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Nowadays, almost everyone has a PC at home and internet connection has become a need of people of all ages. Though reliable anti-virus or anti-spyware software is installed, it is inevitable that we still have threats to the computer. In today?s computer world, internet security does not allow the information to be accessed or compromised by other individuals. The initial way to secure information is encryption and maintaining passwords.
A password should be confidential and not be revealed to other person.?Internet Security?can be achieved through following steps. Internet service provider should be from a genuine source. If there is availability, try to choose an internet service provider that offers online virus, spam and content filters. All these will secure the internet service from not allowing the infection to enter the computers. A variety of software like stop spam, filter content for kids, manage cookies, pop-up and pop-under ads and trip up phishing is available to clean the browser. Routers provide the security from internet by using network address translation technique. Routers are of low cost and complexity and provide the same service as that of a conventional internet service. Protection for computers is necessary because there are more than one million malwares that are estimated to be discovered in 2010 alone. Any one is exposed to malware attacks.?Anti-Viruis programs ase essential?on every computer.

They provide essential safety to people to surf and navigate the web pages. Anti-virus programmes are designed to scan for and remove the harmful components when they are found on computers. They search and trash the viruses, worms, Trojans, bots and many more.?Anti-virus?programs keep a machine free from virus. A level of protection is provided against identity theft when the machine is provided with anti-virus and internet security programs. They ensure to keep the higher speed levels. Even though the machines are provided with anti-virus programmes, they can?t protect it from spyware. Spyware is the software that runs on the computer without the permission of its user. It cannot be healed by anti-virus because, it does not spoil the system, but it tracks the personal information from the user?s machine and sends this data back to the software manufacturer over the internet. Adware is the software for advertising and it runs random or targeted pop-up advertisements. With these pop-ups the machine will be caught with spyware and it also affects the system speed by reducing it. The spyware track the personal information like passwords and may damage the business solutions if the system is using for business. So it is very important to have a good anti-spyware to ensure the privacy. Firewall controls the access between two computers and restricts unfettered access. Firewalls monitor network traffic and also able to block any dangerous traffic. There are two types of firewalls-software firewall and hardware firewall. Firewall functions as the intermediate server between SMTP and HTTP connections. Firewall keeps out malicious hackers and people who aspire to damage and takeover other?s servers. Hence, having a good firewall eliminates the risks with computer and internet and keeps out the malevolent people. When all these programs are used in combination it helps protect the computer and internet connection.

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NYC's Met doing away with metal admission button

NEW YORK (AP) ? Tiny metal buttons in delicious-sounding colors like poupon, hubba bubba and piglet have served as The Metropolitan Museum of Art's admission ticket for 42 years. But starting Monday, the 1-inch disks will be replaced by a paper ticket with detachable sticker.

It's all about the money ? the buttons have become too expensive to produce.

"The cost has been increasing exponentially over the years," said Harold Holzer, the museum's spokesman. "It's gone up tens of thousands of dollars in the last five years."

When the museum first started using the buttons, it had about 1 million visitors annually. Today it has 6 million.

"It seems impractical to tie ourselves to an archaic, quaint ? even if it's well liked ? system," he added.

The buttons are making their exit on the same day that the Met is switching to a seven-day-a-week schedule. The museum ? which has a recommended admission of $25 for adults, meaning visitors may pay what they wish ? had been closed Mondays.

"The message is not changing, the medium is changing," Holzer said.

In 1997, a student at Parson School of Design created a dress with the buttons for a project using recycled objects. It features three of the 16 colors the buttons came in. The piece was donated to the museum and is in storage.

Like the buttons, the paper tickets will eventually come in an assortment of colors. The first will be el mar blue. They also will contain a date (something the buttons lacked) and be emblazoned with the same "M'' design used on the buttons, adapted from a 16th-century illustration based on a Leonardo Da Vinci drawing.

"With just a flip of a computer switch," the paper tickets will allow the museum to issue timed-entry tickets for such special shows as the wildly popular Alexander McQueen costume exhibition in 2011, Holzer said.

"It gives us a great deal of agility," he said. "Agility beats nostalgia every time."

Asked if the button might become an art object worthy of museum display, Holzer quipped: "It's been displayed about a hundred million times if you count all the visitors who've worn it. It's maybe time for a rest."

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Bombs hit Iraq funeral and football stadium, killing 22

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - A series of bombs near a bakery, at a funeral, inside a senior police officer's car and at a football stadium killed at least 22 people across Iraq on Friday, police and medics said.

The violence is part of a trend of increasing militant attacks since the start of the year, which claimed more than 1,000 lives in May alone, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian bloodletting of 2006-07.

Twin blasts at a neighborhood football stadium killed five players in Madaen, about 30 km (20 miles) southeast of Baghdad, and a roadside bomb near a bakery shop in the west of the capital left three people dead, police said.

A senior Iraqi police officer was killed when a bomb exploded inside his car and a second blast came five minutes later as police and bystanders gathered near the wreckage of the vehicle in the city of Ramadi in Anbar province.

Ten people died in those blasts.

"We were on duty at a nearby checkpoint when the car exploded. We ran to work out what was going on, but before we reached the car it exploded again," said a policeman at the scene. "Many civilians and policemen were killed."

A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in the mainly Shi'ite city of Dujail, killing at least four others, police and medics said.

Concerns that Iraq may lapse back into full-scale sectarian conflict have mounted in recent months amid tensions fuelled by the civil war in neighboring Syria, where mainly Sunni rebels are fighting to overthrow a leader backed by Shi'ite Iran.

Sunni insurgents often target members of the security forces, heads of tribes and officials they see as supporters of the Shi'ite-led government, as well as Shi'ites.

Minority Sunnis have felt sidelined since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein and empowered majority Shi'ites.

At the height of Iraq's insurgency in 2006-07, Anbar was in the grip of al Qaeda's local affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, which has been regaining strength in recent months.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for Friday's attacks. Suicide bombings are a trademark of al Qaeda's Iraqi wing.

The attacks followed bomb blasts in coffee shops and other targets that killed at least 22 on Thursday.

(Reporting by Kamal Naama in Ramadi and Ghazwan Hassan in Tikrit; Writing by Suadad al-Salhy; Editing by Andrew Roche)

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Huawei to launch a Google Edition smartphone

FURNACE CREEK, Calif. (AP) ? Associated Press photographer Chris Carlson is no stranger to heat. He grew up just outside Palm Springs, Calif. On Friday, he returned to his desert roots, leaving his home near Los Angeles and driving to the hottest place on earth on one of the hottest days of the year. Below, he describes what it is like to be in triple digit heat in Death Valley:

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Facebook to pull ads from pages with sex, violence

By Alexei Oreskovic

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it will no longer allow ads to appear on pages with sexual or violent content, as the online social network moves to appease marketers being associated with objectionable material.

The moves come a month after several businesses pulled their ads from Facebook amid reports of pages on Facebook that promoted violence against women.

Facebook said at the time that it needed to improve its system for flagging and removing content that violated its community standards, which forbid users from posting content about hate-speech, threats and pornography, among other things.

