The [regular-season] opener is not out of the question, but itcertainly is not guaranteed, either," Bucs coach Tony Dungy said.
GIVE IT A SZOTT: The Washington Redskins are close to signingguard Dave Szott, who played most of his career for Redskins coachMarty Schottenheimer with the Kansas City Chiefs. Szott missed mostof the 1998 and 2000 seasons with arm injuries.
RICE RETURNS: Receiver Jerry Rice caught one pass for 23 yards inhis return to 3Com Park, but the Oakland Raiders lost to the SanFrancisco 49ers 20-17 in an exhibition game. Rice played 16 seasonswith the 49ers before signing with the Raiders during the offseason.
Guess who's back?
Shady's back.
So is Eminem, and Marshall Mathers, too.
Whatever you might call him, the man recently named the "best rapper alive" by a poll of Vibe magazine readers has returned in a major way. The 36-year-old superstar's re-emergence comes four years after his last studio album, three years after he was treated for a sleep medication dependency and two years since the violent death of his best friend and the collapse of a second marriage to his childhood sweetheart.
His new track, "I'm Having a Relapse," has caused a stir on the Web and is fueling talk of a new record and maybe even a tour.
But before Eminem moves forward musically, he first is taking a step back with a just published memoir that shares quite a few revelations about a man whose autobiographical lyrics have tantalized fans for years.
In "The Way I Am," the man born Marshall Bruce Mathers III takes readers into his painful childhood and adolescence and inside the studio and beyond as the former Detroit factory floor sweeper and short-order cook enters the rap game and becomes a worldwide hip-hop sensation.
The book is 200-plus pages worth of text, behind-the-scenes photographs and reproductions of Eminem's original lyric sheets _ hotel stationery and other scraps of paper he used to scratch out partial verses of the songs that would make him famous: From "My Name Is" and "Stan" to "Lose Yourself" and "Without Me."
Eminem may not love being in the public eye, but he loves music, and that's drawn him out, said publisher Brian Tart, president of Dutton Books, an imprint of the Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
"I think he doesn't like being famous, but he sure likes being an artist," Tart said. "Getting away from the trappings of fame was something he needed to do. But in his bones and his blood, he's an artist."
The book kicks off with a prologue that provides one of the reasons Eminem has shunned the spotlight for the past few years. He describes in-depth just how difficult it has been for him to come to grips with the loss of his longtime best friend and fellow rapper Proof (Deshaun Holton), who was gunned down at a Detroit after-hours club in April 2006.
"After he passed, it was a year before I could really do anything normally again," Eminem writes. "It was tough for me to even get out of bed, and I had days when I couldn't walk, let alone write a rhyme."
"I have never felt so much pain in my life. It's a pain that is with me to this day. A pain that has become a part of who I am."
It was Proof, he says, who not only urged him to become an emcee, but also served as a "ghetto pass" _ allowing the white Eminem the street cred he needed to enter Detroit's black-dominated hip-hop scene.
"If Proof hadn't gotten me ... into the rap game, I don't know where I'd be," he writes. "I certainly wouldn't be someone you've heard of."
But millions of people have heard of him, and what they know of Eminem largely is based on his lyrics, his outsized public persona and the 2002 semi-autobiographical film, "8 Mile."
"The Way I Am" answers a few lingering controversies and questions, including his 2000 arrest for pistol-whipping a man who kissed his wife ("Guns are bad, I tell you"); his substance-abuse problem ("I'm glad that I realized it and set myself in the right direction"); the flap over his perceived homophobia ("Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business"); and ethnicity ("Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.")
Eminem also recounts his early years, living in public housing in Savannah, Missouri, before moving to Detroit. He discusses the hurt he felt at never having known his father, the complicated relationship with his litigious mother and the suicides that ended the lives of his two uncles.
After he made the move to the Motor City, Eminem describes being a quiet outsider at school, having his home repeatedly robbed, getting pummeled by the police and later bouncing between dead-end jobs trying to make ends meet to provide for his then-wife, Kim, and daughter, Hailie.
But things turned in his favor when Proof urged him to start rap-battling at Detroit's Hip Hop Shop. He made a name for himself in his home city by trading insult rhymes with fellow battlers and eventually branched out, competing in rap battles in Ohio and California. It was in Los Angeles that Eminem was spotted by an assistant in the office of Interscope Records executive Jimmy Iovine.
