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A delegation of Pakistani military officials decided to cancel a meeting this week with U. S. military officials in protest after they were taken off a plane and questioned at Washington' s Dulles International Airport, according to a Pakistani official. The nine- member delegation, including brigadier generals and at least one two- star navy admiral, were bound for a meeting at the U. S. military' s Central Command at Mac. Dill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.
After they boarded a United Airlines flight in Washington on Monday en route to Tampa, a passenger on the flight expressed to the flight crew a concern about one of the members of the Pakistani delegation, according to the Pakistani official, who spoke to CNN but asked not to be identified.
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" I was devastated, " Straub says. But she was also realistic: " In this economy, who can afford out- of- pocket for every doctor, every dentist visit? " Unless she figures something out - - and fast - - Straub will become one of the millions of young Americans without health insurance. A report by the Commonwealth Fund last year showed that 34 percent of college graduates will spend some time uninsured in the year after graduation.
The report also found that two- thirds of young adults ages 19 to 29 who spent time without insurance coverage in the past year had gone without needed medical care because it cost too much. Of course, the solution is to get a job that offers insurance, but that' s not so easy these days. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, nearly 80 percent of recent college graduates who are looking for jobs haven' t found one. " Lack of coverage and access to health care services puts the health of young adults at risk, and can subject them, as well as their families, to potentially dire financial consequences, " says Sara Collins, co- author of The Commonwealth Fund report. Some college grads, like Straub, are furiously trying to figure out a way to get insurance.
But others, dubbed the " young invincibles" think they don' t need it since they' re young and healthy. Watch a young invincible bike messenger talk about his experience But if something goes wrong - - a car accident, a cancer diagnosis - - a young, uninsured person could be in real trouble.
According to the Commonwealth Fund study, half of uninsured young people said they were paying off medical bills or medical debt over time. So if you' re about to graduate: Congratulations - - and welcome to the real world, where you' ll need health insurance. Here are some ways to get it. Know your rights
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( CNN) - - You could say that a simple pair of running shorts was the trigger that launched a multimillion- dollar business and radically shifted the lives of basketball coaches Susan Walvius and Michelle Marciniak.
In August 2007, Walvius, who was then the head women' s basketball coach at the University of South Carolina, and her assistant, Marciniak, had just finished a long day teaching at a summer basketball camp. They sat exhausted in the gym, looking forward to a good night' s rest. Then Walvius - - thinking about her comfy running shorts - - experienced what she describes as an & quot; aha moment. & quot; & quot; I looked at Michelle and said, ' I love this fabric, and I' d love to have bedsheets from this stuff. ' Michelle said, ' Let' s do it. ' & quot; And with zero formal experience, the two women stepped boldly into the world of entrepreneurship. They paired with South Carolina' s International Business School to research the market, quit their coaching jobs, formed a business and took their battles from the basketball court to business boardrooms. & quot; The biggest similarity between coaching and what we do now is raising capital, & quot; said Walvius, who took USC' s women roundballers to the Elite Eight for the first time in 2002.
She compares raising capital to recruiting players. Instead of selling the school basketball program, they' re selling bedding - - heavy on the marketing side - - complete with Power. Point presentations and glossy poster boards. Their business - - SHEEX - - makes and sells & quot; performance& quot; sheets and pillowcases made from specialty fabrics that wick moisture and transfer heat.
They sell online and at upscale sporting goods stores, trendy home stores and other retail outlets. After working together as coach and assistant coach for five years - - and now as business partners - - the duo has developed a kind of unwritten playbook for themselves. & quot; We' re great friends, and we have different strengths, & quot; Walvius said. & quot; Susan and I complement each other really well during presentations, & quot; Marciniak said. & quot; If I get stuck, she fills in, and if she gets stuck, I fill in. & quot; Crisscrossing the country to build their business team and garner support, the two often find themselves working together for 16- hour days, said Marciniak, who gained attention as an All- American point guard on the University of Tennessee' s national championship team in 1996.
Local media nicknamed Marciniak and a teammate & quot; fire and ice. & quot; & quot; I look at this team in a similar way, & quot; Marciniak said. & quot; I bring a more ' fiery' personality to our team, where Susan brings a calmer one. & quot; Meetings are very calm they say. The fire and ice come while grinding through everyday decisions. Marciniak proved on the basketball courts of the that she can play with fire. In a 2002 altercation that' s ranked by FOX as one of the & quot; most outrageous moments in sports, & quot; a player with the Los Angeles Sparks hit Marciniak in the face with the ball, prompting Marciniak to charge toward the player, who then knocked her to the floor. Both players were suspended and fined & quot; a couple thousand dollars, & quot; Marciniak said.
Recently, during meetings for SHEEX, the fight has come up in business conversation several times. & quot; I am amazed how many guys see the fight after we meet with them and then comment on it during the next meeting or in a follow- up e- mail, & quot; Marciniak said. & quot; They think it' s cool. & quot; & quot; I just smile and tell my side of the story, & quot; she said. Eventually, Marciniak learned to channel and focus that intensity, her former boss said. & quot; Michelle isn' t emotionally popping off in a meeting like she was on the basketball court, & quot; Walvius said. & quot; She was such an emotional basketball player, and it was one of the reasons why she was highly successful. But with this, everything is about preparation and running our team. & quot; Do they fight amongst themselves? & quot; Oh, we fight all the time, & quot; Walvius said with a laugh. & quot; We fight about business decisions and the pace of . I want to research everything. & quot; Sometimes, she said, when they realize they can' t resolve their differences, they just put them aside and move on.
