-- Table structure for table `jos_cbsubs_merchandises`
--

CREATE TABLE `jos_cbsubs_merchandises` (
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  `status` char(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'I',
  `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
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  `parent_plan` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `parent_subscription` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `payment_date` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
  `amount` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `currency` varchar(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `ip_addresses` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `integrations` text NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `user_plan_status` (`user_id`,`plan_id`,`status`),
  KEY `plan_status_date` (`plan_id`,`status`,`payment_date`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

--
-- Dumping data for table `jos_cbsubs_merchandises`
--


--
-- Table structure for table `jos_cbsubs_notifications`
--

CREATE TABLE `jos_cbsubs_notifications` (
  `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `payment_basket_id` bigint(20) unsigned DEFAULT NULL,
  `payment_method` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `gateway_account` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
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  `notify_version` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `verify_sign` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `charset` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `test_ipn` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `address_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_street` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_city` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_state` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_zip` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_country` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_country_code` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_status` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `first_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `last_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payer_business_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payer_email` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payer_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payer_status` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `residence_country` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `contact_phone` varchar(32) DEFAULT NULL,
  `vat_number` varchar(32) DEFAULT NULL,
  `business` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `item_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `item_number` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `quantity` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `receiver_email` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `receiver_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `custom` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `invoice` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `memo` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `option_name1` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `option_selection1` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `option_name2` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `option_selection2` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `tax` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `auth_amount` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `payment_type` varchar(32) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `shipping` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `transaction_entitiy` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `txn_id` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,
  `txn_type` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `mc_gross` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_handling` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_shipping` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payment_fee` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payment_gross` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `recurring` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `reattempt` tinyint(4) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `recur_times` smallint(6) DEFAULT NULL,
  `username` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `subscr_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `case_type` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `case_creation_date` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  KEY `payment_basket_id` (`payment_basket_id`),
  KEY `gatewayaccount_paystatus` (`gateway_account`,`payment_status`),
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  KEY `txn_type` (`txn_type`),
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  KEY `payer_status` (`payer_status`),
  KEY `payment_type` (`payment_type`),
  KEY `retry_at` (`retry_at`),
  KEY `receiver_email` (`receiver_email`),
  KEY `time_received` (`time_received`),
  KEY `Log_type_time_received` (`log_type`,`time_received`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

--
-- Dumping data for table `jos_cbsubs_notifications`
--


--
-- Table structure for table `jos_cbsubs_payment_baskets`
--

CREATE TABLE `jos_cbsubs_payment_baskets` (
  `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
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  `address_street` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `address_country` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_country_code` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_status` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `first_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `last_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `item_number` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `invoice` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `exchange_rate` decimal(16,8) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `mc_fee` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_gross` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_handling` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_shipping` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payment_fee` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payment_gross` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `auction_buyer_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `for_auction` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `subscr_date` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `subscr_effective` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `period1` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `period3` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `amount1` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `amount2` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `amount3` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_amount1` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_amount2` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_amount3` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `recurring` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `reattempt` tinyint(4) DEFAULT NULL,
  `retry_at` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `recur_times` smallint(6) DEFAULT NULL,
  `username` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `password` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `subscr_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `case_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `case_type` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `case_creation_date` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `user_id` (`user_id`),
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  KEY `txn_type` (`txn_type`),
  KEY `payment_status` (`payment_status`),
  KEY `pending_reason` (`pending_reason`),
  KEY `gatewayaccount_paystatus` (`gateway_account`,`payment_status`),
  KEY `payer_status` (`payer_status`),
  KEY `payment_type` (`payment_type`),
  KEY `retry_at` (`retry_at`),
  KEY `receiver_email` (`receiver_email`),
  KEY `time_completed` (`time_completed`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

--
-- Dumping data for table `jos_cbsubs_payment_baskets`
--


--
-- Table structure for table `jos_cbsubs_payment_items`
--

CREATE TABLE `jos_cbsubs_payment_items` (
  `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
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  `subscription_id` bigint(20) unsigned DEFAULT NULL,
  `plan_id` int(11) unsigned DEFAULT NULL,
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  `artnum` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `description` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `alias` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `discount_text` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `prorate_discount` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `start_date` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
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  `first_rate` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `shipping_amount` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `vat_id` int(11) unsigned DEFAULT NULL,
  `owner` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `parent` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `ordering` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `subscription_basket_plan` (`subscription_id`,`payment_basket_id`,`plan_id`),
  KEY `plan_subscription` (`plan_id`,`subscription_id`),
  KEY `basket_ordering` (`payment_basket_id`,`ordering`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

--
-- Dumping data for table `jos_cbsubs_payment_items`
--


--
-- Table structure for table `jos_cbsubs_payments`
--

CREATE TABLE `jos_cbsubs_payments` (
  `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `payment_basket_id` bigint(20) unsigned DEFAULT NULL,
  `payment_method` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `gateway_account` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `log_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `for_user_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
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  `to_user_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
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  `modified_by_user_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `time_paid` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
  `time_paid_date` date NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00',
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  `time_paid_hour` tinyint(2) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `verify_sign` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `charset` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `test_ipn` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
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  `address_city` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_state` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_zip` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address_country` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `last_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `payer_email` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payer_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payer_status` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `residence_country` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `contact_phone` varchar(32) DEFAULT NULL,
  `vat_number` varchar(32) DEFAULT NULL,
  `business` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `item_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `item_number` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `quantity` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `receiver_email` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `receiver_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `custom` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `tax` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `auth_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `auth_exp` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `auth_status` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `payment_status` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `shipping` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `transaction_entitiy` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `txn_type` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `mc_currency` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_fee` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_gross` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_handling` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mc_shipping` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payment_fee` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `payment_gross` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `settle_amount` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `auction_multi_item` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `for_auction` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `subscr_date` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `subscr_effective` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `period3` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `amount2` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `amount3` decimal(16,5) DEFAULT NULL,
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  `subscr_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
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  KEY `payment_type` (`payment_type`),
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  KEY `status_time_paid_date` (`payment_status`,`time_paid_date`),
  KEY `test_ipn_status_time_paid_date` (`test_ipn`,`payment_status`,`time_paid_date`),
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) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

--
-- Dumping data for table `jos_cbsubs_payments`
--


--
-- Table structure for table `jos_cbsubs_plans`
--

CREATE TABLE `jos_cbsubs_plans` (
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  `expirationemailbody` mediumtext NOT NULL,
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) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=5 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