Before long, rap icon Dr. Dre came in to help produce what would become Eminem's ticket to stardom, 1999's "The Slim Shady LP."
While the pair had worked out the songs, Dre said the album lacked the image of what the Slim Shady character should look like.
A drug-fueled impulse buy took care of that problem.
After two hits of Ecstasy, Eminem popped into a drugstore and on a whim purchased a bottle of peroxide. He threw some on his head and the platinum blonde hair and white T-shirt Slim Shady look was born.
"I wasn't thinking that the peroxide thing was going to be my look," he writes. "I was just being stupid on drugs."
(It should be noted the book features a humorous passage in which Eminem describes having invented the Slim Shady persona during a moment of clarity ... on the toilet.)
The record ended up being a smash hit, as did two that came later, "The Marshall Mathers LP" and "The Eminem Show."
In all, he has won nine Grammys and an Oscar.
And along the way, he's had more than a few quirky high-profile run-ins, many of which he touches upon in the book: a fling with Mariah Carey, a performance with Elton John at the Grammys and the televised tiff with hand-puppet Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
Still, as he prepares to again enter the public eye, a more grounded, mature Eminem says he's trying to keep everything in perspective.
Music is important, but being a father to three girls _ Hailie, niece Alaina and another girl, Whitney, who isn't biologically his _ is where it's at.
"All three of my girls call me Daddy," he writes. "They're all loved the same and they all get the same treatment.
"Because of my success, I've been able to provide for them in ways my family never could for me. That's what it's all about."
It wasn't long ago that Frank Castillo would run until his legsburned, then supplement his off-day workouts with a heavy dose ofpitching.
And it wasn't long ago that Castillo would pace the mound,ponder every delivery and kick the dirt when he felt like kickinghimself.
It wasn't long ago that Castillo was getting hammered.
"He was going through a funk," Cubs manager Jim Lefebvre said."He seemed lost, confused, like he had no game plan. He didn't haveany presence on the mound, and hitters sense that."
Much to Lefebvre's delight, hitters are seeing a much differentCastillo these days. How different?
"He's our best pitcher right now," Lefebvre said.
Castillo (5-7) has lasted at least seven innings in his lastfour starts, a feat he had accomplished just five times in his 17outings before that. In his last four games, he has allowed six runs(1.86 ERA) and walked only one batter.
Although his ERA has dropped to 3.94, he has only one victory toshow for his dramatic turnaround. But after what Castillo has beenthrough, outcome is a distant second to performance.
This is a guy who earlier in the season was shutting out the LosAngeles Dodgers on two hits through six innings. But after agrounder sneaked into the outfield to start the seventh, Castillowalked the next batter, then surrendered a three-run home run to EricDavis.
"Just like that, I was out of the game," Castillo said. "It allhappened in about five minutes.
"The problem was that I was thinking too much about what I wasgoing to do instead of just doing it. Maybe that has something to dowith confidence."
Lefebvre agreed, but he also sensed the problem went a littledeeper. So he and pitching coach Billy Connors told Castillo to cutback on his training regimen. Just like that, a lost pitcherregained his presence.
"I've always done that much work, and I've always thought that'swhy I've been successful," Castillo said. "But after the All-Starbreak, I cut back my off-day pitching from 20 minutes to 10. Nowinstead of feeling beat before I even step on the mound, I feelrefreshed."
Castillo, who is scheduled to start Thursday against theMontreal Expos, is coming off his best effort of the season, one thatwas laced with typical misfortune. After shutting out the SanFrancisco Giants through seven innings Saturday, Castillo had toleave the game when he took a line drive off his right thumb to startthe eighth. The Cubs eventually won the game, but Castillo was leftwith a no-decision.
"It was just a reaction, trying to catch the ball," Castillosaid. "I stopped one like that in 1991 with (Class AAA) Iowa, and Iended up breaking my hand. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson."
Of course, that will come with time. Meanwhile, Castillofinally has grasped a much bigger problem.
"Now he's making his pitches and not worrying about thehitters," Lefebvre said. "He's got that determination, and he'sgetting more confidence with every outing."
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WASHINGTON - Once every four years, political commercials fillthe airwaves, crowding out the advertisements for laundry detergent,luxury cars and fast food chains. They're omnipresent, butfleeting, guaranteed to disappear after the second Tuesday inNovember. Or not.
