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Monday, November 28, 2011
Syria hit with new sanctions: Will this weaken Assad?
The Arab League hit Syria with sanctions Sunday. The new sanctions include a travel ban on Syrian officials and a freeze on Syria government assets.
The Arab League approved economic sanctions on Syria on Sunday to try to force Damascus to halt an eight-month crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad that Qatar said may prompt international intervention.
Skip to next paragraphAnti-Assad activists said there was no respite from the crackdown and security forces had killed at least 24 civilians, many in a town north of Damascus that has become a focus for protests demanding Assad's removal. Others were killed in raids on towns in the province of Homs.
Nineteen of the League's 22 members approved the decision to immediately enforce the sanctions, hailed by Britain as unprecedented. They include a travel ban on top Syrian officials and a freeze on assets related to Assad's government.
"The indications are not positive ... the sanctions are still economic but if there is no movement on the part of Syria then we have a responsibility as human beings to stop the killings," Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, told reporters.
"Power is not worth anything when a ruler kills his people," he said, adding that the sanctions were also aimed at halting dealings with Syria's central bank and investment in Syria.
Sheikh Hamad said Arab nations wanted to avoid a repeat of what happened in Libya, where a U.N. Security Council resolution led to NATO air strikes. He warned other Arab states that the West could intervene if it felt the league was not "serious."
"All the work that we are doing is to avoid this interference," he said.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the "unprecedented decision to impose sanctions demonstrates that the regime's repeated failure to deliver on its promises will not be ignored and that those who perpetrate these appalling abuses will be held to account."
Hague said Britain hoped the move would help break what he called United Nations silence "on the ongoing brutality taking place in Syria" after Russia and China thwarted Western efforts to pass a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria.
Damascus, where the Assad family has ruled for 41 years, says regional powers helped incite the violence, which it blames on armed groups targeting civilians and its security forces.
SYMBOLIC
The president of the Union of Arab Banks, a division of the Arab League, expected the sanctions to hit Syria's central bank, which he said has "big deposits" in the region, especially the Gulf.
"Once individual countries that have voted for the sanctions issue instructions, Syrian deposits will be frozen, which will affect the financial resources of the Syrian government," Adnan Youssef told Arabiya television.
Arab ministers were spurred to action by worsening violence in Syria and by the Assad government's failure to meet a deadline to let in Arab monitors and take other steps to end its crackdown on the uprising.
"It is a symbolic but a huge step. The Arab League has tried to stop civilian killings but it failed. Now it is removing the Arab cover from the regime, which could make it easier for the international community to intervene," said opposition figure Walid al-Bunni.
"No one wants to see ordinary Syrians deprived of essential supplies. The Arabs are telling Bashar: 'You are killing the people to whom you say you belong. We will not receive you in our capitals. We're freezing your assets. We are not investing in your country,'" Bunni said from Cairo.
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Egypt's ElBaradei ready to head government
Egypt's ElBaradei ready to head government
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An injured protester is aided by others during clashes with Egyptian security forces, not pictured, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
An injured protester is aided by others during clashes with Egyptian security forces, not pictured, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
CORRECTS DAY OF WEEK TO SATURDAY - A young Egyptian man holds a national flag while standing on a rooftop between Tahrir Square and the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
Egyptian soldiers stand behind a barbed wire fence while guarding the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
The sculpture of a lion on the Qasr el-Nil bridge wears an eye patch symbolizing protesters wounded in clashes with security forces, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Protesters eat below a giant banner reading in Arabic, "we won't leave the martyrs' rights," in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
CAIRO (AP) ? Leading Egyptian democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei says he is prepared to head a "national salvation" government to steer the country out of its political crisis.
ElBaradei's office released the statement late Saturday, in advance of plans by Egypt's protest movement to stage a massive protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square to press demands for the country's military rulers to step down.
The Sunday rally, dubbed "Legitimacy of the Revolution," comes following nine days of continued protest in Tahrir.
The planned rally comes one day before the start of voting in the first parliamentary elections since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. The elections will be held over a three-month period.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
The nation's weather
This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011 at 12:45 a.m. EST shows clouds cover the Eastern half of the nation, while clear skies return to the Plains. A low pressure system moves over the Great Lakes and pulls a cold front into the Eastern Valleys. This creates some heavy rain and scattered thunderstorms in the Southeast, while snow showers develop in the North. Meanwhile, a ridge of high pressure builds over the Plains, bringing sunny and dry conditions. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011 at 12:45 a.m. EST shows clouds cover the Eastern half of the nation, while clear skies return to the Plains. A low pressure system moves over the Great Lakes and pulls a cold front into the Eastern Valleys. This creates some heavy rain and scattered thunderstorms in the Southeast, while snow showers develop in the North. Meanwhile, a ridge of high pressure builds over the Plains, bringing sunny and dry conditions. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
This is the Weather Underground forecast for Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011, for United States. A strong storm will roll through the eastern third of the country, bringing rain to the Southeast and a mixture of rain and snow to the Ohio Valley and Upper Midwest. More rain and snow is likely in the Northwest. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
A cold front will trek eastward Sunday from the Mississippi River Valley, bringing wet conditions to the East Coast.
