It’s not so bad to tell everyone you have big “hands.” Trying to get rival candidates to be quiet comes off as condescending. And it’s not so bad every now and then just to oooh and ah in response to an attack.

Voters have been asked to watch a lot of debates this primary season, or at least journalists have. Reviewers and political pundits have declared a number of winners after various debates. And Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have mixed reviews. Yet those two candidates have mostly stayed on top of their races.

So, we thought it was time to call in the experts. Eitan Ezra and Harrison Hurt are seniors at Poly Prep Academy in Brooklyn. They are also the top ranked high school debate duo in the public forum category in the U.S. The pair had a lot to say about the candidates’ performances, and much of it was at odds with the conclusions that the pundits have declared.

Perhaps most surprising is that Ezra and Hurt think Donald Trump has done a fairly good job in the debates. They think his big “hands” comment actually exuded confidence and probably won voters. Although they say that is certainly not a tactic one should try on the high school debate circuit. They also liked how often Trump talks about how he is ahead in the polls. They said one of the best tactics in debate is to stress to the audience and your opponent that you think you are winning.

Marco Rubio could have used a pointer or two from these debate champs. While attacks have worked for Trump, they suggested the other candidates would do better to distinguish themselves by sticking to the issues.

On the Democratic side, they think Bernie Sanders has done a convincing job putting Clinton on the defensive over her ties to Wall Street. “The way he expresses discontent with what she said before he addressed it is a good thing,” says Ezra.

“It’s not only that. He makes her look like she is whining in this moment” says Hurt. “Oh, boo-hoo Hillary what a terrible price having to take all this money from Goldman Sachs.”

Ezra and Hurt say Sanders is in danger of sounding like a one issue candidate, though. Their advice for him is to say Wall Street a little less often. For Clinton, they say she has been too vague about her ties to the banking world. She needs to respond with more concrete examples that show that the money she has received from Wall Street or elsewhere hasn’t swayed her actions.

As for Trump, Ezra and Hurt say he should try to take and refute criticism with calm. But that’s likely a lot easier to do for two high school debate champs than Trump. They shouldn’t hold their breath.

Summary: It's surprising who they think is doing well.


When Lance Crosby and Andrew Higginbotham left their respective executive posts at IBM SoftLayer and CenturyLink CTL early this year within a month of each other, many wondered where they were headed. Now we know.

The two executives are launching a security startup called StackPath. Details are sparce but a short post on the company’s site describes the macro security-in-the-age-of Internet-of-things issue:

Today alone, more than 100,000 cyber attacks will be launched creating billions of dollars in financial loss globally. We have already reached the tipping point. Meanwhile the world is moving billions of devices to the Internet, from your watch to your appliances – the cloud is enabling new smart devices everyday.

StackPath was founded in a belief that new disruptive, innovative technologies are the only way to solve this epidemic and enable a path to a safer Internet.

They must be getting ready to talk because Higginbotham is tweeting about his new gig.

In 2030 people will ask “Did you see it coming?” I’ll say, “Lance Crosby did.” Excited to be working with @lavosby

— Andrew Higginbotham (@ahigginbotham) October 6, 2015

Crosby co-founded SoftLayer in 2005 and ended up at IBM IBM by virtue of that company’s $2 billion purchase of SoftLayer in 2013. Many expected him to become IBM’s top cloud guy, but that was not to be and he left the company just shy of the deal’s two-year anniversary. He’s been pretty quiet about his plans but has spoken at a few industry events since leaving Big Blue.

One thing is sure: Cybersecurity is a super hot topic in this age of seemingly daily breaches. And the stakes get raised as more data gathering devices are connected to the Internet of things. A new study sponsored by Hewlett-Packard HPQ and the Ponemon Institute found that the average annual cost of cybercrime to U.S. companies surveyed is $15 million, up 20% year over year.

For more on IBM’s cloud-and-data strategy, please check out the video below.

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Summary: Crosby and Andrew Higginbotham, who drove CenturyLink's cloud efforts, are now working together on StackPath, a thus-far stealthy cybersecurity startup.


This piece originally appeared on Monster.com.

Have you read the New York Post’s recent story on “meternity”?

If not, we’ll catch you up: Coined by Meghann Foye, a magazine editor and author of a new novel of the same name, meternity is the idea that non-parents should be entitled to the same time-off benefits as recent mothers and fathers.

In her words to the Post: “For women who follow a ‘traditional’ path, this Error: Break shortcode syntax invalid often naturally comes in your late 20s or early 30s, when a wedding, pregnancy and babies means that your personal life takes center stage. But for those who end up on the ‘other’ path, that socially mandated time and space for self-reflection may never come.”

Unsurprisingly, Foye’s plea for the perk has created some controversy—as many of those who’ve had to use maternity and paternity leave to provide constant care, feeding, burping and diapering for a new baby wouldn’t equate their days off with “me time.”

But this might just be a word-choice problem. What Foye’s asking for already exists: It’s called a sabbatical, and lots of companies offer these more-than-just-a-vacation breaks from work—fully paid and no offspring needed to qualify.

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A quick search on Monster found more than 1,000 job postings with the word sabbatical in the description. Meanwhile, research and consulting firm yourSABBATICAL has a running list of employers offering paid sabbatical—and these are the 10 with the longest:

Check out your employee manual to see if your company offers this benefit. Of course, to get approved for a sabbatical you might have to give your boss a bit more explanation than someone on the verge of giving birth. (In a previous article on Monster, we’ve recommended formulating an upbeat story of what you want to do, why and when you’ll return.) But the result is still a dose of just the me-time Foye’s talking about.

Summary: You can get up to nearly a year of paid time off, regardless of whether you have kids.


Marina and the Diamonds once critiqued the dangers of fame and celebrity by pretending to have succumbed to them. On her 2012 album, Electra Heart, the Welsh singer-songwriter born Marina Diamandis worked with some of pop’s biggest hitmakers and wrote from the perspective of Electra Heart, a fictional, vapid diva who embodied the worst parts of pop culture. “I suppose it was an effort to make a commercial pop record in a subversive way,” she tells TIME.

But for her third album Froot, out now, she shed the wigs and persona, scaled down her collaborators — she wrote all the songs herself and had just one co-producer, David Kosten — and looked inward instead of out. “It’s more reflecting on what’s happened in my life and what’s kind of brought me to this point,” Diamandis says. “[The title] felt symbolic of how I feel now: ripe and ready as an artist and as a person, like I’m ready to really enjoy things. I feel very confident.”

On the song “Savages”: “I’m not a political person at all, but I am interested in society. And seeing rape culture explode over the past few years and be pretty much in the news every single day is sickening. It’s more about trying to start a conversation on why these things are in our human traits. Because they are natural to us even though it’s really hard to hear. No one wants to say that rape is natural, but it’s something that’s been embedded in us, and it’s horrendous. So that inspired that song.”

On how she gets inspired: “My relationship with songwriting is purely based on having something to say. If I don’t, then I just don’t write. It’s definitely not a songwriting camp: [write] 50 songs and then pick the 12 good ones. If I get off tour, usually it’s just getting my sh-t together, relaxing, seeing my friends. And then whatever’s happening in your life feeds into your thoughts and into what inspires you in the end. It’s a very relaxed, normal process.”

On her relationship with her fans: “It’s distinctive, and it feels real and special. They’re very intense, but maybe that’s because I am as well! They’re incredibly supportive and quite protective. ‘Primadonna’ garnered a lot of fans for me, but even though I’m going off into a more left-field, alternative direction, they are with me. Growing up with your fans is really amazing.”

On how the media treats female pop stars: “If I got into an artist who was playing a character and then realized that they have another body of work, you’re like, ‘So who is it, then?’ [That happens] particularly with female artists, maybe because identity is such a shaky thing — it feels like you’re constantly trying to be defined. A song on the album, “Can’t Pin Me Down,” is about that. Maybe it’s because we can change the way we look so easily compared to male artists. I always get the impression that media are like, ‘She’s not really the artist, someone else is creating that.’ With this album I want to make a point about writing the whole thing because [then] you can’t say anything — you know I’m the sole creator. There aren’t many of those artists anymore.”

Summary: The singer talks to TIME about her new album 'Froot'


Teen apparel retailer American Apparel app is laying off hundreds of workers as it overhauls its production process, which could include outsourcing part of its production to another U.S. manufacturer, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.

“If we do decide to produce some pieces out-of-house, they will still be American-made,” Chief Executive Paula Schneider wrote in a letter obtained by the Times.

Schneider said a mismatch between workers and manufacturing was an inefficiency that needed to be addressed as part of the company’s turnaround efforts, the Times reported, adding the move came after “months of careful and rigorous review.”

The retailer will also cut down on the number of garments it makes throughout the year, to clear inventory.

As part of the layoffs, which started last week, about 500 employees have lost their jobs, the newspaper said.

An American Apparel spokeswoman declined to comment to Reuters.

The fashion chain, known for its “Made in the U.S.A.” fashion, filed for bankruptcy in October following years of losses and expects to be profitable in 2018. Earlier this year it fought off attempts by founder and former CEO Dov Charney to buy the company back. American Apparel had fired Charney as CEO in December 2014, six months after suspending him for alleged misconduct, which Charney denied.

Summary: It had a mismatch between workers and manufacturing.


06/23/2016 AT 03:30 PM EDT

It's been nearly two years since 22-time Olympic medalist

Now, with those dark days in his rearview mirror and his fifth and likely final Olympics right around the corner in Rio, the greatest swimmer of all time is opening up to

about his past struggles with alcohol and suicidal thoughts.

Phelps cemented his place as an Olympic legend two years before checking into rehab in October 2014. He should have been on top of the world at the time, but instead he was drifting – drinking heavily and struggling to find his identity outside the pool.

"I thought the world would just be better off without me," he told

. "I figured that was the best thing to do – just end my life."

