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Portland, Maine, mayor undergoes cancer surgery

(AP)? PORTLAND, Maine ? The mayor of Maine's largest city has undergone cancer treatment.

Portland officials say Mayor Michael Brennan had successful surgery last weekend to remove a tumor from his small intestine. The tumor was discovered when Brennan sought treatment for abdominal pain.

Brennan will get additional, non-invasive treatment for lesions found on his liver. He says neither chemotherapy nor radiation is needed.

Brennan was released from the hospital Thursday. He intends to return to City Hall next week on a limited basis.

He says his ordeal made him realize that it is important to ensure that all Maine residents have access to health care. He says nearly one in four does not have health insurance.

Brennan won the election last month. He is first popularly-elected mayor in nearly 90 years.

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Paul's surge prompting a new look from GOP voters

SAN ANTONIO ? Ron Paul wants to legalize pot and shut down the Federal Reserve. He thinks the federal government has no authority to outlaw abortion, no business bombing Iran to keep it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and no justification to print money unless it's backed up by gold bars.

And he might win the Iowa caucuses.

The closer the first votes of the 2012 presidential campaign get, the more competitive the Texas congressman has become. It's a moment his famously fervent supporters have longed for. Plenty of others are asking: What's Ron Paul about, again?

As in his two prior quixotic campaigns for president, Paul has toiled for months as a fringe candidate best known for staking out libertarian positions. As every other Republican candidate lined up to attack President Barack Obama's health care law and to promise tax cuts, Paul again demanded audits of the Federal Reserve and a return to the gold standard.

Leading in some state polls, Paul is getting a look from mainstream voters in Iowa, where the 76-year-old obstetrician has emerged as a serious contender in the Jan. 3 caucuses ? and in other early voting states, should he pull off a victory.

The sudden rush of attention to Paul's resume hasn't been kind. He's spent the past week disowning racist and homophobic screeds in newsletters he published decades ago, including one following the 1992 riots in Los Angeles that read, ?Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to collect their welfare checks three days after rioting began.?

?Everybody knows I didn't write them and they're not my sentiments, so it's sort of politics as usual,? Paul said during a recent Iowa campaign stop.

Looking to cut into Paul's support, rivals laid into him on Tuesday.

In an interview on CNN, Newt Gingrich said Paul holds ?views totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.? And Rick Santorum chided, ?The things most Iowans like about Ron Paul are the things he's least likely to accomplish and the things most Iowans are worried about about Ron Paul are the things he can accomplish.?

Paul returns to Iowa on Wednesday, giving his impressive grass-roots organization in the state a last chance to present, and perhaps defend, positions he's staked out over a long political career and reiterated during the 13 Republican debates held this year.

Paul has served a dozen terms in Congress as a Republican, but he espouses views that have made him the face of libertarianism in the U.S. He blames both Republicans and Democrats for running up the federal debt and opposes any U.S. military involvement overseas. He wants to bring home all troops from all U.S. bases abroad.

He vows to do away with five Cabinet-level departments ? Commerce, Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, and Interior ? and repeal the amendment to the Constitution that created the federal income tax. He opposes federal flood insurance and farm subsidies and wants to remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances while allowing states to decide how to regulate it.

He says he'll cut $1 trillion out of the first budget he offers as president. He doesn't believe in a border fence but says illegal immigrants shouldn't get a free education in public schools.

He's reliably described by political pundits as non-establishment, quirky, unorthodox. During a Republican debate in Sioux City, Iowa, earlier this month, Paul defended his views and rejected the idea that they make him unelectable.

?The important thing is, the philosophy I'm talking about is the Constitution and freedom, and that brings people together,? Paul said. ?It brings independents in the fold and it brings Democrats over on some of these issues.?

Paul doesn't always side with the most extreme conservative proposals. When it comes to Gingrich's suggestion that judges could be hauled before Congress to explain their rulings, Paul joined other Republicans in dismissing the idea.

Paul's recent surge in Iowa isn't the first time the GOP establishment has been forced to pay attention to him. A fundraising blitz that netted $5 million in one day in 2008 led Republican operatives to weigh whether he was a bigger threat to siphon votes than previously thought.

Now he may be in his best position yet to do more than just steal votes.

?I see this philosophy as being very electable, because it's an American philosophy, it's the rule of law,? Paul said.

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Ethiopia troops enter Somalia, control border town (AP)

NAIROBI, Kenya ? A resident and a military officer say Ethiopian troops have entered a border town in Somalia in what would be a third front against al-Shabab militants.

