Nanny suspected of killing 2 kids in N.Y. home

NEW YORK (AP) ? A nanny suspected of killing two young children she was looking after and then stabbing herself is in critical condition in a city hospital, as authorities continue to investigate a situation that is every parent's nightmare.

The horror started for the children's mother, Marina Krim, when she and a third child returned to their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side Thursday evening. Puzzled by the darkened home, she returned to the lobby to ask the doorman if the nanny had gone out with 1-year-old Leo, just learning to walk, and 6-year-old Lucia, known as LuLu, lover of "all things princess."

She was told they hadn't left, so she returned upstairs. A search led to the bathroom, where the children's bodies were in the bathtub and the nanny lay wounded nearby. It's unclear how many times the children were stabbed.

"There was some kind of screaming about, 'You slit her throat!'" said music therapist Rima Starr, who lives on the same floor as the family, and said she heard screams coming from their apartment at around 5:30 p.m.

The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, who was found near a knife, was hospitalized in critical condition and was in police custody. The children were pronounced dead at a hospital.

The children's father, CNBC digital media executive Kevin Krim, who had been away on a business trip, was met by police at the airport on his return and was given an escort to the hospital where his loved ones had gathered.

The couple's apartment building sits in one of the city's most idyllic neighborhoods, a block from Central Park, near the Museum of Natural History and blocks from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The neighborhood is home to many affluent families, and seeing children accompanied by nannies is an everyday part of life there, making the idea of such violence even more disturbing to residents.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said it's unclear how long the nanny had worked for the family and the police investigation was ongoing. No charges had been filed.

Starr, the neighbor, said she believed the nanny had been hired just recently.

"I met her in the elevator, the day before yesterday, and was making small talk," she said.

After police arrived, she said, the mother remained in the building's lobby, screaming hysterically and clutching her surviving child.

On a webpage devoted to a recent family wedding, the eldest of the children, Lulu, is described as loving "art projects, ballet, and all things princess." The youngest, Leo, was said to be just learning how to walk.

The family had moved to New York from San Francisco within the last few years. The children's father was named general manager of CNBC's digital media division in March, after working previously in digital media at Bloomberg. Their mother had a cooking blog and taught art classes to young children.

The family lived in a stately, late 19th-century apartment building where one three-bedroom unit currently available for rent has an asking price of $10,000 per month. They had a greyhound, retired from racing, named Babar.

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Associated Press writer David B. Caruso contributed to this report.

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Oregon scientists make embryos with 2 women, 1 man

NEW YORK (AP) ? Scientists in Oregon have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that could someday be used to prevent babies from inheriting certain rare incurable diseases.

The researchers at Oregon Health & Sciences University said they are not using the embryos to produce children, and it is not clear when or even if this technique will be put to use. But it has already stirred a debate over its risks and ethics in Britain, where scientists did similar work a few years ago.

The British experiments, reported in 2008, led to headlines about the possibility someday of babies with three parents. But that's an overstatement. The DNA from the second woman amounts to less than 1 percent of the embryo's genes, and it isn't the sort that makes a child look like Mom or Dad. The procedure is simply a way of replacing some defective genes that sabotage the normal workings of cells.

The British government is asking for public comment on the technology before it decides whether to allow its use in the future. One concern it cites is whether such DNA alteration could be an early step down a slippery slope toward "designer babies" ? ordering up, say, a petite, blue-eyed girl or tall, dark-haired boy.

Questions have also arisen about the safety of the technique, not only for the baby who results from the egg, but also for the child's descendants.

In June, an influential British bioethics group concluded that the technology would be ethical to use if proven safe and effective. An expert panel in Britain said in 2011 that there was no evidence the technology was unsafe but urged further study.

Laurie Zoloth, a bioethicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., said in an interview that safety problems might not show up for several generations. She said she hopes the United States will follow Britain's lead in having a wide-ranging discussion of the technology.

While the kind of diseases it seeks to fight can be terrible, "this might not be the best way to address it," Zoloth said.

Over the past few years, scientists have reported that such experiments produced healthy monkeys and that tests in human eggs showed encouraging results. The Oregon scientists reported Wednesday that they have produced about a dozen early human embryos and found the technique is highly effective in replacing DNA.

The genes they want to replace aren't the kind most people think of, which are found in the nucleus of cells and influence traits such as eye color and height. Rather, these genes reside outside the nucleus in energy-producing structures called mitochondria. These genes are passed along only by mothers, not fathers.