At the encouragement of his friends and family, Phelps checked into The Meadows, a psychological trauma and addiction treatment center outside Phoenix, where he was finally able to face the demons that had been plaguing him for much of his life – including his complicated relationship with his father, Fred Phelps.

As the younger Phelps rose to stardom, he grew more and more distant from his father, who divorced Michael's mom in 1994. Fred, who had served as an official on the deck for many of Phelps' swim meets, was eager to reconnect with his son, but Phelps wasn't interested. He says he agreed to meet with his father once in 2008, but then blew it off.

"I just didn't want to," Phelps said. "At times, I was like, 'This is a really good idea.' And we'd text and then I'd just stop texting and asking myself, 'What am I doing? Why? I don't want that. I don't need that.' "

Now that Phelps is a father himself, to

, he's ready to put the past behind him. He says he's realized his father did the best he could for him – and he's ready to embrace his future in and out of the water.

"This is a new journey. I truly can't wait for the next chapter of my life," Phelps said.

Summary: Michael Phelps will be swimming for gold once again at the 2016 Olympics in Rio


BEIJING — Japanese and Chinese stocks rose Monday but other Asian markets declined and US shares appeared headed for a lower opening as jittery traders watched for more fallout from Britain’s vote to exit the European Union.

British pound futures fell versus the dollar and Middle East stocks declined Sunday. The Saudi Tadawul index, the largest in the Middle East, closed 1.1 percent lower, but Egypt’s EGX 30 saw a 5.54 percent drop.

On Wall Street, futures for the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard and Poor’s 500 index were down 0.3 percent in premarket trading Sunday evening. The pound fell just over 2 percent against the dollar.

Japanese shares gained after news reports said Prime Minister Shintaro Abe instructed financial officials to take steps to stabilize financial and currency markets.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 2.4 percent to 15,312.87, rebounding from Friday’s 7.9 percent decline, its biggest since the 2008 financial crisis. The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.2 percent to 2,887.94 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 added 0.4 percent to 5,134.20.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.5 percent to 20,164.00 and Seoul’s Kospi lost 0.1 percent to 1,923.63. India’s Sensex retreated 0.1 percent to 26,372.98 and benchmarks in Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia also fell.

The surprise outcome of Britain’s referendum triggered a market plunge Friday that wiped out $2.1 trillion of stock value from Hong Kong to London to New York.

Traders were watching for more aftershocks as other EU leaders press London to start the complex process of leaving the 28-nation trading bloc. Prime Minister David Cameron wants to wait several months.

“Markets will be nervous given that the EU and UK have some mismatch in terms of timing of exit procedures and negotiations,” said Mizuho Bank analysts in a report.

“The EU’s legitimacy may be tested by separatist parties,” it said. “Spanish elections more immediately and then French elections in 2017 add to the complexity of political dynamics involved in negotiations. Brewing uncertainty suggests that the stage is set for potentially stormy global markets.”

The pound declined to $1.3401 from Friday’s $1.3684. The euro currency used by 17 European economies declined to $1.1030 from $1.1118. The dollar edged down to 101.86 yen from 102.19.

In energy markets, benchmark US crude shed another 10 cents to $47.54 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract plummeted $2.47 on Friday to $47.64.

China’s premier called for joint efforts to restore global economic confidence.

“We are seeing increasing uncertainties in the world economy,” said Li Keqiang at the World Economic Forum in the eastern Chinese city of Tianjin. “We need to jointly handle challenges, strengthen confidence and create a stable international environment.”

Brent crude, used to price international oils, opened down but recovered to gain 21 cents to $48.64 in London. It plunged $2.50 on Friday.

What happens next depends on how policymakers handle the fallout in the coming days, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Sunday.

Economic risks, she said, depend on the level of uncertainty.

“How they come out in the next few days is going to really drive the direction in which risk will go,” Lagarde said.

The financial markets did not panic Friday after the vote, Lagarde said. She said central bankers put a lot of liquidity into the markets so there wouldn’t be a shortage, as happened during other market plunges, including in 2008.

“It was very much under control. We didn’t see those sort of panic moves,” she told the group.

The surprise outcome of the British vote brought more political turmoil Sunday.

Leaders of the successful campaign to leave the EU stayed largely out of the public eye, offering few signals about their plans.

In Scotland, however, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would consider advising the Scottish Parliament to try to use its power to prevent Britain from leaving the EU. She said Scottish lawmakers might be able to derail the move by withholding “legislative consent” for a British exit, or Brexit.

Summary: The pound fell further against the dollar and US stock index futures slipped as Asian markets opened for the week.


“Brexit” has been a swift punch to the face for many U.S. companies who knew it could happen more than a year ago, but today are still chaotically scrambling to handle the potential repercussions.

The value of the British pound took a nose dive last week, prompting American firms to rush through orders on foreign currency as CEOs worldwide began bracing for decreased profits, job cuts, and long-term market disruption.

Company executives are anticipating a drop in demand from European economies and many are seeking legal advice on how Britain’s break from the EU could impact trade deals and regulations.

The financial services industry worked hard to prepare for this potential economic debacle, but experts say other business sectors have been caught with their proverbial pants down.

International Law Expert Miriam Gonzalez of the London-based firm Dechert LLP told Reuters last week that most companies haven’t prepared for what “Brexit” could mean to their industry.

“It has come as a massive shock and many businesses are struggling to digest that today,” he said.

Some fear the isolationist move by England could compel other countries to leave the EU, which sent global markets into a frenzy Friday.

Potential Effects of Brexit on U.S. Companies

Britain’s EU exit could force U.S. manufacturers with factories in the UK to start paying tariffs on goods sent from the England to EU countries. Those goods would also have to go through customs, adding time and cost to business operations that would favor European competitors.

The increased value of the dollar over the pound makes U.S. goods more expensive in European markets as well.

Musical instrument manufacturer D’Addario & Co, which is based in a Farmingdale, New York does about 30% of its business in Europe. Its CEO Jim D’Addario told Reuters the rising dollar could do serious damage to his company’s bottom line.

“This could lead to the collapse of the whole EU system – that would have a more far-reaching impact,” he said.

“Brexit’s” ramifications don’t stop there. It could also force regulators to re-evaluate intellectual property and branding rights regulations and create human resource challenges for companies based in Britain whose employees may be forced to leave since the automatic right to work in any EU member country would no longer be in place.

Summary: Even though they had plenty of warning.


Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck

12/09/2013 AT 05:00 PM EST

has one person to thank for his recent slew of successful films: his wife,

In a new interview with

, Affleck, 41, says Garner, also 41, helped provide him with a stable home that separated him from a string of unsuccessful films and being tabloid fodder following his relationship with

"My wife was definitely around then," says Affleck. "Getting to know her, falling in love with her and

gave me a foundation to reach out and say, 'Okay, I'm going to do

. I'm going to direct

,' " Affleck said. "Those were the steps forward I needed to put positive stuff on the board."

, 21 months, and daughters Violet, 7 ½ and Seraphina, 4 ½, now seem to be the

, openly affectionate and praising each other's successes.

"She is by leaps and bounds the most important person to me in that respect," Affleck said of Garner's resolute support. "Over the past 10 years she has allowed me to have a stable home life while accomplishing my professional goals."

added: "Once I'd made it, the most critical thing was that she said, 'If you're going to work 24 hours a day, that's cool. I'm going to be here.' That allowed me to think, Okay, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to kill myself over this next period of time."

Summary: The Oscar winner tells Playboy that Garner helped reignite his career


Introduction America’s 200 Best Small Companies. Entrepreneur of the Year By Bruce Upbin Former Israeli commando Amnon Landan pushes Mercury Interactive into the top ranks of the software business. In Praise of Wallflowers By Daniel Kruger It’s nice to have analysts sing your praises. Even nicer, though, to start your own chorus. Cheap Thrills By Brett Nelson Fast-growing upstarts have heady price-to-earnings multiples, right? Look again. Leaders Of The Next Boom By M.K. Ozanian, C.J. Fluke and L. Kump Which companies will be the next generation of wealth creators? Our Hot Shots list offers intriguing clues.

Best Small Defense Companies By Lesley Kump Some small caps have been able to cash in while serving their country. The Entertainers By Cecily J. Fluke By combining both restaurants and leisure companies together, we highlight a few Up & Comers who made this year’s list by entertaining us. Medical Miracles By Cecily J. Fluke Despite the war, terrorism, rise in unemployment, people still need medical treatment.

Where Are They Now? By Tatiana Serafin It’s been a tough slog for former Entrepreneurs of the Year. Vital Signs By Luisa Kroll Kim Blickenstaff has rescued Biosite from cash shortages and skeptics, but he’s still fighting short-sellers. Master of the Mundane By Leigh Gallagher Martin Franklin is making millions from kitchen matches, twine and canning jars.

Summary: Share prices in this year's ranking of 200 growth stocks are up an average of 58% over the past 12 months.


Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Nobody Knows," a harrowing, tender film, was inspired by a real event known in Japan as "the affair of the four abandoned children of Nishi-Sugamo." The facts of the case, which achieved some notoriety in 1988, suggest the kind of story you might follow, with a mixture of prurience, revulsion and moralism, on Court TV or in a tabloid newspaper. Four children -- three of them without birth records, all of them the offspring of different fathers -- were left alone by their mother in a small Tokyo apartment, where they lived for six months without attracting any notice or intervention.

Their tale is a rich, awful congeries of primal and distinctly modern fears, from the universal childhood fantasy of parental abandonment to the more grown-up suspicion that big cities are places of cruel isolation and indifference. Mr. Kore-eda explores nearly every emotional nuance and implication of the story, without for an instant succumbing to sensationalism or melodrama. The content of "Nobody Knows," which should consolidate his reputation as one of Japan's most interesting and original filmmakers, is inherently upsetting, and watching the film is, to some extent, a punishing immersion in impotent dread.

In observing the helplessness of the four children, you become acutely aware of your own inability to do anything for them. Mr. Kore-eda's camera is so close to them -- navigating the narrow, cramped spaces of their home, zooming in on their faces, hands and feet -- that the sense of their aloneness becomes overwhelming. You are in on the secret of their existence and prevented from communicating it.