Resident Mohammed Abdi said hundreds of residents fled the border town of Beledweyne on Saturday after hundreds of Ethiopian and Somali troops moved in.

Capt. Hashi Nor of the Somali military confirmed that Somali and Ethiopian troops had moved in.

The movement appears to be a third front against al-Shabab, Somalia's strongest militant group. Kenyan troops are fighting al-Shabab in Somalia's south, and African Union troops in Mogadishu have mostly pushed al-Shabab fighters out of the capital.

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Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4020

The Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4020 ($149.99 direct) is one of a small but growing group of inkjets challenging the conventional wisdom about the relative merits of inkjets and lasers. Quite simply, it scores better than some lasers at both speed and cost per page, precisely the things that lasers are supposed to be best at. That, plus the low price compared to color lasers, plus features like the built-in duplexer for printing on both sides of a page, wired and WiFi network support, and more, makes it a potentially better choice than a laser for a reasonably large percentage of micro and small offices. It also makes the WP-4020 an Editors' Choice.

In some ways, the WP-4020 is the next step up from the Epson WorkForce 60 ($129.99 direct, 4 stars), another Editors' Choice that's also aimed at business use. In addition to being a bit more expensive than the WorkForce 60, however, the WP-4020 offers faster speed; better paper handling, with both a 250 sheet tray and 80 sheet tray; and a lower cost per page. The difference adds up to making the WP-4020 more appropriate than the WorkForce 60 for heavier-duty printing.

One other feature worth mention is support for Epson Connect Email Print. If the printer is directly attached to a network, using either a wired or WiFi connection, you can register it on Epson's Web site and get an email address assigned to it. You can then print a document and email cover letter from any device with an email program, and from anywhere you happen to be, by sending an email to the printer with the document attached.

Epson says the printer also supports printing through the cloud with Google Cloud Print and printing from iOS devices over a WiFi connection with Apple AirPrint. The printer doesn't come with setup instructions for either option, but you can find them on Epson's Web site.

Setup and Speed
Setting the WP-4020 up is mostly standard fare, but it's worth mention that the printer is large for an inkjet. If you caught just a quick glimpse of it, you could easily mistake it for a large personal laser, thanks to the box-like shape and a size that verges on being too big to comfortably share a desk with, at 11.2 by 18.1 by 16.5 inches (HWD). The only thing that gives it away as an inkjet is the placement of the output tray. It's just above the input tray, near the bottom front, instead of being on top where you'd find it on a laser.

I connected the WP-4020 to a wired network for my tests and printed from a Windows Vista system. The speed was more than impressive. On our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing) it came in at an effective 5.6 pages per minute (ppm). As one point of reference, the WorkForce 60 seemed impressively fast at 4.1 ppm. More significant, the WP-4020 was also faster than comparable color laser-class printers, including, for example, the Editors' Choice Dell 1250c Color LED Printer ($229.99 direct, 4 stars). Photo speed was also acceptably fast, averaging 1 minute 12 seconds for a 4 by 6.

Output Quality
The printer's output quality is less impressive than its speed, but the text and graphics are easily good enough for most business purposes, and the photos are much higher quality than most businesses need.

In addition to offering reasonably high quality, the text on plain paper is far more water resistant than you'd expect for inkjet output on plain paper. In my tests it withstood water as well as laser output. Graphics output was just a touch lower quality than most inkjet printers, primarily because of some banding in the default mode. Even so, it's easily good enough for any internal business need. And as with text, graphics on plain paper was as water resistant as laser output in my tests.

Photo output qualified as true photo quality, which is much better than most businesses need, but a nice extra for those that do, such as real estate offices. Similarly, if your print needs at a home office are heavy duty enough to justify getting the WP-4020, the photo quality will let you use it in the dual role of home and home office printer.

One last important feature is the low cost per page I've already mentioned. Epson doesn't make any cost per page claims, but if you look up the prices for the cartridges and the claimed yields, the running cost works out to 1.6 cents for a monochrome page and 7.7 cents for a color page. That's not only a lot lower than most inkjets, it's lower than most low-cost lasers offer. In short, not only can the WP-4020 save money on the initial price compared with buying a comparable laser, it costs less to run too.