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INSERT INTO `jos_content` VALUES (338,'Mexican court allows controversial film back   (AFP)','mexican-court-allows-controversial-film-back-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/ennew_afp/entertainmentmexicojusticefilm\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299633863122-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=86&amp;q=85&amp;sig=iSoYSVvEPVrCnFJhkj__Lw--\" height=\"86\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Mexican court allows controversial film back   (AFP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AFP - A Mexican court on Tuesday ruled that \"Presumed Guilty,\" a popular documentary criticizing the country\'s legal system, should return to theaters, only one day after it was suspended.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>MEXICO CITY (AFP) – A Mexican court on Tuesday ruled that \"Presumed Guilty,\" a popular documentary criticizing the country\'s legal system, should return to theaters, only one day after it was suspended.</p>\n                <p>\nThree magistrates at a federal tribunal unanimously agreed to reverse the suspension in the \"social interest,\" legal authorities said in a statement.</p>\n                <p>\nAlmost one million people have seen the movie since its Mexican release on February 18, and it is already the most successful documentary ever shown here, after winning a string of awards at international festivals.</p>\n                <p>\nThe temporary suspension provoked accusations of censorship and criticism across the political divide.</p>\n                <p>\nBut the rulings are temporary until the courts can hold a full hearing on a complaint from the film\'s main featured witness, who has argued he had not given permission to be filmed and that the screenings had affected his private life. A court session was set Friday on the case.</p>\n                <p>\nThe film, by lawyers Roberto Hernandez and Layda Negrete, documents the retrial of street vendor Antonio Zuniga, who was serving a 20-year sentence for a murder he knew nothing about.</p>\n                <p>\nIt provides a rare peek into Mexico\'s closed court system, where trials mainly take place on paper and the accused have to prove their innocence.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Mexican court allows controversial film back   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/ennew_afp/entertainmentmexicojusticefilm\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/ennew_afp/entertainmentmexicojusticefilm</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 20:26:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:26:00','2011-03-09 20:47:07','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(339,' Tomb Raider  o get reboot without Angelina Jolie   (Reuters)','tomb-raider-o-get-reboot-without-angelina-jolie-reuters','','Reuters - Lara Croft, the feisty heroine of one of the biggest video games from the 1990s, is once again getting the movie treatment.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Lara Croft, the feisty heroine of one of the biggest video games from the 1990s, is once again getting the movie treatment.</p>\n                <p>\nHeavyweight producer Graham King (\"The Departed\") has acquired the feature film rights to \"Tomb Raider\" and will reboot the action-adventure franchise aiming for a 2013 release for the first film.</p>\n                <p>\nAngelina Jolie, the star of King\'s recent bomb \"The Tourist,\" headlined two previous big-screen adaptations made by Paramount. \"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider\" (2001) and \"Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life\" (2003) grossed $432 million worldwide.</p>\n                <p>\nSources said King\'s GK Films banner may be looking to do a Lara Croft origin story rather than continue her adventures. The company said it aims to \"create daring new adventures for the young and dynamic Lara Croft.\" No writer has been hired yet.</p>\n                <p>\nThe game was created in 1996 by Eidos, now part of entertainment group Square Enix. (In December, Enix subsidiary, Crystal Dynamics, said it was working on a new \"Tomb Raider\" game, this one based on the origins of Croft.) The rights lapsed back to Eidos in the late 2000s, with Warner Bros. in development of an iteration. That version, however, never got past the writing stage.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\" Tomb Raider  o get reboot without Angelina Jolie   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/film_nm/us_tombraider\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/film_nm/us_tombraider</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 20:44:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:44:00','2011-03-09 20:47:09','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(341,'Gaddafi and the Unbearable Lightness of Crisis   (Time.com)','gaddafi-and-the-unbearable-lightness-of-crisis-timecom','','Time.com - A \"normal\" day in the Libyan capital is a facade of calm, an interiorized anxiety and a backdrop of time stopped in its tracks','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>I call a business consultant in the Libyan capital on the telephone, and ask if he wants to join me at the cafÉ where we shared a long, relaxed lunch last year. His response is nothing I\'ve ever heard from him: Terror. \"Vivienne,\" he says, breathless and garbled. \"I cannot talk to you. They are arresting people who speak to foreigners. Our calls are being listened to. Our emails don\'t work,\" he says, then blurts out apologies and says goodbye. </p>\n                <p> So it goes in Tripoli. As Libya\'s three-week popular revolt morphs into an all-out civil war, this city of about 1.6 million people is poised between frenzied panic and humdrum normality. With no sense of how drastically their lives might be upended, tomorrow, the next day, or next weekend, there is fear and loathing about the mounting disaster - and yet, a sense that the spectacular violence to the west and east of Tripoli is somehow unfolding in another country.</p>\n                <p> And in a sense, it is another country. Tripoli, Libya\'s economic and political powerhouse, and the stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi since he seized power nearly 42 years ago, is now the surreally calm eye of the storm in an outsized global drama. Gaddafi is holed up in his complex on Tripoli\'s western outskirts, venturing out every few days to appear on television, or atop the parapet of the Red Castle monument downtown, vowing to crush pro-rebel Western countries and al-Qaeda fighters, who he insists are leading the revolt. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=11vo3rmtr/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2056442,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See \"March of the Volunteers: Can the Rebels Take Tripoli?\")</a></span></p>\n                <p> Along Tripoli\'s breezy harborside, fishermen still sell their day\'s catch, offering glistening sea bream and bass out of cardboard boxes. There are traffic jams in middle-class neighborhoods, as people go shopping for everything from sneakers to cell phones. Yet business is proceeding at a snail\'s pace, with thousands of people not working for weeks, since almost every expatriate has exited the country. That lends Tripoli a deceptively languid air. A group of boys plays soccer in a field in one neighborhood. In another, a soldier allows a laughing three-year-old boy to hold his Kalashnikov rifle and pose for a photograph.</p>\n                <p> And yet, less than an hour\'s drive west of here, Gaddafi\'s military on Tuesday pummeled rebel positions in Zawiyah, a town of 200,000 people next to a crucial oil refinery about 30 miles from Tripoli. Scores have been killed and hundreds injured in about five days of heavy shelling and gunfire in the town, according to hospital doctors, as government forces fight a vicious battle to recapture the town from rebels. The battle for a town virtually on the doorstep of Gaddafi\'s capital has become a key testing ground for the regime\'s ability to survive the uprising. State-run Libyan Television reported on Tuesday night that one of the military\'s commander in Zawiyah, Maj. Gen. Khaled Shahma, had defected to the rebel side - suggesting that the government still faces intense resistance, despite its superior firepower. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=11vlgkoq1/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2055484,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See exclusive photos of the resistance in Libya)</a></span></p>\n                <p> At 11:15 p.m. Tuesday night, Gaddafi\'s motorcade roared up the long driveway of the hotel in central Tripoli, which houses about 120 foreign journalists who have been especially invited to the capital by the regime. Out stepped Gaddafi, his fist pumping the air triumphantly as he strode through the revolving doors, smiling delightedly as he was mobbed by television cameras and reporters. It was theater, of course: the Turkish and French television crews scheduled to interview him would have come to any location to which he summoned them. Instead, Gaddafi, dressed in a black winter coat and tan desert turban, chose the open, public exposure, as if to say: \"I still own this town.\"</p>\n                <p> Still, as the war inches ever-closer to Tripoli, the capital betrays no sense of siege - at least on the surface. There were long lines outside the few bakeries which have reopened on Tuesday morning; many had shut when their foreign workers, mostly Africans, began to flee Libya\'s spiraling violence in droves, and as Tripoli erupted during the past few days in wild celebrations - yes, celebrations, since Gaddafi declared on state-run television last Sunday that the battle had been won and the rebels defeated.</p>\n                <p> Apparently unconvinced by the Brotherly Leader\'s rosy view, some residents say they are bracing for bad times, even as the semblance of normality takes hold. \"Every day the crisis is less and less,\" says Rajab Yamani, a professor of gynecology at the Medical College in Tripoli, as he waited to buy a bag of bread rolls in a neighborhood near downtown. \"The worries are not about tomorrow, or the day after, but longer term,\" he says, adding that there is deep concern about how Libya will finally emerge from the conflict. \"The problem is psychological.\"</p>\n                <p> But people shrugging off the war might be like whistling in the dark. Just below the surface, there are signs everywhere that this is a city frozen in time. </p>\n                <p> For one thing, the government shut down all Internet connections throughout Libya last Thursday, as they launched their assault on Zawiyah. Mobile-phone text-messaging has not worked in weeks, as the government attempts to snuff out communications among anti-government forces. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=11vd29lf3/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057857,00.html#comments\" target=\"_blank\">(Comment on this story.)</a></span></p>\n                <p> In the lobby of the Burj al-Fatah tower which houses Libya\'s Investment Authority (whose assets were frozen last week by the U.S. and E.U. countries) the newsstand, perhaps the finest in Tripoli, is still stocked with copies of the <i>Financial Times</i>, the <i>International Herald Tribune</i>, and TIME Magazine. But look closer: Their most recent date is February 16 - one day before the revolt exploded after protests in Benghazi. After that, Libyans have not been able to buy a single printed word concerning the revolt in their country. The most recent issue available of Libya\'s Business Post magazine is from February, which features articles about the new business-class service on Air France flights from Tripoli - suspended three weeks ago - and a huge new wind-power plant in the eastern city of Darna - which now lies in rebel-held territory.</p>\n                <p> That magazine now seems like an ancient relic - but then, residents are accustomed to ancient relics, living in a city with the spectacular ancient Roman cities of Leptis Magna and Sabrata short distances away. In the Red Castle museum of antiquities, Salah al-Agab, head of the department of archeology in Tripoli, says the collection of ancient Roman artifacts in the museum, dating back thousands of years, has key lessons for the 21st century residents, who converge daily outside the castle\'s stone walls to chant their devotion for Gaddafi. \"From this fortification you can see that Libya has faced many conspiracies throughout all time,\" al-Agab says, standing in the entryway of the old building on Tuesday morning. \"We hope all people can work together to find a solution to this problem.\" Even as those in Tripoli carry on regardless, holding their breath and hoping for the best.</p>\n                <p> <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=11vb9u385/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2053369,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">See the latest scenes of unrest in Libya.</a></span> </p>\n                <p> <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=11v8odaq8/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1920998,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">See photos of the rule of Libya\'s Colonel Gaddafi.</a></span> </p>\n                <p>View this article on <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=12npiucie/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057857,00.html?xid=rss-fullworld-yahoo\">Time.com</a></p>\n                <p></p><p>Most Popular on Time.com:</p><ul><li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=130jk7j78/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2056610,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">U.S. Decline in Global Arena: Is America No Longer No. 1?</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=12vtnp188/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2055444,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">McDonald\'s Wedding Packages Have Hong Kong Lovin\' It</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=1324bo2kf/*http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2057760,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">As Borders Closes Bookshops, Rival Barnes &amp; Noble Survives</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=12v042jcb/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057744,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">South Africa\'s Corrective Rape: Activists Battle Violence</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205785700/40576919/SIG=132cu9idn/*http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2050027,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">Sex Addiction: Real Disease or Excuse for Men to Cheat?</a></li> </ul><p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Gaddafi and the Unbearable Lightness of Crisis   (Time.com)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110309/wl_time/08599205785700\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110309/wl_time/08599205785700</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-08 21:00:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:00:00','2011-03-09 22:22:27','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(342,'China eyes All England badminton crown   (AFP)','china-eyes-all-england-badminton-crown-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/badmintoneng\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299550690697-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=104&amp;q=85&amp;sig=wvLlOCnHifq0eXF8oTFUVg--\" height=\"104\" width=\"130\" alt=\"China eyes All England badminton crown   (AFP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AFP - China\'s chances of winning five All-England Open titles for only the second time will be enhanced if Tine Baun loses her fight to be ready to defend the women\'s singles title here this week.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>BIRMINGHAM, England (AFP) – China\'s chances of winning five All-England Open titles for only the second time will be enhanced if Tine Baun loses her fight to be ready to defend the women\'s singles title here this week.</p>\n                <p>\nThe tall Dane has been battling a persistent heel injury which is threatening her bid to win the world tour\'s oldest tournament for a third time in four years. It is due to begin at Britain\'s national indoor arena on Wednesday.</p>\n                <p>\nThe hard-hitting and often inspirational champion has recently been the only woman capable of resisting a Chinese hegemony which has brought seven of the last ten All-England women\'s singles titles.</p>\n                <p>\nIf there were a repeat of the clean sweep which the world\'s most powerful badminton nation managed here two years ago, it would send a strong message with the start of the qualifying period for the London Olympics only a month away.</p>\n                <p>\nBaun has been struggling for the past three weeks, and her preparations have been badly restricted by an injury which worsened during last month\'s European team championships in Amsterdam.</p>\n                <p>\n\"It was the same story -- I am in perfect form and feel good, and then I get an injury,\" said Baun, who had similar problems with a heel before the world championships in Paris in August as well.</p>\n                <p>\n\"For two weeks I\'ve had no practice at all -- I was only standing still. For a while I felt \'oh my god it\'s not possible to go to the All-England\'.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I had a lot of pain in the heel. But it improved last week so I have a little bit of faith that maybe I can do it.\"</p>\n                <p>\nBaun will make a late decision on whether or not to try for another title in what this year has become one of the five tournaments in the new BWF Premier Series -- badminton\'s equivalent to tennis\' four Grand Slams.</p>\n                <p>\n\nShe may try to feed off memories of Paris where she bravely reached the semi-finals despite carrying a similar injury.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Memories like these are keeping my spirits up,\" she said. \"It is tough to recover from injury but sometimes it releases something else - and then you just play.</p>\n                <p>\n\"It\'s terrible when you can\'t practise. Your mood is down, you don\'t have any humour, and everything is down. But when you don\'t have such high expectations, you just feel happy about playing badminton,\" she explained.</p>\n                <p>\nBaun thinks the favourite for the title is probably Wang Yihuan, who is only seeded second, but who beat Baun, then Tine Rasmussen, in the final two years ago.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I think they all have difference styles,\" Baun said of the leading Chinese players.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Wang Shixian is very precise and very good at moving around the court but she doesn\'t have the power that the other two girls have (Wang Yihuan and Wang Xin)</p>\n                <p>\n\"I think Wang Xin is also good at moving but also at exploding and very good at reading the game.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Wang Yihiuan is a more attacking player, and when everything is good for her she is the best player. But she also is maybe like myself: some days you don\'t hit your attacks that precise and maybe make mistakes. I think she\'s a similar player as me.\"</p>\n                <p>\nBaun is the fourth seed, but when physically fit is capable of beating anyone with her fierce and steep attacking game, especially when helped by the big support she often gets from English crowds.\n</p><p>\n\nBaun knows that making the best of an imperfect situation is crucial to give her momentum as she moves into what may be the last 18 months of her career.\n</p><p>\n\nThe 31-year-old hopes to continue until the 2012 Olympics, but may plan to play a few tournaments afterwards so she doesn\'t have to cope with the fear that her efforts at the Games might be her last match.\n</p><p>\n\nChina is top-seeded in three of this week\'s events -- the women\'s singles and doubles, and the mixed doubles.\n</p><p>\n\nHowever Olympic champion Lin Dan and world champion Chen Jin should be serious contenders for the men\'s singles title which is held by Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, while world champions Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng may be capable of winning back the men\'s doubles title they have won twice here before.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"China eyes All England badminton crown   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/badmintoneng\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/badmintoneng</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-08 21:47:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:47:00','2011-03-09 22:22:28','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(343,'Libya no-fly zone a UN decision, \'not US\': Clinton   (AFP)','libya-no-fly-zone-a-un-decision-not-us-clinton-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/pl_afp/libyapoliticsunrestusclinton\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299625223939-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=86&amp;q=85&amp;sig=94AN8AaIxM2NdDmTv6Yo7Q--\" height=\"86\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Libya no-fly zone a UN decision, \'not US\': Clinton   (AFP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AFP - Any decision to impose a no-fly zone over battle-torn Libya should be taken by the United Nations and \"not the United States\", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>LONDON (AFP) – Any decision to impose a no-fly zone over battle-torn Libya should be taken by the United Nations and \"not the United States\", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I think it\'s very important that it is not a US-led effort because this comes from the people of Libya themselves,\" Clinton told Sky News on Tuesday. \"We think it is important that the United Nations make that decision.</p>\n                <p>\n\"This doesn\'t come from the outside. This doesn\'t come from some Western power or some Gulf country saying: \'This is what you should do.\'\"</p>\n                <p>\nThe United States came in for severe international criticism when it invaded Iraq in 2003, an action which Kofi Annan, the then secretary general of the United Nations, said \"was not in conformity with the UN Charter\".</p>\n                <p>\n\"We\'d like to see this resolved peacefully, we\'d like to see him (Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi) go peacefully and we\'d like to see a new government come peacefully,\" explained Clinton.</p>\n                <p>\n\"If that\'s not possible we are going to work with the international community, but there are countries that do not agree with that.</p>\n                <p>\n\"There is long road ahead for being able to resolve this,\" warned Clinton.</p>\n                <p>\nFighting intensified in the north Africa country Tuesday as pro-Kadhafi forces launched air and rocket attacks on rebels in Zawiya, sources in the town said.</p>\n                <p>\n\"We\'ve called for Kadhafi to leave and he has totally given up any legitimacy to power. When a leader turns against his own people that is the end,\" stated Clinton.</p>\n                <p>\nThe UN Security Council Tuesday discussed the possibility of imposing a no-fly zone during talks on the turmoil sweeping North Africa, a UN official confirmed.</p>\n                <p>\n\n\"There were lots of issues that were discussed this morning, the no-fly zone was one of the issues,\" UN under secretary general Lynn Pascoe told reporters after briefing the 15-nation Security Council.</p>\n                <p>\n\"There was a very serious, a very much inter-active discussion on the various issues involved and the role of the council and the role of the secretariat,\" he added.</p>\n                <p>\nClinton\'s remarks echoed earlier comments from British Foreign Secretary William Hague.</p>\n                <p>\n\"There must be a demonstrable need that is accepted broadly by the international community, as well as the strong international support that would come from that,\" Hague said.</p>\n                <p>\nRepublican senator John McCain later told BBC\'s Newsnight programme that the US should consider immediate action.</p>\n                <p>\n\"People are being massacred. Isn\'t it an obligation that the world has to stop a mad dictator from massacring his own people?\" asked the 2008 presidential candidate.</p>\n                <p>\n\"If we don\'t have the military capability to take on their defences and their air force, then we have wasted a great deal of American treasure. We can handle the Libyan air force and defences, I know we can,\" he added.</p>\n                <p>\nEarlier Tuesday, US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to plan a \"full spectrum of responses\" on Libya, including a no-fly zone, surveillance and a relief effort, Cameron\'s Downing Street office said.\n</p><p>\n\nThe British leader later slammed Kadhafi on popular BBC entertainment programme, \"The One Show\".\n</p><p>\n\n\"I had a phone call with President Obama this afternoon to talk about the planning we have to do in case this continues and in case he does terrible things to his own people,\" said Cameron.\n</p><p>\n\n\"I don\'t think we can stand aside and let that happen, we have got to prepare for what we might have to do if he (Kadhafi) goes on brutalising his own people.\"\n</p><p>\n\nCameron added that international efforts were beginning to weaken the Libyan leader.\n</p><p>\n\n\"Don\'t underestimate the extent to which all that isolation, the fact that the UN Security Council came together and passed that resolution very quickly.\n</p><p>\n\n\"We need to keep on doing those things to isolate this man and his regime and say that he has got to go,\" he said.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Libya no-fly zone a UN decision, \'not US\': Clinton   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/pl_afp/libyapoliticsunrestusclinton\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/pl_afp/libyapoliticsunrestusclinton</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-08 21:50:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:50:00','2011-03-09 22:22:29','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(344,'Japan issues tsunami warning after 7.2 quake   (AFP)','japan-issues-tsunami-warning-after-72-quake-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/japanquake\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299639965930-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=82&amp;q=85&amp;sig=LXMG9eAjDKzJ_XTtJjxXAA--\" height=\"82\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Japan issues tsunami warning after 7.2 quake   (AFP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AFP - Japan issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after a major 7.2-magnitude quake struck 160 kilometres (100 miles) east off the main Honshu island at 0245 GMT, swaying buildings in the capital Tokyo.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>TOKYO (AFP) – Japan issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after a major 7.2-magnitude quake struck 160 kilometres (100 miles) east off the main Honshu island at 0245 GMT, swaying buildings in the capital Tokyo.</p>\n                <p>\nThe tremor struck 10 kilometres below the sea floor, said the Japan Meteorological Agency, which issued a tsunami warning for Honshu\'s Pacific coast, warning of waves 50 centimetres (20 inches) high.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Japan issues tsunami warning after 7.2 quake   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/japanquake\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/japanquake</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-08 22:06:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 22:06:00','2011-03-09 22:22:30','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,1,''),(345,'Australian firebrand Hanson attempts comeback   (AFP)','australian-firebrand-hanson-attempts-comeback-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/australiapoliticshansonvote\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299637763757-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=88&amp;q=85&amp;sig=zcr25evtsg.MqgEmoK74CQ--\" height=\"88\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Australian firebrand Hanson attempts comeback   (AFP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AFP - Australian anti-immigration firebrand Pauline Hanson confirmed Wednesday she is attempting a political comeback by standing in a state election this month.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian anti-immigration firebrand Pauline Hanson confirmed Wednesday she is attempting a political comeback by standing in a state election this month.</p>\n                <p>\nIn a surprise move, Hanson -- who once famously warned that Australia was at risk of being \"swamped by Asians\" -- is running for an upper house seat with a group of independents in the New South Wales poll on March 26.</p>\n                <p>\nThe former One Nation party chief told Fairfax Radio Network that it was \"in the people\'s interest of New South Wales to ensure that I am on the floor\", though she conceded that it would be a \"battle\" to get elected.</p>\n                <p>\nHanson drew international condemnation but briefly won domestic support in the 1990s with her anti-immigration and trade protection policies, before losing her seat in 1998.</p>\n                <p>\nShe spent several weeks in jail in 2003 for fraudulently spending electoral funds before the judgment was overturned.</p>\n                <p>\nShe insisted on Wednesday that she was \"not racist\".</p>\n                <p>\n\"No one can ever comment or make a comment on any racist statement I have ever said,\" she told the radio show.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I have... as an Australian... a right to question immigration and multiculturalism, which I don\'t believe is helping our country.\"</p>\n                <p>\nHanson said she believed in \"people coming here, assimilating, becoming Australians\" and abiding by Australian laws. \"I don\'t think there\'s anything wrong with that,\" she said.</p>\n                <p>\nThe 56-year-old said Australia\'s major political parties feared her because \"they know I\'ve always spoken out, I expose them for what they are\".</p>\n                <p>\nIn 2007, she ran unsuccessfully for a national Senate seat, calling for an end to immigration by Muslims to protect \"Australian culture\".</p>\n                <p>\nTwo years later, Hanson blamed her failure in the Queensland state election on the publication of raunchy photos purportedly taken by an ex-boyfriend. The pictures turned out to be of another woman.</p>\n                <p>\nHanson announced in November that she had decided to stay in Australia, abandoning plans to move to Britain because \"it\'s overrun with immigrants and refugees\". She also said France was also inundated with foreigners.</p>\n                <p>\nThe former fish and chip shop owner had earlier said she was emigrating to Britain due to disillusionment with Australia\'s immigration and trade policies.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Australian firebrand Hanson attempts comeback   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/australiapoliticshansonvote\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/australiapoliticshansonvote</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-08 21:31:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:31:00','2011-03-09 22:22:30','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(346,'As oil muddies outlook, Fed policy less certain   (Reuters)','as-oil-muddies-outlook-fed-policy-less-certain-reuters','','Reuters - Surging oil prices are deepening a split inside the Federal Reserve, blurring the likely direction of U.S. monetary policy and making next week\'s policy meeting all the more contentious.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Surging oil prices are deepening a split inside the Federal Reserve, blurring the likely direction of U.S. monetary policy and making next week\'s policy meeting all the more contentious.</p>\n                <p>\nThe sharp rise in energy costs, precipitated by a wave of pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world, could affect the economy in different ways, by retarding growth, boosting inflation or, in the worst case, both.</p>\n                <p>\nThis complicates the terrain for policymakers, hardening long-held positions ahead of the Fed\'s March 15 gathering.</p>\n                <p>\n\"The meeting has definitely gotten more interesting for the participants than they\'d like,\" said Mitch Stapley, chief fixed-income officer at Fifth Third Asset Management.</p>\n                <p>\n\"The stakes are rising,\" he said. \"The nightmare scenario is some kind of stagflation outcome. That\'s some ways down the road but you begin to see that discussion emerge.\"</p>\n                <p>\nAt the heart of the debate is the concept of economic slack, an attempt to measure the gap between current levels of activity and the economy\'s full potential.</p>\n                <p>\nThe core of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee, led by Chairman Ben Bernanke, firmly believes broad price pressures are highly unlikely to overtake an economy plagued by high unemployment and meager wage gains.</p>\n                <p>\nA vocal minority of inflation hawks, however, are skeptical that the so-called output gap is a good determinant of U.S. inflation. If the monetary authorities wait for the country\'s 8.9 percent jobless rate to fall to more desirable levels, they say, it will already be too late.</p>\n                <p>\nThis camp points to the Fed\'s massive expansion of credit to the banking system, including zero interest rates and $2.3 trillion in government and mortgage bond purchases to prop up credit markets hit by the worst financial crisis in generations.</p>\n                <p>\nThe purchases have more than tripled the central bank\'s balance sheet and Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser calls it the \"kindling\" of future inflation.</p>\n                <p>\nIn next Tuesday\'s policy statement, the Fed will likely manage this dissonance by acknowledging a recent pick up in energy costs but also reiterate that inflation expectations remain well anchored.</p>\n                <p>\nAt this point, most analysts see the Fed completing its current $600 billion bond purchase program and calling it a day, even if the situation in the Middle East has widened the range of possible outcomes.</p>\n                <p>\nTHE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECONOMICS</p>\n                <p>\nUnlike the European Central Bank, which recently hinted it could raise rates as early as next month, few believe Fed tightening is imminent.</p>\n                <p>\n\"We still assume no interest rate hike until 2012,\" said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts. \"The Fed is not the ECB. It will not raise interest rates just because headline inflation is rising.\"</p>\n                <p>\nIndeed, Fed officials have taken pains to point out that, while deflation no longer appears to be a risk, underlying or core inflation remains around 1 percent -- well below the Fed\'s presumed target of 2 percent or a bit below.</p>\n                <p>\nWith U.S. crude oil prices up around $105 a barrel and domestic gasoline costs moving up quickly as a result, it is not hard to envision a scenario where fears of inflation turn into more entrenched expectations for higher prices.</p>\n                <p>\nPolicymakers across the hawk-dove spectrum see expectations as a key harbinger of future inflation and this might force the Fed to tighten the monetary purse strings even with the economy still struggling to gain traction after the recession.\n</p><p>\n\nSpeeches from two of the Fed\'s regional presidents on Monday highlighted the internal discord. Richard Fisher, the Dallas Fed\'s colorful hawkish president who likes to quip that doves are \"part of the pigeon family,\" said he was starting to seriously consider dissenting against continued accommodation.\n</p><p>\n\nIn contrast, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart raised the possibility that the Fed would have to extend a $600 billion bond-purchase program beyond its June deadline if a further spike in oil appeared to threaten the recovery.\n</p><p>\n\n\"My sense of the balance of risks has shifted with the addition of unrest in the Middle East and North Africa,\" Lockhart said.\n</p><p>\n\nGiven that Lockhart\'s thinking has tended to mirror that of the Fed\'s power nucleus in Washington, it is probably a safe bet to expect the Fed to remain on hold for a while -- even if futures markets are pricing in some year-end tightening.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"As oil muddies outlook, Fed policy less certain   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_usa_fed\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_usa_fed</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-08 21:17:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:17:00','2011-03-09 22:22:32','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(347,'Business events scheduled for Wednesday   (AP)','business-events-scheduled-for-wednesday-ap','','AP - Major business events and economic events scheduled for Wednesday:','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>Major business events and economic events scheduled for Wednesday:</p>\n                <p>WASHINGTON — Commerce Department releases wholesale trade inventories for January, 10 a.m.</p>\n                <p>WASHINGTON — U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on the president\'s trade agenda.</p>\n                <p>WASHINGTON — Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the housing market.</p>\n                <p>WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee.</p>\n                <p>WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee.</p>\n                <p>WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee.</p>\n                <p>H&amp;R Block Inc. releases quarterly financial results.</p>\n                <p>Europe\'s EADS, the parent company of aircraft maker Airbus, releases annual earnings.</p>\n                <p>LISBON — Portugal, trying to avoid asking for a bailout, aims to borrow up to 1 billion euros from investors in its second bond auction of the year. Results expected midmorning.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Business events scheduled for Wednesday   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110308/ap_on_bi_ge/us_the_day_ahead\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110308/ap_on_bi_ge/us_the_day_ahead</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-08 13:03:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 13:03:00','2011-03-09 22:22:32','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(348,'Dollar rises against euro in Asia trade   (AFP)','dollar-rises-against-euro-in-asia-trade-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/bs_afp/forexasia\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299638466896-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=89&amp;q=85&amp;sig=6Pg8I5_YpXkoiF6k1G8Kqg--\" height=\"89\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Dollar rises against euro in Asia trade   (AFP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AFP - The dollar has risen against the euro in Asia as oil prices eased, with the single currency overshadowed by renewed eurozone debt concerns, dealers have said.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>TOKYO (AFP) – The dollar has risen against the euro in Asia as oil prices eased, with the single currency overshadowed by renewed eurozone debt concerns, dealers have said.</p>\n                <p>\nThe euro retreated to $1.3887 in Tokyo morning trade from 1.3905 in New York late Tuesday. The single European currency rose to 115.02 yen from 114.91 yen.</p>\n                <p>\nThe dollar firmed to 82.83 yen from 82.64 yen.</p>\n                <p>\n\"The dollar drew buybacks after suffering broad-based selling earlier on view that rising crude oil prices would be negative to the US economy,\" said Teppei Ino, analyst at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.</p>\n                <p>\nSaudi Arabia\'s assurances Tuesday that it would counter any disruptions of the global oil market pushed crude prices down Tuesday, giving a boost to the US stock market.</p>\n                <p>\nThe world\'s largest oil supplier, Saudi Arabia has 3.5 million barrels per day in spare capacity and is building up inventories in strategic locations, Oil Minister Ali Naimi said in a statement clearly aimed at calming markets.</p>\n                <p>\n\n\"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long been committed to promoting market stability in the interest of both producers and consumers, and in support of global economic growth and development,\" Naimi said.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Saudi Arabia will continue to reliably meet the world\'s petroleum needs,\" he said.</p>\n                <p>\nNew York\'s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April, shed 39 cents to $104.63 per barrel.</p>\n                <p>\nBrent North Sea crude for April delivery fell 36 cents to $112.70.</p>\n                <p>\nAfter moving from $1.37 to $1.40 last week, the European common currency hit a four-month high of $1.4037 Monday amid positive expectations of a rate hike by the European Central Bank as early as April.</p>\n                <p>\nBut eurozone debt worries resurfaced after rating agency Moody\'s downgraded Greece\'s debt by three notches from Ba1 to B1. A Greek debt auction Tuesday was light on foreign bidders, noted Spiros Papadopoulos of National Australia Bank.</p>\n                <p>\n\nThe market is turning its focus back to the eurozone debt crisis ahead of the upcoming EU leaders\' meeting, with dealers citing scope for a disappointing outcome.</p>\n                <p>\n\"The prospect of anything constructive, material coming out of this in terms of dealing with the sovereign problems is low,\" Ron Leven of Morgan Stanley told Dow Jones Newswires.</p>\n                <p>\n\"There\'s not a cohesive sense of mission in terms of dealing with this problem and that\'s going to hurt the euro,\" Leven said.</p>\n                <p>\nOn Friday, leaders of the 27-nation EU will meet in Brussels. A summit of the 17-nation eurozone also will be held to discuss the strengthening of national economic policies and the creation of a permanent rescue fund for member nations.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Dollar rises against euro in Asia trade   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/bs_afp/forexasia\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/bs_afp/forexasia</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-08 21:43:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:43:00','2011-03-09 22:22:33','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(349,'Toyota sees op profit of $12 billion in 2-3 years: source   (Reuters)','toyota-sees-op-profit-of-12-billion-in-2-3-years-source-reuters','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_toyota\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110308/capt.photo_1299584220398-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=80&amp;q=85&amp;sig=CBDfQmL48gNXoit1F2y.Fg--\" height=\"80\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Toyota sees op profit of $12 billion in 2-3 years: source   (Reuters)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp will forecast a near doubling of operating profit to a minimum of 1 trillion yen ($12.1 billion) in two to three years as part of its business roadmap to be unveiled on Wednesday, a source said.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp will forecast a near doubling of operating profit to a minimum of 1 trillion yen ($12.1 billion) in two to three years as part of its business roadmap to be unveiled on Wednesday, a source said.</p>\n                <p>\nToyota will also seek to boost its operating profit margin to at least 5 percent in the same time frame, up from an estimated 2.9 percent in the current financial year ending this month, the source said, confirming figures reported earlier by the Nikkei newspaper.</p>\n                <p>\nThe figures are not strict financial targets but an estimate of what the company should be capable of as it reduces costs and strengthens its operations, even at a dollar rate of 85 yen, the source said, declining to be identified because the information is not public yet.</p>\n                <p>\nThe operating profit forecast is roughly in line with market expectations, with 15 analysts putting the profit at 1.14 trillion yen for the year to March 31, 2013, according to poll by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.</p>\n                <p>\nPresident Akio Toyoda is due to announce a new \"global vision\" for the next 10 years for the world\'s biggest automaker at 4 p.m. (0700 GMT). Among other measures likely to be outlined is the reduction of Toyota\'s board members to 11 from 27.</p>\n                <p>\nSince taking up his post in June 2009 in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, Toyoda, grandson of the company\'s founder, has often spoken of the need to go back to the basics of \"making better cars and contributing to society.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThat vision became a directive as a recall of millions of cars, mainly for complaints of unintended acceleration, damaged its once-impeccable quality image, especially in the important U.S. market. Toyota has recalled nearly 20 million vehicles worldwide since 2009.</p>\n                <p>\nLast month, the U.S. government gave Toyota\'s cars a clean bill of health, saying its electronics were not the cause of vehicles found to have accelerated unintentionally.</p>\n                <p>\nToyota\'s Global Vision for 2020 is expected to map out where Toyoda wants to take the company without being caught up with short-term financial goals. Toyoda outlined some of those initiatives in 2009, including developing cars suited to each market rather than selling the same vehicle around the world.</p>\n                <p>\nToyota has forecast a group operating profit of 550 billion yen in the current business year ending this month, based on the assumed dollar rate of 86 yen.</p>\n                <p>\nToyota\'s shares were up 1.2 percent at 3,745 yen on Wednesday morning, roughly in line with the Nikkei average.</p>\n                <p>\n(Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Nathan Layne)</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Toyota sees op profit of $12 billion in 2-3 years: source   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_toyota\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_toyota</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-08 21:12:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:12:00','2011-03-09 22:22:34','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(350,'Ex-Alice in Chains bassist dies in Salt Lake City   (AP)','ex-alice-in-chains-bassist-dies-in-salt-lake-city-ap','','AP - Police say officers have found former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr dead in a home near Salt Lake City\'s downtown area.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>SALT LAKE CITY – Police say officers have found former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr dead in a home near Salt Lake City\'s downtown area.</p>\n                <p>Salt Lake City Police Sgt. Shawn Josephson says officers responded to the home Tuesday afternoon. He says details about the cause or circumstances of the 44-year-old\'s death were not immediately available.</p>\n                <p>It wasn\'t immediately clear who owned the home or phoned police.</p>\n                <p>Starr was the original bassist for Alice in Chains, an iconic Seattle-based band that made its mark on the grunge scene of the early 1990s. He left the group in 1993.</p>\n                <p>Josephson says Salt Lake City police arrested Starr last month on suspicion of possession of medications without a required prescription.</p>\n                <p>Starr appeared on the third season of VH1\'s \"Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew\" in 2009.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Ex-Alice in Chains bassist dies in Salt Lake City   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_ot/us_obit_alice_in_chains_bassist\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_ot/us_obit_alice_in_chains_bassist</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 21:44:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:44:00','2011-03-09 22:22:36','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(351,'Trump: US president run talk not about publicity   (omg!)','trump-us-president-run-talk-not-about-publicity-omg','','omg! - AP - Billionaire developer Donald Trump denies he is using talk about a run for the U.S. president to generate publicity for his television show.','<div><div class=\"body\">\n					<p>\nNEW YORK - Billionaire developer <a href=\"http://omg.yahoo.com/celebs/donald-trump/203;_ylt=A0wNdGl_8nZNK68AuyZ7pxx.;_ylv=3\">Donald Trump</a> denies he is using talk about a run for the U.S. president to generate publicity for his television show.</p>\n<p>Trump, a Republican, told NY1 News that he plans to decide by June on whether to join the 2012 race.</p>\n<p>In an interview broadcast Tuesday, Trump said that the \"biggest negative\" is that most people don\'t think he\'s serious about making a run for the job. But he said he doesn\'t need publicity for his television show, \"The Apprentice.\" He said the show got solid ratings for Sunday\'s episode.</p>\n<p>One of Trump\'s top associates landed in Iowa on Monday for a series of meetings with key Republicans. Caucuses in Iowa typically launch the presidential nominating season.</p>\n<p>Trump says his representative was \"swamped\" when he went to Iowa.</p>\n<p></p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Trump: US president run talk not about publicity   (omg!)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/omg_rss/rss_omg_en/http___omg_yahoo_com_news58029/40577552/*http%3A//omg.yahoo.com/news/trump-us-president-run-talk-not-about-publicity/58029\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/omg_rss/rss_omg_en/http___omg_yahoo_com_news58029/40577552/*http%3A//omg.yahoo.com/news/trump-us-president-run-talk-not-about-publicity/58029</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 21:30:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:30:00','2011-03-09 22:22:36','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(352,'2 Hot 2 Handle   (omg!)','2-hot-2-handle-omg','','omg! - Amanda Seyfried and Paris Hilton rock pretty pleated dresses.','<div><div id=\"ft\">\n						\n				\n				\n\n				\n			\n			\n			\n			\n						\n			\n\n			\n		\n\n\n				\n				&lt;![CDATA[.ptnr-logo{float:right;padding-right:1em;}]]&gt;<a href=\"http://global.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=15rci54o6/M=289534.12879106.13137408.10347579/D=o_m_g/S=2115811907:FOOT/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1299648159/L=fD5fSGKIRkGXYZPzHTOs6RpORaeTlk128n8ADoJB/B=khuNN2KImiU-/J=1299640959994982/K=ZFfBqj.QRXLc.LcVMt1dcA/A=5442539/R=0/SIG=10np9vmbm/*http://www.yahoo.com/\"><img class=\"ptnr-logo\" src=\"http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/omg/assets/images/omg-ft-logo-yahoo.gif\" alt=\"image\" /></a>&#13;<p id=\"omg-footer-copyright\">&#13;    Copyright © 2011 Yahoo! 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She is currently shooting the drama <em>Contagion</em>, set to hit theaters next year.</p><br /><p><b><b>Related Articles on TVGuide.com</b></b></p><ul><li><a href=\"http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0wNdGGA8nZNtswAZDN7pxx.;_ylv=0/SIG=142ivjqi5/EXP=1300850560/**http%3A//www.tvguide.com/celebrities/kate-winslet/photos/159899%3Frss=keywords%26partnerid=yahoo%26profileid=omg\">Check Out Photos of Kate Winslet</a></li>\n</ul></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Kate Winslet Debuts Drastic New Haircut on the Cover of British Vogue   (omg!)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/omg_rss/rss_omg_en/http___omg_yahoo_com_news58028/40577255/*http%3A//omg.yahoo.com/news/kate-winslet-debuts-drastic-new-haircut-on-the-cover-of-british-vogue/58028\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/omg_rss/rss_omg_en/http___omg_yahoo_com_news58028/40577255/*http%3A//omg.yahoo.com/news/kate-winslet-debuts-drastic-new-haircut-on-the-cover-of-british-vogue/58028</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 21:09:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:09:00','2011-03-09 22:22:37','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(354,'Morals clause at issue in Charlie Sheen legal fight   (omg!)','morals-clause-at-issue-in-charlie-sheen-legal-fight-omg','','omg! - Reuters - A day after Warner Bros. Television fired Charlie Sheen from \"Two and a Half Men\" and the actor responded with legal threats, the studio has written to the actor\'s attorney providing the most public detail to date as to what is actually in his employment contract.','<div><div class=\"body\">\n					<p>\nLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A day after Warner Bros. Television fired <a href=\"http://omg.yahoo.com/celebs/charlie-sheen/295;_ylt=A0wNdGSB8nZN5WMBqjB7pxx.;_ylv=3\">Charlie Sheen</a> from \"Two and a Half Men\" and the actor responded with legal threats, the studio has written to the actor\'s attorney providing the most public detail to date as to what is actually in his employment contract.