Nigeria: Breakaway Biafra leader Ojukwu dies at 78

FILE - Lietenant Colonel C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, then military governor of East Nigeria, center, is pictured addressing a press conference at the state house in Engu, Nigeria, in this May, 1967 file photo. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a millionaire's son who led Nigeria's breakaway republic of Biafra during the country's civil war that left 1 million dead, died Saturday Nov. 26, 2011. He was 78. Ambra state spokesman Maja Umeh confirmed the rebel leader died Saturday morning. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Lietenant Colonel C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, then military governor of East Nigeria, center, is pictured addressing a press conference at the state house in Engu, Nigeria, in this May, 1967 file photo. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a millionaire's son who led Nigeria's breakaway republic of Biafra during the country's civil war that left 1 million dead, died Saturday Nov. 26, 2011. He was 78. Ambra state spokesman Maja Umeh confirmed the rebel leader died Saturday morning. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Biafran leader, Lietenant Colonel C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, military governor of East Nigeria is seen in this 1966 file photo. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a millionaire's son who led Nigeria's breakaway republic of Biafra during the country's civil war that left 1 million dead, has died. He was 78. Anambra state spokesman Maja Umeh confirmed the rebel leader died Saturday morning. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - New head of state Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, seen in Engu shortly after the declaration of independence and formation of the new state of Biafra, in this file photo dated June 10, 1967, as he takes the oath of office. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has died aged 78, it is announced Saturday Nov. 26, 2011. The millionaire's son Ojukwu who led Nigeria's breakaway republic of Biafra during the country's civil war that left about one million people dead, died after recently suffering a stroke.(AP Photo, FILE)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ? Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu passionately believed his homeland in eastern Nigeria deserved to be its own country, a new nation free of the borders imposed by foreigners as colonialism lifted across Africa in the 1960s.

That hopefulness, seen in the rising-sun flag of the Republic of Biafra, descended into hellish reality as Nigeria's many ethnic groups fought over whether to remain unified during a bloody three-year civil war that killed 1 million people.

Instead of pan-African pride, it brought the first television images of starving African children with stick-like arms into homes around the world. And even today, the oil-rich nation still violently struggles with its identity.

Ojukwu, a millionaire's son who became the military leader of the breakaway republic, died in a London hospital Saturday after a protracted illness following a stroke. He was 78.

Maja Umeh, a spokesman for Nigeria's Anambra state, confirmed Ojukwu's death Saturday. Anambra state, in the heart of what used to be the breakaway republic, had provided financial support for Ojukwu during his hospital stay, Umeh said.

In a statement Saturday, President Goodluck Jonathan praised Ojukwu for his "immense love for his people, justice, equity and fairness which forced him into the leading role he played in the Nigerian civil war."

"His commitment to reconciliation and the full reintegration of his people into a united and progressive Nigeria in the aftermath of the war will ensure that he is remembered forever as one of the great personalities of his time who stood out easily as a brave, courageous, fearless, erudite and charismatic leader," the statement read.

Leaders said the war's end would leave "No Victor, No Vanquished." However, that claim has yet to be fulfilled as ethnic and religious tensions still threaten Nigeria's unity more than 40 years later.

Ojukwu's rise coincided with the fall of Nigeria's First Republic, formed after Nigeria, a nation split between a predominantly Muslim north and a largely Christian south, gained its independence from Britain in 1960.

A 1966 coup led primarily by army officers from the Igbo ethnic group from Nigeria's southeast shot and killed Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, a northerner, as well as the premier of northern Nigeria, Ahmadu Bello.

The coup failed, but the country still fell under military control. Northerners, angry about the death of its leaders, attacked Igbos living there. As many as 10,000 people died in resulting riots. Many Igbos fled back to Nigeria's southeast, their traditional home.

Ojukwu, then 33, served as the military governor for the southeast. The son of a knighted millionaire, Ojukwu studied history at Oxford and attended a military officer school in Britain. In 1967, he declared the region ? including part of the oil-rich Niger Delta ? as the Republic of Biafra. The new republic used the name of the Atlantic Ocean bay to its south, its flag a rising sun set against a black, green and red background.

The announcement sparked 31 months of fierce fighting between the breakaway republic and Nigeria. Under Gen. Yakubu "Jack" Gowon, Nigeria adopted the slogan "to keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done" and moved to reclaim a region vital to the country's finances.

Despite several pushes by Biafran troops, Nigerian forces slowly strangled Biafra into submission. Caught in the middle were Igbo refugees increasingly pushed back as the front lines fell. The region, long reliant on other regions of Nigeria for food, saw massive food shortages despite international aid.

The enduring images, seen on television and in photographs, show starving Biafran children with distended stomachs and stick-like arms. Many died as hunger became a weapon wielded by both sides.

"Was starvation a legitimate weapon of war?" wrote English journalist John de St. Jorre after the conflict. "The hard-liners in Nigeria and Biafra thought that it was, the former regarding it as a valid means of reducing the enemy's capacity to resist, as method as old as war itself, and the latter seeing it as a way of internationalizing the conflict."

The images fed into Ojukwu's warnings that to see Biafra fall would see the end of the Igbo people.

