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Chinese Think Tank Urges End To 'One-Child' Policy
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text size A A A October 31, 2012A Chinese government think tank is urging the country's leaders to start phasing out its "one-child" policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy.
Some demographers see the timeline put forward by the China Development Research Foundation as a bold move by the body close to the central leadership. Others warn that the gradual approach, if implemented, would still be insufficient to help correct the problems that China's strict birth limits have created.
Xie Meng, a press affairs official with the foundation, said the final version of the report will be released "in a week or two." But Chinese state media have been given advance copies. The official Xinhua News Agency said the foundation recommends a two-child policy in some provinces from this year and a nationwide two-child policy by 2015. It proposes all birth limits be dropped by 2020, Xinhua reported.
"China has paid a huge political and social cost for the policy, as it has resulted in social conflict, high administrative costs and led indirectly to a long-term gender imbalance at birth," Xinhua said, citing the report.
But it remains unclear whether Chinese leaders are ready to take up the recommendations. China's National Population and Family Planning Commission had no immediate comment on the report Wednesday.
Known to many as the one-child policy, China's actual rules are more complicated. The government limits most urban couples to one child, and allows two children for rural families if their first-born is a girl. There are numerous other exceptions as well, including looser rules for minority families and a two-child limit for parents who are themselves both singletons.
Cai Yong, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, said the report holds extra weight because the think tank is under the State Council, China's Cabinet. He said he found it remarkable that state-backed demographers were willing to publicly propose such a detailed schedule and plan on how to get rid of China's birth limits.
"That tells us at least that policy change is inevitable, it's coming," said Cai, who was not involved in the drafting of the report but knows many of the experts who were. Cai is currently a visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai. "It's coming, but we cannot predict when exactly it will come."
Adding to the uncertainty is a once-in-a-decade leadership transition that kicks off Nov. 8 that will see a new slate of top leaders installed by next spring. Cai said the transition could keep population reform on the back burner or changes might be rushed through to help burnish the reputations of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao on their way out.
There has been growing speculation among Chinese media, experts and ordinary people about whether the government will soon relax the one-child policy
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Who Wins Brewers' Vote?
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Beer lovers rejoice. A silver lining in this troubled economy is that demand for beer is booming. Not just any, beer, but small-batch, craft brew -- up 12 percent in volume in the first half of 2012, according to the Brewers Association.
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Lessons From 'Perfect Storm'
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Record: 283 MPHin One Mile
horsepower Ford GT, then pointed the nose towards the end of NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility runway.
The 15,000 foot runway, located on Merritt Island, would give Bohmer plenty of shut-down room after attempting to set a new standing mile speed record. With the folks from Guinness World Records on hand, Bohmer launched his Ford GT into the history books, achieving a standing mile speed of 283.232 miles per hour.
To put it in perspective, that’s over 25 miles per hour faster than Mark Heidaker’s standing start mile run, also in a heavily modified Ford GT, at last spring's Texas Mile event. Heidaker’s efforts earned him a new Texas Mile record, and likely would have earned a Guinness record had their people been on hand to certify it.
As the name implies, the standing mile measures the maximum speed achieved, from a standing start, over a one-mile distance. Bohmer had set a similar record with Guinness in 2011, piloting his street-legal Ford GT to a top speed of 223 miles per hour in the mile.
The record run was for more than just bragging rights, too, as Performance Power Racing is developing a line of parts made from an aerospace aluminum alloy called Pandalloy. Developed in cooperation with Pratt & Whitney, Pandalloy delivers high strength, light weight and high temperature resistance, making it ideal for racing applications.
Performance Power Racing isn’t giving any detail on how it brought its Ford GT up past the 1,700 horsepower mark, but we’re pretty sure they’d be happy to discuss performance upgrades for interested customers. If you fall into that category, contact information can be found on the company’s website.
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The 15,000 foot runway, located on Merritt Island, would give Bohmer plenty of shut-down room after attempting to set a new standing mile speed record. With the folks from Guinness World Records on hand, Bohmer launched his Ford GT into the history books, achieving a standing mile speed of 283.232 miles per hour.
To put it in perspective, that’s over 25 miles per hour faster than Mark Heidaker’s standing start mile run, also in a heavily modified Ford GT, at last spring's Texas Mile event. Heidaker’s efforts earned him a new Texas Mile record, and likely would have earned a Guinness record had their people been on hand to certify it.
As the name implies, the standing mile measures the maximum speed achieved, from a standing start, over a one-mile distance. Bohmer had set a similar record with Guinness in 2011, piloting his street-legal Ford GT to a top speed of 223 miles per hour in the mile.
The record run was for more than just bragging rights, too, as Performance Power Racing is developing a line of parts made from an aerospace aluminum alloy called Pandalloy. Developed in cooperation with Pratt & Whitney, Pandalloy delivers high strength, light weight and high temperature resistance, making it ideal for racing applications.
Performance Power Racing isn’t giving any detail on how it brought its Ford GT up past the 1,700 horsepower mark, but we’re pretty sure they’d be happy to discuss performance upgrades for interested customers. If you fall into that category, contact information can be found on the company’s website.
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Even the Best Laid Plans...
so most people are hunkered down for the storm, which is moving slowly. Still to come are strong winds and anticipated power outages. This is a good lesson in why travel insurance matters. If you’re travel plans were affected, you are certainly not alone
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Google 'Police' Bust Bartender
Jamin Barton, aka "Sudsy", of the 500 club in San Francisco's Mission District had found a prototype for Google's new Nexus 4 smartphone (pictured right) left behind at the bar by an employee for the tech giant.l.- Ariel Zambelich-Wired /r.-Courtesy Jamin Barton
A bartender in San Francisco found himself the target of the Google Gestapo after one of the search giant’s employees left a prototype smartphone at his bar.