But because the movie also sticks closely to the children's point of view -- and in particular to the experience of Akira (Yuya Yagira), the oldest of the four and the one left in charge by his mother (You) -- it also offers a measure of relief. Akira, his two sisters, Kyoko (Ayu Kitaura) and Yuki (Momoko Shimizu), and their irrepressible (and perhaps mildly retarded) younger brother, Shigeru (Hiei Kimura), are not quite aware of the horrific implications of their plight. They are, after all, accustomed to living with a childlike, erratic parent, who is capable of being funny and generous as well as neglectful. In the early scenes, their life with her has an adventurous, mischievous quality; the two smaller children are smuggled into the new apartment in suitcases, so their existence can be kept secret from the landlord.

And some of the spirit of fairy-tale adventure remains even after the mother has vanished, the money she left behind has dwindled and Akira's steadfastness has begun to fray into desperation. In reality, the idea of children fending for themselves is terrifying, but that terror is also what gives so many bedtime stories and young-adult novels their thrill. Children's literature, from the Brothers Grimm to "The Secret Garden" to Lemony Snicket, is heavily populated by foundlings, orphans and cast-off children whose pluck and resourcefulness feed fantasies of heroic self-sufficiency.

"Nobody Knows" is of course too naturalistic, and too disturbing, to be a movie for children, but it nonetheless engages the audience's wondering, childlike imagination as well as its worrying adult conscience. Though the responsibility of caring for his siblings weighs heavily on Akira, he does not entirely lose his capacity for fun and spontaneity. He also takes it upon himself to protect the younger ones, giving them gifts and holiday presents that he pretends are from their mother and keeping them supplied with playthings and treats when his meager budget allows.

Mr. Yagira was 12 when he began work on the film and 14 when he won the top acting prize in Cannes last year, beating out Tom Hanks, Geoffrey Rush and Gael García Bernal, among others. His performance is the key to the film's uncanny ability to capture the world of childhood from both inside and out; Akira is, of necessity, mature beyond his years, but also frighteningly unworldly, and Mr. Yagira, without the self-consciousness that young actors so often lean on, allows glimpses of the boy's complicated inner life to come through in small gestures and fleeting expressions.

"Nobody Knows" is not for the faint of heart, though it has no scenes of overt violence, and barely a tear is shed. It is also strangely thrilling, not only because of the quiet assurance of Mr. Kore-eda's direction, but also because of his alert, humane sense of sympathy. He is neither an optimist nor a sentimentalist -- like his previous films, "Maborosi," "After Life" and "Distance," this one presents a fairly bleak view of the modern world -- but he does keep an eye out for manifestations of decency, bravery and solidarity. These tend to be small and fleeting, and therefore all the more valuable and worth clinging to when his patient, meticulous eye uncovers them.

"Nobody Knows" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has some upsetting scenes.

'Nobody Knows' Opens today in Manhattan.

Written (in Japanese, with English subtitles), produced, directed and edited by Hirokazu Kore-eda; director of photography, Yamazaki Yutaka; music by Gontiti; released by IFC Films. Running time: 141 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.

WITH: Yuya Yagira (Akira), Ayu Kitaura (Kyoko), Hiei Kimura (Shigeru), Momoko Shimizu (Yuki), Hanae Kan (Saki) and You (Keiko, the Mother).

Summary: A O Scott reviews movie Nobody Knows, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda; photo (M)


Last Updated Aug 2, 2011 2:21 PM EDT

If you hope to earn a college degree that will qualify you for the

question: Do you feel comfortable around these sorts of brain twisters: differential equations, vectors, harmonic functions and complex exponentials?

Why do I ask? Because once again, the nation's

require complex math skills. In fact, according to the new

survey, every single one of the top 20 highest-paying college degrees requires advanced math.

Take a look for yourself:

The 2011 best-paying college degrees from PayScale's annual survey looks nearly identical to the

Last year, the highest-paying college degree was

. This year the top dog is petroleum engineering. In 2010, chemical engineering was No. 3 and this year it inched up one notch.

Like previous PayScale surveys, I can only hope that this salary roundup can serve as a wake up call for millions of teenagers and their parents who believe that the most lucrative

. This conventional wisdom -- which is wrong -- explains why business is the most popular major. When mid-career salaries of dozens of majors were ranked, business came in as the

Students who major in linguistics, biology, fashion design, literature, urban planning, food science and philosophy are among those that make more money than business majors.

© 2011 CBS Interactive Inc.. All Rights Reserved.

Summary: Here is the latest survey of the highest-paying college degrees. Is yours on the list?


Chicken prices in the United States are reportedly on the rise after a genetic defect caused rooster fertility problems at a time when high prices on other meats were already increasing demand for poultry products.

The standard Ross male, a key rooster breed responsible for fathering up to 25 percent of the chickens raised for slaughter in the U.S., has seen reduced fertility due to a change in its genes, Reuters reports. Poultry producers routinely modify chicken genes to improve yield. As a result, the price of chicken breasts is up about 50 cents per pound and prices in Georgia, a key chicken market, have hit record highs.

Aviagen Group, the world’s largest chicken breeder, discovered the glitch after ruling out other possible explanations for a roughly 2% increase in hatch failure of eggs fertilized by the breed, Reuters reports. Scientists from the company say the genetic tweak made the roosters “very sensitive” to overfeeding.

“We fed him too much. He got fat. When he got big, he did not breed as much as he was intended to,” said Mike Cockrell, chief financial officer for the major chicken producer Sanderson, one of Aviagen’s biggest customers.

The chicken shortage resulting from reduced rooster fertility comes at a time when elevated prices for pork and beef have been increasing demand for chicken as a meat alternative.

Summary: Modified genes in a key rooster breed has reduced the birds’ fertility


Currently, only commercial property is allowed in self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) and other pension schemes. But the Chancellor announced in the Budget that he would consult about easing the rules to allow unused commercial property to be converted to residential use within a pension.

"The Government will explore with interested parties whether the conversion of unused space in commercial properties in high streets and town centres to residential use could be encouraged by amending [pension] rules," he said.

In response, Sippclub, which promotes self-invested pensions, carried out a survey of financial advisers, pension companies, property investors and the general public to gauge levels of support for allowing residential property to be held within pension schemes.

It found that 91pc of members of the public backed the idea, along with 94pc of property investors, 81pc of financial advisers and 67pc of companies operating Sipps and similar schemes.

Gordon Brown planned to drop restrictions on holding residential property in pensions as part of the "A Day" pensions reforms in 2006. But he decided to keep the rules in place after fears of a free-for-all as owner-occupiers rushed to transfer their homes to a pension plan.

Under the proposals currently under discussion, you would still not be allowed to put own your home or a buy-to-let property into a Sipp. But you would be able to buy an unused commercial property through your pension and convert it to residential use.

One respondent to the survey said: "Stock market performance is simply too unpredictable nowadays and other options are needed which better allow for growth as well as an element of capital protection. Property fits the bill." Another said: "Can’t wait to invest my Sipp into residential property instead of relying on the stock market and its alarming crashes and recoveries."

A third said: "I think that when you invest it’s really important to invest in something that you understand, and it’s fair to say that most people understand residential property."

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Summary: The public overwhelmingly backs proposals to allow residential properties to   be held in Sippp pension plans, according to a survey.


Allen Klein, a music executive who managed the business affairs of Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones and, for a short time, the Beatles, and who was both admired and feared for his reputation as a fierce negotiator, died on Saturday in Manhattan, where he lived. He was 77.

The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said Bob Merlis, a spokesman for Mr. Klein’s company, Abkco Music and Records.

Mr. Klein rose from humble origins to become a powerful figure in the music business. Born in Newark, he spent much of his childhood in an orphanage, and graduated from Upsala College in East Orange, N.J., with a degree in accounting and a keen appreciation of the value of a dollar.

At the invitation of one of his college friends, Don Kirshner — who would go on to become a successful music publisher and record executive — Mr. Klein began to work in the music business. He gained a reputation early on as an effective sleuth who could root through record companies’ books on behalf of artists and find thousands of dollars in unpaid royalties.

In the early 1960s, he performed those miracles of accounting for Bobby Darin and Cooke. He also became Cooke’s manager, negotiating an usually favorable deal with RCA Records that gave the singer a strong royalty rate and the rights to his own recordings. By the height of the British Invasion of the mid-1960s, Mr. Klein was rapidly acquiring clients in England, among them Mickie Most, who was the producer of the Animals, Herman’s Hermits and many other groups.

In 1965, Mr. Klein was hired by the Rolling Stones’ young manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, to handle the band’s business affairs. With his working-class New Jersey accent and aggressive, direct negotiating style, Mr. Klein convinced the Stones, as he would many other musicians, that he would be a powerful advocate.

“Andrew sold him to us as a gangster figure, someone outside the establishment. We found that rather attractive,” Mick Jagger was quoted as saying in Stephen Davis’s 2001 book, “Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones.”

For the Stones and others, though, Mr. Klein was sometimes also an adversary. He negotiated a new deal for the band with Decca, its label at the time, but soon bought the rights to both the band’s recordings and its publishing. The band would later sue for their return, without success. (The Stones settled with Mr. Klein in 1984.) Through Abkco, Mr. Klein retained control of the band’s music before 1971, when the group formed its own record company, Rolling Stones Records.

In 1969, Mr. Klein began to work with the Beatles, as that band was beginning to splinter apart. According to some accounts, he urged John Lennon not to announce that he wanted to quit because it would jeopardize Mr. Klein’s negotiations with E.M.I. over royalties. A highly favorable royalty rate was achieved, and shortly afterward, the Beatles broke up, although Mr. Klein continued to work with Lennon and, for a time, George Harrison. He was a producer of the concerts for Bangladesh, with Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and others, at Madison Square Garden in 1971.

