This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

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• Get the Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard on Any Android Phone (Android) Ice Cream Sandwich is bringing a lot of awesome new features to Android, one of which is a new and improved keyboard. If you can't wait to get your hands on it, you can download the Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard in the Android Market right now, no root required.
• Simplify and Automate Private Browsing Mode with These Browser Extensions (Chrome/Firefox) If you're sick of manually opening links in private browsing mode, Firefox and Chrome extensions will get you in with some quick shortcuts.
• CenterIM is a Linux Command Line Chat Program (Linux) Many Linux users love to accomplish as much as they can utilizing only the command line structure in Terminal. CenterIM lets you chat with your friends on GTalk, Jabber, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Chat, or AIM. Aside from the novelty, it is extremely resource-light and makes it easy to chat via SSH.
• Swackett is a Weather App that Tells You What to Wear (Mac/iPhone) Swackett is a portmanteau of "sweater, jacket, or coat" and is slang for times when it's cold enough that you should wear an extra layer. The app that bears the name not only gives you all the routine weather data, but it also displays avatars (Peeps) that display what types of clothing you should be wearing in the current weather.
• Better Pop Up Blocker Stops Javascript Pop-Ups in Chrome (Chrome) Google Chrome's built in pop up blocker is very good, but on occasion a pop up gets through, mostly Javascript pop ups from photo and video hosting sites or online poker sites. The free extension Better Pop Up Blocker stops these easily.
• CloudShot is a Screenshot Capture Tool that Automatically Uploads to Dropbox (Windows) We've covered a lot of screenshot apps in the past. If you use Dropbox for most of your working documents it may make a lot of sense to use CloudShot, the screenshot app that automatically uploads to a specified folder on your system, including Dropbox folders.
• Tic Toc for Mac Puts Your To-Do List in the Menu Bar, Shows You One To-Do At a Time (Mac) If you've decided to swear off of multitasking and want to focus on one thing at a time, Tic Toc is a handy to-do manager for Mac that lives in the menubar and only shows you one item at a time. The app can keep track of as many to-dos as you like, and adding more is easy, but you'll only ever see one to-do when you look up at the menubar, so you can single-task on that one thing until it's finished.
• Google Search for iPad Receives an Interface Overhaul, Instant Search, and More (iPad) Google's Search app just received a nice update for iPad, bringing some nice interface enhancements. This includes Google Instant, which is better late than never, but you'll probably find the other stuff more exciting.
• Blip.me Records Voice Notes on Any Phone for Easy Sharing and Playback Later (iOS/Android) If you like recording audio messages for yourself to help you remember important details, or you just want to send your friends something more personal than a text message, Blip.me allows you to record short voice messages and send them to anyone in your contacts list instantly. Alternatively, just record notes for yourself as personal reminders.
• Periscope Adds Context to News Stories in Your Browser (Firefox/Chrome/Safari) News aggregation service News360's new browser extension, Periscope, offers up likeminded stories related to the news articles you're reading to the top of your screen.

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Hot Pics: Take a Closer Look at Bella's Breaking Dawn Wedding Dress!

Stunning!

By now, most Twi-hards have already seen Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) stroll down the aisle in her highly anticipated wedding to Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson).

But, what they may not have seen are these fresh images of Bella's wedding dress (along with a few fun facts about the gown to boot).

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The wedding dress, custom fitted for Stewart,?was created out of crepe satin and French Chantilly Lace by famed designer Carolina Herrera, who has fashioned wedding dresses for the likes of Renee Zellweger, Mariska Hargitay and Christina Hendricks. ??

And Twilight novel series scribe, Stephenie Meyer, personally selected Herrera for the job.

"My favorite designer, Carolina Herrera, did the wedding dress," Meyer said. "I wanted the dress to be something special, not something that you're going to see every day. I love what Carolina did with it, she came up with a stunning concept. It's similar to what I envisioned, but with added elements."

But that's not all.?

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Its intricate design included 152 buttons along the back of the dress and 17 buttons along each sleeve.

Needless to say, the dress didn't come cheap.

While Twilight-loving fashionistas can scoop up a replica at Alfred Angelo bridal dress company for $799, the real wedding gown, which took four seamstresses and six months to complete, has an estimated value of $35,000.

For those willing to spend big bucks for the real thing, however, Herrera is planning to include the design in her 2012 collection via her CHNY boutiques next year.

Oh, we think she might sell a few of those.

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3 Americans arrested in Egypt back in US

CAIRO?? All three American students arrested during protests in Cairo are back in the U.S., three days after an Egyptian court ordered their release.

The young men were arrested on the roof of a university building near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square last Sunday after officials accused them of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters.

Gregory Porter, 19, was greeted by his parents and other relatives Saturday evening when he landed at Philadelphia International Airport. Porter took no questions, but said he was thankful for the help he and the other American students received from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, administrators at the university they were attending, and attorneys in Egypt and the U.S.

"I'm just so thankful to be back, to be in Philadelphia right now," said Porter, who is from nearby Glenside, Pa., and attends Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Luke Gates, 21, arrived in the U.S. late Saturday and was expected back home in Indiana soon, Indiana University spokesman Mark Land said. Gates attends the university, and his parents have declined to talk with the media. Land said he spoke with Gates' father.

"He said he was doing very well and he was very excited to be on his way home," Land said. He added that Gates' parents are "really hopeful they can spend a little time with him without having to answer a lot of questions" in the media spotlight.