A low pressure system over the Great Lakes will continue northeastward into eastern Canada. This system will propel a cold front eastward, starting from the Great Lakes and extending down the Mississippi River Valley. By evening, this system will stretch from the Northeast down the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys to the Gulf of Mexico.
The southern end of this system could pull added moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. If thunderstorms develop, they would likely be contained to the Southeast amid strong winds and heavy rains in some areas. In the north, the back side of this system will pull cold air in from Canada, allowing for widespread snow showers to develop across the Great Lakes with accumulations of 1 to 3 inches.
In the Plains, a high pressure area will build behind the mass of cold air. Expect mostly sunny skies and cool temperatures to persist as cold, dry air pours in from central Canada. Further west, a low pressure trough off the Pacific Northwest will push a cold front onshore.This will trigger more rain and high elevation snow in the Cascades. Snow levels will be high, around 8,000 feet, due to this relatively warm system. The tail end of the front out West may bring light precipitation to far northern California.
Temperatures in the lower 48 states ranged Saturday from a morning low of -16 degrees at West Yellowstone, Mont., to a high of 88 degrees at Edinburg, Texas
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Exclusive: Euro zone may drop bondholder losses from ESM bailout (Reuters)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) ? Euro zone states may ditch plans to impose losses on private bondholders should countries need to restructure their debt under a new bailout fund due to launch in mid-2013, four EU officials told Reuters on Friday.
Discussions are taking place against a backdrop of flagging market confidence in the region's debt and as part of wider negotiations over introducing stricter fiscal rules to the EU treaty.
Euro zone powerhouse Germany is insisting on tighter budgets
and private sector involvement (PSI) in bailouts as a precondition for deeper economic integration among euro zone countries.
Commercial banks and insurance companies are still expected to take a hit on their holdings of Greek sovereign bonds as part of the second bailout package being finalized for Athens.
But clauses relating to PSI in the statutes of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) - the permanent facility scheduled to start operating from July 2013 - could be withdrawn, with the majority of euro zone states now opposed to them.
The concern is that forcing the private sector bondholders to take losses if a country restructures its debt is undermining confidence in euro zone sovereign bonds. If those stipulations are removed, most countries in the euro zone argue, market sentiment might improve.
"France, Italy, Spain and all the peripherals" are in favor of removing the clauses, one EU official told Reuters. "Against it are Germany, Finland and the Netherlands." Austria is also opposed, another source said.
A third official said that while German insistence on retaining private sector involvement in the ESM was fading, collective action clauses would only be removed as part of broader negotiations under way over changes to the EU treaty.
Berlin wants all 27 EU countries, or at least the 17 in the euro zone, to provide full backing for alterations to the treaty before it will consider giving ground on other issues member states want it to shift on, officials say.
Germany is under pressure to soften its opposition to the European Central Bank playing a more direct role in combating the crisis, and member states also want Berlin to give its backing to the idea of jointly issued euro zone bonds.
German officials dismiss any suggestion of a 'grand bargain' being put together, but officials in other euro zone capitals, including Brussels, say such a deal is taking shape and suggest Berlin will move when it has the commitments it is seeking, although it's unclear when that will be.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Strasbourg on Thursday that there was no quid pro quo being set up.
"This is not about give and take," she said.
Euro zone finance ministers will discuss the ESM at a meeting in Brussels on November 29-30, including the implications of dropping collective action clauses from its statutes.
COMPLICATIONS
While most euro zone countries just want to forget about enforced private sector involvement, some are adamant that there must be a way to ensure banks and not just taxpayers shoulder some of the costs of bailing countries out.
Austria's opposition Green Party, whose support the government needs to secure backing for the ESM in the Vienna parliament, insists collective action clauses must remain a part of the ESM. It's also far from unclear whether the finance committee of the German lower house Bundestag would agree to such changes being made to the ESM.
Any changes to the mechanism would have to be approved by all member states and ratified by national parliaments before they can take effect, meaning fixed Austrian and German opposition could derail the push for changes.
Germany and some other member states were hoping to bring the ESM, which will have a lending capacity of 500 billion euros, into force as early as July next year, but disagreement over its structure could delay that.
(Reporting by Julien Toyer, John O'Donnell and Luke Baker in Brussels, Andreas Rinke in Berlin and Mike Shields in Vienna; writing by Luke Baker; editing by Rex Merrifield, John Stonestreet)
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Italy's borrowing rates skyrocket, Monti scrambles (AP)
ROME ? A week into his new job, Premier Mario Monti is running out of time to reassure nervous investors that his government has a strategy to deal with Italy's crippling debts.