</p>\n<p>\nFor the past month, since Sheen has engaged his media blitz against the show\'s producers, there have been numerous reports about a lack of morals clause in his contract. However, WBTV certainly seems to be making the case that Sheen\'s unprecedented conduct constitutes a breach of the deal.</p>\n<p>\nIn its letter, WBTV points to this contractual clause:</p>\n<p>\n\"If Producer in its reasonable but good faith opinion believes Performer has committed an act which constitutes a felony offense involving moral turpitude under federal, state or local laws, or is indicted or convicted of any such offense, Producer shall have the right to delete the billing provided for in this Agreement from any broadcast or other uses which are thereafter made of the episode(s) in which Performer appears. In addition, to the extent such event interferes with Performer\'s ability to fully and completely render all material services required hereunder or Producer\'s ability to fully exploit the Series, Producer shall have the right to treat such act as a default under the applicable provisions hereof.\"</p>\n<p>\nIs the reference to \"moral turpitude\" a killer for Sheen?</p>\n<p>\nLegal experts don\'t think it\'s that simple.</p>\n<p>\nBarry Peek, an entertainment labor attorney at Meyer, Suozzi, English &amp; Klein, says this isn\'t the standard \"morals clause\" language in contracts.</p>\n<p>\nTypically, performers agree in contracts to conduct themselves in a way so as not to bring negative press or disparagement to a show. In contrast, says Peek, this one is very specific. \"They are talking about a felony,\" he says. \"It\'s going to be a matter of fact whether they can prove a reasonable good faith belief he actually committed a felony (such as drug distribution), and Warner\'s problem is they continued to negotiate the contract and employ him despite the troubles. It\'s going to be a stretch.\"</p>\n<p>\nThat said, WBTV points to other elements of Sheen\'s contract that may make more winning arguments in court. Specifically, the television studio argues that Section 14 of Sheen\'s contract defines \"Force Majeure\" default provisions very broadly. According to the contract, WBTV is allowed to declare a default if:</p>\n<p>\n\"Producer is prevented from or hampered or interrupted or interfered with in preparing or producing the Series or any Program thereof or in utilizing Performer\'s services hereunder...by reason of any other cause or causes of any similar nature or beyond our control, or by reason of the death, illness, disfigurement, Default or Incapacity of a member of the continuing principal cast of the series...\"</p>\n<p>\nSimilar to its statement at the time that \"Two and a Half Men\" was suspended, WBTV stresses Sheen\'s incapacitated \"condition\" and says that \"facts establish a serious material change in Mr. Sheen\'s attributes that rendered him unwilling or unable to perform his essential duties.\"</p>\n<p>\nPeek believes that WBTV has a better shot at arguing this line of reasoning, but will still have to establish in court (or an arbitration) that the actor\'s condition had degraded. To do this, WBTV could introduce outtakes that show Sheen missing his marks, instances when the actor showed up late to work, or point to early statements about the need for rehab. The argument might still be countered by the notion that WBTV had entered into its contract with eyes wide open about Sheen\'s troubles, but perhaps the studio will attempt to show it had a reasonable expectation that Sheen would enter himself into treatment and get needed help.</p>\n<p>\nFinally, WBTV could argue that he breached his job responsibilities by bringing negative attention to the show in his media interviews. Specifically, the contract states:</p>\n<p>\n\"Any publicity, paid advertisements, press notices and other information with respect to the...Series shall be under Producer\'s sole control (excluding normal, incidental, non-derogatory publicity relating solely to Performer\'s involvement with the...Series...). Therefore Performer shall not issue nor consent to, nor authorize any person or entity to release any such information without Producer\'s express prior written approval.\"</p>\n<p>\nThis clause is standard boilerplate in an entertainer\'s contract, but could eventually become important as a judge or arbitrator weighs Sheen\'s behavior of the last month. WBTV also indicates in its letter that Sheen\'s conduct has caused the studio \"substantial damages,\" with the implication being that the actor will be countersued for lost profits if he decides to pursue his intention to sue. As first reported here, Warner Bros. has already hired big lawyers in anticipation of a major legal showdown, and series co-creator Chuck Lorre has brought his own team on board.</p>\n<p></p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Morals clause at issue in Charlie Sheen legal fight   (omg!)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/omg_rss/rss_omg_en/http___omg_yahoo_com_news58027/40577256/*http%3A//omg.yahoo.com/news/morals-clause-at-issue-in-charlie-sheen-legal-fight/58027\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/omg_rss/rss_omg_en/http___omg_yahoo_com_news58027/40577256/*http%3A//omg.yahoo.com/news/morals-clause-at-issue-in-charlie-sheen-legal-fight/58027</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 20:59:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:59:00','2011-03-09 22:22:38','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(355,'McQueen for Middleton?   (omg!)','mcqueen-for-middleton-omg','','omg! - Fashion industry experts talk about who they think will design Kate Middleton\'s hotly anticipated wedding dress, and the name on everyone\'s lips is McQueen. (8 March)','<div><div>\n						\n				\n				\n\n				\n			\n			\n			\n			\n						\n			\n\n			\n		\n\n\n				\n				&lt;![CDATA[.ptnr-logo{float:right;padding-right:1em;}]]&gt;<a href=\"http://global.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=15r2pkm71/M=289534.12879106.13137408.10347579/D=o_m_g/S=2115800003:FOOT/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1299648161/L=dsXQ7GKIRkExtKJnoDRmxBKeRaeTlk128oEACCsW/B=L7yhKUwNPRg-/J=1299640961580258/K=xeAFdRYYo44jbARpUgFFbA/A=5442539/R=0/SIG=10np9vmbm/*http://www.yahoo.com/\"><img class=\"ptnr-logo\" src=\"http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/omg/assets/images/omg-ft-logo-yahoo.gif\" alt=\"image\" /></a>&#13;<p>&#13;    Copyright © 2011 Yahoo! Inc. 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(omg!)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/omg_rss/rss_omg_en/http___omg_yahoo_com_videos13354/40577153/*http%3A//omg.yahoo.com/videos/mcqueen-for-middleton/13354\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/omg_rss/rss_omg_en/http___omg_yahoo_com_videos13354/40577153/*http%3A//omg.yahoo.com/videos/mcqueen-for-middleton/13354</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 20:49:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:49:00','2011-03-09 22:22:38','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(356,'Footage shows Lohan wearing necklace in theft case   (AP)','footage-shows-lohan-wearing-necklace-in-theft-case-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_ot/us_people_lindsay_lohan\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110308/capt.photo_1299596010373-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=90&amp;q=85&amp;sig=yBRlNlyiaQRASNN4jJYr6Q--\" height=\"90\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Footage shows Lohan wearing necklace in theft case   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - Lindsay Lohan spent roughly 25 minutes wearing a necklace inside a jewelry store that accused her of theft, surveillance video broadcast Tuesday shows.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan spent roughly 25 minutes wearing a necklace inside a jewelry store that accused her of theft, surveillance video broadcast Tuesday shows.</p>\n                <p>\"Entertainment Tonight\" aired several snippets of footage shot by four cameras inside Kamofie &amp; Co., a Venice jewelry store near Lohan\'s home. The footage shows the actress trying on three necklaces before putting on the one reported stolen roughly 20 minutes after entering the store.</p>\n                <p>The surveillance video is part of evidence prosecutors plan to use against Lohan, who has pleaded not guilty to felony grand theft. She is scheduled to return to court on Thursday to tell a judge whether she intends to take a plea deal that includes guaranteed jail time.</p>\n                <p>She could also opt to fight the case, which would then proceed to a preliminary hearing that could end with Lohan being ordered to stand trial and being sent back to jail. The actress was on probation for a 2007 drunken driving case when police began investigating her for the necklace theft, and a judge has said he thinks she has violated her probation.</p>\n                <p>Video footage aired Tuesday shows Lohan, 24, chatting with a clerk while trying on several necklaces, all but one of which she quickly removed, according to the show. She placed one of her own necklaces over the store\'s necklace and continued to browse in the store, the video shows. The entertainment news show plans to air a third day of footage on Wednesday, showing Lohan leaving the store.</p>\n                <p>\"Entertainment Tonight\" heavily promoted the video and said Tuesday that it was its most popular story so far this year, with more than one million page views on its website. The video was sold by a representative of Kamofie to a commercial images unit of The Associated Press, which then licensed it exclusively to \"Entertainment Tonight.\"</p>\n                <p>Christopher Spencer, a crisis management expert who represents the jewelry store, explained in a statement Monday the reason the footage was sold.</p>\n                <p>\"Most important, we were upset with the various mischaracterizations we were seeing and hearing about the video and its contents, and we felt the video should be allowed to speak for itself,\" Spencer\'s statement read. \"With regard to the question of Lindsay Lohan\'s guilt or innocence, we repeat that Kamofie and Company never gave permission to Ms. Lohan to remove the necklace from the store. The rest is up to the jury.\"</p>\n                <p>\"Lindsay\'s in some very hot water here,\" former Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark, who prosecuted the O.J. Simpson murder case, told \"Entertainment Tonight\" after watching the footage. The veteran prosecutor also noted that Lohan made clear she had put the necklace on by showing it to a companion, and continued to interact with a store clerk.</p>\n                <p>The video does not contain any audio, so Clark said it was difficult to determine Lohan\'s intent.</p>\n                <p>\"There must be more that we don\'t know or this case would have settled based on the video,\" said Lou Shapiro, a defense attorney who also viewed the entire tape at the request of \"Entertainment Tonight.\"</p>\n                <p>He said Lohan\'s conduct didn\'t appear to be of someone who walked into the store prepared to steal the necklace.</p>\n                <p>\"She wasn\'t wearing a jacket and she didn\'t put it in a pocket, which is more consistent with a theft,\" said Shapiro, who spoke to the AP.</p>\n                <p>Other defense attorneys have said the sale of the video could hurt prosecutors, who also have other evidence in their case against the \"Mean Girls\" star.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Footage shows Lohan wearing necklace in theft case   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_ot/us_people_lindsay_lohan\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_ot/us_people_lindsay_lohan</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 20:56:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:56:00','2011-03-09 22:22:40','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(357,'Trump: US president run talk not about publicity   (AP)','trump-us-president-run-talk-not-about-publicity-ap','','AP - Billionaire developer Donald Trump denies he is using talk about a run for the U.S. president to generate publicity for his television show.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>NEW YORK – Billionaire developer Donald Trump denies he is using talk about a run for the U.S. president to generate publicity for his television show.</p>\n                <p>Trump, a Republican, told NY1 News that he plans to decide by June on whether to join the 2012 race.</p>\n                <p>In an interview broadcast Tuesday, Trump said that the \"biggest negative\" is that most people don\'t think he\'s serious about making a run for the job. But he said he doesn\'t need publicity for his television show, \"The Apprentice.\" He said the show got solid ratings for Sunday\'s episode.</p>\n                <p>One of Trump\'s top associates landed in Iowa on Monday for a series of meetings with key Republicans. Caucuses in Iowa typically launch the presidential nominating season.</p>\n                <p>Trump says his representative was \"swamped\" when he went to Iowa.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Trump: US president run talk not about publicity   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_tv/us_people_trump_president\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_tv/us_people_trump_president</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 21:30:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:30:00','2011-03-09 22:22:40','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(358,' Mars Needs Moms  needs stronger story   (Reuters)','mars-needs-moms-needs-stronger-story-reuters','','Reuters - Robert Zemeckis\' performance capture system, which turns life-action into animation, gets quite a workout in Disney\'s \"Mars Needs Moms,\" which opens on Friday.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Robert Zemeckis\' performance capture system, which turns life-action into animation, gets quite a workout in Disney\'s \"Mars Needs Moms,\" which opens on Friday.</p>\n                <p>\nIts characters, both human and Martian, tumble through space, slide down chutes, chase along corridors that turn every which way and dance around mountains and into caverns created out of huge mounds of trash. The process has also lost those weirdly inhuman faces that plagued \"The Polar Express,\" Zemeckis\' first foray into performance capture. In fact, so many things in this unique kind of animation, especially the designs and all its many details, keep getting better and better. So why does \"Mars Needs Moms\" feel so slight?</p>\n                <p>\nOther than \"Beowulf,\" his most successful performance-capture film to date, Zemeckis has chosen to deploy this system in children\'s films. Which is just fine as far as that goes, but where the technical advances and story sophistication in his \"Beowulf\" pointed toward James Cameron\'s \"Avatar,\" \"Mars Needs Moms\" points toward a ride at Disneyland.</p>\n                <p>\nThis film from Zemickis\' ImageMovers Digital and, appropriately, Walt Disney Pictures will certainly be a treat for younger family members. But for teens on up the generational scale, the interest level will plummet.</p>\n                <p>\nFor that matter, it will be interesting to see how \"Mars\" in its first week fares against \"Rango,\" an animated film with considerable sophistication and outreach to older audiences, in its second weekend. As with his \"A Christmas Carol\" movie, Zemeckis paints himself into a digital corner by ignoring adults.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Mars\" does do one thing much better than \"A Christmas Carol,\" however: It has emotions. After all, it is based on a children\'s novel by cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, who admits the book came in reaction to a disobedient son expressing keen dissatisfaction with even having a (nagging) mother. Consequently, the entire story about a mom kidnapped by Martians and her rescue by her young son bubbles over with emotions. It\'s an illustrated laundry lists all the things moms do for their kids -- and that would include the laundry.</p>\n                <p>\nFor this film, Zemeckis turns directing chores over to Simon Wells, who directed \"The Time Machine\" and co-directed the animated \"The Prince of Egypt.\" Wells and his wife Wendy adapted the Breathed book with nearly every plot turn driving home the point that kids need moms.</p>\n                <p>\nMilo, age 9, is the focal point. He is enacted by Seth Green and voiced by a much younger Seth named Seth Dusky, age 11. The estimable Joan Cusack is Mom but since she spends most of the time under lock and key, the major roles fall to an extremely funny Dan Folger as Mars\' only other human, a disheveled techo-wiz named Gribble; Elisabeth Harnois as Ki, a rebellious young Martian who learned English watching \'70s sitcoms; and Mindy Sperling as the humorless, nasty Martian leader whose body appears as mummified as her heart.</p>\n                <p>\nDesigner Doug Chiang has a grand time turning the Red Planet into a giant fun ride from those loopy Martians with triangular heads, no real noses and otherworldly bodies and gaits to an underground world of stark simplicity and sterility. Women run the place while men -- Gribble calls them the Hairy Tribe Guys -- get tossed down chutes with the garbage as they\'re apparently the most expendable resource on the planet.</p>\n                <p>\nThe entire movie is set up as a race against the clock by Milo to save his mom but the film finds time to take in the Martian civilization in passing, a gag-filled and mostly lighthearted re-imagining of our own world if women ruled. (It is odd though how a movie meant to glorify moms is so riddled with anti-feminist concepts. These are, of course, Martian females not human ones but still ...)</p>\n                <p>\nAnachronistic dialogue rules for the most part as not only does Ki brim with the hep lingo of the Flower Children era, but Gribble, who is thirty-something, is stuck forever in the \'80s when he left planet Earth.</p>\n                <p>\nThe movie shrugs off any real attempt at science fiction other than oxygen helmets for the surface of Mars. The characters still dash around those surfaces in short sleeves in what should be an 87 degrees climate and make the round trip from Earth to Mars, which should take about 18 months, in a half minute.</p>\n                <p>\nThe skill level of this motion capture animation is getting better all the time. So \"Mars\" is accomplished at every level. But the three most important things in movies are story, story, story so the movie never comes off as the considerable achievement it truly is.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\" Mars Needs Moms  needs stronger story   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/review_nm/us_film_moms\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/review_nm/us_film_moms</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 22:02:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 22:02:00','2011-03-09 22:22:41','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(359,'Ex-Alice in Chains bassist dies in Salt Lake City   (AP)','ex-alice-in-chains-bassist-dies-in-salt-lake-city-ap','','AP - Police say officers have found former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr dead in a home near Salt Lake City\'s downtown area.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>SALT LAKE CITY – Police say officers have found former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr dead in a home near Salt Lake City\'s downtown area.</p>\n                <p>Salt Lake City Police Sgt. Shawn Josephson says officers responded to the home Tuesday afternoon. He says details about the cause or circumstances of the 44-year-old\'s death were not immediately available.</p>\n                <p>It wasn\'t immediately clear who owned the home or phoned police.</p>\n                <p>Starr was the original bassist for Alice in Chains, an iconic Seattle-based band that made its mark on the grunge scene of the early 1990s. He left the group in 1993.</p>\n                <p>Josephson says Salt Lake City police arrested Starr last month on suspicion of possession of medications without a required prescription.</p>\n                <p>Starr appeared on the third season of VH1\'s \"Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew\" in 2009.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Ex-Alice in Chains bassist dies in Salt Lake City   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_mu/us_obit_alice_in_chains_bassist\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_mu/us_obit_alice_in_chains_bassist</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 21:44:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:44:00','2011-03-09 22:22:42','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(360,'Morals clause at issue in Charlie Sheen legal fight   (Reuters)','morals-clause-at-issue-in-charlie-sheen-legal-fight-reuters','','Reuters - A day after Warner Bros. Television fired Charlie Sheen from \"Two and a Half Men\" and the actor responded with legal threats, the studio has written to the actor\'s attorney providing the most public detail to date as to what is actually in his employment contract.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – A day after Warner Bros. Television fired Charlie Sheen from \"Two and a Half Men\" and the actor responded with legal threats, the studio has written to the actor\'s attorney providing the most public detail to date as to what is actually in his employment contract.</p>\n                <p>\nFor the past month, since Sheen has engaged his media blitz against the show\'s producers, there have been numerous reports about a lack of morals clause in his contract. However, WBTV certainly seems to be making the case that Sheen\'s unprecedented conduct constitutes a breach of the deal.</p>\n                <p>\nIn its letter, WBTV points to this contractual clause:</p>\n                <p>\n\"If Producer in its reasonable but good faith opinion believes Performer has committed an act which constitutes a felony offense involving moral turpitude under federal, state or local laws, or is indicted or convicted of any such offense, Producer shall have the right to delete the billing provided for in this Agreement from any broadcast or other uses which are thereafter made of the episode(s) in which Performer appears. In addition, to the extent such event interferes with Performer\'s ability to fully and completely render all material services required hereunder or Producer\'s ability to fully exploit the Series, Producer shall have the right to treat such act as a default under the applicable provisions hereof.\"</p>\n                <p>\nIs the reference to \"moral turpitude\" a killer for Sheen?</p>\n                <p>\nLegal experts don\'t think it\'s that simple.</p>\n                <p>\nBarry Peek, an entertainment labor attorney at Meyer, Suozzi, English &amp; Klein, says this isn\'t the standard \"morals clause\" language in contracts.</p>\n                <p>\nTypically, performers agree in contracts to conduct themselves in a way so as not to bring negative press or disparagement to a show. In contrast, says Peek, this one is very specific. \"They are talking about a felony,\" he says. \"It\'s going to be a matter of fact whether they can prove a reasonable good faith belief he actually committed a felony (such as drug distribution), and Warner\'s problem is they continued to negotiate the contract and employ him despite the troubles. It\'s going to be a stretch.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThat said, WBTV points to other elements of Sheen\'s contract that may make more winning arguments in court. Specifically, the television studio argues that Section 14 of Sheen\'s contract defines \"Force Majeure\" default provisions very broadly. According to the contract, WBTV is allowed to declare a default if:</p>\n                <p>\n\"Producer is prevented from or hampered or interrupted or interfered with in preparing or producing the Series or any Program thereof or in utilizing Performer\'s services hereunder...by reason of any other cause or causes of any similar nature or beyond our control, or by reason of the death, illness, disfigurement, Default or Incapacity of a member of the continuing principal cast of the series...\"</p>\n                <p>\nSimilar to its statement at the time that \"Two and a Half Men\" was suspended, WBTV stresses Sheen\'s incapacitated \"condition\" and says that \"facts establish a serious material change in Mr. Sheen\'s attributes that rendered him unwilling or unable to perform his essential duties.\"</p>\n                <p>\nPeek believes that WBTV has a better shot at arguing this line of reasoning, but will still have to establish in court (or an arbitration) that the actor\'s condition had degraded. To do this, WBTV could introduce outtakes that show Sheen missing his marks, instances when the actor showed up late to work, or point to early statements about the need for rehab. The argument might still be countered by the notion that WBTV had entered into its contract with eyes wide open about Sheen\'s troubles, but perhaps the studio will attempt to show it had a reasonable expectation that Sheen would enter himself into treatment and get needed help.</p>\n                <p>\nFinally, WBTV could argue that he breached his job responsibilities by bringing negative attention to the show in his media interviews. Specifically, the contract states:</p>\n                <p>\n\"Any publicity, paid advertisements, press notices and other information with respect to the...Series shall be under Producer\'s sole control (excluding normal, incidental, non-derogatory publicity relating solely to Performer\'s involvement with the...Series...). Therefore Performer shall not issue nor consent to, nor authorize any person or entity to release any such information without Producer\'s express prior written approval.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThis clause is standard boilerplate in an entertainer\'s contract, but could eventually become important as a judge or arbitrator weighs Sheen\'s behavior of the last month. WBTV also indicates in its letter that Sheen\'s conduct has caused the studio \"substantial damages,\" with the implication being that the actor will be countersued for lost profits if he decides to pursue his intention to sue. As first reported here, Warner Bros. has already hired big lawyers in anticipation of a major legal showdown, and series co-creator Chuck Lorre has brought his own team on board.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Morals clause at issue in Charlie Sheen legal fight   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/media_nm/us_charliesheen_morals\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/media_nm/us_charliesheen_morals</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 20:59:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:59:00','2011-03-09 22:22:43','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(361,'Trump: US president run talk not about publicity   (AP)','trump-us-president-run-talk-not-about-publicity-ap','','AP - Billionaire developer Donald Trump denies he is using talk about a run for the U.S. president to generate publicity for his television show.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>NEW YORK – Billionaire developer Donald Trump denies he is using talk about a run for the U.S. president to generate publicity for his television show.</p>\n                <p>Trump, a Republican, told NY1 News that he plans to decide by June on whether to join the 2012 race.</p>\n                <p>In an interview broadcast Tuesday, Trump said that the \"biggest negative\" is that most people don\'t think he\'s serious about making a run for the job. But he said he doesn\'t need publicity for his television show, \"The Apprentice.\" He said the show got solid ratings for Sunday\'s episode.</p>\n                <p>One of Trump\'s top associates landed in Iowa on Monday for a series of meetings with key Republicans. Caucuses in Iowa typically launch the presidential nominating season.</p>\n                <p>Trump says his representative was \"swamped\" when he went to Iowa.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Trump: US president run talk not about publicity   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_ce/us_people_trump_president\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_en_ce/us_people_trump_president</a></p>',-2,5,0,40,'2011-03-08 21:30:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:30:00','2011-03-09 22:22:44','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(362,'APNewsBreak: NBA mulling formal concussion policy   (AP)','apnewsbreak-nba-mulling-formal-concussion-policy-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_bk_ne/bkn_nba_concussions\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110307/capt.1da4943038f04f3f849ba12fef8007fd-1da4943038f04f3f849ba12fef8007fd-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=82&amp;q=85&amp;sig=x0G8ogL01Xs_Q56RVjpbjg--\" height=\"82\" width=\"130\" alt=\"APNewsBreak: NBA mulling formal concussion policy   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - The NBA is consulting with an independent neurologist and may establish a league-wide policy for handling concussions by next season, The Associated Press has learned.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>MILWAUKEE – The NBA is consulting with an independent neurologist and may establish a league-wide policy for handling concussions by next season, The Associated Press has learned.</p>\n                <p>NBA spokesman Tim Frank confirmed the discussions Tuesday.</p>\n                <p>\"The NBA Team Physicians Society has been studying the issue of concussion management for several years and each team follows its own treatment and return-to-play protocols,\" he said. \"In addition, the league is working with a consulting neurologist concerning the possible adoption of a league-wide protocol.\"</p>\n                <p>The move would bring the NBA more in line with both the NHL and the NFL. In just the last four weeks, six NBA players have missed games because of concussions or concussion-like symptoms.</p>\n                <p>Most recently, New Orleans point guard Chris Paul was taken off the floor on a stretcher on Sunday night after diving and hitting his forehead on Cleveland guard Ramon Sessions\' right shoulder. He was diagnosed with a concussion.</p>\n                <p>\"Concussions are something that I don\'t think we really realize how serious they are because they\'re kind of rare in our game. They happen more often in football, hockey, other sports like that,\" said Bucks guard Keyon Dooling, a vice president of the NBA players\' union executive committee along with Paul.</p>\n                <p>\"Our brain is our most powerful muscle, and if you\'ve got anything off-kilter with that, it can be problematic,\" Dooling said recently.</p>\n                <p>The NBA and the players\' union say they are tracking the number of head hits. Frank declined to name the neurologist involved with the league, but said they\'ve been working on the issue extensively this season.</p>\n                <p>Basketball doesn\'t draw the same level of concern as in other sports such as hockey and football because there aren\'t as many violent head hits and fewer concussions.</p>\n                <p>\"They seem to be really rare, but I did have one as a player,\" Pistons president Joe Dumars said. \"I can\'t recall any of our guys over the years getting a concussion, but if it was to come up, we would absolutely exercise caution.\"</p>\n                <p>Hornets coach Monty Williams is dealing with Paul\'s injury after two of his own as a player while Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro believes the league has to balance player safety with how the game is played.</p>\n                <p>\"They\'re trying to do different things with rules in terms of respect of the game and flagrant fouls and things to protect guys,\" Del Negro said. \"There\'s a fine line there. The game is an instinct game. You want to react.</p>\n                <p>\"There\'s going to be physical contact, it\'s part of it. There\'s going to be collisions in the air and depending on how guys land and how vicious they are, you want to protect that.\"</p>\n                <p>Players on Tuesday night said they would embrace a league-wide initiative in the interest of their safety.</p>\n                <p>\"Whatever they implement, I\'m all for it,\" Sixers forward Elton Brand said. \"Guys want to play as much as we can in this league. We might not know the hazards and problems that can come with something like that.\"</p>\n                <p>While the league has been working on policy, including a lengthy medical meeting during the All-Star break, Atlanta\'s Al Horford believes Paul\'s injury will have a bigger effect on players\' views of concussions now.</p>\n                <p>\"That opened a lot of people\'s eyes,\" he said.</p>\n                <p>Horford\'s teammate, Jamal Crawford, said players often can\'t think in their own best interests.\n</p><p>\n\"As athletes, you want to be out there. Your competitive nature takes over. You don\'t want to come out of the game. So sometimes you need somebody who knows more about it to step in and say, \'No, you\'re not,\'\" Crawford said. \"That doesn\'t need to be (the player\'s) call, because it can have long-term effects.\"\n</p><p>\nThe NFL and NHL bolstered their rules against improper hits and Major League Baseball has looked into creating a seven-day disabled list specifically for concussions as steps to limit and better diagnose head injuries. Even so, major stars of each sport have missed significant time this season or last because of concussions.\n</p><p>\nPenguins center Sidney Crosby has been out since Jan. 6, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers missed a game after sustaining two concussions and Twins first baseman Justin Morneau, the 2006 AL MVP, took part in a spring training \"B\" game on Tuesday — the first time he\'s played since a concussion sidelined him in July.\n</p><p>\nAccording to STATS LLC data reviewed by the AP, eight NBA players have missed games this season because of head injuries, concussions or concussion-like symptoms and there\'s been an average of nine players per season who\'ve missed playing time over the previous five years.\n</p><p>\nBesides Paul, Miami\'s Mike Miller, San Antonio\'s Gary Neal, Phoenix\'s Vince Carter and New Jersey\'s Anthony Morrow and Damion James all have dealt with blows to the head since Feb. 15.\n</p><p>\nThe actual numbers could be higher.\n</p><p>\nFor example, the Milwaukee Bucks have had four players with concussions or concussion-like symptoms alone, yet only Ersan Ilyasova was on the eight-player list.\n</p><p>\nLuc Richard Mbah a Moute, who told the AP last month that there needed to be a league-wide policy, didn\'t miss a game with his concussion. Carlos Delfino\'s initial diagnosis was a neck strain before he began having lingering symptoms, while Corey Maggette missed two games.\n</p><p>\nIlyasova\'s injury was immediately ruled a concussion after he collided with Jon Brockman in practice two weeks ago, and there\'s no timetable for his return.\n</p><p>\nPhoenix\'s Channing Frye slammed heads with Carter in the third quarter of a loss to Boston last week. The Suns said after the game Frye had a bruised eye and Carter had a cut on his mouth. Carter missed one game because of dizziness, but Frye had one of his best games of the season two nights later in Milwaukee.\n</p><p>\n\"Getting conked on the head was kind of like a reality — at any moment, this can all be taken away,\" Frye said after that game. \"Anything messing with your head is serious.\"\n</p><p>\n___\n</p><p>\nAP Sports Writers Cliff Brunt in Indianapolis, Andrew Seligman in Chicago, Larry Lage in Detroit and Jon Krawczynski in Minneapolis and AP freelance writer Amy Jinkner-Lloyd in Atlanta contributed to this report.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"APNewsBreak: NBA mulling formal concussion policy   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_bk_ne/bkn_nba_concussions\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_bk_ne/bkn_nba_concussions</a></p>',-2,5,0,39,'2011-03-08 22:12:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 22:12:00','2011-03-09 22:22:45','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,1,''),(363,'Bozeman lifts UALR past North Texas 64-63   (AP)','bozeman-lifts-ualr-past-north-texas-64-63-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_co_ga_su/bkc_sbelt_ark_little_rock_north_texas\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110309/capt.f11ead85358740038021ee82f37d1277-f11ead85358740038021ee82f37d1277-0.jpg?x=86&amp;y=130&amp;q=85&amp;sig=XLRE443ne1vl5Eq4RSPm4A--\" height=\"130\" width=\"86\" alt=\"Bozeman lifts UALR past North Texas 64-63   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - Solomon Bozeman\'s deep 3-pointer with 1.5 seconds remaining gave Arkansas-Little Rock a 64-63 win over North Texas for the Sun Belt title on Tuesday night and sent the Trojans to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 21 years.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Solomon Bozeman\'s deep 3-pointer with 1.5 seconds remaining gave Arkansas-Little Rock a 64-63 win over North Texas for the Sun Belt title on Tuesday night and sent the Trojans to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 21 years.</p>\n                <p>It\'s the first conference tournament title in school history, and the NCAA trip is the first for the school since 1990.</p>\n                <p>North Texas (22-11), the defending tournament champion, led 59-52 with less than 2 minutes remaining. UALR (19-16) pulled within 62-61 with 17.6 seconds remaining on a 3-pointer by Matt Mouzy.</p>\n                <p>After Tristan Thompson put the Mean Green up 63-61 with a free throw with 7 seconds remaining, Bozeman took the inbound pass all the way up the court and hit the game-winning 3-pointer.</p>\n                <p>Alex Garcia-Mendoza then stole the inbound pass to secure the Trojans\' win and NCAA berth.</p>\n                <p>Bozeman, who finished with 20 points, went to the bench for the final 9:31 of the first half for UALR after being called for his second foul.</p>\n                <p>The game was tied 13-13 at the time, and North Texas later took advantage in using a 7-0 run to take a 25-19 lead.</p>\n                <p>Thompson scored five points during the run, which Kendrick Hogans capped with an inside basket on a delayed fast break for the Mean Green.</p>\n                <p>Even without Bozeman, the Sun Belt Player of the Year, the Trojans stormed back. UALR went on a 13-2 run to take a 32-27 lead late in the half after a layup off the glass by Marlon Louzeiro.</p>\n                <p>The Trojans shot just 13 of 31 (41.9 percent) in the first half, but they committed just three turnovers.</p>\n                <p>North Texas hit 11 of 22 shots (50 percent) in the first half, and closed the half with five straight points to tie the game at 32 at halftime.</p>\n                <p>The hot shooting didn\'t carry over to start the second half for the Mean Green, who opened the second half 4 of 18 from the field.</p>\n                <p>Despite the poor shooting, North Texas appeared to have the game in hand when Josh White\'s layup put the Mean Green up 59-52 with 1:42 remaining.</p>\n                <p>However, after a pair of North Texas turnovers the Trojans hit six straight free throws to pull within 59-58.</p>\n                <p>White hit a deep 3-pointer to extend the lead to 62-58 with 30 seconds left, but Mouzy answered on the other end with a 3-pointer with 17.6 seconds remaining. Mouzy collected a steal on the inbound pass and had another 3-point attempt that missed and Thompson grabbed for the Mean Green and was fouled.</p>\n                <p>The North Texas senior, who hit a Sun Belt tournament record 20 of 20 free throws on Sunday, missed the first of his two attempts. He hit the second to put the Mean Green up 63-61 with 7 seconds left, which was more than enough time for Bozeman to take the ball up the court and hit the game winner.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Bozeman lifts UALR past North Texas 64-63   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_co_ga_su/bkc_sbelt_ark_little_rock_north_texas\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_co_ga_su/bkc_sbelt_ark_little_rock_north_texas</a></p>',-2,5,0,39,'2011-03-08 21:45:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:45:00','2011-03-09 22:22:46','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(364,'Princeton forces Ivy playoff with win vs. Penn   (AP)','princeton-forces-ivy-playoff-with-win-vs-penn-ap','','AP - Princeton and Harvard are set for their toughest test yet: A one-game playoff for the Ivy League championship that sends the winner to the NCAA tournament.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>PHILADELPHIA – Princeton and Harvard are set for their toughest test yet: A one-game playoff for the Ivy League championship that sends the winner to the NCAA tournament.</p>\n                <p>The Tigers forced a tie for the title and the playoff with a 70-58 win over Penn on Tuesday night. Princeton and Harvard will play Saturday at Yale\'s John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn., in a one-game playoff for the league\'s automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.</p>\n                <p>It will be the seventh playoff in Ivy history, and the first since Yale, Penn and Princeton were tied at the end of the 2001-02 regular season — the only three-way tie in conference history.</p>\n                <p>Kareem Maddox scored 21 of his 23 points in the second half for the Tigers (24-6, 12-2 Ivy).</p>\n                <p>Coach Sydney Johnson embraced his team and coaching staff as the final seconds ticked off the clock. He glanced at the scoreboard, pumped his fist and rubbed his head as he walked toward Penn\'s bench for congratulatory handshakes.</p>\n                <p>Princeton hopes a bigger one awaits.</p>\n                <p>Harvard (23-5, 12-2 Ivy League) has not appeared in the NCAA tournament since 1946, and it was the only Ivy League school that had not won a championship since the conference was formed in 1956-57.</p>\n                <p>Princeton has not played in the NCAA tournament since 2004.</p>\n                <p>The teams split a pair of games during the regular season. The Tigers, who have the third-highest win total in team history, won 65-61 on Feb. 4. Kyle Casey scored a season-high 24 points to lead Harvard to a 79-67 victory over Princeton on Saturday.</p>\n                <p>Princeton orange was scattered around the bleachers of the famed Palestra for the biggest Ivy League game of the season.</p>\n                <p>Of course, that distinction now shifts to the neutral site at Yale. The Ivies would consider Harvard and Princeton co-champions, but the automatic berth in the NCAA tournament would go to the winner of the one-game playoff.</p>\n                <p>The Tigers started an 11-0 run midway through the second half to the delight of the hundreds of fans dressed in orange.</p>\n                <p>Princeton ran plays for easy baskets inside to chip away at an eight-point deficit but pulled away with 3s. Patrick Saunders started the run with a 3, and Douglas Davis and Saunders hit consecutive 3-pointers for a 55-42 lead.</p>\n                <p>The Tigers pushed the lead to 14 points.</p>\n                <p>Johnson led the Tigers to a share of their 26th Ivy League title. Princeton ends a six-season drought without an Ivy League title, an eternity for a program that went to the NCAAs six times in the 1990s.</p>\n                <p>Ian Hummer scored 14 points for Princeton and the Tigers made 8 of 16 3s.</p>\n                <p>Tyler Bernardini led Penn (13-15, 7-7) with 18 points.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Princeton forces Ivy playoff with win vs. Penn   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_co_ga_su/bkc_princeton_penn\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_co_ga_su/bkc_princeton_penn</a></p>',-2,5,0,39,'2011-03-08 21:56:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:56:00','2011-03-09 22:22:47','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(365,'Aldridge, Blazers\' bench roll Heat, 105-96   (AP)','aldridge-blazers-bench-roll-heat-105-96-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_bk_ga_su/bkn_trail_blazers_heat\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110309/capt.972006b1f22f410fb800b3f758a1f737-972006b1f22f410fb800b3f758a1f737-0.jpg?x=93&amp;y=130&amp;q=85&amp;sig=dq7ckn3vuMVTAV_Z1ABGHg--\" height=\"130\" width=\"93\" alt=\"Aldridge, Blazers\' bench roll Heat, 105-96   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - LaMarcus Aldridge proved LeBron James right.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>MIAMI – LaMarcus Aldridge proved LeBron James right.</p>\n                <p>The Miami Heat could have done without that confirmation.</p>\n                <p>Shortly after James called Aldridge one of the top All-Star \"snubs\" in NBA history, he scored 26 points and led the Portland Trail Blazers to a 105-96 win over Miami — sending the Heat to their fifth straight loss.</p>\n                <p>Gerald Wallace scored 22 for Portland, which won its seventh straight on the road and fourth straight overall. Brandon Roy and Andre Miller each scored 14 for the Blazers, who got 11 from Nicolas Batum and 10 more from Wesley Matthews.</p>\n                <p>Dwyane Wade scored 38 points and LeBron James added 31 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists for the Heat, who are the 12th team in NBA history to have a 12-game winning streak and five-game losing streak in the same season.</p>\n                <p>Chris Bosh was held to seven points on 3 for 11 shooting.</p>\n                <p>The Blazers\' bench outscored Miami\'s 41-8, easily more than enough to keep Miami\'s doldrums going strong. And it gets no easier for the Heat: The two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers, now winners of a league-high eight straight, come in on Thursday night.</p>\n                <p>Whenever Miami tried making any sort of run, Portland had an answer.</p>\n                <p>James had a spectacular crossover with 4:11 remaining in the third quarter, notable for two reasons. One, it sent Batum flying backward. Two, it was the last time a Heat player other than Wade scored in 9 1/2 minutes.</p>\n                <p>With the bench a non-factor and Bosh struggling, it was Wade and James against everybody at times — and it wasn\'t enough.</p>\n                <p>The Heat made one late run from a nine-point deficit, starting with a 3-pointer by Mike Bibby and getting within two on a dunk by James with 4:35 left, but when the Blazers were up 103-94 and running out the clock with a minute left, many of the fans who remained were booing.</p>\n                <p>Unlike three of the four games in the slide, the Heat didn\'t even have the luxury of a big early lead.</p>\n                <p>The game was tied three times in the opening quarter, including at 25-25 when the period ended, though the Heat never took their first lead until Bosh made a layup to open the second. Miami\'s cushion, such as it was, grew to 39-35 before Portland\'s bench — one of the major story lines of the first half — started flexing its muscle.</p>\n                <p>Granted, Wallace and Roy are not exactly ordinary bench players, having a combined 749 starts in 902 career appearances. But with Miami\'s bench struggling of late anyway, that Portland duo turned the reserve battle into a one-sided fight, outscoring the Heat backups 26-5 in the first half.</p>\n                <p>Wallace and Roy each scored 11 in the second, and the Blazers led 57-51 at the break.</p>\n                <p>Miami got within two points on five occasions within a span of 5 1/2 minutes in the third quarter — with Portland answering with two of its own every time, four of those scores coming on the very next possession. Wade tied it at 75 with a pair of free throws with 15.4 seconds left, only to have Patty Mills score to give Portland the lead again with 1.4 seconds left in the third.</p>\n                <p>And after Wade opened the fourth with a dunk to tie it again, the Blazers peeled off the next seven, then took what was their biggest lead of the night to that point — 89-80_ on Wallace\'s three-point play with 6:59 remaining.</p>\n                <p>Notes: Before this seven-game road winning streak, Portland had won seven of its last 23 away from home. ... The Heat fell to 14-17 when scoring below 100. They\'re 29-4 when topping it. ... Portland coach Nate McMillan signed a two-year contract extension earlier in the day. ... James has scored 25 or more points in eight straight games, one shy of the franchise record.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Aldridge, Blazers\' bench roll Heat, 105-96   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_bk_ga_su/bkn_trail_blazers_heat\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_bk_ga_su/bkn_trail_blazers_heat</a></p>',-2,5,0,39,'2011-03-08 22:11:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 22:11:00','2011-03-09 22:22:48','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,1,''),(366,'Buffalo defeats Central Michigan 64-50 to advance   (AP)','buffalo-defeats-central-michigan-64-50-to-advance-ap','','AP - Zach Filzen scored 21 points to lead Buffalo over Central Michigan 64-50 on Tuesday night in the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>BUFFALO, N.Y. – Zach Filzen scored 21 points to lead Buffalo over Central Michigan 64-50 on Tuesday night in the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament.</p>\n                <p>The eighth-seeded Bulls (18-12), who have the conference\'s best average margin of victory at 7.1 points, will play the No. 1 seed, Kent State, in the quarterfinals on Thursday.</p>\n                <p>Filzen was 5 of 10 from 3-point range, making all but two of Buffalo\'s shots from behind the arc (7 of 18).</p>\n                <p>The Bulls made 43.9 percent of their field goals (25 of 57), while the Chippewas (10-21) made 33.4 percent (18 of 53).</p>\n                <p>Byron Mulkey added 11 points and four assists, Dave Barnett also had 11 points and Jawaan Alston chipped in 10 points for Buffalo, which led 30-26 at halftime.</p>\n                <p>Derek Jackson had 11 points and Trey Zeigler 10 for ninth-seeded Central Michigan. William McClure grabbed 12 rebounds for the Chippewas.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Buffalo defeats Central Michigan 64-50 to advance   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_co_ga_su/bkc_mac_central_michigan_buffalo\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_co_ga_su/bkc_mac_central_michigan_buffalo</a></p>',-2,5,0,39,'2011-03-08 22:13:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 22:13:00','2011-03-09 22:22:49','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,1,''),(367,'UCI wins landmark anti-doping verdicts   (AP)','uci-wins-landmark-anti-doping-verdicts-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_ot/cyc_doping_pellizotti\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110308/capt.e18a4713e43f448cbe0cc96bf5847441-edca2a01a4b14af9a3ba2599044a306a-0.jpg?x=91&amp;y=130&amp;q=85&amp;sig=jRVV4fWkUtJ_rwQIz1o3Ww--\" height=\"130\" width=\"91\" alt=\"UCI wins landmark anti-doping verdicts   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - Italian rider Franco Pellizotti was found guilty of doping and banned for two years Tuesday in a landmark victory for cycling\'s blood profiling program.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>GENEVA – Italian rider Franco Pellizotti was found guilty of doping and banned for two years Tuesday in a landmark victory for cycling\'s blood profiling program.</p>\n                <p>The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that evidence of blood doping was confirmed in Pellizotti\'s biological passport profile. He was stripped of all his race results since May 2009.</p>\n                <p>Pellizotti, whose ban runs through May 2, 2012, loses his third-place finish at the 2009 Giro d\'Italia and his King of the Mountains title at the 2009 Tour de France. He also must pay the International Cycling Union a fine of $160,000, CAS said.</p>\n                <p>Cycling\'s governing body welcomed the court\'s endorsement of its flagship project to catch drug cheats.</p>\n                <p>\"We always were convinced of the quality of our anti-doping program and the work of our scientific people,\" UCI spokesman Enrico Carpani said in a telephone interview.</p>\n                <p>Cycling\'s governing body appealed to CAS after he was cleared by an Italian anti-doping court last October.</p>\n                <p>The UCI said CAS also rejected Pietro Caucchioli\'s appeal against his two-year suspension imposed by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on the basis of biological passport results.</p>\n                <p>Pellizotti and Caucchioli never tested positive for banned drugs but showed irregular results in blood samples taken for their biological passport.</p>\n                <p>The verdicts are the first issued by CAS appeal panels that have examined the scientific and legal validity of the biological passport. The program was designed so that scientists can prove evidence of the effects of doping rather than trace and test for banned substances.</p>\n                <p>The CAS panel \"reviewed in detail the biological passport program applied by the UCI and has found that the strict application of such program could be considered as a reliable means of detecting indirect doping methods,\" it said in a statement.</p>\n                <p>The project was launched by the UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2008.