The mother of the third student, 19-year-old Derrik Sweeney, says she spoke with her son when he landed in Washington late Saturday before he boarded a flight to St. Louis.

All three left the Egyptian capital Saturday morning on separate connecting flights to Frankfurt, Germany, an airport official in Cairo said. The three were studying at the American University in Cairo.

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In earlier developments, attorney Theodore Simon, who represents Porter, said police escorted the three students to the Cairo airport Friday. Simon later said his client was on a flight.

"I am pleased and thankful to report that Gregory Porter is in the air. He has departed Egyptian airspace and is on his way home," Simon said, though he declined to say when Porter was expected back in the U.S.

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Simon said he and Porter's mother both spoke by phone with the student, who is from the Philadelphia suburb of Glenside.

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"He clearly conveyed to me ... that he was OK," Simon told the AP.

Gates is a student at Indiana University. It wasn't clear when he was expected back in the U.S.

Joy Sweeney told the AP her son, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Missouri, would fly from Frankfurt to Washington, then on to St. Louis.

She said family will meet him when he arrives late Saturday.

Video: Mother relieved after US students freed in Cairo (on this page)

"I am ecstatic," Sweeney said Friday. "I can't wait for him to get home tomorrow night. I can't believe he's actually going to get on a plane. It is so wonderful."

Sweeney said she had talked with her son Friday afternoon and "he seemed jubilant."

"He thought he was going to be able to go back to his dorm room and get his stuff," she said. "We said, 'No, no, don't get your stuff, we just want you here.'"

She said the American University in Cairo will ship his belongings home.

Sweeney had earlier said she did not prepare a Thanksgiving celebration this week because the idea seemed "absolutely irrelevant" while her son still was being held.

"I'm getting ready to head out and buy turkey and stuffing and all the good fixings so that we can make a good Thanksgiving dinner," she said Friday.

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Sexy Gifts for Kink-Curious Newlyweds [Gift Guide]

You finally found that special someone, settled down, and tied the knot. This is the one person you're going to be having sex with from here to eternity. Here are ten gifts to add some kinky spice to forever. More »

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Fans call Vidya ?Bombaat?

Vidya Balan is garnering great reviews for her role in Ekta Kapoor?s upcoming film ?The Dirty Picture?. She is receiving praises from all the quarters and her new avatar in the movie has become a hot topic of discussion. The actress is now been called as ?Bombaat Balan? by her fans. “People have started calling [...]

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Mali: German killed; Dutch, SAfrican, Swede seized (AP)

BAMAKO, Mali ? Gunmen killed a German man in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu and seized three men from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden, their tour guide said, as officials on Saturday ordered a plane to evacuate foreigners from the tourist destination.

Tour guide Ali Maiga said the South African man also holds a British passport. Maiga was with the tourists during Friday's attack at a Timbuktu restaurant. A witness and an official said gunmen burst into the restaurant, grabbed four tourists dining there and executed one when he refused to climb into their truck.

Officials on Saturday evacuated foreigners from Timbuktu to the capital, said a man who owns a hotel in Bamako where the tourists previously stayed. He asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

Dutch officials did not say whether any of the hostages are Dutch. The kidnappings come before an expected official visit by Mali's president to the Netherlands next week.

"In the interests of the people involved, we never comment on these cases," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ward Bezemer told the Associated Press.

Until a few years ago, Timbuktu was one of the most visited destinations in Africa, but it is now one of the many former tourist hotspots in Mali that have been deemed too dangerous to visit by foreign embassies because of kidnappings by the local chapter of al-Qaida.

Friday's incident comes after two French citizens were grabbed in the middle of the night from their hotel in the Malian town of Hombori on Thursday. French judicial officials have opened a preliminary investigation into their kidnappings.

Neither kidnapping has yet been claimed by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, whose members have kidnapped and ransomed more than 50 Europeans and Canadians since 2003.

If Friday's kidnapping is by AQIM, it will mark the first time they have taken a hostage inside of Timbuktu's city limits. Thursday's kidnapping would be another first ? the first hostage taking south of the Niger River.

The group's footprint has grown dramatically since 2006, when the Algerian-led cell first joined al-Qaida. Security experts estimate the group has been able to raise around $130 million from ransom payments alone.

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Associated Press writer Mike Corder contributed to this report from The Hague; writer Anita Powell contributed from Johannesburg.

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Analysis:Catholics, Muslims pursue dialogue amid Mideast tension (Reuters)

BETHANY BEYOND THE JORDAN, Jordan (Reuters) ? Only five years ago, critical remarks by Pope Benedict about Islam sparked off violent protests in several Muslim countries.

Never very good, relations between the world's two largest religions sank to new lows in modern times.

This week, while protesters in the Arab world were demanding democracy and civil rights, Catholics and Muslims met along the Jordan River for frank and friendly talks about their differences and how to get beyond their misunderstandings.

The Catholic-Muslim Forum, which grew out of the tensions following Benedict's speech in the German city of Regensburg, was overshadowed by events in Egypt, Yemen and Syria. The lack of any dramatic news here reflected the progress the two sides have made since 2006.

"We have passed from formal dialogue to a dialogue between friends," Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Vatican's department for interfaith dialogue, said at the conference held near the Jordan River site believed to be where Jesus was baptized. "We realized that we have a common heritage,"

Recalling the strains that prompted Muslims to suggest a dialogue in 2007, Jordan's Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal said: "Since then, despite some misunderstandings, I dare say the general Muslim-Catholic ambiance has ameliorated considerably."