Do they see any parallels between male- dominated college and professional sports, and competing in the male- dominated business world? Not really, they say. & quot; In sports, there are constant reminders that you' re not the same, & quot; Walvius said. She mentioned gender- based differences in & quot; practice times, modes of transportation, facilities - - you live that every day. & quot; But in the business world, she said, they' re & quot; competing in an arena today where that' s not the case. It' s truly about the bottom line. & quot; The two say they don' t have time anymore to shoot baskets or even talk basketball.
It' s all business as they prepare for a major retail launch at upscale department stores and sporting goods stores. & quot; What we' re doing is trying to change the face of bedding in the world, & quot; Marciniak said. & quot; What we want to do is win a ' national championship' with SHEEX. & quot; Now that they' re playing ball with business barons, do Marciniak and Walvius miss their days on the hardwood? & quot; I miss some of the players who will really go to the wall for you, & quot; Walvius said. & quot; I miss the strategy of the game.
Every once in a while, I' ll see a game on TV and I' ll see something that pulls me back there. & quot;
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WASHINGTON ( CNN) - - Based on their latest estimates, congressional officials organizing next week' s presidential inaugural expect 2 million people to brave extra- long security lines in the bitter cold to witness Barack Obama being sworn in as the first African- American U. S. president. & quot; Hopefully, people will be of good temper and willing to go through the lines it will take, & quot; said Sen.
Dianne Feinstein, D- California, who chairs the congressional committee organizing inaugural events on Capitol Hill. & quot; Because they are going to have to go through magnetometers and they are going to be wanded.
Unfortunately, that' s the nature of the time. & quot; Forecasts show the high temperature on Inauguration Day will be 30 degrees Fahrenheit ( - 1 Celsius) . Speaking with other officials at a news conference Friday previewing the inaugural festivities, Feinstein warned that people will have to walk long distances to get to the event and should plan to arrive early. & quot; Most people will be standing for a substantial period of time, and be sure you can do it, & quot; she said. & quot; People have to be prepared to handle very cold weather, especially if the wind comes up. & quot; She suggested people not bring infants or children unless they are of an & quot; age and durability& quot; to withstand the cold over a long period of time. & quot; Be very careful if you' re planning to bring your children, cause it' s not going to be easy, & quot; she said, speaking as a mother and grandmother. Contingency plans exist to move the swearing- in inside the Capitol if the cold becomes & quot; life- endangering, & quot; according to Howard Gantman, who works for Feinstein. & quot; But in view of the large number of people, there' s a strong intent to do this outside, & quot; he said.
Crowd estimates are down from an original prediction from District of Columbia officials that as many as 4 million people would crowd the Capitol grounds and the National Mall to see the event. The new figures, based on fresh surveys of charter bus companies, show far fewer are coming than initially thought. More than two dozen construction workers hammered together 22, 000 sheets of plywood to build the dramatic inaugural platform on the West Front of the Capitol where will take the oath of office.
While 2 million people will attend the event, many will see it best on one of two dozen jumbo televisions placed along the Mall.
Only 240, 000 people will get official inaugural tickets, and most of them will have to stand. A mere 28, 000 seats are available on the Capitol grounds. Five thousand portable bathrooms will be set up for ticketed guests on the Capitol grounds.
Feinstein didn' t know how many toilets would be available along the Mall for people without tickets.
It cost $ 3.
5 million to build the inaugural platform and rent the chairs and fencing on the Capitol grounds, according to Stephan Ayers, the acting architect of the Capitol. Almost 2 million people have visited the Web site, with most of the attention going to the page featuring the menu for the inaugural luncheon that will immediately follow the swearing- in in the Capitol' s Statuary Hall. The elite few who are invited to that lunch will enjoy a three- course meal featuring wines from Feinstein' s home state of California, she said.
The first course will be & quot; seafood stew served with Duckhorn Vineyards, 2007 Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley. & quot; That will be followed by & quot; a brace of American birds ( pheasant and duck) , served with sour cherry chutney and molasses sweet potatoes; served with Goldeneye, 2005 Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley. & quot; And finally, & quot; apple cinnamon sponge cake and sweet cream glace served with Korbel Natural ' Special Inaugural Cuvee, ' California Champagne. & quot; Feinstein said she and a small group of senators' wives, and Nancy Erickson, the secretary of the Senate, chose the menu after a competition of the & quot; very best that the Washington catering establishment has to offer. & quot; Over the head table at the lunch will hang an 1865 painting, & quot; View of the Yosemite Valley, & quot; by American artist Thomas Hill.
The picture is on loan from the New York Historical Society. The swearing- in ceremony itself won' t change from previous inaugurals, Feinstein said. She and her staff studied DVDs of past ceremonies & quot; so everything is according to historical procedure. & quot; She said the ceremony is & quot; scripted, and it is concise and it moves quickly. & quot; Feinstein' s Senate office received more than 60, 000 requests for inaugural tickets. But, as a senator, she was allotted just under 300 to give out. House members get just under 200.
She said everyone she is giving a ticket to must pledge not to sell the ticket for a profit. As chairman of the inaugural committee, Feinstein will make & quot; very formal and very brief& quot; introductions for all the speakers at the . Asked if she would have trouble introducing Pastor Rick Warren - - who will deliver the invocation - - with whom she disagrees politically on some issues such as gay rights, she said no. & quot; This is not a political event, & quot; she said. Feinstein was also asked to sum up her feelings about the first African- American being sworn in as president. & quot; For me, that' s going to be the most amazing part, & quot; she said. & quot; I' m going to look out at the Lincoln Memorial as Barack Obama takes the oath of office. I' m going to think back into our history 200 years and what America was like at that time, especially for African- Americans.
