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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

AP: Iranians planned attacks on US targets in Kenya

By msnbc.com staff

Two Iranian agents arrested in Kenya were planning attacks on American, Israeli, British or Saudi Arabian targets in the African country, the Associated Press reported on Monday, citing unnamed Kenyan officials.

According to the AP report, Kenyan security forces arrested the Iranians last month. The agents led security officials to 33 pounds of RDX, a powerful explosive, in the coastal city of Mombasa near where several Israeli-owned hotels are located.

The officials told the AP that the plot appeared to fit into a pattern by Iranian agents to target foreign interests.

The Iranians are members of the secretive and elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force, one official told the AP.

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The Search for the Higgs Boson

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Higgs found
The long-sought sign of an energy field that gave the infant universe mass finally emerges.
By Alexandra Witze | July 4, 2012 | Read more

CMS spokesman: 'We've observed a new particle'
A video on the CERN website confirms the existence of a heavy boson matching the description of the Higgs.
By Science News Staff | July 3, 2012 | Read more

Physicists bet they're homing in on Higgs
In its last report, an Illinois lab presents data suggesting the elusive Higgs particle could exist.
By Alexandra Witze | July 2, 2012 | Read more

Physicists on alert for Higgs announcement
Unless you're the Higgs boson, don't expect much attention in July when the International Conference on High Energy Physics convenes in Melbourne, Australia.
By Nadia Drake | June 21, 2012 | Read more

Higgs running out of hiding places
New measurement of another particle?s mass confirms a final missing piece of physics? puzzle is right where scientists think it is.
By Alexandra Witze | February 23, 2012 | Read more

Tantalizing hints of long-sought particle
Europe?s LHC collider finds traces of what could be the Higgs boson, a theoretical entity that explains why matter has mass.
By Devin Powell | December 31, 2011 | Read more

A lighter Higgs, but chase continues
Target narrows after LHC experiments suggest a new lower estimated mass for the elusive particle.
By Devin Powell | October 8, 2011 | Read more

Last words
Tevatron's data may have more to say, even after the atom smasher shuts down.
By Devin Powell | September 24, 2011 | Read more

From the archives

New data suggest a lighter Higgs
Fermilab results heat up the race for an elusive particle.
By Ron Cowen | August 14, 2010 | Read more

Discovery of Higgs at Large Hadron Collider might not make all physicists happy
Finding the elusive particle means the atom smasher will have to move on to answering bigger, deeper questions.
By Tom Siegfried | October 20, 2009 | Read more

Elusive Higgs particle has fewer hideouts
New mass limits could even the playing field for finding key elementary particle.
By Ron Cowen | March 16, 2009 | Read more

Large Hadron Collider
Everything about the LHC is enormous, from the energies it generates ? 14 trillion electronvolts ? to the nearly 60 metric tons of liquid helium required to cool its magnets. All this just to study the tiniest particles in the universe.
By Ron Cowen | July 19, 2008 | Read more

Corralling the Mass Maker
Hunters of the most eagerly sought particle in high-energy physics, the Higgs boson, are gleaning fresh clues about where and how to look from a new finding about another fundamental particle called the top quark.
By Peter Weiss | June 12, 2004 | Read more

Jiggling the Cosmic Ooze
A new blueprint for all the universe's mass and energy may be just around the corner.
By Peter Weiss | March 10, 2001 | Read more

Most-wanted particle appears, perhaps
Vivid but sparse signs of the Higgs boson at the Large Electron-Positron Collider in Switzerland have sparked a desperate race against time to catch further glimpses before researchers pull the plug on the 11-year-old machine.
By Peter Weiss | September 23, 2000 | Read more

A World-Class Accelerator
As physicists probe ever deeper into the bowels of nature seeking the ultimate secrets of the structure of matter, they find the need for ever more energetic probes.
By Dietrick E. Thomsen | May 14, 1977 | Read more

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Did Elvis have the best rock hair ever?

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Which musician has (or had) the greatest hair? Was it Elvis? slick pompadour? George Clinton?s rainbow extensions? Justin Bieber?s modern moptop?

Depending on when you grew up, you may have been reprimanded by your World War II vet dad for growing out your hair like The Beatles, or for shaving stripes into the sides like Vanilla Ice. Even if you didn't experiment with your own locks, you surely knew what Jules was talking about in "Pulp Fiction" when he called one of the guys in the Big Kahuna burger scene "Flock of Seagulls."