The 24 Catholic and 24 Muslim religious leaders, scholars and educators meeting here debated how each religion uses reason to strengthen insight into its beliefs. Roman Catholicism has long argued that faith without reason can breed superstition while nihilism can emerge from reason without faith.

POPE'S ILL-FATED SPEECH

This was the core message of Benedict's Regensburg speech, but it was drowned out when he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor describing Islam as violent and irrational. Radical Islamists responded with violent protests.

After he expressed his regrets, 38 Muslim scholars wrote to the pope suggesting a meeting to discuss misreading of Islam they found in his text.

Benedict, who had long thought interfaith dialogue could blur differences between religions, did not reply. He believed discussing theology was all but impossible because they do not analyze the Koran as Christians and Jews do their scriptures.

A year later, 138 Muslim scholars issued a broader appeal to all Christian churches to discuss the commands of love of God and neighbor that both faiths shared. Led by Prince Ghazi, the group included several grand muftis as well as leading Islamic intellectuals from around the Muslim world.

This time, the Vatican reluctantly agreed and hosted the first Catholic-Muslim Forum in November 2008 in Rome.

That meeting was a watershed, allowing Catholics and Muslims to discuss theology seriously instead of simply holding a polite meeting ending with pious calls for peace and understanding.

Although he only met the Muslims at a formal session in the Vatican, Benedict was a quick learner. By May 2009, when he visited Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories, the pope echoed their arguments and eased the quest for common ground.

COMMON SENSE OF URGENCY

Three years after the introductory session, the second Forum on Nov 21-23 focused on the relationship between faith and reason.

Ibrahim Kalin, a Turkish philosopher who is now chief policy advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, explained how Islam also argues that faith must be tempered by reason.

In the main Catholic presentation, Italian philosopher Vittorio Possenti explained how Catholic teaching stresses the intrinsic value and natural rights of every human being.

"There's a common sense of the urgency and importance of this meeting, even though the context and background we're coming from are quite different," said Archbishop Kevin McDonald, the top Catholic official for interfaith dialogue in England and Wales.

The Arab Spring uprisings this year have changed the context, especially by allowing Islamist parties to operate more freely in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

This has also opened the door to the Salafists, radical Islamists who have attacked Egypt's Coptic Christian minority and spread fear among Christians across the Middle East,

FAITH AND THE ARAB SPRING

Aref Ali Nayed, a Libyan theologian who joined his country's revolutionaries and is now Tripoli's ambassador in the United Arab Emirates, said the role of faith in the emerging political systems highlighted the need for reasonable religion to prevail.

"It is extremely important that the massive movements we are experiencing today do not happen at the level of irrationality or mere emotion," he said.

"Such movements must be guided by the light of faith, but reasoned faith that encourages thinking and dialogue."

Strains emerged at some of the closed-door talks, especially on the issue of whether Muslims can convert to Christianity.

One Catholic noted the Church could not accept any converts in the Gulf countries but Christian foreign workers there who switched to Islam got a warm public welcome to their new faith.

Another asked why Muslims would not respect the choice made by people who sincerely wanted to convert despite all the problems they knew would come. In response, a Muslim said Islamic countries remained wary because too many conversions were forced in the past.

Some Muslims also expressed difficulty in understanding how the Catholic Church could open dialogue with other faiths after its Second Vatican Council in the 1960s after avoiding it for almost two millennia before that.

They also suggested the Catholics had given in too much to modern secularism and not protested enough against depictions of Jesus that Muslims considered blasphemous.

Still, the strength of their current ties showed when, during a break on the final day, delegates swapped jokes about religion. Bosnia's Chief Mufti Mustafa Ceric turned out to be group's stand-up comedian.

"Did you hear about the preacher and taxi driver?" the Sarajevo-based cleric asked. "When they died and came before God, He sent the preacher to hell and the taxi driver to heaven.

"When the preacher asked why, God said 'When you preached, you put people to sleep. But he used to drive his taxi so fast that he made all his passengers pray for eternal salvation'."

(Reporting By Tom Heneghan; Editing by Jon Hemming)

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Tracy de Groose: Why Connectivity is Creating a New Class of Female Leaders

We are witnessing a shift in the nature of leadership. The command and control structures we have inherited from traditional leadership are making way for styles characterised more by empathy, partnership and collaboration than by ego. This new breed of connectivity will be an increasingly valued skill for organisations in the future and is an enormous opportunity for female leaders.

The ability to connect has always been important for professional women, but largely, to date, it's taken the form of network and support groups. In an attempt to get more women to the top, we've tapped into a natural skill women have - to build supportive relationships and coach each other on our way up. There are thousands of these groups by sector levels and locality.

If the roles were reversed, and men were under-represented in the boardroom, I am pretty sure they would resort to more direct means. Men are inherently more confident, ambitious and competitive which means their paths to success have often taken a very different course from many female leaders. It is connectivity that has helped women secure senior roles in the past, and I believe this will play an even bigger role opening up more leadership opportunities in the future. I believe we are seeing a shift from competition to connectivity and collaboration and organisations are increasingly benefiting from this approach.

As a marketing consultant in 2009, I worked in collaboration with The Portman Group to unite the drinks industry behind one campaign to promote responsible drinking. Rather than having 40 different drinks companies compete on their social responsibility messaging, we joined forces to invest behind a single campaign - Why Let Good Times Go Bad?