Jamin Barton, who is affectionately known as
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Thinking of signing up for a fruit juice cleanse? You might first consider how your body reacts to a week with no protein or fat and fewer than 1,000 calories a day.
After the first sip
Your brain's hunger signals are answered with a dump of pure fruit-juice sugar. And don't get any ideas
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'Wall of Wind' Vs. Hurricane
The Wall of Wind (WoW) facility at Florida International University (FIU) has made a significant impact on hurricane mitigation through extensive research.Florida International University
With the East Coast facing hurricane Sandy, one American university research team has built a
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Coco Having Eggs Frozen?
Coco has stood by her man, rapper and actor Ice-T, for over a decade, but now with the debut of her Licious line at New York’s Fashion Week, a new business venture, Club Spartacus, and the lead role in
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Meet the Steve Jobs Yacht
Steve Jobs reportedly spent years designing his super yacht Venus.
A year after his death, the family of Apple founder Steve Jobs have helped launch the super yacht the late technocrat designed in the Netherlands.
Jobs reportedly spent years designing the 250-foot yacht called Venus which is steered from the control room or wheelhouse by a group of 27-inch iMacs, according to Business Insider.
The light-weight yacht -- named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty -- is 80 meters long and its sleek design with a line of large square windows and the minimalist sun deck would be familiar to Apple fans.
The ship's main windows were designed using a special glass that Apple stores designers made to support the structure.
With an aluminum hull and exterior as well as its own speed boat, the ship is thought to be both lighter and faster than your average yacht.
French designer Philippe Starck helped Jobs create the sleek interior which features a jacuzzi and ten-foot high window panels for the cabins which are forty feet long, according to Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson.
Those who worked on the ship each received an iPod shuffle with the ship’s name engraved on the back as well as a thank-you note from the Jobs family for their
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Apps Get You Through Disaster
Oct. 28, 2012: Earth-moving equipment drives south along Virginia Dare Trail in the rain and wind generated by Hurricane Sandy in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., as the storm moves up the East Coast.AP Photo/Gerry Broome
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Hemsley Body Still Unburied
Sherman Hemsley and his late "Jeffersons" co-star, Isabel Sanford.REUTERS
Sherman Hemsley died at his home in El Paso, Texas on July 24. But three months on, the star of the CBS series
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Syria warplanes bombard rebels in Damascus
Oct. 28, 2012: In this photo, rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al-Tawhid group keep an eye over their enemy's position as they prepare to open fire as mortar explosions and gunshots are heard in the nearby battlefield in the Karm al-Jabel neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria.AP
BEIRUT – Syrian warplanes launched 60 airstrikes against rebel targets around the country on Monday, the most intense air raids across the country since the uprising began 19 months ago, according to anti-regime activists. The suburbs of the capital Damascus were particularly hard hit.
Activists said at least 500 people were killed over the four-day period ending Monday when a U.N.-backed truce was supposed to be in effect. They said the death toll for Monday so far has reached 80 and would likely rise further. In the period leading up to the truce, there was an average of about 150 deaths per day in the civil war, according to activists.
A government official said a car bomb killed 10 people on the outskirts of Damascus and TV footage showed firemen fighting the blaze amid wide destruction after parts of balconies fell on cars parked on a residential street. As smoke billowed, a woman was seen running away with children from the area of the blast and electricity cables dangled from poles. Activists said the air raids were launched both before and after the car bomb and were still under way.
Another car bomb exploded in a Damascus neighborhood where rebels are active, and state-run news agency said there were many casualties.
Monday was supposed to be the fourth and final day of a U.N.-backed cease-fire to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest periods on the Muslim calendar. But the truce was violated almost as soon as it was supposed to take effect on Friday and violence continued unabated over the holiday weekend.
The army warned late Sunday night that it will strike "remnants of terrorists with an iron fist" after they "repeatedly violated the cease-fire." The regime of President Bashar Assad often refers to those waging the uprising as "terrorists."
Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said airstrikes on Monday were by far higher than on any other day since the conflict began in March last year.
"Today has seen the most intense air raids across Syria since the start of the uprising," he said, estimating there were more than 60 airstrikes nationwide by early afternoon Monday.
He said the Syrian military was trying to compensate for recent losses on the ground with airstrikes.
Muhieddine Lathkani, a London-based member of the Syrian National Council opposition group, said the air attacks were a result of the regime's "total despair" and reflect the military's inability to recapture areas it lost to the rebels.
Mohammed Saeed, an activist based in the Damascus suburb of Douma, said members of the rebel Free Syrian Army were shooting at the planes but failing to bring them down.
A Syrian official said the car bomb in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana also wounded 41 people and heavily damaged shops and apartments in the area heavily inhabited by Christians and members of the Druse minority sect.
The Observatory also reported clashes and shelling in other parts of the country including the northwestern province of Idlib that borders Turkey, where it said warplanes carried out 11 air raids on several villages. Amateur videos showed warplanes in the skies, then giant mushroom clouds of smoke after the missiles hit.
On Friday, at least 15 people were killed in a Damascus car bomb, state media said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep disappointment at the collapse of the cease-fire and urged more unity from the international community. Speaking in South Korea, he said the U.N. is trying to ease Syria's humanitarian woes and find a political solution to the crisis.
He called for an immediate halt to the fighting and said other countries and the United Nations need to do more to help.
"I am deeply disappointed that the parties failed to respect the call to suspend fighting. This crisis cannot be solved with more weapons and bloodshed," he said. "I remain committed to doing all I can to make this happen. As long as the international community remains at odds, the needs, attacks and suffering will only grow."