There's no question that the Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4020 has a lot going for it: fast speed, good paper handling, low initial cost, low running cost, and output quality that's easily good enough for most business use. What most stands out about it, however, is that it can give you most of the benefits of a personal color laser with the initial price of a personal mono laser, and a lower running cost than either. If you're considering a laser for your small office, don't buy one until you take a close look at the Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4020 as well

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Cancer-Causing Fungi Found in Food

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10:34 a.m. EST, December 30, 2011

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese food safety regulators in the southern city of Shenzhen have found carcinogenic mildew in peanuts and cooking oil, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

The cancer-causing substance, called aflatoxin, triggered public concern this week after milk giant Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd said last weekend its Sichuan plant had destroyed products found by a government quality watchdog to contain it.

Aflatoxin occurs naturally in the environment and is produced by certain common types of fungi. It can cause severe liver damage, including liver cancer.

Xinhua reported that the Shenzhen market supervision bureau had said it found up to 4.3 times of the permitted level of aflatoxin in peanuts sold in two supermarkets and one frozen food store, and up to four times the allowed level of aflatoxin in cooking oil in four restaurants.

Fungi and the aflatoxin they produce can infect crops before harvest or during harvesting and storage. The tainted crops then enter the foodchain either directly, or indirectly via animal feed.

On Thursday, food safety officials recalled cooking oil produced by three companies in the southern Guangdong province because they may contain excessive levels of aflatoxin.

These incidents are the latest in a string of safety scandals to hit China's food industry in recent years.

In 2008, at least six children died and nearly 300,000 became ill in China from drinking powdered milk laced with melamine, an industrial chemical added to low-quality or diluted milk to give misleadingly high protein readings.

(Reporting by Melanie Lee)

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WHO: Bird flu research raises safety questions (AP)

GENEVA ? The World Health Organization is warning that dangerous scientific information could fall into the wrong hands after U.S. government-funded researchers engineered a form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus more easily transmissible between humans.

In a strongly worded statement Friday, WHO said it was "deeply concerned about the potential negative consequences" if the results of the study were used to create biological weapons or the mutated virus was accidentally released.

"This is not the kind of research that you would want to have out there," WHO's top influenza expert, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

At the same time, WHO was concerned that all credible researchers should be able to access the study to better understand how to prevent a deadly H5N1 pandemic, Fukuda said.

H5N1 rarely infects humans and usually only those who come into close contact with poultry. But among those infected, up to 60 percent die, and scientists are closely watching the virus for any signs it is becoming more easily transmissible from human to human.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health last week asked scientists at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to refrain from publishing full details of their work on how to make the H5N1 virus more easily transmissible between humans.

The unprecedented step by NIH prompted concern in the scientific community that researchers with a legitimate need to know about these dangerous mutations, particularly in Asia, would be prevented from accessing the data.

Fukuda said there was a danger that perceived censorship of scientific results could harm the so-called Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, an international agreement painstakingly hammered out only recently by the global body's 194 member states.

"We don't want the concerns or controversies surrounding this H5N1 research to pose a risk to the implementation of that framework because we see it as a very important public health step," Fukuda told The Associated Press.

"But at the same time we recognize that the research raises questions about what are appropriate safeguards, what kind of procedures should be in place, what are the right mechanisms for reducing any risk," he said.

Fukuda said WHO itself had had not obtained the results of the two groups' research yet, and might not even ask for it.

"I'm hoping that we are privy to as much of the details as possible, but like anybody else one of the questions for us is what kind of information do we need to know," he said.

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Amerson helps NC State beat Louisville 31-24

North Carolina State's David Amerson, left, intercepts a pass intended for Louisville's Eli Rogers during the second half of the Belk Bowl NCAA college football game in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Amerson returned the interception for a touchdown. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

North Carolina State's David Amerson, left, intercepts a pass intended for Louisville's Eli Rogers during the second half of the Belk Bowl NCAA college football game in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Amerson returned the interception for a touchdown. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

North Carolina State's David Amerson (1) celebrates his interception with teammate Dontae Johnson (25) late in the second half of North Carolina State's 31-24 win over Louisville in the Belk Bowl NCAA college football game in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

North Carolina State's Mike Glennon (8) scrambles for a first down against Louisville during the second half of N.C. State's 31-24 win in the Belk Bowl NCAA college football game in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Glennon was the game's MVP. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

North Carolina State coach Tom O'Brien watches during the first half of the Belk Bowl NCAA college football game against Louisville in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater (5) reacts after being tackled in the second half of Louisville's 31-24 loss to North Carolina State in the Belk Bowl NCAA college football game in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? N.C. State sophomore cornerback David Amerson wasn't thinking about breaking records coming into the season.

He ended up shattering one few thought would ever fall.

Amerson had two interceptions Tuesday night ? one that he returned 65 yards for a touchdown and another with 41 seconds left that sealed the Wolfpack's 31-24 victory over Louisville in the Belk Bowl ? to give him an ACC record 13 for the season.