It was one the most successful social marketing launches in terms of impact, understanding and potential to change behaviour, according to researchers at Millward Brown. But what was more impressive was to watch the 40 companies who'd historically spent years competing against each other coming together to do something brave, innovative and valuable. This required a different type of leadership approach - more empathy, more collaboration, less ego - to unite a previously un-unitable bunch.

As HR guru Lynda Gratton puts it in her research "The Future of Work": "One of the paradoxes of the future will be that to succeed one will [....] need to both stand out for your mastery and skills and simultaneously become part of a collection of other masters who together create value."

I work in an industry that has been dominated by male leaders. Looking even five years back, most media agencies were run by men. Looking at the top 10 media agencies in the UK today, five of the 10 are run by women. That's a massive shift in a relatively short space of time and a reflection of the fact that the media industry has changed.

Media agencies of the future will increasingly need to think beyond advertising and be innovative in their approach to deliver value to clients. Connectivity, collaboration and holistic thinking will help agencies deliver this innovation and value for clients.

Let's be honest, leadership has been defined by men. If we look to replicate those skills as women, we may never realise our true potential as leaders. Our strengths in connectivity will help more women succeed as leaders. Now our natural strengths are becoming important in how organisations need to be led in both the new era of leadership and the media industry I work in.

We just need to make sure we act and grab the opportunity.

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Most docs return to work after addiction treatment (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Surgeons and other types of doctors were equally likely to return to medical practice after being treated for drug or alcohol addiction, in a new study.

Surgeons were also no different from non-surgeons in the proportion who relapsed after treatment, or the number who had their medical licenses revoked.

Researchers wrote Monday in the Archives of Surgery that they had expected surgeons might make a stronger turn-around than other doctors, in part because of the expectation of "perfection" in everything they do.

"Being a safety-sensitive specialty, they receive greater scrutiny when returning to practice following chemical dependence treatment," said Amanda Buhl from the Washington Physicians Health Program, who worked on the study. "We actually hypothesized that they would have more favorable outcomes following treatment."

While that turned out not to be the case, the majority of surgeons and non-surgeons were able to return to practice within a few years of treatment.

The study included 144 surgeons and 636 other physicians, including family practice doctors and anesthesiologists, who were treated for a substance abuse disorder in 16 different state physician health programs from 1995 to 2001.

Physician health programs allow doctors to be treated for drug abuse and addiction without repercussions as long as they complete program contracts, including random testing, and recover before returning to practice.

The participating doctors, mostly men, and in their mid-40s, on average, were followed for five years after treatment to see how many of them fulfilled the contracts and if they went back to work.

Alcohol abuse was the most common reason for enrolling in the physician health programs, and was more prevalent in surgeons than non-surgeons. Other reasons for treatment included opioid, stimulant and sedative abuse.

About one in five surgeons and non-surgeons had a positive alcohol or drug test result after treatment, and the same number were reported to state licensing boards because of relapses or non-compliance with the programs.

Still, after five years, 60 to 65 percent of all doctors had completed post-treatment monitoring contracts, and as many as 75 percent had their licenses restored and were practicing medicine again.

Slightly more surgeons than non-surgeons didn't return to medicine for a variety of reasons, including having a license revoked, leaving voluntarily or dying.

The findings "certainly demonstrate favorable outcomes following successful treatment for a substance use disorder," Buhl told Reuters Health.

Studies have estimated that about ten percent of doctors will abuse drugs or alcohol at some point during their careers -- similar to figures in the general population.

But if they do get treatment, they tend to do better than the average non-doctor, possibly because they have a lot to lose, said Dr. Keith Berge, an anesthesiologist from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who has studied drug dependence in physicians.

Although physician health programs have helped address addiction by emphasizing treatment over punishment, there's still a long way to go in terms of getting doctors the help they need in a timely fashion, added Berge, who wasn't involved in the new research.

"There's a huge barrier to physicians admitting to these problems, and often they're pretty far gone in their addictive illness by the time they come to the attention of (other) physicians or state medical boards," he told Reuters Health.

"The medical community -- families, colleagues -- need to remain vigilant to not only the signs and symptoms of substance use disorders, but to stress and burnout, those conditions that can lend themselves to drug and alcohol abuse," Buhl agreed.

Berge said that the question of drug and alcohol addiction in doctors is increasingly being seen as an important patient safety issue -- but the safest thing isn't necessarily to remove doctors from the operating room or bedside for good.

"There is a scarcity of physicians, so the goal is not to basically take good physicians that can have a useful, safe career out of practice," he said. "The goal is to have a valuable societal resource fixed and put back into place to provide safe, competent patient care."

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Egyptian court orders release of 3 US students (AP)

PHILADELPHIA ? A court in Egypt has ordered the release of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo, a lawyer in Philadelphia confirmed Thursday.

Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter, who attend the American University in Cairo, were arrested on the roof of a university building near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Sunday. Officials accused them of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters.

Attorney Theodore Simon, who represents Porter, a 19-year-old student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said he is still waiting to find out if the students actually have been set free.

Sweeney's mother, Joy Sweeney, said she is "absolutely elated" at the news of her 19-year-old son's release.

"I can't wait to give him a huge hug and tell him how much I love him," she said, adding that the news of the court order was the best Thanksgiving gift.

The 21-year-old Gates is a student of Indiana University.

The State Department released a statement saying it was trying to independently confirm the reports of the students' release.

Earlier Thursday, Egypt officials said the Abdeen Court in Cairo had ordered their release. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media. They did not say when the students would be released.