U.N. International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters in Moscow that the failure of the cease-fire will not discourage him and his supporters.
"So we will continue to work as hard as we possibly can, in cooperation with everybody inside of Syria and outside of Syria to bring the level of violence, put an end to it," he said.
In Turkey, state-run Anadolu news agency said the Turkish forces fired artillery in response to a stray shell fired from Syria that landed across the northern border. The shell landed some 300 meters (yards) away from the Turkish border village of Besaslan. No one was injured, but a power line was destroyed.
With the unraveling of the cease-fire, it's unclear what the international community can do next. The holiday truce marked the first attempt in six months to reduce the bloodshed in Syria, where activists say more than 35,000 people have been killed in 19 months.
In Turkey, about 150 members of the Syrian opposition met Monday to plan for a post-Assad future, discussing the immediate challenges of managing parts of the northern Idlib province, sections of the city of Aleppo, the country's largest, and other areas that are held by rebels. Long-term planning will focus on constitutional and legal reform, laws on elections and political parties and how to build a modern national army.
Delegates to the three-day meeting at a hotel on the outskirts of Istanbul included members of Syrian rebel groups as well as the country's Kurdish minority. Abdelbaset Sieda, president of the Syrian National Council, said the Syrian regime, which he described as a "criminal group," was losing its grip on power and that the opposition must be prepared to rebuild the devastated country.
"The transitional phase has started now," Sieda said. "That's what we're witnessing clearly today in many of our cities and villages."
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Man found hoarding more than 300 birds in home
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An Illinois city called in crews wearing protective gear to clean up a two-story building where a man -- and 325 of his feathered friends -- called home.
The residence of David Skeberdis in Aurora was declared a nuisance property before crews performed the operation, cleaning out bird droppings, bird feed and piles of junk on Friday, CBS Chicago reports.
Birds retrieved from the home, which included parakeets, canaries and conures, were handed over to a local animal shelter. The city also said 125 dead birds were found.
Skeberdis said he was able to capture 10-12 of the birds on his own, but expressed remorse about the state of his home.
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Iran says it has pictures of Israeli bases from drone
Oct. 6, 2012: This file image made from video released by the Israeli Defense Forces shows the downing of a drone that entered Israeli airspace in southern Israel.AP/Israeli Defense Forces
Iran claims it has images of secret Israeli military bases taken by a drone that was launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and downed by Israel earlier this month, a senior Iranian lawmaker said Monday.
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Obama Camp Resorting to Insults, Despite '08 Lament
Four years ago, then-candidate Barack Obama decried what he described as "the politics of insult."
"You don't deserve a bunch of name-calling," he told a Virginia crowd in the summer of 2008. "You don't deserve a bunch of mudslinging."
But lately, there have been more than a few insults flying on the 2012 campaign trail. Whether it's with cute turns of phrase like "Romnesia" or more serious invective, the president's campaign has gotten increasingly aggressive over the last few weeks in its denunciation of Mitt Romney.
The tone likely reflects the polls, which have been tightening ever since the Republican nominee's opening debate performance. Whatever the reason, it's evident that the "politics of insult" have not faded.
The following were overheard on the 2012 campaign trail:
"Bullsh--ter"
The president took a rip at Romney after a recent interview with Rolling Stone. In the article, published over the weekend, writer and historian Douglas Brinkley said that editor Eric Bates told the president that when he asked his six-year-old daughter if she wanted to say anything to Obama, she said: "Tell him: You can do it."
According to the piece, Obama then said: "Kids have good instincts. ... They look at the other guy and say, 'Well, that's a bullsh--ter, I can tell.'"
Obama later explained in an interview with a Denver reporter that the comment came during a "casual conversation" after the formal interview ended. The president appeared to defend the sentiment, though, saying people know that he means what he says.
"The basic point I've been talking about in this campaign -- people know what I mean," he said.
"Romnesia"
First came "Big Bird," then "binders full of women." But another favorite quip of late on the Obama campaign trail has been "Romnesia." It's the campaign-invented term for the condition that makes the Republican nominee allegedly forget or ignore his past positions. And the delivery of that punch-line has become increasingly involved.
"In the closing moments of the election, Governor Romney is hoping you, too, will come down with a severe case of Romnesia," Obama told a Cleveland crowd last Thursday. "So I'm here to tell you, Cleveland, if you start feeling a temperature, if you're eyes are getting a little blurry and your hearing is getting a little muffled, if you're feeling a little weak, you need to know that whatever the symptoms are, don't worry, Obamacare covers preexisting conditions. We can fix you up."
"Romney Hood"
At an Aug. 6 campaign stop, the president added a new zinger to his repertoire. He said Romney's tax policies were like "Robin Hood in reverse." He had a name for it - "Romney Hood."
Romney, though, returned the insult. In an interview with Fox News, Romney said that if he were to coin a term "it would be 'Obamaloney.'"
A felon?
In a July conference call responding to a Boston Globe piece that questioned when Romney actually left his old private equity company, Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter raised some serious claims against the GOP nominee.
She said he was either "misrepresenting" his position at Bain Capital in filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission, "which is a felony," or he was misrepresenting his position to the American people.
While the Romney called the comment over the line -- with Republicans saying Cutter had effectively called the Republican nominee a potential felon -- Cutter said that wasn't what she was going for. Her advice for Republicans was to quit "whining."
Tied to a woman's death?
An August ad from Priorities USA, the biggest Obama-supporting super PAC, made waves when it featured a former GST Steel employee talking about how his wife died of cancer after he lost his job and benefits -- when Bain Capitol closed down the factory.
"I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone, and furthermore, I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned," Joe Soptic said in the ad.
