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Monday, December 3, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Coast Guard member dies in crash off Calif. coast
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) ? A U.S. Coast Guard member was killed and another was injured when their small boat was rammed by a smuggler's vessel before dawn Sunday off the Southern California coast.
Terrell Horne III of Redondo Beach was pronounced dead after being brought ashore at the Port of Hueneme (why-NEEM-mee), said Ventura County chief deputy medical examiner James Baroni. He suffered a traumatic head injury, Coast Guard officials said.
The second man was treated for minor injuries. His name wasn't released.
The smuggler's panga, which was running without lights, maneuvered at a high rate of speed directly at the small boat before fleeing, according to a Coast Guard statement. Both Coast Guard members were thrown into the water.
Another Coast Guard vessel stopped the fleeing panga, and detained two suspects.
"Our fallen shipmate stood the watch on the front lines protecting our nation, and we are all indebted to him for his service and sacrifice," said Admiral Robert J. Papp, Coast Guard Commandant.
The small Coast Guard boat was deployed by the cutter Halibut, which was conducting an investigation into suspected smuggling near the Channel Islands west of Malibu.
The smuggler's vessel was initially detected by a Coast Guard maritime patrol aircraft.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/coast-guard-member-dies-crash-off-calif-coast-003915673.html
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Grand Central Terminal: The Centenery. A look back in Scientific American 's Archives [Slide Show]
See Inside The new railroad terminal was heralded as the "Gateway to America's Greatest City" when it opened on February 1, 1913
While great ocean liners plied the waves, and glorious skyscrapers changed the skyline, the Grand Central Terminal opened in New York City on February 1, 1913. It was so much more than just a large train station: it was designed, promoted and built as the gateway to a new era of prosperity and progress.
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Bedard: Freefalling Eagles can hurt Cowboys' hopes
Mired in seven-game skid, Philadelphia can still deal devastating blow to Dallas
By Greg Bedard
NBCSports.com contributor
updated 10:57 a.m. ET Dec. 2, 2012
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Sure, the long-time NFC East rivals despise each other. And the Eagles would like nothing better to return the favor and deal Dallas a serious post-season blow, just like the Cowboys did to the Eagles on Nov. 5 with a 28-13 win at Lincoln Financial Field.
But at this point, with a team in turmoil and injury-ravaged, the Eagles (3-8) would like any win, not just because it?s the Cowboys.
?There?s a fine line between winning and losing in the National Football League and I know the only way that you?re going to get better is [if] you keep working hard and keep pushing forward and you get a couple breaks here and there and games can turn right around,? coach Andy Reid said this week. ?Anybody can win any Sunday.?
The Eagles, who will be without quarterback Michael Vick, running back LeSean McCoy and receiver DeSean Jackson (injured reserve), are sticking with the one-game-at-a-time mantra.
?You can?t focus on the fact that you?re losing. You have to focus on the game. One game at a time,? guard Evan Mathis said. ?Focus on the little things. Look yourself in the mirror [and] scrutinize every single thing you do as a player and work to correct everything.?
The Cowboys (5-6) aren?t exactly humming coming into this game either having dropped a disappointing 38-31 decision to the Redskins after posting two-straight wins.
Dallas has its own injury problems with running back DeMarco Murray (sprained foot) questionable to play after missing six games, and a beat-up offensive line where left tackle Tyron Smith and center Ryan Cook missed last week?s game.
On defense, the Cowboys will be without nose tackle Jay Ratliff again, inside linebackers Sean Lee and Bruce Carter are out for the season, and standout nickel cornerback Orlando Scandrick is out indefinitely.
Still, the Cowboys know they have to have this game. They are two games behind the Giants in the NFC East, one game out of the final wild-card spot.
??I do know this game right now, we have a chance,? quarterback Tony Romo said this week. ?Leading up to this football game, knowing that, I know it?s not the record we want at this point. But I also know that we can change that from this point forward. It?s what we do now that matters. I?ve tried to instill that with the different guys. I think they understand that.?