About 1 in every 5,000 children inherits a disease caused by defective mitochondrial genes. The defects can cause many rare diseases with a host of symptoms, including strokes, epilepsy, dementia, blindness, deafness, kidney failure and heart disease.

The new technique, if approved someday for routine use, would allow a woman to give birth to a baby who inherits her nucleus DNA but not her mitochondrial DNA. Here's how it would work:

Doctors would need unfertilized eggs from the patient and a healthy donor. They would remove the nucleus DNA from the donor eggs and replace it with nucleus DNA from the patient's eggs. So, they would end up with eggs that have the prospective mother's nucleus DNA, but the donor's healthy mitochondrial DNA.

In a report published online Wednesday by the journal Nature, Shoukhrat Mitalipov and others at OHSU report transplanting nucleus DNA into 64 unfertilized eggs from healthy donors. After fertilization, 13 eggs showed normal development and went on to form early embryos.

The researchers also reported that four monkeys born in 2009 from eggs that had DNA transplants remain healthy, giving some assurance on safety.

Mitalipov said in an interview that the researchers hope to get federal approval to test the procedure in women, but that current restrictions on using federal money on human embryo research stand in the way of such studies.

The research was funded by the university and the Leducq Foundation in Paris.

Dr. Douglass Turnbull of Newcastle University in Britain, whose team has transplanted DNA between eggs using a different technique, called the new research "very important and encouraging" in showing that such transplants could work.

But "clearly, safety is an issue" with either technique if it is applied to humans, he said.

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Online:

Journal Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature

Mitochondrial diseases: http://www.umdf.org

British ethics group: http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/mitochondrial-dna-disorders

British government project: http://mitochondria.hfea.gov.uk/mitochondria/

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Ontario doctors target junk food with grisly cigarette-like warning - RT

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Canadian doctors aim to stem their country?s obesity epidemic in a radical new way: Copying anti-smoking campaigns. They have suggested slapping threatening labels on pizzas, soda drinks and other junk food, warning of the diseases they might cause.

?The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) unveiled several mock-ups on Tuesday to promote their plan, including a pizza box with a picture of a liver discolored by fatty liver disease, a child's juice box featuring a photo of a foot affected by diabetic ulcers and other similarly grotesque warnings.

?The recommendations? may appear radical to some, but the urgency of our situation demands aggressive action,? the OMA announced at the event. ?The lessons learned from the strategies of the tobacco-control movement should be applied to the fight against obesity.?

Doctors proposed several other measures to control obesity rates: Higher taxes on junk food and lower taxes on healthy products; putting health warnings on vendor displays; restrictions on marketing and sales in stores visited by children.

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OMA President Doug Weir said that obesity-related diseases are already costing Ontario $2.2 to $2.5 billion a year. In Canada, 31.5 percent of children and teens are overweight or obese, the OMA reported.

The Ontario government, which has the authority to enact the OMA?s suggestions, said they would consider their opinions and refrained from commenting further.

An industry association spoke out forcefully against the controversial propositions.

?Food is not tobacco. Tobacco has no place in a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A tax on food and beverages is nothing but a tax grab that will hurt lower- and middle-income Ontarians the most,? Phyllis Tanaka, a Vice President of Food and Consumer Products Canada (FCPC) said in a statement.

?I think it?s shocking that medical doctors would be comparing food to tobacco,? fellow FCPC Vice President Derek Nighbor told the National Post newspaper. ?They?re demonizing individual products and certain categories, and they?re ignoring the overall balanced diet message, which I think is seriously irresponsible.?

Promoting a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle would be more effective than ?over-the-top? labels, Nighbor added.

?In 2000, Canada became the first country to force cigarette makers to have labels featuring gruesome and explicit images of rotting gums and emaciated cancer patients. Several other countries have since adopted the approach. The United States, however, ruled that the visuals were an unfair attempt to manipulate consumers into quitting.

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Fish Shoots Down Prey with Super-Powered Jet [Video]

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With a juicy insect dinner perched on a leaf above the water, what is a hungry little archer fish down below to do? Knock it down with a super-powered, super-precise jet of water that packs six times the power the fish could generate with its own muscles, according to new findings published online October 24 in PLoS ONE.

The stunning spitting power of the amazing archer fish (Toxotes jaculatrix) was first described in the 18th?century. The creature lives in mostly in mangrove forests and estuaries where insects are prevalent?above water, that is. And these tasty treats are not easily knocked off of the plants that hang over the archer fish?s territory. The insects, such as grasshoppers, can hang on with a force some 10 times their own body weight.