The nation's borrowing rates skyrocketed Friday after a grim set of bond auctions, with a new auction looming Tuesday. Another borrowing debacle could ratchet up fears that Italy has entered a debt spiral driving it toward bankruptcy and the 17-nation eurozone into its most acute crisis yet.
Monti's government of so-called "technocrats" is battling to convince investors that it has a successful strategy to reduce the country's euro1.9 trillion ($2.6 trillion) debt. But Friday's dismal bond auction results for the eurozone's third largest economy temporarily battered Europe's stock markets.
The auction outcome also is likely to fuel calls for European Union officials to do more to jump-start economic growth and the European Central Bank to use more firepower to cool down a rapidly escalating debt crisis.
"We still haven't found a response that reassures investors," said Jose Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission. "As long as we're unable to do that, we'll have very serious problems and discussions in Europe." He spoke during a visit to Portugal, which, like eurozone members Greece and Ireland, has taken an EU bailout to avoid bankruptcy.
Stephen Lewis, an analyst at Monument Securities, agreed with that outlook.
"The signs are that the euro will need a highly skilled financial engineer at the controls if it is to withstand the strains it is likely to face in the five remaining weeks of this year," he said.
Driving market fears is the knowledge that Italy is too big for Europe to bail out.
Given the size of its debts ? Italy must refinance euro200 billion by the end of April alone ? the government is depending on investors for money. But when borrowing rates get too high that can fuel a potentially devastating debt spiral which could bankrupt the country.
Friday's auctions showed that investors see Italian debt as increasingly risky.
The country had to pay an average yield of 7.814 percent to raise euro2 billion ($2.7 billion) in two-year bills ? sharply higher than the 4.628 percent it paid in the previous auction in October. And even raising euro8 billion ($10.7 billion) for six months proved exorbitantly expensive, as the yield for that spiked to 6.504 percent, nearly double the 3.535 percent rate last month.
Following the grim auction news, Italy's borrowing rates in the markets shot higher, with the 10-year yield spiking 0.34 percentage point to 7.30 percent ? above the 7 percent threshold that forced other euro nations into bailouts.
Solid returns on Wall Street helped European markets recover from earlier losses Friday fueled by fears over Italy.
The EU monetary chief, Olli Rehn, also tried to reassure markets. After meeting in Rome with Monti on Friday, he emerged to praise new economic reforms that are "going in the right direction," such as liberalizing professions, encouraging employers to hire, and making it easier for them to transfer workers.
But Rehn also said he expects more "bold measures" to follow.
Italy must adopt "a comprehensive and wide-ranging package of reforms to kick-start growth and offer young people not only more jobs but also better jobs," the monetary affairs commissioner said.
Rehn was in Rome to monitor Italy's compliance with promises to liberalize its labor market, reduce the bloated public sector and sell some state assets.
Analyst Raj Badiani, an economist at IHS Global Insight in London, said Monti must deliver more.
"I don't think the markets have turned against Monti" and his "first stab" at promised reforms, Badiani said. "However, I argue that he will need to consider more draconian labor market reforms to reverse Italy's woeful productivity performance since the adoption of the euro."
Other analysts were less accommodating toward Monti, a former European Union competition commission with a reputation for taking tough stands.
"Mario Monti has failed so far to impress bond markets he has the power and authority to do what is required," said Louise Cooper, a markets analyst at BGC Partners.
Monti was appointed to replace premier Silvio Berlusconi, whose conservative coalition squabbled for months over measures such as pension reform, which were urgently sought by EU and European Central Bank officials.
But Monti has no political party behind him, meaning he is at the mercy of lawmakers from Italy's infamously bickering parties to back him on painful doses of austerity, with the next election looming in early 2013.
Italy was not the only euro-using country to have a disappointing auction this week.
Even Germany ? the region's strongest economy and the main funder of eurozone bailouts ? suffered a shock Wednesday when it failed to raise all the money it sought, its worst auction result in decades.
Spain saw its borrowing rates ratchet sharply higher, even after a landslide election victory for the conservative Popular Party, which has made getting Spain's borrowing levels down its top priority.
"Within the eurozone, the more favorable political climate in Spain and Italy has not brought any improvement in market sentiment," said Herve Goulletquer, head of fixed-income research at Credit Agricole.
Monti has promised to balance Italy's budget by 2013. He has pledged to introduce "fair but incisive" structural reforms, his office said after a Cabinet meeting Friday. Monti has promised to reform the pension system, reinstate home property taxes eliminated by Berlusconi's government, and slash spending on government offices.
But even as Italy struggled to rescue itself, other signs of Europe's debt crisis emerged.
Standard & Poor's announced it is lowering its long-term sovereign credit rating for Belgium, citing a threat to exports and the euro country's lack of a permanent government. The agency cut Belgium's credit rating from AA+ to AA.
