Nick Diaz has burned some in the media in the past, so when several media folks had the chance to grill him a bit they did it during today's final prefight press conference in Las Vegas.
A local television sports anchor went after Diaz particularly hard, but the highly volatile Diaz kept his cool. Watch the exchange on the full archive of the presser (25:50 mark).
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JERUSALEM?? A U.S.-Israeli citizen arrested in Egypt as a suspected spy flew to freedom in Israel and into his mother's arms on Thursday after more than four months in jail, after a prisoner swap deal that has eased friction between the two countries.
Egypt traded the U.S.-born Ilan Grapel, 27, for 25 Egyptians, most of them smugglers, held in Israeli jails.
A smiling Grapel looked fit after his one-hour flight from Cairo landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv. On the tarmac, his tearful mother, Irene, who had traveled to Israel from her home in Queens, N.Y., clasped him in her arms.
TV footage did not capture his comments, but the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, was heard telling him, "I'm very happy to see you here."
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Grapel was scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
The Egyptian prisoners passed through a land crossing from Israel as Grapel prepared to take off for Israel. TV broadcasts showed some of the Egyptian men kneeling to kiss the asphalt after crossing through a blue metal gate at the border crossing.
Story: Hamas frees Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in prisoner swapIsrael denied the espionage allegations against Grapel, as did his family and friends, and his release helped to ease fears that relations would sour after Egypt's longtime president, Hosni Mubarak, was ousted in February. He was not charged.
Hours before the release, his father told The Associated Press that his son had been held in isolation in an unknown location and that when they last spoke two weeks ago, he seemed to be in "OK" condition and "getting fed."
"I am happy that this thing will be done and over with and that he will be able to resume his normal life away from Egypt," Daniel Grapel said in a telephone interview from his home in Queens, N.Y.
He said his son and wife would remain in Israel for at least two days to meet with Israeli and American officials before returning to the U.S.
U.S. main player
Initially, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo had taken the lead in Grapel's case because he had entered Egypt with his U.S. passport. A former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Eli Shaked, told Israel Radio that the U.S. was a main player in clinching the swap deal.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. "worked hard to bring (Grapel) home." She added, "The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty is a vital element of regional peace and stability, and we strongly support both countries' sustained commitment to its provisions."
Grapel was volunteering at a legal aid group in Cairo that resettles refugees when he was arrested and accused of spying for Israel during the grass roots revolt that overthrew Mubarak.
He made no secret of his Israeli background, entered Egypt under his real name and his Facebook page had photos of him in an Israeli military uniform. Such openness about his identity suggested he was not a spy, and even in Egypt, where hostility toward Israel runs high, the arrest was widely ridiculed.
Grapel moved to Israel, where his grandparents live, as a young man. He did his compulsory military service in Israel during its 2006 war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and was wounded in the fighting. He later returned to the U.S. to study, and after his legal internship in Cairo, had planned to return to Emory University in Atlanta for his final year of law school.
Some Israelis have criticized their government for making a deal to free a citizen arrested in a friendly nation on what they think were trumped-up allegations.
Israel Hasson, an Israeli lawmaker dispatched to Israel to escort Grapel from Egypt, said the Israeli government was willing to free prisoners to defuse the situation. "This event could have developed into a crisis and we don't think either country needs that," Hasson told Israel Radio.
Story: Saudi cleric offers cash for Israel soldier kidnapSince Mubarak was toppled, Egypt's military rulers have often warned against what they call "foreign" attempts to destabilize the country. And like other Arab states, Egypt has a long history of blaming internal problems on Israel.
Israel and Egypt signed their peace treaty ? the first between an Arab state and the Jewish one ? in 1979. Relations have been cool since, but Mubarak carefully upheld the pact.
While the military leaders who now rule Egypt have vowed to follow suit, they have unnerved Israel with overtures to Israel's enemy, the Hamas militant group that rules Gaza, a tiny patch of Palestinian territory that borders both countries.
Those improved ties appear to have helped Egypt finally broker a long-elusive prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas last week, in which Israel traded hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, who had been held by Hamas in Gaza for more than five years.
AP correspondent Tia Goldenberg contributed to this report from Jerusalem.
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At the end of the day, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt really do rule the world!
Story: Aniston talks directing, dodges commenting on Brad PittThe exes are reigning together again at the top of a newly released celebrity body survey conducted by Fitness magazine and Yahoo OMG!
PHOTOS: Jennifer Anistion's hottest bikini moments
With Halloween just around the corner, ?The Biggest Loser? gang celebrated with sweet temptations, romantic relations and one scary weigh-in Tuesday night.
The former spouses have been voted as "Most Fit Over 40" stars, beating out Halle Berry and Will Smith, among other hot-bodied celebs.