So the archer fish has developed an impressive strategy for fetching food that not many other fish can reach. Its water jet can target and dislodge a single insect so that it falls into the water for the fish to eat.

Just how the fish manages to do this?and in less than a second?had remained a mystery. Many scientists figured that the source must be a special organ in the fish?s body. ?The origin of the effectiveness of the jet squirted by the archer fish has been searched for inside of the fish for nearly 250 years,? Alberto Vailati, a physicist at the University of Milan and co-author of the new paper, said in a prepared statement.

Vailati and his colleagues set up an aquarium to film the 6.1- to 6.7-centimeter-long archer fish spouting water at experimental targets up to 15.3 centimeters above the water line. Each time the fish hit the target they were rewarded with a cricket or piece of fish food dropped into the tank. Using high-speed camera that captured 1,000 frames per second, the researchers were able to analyze each stage of the jet?s formation and?surprising?acceleration.

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The researchers found that the first section of the water to leave the fish?s mouth was traveling about two meters per second. But as the fish continued to expel water into the jet, the speed increased. This back-end power forced more water and momentum into the ?head? of the jet. ?As a result, the power that the head of the jet can deliver upon impact increases during shooting,? the authors explained in their paper.

Surface tension holds the head of the jet together in the air. This allows the head to balloon out as it becomes larger and more powerful, finally creating a large liquid power punch that can whack an unsuspecting insect off its seemingly safe perch in a matter of milliseconds.

Similar dynamics are already used for inkjet drop-on-demand printing, the researchers pointed out. As scientists are still working out some of the details of liquid jet dynamics, researchers and tech developers might benefit from taking some lessons from the archer fish.

Other animals have also developed surprisingly fast mechanisms, such as?the chameleon?s tongue, which is sped up by special collagen rather than muscle fibers and can reach accelerations of 500 meters per second squared. But the archer fish does not rely on special internal structures for its power. Instead, it uses these external forces to deliver much more power? (some 3,000 Watts per kilogram) than it could have generated using muscles within its body (a paltry 500 Watts per kilogram). ?Power gets progressively transferred from the muscles to the tail of the jet, and in turn, to the head of the jet,? the researchers explained in their paper.

The fish?s genus Toxotes comes from the Greek word for archer. ?In retrospect, this name could be far sighted and well deserved,? the researchers noted in their paper. ?Archer fish employ an external mechanism for the amplification for muscular power, just like an archer does with his bow.?

The fish?s strategy is evolutionarily clever. ?This advantage would come without the evolutionary cost for the development of highly specialized internal structures dedicated to the storing of mechanical energy,? the authors noted.

Now that?s some efficient fishing.

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Archer fish videos courtesy of L. Zinnato

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Apple nearing deal with labels for internet radio service, says Bloomberg

Rumors of a music streaming service from Apple have been circulating since the dawn of the iPod age. Bloomberg is reporting that an internet radio platform from Cupertino is nearing reality, as talks between Apple and the major music labels have "intensified." The negotiations center around how to share revenues from an ad-supported service that, according to reports, would pose more of a threat to sites like Pandora than it would Spotify. In fact, after Bloomberg reported that the new Apple service could launch during the first quarter of 2013, Pandora stocks plummeted over 17 percent and trading of the company was briefly halted. According to sources Cook and co. are seeking much more flexibility than its potential competitors enjoy and earlier access to new releases. The shift towards ad revenue and a new platform for helping listeners discover music is considered by most involved to be an essential evolution of the iTunes ecosystem as sales of digital downloads have slowed. For more, hit up the source links.

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Japan, China diplomats meet over island dispute

By Reuters

TOKYO - Senior Japanese and Chinese diplomats have met to discuss a dispute over East China Sea islets hat both countries claim, the Japanese government said on Wednesday, underscoring willingness to talk despite a sharp deterioration in ties.

Sino-Japanese relations took a dive after the Japanese government bought the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, from a private Japanese owner in September, triggering violent protests and calls for boycotts of Japanese products across China.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura confirmed talks between Tokyo and Beijing after domestic media reported that Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai secretly met senior Chinese officials, probably including his counterpart, Zhang Zhijun, in Shanghai last week to discuss the dispute.

Anti-Japan demonstrators damaged a car carrying U.S. ambassador Gary Locke outside the American embassy in Beijing. The protest was in response to an ongoing territorial dispute between China and Japan. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.

"I am aware of the reports. That was part of the communications going on between Japan and China in various forms and at various levels," Fujimura told a regular news conference without giving details.