Here are the three keys for each team:
Eagles
Shut down Witten and Bryant: Tight end Jason Witten has 82 receptions and continues to be the security blanket. Receiver Dez Bryant, despite his troubles with focus and the playbook, has been on fire of late with 290 yards and three touchowns in the past two games. Conversely, the Eagles have been torched in the secondary with 13 passing touchdowns and zero interceptions in the past five games. And it?s not just a talent deficiency: the Eagles are just flat-out blowing coverages and assignments at time. Eagles cornerbacks Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Nnamdi Asomugha have the size to match up with Bryant, but they haven?t been playing well. Either way, they are going to have to take care of Bryant. As for Witten, linebacker Mychal Kendricks did a nice job against the tight end in the first matchup, but he?ll need more help from the Eagles? subpar safeties.
Help Dunlap: Cowboys outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware continues to be one of the best players in the league with 10 sacks and four forced fumbles. Eagles left tackle King Dunlap has issues when he?s healthy, but now he?s been battling a knee issue. The Eagles will have to give him help because Dunlap won?t be able to sustain one-on-one against the explosive Ware.
Continue to run the ball: The Eagles looked like they found a keeper with rookie running back Bryce Brown, who had 178 yards in his first start against the Panthers. He?s a big back at about 235 pounds, but Brown also runs with terrific burst through the line, and then surprising speed at the second level. The run-heavy approach the Eagles took against the Panthers was successful at limiting backup quarterback Nick Foles? exposure to opposing defenses. He has to be a game manager; he?s not going to win it on his own. The Eagles need Brown to carry the load again.
Cowboys
Stop the run: If the Cowboys can limit Brown in the run game, that means the Eagles will have to rely on Foles, who has not looked good since his action against the Cowboys the first time around. Stopping the run is easier said than done for the Cowboys with Ratliff on the shelf, and having to rely on backup journeymen at linebacker in Dan Connor and Ernie Sims. The Cowboys will need big games from ends Marcus Spears and Jason Hatcher up front.
Be more balanced on offense: It looks like Murray will return for this game, and it couldn?t come soon enough. Backup Felix Jones has averaged just 2.8 yards the past two games, and the Cowboys have gone way too pass heavy with 112 pass attempts from Tony Romo in the same span. With the offensive line continuing to be shaky, Romo will be running for his life without a running game. Romo needs to get back to running the play-action game in which he has excelled at times.
Watch the pass rush: Even if the Cowboys get Tyron Smith and Ryan Cook back at left tackle and center, respectively (both are questionable), the line is still going to have to be better against an improved Eagles pass rush. With the release of end Jason Babin, the Eagles will see how their youngsters will perform. Brandon Graham has really come on at left end after a disappointing start to his career. Second-round pick Vinny Curry showed some impressive speed last week against the Panthers. Veteran Trent Cole isn?t what he once was, but he?s still a good player and could be better in a rotation with Graham and Curry. If Smith and Cook can?t go, then Jermey Parnell, who was decent against the Redskins, will have to go at left tackle, and right guard Mackenzy Bernadeau will move to center again, with Derrick Dockery at right guard. The middle of the Cowboys? line, including left guard Nate Livings, were not good enough against the Redskins.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Gay marriage before Supreme Court? Cases weighed
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court.
Three weeks after voters backed same-sex marriage in three states and defeated a ban in a fourth, the justices are meeting Friday to decide whether they should deal sooner rather than later with the claim that the Constitution gives people the right to marry regardless of sexual orientation.
The court also could duck the ultimate question for now and instead focus on a narrower but still important issue: whether Congress can prevent legally married gay Americans from receiving federal benefits otherwise available to married couples.
The court could announce its plans as soon as Friday afternoon. Any cases probably would be argued in March, with a decision expected by the end of June.
Gay marriage is legal, or will be soon, in nine states ? Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Washington ? and the District of Columbia. Federal courts in California have struck down the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but that ruling has not taken effect while the issue is being appealed.
Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approved gay marriage earlier this month.
But 31 states have amended their constitutions to prohibit same-sex marriage. North Carolina was the most recent example in May. In Minnesota earlier this month, voters defeated a proposal to enshrine a ban on gay marriage in that state's constitution.
The biggest issue the court could decide to confront comes in the dispute over California's Proposition 8, the constitutional ban on gay marriage that voters adopted in 2008 after the state Supreme Court ruled that gay Californians could marry. The case could allow the justices to decide whether the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection means that the right to marriage cannot be limited to heterosexuals.