Mr. Klein was convicted of tax fraud in 1979 and served two months in prison for failing to report income from sales of promotional records, according to the Associated Press.

Abkco owns the rights to many recordings by the Stones, Cooke and others, and administers many more. Mr. Klein also worked as a producer on the films “The Holy Mountain” in 1973 and “The Greek Tycoon” in 1978, as well as on a number of Italian spaghetti Westerns.

Mr. Klein is survived by his sister, Naomi; his longtime companion, Iris Keitel; his wife, Betty, with whom he had not lived with for many years; two daughters, Robin and Beth; a son, Jody; and four grandchildren.

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Summary: Mr. Klein managed the business affairs of Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones and, for a short time, the Beatles.


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Syrian refugees living in Turkey could eventually be granted citizenship.

"I want to announce some good news," Erdogan said late on Saturday at a dinner to break the Ramadan fast in Kilis province, on the Syrian border.

"We are going to help our Syrian friends in offering them the chance, if they want it, to acquire Turkish nationality."

The Interior Ministry will shortly announce how the citizenship procedure would work, Erdogan added.

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The president did not specify whether all of the 2.7 million Syrians that Turkey is hosting would be able to apply, and gave no details on eligibility criteria or how long the process would take.

"We regard you as our brothers and sisters. You are not far from your homeland, but only from your homes and your land ... Turkey is also your homeland," Erdogan told a group of Syrian refugees in Kilis, a city hosting more than 120,000 refugees, which exceeds its population.

Ankara has refused to grant refugee status to Syrians who have fled the devastating war across the border since 2011, referring to them as "guests".

Only a small group have been granted work permits and residency.

The hashtag #ÃlkemdeSuriyeliÄ°stemiyorum (I don't want Syrians in my country) hit the worldwide list of trending topics on Twitter on Sunday, as Turkish social media users slammed Erdogan's plan.

Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish political analyst and columnist, told Al Jazeera that the government's plan was not easy to implement.

" In humanitarian terms, it is a positive step. ButÂ it is not easy to make it exclusively easier for Syrians to gain citizenship. There are Georgians, Armenians and other foreigners who are in Turkey for economic and other reasons. It is not clear if they will be included in this scheme or not," he said.

"Integration of a large amount of non-Turkish speakers who come from a different culture is not going to be easy and will bring large economic burden. I t might also encourage more people to try to enter Turkey, considering theÂ volatile geography we live in."

Akyol added that the opposition in Turkey might see the plan as a bid by Erdogan to "import voters" who out of gratitude would support the president and help him strengthen his grip on power.Â

The country's open-door policy to Syrian refugees was initially a source of pride for the country.

However, there have been reports that many refugees are not allowed to cross the border.

Life is a struggle for most Syrians in Turkey, who mainly live off odd jobs that are often insufficient to feed and house a family.

The country is also hosting about 300,000 Iraqis who have fled the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).

Syria has been in a civil war since 2011, when the government cracked down on pro-democracy protests.

More than 250,000 people have been killed in the conflict and more than 10 million have been displaced, according to the UN. Around four million people have taken refuge in neighbouring countries.

Additional reporting by Umut Uras

Source:Â Al Jazeera and agencies

Summary: President says government will help Syrians by offering them the chance to acquire Turkish nationality.


Seven weeks before the Olympic flame is lit in Rio de Janeiro, the world governing body for track and field events has banned Russian athletes from all competitions.

The Olympic Games are founded on the spirit of international unity.

This year, a sports governing body has chosen what some call justice over tradition.

The International Association of Athletics Federations says Russia has not done enough to clean up widespread doping and that state-sponsored cheating goes back to the 2008 Olympics.

The IAAF also says it has no way to verify that all Russian athletes are clean.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the ban is unfair; the IAAF denies its ban is politically motivated.

Is geopolitics at play? And what effect will the ban have?

Dmitry Babich - Political analyst with Sputnik International news radio

Michele Verroken - Former head of the UK Anti-Doping Agency

Sergei Ilyukov - Sports physician for the Finnish Olympic team

Summary: Seven weeks before summer Games, world governing body for track and field bans Russian athletes from all competitions.


High-end lingerie sales are outpacing China’s generally downbeat luxury market, and heating up competition between international brands and local rivals looking to go upmarket.

U.S. brand Victoria’s Secret will open its first store, and companies including Italy’s ultra-luxury La Perla and Germany’s Triumph are adding stores and moving beyond China’s mega-cities to tap a lingerie market that has more than doubled in five years to $18 billion, according to Mintel Group.

Chinese consumer tastes are maturing, women are more confident about buying for themselves and President Xi Jinping’s drive against conspicuous consumption is likely diverting spending from flashy branded bags and accessories to sports and ath-leisure wear and the more discreet lingerie.

“Luxury is … not about buying to show off, it’s about buying items that make you feel good,” says Chiara Scaglia, La Perla’s Asia chief.

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China’s women’s underwear market is expected to have a retail value of $25 billion by next year—double that of the United States—and will grow to $33 billion by 2020, according to Euromonitor.

Chinese firms such as Beijing Aimer, Maniform and Ordifen are also chasing that money, targeting higher-end customers and raising their quality.

“That means foreign brands will have to out-compete local brands not just on quality, but also innovation,” said Matthew Crabbe, director at Mintel.

For now, the market is highly fragmented, with none of the leading firms having more than around a 3% share. International brands see China as a priority to help bolster overall sales given a fairly bleak global outlook.

La Perla, which sells bras priced around 2,000 yuan ($300), has eight stores in China and plans additional outlets in Chengdu and Chongqing within the year. It also aims to open a men’s store in Beijing.

“The perception of the lingerie sector has changed,” Scaglia told Reuters. “At the beginning many people we spoke to were confused as to why anybody should spend over $1,000 on panties for something nobody sees.”

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Victoria’s Secret will open a 20,000 square foot (1,860 square meter) flagship store in Shanghai this year, taking over a prime downtown location that used to house a Louis Vuitton store. “I think it will announce our arrival in China in a very significant way, and should be the beginning of an enormous business for us,” said Martin Waters, L Brands International President.

Triumph, which already has 1,000 China stores, plans to open in five new cities this year and up to 11 cities next year.

Cosmo Lady, a Chinese firm that has focused on the mass market, selling bras from 50 yuan ($7.50), last year bought Ordifen to increase its presence in the luxury market.

“We would like to gradually step into the high-end market,” said Peter Lam, Cosmo Lady’s assistant chief financial officer.

Gao Qiannan, a 22-year-old Shandong student who says she spends upwards of 1,500 yuan a year on lingerie, doesn’t think there’s a big difference between Chinese and foreign brands.

“If I can buy a domestic brand, I will, but if I particularly like the international brand’s style, I’ll get that,” she said.

Chinese Yuan Devaluation Will Hurt Luxury Brands From Europe, U.S

The international brands say they don’t offer products specifically for the Chinese market, though La Perla notes that some colours—red and baby pink—sell far better in Asia than in Europe or the United States. The Italian brand has also used Chinese supermodel Liu Wen in its campaigns.

Japanese and South Korean brands are also growing in popularity in China.

Yin Huijuan, 23, who spends 800 yuan ($120) on lingerie every three months, said she prefers Japanese brands such as Wacoal and Narue. “I feel foreign brands’ style is more detailed and diversified, these are areas where domestic brands fall short,” she said.

Even in the lingerie market, though, there are bumps.

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Cosmo Lady, which has 8,600 outlets including Ordifen’s 550 China stores, saw robust growth in its mass market sales last year, but has warned about its profits for the first half of this year, citing China’s slowing economic growth, consumer caution and competing online sales.

Hong Kong-listed Embry Holdings, which owns the Embry Form lingerie brand, said its group retail sales slipped by nearly a fifth in April-June on tougher competition and the economy.

Despite those bumps, the lingerie sector retains a strong appeal, said Eugene Mak, an analyst at China Merchant Securities in Hong Kong, and firms like Cosmo Lady are still outperforming other apparel retailers.

He predicts the market will hit a consolidation phase at some time. “It’s a very young market, but in the near-term it’s going to be messy,” he said.

Summary: Luxury lingerie makers are selling China on feel-good fashion.


The guard is solicitous, worried that the visitor may panic. He says to shout if it gets too frightening. Upon hearing an SOS, he will rush to the rescue with his torch, shedding light in the overpowering darkness.

This guard should get a bonus. He does more in his gentle way to ratchet the tension of what follows than the opening moments of Gregor Schneider's installation itself. Step through the curtains into the pitch-black space of Kinderzimmer and you are immediately confronted by the faint outline of a doorway in the distance. Of course you grope towards it; of course there are no obstacles in the way - think of the insurance costs! - and just as surely, the room is empty.

Schneider's rooms are notorious (or at least well publicised): dank replicas of places where alarming events may have occurred, beginning with his family home in Germany. He leads the public down corridors, into coal holes, through dark bathrooms and cellars. In Manchester, he manages to entice you through the seething darkness purely with the promise of light - another identical room, a window, the ghostly glow of a projector, eventually the exit - as if you were in a maze: disorientation by coercion.

Some people I talked to actually thought they had stumbled on the same room twice, the second time with a child's mattress mysteriously appearing on the floor. Others feared there might be no exit. Myself, I think Schneider's manipulations are too obvious to inspire real dread - the windowless cell, the eerie lighting, the inevitable brick wall - but they certainly invoke childhood fears of space-transforming darkness. In Freudian terms, Kinderzimmer (Nursery) is all very unheimlich

The theme of this badly presented but undeniably fascinating show is, in essence, the unheimlich - usually translated as the uncanny, properly meaning the unhomely - represented here by many surrealist classics. Magritte's bowler-hatted gent vanishes from his front room as if the wallpaper had consumed him. The sleepwalker in Dorothea Tanning's night corridor turns into one of her own overgrown dreams.

The houses in Paul Delvaux's painting Street of the Trams (1938-9) are so unhomely they have lost their walls altogether. The women within, who appear unaware of their exposure, stand completely naked as the tram rides hard down their street.