The American Museum of the Moving Image has designed an exhibitchronicling the era of political advertising on television, 1952 tothe present. In its first incarnation, eight years ago, the exhibitwas featured only at the New York museum. But today "The Living RoomCandidate" can be viewed online at www.ammi.org.
Beginning with candidate Dwight Eisenhower's mini-televisionmovies, the exhibit contains 183 commercials from the 11presidential elections of the television age.
"They're one of the more interesting uses of the moving image,"said curator David Schwartz. "They're like little movies."
Television commercials matter, Schwartz said, because they are"the one area where a candidate has total control over theirmessage."
Although the ways candidates utilized the medium changed over theyears, the messages stayed consistent, Schwartz found.
The exhibit is organized so it can be viewed eitherchronologically or by themes such as "commander in chief," "lookingpresidential" and "real people."
Negative advertising, too, is not a new strategy. Commercials inthat area date back to 1952.
A 1972 ad ridicules Democrat George McGovern's defense plans byillustrating it with toy soldiers. A 1968 commercial shows atelevision screen with "Agnew for Vice President" and a man'slaughter growing stronger and stronger. "This would be funny if itweren't so serious," the screen says at the end.
Schwartz said the ads encapsulate the politics and issues of thetime. It's striking, for example, to review the commercials of theCold War and to contrast them to the advertisements of this electionseason, which concentrate on domestic issues like prescription drugsand education
But some of the ads are memorable for years, even decades afterthe fact. No rewinding is necessary for Lyndon Johnson's daisy girland George Bush's revolving door.
Writer Karin Fischer can be reached at (202) 662-8732 or by e-mail at kfischer@dailymail.com.
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez beat top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 7-5, 6-4 Saturday to win the Swedish Open for her second WTA Tour title.
The unseeded Spaniard, who won her first title in Bogota in February, rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the second set. She held serve to take a 5-4 lead, setting up the game point winner with a brilliant stop volley that was one of her biggest weapons in the final. Wozniacki managed to return the ball, but Martinez Sanchez then easily put it into the open court.
She set up the match point with another superb stop volley that Wozniacki could only return wide.
"This was the most enjoyable tournament for me so far this season," Martinez Sanchez said. "I felt right at home here and I hope to come back next year. I played very well today and I'm happy I played my own game."
In the opening set, Martinez Sanchez earned the decisive break for a 5-4 lead when Wozniacki netted a forehand. Martinez Sanchez wasted two set points in the next game at 40-15, but finally clinched the set with a crisp volley that Wozniacki returned into the net with a tame forehand.
"Maria played better than me, she played smart and it was difficult to get a rhythm with her stop volleys," Wozniacki said. "But I'm still happy to have reached the final."
Wozniacki, who turned 19 Saturday, is ranked ninth in the world and has won five WTA titles _ two this year at Ponte Vedra and Eastbourne.
"I'm sorry I spoiled your (birthday) celebrations, but I promise I will buy you something instead," Martinez Sanchez told Wozniacki at the post-match news conference.
The 54th-ranked Martinez Sanchez also beat two other seeded players on her way to the final.
The Swedish Open moved back to Bastad, where the first women's tournament was held in 1948, after five years on hard courts at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm.
The men's Swedish Open starts Monday.
An international arbitration panel on Wednesday awarded the Sudanese government control over almost all major oil reserves in a disputed region of Sudan that erupted into violence last year between state forces and former southern rebels.
The arbitration was a crucial test for a 2005 agreement that ended 20 years of warfare between the government and southern Sudanese insurgents. Both sides said they accepted the decision and southern officials called it a step toward permanent peace.
"This decision clearly demonstrates that, even on the most difficult and sensitive of disputes, the parties can find a peaceful solution if they work together in good faith," said Ashraf Qazi, head of the U.N. Mission in Sudan.
The Abyei region, with oil reserves and grazing lands used by nomadic herders from both the north and south, has suffered flare-ups of violence since the peace deal.
The northern government and semiautonomous south asked the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration to set the region's permanent borders after a May 2008 battle in which 22 northern soldiers were killed, most of the town of Abyei was burned to the ground and 50,000 residents were forced to flee.
The five-member panel affirmed, in a four-one decision, the northern boundary as set by a 2005 commission but drew new lines in the east and west that placed the Heglig oil fields and the Nile oil pipeline under the control of the Khartoum government.