And then to realize that we' ve gone from the monument to the White House in that 200 years.
And the doors are open. And we have a bright, young, energetic president who happens to be African- American, and the American people are rejoicing. & quot; All About & bull;
v6 Master storyteller M.K. Asante keeps it real in the classroom -
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Every week CNN International' s highlights Africa' s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. This week we profile Zimbabwean- born author, filmmaker and professor M. Asante. ( CNN) - - As a disruptive teenager, M. Asante was expelled from school on more than one occasion. Yet today, as an award- winning writer, filmmaker and professor, he' s welcomed back in classrooms around the world.
A master storyteller, Zimbabwe- born Asante is a major creative force. He' s written a number of books, as well as three movies, including 2008' s & quot; The Black Candle, & quot; which was narrated by American poet Maya Angelou. Only 29 years old, Asante has also embarked on a mission to make art more accessible to younger generations.
As a tenured professor of creative writing and film at Morgan State University in Baltimore, he leads classrooms of students, many of whom are close to him in age, using language they can understand. & quot; When I come into school, I keep it real with my students, & quot; Asante says. & quot; I use examples that they understand, we talk about things that are relevant in contemporary society, & quot; he adds. & quot; I want to show them this is what a professor can look like. You know what I mean? Yeah, I write books, you can write books too, & quot; Asante says. & quot; Whether you wear a bow tie or not has nothing to do with your intellectual rigor or whatever, it' s irrelevant - - it' s really about your ideas and what you bring to the table. & quot; Asante' s passion for art has also led him to travel across the United States and to many African countries where he gives passionate lectures about his craft. He says the trips back to the continent in which he was born have been a great experience for both him and the young Africans who come to listen to him. & quot; They' re inspired and you can see it, & quot; he says. & quot; They' re shocked that this person from America is so rooted, you know, sometimes even more rooted than they are. & quot; Born in Harare to American parents, Asante moved to the United States at a young age. His life' s journey got off to a rocky start while growing up in Philadelphia - - he was kicked out of his private school when he was 12 and then was sent to two public schools where he continued to get into trouble by being disruptive and fighting.
But Asante' s life took a major turn when he was 16 when he joined a creative writing class and was encouraged by his teacher to write about anything he wanted. He says that this was something he' d never been told before at school. & quot; I tested her at first - - I wrote a couple of curse words at first just to see if she was serious about this, & quot; he recalls. & quot; And she looked at it and said ' good. ' And I was like, ' OK, this is crazy! ' So I take the pen and my hand starts shaking because I get overwhelmed with this feeling about what I' m gonna write. & quot; Asante says that defining moment changed his life forever, triggering his love for writing. & quot; There were so many other things going on at that same time - - I had gotten arrested, I had a very close friend of mine, Little Chris, who got murdered by gun violence in Philly, my brother was incarcerated, people were dying and it was sad, & quot; Asante says. & quot; And that was one of the things I was writing about. I felt like I had an obligation to those things and I had to write about them in a way that was inspiring and empowering so other people wouldn' t go there. & quot; He published his first book, a collection of poems called & quot; Like Water Running Off My Neck, & quot; when he just 20 years old. He followed up his debut with & quot; Beautiful and Ugly Too& quot; in 2005 and then & quot; It' s Bigger Than Hip- Hop& quot; in 2008. Asante made his film debut in 2005 when he wrote and produced & quot; 500 Years, & quot; a film about the effects of slavery and colonialism on people of African descent that went on to win five awards on the international film festival circuit.
His latest film, & quot; Motherland, & quot; won Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival last year. Despite his success, Asante isn' t slowing down. He says he wants his art to reach as many people as possible. & quot; I like to do things on a big level and continue to take things to a higher level because for me if you' re going to be serious about art and serious about the work you' re making, you have to also be serious about making sure it reaches people, & quot; he says. & quot; If I' m going to investing my energy and time on something that I think is really important, I want millions and billions to read it and have access to it. & quot; Teo Kermeliotis contributed to this report.
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Zombie author and expert Dr. Steven Schlozman will join us for a Twitter chat at 12: 00 p. m. ET on Tuesday, April 26. Tweet your questions to and follow along at . ( CNN) - - An airborne virus is rapidly turning people into zombies.
Two- thirds of humanity has been wiped out.
Scientists desperately look for a cure, even as their own brains deteriorate and the disease robs them of what we consider life. Relax, it' s only fiction - - at least, for now. This apocalyptic scenario frames the new novel & quot; The Zombie Autopsies& quot; by Dr.
Steven Schlozman, a child psychiatrist who holds positions at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital/ Mc. Lean Program in Child Psychiatry.
You might not expect someone with those credentials to take zombies seriously, but it turns out the undead are a great way to explore real- world health issues: why certain nasty diseases can destroy the brain, how global pandemics create chaos and fear, and what should be done about people infected with a highly contagious and incurable lethal illness. & quot; One of the things zombie novels do is they bring up all these existential concerns that happen in medicine all the time: How do you define what' s alive? & quot; says Schlozman, who has been known to bounce between zombie fan conventions and academic meetings. & quot; When is it appropriate to say someone' s ' as- good- as- dead, ' which is an awful, difficult decision? & quot; What a zombie virus would do to the brain So maybe you' ve seen & quot; Night of the Living Dead, & quot; read & quot; World War Z, & quot; or can' t wait for the return of the AMC show & quot; The Walking Dead, & quot; but you probably don' t know what differentiates the brains of humans and zombies.
