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Mindy McCready Denies Killing Her Boyfriend David Wilson (VIDEO)

Mindy McCready being investigated in possible murder of David Wilson Troubled country star Mindy McCready is currently being investigated in a possible murder probe, after her boyfriend’s “suicide”. McCready sat down with “Dateline” and denied having anything to do with his death and also denying Wilson had been having an affair. Music producer David Wilson, the father of McCready’s nine-month-old son Zayne, died on January ...

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Scientists unveil a superbug's secret to antibiotic resistance

Jan. 30, 2013 ? Worldwide, many strains of the bacterium Staphyloccocus aureus are already resistant to all antibiotics except vancomycin. But as bacteria are becoming resistant to this once powerful antidote, S. aureus has moved one step closer to becoming an unstoppable killer. Now, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have not only identified the mechanism by which vancomycin resistance spreads from one bacterium to the next, but also have suggested ways to potentially stop the transfer.

The work, led by Matthew Redinbo, professor of chemistry at UNC's College of Arts and Sciences, addresses the looming threat of incurable staph infections -- a global public health problem that has mobilized scientists across disciplines to work together to identify the Achilles heel of these antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

"We used to live in a world where antibiotics could readily cure bacterial disease," said Redinbo. "But this is clearly no longer the case. We need to understand how bacteria obtain resistance to drugs like vancomycin, which served for decades as the 'antibiotic of last resort.'"

In his work, Redinbo and his team targeted a bacterial enzyme known as Nicking Enzyme in Staphyloccoccus, or NES. The enzyme has long been known to interact with plasmids, circular pieces of double-stranded DNA within bacteria that are physically separate from the bacterial chromosome. Plasmids commonly contain antibiotic-resistance genes, and can make the machinery necessary to transfer these genes from an infected bacterium to an uninfected one.

By revealing the crystal structure of NES, the researchers found that this enzyme nicks one strand of the plasmid at a very specific site -- and in a very specific way. It turns out that NES forms two loops that work together to pinch one strand of the plasmid at a particular groove in the DNA to cut it. This strand is now free to leave its host and transfer to a nearby bacterium, making them resistant to vancomycin.

Moreover, Redinbo was able to capture a snapshot of the enzyme bound to the plasmid. "As a structural biologist, it's all about the pictures for me," said Redinbo. "And it was this picture that confirmed the precise location on which NES works."

With this information, Redinbo knew the groove on the DNA that the enzyme recognize and could design a small synthetic molecule that would sit on this groove and block NES. Teaming up with colleagues at the California Institute of Technology, Redinbo did just that. The molecule prevented NES from nicking the DNA, which could prevent the resistance genes from spreading.

According to Redinbo and colleagues, this small synthetic molecule could help guide future research aimed at developing effective therapies for strains of antibiotic-resistant S. aureus.

"This is really exciting for us," said Redinbo, who is also a professor at UNC's School of Medicine and a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. "It opens the door for potentially stopping the spread of antibiotic resistance -- and that's exactly what we need in this post-antibiotic era."

The work was published this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Erectile Dysfunction May Signal Hidden Heart Disease ... - Health.com

HEART2 Erectile Dysfunction May Signal Hidden Heart Disease

By Randy Dotinga
HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) ? Doctors should look more closely at the overall health of impotent men, a large new study suggests.

Men with even mild erectile dysfunction ? but no known heart problems ? face a major extra risk of developing cardiovascular conditions in the future. And as erectile dysfunction becomes more pronounced, signs of hidden heart disease and earlier death risk grow.

Not surprisingly, men already known to have a heart condition along with severe erectile dysfunction fare worst of all, the Australian researchers found.

Among men aged 45 and up without diagnosed heart disease, those with moderate or severe erectile dysfunction were up to 50 percent more likely to be hospitalized for heart problems, according to an adjusted analysis. Erectile dysfunction boosted the risk for hospitalization even more when men had a history of cardiovascular disease.

Erectile problems, which become more likely as men grow older, aren?t a guarantee of heart problems. Still, men with erectile dysfunction should ?take action by seeing a health professional and asking for a heart check,? said study lead author Dr. Emily Banks. ?Men with erectile dysfunction need to be assessed for their future risk of cardiovascular disease, and any identified risk must be managed appropriately.?

Banks is a professor of epidemiology at the Australian National University?s National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health.

Banks said an estimated 60 percent of men aged 70 and up suffer from moderate to severe erectile dysfunction. The condition can place major limits on sexual activity and require the use of drugs like Viagra that can come with side effects and awkward challenges when it comes to the timing of doses.

A variety of causes can contribute to impotence, but ?it is widely acknowledged that erectile dysfunction is predominantly the result of underlying cardiovascular disease,? Banks said.

Doctors already believe that erectile dysfunction is an early warning sign of heart problems, but it?s not clear why. It?s possible, Banks said, that the arteries of the penis are smaller than those of other parts of the body and may be more likely to reveal problems when their lining deteriorates.

The new study aims to gain more insight into how the severity of erectile dysfunction translates into a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. The researchers tracked more than 95,000 men aged 45 and up, and compared data collected between 2006 and 2009 to data collected in 2010.

The researchers adjusted their statistics so they wouldn?t be thrown off by factors like high or low numbers of men who smoked or drank alcohol, or were wealthy or poor. They found that the men with severe erectile dysfunction, compared to those with no problem, were eight times more likely to have heart failure, 60 percent more likely to have heart disease and almost twice as likely to die of any cause.

What does this mean in the big picture?

?Heart problems are very common, so even a relatively moderate increase in risk translates into quite a number of affected individuals,? Banks said. ?Among men with no past history of cardiovascular disease, an estimated six per 1,000 men per year who did not have erectile dysfunction went on to be admitted to the hospital for coronary heart disease. This compares with eight per 1,000 men per year with moderate erectile dysfunction and nine per 1,000 men per year among those with severe erectile dysfunction.?