In Bloomington, Ind., a spokesman for Indiana University, said he could not confirm that Gates and the other has already been freed. Mark Land earlier said he had spoken to Gates' parents and that they had been told by the State Department that their son has been released.

Joy Sweeney said she wasn't sure when her son, a student at Georgetown University, would be returning to their home in Jefferson City, Mo.

"If he can find his passport (then he'll leave) tomorrow, if not, it won't be until Monday," she said.

She said the U.S. consul general in Egypt, Roberto Powers, recommended that her son leave Egypt as soon as possible.

"He also conveyed that that was what Derrik had conveyed to him that he wanted to do. He was enjoying his experience but (was) ready to be done with it," Sweeney said.

Derrik Sweeney interned for U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., earlier this year. Luetkemeyer's spokesman Paul Sloca, said the congressman is "extremely pleased that he's safe and coming home, especially on Thanksgiving."

Sweeney said she had not prepared for a Thanksgiving celebration, although a friend had taken her some food. She said the idea of a Thanksgiving feast had seemed "absolutely irrelevant" before the news of her son's pending freedom.

Asked what she thought her son would take away from his arrest, Sweeney said she thought he would make something useful of it.

"I'm sure that he'll put a life-lesson learning experience into a positive story," Sweeney said. "He's a writer, he will write about this experience."

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Associated Press reporter Ed Donahue in Washington contributed to this report. Maggie Michael reported from Cairo.

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Philippine court orders Aquino kin to give up land (AP)

MANILA, Philippines ? The Philippine Supreme Court has ordered vast sugarcane plantation lands owned by relatives of the president to be distributed to thousands of farmers under a government land reform program.

The high court ? which has recently been at odds with President Benigno Aquino III ? said the 11,115-acre (4,500-hectare) Hacienda Luisita in northern Tarlac province should be turned over to 6,296 farm workers. The ruling, which was made public Thursday, changes a decision last July that gave the workers the option of getting shares of stock in a corporation that runs the plantation instead of land.

Left-wing peasant groups have alleged the stock-option scheme was conceived so the sprawling plantation owned by the president's relatives could evade the land reform program, which has been hampered for decades by opposition from influential landlords and a lack of government funds to buy the land from owners.

The court said the government's land reform policy aims to hand control over agricultural lands to farmers. "We realize that the farm worker beneficiaries will never have control over these agricultural lands for as long as they remain as stockholders" in Hacienda Luisita Inc., where they would remain minority owners, the court said.

Company lawyer and spokesman Antonio Ligon suggested that the sugar estate would likely comply with the order, which he has not yet received. "No one is above the law," Ligon told the ABS-CBN TV network.

He said about 4,000 other farm workers at the estate deserved land but were excluded in the court ruling.

The court also ordered Hacienda Luisita ? owned mostly by Aquino's uncles, aunts and other relatives ? to pay the farmers up to 1.3 billion pesos ($30 million) from past sales of plantation lands, including those that have been turned into a residential enclave and a modern highway.

The decades-old plantation, which features sugar mills and farming communities, has long served as a symbol of the Aquino family's economic might. A decision by his politically influential relatives to give up the bulk of their landholdings to poor farmers has been seen as a crucial test of the president's resolve to battle crushing poverty, which has largely been blamed on Filipino farmers' lack of land in the countryside.

Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said Aquino divested his share of the family wealth in the hacienda a month after he won a landslide victory in last year's presidential elections on a promise to battle corruption and appalling poverty, which afflicts a third of the Philippines' 94 million people.

"He has already divested, so there is nothing that will put him in a compromising position," Lacierda said in a news conference.

The Supreme Court has been at loggerheads with Aquino since his administration recently defied a court order that approved former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's request to leave the country for medical treatment as she faced elections fraud charges. Justice and elections officials later charged Arroyo in court, which ordered her placed under arrest in a hospital, where she has sought treatment for a bone disease.

The majority of the Supreme Court's 15 justices were appointed by Arroyo before she ended her stormy nine years in power in June last year. She then won a seat in the House of Representatives. Aquino refused to be sworn in as president by the current chief justice, Renato Corona, a former Arroyo chief of staff whom she appointed as head of the high tribunal shortly before she stepped down.

Supreme Court spokesman Midas Marquez and Lacierda separately said the court ruling on the hacienda was not influenced by differences between the high tribunal and the president, son of late pro-democracy icon Corazon Aquino, who had called on Arroyo to resign when she was implicated in corruption and vote-rigging scandals. Arroyo has denied any wrongdoing.

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Stocks fall on weak economic news in China, Europe

In this Nov. 9, 2011, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stocks fell Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, after more evidence emerged that the global economy is faltering fast and that the eurozone is heading for a recession as the debt crisis spreads to the bigger economies like Italy and Spain.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In this Nov. 9, 2011, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stocks fell Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, after more evidence emerged that the global economy is faltering fast and that the eurozone is heading for a recession as the debt crisis spreads to the bigger economies like Italy and Spain.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stocks are falling at midday on worries about slower global growth and the spreading European debt crisis.

An auction of German debt drew surprisingly weak interest Wednesday, sending global markets lower. Germany has Europe's biggest economy. The weak auction signaled that Europe's debt woes might be spreading to the stronger nations that are helping to keep the euro afloat.

A Chinese survey suggested that manufacturing activity there has slowed. Investors focused on the negative aspects of several mixed U.S. economic reports. The government said Tuesday that growth in the third quarter was far slower than previously reported.