Ads account for roughly 85 percent of revenue at Facebook, the world's largest social network with 1.1 billion users. Facebook said the changes would not have a meaningful impact on its business.

On Friday, Facebook said it also needed to do more to prevent situations in which ads are displayed alongside material that may not run afoul of its community standards but are deemed controversial nonetheless.

A Facebook page for a business that sells adult products, for example, will no longer feature ads. Previously such a page could feature ads along the right-hand side of the page so long as the page did not violate Facebook's prohibition on depicting nudity.

The move underscores the delicate balance for social media companies, which features a variety of unpredictable and sometimes unsavory content shared by users, but which rely on advertising to underpin their business.

"Our goal is to both preserve the freedoms of sharing on Facebook but also protect people and brands from certain types of content," Facebook said in a post on its website on Friday.

Facebook said on Friday that it would expand the scope of pages and groups on its website that should be ad-restricted and promised to remove ads from the flagged areas of the website by the end of the coming week.

Pages and groups that reference violence will also be off limits to ads, the company said. A Facebook spokeswoman noted that the policy would not apply to the pages of news organizations on Facebook.

Facebook said the process of flagging objectionable pages and removing ads would initially be done manually, but that the company will build an automated system to do the job in the coming weeks.

(Reporting By Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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Israeli leader signals readiness to compromise

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's prime minister, known for his rigid negotiating positions, has been sending signals that he is ready for significant compromises in a peace deal with the Palestinians ? and that he accepts the narrative increasingly favored by his opponents that says ending the West Bank occupation is essential for Israel itself.

While some of Benjamin Netanyahu's political allies say he is serious, the Palestinians remain skeptical. This week's visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry could show which way things can go.

In recent speeches, Netanyahu has stressed the importance of reaching a peace deal, saying it is essential to ensuring Israel's long-term survival.

On Thursday, he made reference to Israel's nightmare scenario in which the peace process breaks down, Palestinians drop their pursuit of an independent state and instead demand equal rights in a single, binational state compromising today's Israel plus the West Bank and Gaza. Most experts believe that given the high Palestinian birthrate, such an Israel could not long survive as a country that is both democratic and somehow Jewish in character.

"It's correct. We do not want a binational state," Netanyahu said at a memorial ceremony for the Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl.

On the front page of the Haaretz daily, an anonymous Cabinet minister in Netanyahu's Likud Party was quoted as saying Thursday that Netanyahu is prepared to withdraw from most of the West Bank and evacuate numerous Jewish settlement as part of a peace deal. The story became the focus of much discussion in Israel, widely taken as a trial balloon and an attempt to signal seriousness by the government.

Another Cabinet minister, Yaakov Peri, told the Army Radio station that Netanyahu "knows he will have to carry out a painful evacuation of a number of settlements" as part of any deal.

Netanyahu recently told the Washington Post that if Kerry were to pitch a tent to hold peace talks with the Palestinians, he would "stay in the tent and negotiate for as long as it takes to work out a solution of peace and security."

Such pronouncements were once unthinkable for Netanyahu, who for years was the leader of Israel's nationalist camp and an opponent of Palestinian independence.

That began to change after Netanyahu was elected four years ago and for the first time endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state.

Even so, peace efforts failed to get off the ground, in large part due to Palestinian suspicions toward Netanyahu.

The Palestinians have called on Netanyahu to freeze all Jewish settlement in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war that the Palestinians claim for their future state along with the Gaza Strip, which Israel also occupied but pulled out of in 2005. More than 500,000 Israelis now live in such Jewish settlements, making it increasingly difficult to divide the land into two states.

The Palestinians also say Netanyahu should accept Israel's pre-1967 boundaries as the basis for a final border, with slight modifications worked out in negotiations. Previous Israeli leaders accepted the 1967 borders as a basis for talks.

Netanyahu has refused the Palestinian demands, saying talks should begin without any preconditions.

On Thursday, Israel's outgoing central bank chief, Stanley Fischer, lamented that Israel could have "done more efforts to reach an agreement" with the Palestinians. It was a rare political pronouncement by the internationally respected economist.

Given Netanyahu's refusal to spell out his vision for a final peace deal in any detail, and his past hardline policies and views , the Palestinians remain deeply suspicious.

They note the hundreds of housing starts on occupied land already this year, with thousands more in the pipeline ? including 69 homes that received final permission for construction in an area of east Jerusalem this week.

"Israel has a selected repertoire awaiting U.S. officials ... which includes settlements, settlements and more settlements," the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Thursday. "The international community should understand that in order to create the right environment for negotiations it should not grant impunity to Israel over its repeated crimes and violations."

Following the re-elections of both Netanyahu and President Barack Obama, the U.S. has launched a new mission aimed at reviving peace talks.

Kerry has been shuttling between the sides in search of an acceptable formula. His arrival in Israel late Thursday marked his fifth visit to the region since taking office early this year.

The Americans have been putting pressure on both sides without tangible signs of progress so far. Kerry's proposal is expected to call for compromises by both, including a partial halt to settlement construction, economic aid to the beleaguered Palestinian economy and guarantees that Israel will negotiate border issues in a timely manner.

U.S. officials traveling with Kerry said he will be using long-time relationships with officials from both sides to coax them into talks, and at the same time will remind them of what could happen if no accord is reached.

Earlier this month, in a speech to the American Jewish Committee Global Forum in Washington, Kerry said that the best way to truly ensure Israel's security is by ending the conflict and reaching a negotiated resolution that results in two states.

" The Palestinian Authority has committed itself to a policy of nonviolence," he said. "But if that experiment is allowed to fail, ask yourselves: What will replace it?" The failure of the moderate Palestinian leadership could very well invite the rise of the very thing that we want to avoid: the same extremism in the West Bank that we have seen in Gaza or from southern Lebanon."

It is far from clear whether Kerry will succeed, and Netanyahu's grand vision, if he has one, remains a secret.

Dore Gold, a former Netanyahu adviser who remains a confidant of the prime minister, said the Israeli leader "is determined to make the peace process work" and show "considerable Israeli flexibility."

"At the same time, he's cognizant of the fact that Israel is in a much more dangerous neighborhood," he said, referring to the civil war in neighboring Syria and the takeover of Gaza by Hamas militants. That requires far-reaching security guarantees, Gold said.

Yossi Beilin, a dovish former Israeli politician who helped negotiate interim peace accords with the Palestinians, said there is a complicated "dichotomy" with Netanyahu. Beilin said he has held discussions with Netanyahu and believes he truly is serious about pursuing peace. But he also remains a fervent nationalist and security hawk who will not make the concessions demanded by the Palestinians.

"He is not somebody with whom you cannot talk. But ... not really ready to pay the price of a permanent agreement," Beilin said.

Beilin said the Palestinians should consider pursuing an "interim" deal, granting them independence in 50 to 70 percent of the West Bank while leaving the most difficult issues, such as final borders and the status of Jerusalem, for later. As long as Hamas, which opposes a peace deal with Israel, controls Gaza, a partial deal is the best anyone can hope for anyway, he said.

"There is an opportunity with him," Beilin said, referring to Netanyahu.