Also, she said, ?among men with a past history of cardiovascular disease, an estimated 20 per 1,000 men per year of those without erectile dysfunction went on to be admitted to the hospital for coronary artery disease. This compares with 28 per 1,000 men per year with moderate erectile dysfunction and 34 per 1,000 men per year with severe erectile dysfunction.?

Could drugs for erectile dysfunction, such as Viagra, actually help men with undiagnosed heart problems? Maybe.

?Medications to treat erectile dysfunction have proven benefits in treating [lung] hypertension and are being evaluated as a treatment for heart failure,? said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. ?However, there are no proven benefits for reducing the risk of heart attack or stroke.?

Fonarow agreed with the study?s conclusion that men with erectile dysfunction should get their hearts checked, especially since cardiovascular disease can have no symptoms.

The study authors said, however, that more research is needed before the presence of erectile dysfunction can be considered a clinical predictor of heart disease risk.

The study appears in the January issue of the journal PLoS Medicine.

More information

For more about erectile dysfunction, try the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Source: http://news.health.com/2013/01/29/erectile-dysfunction-may-signal-hidden-heart-disease/

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School shooting drill to include sound of gunfire

By Lisa Balde and Charlie Wojciechowski, NBCChicago.com

A drill this week to prep Cary, Ill., students in the event of a school shooting is getting harsh reviews from parents.

Cary-Grove High School Principal Jay Sargeant sent a letter detailing a 15- to 20-minute "code red simulation" on Wednesday that will include shooting blanks in hallways while students and teachers take cover. Cary is located about 45 miles northwest from downtown Chicago.

"The purpose is not to shock kids and upset parents. Our purpose is to make sure that should something actually happen that we're prepared," said school spokesman Jeff Puma.

He added that it's not the first code red drill the district has conducted in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shootings. The first was done just four days after the Newtown, Conn., tragedy.

"We debated whether we should do it or not and we ended up doing it and it went very well," Puma explained.

Also on NBCChicago.com: Teen girl among 3 dead, 8 wounded in Tuesday shootings

Still, the move made some parents and students uneasy, believing the sound of simulated gunfire was too strong a tactic.

"I think it's a little over the top, like it's too much. I think we understand what could happen. I just think that it's unnecessary," said student Bobbi Breuer.

Administrators stressed that it's important parents speak to their children about the drill before and after it takes place.

Puma said social workers and other staff will be available to talk to students who have a "negative reaction" to the drill.

In the letter to parents, Sargeant said teachers will secure their rooms, draw curtains and keep students from traveling throughout the building.?Cary police will then sweep the building to make sure students are in a secure location during the drill.

"After the simulation, teachers and staff will 'take some time to process what occurred' before returning to their regular schedule,"?he wrote. "These drills help our students and staff to be prepared should a crisis occur."

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Judd announces separation from Franchitti

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2012 file photo, actress Ashley Judd, right, and her husband, Dario Franchitti, arrives at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre, in Los Angeles. Judd's spokeswoman confirmed a Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, report from People that the 44-year-old actress and 39-year-old Scottish race car driver are ending their marriage. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti are separating after 11 years of marriage.

Judd's spokeswoman confirmed a Tuesday report from People magazine that the 44-year-old actress and 39-year-old Scottish race car driver are ending their marriage.

The star of such films as "Double Jeopardy" and "Kiss the Girls" says in a statement that the pair will "always be family" and will continue to cherish their relationship based on love, integrity and respect.

Last year, Judd starred in the ABC series "Missing" and attended the Democratic National Convention as a Tennessee delegate.

Franchitti has won the Indianapolis 500 race three times.

The couple wed in a private ceremony in Scotland in 2001.

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Motorola Solutions Introduces New Mobile Computer for Field ...

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Designed to help value-conscious enterprises affordably automate business processes in field mobility applications, the MC45 is ideal for field service/sales opportunities as well as the transportation and logistics industry.
The rugged and ergonomic MC45 offers wireless LAN (802.11 a/b/g) and WAN (3.5G HSDPA voice/data) connectivity along with a large outdoor viewable 3.2" display, numeric keypad and a full-shift battery with power management capabilities.
The MC45 features a high-performance laser scanner with patented Adaptive Scanning technology to serve scan-intensive data capture environments, a touch screen for signature capture as well as a 3.2 megapixel color camera capable of picture taking and decoding 1D/2D barcodes.
Along with the recently introduced rugged MC67 EDA and durable ET1 WAN tablet, the MC45 EDA represents an extension to Motorola's enterprise mobile computing WAN portfolio.
The MC45 also supports Motorola's RhoMobile Suite, which can synchronize data and operate in either a connected or disconnected environment and also enables businesses to cost-effectively develop enterprise applications once and deploy them on both Windows Embedded Handheld? and Android-based Motorola devices, allowing for consistent user experiences.
The MC45 is available with Motorola's Service from the Start with Comprehensive Coverage program, providing coverage for normal wear and tear as well as accidental damage to internal and external components, significantly reducing unforeseen repair expenses.

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?As a value-conscious device, the MC45 enables organizations to equip their mobile workforces with an affordable solution that empowers enterprise knowledge workers with a communication and productivity tool. Built around Motorola's core enterprise mobile computing fundamentals for targeted markets, the MC45 does not compromise on quality, reliability or core feature set.?

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

New record for the biggest wave ever surfed? (+video)

Garrett McNamara may have set a new world record for the largest wave ever surfed. Garrett McNamara surfed a wave off Portugal that was about 100-feet high.

By Staff,?CSMonitor.com / January 30, 2013

Was Garrett McNamara humming 'Oops, I did it again?" as he rode a 100-foot wave off Portugal?

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HTC hosting events in NYC and London on Feb. 19 - M7 on the way?

Invites to HTC events on Feb. 19 have just arrived in our inbox -- one in London, another in New York City. Looks like that rumored M7 handset could be on the way!

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Justin Timberlake to perform at Grammys on Feb. 10

NEW YORK (AP) ? Justin Timberlake will be rocking that suit and tie at the Grammy Awards.

The Recording Academy announced Wednesday that Timberlake will perform at the Feb. 10 awards show in Los Angeles.