Belgium has been without a permanent government for 530 days, as a series of negotiators has struggled without success to bridge the country's divide between its French-speakers and its Dutch-speakers.
On Friday, Moody's also downgraded Hungary's sovereign debt to junk status ? from Baa3 to Ba1 with a negative outlook ? a decision Hungary hotly criticized. Hungary is not a member of the eurozone, but trades with many of its members.
This week's developments have ratcheted up the pressure on the European Central Bank to step up its bond purchases in the markets, though Germany adamantly opposes that. The current program is designed to support bond prices in the markets, thereby keeping a lid on the borrowing rates.
So far, the ECB has been buying limited amounts of bonds and has to sell an equivalent amount of assets.
The ECB said Monday it bought bonds worth only euro4.5 billion ($6 billion)last week, down from euro9.5 billion ($12.7 billion) a week earlier.
Potentially, the ECB has unlimited financial firepower through its ability to print money, and many countries in the eurozone, including France, want the bank to act more decisively to solve the debt crisis.
However, Germany finds the idea of monetizing debts unappealing, warning that it lets the more profligate countries off the hook for their bad practices.
Analyst Badiani said financial markets are "despairing over the very public disagreement between the French and German governments about how to use the ECB to regain control of the crisis, which has curbed the markets' appetite for sovereign debt across Europe."
But EU chief Barroso insisted that Germany isn't opposed "in principle" on eurobonds.
Germany's view is that "eurobonds can be considered once there's a higher level of integration and discipline in the eurozone," Barroso said.
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Barry reported from Milan. AP writers Pan Pylas in London and Barry Hatton in Lisbon contributed to the story.
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Teamsters expand lawsuit against Mexican trucks (AP)
WASHINGTON ? The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday expanded its lawsuit against the government in a long-running battle that has stopped Mexican trucks from coming deep into the United States.
In papers filed in federal appeals court in Washington, the union said the government must first assess the environmental impact of a pilot project before letting it continue. The first Mexican truck in the pilot program crossed the border last month.
Teamsters President James P. Hoffa said opening the border to the trucks is an attack on the environment, on highway safety and on American truckers and warehouse workers.
"It's outrageous enough that we've outsourced millions of jobs to foreign countries, but now we're bringing foreign workers here to take our jobs," Hoffa said in a statement. "This is another pressure the American middle-class doesn't need."
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement signed nearly two decades ago, trucks from both countries were supposed to have unhindered access to highways on either side of the border.
Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, said that the Teamsters are engaging in protectionism.
"First it was about the safety of Mexican rigs; now, with nowhere to run with that argument, the new red herring is an alleged environmental impact," Sarukhan said in a statement.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
'Lethal' radiation doses can be treated with drugs
Mice can survive lethal effects of high radiation doses that are usually fatal when given a double-drug therapy ? even when they get the drugs 24 hours after exposure.
Because these drugs are known to be safe in people, it could be worth stockpiling them in preparation for a nuclear accident or terrorist attack, say the researchers behind the new study.
High doses of radiation harm the body, partly by damaging rapidly dividing cells, such as those in the intestine. The damage leaves the intestine leaky, allowing harmful bacteria to escape into the bloodstream ? consequently antibiotics may be used to treat individuals exposed to radiation.
Eva Guinan and Ofer Levy at Harvard Medical School and their colleagues have identified another approach to treatment involving a protein known as bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI), which plays a role in the immune response to the harmful bacteria from the intestine.
Guinan and Levy's team studied 48 people who were receiving radiation doses in preparation for a bone marrow transplant. Following radiation exposure, levels of BPI fell to an average of 71 times below normal levels. In 37 of the transplant patients the protein was undetectable. The team say this is probably due to damage to the bone marrow, which leaves it unable to produce enough of the white blood cells that normally encourage BPI production.
Survival boost
The team then used the information in the treatment of mice given a typically lethal dose of radiation. A day after exposure, some mice were given the oral antibiotic fluoroquinolone while some mice were given a combination of fluoroquinolone and injections of BPI. A third group had no treatment at all.
Most of the untreated mice died within 30 days. As expected, the antibiotic boosted the survival rate: around 40 per cent of the mice given the antibiotic were still alive after 30 days ? but survival rates jumped to almost 80 per cent in the mice given the combination therapy.
The two drugs are already known to be safe in healthy and sick humans. A radiation treatment based on the two is likely to be practical because both drugs can be stored for long periods of time and the mouse study suggests they would be effective even if administered 24 hours after exposure, says Levy. "Maybe there needs to be a stockpile of BPI in case, God forbid, there was another Fukushima
," he says.
Don Jones at the University of Leicester, UK, finds the study "very exciting". "The therapy looks to be very effective at mitigating the effects of total body irradiation," he says.