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Associated Press correspondent Deb Riechmann contributed to this report from Amman, Jordan.

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AP Interview: Moniz sees coal's 'significant role'

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says coal will continue to play a role in meeting America's energy needs even as the Obama administration seeks to reduce carbon emissions and combat global warming.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Moniz refuted claims by Republicans and some coal-state Democrats that the president's climate plan would cripple the coal industry.

Moniz said Thursday that the administration plans to offer up to $8 billion in loan guarantees for technologies that can keep carbon dioxide produced by power plants from being released into the atmosphere. Several "carbon capture" demonstration projects are now underway, and Moniz said he expects them to be completed by the end of the decade.

He also said the administration would move more aggressively to make factories and appliances more energy efficient.

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Stress: It should never be ignored, experts say

June 27, 2013 ? Work pressure, tension at home, financial difficulties ? the list of causes of stress grows longer every day. There have been several studies in the past showing that stress can have negative effects on health (cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, high blood pressure and more). The Inserm researchers at unit 1018, "The Epidemiology and Public Health Research Centre," working in collaboration with researchers from England and Finland have demonstrated that it is essential to be vigilant about this and to take it very seriously when people say that they are stressed, particularly if they believe that stress is affecting their health. According to the study performed by these researchers, with 7268 participants, such people have twice as much risk of a heart attack, compared with others.

These results have been published in European Heart Journal.

Today, stress is recognized as one of the main health problems. When people face a situation that is considered stressful, they may experience several physical, emotional and behavioural symptoms (anxiety, difficulty in concentrating, skin problems, migraines, etc.). Previous studies, particularly the recent studies performed within the Whitehall II cohort[1], composed of several thousand British civil servants, have already shown that the physiological changes associated with stress can have an adverse effect on health.

Herman Nabi, Inserm researcher at Unit 1018 "The Epidemiology and Public Health Research Centre," and his team went further and studied people who declared themselves to be stressed, in order to look more closely at whether there was a link between their feeling and the occurrence of coronary disease some years later.

Using a questionnaire prepared for the Whitehall II cohort, the participants were invited to answer the following question: "to what extent do you consider the stress or pressure that you have experienced in your life has an effect on your health," the participants had the following answers to choose from: "not at all," "a little," "moderately," "a lot" or "extremely."

The participants were also asked about their stress level, as well as about other factors that might affect their health, such as smoking, alcohol consumption, diet and levels of physical activity. Arterial pressure, diabetes, body mass index and socio-demographic data such as marital status, age, sex, ethnicity and socio-economic status were also taken into account.

According to the results, the participants who reported, at the start of the study, that their health was "a lot" or "extremely" affected by stress had more than twice the risk (2.12 times higher) of having or dying from a heart attack, compared with those who had not indicated any effect of stress on their health.

From a clinical point of view, these results suggest that the patient's perception of the impact of stress on their health may be highly accurate, to the extent that it can predict a health event as serious and common as coronary disease.

In addition, this study also shows that this link is not affected by differences between individuals related to biological, behavioural or psychological factors. However, capacities for dealing with stress do differ massively between individuals depending on the resources available to them, such as support from close friends and family.

According to Hermann Nabi, "the main message is that complaints from patients concerning the effect of stress on their health should not be ignored in a clinical environment, because they may indicate an increased risk of developing and dying of coronary disease. Future studies of stress should include perceptions of patients concerning the effect of stress on their health."

In the future, as Hermann Nabi emphasizes, "tests will be needed to determine whether the risk of disease can be reduced by increasing the clinical attention given to patients who complain of stress having an effect on their health."

[1] Created in 1985, the Whitehall II cohort, consisting of British civil servants, is making a major contribution to research in social epidemiology and is considered internationally to be one of the main sources of scientific knowledge concerning social determinant factors for health.

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Health Insurer's App Helps Users Track Themselves ...

A smartphone app that launches this week from the health insurance company Aetna?helps users monitor their own health-tracking data. As costs spiral upward, health-care companies could eventually turn to such apps as a way to encourage healthy behavior.

At MIT Technology Review?s Mobile Summit in San Francisco last week, Martha Wofford, consumer platform vice president at Aetna, said the company would launch an app called CarePass to serve as a portal for an individual?s health-related activity and, if he allows it, his medical records, too.

Through CarePass, a person could enter a health goal?say, fitting into his jeans next month?and get personalized suggestions for how to go about achieving it. CarePass can integrate data from wearable tracking devices like Fitbit or Jawbone?s UP, as well as apps like MapMyRun; it can take into account doctor visits, prescriptions, and blood pressure or cholesterol records. It will also point users to trustworthy symptom and diagnosis information through iTriage, software that Aetna acquired last year.

A few other health-care providers, such as Kaiser Permanente, are getting into this area, but Aetna appears to be pushing forward more quickly than most. CarePass, for example, will include APIs so that patients can give access to their data to third parties, including doctors or other software developers, Wofford says.

Nearly 50,000 health-related mobile apps are already out there, letting people collect data about their well-being and interact with doctors and pharmacies from their mobile devices.

With the entire U.S. health-care system under pressure to reduce costs, insurance companies could start creating financial incentives for people to voluntarily share this data and improve their health and fitness.

President Obama?s Affordable Care Act, Wofford says, allows insurers to increase so-called ?wellness incentives? to up to 30 percent of a premium, up from 20 percent before. This would allow employer health plans to create bigger ?carrots? for their employees to go to the gym or use a Fitbit. Under U.S. law, incentives have to be based on behaviors?say, joining a gym?rather than outcomes, such as losing 10 pounds versus two pounds, Wofford says. The same rules do not apply in Europe.

CarePass will be offered to individuals at first, but Aetna plans to launch a portal for employers, too. There they will receive anonymous and aggregated data about the overall health trends of their employees, Wofford says.

As health-care costs increase for employers as well, they are likely to become more aggressive in looking for ways to reduce costs.

?I think it will be led by employers,? says Wofford. ?We see some more aggressive employers like Safeway, where they are driving outcomes by swabbing the cheeks of employees to see whether they are smoking or not.? U.S. law says that smokers can be charged higher premiums.

More data is not enough to improve health outcomes, however. And the data can be difficult to make use of. Zeo, a company that made a sleep-tracking device, and which was a pioneer in this area, recently went out business because people found its data too complicated to understand, Wofford says. ?If we make it convenient enough, the question is whether we can actually drive behavior change,? she says.

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Weight loss's effect on heart disease risks

June 25, 2013 ? A landmark study investigating the long-term effects of weight loss on the risks of cardiovascular disease among patients with Type 2 diabetes has now concluded, with significant results to be published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Conducted at the University of Pittsburgh and at clinical facilities throughout the United States, the multicenter clinical trial investigated the effects of an intensive lifestyle intervention program, intended to achieve and maintain weight loss in overweight or obese people with Type 2 diabetes, on rates of cardiovascular disease. Begun in 2001, the trial enrolled more than 5,000 people at 16 clinical centers across the United States and is the longest intervention study of its type ever undertaken for patients with diabetes.