Former North Carolina star Dre' Bly set the previous mark of 11 in 1996.

"I don't know much about (Bly), but I hear a lot about him," Amerson said. "I heard he was pretty good and he did this as a freshman, so that speaks for itself. ... It's really an honor for me. Coming into this season I wasn't thinking about that."

Amerson has more interceptions than his closest competitor in the nation.

Amerson's touchdown return in the third quarter was a thing of beauty, with the cornerback breaking four tackles. But it was the pick at the end of the game that prevented Louisville from capping a 21-point comeback.

"The DB's had to step up and make a play at the end of the game and that's what we did," Amerson said. "I just saw that ball and it was like tunnel vision. I was going to go get it."

N.C. State picked off three of Teddy Bridgewater's passes and sacked him five times, twice knocking him out of the game for a play.

"Their blitz pattern was simple. It's just that they blitz so much though that they disguised it well," Bridgewater said. "It was more than I've been chased all year."

Amerson's performance was a big part of the N.C. State's win, but he had help.

Mike Glennon, the game's MVP, threw for 264 yards and three touchdowns, including two to senior receiver T.J. Graham, who made the most of his final game at N.C. State with seven catches for 116 yards.

Glennon threw another TD pass to Tobais Palmer, who made what Glennon called "the best catch I've seen all year" when he completely spun his body around in the air and managed to catch the ball and keep running to the end zone. He scored from 35 yards out.

Glennon finished the season with 31 touchdown passes.

The offensive play of the game came when Graham caught a pass over the middle from Glennon and broke two tackles en route to a 68-yard touchdown reception that gave the Wolfpack (8-5) a 21-10 lead just before halftime.

N.C. State coach Tom O'Brien took a lot of heat when he decided to part ways with star quarterback Russell Wilson and go with the unproven Glennon as his starter.

It all worked out Tuesday night.

So O'Brien feels vindicated, right?

"I never had to feel vindicated by any of that," said O'Brien, 8-2 in bowl games. "That would never be my goal once I made a decision. I don't care what people think. I made a decision what was best for this football team going forward. When I made the decision and weighing all options and looking at the talent this kid has I knew we would have a quarterback. I don't have to feel vindicated by anybody."

Then he smiled and added, "but he helped (vindicate) me."

"I knew Russell was a great player and would do great wherever he ended up but I also felt confidence in myself and I know my teammates had confidence in me, so I knew I would do just fine this year," Glennon said.

The Cardinals finished the season 7-6.

"North Carolina State is an outstanding football team, but we are nowhere near what we should be," Louisville coach Charlie Strong said. "If you look at a team that's what we have to get to. We have to do a better job of recruiting and we have to be able to go make plays and get playmakers into our offense and also get playmakers into our defense. It was a good learning experience for us."

"We were able to come back the second half and get the game back to seven but we still were just battling and then too much pressure on the quarterback. Teddy took a beating tonight but we knew they were going to bring pressure and we just weren't able to block them and they were able to beat one on one blocks and we weren't able to get to their quarterback."

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Cuban MBAs? A Spanish School Hopes to Train Havana's Future Moguls (Time.com)

This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Am?ricaEconom?a.

(HAVANA) -- Even before Cuba began cracking its doors open to capitalism, Paulino Garcia always displayed an entrepreneurial spirit. He spent two years at a university in the Soviet Union before returning to his native Cuba to continue his law studies at the University of Havana. After working for a firm called Climex, Garcia eventually managed to open his own restaurant in 1996, thanks to a new law introduced that allowed people to work for themselves.

"I built it from nothing, and with a lot of sacrifice," Garcia says. "I really wanted to have my own restaurant."

When Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino told Jos? Luis Mendoza, the president of the Catholic University (UCAM) in Murcia, Spain, that all of the administrators and owners of small businesses in Cuba needed to go to business school, he was thinking about people like Garcia. (See how the Catholic Church is making a comeback in Cuba.)

At the end of 2010, Raul Castro's government changed the rules and opened up the economy to a small amount of private business. In November, it announced that barber shops and small cafeterias would become private, and that he would allow an expansion in the number of small restaurants like Garcia's. Now people are starting to realize that running a business requires more than just intuition and common sense.

"The cardinal was reflecting on this need, and our president offered to help fill it," says Gonzalo Wandosell, the vice-dean at the Business Management School at UCAM.