Anyone with the smallest knowledge of surrealism could come up with many more instances - Max Ernst's menaced invalids in their beds, De Chirico's gaping windows, Hans Bellmer's mutilated dolls in dusty corners, all well represented. But Subversive Spaces goes further, tracing the same strain in contemporary art. So you get an amputated leg sticking out of the wainscot, an egg slicer so big it could double as an instrument of torture, a woman climbing the walls using doorknobs as footholds.

Now it is always good to be reminded just how much today's art owes to the past. With their mannequins and mountains of coal sacks, their live performances and eerie chambers, the surrealists were pioneers of installation art. And there is no doubt that Mona Hatoum's egg slicer has its antecedents in the spiked iron of Man Ray or that Bellmer's influence is apparent in the misbegotten dolls of Sarah Lucas. But the art itself is not always what strikes. Take the opening exhibit, a fragment of film showing two Victorian doctors trying to restrain a "female hysteric". Why is she so spookily masked? What triggers her convulsions? Why is the scene staged as a spectacle? Douglas Gordon shows the footage twice at different speeds to no obvious end - this is an early work - but still it rivets. Whatever became of hysteria?

The surrealists, typically, revered it as a form of poetic expression. Andre Breton praised its "wonderful aura". But look at the photographs from the renowned Salpêtrière asylum and they look just as theatrical as Gordon's film. Consult the drawing of a hyper-extended figure, back arched, produced by a surgeon as a prototype for artists depicting female hysteria. It was based on someone dying of tetanus. How pernicious is the abuse of images.

Viewed this way, as an array of manipulative works, the show feels like visual pathology. Trapped women, for instance, are an obsession of western art, no matter what sex the artist, from Ernst's corseted ladies-cum-birds to Claude Cahun's self-portrait stuffed in a cupboard. Ditto mad women in the attic, supposedly surefire pricks to the psyche.

And if real women don't do it for you, then dolls abound and if dolls fail there is always furniture. Inanimate objects are forever copulating, from Delvaux's tram to Sarah Lucas's neon light probing away at the underparts of a chair festooned with a bra 70 years later. Tony Oursler's talking female cushion, squashed beneath a sofa, moans ecstatically about how beautiful it all looks from where she is. Partly political - the tranquillised housewife - but otherwise as sadomasochistic as all the rest, the work insinuates itself mainly by repetition.

For you can barely escape its grating soundtrack in this warren of cramped rooms, presumably intended to reflect the show's theme but undermining almost everything in it. Henri Michaux's mescaline drawings, for instance, are hidden in a tight passageway, Robert Gober's severed leg tidied away behind a security barrier. And there is a mass of historic documentation in glass cases (the Whitworth is a university gallery) which gives an unfortunate scholarly veneer.

And what the show reveals is precisely the danger of analysis and the value of spontaneity when it comes to the imagination. Michaux's tremulous, hyper-detailed drawings from the Thirties, still charged with the maker's touch, speak more powerfully of uncanny experiences than all of Schneider's careful calculations. Spooky rooms, what's more, have become a great modern cliche, along with doubles, dollies, loops and women literally climbing the walls. Contemporary art, at least as shown here, is not nearly subversive enough.

• Subversive Spaces will be at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 13 Jun-6 Sep, then at the Sainsbury Centre UEA, Norwich, 29 Sep-13 Dec

Summary: Laura Cummings: Contemporary art, as shown here, is not nearly subversive enough.


Inside, the spory GTi theme is continued. There's boldly stitched perforated leather on the small sports steering wheel, as well as a leather-clad gearlever surround. Bolstered sports seats are trimmed with Nappa leather on the outer section, with cloth in the centre with an embossed tartan motif, and a leather head restraint.

The facia capping is in suede-efect Alcantara with grey stitching, the roof lining is entirely black and the pedals are aluminium. The centre console and air vents all have a graduated red to black effect.

The other concept at Geneva is another iteration of the 208, the XY, intended for "city dwellers who love distinction and refinement".

Powered by a 1.6-litre e-HDi engine developing 115bhp and equipped with a six-speed manual gearbox the XY Concept transports its occupants in a refined environment.

Inside are pearly grey leather pleated seats, while the steering wheel is also in leather, with crimson micro-stripes and a chrome insert in the lower section. There's also crimson-stitched leather on the dashboard, armrests, steering wheel rings, gearlever gaiter and sides.

Special "Pulsion" paintwork, consisting of 16 coats of paint and lacquer, means the XY Concept appears to constantly change, depending on distance and the position from which it is viewed.

Summary: Peugeot's stand at Geneva will have a GTi Concept version of its new 208   supermini.


From the beginning, Donald Trump has styled his presidential campaign as an insurgency that upended rules and challenged conventions. In the process, he has exposed himself repeatedly as a purveyor of views that are not only outside the political mainstream, but decidedly un-American.

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump crossed a new line by practically inviting Russia, an increasingly aggressive American adversary, to interfere in the presidential election by cyberspying on Hillary Clinton’s email correspondence when she was secretary of state. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump told a news conference. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” And this came just days after fingers started pointing at Russia as the possible culprit in the hacking of Democratic National Committee computers holding emails that became public.

Some Trump supporters dismissed the comments as the master reality-television showman once again doing and saying outrageous things for entertainment value. Mr. Trump has proved to be crafty at dominating news cycles; on Wednesday, his headline-grabbing news conference was all the more strategic coming hours before President Obama’s speech on Mrs. Clinton’s behalf at the Democratic convention.

Given that many voters are uneasy about Mrs. Clinton’s email issue, Mr. Trump is not about to let it fade. Mrs. Clinton was investigated by the Justice Department for her use of private servers, and no charges were brought. Whatever Mr. Trump may think of that outcome, it in no way justifies his call for a foreign power to spy electronically on his opponent, a proposition so shocking it immediately triggered a debate on social media and elsewhere about whether it was treason.

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It is not treason. It is constitutionally protected free speech. Nonetheless, the remarks further call into question Mr. Trump’s commitment to democracy, his understanding of what it means to be commander in chief and his fitness to lead. He was, in effect, urging Russia to commit a crime that would damage national security.

Mr. Trump’s friendly come-on to the Russians came the morning after American intelligence agencies told the White House they had “high confidence” that Russian intelligence was behind the hacked D.N.C. computers, leading to the release of nearly 20,000 emails that showed favoritism toward Mrs. Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders. The United States is actively trying to discourage hacking, which is a criminal act, and get countries like China to adhere to norms for operating in cyberspace.

What Mr. Trump should have done was to warn President Vladimir Putin of Russia that if he interfered in the election, American political leaders would be united in imposing consequences of some kind on his nation, as the Republican candidate’s vice-presidential running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, has suggested.

That Mr. Trump has not done so reinforces the growing perception that he is ready and willing to pursue policies favored by Mr. Putin, who has made clear his preference for Mr. Trump over Mrs. Clinton. News reports have questioned Mr. Trump’s financial dealings with Russian companies, providing another reason he should release his tax returns, like all recent major party presidential candidates.

The bizarre affinity for Mr. Putin is just one reason to question Mr. Trump’s judgment. He has endorsed waterboarding, even though it is illegal; he has argued for retaliating against political enemies and journalists; and he has proposed excluding people from America based on their religion. It grows ever harder to imagine that he could honor the high office to which he aspires.

Summary: In suggesting Russia could help spy on Hillary Clinton’s emails, the Republican candidate has once again called into question his fitness to lead.


In the bank’s “bull case” scenario, iPhone sales could drive Apple to $400 per share

In a note to clients issued early Monday, Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty raised her Apple AAPL price target to $310 per share (from $275), suggesting that investors continue to underestimate 1) continued iPhone share gains, 2) better-than-expected iPad demand, 3) the growing Chinese market, and 4) increased penetration of the corporate market.

Huberty also raised her estimated 2011 iPhone sales to 61.5 million units, which she says is 25% higher than The Street’s consensus. This is largely based on a proprietary Morgan Stanley/Alphawise survey that showed:

Apple closed Friday at $242.32, up $4.56 (1.92%), but down from the all-time high of $272.46 it hit in April.

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Summary: In the bank's "bull case" scenario, iPhone sales could drive Apple to $400 per share In a note to clients issued early Monday, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty raised her Apple price target to $310 per share (from $275), suggesting that investors continue to underestimate 1) continued iPhone share gains, 2) better-than-expected iPad demand, 3) the…


The furor over the fatal shooting of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo over the weekend, after a three-year-old boy fell into its enclosure, continued well into Monday night, with opinion increasingly divided on whether killing the large primate was necessary and justified.

The gorilla was shot by zoo officials Saturday after he dragged the boy around the enclosure. The boy escaped relatively unscathed, with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

Here’s what you need to know.

The animal The 17-year-old male western-lowland gorilla, Harambe, was born at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Texas and moved to Cincinnati two years ago for breeding purposes, his former caretaker Jerry Stones told TIME on Sunday.

Western-lowland gorillas are a critically endangered species, with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reporting that their numbers have reduced by 60% over the past 20 to 25 years. Their population in the wild is estimated to be less than 175,000, according to the Cincinnati Zoo, with 765 more reportedly residing in zoos across the globe.

The zoo was hoping Harambe, a 450-lb. silverback or dominant male, would father more gorillas.

The backlash Animal-rights activists have been up in arms, blaming the parents of the boy for not watching him closely enough as well as the zoo for not having adequate safety measures and shooting the gorilla dead rather than tranquilizing him. Several celebrities also voiced their opinions about the incident on social media.

Dozens gathered at a vigil Monday afternoon to mourn Harambe, although it was made clear that the vigil was not a protest against the zoo. Visitors have also been leaving cards and flowers next to a statue outside the zoo’s Gorilla World exhibit, which has been temporarily closed after the incident.

“Yet again, captivity has taken an animal’s life,” the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said in a statement. “The gorilla enclosure should have been surrounded by a secondary barrier between the humans and the animals to prevent exactly this type of incident.”