John Jakicic, chair and professor in the Department of Health and Physical Activity in Pitt's School of Education and Director of the Physical Activity and Weight Management Research Center, served as principal investigator for the University of Pittsburgh's role in the study. He, along with colleagues throughout the University, is among the researchers comprising the national Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) Research Group, which carried out the study and authored the New England Journal of Medicine paper.

Among the study's main findings is that weight loss among members of the study's Intensive Lifestyle Intervention group, provided with a program of weight management and increased physical activity, resulted in no difference in heart attacks and strokes when compared with the study's control group, the Diabetes Support and Education group, which was provided with only general health information and social support.

The effect of the intervention program on weight loss, however, was significant: Participants in the intervention group lost 8.7 percent of their initial body weight after one year of the study versus 0.7 percent among the control group's members; the intervention group also maintained a greater weight loss, 6 percent of their initial weight, versus 3.5 percent for the control group, at the study's conclusion.

The Look AHEAD study is the first to achieve such sustained weight loss. A weight loss of 5 percent or more in short-term studies is considered to be clinically significant and has been shown to improve control of blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and other risk factors. Comparable weight loss can also help prevent the development of Type 2 diabetes in overweight and obese adults.

"While the findings from the Look AHEAD study did not support that engagement in a weight- loss intervention was effective for reducing the onset of cardiovascular disease incidence or mortality, this does not mean that overweight adults with diabetes should not lose weight and become more physically active," said Jakicic. "Rather, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence from this study to date that has shown that weight loss and physical activity were associated with numerous other health benefits.

"These include improving physical function and quality of life, reduction in risk factors such as lipids and blood pressure with less reliance on medication, better diabetes control with less reliance on medication, improved sleep, psychological and emotional health benefits, and many others," Jakicic said. "Thus, adults with diabetes can begin to realize many of these health benefits with even modest reductions in body weight and modest increases in physical activity."

The study sought to determine whether weight loss achieved with a lifestyle program would help individuals with diabetes live longer and develop less cardiovascular disease. While short-term studies had shown that weight loss improved control of blood sugar and mitigated risk factors for heart disease and stroke in overweight and obese individuals with Type 2 diabetes, the longer-term effects of weight loss were not well studied. In particular, it was unknown whether weight loss achieved with a lifestyle intervention alone could reduce the risk of heart disease in people with Type 2 diabetes.

Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes, affecting approximately 25 million Americans over the age of 20. Complications of Type 2 diabetes include heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, blindness, kidney disease, the nervous system disease known as neuropathy, and amputations. The total cost of Type 2 diabetes in 2012 was estimated to be $245 billion. This disease, for which there is no cure but which involves ongoing treatment, can be managed with diet, physical activity including regular exercise equal to at least 30 minutes of brisk walking each day, modest weight loss, and a variety of medications. The Look AHEAD study has shown that these lifestyle factors are effective for improving the management of Type 2 diabetes.

Study participants were individuals between 45 and 75 years of age with Type 2 diabetes and a body-mass index of 25 or greater. Sixty percent of the study participants were women, while 37 percent were from ethnic and racial minority groups.

The University of Pittsburgh's General Clinical Research Center and Clinical Translational Research Center served as participating clinical sites, with researchers here recruiting more than 330 participants over a three-year span. Jakicic credited the Division of Endocrinology within the Department of Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry in Pitt's School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology in Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health, with the success of the local clinical trials.

Participants were assigned randomly to the Intensive Lifestyle Intervention group or the Diabetes Support and Education group. Members of the Intensive Lifestyle Intervention group were enrolled in a weight management program that provided individual and group support for making changes in eating behaviors and engaging in physical activity. The intervention program focused on home-based, functional activities including helping participants balance, climb stairs, and get out of a chair, among other examples. Diabetes Support and Education group members received what Jakicic called "usual care, with some very infrequent support on general health topics that were not related to diet, physical activity, or weight loss."

Participants were required to have their own health care providers manage their diabetes and other conditions. Look AHEAD did not provide medical care, but it did assist participants in finding a health care provider if they did not have one.

The Look AHEAD study was intended to run for 13.5 years, the maximum length of time researchers had determined might be required to see a difference in heart disease between two groups. After 11 years, however, the Look AHEAD Data and Safety Monitoring Board, an independent monitoring board that provides recommendations to the National Institutes of Health, reviewed the data the study had collected and determined that Look AHEAD could reach the definite conclusion that there were no differences in cardiovascular disease rates between the study's two groups.

Speculating on the failure of weight loss to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, researchers suggested that even greater weight loss may be necessary to reduce cardiovascular risk in diabetes patients who are overweight or obese. They also suggested that by providing participants in both groups, and their health care providers, with annual feedback on the participants' blood pressure, lipids, and blood sugar control, the cardiovascular disease risks for all experiment participants may have been reduced at a comparable rate.

The paper is titled "Cardiovascular Effects of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention in Type 2 Diabetes." It appeared online in the New England Journal of Medicine today, June 24, 2013. Research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh's General Clinical Research Center and Clinical Translational Research Center was funded by a Clinical and Translational Science Award and a National Institutes of Health grant.

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Mystery girl to testify in Trayvon Martin murder case

By Barbara Liston

SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the Florida murder trial of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman will reveal a star witness for the first time on Tuesday, the girl Trayvon Martin was talking with in the last minutes of his life.

The teenage girl, known as Witness #8 until now, was due to testify about what Martin, the unarmed black 17-year-old shot and killed by Zimmerman last year, told her what he saw that night.

Identified in court on Monday only as Rachel, a friend of Martin from Miami, she received a running account about what was happening, starting when he noticed a man, Zimmerman, watching him in the gated central Florida community he was visiting.

Zimmerman, 29 and part Hispanic, was a neighborhood watch volunteer in the Retreat at Twin Lakes community in Sanford at the time of the February 26, 2012, killing. He has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and could face life imprisonment if convicted.

The racially charged case triggered civil rights protests and debates about the treatment of black Americans in the U.S. justice system, since police did not arrest Zimmerman for 44 days.

To win a conviction for second-degree murder, the prosecution must convince jurors that Zimmerman acted with "ill will, hatred, spite or an evil intent," and "an indifference to human life," according to Florida jury instructions.

In previous written testimony, Rachel described Martin as scared and trying to get away from the man. She was urging him to run. She last heard Martin say, "why are you following me" after which she said she heard what sounded like Martin falling. Then the phone line went dead.

The Martin family lawyer, Ben Crump, has said her testimony helps destroy Zimmerman's claim that he acted in self-defense.

Zimmerman placed a four-minute phone call to police when he first spotted Martin, telling a dispatcher that the Miami teen looked "real suspicious."

Martin was a student at a Miami-area high school and a guest of one of the homeowners. He was walking back to the house after buying snacks at a nearby convenience store when he was shot in the chest during a confrontation with Zimmerman.

Also on Tuesday, lawyers will continue to dissect witness testimony about Zimmerman's call to police. Jurors heard the 'suspicious person' call three times on Monday, twice during the opening statements and again during witness testimony.