In Khartoum, the government welcomed the decision, and in The Hague, northern delegation chief Dirdeiry Mohamed Ahmed called it a victory.
"We welcome the fact that the oil fields are now excluded from the Abyei area, particularly the Heglig oil field," he said.
Riek Machar Teny, deputy chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, a southern group, called the ruling balanced.
"I think this is going to consolidate peace in Sudan. It is a victory for the Sudanese people and a victory for peace," he said.
Fouad Hikmat of the International Crisis Group in Nairobi, Kenya, said gaining most of Abyei had symbolic importance for the southerners, even though the richest oil reserves fell outside their area.
"Oil is being exhausted and it will not last that long," he said.
The group said in 2007 that Abyei had reserves of 395 million barrels and just over half of the reserves were in Heglig.
In a dissenting opinion, Jordanian judge Awn Al-Khasawneh chastened his tribunal colleagues for trying too hard to reach a compromise, putting the deal on legally shaky ground. After a scathing indictment of their methods, he said the award should be left "to the sand on which it has been built."
He also said he was concerned the decision could lead to future conflict because it deprived an important tribe, the Misseriya, of critical water sources.
The 2005 peace deal created a unity government and gave the south a semiautonomous status, but left Abyei's borders and future status unresolved. It called for southern Sudan to hold a referendum in 2011 on whether to secede from the north or remain united.
Abyei residents will hold a separate referendum in 2011 to decide whether to join the north or south.
Sir Derek Plumbly, who leads a commission ensuring that the 2005 peace deal is enforced, called the ruling "a historic moment" that closed the biggest gap in implementing the peace agreement.
The Heglig field was first developed in 1996 and is operated by the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company. Sudan has a majority stake, with shares owned by companies from China, Malaysia and India.
The tribunal's leader, French law professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy, said the rights of nomadic tribes that live in the region remain protected, regardless of where the boundary falls.
"Boundaries are not barriers," he said.
The five-member arbitration panel was comprised of two members appointed by each side, while Dupuy was chosen by the Hague-based arbitration court.
"Abyei can once again be a bridge between the north and the south and a true anchor for peace throughout Sudan," said Teny, a southerner.
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Associated Press Writers Mohamed Osman in Khartoum, Sudan, and Sarah El Deeb in Cairo contributed to this report.
JOLIET, Ill. - Jeff Burton figured that if he kept qualifying well, eventually he'd win another pole.
He did that Friday, taking the top spot for Sunday's race at Chicagoland Speedway with a lap of 181.647 mph. Earlier this year, Burton won the pole for the season-opening Daytona 500.
Now he hopes the same logic applies to getting back to Victory Lane.
"Qualifying is like racing," Burton said. "If you continue to qualify well, you'll eventually get your poles. Same with racing: If you continue to race well, you'll eventually get your wins."
Brian Vickers qualified second Friday, followed by Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson.
Last year's Chicagoland winner, Dale Earnhardt Jr., will start 25th.
After several disappointing seasons, Burton is experiencing a resurgence at Richard Childress Racing this year. He has 10 top-10 finishes in 17 races and enters Sunday's race seventh in the points.
But Burton still hasn't won a race since 2001. That might be about to change, as Burton believes his No. 31 crew has made him a threat to win again.
"I think we can win Sunday," Burton said. "I think our team has progressed to a point where when we come to the racetrack, I think we have a chance to win. I really do."
WASHINGTON Morning tea. Radio shows and occasional videos.Enough - or even too much - to eat.
While uncertainty still clouds the future of Western hostages inthe hands of Islamic fundamentalists in Lebanon, reports fromreleased hostages John McCarthy and Edward A. Tracy provide assurancethat treatment of the captives is better than it once was.
Hostages who were shackled in roach-infested cells, beaten and starved in the mid-1980s seem now to have more freedom to movearound, greater opportunity to socialize with fellow captives, and atleast minimal access to medical treatment and other necessities.
"For the last two years at least, food and living conditionshave improved greatly," McCarthy, a British television journalist,said after he was released last week.
The newly released hostages continue to provide additional de tails of these improvements. Tracy, an adventurer and book-seller,has told how his captors gave him coffee once or twice a week, teaevery morning and card games each day.
Once or twice a week he saw a video. "Some of them can cookreally good," he said of his captors.