The classes began on Sept. 26 in a symbolic building: the old seminary of San Carlos and San Ambrosio, founded in 1689 and home to the Cultural Center of Father Felix Varela. Wandosell indicated that the 45 founding students come from both state-run companies and private companies, and that there is no requirement for students to be Catholic. "They are engineers, lawyers and economists."

The Church's role in the new MBA program has been substantial. Since 1959, the Cuban clergy has been enemy No. 1 of the revolution, although the Church-state relationship has improved substantially since then, especially after Pope John Paul II's 1998 visit. (See pictures from Fidel Castro's years in power.)

On the other hand, the financing for the project has come from a Spanish university, the colonial power up until 1898, which many Cubans still refer to as the Motherland. The connections between the two countries didn't chill in the wake of the Communist revolution, with Spanish investment in Cuba still strong today.

In contrast to the costly programs in other countries, the Cuban MBA is free for students, with the costs covered by the University and donations from businesses in Murcia.

According to Wandosell, the Spaniards are taking care of the instructors' salaries and travel expenses, while the Church "supplies the buildings and coordinates with local instructors," as their director, father Yosvani Carvajal, said.

It isn't the first program of its type attempted Cuba. The Argentinian Business School ADEN tried it first, and was followed by a series of other high-profile trials and failures.

The innovation in the UCAM program is that it is the only one directed exclusively towards entrepreneurs and sole proprietors. That is not the case at the MBA program at the University of Havana, where students must be employed by an official state business to be accepted. (See "Cuba's Big Layoffs: What to Do with the Unemployed?")

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Majel Reyes Quesada, an MBA student with a Bachelor's degree in English, said he had practical reasons for wanting to do the program. "I see myself doing something in the future, with the possible new economic opening," he said. "Maybe I'll create a small business."

This is a typical student profile, and it can explain the pragmatic character of the curriculum. "In Spain we would call it professional master's degree," explains Wandosell. "It offers advanced training in business management, but is very orientated toward small and very small businesses and cooperatives, which are the type of enterprises that are being started in Cuba."

In spite of the recent reforms, there are still substantial obstacles for potential entrepreneurs on the island nation. On the one hand, the list of authorized activities precludes Cubans from opening businesses likely to grow large. For example, a book-repair shop is ok, but a publishing house is not. An artisan bricklayer can open his or her own business, but not a construction company. No such company can open while Cuba's constitution specifies that "the economic system is based on socialist principles." (See "Cuba?s Communist Codgers Keep Control.")

In addition, there is no credit or micro-credit system. Without any access to start-up funds, entrepreneurship opportunities remain limited; and finding funding can be a major obstacle even for people with family abroad. And although the Communist Party passed a resolution during their most recent congress to liberalize the wholesale markets, the reforms have yet to be implemented.

Is this the back door to Cuba's capitalist tradition? Father Carvajal offers the Church's non-ideological position: "It is for Cuba's benefit. The graduates are for Cuba."

At the end of their program, the MBA students will have a degree recognized in the European Union, but not in their own country. The Education Ministry will not officially sanction the program until it is paired with a Cuban university.

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SACRAMENTO ? Derrick Rose has spent the first quarter of the Bulls? first two games trying to get his teammates involved. No more.

The message has been delivered. Coach Tom Thibodeau only needs one word to describe what he wants Rose to do to opposing defenses in an effort to jolt his team out of its offensive doldrums: Attack.

Thibodeau is unleashing his MVP.

?We?re a lot better when he?s aggressive,? Thibodeau said after practice Wednesday at the Golden State Warriors? facility. ?It puts enormous pressure on our opponent?s defense. When he?s attacking, we?re getting easy baskets, we?re getting to the line, he?s getting people into foul trouble. It helps us in so many different ways. When we talk about him attacking, we want him attacking on both ends. We want him attacking on defense, also. That?s when he?s at his best. Right now, he?s trying to get others involved early, which is good, but when they put two on the ball, that?s good for us. That?s easy offense.?

Rose isn?t going to fight it. He already had diagnosed the problem after the 99-91 loss Monday against the Warriors. He only has attempted four shots in the first quarters of the first two games. He only has been to the free-throw line twice.

?As long as we win,? Rose said when asked if he minds being a score-first point guard. ?My teammates realize that. The shots I take, I don?t take that many bad shots. They know for us to win, I have to attack. Coach already told them. Everybody on the team is cool with it and comfortable with it. That?s all I have to do.?

The Bulls watched game film from last season, and Rose was all over the place, driving to the basket, collapsing the defense, kicking the ball out to wide-open teammates and leading the break. They looked at film of the first two games this season against the Los Angeles Lakers and Warriors, and Rose was trying to get his teammates involved or settling for long jumpers.