In opening statements Monday, the prosecution portrayed Zimmerman as a man with a concealed weapon who committed a vigilante-style killing. The defense suggested that Martin was the aggressor, and Zimmerman acted to protect his own life.

Six jurors, all women, were selected last week to hear the case. Florida law requires a minimum of six jurors except in cases where the death penalty is sought.

Under Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which was approved in 2005 and has since been copied by about 30 other states, people fearing for their lives can use deadly force without having to retreat from a confrontation, even when it is possible.

(Editing by David Adams and Doina Chiacu)

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High court sends back Texas race-based plan

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court has sent a Texas case on race-based college admissions back to a lower court for another look.

The court's 7-1 decision Monday leaves unsettled many of the basic questions about the continued use of race as a factor in college admissions.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said a federal appeals court needs to subject the University of Texas admission plan to the highest level of judicial scrutiny.

The compromise ruling throws out the decision by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the Texas admission plan.

Kennedy said the appeals court did not test the Texas plan under the most exacting level of judicial review.

He said such a test is required by the Supreme Court's 2003 decision in Grutter v. Michigan upholding affirmative action in higher education.

"As the Court said in Grutter, it remains at all times the university's obligation to demonstrate, and the judiciary's obligation to determine, that admissions processes 'ensure that each applicant is evaluated as an individual and not in a way that makes an applicant's race or ethnicity the defining feature of his or her application,'" Kennedy said.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the lone dissenter. "In my view, the courts below adhered to this court's pathmarking decisions and there is no need for a second look," Ginsburg said in a dissent she read aloud.

Justice Clarence Thomas, alone on the court, said he would have overturned the high court's 2003 ruling.

Justice Elena Kagan stayed out of the case, presumably because she had some contact with it at an earlier stage when she worked in the Justice Department.

Abigail Fisher, a white Texan, sued the university after she was denied a spot in 2008. She has since received her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University.

The challenge to the Texas plan gained traction in part because the makeup of the court has changed since the last time the justices ruled on affirmative action in higher education in 2003. Then, Justice Sandra O'Connor wrote the majority opinion that held that colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies.

O'Connor retired in 2006, and her replacement, Justice Samuel Alito, has shown himself to be more skeptical of considerations of race in education.

Texas uses race as one among many factors in admitting about a quarter of the university's incoming freshmen. The school gives the bulk of the slots to Texans admitted based on their high school class rank, without regard to race. It automatically offers about three-quarters of its spots to graduates in the top 10 percent of their Texas high schools, under a 1990s state law signed by then-Gov. George W. Bush. Since then the admissions program has been changed so that now only the top 8 percent gain automatic admission.

Race is a factor in filling out the rest of the incoming class. More than 8 in 10 African-American and Latino students who enrolled at the flagship campus in Austin in 2011 were automatically admitted, according to university statistics.

In all, black and Hispanic students made up more than a quarter of the incoming freshmen class. White students constituted less than half the entering class when students with Asian backgrounds and other minorities were added in.

The university said the extra measure of diversity it gets from the slots outside automatic admission is crucial because too many of its classrooms have only token minority representation, at best. At the same time, Texas argued that race is one of many factors considered and that whether race played the key role in any applicant's case was impossible to tell.

The Obama administration, roughly half of the Fortune 100 companies and large numbers of public and private colleges that feared a broad ruling against affirmative action backed the Texas program. Among the benefits of affirmative action, the administration said, is that it creates a pipeline for a diverse officer corps that it called "essential to the military's operational readiness." In 2003, the court cited the importance of a similar message from military leaders.

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Modern dad?s day has become longer, more hectic

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Carl Poff attends a tea party with his daughter Joselyn, 4, in their playroom. The girls love to have tea parties about once a week, Poff said.

If there?s one word we might use to describe modern fatherhood, it would be: busy.

In an average week, modern dads are spending nearly triple the time on direct child care, and more than double the time on housework, than their fathers or grandfathers did in the 1960s, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the Census Bureau data on how Americans spend their time.

They're no slouches at the home, office, farm or factory, either. If they are employed, chances are they are putting in more than 40 hours at work, too.

?Fathers are much more involved today in their children?s lives than they were five decades ago,? said Wendy Wang, a research associate at Pew Research Center who co-authored the comprehensive report on parenting.

The shift has come as more moms have started working, but that doesn?t mean dads feel like they are obligated to take on more child-rearing duties.

Instead, Fred Van Deusen, senior research associate at the Boston College Center for Work and Family, said his research has shown that many dads want very much to be involved in their kids? lives. They?d like to spend more time with their kids, but they also feel the pressure to succeed at work.

?There?s still a lot of societal pressure on dads to be breadwinners,? Van Deusen said.

The Pew analysis found that in an average week in 2011, dads with children under 18 in the home spent 7.3 hours a week on direct child care, which would include things like changing diapers to helping with homework. That compares to 2.5 hours on average in 1965.

Meanwhile, they spent an average of 9.8 hours a week on housework in 2011, up from about four hours a week in 1965.

Dads also worked an average of 37.1 hours a week in 2011, compared with around 42 hours in 1965.

Wang said the drop is mainly coming from a decline in the number of dads who were working as compared to 1965, because of the weak job market and other factors. Employed dads worked 41.4 hours a week on average in 2011, down slightly from 43 hours in 2007.

Taken together, dads on average are now spending about five hours more per week on child care, housework and paid work than they did in the 1960s.

Nevertheless, moms still are doing much more child care and housework than dads, and dads are still doing much more paid work than moms.

?There is still a significant gap ? even though we see the roles of moms and dads are converging,? Wang said.

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Carl Poff takes the kids out for ice cream in Easton, Pa.

All this comes as no surprise to Carl Poff.

Poff, 42, jokes that he has about 40 minutes of free time a day -- which would be his round-trip commute to and from his job as a corrections officer.

One recent afternoon, he finished up his shift at the jail and immediately hopped in his car to go pick up his 7-year-old stepdaughter from the bus stop.

From there, it was off to his in-laws to gather his 4-year-old daughter, followed by a quick stop at the grocery store before getting homework done, making dinner and getting the girls to T-ball.

His wife typically gets home between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., after a day that includes at least two hours commuting to and from her job at the corporate offices of a major telecommunications company. Together, they have dinner and get some quality time with the kids before they go to bed.

After the kids are asleep, the Easton, Pa., couple turns to other chores, like dishes and laundry.

?It?s just how our schedule works,? Carl Poff said.

His wife, Jennifer, 34, said the household wouldn?t function if they didn?t have a partnership in which Carl regularly did things like laundry, making lunches and ferrying the kids to sports practices.

?It?s just part of him being a dad. That?s what he does,? she said.

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Carl Poff of Easton, Pa., makes beds as part of his daily routine.

Still, Jennifer said her husband?s daily involvement still seems unusual in their neighborhood, where other moms often compliment her for finding such a helpful husband.

?A lot of dads don?t do that, and I, like, absolutely love him for it,? she said.

Chances are, Jennifer also is busier than moms were in 1965.

In an average week in 2011, modern moms spent more time on child care than they did in 1965: 13.5 hours a week, on average, compared with about 10 hours a week in 1965.