The 32-year-old pop star returned to music earlier this month when he released the single, "Suit & Tie," which features Jay-Z. The song is a Top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

His performance at the Grammys will be Timberlake's first musical appearance on television in years. Most recently, he's appeared in movies like "The Social Network" and "Friends With Benefits."

Timberlake's third solo album, "The 20/20 Experience," will be released March 19. His last album was the 2006 multiplatinum effort, "FutureSex/LoveSounds."

The Grammys will air live on CBS from the Staples Center.

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Canon's new point-and-shoot gets improved Wi-Fi, zoom

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Devin Coldewey , NBC News

Canon's new mid-range point-and-shoot, the ELPH 330 HS, lets you upload your images almost ? but not quite ? as easily as you would if you'd taken them with your phone. Though a nice zoom and decent low light performance?should make the Canon's pictures be a bit better.

The 330 HS has a 12-megapixel CMOS sensor that will capture images at up to 6400 ISO, which should make difficult lighting situations easy enough to handle. That's 4 fewer megapixels than the previous version, but still more than enough, and the sensitivity is better.?The 3-inch rear LCD isn't particularly high-resolution at 480x320, but it'll suffice.

Its lens is a nice long 10x zoom (better than its predecessor's 5x), with its maximum aperture?going from a decent F/3 at the wide end to a rather slow (but standard for point-and-shoots) F/6.9 at the zoomed end.

Wi-Fi is built in (as it was last year; now it is "advanced" in an unspecified way), but you can't quite upload directly to Facebook or Instagram yet. You pair it with a special Canon app on your phone if you're on the go, or with your PC at home. Take a dozen shots and pick a couple to upload, then on your phone or PC, pick where you want to send them.

Not quite as easy as just opening the camera app and snapping a shot, but that zoom and improved low-light capability may balance things out. The camera should be available in March for $230.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBCNews Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

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Blame Washington for the GDP Dip

Reporters surround Assistant Majority Leader Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., outside the Senate chamber during negotiations on the fiscal cliff.

Those Washington politicians think they're awfully important. Unfortunately, they're right.

The economy nose-dived during the last three months of 2012, with GDP shrinking by 0.1 percentage point, according to the latest government figures. That's the first time the economy shrank since 2009, during the final months of the recession. Most economists expected slow growth of 1 percent or so, but few predicted the size of the economy would actually decline.

One quarter of negative growth doesn't mean we're in a recession, and it's possible the discouraging GDP number could end up being revised higher, which happens sometimes. On the other hand, another quarter or two of such weak performance probably would signify a recession. More ominously, the forces that pushed down GDP at the end of 2012 are likely to intensify in 2013.

[RELATED: Economy Contracts for First Time Since 2009]

The big drag on growth in the fourth quarter was a 22 percent drop in defense spending. That fell because of the coming "sequester," a big set of spending cuts Congress first approved in 2011. The idea back then was to implement across-the-board spending cuts of about $110 billion per year, for 10 years, if Congress couldn't come up with a better way to start reducing the $16 trillion national debt. Congress couldn't, so those cuts were scheduled to go into effect starting Jan. 1, 2013.

The last-second fiscal cliff deal delayed those cuts by two months, giving Congress time to come up with a better plan. But defense agencies, not knowing what Congress would end up doing, apparently started to cut spending anyway late in 2012, anticipating that the cuts would go into effect. That makes sense, because you can't run complex, billion-dollar programs by simply turning off the flow of money as the calendar flips from one day to the next. Like any business, defense programs require extensive planning.

[READ:?Stock Market Up, Confidence Down]

Congress, however, is making a rational spending strategy virtually impossible. What it ought to do is lay out a long-range plan for gradually reducing spending and fixing Washington's finances, with clear deadlines that allow for predictability. Instead, Washington is consumed with petty brinkmanship that is harming the economy in real, tangible ways.

President Barack Obama isn't helping either. He ought to lay out clear spending priorities that gives Congress a template to work from. Yet he's playing his own tactical games with Congressional Republicans, hoping to gain political leverage that will carry him through his second term.

Dallying on the national debt means Congress faces yet another deadline for those $110 billion worth of spending cuts. If they kick in on March 1, it would cut GDP growth by 0.7 percentage points, according to forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers. The economy's weak performance in the fourth quarter of 2012?which occurred before any spending cuts were actually legislated?suggests there could also be potent knock-on effects that damage the psyche of the markets and harm the economy even more.

[NEWMAN:?What Phil Mickelson Got Right About Taxes]

There's a blithe assumption in Washington that as long as policymakers reach some kind of last-minute deal on every contentious matter, everything will turn out fine, with no net harm to economy. There's a pile of evidence that demonstrates how wrong that idea is. Political infighting has severely damaged trust in the U.S. government and harmed America's reputation. Global business leaders view it as increasingly risky to invest in the United States, largely because of manic policymaking (or no policymaking) that creates a needlessly turbulent business environment. In the latest survey of global competitiveness by the World Economic Forum, the United States ranked 41st in the quality of its institutions and 111th in macroeconomic stability. The world's model for democracy? Not any more.

There are signs that poor policymaking is already harming the economy in 2013. After rising for most of 2012, for example, consumer confidence has plunged so far this year, largely because of tax hikes that will reduce take-home pay for many Americans in the coming year. If the gloom persists, it will cut into spending, make businesses even more reluctant to hire and raise the risk of a recession.

Congress showed one flash of responsibility recently, by agreeing to temporarily extend the government's borrowing limit instead of forcing a destabilizing showdown and threatening default, just to make a point. Several more big decision points are coming soon, when politicians can either find a way to govern or cultivate friction and decline. The economy's recent performance suggests the odds are falling the wrong way.

Rick Newman's latest book is?Rebounders: How Winners Pivot From Setback To Success.?Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman.

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YingYing Shang: An Open Thank You Letter to Taylor Swift

Dear Taylor Swift,

As I prepare to graduate from high school, I would like to take a moment to say a sincere and infinitely grateful, "Thank you."