The defense Thane Maynard, the executive director of the Cincinnati Zoo, justified the decision of his emergency response team in a press conference Monday, explaining that the primary concern was for the three-year-old boy’s life.

“When you dart an animal, anesthetic doesn’t work in one second, it works over a period of a few minutes to 10 minutes,” he said. “The risk was due to the power of that animal.”

Animal behaviorists have corroborated Maynard’s argument, with wildlife expert Jack Hanna telling ABC’s Good Morning America that there was “no doubt” in his mind that “that child would not be here today if they hadn’t made that decision … a dart takes too long.”

A woman named Michelle Gregg, purportedly the boy’s mother, published a Facebook post about the incident that has since been deleted.

“As a society we are quick to judge how a parent could take their eyes off of their child and if anyone knows me I keep a tight watch on my kids,” Gregg said in the post. “Accidents happen but I am thankful that the right people were in the right place today.”

Bystanders who witnessed the incident told CNN that the drastic step of killing the gorilla seemed necessary under the circumstances in order to save the toddler.

“From what we saw [the child] could have been killed at any second,” said eyewitness Bruce Davis. “You could look into their [zoo officials’] eyes and tell they had tough decisions to make. It was basically the child or the gorilla, and they chose.”

A statement released by the boy’s family, which did not reveal any of their names, announced he “was doing just fine” after his release from hospital and also expressed gratitude toward the zoo authorities.

“We extend our heartfelt thanks for the quick action by the Cincinnati Zoo staff,” the statement said. “We know that this was a very difficult decision for them, and that they are grieving the loss of their gorilla.”

Summary: Opinion is increasingly divided on whether killing the gorilla was necessary and justified


Scientists in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have unearthed fossils that have allowed them for the first time to build a complete picture of one of the more bizarre-looking dinosaurs.

Deinocheirus mirificus, which means “unusual horrible hand” in Latin, has stunned scientists with its strange combination of features, according to a study in the journal Nature.

The recently discovered 70 million-year-old fossils suggest deinocheirus was humpbacked, had a ”beer-belly,” tufts of feathers and wide hips and feet that caused it to waddle.

“This is an entirely new body plan,” said Stephen Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh in the U.K.

The fossils add to bones that were discovered 50 years ago. Back then scientists thought deinocheirus was smaller and fiercer, now they believe it was about the size of Tyrannosaurus rex, Nature reports.

“This creature wasn’t built for speed,” says Brusatte. “That’s pretty obvious.”

Scientists used data gathered from the fossils to create a video of what the dinosaur may have looked like and how it may have walked.

Summary: Scientists have unearthed fossils that have allowed them to build a complete picture of Deinocheirus mirificus.


Take a two-foot-long muscle with a skeleton and coat it in multiple layers of snot. Now squish the muscle down so it’s flat. Add four short legs, eighteen toes, a big, wide mouth and beady eyes. Forget about eyelids. Stretch some skin out along the slimy muscle and wrinkle it on the sides. This is how it will breath. Now stick that creature under a big rock in a fast river or stream and leave it alone. You’ve just made an adult eastern hellbender, the biggest salamander in North America.

Around the second week of August, 255 of these strange salamanders, which have been reared to young adults from eggs, will be set free in streams in Ohio with the hope of restoring their threatened populations. Members of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, which is leading an eastern hellbender conservation project in Ohio, have done this twice with fewer animals, and hope to make it an annual event.

Eastern hellbenders once thrived in rivers and streams along the Appalachian Mountains from New York to Georgia and as far west as Missouri. But loss of habitat, dams and pollution have been diminishing their population in the past half century. The eastern hellbender has been included on a federal list of species of special concern since 1983. To prevent disappearance of this slimy snot otter, biologists have been tracking and studying the salamanders. In some places, like in Ohio, Missouri and New York, they have been reared and released back into the wild.

In Ohio, a survey found an 82 percent decline in the species in the past three decades. And Greg Lipps, a herpetologist who has been tracking the species, is worried Ohio hellbenders aren’t viable because they are struggling to reproduce.

“What we’re losing is the larvae,” he said. “These little babies are not making it to adulthood.”

What’s making life impossible for the eastern hellbenders in Ohio, Mr. Lipps says, is also the biggest impairment to most waterways today: siltation. Sediment from farmland and developments fills in gaps between cobblestones, displacing larvae from their homes.

“It’s a lot less sexy to hear it’s mud in the water” than other forms of water pollution, said Mr. Lipps.

Summary: To try to restore their population, conservationists will release hundreds of the salamanders, which have been raised to maturity, into streams in Ohio.


Asteroid that whizzed by Earth may be grabbed by NASA

This undated handout two-picture combo of artist conceptions provided by NASA/JPL Caltech shows what NASA says are good candidates for a mission to capture an asteroid, haul it to the moon for astronauts to visit. One prime candidate swung close by Earth in 2011 so astronomers know its size, about 20 feet, mass and density, but they donât really know what it looks like. These images are two different artist conceptions of what the lightweight asteroid could look like, either a pile of small rocks flying together in formation, left, or a larger porous rock with pebbles surrounding it, right. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL Caltech)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, talks with electric propulsion engineer John Brophy during a visit to Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, May 23, 2013. They are standing next to an ion engine, which NASA engineers plan to use for an asteroid capture mission later this decade. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left to right, Firouz Naderi, Director for the Solar System Exploration, and John Brophy, Electric Propulsion Engineer, are shown during Bolden's visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. NASA engineers are developing an ion engine for an asteroid capture mission later this decade. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2013 file photo provided by Chelyabinsk.ru, shows a meteorite contrail over the Ural Mountains' city of Chelyabinsk, about 930 miles east of Moscow, Russia. After a surprise meteor hit Earth at 42,000 mph and exploded over a Russian city in February, smashing windows and causing minor injuries, scientists studying the aftermath say the threat of space rocks hurtling toward our planet is bigger than they had thought. Meteors like the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk _ and those that are even bigger and more dangerous _ are probably four to five times more likely to hit Earth than scientists thought before the February mid-air explosion, according to three studies released Wednesday in the journals Nature and Science. (AP Photo/Chelyabinsk.ru, Yekaterina Pustynnikova, File)

This artist rendering released by IMCCE (Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides) shows water plumes spewing from the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. Scientists led by the European Space Agency observed the plumes and reported their findings in the Jan. 23, 2014 issue of the journal Nature. (AP Photo/ IMCCE, Paris Observatory, CNRS)

This combination of Sept. 10 and 23, 2013 photos provided by NASA shows six comet-like tails radiating from a body in the asteroid belt, designated P/2013 P5. The Hubble Space Telescope discovered it in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. A research team led by the University of California at Los Angeles believes the asteroid is rotating so much that its surface is flying apart. Itâs believed to be a fragment of a larger asteroid damaged in a collision 200 million years ago. (AP Photo/NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt - UCLA)

Maps show how scientists will narrow the field of impact in the weeks approaching the time of impact.; 2c x 5 inches; 96.3 mm x 127 mm;

This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. The 150-foot object will pass within 17,000 miles of the Earth. NASA scientists insist there is absolutely no chance of a collision as it passes. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech)

An undated artist rendering released by NASA shows the NASA Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. After spending a year examining Vesta, Dawn is poised to depart and head to another asteroid, Ceres, where it will arrive in 2015.(AP Photo/NASA)

This computer-generated image provided by Planetary Resources, a group of high-tech tycoons that wants to mine nearby asteroids, shows a conceptual rendering of satellites prospecting a water-rich, near-Earth asteroid. The group's mega-million dollar plan is to use commercially built robotic ships to squeeze rocket fuel and valuable minerals like platinum and gold out of the lifeless rocks that routinely whiz by Earth. One of the company founders predicts they could have their version of a space-based gas station up and running by 2020. (AP Photo/Planetary Resources)

This image released Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, by NASA is a mosaic of three images taken by the Dawn spacecraft's camera showing an impact crater on the surface of the massive asteroid Vesta. Since entering orbit around Vesta in July, Dawn has been beaming back images of the asteroid surface. (AP Photo/NASA)

This July 24, 2011 image of the Asteroid Vesta, released by NASA/JPL, was captured by the Dawn spacecraft at a distance of 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometers). Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 15, and will spend a year orbiting the body. After that, the next stop on its itinerary will be an encounter with the dwarf planet Ceres. (AP Photo/ NASA/JPL)

WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA is zeroing in on the asteroids it wants to capture, haul near the moon and have astronauts visit.

Officials on Thursday described a prime candidate: A tiny asteroid that whizzed about 7,600 miles above Earth in 2011.

At 20 feet long, it is "the size of a delivery truck; we might actually be able to put this asteroid in a garage," said Northern Arizona University astronomer Michael Mommert, who studied the rock, which goes by the inelegant name of 2011 MD.

That asteroid also could be a pile of smaller rocks that fly together in formation.

NASA's plan is to grab an asteroid with a giant claw or capture it with a giant inflatable bag. The asteroid would be parked above the moon, with astronauts exploring in a later mission.

NASA executive Lindley Johnson said there will eventually be about 10 possible rocks for capture in the early 2020s, but they may not all be small asteroids.

There's a second option NASA is considering: Sending a spacecraft to a much larger asteroid, using a claw to pluck off a boulder that's less than 30 feet and taking it near to the moon.

NASA will decide which option to pursue by the end of the year, said Michele Gates, program director for the asteroid mission.

So far, NASA has three candidates for each option. But Johnson said he expects more to be identified. NASA doesn't have to choose its final target until a year before launch, which could be as early as 2019.

But Thursday's press conference highlighted 2011 MD. That's because when it came close to Earth in 2011, it was examined by telescopes on Earth and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Details of the asteroid were published in an astronomy journal Thursday.

Those observations showed that it probably weighs around 100 tons but is so porous that about two-thirds is empty space and only one-third is rock, Mommert said.