Country artists sported memorable hairdos, too. Has anyone ever pulled off long, long hair better than Crystal Gayle, or managed the braids-on-a-guy look like Willie Nelson?

Take a nostalgic walk down musical memory lane with our slideshow, and vote in our poll as to which musician has the most distinctive hair.

Which musician or group had/has the most distinctive hair?

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Elvis	? 54.6% (3,268 votes)
The Beatles	? 21.6% (1,291 votes)
Flock of Seagulls	? 5.2% (313 votes)
Other	? 5.1% (308 votes)
Hair metal bands like Poison	? 3.9% (231 votes)
David Bowie	? 2.5% (150 votes)
Cher	? 2.3% (139 votes)
Crystal Gayle	? 2% (118 votes)
George Clinton	? 1.6% (97 votes)
Vanilla Ice	? 0.7% (44 votes)
Justin Bieber	? 0.4% (23 votes)

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Mexico's former ruling party voted back to office

Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), greets supporters at his party's headquarters in Mexico City, early Monday, July 2, 2012. Mexico's old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to Pena Nieto, whose party was long accused of ruling the country through corruption and patronage. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) shows his election ink-stained thumb after casting his vote at a polling station in Mexico City, Sunday, July 1, 2012. Mexico's more than 79 million voters head to the polls Sunday to elect a president, who serves one six-year term, as well as 500 congressional deputies and 128 senators. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Women look at electoral booklets listing candidates before voting at a polling station in Oaxaca, Mexico, Sunday, July 1, 2012. Mexico's more than 79 million voters head to the polls Sunday to elect a president, who serves one six-year term, as well as 500 congressional deputies and 128 senators. (Photo AP/ Bruno Gonzalez)Oaxaca. (AP Photo/ Luis Alberto Cruz )

Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), left, speaks to supporters accompanied by his wife Angelica Rivera at the party's headquarters in Mexico City, early Monday, July 2, 2012. Mexico's old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to Pena Nieto, whose party was long accused of ruling the country through corruption and patronage. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Oaxaca, Mexico, Sunday, July 1, 2012. Mexico's more than 79 million voters head to the polls Sunday to elect a president, who serves one six-year term, as well as 500 congressional deputies and 128 senators. (Photo AP/ Bruno Gonzalez)Oaxaca. (AP Photo/ Luis Alberto Cruz)

MEXICO CITY (AP) ? The party that ruled Mexico with an iron grip for most of the last century has sailed back into power, promising a government that will be modern, responsible and open to criticism.

Though Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate Enrique Pena Nieto's margin of victory was clear in the preliminary count from Sunday's election, it was not the mandate the party had anticipated from pre-election polls that had at times shown the youthful, 45-year-old with support of more than half of Mexico's voters.

Instead, he won 38 percent support, about 7 points more than his nearest rival, according to a representative count of the ballots, and he went to work immediately to win over the two-thirds who didn't vote for him, many of whom rejected his claim that he represented a reformed and repentant party.

"We're a new generation. There is no return to the past," he said in his victory speech. "It's time to move on from the country we are to the Mexico we deserve and that we can be ... where every Mexican writes his own success story."

But his top challenger, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, refused to concede, saying he would await a full count and legal review. He won roughly 31 percent of the vote, according to the preliminary count which has a margin of error of 1 percentage point. Lopez Obrador in 2006 paralyzed Mexico City streets with hundreds of thousands of supporters when he narrowly lost to President Felipe Calderon.

This time, only about 700 gathered at his campaign rally and he canceled plans to proceed to the Zocalo, the main square he filled as recently as Wednesday.

"We have information that indicates something different from what they're saying officially," he said. "We're not going to act in an irresponsible manner."

The PRI for 71 years ruled as a single party known for coercion and corruption, but also for building Mexico's institutions and social services. It was often accused of stealing elections, most infamously the 1988 presidential vote. But PRI governments were also known for keeping a lid on organized crime, whose battles with government and each other under Calderon have taken more than 50,000 lives and traumatized the country.

Repeating a popular belief of many Pena Nieto supporters, Martha Trejo, 37, of Tampico said, "He'll stabilize the cartels. He'll negotiate so they don't hurt innocents."

Pena Nieto in his victory speech vowed he won't make pacts with organized crime, but rather will focus on curbing violence.

Many predict he will build on Calderon's economic and security strategies but, working with a more friendly congress, may have more success. The main test of a new PRI will be how it handles corruption.