</p>\n                <p>\"Both of these cases are important for cycling, for the biological passport and for sport,\" Carpani said. \"Thanks to the good cooperation of WADA, we were sure we could go in front of CAS with a strong case.\"</p>\n                <p>WADA director general David Howman said the verdicts were a \"significant step\" in anti-doping efforts.</p>\n                <p>\"The athlete biological passport program has proven it can withstand legal and scientific challenges. These decisions send a strong message to those athletes who take the risk to cheat that we will ultimately catch them,\" Howman said in a statement.</p>\n                <p>Pellizotti\'s case was heard at the Lausanne-based court last Wednesday as the fourth, and highest profile, test of the biological passport.</p>\n                <p>The 33-year-old rider had been one of the favorites for the 2010 Giro d\'Italia. Days before the three-week race started last May, Pellizotti was suspended by his Liquigas team after the UCI said his blood profile results were suspicious.</p>\n                <p>The case was handled by CONI, which recommended that its anti-doping court impose a two-year ban. However, the panel ruled last October that the evidence did not prove Pellizotti\'s guilt.</p>\n                <p>Pellizotti, who has not raced since, also appealed to CAS seeking damages from the UCI.\n</p><p>\nCaucchioli was among the first group of five riders named in June 2009 for suspected biological passport violations. The 35-year-old rider, who won two Giro stages in 2001, was banned by CONI through June 2011.\n</p><p>\nAbout 850 riders have their blood profiles monitored by scientists at the WADA laboratory in Lausanne.\n</p><p>\nThe UCI\'s annual $8.3 million costs for the project are partly funded by race organizers and teams. Riders also contribute a percentage of their prize money.\n</p><p>\nThe UCI\'s work has been intended as a pilot that could be copied by other sports federations, including the International Association of Athletics Federations and soccer\'s governing body FIFA.\n</p><p>\nCAS is preparing verdicts in two more biological passport cases.\n</p><p>\nThe UCI challenged Slovenian officials\' refusal to suspend Tadej Valjavec over his suspicious blood readings. Another Italian, Francesco De Bonis, appealed his two-year CONI ban after being sanctioned using passport evidence last May.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"UCI wins landmark anti-doping verdicts   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_ot/cyc_doping_pellizotti\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_ot/cyc_doping_pellizotti</a></p>',-2,5,0,39,'2011-03-08 20:54:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:54:00','2011-03-09 22:22:50','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(368,'Panthers stop Blackhawks\' 8-game winning streak   (AP)','panthers-stop-blackhawks-8-game-winning-streak-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_ho_ga_su/hkn_blackhawks_panthers\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110309/capt.c8829b213b70474daa2750f9aafdd46f-c8829b213b70474daa2750f9aafdd46f-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=98&amp;q=85&amp;sig=u.2ABR5nLQKrI3VL7SkD8g--\" height=\"98\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Panthers stop Blackhawks\' 8-game winning streak   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - David Booth had a goal and an assist and the Florida Panthers held on to beat Chicago 3-2 on Tuesday night and end the Blackhawks\' eight-game winning streak.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>SUNRISE, Fla. – David Booth had a goal and an assist and the Florida Panthers held on to beat Chicago 3-2 on Tuesday night and end the Blackhawks\' eight-game winning streak.</p>\n                <p>The victory also snapped Florida\'s season-high five-game losing streak and gave Panthers coach Pete DeBoer his 100th NHL win.</p>\n                <p>Clay Wilson and Marty Reasoner scored first-period goals to give Florida a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes. Tomas Vokoun made 36 saves as he improved to 8-3 in his last 11 games against Chicago.</p>\n                <p>Marian Hossa and Patrick Kane scored for the Blackhawks, who hadn\'t lost since a 4-3 setback against Columbus on Feb. 18. Their winning streak was the longest active run in the league and the second-longest this season.</p>\n                <p>Rookie Carey Crawford made his 12th consecutive start in goal for the Blackhawks, but was pulled after the first period. Crawford, who was looking to tie Glenn Hall\'s franchise record of nine consecutive victories, stopped five of eight shots.</p>\n                <p>Marty Turco made seven saves in relief of Crawford.</p>\n                <p>The Blackhawks outshot Florida 27-7 over the last two periods.</p>\n                <p>Booth opened the scoring at 4:06 after a turnover at the Chicago blue line. After stealing the puck, Michal Repik skated in and took a slap shot and Booth put in the rebound.</p>\n                <p>Wilson, playing in only his fourth NHL game this season, made it 2-0 at 9:44. After Niclas Bergfors\' shot was blocked, Wilson fired a wrist shot that deflected off Chicago center Ryan Johnson.</p>\n                <p>Reasoner scored with only 6.9 seconds left in the period when he grabbed a loose puck in the high slot and fired a wrist shot over Crawford\'s glove hand.</p>\n                <p>Chicago cut the lead to 3-2 while outshooting Florida 15-4 in the second period.</p>\n                <p>Kane scored at 11:03 when he tapped in Brian Campbell\'s pass from behind the net.</p>\n                <p>Hossa made it 3-2 at 13:48 with his 30th goal in 46 career games against Florida. He one-timed Dave Bolland\'s pass and beat Vokoun from near the left faceoff dot.</p>\n                <p>Notes: Blackhawks C Jonathan Toews\' nine-game point streak, the longest active streak in the NHL, was snapped. ... Chicago fell one game short of tying the franchise record of nine consecutive victories, set in December 2008. ... Chicago D Duncan Keith was in the lineup after missing the last 15 minutes of Saturday night\'s game in Toronto after being hit by a shot on his right hand. ... Florida D Alexander Sulzer missed his second consecutive game because of an upper-body injury.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Panthers stop Blackhawks\' 8-game winning streak   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_ho_ga_su/hkn_blackhawks_panthers\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_sp_ho_ga_su/hkn_blackhawks_panthers</a></p>',-2,5,0,39,'2011-03-08 22:13:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 22:13:00','2011-03-09 22:22:50','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,1,''),(369,'Top tennis stars take aim at Indian Wells   (AFP)','top-tennis-stars-take-aim-at-indian-wells-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/sp_afp/tennisatpwtausa\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299548193581-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=83&amp;q=85&amp;sig=R.z8FmZ0qN2zttvxbPbWBQ--\" height=\"83\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Top tennis stars take aim at Indian Wells   (AFP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AFP - World number ones Rafael Nadal and Caroline Wozniacki lead a world-class field into the $4.5 million BNP Paribas Open, a combined WTA and ATP Masters series event that begins on Wednesday.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>INDIAN WELLS, California (AFP) – World number ones Rafael Nadal and Caroline Wozniacki lead a world-class field into the $4.5 million BNP Paribas Open, a combined WTA and ATP Masters series event that begins on Wednesday.</p>\n                <p>\nInstant replay will be available for the first time on all eight competition courts at the desert resort oasis, where Croatia\'s Ivan Ljubicic and Serbian Jelena Jankovic will defend their crowns.</p>\n                <p>\nWomen\'s main draw matches begin Wednesday while the men start on Thursday. In each case, top seeds have first-round byes, pushing the debut matches for most of the major stars to the weekend.</p>\n                <p>\nNadal, a nine-time Grand Slam champion who won 2007 and 2009 Indian Wells titles, ended a five-week layoff last week in a first-round Davis Cup tie and seeks another deep run after losing to Ljubicic in last year\'s semi-finals.</p>\n                <p>\nNadal could join US legends Jimmy Connors and Michael Chang and Swiss world number two Roger Federer as a three-time winner at Indian Wells.</p>\n                <p>\nFederer, a 16-time Grand Slam singles champion, comes in off a loss to third-ranked Novak Djokovic in the Dubai final and a week of workouts to prepare himself for the challenge of the US hardcourts.</p>\n                <p>\n\n\"I feel like I need more practice, just a little bit here and there,\" said Federer. \"It\'s going to be different conditions again. It\'s going to be flying but it\'s going to be slower. So it\'s going to be a challenge to balance those two things in Indian Wells.\"</p>\n                <p>\nFederer is 29-7 lifetime at Indian Wells and is the only player to win the event three times in a row, his title run coming from 2004 through 2006.</p>\n                <p>\nDjokovic, the 2008 Indian Wells champion, is on a 12-match win streak after capturing the Australian Open and Dubai titles.</p>\n                <p>\nThe Serbian star would replace Federer as world number two headed into the Miami Masters event later this month if he wins the Indian Wells title, reaches a final not against Federer or reaches the semi-finals with Federer ousted before the quarter-finals.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I feel physically well, fit, and mentally motivated to do even more coming up to Indian Wells and Miami, where I haven\'t done well in the last years,\" Djokovic said. \"I really want to work hard and get some good results in the US.\"</p>\n                <p>\nSweden\'s Robin Soderling has won three titles this season and risen to fourth in the rankings, just ahead of Scotsman Andy Murray, who reached the Australian Open final but comes to Indian Wells still in search of his first Grand Slam crown.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I think the top-five players have played really well the last six months,\" Federer said. \"Someone always has to win. At the end of the day, we\'ve been able to share those a little bit to be honest.</p>\n                <p>\n\n\"Rafa still is the favorite. He has won three of the four Slams. Novak maybe has not lost a match yet this season, but the season is still really short. I\'ve been playing well. Murray has been playing well. I think we\'ll know more sort of after Wimbledon. But I don\'t expect any crazy changes at the top.\"</p>\n                <p>\nWozniacki, who lost to Jankovic in last year\'s Indian Wells women\'s final, won six titles last year and another crown last month at Dubai after losing in the Australian Open semi-finals, keeping the great Dane without a Slam crown.</p>\n                <p>\nSecond-ranked Kim Clijsters, the 2003 and 2005 Indian Wells champion, is coming off a victory over China\'s Li Na in the Australian Open final, the Belgian taking her third Grand Slam title since a 2009 return from a break to start a family.</p>\n                <p>\nRussian Vera Zvonareva, the world number three who won at Indian Wells in 2009, is joined among the favorites by fourth-ranked Australian Samantha Stosur, fifth-ranked Italian Francesca Schiavone, sixth-ranked Jankovic and seventh-ranked Li, the first Chinese player to reach a Grand Slam final.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Australia is over. Now I have to start all over again,\" Li said, mindful of first-match exits last year at Miami and Indian Wells.\n</p><p>\n\n\"Last year I didn\'t do well in Indian Wells and Miami. I think I am a good player, but I forgot how to walk on the court. Now I have more experience. I know what I should do on the court.\"\n</p><p>\n\nOther top players in the fields include past Indian Wells winners Maria Sharapova of Russia and Lleyton Hewitt of Australia.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Top tennis stars take aim at Indian Wells   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/sp_afp/tennisatpwtausa\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/sp_afp/tennisatpwtausa</a></p>',-2,5,0,39,'2011-03-08 21:50:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:50:00','2011-03-09 22:22:52','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(370,'Google Chrome Gets Updates: New Interfaces, Faster Browsing   (Mashable)','google-chrome-gets-updates-new-interfaces-faster-browsing-mashable','','Mashable - Tuesday, Google announced a few changes to Chrome, its engineered-for-speed web browser.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>Tuesday, Google announced a few changes to <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/google_chrome_gets_updates_new_interfaces_faster_browsing/40577102/SIG=11c8v70fm/*http://mashable.com/category/google-chrome\">Chrome</a>, its engineered-for-speed web browser.</p>\n                <p>\nThe super-fast <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/google_chrome_gets_updates_new_interfaces_faster_browsing/40577102/SIG=12ga54prg/*http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/02/faster-than-speeding-rabbit-speed-sync.html\" target=\"_blank\">beta version</a> that was announced a few weeks ago has already been updated to a stable version. For the Googlers working on Chrome, speed entails not only faster code (the latest version of Chrome boasts a 66% improvement in JavaScript performance) but also easier-to-navigate interfaces.</p>\n                <p>\nWith that in mind, the company is rolling out a new Settings interface for all Chrome users. One major change is that Settings are now presented in a Chrome tab rather than a dialog box -- a change that will seem familiar to those using Google\'s <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/google_chrome_gets_updates_new_interfaces_faster_browsing/40577102/SIG=110brg6t8/*http://mashable.com/tag/cr-48/\">Cr-48</a> notebooks, which run Chrome OS and present absolutely everything in a browser tab.</p>\n                <p>\nSettings are also searchable, which many users will likely find extremely helpful.</p>\n                <p>\nHere\'s a brief demo video showing Chrome\'s new Settings pages in action:</p>\n                <p>\n</p>\n                <p>\nGoogle has also extended its sandboxing features to Chrome\'s Flash player.</p>\n                <p>\nInterested parties can download <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/google_chrome_gets_updates_new_interfaces_faster_browsing/40577102/SIG=11qjcu9bs/*http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/landing_chrome.html\" target=\"_blank\">the latest version of Chrome</a> now; be sure to check back with us in the comments section to let us know what you think of the new browser. </p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Google Chrome Gets Updates: New Interfaces, Faster Browsing   (Mashable)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20110308/tc_mashable/google_chrome_gets_updates_new_interfaces_faster_browsing\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20110308/tc_mashable/google_chrome_gets_updates_new_interfaces_faster_browsing</a></p>',-2,5,0,44,'2011-03-08 15:57:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 15:57:00','2011-03-09 22:22:52','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(371,'Cisco WebEx Meetings links you to the office via your Android   (Appolicious)','cisco-webex-meetings-links-you-to-the-office-via-your-android-appolicious','','Appolicious - I\'ve attended more WebEx online meetings than I can count. Over the years, I\'ve relied on the standard, solid PC/browser software client to run events, attend meetings and all the rest. That\'s why I was overjoyed when the Android version hit the marketplace recently.','<div><div id=\"article_body\" class=\"clearfix\">\n    			\n    			<p>I\'ve attended more WebEx online meetings than I can count. Over the years, I\'ve relied on the standard, solid PC/browser software client to run events, attend meetings and all the rest. That\'s why I was overjoyed when the Android version hit the marketplace recently.</p>&#13;\n<p><a href=\"/apps/573355-cisco-webex-meetings-cisco-systems-inc\">Cisco WebEx Meetings</a> doesn\'t disappoint. Just like its iOS and Blackberry counterparts, the free Android version makes it super-easy to join WebEx webinars viewed in full-screen mode, utilize built-in (free!) VoIP for audio, or have the server call your phone to get you into the meeting.</p>&#13;\n<p>Once in a meeting, accessing shared documents is a breeze, while viewing slide decks is a slick affair with multi-touch controls for zooming in and out (think pinch and zoom) making your phone\'s small screen more than adequate to be a full participant in any event. Beyond all the usual online business meeting accoutrements, the app also delivers on-screen live annotation and collaboration tools.</p>&#13;\n<p>Meeting leader(s) can also easily see who\'s in the meeting, how they joined, and whether they\'re logged in using a mobile device or PC. Android-specific tools include the ability to view upcoming meetings in a unique calendar-view widget, giving you instant access to meetings from your home screen.</p>&#13;\n<p>If you\'re in charge of a full host account, the app also makes it easier to sign in to your events, start, stop, and end your meetings, plus invite colleagues in your contacts list to join any meeting, and even pass presenter controls to anyone on a call with a touch of your screen. Of course, kicking attendees is also possible.</p>&#13;\n<p>This bullet-proof app is a must-have for all professionals who rely on WebEx meeting technology to stay connected to the office anytime, anywhere.</p>&#13;\n<p><a href=\"/finance/apps/350906-appolicious-androidapps-com-appolicious-inc\">Download the free Appolicious Android app</a></p>\n    			\n    			</div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Cisco WebEx Meetings links you to the office via your Android   (Appolicious)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_androidapps_com_articles7028_cisco_webex_meetings_links_you_to_the_office_via_your_android/40577548/SIG=13d9qgpao/*http%3A//www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/7028-cisco-webex-meetings-links-you-to-the-office-via-your-android\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_androidapps_com_articles7028_cisco_webex_meetings_links_you_to_the_office_via_your_android/40577548/SIG=13d9qgpao/*http%3A//www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/7028-cisco-webex-meetings-links-you-to-the-office-via-your-android</a></p>',-2,5,0,44,'2011-03-08 21:57:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 21:57:00','2011-03-09 22:22:53','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(372,'Motorola: Why Android fragmentation is good   (InfoWorld)','motorola-why-android-fragmentation-is-good-infoworld','','InfoWorld - Motorola Mobility, which has made the Google Android platform the centerpiece of its mobile technology strategy, has heard developer and customer concerns about Android fragmentation and systems not all behaving the same. But the company sees variation as beneficial rather than a hindrance, a Motorola Mobility official said on Tuesday.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>San Francisco – Motorola Mobility, which has made the Google Android platform the centerpiece of its mobile technology strategy, has heard developer and customer concerns about <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=11dpm3k1e/*http://www.infoworld.com/t/google%20android\">Android</a> fragmentation and systems not all behaving the same. But the company sees variation as beneficial rather than a hindrance, a Motorola Mobility official said on Tuesday.</p>\n                <p> Variation is seen as a value of Android products, said Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president at Motorola Mobility, at the AnDevCon Android developer conference in San Mateo, Calif. Some customers, for example, love the features Motorola puts in the Droid smartphone family. But she acknowledged developer concerns. \"Managing differentiation against fragmentation is kind of a delicate balance,\" Wyatt said.</p>\n                <p> <strong>[ InfoWorld columnist Galen Gruman asks, <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=13asasqgb/*http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/can-the-atrix-4g-really-become-your-next-pc-843?source=fssr\">can Motorola\'s Atrix 4G smartphone become your next PC?</a> | Learn how to manage iPhones, Androids, BlackBerrys, and other smartphones in InfoWorld\'s 20-page <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=1363e0kq3/*http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/mobile-management-infoworlds-expert-guide-371?source=ifwelg_fssr\">Mobile Management Deep Dive</a> PDF special report. ]</strong></p>\n                <p> An example of differentiation developers face in Motorola Mobility\'s systems involves the <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=12iial9ip/*http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/motorola-launches-xoom-tablet-android-30-759\">Xoom tablet</a> and Atrix 4G. Released within a week of each other early this year, the systems use different interfaces for common features such as setting up email.</p>\n                <p> Testing and certification programs do a good job of keeping APIs and implementations consistent, Wyatt said. Except for Google Experience Devices, such as the Xoom, Motorola\'s devices launched beginning late last year have the same baseline of features, but there are some UI changes and customization from telecommunications operators, Wyatt said. She encouraged developers to test applications across devices, although she added Android is \"smarter\" about rendering on different screens.</p>\n                <p> A developer at AnDevCon acknowledged differentiation in Android systems. \"Different device manufacturers are modifying the Android operating system to their liking,\" making such changes as modifying the UI, said Marek Szany, developer with Eset, in Slovakia. Android itself features version 2.4, for mobile devices, and <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=12db036do/*http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/google-releases-full-android-30-sdk-370\">3.0, or Honeycomb, for tablets</a>, he said. \"We have to deal [with fragmentation]. We have no choice,\" he said. Eset develops security applications for Android systems, Szany said.</p>\n                <p> Motorola Mobility also does not see commoditization of Android systems as a problem, Wyatt said. There is variation between Motorola Mobility Android systems and those of other vendors, she said.</p>\n                <p> Wyatt stressed Motorola Mobility\'s commitment to Android, with the company basing its entire smartphone platform on Android. \"You don\'t enter into an ecosystem like Android unless you are confident of your ability to compete,\" she said. But Android still needs work as far as the ability to monetize applications. Developers have said Android needs improvements in functions like discovery and single-touch transactions, she said.</p>\n                <p> Also at the conference, Black Duck Software announced availability of Android Fast Start, a bundled software and service offering intended to help developers simplify the operational challenges of managing Android projects. With Fast Start, Black Duck manages governance and compliance for Android development. Android is an open source project composed of more than 165 components, 80,000 files, and 2GB of code under 19 licenses, Black Duck said.</p>\n                <p> <em>This article, \"<a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=140rjj6f4/*http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/motorola-mobility-addresses-android-fragmentation-worries-898?source=footer\">Motorola: Why Android fragmentation is good</a>,\" was originally published at <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=119kip63r/*http://www.infoworld.com/?source=footer\">InfoWorld.com</a>. Follow the <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=10v1nfhe2/*http://www.infoworld.com/news\">latest developments in business technology news</a> and get a digest of the key stories each day in the <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=12ugdd4ep/*http://www.infoworld.com/newsletters/subscribe?showlist=infoworld_daily&amp;source=ifwelg_footer\">InfoWorld Daily newsletter</a>. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/infoworld/tc_infoworld/storytext/153898/40576648/SIG=10u8iqcqq/*http://twitter.com/infoworld\">InfoWorld.com on Twitter</a>.</em></p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Motorola: Why Android fragmentation is good   (InfoWorld)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20110309/tc_infoworld/153898\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20110309/tc_infoworld/153898</a></p>',-2,5,0,44,'2011-03-08 20:15:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:15:00','2011-03-09 22:22:54','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(373,'Android Malware: Why You Shouldn\'t Be Scared   (PC World)','android-malware-why-you-shouldnt-be-scared-pc-world','','PC World - If you\'ve read much news lately, you know it\'s that time of year again -- time for the semiannual Android malware freakout show.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>If you\'ve read much news lately, you know it\'s that time of year again -- time for the semiannual <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=12qtegtak/*http://www.pcworld.com/article/221383/time_for_google_to_rethink_the_android_market.html\">Android malware freakout show</a>.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nYou know what I\'m talking about: Some company, usually one that happens to sell a virus protection program for Android, comes out with a slew of blogs and press releases warning us of a super-duper-scary virus monster just waiting to attack vulnerable Android phones. Countless news stories follow, making sure we\'re aware of the unprecedented danger headed our way. Soon, the streets of America fill with men and women flinging their phones and running for their lives.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nAll right, that last part might be a stretch, but you get where I\'m going here. Our latest Android malware episode started a few days ago when Lookout, a company that -- wait for it -- sells a virus protection program for Android, posted a <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=1370garb3/*http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/03/security-alert-malware-found-in-official-android-market-droiddream/\">blog</a> and sent out a press release warning of a newly found threat. Called \"<a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=137koauv3/*http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/221247/droiddream_becomes_android_market_nightmare.html\">DroidDream</a>,\" the threat lurked in about 50 apps within the Android Market, Lookout said. If installed on your phone, those apps could potentially let an attacker <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=13jo40ue6/*http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/221510/droiddream_autopsy_anatomy_of_an_android_malware_attack.html\">install additional programs</a> and ultimately access some of your device\'s data.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nLong story short, <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=12bl9vt74/*http://www.pcworld.com/article/221478/googles_droiddream_cleanup_faq.html\">Google axed the infected apps</a> from the Market, remotely removed any traces of the programs from users\' phones, and released a patch that\'d prevent the apps from doing any more harm. <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=12hmmf11f/*http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-android-market-security.html\">Android engineers say</a> the only thing the attacker might have gotten his hands on was a series of phone-identifying codes -- no personal e-mails, no phone numbers, nothing else.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nIs this mildly concerning? Sure. Is it a cause for the kind of <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=1269m00u2/*http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/google_android_market_peril/\">panic-and-mayhem-ridden</a>\n			<a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=13k14ubrq/*http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/businesseditor/archive/2011/03/08/the-danger-in-android-apps.aspx\">headlines</a> we\'ve seen around the Web this week? Absolutely not.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\n			 Let\'s step back for a moment and put this in perspective: The Android Market is an open ecosystem. That means any registered developer can create and upload programs without the need for a manufacturer\'s approval. Inevitably, that also means something shady will show up from time to time.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nIt\'s kind of like another open ecosystem we all use: the Internet. There are tons of programs, good and bad, available for us to download. There\'s even <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=11j8k73op/*http://www.esarcasm.com/13639/android-porn-badge/\">(gasp!) porn</a>. Yes, my friends, it\'s a big, bad, scary world out there. But the answer isn\'t locking it down and having <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=11kgb705p/*http://www.esarcasm.com/11901/apple-app-store-ban/\">some panel preapprove everything</a> before it gets uploaded. The answer -- in both environments -- is exercising a little caution and a little common sense.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nWe\'re used to this when surfing the Web, right? We evaluate programs before we download them. We look to see how many other people are using things and what kind of reviews they\'re leaving. If something seems shady, we click away.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nThe Android Market is no different; in fact, it makes the process even easier: You have the benefit of being able to see verified information about an app right on your screen. You can see how many people have installed it, what they\'re saying about it, and -- most important -- exactly what permissions it\'ll be able access on your phone.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nIf you don\'t want to entrust those judgments to yourself, like with the Web, there\'s no shortage of third-party programs that can do the policing for you. These utilities -- <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=12q9j2tub/*http://www.pcworld.com/article/212192/protect_your_android_phone_with_security_apps.html\">Lookout\'s antivirus software and other similar apps</a> -- watch what you download and alert you when something questionable comes up. That kind of safety net isn\'t necessarily something you need with Android, but if it makes you feel more comfortable, it\'s certainly available.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nI\'ve <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=11mhomvm6/*http://blogs.computerworld.com/16772/android_trojans\">said it before</a>, and I\'ll say it again: Threats are everywhere. The answer <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=12u06jmrp/*http://www.pcworld.com/article/200579/apples_iphone_app_fraud_where_were_the_app_police.html\">isn\'t locking down the world</a>; it\'s taking basic precautions. With freedom of choice comes a small level of responsibility -- and whether we\'re talking about the Web or talking about our smartphones, the tradeoff is almost always worth it in the end.\n</p>\n                <p>\n\n		\n\nJR Raphael is a PCWorld contributing editor and the author of the <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=10u6osob7/*http://www.androidpower.com/\">Android Power</a> blog. You can find him on both <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=118q3rigd/*http://www.facebook.com/The.JR.Raphael\">Facebook</a> and <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared/40576811/SIG=10vgijko4/*http://twitter.com/jr_raphael\">Twitter</a>.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Android Malware: Why You Shouldn\'t Be Scared   (PC World)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110308/tc_pcworld/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110308/tc_pcworld/androidmalwarewhyyoushouldntbescared</a></p>',-2,5,0,44,'2011-03-08 18:27:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 18:27:00','2011-03-09 22:22:54','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(374,'Verizon touts customer growth   (Investor\'s Business Daily)','verizon-touts-customer-growth-investors-business-daily','','Investor\'s Business Daily - Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications  and Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD - News), said it likely added twice as many customers in Q1 as it did a year ago after it launched its version of the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) iPhone 4 last month. Verizon added 1.5 mil customers in Q1 2010. The company expects another boost from the next iPhone model, which is expected to arrive in Q3, although Apple hasn\'t confirmed it. Until last month, AT&amp;T  had exclusive rights to iPhone. Verizon and Vodafone each rose just over 1%.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE:<a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565338/40577123/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=vz\">VZ</a> - <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565338/40577123/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=vz\">News</a>) and Vodafone (NASDAQ:<a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565338/40577123/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=vod\">VOD</a> - <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565338/40577123/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=vod\">News</a>), said it likely added twice as many customers in Q1 as it did a year ago after it launched its version of the Apple (NASDAQ:<a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565338/40577123/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl\">AAPL</a> - <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565338/40577123/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=aapl\">News</a>) iPhone 4 last month. Verizon added 1.5 mil customers in Q1 2010. The company expects another boost from the next iPhone model, which is expected to arrive in Q3, although Apple hasn\'t confirmed it. Until last month, AT&amp;T (NYSE:<a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565338/40577123/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=t\">T</a> - <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565338/40577123/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=t\">News</a>) had exclusive rights to iPhone. Verizon and Vodafone each rose just over 1%.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Verizon touts customer growth   (Investor\'s Business Daily)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20110308/bs_ibd_ibd/565338\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20110308/bs_ibd_ibd/565338</a></p>',-2,5,0,44,'2011-03-08 18:40:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 18:40:00','2011-03-09 22:22:55','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(375,'Spotify   (Investor\'s Business Daily)','spotify-investors-business-daily','','Investor\'s Business Daily - Spotify, an Anglo-Swedish digital music service provider, said it\'s reached 1 mil paying subscribers in Europe. Spotify is preparing to enter the U.S. and could pose a threat to Apple\'s (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) dominant iTunes streaming music service. Apple edged up 0.1% to 355.76.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>Spotify, an Anglo-Swedish digital music service provider, said it\'s reached 1 mil paying subscribers in Europe. Spotify is preparing to enter the U.S. and could pose a threat to Apple\'s (NASDAQ:<a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565354/40577125/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl\">AAPL</a> - <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/ibd/bs_ibd/storytext/565354/40577125/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=aapl\">News</a>) dominant iTunes streaming music service. Apple edged up 0.1% to 355.76.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Spotify   (Investor\'s Business Daily)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20110308/bs_ibd_ibd/565354\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20110308/bs_ibd_ibd/565354</a></p>',-2,5,0,44,'2011-03-08 18:40:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 18:40:00','2011-03-09 22:22:56','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(376,'VMware Buys WaveMaker, Aims to Ease App Development   (PC World)','vmware-buys-wavemaker-aims-to-ease-app-development-pc-world','','PC World - VMware said on Tuesday it had acquired WaveMaker, the creator of open-source software that lets non-developers build Java Web applications.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>VMware said on Tuesday it had acquired WaveMaker, the creator of open-source software that lets non-developers build Java Web applications. </p>\n                <p>\nWaveMaker is built on the Spring programming model created by SpringSource, which VMware acquired a year-and-a-half ago. \"WaveMaker takes the Spring programming model and everything underneath it and abstracts it into a tool, so you don\'t have to know what\'s going on behind it,\" said Mark Brewer, vice president of operations for VMware\'s Spring business unit. </p>\n                <p>\nIt\'s a graphical tool that lets users drag and drop to create a Web app. Users of the software can deploy their apps directly to an internal cloud or to a variety of other platforms, including Amazon, Rackspace, OpSource and Eucalyptus. The software runs on Windows, Mac OS, Red Hat, Ubuntu and other operating systems and supports databases including MySQL and Microsoft\'s SQL Server. </p>\n                <p>\nWaveMaker users typically are people in a business who are not developers but who want to build a Web app, usually one featuring forms. One of the most common uses is to build a page that lets end-users enter a credit card to purchase a product, Brewer said. </p>\n                <p>\nBut there are other uses, too. The department store Macy\'s is a WaveMaker customer and used it to build an internal application that pulls together a variety of reports on business functions such as financial and human resources data, he said. </p>\n                <p>\nVMware hopes the acquisition will help it <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/vmwarebuyswavemakeraimstoeaseappdevelopment/40576810/SIG=124krvd4p/*http://blog.springsource.com/2011/03/08/vmware-acquires-wavemaker/\">encourage even more users of cloud services</a>. \"We said, \'if we\'re going to catapult ourselves into the cloud and help customers build apps that will run in the cloud, we need to attract that early adopter who is not a programmer, who wants to simply write an application,\'\" Brewer said. </p>\n                <p>\nVMware plans to keep offering WaveMaker under an open-source license, Brewer said. It will sell support services such as training and consulting. </p>\n                <p>\nIn addition, VMware envisions adding WaveMaker to its Code2Cloud service so customers can use WaveMaker as a service rather than downloading the software. Code2Cloud is a hosted application lifecycle management service that supports developers as they move through building, testing, bug-tracking and integration testing. VMware expects to add WaveMaker to Code2Cloud in the next couple of months, Brewer said. </p>\n                <p>\nThe companies did not disclose terms of the deal. Employees of WaveMaker, which is based in San Francisco, will join VMware.</p>\n                <p>\n<em>Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for </em>The IDG News Service<em>. Follow Nancy on Twitter at <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/vmwarebuyswavemakeraimstoeaseappdevelopment/40576810/SIG=10t229l21/*http://twitter.com/idgnancy\">@idgnancy</a>. Nancy\'s e-mail address is <a rel=\"nofollow\">Nancy_Gohring@idg.com</a></em></p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"VMware Buys WaveMaker, Aims to Ease App Development   (PC World)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110308/tc_pcworld/vmwarebuyswavemakeraimstoeaseappdevelopment\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110308/tc_pcworld/vmwarebuyswavemakeraimstoeaseappdevelopment</a></p>',-2,5,0,44,'2011-03-08 18:30:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 18:30:00','2011-03-09 22:22:57','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(377,'cleveland.com Launches New Android App with Advance Internet and Verve Wireless','clevelandcom-launches-new-android-app-with-advance-internet-and-verve-wireless','','cleveland.com announces launch of new Android local news and information app. (PRWeb March 08, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/3/prweb8185925.htm','<div><div class=\"fullWidth floatLeft dottedTop\">&#13;\n                <div class=\"mediaBox\">&#13;\n                  &#13;\n                  <div class=\"ninormal clearfix\">&#13;\n                    <img class=\"newsImage\" src=\"http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2011/03/07/8185925/gI_59993_cleveland_iPhone_photos.PNG\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" alt=\"cleveland.com iPhone photo gallery\" /></div>&#13;\n                  &#13;\n                </div><p class=\"releaseDateline\">Cleveland, OH (Vocus/PRWEB) March 08, 2011 </p><p> cleveland.com has launched an Android app with real-time local news, sports, entertainment, business, features and opinion articles and photos from The Plain Dealer and Sun News - plus one-tap access to local classifieds listings. </p>&#13;\n<p>The <a href=\"http://market.android.com/details?id=com.ap.cleveland&amp;feature=search_result\" title=\"cleveland.com Android app\">cleveland.com Android app</a> features content from the number one Cleveland news and information website in affiliation with The Plain Dealer and Sun News.</p>&#13;\n<p>\"We\'ve got the local news and stories that can only be found in The Plain Dealer,\" said Thom Fladung, managing editor of The Plain Dealer. \"Now, we\'ve taken another crucial step toward getting readers those stories when and however they want them.”</p>&#13;\n<p>The app is available for download at no charge in the Android Market. There also is a <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cleveland-com/id394810586?mt=8\" title=\"cleveland.com iPhone app\">cleveland.com iPhone app</a> available for download at no charge in the iTunes App Store. Both were developed and launched with Advance Internet and Verve Wireless. </p>&#13;\n<p>“The addition of the Android app to the already released cleveland.com iPhone app is in line with our commitment to make our content available and accessible wherever users are.  It allows cleveland.com users another vehicle for easy access to the information we provide, enhancing their experience and helping them make informed decisions about their daily lives,”said Wayne Snow, general manager of cleveland.com.  “We’re dedicated to our mission of connecting, informing and empowering cleveland.com users and we’re excited to move forward in that mission through mobile platforms like Android and iPhone.”</p>&#13;\n<p>The app includes social features for the audience to share content via Twitter, e-mail and Facebook posts. Users also can submit video and photos from their phones to cleveland.com through the app. </p>&#13;\n<p>Content on the app includes news coverage of local communities throughout the Cleveland area, high school sports, local pro and college teams; entertainment coverage of TV, movies, music and the local arts scene; and photo galleries and obituaries. There’s also local advertising and links to classifieds listings of jobs, new and used autos, and homes for sale and rent. </p>&#13;\n<p>The front page of the app can be customized for one-tap access to favorite categories. Articles are downloaded and stored locally in the app for fast access, even when offline.</p>&#13;\n<p><a href=\"http://market.android.com/details?id=com.ap.cleveland&amp;feature=search_result\" title=\"cleveland.com Android app\">Download the cleveland.com Android app from the Android Market here</a>.</p>&#13;\n<p><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cleveland-com/id394810586?mt=8\" title=\"cleveland.com iPhone app\">Download the cleveland.com iPhone app from the App Store here</a>. </p>&#13;\n<p>(cleveland.com also has a mobile website that can be accessed by going to cleveland.com on mobile device web browsers.) </p>&#13;\n<p>About cleveland.com&#13;\n<br />cleveland.com, an affiliate of Advance Internet, Inc., is the leading local website for news and information throughout Cleveland featuring the latest <a href=\"http://www.cleveland.com/news\" title=\"Cleveland News\">Cleveland news</a>, business, sports, travel, weather, traffic, shopping and entertainment information. In addition, cleveland.com has a comprehensive business listings directory, as well as local classified listings for jobs, homes, apartment rentals and autos. cleveland.com is the online home of The Plain Dealer and Sun News.</p>&#13;\n<p>About The Plain Dealer&#13;\n<br />The Plain Dealer is Ohio\'s largest newspaper and among the 20 largest newspapers in the country, reaching nearly 800,000 readers daily and nearly 1 million on Sundays. The Plain Dealer\'s media market, Greater Cleveland, is ranked No. 1 in the country for Sunday newspaper readership percentage (75 percent of total adults) and is No. 2 in daily newspaper readership percentage (62 percent of total adults), second only to the New York Times. The paper also has an electronic edition, and its content and related material can be found on cleveland.com. The Plain Dealer also operates Politifact Ohio, a website that analyzes political issues relevant to local interests.</p>&#13;\n<p>About Advance Internet &#13;\n<br /><a href=\"http://www.advanceinternet.com\" title=\"Advance Internet\">Advance Internet, Inc.,</a> based in Jersey City, NJ, is a leading creator of highly interactive, online community-based news and information websites created in alliance over 25 newspapers affiliated with Advance Publications, Inc. Advance Internet’s websites are the number one local news and information online destinations for the markets they serve. The websites include al.com, cleveland.com, gulflive.com, MLive.com, NJ.com, NOLA.com, OregonLive.com, SILive.com, syracuse.com, MassLive.com, PennLive.com, and lehighvalleylive.com. </p>&#13;\n<p>About Verve Wireless&#13;\n<br />Verve monetizes local mobile media. Our solutions help local media companies monetize their mobile inventory and enable advertisers to reach a valuable, premium audience where they live, work and play. Over 1000 local publishers use the Verve platform to manage their mobile advertising businesses and help make their sales teams more effective. In addition, we bring incremental revenue to our publishers through our relationships with national advertisers, who value the Verve network’s high quality local media companies, including the mobile outlets of recognized local media brands as well as newer digital-only local and hyper-local publishers. It is a brand-safe, editorially-driven, high-quality and transparent environment with market-leading targeting, creative and reporting capabilities. Only Verve has assembled such an extensive national footprint of high quality local media. Verve is located in San Diego, CA and Washington DC. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.vervewireless.com\">http://www.vervewireless.com</a>.</p>&#13;\n<p>###</p>&#13;\n <div class=\"footershare\">&#13;\n                  &#13;\n                </div>&#13;\n                <br style=\"clear: both;\" /></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"cleveland.com Launches New Android App with Advance Internet and Verve Wireless\" href=\"http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/3/prweb8185925.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/3/prweb8185925.htm</a></p>',-2,5,0,35,'2011-03-08 06:06:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 06:06:00','2011-03-09 22:22:57','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,1,''),(378,'NJ.com Launches New Android and iPhone Apps with Advance Internet and Verve Wireless','njcom-launches-new-android-and-iphone-apps-with-advance-internet-and-verve-wireless','','NJ.com announces new Android and iPhone local news and information apps. (PRWeb March 08, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/3/prweb8185803.htm','<div><div class=\"fullWidth floatLeft dottedTop\">&#13;\n                <div class=\"mediaBox\">&#13;\n                  &#13;\n                  <div class=\"ninormal clearfix\">&#13;\n                    <img class=\"newsImage\" src=\"http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2011/03/07/8185803/gI_59996_NJ.com iPhone Index-new.png\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" alt=\"NJ.com iPhone app\" /></div>&#13;\n                  &#13;\n                </div><p class=\"releaseDateline\">Jersey City, NJ (Vocus/PRWEB) March 08, 2011 </p><p> NJ.com has launched Android and iPhone apps with real-time local news, sports, entertainment, business, features and opinion articles and photos from The Star-Ledger and 11 other affiliated New Jersey newspapers - plus one-tap access to local classifieds listings. </p>&#13;\n<p>The <a href=\"http://market.android.com/details?id=com.ap.advnj&amp;feature=search_result\" title=\"NJ.com Android app\">NJ.com Android app</a> and the <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nj-com/id419202474?mt=8\" title=\"NJ.com iPhone app\">NJ.com iPhone app</a> feature content from the number one New Jersey news and information website in affiliation with The Star-Ledger, The Times, The Jersey Journal, Gloucester County Times, The News of Cumberland County, Today\'s Sunbeam, Hunterdon County Democrat, The Messenger-Gazette, The Warren Reporter, Independent Press, Suburban News and Cranford Chronicle.</p>&#13;\n<p>“Our newspapers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania understand very clearly that we have to deliver information to our customers when and how they want it,” said Richard Vezza, publisher of The Star-Ledger and President of Advance New Jersey. “NJ.com, our affiliated online partner, understands that need and is helping lead the way. It’s an exciting time in a brand new information world.”</p>&#13;\n<p>The apps are available for download at no charge in the iTunes App Store and the Android Market. They were developed and launched with Advance Internet and Verve Wireless. </p>&#13;\n<p>“We are very excited about the launch of the new app and eager to use it along with the 7 million visitors* NJ.com receives on a monthly basis.  It has been such a great experience observing NJ.com’s lifespan—from the browser, to the mobile version, to its latest adaptation as an app,\" said Barbara Chodos, general manager of NJ.com. \"We at NJ.com look forward to adapting to and staying ahead of the latest innovations in digital information.\"</p>&#13;\n<p>The apps include social features for the audience to share content via Twitter, e-mail and Facebook posts. Users also can submit video and photos from their phones to NJ.com through the apps. </p>&#13;\n<p>Content on the apps includes news coverage of local communities throughout the New Jersey area, high school sports, local pro and college teams; entertainment coverage of TV, movies, music and the local arts scene; and photo galleries and obituaries. There’s also local advertising and links to classifieds listings of jobs, new and used autos, and homes for sale and rent. </p>&#13;\n<p>The front page of the app can be customized for one-tap access to favorite categories. Articles are downloaded and stored locally in the apps for fast access, even when offline.</p>&#13;\n<p><a href=\"http://market.android.com/details?id=com.ap.advnj&amp;feature=search_result\" title=\"NJ.com Android app\">Download the NJ.com Android app from the Android Market here</a>. </p>&#13;\n<p><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nj-com/id419202474?mt=8\" title=\"NJ.com iPhone app\">Download the NJ.com iPhone app from the App Store here</a>. </p>&#13;\n<p>(NJ.com also has a mobile website that can be accessed by going to nj.com on mobile device web browsers.) </p>&#13;\n<p>*Omniture SiteCatalyst, January 2011</p>&#13;\n<p>About NJ.com&#13;\n<br />NJ.com, an affiliate of Advance Internet, Inc., is the leading local website for news and information throughout New Jersey featuring the latest <a href=\"http://www.nj.com/news\" title=\"NJ News\">New Jersey news</a>, business, sports, travel, weather, traffic, shopping and entertainment information. In addition, NJ.com has a comprehensive business listings directory, as well as local classified listings for jobs, homes, apartment rentals and autos. NJ.com is the online home of The Star-Ledger, The Times, The Jersey Journal, Gloucester County Times, The News of Cumberland County, Today\'s Sunbeam, Hunterdon County Democrat, The Messenger-Gazette, The Warren Reporter, Independent Press, Suburban News and Cranford Chronicle.</p>&#13;\n<p>About Advance New Jersey&#13;\n<br />Advance New Jersey consists of papers throughout New Jersey and in parts of Pennsylvania.  Advance New Jersey is a multi media company and includes the strongest newspapers in the state.  Dailies in the group are The Star-Ledger, The Times of Trenton, The Jersey Journal, Gloucester County Times, The News of Cumberland County and Today\'s Sunbeam.  