More shots by Rose means fewer for forward Carlos Boozer, but Boozer was emphatic about the team being at its best when Rose is a blur on the way to the basket.

?He?s a natural-born scorer,? Boozer said. ?We know that. One thing he?s trying to learn as he continues to grow as a player is how to use his teammates. Honestly, he?s been doing a great job of trying to figure it out, but at the same time, his first instinct is to score. We?re a better team when he attacks and makes plays off what he sees. I?d rather him stay aggressive.

?Let?s be honest, what person, what team have you seen that has been able to stop it? Nobody. We?re a better team when we?re attacking and playing fast and playing off his instincts because teams are at a disadvantage because he?s going to make a play or a shot or set something up for one of us. Him staying aggressive makes us a better team.?

Thibodeau wants the entire team to play more aggressively in an effort to get more layups, second shots and free throws. Too often players have been settling for long jumpers. He remembers what it was like to try to defend Rose and an aggressive Bulls team when he was an assistant with the Boston Celtics and wishes that experience on others.

?I know what it?s like when you?re sitting on the opposing bench and he?s attacking,? Thibodeau said. ?That?s something you don?t want to see. His shooting has improved greatly from his first year, but if you?re sitting on the opposing bench, that?s what you?d rather have. You don?t want him attacking and getting into the paint and breaking you down.

?There?s nobody faster in the league from end line to end line, so we?ve got to take advantage of that.?

Knowing when to take over a game and when to involve teammates is a balancing act. Rose is still learning. Having only a two-week training camp and two preseason games limited the time spent with his teammates on the floor, but he doesn?t have to worry about that balance now that the decision has been made for him.

?I?ll do it the same way I did it last year, where they follow after me,? Rose said. ?The first two games in the first quarter, we were kind of sluggish. We didn?t start off well. The only thing I can think of between last year and this year is this year I shot less shots in the first quarter. Last year, it was at least eight or nine shots in the first quarter just to get a groove going. That?s the difference.?

Rose seemed delighted by the idea of being told to score more.

?That can easily be fixed,? he said with a grin. ?Me shooting the ball, me attacking, trust me, I?m all right.?

Source: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/basketball/bulls/9693015-579/coach-tom-thibodeau-has-a-message-for-derrick-rose-attack.html

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(AP)? JERUSALEM ? Over their prime minister's objections, Israeli lawmakers are debating a proposal to recognize the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

Doing so would likely further strain already acrimonious relations with Turkey, which denies the genocide label and insists the massacres occurred in civil unrest as the Ottoman Empire collapsed during World War I, with losses on both sides.

An Israeli government official says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested that Monday's debate be canceled. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to disclose the information.

Israel has previously stopped short of recognizing the killings of 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide.

In recent years, however, ties with Turkey have frayed badly.

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The burned body of Rolling Meadows High School student Alexis Uriel Marr?n, 18, was found in this car in Mexico. (Credit: Agencia Esquema)

UPDATED 12/27/11 1:59 p.m.

IXTL?N DE LOS HERVORES, Michoac?n, Mexico (CBS) ? The badly burned body of a high school student from Rolling Meadows was found inside a charred vehicle in Mexico over the weekend, along with the bodies of two other murder victims.

Alexis Uriel Marr?n, 18, and two other men were found in the trunk of a burned out car around 7 a.m. on Christmas Eve, on a roadside in the town of Ixtl?n de los Hervores, in the Mexican province of Michoac?n about 80 miles southeast of Guadalajara, CNN reported for CBS 2.

Marr?n had been visiting his grandmother in the small town of Quiring?icharo, CNN reported.

Police tell the Daily Herald that the car belonged to another victim, Juan Pedro Estrada Osegeda, 24, who was driving Alexis so he could see his girlfriend. The third victim is identified as Raul T?llez V?zquez, 21.

The car, a black 1997 Mercury, belonged to Osegeda, CNN reported.

The men were not believed to be involved in any sort of criminal activity, police told the Daily Herald.

Chicago Mexican Consulate deputy-in-charge Augustin Rodriguez said says the consulate was aware of the murder but had no statement Tuesday afternoon.

The consulate is standing by to respond to any petitions from the family for assistance, but so far has not received any requests.

Meanwhile, two Facebook pages have been set up in Marr?n?s memory. One urges friends and classmates to wear red on Tuesday, Jan. 3, in his honor.