As a feminist activist, I have heard plenty of critiques of your music. You slut-shame other girls in your song "Better Than Revenge." You promote the virgin-whore dichotomy in your music video for "You Belong With Me." You write about boys too much for someone who professes to be independent and pure. I will be the first to admit that much of this criticism has a point.

However, my connection with your music goes much, much deeper. You were the soundtrack to my bildungsroman. You empathized with me when no one else did. You inspired me to grow and to share.

I'll never forget first watching your "Teardrops on My Guitar" music video when I was 11 or 12, in 7th grade, and had my very first crush. I didn't understand why he didn't like me just because he was a football player and I was a nerd. I didn't understand why he ended up dating a popular girl who hung out with the skaters. But Taylor Swift, you understood. You sang it, "He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar/the only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star." And so my 12-year-old self wished on stars for that one blonde, blue-eyed football player to return my affections.

As embarrassing as it is to admit now, I felt it. I felt the unrequited crush heavy on my adolescent shoulders. I can't deny those feelings. I can't deny the sadness, the pain that my 12-year-old self felt. Taylor Swift sang those feelings, and I sat at my computer mooning over some popular middle school crush and wondering at life's unfairness. Do you remember those days? Taylor, thank you for being the soundtrack to my adolescence.

But it didn't end when I was twelve. There's this tendency in our society to disparage the very real feelings of teenage girls, writing them off as "hysterical" or "hormonal." Teenage girls are perhaps the most hated of all social groups -- the instant we love something, whether it's "Twilight" or "The Hunger Games," the value of that franchise decreases in the eyes of the majority of the population. We're portrayed as this hysterical mob as a collective, and as individuals, desired by hormonal teenage boys. It's such a paradox that in order to be considered "attractive," a teenage girl must never seek out the affections of a boy. The very act of desiring someone's affections -- that act of agency -- renders us pathetic and undesirable.

So Taylor, thank you for empathizing with my feelings, and more importantly, for showing me that it's okay to feel at all. There's nothing wrong with being a teen girl, and there's nothing wrong with the experience of being crazy and emotional when you're a teen girl. There's nothing shallow or insubstantial about the feelings you have when you're a teenager.

It's certainly important for girls to develop self-esteem and be able to have self-worth outside of boys, but that's a gradual process of self-discovery. As fans, we know that you're going through it as well. Whether the listener is male or female, love is a human need that all teenagers struggle with. I'm glad that you're sharing it with us.

No matter what critics say about the slut-shaming and male-objectifying of "You Belong with Me," the song's story spoke to my real experience. I have felt that I was not attractive enough or popular enough or cool enough to attain the object of my affection. When you're young, that's what you do. You don't imagine people in a complex way. I'm picturing myself at 14 and focused on the boy I have great conversations with who doesn't seem to be into me because he only goes for popular girls. I'm sitting in the afternoon sunlight streaming in the lobby windows as he talks about AP Bio. I'm thinking, "You belong with me."

I'm graduating from high school this year, but I don't foresee your influence on my life ending. As your music matures and grows more nuanced, and as I gain in life experiences to match, I'm starting to know what you mean by "I've found time can heal most anything, and you just might find who you're supposed to be," in the song "Fifteen." I'm starting to understand what you mean by, "And we know it's never simple, never easy/Never a clean break, no one here to save me," from "Breathe."

I'm 16 now, and sometimes at twilight, I ride the train, look out into the sunset and think about the boy that I sometimes still remember all too well. I play your song. "And I know it's long gone, and that magic's not here no more/it might be okay, but I'm not fine at all." And I look out the train window, and for a minute or two, it's okay to rip my heart open and let myself feel.

You've comforted me in the lowest of moments, which usually are boy-related, and you've celebrated with me in my moments of ecstasy. Critics say that you write too much about love and boyfriends, but let me tell you, so do I. To be honest, although I've devoted a large portion of my life to feminism and social justice, and despite never having had a serious/real boyfriend, love causes the most immediate despair and the most exuberant happiness in my life. And Taylor, you've been there.

It's a part of me, and it's a part of all of us at this age to seek that ideal of romantic love and to be disappointed by that ideal. We also get back up and to chase it again. I think it's so courageous of you to share your growing process through your songs.

There's an instrumental after the three minute mark in your new song, "All Too Well," and a few poignant lines that strike a chord in me every time. "You called me up again just to break me like a promise/so casually cruel in the name of being honest/I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here/'Cause I remember it all too well." That's so vivid -- it tells your story. But it also tells mine. About teenage despair, about longing, about being alive and feeling so intensely both the ups and downs of love.

Thank you for being there. Thank you for sharing your stories. Thank you for helping me grow to a place where I can share mine.

Yours,
YingYing

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Obama says he'll sign $50.5B Sandy aid bill soon

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013 photo, a beach front home that was severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy rests in the sand in Bay Head, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., left, react after the Senate passed a $50.5 billion emergency relief measure for Superstorm Sandy victims at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Three months after Superstorm Sandy devastated coastal areas in much of the Northeast, the Senate is finaly sending a $50.5 billion emergency package of relief and recovery aid to President Obama for his signature. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Northeast lawmakers react after the Senate passed a $50.5 billion emergency relief measure for Superstorm Sandy victims at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. From right to left are Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. Three months after Superstorm Sandy devastated coastal areas in much of the Northeast, the Senate is finally sending a $50.5 billion emergency package of relief and recovery aid to President Obama for his signature. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, react after the Senate passed a $50.5 billion emergency relief measure for Superstorm Sandy victims at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Three months after Superstorm Sandy devastated coastal areas in much of the Northeast, the Senate is finaly sending a $50.5 billion emergency package of relief and recovery aid to President Obama for his signature. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama said he'll sign a $50.5 billion emergency relief measure for Superstorm Sandy victims as soon as it lands on his desk.

Three months after Sandy ravaged coastal areas in much of the Northeast, Obama chided lawmakers for taking their time to approve the funding even as he commended them for providing the long-awaited aid.