Hostages Terry Anderson, Terry Waite and Tom Sutherland, who arebeing held by the group called Islamic Jihad, "are franticallyexercising," Anderson's sister, Peggy Say, said after talking toMcCarthy. "They want to look good when they come out and they'vebecome a little obese."
The three men have a short-wave radio that can pick up newsreports, McCarthy said, and is particularly useful to Sutherland, whois fluent in French.
McCarthy told the brother of Terry Waite, the kidnapped Churchof England envoy, that Waite has a Bible and "his sense of humor isintact, as is his faith."
Other recent reports have indicated that the hostages, who wereoften chained in darkened cells in the earlier days of theircaptivity, now are kept in large rooms that are partitioned intocells and joined by common rooms where they can spend time together.
The hostages are sometimes blindfolded, but apparently notshackled for long periods. Jerome Leyraud, the French reliefofficial who was kidnapped last Thursday and released Sunday, saidhis captors were so casual about hiding their identities that theymerely asked him to avert his eyes.
Experts believe there are several possible explanations for theimprovement in the hostages' treatment, which they say has changedgradually since 1985.
Captors who are about to give up hostages want them to appearwell-treated so Western governments will be more likely to give upIslamic prisoners and less likely to launch military missions.
"Without the hostages, the abductors become potentiallyvulnerable," said Bruce Hoffman, terrorism expert with the RandCorp., a California think tank.
It may be inevitable, too, that some of the captors woulddevelop personal relationships with their prisoners, said BrianJenkins, terrorism expert at Kroll and Associates in Los Angeles.
Terrorism specialists say that, despite the apparentimprovements in the hostages' lives, the physical and emotional tollof their captivity should not be underestimated. The closeconfinement without sunshine, fresh air or easy movement, combinedwith frightful uncertainty, leaves prisoners weak physically andemotionally frail, as Tracy's appearance demonstrated Sunday.
On the surface, reforms proposed by a Chicago MercantileExchange panel on Wednesday seem to allay many of the concerns raisedby the government's undercover investigations into trading practiceson Chicago's exchanges.
Look a little deeper, however, and there's less reason to resteasy. Despite exhaustive efforts by the Merc committee, there areenough loopholes that fraud still can find a home in the futuresmarkets.
The rival Chicago Board of Trade is jealous of the publicity theMerc got for its proposals. After all, the Board of Trade announcedcomprehensive improvements in recordkeeping practices in March butgot no attention for the move because "we didn't roll …
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Boston and Tampa Bay have played a pair of surprisingly high scoring games and the trend might continue the way the Eastern Conference finals is going.
The series is tied 1-1 and the teams have combined for 18 goals.
That kind of offense seemed unlikely heading into the matchup with the top two playoff goalies this season: the Lightning's Dwayne Roloson and the Bruins' Tim Thomas. Both allowed an average of two goals a game through the opening two playoff rounds.
"They're All-Star players, and they're players that are top-notch players in the league," Roloson said on Wednesday. "The guys we have on our team and the guys they have on their team, there's …
Famed baseball star Sammy Sosa is standing in a conference room in a downtown hotel here, looking extremely dubious about placing his hand in a pan of hot wax.
Sculptor Raelee Frazier (in photos at right with Sosa) guides his right hand into the wax and asks, "Do you ever look at your hands and think they're special?"
Sosa says, "Yeah. They are special. That's why I hit all those home runs."
Ms. Frazier laughs and says, "No more dumb questions."
Sosa, whose 66 homers in 1998 are the second-most ever hit in one season (Mark McGwire is first with 70, also in '98), chuckles, "No, no, that's OK." What still seems to be not OK and possibly dumb in Sosa's mind is standing here with his hand in the 125-degree wax. It's warm but far from scalding.
Sosa clearly doesn't understand precisely what he has let himself in for.
What it is is art.
Frazier, who grew up in a rural Kansas oil camp where her father worked, and eventually ended up majoring in fine arts, says she is "a biographer in bronze."
And that is today's project. She will produce a bronze of …
Two AIChE members have received new assignments at UOP LLC, a Honeywell company.
Ben Christolini has been named vice president and chief technology officer at UOP's Des Plaines, IL, headquarters. He moves to this role from the position of director of development for UOP research and development, where he managed process technology, catalysts, and equipment to support UOP's refining, petrochemicals and gas-processing industries.
Christolini replaces Rajeev Gautam, who has been appointed vice president and chief technology officer of Honeywell Specialty Materials.