The Dow is down 189 points, or 1.6 percent, at 11,305. The S&P 500 is down 22, or 1.8 percent, at 1,167. The Nasdaq is down 50, or 2 percent, at 2,471.

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Consuming canned soup linked to greatly elevated levels of the chemical BPA

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

A new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found that a group of volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for five days had a more than 1,000% increase in urinary bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations compared with when the same individuals consumed fresh soup daily for five days. The study is one of the first to quantify BPA levels in humans after ingestion of canned foods.

The findings were published online November 22, 2011, in the Journal of the Medical Association (JAMA) and will appear in the November 23/30 print issue.

"Previous studies have linked elevated BPA levels with adverse health effects. The next step was to figure out how people are getting exposed to BPA. We've known for a while that drinking beverages that have been stored in certain hard plastics can increase the amount of BPA in your body. This study suggests that canned foods may be an even greater concern, especially given their wide use," said Jenny Carwile, a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology at HSPH and lead author of the study.

Exposure to the endocrine-disrupting chemical BPA, used in the lining of metal food and beverage cans, has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity in humans. In addition to the lining of food and beverage cans, BPA is also found in polycarbonate bottles (identified by the recycling number 7) and dentistry composites and sealants.

The researchers, led by Carwile and Karin Michels, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology, set out to quantify whether canned-soup consumption would increase urinary BPA concentrations relative to eating fresh soup.

They recruited student and staff volunteers from HSPH. One group consumed a 12-ounce serving of vegetarian canned soup each day for five days; another group consumed 12 ounces of vegetarian fresh soup (prepared without canned ingredients) daily for five days. After a two-day "washout" period, the groups reversed their assignments.

Urine samples of the 75 volunteers taken during the testing showed that consumption of a serving of canned soup daily was associated with a 1,221% increase in BPA compared to levels in urine collected after consumption of fresh soup.

The researchers note that the elevation in urinary BPA concentrations may be temporary and that further research is needed to quantify its duration.

"The magnitude of the rise in urinary BPA we observed after just one serving of soup was unexpected and may be of concern among individuals who regularly consume foods from cans or drink several canned beverages daily. It may be advisable for manufacturers to consider eliminating BPA from can linings," said Michels, senior author of the study.

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Disgraced ex-Boston archbishop leaves Rome job (AP)

VATICAN CITY ? Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned in disgrace as Boston's archbishop in 2002 after the priest sex abuse scandal exploded in the United States, has retired from his subsequent job as head of a major Roman basilica.

The Vatican said Monday that Pope Benedict XVI had accepted the 80-year-old Law's resignation as archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica and had named as Law's replacement Spanish Monsignor Santos Abril y Castello.

Law's 2004 appointment as the archpriest of one of Rome's most important basilicas had been harshly criticized by victims of priestly sex abuse, who charged that bishops who covered up for pedophile priests should be punished, not rewarded.

Law turned 80 earlier this month. While the pope could have kept him on longer ? the dean of the College of Cardinals will be 84 this week, for example ? Benedict decided to replace him.

The Vatican announcement made no mention of Law's resignation, though, merely noting in a perfunctory, two-line statement that Benedict had named a new archpriest for the basilica.

Law became the first and so far only U.S. bishop to resign for mishandling cases of priests who sexually abused priests.

The clergy sex abuse crisis erupted in Boston in 2002 after church records were made public showing that church officials had reports of priests molesting children, but kept the complaints secret and shuffled some priests from parish to parish rather than remove them or report them to police.

The crisis spread as similar sexual abuse complaints were uncovered in dioceses across the country. To date, U.S. dioceses have paid out nearly $3 billion in settlements to victims and other costs.

Law himself had been named in hundreds of lawsuits accusing him of failing to protect children from known child molesters. After 18 years leading the nation's fourth-largest archdiocese, Law resigned in 2002, having asked Pope John Paul II twice before receiving permission to step down.

Ten months after he left office, Law's successor, now-Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley helped broker an $85 million settlement with more than 550 victims of pedophile priests.

Law remains a member of a half-dozen important Vatican congregations, including the office that helps the pope select bishops. Such appointments are for renewable five-year terms and it's not clear when each one expires or whether he'll seek to stay on.

While in Rome, Law has been a frequent presence at all major Vatican ceremonial and diplomatic events, a lifestyle that galled many abuse victims who have long insisted that the Vatican crack down on bishops who transfer abusive priests rather than report them to police.

Law's successor at St. Mary Major ? one of the four basilicas under the direct jurisdiction of the Vatican ? retired earlier this year as the Vatican's ambassador to Slovenia and Macedonia.

Abril y Castello, 76, is also the No. 2 prelate who helps take care of matters dealing with a papal death and runs the Vatican until a new pontiff is elected in a conclave.

Now that he is 80, Law can no longer vote in a conclave, but he remains a cardinal.

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Donovan, Beckham lead LA Galaxy to MLS title

Stars team up for only goal in 1-0 victory over Houston Dynamo

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David Beckham, left, congratulates Landon Donovan after his goal gave the Galaxy a 1-0 lead in the second half.

By GREG BEACHAM

AP Sports Writer

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updated 11:36 p.m. ET Nov. 20, 2011

CARSON, Calif. - David Beckham flicked a header upfield, finding Robbie Keane on the move. Keane sprinted, stuttered and broke down Houston's defense before feeding Landon Donovan, who delicately pushed his shot past the diving Dynamo keeper into the far corner of the net.