"The crime of genocide has not only been threatened but fulfilled. The only reason any of us are alive today is because we have our rifles," Ojukwu told journalists in 1968. "Otherwise the massacre would be complete. It would be suicidal for us to lay down our arms at this stage."

That final massacre never came. Ojukwu and trusted aides escaped Biafra by airplane on Jan. 11, 1970. Biafra collapsed shortly after. Gowon himself broke the cycle of revenge in a speech in which said there was "no victor, no vanquished." He also pardoned those who had participated in the rebellion.

Ojukwu spent 13 years in exile, coming home after he was unconditionally pardoned in 1982. He returned to politics, but lost a race for a senate seat. Authorities sent him to a maximum-security prison for a year when Nigeria suffered yet another of the military coups that punctuated life after independence.

He later wrote his memoirs and lived the quiet life of an elder statesman until he unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Olusegun Obasanjo for the presidency in 2003. Obasanjo served as a colonel in the Biafran war and gave the final statement on rebel-controlled radio announcing the conflict's end.

Despite the long and costly civil war, Nigeria remains torn by internal conflict. Tens of thousands have died in riots pitting Christians against Muslims in a country of more than 160 million people. Militant groups attack foreign oil firms in the oil-rich Niger Delta while criminal gangs kidnap the middle class. Poverty continues to grind the country.

The Igbos, meanwhile, continue to suffer political isolation in the country. While an Igbo man recently became one of the country's top military officers, others say they've been locked out of higher office over lingering mistrust from the war.

Some in the former breakaway region still hold out hope for their own voice, even their own country despite the cataclysmic losses.

As did Ojukwu himself.

"Biafra," Ojukwu told journalists in 2006, "is always an alternative."

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Associated Press writer Katharine Houreld in Nairobi, Kenya contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Gingrich wins NH backing as Romney plugs along (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich landed the endorsement of New Hampshire's largest newspaper on Sunday while rival Mitt Romney earned a dismissive wave, potentially resetting the race in the state with the first-in-the-nation primary.

For Gingrich, the former House speaker, the backing builds on his recent rise in the polls and quick work to build a campaign after a disastrous start in the summer. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has a vacation home in the state and has been called a "nearly native son of New Hampshire," absorbed the blow heading into the Jan. 10 vote that's vital to his campaign strategy.

"We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing," The New Hampshire Union Leader said in its front-page editorial, which was as much a promotion of Gingrich as a discreet rebuke of Romney.

"We don't back candidates based on popularity polls or big-shot backers. We look for conservatives of courage and conviction who are independent-minded, grounded in their core beliefs about this nation and its people, and best equipped for the job," the endorsement said.

The Union Leader's editorial telegraphed conservatives' concerns about Romney's shifts on crucial issues of abortion and gay rights were unlikely to fade. Those worries have led Romney to keep Iowa's Jan. 3 caucuses ? where conservatives hold great sway ? at arm's length.

At the same time, the endorsement boosts Gingrich's conservative credentials. He spent the week defending his immigration policies against accusations that they a form of amnesty. On Monday, Gingrich takes a campaign swing through South Carolina, the South's first primary state.

Even Democrats on Sunday were noting Gingrich's rise.

"He's clearly a smart guy," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York. "And look, I give him some credit for not just blowing with the winds on an issue like immigration. That showed some real courage."

Romney, taking a few days' break for the Thanksgiving holiday, has kept focused on a long-term strategy that doesn't lurch from one development to another. Last week, he picked up the backing of Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota conservative, to add to his impressive roster of supporters.

The Union Leader's rejection of Romney wasn't surprising despite his efforts to woo state leaders. The newspaper rejected Romney four years ago in favor of Arizona Sen. John McCain, using front-page columns and editorials to promote McCain and criticize Romney. In the time since, Romney courted publisher Joseph W. McQuaid. Earlier this year Romney and his wife, Ann, had dinner with the McQuaids at the Bedford Village Inn near Manchester, hoping to reset the relationship. It didn't prove enough.

Romney's advisers were quick to point out that Gingrich went into October with more than $1 million in campaign debt. Romney, meanwhile, was sitting on a pile of cash and only last week began running television ads ? a luxury Gingrich can't yet afford.

The duo's rivals, meanwhile, tried to gain traction.

Herman Cain on Sunday criticized any immigration proposal that included residency or citizenship but struggled to explain how he would deal with the millions of people estimated to be currently living illegally in the United States.

Cain, who joined the race to great fanfare, has seen his luster fade as his seemed to have trouble articulating the nuances of his policy positions. For instance, he was unable to explain the difference between "targeted identification," which he says would determine common characteristics of people who want to harm the United States, and racial profiling.

At the same time, Cain acknowledged that accusations that he sexually harassed several women during his days running the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s have pulled him from among the front-runners. He has flatly denied the allegations repeatedly.

"Well, obviously false accusations and confusion about some of my positions has contributed" to his fall in the polls, Cain said.

While Romney enjoys solid support in national polls, many Republicans have shifted from candidate to candidate in search of an alternative to Romney. That led to the rise ? and fall ? of potential challengers such as Cain, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Romney enjoys solid leads in New Hampshire polls, too. A poll released last week showed him with 42 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire. Gingrich followed with 15 percent in the WMUR-University of New Hampshire Granite State poll.