"We know there is some local corruption in the PRI with organized crime," said Andrew Selee of the Washington-based Mexico Institute. "The question is, 'Will they ignore it or go after it aggressively?'"

The vote Sunday went smoothly with the usual protests at polling places that ran out of ballots and a few arrests for small cases of alleged bribery or tampering of ballots. Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling National Party, Mexico's first woman candidate for a major party, conceded almost immediately after the polls closed and exit surveys showed her trailing in third place. The preliminary count gave her roughly 26 percent.

Her party, the PAN, unseated the PRI after 71 years in 2000 with the victory of Vicente Fox, who won more than 40 percent of vote, and again with Calderon in 2006, who won by a half percentage point over Lopez Obrador.

"I think this will be a major setback," businessman Leonardo Solis, 37, said of the PRI victory. "I don't think they've changed much, but we'll see soon enough."

Results from the polling stations trickled in all night and will continue. The official results will be announced next weekend.

At the PRI headquarters in Mexico City, a party atmosphere broke out with supporters in red dancing to norteno music. The vote count same in slowly and it was too early to say if the PRI would retake at least one of the two houses of Congress and some of the governorships nationwide.

Pena Nieto, who is married to a soap opera star, also has been dogged by allegations that he overspent his $330 million campaign funding limit and has received favorable coverage from Mexico television giant Televisa.

University students launched a series of anti-Pena Nieto marches in the final weeks of the campaign, arguing that his party hasn't changed since its days in power.

Pena Nieto praised their protests Sunday as a positive sign of the democracy and said he, too, wants to see Mexico change.

"You have given our party a second chance," he said. "We will honor that with results."

___

Associated Press writers Adriana Gomez Licon, Michael Weissenstein, Olga Rodriguez, Carlos Rodriguez and Galia Garcia-Palafox contributed to this report from Mexico City.

Associated Press

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'Spider-Man' Director Nixed 'With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility' Line

'We played around with the idea of using it, but ultimately it felt like it was in the subtext of the film,' Marc Webb says.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Andrew Garfield in "The Amazing Spider-Man"
Photo: Sony Pictures

There has always been a handful of iconic images, story arcs and lines essential to the tale of Peter Parker and his transformation into Spider-Man: his blue and red suit, Aunt May, the death of Uncle Ben and of course, his mantra, "With great power comes great responsibility." But for director "The Amazing Spider-Man," that motto appears nowhere in the film.

When MTV News sat down with Webb to discuss the movie, he explained that he considered adding the line but ultimately cut it because of the phrase's ubiquity, among other reasons.

"We played around with the idea of using it, but ultimately it felt like it was in the subtext of the film in so many places," Webb said. "I think we've all heard it so many times that I didn't think that it was necessary to use."

Since the saying is essential to the kind of hero Peter becomes as Spider-Man, the same ideas are still very much a part of the new movie. "Uncle Ben, of course, issues a statement using some of the similar words to kind of convey that idea," Webb said.

Ultimately, even though the line is important to fans and Spider-Man mythos, Webb had a hard time fitting it into his vision of the hero. "There were moments where we thought about using it, but it didn't feel as emotionally honest to the scenes and to the sequences. We were trying to create something more naturalistic," Webb said. "Because we had seen it so many times before, I didn't think it was absolutely necessary."

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Monday, July 2, 2012

S.Africa June coal exports from RBCT up m/m

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Sunday, July 1, 2012

London 2012 Video Game Now Released - Totally Gaming Network

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Sega revealed earlier this week that London 2012 ? The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games is now available on store shelves. ?The Olympic Games are responsible for some of the most memorable scenes in sporting history. It?s the global stage where dreams are realized, heroes are made, and moments that will be remembered for years happen right before your eyes.

SEGA Studios Australia?s?London 2012 ? The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games is the only authentic videogame replication of the London 2012 Olympic experience. ?Dive in to the extensive Olympic Games mode and forge a career as a Gold Medal winning professional athlete. ?Challenge your friends and family in individual events available as single or multiplayer competitions or enjoy a more arcade experience with Party Play modes, featuring both Kinect and PlayStation Move support. ?Medals won in Online Multiplayer modes earns you National Pride points to contribute towards your Nation?s standing in London 2012?s global leaderboard system.

Check out the launch trailer below and tell us what you think. ?Will you be picking up London 2012 ? The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games?

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