Modern moms also spent about 21 hours a week at paid work, on average, up from about eight hours a week in 1965. But the amount of time moms spent on housework fell by nearly half, from an average of 31 hours per week in 1965 to 18 hours per week in 2011.

Even as dads are taking on more responsibility around the house, Van Deusen, the Boston College researcher, said societal expectations about mom and dad?s roles have been slow to change. That could explain why, even now, relatively few dads stay home full time.

There were about 189,000 stay-at-home dads to kids under age 15 in 2012, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That compares with more than 5 million stay-at-home moms with kids under 15.

Van Deusen, who has studied stay-at-home dads extensively, said many couples decide the husband should stay home because he makes less money, and were happy with the arrangement.

?It turned out it was working pretty well for them, but the people around them had a lot more difficulties than they did,? Van Deusen said.

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President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.http://news.yahoo.com/obama-chooses-lawyer-guantanamo-closure-envoy-200145023.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 16:02:11 -0400Associated Pressobama-chooses-lawyer-guantanamo-closure-envoy-200145023<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/current-former-officials-back-secret-surveillance-144904976.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/03LIT9Z0HbmK.A3KXx9eSA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9dc6c85a2bb1f014340f6a7067000774.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This photo released by CBS News shows White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough speaking on CBS&#039;s &quot;Face the Nation&quot; in Washington Sunday June 16, 2013. On talk shows Sunday guests ranging from McDonough to former Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA and National Security Agency head Michael Hayden said the government&#039;s reliance on data collection from both Americans and foreign nationals was constitutional and carefully overseen by executive, legislative and court authorities. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)" align="left" title="This photo released by CBS News shows White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough speaking on CBS&#039;s &quot;Face the Nation&quot; in Washington Sunday June 16, 2013. On talk shows Sunday guests ranging from McDonough to former Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA and National Security Agency head Michael Hayden said the government&#039;s reliance on data collection from both Americans and foreign nationals was constitutional and carefully overseen by executive, legislative and court authorities. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Current and former top U.S. officials on Sunday defended the government&#039;s collection of phone and Internet data following new revelations about the secret surveillance programs, saying the operations were essential in disrupting terrorist plots and did not infringe on Americans&#039; civil liberties.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/current-former-officials-back-secret-surveillance-144904976.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 13:31:41 -0400Associated Presscurrent-former-officials-back-secret-surveillance-144904976<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/current-former-officials-back-secret-surveillance-144904976.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/03LIT9Z0HbmK.A3KXx9eSA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9dc6c85a2bb1f014340f6a7067000774.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This photo released by CBS News shows White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough speaking on CBS&#039;s &quot;Face the Nation&quot; in Washington Sunday June 16, 2013. On talk shows Sunday guests ranging from McDonough to former Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA and National Security Agency head Michael Hayden said the government&#039;s reliance on data collection from both Americans and foreign nationals was constitutional and carefully overseen by executive, legislative and court authorities. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)" align="left" title="This photo released by CBS News shows White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough speaking on CBS&#039;s &quot;Face the Nation&quot; in Washington Sunday June 16, 2013. On talk shows Sunday guests ranging from McDonough to former Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA and National Security Agency head Michael Hayden said the government&#039;s reliance on data collection from both Americans and foreign nationals was constitutional and carefully overseen by executive, legislative and court authorities. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Current and former top U.S. officials on Sunday defended the government&#039;s collection of phone and Internet data following new revelations about the secret surveillance programs, saying the operations were essential in disrupting terrorist plots and did not infringe on Americans&#039; civil liberties.</p><br clear="all"/>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading GOP senator said Sunday.http://news.yahoo.com/graham-without-immigration-gop-fail-2016-161303315.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 13:22:51 -0400Associated Pressgraham-without-immigration-gop-fail-2016-161303315<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/could-big-money-leave-newark-mayor-booker-170600319.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/MP3A97EM0WfJXGsAQIx37w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/17bc9da92bc9f014340f6a7067000580.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Saturday, June 8, 2013, file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat that opened with the death of Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in Newark, N.J. Booker, 44, is currently serving in his second term as mayor. At right is former Sen. Bill Bradley. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Saturday, June 8, 2013, file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat that opened with the death of Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in Newark, N.J. Booker, 44, is currently serving in his second term as mayor. At right is former Sen. Bill Bradley. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz, File)" border="0" /></a>NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? Visits from Britain&#039;s prime minister, the Dalai Lama and assorted movie stars. A $100 million gift to the school system. Wall Street buy-in. Coverage from worldwide media.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/could-big-money-leave-newark-mayor-booker-170600319.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 13:12:49 -0400Associated Presscould-big-money-leave-newark-mayor-booker-170600319<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/could-big-money-leave-newark-mayor-booker-170600319.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/MP3A97EM0WfJXGsAQIx37w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/17bc9da92bc9f014340f6a7067000580.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Saturday, June 8, 2013, file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat that opened with the death of Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in Newark, N.J. Booker, 44, is currently serving in his second term as mayor. At right is former Sen. Bill Bradley. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Saturday, June 8, 2013, file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat that opened with the death of Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in Newark, N.J. Booker, 44, is currently serving in his second term as mayor. At right is former Sen. Bill Bradley. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz, File)" border="0" /></a>NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? Visits from Britain&#039;s prime minister, the Dalai Lama and assorted movie stars. A $100 million gift to the school system. Wall Street buy-in. Coverage from worldwide media.</p><br clear="all"/>Ron Wyden wasn?t fast enough for the NBA, but he?s plenty quick on his feet in the Senate.http://news.yahoo.com/senate-energy-chairman-broad-agenda-eye-toward-dream-135844691.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 09:58:44 -0400National Journalsenate-energy-chairman-broad-agenda-eye-toward-dream-135844691While the Senate debates an immigration bill on the floor this week, the House will finally dive into the process of marking up a bill, and it?s sure to be contentious.http://news.yahoo.com/house-debate-immigration-kicks-off-focus-enforcement-135843744.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 09:58:43 -0400National Journalhouse-debate-immigration-kicks-off-focus-enforcement-135843744Father's Day is just around the corner. Maybe you'll get a tie! Or, maybe you'll get two ties! But for some politicians, gifts from your child are not always so great.http://news.yahoo.com/politician-dad-fathers-day-scandal-132504434.