A decision in favor of gay marriage would set a national rule and overturn every state constitutional provision and law banning same-sex marriages. A ruling that upheld California's ban would be a setback for gay marriage proponents in the nation's largest state, although it would leave open the state-by-state effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry.
Throughout U.S. history, the court has tried to avoid getting too far ahead of public opinion and mores. The high court waited until 1967 to strike down laws against interracial marriage in the 16 states that still had them.
Some court observers argue that the same caution will prevail in the California case.
"What do they have to gain by hearing this case? Either they impose same sex marriage on the whole country, which would create a political firestorm, or they say there's no right to same-sex marriage, in which case they are going to be reversed in 20 years and be badly remembered. They'll be the villains in the historical narrative," said Andrew Koppelman, a professor of law and political science at Northwestern University. Koppelman signed onto a legal brief urging the justices not to hear the California case.
Yet some opponents of gay marriage say the issue is too important, and California is too large a state, for the court to take a pass.
"The question is whether there's a civil right to redefine marriage, as the California Supreme Court did. We don't think there is," said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage.
Regardless of the decision on hearing the California case, there is widespread agreement that the justices will agree to take up a challenge to a part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
The law was passed in 1996 by overwhelming bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate and signed by President Bill Clinton. It defines marriage for all purposes under federal law as between a man and a woman and has been used to justify excluding gay couples from a wide range of benefits that are available to heterosexual couples.
Four federal district courts and two courts of appeal have overturned the provision in various cases on grounds that it unfairly deprives same-sex couples of federal benefits. The justices almost always will hear a case in which a federal law has been struck down.
The Obama administration broke with its predecessors when it announced last year that it no longer would defend the provision. President Barack Obama went further when he endorsed gay marriage in May.
Republicans in the House of Representatives stepped in to take up the defense of the law in court.
Paul Clement, the Washington lawyer representing the House, said the law was intended to make sure that federal benefits would be allocated uniformly, no matter where people live.
"DOMA does not bar or invalidate any state-law marriage, but leaves states free to decide whether they will recognize same-sex marriage," Clement said in court papers.
The court has several cases to choose from, including that of 83-year-old Edith Windsor of New York. Windsor faces $363,000 in federal estate taxes after the death of her partner of 44 years in 2009. In two other cases, same-sex couples and surviving spouses of gay marriages in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont are seeking a range of federal benefits, including Social Security and private pension survivor payments, access to federal employee health insurance and the right to file a joint federal income tax return.
In the only instance in which a gay couple already is receiving federal benefits, federal court employee Karen Golinski in San Francisco has been allowed, under a court order, to add her wife to her health insurance coverage. That could be reversed if the Supreme Court upholds the marriage law provision.
No matter which case the court chooses, the same issue will be front and center ? whether legally married gay Americans can be kept from the range of benefits that are otherwise extended to married couples.
Justice Elena Kagan strongly suggested in her Supreme Court confirmation hearings that she would not take part in a gay marriage case from Massachusetts because she worked on it while at the Justice Department. The Massachusetts case is one of only two cases that have been decided by a federal appeals court. Windsor's is the other.
Another case, from Arizona, has some similarities to the Defense of Marriage Act appeals. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which invalidated Proposition 8 in California, struck down a state law that said only married state employees were eligible for health benefits and withdrew domestic partner benefits for unmarried state workers. Separately, the Arizona constitution bars same-sex marriage, so gay couples had no way to obtain the state benefits.
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Mark Sherman can be reached on Twitter at www.twitter.com/shermancourt
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gay-marriage-supreme-court-cases-weighed-205555503.html
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The Going Nuclear Gabfest
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On this week?s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the prospects for a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, whether the long-discussed option of limiting the filibuster is really going to happen, and the ethics of outing bullies online.
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Grand Canyon's Age Still Not Set In Stone
If you were to visit Grand Canyon National Park, you might encounter an exhibit called the "Trail of Time" and learn that researchers believe the canyon is six million years old. But not all scientists think that age is correct. Some think the canyon is 20 million years old, and a new report suggests that the canyon existed alongside dinosaurs some 70 million years ago. Melissa Block talks with Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach, who has covered the colorful and sometimes contentious debate among researchers.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/11/30/166260519/grand-canyons-age-still-not-set-in-stone?ft=1&f=1007
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