PHOTOS: Us Weekly's Hottest Bodies of 2011
Slideshow: Jennifer Aniston (on this page)Aniston also took the (fat-free) cake for "Most-Wanted Celebrity Body" (triumphing over Berry again) and "Most-Wanted Celeb Body Part" (the 42-year-old's abs beat Cameron Diaz's arms by a landslide).
PHOTOS: Brad Pitt's sexy movie looks
The 47-year-old actor's partner Angelina Jolie was absent from the categories, which also include "Best Body After Baby" (Jennifer Lopez) and "Hottest Celeb Couple" (David and Victoria Beckham).
Story: Angelina Jolie and Gwen Stefani's kids share playdateBut when it comes to bodies that have lost their luster, "Jersey Shore's" GTL-shilling Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino were at the top of the "Celeb Body Boredom" poll, along with a curvaceous Kim Kardashian.
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HP caused a minor uproar when it announced just prior to Leo Apotheker's departure that it was considering splitting off its PC division. Well, after two months of internal debating, the Personal Systems Group will remain part of the company and Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard can rest in peace. The news comes from a just-issued press release where HP's new chief MG Whitman indicated that it's best for customers, partners, shareholders and employees to keep the PSG within HP. She goes on to say that ?HP is committed to PSG, and together we are stronger.?Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/YaA-EZX_l20/
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Rob Kardashian had much of the Kardashian family in the house to cheer him on last night, but did that translate to big scores for the Dancing With the Stars contender?
Not entirely.
With sisters Kim and Khloe, their respective NBA spouses Kris Humphries and Lamar Odom, and his mom Kris Jenner cheering him on, Rob couldn't quite find the magic.
His dance to “Walk Like a Man” with Cheryl Burke with the wardrobe to match was a fun doo-wop tribute, but his scores fell in the middle of the pack. Check it out:
“Each dance offers new challenges. There was no rhythm. It was awfully stiff. It wasn’t oily,” judge Len Goodman told Rob, while Bruno Tonioli chimed in as well.
“You have to be in charge. It was adequate, but it didn’t have the impact or power needed at this stage,” he said. Carrie Ann Inaba was more gracious, however.
“I definitely think I saw much more charisma out of you … I think you’re right on the cusp,” she said. Will being on the cusp keep him around another week?
Who was your favorite on Dancing With the Stars Monday, and who do you think will go home tonight? Rob, Chaz? Someone else? Share your comments below!
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KOLKATA, India ? Officials say the death toll has risen to 31 in the collapse of a wooden bridge in the northeastern Indian district of Darjeeling.
The 100-foot-long (30-meter-long) bridge gave way as more than 150 mountain villagers gathered on it Saturday night to hear speeches by local officials in Bijanbari, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the hill town of Darjeeling. The bridge was built in 1942 and weakened by a September earthquake.
Authorities say some who fell about 100 feet (30 meters) into the swirling Rangeet Khola River were likely swept away in the rapids. Rescuers searched Sunday in areas down river.
West Bengal state police official Surajit Kar Purakayastha says more than 100 people who were injured in the collapse have been found.
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Probably one of the worst things about our high-tech culture is the fact that it is difficult to talk to someone in almost any situation without them reaching for their blinking smartphone at least once. If you?re a dictatorial boss or someone who just likes to deprive others of what they want most, you can now do so for just about $100, if you don?t get caught. The Yapper Zapper?mini cell phone jammer ($109) will block cell phone signals (GSM, CDMA, DCS, PHS, 3G) in up to a 10-meter (30 feet) radius, meaning that your subjects will be rendered essentially smartphone-less for up to two hours on a single charge of the device.
The product?s Website boasts that this little pocket-sized device is perfect for silencing ?those pesky annoying yappers,? so we?re sensing a little anger here. They suggest using it on your commute (bad idea), in movie theaters, classrooms, museums or meetings rooms to give yourself a ?quiet zone,? which kind of makes it sound like the invention of your crabby 85 year-old neighbor who can?t stand to hear your TV on next door, but hey, to each their own. Besides being rude and inconsiderate towards tech-lovers (unless it?s an office prank), this thing is also very illegal. We?re not sure about every other country, but at least in the US, being caught blocking cell signals could garner a $11,000 fine, which ups the price tag of this gadget quite a bit.?
The technology and original price tag of the Yapper Zapper is impressive, but we can really only see this thing being used for evil. Besides, we like being connected at all time.?