The suggestion that the Republican nominee was tied to Soptic's wife's death drew outrage from Republicans. But Priorities USA co-founder Bill Burton defended the ad, and said it wasn't trying to blame Romney for her death.
"Vampire"
Another, prior, ad about the demise of GST Steel featured Joe Soptic again, and other ex-employees, bashing Romney and Bain Capital for making money off their plant and then allegedly leaving it behind.
They compared Bain -- and by extension, Romney -- to a mythical monster.
"It was like a vampire, it came in and sucked the life out of us," former steelworker Jack Cobb said in the video.
"Liar"
Charges of being dishonest were hardly uncommon this year, during the Republican primary and later in the presidential race.
After the first presidential debate, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said on CNN that Romney put out "lie after lie after lie" to look good. The Democratic National Committee's Brad Woodhouse was quoted in The Wall Street Journal saying people "have pointed out what a liar Mitt Romney is."
Obama adviser David Axelrod, in a conference call after the first debate, used the more Dickensian term, "artful dodger," to describe the challenging candidate.
While Romney's campaign complains that Obama has made the race about small things, the Obama campaign for its part has similar gripes against team Romney.
Over the weekend, after the Romney campaign mocked Vice President Biden for mistakenly referring to former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as "Tom Kaine," Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith retorted, "Once again, Mitt Romney's campaign is showing their focus on the big things -- like one letter in Tim Kaine's name."
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to vote, according the latest Politico/George Washington University Battleground Survey.
Democrats love early voting because having Election Month instead of Election Day gives them time to use money and manpower to offset the GOP’s inherent advantage on voter turnout.
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Rep Warns of Link Between Hezbollah, Mexican Cartels
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrollah. (AP)
The presidential campaign has featured plenty of talk about terrorism in the Middle East, but one lawmaker is warning that the federal government is ignoring a growing Hezbollah presence in Mexico, with the Lebanese terror group increasingly joining forces with drug cartels.
One report shows hundreds of thousands of Middle Easterners living in Mexico, and a small percentage of them may be radicals using routes established by drug networks to sneak into the U.S.
The ties linking Mexico to Islamic terrorism were underscored earlier this year when an alleged Iranian operative plotted to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington using a hired gun on loan from a Mexican drug cartel. Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) says the mounting evidence of a Hezbollah presence in Mexico is being ignored by the Department of Homeland Security.
"I don't have a lot of faith in the Department of Homeland Security," said Myrick. "They should be looking at these groups in Mexico much more closely."
"I don't have a lot of faith in the Department of Homeland Security. They should be looking at these groups in Mexico much more closely."
- Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.)
The incidents fueling Myrick's frustration include the Oct. 17 guilty plea in Manhattan Federal Court of a suspect plotting to pay $1.5 million to a suspected hitman for the Los Zetas Cartel, who was actually a DEA informant, to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. by bombing a busy Washington, D.C., restaurant the ambassador frequents.
Mansour Arbabsiar, 58, a naturalized U.S. citizen holding both Iranian and U.S. passports, was arrested on Sept. 29, 2011, at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. He faces a maximum potential sentence of 25 years in prison.
"A little more than a year after his arrest, Mansour Arbabsiar has admitted to his role in a deadly plot approved by members of the Iranian military to assassinate a sitting foreign ambassador on U.S. soil,
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MONSTER STORM SANDY SET TO SLAM NYC AND TRI-STATE REGION
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Millions of East Coast residents were braced for the worst as the monstrous Hurricane Sandy prepared to slam into the East Coast, packing 90 mph winds and a roiling ocean surge that could reach 17 feet in New Jersey, where it is poised to make landfall any minute.
The massive storm is all but certain to cause massive flooding, and more than 250,000 people were already without power from the outer rain and wind bands, according to emergency management officials in New York. Early Monday evening, New York shut the Tappan Zee Bridge, following earlier closings of the Holland and Brooklyn-Battery tunnels. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced other major bridge closings, including the Verrazano and George Washington bridges at 7 p.m., as the monster storm was poised to hit New York City.
The National Guard was deployed along the densely-populated Atlantic Coast, and airports shut down Monday afternoon as the massive system churned in from the sea, creating 30-foot swells off the Jersey shore. The hurricane is on a collision course with a winter storm and a cold front, and high tides from a full moon make it a rare hybrid storm that could be felt all the way to the Great Lakes. Still, it could be worse
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Hawaii tsunami warning lifted after Canada quake- Minor earthquake shakes buildings in Los Angeles
Oct 28, 2012: This map shows where a strong earthquake struck off the coast of Canada.USGS
Next SlidePrevious SlideThe National Weather Service has canceled tsunami alerts for Hawaii, British Columbia and Alaska after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada.
Residents in parts of British Columbia were evacuated, but the province appeared to escape the biggest quake in Canada since 1949 largely unscathed, as there were no reports of major damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the powerful temblor hit the Queen Charlotte Islands just after 8 p.m. local time Saturday at a depth of about 3 miles and was centered 96 miles south of Masset, British Columbia. It was felt across a wide area in British Columbia, both on its Pacific islands and on the mainland.
"It looks like the damage and the risk are at a very low level," said Shirley Bond, British Columbia's minister responsible for emergency management said. "We're certainly grateful."
The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas of British Columbia, southern Alaska and Hawaii, but later canceled it for the first two and downgraded it to an advisory for Hawaii. The Hawaii tsunami advisory was canceled midday Sunday.
Gerard Fryer, a senior geologist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, said the first waves hitting shore in Hawaii were smaller than expected.
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said early Sunday that the Aloha State was lucky to avoid more severe surges after the powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Canada. Abercrombie said beaches and harbors are still closed statewide.