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Gameloft, ARCHOS teaming up for preloaded content on G9 tablets
ARCHOS announced today that it has teamed up with Gameloft to preload its G9 line of tablets with two of the game maker's popular titles. Trail versions of Spider-Man: Total Mayhem and Asphalt 6: Adrenaline will ship preinstalled on all G9 tablets beginning in December 2011. ARCHOS says that both titles have been optimized for the G9 line, and that the tablets' dual-core TI processor will enhance both speed and performance. ARCHOS' full statement can be found after the break.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Copy Chloe Moretz's Hugo Premiere Makeup Look! (omg!)
How adorable is Chloe Moretz? I loved her in Kick-Ass and like everyone else, I can't wait to see Hugo. Her look on the red carpet for the film's premiere is at once sweet and sexy; she looked ever the Hollywood ingenue with just a touch of sass. Her makeup pro, Beau Nelson, tells Us Weekly how he created the look.
"I prepped Chloe's skin with La Mer Oil Free Moisturizer and Eye Cream, and then applied NARS Pro Prime which helps makeup look fresher longer and stay on for hours."
"I started by applying Shu Uemura Nobara Stick Foundation where needed with the Urban Decay Cruelty Free Blush Brush. I almost always use this brush for foundation application in small circular motions for a flawless but natural finish."
"I then used Tom Ford Illuminating Pen in Lavender Voile on the cheekbones, brow bones and the cupids bow of the lip to give skin a pretty youthful glow," he says. "I set foundation with Laura Mercier Translucent Powder in the t-zone and around the nose and mouth, leaving the outer edges and highlights of the face free of powder."
"For blush, I used Burberry Blush in Cameo on the apples of the cheek blending downwards slightly and back towards the hairline. I used then used Burberry Blush in Rose as a pop of color to the middle of the apple and blended the two together with a clean blush brush."
"On her eyes I used Chanel Quadra Shadows in Dunes over top of Chanel Ombre D'eau Fluid Iridescent Eyeshadow in Source. I applied Source all over the lid and around the eye, creating an iridescent base," he tells Us. "I then used the varying browns in the Dunes quad on a soft brush to create a sophisticated nude smoky eye. I curled lashes using the Chanel Eyelash Curler and applied my favorite CoverGirl LashBlast Mascara."
"Finally, on lips I used Trace Lip Creme from Beaute Cosmetics applied from the tube and then gently patted with my finger to push it to the edges of the lip to create a pinky beige lip that completed the romantic nude look we were going for."
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Older brains lack access to region for swift decisions
Decision-making takes time when we reach the golden years ? but not necessarily because older people have a more cautious outlook on life. It might just reflect a lack of the connections to a brain area needed for speedy responses.
One explanation for the slowdown is that older people are reluctant to commit the errors associated with a swift response. Birte Forstmann at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has another theory.
She asked 12 young people ? around 25 years old ? and 12 older people ? average age 65 ? to decide whether most of the dots in a cloud were moving to the right or the left. Even when told to respond more quickly, the older participants couldn't match the speed of the youngsters.
Previous research has shown that increased input from the cortex to a brain area called the striatum allows for faster responses. Brain scans of the volunteers showed that the young people had significantly stronger connections between these two areas. This suggests that the older group might be unable to respond swiftly simply because they cannot make good use of the striatum.
Journal reference: Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0309-11.2011).
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Suu Kyi to run for Myanmar parliament
YANGON?? Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will run in a parliamentary by-election expected by the end of the year, a top party official said on Monday, giving legitimacy to moves toward democracy after decades of military rule.
It will be the first time the Nobel Peace Prize laureate contests a seat herself, having not stood as a candidate in her National League for Democracy's (NLD) 1990 election landslide, which was ignored by the then military regime and led to her lengthy incarceration.
"Aung San Suu Kyi intends to stand for the by-election but it's a bit early to say from which constituency she will run," Nyan Win, a member of the NLD's executive committee, told Reuters.
There are 48 seats available in Myanmar's new senate and lower house.
The NLD was officially dissolved by the military junta for refusing to take part in last year's parliamentary polls because of "unfair and unjust" laws that would have prevented hundreds of its members from becoming lawmakers.
But the party voted unanimously on Friday to re-enter the political fray following an amendment to the constitution allowing those who have served sentences for crimes to take part in elections. Many NLD members, including Suu Kyi, are current or former political prisoners.
Foe of military
Suu Kyi is the daughter of late independence hero Aung San and was a staunch opponent of the military during its 49 years of totalitarian rule. However, she has shown willingness to meet with the new civilian government, even though it is run by former junta generals.
Aung Naing Oo, a Myanmar expert with the Thailand-based Vahu development institute, said her decision to take part in the much-criticized political system would mark the beginning of an "irreversible democratic transition."
"Aung San Suu Kyi has realized that she needs to work with the government to move the country forward and she'll be in a position to say and do a lot more. She'll bring a lot of things to the game," he said.
"She can make a big difference. Even if we have only a little bit of democracy, something here is happening that no one has seen before. For the country to change, this needed to happen."