Everything happened exactly the way the Los Angeles Galaxy drew it up nearly five years ago.

With that dramatic, decisive goal in the 72nd minute of Los Angeles' 1-0 victory in the MLS Cup on Sunday night, the Galaxy's trio of superstars earned their first championship together.

When Beckham raised the Cup amid the confetti and cacophony of the postgame celebration, the Galaxy felt justified in every expense and expectation of the experiment they started in 2007 with Beckham's groundbreaking move to America. In the final game of the English midfielder's contract, the high-priced, high-profile Galaxy were champions ? MLS' best team all year long, and still dominant at the end.

"I've wanted to be successful for the Galaxy for five years, and tonight, I have that," Beckham said.

Beckham lifted Donovan off his feet with a hug after the final whistle on Los Angeles' third MLS title. Beckham's three sons joined him on the field, with 12-year-old Brooklyn carrying the Cup after they made their way over to the Galaxy's most ardent supporters in the north end of Home Depot Center, where the Galaxy didn't lose all season long.

Although the 36-year-old global icon insists he hasn't decided where he'll play next year, the Galaxy hope Beckham extends his California sojourn for at least another season. The Galaxy fanatics in the Angel City Brigade supporters' section chanted "We want Beckham!" after the match as Beckham took a long tour of the pitch with his sons.

"It's been the most enjoyable time of my career in America over the last year, and this just tops it off," said Beckham, whose services are coveted by Paris Saint-Germain and a handful of British clubs. "I've said before, I need to sit back and relax and enjoy this moment, and then I'll figure out what I'm going to do next year. I might talk in the past tense sometimes, but that doesn't mean I'm leaving. It's been an amazing five years."

Los Angeles had the most expensive and eye-catching roster in MLS history, but the Galaxy got full value from their three highest-priced players, particularly in the playoffs. Beckham's assist was his fourth of a stellar postseason, while Donovan scored in each of the Galaxy's final three playoff games, and Keane was a constant offensive threat despite flying across the world in his spare time on Irish national team duty.

"To be honest, the actual goal doesn't mean a lot to me," said Donovan, selected the MLS Cup MVP after scoring his record 20th playoff goal. "I, for the last month, have been so determined. I didn't care who scored. I didn't care if it was an own-goal that won it. Winning feels so good. Goals come and go, but when the whistle blew, that's what I'll remember."

Beckham put a stylish finish on the best season of his five-year stint with the Galaxy, finishing second in MLS with 15 assists. After the game, Donovan revealed Beckham strained his hamstring during training earlier in the week, while coach Bruce Arena said Donovan has been struggling with undisclosed injuries for several weeks.

"David is a champion," said Arena, the first coach to win three MLS titles. "I've been around great athletes and competitors in my life, and this guy is as good as it comes. Unbelievable desire to win. He's a great teammate, a great person. He's done it all in every country he's been in. What more can you say about a guy like this and what he's brought to this organization and this league in five years? He gutted it out tonight. He obviously wanted to be there."

Beckham grinned at mention of his injury.

"I just had a little bit of champagne and beer, and I can't really feel it anymore," he said.

A sellout crowd of 30,281 cheered Los Angeles past the Dynamo, who hadn't lost in nine games since Sept. 10. Houston struggled for offense in the MLS Cup after losing leading scorer and league MVP runner-up Brad Davis to a torn quadriceps in the Eastern Conference championship.

"It's a well-balanced team," Houston coach Dominic Kinnear said about the Galaxy. "They've been the best in the league from Day 1 to now. They are a deserving champion. ... We gave ourselves a chance. It took one goal to win it, which is sometimes what finals are about."

Arena was rewarded for bringing order and professionalism to the Galaxy's messy roster since taking over in late 2008, while Donovan also earned vindication in his fourth career MLS championship. The U.S. national team star gave up his Galaxy captaincy to Beckham early in their tenure, but got it back as his midfield partnership with Beckham matured over the past three seasons.

This championship had been the Galaxy's to lose since early in the season. Los Angeles dominated the league and won the Supporters' Shield with the second-best regular-season record in MLS history, but the Galaxy didn't disappoint in these playoffs after losing in last year's conference final.

After backup forward Adam Cristman failed to convert several stellar chances set up by Beckham and Donovan in the scoreless first half, Keane sparked Los Angeles after halftime. After he barely missed a shot across the mouth of the goal early in the second half, Keane slipped a shot between goalkeeper Tally Hall's legs in the 56th minute, but was whistled offside by the smallest of margins.

Beckham planned to celebrate through the night ? but only until dawn.

"I've got school drop-off at 8 o'clock," he said, laughing.

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India leapfrog South Africa to second spot in test rankings (Reuters)

REUTERS ? South Africa have surrendered their second position in the test rankings to India following their drawn home series against Australia.

Australia's thrilling two-wicket victory in the Johannesburg test on Monday not only levelled the series 1-1 but also cost South Africa one ratings point.

It was enough for India to grab the second spot with 117 points, one more than South Africa, the International Cricket Council said in a statement.

India are 2-0 up against seventh placed West Indies in the ongoing three-match home series.

England remain at top with 125 points, having reached there in August after blanking India 4-0 in a home series.

Australia (105) were fourth, having gained one point from their drawn series.