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 07:46:32 -0400National Journalpolitician-dad-fathers-day-scandal-132504434Sunday show obsessives got a bit of a Father's Day treat on Sunday: Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace to talk about, among other things, the NSA data collection program. In something of a Greatest Hits interview, the former vice president threw everything he has behind government surveillance. And, despite looking a bit rusty when his cell phone went off on air, he's still got it.http://news.yahoo.com/rare-interview-dick-cheney-champions-nsa-surveillance-100827532.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 06:36:28 -0400National Journalrare-interview-dick-cheney-champions-nsa-surveillance-100827532President Obama's task in Europe this week, already daunting as the death toll in Syria mounts and the pressure for a more assertive U.S. policy there grows, has been made even more challenging by the recent disclosures of American surveillance in allied countries.http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-surveillance-jeopardizes-obamas-g-8-trip-europe-101540323.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 06:15:40 -0400National Journalnsa-surveillance-jeopardizes-obamas-g-8-trip-europe-101540323<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/rubio-wants-changes-immigration-bill-jebs-parents-split-192355578.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/THjcuwth6xtEFcQP9_cSZw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Rubio_Wants_Changes_to_Immigration-4c50f6cf924db6727fe08329cb891160" width="130" height="86" alt="Rubio Wants Changes to Immigration Bill; Jeb&#039;s Parents Split on White House Run" align="left" title="Rubio Wants Changes to Immigration Bill; Jeb&#039;s Parents Split on White House Run" border="0" /></a>Sen.?Marco Rubio?said the Senate&#039;s bipartisan immigration bill is ready to go as written, for the most part, except for a few minor changes that are needed during an interview on ABC&#039;s?This Week. &quot;It&#039;s an excellent starting point. And I think 95, 96 percent of the bill is in perfect shape and ready to go,&quot; Rubio said. &quot;But there are elements that need to be improved.&quot; Rubio conceded some Republican criticisms about the bill&#039;s border security issues are valid and that there are &quot;reasonable ways&quot; to fix those problems. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/rubio-wants-changes-immigration-bill-jebs-parents-split-192355578.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 15:23:55 -0400The Atlantic Wirerubio-wants-changes-immigration-bill-jebs-parents-split-192355578<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/rubio-wants-changes-immigration-bill-jebs-parents-split-192355578.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/THjcuwth6xtEFcQP9_cSZw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Rubio_Wants_Changes_to_Immigration-4c50f6cf924db6727fe08329cb891160" width="130" height="86" alt="Rubio Wants Changes to Immigration Bill; Jeb&#039;s Parents Split on White House Run" align="left" title="Rubio Wants Changes to Immigration Bill; Jeb&#039;s Parents Split on White House Run" border="0" /></a>Sen.?Marco Rubio?said the Senate&#039;s bipartisan immigration bill is ready to go as written, for the most part, except for a few minor changes that are needed during an interview on ABC&#039;s?This Week. &quot;It&#039;s an excellent starting point. And I think 95, 96 percent of the bill is in perfect shape and ready to go,&quot; Rubio said. &quot;But there are elements that need to be improved.&quot; Rubio conceded some Republican criticisms about the bill&#039;s border security issues are valid and that there are &quot;reasonable ways&quot; to fix those problems. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/jerrold-nadler-does-not-think-nsa-listen-u-163036644.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vcB8HZdXFNCVfmhVdpaWng--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Jerrold_Nadler_Does_Not_Think-b494cfcb114f9ad2f40e0faebca48db4" width="130" height="86" alt="Jerrold Nadler Does Not Think the NSA Can Listen to U.S. Phone Calls" align="left" title="Jerrold Nadler Does Not Think the NSA Can Listen to U.S. Phone Calls" border="0" /></a>An exchange between?Rep. Jerrold Nadler and FBI director Robert Mueller is coming under some scrutiny after a reporter claimed it concretely proves that NSA analysts can listen to domestic phone calls without a warrant.?</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/jerrold-nadler-does-not-think-nsa-listen-u-163036644.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 12:30:36 -0400The Atlantic Wirejerrold-nadler-does-not-think-nsa-listen-u-163036644<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/jerrold-nadler-does-not-think-nsa-listen-u-163036644.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vcB8HZdXFNCVfmhVdpaWng--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Jerrold_Nadler_Does_Not_Think-b494cfcb114f9ad2f40e0faebca48db4" width="130" height="86" alt="Jerrold Nadler Does Not Think the NSA Can Listen to U.S. Phone Calls" align="left" title="Jerrold Nadler Does Not Think the NSA Can Listen to U.S. Phone Calls" border="0" /></a>An exchange between?Rep. Jerrold Nadler and FBI director Robert Mueller is coming under some scrutiny after a reporter claimed it concretely proves that NSA analysts can listen to domestic phone calls without a warrant.?</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor-rick-perry-vetoes-equal-pay-bill-221618240.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ggCMJ9UlJTYtYAeqAjys6w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Texas_Governor_Rick_Perry_Vetoes-fb752fa395a68ba76e104f7e6dea8785" width="130" height="86" alt="Texas Governor Rick Perry Vetoes Equal Pay Bill" align="left" title="Texas Governor Rick Perry Vetoes Equal Pay Bill" border="0" /></a>Texas Governor Rick Perry has some bad news for Texas women. On Friday afternoon, the?one-time presidential hopeful notified legislators that Texas would not join the federal government and 42 other states that have addressed gender-based wage discrimination. Their bill, which installs state-level legal protections similar to those enacted by the federal?Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009,?had a lot of momentum before reaching Perry&#039;s desk. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor-rick-perry-vetoes-equal-pay-bill-221618240.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 18:16:18 -0400The Atlantic Wiretexas-governor-rick-perry-vetoes-equal-pay-bill-221618240<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor-rick-perry-vetoes-equal-pay-bill-221618240.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ggCMJ9UlJTYtYAeqAjys6w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Texas_Governor_Rick_Perry_Vetoes-fb752fa395a68ba76e104f7e6dea8785" width="130" height="86" alt="Texas Governor Rick Perry Vetoes Equal Pay Bill" align="left" title="Texas Governor Rick Perry Vetoes Equal Pay Bill" border="0" /></a>Texas Governor Rick Perry has some bad news for Texas women. On Friday afternoon, the?one-time presidential hopeful notified legislators that Texas would not join the federal government and 42 other states that have addressed gender-based wage discrimination. Their bill, which installs state-level legal protections similar to those enacted by the federal?Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009,?had a lot of momentum before reaching Perry&#039;s desk. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/still-dont-know-dont-know-nsa-194454358.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HomRDhZxYlo60bzYHexRPg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/We_Still_Don_t_Know_What-e650b95ac06670e9c862905716025e94" width="130" height="86" alt="We Still Don&#039;t Know What We Don&#039;t Know About the NSA" align="left" title="We Still Don&#039;t Know What We Don&#039;t Know About the NSA" border="0" /></a>In order to figure out if we are striking the right balance between freedom and security, it helps to know what&#039;s on both sides of the scale. But when it comes to the National Security Agency&#039;s domestic and Internet surveillance program, even after all of Edward Snowden&#039;s leaks, we don&#039;t actually know very much at all.?&quot;Yes, I worry about potential government abuse of privacy from a program designed to prevent another 9/11 ? abuse that, so far, does not appear to have happened.,&quot; The New York Times&#039; Thomas Friedman writes. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/still-dont-know-dont-know-nsa-194454358.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 15:44:54 -0400The Atlantic Wirestill-dont-know-dont-know-nsa-194454358<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/still-dont-know-dont-know-nsa-194454358.