"It just shows we are in constant contact at many levels."

Much at stake for US as tensions rise in troubled China Seas

Following Japan's purchase of the islands, China sent fishery patrol and marine surveillance vessels to waters near the islets, raising concern that confrontation with Japanese patrol ships could escalate into a broader conflict.

Protesters in China rally in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in response to a territorial dispute with Japan. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

The row with China, the world's second-largest economy and Japan's largest trading partner, has prompted the Bank of Japan to cut its outlook for economies in the region.?

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What We Know About Obama and Romney's Ground Games

The Election Day cliche in a close race is that "it all comes down to turnout," but it's coming down to turnout earlier this year. Because of early voting, 6.5 million Americans have already cast their ballots. But Mitt Romney and President Obama do not care about all Americans, they care about the ones in the seven swing states? that will decide the election. Here's what we know about the campaigns' abilities to get their voters to the polls.

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Ohio

RELATED: Obama's Bouncing, but Some Swing States Are Still Close

Obama is leading Romney by 5 percentage points, according to a Time poll taken October 22 and 23. But among people who've already voted, Obama leads 60 percent to 30 percent. Among people who haven't voted yet, the candidates are tied.

RELATED: Romney Looks Like a Leader in Three Swing States

At The National Review, Josh Jordan suggests early voting is skewing the poll numbers in Ohio, because the polls show more people saying they've already voted than public records show. His theory is that poll respondents are lying to pollsters to say they've already voted, and those people are more likely to say they voted for Obama, and that's throwing off the pollsters' analysis of who is really likely to vote.?But?The Atlantic's Molly Ball reports that in Ohio early voting, more votes have been cast in precincts that Obama won in 2008 than in ones McCain won.?

RELATED: Voters Want Change but Still Pick Obama

What about those who haven't voted yet? Obama has 131 field offices in Ohio, while Romney has 40. Obama also has "staging locations," which are operated out of volunteers' homes. The advantage is those volunteers know their neighborhoods well.?While Obama has a large get-out-the-vote operation with a ton of field offices, Romney doesn't have one at all,?Ball reports. Romney has outsourced its ground game to the Republican National Committee. That way, the RNC was able to build up its turnout efforts while Romney was still fighting the primary in March.

RELATED: All Eyes on Colorado

Ohio remains "the big nut to crack," a Romney aide told?The New York Times' Jeff Zeleny and Ashley Parker. Romney political director RIch Beeson tells Politico's Mike Allen that the Romney campaign has "been focusing on low-propensity [sporadic] voters, so the bulk of our votes sitting out there being high-propensity [reliable] voters. We're not going to have to worry about pushing them hard, but I just want to make sure that we can turn them out." Beeson says Republicans don't vote early because many of them are rural, and others like the social aspet of voting on Election Day.

Nevada

Here's one state where it might not be an advantage for the RNC to handle Romney's get-out-the-vote effort. The Nevada Republican Party was taken over by Ron Paul supporters, and the Romney campaign has had to create a shadow party in the state called Team Nevada. There are 90,000 more registered Democrats in Nevada than registered Republicans; in 2008, Democrats had a smaller 60,000 voter advantage,?The New York Times'?Adam Nagourney reports. Obama benefits from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's organization in the state, which "is widely praised ? even by Republicans ? as one of the most effective voter-organizing and money-raising political organizations."

To deal with the Ron Paul-related problems, the Romney campaign has bussed in volunteers from Southern California and Utah to contact voters in Nevada.?The Atlantic reports that 1,485 more Nevada Republicans have voted by mail or in person than Democrats. In 2008, by the same date, Democrats had a 16,360-voter advantage. On the other hand, more Democrats have requested absentee ballots -- 8,230 more -- while Republicans had the absentee advantage four years ago.

North Carolina

More voters are voting early this year than in 2008, Charlotte Business Journal reports. About 817,000 people voted as of Wednesday evening, significantly more than the 647,000 who'd voted by this date in 2008.?There are almost 800,000 more registered Democrats in North Carolina than Republicans as of last week.

Romney's campaign has said it's confident it will win the state. The polls have shown him ahead for a couple weeks, and according to the right-leaning poll Rasmussen, 17 percent of Democrats intend to vote for Romney, while only 4 percent of Republicans intend to vote for Obama.

Colorado

There were 7,243 more registered Republicans in Colorado as of last week. But even Republicans say Obama's ground game is good, Ball reports:

In Colorado, one top GOP consultant who has worked on presidential campaigns told me he mentally added 2 to 4 points to Obama's polls in the state based on superior organization.?