First things first: How does the zombie disease infect its victims? Many stories in the genre talk about biting, but Schlozman' s novel imagines a deliberately engineered virus whose particles can travel in the air and remain potent enough to jump from one person to another in a single sneeze. Now, then, to the brain- eating.
The zombie virus as Schlozman describes it basically gnaws the brain down to the amygdala, an almond- shaped structure responsible for the & quot; fight or flight& quot; response. The zombies always respond by fighting because another critical part of the brain, the ventromedial hypothalamus, which tells you when you' ve eaten enough, is broken.
The brain' s frontal lobes, responsible for problem- solving, are devoured by the virus, so zombies can' t make complex decisions. Impairment in the cerebellum means they can' t walk well, either.
Also, these humanoids have an unexplained predilection for eating human flesh. & quot; The zombies in this book are stumbling, shambling, hungry as hell, & quot; Schlozman said. & quot; Basically they' re like drunk crocodiles; they' re not smart, they don' t know who you are or what you are. & quot; How a zombie virus would be made So the bloodthirsty undead wander ( or crawl) around spreading a lethal illness ominously called ataxic neurodegenerative satiety deficiency syndrome, or ANSD, for short. & quot; When something really terrifying comes along, especially in medicine or that has a medical feel to it, we always give it initials. That' s the way we distance ourselves from it, & quot; Schlozman said. The virus has several brain- destroying components, one of which is a & quot; prion, & quot; meaning a protein like the one that causes mad cow disease. In real life, prions twist when they are in an acidic environment and become dangerous, Schlozman said.
How our own environment has changed to make prions infectious - - getting from the soil to the cows in mad cow disease, for instance - - is still a mystery. Now here' s something to send chills up your spine: In Schlozman' s world, airborne prions can be infectious, meaning mad cow disease and similar nervous- system destroyers could theoretically spread just like the flu.
Swiss and German researchers recently found that mice that had only one minute of exposure to aerosols containing prions died of mad cow disease, as reported in the journal . A follow- up described in showed the same for a related disease that' s only found in animals called scrapie. Of course, these are mice in artificially controlled conditions in a laboratory, and humans do not exhale prions, but it could have implications for safety practices nonetheless. Like mad cow disease, the zombie disease Schlozman describes also progresses in acidic environments. In the book, a major corporation doles out implantable meters that infuse the body with chemicals to artificially lower acidity when it gets too high.
But, sadly, when acidity is too low, that also induces symptoms that mimic the zombie virus, so it' s not a longterm solution.
Everyone who gets exposed eventually succumbs, Schlozman said.
As for the unknown component of the zombie disease that would help slowly zombifying researchers in their quest for a cure, that' s up for the reader to figure out - - and the clues are all in the book, Schlozman said. How we' d fight back You can' t ethically round up fellow survivors to kick some zombie butt unless the undead have technically died. And in Schlozman' s book, a group of religious leaders get together and decide that when people reach stage four of the disease, they are basically dead. That, of course, permits zombie & quot; deanimation, & quot; or killing. And how do you kill a zombie?
Much of zombie fiction knocks out zombies through shots to the head. That, Schlozman said, is because the brain stem governs the most basic functioning: breathing and heartbeat. A zombie- apocalypse disease like the one he describes probably wouldn' t evolve on its own in the real world, he said. But, as we' ve seen, individual symptoms of zombies do correspond to real ailments. And if they all came together, the disease would be creepily efficient at claiming bodies, Schlozman said.
Bad news, folks: Even if people contracted a zombie virus through bites, the odds of our survival aren' t great. A mathematician at the University of Ottawa named Robert Smith? ( who uses the question mark to distinguish himself from other Robert Smiths, of course) , has calculated that if one zombie were introduced to a city of 500, 000 people, after about seven days, every human would either be dead or a zombie. & quot; We' re in big, big trouble if this ever happens, & quot; Smith? said. & quot; We can kill the zombies a bit, but we' re not very good at killing zombies fundamentally. What tends to happen is: The zombies just win, and the more they win, the more they keep winning& quot; because the disease spreads so rapidly.
The best solution is a strategic attack, rather than an & quot; every man for himself& quot; defense scenario, he said. It would take knowledge and intelligence, neither of which zombies have, to prevail. Why study zombies? In his day job, Smith? models how real infectious diseases spread. But he' s already reaped benefits from his work on zombies.
For instance, while many mathematical models only deal with one complicated aspect of a situation at a time, he tackled two - - zombie infection and zombie- killing - - when it came to speculating about outbreaks. When it came time for modeling of real- world human papillomavirus ( HPV) , then, Smith? felt equipped to handle many facets of it at the same time, such as heterosexual and homosexual transmission of HPV. & quot; Knowing what we knew from zombies allowed us to actually take on these more complicated models without fear, & quot; he said. Studying zombies is also a great way to get young people excited about science. Smith? , who was on a zombie- science panel with Schlozman through the National Academy of Sciences' Science and Entertainment Exchange in 2009, has also seen math- phobic people get interested in mathematics by reading about his work with zombies. & quot; There are insights that we gain from the movies, and from fiction, from fun popular culture stuff, that actually can really help us think about the way that science works, and also the way science is communicated, & quot; he said.