Weeklies in the group are The Hunterdon County Democrat, The Messenger-Gazette, The Warren Reporter, Independent Press, Suburban News, Cranford Chronicle, Hunterdon Observer, The Hudson Dispatch, Bayonne Journal, Kearny Journal and Waterfront Journal.  Daily Advance New Jersey readership tops 1.2 Million while Sunday readership is over 1.4 Million.</p>&#13;\n<p>About Advance Internet &#13;\n<br /><a href=\"http://www.advanceinternet.com\" title=\"Advance Internet\">Advance Internet, Inc.,</a> based in Jersey City, NJ, is a leading creator of highly interactive, online community-based news and information websites created in alliance over 25 newspapers affiliated with Advance Publications Inc. Advance Internet’s websites are the number one local news and information online destinations for the markets they serve. The websites include al.com, cleveland.com, gulflive.com, MLive.com, NJ.com, NOLA.com, OregonLive.com, SILive.com, syracuse.com, MassLive.com, PennLive.com, and lehighvalleylive.com. </p>&#13;\n<p>About Verve Wireless&#13;\n<br />Verve monetizes local mobile media. Our solutions help local media companies monetize their mobile inventory and enable advertisers to reach a valuable, premium audience where they live, work and play. Over 1000 local publishers use the Verve platform to manage their mobile advertising businesses and help make their sales teams more effective. In addition, we bring incremental revenue to our publishers through our relationships with national advertisers, who value the Verve network’s high quality local media companies, including the mobile outlets of recognized local media brands as well as newer digital-only local and hyper-local publishers. It is a brand-safe, editorially-driven, high-quality and transparent environment with market-leading targeting, creative and reporting capabilities. Only Verve has assembled such an extensive national footprint of high quality local media. Verve is located in San Diego, CA and Washington DC. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.vervewireless.com\">http://www.vervewireless.com</a>.</p>&#13;\n<p>###</p>&#13;\n <div class=\"footershare\">&#13;\n                  &#13;\n                </div>&#13;\n                <br style=\"clear: both;\" /></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"NJ.com Launches New Android and iPhone Apps with Advance Internet and Verve Wireless\" href=\"http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/3/prweb8185803.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/3/prweb8185803.htm</a></p>',-2,5,0,35,'2011-03-08 06:06:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 06:06:00','2011-03-09 22:22:58','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(379,'Decline of middle-wage jobs may reduce value of college','decline-of-middle-wage-jobs-may-reduce-value-of-college','','We\'ve written before about the job market\'s incredible shrinking middle. Thanks to mechanization and offshoring, a growing number of new jobs are either high-wage, high-skills, or, especially, low-wage, low-skill. But middle-wage, middle-skills jobs -- both white-collar, like clerical work, or blue-collar, like craftwork -- are fast disappearing. When we last wrote about this, we noted [... ]','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7718\" title=\"office-worker-1\" src=\"http://mit.zenfs.com/102/2011/03/office-worker-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" />We\'ve <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/news/yblog_thelookout/bs_yblog_thelookout/storytext/decline-of-middle-wage-jobs-may-reduce-value-of-college/40556641/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101201/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-jobs-market-the-incredible-shrinking-middle\">written before</a> about the job market\'s incredible shrinking middle. Thanks to mechanization and offshoring, a growing number of new jobs are either high-wage, high-skills, or, especially, low-wage, low-skill. But middle-wage, middle-skills jobs--both white-collar, like clerical work, or blue-collar, like craftwork--are fast disappearing.</p>\n                <p>When we last wrote about this trend, we noted that the shift makes a college degree more important than ever.  But the truth may actually be closer to the reverse. Columnist Paul Krugman of the New York Times <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/bs_yblog_thelookout/storytext/decline-of-middle-wage-jobs-may-reduce-value-of-college/40556641/SIG=1267hjsk5/*http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/opinion/07krugman.html?ref=opinion\">writes today</a> that many of the jobs now lost to computers and foreign workers involve things like legal research or software design--meaning that in the U.S. job market, a college education is no longer any guarantee of steady employment. Indeed, Krugman points to research sugggesting that \"high-wage jobs performed by highly educated workers are, if anything, more \'offshorable\' than jobs done by low-paid, less-educated workers.\"</p>\n                <p><span id=\"more-7715\">The point, Krugman argues, that investing in education--a central policy objective of the Obama administration--will not, by itself, solve the country\'s job woes.  In addition, he argues that the jobs economy will benefit from increased income support, via union organizing and universal health care:</span></p>\n                <p></p><p>We need to restore the bargaining power that labor has lost over the last 30 years, so that ordinary workers as well as superstars have the power to bargain for good wages. We need to guarantee the essentials, above all health care, to every citizen.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Decline of middle-wage jobs may reduce value of college\" href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110307/bs_yblog_thelookout/decline-of-middle-wage-jobs-may-reduce-value-of-college\" target=\"_blank\">http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110307/bs_yblog_thelookout/decline-of-middle-wage-jobs-may-reduce-value-of-college</a></p>',-2,5,0,42,'2011-03-07 15:18:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-07 15:18:00','2011-03-09 22:22:59','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(380,'US \'heartland\' near historic shift from Midwest   (AP)','us-heartland-near-historic-shift-from-midwest-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_census_america_s_heartland\"></a></p>','<img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110309/capt.2d4c076491bd40aaba4312e503fd8400-2d4c076491bd40aaba4312e503fd8400-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=84&amp;q=85&amp;sig=bZXmHxGjM2bVnPJ622thaQ--\" height=\"84\" width=\"130\" alt=\"US \'heartland\' near historic shift from Midwest   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n\nAP - America\'s population center is edging away from the Midwest, pulled by Hispanic growth in the Southwest, according to census figures. The historic shift is changing the nation\'s politics and even the traditional notion of the country\'s heartland &mdash; long the symbol of mainstream American beliefs and culture.<br style=\"clear: both;\" /><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"US \'heartland\' near historic shift from Midwest   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_census_america_s_heartland\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_census_america_s_heartland</a></p>',-2,5,0,45,'2011-03-08 20:59:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:59:00','2011-03-09 22:22:59','','','',1,0,0,'','',0,7,''),(381,'Japan issues tsunami warning after 7.2 quake   (AFP)','japan-issues-tsunami-warning-after-72-quake-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/japanquake\">&lt;img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299639965930-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=82&amp;q=85&amp;sig=LXMG9eAjDKzJ_XTtJjxXAA--\" align=\"left\" height=\"82\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Japan issues tsunami warning after 7.2 quake  </a></p>',' (AFP)\" border=\"0\"&gt;\n\nAFP - Japan issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after a major 7.2-magnitude quake struck 160 kilometres (100 miles) east off the main Honshu island at 0245 GMT, swaying buildings in the capital Tokyo.<br style=\"clear: both;\" /><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Japan issues tsunami warning after 7.2 quake   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/japanquake\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_asia_afp/japanquake</a></p>',-2,5,0,45,'2011-03-08 22:06:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 22:06:00','2011-03-09 22:22:59','','','',1,0,0,'','',0,3,''),(382,'Libya no-fly zone looms as fighting rages   (AFP)','libya-no-fly-zone-looms-as-fighting-rages-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_africa_afp/libyapoliticsunrestmideast\">&lt;img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299615871840-4-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=86&amp;q=85&amp;sig=DWRMF6ztwrd.ZH_yFlKhFA--\" align=\"left\" height=\"86\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Libya no-fly zone looms as</a></p>',' fighting rages   (AFP)\" border=\"0\"&gt;\n\nAFP - Moamer Kadhafi\'s forces stepped up pressure on Libya\'s eastern front Tuesday with air strikes and heavy shelling, amid reports of an onslaught in the west, as calls mounted for a no-fly zone over the country.<br style=\"clear: both;\" /><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Libya no-fly zone looms as fighting rages   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_africa_afp/libyapoliticsunrestmideast\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_africa_afp/libyapoliticsunrestmideast</a></p>',-2,5,0,45,'2011-03-08 20:00:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:00:00','2011-03-09 22:22:59','','','',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(384,'Suicide bomber kills 37 at Pakistan funeral   (Reuters)','suicide-bomber-kills-37-at-pakistan-funeral-reuters','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_pakistan_violence\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110308/i/r3501195017.jpg?x=130&amp;y=74&amp;q=85&amp;sig=PvqtDiLf0DjQ7pA7DEig.w--\" height=\"74\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Suicide bomber kills 37 at Pakistan funeral   (Reuters)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>Reuters - A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 37 people in the latest in a string of Islamist militant attacks aimed at undermining Pakistan\'s U.S.-backed government.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 37 people in the latest in a string of Islamist militant attacks aimed at undermining Pakistan\'s U.S.-backed government.</p>\n                <p>\nThe funeral was for the relative of a pro-government, ethnic Pashtun tribal elder near the northwestern city of Peshawar, top district administrator, Siraj Ahmed, told Reuters.</p>\n                <p>\nThe attacker struck as mourners were about to hold funeral prayers, officials and survivors said.</p>\n                <p>\n\"As we are readying for prayers, a boy wrapped in a shawl headed toward us. People shouted to the imam (prayer leader) to wait for him to join us but as he came close he blew himself up,\" said witness Mehmood Shah said.</p>\n                <p>\nA top provincial health official said 37 people had been killed and 52 wounded.</p>\n                <p>\nThe Pashtun elder whose relative was being buried, Hakeem Khan, was instrumental in raising a militia force, known as a lashkar, with the support of the government to fight militants.</p>\n                <p>\nA Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility.</p>\n                <p>\n\"These lashkars are raised to create chaos instead of maintaining peace,\" militant spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.</p>\n                <p>\n\"The lashkars and the army are fighting us at the behest of the Americans. We will continue attacks on them,\" he said.</p>\n                <p>\nIt was not immediately clear if the Pashtun elder, Khan, had been killed or wounded in the explosion.</p>\n                <p>\nBloodied shoes and caps littered the ground where the attack took place as stunned survivors milled around or bundled the wounded into trucks and away to hospital, television images showed.</p>\n                <p>\nAl Qaeda-linked Taliban militants have staged numerous attacks in Pakistan over recent years, many in the northwest near the border with Afghanistan, where the Pakistani military is battling the insurgents.</p>\n                <p>\n\"It was like doomsday ... There were dead and injured lying all around,\" said resident Anwar Khan, who went to help after the blast.</p>\n                <p>\nThe attack came a day after militants set off a car-bomb at a natural gas filling station in the central city of Faisalabad killing 25 people and wounding about 125.</p>\n                <p>\nPakistani Taliban fighting to bring down the U.S.-backed government also claimed responsibility for that attack.</p>\n                <p>\nThe army says that several military offensives over the past three years have weakened the militants but bomb attacks are still common.</p>\n                <p>\n(Additional reporting by Zeeshan Haider, Izaz Mohmand and Saud Mehsud; Editing by Chris Allbritton and Robert Birsel)</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Suicide bomber kills 37 at Pakistan funeral   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_pakistan_violence\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_pakistan_violence</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 05:05:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 05:05:00','2011-03-10 19:20:26','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(385,'Egypt sectarian strife kills 13, army sees threat   (Reuters)','egypt-sectarian-strife-kills-13-army-sees-threat-reuters','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_egypt_violence\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110309/i/r660529590.jpg?x=130&amp;y=88&amp;q=85&amp;sig=W6K_ZPufqXPUTfsHkgm3LQ--\" height=\"88\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Egypt sectarian strife kills 13, army sees threat   (Reuters)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>Reuters - Egypt\'s military rulers urged national unity and warned of the dangers of anarchy Wednesday after 13 people were killed in the worst Christian-Muslim violence since Hosni Mubarak was toppled from power.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt\'s military rulers urged national unity and warned of the dangers of anarchy Wednesday after 13 people were killed in the worst Christian-Muslim violence since Hosni Mubarak was toppled from power.</p>\n                <p>\nA new cabinet met for the first time and decided it would on Thursday redeploy the police force which largely disintegrated in the first days of the uprising that swept Mubarak from the presidency and left the military in control.</p>\n                <p>\nThe Health Ministry said 13 people were killed and 140 wounded in sectarian violence Tuesday ignited by tensions that have built up since an arson attack on a church south of Cairo Saturday.</p>\n                <p>\nThe strife poses another challenge to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces which has been governing with a depleted police force and wants to hold elections within six months so it can relinquish power.</p>\n                <p>\nIn a meeting with members of the cabinet, the military council urged citizens to unite and warned against chaos \"which threatens national security, especially with the existence of foreign forces targeting the country\'s stability and security.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThe state news agency did not elaborate on the council\'s reference to foreign threats, but said the meeting had addressed \"sectarian strife\" and its impact on the nation and economy.</p>\n                <p>\nEgyptians took pride in the Christian-Muslim solidarity displayed during the revolution that toppled Mubarak on February 11 and hoped the uprising had buried tensions that have flared up with increasing regularity in recent years.</p>\n                <p>\nIt was not clear how many of the dead from Tuesday\'s violence were Christian or Muslim. The trouble had started on a Cairo highway where Christians had been protesting over the arson attack on the church south of the capital.</p>\n                <p>\nThe Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group and Egypt\'s best organized political force, warned of attempts by remnants of Mubarak\'s regime \"to ignite strife in these delicate circumstances.\"</p>\n                <p>\nBrotherhood leader Mohammed Badie called on Egyptians to stand in \"one line to support the armed forces and the cabinet so they will be able to realize the demands of the revolution.\"</p>\n                <p>\n\"NEW VISION\"</p>\n                <p>\nHundreds of people faced off in the violence, hurling petrol bombs and rocks, witnesses said. Injuries included head wounds, bullet wounds and broken limbs, the state news agency quoted a senior Health Ministry official as saying. At least one of the dead, an 18-year-old Christian, had been shot in the back.</p>\n                <p>\nIt was not clear who had opened fire. The military, trying to restore order, had opened fire in the air at one point.</p>\n                <p>\n\"The supreme military council, the government and civil society must react because we do not want this to escalate and I fear we may return to the dark tunnel of sectarian tension,\" said Amr Hamzawy, an analyst and part of the reform movement.</p>\n                <p>\nThe attack on the church was triggered by a family dispute over a romance between a Muslim woman and a Christian man. Similar stories have triggered strife in the past.</p>\n                <p>\nHundreds of Christians have been protesting outside the Cairo headquarters of state television since the arson attack.</p>\n                <p>\nSeeking to contain tensions, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the military council, has said the military would rebuild the church before Easter.</p>\n                <p>\nThe Coptic Church, which represents the minority Christian population, issued no comment on the violence and a church official declined to speak about it. In the past, the church has urged calm after such violence.\n</p><p>\n\n\"The system now does not have the strength or the authority or even the military power to separate Muslims and Christians, if, God forbid, there are further implications,\" political analyst Diaa Rashwan said. \"The system does not even have the power to ease traffic,\" he added.\n</p><p>\n\nNew Interior Minister General Mansour el-Essawy said his main priority is to redeploy police forces across the country.\n</p><p>\n\nThe revolutionary groups which rose up against Mubarak have demanded a major shake-up of the security forces, including the dissolution of an internal security agency with a reputation for human rights abuses and spying on citizens.\n</p><p>\n\nAmnesty International condemned what it described as the army\'s heavy-handed actions to clear Tahrir Square of protesters Wednesday, saying soldiers beat demonstrators and made scores of arrests.\n</p><p>\n\nWitnesses said men in plain clothes had hurled stones at a few hundred people gathered in the square which had been the epicenter of the protest movement against Mubarak.\n</p><p>\n\nThe military council has scheduled a referendum on constitutional reform for March 19. The amendments will open the way to elections for the presidency and parliament, after which the military says it will hand power to a civilian government.\n</p><p>\n\n(Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Janet Lawrence)</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Egypt sectarian strife kills 13, army sees threat   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_egypt_violence\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_egypt_violence</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 16:23:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 16:23:00','2011-03-10 19:20:26','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(386,'China and Russia drive growth in world\'s billionaires   (Reuters)','china-and-russia-drive-growth-in-worlds-billionaires-reuters','','Reuters - Rising steel and oil prices in Russia, more honest disclosure in Brazil and booming economies in China and India have fueled a spike in billionaires in the so-called BRIC countries.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>NEW YORK (Reuters) – Rising steel and oil prices in Russia, more honest disclosure in Brazil and booming economies in China and India have fueled a spike in billionaires in the so-called BRIC countries.</p>\n                <p>\nMoscow is now home to the most billionaires with 79, followed by New York with 58, Forbes said in its annual list of the world\'s richest people.</p>\n                <p>\nThe world\'s richest man, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, retained his crown for the second year in a row and made more money than any of the other 1,209 billionaires in the past year: $20.5 billion, taking his fortune to $74 billion.</p>\n                <p>\nThe magazine said China nearly doubled its number of billionaires to 115, while Russia and Brazil posted two-thirds jumps to 101 and 30, respectively. It was the first time countries outside the United States produced over 100 billionaires.</p>\n                <p>\nIndia added six billionaires, taking its total to 55, \"but the average net worth ... is huge -- $4.5 billion for an Indian billionaire versus $2.5 billion for a Chinese billionaire,\" said Forbes Chief Executive Steve Forbes.</p>\n                <p>\nRussia\'s billionaire growth was attributed to a commodities boom. Brazil\'s increase came from stricter disclosure rules and a stronger currency. In China and India, strong economies helped create billionaires from a range of industries.</p>\n                <p>\n\"The bottom line is BRICs, commodities and Asia Pacific,\" Forbes told a news conference on Wednesday. \"There is a global commodities boom. But as we should have learned ... commodities can go up very sharply, they can go down very sharply.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThe Reuters Jefferies CRB commodities index rose 17 percent last year and is up another 8 percent this year as copper and gold hit record highs, grains are near their 2008 peaks and, most recently, oil surged beyond $100 a barrel.</p>\n                <p>\nBrazil, Russia, India and China produced half the world\'s 214 new billionaires, double last year\'s 97 newcomers. The Asia Pacific was home to 105 newcomers, three-quarters of whom earned their fortunes from stakes in public companies.</p>\n                <p>\nAround the world, the top industries for producing new billionaires were energy, fashion and retail, manufacturing, finance and diversified, Forbes said.</p>\n                <p>\nRICH AND GENEROUS</p>\n                <p>\nMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates held on to second place, growing his wealth to $56 billion from $53 billion last year, and investor Warren Buffett again came in third with $50 billion, up from $47 billion.</p>\n                <p>\nBuffett\'s Berkshire Hathaway Inc has fared better than Gates\' Microsoft. Microsoft shares now trade about where they were a decade ago, while Berkshire shares have roughly doubled. Slim\'s major companies, which include Mexico\'s former state telecoms monopoly Telmex, have also seen stock price gains.</p>\n                <p>\nForbes said that Gates would have still been the richest man in the world if he had not so far given $28 billion of his wealth to his foundation. He was only knocked off the top spot on the list twice between 1995 and 2010.</p>\n                <p>\nThe wealth of the world\'s billionaires jumped 25 percent to $4.5 trillion and their average net worth rose to $3.7 billion from $3.5 billion. There were 47 people who dropped off the list, 42 who returned and 10 people who died. The number of women grew to 102 from 89 last year.</p>\n                <p>\nWhile positions have shifted, the top 20 was largely unchanged. New this year were Russian steel baron Vladimir Lisin, U.S. casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and manufacturing and energy billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch.</p>\n                <p>\nAdelson -- whose Las Vegas Sands Corp came close to defaulting on its debt last year -- posted the biggest increase in wealth behind Slim. His fortune grew to $23.3 billion from $14 billion, and he soared to No. 16 from No. 73 last year.</p>\n                <p>\nThe Asia-Pacific\'s growth in wealth has also fueled a luxury goods demand, helping grow the fortune of Europe\'s richest man, LVMH Chief Executive Bernard Arnault, to $41 billion from $27.5 billion. He rose to No. 4 from No. 7.\n</p><p>\n\n\"The global economy is recovering, but it is not all spread across the board,\" said Forbes. \"Yes, there are increases (the number of billionaires) in Europe, but primarily it is Russia. The United States barely registered an increase.\"\n</p><p>\n\n\"In terms of wealth, the dog that isn\'t barking is Japan,\" said Forbes, referencing a Sherlock Holmes novel. \"(It has) a fairly small number of billionaires compared to the size of the economy.\"\n</p><p>\n\nThe number of U.S. billionaires rose to 413 from 403, including three new Facebook billionaires -- Sean Parker, Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskovitz -- who join founder Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook investor Peter Thiel.\n</p><p>\n\nMoskovitz is also the youngest billionaire in the world at 26 and with a fortune of $2.7 billion, while the honor of being the oldest goes to Swiss tech billionaire Walter Haefner, who is 100 and worth $4 billion.\n</p><p>\n\nCanadian David Thomson, who owns Thomson Reuters, widened his lead over his financial news and data rival, New York City Mayor and Bloomberg owner Michael Bloomberg. Thomson rose three spots to No. 17 with $23 billion, while Bloomberg fell seven spots to No. 30 with a fortune of $18.1 billion.\n</p><p>\n\nForbes ranked the billionaires\' fortunes at the close of global stock markets on February 14, 2011. The full Forbes ranking of the world\'s billionaires can be seen at www.forbes.com/billionaires\n</p><p>\n\n(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Mark Egan and Gary Hill)</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"China and Russia drive growth in world\'s billionaires   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_billionaires\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_billionaires</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 17:52:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 17:52:00','2011-03-10 19:20:27','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(387,'Mexican gang members charged in US consulate murders   (Reuters)','mexican-gang-members-charged-in-us-consulate-murders-reuters','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_mexico_usa_murders\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110309/i/ra1743107296.jpg?x=130&amp;y=86&amp;q=85&amp;sig=MtJbA23XZTqWeWgKCmERSw--\" height=\"86\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Mexican gang members charged in US consulate murders   (Reuters)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>Reuters - U.S. authorities said on Wednesday that they have charged 10 alleged Mexican gang members with murdering two Americans and a Mexican man who had ties to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. authorities said on Wednesday that they have charged 10 alleged Mexican gang members with murdering two Americans and a Mexican man who had ties to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez.</p>\n                <p>\nU.S. Consulate employee Leslie Ann Enriquez Canton and her American husband Arthur Redelfs were gunned down in broad daylight on March 13, 2010, as they left an event sponsored by the consulate, which is located just across the border from El Paso, Texas.</p>\n                <p>\nThe suspects, part of the Barrio Azteca gang, were also accused of murdering a Mexican man, Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, who was married to another consulate employee, around the same time in another part of the city after they left the same event.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Without question, the arrests and charges that we are announcing today will disrupt Barrio Azteca\'s current operations,\" Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters. \"Criminal by criminal, gang by gang, mile by mile, we will keep up our fight to end the scourge of violence along our southwest border.\"</p>\n                <p>\nHe said the gang has been operating in western Texas and Juarez, Mexico as well as prisons in both countries since the late 1980s and has since expanded to become a transnational criminal organization.</p>\n                <p>\nThe motive for the murders was not described in the indictment, but Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department\'s criminal division, told reporters that it could have been a case of mistaken identity.</p>\n                <p>\nSeven of the 10 defendants charged with the murders are in custody in Mexico, and the United States is working with Mexican authorities to extradite them for prosecution, the Justice Department said.</p>\n                <p>\nKILLING OF U.S. AGENT</p>\n                <p>\nThe developments come as authorities in both countries investigate the killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and the wounding of a second agent last month in a shooting in another part of Mexico.</p>\n                <p>\nViolence has plagued the area of Ciudad Juarez as rival drug gangs have fought for control of the city. Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched a war against the cartels in 2006 and more than 36,000 people have been killed in connection with the struggle.</p>\n                <p>\nThe drug violence was a major topic of discussion when Calderon met with President Barack Obama at the White House last week. Washington has been worried that the fighting could spill over the border and it has also prompted some companies to reconsider plans to invest in Mexico.</p>\n                <p>\nThe United States has provided funds and training to help Mexico in its fight against the cartels and intelligence from U.S. law enforcement sources is credited with helping Mexico kill and capture several cartel leaders in recent years.</p>\n                <p>\nProsecutors also revealed a new indictment against 25 others accused of being part of the Barrio Azteca gang and they were charged with a wide range of offenses including money laundering, drug offenses and racketeering.</p>\n                <p>\nOf that subset, seven are already in U.S. custody and 12 others were arrested in the United States on Wednesday. Three remain fugitives, including Eduardo Ravelo who is on the FBI\'s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. There is a $100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.</p>\n                <p>\n(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky and James Vicini, editing by Cynthia Osterman)</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Mexican gang members charged in US consulate murders   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_mexico_usa_murders\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_nm/us_mexico_usa_murders</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 17:06:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 17:06:00','2011-03-10 19:20:28','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(388,'Stolen Oil: A Gusher of Cash for Mexican Drug Cartels   (Time.com)','stolen-oil-a-gusher-of-cash-for-mexican-drug-cartels-timecom','','Time.com - Are the narcotraffickers turning to stealing petroleum because they are losing the drug war? Or do they scent a new source of profits?','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>In the early hours of a frosty February morning, a resident in the Central Mexican town of Amozoc heard suspicious noises in the field near his house. He called for help. When the state agents arrived, they found a truck trying to leave the area - with a whopping 5,000 gallons of crude oil in the back. The three men on board had drilled a hole into a major oil pipeline that runs through the town and sucked the fuel into their truck through a hose. Worst of all, the alleged culprits were town policemen.</p>\n                <p>Such oil theft has become increasingly common in Mexico amid a breakdown in law-and-order in certain states. Last year, the government oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos or Pemex detected 712 such pipeline taps - a fivefold increase compared to the 136 spotted in 2005. It represents a significant loss of government income at a time when revolution in the Middle East has pushed crude oil prices to nearly $100 a barrel. (The Amozoc haul would be the equivalent of about 120 barrels or roughly $12,000.) Adding to the alarm, detectives working on several cases have traced the thefts to drug cartels, such as the Zetas, an indication that the country\'s overlords of crime have branched out into yet another line of business. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=11vnfukj4/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1895418,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See pictures of Mexico\'s drug tunnels.)</a></span> </p>\n                <p>As with the narcotics business, the clandestine nature of Mexico\'s illegal oil market makes it impossible to know exactly how much it is worth. Pemex is one of the world\'s leading oil companies with revenues of $104 billion in 2010. That alone provides some 40% of Mexico\'s federal budget. Company officials insist they are losing less than 1% of their black gold to the bandits. However, energy analyst David Shields believes that figure is an underestimate; he calculates that the fuel black market is now worth $2 billion to $4 billion annually. \"The government is so involved in other matters such as assassinations and whole towns being controlled by drug cartels, that the illicit fuel market doesn\'t seem such a big deal,\" Shields says. \"So the government has failed to see that it has to act more strenuously on this.\"</p>\n                <p>Oil thieves sometimes hawk stolen gasoline on the side of highways. But other times it is actually sold by middlemen to Pemex franchise gas stations - and ends up in the cars of unknowing consumers. Meanwhile, stolen crude is sold off to brick makers who use the fuel to fire their ovens; or it is smuggled across the border and peddled to oil tycoons in the United States. Following a bi-national probe, U.S. police charged five Houston-based oil brokers with receiving stolen Mexican fuel (in this case, petroleum condesate), including the president of Continental Fuels who was given probation by a Houston federal court in January. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=11v0ip8rd/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1997671,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See pictures of a gang war.)</a></span> </p>\n                <p>As the fuel is stolen it can be sold for less than half the market price at a time of record highs. But once in the system, it impossible to know stolen from legitimate fuel and it can pass into the refineries and tankers of legitimate companies, traveling across Mexico, the United States and beyond. With oil in such high demand, even relatively small amounts can quickly turn gangsters into millionaires.</p>\n                <p>Pemex officials argue they are getting better at detecting the illegal taps, but concede it is a tough to stop the robbers. \"We have the technology to detect any change of pressure in the pipelines. But as you see, they are very sophisticated gangs who know our operations,\" Pemex Director Juan Jose Suarez told a recent news conference. The problem is aggravated by the fact that some of the Mexican states with the most oil are the scenes of its worst drug violence, such as Tamaulipas on the border with Texas. Among recent bloodshed there: the assassination of the leading gubernatorial candidate last June; the slaughter of an entire village that had been fleeing gangsters in December; and the killing of 18 people in a single gunfight on March 7. Stolen oil ends up low on the list of crimes for police to deal with.</p>\n                <p>When detectives did finally launch a major probe in Tamaulipas, they found that a cell of the deadly Zetas gang was organizing oil robbery and transporting the crude into Texas. Mexican authorities in February froze 16 million pesos ($1.3 million) in bank accounts that they alleged came from this racket However, they say that money was only a spit in the ocean of some 508 million pesos ($42 million) that they estimate the Zeta cell made selling oil in two years. Black gold rivals the profits in drugs. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=11vn0j9gj/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1827101,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See pictures of Culiac[a {a}]n, the home of Mexico\'s drug-trafficking industry.)</a></span> </p>\n                <p>On a positive note, the authorities claim that oil theft shows that the good guys are winning the drug war and forcing gangsters to look for other income. The criminals, \"have moved into so many crimes because of pressure,\" White House Drug Tsar Gil Kerilowskie told Mexican correspondents in January. \"They are spending more time robbing Pemex or stealing cars or kidnapping or extorting.\" Critics, however, retort that the diversification of Mexico\'s criminal cartels show they are getting stronger and eating into more and more spheres of national life.</p>\n                <p>The crime has other hazards. Pemex officials say attempted theft may have caused an oil leak that triggered an explosion in the town of San Martin Texmelucan in December. The blast sent flames - as high as 30 yards and at temperatures of as much as 1,000 degrees centigrade - down the streets, incinerating dozens of homes and killing 30 people. Resident Oscar Quiroz woke up that morning to the roar of flames and screams. After rescuing his family, he pulled neighbors from burning houses. \"This was where my neighbor and her two children lived,\" Quiroz says, pointing to a charred patch of ground. \"All that was left of them was ashes. This is something that nobody should have to go through.\" </p>\n                <p> <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=11cm8egb0/*http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek\" target=\"_blank\">See TIME\'s Pictures of the Week.</a></span> </p>\n                <p> <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=11cau8b4g/*http://www.time.com/time/cartoonsoftheweek\" target=\"_blank\">See the Cartoons of the Week.</a></span> </p>\n                <p>View this article on <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=12n3gib15/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2058007,00.html?xid=rss-fullworld-yahoo\">Time.com</a></p>\n                <p></p><p>Most Popular on Time.com:</p><ul><li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=12vuagvud/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057857,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">Tripoli: Libya\'s Capital a Facade of Calm as Crisis Mounts</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=130jk7j78/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2056610,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">U.S. Decline in Global Arena: Is America No Longer No. 1?</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=12v042jcb/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057744,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">South Africa\'s Corrective Rape: Activists Battle Violence</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=1307obq79/*http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205800700/40590072/SIG=130em8000/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2057903,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">In Ohio Ice Cream Chain\'s Success, Hope for Other Artisans</a></li> </ul><p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Stolen Oil: A Gusher of Cash for Mexican Drug Cartels   (Time.com)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110309/wl_time/08599205800700\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110309/wl_time/08599205800700</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 15:30:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 15:30:00','2011-03-10 19:20:38','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(389,'Three BBC journalists \'detained and beaten\' in Libya: BBC   (AFP)','three-bbc-journalists-detained-and-beaten-in-libya-bbc-afp','','AFP - Three BBC journalists were \"detained and beaten\" before being subjected to a mock execution while reporting in battle-torn Libya, the news organisation reported Wednesday.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>LONDON (AFP) – Three BBC journalists were \"detained and beaten\" before being subjected to a mock execution while reporting in battle-torn Libya, the news organisation reported Wednesday.</p>\n                <p>\n\"They hit me with a stick, they used their army boots on me, and their knees,\" Feras Killani, one of the released BBC Arabic reporters, said of his captors.</p>\n                <p>\n\"He found a plastic pipe on the ground and beat me with that, then one of the soldiers gave him a long stick,\" added Killani, who is of Palestinian descent.</p>\n                <p>\n\"After they finished beating me they taped the mask on my head with gaffer tape.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I think there was something personal against me, they knew me and the sort of coverage I had been doing,\" Killani said. \"I think they monitored the BBC and had an idea, he knew who we were and what we were doing.\"</p>\n                <p>\nKillani and his colleagues, Briton Chris Cobb-Smith and Turk Goktay Koraltan, were arrested on Monday at a checkpoint six miles (9.6 kilometres) south of Zawiya, where forces loyal to leader Moamer Kadhafi are fighting vicious battles with rebels.</p>\n                <p>\nThe three men were then taken to barracks where they \"suffered repeated assaults\" by members of Libya\'s army and secret police before being released 21 hours later. All three have now left the country.</p>\n                <p>\nCobb-Smith told BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen that the three men were \"lined up against the wall\" before their mock execution.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I looked and I saw a plain-clothes guy with a small sub-machine gun,\" he explained. \"He put it to everyone\'s neck. I saw him and he screamed at me.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Then he walked up to me put the gun to my neck and pulled the trigger, twice, the bullets whisked past my ear. The soldiers just laughed,\" he recalled.</p>\n                <p>\n\"After the shooting incident one man who spoke very good English...ordered them to cut off our handcuffs.</p>\n                <p>\n\"When he had filled in the paper work, it was suddenly all over. It was a charm offensive, packets of cigarettes, tea, coffee, offers of food,\" he added.</p>\n                <p>\nKoraltan admitted he was \"really scared\". \"I thought they were going to kill us and blame Al-Qaeda or the rebels,\" he said.</p>\n                <p>\nAccording to Killani, other detainees were being abused in the facility.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I spent the night in a cell. There were 10 to 12 men from Zawiya. Some were in a bad situation,\" he said.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Two of them told me they had broken ribs. The four who were masked, I helped them breathe by lifting their masks, saw they had been badly beaten,\" he recounted.</p>\n                <p>\nLiliane Landor, controller, Languages, BBC global news, said: \"The BBC strongly condemns this abusive treatment of our journalists and calls on the Libyan government to ensure all media are able to report freely.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Despite these attacks, the BBC will continue to cover the evolving story in Libya for our audiences both inside and outside the country,\" she vowed.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Three BBC journalists \'detained and beaten\' in Libya: BBC   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_uk_afp/libyapoliticsunrestbbc\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_uk_afp/libyapoliticsunrestbbc</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 18:37:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 18:37:00','2011-03-10 19:20:39','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(390,'ElBaradei sets conditions for presidential run   (AP)','elbaradei-sets-conditions-for-presidential-run-ap','','AP - Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, said Wednesday that he will run for president only if a real democratic system is in place, not the reforms Egypt\'s military leaders are proposing.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>CAIRO – Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, said Wednesday that he will run for president only if a real democratic system is in place, not the reforms Egypt\'s military leaders are proposing.</p>\n                <p>ElBaradei told a private Egyptian television said that suggested constitutional amendments to move Egypt toward democracy are \"superficial.\" He appealed to the military rulers to scrap them or delay a scheduled March 19 referendum on them.</p>\n                <p>\"We are at a decisive period in Egypt\'s history,\" he told ONTV. \"We shouldn\'t rush. Everything should be on a solid basis.\"</p>\n                <p>The constitutional amendments limit a president to two four-year terms. They also allow independents and opposition members to run, impossible under the regime of deposed President Hosni Mubarak.</p>\n                <p>Even so, ElBaradei said he would vote against the amendments. He said the changes don\'t limit the powers of president or give enough time for political parties to form, setting parliamentary elections soon.</p>\n                <p>The military rulers have said they want to hand over power six months after the ouster of Mubarak. The proposed amendments suggest that elections, both presidential and parliamentary, would take place during that period.</p>\n                <p>However, there is no proposed change in the laws that regulate forming political parties. This, ElBaradei said, would allow remnants of Mubarak\'s party and the well organized Muslim Brotherhood to control the new parliament. He also expressed concern that the current lack of security would hamper ability of authorities to secure the elections or protect people going to vote.</p>\n                <p>\"After all this, how can the parliament be representative,\" he said. \"I can\'t rule Egypt for one day under this constitution.\"</p>\n                <p>Since his return to Egypt last year, ElBaradei has reinvigorated a youth movement that reached out to him as a leader in their calls for reform, seeing him as independent, untainted by state corruption and as a figure who represents international success.</p>\n                <p>ElBaradei, a prominent figure in the mass protests that forced Mubarak out, appeals to educated and middle class Egyptians, but lacks a wider popular following.</p>\n                <p>ElBaradei described himself as a social democrat, and said, \"democracy is my program.\"</p>\n                <p>\"My first decision would be to bring all experts locally and abroad to install a new education system,\" he said. \"Without education there will be no Egypt of the future.\"</p>\n                <p>ElBaradei said if he were to become president, he would restore relations between Egypt and Iran, severed in 1979.</p>\n                <p>He criticized Egypt\'s foreign policy as characterized by emotions and captive to slogans.</p>\n                <p>On the key issue of Egypt\'s 1979 peace treaty with Israel, which he helped negotiate, he said it was a mistake to forge a separate agreement with Israel, but he would not cancel the treaty. Instead, he said, he would try to restore what he called \"compatible\" relations with Israel.</p>\n                <p>He said the current situation is \"peace between the Egyptian government and the Israeli government, not the people.\"</p>\n                <p>He said there a Palestinian state cannot be created through war, but he called the current peace process a \"ridiculous joke.\" Peace talks are stalled over the issue of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"ElBaradei sets conditions for presidential run   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110310/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_politics\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110310/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_politics</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 19:06:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 19:06:00','2011-03-10 19:20:39','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(391,'Mexico arrests suspect linked to US agent\'s death   (AP)','mexico-arrests-suspect-linked-to-us-agents-death-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110309/i/ra1743107296.jpg?x=130&amp;y=86&amp;q=85&amp;sig=MtJbA23XZTqWeWgKCmERSw--\" height=\"86\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Mexico arrests suspect linked to US agent\'s death   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - Federal police have arrested another suspected drug cartel member for alleged links to last month\'s attack in Mexico that killed one U.S. agent and wounded another, authorities said Wednesday.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>MEXICO CITY – Federal police have arrested another suspected drug cartel member for alleged links to last month\'s attack in Mexico that killed one U.S. agent and wounded another, authorities said Wednesday.</p>\n                <p>In the Pacific coast resort city of Mazatlan, meanwhile, gunmen sprayed the crowded parking lot of a bar with bullets, killing at least six people, including the grandson of one of the state\'s best-known musicians, authorities said. Twenty one people were wounded.</p>\n                <p>The suspect in the U.S. officer\'s slaying, Mario Jimenez Perez, 41, alias \"El Mayito,\" oversaw finances for the Zetas gang in the northern state of San Luis Potosi, the Public Safety Department said in a statement. He allegedly ran payroll for cartel assassins, managed income from drug sales and acquired properties and communications equipment for the gang.</p>\n                <p>Federal police arrested him March 5 along with 16 other suspects who purportedly worked for the Zetas.</p>\n                <p>This \"heavily armed group provided protection to leaders of the criminal gang ... and presumably worked as extorters, kidnappers and killers in addition to transporting, buying and selling drugs,\" the statement said.</p>\n                <p>Four of the suspects were hospitalized immediately, but officials did not say whether there was a shootout or provide information on their condition. Police seized firearms, drugs, vehicles, cell phones and radios.</p>\n                <p>The Public Safety Department did not give any details on Jimenez\'s alleged involvement in the Feb. 15 killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata, who was killed by gunmen after they stopped his vehicle on a highway in San Luis Potosi. A second agent, Victor Avila, was wounded.</p>\n                <p>Mexican authorities have previously arrested a number of purported Zetas operatives allegedly involved in the attack. One of the suspects who allegedly took part in the shooting said gunmen mistook the agents\' SUV for a vehicle used by a rival gang, the Mexican military said.</p>\n                <p>San Luis Potosi borders two northern states where the Zetas and the Gulf cartel have waged bloody turf wars. Zapata and Avila were temporarily detailed to the ICE attache office in Mexico City and were driving from the northern city of Monterrey to the capital when they were attacked.</p>\n                <p>Though it is rare for U.S. officials to be attacked, the U.S. government has become increasingly concerned about the safety of its employees in Mexico amid soaring drug violence.</p>\n                <p>In March, a U.S. employee of the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez, her husband and a Mexican tied to the consulate were killed when drug gang members fired on their cars after they left a children\'s party in the city across from El Paso, Texas.</p>\n                <p>Ten members and associates of the Southwest border gang Barrio Azteca have been charged in the United States in those murders, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday in El Paso, Texas.</p>\n                <p>The indictment details a criminal enterprise that began in the late 1980s as a violent prison gang, which then expanded into a group of murderers and drug traffickers who operate on both sides of U.S.-Mexico border.</p>\n                <p>The unsealed indictment did not supply a motive for the consulate killings, but it could have been as simple as a case of mistaken identity, said Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, who heads the Justice Department\'s criminal division.</p>\n                <p>In all, more than 35,000 people have died nationwide in drug violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched an all-out offensive against cartels.</p>\n                <p>In Mazatlan, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, a crowd was listening to traditional \"banda\" music following a performance at a popular bar Tuesday night when two vehicles pulled up. An undetermined number of masked men got out and opened fire, state Deputy Attorney General Martin Robles Armenta said.