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas posted 12 percent support and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman found 8 percent support in that survey.

Those numbers could shift based on the backing of The Union Leader, a newspaper that proudly works to influence elections, from school boards to the White House, in the politically savvy state.

Huntsman, President Barack Obama's former ambassador to China, said the endorsement points to how competitive the New Hampshire contest is.

"A month ago for Newt Gingrich to have been in the running to capture The (New Hampshire) Union Leader endorsement would have been unthinkable," Huntsman said in an interview Sunday during a break in campaigning. "I think it reflects, more than anything else, the fluidity, the unpredictability of the race right now."

The endorsement, signed by McQuaid, suggested that New Hampshire's only state-wide newspaper was ready to assert itself again as a player in the GOP primary ? even if the newspaper has reservations.

"We don't have to agree with them on every issue," McQuaid wrote in the editorial that ran the width of the front page. "We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear."

Yet with six weeks until the primary, The Union Leader's move could again shuffle the race, further boosting Gingrich and priving a steady stream of criticism against his rivals. In recent weeks, Gingrich has seen a surge in some polls as Republicans focus more closely on deciding which candidate they consider best positioned to take on Obama.

He has also started to put together a strong campaign organization.

In New Hampshire, he brought on respected tea party leader Andrew Hemingway and his team has been contacting almost 1,000 voters each day. Gingrich hasn't begun television advertising and has refused to go negative on his opponents.

The newspaper has a decidedly mixed record of picking candidates. It backed Steve Forbes in 2000 and Pat Buchanan's 1992 and 1996 bids. Neither candidate won the Republican nomination.

Gingrich, who left the House in 1999 under the cloud of an ethics investigation and after disastrous midterm elections for the GOP, has faced skepticism of his personal life. He married to his third wife and acknowledged infidelity during his first marriages.

Even so, voters are giving Gingrich a look ? and the timing appears to be ideal for him.

"Romney is a very play-it-safe candidate. He doesn't want to offend everybody or anybody," said Drew Cline, the op-ed editor of The Union Leader. "He wants to be liked. He wants to try to reach out and be very safe, reach out to everybody, bring everybody on board."

That isn't the brand of candidate The Union Leader was looking to back, he said.

___

Schumer was interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press." Cain and Cline spoke with CNN's "State of the Union." Huntsman appeared on "Fox News Sunday."

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Anti-H.I.V. Gel Trial Is Canceled in Africa

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers were disappointed, because an earlier trial of the treatment, a microbicide gel, appeared to work well.

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Video: Thanksgiving takes many forms around nation

Millions line Manhattan streets for the Macy?s parade; Atlanta feeds thousands of homeless, and service members in Tucson, Ariz., get surprise servers. NBC?s Jeff Rossen reports.

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Face-to-face with the super-efficient silkworm

Chelsea Whyte, contributor

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Spin, spin, spin, little silkworm. These chubby grubs take in thousands of times their weight in plants - mulberry leaves are a favourite meal - and churn out strands of fine silk that feed a billion-dollar industry.

They are only a few centimetres long, but silkworms can produce a thread of silk up to 900 metres long for their cocoons. In this picture, the silk worm is lit from below with blue and red lights to show off the thread of silk it is spinning.

"Silk produced by spiders and silk moths demonstrates combinations of strength and toughness that still outperform their synthetic counterparts," says Chris Holland of the University of Oxford.

Not only do silkworms produce stronger fibres than synthetic methods, they do it more efficiently. The Bombyx mori is a Chinese silkworm that produces its fine strands at room temperature with only water as a by-product. In contrast, human production of oil-based fibres requires high-temperature manufacturing and creates harmful waste.

(Image: 2011 OSG)

Silk experts at the University of Oxford worked with researchers at the University of Sheffield to compare the energy used in the formation of natural versus synthetic fibres, which they hope will allow them to find short cuts to smoother silk production.

"This is about being inspired by nature," says Oleksandr Mykhaylyk of the University of Sheffield. The researchers say that spinning fibres the way silkworms do could reduce the costs of fibre manufacturing by 90 per cent.

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Minn. lost $60M in shutdown, but saved on salaries (Providence Journal)

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11 Uncomfortable Facts About How IQ Affects Your Life

We'd like to think that IQ isn't the determining factor for success in life.

But psychology professors David Hambrick and Elizabeth Meinz recently wrote an Op-Ed for The New York Times, "Sorry Strivers, Talent Matters," where they cite a few scientific studies that point to innate talent ? not practice ? as what separates the good from the great.

This is a bummer for many of us who want to believe that putting in the work will yield successful results. And not to say it doesn't: it just can't compete with outright intelligence.

Another unpopular idea is that of intelligence quotient (IQ) tests being an accurate barometer of a person's smarts (the Op-Ed also points out that SAT tests are pretty good measures of IQ).This all goes against recent thinking on the subject ? including Malcolm Gladwell's thesis in Outliers, which says that hard work is a key predictor of one's success.

As it turns out, many factors throughout our lives affect our IQ scores ? and conversely, our IQ scores can greatly affect the outcome of our lives.