And as to why people like reading about zombies and watching zombies so much, Schlozman points to the impersonal nature of things in our society, from waiting in line in the DMV to being placed on hold on a call with a health insurance company. Think about all the situations in daily life where you sense a general lack of respect for humanity, and zombies make a little more sense. & quot; The zombies themselves represent a kind of commentary on modernity, & quot; Schlozman says. & quot; We' re increasingly disconnected. That might be the current appeal. & quot;
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People come to Florida from as far away as Michigan or Alaska or England or Italy, arriving in droves by car and motor home, toting binoculars, blankets and American flags.
They line up along a worn river bank in the towns near the launch pad on Cape Canaveral, waiting for days, then nail- biting hours, to see a group of people embark on a completely different kind of journey, this one powered by rockets that do zero to 17, 000 mph in 8. 5 minutes.
To the fans, this is the Super Bowl, NASCAR, the World Cup and Independence Day rolled into one. The astronauts strapped into the massive Space Transportation System aren' t just rocket jockeys. They' re rock stars. Last year, when Space Shuttle Endeavor was scheduled to leave the Earth at night for the last time on its way to the space station, Motherboard. tv producer David Feinberg and I joined those throngs of space pilgrims.
Inspired in part by films like & quot; The Right Stuff& quot; and the underground ' 80s documentary & quot; Heavy Metal Parking Lot, & quot; we traversed Cape Canaveral and nearby Titusville in an attempt to capture the launch from multiple angles. We spent time behind the scenes with some folks at NASA, but our main focus was on the excitement of the fans who had come from far and wide for a grueling space shuttle tailgate party. The long waits, cold weather, and even a 24- hour delay be damned.
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Washington ( CNN) - - President Barack Obama called on lawmakers Wednesday to overcome the & quot; selfish& quot; norms of politics and & quot; do their job& quot; in order to strike a deal on raising the federal government' s current $ 14. 3 trillion debt ceiling by the start of August. People shouldn' t get & quot; spooked, & quot; but & quot; the yellow light ( is) flashing, & quot; he warned. & quot; This is urgent. & quot; Top economic analysts have warned of potentially catastrophic repercussions if the ceiling is not raised by August 2, including skyrocketing interest rates and a plummeting U.
S. dollar. The president blasted congressional Republicans for refusing to consider raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans as part of any deal.
Congress needs to be willing to & quot; take on their sacred cows and do tough things& quot; while moving away from & quot; maximalist positions, & quot; he said. He said Congress should cancel upcoming summer vacations if a deal isn' t struck by the end of the week. & quot; I want everybody to understand that this is a jobs issue. This is not an abstraction, & quot; he said. & quot; If the United States government, for the first time, cannot pay its bills - - if it defaults - - then the consequences for the U. S. economy will be significant and unpredictable.
And that is not a good thing. & quot; Obama made his remarks during a wide- ranging news conference covering the state of the economy, the wars in Afghanistan and Libya, and hot- button social issues such as same- sex marriage.
It came at a time of rising questions over Obama' s ability to maintain control of the political narrative and boost public confidence in his stewardship in the run- up to next year' s presidential election.
GOP leaders have shown no signs of yielding in their opposition to higher taxes as part of any grand bargain with the White House. Recent bipartisan talks led by Vice President Joe Biden collapsed over the tax disagreement. & quot; The president is sorely mistaken if he believes a bill to raise the debt ceiling and raise taxes would pass the ( Republican- controlled) House, & quot; Speaker John Boehner, R- Ohio, said after Obama' s news conference. & quot; A debt- limit increase can only pass the House if it includes spending cuts larger than the debt limit increase; includes reforms to hold down spending in the future; and is free from tax hikes, & quot; Boehner added. & quot; The longer the president denies these realities, the more difficult he makes this process. & quot; Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mc. Connell, R- Kentucky, insisted earlier in the day that Republicans will & quot; refuse to let the taxpayers take the hit when it comes to reducing the debt. & quot; The debate is & quot; about holding Washington accountable for a change, & quot; Mc. Connell said. & quot; It' s about refusing to subsidize the Democrats' irresponsible spending habits another day. & quot; For his part, the president ripped Republicans for protecting & quot; millionaires and billionaires, & quot; oil companies, hedge fund managers, and owners of corporate jets.
The wealthy, he said, can afford to pay higher taxes. & quot; You can still ride on your corporate jet. You' re just going to pay a little more, & quot; Obama said.
At the same time, the president pushed Congress to act on a series of pending measures to help strengthen the economy faster, including easing the ability of entrepreneurs to get patents, providing loans to private companies for infrastructure development, and approving free trade agreements. Obama noted that America' s economy has gone through a series of major structural changes. As a result, the country' s economic problems are & quot; not going to be solved overnight, & quot; he stressed.
Turning his attention overseas, Obama dismissed criticism that his administration failed to obtain clear congressional approval before committing U. S. military forces to the NATO- led campaign in Libya.
Some representatives and senators on both sides of the aisle argue the White House has violated the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which gives a president 60 days to get congressional approval for sending U. S. forces to war, followed by a 30- day extension to end hostilities. The combined 90- day period ended last week.
Obama insisted that the War Powers Resolution does not apply in the case of Libya.