NASA has touted the asteroid mission since the space shuttle fleet retired as a stepping stone to send crews to Mars.

The robotic cost of the mission would be about $1.2 billion, Gates said. But there's no good estimate yet for the astronaut part, which includes using a yet-to-be-built giant rocket, officials said.

Summary: %Slideshow-190143%  BY SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA is zeroing in on the asteroids it wants to capture, haul near the moon and have astronauts visit. Officials on Thursday de


Holding companies for the nation’s second-largest independent financial adviser network, Cetera Financial Group, filed for chapter 11 protection Sunday, initiating the second phase of the restructuring of RCS Capital Corp.

Brokerage business RCS Capital filed for bankruptcy protection in January, initiating a prearranged workout that will allow lenders to take the retail business, Cetera, private. Saturday’s filing is a prepackaged...

Summary: Holding companies for the nation’s second-largest independent financial adviser network, Cetera Financial Group, filed for chapter 11 protection, initiating the second phase of the restructuring of RCS Capital.


The maiden flight of the T-50 advanced frontline fighter jet underlines the Kremlin's determination to overhaul its ageing Soviet-era weaponry at a time when it is locked in key nuclear arms reductions talks with the United States.

President Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, discussed a new nuclear arms treaty as recently as last Wednesday. The putative treaty would slash the number of war heads both countries possess and is seen as the centrepiece of a thus far largely rhetorical "reset" in relations between Moscow and Washington. Negotiators have been hammering out the details of such a deal for months and are said to be weeks if not days away from a final settlement.

But though Russia is ready to scale back its ageing nuclear arsenal, it has signalled it will continue to actively renew its nuclear shield. So far, unsuccessful tests to develop a new submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile dubbed the Bulava continue apace, a new strategic nuclear bomber is in development, and the country's strategic rocket forces have asked for a new silo-based heavy intercontinental missile too.

Experts say the test flight of the T-50 advanced stealth fighter is therefore consistent with an overall arms build-up at the same time as Russia rids itself of soon-to-be redundant nuclear warheads earning political goodwill from Washington in the process.

The T-50 is Russia's answer to America's F-22 Raptor stealth aircraft and would be the first all-new military aircraft Russia has built since the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago. The project is so secret that only rough computer-generated images of the new plane have appeared in the public domain.

Russian military experts say the plane is needed to defend Russia's enormous borders and to ensure the country can take on its neighbours in the event of any localised conflicts such as its 2008 war with Georgia.

"Our country is bordered by lots of governments who are pursuing a visibly anti-Russian foreign policy," Konstantin Makienko, editor of Moscow Defense Brief, told the Moskovskiy Komsomolets daily.

"We simply do not know what the world will look like in 2040 or 2050."

Summary: Russia is expected to conduct the first test flight of a highly secretive stealth fighter on Friday as a multi-billion rearmament programme cranks into gear even as it pledges to make deep cuts in its nuclear arsenal.


That said, if the show does incorporate a Manson theme, it's much more likely that'll it'll be going down a "loosely inspired by" route, rather than aiming for a direct representation. For instance, there has been speculation that the nursery theme of the teaser could be linked to Tate's preganncy, but this feels both too literal and, perhaps, too tasteless.

In the past, Murphy himself has indicated that, while he has long been interested in the case and its potential as material for an American Horror season, remaining respectful to the victims would be a priority.

“There was a point last year in August where I was like, 'I want to do an entire season about the Manson case'. But then we decided that wasn’t respectful to the victims, and it’s really hard to get life right,” he said in a 2013 interview with Deadline. “We might go back to the Manson thing in some regard one day.”

Last month, images leaked from the American Horror story set indicated that the lost colony of Roanoke might also play a significant part in the new season's story.

According to FX CEO John Landgraf, season six will be "set in two time periods…but principally in the present".

Just to make things even more confusing the team behind the show have also indicated that out of all the promotional teasers created so far, only one is truly accurate.

“There are many more trailers than you’ve actually seen for hypothetical seasons of American Horror Story,” Landgraf revealed yesterday. “Different genres, different places. One of them is accurate; the others are all misdirects.”

If true, it means that the nursery trailer with the “pig” mobile might just be a red herring after all.

Either way, we’ll find out the truth when the new season returns to FX on September 14.

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The 50th anniversary of the August 1963 March on Washington is a moment to consider how close the U.S. has come to Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a nation where people are judged not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character. About six in 10 whites told a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll that America has achieved the Rev. King's dream. Blacks see it differently, though. Only one in five said the goal has been reached.

Attitudes toward race have changed enormously. "It's not...

Summary: On the anniversary of the March on Washington, how has the outlook for white and black Americans changed?


Compared to our runners, rowers, swimmers and cyclists they were the cheapest - a miracle built on a shoestring

THEY spun, they swung, they twisted and turned and tumbled.

But above all, they punched miles above their weight.

Richard Pelham - The Sun

What the young men and women of Britain’s gymnastics team achieved — no, make that OVER-achieved — here across ten astonishing days was beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.

The most unexpected, most joyous and most beautiful part of all our 366-strong team’s bulging medal haul.

Not to mention the CHEAPEST.

Because this is a miracle built on a shoestring. At least compared to what our runners, rowers, swimmers and cyclists had to work with.

In the four-year cycle since London 2012, gymnastics received £14.6million from UK Sport to create champions.

In the same period, rowing was handed £32.6m, cycling £30.3m, athletics £26.8m and swimming £20.8m. But athletics and swimming have produced two golds between them for Team GB out here so far.

Max Whitlock matched that in two hours on Sunday afternoon.

The 23-year-old star from Hemel Hempstead became the poster boy for a whole new generation when he won first the floor final and then the pommel horse.

This came days after becoming the first-ever Brit to win a gong — this time bronze — in his sport’s ultimate test, the all-round event.

Suddenly, the floodgates opened. Louis Smith’s silver in the pommel was followed by Bryony Page matching him on the trampoline, before a spectacular finale that saw 16-year-old Amy Tinkler and 19-year-old Nile Wilson win bronze on the floor and high bar respectively.

No wonder Eddie van Hoof, the 59-year-old Yorkshireman who heads the men’s gymnastics coaching staff, looked shellshocked as he tried to take it all in.

Only ten years ago, gymnastics was building from scratch after successive failures to produce anything like a medal-winner resulted in funding being all but wiped out.

So to be where they are today — well, he could barely find the words.

Van Hoof, ninth for GB in the all-round at the 1984 Olympics, said: “Ten years ago, you’d never have dared dream of a gymnastic medal, never mind a gold.

“When we started, the aim was to qualify a team for London but it somehow snowballed and everyone got behind the results we achieved — and now it’s like we’ve woken up and almost everything we ever wanted has come true.

“I’ve seen a chart estimating what a medal cost — if you can put it that way — in all different sports and I think we’re the second-most economical one. UK Sport have been very supportive — but with this number of medals surely it has to grow.

“There’s not a club that doesn’t have a waiting list already, so where we’ll put any new kids who want to take the sport up, I don’t know.”

As for Leeds-kid Wilson, whose heroics brought the whole carnival to a close, he summed up it all up when he smiled: “It shows how far British gymnastics has come on that we’re disappointed with bronze.”

Summary: THEY spun, they swung, they twisted and turned and tumbled. But above all, they punched miles above their weight. What the young men and women of Britain’s gymnastics team achieved — no, make that …


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Best selling books on Amazon of 2016 so far

With summer still in full swing, some updated recommendations of page-turning beach reads are in order. Fortunately, Amazon's list of 2016 best sellers has us totally covered.

According to the online retail giant, these are the current must-reads that are flying off the shelves as we head into fall.

The eclectic list includes the latest Harry Potter edition, inspirational self-help books, tear-jerking novels, a few children's classics, cookbooks and more.

EXPLORE MORE: Bill Gates wants you to read these 5 book this summer

Get some birthday gift inspiration, grad gift ideas (Dr. Seuss's "Oh, The Places You'll Go" is an instant hit) or simply knock a few books off your summer reading list with these best picks.

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Summary: According to Amazon, these are the popular books that are flying off the shelves as we head into summer 2016.


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Our S'well bottle obsession is taking a wild turn: the sleek, eco-friendly, insulated bottle that actually keeps your drinks cold (or hot) now comes in these ultra-chic animal prints. If you don't have a S'well, you definitely need to try it. If you're looking to add a bold print to your growing collection, we think we've found the perfect new bottle for you. And did we mention this makes a great gift? S'well is one-size-fits all option that's sure to make anyone happy.

Summary: Your favorite sleek, eco-friendly insulated bottle is now available in chic animal prints, and it makes the perfect gift this holiday season!


Clive Palmer's nephew Clive Mensink has no plans to return to Australia to face questioning over his role in the collapse of Queensland Nickel.

Mr Palmer is being questioned in the Federal Court over the collapse of Queensland Nickel but liquidators also want to question his nephew Mr Mensink, who has been overseas for several months.

Mr Palmer told the court he phoned Mr Mensink, Queensland Nickel's sole appointed director, over the weekend at the request of liquidators who have been unable to find him to serve him with a summons.

Mr Palmer said he was currently on a vessel.

"I think he's somewhere between Helsinki and St Petersburg," he told the court on Monday.

"He said he had no plans at the moment (to return to Australia). Asked if that meant no plans, or no immediate plans, Mr Palmer said he could not add anything further.

"That's all he said to me."

Mr Palmer said his nephew suggested he pass on Mr Mensink's email to liquidators legal team so they could make contact directly.

Mr Palmer said Mr Mensink had also revealed he had instructed solicitors to proceed against Queensland Nickel's general purpose liquidator FTI Consulting in the federal court for alleged breaches of the corporation act.

Summary: Clive Palmer says his nephew has no plans to return to Australia where liquidators want to quiz him over the collapse of Queensland Nickel.


A man attempting to stop his runaway tow truck on the Gold Coast has been taken to hospital with leg injuries.