</p>\n                <p>Authorities said six people ages 19 to 34 were killed, and two of the wounded were in serious condition. Among the dead was a grandson of Don Cruz Lizarraga, founder of \"El Recodo,\" Sinaloa\'s best-known banda group, state prosecutors\' spokesman Martin Gastelum confirmed.</p>\n                <p>Alberto Lizarraga, also a musician, was playing with the band \"La Sinaloense\" the night of the shooting, Gastelum said.\n</p><p>\nAuthorities recovered more than 100 assault-rifle shells.\n</p><p>\nThe attack took place during Mazatlan\'s Carnival celebrations along a seaside street in a neighborhood popular with travelers. It was not immediately clear whether any tourists were among the victims.\n</p><p>\nSeveral cruise lines have recently canceled stops in Mazatlan citing violence there, though no tourists have been killed. Sinaloa is the cradle of several drug cartels and has one of the highest homicide rates in the country.\n</p><p>\nTo the south in the state of Guerrero, the military reported that soldiers killed six suspected drug gang members in a shootout at their cave hide-out.\n</p><p>\nTroops came under fire Tuesday while patrolling in Buenavista de Cuellar and responded in kind, killing all the occupants of the roadside cave, the Defense Department said in a statement.\n</p><p>\nThe department said the cave was equipped with blankets and cooking utensils. Authorities seized nine rifles.\n</p><p>\n___\n</p><p>\nAssociated Press writers Ricardo Gonzalez in Sinaloa, Mexico, Sergio Flores in Acapulco, Mexico, and Pete Yost in Washington contributed to this report.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Mexico arrests suspect linked to US agent\'s death   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 18:05:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 18:05:00','2011-03-10 19:20:40','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(392,'Oil installations ablaze in Libya as battles rage   (AP)','oil-installations-ablaze-in-libya-as-battles-rage-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110310/ap_on_re_af/af_libya\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110309/capt.63b397e2827b4329a8e41216b9ed470a-63b397e2827b4329a8e41216b9ed470a-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=80&amp;q=85&amp;sig=AfVrXdy0MEsqbWcpp6tmmQ--\" height=\"80\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Oil installations ablaze in Libya as battles rage   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - A giant yellow fireball shot into the sky, trailed by thick plumes of black smoke Wednesday after fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi set two oil installations ablaze and inflicted yet more damage on Libya\'s crippled energy industry.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>RAS LANOUF, Libya – A giant yellow fireball shot into the sky, trailed by thick plumes of black smoke Wednesday after fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi set two oil installations ablaze and inflicted yet more damage on Libya\'s crippled energy industry.</p>\n                <p>In the west, Gadhafi claimed victory in recapturing Zawiya, the city closest to the capital that had fallen into opposition hands. The claim could not immediately be verified; phone lines there have not been working during a deadly, six-day siege.</p>\n                <p>State TV showed a crowd of hundreds, purportedly in Zawiya\'s main square, shouting \"The people want Colonel Gadhafi!\" but the location of the rally could not be independently confirmed.</p>\n                <p>Western journalists based in Tripoli were taken late Wednesday to a stadium on the outskirts of Zawiya that was filled with Gadhafi loyalists waving green flags in a similar scene, complete with fireworks. Libyan TV cameras filmed the celebrations as food, drinks and cooking oil were distributed.</p>\n                <p>Government escorts refused journalists\' requests to visit the city\'s main square.</p>\n                <p>The fall of Zawiya to anti-Gadhafi residents early on in the uprising that began Feb. 15 illustrated the initial, blazing progress of the opposition. But Gadhafi has seized the momentum, battering the rebels with airstrikes and artillery fire and repulsing their westward march toward the capital, Tripoli.</p>\n                <p>Gadhafi\'s successes have left Western powers struggling to come up with a plan to support the rebels without becoming ensnared in the complex and fast-moving conflict. On Wednesday, a high-ranking member of the Libyan military flew to Cairo with a message for Egyptian army officials from Gadhafi, but no further details were known.</p>\n                <p>President Barack Obama\'s national security team weighed how to force Gadhafi from power and halt his crackdown on rebels, but the White House said no action was imminent and set no timeline as attention shifted to a pivotal NATO session in Brussels.</p>\n                <p>The NATO alliance said it was planning for any eventuality in the Libyan crisis. But with Defense Secretary Robert Gates preparing to join a meeting of alliance defense chiefs to discuss military options on Thursday, there was little sign they would agree to set up a no-fly zone over the North African country.</p>\n                <p>A rebel spokesman said Wednesday they will buy weapons if the international community fails to declare a no-fly zone.</p>\n                <p>\"If a no-fly zone is not imposed, we do have the means to get armaments. We don\'t expect any country to refuse to deal with us in terms of an arms sale,\" said Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, a spokesman for the rebels\' provisional transitional national council.</p>\n                <p>He did not elaborate or say where the rebels would get the money for arms.</p>\n                <p>Britain and France are pushing for the U.N. to create a no-fly zone over the country, and while the U.S. may be persuaded to sign on, such a move is unlikely to win the backing of veto-wielding Security Council members Russia and China, which traditionally object to such steps as infringements on national sovereignty.</p>\n                <p>Gadhafi said in a Turkish television interview that Libyans would fight back if Western nations imposed a no-fly zone to prevent his regime from using its air force to bomb government opponents staging a rebellion.</p>\n                <p>He said imposing the restrictions would prove the West\'s real intention was to seize his country\'s oil wealth.</p>\n                <p>\"Such a situation would be useful,\" Gadhafi said. \"The Libyan people would understand their real aims to take Libya under their control, to take their freedoms and to take their oil and all Libyan people will take up arms and fight.\"</p>\n                <p>In eastern Libya, an Associated Press reporter at Ras Lanouf near the front line of fighting saw an explosion from the area of the Sidr oil facility, 360 miles (580 kilometers) east of Tripoli.</p>\n                <p>Three columns of thick smoke rose from the area, apparently from burning oil.\n</p><p>\nMustafa Gheriani, an opposition spokesman, said the government artillery hit a pipeline supplying Sidr from oil fields in the desert. An oil storage depot also was hit, apparently by an airstrike, he said.\n</p><p>\nGheriani accused Gadhafi forces of intentionally targeting oil facilities as a warning to Europe that the chaos in Libya will hurt oil supplies.\n</p><p>\n\"Gadhafi thinks he can put pressure on Europe, but I think this is just going to work against him,\" Gheriani told the AP.\n</p><p>\nShukri Ghanem, chairman of the Libya\'s National Oil Corp., said the Sidr explosion was from \"a small tank for diesel\" that caught fire and he insisted it would not affect oil production.\n</p><p>\nRas Lanouf is the westernmost point seized by rebels moving along the country\'s main highway on the Mediterranean coast. Four bodies were brought to the morgue at the hospital in Ras Lanouf, doctors said.\n</p><p>\nIn Cairo, an Egyptian army official told the AP on condition of anonymity that Maj. Gen. Abdul-Rahman bin Ali al-Said al-Zawi, the head of Libya\'s logistics and supply authority, was asking to meet Egypt\'s military rulers.\n</p><p>\nDiplomatic attempts to calm the crisis accelerated Wednesday.\n</p><p>\nA Libyan envoy met with Portugal\'s foreign minister in Lisbon on Wednesday, and an envoy will hold talks in Athens on Thursday with Greece\'s deputy foreign minister. The visits come ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the situation in Libya.\n</p><p>\nThe violence in Libya has taken a toll on the country\'s oil production. For the past week, government forces and rebels have been battling around several key oil ports east — Brega, Ras Lanouf and Sidr. At their peak, those three export terminals handled about 715,000 barrels of crude per day, or roughly 45 percent of the country\'s exports, according to figures published in industry publication Africa Energy. A fourth eastern port, Marsa al-Harigah, handled another 220,000 barrels per day.\n</p><p>\nIn total, those four ports would then account for almost 60 percent of the country\'s crude exports.\n</p><p>\n\"We were already seeing Libya as pretty much being closed,\" said Samuel Cizsuk, Mideast oil analyst with IHS Global Insight in London. \"It was only a question of time before the escalating violence would damage oil facilities.\"\n</p><p>\n\"Libya has been discounted from the global markets,\" he said.\n</p><p>\nThe British Broadcasting Corp., meanwhile, said three of its staff had been detained, beaten and subjected to mock executions by pro-regime soldiers while attempting to reach Zawiya on Monday. The BBC said the men were held for 21 hours before they were released, and have since left Libya. It reported the details of their detention in bulletins late on Wednesday.\n</p><p>\n_______\n</p><p>\nMichael reported from Tripoli. Ryan Lucas in Benghazi, Libya, Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee in Washington, Derek Gatopoulos in Athens and Tarek El-Tablawy in Cairo contributed to this report.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Oil installations ablaze in Libya as battles rage   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110310/ap_on_re_af/af_libya\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110310/ap_on_re_af/af_libya</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 19:00:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 19:00:00','2011-03-10 19:20:41','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(393,'US to press economic cooperation in Asia-Pacific   (AP)','us-to-press-economic-cooperation-in-asia-pacific-ap','','AP - The United States will lead efforts for economic cooperation and lifting trade barriers in the Asia-Pacific region, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>WASHINGTON – The United States will lead efforts for economic cooperation and lifting trade barriers in the Asia-Pacific region, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.</p>\n                <p>Clinton said economic engagement with Asia will be key to America\'s recovery from the global slowdown, and that common rules on trade and investment would benefit the whole region and help lift people from poverty.</p>\n                <p>But there are plenty of obstacles on the path to that goal. The U.S. International Trade Commission reported Wednesday that China\'s \"indigenous innovation\" policies aimed at promoting technology developed or patented locally could pose a greater threat to American businesses than its undervalued currency.</p>\n                <p>Clinton was speaking at a preparatory meeting in Washington for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit of 21 regional economies the U.S. will host in Hawaii in November.</p>\n                <p>It will be the first time the U.S. has hosted the annual APEC conference since 1993, and comes as the Obama administration makes a major push, also on the diplomatic and security fronts, to step up its engagement with the region.</p>\n                <p>Clinton described the U.S. as a \"Pacific power,\" and said it \"is determined not just to re-engage but to lead.\"</p>\n                <p>Despite the economic clout of its members, which include China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and Australia and account for more than half of global output, APEC has often been derided as a talk shop.</p>\n                <p>Clinton said the U.S. would push the organization to deliver \"useful, tangible results\" and build upon a vision voiced by APEC leaders meeting in Japan last year for stronger and deeper regional economic integration.</p>\n                <p>She said nations have made strong progress in removing trade tariffs, but numerous \"non-tariff barriers remain.\" She said governments needed to do more to tackle intellectual property theft and adopt common standards applying to everything from manufactured goods to buildings, and so make it easier to do business across borders.</p>\n                <p>She also referred to the problem \"indigenous innovation\" — a particular bone of contention with China, which is introducing a web of policies that aim to cultivate its domestic technology and know-how.</p>\n                <p>Karen Laney, acting director of operations at the ITC, said Wednesday that China often sets technical standards slightly different from widely accepted international ones, such as for wireless internet or third generation mobile telecommunications, which foreign companies then have to adopt to sell their products in China.</p>\n                <p>Laney said Chinese government procurement policies, a market worth an estimated $88 billion to $200 billion annually, also favor Chinese firms, particularly in high-tech sectors. A number of provinces and municipalities have compiled procurement catalogues of preferred products for government agencies, and almost no products from foreign companies are listed.</p>\n                <p>According to an ITC report, only two of the 523 products in the catalog for Shanghai were from foreign-invested companies.</p>\n                <p>U.S. companies generally are \"more concerned about indigenous innovation policies going forward than currency manipulation,\" Laney told a congressional hearing.</p>\n                <p>In January, China promised to de-link indigenous innovation from government procurement.</p>\n                <p>Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on terrorism, proliferation and trade, told the hearing that China \"has a history of promises made, promises broken.\"</p>\n                <p>\"China is looking to move its economy from `Made in China\' to `Designed in China\' and is playing hardball to do it,\" he said.</p>\n                <p>There is considerable anxiety in the United States itself over the economic rise of Asian economies, particularly China\'s, and the impact it has had on the U.S. manufacturing sector. With U.S. unemployment still officially at around 9 percent, some lawmakers are calling for punitive action against China for allegedly undervaluing its currency to benefit its exporters.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"US to press economic cooperation in Asia-Pacific   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/us_us_clinton_asia\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/us_us_clinton_asia</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 18:38:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 18:38:00','2011-03-10 19:20:42','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(394,'Government rapped and escapes nonconfidence motion   (Reuters)','government-rapped-and-escapes-nonconfidence-motion-reuters','','Reuters - The government received two formal reprimands on Wednesday but escaped an immediate nonconfidence debate that could have triggered an election.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>OTTAWA (Reuters) – The government received two formal reprimands on Wednesday but escaped an immediate nonconfidence debate that could have triggered an election.</p>\n                <p>\nThe rebukes are another big blow to a government that has suffered a series of ethical problems in the last few months.</p>\n                <p>\nThe government\'s escape might be short-lived, since it could well be brought down over a budget to be presented on March 22. The Conservatives need the support of at least one of the three opposition parties and it is very unclear if that will happen.</p>\n                <p>\nPeter Milliken, speaker of the House of Commons, first ruled the Conservatives had ignored Parliament\'s demand to produce financial documents. He then said International Aid Minister Bev Oda had misled legislators over why she cut funding for an aid group the government disliked.</p>\n                <p>\nAlthough polls show Conservatives would retain power in an election now -- and might even turn their minority into a stable majority -- opposition parties are confident they can benefit from the government\'s ethical woes.</p>\n                <p>\n\"This speaker believes this government does not respect the democratic principles at the heart of our democracy ... (he) has said \'Wake up Canada, this is a government that cannot be trusted to respect the institutions of our country\',\" said Michael Ignatieff, leader of the main opposition Liberals.</p>\n                <p>\nThe Liberals could in theory present a nonconfidence motion on March 21, the day before the budget. Ignatieff said he was keeping all his options open.</p>\n                <p>\nJohn Baird, the government minister in charge of day-to-day business in the House of Commons, said he would reflect on Milliken\'s rulings.</p>\n                <p>\nMilliken first said the government had failed to provide all details of a planned prison construction program despite being ordered to do so by a Parliamentary committee.</p>\n                <p>\n\"It is clear from a cursory examination of the material tabled that, on its face, it does not provide all the information ordered by the committee,\" he said. \"While (I find) this, in and of itself, unsettling, what is of greater concern is the absence of an explanation for the omissions.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThe Liberals responded by proposing the matter be sent to a special Parliamentary committee for further study. The Liberals want the committee to respond by March 21, and this could also set the scene for a nonconfidence vote.</p>\n                <p>\nMilliken censured Oda, prompting the Liberals to insist she resign. Her case will also be discussed at committee.</p>\n                <p>\nLast month four senior Conservative officials were charged with violating financing rules during the election campaign that brought the party to power in 2006.</p>\n                <p>\nLast week an aide to the immigration minister quit after sending a letter on official ministerial stationery seeking funds for an advertising campaign aimed at ethnic minorities.</p>\n                <p>\n(Additional reporting by Howaida Sorour; editing by Jeffrey Jones)</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Government rapped and escapes nonconfidence motion   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_politics_parliament\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_politics_parliament</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 17:46:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 17:46:00','2011-03-10 19:20:43','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(395,'Australian fisherman mauled by 13-foot crocodile   (AP)','australian-fisherman-mauled-by-13-foot-crocodile-ap','','AP - Police say a fisherman was mauled by a 13-foot (four-meter) crocodile that tried to drag him into a creek in northeastern Australia.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>BRISBANE, Australia – Police say a fisherman was mauled by a 13-foot (four-meter) crocodile that tried to drag him into a creek in northeastern Australia.</p>\n                <p>Queensland state police say the 28-year-old man managed to cling to mangroves on the creek bank until the attack ended on Wednesday near the Outback town of Weipa.</p>\n                <p>The man was extensively lacerated and suffered dislocated bones, but his injuries are not life threatening. He was flown to a hospital in Cairns.</p>\n                <p>Crocodiles are known to snatch humans and animals from banks.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Australian fisherman mauled by 13-foot crocodile   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_as/as_australia_crocodile_attack\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_as/as_australia_crocodile_attack</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 08:06:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 08:06:00','2011-03-10 19:20:44','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(396,'Yemeni security forces open fire on protesters   (The Christian Science Monitor)','yemeni-security-forces-open-fire-on-protesters-the-christian-science-monitor','','The Christian Science Monitor - As Yemen\'s increasingly broad protest movement sought to expand their presence in the capital tonight, the protests turned violent for the first time in weeks â€“ underscoring the volatility of the Arab world\'s poorest country.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>Sanaa, Yemen – As Yemen\'s increasingly broad protest movement sought to expand their presence in the capital tonight, the protests turned violent for the first time in weeks – underscoring the volatility of the Arab world\'s poorest country.</p>\n                <p>At least 10 were injured by gunfire in front of Sanaa University, according to medical workers on the scene, and dozens more were injured in clashes with security forces as the protesters sought to make space for more tents near one of the security lines. The gunfire came from both uniformed security forces and individuals in civilian clothes, witnesses said.</p>\n                <p>“I was sitting with other demonstrators when they started firing shots at the crowd,\" said Saleh Al Hashmy, who was bandaged and bleeding from the head outside of a nearby mosque that had been turned into a makeshift hospital. \"We all got up to run and the police beat us with sticks and fired tear gas.\"</p>\n                <p>RELATED: Think you know the Middle East? Take our geography quiz.</p>\n                <p>Another eyewitness, Mohammed Ali Hamouda, also said he had seen police fire on the protesters. Among the injured at the mosque was a man who had been shot in the eye.</p>\n                <p>According to a government statement, police attempted to apprehend armed individuals at a security checkpoint in front of the demonstration area. When they resisted arrest, a gunfight broke out, according to the statement. </p>\n                <p>The skirmishes marked the first violence since Feb. 24, when President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered police to protect protesters. But tensions have been mounting in recent days, as Mr. Saleh rejected an offer from the opposition to come up with an exit strategy – but not actually step down – by year\'s end.</p>\n                <p>\"The peaceful and smooth transition of power is not carried out through chaos but through the will of the people expressed through elections,” said a statement from the president’s office.</p>\n                <p>Even before tonight\'s clashes, Saleh\'s insistence on finishing his term, which expires in 2013, had already raised concern about more potential violence. </p>\n                <p>On Sunday, the US embassy urged all American citizens to leave the country, citing high security threats resulting from both terrorism and civil unrest.</p>\n                <p>At least 27 have been killed since Feb. 16, though the vast majority of the deaths have come from Aden, according to Amnesty International. But now, the capital is feeling the shocks of violence. </p>\n                <p>“It’s been peaceful here,\" said opposition demonstrator Shaif al-Jabry after tonight\'s skirmishes. \"But there’s violence all over the country and now it’s coming to the capital.\"</p>\n                <p>RELATED: Think you know the Middle East? Take our geography quiz.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Yemeni security forces open fire on protesters   (The Christian Science Monitor)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110309/wl_csm/368334\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110309/wl_csm/368334</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-08 20:40:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 20:40:00','2011-03-10 19:20:45','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(397,'Italy\'s Brutal Export: The Mafia Goes Global   (Time.com)','italys-brutal-export-the-mafia-goes-global-timecom','','Time.com - As they issue arrest warrants for members of the notorious \'Ndrangheta group in Germany, Canada and Australia, Italian prosecutors are now faced with fighting the mafia beyond Italy\'s borders','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>The mob has gone global. That\'s the conclusion of Italian prosecutors in charge of an international sweep on Tuesday that sought the arrests of 41 suspected members of the notorious \'Ndrangheta criminal organization, with arrest warrants issued as far away as Canada and Western Australia. </p>\n                <p> The often brutal \'Ndrangheta is native to the southern Italian region of Calabria, the toe in the peninsular boot, where tight ties of blood and marriage and a deep penetration of nearly all aspects of society have challenged those who have tried to bring it down. But when six \'Ndrangheta members were massacred by a rival gang outside a pizzeria in Germany in 2007, the group sprung to international attention. And last summer, Italian prosecutors discovered the organization had built a strong presence in northern Italy, after arresting dozens of suspects - including senior government workers - in Milan. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=117vj0c7a/*http://www.time.com/time/2007/crimes/\" target=\"_blank\">(See the 25 crimes of the century.)</a></span> </p>\n                <p> On Tuesday, prosecutors confirmed that \'Ndrangheta has now spread its reach across the mountains and over the oceans, with six arrests in Germany, three warrants issued in Canada, and two issued in Australia. \"The model of organization that\'s in Calabria is being replicated in many parts of the world,\" says Giuseppe Pignatone, the region\'s chief prosecutor. \"It\'s the same types of association, whether we\'re talking about Calabria, Milan, Canada or Australia.\" </p>\n                <p> The \'Ndrangheta is increasingly considered the most powerful of Italy\'s criminal organizations, eclipsing the Sicilian mafia through links to the Colombian cocaine producers that have allowed it to seize a large share of the European drug trade. In its home base, the organization\'s influence is said to be nearly absolute. \"No one believes the central government has much, if any, control of Calabria, and local politicians are uniformly seen as ineffective and/or corrupt,\" wrote a U.S. diplomat in a 2008 cable released by WikiLeaks. \"If Calabria were not part of Italy, it would be a failed state.\" <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=12kl88o89/*http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2034943,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See the top 10 crime stories of 2010.)</a></span></p>\n                <p> The Italian research institute Eurispes has estimated the \'Ndrangheta\'s illegal activities pull in more than $55 billion a year, equivalent to roughly 3% of the Italian economy. And the group\'s overseas operations are alleged to be concentrated on laundering illicit funds. But unlike in earlier eras, when criminal organizations ran overseas operations as quasi-independent fiefdoms, modern technology means the \'Ndrangheta\'s Italian bosses can directly oversee its worldwide activities. \"There\'s continual contact with the original country of Calabria,\" says Pignatone. \"When it comes to contracts or disputes, the final decision gets made here. The head of the snake is here.\" </p>\n                <p> According to Antonio Nicaso, author of <i>The Bad Weed</i>, a book about the \'Ndrangheta co-written with an Italian prosecutor, the Calabrian criminal organization has been able to maintain its family-based network even as it has expanded overseas. Those named in the warrants issued in Australia and Canada were born in Calabria. \"They are franchising,\" says Nicaso. \"Like McDonald\'s using the same bread, same hamburger, [the \'Ndrangheta] use the same way of operating, the same way of putting people together in Calabria as they do elsewhere in the world.\" <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=11valolah/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2025423,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See how Italy is bracing for a new mafia war.)</a></span></p>\n                <p> What makes the \'Ndrangheta particularly dangerous, says Nicaso is its ability to combine deep-rooted traditions with sophisticated business techniques. In Switzerland two years ago, members were taped performing a loyalty ritual that appeared in testimony from Calabrian mafia trials in the 1880s. Meanwhile, the organization has started using countries in Central Africa to stockpile drugs to be shipped in small quantities, bringing supply-on-demand business practices to the cocaine trade. \"It\'s an organization capable of changing techniques, to find more avenues, more ways to make money,\" says Nicaso. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=11v2vo1oj/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2003598,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(Read \"Italy vs. the Mafia: Beheading the \'Ndrangheta.\")</a></span></p>\n                <p> The challenge, he adds, will be to mount a global response to the \'Ndrangheta\'s international expansion. Italy\'s main weapon in the fight against organized crime has traditionally been the law banning association with the mafia, a charge that has no parallels in countries like Australia and Canada where suspects must be proved to have actually committed a crime. Nicaso doesn\'t believe the Italian mob will be reined in until the nations into which it has extended its reach move closer to an Italian approach. \"The mafia is becoming more and more borderless,\" he says. \"But the fight against the mafia is restrained in borders, sovereignty, differences in jurisdictions. Other countries should realize that 100 years ago, the mafia was an Italian problem. Now the mafia is the world\'s problem.\" </p>\n                <p> <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=12jj89rpf/*http://www.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1850368_1874478,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">See pictures of Rome.</a></span> </p>\n                <p> <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=11cm8egb0/*http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek\" target=\"_blank\">See TIME\'s Pictures of the Week.</a></span> </p>\n                <p>View this article on <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=12nhq64u1/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057944,00.html?xid=rss-fullworld-yahoo\">Time.com</a></p>\n                <p></p><p>Most Popular on Time.com:</p><ul><li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=12vuagvud/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057857,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">Tripoli: Libya\'s Capital a Facade of Calm as Crisis Mounts</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=130jk7j78/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2056610,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">U.S. Decline in Global Arena: Is America No Longer No. 1?</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=12v042jcb/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057744,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">South Africa\'s Corrective Rape: Activists Battle Violence</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=1307obq79/*http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599205794400/40584406/SIG=130em8000/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2057903,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">In Ohio Ice Cream Chain\'s Success, Hope for Other Artisans</a></li> </ul><p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Italy\'s Brutal Export: The Mafia Goes Global   (Time.com)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110309/wl_time/08599205794400\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110309/wl_time/08599205794400</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-09 15:30:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 15:30:00','2011-03-10 19:20:46','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(398,'In Egypt\'s Tahrir Square, women attacked at rally on International Women\'s Day   (The Christian Science Monitor)','in-egypts-tahrir-square-women-attacked-at-rally-on-international-womens-day-the-christian-science-monitor','','The Christian Science Monitor - A demonstration urging Egypt to give women a voice in building its future was attacked by a group of men Tuesday, delivering a stinging slap to the women who helped propel Egypt\'s uprising.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>Cairo – A demonstration urging Egypt to give women a voice in building its future was attacked by a group of men Tuesday, delivering a stinging slap to the women who helped propel Egypt\'s uprising. </p>\n                <p>“We fought side by side with men during the revolution, and now we’re not represented,” said Passat Rabie, a young woman who came with friends, after men aggressively dispersed the protest. “I thought Egypt was improving, that it was becoming a better country. If it’s changing in a way that’s going to exclude women, then what’s the point? Where’s the democracy?”</p>\n                <p>Hastily organized on Facebook to coincide with International Women\'s Day, the protest was billed as a \"Million Woman\" march. But in fact, it attracted only about 200 demonstrators, mostly women but some men as well. The violent opposition they faced suggests that Egyptian women must fight their own revolution to achieve equal rights.</p>\n                <p>\'Go wash clothes! This is against Islam!\'</p>\n                <p>The demonstrators, who gathered in Tahrir Square – the epicenter of the revolution – had much to complain about: The military council ruling the country until new elections are held failed to appoint a single woman to the committee tasked with drafting constitutional amendments. One of the proposed constitutional amendments implies that the office of presidency is limited to men by saying that a president cannot be married to a non-Egyptian woman. And the only woman in Prime Minister Essam Sharaf’s new government is from Mubarak’s government.</p>\n                <p>RELATED: International Women\'s Day: What\'s it all about?</p>\n                <p>But almost immediately, they were outnumbered and beset upon by men who gathered. Some of the men were from the protesters\' encampment in the middle of the square.</p>\n                <p>Dozens of women engaged in arguments with the men, who said that women had enough rights already; that now was not the time to demand inclusion; or that Islam does not allow a woman to become president. Some of the men were polite; many were aggressive. Soon, a large group gathered in front of the protest, shouting it down with insults. A sheikh from Al Azhar was hoisted on mens’ shoulders, chanting against the women.</p>\n                <p>“Go home, go wash clothes,” yelled some of the men. “You are not married; go find a husband.” Others said, “This is against Islam.” To the men demonstrating with the women, they yelled “Shame on you!”</p>\n                <p>Suddenly, the men decided the women had been there long enough. Yelling, they rushed aggressively upon the protest, pushing violently through the rows of women. The women scattered. Eyewitnesses said they saw three women being chased by the crowd. A surge of men followed them, and Army officers fired shots into the air to make the men retreat.</p>\n                <p>RELATED: In Cairo, an effort to put sexual harassment on the map â€“ via Twitter and text</p>\n                <p>The men took over the raised platform where the women had held their demonstration, as many of the women trembled in rage. During the melee, one of the attacking men groped Fatima Mansour, a college student who wore purple for International Women\'s Day and argued eloquently with a man who said it was unIslamic for a woman to become president, quoting the Quran back at him. Sexual harassment is a common indignity for women in Cairo, though it virtually disappeared during the first few days of the uprising. After the attack, she was disheartened, but determined to continue the fight.</p>\n                <p>She whirled and slapped him, before her colleagues held her back to keep her from getting hurt, she said. Before the attack, she had been optimistic. “We believe that we have a right to rebuild Egypt,” she said. “Women’s participation during the revolution was remarkable. We can’t ignore this and deny us a role.”</p>\n                <p>Her friend Shaza Abdel Lateef chimed in. “They can’t just send us home after the revolution,” she said. One of the criticisms they faced over and over again was that now was not the time for women to demand their rights. Ms. Lateef rejects that. “We say no, we are half the population. If we stay silent, we will continue to experience all the discrimination of the past.”</p>\n                <p>A bid to hold their ground</p>\n                <p>Those who have fought to increase women’s rights in Egypt over the past decades say it\'s important that women raise their voices now. </p>\n                <p>They say women must have a role and a voice in the new parliament, and in the council that will be elected by parliament to write a new constitution later this year. They want women\'s input in order to make sure that the new document doesnâ€™t include the discrimination in the current constitution, but also doesnâ€™t erase the gains theyâ€™ve made.</p>\n                <p>In recent years, Egypt has passed laws allowing women to divorce their husbands, pass their nationality on to their children, and be treated equally under tax law, among others. But Nehad Abu El Komsan, head of the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights, says discrimination remains, particularly in the family status law, which “treats women as second-class citizens who need protection.\"\n</p><p>\nWomen’s advocates fear that the truncated timeline for holding new elections will benefit already organized groups like Mubarak’s National Democratic Party and the Muslim Brotherhood, leaving women without strong voices to influence a new constitution and legislation.\n</p><p>\nBut women like Ms. Komsan are also fighting for social change. In a society that tolerates violence against women, often violates their rights out of an effort to “protect” them, and often blames sexual harassment on the victims, legislative change isn’t the only obstacle. \n</p><p>\nEgypt’s revolution encouraged women to speak out, she says. But women will need to continue to fight to ensure their place as Egypt moves forward.\n</p><p>\nYasmine Khalifa, who is completing a master’s degree in gender and women’s studies at the American University in Cairo, was one of the organizers of the Facebook page calling for today’s demonstration. She hopes she can help enable women’s voices to be heard in the new Egypt. \n</p><p>\n “We need to change social and cultural concepts about what women\'s role is to begin with. That is one of the biggest battles,” says Khalifa. “This is a long process that needs to be done, and today\'s event is not a beginning, it\'s just a continuation of the revolution.”\n</p><p>\nRELATED: International Women\'s Day: What\'s it all about?</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"In Egypt\'s Tahrir Square, women attacked at rally on International Women\'s Day   (The Christian Science Monitor)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110308/wl_csm/368302\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110308/wl_csm/368302</a></p>',-2,5,0,43,'2011-03-08 17:46:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-08 17:46:00','2011-03-10 19:20:46','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(399,'Chip sector losses hit Nasdaq; IBM supports Dow   (Reuters)','chip-sector-losses-hit-nasdaq-ibm-supports-dow-reuters','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110309/i/r2068579865.jpg?x=130&amp;y=87&amp;q=85&amp;sig=wbt0uYtdD_BhlBleVXD4.Q--\" height=\"87\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Chip sector losses hit Nasdaq; IBM supports Dow   (Reuters)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>Reuters - A weak outlook from Texas Instruments weighed on the Nasdaq on Wednesday and pushed an index of chip makers below a key technical level in a worrisome sign for the market\'s six-month uptrend.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>NEW YORK (Reuters) – A weak outlook from Texas Instruments weighed on the Nasdaq on Wednesday and pushed an index of chip makers below a key technical level in a worrisome sign for the market\'s six-month uptrend.</p>\n                <p>\nThe PHLX semiconductor index (.SOX) fell 3 percent to close below its 50-day moving average, which represents medium-term momentum, for the first time since September.</p>\n                <p>\nTexas Instruments (TXN.N) led the losers, after its earnings target disappointed Wall Street. Its shares fell 3.1 percent to $34.74.</p>\n                <p>\n\"I think the markets are ready for a sell-off that continues to be started by the Nasdaq futures markets,\" said Harry Michas, technical analyst and stock-index futures trader at Iharmarketmonitor.com.</p>\n                <p>\n\"If the Nasdaq futures fall back below the 2,313.00 level again, it should attract more profit taking as well as some new shorts.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThe futures were trading around 2,320.</p>\n                <p>\nInternational Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) helped the Dow tread water, as the stock, the largest component in the price-weighted index, rose 2.2 percent to $165.86.</p>\n                <p>\nEven though semis\' gains have outpaced the broader market in the last several months, the S&amp;P 500 and the semiconductor index have been moving in the same direction, which could mean further declines in the sector and spell more of the same for the overall market.</p>\n                <p>\nA 20-day correlation between the S&amp;P 500 and the semiconductor index (.SOX) was at 0.77, with a reading of 1 suggesting a perfect correlation.</p>\n                <p>\nThe semiconductor index is up 41 percent since the start of September, when the recent rally began, while the S&amp;P 500 is up 26 percent.</p>\n                <p>\nHigh oil prices dragged on the broader market on the two-year anniversary of stocks\' bull run from the S&amp;P 500\'s 12-1/2-year closing low of 676.53, which was sparked by the financial crisis.</p>\n                <p>\n\"The market is at a real inflection point here,\" said Wayne Kaufman, chief market analyst at John Thomas Financial in New York. \"I\'m not banging the table for the upside, but I would say there is more evidence for an upside breakout.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThe Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) dipped 1.29 points, or 0.01 percent, to finish at 12,213.09. The Standard &amp; Poor\'s 500 Index (.SPX) shed 1.80 points, or 0.14 percent, to end at 1,320.02. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) fell 14.05 points, or 0.51 percent, to close at 2,751.72.</p>\n                <p>\nTech shares also felt the weight of Finisar Corp (FNSR.O). The stock plummeted 38.5 percent to $24.61 after the network equipment maker forecast a dismal fourth quarter, blaming an inventory pile-up by telecommunications equipment makers in China.</p>\n                <p>\nFinisar is up 100 percent since the start of September, when the recent stock market rally began. Shares of sector peer JDS Uniphase (JDSU.O) fell 16.7 percent to $21.14.</p>\n                <p>\nA bright spot was provided by International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N), whose stock jumped 2.2 percent to $165.86 at the close and helped limit the Dow\'s loss.</p>\n                <p>\nIBM hit an intraday high of $167.72, its highest ever when adjusted for stock splits, after a host of analysts raised their target price on the stock. A day earlier, the tech giant reaffirmed its 2015 earnings target.</p>\n                <p>\nIn the oil market, Brent crude gained $2.88 to settle at $115.94 a barrel as turmoil in Libya continued. The higher prices reinforced worries that high energy costs could dampen economic growth.\n</p><p>\n\nCopper weighed on miners\' shares for a second day, falling 3 percent on investor concerns that elevated crude oil prices could lead to inflation and crimp global growth.\n</p><p>\n\nFreeport McMoran Copper and Gold Inc (FCX.N) fell 3.3 percent to $48.45 and has lost more than 7 percent on increasing trading volumes in the last four days.\n</p><p>\n\nVolume was about 7.04 billion shares on the Nasdaq, NYSE and AMEX, below the daily average of 8.47 billion for last year.\n</p><p>\n\nAdvancing and declining stocks were about evenly split on the NYSE, but on the Nasdaq about three stocks fell for every two that rose.\n</p><p>\n\n(Reporting by Edward Krudy; Additional reporting by Doris Frankel, Ryan Vlastelica, and Caroline Valetkevitch; Editing by Jan Paschal)</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Chip sector losses hit Nasdaq; IBM supports Dow   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 16:35:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 16:35:00','2011-03-10 19:20:50','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(400,'Special Report: Warren Buffett\'s China car deal could backfire   (Reuters)','special-report-warren-buffetts-china-car-deal-could-backfire-reuters','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_wiki_buffett_byd\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110309/i/r2927534189.jpg?x=130&amp;y=86&amp;q=85&amp;sig=YhO8ffivzlTOAudhRp16LA--\" height=\"86\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Special Report: Warren Buffett\'s China car deal could backfire   (Reuters)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>Reuters - An ordinary American investor would probably not put money into a foreign electric car start-up suspected of openly copying competitors, let alone one whose franchised dealers occasionally put other companies\' logos on its own vehicles.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>NEW YORK/DETROIT/HONG KONG (Reuters) – An ordinary American investor would probably not put money into a foreign electric car start-up suspected of openly copying competitors, let alone one whose franchised dealers occasionally put other companies\' logos on its own vehicles.</p>\n                <p>\nBut Warren Buffett is no ordinary investor, and China\'s BYD is no ordinary company.</p>\n                <p>\nAt the depths of the financial crisis, Buffett put $232 million into BYD Co. Ltd. (1211.HK), taking a 9.9 percent stake in the nascent Chinese auto business. Lest there be any doubt of the relationship, BYD showrooms are adorned with giant pictures of Buffett shaking hands with Chairman Wang Chuanfu.</p>\n                <p>\nMore than any winning presentation at the Detroit Auto Show, more than any statistics or innovations, Buffett\'s imprimatur put BYD on the map, instantly making it the most serious Chinese contender among those seeking to sell an all-electric car in the U.S. market.</p>\n                <p>\nBut diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks and provided to Reuters by a third party, as well as interviews with industry consultants and executives who have examined the company\'s operations, raise a number of questions about the fledgling carmaker. Among other things, they describe a record of stealing designs from rivals, using those savings to undercut competitors on price and scrimping on safety.</p>\n                <p>\n\"While BYD has certainly achieved a measure of success based on a business approach of copying and then modifying car designs just enough to convince Chinese courts that the company has not infringed on patents, it is far less certain that foreign courts will be as sympathetic,\" Guangzhou Consul-General Brian Goldbeck wrote in an October 30, 2009 cable that was unclassified but marked for U.S. government eyes only. It was submitted just days after BYD shares hit a new peak, driven by Buffett\'s backing.</p>\n                <p>\nBYD\'s questionable behavior went beyond copying designs, though. According to the consulate, the company also sold some vehicles almost at cost to boost its market share and may have advertised safety ratings for one model it did not have.</p>\n                <p>\nThe scorching assessment of BYD by U.S. officials carried the title, \"BYD seeks to \'Build Your Dreams\' -- based on Someone Else\'s Designs.\" Nothing in the consulate\'s cable describes the motivation for the secret review of the Chinese upstart, although it notes that Buffett\'s bet had put BYD in the spotlight and allowed it to be seen as \"one of the most promising carmakers of the future.\" The State Department did not respond to request for comment on the cables.</p>\n                <p>\nIt is true that analysts view some of BYD\'s behavior as broadly typical of the Chinese auto industry, particularly the meticulous copying of better-known international cars. Yet analysts and industry experts in the United States say even in that context, BYD stands out, and there are questions about whether the company\'s much-ballyhooed -- and oft-delayed -- e6 all-electric car will ever make it to the U.S. market.</p>\n                <p>\nMicheal Austin, the vice president of BYD America, defended the company, its track record and the promise of its battery technology that made Buffett a believer.</p>\n                <p>\nHe said in an email: \"So where is the true technology and intellectual property? -- is it in wrapping of piece of sheet-metal around a car? or is the genius in creating a vehicle with ZERO emissions? Zero, Nada, Zip -- no noise, no smell, no smog. A vehicle that does no harm to the environment and can sell in Shenzhen China for $10,800 (after Chinese National and local incentives) -- that is genius!\"</p>\n                <p>\n\"No one can match the technology in that. Should \'they\' be worried, yes. Will \'they\' complain that \'Chinese\' cars follow World design trends and follow design best practices? Yes,\" Austin said in the email.</p>\n                <p>\n\"BYD\'s business and intellectual property practices in China, as well all places of the World, are compliant with local and international requirements and regulations. If there are factual complaints from (other automakers), we work hard to resolve them,\" he said.</p>\n                <p>\nBuffett did not respond to a request for comment made via his assistant, who handles his press inquiries. A spokeswoman for Buffett\'s MidAmerican Energy unit, which controls the investment, said \"we do not speak or comment on behalf of BYD.\"</p>\n                <p>\nBAD BET?</p>\n                <p>\nBuffett owns 225 million shares of BYD, which were worth $1.18 billion on December 31, 2010, according to his late-February annual letter to shareholders.</p>\n                <p>\nOn paper that looks good, as it would mean his initial investment appreciated five-fold in just over two years. The reality, however, is far different. BYD\'s value on Berkshire\'s books was just under $2 billion at the end of 2009, meaning he\'d lost 40 percent on his stake in what was a very strong year for markets otherwise.</p>\n                <p>\nBuffett made no serious mention of BYD in this year\'s letter, other than to note the company would have a chance to show off at the April annual meeting of his holding company Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N). The 2009 letter gives only passing mention of the \"amazing Chinese company\" and its products.\n</p><p>\n\nFor Buffett it was an unusual investment. In an April 2009 interview with Fortune magazine, Buffett said his partner Charlie Munger talked him into the deal on the strength of his impression of BYD Chairman Wang, whom Munger described as a combination of Thomas Edison and Jack Welch.\n</p><p>\n\nIf the investment does ultimately sour, though, it would be a black mark for the executive who spearheaded it: David Sokol, chairman of Berkshire units MidAmerican and NetJets.\n</p><p>\n\nSokol is generally held to be one of the four candidates to succeed Buffett as Berkshire\'s chief executive, and most consider him the frontrunner. And Sokol has also put his face prominently on the BYD deal, meeting with the industry and the press at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show to tout BYD\'s electric cars as the wave of the future.\n</p><p>\n\nThe company\'s appearance on the main floor of the Detroit auto show was the first by a Chinese automaker and came at a time when Detroit automakers GM and Chrysler were sputtering on government life support.\n</p><p>\n\n\"Right now, we\'re just limited by resources,\" Wang said in January 2009 as he stood outside BYD\'s red-and-white themed booth illuminated with the company\'s ambitious motto: \"Build Your Dreams.\"\n</p><p>\n\nWang has certainly built his. A former government researcher, he founded BYD in 1995 with $300,000 of money borrowed from a family friend, and within five years was the world\'s largest maker of cell phone batteries. Once China\'s richest man, Wang\'s goal is no less than becoming the world\'s largest automaker.