Since the annulled 1990 polls, Suu Kyi, 66, has spent most of the time in detention. She was released a year ago and still chooses to live in the lakeside house that was her prison on and off for 15 years.
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She had earlier given no indication she was interested in becoming a lawmaker but has always referred to herself as a politician.
US endorsement
Her decision comes after Myanmar won a powerful endorsement on Friday, with U.S. President Barack Obama announcing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would visit the resource-rich country neighboring China next month, citing "flickers of progress."
For sanctions to be eased, Clinton has said the release of more political prisoners and a peace deal with ethnic minorities would be necessary. Suu Kyi and the NLD would be expected to pursue these issues aggressively in parliament.
The legislature convened in February and is Myanmar's first since the late 1980s, when a unicameral "People's Assembly" controlled by the military's Burma Socialist Program Party was scrapped.
Myanmar has so far released about 280 political prisoners this year and another amnesty is expected in the coming months.
The NLD, Myanmar's biggest opposition force, would have dominated parliament had the 1990 result been accepted by the junta. The regime annulled the 1990 result only last year, arguing that the NLD's win could not be recognized because it was in breach of a constitution drafted 18 years later.
Suu Kyi commands considerable influence over the party and Ko Ko Hlaing, a senior adviser to President Thein Sein, said on the sidelines of a regional summit in Bali last week that the NLD's decision to re-register was a "significant step."
The presence of Suu Kyi in a parliament that was criticized initially as a rubber stamp with limited scope for debate would be another dramatic sign of the openness that could give more legitimacy to the retired generals in control of the country, who are seeking acceptance, engagement, support and investment from the international community.
The NLD's Nyan Win said the party would change its structure and would prioritize younger members and those from Myanmar's multitude of ethnic groups when choosing candidates for the by-elections.
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Imaginext Mega T-Rex
Introducing the Imaginext Mega T-Rex by Fisher-Price, complete with motorized action, sound effects, and removable armor that puts a new spin on classic dinosaur play. With ferociously cool features and accessories, boys aged 3 to 5 years old will love Imaginext's dinosaur toys that turn imaginary play into a roarin' good time. It's a whole new adventure with Imaginext, every time you play.
The Mega T Rex measures 16 by 12 by 8 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.4 pounds. It comes with a helmet, rear control pod, two projectile launchers, and extended tech arms that have large mechanical claws. A button on his back makes his arms move, his neck swing back and forth, and his jaws open. There's also an activation disk on his back that opens the door of the pod. It takes three AA batteries and one 1.5V battery.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Egypt stock market plunges on political crisis (AP)
CAIRO ? Egypt's benchmark index plunged on Tuesday, with a temporary suspension of trading failing to cool a frenzy of selling by investors panicked by escalating violence and protests in the capital that have thrust the nation into its worst political crisis since former President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
The EGX30 index closed 4.78 percent lower, or at 3,676 points, continuing its slide after trading was suspended for nearly an hour on the Egyptian Exchange after the broader EGX100 index fell by over 5.4 percent. Underscoring market unease with the political situation, the country's five-year credit default swaps ? the cost of insuring Egypt's sovereign debt against default ? widened by 25 basis points to 563 basis points, according to Markit.
The slide Tuesday was the market's third consecutive day of declines and reflected the worries about the country's political future as thousands gathered in central Cairo protesting against the country's military rulers. The escalating tension came just days before the scheduled Nov. 28 parliamentary elections ? the first since Mubarak left office in mid-February.
Traders had said put the support point for the benchmark index at 3,800 points, but the market blew past that level with little difficulty early in the day, building on Monday's 4 percent slide and dragging its year-to-date decline down to over 48 percent.
"We passed the support point, so the only thing that will stop further declines in the market is fixing the political situation in the country," said Khaled Naga, a senior broker with Mega Investments. "We have to wait and see what happens."
The suspension of trade was a safety measure set up by market authorities in the weeks after the uprising against Mubarak. The measures were intended to guard against what many, at the time, feared would be the market's collapse after its reopening more than two-months following the start of the Jan. 25 uprising.
The days of unrest have proven deadly, with at least 29 killed across the country, most of them in Cairo. The violence and continuing demonstrations prompted the civilian Cabinet to offer its resignation late Monday. But the move failed to appease the activists who see the civilian government as little more than subservient to the military rulers.
While far from presenting a united front, the activists massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square ? the epicenter of the uprising that toppled Mubarak ? are demanding that the military rulers either immediately hand over power to a civilian administration or set a fixed date for a transition to civilian rule.
Firmly entrenched in Tahrir Square, the activists issued a call for a million-man rally on Tuesday ? a move that had thousands streaming into downtown Cairo and raising the scepter of further clashes and violence even as officials called for restraint from all sides.
But the promise of continued trouble only builds on already growing political uncertainty that has battered the country's economy and placed tremendous pressure on the country's currency. The Egyptian pound was trading at about 5.996 to the U.S. dollar by early afternoon local time, according to currency Web site, XE.com.