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Toy safety report find some dangers

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Shoppers awaiting this week's traditional kick-off of the holiday shopping season should find plenty of safe toys for children, but consumer advocates say some dangers still lurk.

A report released Tuesday from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group found just over a dozen toys on store shelves that violate federal safety standards for lead and chemicals called phthalates or could present a choking hazard to small children. The toys deemed potentially dangerous included a whirly wheel, a plastic book for babies, a wooden blocks set and a Sesame Street Oscar doll.

PIRG also warned about toys that are too loud and could lead to hearing damage as well as balloons, which cause more choking deaths than any other children's product. About 40 percent of the choking fatalities reported to the government between 1990 and 2010 involved balloons.

The toy industry downplayed the report and pointed to government figures showing sharp declines in national toy recalls.

"All eyes have been on toy safety for several years now," says Joan Lawrence, the Toy Industry Association's vice president for toy safety standards. "I am confident that the toys on store shelves are safe. The toy industry works year-round on this."

Government figures show a continued decline in toy recalls, with 34 in fiscal year 2011 ? down from 46 recalls the previous year; 50 in 2009 and 172 in 2008.

Recalls related to lead were down from 19 in 2008 to just 4 this past year.

PIRG credited a 2008 law that set stronger standards for children's products ? including strict limits on lead ? for helping to make many of the products on store shelves safer for youngsters. The law was passed in the wake of a wave of recalls of lead-tainted toys.

PIRG tested toys and other children's products from major retailers and dollar stores for its 26th annual "Trouble in Toyland" report.

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Electronic contact lenses give rabbits Terminator vision, headed to humans soon (Yahoo! News)

Augmented reality could soon be just a blink away

In mankind's seemingly endless strive to become more robot than human, scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle have taken a big step forward ? giving rabbits a Terminator-esque vision enhancement. Using advanced contact lens technology, researchers have put small pixel displays into the eyes of bunnies in order to test the feasibility of future use in humans.

The first wireless pixel displays tested on the rabbits look a lot like ordinary contact lenses, but with a small ring around the edge. A tiny illuminated section in the center of the device is activated by a radio transmitter, causing the spot to light up. In testing, the display sprung to life at a distance of 3 feet from the signal source when the lens was sitting freely, but required a distance of just 2 centimeters to activate when placed in the animal's eye.

The tests were deemed a success, as they demonstrated that on-eye displays could be placed and removed without damaging the sensitive outer coverings of a living eye. Future tests aim to bump up the resolution to include multiple pixels capable of displaying numbers or text. Barring any major roadblocks, future versions could be useful in displaying navigation instructions or monitoring medical conditions such as glaucoma and diabetes.

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'Breaking Dawn' rises to $283.5M worldwide debut (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? "The Twilight Saga" has staked out another huge opening with a $139.5 million first weekend domestically and a worldwide launch of $283.5 million.

The domestic total gives "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ? Part 1" the second-best debut weekend for the franchise, after the $142.8 million launch for 2009's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." "Breaking Dawn" did more than half of its business, $72 million, on opening day Friday.

Opening in 54 overseas markets, "Breaking Dawn" pulled in $144 million internationally.

But the dancing penguin sequel "Happy Feet 2" stumbled in its debut, pulling in just $22 million over opening weekend. That's barely half what the first film in the animated franchise earned in its 2006 opening.

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Hands-On With The EZseal iPad Screen Protector

I love to use my iPad 2 almost bareback, With nothing but the Smart Cover to protect it. This is, however, the gadget equivalent of wearing a t-shirt with no pants or underwear, and offers about as much protection in the outside world.
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Obama slaps new sanctions on Iran energy sector (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? President Barack Obama on Monday ordered new U.S. sanctions on Iran's energy and petrochemical sectors that would punish anyone who helped Iran develop and expand its petroleum resources, the White House said.

The latest U.S. move seeks to step up pressure on Tehran after the U.N. nuclear watchdog highlighted fresh concerns about the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program.

The U.S. Treasury Department also planned to designate Iran as an area of "primary money laundering concern" on Monday, a U.S. official said.

(Reporting Matt Spetalnick, Alister Bull and by Jeff Mason)

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In Canada, hockey for everyone

? A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.

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A hockey player who has been diagnosed as legally blind is rollerblading from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Toronto to raise money to teach blind Canadians how to play hockey. Mark DeMontis, who has limited vision, is in-line skating through Canada with two friends who take turns being his guide. He is raising funds through an organization he started called Courage Canada, and is expected to arrive in Toronto on Oct. 15 ? two months after setting off from Halifax.

Mr. DeMontis says he was inspired by Chris Delaney, a blind Canadian who rode a tandem bike across Canada to raise funds for research.

Blind hockey is a sport that so far exists only in Canada. It involves a puck that is much larger, slower, and noisier than a normal puck ? which makes it easier to spot for visually impaired players, according to Fran?ois Beauregard, a captain of a Montreal-based blind hockey team called Les Hiboux de Montreal, or The Montreal Owls. Canada started having national blind hockey tournaments two years ago, but organizers would like to turn it into an international sport. They?ve received e-mails and phone calls from the United States and Sweden expressing interest.