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GOP sees Obama as 'very defensive,' Dems see 'steady leader'

BOCA RATON, Fla. ? You've heard the Republican critique of President Obama for ?leading from behind.? After a debate performance in which the incumbent seemed on the offensive, the GOP spin was that Obama was attacking from behind.

?I think the president showed up with the idea of not debating America?s position in the world but defending his deteriorating position in the race,? Romney senior advisor Eric Fehrnstrom told reporters in the ?spin room? moments after the conclusion of the third presidential debate Monday night at Lynn University. ?He launched one attack after another. As [Romney] pointed out, attacking him is not an agenda.?

Democrats, not surprisingly, said the president?s performance showed him to be a strong and steady leader.

Since Obama's widely panned performance in the first debate, poll after poll has shown the presidential contest increasingly tight, both nationally and in key states where Obama had held a slight advantage.

Whether the president's more confident and aggressive posture since then ? both at the second debate at Hofstra University in suburban New York and at Monday's meeting in South Florida ? could boost his candidacy remains to be seen. The GOP position Monday was that Obama had resorted to the attack in a last-ditch effort to do so.

?The contrast that emerged tonight is a president that was very defensive because he didn?t have an agenda,? said another senior Romney aide, Kevin Madden. ?He felt his strategy had to be to attack his opponent, and as a result, I think Gov. Romney gave people a greater sense of confidence on that commander-in-chief test.?

Democratic Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois said that Obama realized after the first debate that ?he needed to be strong,? and that his performance that night ?had a big impact on the campaign.?

?You saw both at Hofstra and again tonight a strong president,? Durbin said. ?And when it comes to national security and foreign policy, that is absolutely the starting point.?

Otherwise, Democrats seemed content to simply echo the sharp barbs Obama uttered against Romney on Monday. The Obama campaign was quickly circulating press accounts declaring their candidate the winner.

?The American people saw a strong and steady leader laying out a clear vision of where he wants to take the country, and an unsteady Mitt Romney,? campaign manager Jim Messina said. Romney was ?wrong on Iraq, wrong on Afghanistan? and continues be unable to explain his positions on issues, he said.

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Syria exposes Lebanon's thin veneer of stability

A Lebanese honor guard carries a coffin wrapped with Lebanese flags of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, who was assassinated on Friday by a car bomb, during their funeral procession at Martyrs' Square in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Thousands of Lebanese waving the national flag packed a central square in downtown Beirut Sunday for the funeral of a top intelligence official assassinated in a car bombing that many blame on the regime in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A Lebanese honor guard carries a coffin wrapped with Lebanese flags of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, who was assassinated on Friday by a car bomb, during their funeral procession at Martyrs' Square in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Thousands of Lebanese waving the national flag packed a central square in downtown Beirut Sunday for the funeral of a top intelligence official assassinated in a car bombing that many blame on the regime in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Army soldiers check a car during clashes that erupted between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. Lebanese troops launched a major security operation on Monday to open all roads and force gunmen off the streets, trying to contain an outburst of violence set off by the assassination of a top intelligence official who was a powerful opponent of Syria. Sectarian clashes overnight killed several people. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Army soldiers patrol during clashes that erupted between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. Lebanese troops launched a major security operation on Monday to open all roads and force gunmen off the streets, trying to contain an outburst of violence set off by the assassination of a top intelligence official who was a powerful opponent of Syria. Sectarian clashes overnight killed several people. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Army soldiers monitor during clashes that erupted between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. Lebanese troops launched a major security operation on Monday to open all roads and force gunmen off the streets, trying to contain an outburst of violence set off by the assassination of a top intelligence official who was a powerful opponent of Syria. Sectarian clashes overnight killed several people. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Army soldiers patrol during clashes that erupted between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. Lebanese troops launched a major security operation on Monday to open all roads and force gunmen off the streets, trying to contain an outburst of violence set off by the assassination of a top intelligence official who was a powerful opponent of Syria. Sectarian clashes overnight killed several people. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Potentially the most unstable country in the Middle East, Lebanon for the most part has stayed on the sidelines of the Arab Spring, keeping up appearances as an oasis of relative modernity, commerce and good times.

But the spillover effects of the Syrian war are ripping off that thin veneer.