(Writing by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi, editing by Pritha Sarkar. To comment on this story: email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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eBay Buys Recommendation Service Hunch To Improve Buying, Selling [Updated]

Hunch, a service that provides a "taste graph" of personalized recommendations based on users' interests, has just been bought by auction site eBay, the companies have confirmed. The amount hasn't officially been disclosed, but Michael Arrington (who had the scoop this morning) hears that it's around $80 million. [Update: We caught up with Dixon and eBay chief technology officer Mark Carges by phone just now, and got some more details on the deal and what it means for both companies. Our notes below.] Founded in late 2007 and launched in 2009, the New York company will be used by eBay to help improve buying and selling recommendations for its users.

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Mother of bomb plot suspect apologizes to NYers (AP)

NEW YORK ? The mother of a "lone wolf" accused of plotting to attack police stations and post offices with homemade bombs apologized to New Yorkers on Monday, even as questions arose about why federal authorities ? who typically handle terrorism cases ? declined to get involved in what city officials called a serious threat.

The mother of Jose Pimentel spoke to reporters outside her upper Manhattan home the day after her son was arraigned in state court on terrorism-related charges.

"I didn't raise my son in that way," Carmen Sosa said. "I feel bad about this situation."

She also praised the New York Police Department, saying, "I think they handled it well."

Officials with the NYPD, which conducted the undercover investigation using a confidential informant and a bugged apartment, said the department had to move quickly because Pimentel was about to test a pipe bomb made out of match heads, nails and other ingredients bought at neighborhood hardware and discount stores.

Two law enforcement officials said Monday that the NYPD's Intelligence Division had sought to get the FBI involved at least twice as the investigation unfolded. Both times, the FBI concluded that Pimentel lacked the mental capacity to act on his own, they said.

The FBI thought Pimentel "didn't have the predisposition or the ability to do anything on his own," one of the officials said.

The officials were not authorized to speak about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. The FBI's New York office and the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan both declined to comment on Monday.

Pimentel's lawyer, Joseph Zablocki, said his client was never a true threat.

"If the goal here is to be stopping terror ... I'm not sure that this is where we should be spending our resources," he said.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the handling of the case Monday, saying the NYPD kept federal authorities in the loop "all along" before circumstances forced investigators to take swift measures using state charges.

"No question in my mind that we had to take this case down," Kelly said. "There was an imminent threat."

Added Kelly: "This is a classic case of what we've been talking about ? the lone wolf, an individual, self-radicalized. This is the needle in the haystack problem we face as a country and as a city."

Authorities described Pimentel as an unemployed U.S. citizen and "al-Qaida sympathizer" who was born in the Dominican Republic. He had lived most of his life in Manhattan, aside from about five years in the upstate city of Schenectady, where authorities say he had an arrested for credit card fraud.

His mother said he was raised Roman Catholic. But he converted to Islam in 2004 and went by the name Muhammad Yusuf, authorities said.

Using a tip from police in Albany, the NYPD had been watching Pimentel using a confidential informant for the past year. Investigators learned that he was energized and motivated to carry out his plan by the Sept. 30 killing of al-Qaida's U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, police said.

Pimentel was under constant surveillance as he shopped for the pipe bomb materials. He also was overheard talking about attacking police patrol cars and postal facilities, killing soldiers returning home from abroad and bombing a police station in Bayonne, N.J., authorizes said.

The arrest marked the second time this year that the police department took the unusual step of working with a state prosecutor to bring a terrorism case. In May, two men were indicted on charges they told an NYPD undercover detective about their desire to attack synagogues.

A grand jury declined to indict Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh on the most serious charge initially brought against them ? a high-level terror conspiracy count that carried the potential for life in prison without parole. They were, however, indicted on lesser state terrorism and hate crime charges, including one punishable by up to 32 years behind bars.

Attorneys for Ferhani said hate crime charges and a rarely used state terrorism law were misapplied to what they have called a case of police entrapment.

State prosecutors insist that there's ample evidence that Pimentel went well beyond merely talking about terrorism ? and that he was acting on his own initiative.

"The people whom we're prosecuting have well crossed that line," Adam Kaufmann, head of the district attorney's investigative division, said Monday. "They've gone from sort of espousing an idea to creating a plan to act upon it."

At an arraignment where Pimentel was ordered held without bail, prosecutors said investigators have "countless hours" of audio and video in this case. And in a criminal complaint, an intelligence division detective alleges Pimentel told him after the arrest that he was about an hour away from finishing the bomb and felt Islamic law obligates all Muslims to wage war against Americans to avenge U.S. military action in their homelands.

A former federal prosecutor praised the police and state prosecutors for going through with the investigation and charges.

"A person who puts out conspiratorial information and then takes steps to build a bomb should not be walking the streets of New York," whatever his mental state or his interactions with an informant, said Michael Wildes, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn who worked on terrorism-related cases. "Considering the facts that have been revealed to the public, the decision was done well, in this instance, to go ahead with this case and for the FBI not to be the lead agency."

Publicly, NYPD and federal officials claim they have a strong working relationship. But behind the scenes, there has been tension ever since the department mounted its own aggressive anti-terrorism effort, including undercover investigations targeting potential homegrown threats.

The effort is needed, NYPD officials say, because the city remains a prime terrorist target a decade after the Sept. 11 attack. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there have been at least 14 foiled plots against the city, including the latest suspected scheme.

The most serious threats came from Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad, who tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square in May 2010 and is now serving a life sentence, and Najibullah Zazi, who targeted the subway system a year earlier. Zazi pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges and is awaiting sentencing.

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Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Jim Fitzgerald contributed to this report.

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