\n</p><p>\n\nWith that angle in mind, Wang courted Sokol, knowing that he had Buffett\'s trust.\n</p><p>\n\n\"I don\'t know a thing about cellphones or batteries,\" Buffett admitted to Fortune in the 2009 interview. \"And I don\'t know how cars work. Charlie Munger and Dave Sokol are smart guys, and they do understand it.\"\n</p><p>\n\nVIBRATING MOLARS\n</p><p>\n\nSokol\'s attachment to the deal makes sense, given MidAmerican\'s commitments to renewable energy and the touted promise of BYD\'s battery technology, as first seen in its F3DM plug-in hybrid with range-extending gas engine.\n</p><p>\n\nBYD\'s pitch for its battery technology was so strong that the consulate, despite its concerns about the company\'s behavior, was willing to consider the possibility the battery itself was the real deal.\n</p><p>\n\n\"The answer to climate change may be as simple as the chemical formula of a lithium iron phosphate battery, according to one ambitious south China company,\" consular section chief Michael Jacobsen said in a January 2010 note to the State Department.\n</p><p>\n\nThe only catch is that the batteries have to work.\n</p><p>\n\n\"During a recent visit to BYD headquarters in Shenzhen, a top manager told (an embassy official) that sales of the F3DM had been slow, with only around 100 vehicles sold to date, mostly to the municipal government,\" the cable said, with an added note: \"Media reports speculate that slow sales may also be an indication that the F3DM\'s battery performance falls considerably short of expectations.\"\n</p><p>\n\nIf the batteries are not all they are cracked up to be, it raises a question about the fundamental point of Buffett\'s investment.\n</p><p>\n\n\"Whether or not they can manufacture their own cars isn\'t relevant to us, because we see their real expertise is in the development of the batteries, the motors, the control systems for that,\" Sokol told Reuters in January 2009.\n</p><p>\n\n\"That\'s not to say that they can\'t make a nice car, but a lot of people can make a nice car. The breakthrough from our perspective is the battery technology.\"\n</p><p>\n\nAmericans curious to see for themselves have only one option at the moment: a fleet of 10 F3DMs the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles signed a deal for last year. The arrangement is not a formal lease, but a cost-sharing program that BYD\'s Austin estimated cost the authority somewhere between $300 and $400 per car per month.\n</p><p>\n\nThe housing authority did not return multiple calls for comment over a period of days. But early reviews were less than positive.\n</p><p>\n\n\"It would be easy to chuckle at the F3DM\'s minor flaws -- the wobbly storage compartment between the front seats, subpar floor mats, squishy handling. But the build quality and materials seem perfectly adequate for utility-oriented Americans,\" the New York Times wrote on February 20 after a test drive.\n</p><p>\n\nThe paper\'s assessment of the F3DM\'s dual-mode engine, and particularly the process of switching from electric power to gas, was even tougher.\n</p><p>\n\n\"The steering wheel vibrates. The dashboard hums. You feel the vibration in your molars.\"\n</p><p>\n\nBYD\'s Austin told Reuters in a follow-up interview the Times story was actually useful, in that it helped him make the case to engineers in China that BYD needed to do a better job of dampening noise for the U.S. market.\n</p><p>\n\n\'COPYING EVERYTHING\'\n</p><p>\n\nThe Times reporter\'s experience with the F3DM\'s workmanship goes to the heart of one of the most frequent criticisms of BYD, and of Chinese automakers in general: that their cars are simply cheap copies of other manufacturers\' work.\n</p><p>\n\nEven in cases of active cooperation between Chinese automakers and their European, American and Asian partners, there is room for confusion on where one brand ends and the other begins.\n</p><p>\n\nFor instance, Chinese automaker Brilliance, which has a joint venture with BMW AG (BMWG.DE), offers its own line of vehicles that rely heavily on design cues from its more famous partner. Brilliance even markets its M2 sedan as having been through the \"BMVV quality control process\" -- one letter away from the BMW brand -- and says its car is \"known as the Chinese BMW 3.\"\n</p><p>\n\nPaul Newton, London-based analyst for IHS Automotive, said that all foreign companies doing business in China know the lay of the land. Even if they sense unsavory behavior, he said, they consider it a part of the price for doing business in the world\'s largest car market.\n</p><p>\n\n\"Until the law in China recognizes some kind of international intellectual property issues, companies will always be up against it. But for the most part, (Western company officials) shrug their shoulders and say it will cost us more not being involved than being involved, so let\'s get involved,\" said Newton.\n</p><p>\n\nIn the case of BYD, the automakers most frequently cited as \"inspiration\" for its cars include Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and Honda Motor Co (7267.T). Both are aware of the issue, though both declined to comment on it for the record.\n</p><p>\n\nOne Honda source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cited BYD\'s F3 model in particular as a known copy with Toyota Corolla and Honda Fit attributes.\n</p><p>\n\n\"The design is such that anyone looking at the car would know it\'s an imitation but it\'s not as if carmakers are securing design rights for each individual part, so in reality it\'s very difficult to bring the issue to court,\" the source said.\n</p><p>\n\nAustin said he was not aware of even a single complaint for intellectual property violations.\n</p><p>\n\n\"In China it\'s the standard way of doing business,\" he said.\n</p><p>\n\nThe company has also used price as a lever to beat some of those same companies. The Guangzhou consulate reported that, according to one of its sources, BYD sold one model for a profit of less than $146 per car. Ironically, for almost that same amount BYD dealers would replaces all of the BYD \"marks, symbols and model plates\" with those from Toyota or other manufacturers, the consulate said.\n</p><p>\n\nAustin acknowledged the practice has happened at dealerships, which are franchised and not company owned.\n</p><p>\n\n\"There have been isolated incidences where dealers have done that,\" he said. \"For branding issues we felt uncomfortable about that, probably as uncomfortable as Toyota would.\"\n</p><p>\n\nNonetheless, BYD continues to attract new partners. Just last week it said the Chinese government had approved its tie-up with Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE) and that engineers from the German luxury carmaker were already at work on a joint project in Shenzhen.\n</p><p>\n\nFor Daimler, a late convert to electric car technology, the venture amounts to a low-risk way to hedge against regulations that could require all automakers to offer EVs in China because of government policy intended to reduce oil consumption.\n</p><p>\n\nOne person familiar with Daimler\'s side of the talks said that the German automaker went into the deal well aware of the cloud around BYD.\n</p><p>\n\n\"Nobody gets so big so quickly in the Chinese market without some casualties,\" said the person. \"It\'s systemic. The Chinese are famous for copying everything.\"\n</p><p>\n\nDOES IT WORK?\n</p><p>\n\nWhile BYD is known for older copy-based models like the F3, its e6 is the next generation. It\'s an all-electric vehicle that, according to BYD, goes farther and charges faster than competing models from the likes of Nissan (the Leaf) and GM\'s Chevrolet unit (the Volt).\n</p><p>\n\nBut skeptics remain wary of the carmaker\'s claims.\n</p><p>\n\nIn May 2009, Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) considered a tie-up with BYD but pulled back after some due diligence. A VW spokesman could not be reached to comment on those talks.\n</p><p>\n\nAmong the concerns raised by potential BYD partners: auto suppliers complained that BYD\'s strategy of making everything on its cars amounted to a bid to steal their technology, according to a consultant who was brought in to study BYD as established automakers kicked its tires.\n</p><p>\n\nBYD, U.S. suppliers complained, would ask for an initial order of parts like door panels, then drop the business, reverse engineer the part and use it on upcoming models.\n</p><p>\n\nIn addition, BYD was \"nowhere near meeting safety standards\" to export to the United States or Europe, the consultant found, and its quality was spotty in the Chinese market. \"If you shut the doors too hard, they fall off,\" the consultant said, asking that he not be named.\n</p><p>\n\nThe consulate noted those safety concerns as well. The October 2009 Guangzhou cable mentioned a dispute over the safety rating on BYD\'s F0 model -- the company said it had a five-star rating from a consumer association, while that same association said it had not even tested the car. The consulate also noted a tendency toward cost-cutting through the use of plastics and lighter steel grades, all of which cut weight and expense but make the car more vulnerable.\n</p><p>\n\n\"They passed all the U.S. safety crash test standards,\" Austin said of the F3DMs now being used in California.\n</p><p>\n\nSLOWING SALES\n</p><p>\n\nThe U.S. launch for the e6 has slipped repeatedly, and is now aimed for the first quarter of 2012. But Austin conceded there was no rush, particularly as the company continued to learn what American consumers want and demand from a car versus Chinese expectations.\n</p><p>\n\n\"I\'m not going to let them launch the wrong cars. It\'ll be a huge nightmare from a PR and marketing standpoint, and the truth is, the market is China,\" he said. \"If we have a branding issue, it impacts the global sales. BYD is not in a rush to come to the U.S. market.\"\n</p><p>\n\nWhile consultants and executives debate whether BYD will ever make it to the United States and how it might do if it gets here, there are signs it may be having some sales troubles on the homefront.\n</p><p>\n\nFor all of 2010, BYD reported having sold 480 of its F3DM plug-in hybrids and E6 electric taxis. By contrast, GM had over 600 Chevy Volts as of February, counting just two months of sales in 2010 in the U.S. market.\n</p><p>\n\nThe disappointing BYD electric car sales come despite generous government incentives in China. The F3DM, for instance, carries a government subsidy of about 47 percent of its purchase price.\n</p><p>\n\n\"BYD makes a lot of claims and not a lot of them come true,\" said Newton of IHS.\n</p><p>\n\nMore recently, BYD\'s February sales fell by half from January and nearly a quarter from a year earlier. Analysts said its low-end models were less competitive than they used to be and higher-end models were not gaining sales momentum, even with price cuts in mid-February of up to 20 percent.\n</p><p>\n\nSales also fell 15 percent in January, even as the Chinese auto market was growing in the double digits at that time.\n</p><p>\n\n\"They are in recovery mode, working on the quality of the vehicles, working on the dealership network and most importantly trying to prove to the world that they are in fact a genuine producer of electric vehicle(s). That\'s why Warren Buffett had invested and that\'s why everyone is watching,\" said Michael Dunne, president of consultancy Dunne &amp; Co.\n</p><p>\n\nThe sales declines are nonetheless showing up in BYD\'s stock. Even with a sharp bounce since the last part of February the shares are still down nearly 10 percent this year, suggesting that Buffett\'s investment has slipped below the psychologically important $1 billion mark.\n</p><p>\n\nFalling sales at home would be bad enough, but BYD\'s aspirations are global. If the company does make it to the world stage it could face a whole different set of problems, as the Guangzhou consulate noted almost two years ago.\n</p><p>\n\n\"Especially as the company eyes overseas markets and gears up to export its models, including electric cars, to the United States, the likelihood of legal challenges related to intellectual property and safety or liability issues would appear to loom larger and larger on the horizon,\" the consulate said.\n</p><p>\n\nThe consulate\'s warning about lawsuits could serve as a caution to the 80-year-old \"Oracle of Omaha.\" Though Buffett is a long-term investor, he may not want the hassle -- or the headlines -- of holding a stake in a company that risks years of protracted litigation. Otherwise, he may be reminded of his words in his 2008 letter about another bad deal, this time the acquisition of shoe maker Dexter.\n</p><p>\n\n\"To date, Dexter is the worst deal that I\'ve made,\" Buffett said. \"But I\'ll make more mistakes in the future -- you can bet on that.\"\n</p><p>\n\n(Additional reporting by Bernie Woodall in Detroit, Fang Yan in Beijing and Kentaro Sugiyama and Nathan Layne in Tokyo; Editing by Jim Impoco and Claudia Parsons).</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Special Report: Warren Buffett\'s China car deal could backfire   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_wiki_buffett_byd\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_wiki_buffett_byd</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 11:02:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 11:02:00','2011-03-10 19:20:51','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(401,'HCA IPO prices at $30, sells more shares: sources   (Reuters)','hca-ipo-prices-at-30-sells-more-shares-sources-reuters','','Reuters - HCA Holdings Inc, the biggest U.S. for-profit hospital chain, sold more shares than planned, at the high end of an expected price range, completing an initial public offering on Wednesday, sources briefed on the matter said.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>NEW YORK (Reuters) – HCA Holdings Inc, the biggest U.S. for-profit hospital chain, sold more shares than planned, at the high end of an expected price range, completing an initial public offering on Wednesday, sources briefed on the matter said.</p>\n                <p>\nAlthough analysts warned of long-term risks arising from HCA\'s big debt and uncertainties surrounding U.S. healthcare reform, investor interest in the private-equity backed company dwarfed the deal\'s size, sources familiar with the situation said.</p>\n                <p>\nHCA sold 126.2 million shares for $30 each, raising about $3.79 billion, the sources said. This marked the largest private-equity backed IPO in U.S. history.</p>\n                <p>\nThe company had planned to sell 124 million shares for $27 to $30 each. The extra shares sold came from selling shareholders, who sold 38.5 million shares, 6 percent more than originally planned.</p>\n                <p>\nHCA\'s blockbuster offering is expected to encourage a slew of similar exits from investments made at the height of the credit bubble in 2005 to 2007.</p>\n                <p>\n\"It sends a message that the IPO market is open for business,\" said Bill Buhr, IPO strategist at Morningstar.</p>\n                <p>\n\"If you can price a $3 billion deal for a hospital operator that has a few warts and do so successfully, there are a lot of deals that could be done right now.\"</p>\n                <p>\nNashville, Tennessee-based HCA had filed with U.S. regulators in May to raise up to $4.6 billion but last month set terms that cut the size of the deal by 19 percent.</p>\n                <p>\nFar surpassing its peers by market cap, a newly public HCA could generate more investor interest in the sector, and also turn the company into a major acquirer, with possible involvement in Community Health Systems\' (CYH.N) $3.3 billion takeover battle for Tenet Healthcare Corp (THC.N).</p>\n                <p>\n\"The existing firms that are out there are small in comparison,\" said Nathan Snyder, a portfolio manager at Snow Capital Management, which owns shares of LifePoint Hospitals (LPNT.O), Health Management Associates (HMA.N) and Community Health.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Larger funds if they want to own hospitals are going to have to do it through an HCA, which probably means it\'s going to come at a valuation that wouldn\'t make it inexpensive.\"</p>\n                <p>\nRISKS AND IPO MOMENTUM</p>\n                <p>\nAnalysts warned that in clamoring for HCA\'s shares, investors are overlooking big longer-term risks, including the company\'s high level of debt and the uncertain impact of healthcare reform.</p>\n                <p>\nThe new U.S. healthcare law is expected to increase the number of insured patients seeking medical help, but it will also phase in Medicare payment cuts to hospitals and will make it harder to negotiate reimbursement rates.</p>\n                <p>\nHCA\'s debt, currently more than $26 billion, would continue to weigh even after the company uses proceeds from the IPO to pay down borrowings. HCA is profitable and has healthy cash flows, but its debt exceeds the value of its assets on the books by more than $12 billion.</p>\n                <p>\nIn 2010, HCA borrowed to pay more than $4 billion in dividends to its stakeholders, mainly the private equity funds that bought the company in 2006.</p>\n                <p>\nHCA\'s IPO is benefiting from the strong momentum created by a series of successful IPOs this year.</p>\n                <p>\nOver the past few weeks, consumer measurement company Nielsen Holdings (NLSN.N) raised $1.6 billion, Florida-based BankUnited (BKU.N) raised $783 million, and pipeline company Kinder Morgan Inc (KMI.N) raised $2.9 billion.\n</p><p>\n\nToys R Us (TOY.UL) has filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $800 million, and Freescale Semiconductor has filed to raise up to $1.15 billion. Although neither company has set terms or picked a debut date, a blockbuster IPO by HCA could help them -- and other buyout-backed companies mulling IPOs.\n</p><p>\n\n\"The window has not been more open than now in the past four to five years,\" said Morningstar\'s Buhr.\n</p><p>\n\nHCA was taken private in November 2006 in a $21 billion deal, excluding debt, that involved Bain, KKR (KKR.N), Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), Citigroup Inc (C.N) and HCA\'s founder, healthcare mogul Dr. Thomas F. Frist Jr.\n</p><p>\n\nThe shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday under the symbol \"HCA.\" (HCA.N) Underwriters of the IPO were led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi and JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N).\n</p><p>\n\n(Additional reporting by Bill Berkrot, Stephen Lacey, Ben Berkowitz and Susan Kelly in Chicago; Editing by Bernard Orr, Gary Hill)</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"HCA IPO prices at $30, sells more shares: sources   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_hca\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_hca</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 18:20:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 18:20:00','2011-03-10 19:20:52','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(402,'Rio Tinto raises Riversdale bid to break stalemate   (Reuters)','rio-tinto-raises-riversdale-bid-to-break-stalemate-reuters','','Reuters - Global miner Rio Tinto   raised its offer for Mozambique-focused coal miner Riversdale Mining  to $3.9 billion to woo key shareholders who have held up the deal and gain control of coveted metallurgical coal assets.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Global miner Rio Tinto (RIO.AX) (RIO.L) raised its offer for Mozambique-focused coal miner Riversdale Mining (RIV.AX) to $3.9 billion to woo key shareholders who have held up the deal and gain control of coveted metallurgical coal assets.</p>\n                <p>\nRio Tinto raised its offer price to A$16.50 per share on Thursday from A$16.00 and extended the offer period for the third time, to April 1, but said the new offer was its final one if there were no competing offers.</p>\n                <p>\nShares of Australia-listed Riversdale jumped as much as 4 percent in early trade but eased back to trade up 1.8 percent at A$15.4, well below the offer price, indicating shareholders did not anticipate a rival offer and had some doubt Rio could gain the shares for the bid to go through.</p>\n                <p>\nStanding in Rio\'s way are India\'s Tata Steel (TISC.BO), the world\'s No. 7 steelmaker and top Brazilian steel producer CSN (CSNA3.SA), who have increase their stakes in Riversdale since the bid and now hold a combined 47 percent.</p>\n                <p>\nThe two big shareholders alone do not have the votes to block Rio, which has built a 17 percent stake, but Rio would need nearly 100 percent acceptances from minority shareholders to override Tata Steel and CSN.</p>\n                <p>\nTata Steel and CSN have both said they are mainly interested in securing coking coal from Riversdale and Tata, which already has a stake in Riversdale\'s Benga coking coal project in Mozambique, said it was talking to Rio about a range of options.</p>\n                <p>\nCSN has not publicly revealed its intention over the Riversdale stake or about its possible talks with Rio Tinto.</p>\n                <p>\nHowever, analysts said the two companies would probably like to see Rio Tinto, with deeper pockets and more technological skills than Riversdale, developing Riversdale\'s Mozambique mines and infrastructure.</p>\n                <p>\nAt the same time the steelmakers might want the coal mine to remain out of Rio\'s hands, because they do not want coking coal supplies to come under as tight a control as iron ore, where supplies are largely controlled by three miners, including Rio.</p>\n                <p>\n(Reporting by Sonali Paul and Balazs Koranyi; Editing by Ed Davies)</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Rio Tinto raises Riversdale bid to break stalemate   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_rio\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_rio</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 18:51:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 18:51:00','2011-03-10 19:20:53','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(403,'Rajaratnam painted as two men in fund trial   (Reuters)','rajaratnam-painted-as-two-men-in-fund-trial-reuters','','Reuters - A corrupt man or a legitimate stock researcher?','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>NEW YORK (Reuters) – A corrupt man or a legitimate stock researcher?</p>\n                <p>\nProsecution and defense lawyers painted starkly different portraits of hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam at the start of the biggest Wall Street insider trading case in a generation.</p>\n                <p>\nRajaratnam, a Sri Lankan-born, one-time billionaire, sat impassively and wrote occasional notes on a legal pad during the two hours of opening statements in his high-stakes trial in Manhattan federal court.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Greed and corruption. This is a case about that man right there, Raj Rajaratnam, using stolen business information to make tens of millions of dollars,\" Jonathan Streeter, an assistant U.S. attorney, told the jury, pointing at Rajaratnam.</p>\n                <p>\nBut defense lawyer John Dowd told jurors that \"the government has it wrong\" and the Galleon Group founder engaged in legal stock research and analysis that made him successful.</p>\n                <p>\nThe government accuses Rajaratnam, the central figure in a vast insider trading probe, of reaping $45 million in illegal profit between 2003 and March 2009. The U.S. Justice Department has made insider trading probes into the secretive $1.9 trillion hedge fund industry a priority, and the Rajaratnam prosecution is its signature case.</p>\n                <p>\nThe defense team faces hundreds of secretly recorded phone calls in evidence and several former friends or employees who will testify for the prosecution. Rajaratnam\'s lawyers contend that the government has significantly broadened its definition of insider trading.</p>\n                <p>\n\"There is a real world context in which law abiding professionals discuss stocks and trades,\" Dowd told the jury of 12 and six alternates. \"In the real world people are discussing stocks. It is legal and it is good for all of us.</p>\n                <p>\n\"These things are going on blocks from this courthouse,\" Dowd said, referring to nearby Wall Street. \"It was his duty to seek out information to make smart investment decisions.\"</p>\n                <p>\nIn the wood-paneled courtroom, both lawyers stood at a podium when it was their turn to address the jury. Dozens of cardboard document boxes and files were piled in one corner that are being used in the case.</p>\n                <p>\nStreeter said Rajaratnam obtained an illegal advantage over ordinary investors. \"He exploited a corrupt network of people to obtain information\" about company secrets such as earnings and mergers, the prosecutor said.</p>\n                <p>\nHe said Rajaratnam \"gets tomorrow\'s business news today.\"</p>\n                <p>\nRajaratnam attended the trial with no one except his lawyers, unlike many defendants who have family or friends with them.</p>\n                <p>\nTHROWBACK TO THE \'80s</p>\n                <p>\nNot since the mid-1980s has a Wall Street insider trading case grabbed such wide public attention. Then, speculator Ivan Boesky, Drexel Burnham Lambert and its junk bond chief, Michael Milken, were prosecution targets.</p>\n                <p>\nRajaratnam could go to prison for 20 years if convicted of the most serious charge of securities fraud.</p>\n                <p>\nSince arresting Rajaratnam in October 2009 and announcing criminal charges against 26 former traders, executives and lawyers, authorities have pressed on with what they call the biggest ever hedge fund insider trading probe.</p>\n                <p>\nNineteen people have pleaded guilty in the case. It stands apart from past insider trading investigations because of the government\'s wide-scale use of phone taps. Jurors will hear up to 173 audio recordings during the trial.\n</p><p>\n\nThe jurors, including a nurse, a graphic artist and a city transportation department employee, were chosen from a pool of about 150 people. They include five men and seven women.\n</p><p>\n\nDuring jury selection, they were questioned about their attitudes toward Wall Street, wealthy financiers and their hobbies. There were light moments such as when one woman, asked what she liked to do in her free time, said \"jury duty.\" She was picked for the panel.\n</p><p>\n\nThe case is USA v Raj Rajaratnam, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 09-01184.\n</p><p>\n\n(Additional reporting by Basil Katz, editing by Andrew Marshall, Dave Zimmerman, Gary Hill and Bernard Orr)</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Rajaratnam painted as two men in fund trial   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_galleon_rajaratnam\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/bs_nm/us_galleon_rajaratnam</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 17:32:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 17:32:00','2011-03-10 19:20:54','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(404,'FTSE down 0.06% at open   (AFP)','ftse-down-006-at-open-afp','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_uk_afp/britainstocksopen\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20110309/capt.photo_1299659933559-1-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=78&amp;q=85&amp;sig=T3w.ILbr.xP2iRBBA3BZLw--\" height=\"78\" width=\"130\" alt=\"FTSE down 0.06% at open   (AFP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AFP - Key stock markets dipped at open on Wednesday as oil prices retreated and Tokyo shares rose.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div id=\"copyright\" class=\"mod\">\n    <p>Copyright © 2011 <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/afp/SIG=122dhv7qk;_ylt=A0wNdP1nGXhNUuMAvyvjOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTE3YmNxc3ZhBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9jb3B5cmlnaHQEc2xrA2FnZW5jZWZyYW5jZQ--/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.afp.com%2Fenglish%2Flinks%2F%3Fpid%3Dcopyright\" class=\"regs\">Agence France Presse</a>. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse.\n<br /></p>\n</div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"FTSE down 0.06% at open   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_uk_afp/britainstocksopen\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_uk_afp/britainstocksopen</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 03:40:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 03:40:00','2011-03-10 19:20:55','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(405,'Gillard tells US not to fear China\'s economic rise   (AFP)','gillard-tells-us-not-to-fear-chinas-economic-rise-afp','','AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday told Americans downcast by their woeful economy not to fear China\'s giddy rise but stay \"clear-eyed\" about their differences with the Asian titan.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>WASHINGTON (AFP) – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday told Americans downcast by their woeful economy not to fear China\'s giddy rise but stay \"clear-eyed\" about their differences with the Asian titan.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Like you, our relationship with China is important and complex. We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie,\" she said in a speech to a joint session of the US Congress.</p>\n                <p>\nBut \"there is no reason for Chinese prosperity to detract from prosperity in Australia, the United States or anywhere in the world,\" she said. \"Prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together.\"</p>\n                <p>\nUS lawmakers charge that Beijing is an economic predator that keeps its currency -- and thus its exports -- artificially cheap, turns a blind eye to or even encourages rampant US intellectual property theft, and favors domestic producers over their foreign competitors in lucrative government contracts.</p>\n                <p>\nThe prime minister told the joint session that \"America has always understood this principle of the economy, that everyone can benefit when everyone competes\" and stressed: \"The global economy is not a zero-sum game.\"</p>\n                <p>\nGillard nodded to \"momentous\" Middle East upheaval but said \"it is in the Asia-Pacific where the global order is changing the most,\" stressing that \"the center of global strategic and economic weight is shifting to this region.\"</p>\n                <p>\nBut she reassured her audience that the United States remains an \"indispensable\" partner and that its \"growing engagement\" with countries like Japan, India, South Korea and Indonesia was \"enormously welcome.\"</p>\n                <p>\nGillard vowed to \"work closely\" with Washington to strengthen bilateral relationships and regional institutions to \"manage the frictions of a growing and changing Asia-Pacific.\"</p>\n                <p>\n\"Australia in the south, with South Korea and Japan to the north, form real Asia-Pacific partnerships with the United States, anchors of regional stability,\" she said.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Gillard tells US not to fear China\'s economic rise   (AFP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/pl_afp/usaustraliachinapoliticseconomy\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/pl_afp/usaustraliachinapoliticseconomy</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 11:44:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 11:44:00','2011-03-10 19:20:56','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(406,'H&amp;R Block posts 3Q loss; tax season figures rise   (AP)','haampr-block-posts-3q-loss-tax-season-figures-rise-ap','','AP - H&amp;R Block Inc. on Wednesday posted a net loss for its fiscal third quarter, but offered positive data on the first part of tax season.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>NEW YORK – H&amp;R Block Inc. on Wednesday posted a net loss for its fiscal third quarter, but offered positive data on the first part of tax season.</p>\n                <p>Through February, the Kansas City, Mo.-based company said it prepared 6 percent more tax returns than a year ago. Total digital returns gained 13 percent, with online returns leaping 30 percent, a positive sign for Block, which has lagged the competition for do-it-yourself customers in recent years.</p>\n                <p>The positive data helped to offset Block\'s third-quarter results.</p>\n                <p>For the three months ended Jan. 31, the nation\'s largest tax preparer said its net loss was $12.7 million, or 4 cent per share, reversing a year-ago profit of $50.6 million, or 15 cents per share.</p>\n                <p>Adjusted for various one-time items, third-quarter profit was 14 cents per share.</p>\n                <p>Revenue fell 9 percent to $851.5 million, from $934.9 million last year. Block said it deferred $19.7 million in revenue to the fourth quarter because of a delay in processing certain returns by the Internal Revenue Service.</p>\n                <p>Analysts, on average, were expecting adjusted profit of 4 cents per share, on revenue of $871.5 million.</p>\n                <p>The positive data sent shares up in aftermarket trading, gaining $1.12, or 7.4 percent, to $16.38.</p>\n                <p>The company said that after a slow start to the tax season, total returns prepared in its retail stores rose 3.2 percent through Feb. 28. Those gains came despite not being able to offer refund anticipation loans, short-term loans backed by refunds that are popular with low-income customers who often file very early in the season.</p>\n                <p>\"Despite the competitive disadvantage of not being able to offer RALs, we believe we gained share in both retail and online within the highly competitive early-season,\" said President and CEO Alan Bennett in a statement.</p>\n                <p>The online gains reflected increased website traffic and a higher number of visitors deciding to use Block\'s online software. The company did see a 1 percent decline in use of its desktop software product.</p>\n                <p>One item that may concern investors was a 7.1 percent drop in the net average charge per return filed at retail stores through the end of February. The company said the decline was due to its offer to file early 1040EZ forms at no charge, and the IRS delay that prevented filing of more complex, and therefore more expensive, returns until Feb. 14.</p>\n                <p>Block said it expects the net average charge to rise through the rest of the season but end the season down 2 to 4 percent because of the free 1040EZ promotion.</p>\n                <p>It also expects slower growth through the rest of the season because the promotion is over. By the end of the season, retail returns are expected to increase between a half percent and 1.5 percent.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"H&amp;R Block posts 3Q loss; tax season figures rise   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_h_r_block\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_h_r_block</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 17:36:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 17:36:00','2011-03-10 19:21:01','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(407,'Biden to Medvedev: Russian WTO bid is top priority   (AP)','biden-to-medvedev-russian-wto-bid-is-top-priority-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_russia_biden\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110309/capt.f1dd793d3a7a457c9ccaf2e297b6b08a-f1dd793d3a7a457c9ccaf2e297b6b08a-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=86&amp;q=85&amp;sig=0dcBZBSklTy_jMDkdbp.HA--\" height=\"86\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Biden to Medvedev: Russian WTO bid is top priority   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday gave Russia\'s president a strong commitment to helping his nation join the World Trade Organization, a sign his two-day trip is focused more on economic ties than pressing the Kremlin hard on touchy issues like human rights.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>GORKY, Russia – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday gave Russia\'s president a strong commitment to helping his nation join the World Trade Organization, a sign his two-day trip is focused more on economic ties than pressing the Kremlin hard on touchy issues like human rights.</p>\n                <p>Biden, who two years ago introduced the concept of \"the reset button\" after years of tension under George W. Bush\'s presidency, told President Dmitry Medvedev that WTO accession was \"the most important item on our agenda,\" in a meeting at the presidential residence in Gorky, a Moscow suburb.</p>\n                <p>Earlier in the day, Biden used an appearance at a management school to urge Russia to improve its legal system and anti-corruption efforts. But such issues were absent from talks with Medvedev, and the tenor of the meeting indicated this visit is really about business.</p>\n                <p>The Obama administration regards integrating Russia into the world economy as key to its development and stability, and that has moved concerns about Russian rule of law and democratic backsliding to a lower priority.</p>\n                <p>Even his call for reform at the Skolkovo management school was cast in economic terms.</p>\n                <p>\"Investors are looking for assurances that the legal system treats them fairly and acts on their concerns swiftly,\" Biden told a meeting of top Russian and American businessmen at the school, which Russia sees as the core of an ambitious innovation center that officials hope will be Russia\'s equivalent of Silicon Valley.</p>\n                <p>Some Russian newspapers have theorized that Biden\'s trip could be seen as support for Medvedev running for a second term next year. Medvedev is seen as the weaker figure of Russia\'s ruling tandem, dominated by the more hardline Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and it is as yet uncertain whether Medvedev will seek a second term or cede his candidacy to Putin, who was president in 2000-2008.</p>\n                <p>The White House says it is not getting involved in Russia\'s internal politics, but Biden on Wednesday appeared to make efforts to boost Medvedev\'s image and esteem.</p>\n                <p>\"For my entire career, when I sat with a Russian leader, I was sitting with one of the most powerful men in the world, and that\'s how we still think of you — I mean that sincerely,\" he said.</p>\n                <p>Medvedev in turn thanked Biden for support of Russia\'s WTO bid, saying \"I hope this process will be completed this year with the active support of the United States.\"</p>\n                <p>On Thursday, Biden is to meet with representatives of Russia\'s beleaguered opposition and civil-society groups, but the issues of democracy and human rights that often have dominated Washington-Moscow relations are currently clearly playing a secondary role.</p>\n                <p>Russia, although buoyed these days by high world oil prices, remains largely a natural resources economy with an underdeveloped manufacturing sector.</p>\n                <p>That was tacitly underlined at Skolkovo when Biden witnessed the signing of a deal for national flagship airline Aeroflot to purchase six Boeing 777 airliners — Russia was once a major airliner manufacturer itself, but now buys from the West.</p>\n                <p>In Wednesday\'s talks, Medvedev also pushed for the repeal of Jackson-Vanik Amendment, a 1974 U.S. trade law stipulation under which Washington can deny Russia most-favored-nation trade status. The amendment was introduced to pressure the Soviet Union to allow Jews to emigrate; the United States has waived it application since 1994, but Russia bristles that it is still on the books.</p>\n                <p>Biden on Thursday also meets with Putin and is to cap the trip with an address at Moscow State University that is expected to lay out the White House\'s vision for U.S.-Russian relations in the last half of Obama\'s term.</p>\n                <p>The address and the results of his meetings with Russia\'s leadership duo will be closely parsed at home, where Obama\'s policies run head-on into newly confident congressional Republicans who are frequently suspicious of Russia. The signal achievement of Obama\'s Russia policy to date, the New START arms-control treaty, was ratified by the U.S. Senate only after extensive efforts to bring hesitant Republicans on board.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Biden to Medvedev: Russian WTO bid is top priority   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_russia_biden\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_russia_biden</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 14:36:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 14:36:00','2011-03-10 19:21:02','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(408,'Republicans see power abuse in U.S. foreclosure probe   (Reuters)','republicans-see-power-abuse-in-us-foreclosure-probe-reuters','','Reuters - Republicans are pushing back against a proposed mortgage servicing settlement sent to large banks last week, calling it is an abuse of power that could harm markets.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans are pushing back against a proposed mortgage servicing settlement sent to large banks last week, calling it is an abuse of power that could harm markets.</p>\n                <p>\nThe 27-page settlement proposal backed by a group of federal regulators and state attorneys general includes a directive to step up efforts to keep borrowers in their homes, including reductions in loan principal.</p>\n                <p>\nLeading U.S. House Republicans said on Wednesday they have \"significant concerns\" about such a settlement, putting their objections in a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.</p>\n                <p>\n\"The breadth and scope of the draft settlement proposal raise significant concerns about its effect on the financial system, as well as concerns that the administration and state agencies are attempting to legislate through litigation,\" they wrote.</p>\n                <p>\nThe settlement proposal is the culmination of a state and federal probe of bank mortgage practices that burst into public view last year, including the use of \"robo-signers\" to sign hundreds of unread foreclosure documents a day.</p>\n                <p>\nNegotiations continue with top the five mortgage lenders: Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co, Citigroup Inc, Wells Fargo &amp; Co and Ally Financial.</p>\n                <p>\nSenator Richard Shelby, the senior Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, said the proposed settlement would fundamentally alter the regulation of banks without congressional involvement.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Instead, it would be done by executive fiat through intimidation and threats of regulatory sanctions,\" Shelby said in remarks prepared for a committee hearing.</p>\n                <p>\nLEGAL AUTHORITY</p>\n                <p>\nThe House letter was signed by Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus and panel members Scott Garrett, Randy Neugebauer and Patrick McHenry, according to a spokesman for Garrett.</p>\n                <p>\nA chief complaint is that the settlement is an effort to revive the Obama administration\'s Home Affordable Modification Program, criticized by Republicans as a waste of taxpayer money and due to expire by the end of next year.</p>\n                <p>\nThe lawmakers\' letter asks what legal authority the states and federal agencies have to require principal writedowns without Congress passing new legislation.</p>\n                <p>\nThey are also critical of the role of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created under last year\'s Dodd-Frank financial reform law over the objections of Republicans.</p>\n                <p>\nThe letter questions whether U.S. Treasury staff setting up the consumer bureau should be involved in enforcement actions against banks before the agency is established.</p>\n                <p>\nRepublicans have previously complained that a head of the agency has not been nominated and the agency\'s set-up is being led by presidential adviser Elizabeth Warren, a leading critic of banks during the financial crisis.</p>\n                <p>\nIn response to the letter, a Treasury spokeswoman said: \"The mortgage servicing system we have today is broken, and we should work together to establish a stronger set of standards and best practices.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThe 27-page proposal includes how the banks should change their servicing procedures, including providing a single point of contact for borrowers who get behind on their payments.</p>\n                <p>\nIt did not include a monetary penalty the banks should pay, although at least some of the officials who endorsed the proposal have been pushing for a fine of about $20 billion, which would be used in part to help struggling homeowners.\n</p><p>\n\nThe settlement proposal has the support of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department, the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and Treasury Department staff setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. Miller is heading up the states\' probe of mortgage servicing problems.\n</p><p>\n\nFederal bank regulators such as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Reserve did not sign on to the settlement proposal but are part of larger negotiations, including over what penalty banks should pay.\n</p><p>\n\nThe proposed settlement would require servicers to offer to modify a loan to keep a borrower in their home if doing so would ultimately make the loan more valuable to owners of the mortgage than foreclosing on the property.\n</p><p>\n\nBanks have modified distressed home loans by delaying the repayment of principal, but have resisted previous efforts to force them to reduce principal amounts.\n</p><p>\n\n\"Principal reduction is not a panacea here,\" Terry Laughlin, Band of America\'s legacy asset servicing executive, said on Tuesday.\n</p><p>\n\n\"The fundamental issue here is the borrower does not have sufficient income or their income has been diminished,\" said Laughlin. \"In those cases, principal reduction is not going to help.\"\n</p><p>\n\n(Reporting by Dave Clarke and Rachelle Younglai in Washington and Joe Rauch in Charlotte; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Republicans see power abuse in U.S. foreclosure probe   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/pl_nm/us_financial_regulation_servicing\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/pl_nm/us_financial_regulation_servicing</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 16:41:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 16:41:00','2011-03-10 19:21:03','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(409,'Oil rich Qatar to grow 20 percent in 2011: IMF   (AFP/File)','oil-rich-qatar-to-grow-20-percent-in-2011-imf-afpfile','','AFP/File - The economy of oil and gas exporter Qatar -- the world\'s wealthiest country per capita -- will grow a breathless 20 percent in 2011, the IMF said Wednesday.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>WASHINGTON (AFP) – The economy of oil and gas exporter Qatar -- the world\'s wealthiest country per capita -- will grow a breathless 20 percent in 2011, the IMF said Wednesday.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Qatar has weathered the global financial crisis exceptionally well, reflecting the swift and strong policy response by the authorities,\" the International Monetary Fund said about the country of 1.7 million people.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Growth has rebounded to 16 percent in 2010 and is projected to accelerate to 20 percent in 2011.\"</p>\n                <p>\nThe small Gulf monarchy, which beat out world football powers to be chosen as host of the 2022 World Cup late last year, will face a rising tide of inflationary pressure, though likely not more than it can manage, the fund said.</p>\n                <p>\nRemarkably, the 2010 surge was accompanied by a downturn in prices, rather than the inflation that normally accompanies such rapid expansion.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Inflation is not viewed as an issue of concern in the short term, mainly because of the current excess supply in real estate,\" the Fund said.</p>\n                <p>\nHowever, it warned that inflation would pick up to 3.0 percent this year.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Aggregate demand needs to be carefully monitored in order to avoid the emergence of inflationary pressures.\"</p>\n                <p>\nBased on a measure of comparative purchasing power, Qatar\'s economy became the wealthiest in the world per capita last year, at $88,233 per person, surpassing Norway and Luxembourg.</p>\n                <p>\nGDP per capita on the same basis should top $100,000 this year, according to the IMF, with Luxembourg a distant second at $82,573.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Oil rich Qatar to grow 20 percent in 2011: IMF   (AFP/File)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_mideast_afp/qatarimfeconomy\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110309/wl_mideast_afp/qatarimfeconomy</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 18:07:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 18:07:00','2011-03-10 19:21:04','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(410,'American Eagle 4Q earnings up; CEO to retire   (AP)','american-eagle-4q-earnings-up-ceo-to-retire-ap','','AP - American Eagle Outfitters Inc.\'s fiscal fourth-quarter net income rose 47 percent as the company cut costs faster than sales declined, the teen clothing retailer said Wednesday. Its CEO also announced plans to retire.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>NEW YORK – American Eagle Outfitters Inc.\'s fiscal fourth-quarter net income rose 47 percent as the company cut costs faster than sales declined, the teen clothing retailer said Wednesday. Its CEO also announced plans to retire.</p>\n                <p>CEO James V. O\'Donnell\'s retirement comes at a time when takeover speculation has swirled around the Pittsburgh company. O\'Donnell, 70, will stay with the retailer until a successor is chosen and will work through the transition.</p>\n                <p>American Eagle\'s stock rose nearly 7 percent. Analysts said the company\'s business might turning the corner and new management will help rejuvenate the company, which has struggled with sales declines.</p>\n                <p>O\'Donnell started with American Eagle as its chief operating officer in 2000. He became co-CEO in 2002 and CEO in 2003.</p>\n                <p>American Eagle\'s earnings climbed to $87 million, or 44 cents per share, for the fourth quarter. That\'s up from $59.3 million, or 28 cents per share, a year ago. Last year\'s quarter included a $20.3 million loss from stores it has since closed.</p>\n                <p>That beat the 43 cents per share that analysts polled by FactSet predicted.</p>\n                <p>Fourth-quarter selling, general and administrative expenses declined to $194 million from $227.7 million.</p>\n                <p>Revenue for the period ended Jan. 29 slipped 4 percent to $916.1 million, short of Wall Street\'s $919.4 million estimate.</p>\n                <p>American Eagle\'s rival Aeropostale Inc. has focused on the low end of the price spectrum and Abercrombie &amp; Fitch Co., after cutting prices during the recession, is again focusing on the higher end. American Eagle is increasingly targeting an older crowd, customers in their 20s, to carve out its own niche, said Stifel Nicolaus analyst Richard Jaffe. Still, revenue overall was weak during the quarter.</p>\n                <p>\"In the fourth quarter, we had some areas that were not up to our expectations,\" Roger Markfield, vice chairman and executive creative director, said in a call with analysts. \"Women\'s tops, including sweaters, should have been stronger. On the men\'s side, frankly, we did not invest enough in key items, and missed an opportunity to drive higher volumes.\"</p>\n                <p>Revenue at stores open at least a year fell 7 percent. This figure is a key gauge of a retailer\'s health because it excludes revenue from stores opened or closed during the year.</p>\n                <p>Janney Capital Markets analyst Adrienne Tennant said American Eagle\'s business will turn around.</p>\n                <p>\"We believe shares will continue to be supported by new ideas from a new management, takeout speculation, lean inventory levels, cost reduction program\" and its relatively low share price, she said.</p>\n                <p>Looking ahead, American Eagle expects first-quarter net income of 13 cents to 17 cents and fiscal 2011 net income, excluding one-time items, of $1.02 per share. Analysts expect first quarter net income of 16 cents per share and full-year earnings of $1.09 per share.</p>\n                <p>American Eagle, like most clothing retailers, is facing substantially higher costs for cotton and other key raw materials.</p>\n                <p>\"There is no question we face headwinds with respect to higher product costs in the second half of the year,\" O\'Donnell said. \"We are actively managing our supply chain to help mitigate this cost pressure.\"</p>\n                <p>Following the recession, leveraged buyouts of retailers have picked up. Gymboree Corp. agreed to be bought by Bain Capital for $1.8 billion in a deal that closed in November, and J. Crew was taken private by TPG Capital and Leonard Green &amp; Partners in a $3 billion deal that closed Monday.</p>\n                <p>American Eagle and Aeropostale both have been mentioned by industry watchers as potential targets.