The law was intended to avoid a repeat of a Vietnam- style war, he said. In contrast, & quot; this operation is limited in time and in scope. & quot; & quot; We have engaged in a limited operation to help a lot of people against one of the worst tyrants in the world, & quot; the president said. & quot; A lot of this fuss& quot; over the U. S. intervention in Libya & quot; is politics. & quot; It' s become a & quot; cause celebre for some folks in Congress, & quot; he asserted. & quot; We have done exactly what I said we would do& quot; in Libya, Obama argued. America' s allies & quot; have carried a big load when it comes to these NATO operations& quot; while & quot; we' ve sent reams of information& quot; to Capitol Hill. & quot; The noose is tightening& quot; around longtime Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, he asserted. The president reiterated the administration' s stance that Gadhafi' s removal from power is & quot; the primary way that we can assure that the overall mission in Libya of people being protected& quot; is successful.
Obama' s claims regarding the War Powers Resolution echoed those made Tuesday by Harold Koh, a top State Department legal adviser, who argued before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the law does not apply to American forces in Libya because the U. S. mission is limited in terms of its scope, means, exposure of forces, and chances of escalation. In short, administration officials believe the U. S. role in Libya does not meet the law' s definition of hostilities. Obama, however, overruled contrary legal opinions put forward by both the Pentagon and the Justice Department' s Office of Legal Counsel in declining to seek congressional authorization, according to the New York Times.
On Afghanistan, Obama insisted that the United States and its allies & quot; can be successful in our mission, which is narrowly drawn. & quot; The president, who recently announced the withdrawal of 33, 000 American & quot; surge& quot; troops by next summer, declined to use the word & quot; victory& quot; in reference to winding down the Afghan military mission.
He instead stressed the success of U. S. forces in dismantling al Qaeda and preparing Afghan forces to assume responsibility for the country' s security.
Noting this week' s bombing of Kabul' s Inter- Continental Hotel, he warned that the violence in Afghanistan will likely continue for & quot; some time. & quot; Turning to the debate over same- sex marriage, Obama refused to provide new specifics about his personal opinion. A supporter of civil unions, he has indicated in the past that his views on the matter are & quot; evolving. & quot; He noted, however, that his administration has stopped defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act against legal challenges. Obama argued it is up to states to determine if they will legalize same- sex marriage, as New York recently did. & quot; The president, I' ve discovered since I' ve been in office, can' t dictate precisely how this process moves, & quot; the president said. The nation is & quot; moving toward greater equality, & quot; Obama added. & quot; I think that' s a good thing. & quot;
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( ) - - You' ve been coughing for weeks. How do you know if it' s just a hard- to- shake cold or something more serious?
A chronic cough, defined as lasting more than eight weeks, is not uncommon. Up to 40 percent of nonsmokers in the United States and Europe have reported a chronic cough at some point, and coughing is one of the five most common reasons for a doctor' s visit.
Only a doctor can tell for sure what' s behind your endless hacking. However, in a 2006 study of women with an average age of 48 who had a cough lasting for six months, 39 percent were found to have asthma, 9 percent had chronic upper airway cough syndrome ( commonly known as postnasal drip) , and 9 percent had gastroesophageal reflux disease ( GERD) .
In addition, another 11 percent had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD) , a serious, progressive disease that includes both emphysema and bronchitis. While not all people who develop COPD are smokers, people who smoke are at higher risk. Overall, 24 million Americans - - about 1 in 12 people - - have COPD, although half don' t know they have the disease.
Asthma and allergies Asthma is a chronic lung disease in which the airways in the lungs are prone to inflammation and swelling.
Along with chest tightness, shortness of breath, and wheezing, coughing is a characteristic symptom of asthma, one which tends to intensify at night or in the early morning. When the symptoms of asthma flare up suddenly, it' s known as an asthma attack.
Although it can begin at any age, asthma usually develops in childhood. Asthma triggers are different for everyone, and they can include exercise, colds, cigarette smoke and other airborne irritants, and certain foods. Asthmatics usually also have allergies.
Even in people without asthma, inhaling pollen, dust, pet dander, and other airborne irritants can trigger allergic rhinitis, an allergic reaction that can cause coughing, along with symptoms such as stuffy nose and sneezing. You may be able to determine whether your cough is caused by allergies by keeping track of whether it comes and goes in certain situations. If your coughing magically stops when you step into an air- conditioned room on a dry, pollen- heavy day, or if gets worse every time you pet Mittens, you probably have allergies. If you' re not sure what' s triggering your allergic cough, your doctor can give you a skin test or blood test to pinpoint the allergy. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease One condition that can cause a nagging cough is COPD, a lung condition that includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
COPD occurs when the airways and air sacs in the lungs become inflamed or damaged, most often due to smoking, and is more common after age 45. In COPD, the lungs produce excess mucus, which the body reflexively tries to clear by coughing.
COPD- related tissue damage can also make it particularly difficult to expel air from the lungs, which can make you feel short of breath. Your doctor may check you for COPD ( particularly if you have risk factors, such as smoking) , after ruling out other common causes of cough. To determine if you have COPD, your doctor is likely to conduct some tests, including spirometry, which involves inhaling as deeply as you can and then exhaling into a tube. Gastroesophageal reflux disease GERD is an ailment of the stomach and esophagus that occurs when stomach acid backs up into the esophagus due to a weak valve. The main symptoms?
Killer heartburn. But coughing is another common symptom of GERD, along with chest pain and wheezing. In fact, GERD is a fairly common, and unrecognized, cause of a chronic cough. Respiratory tract infection Coughing is one of the most common symptoms of colds and flu and other respiratory tract infections.
The other symptoms that accompany colds and flu, such as stuffy nose and a fever, are telltale signs that a viral infection is causing your cough. However, a cough can outlast all those other symptoms, perhaps because the air passages in your lungs remain sensitive and inflamed. When this occurs, it' s called chronic upper airway cough syndrome ( or postnasal drip) .