"So while I had hoped Congress would provide this aid sooner, I applaud the lawmakers from both parties who helped shepherd this important package though," Obama said in a statement late Monday.

Despite opposition from conservatives concerned about adding billions of dollars to the nation's debt, the Senate cleared the bill, 62-36, after House Republicans had stripped it earlier this month of spending unrelated to disasters.

"This is a huge relief," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

Northeast lawmakers said the money is urgently needed to start rebuilding homes, businesses, public transportation facilities and other infrastructure damaged by the Oct. 29 storm, one of the worst to strike the Northeast. Sandy is blamed for more than 130 deaths in the U.S. and tens of billions of dollars in property damages, particularly in New York and New Jersey.

The measure is aimed primarily at helping residents and businesses as well as state and local governments rebuild from the storm. The biggest chunk of money is $16 billion for Housing and Urban Development Department community block grants. Of that, about $12.1 billion will be shared among Sandy victims as well as those from other federally declared disasters in 2011-13. The remaining $3.9 billion is solely for Sandy-related projects.

More than $11 billion will go to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief aid fund for Sandy and other disasters. Another $10 billion is devoted to repairing New York and New Jersey transit systems.

Earlier in January, Congress approved and Obama signed a $9.7 billion bill to replenish the National Flood Insurance Program, which has received well over 100,000 claims related to Sandy. Added to the new, $50.5 billion package, the total is roughly in line with the $60.4 billion Obama requested in December.

The aid package was greased for passage before the last Congress adjourned and the new one came in on Jan. 3. But Speaker John Boehner refused to bring it to the floor after two-thirds of House Republicans voted against a "fiscal cliff" deficit-reduction deal raising taxes on couples making more than $450,000 a year while deferring some $24 billion in spending cuts in defense and domestic programs.

The ruckus after the Senate had passed an earlier $60.4 billion Sandy relief package by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Dec. 28 exposed deep political divisions within Republican ranks. "There's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their speaker, John Boehner," Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fumed at the time.

Top House Republicans responded by bringing new Sandy aid legislation to the floor under ground rules designed to win over as many Republicans as possible while retaining support from Democrats eager to approve as much in disaster aid as possible.

GOP leaders cut spending in the Senate bill unrelated to disasters. One was to transfer $1 billion from training programs for Iraqi policemen to bolstering security at U.S. diplomatic missions. The shift in money followed a Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Also deleted was $188 million for an Amtrak expansion project that included new, long-planned tunnels from New Jersey to Penn Station in Manhattan.

As with past natural disasters, the Sandy aid bill is not offset with spending cuts, meaning the aid adds to the deficit. The lone exception is an offset provision requiring that $3.4 billion for Army Corps of Engineers projects to protect against future storms be covered by an equal amount of unspecified spending cuts in other programs before next October.

The Senate on Monday rejected, 35-62, an attempt by conservatives to amend the final package with an offset provision to cut federal programs across the board by one-half of 1 percent through 2021.

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Associated Press writer Josh Lederman contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Sometimes a nickel is worth millions

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Steve Szkotak , The Associated Press

A humble 5-cent coin with a storied past is headed to auction and bidding is expected to top $2 million a century after it was mysteriously minted.?

The 1913 Liberty Head nickel is one of only five known to exist, but it's the coin's back story that adds to its cachet: It was surreptitiously and illegally cast, discovered in a car wreck that killed its owner, declared a fake, forgotten in a closet for decades and then found to be the real deal. It all adds up to an expected sale of $2.5 million or more when it goes on the auction block April 25 in suburban Chicago.?

"Basically a coin with a story and a rarity will trump everything else," said Douglas Mudd, curator of the American Numismatic Association Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colo., which has held the coin for most of the past 10 years. He expects it could fetch more than Heritage Auction's estimate, perhaps $4 million and even up to $5 million.?

"A lot of this is ego," he said of collectors who could bid for it. "I have one of these and nobody else does."?

The sellers who will split the money equally are four Virginia siblings who never let the coin slip from their hands, even when it was deemed a fake.?

The nickel made its debut in a most unusual way. It was struck at the Philadelphia mint in late 1912, the final year of its issue, but with the year 1913 cast on its face ? the same year the beloved Buffalo Head nickel was introduced.?

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Mudd said a mint worker named Samuel W. Brown is suspected of producing the coin and altering the die to add the bogus date.?

The coins' existence weren't known until Brown offered them for sale at the American Numismatic Association Convention in Chicago in 1920, beyond the statute of limitations. The five remained together under various owners until the set was broken up in 1942.?

A North Carolina collector, George O. Walton, purchased one of the coins in the mid-1940s for a reported $3,750. The coin was with him when he was killed in a car crash on March 9, 1962, and it was found among hundreds of coins scattered at the crash site.?

One of Walton's heirs, his sister Melva Givens of Salem, Va., was given the 1913 Liberty nickel after experts declared the coin a fake because of suspicions the date had been altered. The flaw probably happened because of Brown's imprecise work casting the planchet ? the copper and nickel blank disc used to create the coin.?

"For whatever reason, she ended up with the coin," her daughter, Cheryl Myers, said.?

Melva Givens put the coin in an envelope and stuck it in a closet, where it stayed for the next 30 years until her death in 1992.?

The coin caught the curiosity of Cheryl Myers' brother, Ryan, the executor of his mother's estate. "He'd take it out and look at it for long periods of time," she said.?

Ryan Myers said a family attorney had heard of the famous 1913 Liberty nickels and asked if he could see the Walton. "He looked at it and he told me he'd give me $5,000 for it right there," he said, declining an offer he could not accept without his siblings' approval.?

Finally, they brought the coin to the 2003 American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money in Baltimore, where the four surviving 1913 Liberty nickels were being exhibited. A team of rare coin experts concluded it was the long-missing fifth coin. Each shared a small imperfection under the date.?

"The sad part is my mother had it for 30 years and she didn't know it," Cheryl Myers said. "Knowing our mother, she probably would have invested it for us. She always put her children first."?