Beneath the surface lurk the same forces that devastated the country during its years of civil war, with simmering hatreds still dividing Muslims and Christians, Sunni and Shiites, and secular and fundamentalist groups. Outside forces are still arrayed, militias are still armed and the country seems forever on the verge of tearing itself apart.

"Of all Syria's neighbors, Lebanon is the weakest, the most political and ideologically polarized and split among sectarian lines," said Fawaz A. Gerges, head of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. "The fear is not if the Syrian conflict will spill over ? but whether it has already reached the streets of Beirut."

The assassination of Lebanon's intelligence chief in a car bomb Friday is threatening to upend a fragile political balance in Lebanon, a country plagued by decades of strife ? much of it linked to political and military domination by Damascus.

The funeral for Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan descended into chaos over the weekend as soldiers fired tear gas at protesters who tried to storm the government palace. The demonstrators were furious at a leadership they consider beholden to Syria, blaming al-Hassan's death on the regime in Damascus.

Al-Hassan, 47, was a powerful opponent of Syria's influence in Lebanon.

In the hours following the funeral, gunmen fought street battles in Beirut and the northern city of Tripoli. Sectarian clashes killed at least five people, and on Monday cracks of gunfire rang out in Beirut as soldiers and armored personnel carriers with heavy machine guns took up position on major thoroughfares and dismantled roadblocks.

The outburst of violence appeared to be a sign of a nation hurtling toward civil war.

But this is Lebanon, where traditions of social freedoms, factional loyalties and fanaticism are held in a political balance that gives no group full power to force its agenda nationwide. When that balance is disrupted, such as by Friday's assassination, the result is another cycle of violence that the country appears powerless to escape.

It's too early to know if the al-Hassan killing will plunge the country back into war.

But his death does not appear to be having the kind of galvanizing effect seen in 2005, when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a truck bombing along Beirut's waterfront. Hariri's assassination sparked thundering street protests in Lebanon that forced Damascus to withdraw its tens of thousands of troops from the country after three decades.

Al-Hassan's killing, seven years later, comes at a time of deep divisions both inside Lebanon and beyond. Sectarian tensions already were enflamed over the Syrian civil war, the bloodiest and most protracted crisis of the Arab Spring.

Many of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims have backed Syria's mainly Sunni rebels, while Shiite Muslims and the militant group Hezbollah have tended to back Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose tiny Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Hezbollah, the most powerful political and military force in Lebanon, is enduring its own troubles. Backed by Iran and Syria, Hezbollah faces the possibility of losing a crucial ally if Syrian rebels manage to topple Assad.

Its reputation as a popular resistance movement already has taken a severe beating for siding with Syria against the anti-Assad uprising even after it supported Arab revolts in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Bahrain.

Assad's fall would be a nightmare scenario for Hezbollah. Any new regime led by the country's majority Sunnis would likely be far less friendly to Shiite Hezbollah, or even outright hostile. Iran remains the group's most important patron, but Syria is a crucial supply route. Without it, Hezbollah will struggle to get money and weapons as easily.

Despite all these divisions, there were hopes that Lebanon might ride out the Syrian crisis.

While the Arab Spring turmoil swept the Middle East, it appeared to leapfrog over Lebanon. Lebanon escaped the tumult in part because its weak government produced no dictator to overthrow ? not because the population was satisfied.

That same weakness makes the country vulnerable to manipulation by its neighbors.

Many Lebanese blame Damascus for al-Hassan's killing, saying his work was disrupting Syria's power and influence here.

He headed an investigation over the summer that led to the arrest of former Information Minister Michel Samaha, one of Syria's most loyal allies in Lebanon. He also led the inquiry that implicated Syria and Hezbollah in Hariri's assassination.

Michael Azzi, an 18-year-old interior design student in Beirut, said regional conflicts always blow up in Lebanon.

"Lebanon is becoming a country where everyone can throw their trash," Azzi said. "There are some Lebanese who are always ready to burn their country at the orders of foreign countries."

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AP writer Barbara Surk contributed to this report.

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Leptin is recognized as a main hormone that contributes to obesity. This will be the hormone that stimulates your cravings and lets you consume excessively. Decrease Leptin may cause you far more cravings, which your body reacts to consume additional, but in the event the Leptin degree within your entire body is raised, the lesser the possibilities that you will be most more likely to crave for food items. This can be why the seeds extracted in the mango fruit are probable factors to suppress appetite because it serves as Lipin-regulator.

It delays digestion.

It assists to delay the method of absorption, it implies that the meals you consider is going to be digested considerably slower and facilitates you to continue to be full more time. When this approach is combined with Leptin, the weight loss is going to be vital.