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St. Louis Caridinals' Albert Pujols smiles as he jokes with teammates during batting practice at baseball's World Series Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 in Arlington, Texas. The Texas Rangers are scheduled to play the Cardinals in Game 3 on Saturday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Texas Rangers' Josh Hamilton hits a RBI sacrifice fly ball against the St. Louis Cardinals during the ninth inning of Game 2 of baseball's World Series Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Lance Berkman stretches at the start of practice Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. The Cardinals will play the Texas Rangers in Game 3 of baseball's World Series on Saturday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Texas Rangers' Adrian Beltre shows off his ripped batting glove to teammates after taking a few swings during practice Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are scheduled to play the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 3 of baseball's World Series on Saturday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ? Nelson Cruz, Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton got plenty of hits to put their teams into the World Series.
Now that they're here, the big-bopping trio has become a virtual zero. A combined 1 for 19, held to a mere single by Cruz.
The rest of the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers haven't done much better while splitting the first two games.
So far, a total of just eight runs. The last time there were fewer through the opening two games at a Series? Try 1950, when Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees combined with Philadelphia for four.
"A lot of people thought this was going to be an offensive World Series," Texas shortstop Elvis Andrus observed before Friday's workout.
Blame the slump on a few factors: raw weather at Busch Stadium, good pitching and, perhaps most significantly, hitters facing arms they've never seen before.
Both teams have flailed away at the plate, chasing sliders and curves that bounced, shattering bats and seeming to guess wrong on what pitches were coming next.
"We need to give good at-bats and get deeper and quit swinging at balls out of the strike zone," Mike Napoli said.
Napoli has hit the lone home run of the Series. He connected off Chris Carpenter, but maybe he had an edge ? Napoli had been 3 for 3 lifetime against the Cardinals ace going into Game 1.
The hitting woes are a repeat for the Rangers. They batted .190 last season when they lost the World Series in five games to San Francisco.
"Those Giants pitchers, they were awfully good," Texas manager Ron Washington said. "When a pitcher is on, you just don't have any offense. It's a testament to the first two games in this Series."
Fresh off their two-run rally in the ninth inning and a 2-1 win in Game 2, the Rangers start Matt Harrison on Saturday night at Rangers Ballpark. Kyle Lohse will pitch for the Cardinals.
"It's a tough place to pitch, especially when you see those flags blowing in. It usually means that jet stream is going to right-center," Lohse said. "I think everyone in the league knows that."
Each team adds a designated hitter, with the AL rule in effect at Texas. Cardinals manager Tony La Russa will make Lance Berkman the DH and put Allen Craig ? already with a pair of key pinch-hit RBI singles ? in right field.
The Rangers will likely use Michael Young at DH, move Napoli to first base and put Yorvit Torrealba at catcher.
At this point, it might take more than a wind tunnel to help the hitters.
Texas is batting only .186, St. Louis is stuck at .203. Hamilton and Pujols are hitless, and Cruz has been held to a mere single after tearing through the AL championship series.
On Friday, Cruz gave the Hall of Fame the bat he used to hit a grand slam in the ALCS. It was cracked ? maybe Texas and St. Louis need new timber, too.
It seemed fitting that when Texas scored those two runs Thursday night to even the Series, both crossed on sacrifice flies.
Each team has scored four runs overall. Back in 1983, Baltimore and Philadelphia also combined for eight through two games ? it's more than 60 years since the total was lower than this October.
"I think honestly we got out of our approach a little bit, maybe a little over aggressive trying to create things that necessarily weren't there," said Ian Kinsler, whose bloop single and daring steal keyed the Texas comeback. "If we can just relax and play our style of baseball, let the game come to us, we'll be all right."
Rangers outfielder David Murphy hopes it plays out that way, eventually.
"It's the World Series. We're going to face a guy tomorrow that most of us have never faced, if at all. Game 4 is a little different because Edwin Jackson has been in the American League enough to where most of us have probably faced him," he said.
"I feel like just watching the first two games, offensively, it's just a matter of who is going to make adjustments on the fly. We're facing their guys that we've never before and it's the same thing on their side. The pitching performances have been good, but we have confidence in our offense to put up runs, as well," he said.
So does Texas hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh. He was promoted from the Triple-A job when Thad Bosley was fired two months into his first year with the team.
Coolbaugh watched Young swing through strike three from Jaime Garcia in Game 2, then saw Adrian Beltre wave at a couple of low off-speed deliveries.
"I think it was evident that some of our guys were seeing someone for the first time," Coolbaugh said. "You can watch all the video you want and read all the scouting reports. But when you step into that batter's box, it all looks different."
Coolbaugh, however, was not surprised when the Rangers put together better at-bats in the ninth against Jason Motte and the St. Louis bullpen.
"That was two days in a row that we were seeing their relievers. The more we see them, the better off we'll be," he said.
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) ? Muammar Gaddafi is dead, Libya's new leaders said, killed by fighters who overran his home town and final bastion on Thursday. His bloodied body was stripped and displayed around the world from cellphone video.
Senior officials in the interim government, which ended his 42-year rule two months ago but had laboured to subdue thousands of diehard loyalists, said his death would allow a declaration of "liberation" after eight months of bloodshed.