A more serious respiratory tract infection is pneumonia, which can be caused by bacteria or viruses. A cough, often producing a greenish or rust- colored mucus, is one of the characteristic symptoms of the illness, along with fever, chills, chest pain, weakness, fatigue, and nausea.
These symptoms may present differently depending on your age; older adults may not experience a fever, for instance, or they may have a cough but no mucus.
Pneumonia is treated with antibiotics and generally clears up within two or three weeks. As with the cold and flu, however, the cough can linger for much longer. A form of pneumonia known as mycoplasma, or walking pneumonia, shares the symptoms of pneumonia ( including cough) and is more common in people under the age of 40. People who have COPD can be more susceptible to such respiratory tract infections, and may experience exacerbations episodes of potentially life- threatening shortness of breath when they catch a cold or breath in air pollution or other irritants.
Air pollution Various pollutants and irritants in the air can cause a persistent cough.
Even short- term exposure to fumes ( such as diesel exhaust) can result in cough, phlegm, and lung irritation, for instance. Fumes can also exacerbate the symptoms of allergies or asthma. Similarly, mold spores found in and around homes can cause wheezing and coughing when inhaled.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans reported a sudden spike in persistent cough complaints among returning residents. This so- called Katrina cough was believed to stem from the mold caused by the flooding, as well as by dry weather and the construction dust that was then ubiquitous in the city. Acute bronchitis If you' re on the verge of recovering from a cold and suddenly develop a hacking, mucus- y cough, you probably have acute bronchitis, a condition in which the passageways in your lungs become infected and inflamed.
In addition to coughing and chest congestion, bronchitis can produce fever, chills, aches, sore throat, and other flu- like symptoms. These symptoms usually disappear within a few days, but the cough can persist for weeks. If your cough doesn' t go away, or if you develop acute bronchitis frequently, it may be a sign of a more serious condition.
Acute bronchitis acute means short- term is different from chronic bronchitis. Chronic bronchitis is a condition in which the lungs produce excess mucus due to ongoing irritation, and is considered a form of COPD. ACE inhibitors ACE inhibitors are a type of medication used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure.
About 42 million prescriptions for ACE inhibitors are written each year, and about 1 in 5 people who take the drugs develop a dry cough. In some people, the cough can persist for weeks after they stop taking the medication; women, African Americans, and Asians may be at greater risk of developing an ACE inhibitor cough than other people. You should never stop taking a prescribed medication without consulting with your doctor, and ACE inhibitors are important medications for lowering blood pressure ( a more serious condition than a cough. ) Consult your doctor if you think your cough is related to a medication.
Pertussis Also known as whooping cough, pertussis is a bacterial disease with symptoms that include a slight fever, a runny nose, and, most notably, a violent cough that can make breathing difficult.
Attempting to inhale air into the lungs between coughs can produce a distinctive, high- pitched whooping sound. After the initial stage, many people do not have a fever, but the chronic cough that accompanies pertussis can last for many weeks. Most infants receive a pertussis vaccine, but its effectiveness subsides after about 10 years. Inadequate vaccination for pertussis ( which is the & quot; P& quot; in the DPT shot) is one reason why the bacteria are making a comeback. Once a very rare cause of chronic cough, the number of pertussis cases in the United States has risen alarmingly in recent years, especially among adolescents and adults.
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Starting in a few weeks, the system will scan all images posted to Facebook and suggest the names of people who appear in the frame.
Last year, Facebook began rolling the out to a test group. Facebook' s more than 500 million users have been automatically included in the database, but the company is allowing each person to choose whether to be identified by toggling a pane in the account' s . The option is called & quot; suggest photos of me to friends& quot; within the & quot; customize settings& quot; page. The tool would still scan that person' s face and figure out who it is, but it won' t display that information. People can still manually tag friends.
The news sparked a small brushfire of media hostility. Bloggers characterized the tool - - and Facebook' s decision not to ask before including everyone - - as unsettling while others urged readers to opt out. Facebook said on Wednesday it had made mistakes with the release. & quot; We should have been more clear with people during the roll- out process when this became available to them, & quot; a spokeswoman said. & quot; Tag Suggestions are now available in most countries, and we' ll post further updates to our blog over time. & quot; an application that would let someone snap a picture of a person' s face using a smartphone in order to find out who the subject is, Eric Schmidt, the search giant' s executive chairman and former CEO, said at a conference last week. Schmidt believed it to be the first time Google engineers had completed a project and decided to shutter it for privacy reasons, he said.
The work on has not gone to waste. It' s used to preserve privacy by blurring faces in Google' s Street View mapping project, Hartmut Neven, the engineering director for image recognition, said in a recent interview. When asked whether he would be frustrated if Facebook beat his team to releasing a face- recognition product, Neven said: & quot; Let them get burd first. There would be some backlash. & quot; Photo- management software such as Google' s Picasa and Apple' s i. Photo provide a similar feature.
They pore over a person' s snapshots in an attempt to group each person together by facial features. Google has not enabled this feature on the online version of its photo software, called Picasa Web Albums. Limited to a small sampling of the few hundred photos on a person' s computer, these systems . With the largest photo- sharing service in Facebook scanning millions of pictures daily, these algorithms are no doubt learning quickly. More than 100 million photos per day are uploaded to Facebook, according to a company statement.