The Daily Herald reported Marr?n was recognized as a high school achiever in the 2010 National Spanish Examinations.

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Powerful Darfur rebel chief dead, Sudan says (Reuters)

KHARTOUM (Reuters) ? Sudan's armed forces have killed the leader of Darfur's most powerful rebel group, state media said on Sunday, dealing a severe blow to insurgents in the remote western region in their nearly decade-long war with Khartoum.

The Darfur conflict has rumbled on since mainly non-Arab insurgents took up arms in 2003, saying the central government had left them out of the political and economic power structure and was favoring local Arab tribes.

Khalil Ibrahim, head of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), emerged as one of the most powerful rebel commanders. In 2008, his fighters drove across the arid western terrain and launched a shock attack on Khartoum, killing over 200 people.

Sudan's authorities have long hunted Ibrahim, who had taken refuge in neighboring Libya under Muammar Gaddafi until the leader's overthrow deprived him of his safe haven, and had refused to sign a Qatar-brokered peace deal.

Al-Sawarmi Khalid, Sudan's armed forces spokesman, said government forces killed Ibrahim early on Sunday morning as he tried to cross into South Sudan, which seceded in July under a 2005 peace deal that ended a separate, decades-long civil war.

"The armed forces clashed in a direct confrontation with Khalil Ibrahim's rebel forces, and were able to eliminate Khalil Ibrahim, who died with a group of commanders," Khalid told state television.

JEM officials did not answer phone calls for comment on Sunday, but Al Jazeera television quoted Ibrahim's brother as confirming the death, saying he died in an air raid on his military convoy.

The death of Ibrahim, often described as commanding and charismatic, could be a major blow to JEM, although tightly restricted access to Sudan's conflict zones has made it hard to gauge the actual strength and internal unity of insurgents.

"Khalil's death is an important symbolic victory for the Government of Sudan - JEM has long been the most formidable military opposition in Darfur," Aly Verjee, a researcher at the Rift Valley Institute think tank , said.

"I don't think JEM will disappear with Khalil's death, but there's a risk that JEM fractures without his leadership, as has happened with the SLM (Sudan Liberation Movement) and other rebel movements in Darfur."

FIGHTING GOES ON

The United Nations has said as many as 300,000 people may have died in Darfur, where Khartoum mobilized troops and mostly Arab militias to crush the uprising. Khartoum puts the death toll at 10,000.

While violence has died down since the mass killings reported in the early days of the conflict, law and order have collapsed and the area has been hit by attacks by bandits, militias, soldiers and tribal groups in recent years.

Some 2 million people have fled the fighting, the United Nations says.

Various Darfur rebel groups, including two factions of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), have fought on despite a huge United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation set up in 2007.

Qatar brokered a peace deal which Sudan signed this year with the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), an umbrella association of smaller groups.

But JEM and the other major rebels groups have refused to sign the document, dampening hopes the region will soon see lasting peace.

In November, Darfur's main insurgent groups said they had formed an alliance to topple President Omar al-Bashir with other rebels in two border states, where fighting broke out around the time of South Sudan's independence.

Islamist in its outlook, Ibrahim's group has cooperated in the past with the more secular SLA rebels, although their different ideologies and histories have led to tensions.

JEM has claimed military advances as recently as last week, saying on Saturday its fighters clashed with government militias in parts of the North Kordofan state and were planning to advance on the capital Khartoum.

The report could not be independently verified.

Ibrahim died during a clash in North Kordofan's Wad Banda area, where authorities have accused JEM of attacking civilians and looting in the region, Sudan's state news agency SUNA said. The rebel group denies the charges.

The International Criminal Court has charged Bashir with masterminding genocide and other crimes in the region, accusations Khartoum dismisses as political.

(Writing by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Jon Hemming)

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Soldier back from Afghanistan shot at homecoming party in California

Christopher Sullivan survived a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, only to be shot at his homecoming party in southern California.

Family members said the returning soldier, 22, was left paralyzed after the shooting on Friday.

Sullivan's friends threw a party to celebrate his return on leave to his hometown of San Bernardino.

But the party turned tragic when a fight broke out between Sullivan's brother and one of people who showed up to the party. When Sullivan tried to break up the fight, the man pulled out a gun and fired into Sullivan's back, shattering his spine, according to the San Bernardino Sun.

"My son didn't deserve this this. He served his country," the soldier's mother Suzanne Sullivan told the San Bernardino Sun.

Sullivan cracked his collar bone and suffered brain damage after a suicide bombing last December in the Afghan city of Kandahar. The attack killed five of his fellow soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the San Bernardino Sun reports.