"We confirm that all the evils, plus Gaddafi, have vanished from this beloved country," Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said in Tripoli as the body was delivered, a prize of war, to Misrata, the city whose siege and suffering at the hands of Gaddafi's forces made it a symbol of the rebel cause.
"It's time to start a new Libya, a united Libya," Jibril added. "One people, one future." A formal declaration of liberation, that will set the clock ticking on a timeline to elections, would be made by Friday, he said later.
Western leaders, who had held off cautiously from comment until Jibril spoke, echoed his sentiments now that Gaddafi, a self-styled "king of kings" in Africa whom they had lately courted after decades of enmity, was dead at 69.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who with French President Nicolas Sarkozy was an early sponsor of February's revolt in Benghazi, said: "People in Libya today have an even greater chance after this news of building themselves a strong and democratic future."
The new national flag, resurrected by rebels who forced Gaddafi from his capital Tripoli in August, filled streets and squares as jubilant crowds whooped for joy and fired in the air.
In Sirte, a one-time fishing village and Gaddafi's home town that grandiose schemes had styled a new "capital of Africa", fighters danced, brandishing a golden pistol they said they had taken from Gaddafi.
Accounts were hazy of his final hours, which also appeared to have cost the lives of senior aides. But top officials of the National Transitional Council, including Abdel Majid Mlegta, said he had died of wounds sustained in clashes.
FINAL HOURS
One possible description, pieced together from various sources, suggests that Gaddafi may have tried to break out of his final redoubt at dawn in a convoy of vehicles after weeks of dogged resistance. However, he was stopped by a NATO air strike and captured, possibly three or four hours later, after gun battles with NTC fighters who found him hiding in a drainage culvert.
NATO said its warplanes fired on a convoy near Sirte about 8:30 a.m. (0630 GMT), striking two military vehicles in the group, but could not confirm that Gaddafi had been a passenger.
Accounts from his enemies suggested his capture, and death soon after from wounds, may have taken place around noon.
One of Gaddafi's sons, heir-apparent Saif al-Islam, was at large, they believed. NTC official Mlegta told Reuters that he was surrounded after also trying to flee Sirte. Another son, Mo'tassim, whose arrest was announced earlier in the day, had been killed resisting his captors, Mlegta added.
He said that the elder Gaddafi had been wounded in both legs early in the morning as he tried to flee in the convoy which NATO warplanes attacked. "He was also hit in his head," he said. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."
There was no shortage of NTC fighters in Sirte claiming to have seen him die, though many accounts were conflicting. Libyan television carried video of two drainage pipes, about a metre across, where it said fighters had cornered a man who long inspired both fear and admiration around the world.
After February's uprising in the long discontented east of the country around Benghazi -- inspired by the Arab Spring movements that overthrew the leaders of neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt -- the revolt against Gaddafi ground slowly across the country before a dramatic turn saw Tripoli fall in August.
LIBERATION
An announcement of final liberation was expected as the chairman of the NTC prepared to address the nation of six million. They now face the challenge of turning oil wealth once monopolised by Gaddafi and his clan into a democracy that can heal an array of tribal, ethnic and regional divisions he exploited.
The two months since the fall of Tripoli have tested the nerves of the motley alliance of anti-Gaddafi forces and their Western and Arab backers, who had begun to question the ability of the NTC forces to root out diehard Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte and a couple of other towns.
Gaddafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, was toppled by rebel forces on Aug. 23, a week short of the 42nd anniversary of the military coup which brought him to power in 1969.
NTC fighters hoisted the red, black and green national flag above a large utilities building in the centre of a newly-captured Sirte neighbourhood and celebratory gunfire broke out among their ecstatic and relieved comrades.
Hundreds of NTC troops had surrounded the Mediterranean coastal town for weeks in a chaotic struggle that killed and wounded scores of the besieging forces and an unknown number of defenders.
NTC fighters said there were a large number of corpses inside the last redoubts of the Gaddafi troops. It was not immediately possible to verify that information.
The death of Gaddafi is a setback to campaigners seeking the full truth about the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie in Scotland of Pan Am flight 103 which claimed 270 lives, mainly Americans, and for which one of Gaddafi's agents was convicted.
"There is much still to be resolved and we may now have lost an opportunity for getting nearer the truth," said Jim Swire, the father of one of the Lockerbie victims.
Swire has never believed in the guilt of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi who was convicted of the bombing in 2001 and sent to serve a life sentence in a Scottish prison. Al-Megrahi was released and sent back to Libya in 2009 because he was thought to only have a few months to live.
"Although we have not a scrap of evidence that Gaddafi himself was involved in causing the Lockerbie atrocity, my take on that was that at least he would have known who was," Swire told Sky TV.