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Bonnar comes clean with Koscheck after UFC 139 win

After winning a decision over Kyle Kingsbury at UFC 139, Stephan Bonnar was honest about a legal matter with a fellow fighter. After the win, he spoke with UFC commentator Joe Rogan and apologized to?UFC welterweight?Josh Koscheck.

"I have a little confession to make. I had this big plan to get this win, and then call out Koscheck. But you know what? Something about fighting makes you be honest with yourself. The truth is, he asked me not to make those shirts, and I did it anyway. So Koscheck, I apologize. You taught me a valuable lesson. From now on, fighters gotta approve of those shirts, and they'll get paid for every one of them."

Bonnar had a brewing feud with Koscheck. Though the two were castmates on the first season of "The Ultimate Fighter," they had recently fallen out when Bonnar's clothing company printed a parody t-shirt of Koscheck.

Based off the 1980s trading cards "Garbage Pail Kids," Bonnar's shirt depicted Koscheck as a Cabbage Patch Kid. The problem was that Bonnar didn't get permission from Koscheck to use his image. ?Koscheck sued, and Bonnar responded by challenging the much-smaller Koscheck to a fight.

"Words cannot describe how bad I want to kick Josh Koscheck's [expletive] right now," Bonnar said in June. "Sometimes I can't sleep at night because I'm up just thinking about all the things I want to do to him ? and kick his [expletive]."

But Bonnar has put those feelings behind him. Getting permission and paying fighters for their images is the right thing to do. It's just surprising to see Koscheck, who is usually considered a "bad guy" in MMA, teach that lesson to Bonnar, a beloved fighter.

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The Rumors Are True. I Am Leaving TechCrunch.

This won't come as a surprise to a lot of people, but I am leaving TechCrunch.

My departure is something people have speculated about since Michael Arrington's ouster two months ago, but it wasn't an easy decision for me. This isn't a knee-jerk reaction out of loyalty for my friend, nor is it about making a big "F-you, AOL!" statement. I've spent the bulk of my maternity leave agonizing about whether to stay or go-- the first half of it trying to find a way to stay and feel good about it, and the second half standing firm in my decision to leave, despite a lot of persuasive arguments to stay.

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Today on New Scientist: 18 November 2011

Full-disc encryption is too good, complain CSI teams

Full-disc encryption is a major consumer security leap. But it's got forensic scientists tearnig their hair out

Friday Illusion: Impossible straw and pin trick

Watch a straw appear to pass through a safety pin and find out how the trick works

Mouse-eared rotifer poses for photomicrography prize

A microscopic underwater animal with lobes reminiscent of a cartoon mouse is captured in the act of creating a building block for its self-made home

CSI: Fleming reveals true identity of penicillin

An investigation of the lab in which Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic suggests the find has been misunderstood for 80 years

Spot cancer before it starts with nanoscale microscopy

Advanced microscopy can look into the heart of cells to find tiny changes in DNA, potentially allowing diseases to be identified years before they take hold

Light pulled out of empty space

You can get something from nothing - as long as you are moving through a vacuum close to the speed of light

Nobel psychologist reveals the error of our ways

Daniel Kahneman has made a career challenging our choices, intuition and ideas of happiness. He talks about the cognitive slip-ups we make every day

Is there life for stem cells after Geron?

Geron Corporation's shock halt on its stem-cell therapy trial could give treatments based on "adult" cells the commercial edge, at least for now

Our deluded minds are just trying to make us happy

Changing the way you'll think about thinking, David DiSalvo explains What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

Yacht's attempt to smash sailing's 'sound barrier'

The Vestas Sailrocket 2 is based on an 40-year-old design but could be the first boat to ever sail at 60 knots

Wonders of nature win out at the Royal Society

The Wavewatcher's Companion, a captivating exploration of waves in their many and varied forms, is awarded this year's Winton Prize for Science Books

Why dyed hair is dull and lifeless

Dry, damaged, oily, blond? When it comes to hair type only thickness and dye really matter, a nanoscopic analysis of hair reveals

Astrophile: Supercritical water world does somersaults

The planet 55 Cancri e is the most watery world found yet, but its great ocean is a strange hybrid of liquid and gas

Feedback: Plight of the imprisoned executives

Business-class jail cells, a scientific prediction you can bank on, anxious bedbugs, and more

New results show neutrinos still faster than light

Two additional weeks of observations have not made the controversial result go away

'Third wheel' stars get cast out at high speeds

Single stars that try to come between a tight stellar pair are kicked into space at breakneck speeds, new simulations suggest

Humans learn to walk like rats

We may be the only animal to move around upright on two legs, but babies learn to walk in the same way that rats, cats, monkeys and birds do

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The 'Breaking Dawn' Boyfriend Survival Guide

It began last night at midnight and will continue this weekend across the country. Millions of Twilight fans will travel in droves to see "Breaking Dawn - Part 1," and, inevitably, among those moviegoers will be thousands of reluctant boyfriends and husbands, dragged along to appease their eager significant vampire-obsessed other.
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VigLink Debuts LinkWeaver To Help Publishers Monetize Outbound Clicks

VigLink, a startup that helps publishers and bloggers monetize their outbound traffic, is debuting LinkWeaver, a new technology which detects product and merchant references within content on web pages and allows website publishers to embed affiliate links automatically to create additional revenue. LinkWeaver, which powers VigLink?s link insertion solution, detects product and merchant references within content in web pages and automatically creates a custom set of links embedded uniquely within each page. LinkWeaver technology allows readers to instantly click to learn more about a particular product or service, or even make a purchase, without leaving the website to search elsewhere.