The man, aged in his 30s, was trying to off-load a sedan from his tow truck around 8pm on Thursday at an Oxenford house when the truck started to roll away, hitting two cars and a power pole.

He was struck on the leg and taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.

Summary: A man has been has injured after his runaway tow truck rolled over his leg on the Gold Coast.


Queensland police are pleading with drivers to take their responsibilities behind the wheel seriously during a road safety campaign for the September school holidays.

The state's road toll currently sits at 169, four more than the same time last year.

Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said the Easter period proved it was possible to record zero road fatalities over a holiday if everybody was aware of their behaviour.

"We would hope that the evidence of what is possible could be repeated time and time again," he said.

"Please, when you're driving on the roads over the next few weeks, please obey the road rules, drive to the conditions, and support the rest of the community so we can have a fatality-free spring break period."

Police will be targeting the common contributing factors to fatal collisions including inattention, fatigue, failure to wear seatbelts and impaired driving.

Road Policing Command Assistant Commissioner Mike Keating said 21 people had died in crashes in last year's September school holidays.

"There's no other way to describe that - it's tragic and in many cases it's totally unnecessary," he said.

Police Minister Bill Byrne said it never ceased to amaze him to see the number of drivers who use mobile phones behind the wheel.

"Being distracted in such a way is the equivalent of being under the influence of a drug or alcohol behind the wheel," he said.

Summary: Queensland police have launched a road safety campaign to correspond with the September school holidays, pleading with drivers to take their safety seriously.


SAIGON, South Vietnam, Dec. 10—A South Vietnamese Army doctor, carrying four hand grenades and a copy of the Constitution of South Viet nam, succeeded in reaching President Nguyen Van Thieu today to complain about cor runtion in this country.

Maj. Pham Van Luong, who waited from 8 A.M. until 5 P.M. inside the parliament building, saw President Thieu for an hour. One of the hand grenades held by Major Luong while he sat on the steps had the pin partly pulled out.

It was a dramatic and sur prisingly successful protest by the small, thin physician, who sipped lemon juice from bottles while he observed a fast. He is assigned to the South Viet namese General Staff in Saigon.

Major Luong calls himself member of the Ha Thuc Nhon group, a small nucleus of South Vietnamese determined to end the corruption they feel is poisoning their country and people. It is named for Capt. Ha Thuc Nhon, who was physician known for eccentric habits, a fanatical contempt for corrupt officials and a passion ate interest in improving life for his patients. He led a sui cidal rebellion last summer.

Major Luong, who was a friend of Captain Nhon, said he was at a meeting in Saigon last night to mark the 100th day after the captain's death.

“Police came to break up our meeting,” he said. “I told them ‘Your law is applied against the poor and the weak, never against the rich and the pow erful.’ And suddenly I had an idea—I pulled out a grenade, taking half of the pin out, and ordered the police to get out. I did not mean to kill them. At midnight, I went to the Na tional Assembly and started a hunger strike.”

Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky talked briefly with the doc tor, who squatted on the steps leading to Government offices.

“The Vice President asked me to come to lunch with him, but I refused and told him that I was fasting,” Major Luong said. “When the Vice President heard my demands that six cor rupt persons be executed by the Government, he said ‘six is not enough.’ “

Major Luong said the de mands he made were his, not those of the anticorruption group. President Thieu's office did not disclose what was said at the meeting with Major Luong.

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Summary: S Vietnamese army dr Maj Pham Van Luong, carrying 4 hand grenades and copy of S Vietnamese Const, succeeds, after waiting for 9 hrs, in reaching Nguyen Van Thieu to complain about corruption in 1-hr meeting; is member of small group, determined to end corruption and named for Capt Ha Thuc Nhon, who led suicidal rebellion last summer; talks briefly with Nguyen Cao Ky


Gary Kubiak had a definitive answer last season when he gathered his players to let them know whether Peyton Manning or Brock Osweiler would start that week.

This time, it comes with a caveat.

On Monday, the Broncos’ head coach told KDSP-AM in Denver “our plan is for Trevor (Siemian) being there Sunday, but we have to take it day by day.” So, rookie Paxton Lynch might get his first start when the Broncos (4-0) host Atlanta (3-1).

Siemian injured his left, non-throwing shoulder when he was slung to the turf by Tampa Bay defensive tackle Clinton McDonald on Sunday. Lynch relieved him and threw for 170 yards and a touchdown in Denver’s 27-7 win.

Eagles’ LB arrested: Philadelphia linebacker Nigel Bradham was arrested at Miami International Airport after authorities say TSA workers found a loaded gun in his backpack.

A Miami-Dade police report says Bradham was arrested Sunday morning on a misdemeanor concealed-weapons charge. The arrest report says the TSA workers spotted the gun as Bradham’s bag went through the X-ray machine. Bradham, who has a concealed-weapons permit, told workers he forgot the gun was in the bag. Bradham was released later Sunday on $500 bail.

Briefly: Atlanta linebacker Sean Weatherspoon suffered a ruptured right Achilles tendon in Sunday’s win over Carolina, likely ending his season. Weatherspoon’s injury thins out an already depleted linebacker unit. Deion Jones left the game with a calf injury and former starter Paul Worrilow sat out the game with a groin injury. ... Cleveland center Austin Reiter tore a ligament in his left knee against Washington and is out for the season. ... Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis has a mild hamstring strain and his status for the team’s game at Pittsburgh on Sunday is uncertain. ... The Titans fired special-teams coordinator Bobby April, a day after they allowed a 67-yard punt return for the winning touchdown in a 27-20 loss to the Texans.

Summary: Siemian injured his left, non-throwing shoulder when he was slung to the turf by Tampa Bay defensive tackle Clinton McDonald on Sunday.  Philadelphia linebacker Nigel Bradham was arrested at Miami International Airport after authorities say TSA workers found a loaded gun in his backpack.  The arrest report says the TSA workers spotted the gun as Bradham’s bag went through the X-ray machine.  Deion Jones left the game with a calf injury and former starter Paul Worrilow sat out the game with a groin injury. ...  The Titans fired special-teams coordinator Bobby April, a day after they allowed a 67-yard punt return for the winning touchdown in a 27-20 loss to the Texans.


Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is an immediate reference point for investors: If he manages to hold onto power, that probably means prolonged sectarian violence, experts told CNBC. But even if he leaves office, his replacement will indicate a lot as well.

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Maliki's fate is by no means settled, but it appears increasingly likely that he's on his way out of office in the face of the offensive by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

"Unless he is able to mount a major counteroffensive that retakes all the gains ISIS has made, his tenure as prime minister is limited," said Rick Brennan, a senior political scientist at RAND Corp. and a former senior civilian advisor to the U.S. military in Iraq. "If he can be successful and turn this around, then nobody can contest him, but at this point the betting is that somebody in the bowels of his party will emerge."

Iraqi officials said that Washington has sent private messages asking for Maliki to step down, but U.S. officials have not made any such declaration public, according to Reuters.

Summary: If Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stays in power, expect more fighting. But a replacement will be just as telling.


CVS Health Inc. pared back its earnings outlook Tuesday after announcing it expected to lose 40 million retail prescriptions to its rival, Walgreens Boots Alliance.

The company attributed the anticipated loss to new partnerships formed by Walgreens that exclude CVS drugstores from their networks, effectively restricting people from filling their prescriptions there.

CVS shares closed at $73.53, the lowest point since April 2014. The company said it expects earnings on an adjusted basis for 2016 to now be in the range of $5.77 to $5.83 per share, down from prior guidance of $5.81 to $5.89.

While many view CVS as primarily a drugstore chain, a cornerstone of its operations is its business managing pharmacy benefits through CVS/Caremark, the second largest such business in the United States.

Insurance companies and employers hire pharmacy benefits managers such as CVS/Caremark to act as middlemen between insurance companies and corporations, negotiating prices and handling drug costs on their behalf. CVS/Caremark has more than 80 million plan members, a spokesman said.

Walgreens began negotiating its own arrangements with pharmacy benefit management company Prime Therapeutics, a Minnesota company owned by 14 Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans, and announced a deal that eliminated CVS from its pharmacy network in August.

In September, Walgreens also signed a deal to be the preferred network for Tricare, a US Defense Department health care network that services millions, again leaving CVS out of the loop.

Chief executive Larry J. Merlo said Tuesday in an earnings call with investors that the changes “are putting a significant number of our retail scripts at risk beginning in the current quarter.

“We have always said that our last script is our most profitable one given our ability to leverage our fixed costs with incremental volume,” he said. “And unfortunately, this means that the scripts we lose will tend to be our most profitable scripts.”

One analyst said CVS could be more aggressive in its efforts to cut similar deals with CVS/Caremark clients, although that might be difficult amid increased competition.

“Walgreens has been aggressive in being a strict pharmacy network, and CVS has not been willing or able to do that,” said Vishnu Lekraj, a senior health care analyst at Morningstar Inc., a Chicago financial research firm. “That’s a major pressure point or pain point for them.”

Robert S. Huckman, a management professor at Harvard Business School, said the fact that Walgreens is creating its own relationships with benefit managers and building narrower networks might help it bring costs down. But Huckman said those smaller networks could become problematic if they become inconvenient for patients.

“Very often, consumers need to access pharmaceutical products at a time when convenience is one of several factors that matter,” he said.

CVS Health’s two main competitors in the US drugstore market are Walgreens and Rite Aid, which have proposed a $9.41 billion deal to merge. That plan is still being reviewed by federal regulators. A successful merger could create a drugstore chain with more than 12,700 locations. CVS operates more than 9,700 stores.

The loss of millions of prescriptions could also have implications for CVS’s “front of store” retail sales, said Neil Saunders, chief executive of Conlumino, a retail analysis firm in New York. He said some CVS shoppers buying milk, tissues, or potato chips come in primarily to pick up a prescription.

“If people aren’t coming in to get prescriptions filled, they may not be buying other things at CVS,” he said.

Summary: The company’s shares closed at $73.53, the lowest point since April 2014.