"I would have loved to see Gaddafi appear in front of the International Criminal Court both to answer charges against the gross treatment of his own people ... and to hear what he knew about the Lockerbie atrocity."
(Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by David Stamp)
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All cars have headlights. They?re a basic part of our image of a car, the eyes on its face. At night they need to be up high and far apart to light the road for the driver, and light the car for everyone else. But during the daytime, they?re just blocking the airflow and taking up space. Style the front end however you like, but you must include those lights. What if they were hidden, and only came out at night? Designers answered this question in an amazing number of ways over seven decades. But now hidden headlights are gone, never to return.
Gordon Buehrig and his team of stylists designed the first hidden headlights in 1935, for the radical front-drive Cord Model 810. Modified Stinson landing lights disappeared into the fenders with dashboard hand cranks. Without a pair of big lamps taking up the space between radiator and fenders, the grille could extend around the sides of the Cord?s ?coffin nose?. Just clean shapes of nose and fenders, a sleeker look than anything ever seen on the street. It was the hit of the New York Auto Show (movie here, lights at 0:35).
Then Harley Earl hid the lights in his 1938 Buick ?Y-Job?, Detroit?s first concept car. Finally, for its brief pre-war run, the ?42 DeSoto featured new ?Airfoil? lights. ?Out of Sight Except at Night!? First hidden headlights in a mass-market car.
Close inspection of a video shows the headlights remained fixed, with rotating covers. Certainly easier to keep the lights aligned when they don?t move. Headlight covers have practically no effect on the airflow, they?re mechanical devices with no functional effect, just appearance. Strange isn?t it? Imagine if ?59 cars had power fins.
After the war the ?46 DeSoto had the same front end, but with conventional sealed beams where the lights were hiding before the war. Why did Chrysler drop them? They could have been DeSoto?s style trademark. Imagine a Forward Look DeSoto front end with nothing but chrome grille from hood to bumper.
The ?42 DeSoto marks the end of the ?classic era? of hidden headlights. For all the wild excess of gizmos and gadgets in fifties American cars, every single one exposed its lights. Going to duals was the big story in late-fifties headlights. No hidden headlights popped up in any 1950?s production car, anywhere in the world, so far as I can find.
Then came the British Invasion of style and sports cars. In 1962 Lotus hid its lights to cheat the wind and preserve the racing lines of its fenders. Like the Cord, these are pop-ups. Perfect match of form and function. When Emma Peel brought her Elan to American TV screens, it made a big impression (not just on teenage guys like me).
Larry Shinoda?s sensational Sting Ray Corvette followed in ?63. Its headlights rotate up. With that, headlights started going into hiding all over the place, especially at style-leader GM.
For 1965, Bill Mitchell moved his Riviera?s dual headlights out of the main grille, to vertical stacks behind its LaSalle-inspired fender grilles, which opened with?amazing eyelid action.?Siblings Olds Toronado and Cadillac Eldorado followed in ?66 and ?67, joined by the Pontiac Grand Prix and Ford Thunderbird. Hidden headlights defined the new class of personal luxury cars. ?In the ?68 Toronado the whole grille rotated up!
Muscle cars put their shades on too: Dodge Charger in ?66, Chevy Camaro and Mercury Cougar in ?67 and that rubber-nosed ?68 GTO we saw last month. Charger lights rotated up from below, Cougar had covers going up, and?Camaro used a clever sideways sliding panel.
These years also saw the?launch of the Brougham epoch. Ordinary ?full-size? cars inevitably adopted the mark of personal luxury and performance: hidden headlights. The sixties-standard fender-to-fender rectangular grille with dual headlights at each end made LTD-eification easy. Just design a full-width grille, cut some flaps to hide the headlights, and you?ve got the Eldorado look.
Check out these ?68 Fords, the name-debased Galaxie 500, and its broughamification, the LTD. Ford used vacuum-operated flat covers, going up. If there was a ?68 Ford model kit, I?ll bet it had two grilles to choose from, just like on the assembly line.
It?s said on the web that certain early FoMoCo headlights had?a persistent problem with the vacuum system. The issue is that headlights must come on quickly when needed, and opening the covers with engine vacuum was too slow. So Ford engineered an opposite solution (the technical term is ?kludge?). A vacuum reservoir held the covers closed, against a spring that quickly opened them on command. While parked, the stored vacuum held the covers closed. Until it started to leak. Then the covers would slowly start opening partway, giving the car that special ?half-asleep? look. On used car lots, they had to be started every night to recharge the vacuum and hold the covers closed all day. Reliable electric drives eventually replaced all this.
By the end of the sixties, the fuselage Plymouth Gran Fury / Sport Suburban and Chevy Caprice / Impala SS (with optional vacuum-operated rising covers) joined the Ford LTD / XL with full-width grilles, first seen in that ?65?Riviera. At Chevy, Ford and Plymouth, hidden headlights marked the top-of-the-line big cars, at least briefly.