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Google opens music store to US, challenge to Apple (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Google unveiled its much-anticipated digital music store Wednesday as it opened a new front in its battle with Apple to provide services over mobile devices.

For the first time, Google Inc. will sell songs on the Android Market, its online store for apps, movies and books. The service is available over the next few days to customers in the U.S., but it aims to roll it out eventually to some 200 million Android users globally.

Some songs are free, while others were priced at 69 cents, 99 cents and $1.29 ? the same prices as on Apple's iTunes. Artists whose work is available right away include Adele, Jay-Z and Pearl Jam. The store will feature dozens of free tracks from artists like Coldplay, Rolling Stones and Busta Rhymes.

Google is offering 13 million tracks for sale, from three of the four major recording companies ? Vivendi SA's Universal Music, EMI Group Ltd. and Sony Music Entertainment ? and a host of independent labels. Warner Music Group was the major recording company left out. Warner spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment.

Google is allowing sharing of purchased songs over its social network, Google Plus. Friends will be able to listen to one another's songs once for free.

Once someone buys a song, it can be downloaded and is automatically uploaded for free into an online locker. The song can then be streamed over computer and mobile phone browsers, including the Safari browser, which comes on Apple Inc. devices such as the iPad. People who download the Google music app on devices running Android 2.2 and higher can stream stored songs or download them for offline playback within the app.

Google's director of digital content for Android, Jamie Rosenberg, took a dig at Apple's online song storage service, iTunes Match, which costs $25 a year. Google's cloud storage service is free for up to 20,000 songs.

"Other cloud music services think you have to pay to listen to music you already own. We don't," he said.

Recording company executives said that, although some of Google's features go beyond what is offered at iTunes ? specifically the one free listen for friends, the concessions were worth the benefit of reaching new customers.

"How many people do you know have both an iPhone and an Android device?" said Universal's president of global digital business, Rob Wells. "I encourage any new entrant into the digital music space who is going to help us reach a broad audience and sell legitimate songs."

Mark Piibe, EMI's executive vice president of global business development, said Google's plan to bring legitimately sold music to people in new ways "can only be good for the market as a whole."

Although Google and the recording companies hope sharing of songs helps sell more tunes, some observers were skeptical.

Adam Klein, chief executive of discount digital music store eMusic, said that for his customers, buying music is more a considered, personal decision that is often not influenced by friends' tastes.

"A Google-Plus tie-in will not make it a game changer," he said.

T-Mobile USA, which brought Google's first Android-enabled smartphone to market in 2008, also was a partner in the Google music launch. The cellphone carrier said it would offer other free songs to its customers and soon allow them to pay for music purchases through their phone bill.

Google also appealed to independent artists who release their own music, allowing them to upload songs, biographical information and artwork to the store after paying a one-time $25 fee. Artists would be able to keep 70 percent of all sales.

By launching the store, Google is opening its music service widely. It released the service as an unfinished beta in May to about a million people in the U.S. who requested an invitation and got one. That version of the service, which essentially uploaded your digital songs for online storage and allowed playback on computers and Android devices, proved to be a hit: Testers were streaming music on average 2.5 hours every day.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111117/ap_en_mu/us_tec_google_music

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Faster-than-light neutrinos pass new test

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The detectors of the OPERA experiment to measure neutrinos rise from the floor of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics INFN's Gran Sasso Laboratory. Two human figures on the left and right edges of the picture provide a sense of scale.

By Alan Boyle

Researchers say new tests have confirmed earlier indications that neutrinos can travel faster than light, but not everyone is convinced.

The claim runs so counter to a century's worth of physics that most observers won't be content until the findings from the OPERA experiment?are repeated under a variety of conditions, by different teams of researchers. If the results hold up, that would require a reinterpretation of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, which effectively sets the velocity of light in a vacuum as a cosmic speed limit.

The latest round of tests was conducted to address some of the criticisms that cropped up in the wake of the OPERA team's initial announcement about faster-than-light neutrinos in September.

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"A measurement so delicate and carrying a profound implication [for] physics requires an extraordinary level of scrutiny," Fernando Ferroni, president of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, or INFN, said in a news release. "The experiment OPERA, thanks to a specially adapted CERN beam, has made an important test of consistency of its result. The positive outcome of the test makes us more confident in the result, although the final word can only be said by analogous measurements performed elsewhere in the world."

"OPERA" is a tortured acronym that stands for "Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus." The team's researchers shoot beams of neutrinos from the CERN particle-physics center on the French-Swiss border to INFN's Gran Sasso Laboratory, more than 450 miles (730 kilometers) away. The travel time for each pulse of neutrinos is?measured to an accuracy of?billionths of a second. In the faster-than-light experiment, the researchers reported that the neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than a light beam would have.