\n</p><p>\nAmerican Eagle has 929 stores in the U.S. and Canada.\n</p><p>\nIts stock rose 99 cents, or 6.7 percent, to $15.79 during midday trading. The stock has traded between $11.35 and $19.64 during the past year.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"American Eagle 4Q earnings up; CEO to retire   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_american_eagle_outfitters\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_american_eagle_outfitters</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 13:13:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 13:13:00','2011-03-10 19:21:05','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(411,'GOP challenges proposed gov\'t deal on foreclosures   (AP)','gop-challenges-proposed-govt-deal-on-foreclosures-ap','','AP - Leading House Republicans challenged a deal Wednesday that federal and state officials have offered to five big U.S. banks that would change the handling of foreclosures and force lenders to modify more mortgages.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>WASHINGTON – Leading House Republicans challenged a deal Wednesday that federal and state officials have offered to five big U.S. banks that would change the handling of foreclosures and force lenders to modify more mortgages.</p>\n                <p>In a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the five GOP lawmakers said the draft offer would reshape the rules long governing the mortgage industry. They posed more than dozen questions to Geithner about the proposal, including what the legal justification is for the federal and state governments to try imposing such sweeping changes.</p>\n                <p>The lawmakers wrote that the proposal raised \"significant concerns about its effect on the financial system, as well as concerns that the administration and state agencies are attempting to legislate through litigation.\"</p>\n                <p>Federal regulators and attorneys general of the 50 states offered the terms to the large banks last week, following extended talks over revelations that the lenders had cut corners and used flawed documents to foreclose on many home borrowers.</p>\n                <p>Asked about the GOP letter, Treasury, in a statement, said: \"The mortgage servicing system we have today is broken, and we should work together to establish a stronger set of standards.\"</p>\n                <p>Under the proposal, which would not need Congress\' approval, lenders could be required to write down the value of their loans to borrowers who owe more than their homes are now worth. They reportedly would be forbidden from starting foreclosure proceedings while a homeowner is trying to modify their mortgage terms, and there would be an independent review if they denied a mortgage modification.</p>\n                <p>The letter complains that the draft settlement would revive the Home Affordable Modification Program, the Obama administration\'s leading effort at preventing foreclosures, which the House GOP wants to abolish.</p>\n                <p>It also asks Geithner to justify a part of the proposed deal that, the letter says, would use fines imposed on mortgage servicers to modify loans, including reducing the principal owed, for borrowers not affected by the processing irregularities in question.</p>\n                <p>Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has said he thinks a final deal is months away.</p>\n                <p>The banks are Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and GMAC, which together have about 6 in 10 U.S. home mortgages, according to Miller.</p>\n                <p>The letter was signed by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., and Reps. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., and Pete Sessions, R-Texas.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"GOP challenges proposed gov\'t deal on foreclosures   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_mortgage_mess_settlement\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_mortgage_mess_settlement</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 18:59:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 18:59:00','2011-03-10 19:21:07','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(412,'Oil installations ablaze in Libya as battles rage   (AP)','oil-installations-ablaze-in-libya-as-battles-rage-ap','','<p><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110310/ap_on_re_af/af_libya\"><img src=\"http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110309/capt.63b397e2827b4329a8e41216b9ed470a-63b397e2827b4329a8e41216b9ed470a-0.jpg?x=130&amp;y=80&amp;q=85&amp;sig=AfVrXdy0MEsqbWcpp6tmmQ--\" height=\"80\" width=\"130\" alt=\"Oil installations ablaze in Libya as battles rage   (AP)\" style=\"float: left; border: 0px;\" />\n</a>AP - A giant yellow fireball shot into the sky, trailed by thick plumes of black smoke Wednesday after fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi set two oil installations ablaze and inflicted yet more damage on Libya\'s crippled energy industry.</p><br style=\"clear: both;\" />','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>RAS LANOUF, Libya – A giant yellow fireball shot into the sky, trailed by thick plumes of black smoke Wednesday after fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi set two oil installations ablaze and inflicted yet more damage on Libya\'s crippled energy industry.</p>\n                <p>In the west, Gadhafi claimed victory in recapturing Zawiya, the city closest to the capital that had fallen into opposition hands. The claim could not immediately be verified; phone lines there have not been working during a deadly, six-day siege.</p>\n                <p>State TV showed a crowd of hundreds, purportedly in Zawiya\'s main square, shouting \"The people want Colonel Gadhafi!\" but the location of the rally could not be independently confirmed.</p>\n                <p>Western journalists based in Tripoli were taken late Wednesday to a stadium on the outskirts of Zawiya that was filled with Gadhafi loyalists waving green flags in a similar scene, complete with fireworks. Libyan TV cameras filmed the celebrations as food, drinks and cooking oil were distributed.</p>\n                <p>Government escorts refused journalists\' requests to visit the city\'s main square.</p>\n                <p>The fall of Zawiya to anti-Gadhafi residents early on in the uprising that began Feb. 15 illustrated the initial, blazing progress of the opposition. But Gadhafi has seized the momentum, battering the rebels with airstrikes and artillery fire and repulsing their westward march toward the capital, Tripoli.</p>\n                <p>Gadhafi\'s successes have left Western powers struggling to come up with a plan to support the rebels without becoming ensnared in the complex and fast-moving conflict. On Wednesday, a high-ranking member of the Libyan military flew to Cairo with a message for Egyptian army officials from Gadhafi, but no further details were known.</p>\n                <p>President Barack Obama\'s national security team weighed how to force Gadhafi from power and halt his crackdown on rebels, but the White House said no action was imminent and set no timeline as attention shifted to a pivotal NATO session in Brussels.</p>\n                <p>The NATO alliance said it was planning for any eventuality in the Libyan crisis. But with Defense Secretary Robert Gates preparing to join a meeting of alliance defense chiefs to discuss military options on Thursday, there was little sign they would agree to set up a no-fly zone over the North African country.</p>\n                <p>A rebel spokesman said Wednesday they will buy weapons if the international community fails to declare a no-fly zone.</p>\n                <p>\"If a no-fly zone is not imposed, we do have the means to get armaments. We don\'t expect any country to refuse to deal with us in terms of an arms sale,\" said Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, a spokesman for the rebels\' provisional transitional national council.</p>\n                <p>He did not elaborate or say where the rebels would get the money for arms.</p>\n                <p>Britain and France are pushing for the U.N. to create a no-fly zone over the country, and while the U.S. may be persuaded to sign on, such a move is unlikely to win the backing of veto-wielding Security Council members Russia and China, which traditionally object to such steps as infringements on national sovereignty.</p>\n                <p>Gadhafi said in a Turkish television interview that Libyans would fight back if Western nations imposed a no-fly zone to prevent his regime from using its air force to bomb government opponents staging a rebellion.</p>\n                <p>He said imposing the restrictions would prove the West\'s real intention was to seize his country\'s oil wealth.</p>\n                <p>\"Such a situation would be useful,\" Gadhafi said. \"The Libyan people would understand their real aims to take Libya under their control, to take their freedoms and to take their oil and all Libyan people will take up arms and fight.\"</p>\n                <p>In eastern Libya, an Associated Press reporter at Ras Lanouf near the front line of fighting saw an explosion from the area of the Sidr oil facility, 360 miles (580 kilometers) east of Tripoli.</p>\n                <p>Three columns of thick smoke rose from the area, apparently from burning oil.\n</p><p>\nMustafa Gheriani, an opposition spokesman, said the government artillery hit a pipeline supplying Sidr from oil fields in the desert. An oil storage depot also was hit, apparently by an airstrike, he said.\n</p><p>\nGheriani accused Gadhafi forces of intentionally targeting oil facilities as a warning to Europe that the chaos in Libya will hurt oil supplies.\n</p><p>\n\"Gadhafi thinks he can put pressure on Europe, but I think this is just going to work against him,\" Gheriani told the AP.\n</p><p>\nShukri Ghanem, chairman of the Libya\'s National Oil Corp., said the Sidr explosion was from \"a small tank for diesel\" that caught fire and he insisted it would not affect oil production.\n</p><p>\nRas Lanouf is the westernmost point seized by rebels moving along the country\'s main highway on the Mediterranean coast. Four bodies were brought to the morgue at the hospital in Ras Lanouf, doctors said.\n</p><p>\nIn Cairo, an Egyptian army official told the AP on condition of anonymity that Maj. Gen. Abdul-Rahman bin Ali al-Said al-Zawi, the head of Libya\'s logistics and supply authority, was asking to meet Egypt\'s military rulers.\n</p><p>\nDiplomatic attempts to calm the crisis accelerated Wednesday.\n</p><p>\nA Libyan envoy met with Portugal\'s foreign minister in Lisbon on Wednesday, and an envoy will hold talks in Athens on Thursday with Greece\'s deputy foreign minister. The visits come ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the situation in Libya.\n</p><p>\nThe violence in Libya has taken a toll on the country\'s oil production. For the past week, government forces and rebels have been battling around several key oil ports east — Brega, Ras Lanouf and Sidr. At their peak, those three export terminals handled about 715,000 barrels of crude per day, or roughly 45 percent of the country\'s exports, according to figures published in industry publication Africa Energy. A fourth eastern port, Marsa al-Harigah, handled another 220,000 barrels per day.\n</p><p>\nIn total, those four ports would then account for almost 60 percent of the country\'s crude exports.\n</p><p>\n\"We were already seeing Libya as pretty much being closed,\" said Samuel Cizsuk, Mideast oil analyst with IHS Global Insight in London. \"It was only a question of time before the escalating violence would damage oil facilities.\"\n</p><p>\n\"Libya has been discounted from the global markets,\" he said.\n</p><p>\nThe British Broadcasting Corp., meanwhile, said three of its staff had been detained, beaten and subjected to mock executions by pro-regime soldiers while attempting to reach Zawiya on Monday. The BBC said the men were held for 21 hours before they were released, and have since left Libya. It reported the details of their detention in bulletins late on Wednesday.\n</p><p>\n_______\n</p><p>\nMichael reported from Tripoli. Ryan Lucas in Benghazi, Libya, Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee in Washington, Derek Gatopoulos in Athens and Tarek El-Tablawy in Cairo contributed to this report.</p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Oil installations ablaze in Libya as battles rage   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110310/ap_on_re_af/af_libya\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110310/ap_on_re_af/af_libya</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 19:00:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 19:00:00','2011-03-10 19:21:08','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(413,'Auto industry guards against hacking   (AP)','auto-industry-guards-against-hacking-ap','','AP - Could modern cars operating with the help of internal computers be vulnerable to hackers? Could someone tamper with your software-controlled brakes or stop the engine from afar?','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>WASHINGTON – Could modern cars operating with the help of internal computers be vulnerable to hackers? Could someone tamper with your software-controlled brakes or stop the engine from afar?</p>\n                <p>The familiar problem for personal computers is being studied in automobiles as internal computer networks become as critical to vehicles as tires and engines, and as auto companies push to bring the Internet to motorists.</p>\n                <p>Two researchers demonstrated the ability last year to hack into the internal networks that operate a car\'s brakes and engines.  While there is no evidence that anyone has hacked into auto computer systems to compromise safety or steal vehicles, industry groups are studying the issue in hopes of getting ahead of future cyber-attacks.</p>\n                <p>\"When people first started connecting their PCs to the Internet, there wasn\'t any threat and then over time it manifests,\" said Stefan Savage, a University of California, San Diego, computer science professor who conducted the research. \"The automotive industry, I think, has the benefit of the experience of what we went through.\"</p>\n                <p>As vehicles are increasingly computerized, researchers and industry officials consider it inevitable that cars will face the same vulnerabilities as PCs. Internal computer networks monitor and control everything from brakes, engines and transmissions to air bags and keyless entry functions. Wireless connections, meanwhile, are becoming more common in reporting a vehicle\'s position or providing information about the car\'s functions. Some auto companies are creating applications to allow users to control some features in their car with their smart phone.</p>\n                <p>In a paper presented at a computer security conference last year, Savage and Yoshi Kohno, a computer science professor at the University of Washington, described how research teams were able to \"bypass rudimentary network security protections within the car\" and \"adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input — including disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand, stopping the engine and so on.\" The research team also showed how an attack could embed malicious code in a vehicle and then erase any evidence of its presence after a crash.</p>\n                <p>In a new study, they found ways to compromise security remotely, through wireless interfaces like Bluetooth, mechanics\' tools and even audio files. In one example, a modified song in a digital audio format could compromise the car\'s CD player and infect other systems in the vehicle. They were also able to \"obtain complete control\" over the car by placing a call to the vehicle\'s cell phone number and playing an audio signal that compromised the vehicle.</p>\n                <p>Other reviews have raised similar red flags. Research teams at Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina showed vulnerabilities of in-car wireless networks that operate tire pressure monitoring systems that tell motorists if their tire needs more air. From a distance of 40 meters, they bypassed security to tap into information identifying the tire and tire pressure of cars driving down the road.</p>\n                <p>The auto industry has taken notice. Jack Pokrzywa, who manages ground vehicle standards for the Society of Automotive Engineers International, said the industry formed a panel to investigate the issue during the past month and hopes to develop common standards and ways to address hacking within the next year. \"The industry is certainly concerned about this,\" Pokrzywa said.</p>\n                <p>\"Things can be done, if there is a mindset to do this, and with all the electronic devices and the software running them, it\'s kind of inevitable that someone will find a way,\" Pokrzywa said. \"These systems are not built with firewalls upon firewalls.\"</p>\n                <p>The United States Council for Automotive Research, a group funded by Detroit\'s auto companies, is also forming a task force to study the issue, said spokeswoman Susan Bairley.</p>\n                <p>Researchers say they do not want to be alarmist and note that in many cases it required coordinated efforts to bypass the security systems. Kohno said their research was the result of 2 years of work and \"the risk of this happening in the real world is extremely low.\" But Kohno and others said the industry was wise in trying to build in more protections to avoid the hacking scenarios common with personal computers.</p>\n                <p>\"I hope it\'s more of a warning for the engineering groups that certain systems are vulnerable,\" said Ivan Seskar, associate director for information technology at the Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Auto industry guards against hacking   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_car_hackers\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_car_hackers</a></p>',-2,5,0,36,'2011-03-09 16:36:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 16:36:00','2011-03-10 19:21:09','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(414,'Judge recuses self in Brown University rape suit   (AP)','judge-recuses-self-in-brown-university-rape-suit-ap','','AP - A federal judge in Rhode Island recused himself Wednesday from a lawsuit brought by a former Brown University student who says he was falsely accused of raping a classmate and unfairly pressured to leave school, a move likely to send the case to a judge in New Hampshire.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A federal judge in Rhode Island recused himself Wednesday from a lawsuit brought by a former Brown University student who says he was falsely accused of raping a classmate and unfairly pressured to leave school, a move likely to send the case to a judge in New Hampshire.</p>\n                <p>Judge Ronald Lagueux said he based the decision on his relationship with a defense attorney in the case who, he said, would also probably appear as a witness. The attorney, Joseph Cavanagh, represented Lagueux in judicial proceedings in 1988.</p>\n                <p>\"I\'m recusing myself because not only did Joseph Cavanagh represent me, but I\'ve known him for a long time, and I have a great deal of respect for him,\" Lagueux said, explaining his recusal. \"A reasonable person looking at this might conclude that I could have some partiality for Joseph Cavanagh as a witness.\"</p>\n                <p>Cavanagh represents a woman who accused the plaintiff, William McCormick III, of raping her in 2006, early in their freshman year at Brown. He also represents her father, who is a wealthy Brown alumnus and donor to the school.</p>\n                <p>The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they were victims of sex crimes and is not naming the father to avoid identifying the daughter.</p>\n                <p>McCormick, who denies the allegation, is suing the pair, as well as Brown, which he says never gave him a chance to defend himself. He withdrew from school a month after the rape allegation was made as part of a settlement with the accuser, in which she agreed to let the matter drop if McCormick did not return to Brown. He is now enrolled at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.</p>\n                <p>Cavanagh may have to take the witness stand to answer accusations that he put undue pressure on McCormick to sign the settlement agreement, Lagueux said.</p>\n                <p>Brown says it acted properly, and the woman, who graduated last spring, maintains that she was raped. The police were never called, and authorities never investigated the rape accusation.</p>\n                <p>J. Scott Kilpatrick, a lawyer for McCormick, said in court that he filed a motion asking Lagueux to recuse himself at his client\'s request. He said McCormick became concerned about Cavanagh\'s history with the judge after the defense attorney asked that the suit go to Lagueux following recusals by the other two judges in U.S. District Court in Providence.</p>\n                <p>Cavanagh says he made the request because otherwise the case would have been sent to a judge in New Hampshire, an outcome he says he had hoped to avoid.</p>\n                <p>\"I have found that to be awkward, and it would put my client at a disadvantage from a geographical standpoint,\" Cavanagh said.</p>\n                <p>The federal court in Concord, N.H., is about two hours from Providence by car.</p>\n                <p>With Lagueux\'s recusal, the case will be reassigned to a federal judge in another district, most likely New Hampshire, though that judge will follow Rhode Island rules in hearing the case, effectively sitting as a guest judge.</p>\n                <p>A four-year vacancy in the Rhode Island court recently prompted the transfer of more than two dozen civil cases to judges in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Lagueux, a senior judge, has volunteered to hear some cases to ease the burden of the court\'s caseload.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Judge recuses self in Brown University rape suit   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_ivy_league_rape_case\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_ivy_league_rape_case</a></p>',-2,5,0,37,'2011-03-09 17:32:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 17:32:00','2011-03-10 19:21:14','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(415,'Q&amp;A: Author Andrew Ferguson on College Admissions, Anxiety   (Time.com)','qaampa-author-andrew-ferguson-on-college-admissions-anxiety-timecom','','Time.com - Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad\'s Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College spoke about parental anxiety and the much dreaded college-application essay','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>Andrew Ferguson had deliberately avoided reading articles about the college-admissions process until he realized it was time for his son Gillum to apply to college. Since Ferguson\'s time as an undergrad, SAT prep courses, high school schedules packed with AP courses and $40,000 college counselors had become the norm. Ferguson documented his and Gillum\'s journey through the jungle of college admissions in <i>Crazy U: One Dad\'s Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College</i>. TIME spoke with Ferguson about parental anxiety and the much dreaded personal essay.</p>\n                <p><b>Why write about the college application process?</b> <br />It brings together all these huge national themes like personal ambition and status anxiety and ideas of equality and opportunity. [And it combines those] with the most intimate feelings that people have, which are their feelings as parents to do right by their kids. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=1200vnedp/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2047078,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See the no-name school that mints Grammy winners.)</a></span></p>\n                <p><b>Were you surprised by the way the process affected your own behavior?</b> <br />I realized that there was something irrational that I was doing as a parent. I was about to either go broke or go into debt in order to get my son into a school that I knew was overpriced and that would continue to raise its prices and that probably wouldn\'t deliver the product that they were selling. We know two things about college from research in the last few years, and the first is that kids don\'t learn very much when they\'re there. The second is that where they went to school has almost no influence on things like their future happiness, job satisfaction, even income. But [regardless], I was still willing to knock myself out to try to get my kid into the kind of school that he wanted to go to.</p>\n                <p><b>Did you hit any particular low points as a parent?</b> <br />When we were filling out the essays. I say we. <i>He</i> was writing the college-application essays. The essays are supposed to be answers to questions that I thought were unfailingly ludicrous and particularly ill-suited for young 17-year-old boys. They were all touchy-feely: What was your most embarrassing moment? What does it feel like when you do x, y or z? As one counselor said, \"You have to tell your son to reach in and bring out his innermost thoughts.\" And I said, \"He\'s a 17-year-old boy, lady. He doesn\'t have any innermost thoughts, and if he did, you wouldn\'t want to know what they are and neither would I.\" So I was hovering over him as he had a terrible time trying to answer these touchy-feely questions. I remember at one point I said, \"Why do you have this line in here? This line doesn\'t make any sense. You\'re trying to tell a joke, and the joke isn\'t funny. You really ought to just cut this line all together.\" And he said, \"Dad, that was one of the sentences you wrote.\" <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=11v9bs2jq/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2027210,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See pictures from an American college in India.)</a></span></p>\n                <p><b>Speaking of backing off, didn\'t you tell your son not to lifeguard the summer before his senior year?</b> <br />I didn\'t tell him not to lifeguard that summer. I just suggested he might want to look for a different kind of employment. [A professional college counselor] had said that there are all these things that the kids should do, you know, start a business, go to Guatemala and build wheelchair ramps in whorehouses. I knew he didn\'t have the entrepreneurial spirit and I wasn\'t going to send him to Guatemala, so we were sort of at a loss, and he ended up lifeguarding anyway.</p>\n                <p><b>What\'s the worst thing you were advised to do?</b> <br />A lot of parents told me that if I wanted to learn about the general college experience, I had to go onto the Web and read <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=114eptsh3/*http://www.collegeconfidential.com\" target=\"_blank\">collegeconfidential.com</a>, which is this massive website that I describe in the book. It\'s a place where anxious parents and their children and professional counselors can come together in a common meeting space and spread misinformation and gossip and lies about going to college. And there\'s no way to tell a good piece of advice from a bad piece of advice. So you can go from one page to the next, and an hour has passed and you have heard 12 different pieces of advice, all of which contradict each other.</p>\n                <p>If I were a parent counseling other parents right now, the No. 1 thing I would say is stay away from College Confidential. In fact, I\'d stay away from the Web as much as you can because the Web has no particular filter for good information and bad information. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=120miaun0/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2052123,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">(See the inside story of the teacher\'s blog that sparked an education debate.)</a></span></p>\n                <p><b>Is there anything you wished you had realized earlier?</b><br /> I thought it would matter if he went to one school over another or if he went to college at all rather than go off into business. But kids at 18 and 19 and 20 years old are going to grow no matter what they do. I look back on it now and am very happy for what my son and I went through. I sure as hell wouldn\'t want to do it again. But I have to, with my daughter. <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=1208kkskt/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2057659,00.html#comments\" target=\"_blank\">(Comment on this story.)</a></span></p>\n                <p><b>What will you do differently with your daughter?</b> <br />I think I would be much calmer. I think it <i>has</i> been much calmer. Partly due to the fact that I do know how it ends. She will get into college. She will turn into a fine young woman wherever she goes. So that kind of takes some of the pressure off.</p>\n                <p><b>So there are no lasting scars?</b> <br />We can look back on it and see that he\'s happy and know that it was worth it for that reason. Kids in four-year colleges generally have a high level of satisfaction. Why wouldn\'t they? What\'s there not to like?</p>\n                <p> <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=12khqh6ou/*http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2019663_2017587,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">See what you can do to help the education system.</a></span> </p>\n                <p> <span class=\"see\"><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=124dqbplp/*http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1838709,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">See TIME\'s special report on paying for college.</a></span> </p>\n                <p>View this article on <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=12p0384ut/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2057659,00.html?xid=rss-fullnation-yahoo\">Time.com</a></p>\n                <p></p><p>Most Popular on Time.com:</p><ul><li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=12vuagvud/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057857,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">Tripoli: Libya\'s Capital a Facade of Calm as Crisis Mounts</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=130jk7j78/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2056610,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">U.S. Decline in Global Arena: Is America No Longer No. 1?</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=12v042jcb/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057744,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">South Africa\'s Corrective Rape: Activists Battle Violence</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=1307obq79/*http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge</a></li> <li><a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599205765900/40579604/SIG=130em8000/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2057903,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular\">In Ohio Ice Cream Chain\'s Success, Hope for Other Artisans</a></li> </ul><p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Q&amp;A: Author Andrew Ferguson on College Admissions, Anxiety   (Time.com)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110309/us_time/08599205765900\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110309/us_time/08599205765900</a></p>',-2,5,0,37,'2011-03-09 15:20:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 15:20:00','2011-03-10 19:21:14','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(416,'82 percent of US schools may be labeled \'failing\'   (AP)','82-percent-of-us-schools-may-be-labeled-failing-ap','','AP - An estimated 82 percent of U.S. schools could be labeled as \"failing\" under the nation\'s No Child Left Behind Act this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>An estimated 82 percent of U.S. schools could be labeled as \"failing\" under the nation\'s No Child Left Behind Act this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.</p>\n                <p>The Department of Education estimates the number of schools not meeting targets will skyrocket from 37 to 82 percent in 2011 because states are toughening their standards to meet the requirements of the law. The schools will face sanctions ranging from offering tutoring to closing their doors.</p>\n                <p>\"No Child Left Behind is broken and we need to fix it now,\" Duncan said in a statement. \"This law has created a thousand ways for schools to fail and very few ways to help them succeed.\"</p>\n                <p>Duncan delivered the news in remarks to a House education and work force committee hearing, in urging lawmakers to rewrite the Bush-era act. The law was established in 2002 and many education officials and experts argue it is overdue for changes.</p>\n                <p>President Barack Obama has highlighted reforming the act as a priority for his administration, and both Democrats and Republicans have agreed that it needs to be changed — though disagreements remain on how.</p>\n                <p>The current law sets annual student achievement targets designed with the goal of having all students proficient in math and reading by 2014, a standard now viewed as wildly unrealistic.</p>\n                <p>Duncan said the law has done well in shining a light on achievement gaps among minority and low-income students, as well as those who are still learning English or have disabilities. But he said the law is loose on goals and narrow on how schools get there when it should be the opposite.</p>\n                <p>\"We should get out of the business of labeling schools as failures and create a new law that is fair and flexible, and focused on the schools and students most at risk,\" Duncan said.</p>\n                <p>The Department of Education said its estimate was based on four years of data and the assuming all schools would improve at the same rate as the top quartile.</p>\n                <p>\"Even under these assumptions, 82 percent of America\'s schools could be labeled `failing\' and, over time, the required remedies for all of them are the same — which means we will really fail to serve the students in greatest need,\" Duncan said.</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"82 percent of US schools may be labeled \'failing\'   (AP)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_failing_schools\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_failing_schools</a></p>',-2,5,0,37,'2011-03-09 15:09:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 15:09:00','2011-03-10 19:21:15','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(417,'5 Ways To Integrate Technology Into Your Child\'s Education   (Mashable)','5-ways-to-integrate-technology-into-your-childs-education-mashable','','Mashable - Jeff Galinovsky is regional manager for Intelâ€™s classmate PC in North America where he focuses on expanding education products as well as building an education ecosystem. You can follow him on Twitter at @ClassmatePCDude.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p><span class=\"intro\"><em>Jeff Galinovsky is regional manager for Intel’s classmate PC in North America where he focuses on expanding education products as well as building an education ecosystem. You can follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ClassmatePCDude\" target=\"_blank\">@ClassmatePCDude</a>.</em></span></p>\n                <p>\nMost of us didn’t have today’s technology options when we were in school, so while parents realize technology has become an integral part of their child\'s education, they\'re sometimes finding it difficult to incorporate it into the learning process.</p>\n                <p>\nIt’s much more than choosing the right hardware (desktop, <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=10v39sab8/*http://mashable.com/tag/ipad/\">iPad</a>, netbook, etc.). Parents need to consider several other factors: Appropriate software, interactive e-reading programs, how to educate children about <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11ltfgo7i/*http://mashable.com/2010/12/07/child-online-safety/\">online safety</a> when exploring social media, and how to integrate technology into the current curriculum.</p>\n                <p>\nHowever, technology is important in today\'s world and taking a comprehensive approach to technology education will ensure that children thrive in the modern education system and in the jobs of the future. Here are five tips for streamlining the process.</p>\n                <p>\n</p><hr /><h2>\n1. Get the Wiggles Out<br /></h2>\n<hr />\nTake learning out of and beyond the classroom. Children learn in a <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=121hugfp3/*http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/health/views/07mind.html?_r=4\" target=\"_blank\">multimodal manner</a> -– they want to be able to touch and hear and see things up close. Netbooks or laptops that feature tools like a camera, writing stylus and audio recording capabilities help to encourage a multimodal approach to learning. The more learning modes (auditory, visual, and experiential) that are exercised, the more likely the material they are learning is likely to stay with them long-term.\n                <p>\nUse tools and devices that help kids feel comfortable in their spaces and get them up and moving around when it’s appropriate. This can keep kids focus while making the lessons more interesting and exciting. For example, in a field trip to the Central Park Zoo in New York, a group of fifth graders measured the temperature and humidity in the Tropical Zone, drew penguins and built robots -- all using tools and software integrated and available on their convertible tablet netbooks.</p>\n                <p>\n</p><hr /><h2>\n2. Make Topics Real and Applicable<br /></h2>\n<hr /><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n                <p>\n</p></div>\n                <p>\n<a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=12ir92sv4/*http://learningcenter.nsta.org/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/4/jcst11_040_03_36\" target=\"_blank\">Rote memorization</a> is not always the best approach for teaching kids. It’s important to demonstrate how subjects like math and science are important and exciting outside of the classroom and in the real world. Having access to real-world examples can help bring tough subjects to life in new ways. Learning math is more fun and easier when fractions are part of a cooking recipe, for example.</p>\n                <p>\nIn my daughter’s fifth grade science class, she developed an experiment to determine if she could generate electricity with a soda and Mentos reaction, using a convertible netbook and equipment from <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=10n6en7hv/*http://www.pasco.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pasco</a> to test her hypothesis. She only became that excited about science once she got hands-on and explored things that were interesting to her. She told me at the end of last year that she really loved science. You don’t often hear that from tween girls these days, do you?</p>\n                <p>\n</p><hr /><h2>\n3. Give Kids a Sense of Ownership<br /></h2>\n<hr /><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n                <p>\n</p></div>\n                <p>\nTechnology opens up opportunities for kids to really take ownership of their own educations and to be a part of the process. With 1:1 learning devices, learning becomes about students and their needs. This can mean more engaged learners with pride in their work and what they are learning about. According to a recent <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11671osfn/*http://www.projectred.org/news/?p=90\" target=\"_blank\">study</a> by Project RED on the key technology factors for student achievement, a strong student/computer ratio is tied to improved test scores and graduation rates. Kids like to move around, so if you’re worried about the device taking a beating, look for netbooks or laptops that are rugged and offer some waterproof resistance.</p>\n                <p>\n</p><hr /><h2>\n4. Facilitate Self-Paced Learning<br /></h2>\n<hr /><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n                <p>\n</p></div>\n                <p>\nEveryone learns at a different pace, and in a different way. Some kids do well when given a task and a deadline and then set free; others need more guidance and time. Technology allows parents and teachers to provide the right amount of discipline for each student individually, and to supplement where necessary. It also allows students to learn at their own pace, which can help keep them interested and excited about the material.</p>\n                <p>\nOne example is McGraw-Hill’s LEAD21 reading program, which offers a personalized and interactive experience for various reading levels. It can adjust vocabulary, concepts, word counts, font size and spacing for different grade and age levels.</p>\n                <p>\n</p><hr /><h2>\n5. Create a Safe Environment to Explore<br /></h2>\n<hr />\nWhen left on their own, kids can independently explore, discover, and make learning more exciting for themselves. However, just as you want to make sure your children are safe playing in the neighborhood, you need to teach them about Internet safety. It\'s important to warn about predators, inappropriate material and mature content, but hovering over them to ensure they are safe will only stifle them.\n<p>\n\nLook for built-in safety tools in computers that allow parents to ensure that kids access approved sites and content. Parents can choose when, where and what they want their children to access. According to a recent <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=12n0vrlv5/*http://www.truste.com/about_TRUSTe/press-room/news_truste_2010_survey_snsprivacy.html\" target=\"_blank\">survey</a> on kids and Internet safety, 68% of teens have at some point accepted <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=1188fs16r/*http://mashable.com/category/facebook/\">Facebook</a> friend requests from people they don\'t know, opening the door to sharing personal information -- like where they live -- with strangers.\n</p><p>\n\nMy 11-year-old daughter started a <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=117v3vngu/*http://mashable.com/category/twitter/\">Twitter</a> account unbeknownst to me. I am not ready for my 11-year-old to be plugged into the social web. When I found out that she had an account, I logged into her netbook and started using a monitoring software product. I could confirm that she did start a Twitter account and was sending messages to someone she thought was Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers.\n</p><p>\n\nThis tool allowed me to validate the problem and to have a web safety conversation with my daughter. The software allows her to have freedom, and me to have peace of mind. We have been able to discuss what is good and real on the net and what is not.\n</p><p>\n\nWhat are your tips to integrating tech and education? How do you balance freedom and supervision? Let us know in the comments below.\n</p><p>\n\n</p><hr /><h3>More Education Resources from Mashable:</h3>\n<hr />\n\n- <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11rao6pc1/*http://mashable.com/2011/01/07/online-education-websites/\">100+ Online Resources That Are Transforming Education</a><br />\n- <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11pc6kv7r/*http://mashable.com/2010/11/22/technology-in-education/\">8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education</a><br />\n- <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11olk1dnl/*http://mashable.com/2010/09/29/social-media-in-school/\">The Case For Social Media in Schools</a><br />\n- <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11pjtjm67/*http://mashable.com/2010/02/07/social-gaming-education/\">How Social Gaming is Improving Education</a><br />\n- <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11ppgctdl/*http://mashable.com/2010/08/06/online-education-social/\">Why Online Education Needs to Get Social</a>\n\n<p>\n\n<em>Images courtesy of Flickr, <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11poumitp/*http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanjoselibrary/2839901913/\" target=\"_\">San Jose Library</a>, <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11bf35fhu/*http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryriot/\" target=\"_blank\">library riot</a>, <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11dvbcpij/*http://www.flickr.com/photos/quercusdesign/\" target=\"_blank\">quercus design</a>, <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education/40592777/SIG=11d1tej0n/*http://www.flickr.com/photos/h_is_for_home/\" target=\"_blank\">H is for Home</a></em></p>\n            </div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"5 Ways To Integrate Technology Into Your Child\'s Education   (Mashable)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20110309/tc_mashable/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20110309/tc_mashable/5_ways_to_integrate_technology_into_your_childs_education</a></p>',-2,5,0,37,'2011-03-09 12:43:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 12:43:00','2011-03-10 19:21:16','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(418,'Rude awakening for sleepy U.S. students   (Reuters)','rude-awakening-for-sleepy-us-students-reuters','','Reuters - Chronically tardy and truant students at a Massachusetts high school are getting a rude awakening -- a pre-recorded morning wake-up call from their school principal.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>CONWAY, Massachusetts (Reuters Life!) – Chronically tardy and truant students at a Massachusetts high school are getting a rude awakening -- a pre-recorded morning wake-up call from their school principal.</p>\n                <p>\nThe so-called \"robo-calls\" that began on Wednesday are aimed at rousting about 500 students, the worst-offending sleepyheads, from bed and getting them to school on time.</p>\n                <p>\n\"It\'s 6:15 and it\'s Durfee High School calling,\" booms the voice of Principal Paul Marshall of B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River, according to Vice Principal Ross Thibault.</p>\n                <p>\nRobo-calls are typically used to notify parents of weather-related school delays and cancellations.</p>\n                <p>\nDurfee joins other U.S. schools in Massachusetts and Illinois and New York which have taken on the added role of alarm clock to combat high rates of tardiness and absenteeism.</p>\n                <p>\nIn New York City the wake-up calls feature the voice of former professional basketball star Magic Johnson.</p>\n                <p>\nAt Durfee High School in Fall River, about 46 miles south of Boston, 20 percent of the student body will be getting routine phone calls at home at 6:15 a.m. The school day\'s first class begins at 7:45 a.m.</p>\n                <p>\nAdministrators hope the effort will boost attendance from 88 percent now to at least 95 percent.</p>\n                <p>\n\"Historically, we have battled attendance problems. We are an urban district and our attendance has always been a concern,\" Thibault said.</p>\n                <p>\nThe school resorted to the calls after failing to improve attendance with punishments like detention or enforced study hours at schools, he added.</p>\n                <p>\n(Reporting by Zach Howard; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Jerry Norton.)</p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"Rude awakening for sleepy U.S. students   (Reuters)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/lf_nm_life/us_schools_wakeup\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/lf_nm_life/us_schools_wakeup</a></p>',-2,5,0,37,'2011-03-09 10:51:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 10:51:00','2011-03-10 19:21:17','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),(419,'New Platform Uses Social Features To Improve Online Education   (Mashable)','new-platform-uses-social-features-to-improve-online-education-mashable','','Mashable - Buried within platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia lies valuable educational content that can reinforce classroom lessons, help self-motivated learners teach themselves new concepts, and upend the way that the world looks at education. But it\'s hard to separate this content from the cat videos, ads and uninformed contributions that share the same platforms.','<div><div class=\"yn-story-content\">\n                <p>Buried within platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia lies valuable educational content that can reinforce classroom lessons, help self-motivated learners teach themselves new concepts, and upend the way that the world looks at education. But it\'s hard to separate this content from the cat videos, ads and uninformed contributions that share the same platforms.</p>\n                <p>\nSocial learning startup <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/new_platform_uses_social_features_to_improve_online_education/40586502/SIG=10nbbqin4/*http://www.sophia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Sophia</a>, which launched its public beta Monday, aims to solve this problem by focusing exclusively on crowdsourced educational material and encouraging users to help sort the academically sound, engaging lessons from the sub-par lessons.</p>\n                <p>\nAnybody can compile a \"lesson packet\" on Sophia using slideshows, videos, audio clips and text that they either upload or pull in from sources like YouTube. About 200 private beta users have already covered lessons ranging from <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/new_platform_uses_social_features_to_improve_online_education/40586502/SIG=128s4bj72/*http://www.sophia.org/packets/cinematography-intro-camera-angles-shots\" target=\"_blank\">Camera Angles &amp; Shots</a> to <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/new_platform_uses_social_features_to_improve_online_education/40586502/SIG=128c1akqk/*http://www.sophia.org/packets/coordinate-geometry-of-quadrilaterals--2\" target=\"_blank\">Coordinate Geometry of Quadrilaterals</a>.</p>\n                <p>\nThe idea is to make it easy for students to find reliable knowledge on any topic quickly and efficiently. In the search options, for instance, students can even select specific text books to find corresponding packets. If students still don\'t understand something after viewing a lesson, they can post a question to a Q&amp;A board attached to each packet.</p>\n                <p>\n</p>\n                <p>\nCEO Don Smithmier says one of the most common uses of the platform since the private beta that launched in November has been to curate the best content about a given concept from other social media platforms like YouTube. </p>\n                <p>\n\"There\'s a ton of good information on the web, but it\'s hard to find,\" he says. \"And part of it is that if you don\'t already know what you\'re doing, it\'s hard to evaluate the good from the bad.\"</p>\n                <p>\nAfter a packet is submitted, Sophia has multiple ways to gauge its quality. When users sign up for the site, they have an option to identify themselves as subject experts, if they hold a degree in that field or teach courses on it. Three such experts need to certify a lesson as \"academically sound\" before it is labeled as such. </p>\n                <p>\nThere is also a five-star user rating system similar to the seller ratings at Amazon.com, and lesson creators have lifetime \"Sophia ratings\" that gauge how successfully they\'ve contributed to the community. Other rewards for providing quality content include earning followers via a Twitter-like feature and badges.</p>\n                <p>\n</p><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n                <p>\n</p></div>\n                <p>\nSophia.org is free, and the company is committed to barring advertising, as well as the content manipulations that come with it, from the site. But the project isn\'t purely a labor of love -- eventually the company will sell a white-label version of the product to schools and universities that want their own private, white-label versions of the product. For now, the project is backed by an investment from online education company <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/new_platform_uses_social_features_to_improve_online_education/40586502/SIG=11221cibj/*http://www.capellaeducation.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Capella</a>. </p>\n                <p>\n<em>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/new_platform_uses_social_features_to_improve_online_education/40586502/SIG=11ee52d7r/*http://www.istockphoto.com/mashableoffer.php\">iStockphoto</a>, <a href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/mashable/tc_mashable/storytext/new_platform_uses_social_features_to_improve_online_education/40586502/SIG=11l3f5p2d/*http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=3439660\">enviromantic</a></em> </p>\n                <p>\n            </p></div></div><p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class=\"rssreadon\" rel=\"external\" title=\"New Platform Uses Social Features To Improve Online Education   (Mashable)\" href=\"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20110309/tc_mashable/new_platform_uses_social_features_to_improve_online_education\" target=\"_blank\">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20110309/tc_mashable/new_platform_uses_social_features_to_improve_online_education</a></p>',-2,5,0,37,'2011-03-09 05:33:00',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-03-09 05:33:00','2011-03-10 19:21:18','','','show_intro=0',1,0,0,'','',0,0,''),