This brings us up to 1970, the high water mark for hidden headlights in American cars. Where did the changing tides of style, taste, regulations and technology take them? What do hidden headlights say about how cars look to us humans? Keep watching for part two, real soon now.
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WASHINGTON ? Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Attorney General Eric Holder are opposing a Senate Republican effort that would prohibit the United States from prosecuting terror suspects in federal court.
Panetta and Holder sent a letter to Senate leaders saying the measure would deprive them of a potent weapon in the fight against terrorism and increase the risk of terrorists escaping justice and putting innocent lives in danger.
Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte (AY'-aht) of New Hampshire has offered an amendment to a spending bill for the Justice Department and several other Cabinet agencies. Her amendment would prohibit the use of funds for trying enemy combatants in federal courts.
It's unclear when the Senate will vote on the amendment. Lawmakers hope to complete the bill by week's end.
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MANILA?? Pole dancing to the music of a 20-piece live orchestra, including violins? Yes, says one Philippine pole dance troupe that seeks respect for its art and athleticism.
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Against the background of women around the world turning to pole dancing as a form of exercise, the Manila-based group Polecats proved at a recent weekend show that performances are no longer only for strip clubs and sleazy bars ? or just for women, either.
As the orchestra played classical-style arrangements of modern songs, dancers of both genders swung and climbed gracefully up 12-foot poles, combining flexibility, strength, and moves bordering on acrobatics, with sensuality.
"You don't go to Cirque du Soleil to get turned on, although maybe you will, but I just want people to see that we're really good at what we do, and not just hot," said Christina Dy, the Polecats director.
Routines involving swings and twirls require balance, concentration and a high level of technical skills, and that is what audiences should appreciate, she added.
"I just want people to see that this is very hard ... if you just want the hair flipping, the grinding and all that, the boob popping, you can get that anywhere," she said.
'Might be sexy'
The group has gathered male performers, as well as male viewers, by focusing on the athletic aspects of performing, said Job Bautista, the first man to become a regular Polecats members.
"Now here in the Philippines we're trying to promote the more acrobatic type of pole dancing, which we Polecats think is more suited to men," he said.
The group employed the help of fast-strutting practitioners of Parkour ? a movement method of French origin involving running, jumping, vaulting, and rolling around obstacles ? to introduce new routines that would appeal to men.
The group expects more male recruits as soon as lessons for men start in full this month.
"There are a lot of big movements like balancing and pulling yourself up on the pole. It might be sexy in a way, but not only for girls," said Parkour practitioner Flynn Siy.
Organizations such as the International Pole Dance Fitness Association have been advocating professional pole dancing for fitness and sport. Ultimately, the goal is to include it in the Olympics.
In a reflection of this growing respectability, the audience included many professionals and dance lovers, along with foreign residents of Manila.
"Every kid has dreamed of climbing a pole, and this takes it to a completely different level," said Sally Clark, an environmentalist from the United States and long-term Philippines resident.
"I think it's much harder than it looks, so yeah, I might try it sometime if I have the chance."
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44955755/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/
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This book cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson. (AP Photo/Simon & Schuster)
This book cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson. (AP Photo/Simon & Schuster)
FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2007, file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the Apple Nano in San Francisco. Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs comes out on Oct. 24. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? For Steve Jobs, products, not profits were the main motivation at Apple and he called a new crop of managers brought in to the company after his ouster "corrupt people" with "corrupt values" who cared only about making money, according to an authorized biography of the late Apple CEO.
Jobs was often bullied in school and stopped going to church at age 13, according to "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson, which will be published Monday by Simon & Schuster. The Associated Press purchased a copy Thursday. Advanced sales of the biography have topped best-seller lists since Jobs died Oct. 5 after a long battle with cancer at age 56.
According to the book, Jobs never went back to church after he saw a photo of starving children on the cover of Life Magazine. Later, he spent years studying Zen Buddhism.
As a teenager, he exhibited some odd behaviors ? he began to try various diets, eating just fruits and vegetables for a time, and perfected staring at others without blinking.
Later, on the naming of Apple, Jobs told Isaacson he was "on one of my fruitarian diets."
He'd just come back from an apple farm, and he thought the name sounded "fun, spirited and not intimidating."
Jobs reveals in the book that he didn't want to go to college, and the only school he applied to was costly private college Reed in Portland, Ore. Once accepted, his parents tried to talk him out of attending Reed, but he told them he wouldn't go to college at all if they didn't let him go there. Though he ended up attending, Jobs dropped out of the school after less than a year and never went back.