"We're very, very grateful that we can go home tonight counting our blessings," Abercrombie said.
Dennis Sinnott of the Canadian Institute of Ocean Science said a 27 inch wave was recorded off Langara Island on the northeast tip of Haida Gwaii, formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands. The islands are home to about 5,000 people, many of them members of the Haida aboriginal group. Another 21 inch wave hit Winter Harbour on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island.
"It appears to be settling down," he said. "It does not mean we won't get another small wave coming through."
Canada's largest earthquake since 1700 was an 8.1 magnitude quake on August 22, 1949 off the coast of British Columbia, according to the Canadian government's Natural Resources website. It occurred on the Queen Charlotte Fault in what the department called Canada's equivalent of the San Andreas Fault
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Authorities baffled by alligators on NY's Long Island
investigators are scrambling to nab the snake in the grass responsible for abandoning an astonishing seven alligators across Long Island in the past 30 days.
So far, officials remain dumbfounded by the glut of gators.
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NYU class requires students to plot a terrorist attack
Some of the most notorious terrorists, including Anwar al-Awlaki, got their start on American campuses. It looks like after the CIA killed al-Awlaki, NYU is helping to produce successors,
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90-year-old Texan takes to the polls for the first time
I Voted' sticker and as we walked out, we were going towards the car and she started to cry," Bell said.
Born in Nicaragua, the great-grandmother was granted US citizenship in 1969. Her late husband's work in international public relations took the family to many different countries. Every time the presidential election rolled around, she had to vote absentee.
Finally living in the states again, she told her daughter, this was her year.
"I got her a voter registration card, I took her to the polls, I assisted her and had to be sworn in in order to do that," Bell said.
And O'Meara knew exactly who she was going to vote for. She's always been interested in politics and reads the newspaper cover to cover every day.
"It makes me feel like I belong to the country," she said. "I love this country, especially now in Texas. I love Texas."
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Born in Nicaragua, the great-grandmother was granted US citizenship in 1969. Her late husband's work in international public relations took the family to many different countries. Every time the presidential election rolled around, she had to vote absentee.
Finally living in the states again, she told her daughter, this was her year.
"I got her a voter registration card, I took her to the polls, I assisted her and had to be sworn in in order to do that," Bell said.
And O'Meara knew exactly who she was going to vote for. She's always been interested in politics and reads the newspaper cover to cover every day.
"It makes me feel like I belong to the country," she said. "I love this country, especially now in Texas. I love Texas."
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GOP Demands to See Drone Info on Libya Strike
Top Republican lawmakers stepped up their demand Sunday for the Obama administration to provide more hard evidence about what happened during the fatal attacks on U.S. outposts in Benghazi, Libya, including information gathered from drones flying overhead during the terror strikes.
In addition to requesting videos from the drones, the lawmakers also are asking the administration to reveal whether the unmanned craft had weapons and to declassify videos recorded inside the U.S. Consulate in Libya where Ambassador Christopher Stevens and State Department Official Sean Smith were killed.
The lawmakers hope such evidence will in part finally prove whether a mob indeed assembled before the strike. Hours later, two former Navy SEALs were killed during an attack on a nearby CIA annex.
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Romney to Focus on Economy in Final Push
Mitt Romney will begin his closing argument of the 2012 presidential campaign Tuesday by focusing on his approach to fixing the economy, senior aides tell Fox News.
Over the final eight days of the campaign, the former governor will return to an early and recurring theme of his presidential run, in which he referred to his “Day One, Job One” plan.
Aides say Romney's message will be optimistic and "focused on the big issues that Americans want their president to confront and develop solutions for." They say he will call for “real change on day one” on a host of issues outlined throughout the campaign.
These issues include balancing the budget, repealing ObamaCare, reversing President Obama’s military spending cuts and averting automatic budget cuts, and achieving North American energy independence.
The final push of the race has been somewhat scaled back due to the superstorm currently threatening the East Coast.
The Romney campaign cancelled a Tuesday night rally in Milford, N.H., for the Republican presidential nominee and Monday events for his wife, Ann Romney in response to the storm.
"The top priority is the safety and security of people who may be in harm’s way,” senior campaign adviser Kevin Madden said Sunday. “So we'll have to monitor the storm and make sure that we see if we need to make any adjustments but it's hard to predict at this point."
The campaign also has stopped sending fundraiser emails in New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia -- all expected to be hit by the storm’s high winds and heavy rains.
No decisions have been made about how, when or where Romney will comment on the storm or campaign in the impacted battleground states or others. During the storm Romney will continue to campaign elsewhere and advance his “Day One, Job One” closing argument.
Meanwhile, President Obama canceled campaign stops Monday in Virginia and Tuesday in Colorado to monitor the storm, but planned to go forward with other events Monday in Florida.
The White House said late Sunday the president will return home following an event in Orlando to monitor the storm. An event in Youngstown, Ohio, on Tuesday with former President Clinton will be moved forward and will include Vice President Joe Biden.
Obama is scheduled Thursday to swing through Springfield, Ohio; Boulder, Colo.; and Las Vegas.
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BIAS ALERT: 'Watchdogs' Toothless on Libya
Benghazi emails don't tell entire story?
When Mitt Romney chose not to directly engage President Obama on Libya in last Monday’s third presidential debate, the mainstream media wrote it off as over-caution on the Republican challenger’s part.
That might be true. Certainly a lot of Republicans think so.
But what is the mainstream media’s excuse for cautiously engaging the president on Libya? Aren’t we supposed to be watchdogs? The ongoing story is story focused on whether the Obama administration provided, or refused to provide, adequate protection for the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya when it faced the threat of attack on Sept. 11. The attack left the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead. Subsequent conflicting accounts coming from the administration on how the White House responded, or didn’t respond, are tailor-made for a full-blown media feeding frenzy.