The revised experiment sent out 3-nanosecond-long bursts of neutrinos, spaced by as much as 524 nanoseconds, INFN said. "This permits to make a more accurate measure of their velocity, at the price of a much lower beam intensity; only 20 clean events have been collected by OPERA in this phase. Additional events could be eventually collected in the next year run," the institute said.

Jacques Martino, director of France's National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics at CNRS, was quoted as saying that the search for potential experimental errors "is not over."

"There are more checks of systematics currently under discussion," he said. "One of them could be a synchronization of the time reference at CERN and Gran Sasso independently from GPS, using possibly a fiber [cable]."

Some physicists criticized the initial experiment because they thought it did not fully account for the relativistic effects of the Global Positioning System, which was used to track the elapsed time as well as the distance traveled between CERN and Gran Sasso.

INFN said the updated results have been submitted for review and publication in the Journal of High Energy Physics. But ScienceInsider's Edwin Cartlidge reported that?about 15 of the experiment's nearly 200 collaborators have declined to lend their names to the journal submission, on the grounds that further confirmation is required.

An unnamed source on the OPERA team?told ScienceInsider that the controversy over the faster-than-light findings was exhausting. "Everyone should be convinced that the result is real, and they are not," the source was quoted as saying.

Other researchers, including physicists with the MINOS experiment at Fermilab,?are working up independent analyses of neutrino runs to assess the OPERA team's findings. The initial?outside?assessments are expected to become available within six months or so, but end-to-end?replications of the experiment could take significantly longer.

Update for 2 p.m. ET Nov. 18: In response to some of the comments below, I've changed the headline on this item, which originally read "Faster-than-light neutrinos confirmed." I realize the new headline still implies that superluminal neutrinos actually exist even though the evidence for that is in dispute, but I hope you'll understand that this is shorthand for "New experiment continues to support hypothesis about faster-than-light neutrino travel."

More on the faster-than-light controversy:

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Fiesta Bowl chief says excesses are over (AP)

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. ? The new head of the scandal-tainted Fiesta Bowl says excesses at the top-tier bowl game are a thing of the past.

The bowl will no longer shower athletes and coaches at its game with lavish gifts, and bowl employees no longer can expect the same treatment, Fiesta Bowl executive director Robert Shelton said in an interview Friday.

Shelton was hired to repair the bowl's image after former President John Junker was fired in March for allowing excess spending, an apparent illegal system of political contributions and an effort to cover up the problems.

Shelton spoke to The Associated Press in his first in-depth interview since taking the job in June.

The scandal jeopardized the bowl's NCAA license and its status as one of four bowls in the national college football championship rotation. But it has emerged with its role as host every four years apparently intact, although the NCAA placed it on probation for a year and the BCS fined it $1 million ? to be given to charity.

Shelton said a new employee code of conduct has been enacted, new financial controls put in place and a fairer and more open way of distributing millions in charitable contributions from the nonprofit's coffers put in place.

"I think some of the excesses of the past ? we're just not going to do that anymore," Shelton said.

Shelton, 63, resigned from his post as president of the University of Arizona in June to take the Fiesta Bowl job. He had served on the presidential oversight committee for the Bowl Championship Series, the system that determines major college football's national champion.

A 276-page report of an investigation conducted by Fiesta Bowl board members and a retired Arizona state Supreme Court justice detailed the "apparent scheme" to reimburse at least $46,539 for employees' political contributions. The political contributions were first revealed by The Arizona Republic.

The probe released in March also found "an apparent conspiracy to conceal the reimbursement scheme from the bowl's Board of Directors and state officials," according to the report.

Junker was fired, and chief operating officer Natalie Wisneski, 47, resigned along with vice president of marketing Jay Fields.

Wisneski was indicted this week by a federal grand jury on charges of filing false income tax returns for the bowl game. She also faces federal campaign finance and conspiracy charges over allegations she solicited campaign contributions from bowl employees for federal, state and local political candidates and arranged for the bowl to repay them.

Federal and state investigations into Junker and others are ongoing.

Wisneski will make an initial appearance in federal court later this month. She did not return calls for comment after the indictment was announced.

The bowl has asked the politicians, including U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl of Arizona, to return the contributions. Kyl and McCain instead gave the money to charity. The Fiesta Bowl also sent politicians accountings of freebies they received, such as game tickets, and asked them to justify the expenses while implying the Internal Revenue Service would be notified.

Those actions angered many politicians, prompting calls to Shelton. But he said the bowl's board did it as part of its efforts to make things right.

Shelton said he knows he has a difficult job, mending fences, fixing years of moral lapses at the bowl and working to grow the franchise. But he also knows it will be difficult as the fallout from the Junker era continues.

"We will continue to take our lumps ? as we deserve," he said.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111118/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_fiesta_bowl_shelton

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Emma Bunton Designs Kids Collection for Argos

The former Spice Girl designs a fun collection for UK retailer Argos.

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U.N. court convicts former Rwandan mayor of genocide (Reuters)

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) ? The U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda found former mayor Gregoire Ndahimana guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity Thursday for planning the slaughter of more than 2,000 Tutsi refugees in 1994.

Ndahimana was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said in a statement.

(Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Editing by Richard Lough)

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Cain seeks support of key Fla. constituencies (tbo)

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Pressey helps No. 24 Mizzou top Mercer 81-63 (AP)

COLUMBIA, Mo. ? Coming off two knee surgeries, it would be understandable if it took Jibri Bryan a few games to regain his composure on the court.

But in just the second game of his college career, Bryan scored 19 points to lead Mercer in an 81-63 loss to No. 24 Missouri on Monday night.

"It felt great," Bryan said. "Really it started from the bench, encouraging everyone else. When you get in the game, you already feel like you're in the game, so it just flowed right in to it."

Missouri (2-0) built a 16-point halftime lead and pushed it to 61-39 midway through the second half before Mercer (1-1) used a 14-2 run to get within 10 points, capitalizing on Missouri's 10 turnovers in the second half.

"When we sped the game up, they started turning it over and we started making some plays and our guys just hung in there and kept fighting the rest of the game," Mercer coach Bob Hoffman said.

Missouri's Phil Pressey had a career-high 22 points with four assists and five steals. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound guard had contemplated leaving to go to Arkansas alongside coach Mike Anderson, who joined the Razorbacks this year after recruiting Pressey at Missouri.

But it wasn't a perfect night for Pressey, who received some words after the game from new coach Frank Haith about committing three turnovers in the second half.

"I have to take control of the game, and finish the game like a great point guard should do," Pressey said.

In the first round of the CBE Classic, Missouri extended its school-record winning streak over nonconference opponents at home to 60 games, since the 2005-06 opener. The Tigers entered the season ranked for the first time since 2003-04 coming off three NCAA tournament bids, and gave Haith his second victory at the school.

Kim English added 18 points and Michael Dixon had 14 as Missouri used its speed to force 14 steals. Dixon and Pressey combined for 18 points in the Tigers' first game against Southeast Missouri State on Friday.

Mercer, picked to finish in the middle of the Atlantic Sun Conference, started one senior and four sophomores after losing two-thirds of its scoring and 60 percent of its rebounding from last season. The loss of seniors Jeff Smith and Brandon Moore leaves the team with 12 players on the roster who are freshmen or sophomores.

Justin Cecil, the lone senior on the roster and a former junior college teammate of Missouri's Ricardo Ratliffe, added nine points for the Bears.

"It was pretty cool going up against him at this level," Cecil said. "It was nice. It was something I was always hoping to get to do."

Bud Thomas, who scored a career-high 18 points against Emory on Saturday, was limited to a field goal and free throw at Missouri.

The Tigers lack height without 6-foot-9 Laurence Bowers, out for the season with a knee injury, and often had four guards on the court, but Mercer failed to take advantage on the boards, getting outrebounded by four.

"Rebounding is not just about how tall you are," Haith said. "It's about your desire, your passion. Paying attention to detail and blocking out. Those are the fundamentals."

After Mercer closed within 63-53, English hit a 3-pointer with 5:12 left to end the threat.

Missouri leads the series, 4-0. It was the first time the schools met since 1996.

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We Get Greener as We Age

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After 65, people produce less carbon emissions with age. But the most carbon emissions occur just before retirement.

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Rick Ross, N.O.R.E. To Get Down With 'RapFix Live'

Meek Mill will also make an appearance on the show, airing Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET on MTV.com.
By Rob Markman

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Rick Ross is back and the Maybach Music boss has much to celebrate. After suffering two seizures in October, Rozay is focused on his health and relishing in the success of Wale's current #1 rap album Ambition. On Wednesday, the biggest Bawse and Meek Mill will be featured on "RapFix Live" and touch on MMG's reign, his upcoming album, his new mixtape with Drake and how he and his team are moving after his health scare.

Ross will also speak on Trina. Last week, "RapFix Live" invited Da Baddest Bitch to the red couch and talked to her about her new album, her love life and the possibility of her signing to Rozay's Maybach Music label. Trina stayed tight-lipped about the merger, but hopefully Ross can shed some light.

"I have a few surprises," Trina said on "RapFix Live." "This album, I want to make it more about me. I'm not going to have a whole album full of features. I'm working with some really great producers and Ross, of course. He's the structure and the leader for the album. I love Ross. He's like my brother, so it's really important for me that he understands where I'm at right now and to help make this album be as great as I want it to."

Ross has also been contributing to Meek Mill's as-yet-untitled debut LP, so expect an album update from the Philadelphia flame spitter as well as info on his recently released "I'ma Boss (Remix)," featuring Lil Wayne, T.I., Rick Ross, Swizz Beatz, DJ Khaled and Birdman.

N.O.R.E. will also make an appearance on this week's show. The Capone-N-Noreaga rapper has been down in Miami, not only putting the finishing touches on his upcoming Super Thug album, but also concentrating on his health. N.O.R.E. will talk about the steps he has been taking to shed pounds as well as speak on his buddy Fat Joe's new look and his thoughts on the recent death of hip-hop legend Heavy D.

That's not all. Fans will be able to see what industry insiders are listening to in our regular "Week in Rotation" segment and check out new talent with this week's "Get in the Game" pick.

Catch Rick Ross, Meek Mill and N.O.R.E. on "RapFix Live" Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET on MTV.com, and be sure to join the Twitter conversation using the hashtag #RapFixLive!

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