Since its authentication, the Walton nickel has been on loan to the Colorado Springs museum and has been publicly exhibited nationwide.?

The coin will be up for grabs at a rare coin and currency auction.?

Todd Imhof, executive vice president of Heritage, said the nickel is likely to attract lofty bids that only a handful of coins have achieved at auction. A 1933 double eagle, a $20 gold coin, holds the U.S. record: $8 million.?

Imhof expects the Walton nickel to generate some buzz.?

"This is a trophy item that sort of transcends the hobby," he said. "It's an interesting part of American history and there are collectors who look for something like this."?

Ryan Myers said he's not keen on selling the nickel.?

"First of all, it had been in the family for so long," he said. "It's not like something you found in a flea market or something you just found."?

Cheryl Myers said they're often asked why they held on to the coin for a decade after they learned it was authentic instead of immediately cashing it in.?

"It was righting a 40-year-old wrong," she wrote in an email. By allowing the American Numismatic Museum to display it for the past decade, it was honoring Walton's wishes.?

"It has been quite a ride," she said.?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/sometimes-nickel-worth-millions-1C8160610

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The Night I Died | icanseealotoflifeinyou

Baby Hands

On the night I died, my family said things like: ?Can you ask Bob to pick up Jacey from school tomorrow?? and ?I?m not going to be the one to call the funeral home. I can?t do it.? and ?Are his hands cold? Feel his hands. Fuck. I can?t stand this.? They were already missing me.

They don?t let the dead talk. We?re too tired. But the things I thought of before I died, with my family around me. I don?t know if it was days or hours or minutes. I could smell them. Each of them separate but all together, too. I could smell vanilla and mint and skin and body odor and salt and spices. They smelled like my life which sounds like a small thing. A sentimental thing. But you haven?t smelled your life yet, so you don?t know. You?ll see. I didn?t know my life smelled so good. I wasn?t sad to leave it behind. I was too busy smelling it.

The closer I went to death, the further I went from life. Which is to say, I slipped back and back and back. I thought about the ice cream cones from the creamery we used to get when we were kids. Black and white twists. Grass bent and soft under my feet. Pulling a button through a hook on my overalls.

But I got to take them with me as I slipped and it was a happiness, a real happiness, to take them with me to the creamery and my boyhood bedroom, marbles rolling in the drawer of my nightstand. They didn?t know my mother with rollers all over her head, stirring oatmeal at the stove in the morning, an apron tied over her robe. My mother had the softest face I?ve ever known. So soft it was furry to look at, and that?s not me speaking about her through the lens of death and memory. I?m talking about her softness through life, through her life and mine, too.

I have never seen a thing so pretty as bands of light on the wooden floor of my childhood home. Radiator rattling and pipes banging behind the walls. Water rolling with bubbles in a pot on the stove. Snow falling. God made snow so we?d believe in pretty things.

I got to take my kids with me, walking around in the shoeboxes of my life. I hadn?t ever gotten to put it all together, the way I did when I was dying. All at once, my children?s grownup smells and their laughter that, when they all laughed together, sounded like the pack of them turning in circles around the Christmas tree when they were kids. The hard knot of my mother?s apron, the gummy oatmeal. Everything was blooming, quiet, tender blooms, in the air around me. I was blooming. As I died, I went into full bloom, light passing over me and then lifting me away.

They kept crying, their voices breaking. Like toy airplanes breaking up in the air, pieces falling away. I was okay, I wanted to tell them. And I was. I wished I could tell them. Keep their plastic airplanes afloat.

Death makes us gentle. I feel gentle like I spent a few hours at the VFW bar, like nothing?s going get me down. Walking around town, balls of white filmy air spinning at my elbows and knees and ankles. Loose as a puppet, wide smile to boot. And the kids, they are gentling, too. Growing furrier, like their mother. Long gone. A hollow at her throat where she could have set a nickel and held it there. Her face built from the finest net of bones. Too pretty to touch, like you could knock the whole thing down if you weren?t careful. She held her hands to my face, when she was playful. When she wanted me to know she loved me. The children are growing into her. They?re pulling her up out of themselves, like it is they who are the costumes and she the kernel, the seed.

They are finding ways to speak to one another in kinder ways. They say, ?Is Mike going to talk to the kids or wait for you?? They will pause, their eyes wide, spinning. It is a relief to them, to spin their eyes, the eyes they?ve held stock still for days. Or hours. Or minutes. They spin them to one another and offer them like they are cups of coffee or packages of donuts, wrapped up like hotdogs in buns. ?Maize is wonderful. Really. She is amazing. I?ve never know such a kindheart.? ?Bobby, God. Of course there?s the baseball, but you know me. I don?t give a shit about that. It?s the way he looks after Jason. Always looking, scanning, finding him. Seeing what he needs. Bobby is a prince. He really is.? This is how they say I love you to one another, and I think it?s beautiful. The pictures get prettier and prettier, and the fur along the edges only just blends it together. And the blending is what makes the picture. Death really does soften our voices. It draws our words out like long, narrow canoes swaying on gentle water, and the people the kids talk with, the people can lay out their words into the lengths of the boats, each boat held by one of them. They switch things. One minute, Sharon has the funeral home and Rose is calling the cousins. But then they switch and Rose will talk to the caterer if Molly can run to the house and let out Rosco. Rosco. I will miss Rosco as much as I will miss anyone. There?s time and more than enough room. Time is so finite but so expendable, the way time gets when you have a good reason not to care if your boss is looking for you. The kids are each walking around with canoes on their hands, carrying one another?s words and their sighs and silent whimpers when they lose words. They carefully steer past one another, guiding their words and their quiet, listening to the same thing. Water smacking the boats with the tiniest hands imaginable. Baby hands.

I had the prettiest cat when I was a boy. Gray stripes.

Person with guitar? Reveal each child?s personality in one way or another. Develop each child, their strengths and foibles. Their aches and shames. Maybe build a story like Olive, where father is Olive and children are making small messes, emblematic of bigger ones. Complex relationships between kids.