Yet, the so-called media watchdogs so far have been mostly toothless.
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Giants Win World Series in 4-Game Sweep Over Tigers
Oct. 28, 2012: San Francisco Giants celebrate after winning Game 4 of baseball's World Series against the Detroit Tigers.AP
Marco Scutaro singled home the tiebreaking run in the 10th inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Sunday night to complete a four-game sweep and win their second World Series title in three years.
Ryan Theriot, who went hitless for St. Louis in Game 7 of last year's Series, singled softly into right field off Phil Coke opening the 10th.
Brandon Crawford sacrificed, nearly bunting the ball past Coke. Angel Pagan struck out and Scutaro singled into short center field as Theriot slid home ahead of Austin Jackson's throw.
Pablo Sandoval, who hit three homers in Game 1, was selected Series MVP. He was 1 for 5 in Game 4, dropping his Series average to .500 (8 for 16).
Santiago Casilla got the final out of the ninth for the win, and Sergio Romo struck out the side in the 10th for his third save, freezing Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera with a called third strike to end it. The Giants ran out of the dugout and bullpen to celebrate between the mound and second base.
Of the 24 teams to take 3-0 Series leads, 21 swept and three won in five games.
Delmon Young hit a tying home run off Matt Cain in the sixth. Cabrera and San Francisco's Buster Posey homered, marking the first time both reigning batting champions went deep in the same Series game.
San Francisco's Brandon Belt hit an RBI triple off the right-field wall in the second inning following a ground-rule double by Hunter Pence. But on a night when the wind was gusting to right field at up to 25 mph, Cabrera put Detroit ahead for the first time in the Series with a wild-blown, two-run drive in the third.
Cabrera's drive, on an 86 mph breaking ball, sailed over Pence, who thought he would catch it but ran out of room in front of the right-field wall on the cool, blustery night. It drove Jackson, who had walked with one out, and ended Detroit's 20-inning scoreless streak.
San Francisco had not trailed since losing Game 4 of the NL championship series, when the Giants fell into a 3-1 series deficit against St. Louis.
With a light rain falling, Scutaro reached on a chopper to third leading off the sixth and, one out later, Max Scherzer hung an 82 mph breaking ball. Posey drove it down the left-field line, where it stayed a few feet fair and landed a couple of rows over the wall for a 3-2 lead.
That advantage didn't last long. Young sent an opposite-field, no-doubt drive into the right-field stands in the bottom half, setting off cheers among the crowd of 42,152, with many fans waving white rally towels.
Andy Dirks followed with a single and Jhonny Peralta hit a drive that Gregor Blanco caught against the wall in left.
After watching Barry Zito, Madison Bumgarner and Ryan Vogelsong each allow one run or none in the first three games, Cain gave up three runs and five hits in seven innings with five strikeouts and two walks.
Scherzer, pitching on nine days' rest, gave up three runs and seven hits in 6 1-3 innings, struck out eight and walked none. After he left with a runner on second and one out in the seventh, lefty Drew Smyly retired Brandon Crawford on a flyout and righty Octavio Dotel induced a groundout from Angel Pagan.
Smyly, Dotel and Coke combined for 2 2-3 innings of hitless relief before the 10th.
Jeremy Affeldt followed Cain and struck out four in a row before Peralta hit a ninth-inning drive to center that the wind carried and was caught by Pagan on the warning track
Casilla relieved and hit Omar Infante with a pitch, breaking his left hand. Danny Worth ran for Infante and Gerald Laird hit into a forceout.
Sandoval was 1 for 5, dropping his Series average to .500 (8 for 16). He also made a nimble play to throw out Quintin Berry on a bunt to third.
Detroit's Prince Fielder was hitless in four at-bats, dropping to 1 for 14 in the World Series (.071) and 1 for 25 (.040) against right-handers in the postseason.
Detroit has lost seven straight postseason games.
On a 44-degree night, fans bundled up at Comerica Park and some players wore caps with earflaps during batting practice.
Detroit scratched catcher Alex Avila, playing with a sore right arm since he was hit by a foul tip in the opener, and replaced him with Laird. Infante moved up to eighth in the batting order.
San Francisco started Ryan Theriot at designated hitter instead of Hector Sanchez.
NOTES: Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, attended the game.
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East Coast Shuts Down as Hurricane Sandy Threatens Up to 50M People
Is Sandy a 'perfect storm'?
Hurricane Sandy continued to barrel towards the East Coast early Monday, threatening some 50 million people with a storm surge the National Hurricane Center called "life-threatening."
As of 5 a.m. Monday, the storm was centered about 385 miles southeast of New York City, moving to the north at 14 mph, with hurricane-force winds extending an incredible 175 miles from its center. The National Hurricane Center said early Monday the storm has intensified, with top sustained winds of 85 mph and higher gusts.
Authorities warned that New York City could be hit with an 11-foot wall of water that has the potential to swamp parts of lower Manhattan, flood subway tunnels and cripple the network of electrical and communications lines that are vital to the nation's financial center.
Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate as forecasters warned the megastorm could wreak havoc over 800 miles, including 375,000 in lower Manhattan and other parts of New York City. At least 50,000 were ordered to evacuate in Delaware alone and 30,000 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the city's 12 casinos were forced to shut down for only the fourth time in the 34-year history of legalized gambling there.
Airlines canceled more than 7,200 flights and Amtrak began suspending passenger train service across the Northeast. New York and Philadelphia moved to shut down their subways, buses and commuter trains Sunday night and announced that schools would be closed on Monday. Boston, Washington and Baltimore also called off school.
Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane, was blamed for 65 deaths in the Caribbean before it began traveling northward, parallel to the Eastern Seaboard.
The hurricane is on path to meet a winter storm and a cold front, plus high tides from a full moon, and experts said the rare hybrid storm that results could cause havoc through 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.
Forecasters said the combination could bring close to a foot of rain in places, a potentially lethal storm surge of 4 to 11 feet across much of the region, and punishing winds that could cause widespread power outages that last for days. The storm could also dump up to 2 feet of snow in Kentucky, North Carolina and West Virginia.
From Washington to Boston, big cities and small towns Sunday buttoned up against the onslaught of a superstorm that could endanger 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation, with forecasters warning that the New York area could get the worst of it -- an 11-foot wall of water.
"The time for preparing and talking is about over," Federal Emergency Management Administrator Craig Fugate said as Hurricane Sandy made its way up the Atlantic on a collision course with two other weather systems that could turn it into one of the most fearsome storms on record in the U.S. "People need to be acting now."
Forecasters said the hurricane could blow ashore Monday night or early Tuesday along the New Jersey coast, then cut across into Pennsylvania and travel up through New York State on Wednesday
In upstate New York in Syracuse, shelves normally stocked with water at a Wegmans store were bare, CNYCentral.com reports.
An assistant manager at a Lowes store in Columbus, Ohio, told 10TV.com that people were calling in from West Virginia and Maryland to ask for supplies, and in northern Virginia, a cashier at Pitkins Ace Hardware in Dale City said batteries, flashlights and candles were flying off the shelves, PotomacLocal.com reports.
In New York City, where residents were also packing stores to buy storm-related supplies, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the city will suspend its bus, subway and commuter rail service Sunday at 7 p.m. in anticipation of the storm.
New Jersey's PATH train service, which ferries passengers between New York City and New Jersey, announced that it would close starting Monday until further notice. Bridges and tunnels would be closed on a case by case basis, and the New York Stock Exchange floor will be closed Monday and potentially Tuesday.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the closure of all city public schools for Monday and mandatory evacuations of all low-lying areas. He urged residents in lower Manhattan to call 311 or visit the city's website for information on evacuation zones. About 1,100 National Guard troops will be deployed to the area, including 400 on Long Island and 200 in New York City, for assistance.
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Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, put the release of the company's new operating system in dramatic terms: "Windows 8 shatters perceptions of what a PC truly is," he said during an introductory event in New York.
Windows 8, Ballmer said, "marks a new era" for Microsoft.
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PC World already has a lengthy review of the new software. Here's their bottom line:
"Love it or hate it, Windows 8 is ushering in a new era of cloud-connected Microsoft services, a unified user interface, and more-robust social media interaction. Younger users may find Windows 8 more attractive than some old-school computer users will. It's a risk that Microsoft needed to take to try to remain relevant in today's connected, mobile world. Only time will tell whether it's the right risk at the right time.
"Windows 8 isn't for everyone. If you're mostly a desktop PC user comfortable with Windows 7, upgrading to Windows 8 is probably not worthwhile. If you're a mobile user who needs easy access to the complete Microsoft ecosystem, including SkyDrive, Windows 8 is definitely a good fit. If your needs lie somewhere between those two extremes, give Windows 8 a close look; the cost is low, but you'll need to learn your way around the new Start screen and make sure that your existing software runs well in the new OS."
On the business side, Windows 8 is incredibly important. For Ballmer, the AP reports, it's "make-or-break."
What's at stake? The AP reports:
"If it flops, the failure will reinforce perceptions that Microsoft is falling behind competitors such as Apple, Google andAmazon as its stranglehold on personal computers becomes less relevant in an era of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.
"If Ballmer is right, Windows 8 will prove that the world's largest software maker still has the technological chops and marketing muscle to shape the future of computing."
Ballmer told Reuters that Microsoft is "all in on this." He added that 10,000 applications are available beginning tomorrow, when the software goes on sale.
"You'll find these things everywhere this holiday season. You walk into any retailer that sells electronics, other than an Apple retailer, you will see Windows 8 machines all over the place from Acer, from Samsung, from Dell, from Toshiba, Sony, Lenovo and many others," Ballmer told Reuters.
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After Meningitis Deaths, A Look At Drug Safety
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An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to contaminated steroids that were injected into an estimated 14,000 people. Two dozen people have died, from fungal meningitis or strokes. It raises questions about where our drugs come from and which organizations oversee their production.
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This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. Two dozen dead and hundreds sickened from contaminated drugs with probably more to come. The outbreak of fungal meningitis has scared many thousands more who received injections of what may have been tainted steroids from a now-closed facility in Massachusetts, which called itself a compounding pharmacy.
Under the law, compounding pharmacies are supposed to fill specific prescriptions for individual patients. This one sent bulk shipments across the country, including 14,000 doses of the potentially tainted steroids to 23 states. Compounding pharmacies fall largely under state laws, which drug manufacturers come under the stringent supervision of the FDA.
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While Spain Struggles, The Basque Region Shines
"Train cars are built at the CAF factory in Beasain, Spain. One of the Basque region's most successful companies, CAF, makes trains for Amtrak, the Washington, D.C., metro system and light rails in Sacramento, Pittsburgh and Houston." alt
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Iconic British Cab Company Is On The Skids
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One of London's defining features is the black hackney cab. Along with the city's red double-decker buses, those shiny black cabs are moving landmarks on the city's streets. But the company that makes them is on the skids.
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One of London's defining features is the black hackney cab. Along with the city's red double-decker buses, those shiny black cabs are moving London landmarks. But the company that makes them is in trouble.
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Unable to pay its debts, the company this week went into what's called there, Administration. Harry Harris has been driving a London cab for 25 years, but he's not too broken up about this.