Christolini joined UOP in 1995 as the senior manager of hydroprocessing research and development. He has …
The parliamentary committee for constitutional legislation, government system, rule of law and local government today made the decision to postpone consideration of a new government structure. The Speaker's resolution on consideration of this issue was not received, said MP Galina Skripkina (SDPK), chair of the given parliamentary committee. Besides, the government structure should undergo all conciliation procedures, including discussion within factions. "The Parliament will begin its work since September and we will be able to consider these issues," she said. MP …
Byline: Andrew Greeley
A clergy person often encounters paralyzing grief. Death is a savage blow to a family, especially to the closest relative of the victim, spouse, parent, child, sibling - usually in that order. Joan Didion in her book "The Year of Magical Thinking" describes her grief after the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne with searing honesty. She depicts the denial, the anger, the guilt, the refusal to let go, the paralyzing vortex of emotions which is often triggered by a single memory, the magical thinking that somehow he is going to come back.
At the end of the book, she suggests that maybe she will shortly pass beyond grief to mourning, …
Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (South San Francisco, CA) has patented various forms of an active, isolated .beta.-secretase enzyme in purified and recombinant form. This enzyme is implicated in the production of amyloid plaque components which accumulate in the brains of individuals afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. Recombinant cells that produce this enzyme either alone or in combination …
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Yahoo confirms it has …
Actress Ann Jillian made nearly 2,000 people in Decatur, Ill.,laugh and cry this week as she revealed how she fought and won herstruggle with breast cancer.
Jillian, 30, was in Decatur Tuesday, the third anniversary ofher double mastectomy, to share her story and emphasize the need forearly detection through self-examination and mammography.
She recounted the details of her own illness, saying she took asecond doctor's opinion and did not …
NEW YORK -- Scar care is an attractive and important part of the skin care market, because although it's a niche category in terms of unit volume, it represents significant dollar volume as a premium-price therapeutic segment.
Also noteworthy is the fact that some brands cross over into other categories. Merz Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s Mederma can be merchandised in first aid, and Pacific World Corp.'s Bio-Oil, while primarily a scar therapy product, is a multiuse skin care product for treating a variety of conditions, from scars and stretch marks to burns, dry skin and uneven skin tone.
"What is unique about Bio-Oil is that consumers try the product to address a …
JOHNSONVILLE - The Johnsonville Volunteer Rescue Squad will hold its monthly breakfast from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Jan. 6 at the squad building, 4 River Road, Johnsonville.
The menu will …
COLONIE -- Walter O. Noble, age 69, died at home Saturday, October 28, 2000 after a long illness. Mr. Noble was born in Pennsylvania and lived in the Albany area most of his life. He was an Air Force veteran of the Korean Conflict. Walter worked for the Italian American Community Center, retiring in 1992. He was an active member of Grace and Holy Innocents Episcopal Church. Son of the late Iva L. Buchanan and Robert Henry Noble; loving husband of Barbara Linsley Noble; beloved father of David A. Noble, Karen E. Noble, Deborah A. Noble Salsburg and Theresa L. Noble; father-in-law of Edward …
The UK regulator uncovered some discrepancies with Good Clinical Practice in its investigation into the Phase I safety trial of TeGenero AG's TGN1412, but stuck to the original conclusion that the life-threatening cytokine storm suffered by six health volunteers was due to "an unexpected biological effect." "We are satisfied the adverse incidents that occurred were not as a result of any errors made in the manufacture of TGN1412, its formulation, dilution or administration to trial participants," said Kent Woods, chief executive of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The final report on what caused the fiasco at Northwick Park Hospital in London on March 13 …
Indonesia has joined the race to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022.
The Indonesian football federation (PSSI) officially expressed interest in staging one of the tournaments to FIFA late Tuesday, becoming the sixth potential host to show interest ahead of Monday's deadline.
"This seems like only a dream for us now, but we must dare to dream big. Otherwise we would realize nothing," PSSI secretary general Nugroho Besoes said.
England, Japan, Qatar, Russia and a joint Spain-Portugal candidacy have already declared intentions to bid.
Other contenders including Australia, a combined Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg proposal, …
Score counselors offer amazing wisdom and support
After reading this column about Score ("Score: Stealth economic stimulus package?" Feb. 13), I felt I must share my thoughts about Score from my own experience.