The government has struggled to keep the pound from breaking the six pounds to the dollar level for months, with economists attributing at least a portion of the net international reserves that have been spent going to support the currency. Egypt's net international reserves have fallen from $36 billion in December to about $22 billion by the end of October, according to Central Bnak of Egypt figures.
Naga said the stock market has lost about 180 billion pounds ($30.25 billion) since the start of the year ? with most of that linked to the unrest in the country versus the overall global financial concerns linked to the Euro-zone debt crisis and broader fears of recession.
"Yesterday, the losses were about seven billion (pounds) and today, I'm expecting the same if not more," he said.
The losses marked the 10th consecutive trading session in which the market ? one of the worst performing emerging market indices in the world ? suffered a slide as a result of Egypt's tenuous political situation.
Rami Sidani, the Dubai-based head of Middle East and North Africa investments for British asset management firm Schroders, said there is a "very negative sentiment" over Egyptian stocks at the moment. The uncertainties surrounding the country's political future have triggered a panicked sell-off on the Egyptian exchange, he said.
"There is no discrimination between one company or another," said Sidani. "Investors are just selling across the board without taking into consideration the value of the underlying assets."
The declines came as several markets elsewhere in the region extended slumps of their own following Monday's rout on Wall Street.
The Dubai Financial Market dropped 0.3 percent to close at 1,351 points Tuesday, its lowest level in more than seven years. Saudi Arabia's main index was trading down 0.8 percent at 6,103 points by mid-afternoon.
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AP Business Writer Adam Schreck in Dubai contributed to this report.
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Merck will pay $950M to settle Vioxx investigation
NEW YORK (AP) ? The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that drug maker Merck will pay $950 million to resolve investigations into its marketing of the painkiller Vioxx.
The agency said Merck will pay $321.6 million in criminal fines and $628.4 million as a civil settlement agreement. It will also plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge that it marketed Vioxx as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis before getting U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
Merck stopped selling Vioxx in 2004 after evidence showed the drug doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke. In 2007, the company paid $4.85 billion to settle around 50,000 Vioxx-related lawsuits.
The Justice Department said the settlement resolves allegations that Merck made false, unproven, or misleading statements about Vioxx's safety to increase sales and made false statements to Medicaid agencies about its safety.
Merck said the settlement does not constitute an admission of any liability or wrongdoing, and it said the government acknowledged that there was no basis to conclude that Merck's upper-level management was involved in the violations.
Merck also entered into an agreement about its sales, marketing, publication and government pricing activities. The Justice Department said that agreement strengthens oversight of the company. It will require top officials to complete annual compliance certifications, and the company will post information about physician payments on its website.
The company took a charge of $950 million in the third quarter of 2010 to cover the anticipated settlement payments.
Vioxx was approved by the FDA in 1999, but the government did not initially approve the drug for use in rheumatoid arthritis. That meant doctors could write prescriptions for Vioxx for rheumatoid arthritis patients, but Merck could not promote the drug for that use. The Justice Department said Merck promoted Vioxx for rheumatoid arthritis for three years and continued to do so after getting an FDA warning letter in 2001. The drug was approved as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis in 2002.
The government will get $426.4 million from the settlement, and $202 million will be distributed to state Medicaid programs for 43 states and the District of Columbia.
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Disgraced ex-Boston archbishop leaves Rome job
VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned in disgrace as Boston's archbishop in 2002 after the priest sex abuse scandal exploded in the United States, has left his subsequent job as head of a major Roman basilica.
The Vatican said Monday that Pope Benedict XVI had accepted the 80-year-old Law's resignation as archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica and had named as Law's replacement Spanish Monsignor Santos Abril y Castello.
Law's 2004 appointment as the archpriest of one of Rome's most important basilicas had been harshly criticized by advocates for clerical sex abuse victims, who say bishops who covered up for pedophile priests should be punished, not rewarded.
Law turned 80 earlier this month.
While the pope could have kept him on longer ? the dean of the College of Cardinals, for example, turns 84 this week ? Benedict decided to replace him.
The Vatican announcement made no mention of Law's resignation, though, merely noting in a perfunctory, two-line statement that Benedict had named a new archpriest for the basilica.
Law became the first ? and so far only ? U.S. bishop to resign for mishandling cases of priests who sexually abused priests.
He had been named in hundreds of lawsuits accusing him of failing to protect children from known child molesters. After 18 years leading the nation's fourth-largest archdiocese, Law resigned in 2002, having asked Pope John Paul II twice before receiving permission to step down before reaching the mandatory retirement age for bishops of 75.
Ten months after he left office, Law's successor, now-Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley helped broker an $85 million settlement with more than 550 victims of pedophile priests.
Law remains a member of a half-dozen important Vatican congregations, including the office that helps the pope select bishops. Such appointments are for renewable five-year terms and it's not clear when each one expires or whether he'll seek to stay on.