To be continued?

Source: http://icanseealotoflifeinyou.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/the-night-i-died/

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Dot Earth Blog: Can Climate Science Communication Matter?

The first 15 years or so of my coverage of the greenhouse effect and global warming focused on geophysical and environmental questions, along with energy and forest policy. Around 2005 I started paying more attention to the internal climate ? meaning, how human perception, or misperception, of climate science and environmental risk influences the decisions, or indecision, of individuals and societies in the face of climate change.

One of my most valued guides in examining what I?ve taken to calling our ?inconvenient mind? (explained in my recent Princeton lecture) has been Dan Kahan of the Yale Law School. His august title there is Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School, but my favorite incarnation of Kahan is as the driving force behind the Cultural Cognition Project, which has shown empirically that powerful predispositions shape how we select and react to information. Kahan has posted a useful short blog entry today answering a simple question: ?What would I advise climate science communicators??

Here are some excerpts and a link to the full post:

This is what I was asked by a thoughtful person who is assisting climate-science communicators to develop strategies for helping the public to recognize the best available evidence?so that those citizens can themselves make meaningful decisions about what policy responses best fit their values. ?I thought others might benefit from seeing my responses, and from seeing alternative or supplementary ones that the billions of thoughtful people who read this blog religiously (most, I?m told, before they even get out of bed everyday) might contribute.
So below are the person?s questions (more or less) and my responses:
1. What is the most important influence or condition affecting the efficacy of science communication relating to climate change?
In my view, ?the quality of the science communication environment? is the single most important factor determining how readily ordinary people will recognize the best available evidence on climate change and what its implications are for policy. That?s the most important factor determining how readily they will recognize the best available scientific evidence relevant to all manner of decisions they make in their capacity as consumers, parents, citizens?you name it.
People are?remarkably good at figuring out who knows what about what. That is the special rational capacity that makes it possible for them to?make reliable use of so much more scientific knowledge than they could realistically be expected to understand in a technical sense.
The ?science communication environment? consists of all the normal, and normally reliable, signs and processes that people use to figure out what is known to science. Most of these signs and processes are bound up with the?normal interactions inside communities?whose members?share basic outlooks on life. There are lots of different communities of that sort in our society, but usually their members converge on what is known to science.
But when positions on a fact that admits of scientific investigation ?(?is the earth heating up??; ?does the?HPV?vaccine?promote unsafe sex among teenage girls??) becomes entangled with the values and outlooks of diverse communities?and becomes, in effect, a symbol of one?s membership and loyalty in one or another group?then people in those groups will end up in states of persistent disagreement and confusion. These sorts of entanglements (and the influences that cause them) are in effect a form of?pollution?in the science communication environment,?one that disables people from reliably discerning what is known to science.
The science communication environment is filled with these sorts of toxins on climate change. We need to?use our intelligence?to figure out how to clean our science communication environment up.
For more on these themes:
Kahan, D. Why we are poles apart on climate change.?Nature?488, 255 (2012).
Kahan, D. Fixing the Communications Failure.?Nature?463, 296-297 (2010).
2. If you had three pieces of advice for those who are interested in promoting more constructive engagement with climate change science, what would they be?
A.?Information about climate change should be communicated to people in the setting that is most?conducive to their open-minded and engaged assessment of it.
?How readily and open-mindedly?people will engage scientific information depends very decisively on context. A person who hears about the?HPV?vaccine when she?sees Michelle Bachman or Ellen Goodman?screaming about it on Fox or?MSNBC?will engage it as someone who has a political identity and is trying to figure out which position ?matches? it; that same person, when she gets the information from her daughter?s pediatrician, will engage it as a parent, whose child?s welfare is the most important thing in the world to her, and who will?earnestly try to figure out what those who are experts on health have to say. Most of the contexts in which people are thinking about climate change today are like the first of these two. Find ones that are more like the second.?They exist!
B.?Science communication should be evidence-based ?all the way down.??.

Yes, there?s more, but I?m going to ask you to click here for the rest so you can get the feel for Kahan?s blog and wider body of work. Please do return and engage here, of course.

One relevant piece from me is ?The Changing (Communication) Climate.? And as a closer, here is an embedded version of my Princeton University talk, ?An Inconvenient Mind?:

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Twitter's Vine features porn video as 'Editor's Pick' thanks to 'human error'

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Rosa Golijan , NBC News

Since Vine, Twitter's video-sharing service, launched on Thursday, it's been plagued by all sorts of woes. We noticed that it lacks privacy settings and?abuse prevention measures, Facebook prevented it from finding any friends through the social network, and now ... well, now pornographic?content has slipped?into Vine's?"Editor's Picks" section.

Vine's a rather neat service, in theory. If you've got an iOS device, you can create and share Vine videos. All you have to do is point your iPhone (or iPod Touch) at something and press your finger to the screen to record a clip up to six seconds in length (both sound and motion are captured, of course). Once done, you can share it to Vine, Twitter and Facebook. You can also use the app to browse through popular videos and those featured as "Editor's Picks."

And that's where Vine's latest troubles appear. On Monday morning, a video shared by "nsfwvine" ??an account created for the sole purpose of posting pornographic videos to Vine (hence the "Not Safe For Work" part of the name)???received the service's "Editor's Pick" badge of honor.

While the video did lose the "Editor's Pick" badge later in the morning, it was not removed from the service. Instead, it now carries a warning message declaring that the video?"may contain sensitive content" and requires a tap to be viewed. (From what we can tell, this warning message is automatically added to videos which are reported as inappropriate by Vine users.)

We have reached out to Twitter for more information regarding how the video in question?? which shows a young woman and a?sex toy?? was chosen as an "Editor's Pick." We wondered if some sort of automated process may be involved in the selection. A Twitter spokesperson explained that an actual person was actually to blame. "A human error resulted in a video with adult content becoming one of the videos in Editor's Picks," she wrote in an email to NBC News. "[U]pon realizing this mistake we removed the video immediately. We apologize to our users for the error."