Jobs' eye for simple, clean design was evident from early on. The case of the Apple II computer had originally included a Plexiglas cover, metal straps and a roll-top door. Jobs, though, wanted something elegant that would make Apple stand out. He told Isaacson he was struck by Cuisinart food processors while browsing at a department store and decided he wanted a case made of molded plastic.
Jobs was never a typical CEO. Apple's first president, Mike Scott, was hired mainly to manage Jobs, then 22. One of his first projects: getting Jobs to bathe more often. It didn't really work.
In the early 1990s, after Jobs was ousted from Apple, he watched the company's gradual decline from afar. He was angered by the new crop of people brought in the run Apple, and he called them "corrupt."
He told Issacson they cared only about making money "for themselves mainly, and also for Apple? rather than making great products."
He also revealed that the Beatles is one of his favorite bands, and one of his wishes was to get the band on iTunes before he died. He got them available for sale on iTunes in late 2010. Until then, the biggest-selling, most influential group in rock history has been glaringly absent from iTunes and other legal online music services.
The book was originally called "iSteve" and scheduled to come out in March 2012. The release date was moved up to November, then, after Jobs' death, to this coming Monday. Isaacson interviewed Jobs more than 40 times, including just a few weeks before his death.
The book says Jobs put no subject off limits and had no control over its contents.
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AP Technology Writers Barbara Ortutay and Peter Svensson contributed to this story from New York.
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MANILA, Philippines ? About 3,000 U.S. and Filipino marines started two weeks of annual military drills in the Philippines on Monday that will include a hostile beach assault exercise near the disputed Spratly Islands.
U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Nick Eisenbeiser said the Oct. 17-28 maneuvers would focus on honing their joint capability to ensure regional security and were not aimed at China or any country as an imaginary target.
"They shouldn't get worried," Eisenbeiser told The Associated Press, when asked if the exercises were aimed at China, whose growing naval power has set off concerns in the region. "We're assisting the Chinese in ensuring that their region is peaceful."
The exercises would ensure that U.S. and Philippine forces could jointly respond to "anything that arises," he said.
The United States irked Beijing last year by asserting that Washington had a national security interest in the peaceful resolution of the disputes over the Spratly Islands.
The potentially oil-rich islands are located in the South China Sea, between Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia, and straddle some of the world's busiest sea lanes.
China seeks to resolve the disputes through bilateral talks with five other claimants, including the Philippines. Beijing has rejected any U.S. role in the resolution of the disputes over the islands.
Philippine military spokeswoman 1st Lt. Cherryl Tindog said an Oct. 27 drill will involve a mock raid by about 100 U.S. and Filipino marines from an American warship to capture a hostile beachhead west of Palawan province, which faces the South China Sea.
Other events include a live-fire exercise in Crow Valley in Tarlac province, north of Manila, and medical missions and school constructions in several Philippine towns.
One Filipino-occupied island was proposed as a possible site for joint training but was ruled out to avoid antagonizing China and other claimants. The island lies close to a Spratly reef occupied by Chinese forces and an island separately occupied by Vietnamese forces. The information came from two officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.
Philippine marine Brig. Gen. Eugenio Clemen said the exercises with U.S. forces would be confined to the country's territory so "nobody could question that."
The Philippines and Vietnam, another Spratlys claimant, have separately accused Chinese vessels of intruding into what they say is their part of the contested areas and of disrupting oil explorations in their territorial waters this year.
Both countries have since discussed those allegations with China and renewed calls for the peaceful resolution of the disputes, easing monthslong tensions.
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TEHRAN, Iran ? Iran's supreme leader warned the United States on Sunday that any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington would elicit a "resolute" response.
Two men, including a member of the Iranian special foreign actions unit known as the Quds Force, have been charged in New York federal court with conspiring to kill the Saudi diplomat, Adel Al-Jubeir. U.S. officials have said no one was ever in any immediate danger from the plot.
"If U.S. officials have some delusions, (they must) know that any unsuitable act, whether political or security, will meet a resolute response from the Iranian nation," state TV quoted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying.
Iran also demanded that a diplomat be allowed to visit one of the men in prison.
Khamenei's comments may reflect Iranian concerns that Washington would use the Al-Jubeir case to ratchet up sanctions and recruit international allies to try to further isolate Tehran.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been blunt in saying the United States would use the allegations as leverage with other countries that have been reluctant to apply harsh sanctions or penalties against Iran.
Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, said that the U.S. accused Iran of terror in order to divert attention from its economic woes and from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.
"By attributing an absurd and meaningless accusation to a few Iranians, they tried ... to show that Iran is a supporter of terrorism. ... This conspiracy didn't work and won't work," he said.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for his part, dismissed the U.S. accusations as a fabricated "scenario."
"Iran is a civilized nation and doesn't need to resort to assassination," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying Sunday by the official IRNA news agency. "The culture of terror belongs to you," he said, addressing the United States.