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MIT Opencourseware The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is among the most most elite and exclusive universities in the US and has produced some of the finest technical minds of the past century?from Buzz Aldrin to Wesley A. Clark. But MIT isn?t all just Aerospace, Materials Science, and Electrical Engineering, mind you. Its Humanities programs have given the world the likes of Noam Chomsky, Steve Altes, and James Woods. And thanks to MIT Opencourseware, you can receive the same top-flight education as these mental giants for free without having to endure a Massachusetts winter.

Opencourseware offers more than 2100 actual MIT classes in virtually every field offered by the university. Sure you?ve got the standard ?hard science? offerings like Civil and Environmental Engineering, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Materials Science and Engineering but that involves lots and lots of math. Instead, you can brush up on some ?soft science? like History, Women?s and Gender Studies, or Political Science?even Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation. These courses typically include the necessary instructional materials, assignments, and exams, though it does vary by course.

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Academic Earth The best part about an Internet-based education? Not having to drag your ass out of bed to get to morning lectures. Instead, Academic Earth has teamed up with Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, and Dartmouth to provide these Universities? lectures online. Listen to some of the nation?s best instructors speak on Humanistic subjects like Anthropology, Communications, and Environmental Studies. Try physical sciences like Biomedical Engineering, Systems Architecture, Astronomy, and Negotiations. Though not as complete in terms of coursework accessories as Opencourseware, Academic Earth?s offerings provide a quick, on-demand education?like TED Talks but not as self-serving.

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Father braved flames in bid to find family - The Times

A father whose wife and five of their children were killed in a house fire described today how he braved the flames and smoke in a desperate search for his family.

Bassam Kua initially tried to use a garden hose to extinguish the blaze which started behind a chest freezer in the hallway of the family?s four-bedroom home.

He then repeatedly re-entered the house to to search for his loved ones but was unable to reach his wife Muna Elmufatish, 41, daughters Hanin, 14, Basma, 13, Amal, 9, and sons Mustafa, 5, and Yehya, 2.

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One year after Gadhafi's death, Libyan turmoil persists

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? On the anniversary of the capture and killing of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is still grappling with the legacy of his four decades of rule as the interim government and the dictator's former spokesman engaged in a war of words amid the ongoing chaos.

The Libyan government said Saturday that its forces had detained Gadhafi's high profile spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, but an online recording from a man purporting to be Ibrahim denied that claim and said he wasn't even in the country.

The conflicting reports, neither of which could be independently verified, reflect the turmoil that has persisted over the past year, leaving the oil-rich North African nation deeply divided. Tensions have spiked as rival forces battle over the city of Bani Walid.

Bani Walid, some 140 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of Tripoli, was the last major city in Libya to fall to the uprising, thanks in part to its protected location in a valley near the mountains. Over the past year, it has seen periodic violence and emerged as the most significant town in Libya still resisting the country's new authorities since Gadhafi was slain near his hometown of Sirte last year.

"We've lost too many people in Bani Walid and we are still losing them so I don't think it's time for a celebration," said Abdessalem Mahfoud, a local neighborhood council member in Tripoli, when asked about the anniversary of Gadhafi's death.

The turmoil in Libya, which overthrew Gadhafi last year with the help of NATO airstrikes, has become a campaign issue in the U.S. presidential race after an attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

For many who fought against Gadhafi, the new Libya cannot be born until the last vestiges of the old regime, fugitives like Ibrahim and towns like Bani Walid, have been routed.

"I don't think things are really moving in the right direction until we finish with Bani Walid because it is stopping us from making a new Libya," said Abdel-Basit al-Mzirig, a former deputy justice minister and now on Libya's human rights council.

A statement from the prime minister office said that Ibrahim was caught at a checkpoint outside Bani Walid while trying to flee a recent uptick in fighting over the town and would be taken to Tripoli for questioning.

However, the government produced no proof of its claim and hours later, Ibrahim had not been seen in public. State television did briefly show a photograph of a man in a hospital bed with a bandaged shoulder which they labeled as the former spokesman, but the veracity of the photo could also not be confirmed.

The urbane, English-speaking Ibrahim became the face of the regime in its final months and was the most well-known former regime figure to remain unaccounted for after Gadhafi's son and heir-apparent Seif al-Islam was taken late last year. The regime's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi was later detained in Mauritania and extradited to Libya.

It is not clear what charges Ibrahim might face, but officials in the past have suggested he might be accused of incitement and disseminating false information.