Sullivan earned a Purple Heart for his service.

"To come home to this, it's so unfair," Sullivan's aunt Theresa Marquez told the San Bernardino Sun.

"He was so happy to be back," his sister Crystal Watson said. "He kept saying, everything was going to be OK."

Sullivan planned to go to college when he completed his Army enlistment in April.

The gunman fled the scene before police arrived. They have not identified the suspect.

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Connecticut Mulls Making College Coaches Report Suspected Abuse

HARTFORD, Conn. ? ?Connecticut does not require college coaches to report suspected child abuse, but the scandal at Penn State has some state officials pushing to mandate they notify authorities if they think children are being harmed.

State Rep. Diana Urban plans to hold a public hearing next month to gather information about so-called mandatory reporting, which would shape legislation during the upcoming session of the General Assembly. She also wants to consider a statewide policy governing the protection of children who interact with university athletic programs, given a scandal involving an assistant basketball coach fired by Syracuse University.

"We want to know specifically what you are doing to protect the children on your campuses," said Urban, D-North Stonington, co-chairwoman of the legislature's Select Committee on Children. "We want to be sure every single facet of this is covered, and we want to focus on adults who come into contact with children."

At Penn State, former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has been charged with molesting 10 boys, some on campus, and two school officials have been charged with failing to properly report allegations of child sex abuse. All three say they did nothing wrong. At Syracuse, former assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine has been accused of molesting boys, including on road trips with the team. He also denies the claims and has not been charged.

In more than 40 states, coaches must report suspected abuse to police or child-protection authorities. In other states, including Pennsylvania, the protocol is for staff members of schools or other institutions to notify the person in charge where there is suspected child abuse.

That superior is then legally obliged to report it to the authorities.

Under current Connecticut law, myriad occupations are required to report suspected child abuse to the state Department of Children and Families or to police. They include teachers, day care workers, clergy, doctors, social workers and coaches at elementary, middle and high schools.

While the University of Connecticut and other schools around the state are reviewing internal child protection rules, Urban and DCF Commissioner Joette Katz believe the state law should expand to cover college, university and recreational coaches.

"There is no question that it is everyone's moral imperative to report. You don't have to be a mandated reporter to report abuse to the department, and we do receive many reports from those who are not mandated to report," Katz said. "Because, however, coaches on all levels and in their role as coaches have significant contact with children, we believe that this is a gap that must be addressed."

Connecticut's child protection agency receives about 40,000 reports of suspected child abuse each year, and about a third of those come from mandated reporters, said Gary Kleeblatt, a spokesman for the Department of Children and Families.

Paul Pendergast, the University of Connecticut's athletic director, has said he doesn't believe any changes are needed at his school. The use of the school's athletic facilities is limited to student athletes, coaches and staff or by contract when a coach or anyone else runs a camp there, according to the athletic department. Any guest traveling with a team has to receive approval from the school before making the trip.

"The fact of the matter is we do have a code of conduct here for the players for the coaches in their contracts and so forth," Pendergast said last month. "One would hope that these are two situations among the millions that go on across the wider spectrum of education, athletics, you name it. We don't want to react in such a way that would now put measures in place that maybe don't need to be there."

UConn currently requires deans, directors, department heads and supervisors receiving complaints of possible sexual assault to refer them to the school's Office of Diversity and Equity. It is drafting a new policy that would mandate most employees who receive reports of sexual assault to report them to appropriate university officials.

Some employees in departments including public safety, student activities and athletics already are required to inform police of any reported sexual assault, spokesman Mike Kirk said.

The Connecticut state university system, which includes Central, Southern, Eastern and Western Connecticut State university, also has begun reviewing how it assesses threats to children and its voluntary reporting policies to determine whether changes are needed, spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan said.

"In light of what we learned from Penn State's experience, we are conducting a review of these protocols and procedures in order to ascertain whether they are likely to serve their intended purpose -- that is, the protection of children who may be on our campuses for summer camp, field trips or similar purposes," she said.

Urban said she wants to hear testimony about whether Connecticut should join the 18 states that require all adults to be mandatory reporters of child abuse.

"We want to know if you have that policy, do you see better results," she said. "We want to do something quickly. We're not sitting on this one."

State Child Advocate Jeanne Millstein said she also would like to see the state add coaches to the reporter list, but she believes requiring all adults to be mandatory reporters would make the law unwieldy. She said Connecticut needs to do a better job in making sure those currently mandated to report understand their responsibilities under the law.

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