We have also contacted Apple, as we suspect the Cupertino-based company is probably not all too happy about pornographic content being?prominently?featured in an iOS app. (It has banned apps for far less racy issues in the past.)

In the meantime, obscene material continues to flood into Vine. Several accounts ? including "nsfwvine" ? have been posting pornographic clips since Vine launched last week. Not all of porn clips?carry the "sensitive content" warning yet and it's not clear if any have been removed so far.

"Wow. How did this happen, Vine?" a user asked?on one of the videos, while another wondered "[c]an I flag this as inappropriate more than once?"

Want more tech news?or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.

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Tooth development and weaning in chimpanzees not as closely related as once thought

Jan. 28, 2013 ? For more than two decades, scientists have relied on studies that linked juvenile primate tooth development with their weaning as a rough proxy for understanding similar developmental landmarks in the evolution of early humans. New research from Harvard, however, is challenging those conclusions by showing that tooth development and weaning aren't as closely related as previously thought.

Using a first-of-its-kind method, a team of researchers led by professors Tanya Smith and Richard Wrangham and Postdoctoral Fellow Zarin Machanda of Harvard's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology used high-resolution digital photographs of chimps in the wild to show that after the eruption of their first molar tooth, many juvenile chimps continue to nurse as much, if not more, than they had in the past. Their study is described in a January 28 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"When these earlier studies were published about 20 years ago, they found a very tight relationship between the eruption of the first molar and certain developmental milestones, particularly weaning," Smith explained. "A number of researchers have tried to extrapolate that relationship to the human fossil record, but it now appears that our closest living relative doesn't fit that pattern. That suggests we should be more cautious if we want to infer what juvenile hominins were like."

Getting an inside view of chimpanzee childhood, however, is no easy task.

Most prior studies of tooth development in juvenile chimps relied on two methods of collecting data -- observing captive animals or studying skeletal remains of wild primates. Both, however, also came with challenges for researchers.

Studies have shown that captive chimps grow dramatically faster -- often reaching adult size by age 10 or 11, compared to 13 to 15 for wild chimps. That early development means the milestones researchers rely on as proxies for understanding early human species likely occur earlier than they normally would. Researchers studying skeletal remains of wild primates face a similar challenge. To properly understand those developmental landmarks, remains must be properly identified and aged, a notoriously difficult process for primates in dense tropical forests.

To solve those problems, Smith, Wrangham and Machanda developed a unique method for studying juvenile chimps in the wild. Researchers studying the Kanyawara chimpanzee community in Kibale National Park in Uganda teamed up with wildlife photographers who snapped photos of juvenile chimp's teeth whenever they opened their mouths. The detailed photos, some of which captured the same individuals over months, allowed researchers to track precisely when molars erupted, and to correlate that information with chimp's behavior more closely than ever before.

What the images revealed, Smith and Machanda said, came as a surprise.

Where earlier studies suggested that juvenile primates were weaned shortly after their first molar erupts, their study showed that, in addition to eating more solid food, chimps continued to "suckle as much, if not more, than they had before," Smith said. "They were showing adult-like feeding patterns while continuing to suckle, which was unexpected."

While questions of why juvenile chimps continue to nurse -- in some cases for months -- have yet to be answered, Machanda said those questions will likely be the subject of future studies.

"We're now working on a project that's focused on body size and growth, but we're also planning future studies that will look at their energetic condition so we can understand what they're trying to get from the mother by continuing to nurse," she said. "What's interesting, however, is that there can be conflict surrounding this where the juveniles are trying to get as much as possible from the mother and the mother is actually covering up her nipples and moving around. Sometimes they'll even throw these temper tantrums that look exactly like human babies."

"I think there are two bottom lines here," Smith said. "One, I think, is a cautionary tale. The findings in this paper are going to challenge us to find other proxies for weaning and the spacing between offspring, but the other aspect that's exciting is that we have some suggestion that we should start looking at how feeding behaviors develop in the wild.

"No one has looked at how infants become more adult-like, both in their food choice and in the time they spend feeding," she continued. "This actually appears to correlate fairly well with dental development, so, while this is a preliminary finding, we may have a new anatomical proxy for when juvenile primates begin eating like adults."

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95% The Central Park Five

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Expect your blood pressure to rise during The Central Park Five.

The doc is rife with smart or wrenching or shameful moments. The fresh interviews with the accused, now men, are invaluable.

As grim a portrait of the criminal justice system as can be imagined.

How could this second crime have occurred? The film asks that question but only partly answers it, and in the process it raises an even more troubling one.

"The Central Park Five" is worth seeing, both for the ways it's timeless and for the ways it encapsulates an era.

What's amazing about listening to them speak now, often through tears, is the absence of bitterness.

Like the "Paradise Lost" films, it's a shocking but clear-eyed portrait of injustice.

The Central Park Five is such a moving piece of work, it is difficult to watch at times.

It shows what happens when police and prosecutors abuse their power.

Puts the crime and the times in sharp perspective.

Burns and company conduct a thorough, riveting investigation that does a far better job of assessing the tragedy than the justice system did two decades before. Of course, hindsight is an advantage we all take for granted.

It's a gripping story that comes in a well-crafted package.

A heartbreaking expose' about a rush to judgment which ruined five, innocent young lives.

Exclusive interviews with former heads of Israel's counter terrorism agency reveal insiders' analysis about the country's policies. Fascinating. Frightening.

"The Central Park Five" is a sobering indictment of racism and vigilante justice, yet it is constrained by a PBS-style deference to the very system it critiques.

You can't help but wonder why this film wasn't made 20 years ago, when it could have saved these men some time behind bars.

What keeps the film from being an impossible downer is the guts and spirit and smart words of the Central Park Five, four of whom, now freed, are interviewed at length.

A miscarriage of justice on this scale would have been tragic had it resulted from an honest mistake - but, as this meticulously researched movie makes clear, honesty had little to do with it.

The [documentary] team builds a solid story from the time of the crime through the release from prison those wrongly accused and railroaded into confessing to a crime they did not commit.

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