The seven-minute recording, which was posted on Ibrahim's Facebook page, rejected the reports that he had been captured, as well as subsequent, unconfirmed rumors about the detention of Gadhafi's son Khamis, who was reportedly killed last year.

"We are outside of Libya. We have no relations with Bani Walid and no contact with it. We are nowhere near Bani Walid," he said.

Libyans have failed to overcome deep enmities between those who fought to overthrow Gadhafi and former loyalists of the late leader, whose eccentric and brutal rule focused on pitting tribes against one another.

Al-Mzirig said many remnants of the old regime are still working inside the government and only after they have been removed will the country fulfill the promises of the uprising, which began in February 2011 as part of the Arab Spring wave of revolts that swept the Middle East but quickly morphed into a civil war.

This attitude, common among many who fought in the uprising, bodes ill for future efforts to bring rival groups together.

In the year since Gadhafi's death, conflicts have broken out around the country, and despite the unprecedented election of a 200-person national assembly, the central government is weak and power remains with the armed groups that sprung up with the rebellion.

A hard-line Islamist militia in Benghazi, Ansar al-Shariah, is widely believed to have been behind the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate, although it has denied responsibility.

These groups, especially the armed militias, have often pursued their own agendas, some dating back to longstanding feuds inside a country Gadhafi controlled unchecked for more than four decades.

After Gadhafi was killed, the former rebels negotiated a takeover of the Bani Walid and then looted it, prompting the angry citizens to form their own militia and throw out their new rulers in January.

The tensions boiled over when one of the rebels celebrated for being among those who captured Gadhafi, Omran Shaaban, was captured and allegedly tortured by the Bani Walid militia.

He later died in a French hospital and stencils of his name and face can be seen painted on buildings in Tripoli. As the militias gathered for revenge, the government authorized them to retrieve those responsible for the killing, setting the stage for the current siege.

"We are protecting Libya because there are pro-Gadhafi people in Bani Walid. There are many wanted people there ? they are devils," said Omar Saleh, a militiamen with the Libyan Shield manning the Umm Rashrash checkpoint 60 kilometers (40 miles) from Bani Walid. "We haven't started to bombard them yet ? we could if we wanted ? but we are afraid of hitting civilians."

Libya is still building a national army and transitional authorities depended heavily on ex-rebel forces such as Libya Shield to secure the country.

The civilians, meanwhile, streamed out of the town as the steady thump of heavy machine guns could be heard from miles away.

They said the main road was blocked but they had taken dirt roads through olive groves toward the nearby town of Tarhouna.

Trucks piled high with mattresses and filled with children and women wearing all-encompassing robes were searched by the militia before being sent on their way.

"I left Bani Walid at 5 a.m. There is random shelling there and people are dying, including women and children," Ghaith Hadi Ghaith said as he waited for his car to be inspected. "There is nothing to eat or drink."

He said the shooting was coming from all sides. He claimed the city only had 150 to 160 pro-Gadhafi people, but that was hotly disputed by the militiamen who said there was a list of 400 wanted figures from the old regime and hundreds more gunmen.

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Associated Press writers Esam Mohamed in Tripoli and Sarah El Deeb in Cairo contributed to this report.

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Huawei Ascend D1 Quad XL review

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In February of this year, Huawei took to the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to highlight its most ambitious smartphone strategy to date. Its plan: to establish a new classification system by dividing the bulk of its handsets into four core groups starting with the high-end D-series at the top and working its way down to the bargain bin Y-series. Hogging Accepting the bulk of the spotlight, however, was the Ascend D Quad XL, a "superphone" containing a homegrown quad-core CPU. For a manufacturer that hadn't even put a dual-core phone on the market (the Ascend P1 wasn't on sale yet), a launch in the second quarter of this year felt incredibly aggressive. This was Huawei's first real chance to make a legitimate name for itself outside of Asia; pushing out an impressive device in a timely fashion was imperative.

Fast-forward eight months, and we've witnessed the 2012 equivalent of the Motorola Droid Bionic: the unfortunate device has been the subject of uncertainty and countless delays. Fear not, it's finally been released. However, it faces an incredibly competitive market coming into the holiday season, with quad-core heavyweights like the Samsung Galaxy Note II, LG Optimus G and HTC One X+ ready to duke it out. We had this question when it was originally announced, and it's become even more relevant now: can the Huawei D Quad XL (and its freshly made SoC) hold up respectably amongst its new peers? Delay no further and join us after the break to get the full scoop.

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