While he was in Rome, Law was a frequent presence at all major Vatican ceremonial and diplomatic events, a lifestyle that galled many abuse victims who have long insisted that the Vatican crack down on bishops who transfer abusive priests rather than report them to police.
Law's successor at St. Mary Major ? one of the four basilicas under the direct jurisdiction of the Vatican ? retired earlier this year as the Vatican's ambassador to Slovenia and Macedonia.
Abril y Castello, 76, is also the No. 2 prelate who helps take care of matters dealing with a papal death and runs the Vatican until a new pontiff is elected in a conclave.
Now that he is 80, Law can no longer vote in a conclave, though he remains a cardinal.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Eboue pelted with objects in Turkey
updated 12:05 p.m. ET Nov. 21, 2011
ANKARA, Turkey - Besiktas fans could face a two-match ban after Galatasaray defender Emmanuel Eboue was repeatedly pelted with objects during a Turkish league game against Besiktas.
Eboue was repeatedly hit on the head Sunday with objects, including a lighter and a plastic water bottle.
The state-run Anadolu Agency said Monday that Besiktas fans also shouted abuse at Galatasaray midfielder Engin Baytar, while some dismantled seats and threw them at police, who tried to intervene.
Galatasaray players and referees continued to be pelted as they left the field protected by a line of police shields.
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Panel set to fail to cut deficit $1.2 trillion (AP)
WASHINGTON ? It's just about over for a special deficit-reduction supercommittee, which appears set to admit failure on Monday in its quest to sop up at least $1.2 trillion in government red ink over the coming decade.
The bipartisan 12-member panel is sputtering to a close after two months of talks in which key members and top congressional leaders never got close to bridging a fundamental divide over how much to raise taxes. The budget deficit has forced the government to borrow 36 cents of every dollar it spent last year.
In a series of television interviews, not a single panelist seemed optimistic Sunday about any last-minute breakthrough, and aides said any remaining talks had broken off.
Monday is deadline day. The panel officially has until Wednesday to approve a deficit-slashing plan, but under its rules, any plan would have to be unveiled 48 hours in advance.
Instead, it appeared co-chairs Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas would issue a statement declaring the panel's work at an end, aides said.
The two sides had never gotten particularly close, at least in the official exchanges of offers that were leaked to the media.
"There is one sticking divide. And that's the issue of what I call shared sacrifice," said panel co-chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on CNN's "State of the Union."
"The wealthiest Americans who earn over a million a year have to share too. And that line in the sand, we haven't seen Republicans willing to cross yet," she said.
Republicans said Democrats' demands on taxes were simply too great and weren't accompanied by large enough proposals to curb the explosive growth of so-called entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
"If you look at the Democrats' position it was `We have to raise taxes. We have to pass this jobs bill, which is another almost half-trillion dollars. And we're not excited about entitlement reform,' " countered Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Put a bow on it. It's done," said an aide to a supercommittee Republican.
Failure by the panel would trigger about $1 trillion over nine years in automatic across-the-board spending cuts to a wide range of domestic programs and the Pentagon budget, starting in 2013, according to the Congressional Budget Office. This action, called a "sequester," would also generate $169 billion in savings from lower interest costs on the national debt.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the required cuts of up to $454 billion to the Pentagon would be "devastating" and leave a "hollow force." Defense hawks of Capitol Hill promise they won't allow them to be that deep. But that effort will be complicated by the insistence of other lawmakers that the overall amount of the budget cuts be left in place.
The panel's failure also sets up a fight within a battle-weary, dysfunctional Congress over renewing a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, both of which are set to expire at the end of the year. Both proposals are part of President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan.
Extending the current 2 percentage point payroll tax cut isn't a popular idea with many Republicans, but allowing it to expire could harm the economy, economists say. So too would a cutoff of unemployment benefits averaging about $300 a week to millions of people who have been out of work for more than six months.
Serious negotiations ended Friday after Democrats rejected a $644 billion offer comprised of $543 billion in spending cuts, fees and other non-tax revenue, as well as $3 billion in tax revenue from closing a special tax break for corporate purchases of private jets. It also assumed $98 billion in reduced interest costs.
Earlier exchanges featured a more than $3 trillion plan from Democrats that would have increased tax revenues by $1.3 trillion in exchange for further cuts in agency budgets, a change in the measure used to calculate cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries, and curbs on the growth of Medicare and Medicaid.
"We put on the table a proposal that required tough compromises on both sides, and they never did that," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the only House Democrat on the panel to participate in late-stage bipartisan talks.
Republicans countered with a $1.5 trillion plan that included a potential breakthrough ? $250 billion in higher taxes gleaned as Congress passes a future tax reform measure. The plan was trashed by Democrats, however, who said it would have lowered tax rates for the wealthy too far while eliminating tax breaks that chiefly benefit the middle class.
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