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HomRDhZxYlo60bzYHexRPg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/We_Still_Don_t_Know_What-e650b95ac06670e9c862905716025e94" width="130" height="86" alt="We Still Don&#039;t Know What We Don&#039;t Know About the NSA" align="left" title="We Still Don&#039;t Know What We Don&#039;t Know About the NSA" border="0" /></a>In order to figure out if we are striking the right balance between freedom and security, it helps to know what&#039;s on both sides of the scale. But when it comes to the National Security Agency&#039;s domestic and Internet surveillance program, even after all of Edward Snowden&#039;s leaks, we don&#039;t actually know very much at all.?&quot;Yes, I worry about potential government abuse of privacy from a program designed to prevent another 9/11 ? abuse that, so far, does not appear to have happened.,&quot; The New York Times&#039; Thomas Friedman writes. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/jeb-bush-isnt-quite-fertile-immigrants-because-tv-151117043.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aCp3OCQLRc_KdKhWiMUiXw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Jeb_Bush_Isn_t_Quite_Right-208d606846cdb2aef9f289f14822196d" width="130" height="86" alt="Jeb Bush Isn&#039;t Quite Right About &#039;Fertile&#039; Immigrants... Because of TV" align="left" title="Jeb Bush Isn&#039;t Quite Right About &#039;Fertile&#039; Immigrants... Because of TV" border="0" /></a>Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said immigration reform would help America in a speech at the Faith and Freedom Conference on Friday, saying, &quot;Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population.&quot; The fertile-immigrants argument seemed a little off-key, in part because it&#039;s a counterintuitive strategy for selling?immigration to the relatively white Republican base. But more important, the picture Bush paints of immigrants with tons of babies isn&#039;t quite right. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/jeb-bush-isnt-quite-fertile-immigrants-because-tv-151117043.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 11:11:17 -0400The Atlantic Wirejeb-bush-isnt-quite-fertile-immigrants-because-tv-151117043<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/jeb-bush-isnt-quite-fertile-immigrants-because-tv-151117043.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aCp3OCQLRc_KdKhWiMUiXw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Jeb_Bush_Isn_t_Quite_Right-208d606846cdb2aef9f289f14822196d" width="130" height="86" alt="Jeb Bush Isn&#039;t Quite Right About &#039;Fertile&#039; Immigrants... Because of TV" align="left" title="Jeb Bush Isn&#039;t Quite Right About &#039;Fertile&#039; Immigrants... Because of TV" border="0" /></a>Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said immigration reform would help America in a speech at the Faith and Freedom Conference on Friday, saying, &quot;Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population.&quot; The fertile-immigrants argument seemed a little off-key, in part because it&#039;s a counterintuitive strategy for selling?immigration to the relatively white Republican base. But more important, the picture Bush paints of immigrants with tons of babies isn&#039;t quite right. ...</p><br clear="all"/>Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida, had a lot to say at Friday's Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. But the thing that has everyone talking: his description of immigrants as "more fertile" than native-born Americans. Bush, a recurring potential candidate for president, is fluent in Spanish, married a Mexican-born woman and has a strong [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/jeb-bush-champions-immigration-reform-canada-conservative-conference-145326767.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 10:53:26 -0400blogs/ticket/jeb-bush-champions-immigration-reform-canada-conservative-conference-145326767Lyle Denniston looks at two new lawsuits about government surveillance that may force federal courts to think more deeply as to just what kind of evidence can be considered in a national security case.http://news.yahoo.com/constitution-check-aclu-cleared-big-hurdle-challenging-secret-102222967.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 10:20:48 -0400National Constitution Centerconstitution-check-aclu-cleared-big-hurdle-challenging-secret-102222967<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-fourth-war-141819320.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DrMO4ZU39vFX42QnOc_cuA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Obama_s_Fourth_War_-c2fdcd03463af976179581672b1a7a4f" width="130" height="86" alt="Obama&#039;s Fourth War?" align="left" title="Obama&#039;s Fourth War?" border="0" /></a>Syria is being compared to a lot of things ??Kosovo, Rwanda, Libya, Iraq?? and the Obama administration is divided over which lessons should apply.?Here&#039;s what President Obama will do for Syrian rebels: give them small arms and ammunition. Here&#039;s what he&#039;s considering: a no-fly zone along the Jordanian border, and maybe anti-tank weapons. Here&#039;s what he won&#039;t do, for now: give them anti-aircraft weapons the rebel commanders have been asking for, or put American boots on the ground.?</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-fourth-war-141819320.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 10:18:19 -0400The Atlantic Wireobamas-fourth-war-141819320<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-fourth-war-141819320.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DrMO4ZU39vFX42QnOc_cuA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/Obama_s_Fourth_War_-c2fdcd03463af976179581672b1a7a4f" width="130" height="86" alt="Obama&#039;s Fourth War?" align="left" title="Obama&#039;s Fourth War?" border="0" /></a>Syria is being compared to a lot of things ??Kosovo, Rwanda, Libya, Iraq?? and the Obama administration is divided over which lessons should apply.?Here&#039;s what President Obama will do for Syrian rebels: give them small arms and ammunition. Here&#039;s what he&#039;s considering: a no-fly zone along the Jordanian border, and maybe anti-tank weapons. Here&#039;s what he won&#039;t do, for now: give them anti-aircraft weapons the rebel commanders have been asking for, or put American boots on the ground.?</p><br clear="all"/>The National Republican Senatorial Committee plans to use the special Senate election in Massachusetts later this month as a testing ground for a new Get-Out-The-Vote app on Facebook that will make it easier for supporters to target friends who live in the state and encourage them to go to the polls. The race pits Republican [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gop-senate-group-testing-campaign-facebook-app-massachusetts-135854001.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 09:58:54 -0400blogs/ticket/gop-senate-group-testing-campaign-facebook-app-massachusetts-135854001<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/still-protest-supreme-court-003835236.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/d38P8Ug2G_atp9LwZq5Vzg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/You_Can_Still_Protest_the-ad9dbfca55d98cc43467136e0cf51e1c" width="130" height="86" alt="You Can Still Protest the Supreme Court" align="left" title="You Can Still Protest the Supreme Court" border="0" /></a>Have faith, Supreme Court rabble-rousers: the highest bench in the United States remains open to protests, speeches, demonstrations, and vigils. You may have to follow a few ground rules, though. In fact, you pretty much have to follow the same rules that were in place before.?</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/still-protest-supreme-court-003835236.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2013 20:38:35 -0400The Atlantic Wirestill-protest-supreme-court-003835236<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/still-protest-supreme-court-003835236.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/d38P8Ug2G_atp9LwZq5Vzg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theatlanticwire/You_Can_Still_Protest_the-ad9dbfca55d98cc43467136e0cf51e1c" width="130" height="86" alt="You Can Still Protest the Supreme Court" align="left" title="You Can Still Protest the Supreme Court" border="0" /></a>Have faith, Supreme Court rabble-rousers: the highest bench in the United States remains open to protests, speeches, demonstrations, and vigils. You may have to follow a few ground rules, though. In fact, you pretty much have to follow the same rules that were in place before.?</p><br clear="all"/>In a sharp escalation of the U.S. role in Syria's bloody civil war, the White House announced late Thursday that it will provide military aid to rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad after confirming that his government used chemical weapons against the opposition. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes told reporters [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-u-syria-rebels-military-aid-chemical-220823223.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2013 18:08:23 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-u-syria-rebels-military-aid-chemical-220823223

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