As co-owner and marketing director of my own small business, I can tell you that our Score counselors have been an amazing source of wisdom and support from our earliest days. We're thankful that, even in this economy, our struggle is to keep up with the rapid growth of our company and the added responsibility this brings. We could not do this without continued support from our mentors at both the York and Lancaster offices. We deal with general contractors, masonry …
Manama-Jan 1(BNA) Bahraini dailies issued today focused in their principal headlines on the main local, Arab and international events which happened over the past 24 hours. The following are the main topics: -The wise leadership exchanges New Year 2012 greetings with leaders of Arab, Islamic and friendly countries.
-Shaikh Nasser approves prizes worth BD60,000 for teams participating in "Nasser Championship".
-The Government reiterates commitment to implement the recommendations cited in the BICI Report.
-Saboteurs accused of attacking …
LaPorta weathers adversity HOOVER, Ala. - Senior first baseman Matt LaPorta wanted a chance to keep his team's season afloat and extend his Florida career by a game or at least …
NORFOLK, Va. -- A Navy lieutenant who had been slated for a Tailhook court-martial next month will instead face an administrative hearing, his attorney and the Navy said Friday.
Lt. Rolando A. Diaz, 35, is facing a charge of conduct unbecoming an officer at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention in Las Vegas.
Diaz won a new review of his case this week, but the review failed to overturn the charge.
However, he was allowed to have the administrative proceeding, or …
The European Union's top economy official said Tuesday that the U.S. dollar's role as the international reserve currency is secure despite Chinese calls for a global alternative.
EU Commissioner Joaquin Almunia says he didn't see "major structural changes in the role the dollar plays today as a major reserve currency" following a call by China's central banker for a new global currency controlled by the International Monetary Fund.
"Everybody agrees also that the present world reserve currency, the dollar, is there and will continue to be there for a long period of time," Almunia said after a meeting of the European Commission.
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Lawyers have it. Clergy have it. Even doctors have it.
It's an image problem. Professions once held in the highestesteem are today meeting with some skepticism or even disrespect.
The American Medical Association this week starts trying topolish the image of its 250,000-plus physician members with anational advertising campaign - the first time ever for the AMA.
The Chicago-based organization knew it had trouble when itsregular research turned up significant negative feedback. Forexample, when asked to respond to the statement "people are beginningto lose faith in doctors," 69 percent agreed in the January study,said Lynn Harvey, director of issue and …
SCHODACK -- Even though layoffs mounted at the end of last year, Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino said Wednesday the county is positioned for a strong economic future.
"We have to be ready to receive, accommodate, facilitate new projects," Jimino said.
The last six months of 2008 saw six employers lay off 353 employees, Jimino said. During the year, the county had $388.3 million of investment, created 460 positions and retained 1,000 jobs.
"We here in Rensselaer County are open for business. We have to focus on what happens as the economy turns up. We have to prepare for the good times," Jimino said.
The county is seeking federal …
Byline: CARRIE RICKEY Knight-Ridder
Undersea with a swordfish poised to gore him, Buster Keaton is the guy who grabs its cousin and gracefully duels his challenger to defeat.
At the office with nowhere to hang his porkpie hat, Buster Keaton is the guy who picks up brush and pigment, paints a hook on the wall and thereupon gravely hangs his chapeau.
In his dressing room, primping before the mirror, teasing tie and hat to maximum rakishness, Buster Keaton is the guy who then strides gamely through the looking glass and into the infinite possibilities of motion pictures.
It figures that the man who was both film's greatest magician and metaphysician was born in 1895, the same year as the movies. In honor of the late comic's 100th birthday on Oct. 4, Kino Video is bringing us three boxed sets of the master's masterpieces. Ten features and 20 shorts in all.
Because of copyright obstacles seemingly more intractable than …
An art gallery at Hebrew University is mounting an unusual art exhibit _ without original art.
"Auktion 392-Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Dusseldorf," features reproductions of the paintings that Germany's Nazi government forced art dealer Max Stern to auction off in 1937 because he was Jewish.
Curators had no choice but to use reproductions: Of the 227 paintings Stern was forced to sell, only 3 have been recovered.
For the exhibit, curators relied on photographs taken at the 1937 auction to make full-size sepia-toned copies of 26 of the paintings sold. The show opens Sunday at the Stern Art Gallery in Jerusalem, which is named after …