The face- scanning feature actually runs counter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg' s comments to reporters in November. & quot; Before people- tagging came out, I think most people would have said that the best way to figure out who' s in photos was to have some face- recognition algorithm, & quot; he said. & quot; But it actually turns out that the best way is to just have people tagged. & quot; Some experts agree with Zuckerberg' s apparently outdated statements. & quot; Face technology will never work in gigantic- large databases, & quot; said Ipplex CEO Orang Dialameh, who has worked with Neven in the past. However, & quot; if you limit the database - - say, I' m trying to recognize someone in the 400 contacts that I have on Facebook, & quot; then face scanning could be effective, he said. Facebook users who have installed an app called Photo Finder can already have faces in their photos scanned and identified.
The 3- year- old app has looked at more than 23 billion images, said Gil Hirsch, the CEO of Face. com, which develops the service. With Facebook poised to offer essentially the same functionality, Face. com will instead focus on partnerships with developers, Hirsch wrote in an e- mailed statement Tuesday night. & quot; As long as their products provide value to consumers while protecting their privacy, we will always be supportive of companies using this technology, & quot; he said.
Your doctor or a mental health provider may suggest medications or behavior therapy or both to treat phobias. Most adults don' t get better on their own and may require some type of treatment.
The goal of phobia treatment is to reduce your anxiety and fear and to help you better manage your reactions to the object or situation that causes them. Medications Beta blockers. These medications work by blocking the stimulating effects of adrenaline on your body, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, pounding heart, and shaking voice and limbs. Beta blockers can be very effective for people who have severe stage fright.
Antidepressants. Antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs) are commonly used in the treatment of phobias. These medications act on the chemical serotonin, a neurotransmitter in your brain that' s believed to influence mood.
SSRIs include citalopram ( Celexa) , escitalopram ( Lexapro) , fluoxetine ( Prozac) , paroxetine ( Paxil) and sertraline ( Zoloft) . If SSRIs aren' t effective or cause intolerable side effects, such as restlessness, insomnia, headache, diarrhea or sexual problems, your doctor may prescribe another type of antidepressant, such as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor ( MAOI) . Sedatives. Medications called benzodiazepines help you relax by reducing the amount of anxiety that you feel.
They include lorazepam ( Ativan) , diazepam ( Valium) , alprazolam ( Niravam, Xanax) and chlordiazepoxide ( Librium) . Sedatives need to be used with caution because they can be addictive and should be avoided if you have a history of alcohol or drug dependence. Desensitization or exposure therapy focuses on changing your response to the object or situation that you fear, and may be helpful for specific phobias. Gradual, repeated exposure to the cause of your phobia may help you learn to conquer your anxiety.
For example, if you' re afraid of flying, your therapy may progress from simply thinking about flying to looking at pictures of airplanes, to going to an airport, to sitting in an airplane, and finally to taking a flight. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a more comprehensive form of therapy.
It involves working with a therapist to learn ways to view and cope with the feared object or situation differently. You learn alternative beliefs about your fears and the impact they have on your life. There' s special emphasis on learning to develop a sense of mastery and control of your thoughts and feelings. Specific phobias usually are treated with behavioral therapy.
Social phobias may be treated with antidepressants or beta blockers, along with behavior therapy. Agoraphobia, especially when it' s accompanied by a panic disorder, is usually treated with SSRIs and behavior therapy. & copy; 1998- 2011 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research ( MFMER) .
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Pledging to never play a venue with a stage, singer/ guitarist formed San Diego' s in the summer of 1990 after becoming disillusioned with his then- current band, . Bassist , guitarist , drummer , and backing vocalist joined the band' s initial lineup, and released in 1991.
While the debut increased the band' s profile, a lineup change ensued as and left the San Diego area. Adam & quot; Atom& quot; Willard climbed aboard as the band' s new drummer, and one of ' drinking buddies, Paul & quot; Apollo 9& quot; O& # 039; Beirne , joined as saxophonist. After 1992' s was released on Cargo Records and experienced a good deal of underground success, a major- label bidding war broke out, resulting in ' s decision to join Interscope Records. Interscope then re- released in 1993, and the single " Ditch Digger" spent some time in MTV' s Buzz Bin. Eventually, a sixth member - - saxophonist Jason & quot; JC 2000& quot; Crane - - was added, and the band moved onward as a punky, horn- influenced outfit, releasing the 10" record in 1995. issued a total of three records that year, including the limited- edition LP and the band' s most acclaimed album to date, .
The album spawned three singles, including the international hit " On a Rope" , which endeared to British audiences. followed in 1998, and was issued on the band' s new label, Vagrant, in early 2001. proved to be a machine throughout the early 2000s, their style as fresh as those following the trend. The members gradually began pursuing individual side projects, however, and 2002' s suffered accordingly, as the bandmates' alternate commitments prevented them from launching an effective tour. Three years later, disbanded after playing a farewell show on October 31, 2005.
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Curved Air were briefly a sensation in the world of British progressive- rock because of the sensual vocals of ' s ( a veteran of the musical Hair ) and ' s romantic violin. This was the same combination tested in California by It' s a Beautiful Day. Francis Monkman ( the real genius behind their compositions) added a synthesiser.
Air Conditioning ( 1970) contains & quot; Vivaldi& quot; , their most celebrated piece. Second Album ( 1971) delivered their only hit, & quot; Back Street Luv& quot; , and the twelve- minute & quot; Piece of Mind& quot; . Their artistic peak was reached with Phantasmagoria ( 1972) , but the band dissolved after Air Cut ( 1973) , with Eddie Jobson taking over violin and keyboard duties.
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