HARRY HARRIS: The economics of the cab trade, now, just don't work out with one company producing this vehicle. And because the London taxi company has had a monopoly, it's never been made as good as a car and the workmanship is nowhere near up to scratch.
MONTAGNE: Harry Harris would like to find a way to keep them on the road.
INSKEEP: But, he says, that cabs are less important than the cabbies because of a test they take called The Knowledge - or The Knowledge.
HARRIS: ...which encompasses learning every single road, street, building, park, major monument in London. You'll be regularly tested on the way that you're progressing through that. And I think it takes about four years, now, to get a license. You know, it's probably the equivalent of studying some kind of academic degree.
MONTAGNE: So, if you visit London, the driver should get you where you're going, no matter what the taxi looks like.
INSKEEP: And that's the business news on MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
MONTAGNE: And I'm Renee Montagne.
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NBA Commissioner Stern Helped League Grow
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Audie Cornish talks to sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern, who has announced he will step down in early 2014.
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And I'm Audie Cornish. The National Basketball Association's regular season begins next week, and it will be the last full season run by David Stern, the league's commissioner since 1984. Stern announced yesterday that he would step down in early 2014. For more on his legacy, we're joined once again by sportswriter Stefan Fatsis. Hey there, Stefan.
STEFAN FATSIS, BYLINE: Hey, Audie.
CORNISH: Now, Stefan, of course, the league really benefited over the years from players like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, but when David Stern took over, the NBA wasn't exactly a global brand. I mean, how much credit should he get?
FATSIS: I think Stern should get a lot of credit. The NBA was really on the margins when he was working as a young lawyer for the league and was named commissioner. This was an era - the late '70s, early '80s, even after Magic and Bird had joined the NBA - when some playoff games were broadcast on tape delay. Stern used marketing, deal-making, discipline to overhaul the league's business and its image. Today, the NBA is a $5 billion a year business, a billion of that comes from television. Games are shown across most of the planet. Player salaries have soared 20 times to an average of $5 million.
CORNISH: But it hasn't always been smooth sailing. I mean, it was just last year the NBA had a shortened season because of a labor dispute.
FATSIS: Yeah. The second under Stern. And there've been plenty of crises over the years. TV ratings were awful just a decade after Michael Jordan's hiatus from the game. There was that brawl between players and fans in Detroit. There was a gambling scandal involving a referee. There have been franchise failures. Stern, though, has approached each bump with a sort of stuff-happens equanimity. He reminds the public all the time that businesses are cyclical. Behind the scenes, he's been honest, tough, decisive. His critics say dismissive and autocratic. But without those qualities, the NBA is nowhere near what it is today.
CORNISH: Has the NBA hinted at who night be next in line to take over from David Stern?
FATSIS: No hinting. They said that his longtime deputy, 50-year-old Adam Silver, was named commissioner-elect and will take over on February 1, 2014.
CORNISH: Now, the new season starts Tuesday night with three games, including the defending champion Miami Heat hosting their Eastern Conference rivals, the Boston Celtics. Some big teams have made some big changes. So can you run through some of them?
FATSIS: Yeah. Ray Allen, a shooter from Boston, has gone to Miami. He's going to join LeBron James and Dwayne Wade there. The challengers to the Heat should come from out west. Last season's runners-up, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Denver Nuggets are looking good; the Los Angeles Lakers, who added two of the game's biggest stars, Dwight Howard and Steve Nash to a team that already includes Kobe Bryant and Pao Gasol. Last year's New York media sensation, Jeremy Lin from Harvard, he's playing in Houston now, and he's joined there by a compelling rookie named Royce White. He suffers from anxiety disorder. He's going to be driving to as many games as possible with the team's consent because he's afraid of flying.
CORNISH: And, Stefan, I understand the league is also going to crack down on something called flopping.
FATSIS: Yeah. Flopping is that act of exaggerating contact in an attempt to deceive the referee and draw a foul call or to deceive fans into thinking that a foul should have been called. And depending on who you talk to, it's reached epidemic proportions in the NBA, guys flailing and falling at the slightest touch. So the league said it's going to review tape of possible flops and issue fines up to $30,000 for a fifth flop with suspensions if you flop even more. The players' union is contesting the penalties, but the players really don't seem to mind. Kobe Bryant said shameless flopping, that's a chump move.
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CORNISH: OK. Finally, let's talk about women's basketball. The Indiana Fever won the WNBA championship this week, three games to one over the Minnesota Lynx. And one of college basketball's most respected coaches made a proposal to change the game. Tell us more.
FATSIS: Yeah. Geno Auriemma, the coach of the University of Connecticut, suggested that the height of the rim in women's basketball be reduced by 7 inches from the standard 10 feet. And his rationale is pretty sound: Women players are on average shorter and smaller than men. A lower basket could help improve shooting, generate more offense, and that could attract more fans. It would be very tough to implement. There's not a lot of practice being done on 9-foot-5-inch hoops right now. But you've got to admit this is an interesting idea.
CORNISH: Stefan Fatsis joins us most Fridays to talk about sports and the business of sports. You can hear more of him on slate.com's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen. Stefan, thank you.
FATSIS: Thanks, Audie.
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Economists: Romney's 12 Million Jobs Target Realistic, Even If He Loses
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As the election draws closer, the economy and jobs remain top issues in the presidential race.
President Obama points to the improvement in the labor market since he took office in the midst of a downward spiral.
Both he and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney have five-point plans for improving the economy, although their strategies differ.
Romney claims his leadership would greatly improve the nation's economy: "If we do those five things, our economy will come roaring back," Romney pledged at a rally in Iowa on Friday. "We will create 12 million new jobs in just four years."
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