Iranian officials have consistently denied the allegations since they first emerged last week. An earlier statement by Khamenei on Saturday, and Ahmadinejad's remarks on Sunday, were the first comments made by the country's two highest leaders.
In a formal statement released Saturday, the Iranian government said it has no connection to Manssor Arbabsiar, the man arrested in the alleged plot.
On Sunday Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Swiss Charge d'Affairs to Tehran to demand consular access to Arbabsiar.
"Offering personal information about the accused and providing consular access to him is an obligation of the U.S. government. Any delay is contrary to international law," a report on Iranian state TV's website said.
The Swiss Embassy handles American interests because the U.S. and Iran do not have diplomatic relations,
Arbabsiar is a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who also had an Iranian passport. In May 2011, the criminal complaint says, he approached someone he believed to be a member of the vicious Mexican narco-terror group Los Zetas for help with an attack on a Saudi embassy. The man he approached turned out to be an informant for U.S. drug agents, it says.
The U.S. charges that Arbabsiar had been told by his cousin Abdul Reza Shahlai, a high-ranking member of the Quds Force, to recruit a drug trafficker because drug gangs have a reputation for assassinations.
Iranian lawmakers and analysts have said Iran would not benefit from killing the Saudi ambassador in Washington, even if it might have sought to punish its Saudi rivals for intervening in Bahrain to crush a Shiite-led uprising there. Majority Shiite Iran regarded with deep suspicion on the Arab side of the Gulf, which is largely Sunni.
Political analyst Sadeq Zibakalam said the accusations were part of a U.S. strategy to encircle Iran.
"The Americans seek to close the circle around Iran at the international level. ... It's a prelude to transferring Iran's dossier to the U.N. Security Council," he said in comments posted on the fararu.com news website Sunday.
Zibakalam, however, said there was no plausible or logical reason for Iran to assassinate the Saudi envoy in Washington.
"If we assume that Iranian officials sought to punish the Saudis for their intervention in Bahrain, there were tens of other venues such as Turkey, India and Pakistan where Iran could carry out an assassination with the least political costs and consequences, not in U.S.," he said.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said "there was zero hesitation" when her band was asked to perform at a concert with fellow country music stars to help raise money for victims of the recent wildfires in her home state of Texas.
She and her band mates joined George Strait, Willie Nelson and other musicians during a mega-concert Monday night that was expected to raise more than $500,000. A fire that started Sept. 4 in Central Texas' Bastrop County destroyed at least 1,500 homes and killed two people, marking the most devastating of the numerous fires that have scorched about 6,000 square miles in Texas in the last year.
Maines told the crowd that she was worried that without homes, "you all might not look lovely." But she told them they all looked fantastic.
"When they called us to do this show, there was zero hesitation," she told the crowd. "You can take the girl out of Texas, but you can't take Texas out of the girl."
Nelson recently spent time filming a movie in Bastrop and, in an interview before the concert, called the fires "tragic." He said he has lost homes to fire and knows how devastating it can be.
"You never really get over it," he said. "There's nothing I can tell them to make it better except some of us have been there and done that and we survived it, and they will too. Be strong."
The benefit was expected to raise more than $500,000, said Asleep at the Wheel front man Ray Benson, who helped book the performers. Benson said he seldom asks his friends for favors but thought this cause was important enough.
"This one was so compelling, I said 'OK, let me call Willie and let me call Lyle (Lovett)' and they both said yeah," Benson said. "Willie actually cancelled a show to do it. Lyle also canceled an appearance."
Benson said the music community felt a responsibility to help.
"I just think the scope of devastation was so great and so close to home," he said. "The numbers in Bastrop were so overwhelming, how do you deal with something like that? And also you do feel ... that we're in a position to not sit on the sidelines and do something."
The concert started with Christopher Cross. Eleven acts were scheduled to perform, and actor Kyle Chandler was helping to emcee.
Images of charred forests, skeletal remains of vehicles and homes were shown between sets at the Frank Erwin Center at the University of Texas at Austin campus. The concert was nearly full, but officials said they did not yet have numbers for the number of tickets sold.
Several attendees wore T-shirts representing local volunteer fire departments who battled the recent blazes.
Associated PressNEW YORK (Reuters) ? Moody's warned on Monday it may revise to negative the outlook on France's Aaa credit rating in the next three months if the country fails to make progress on crucial fiscal and economic reforms.
The assessment of France's outlook will also take into account any potential adverse developments in financial markets or in the economy, the ratings agency said.
"The deterioration in debt metrics and the potential for further contingent liabilities to emerge are exerting pressure on the stable outlook of the government's Aaa debt rating," Moody's said in a statement.
(Reporting by Walter Brandimarte; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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