At debate, focus is on fast-rising Herman Cain (AP)

LAS VEGAS ? Herman Cain has risen fast. Now the question is: Will he fall?

As Republican presidential hopefuls were preparing for a debate here Tuesday night, Cain has been facing more and more intense scrutiny as his poll numbers have jumped upward.

Now that he's in the national spotlight, he's already had to apologize for comments he made over the weekend calling for an electric fence on the Southern border with Mexico.

At a campaign stop Monday in Arizona, Cain appeared with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an aggressive anti-immigration proponent. "It was a joke," Cain said emphatically during a news conference. "I apologize if I offended anyone. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa."

Cain told an audience in Tennessee on Saturday that the fence is "going to be electrified. And there is going to be a sign on the other side that says, `It will kill you.'"

Immigration already has flared on the campaign trail ? and contributed to the sinking of another fast-rising GOP candidate. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has struggled to explain why he signed a law giving in-state tuition breaks to illegal immigrants at Texas universities. When he first entered the race, he was at or near the top of many national polls. He's fallen back since, and Cain has emerged as the more popular alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Also participating in Tuesday's debate are Romney, Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Missing is former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who's boycotting the Nevada caucuses in defense of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary. Nevada has scheduled its contest for Jan. 14, and Republican officials are pressuring Romney and other Republicans to join Huntsman's boycott if the state refuses to hold the caucuses later in January.

Also potentially at issue on Tuesday is the foreclosure crisis. So far, it's been almost forgotten on the campaign trail, but the candidates will probably have little choice but to address it. Nevada has the nation's highest unemployment rate, a statistic that's driving the highest foreclosure rate in the nation. It's the root of the economic crisis, but it barely has been discussed as issues like immigration and vaccines for children have dominated the GOP primary.

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Occupy Wall Street attracts NYC tourists

??There's the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center site, and of course Times Square. Now many visitors to New York City have added another spot to their list of must-sees ? the Occupy Wall Street protest.

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The Genetics of Happiness

Baseline happiness can arguably be negatively correlated to competitiveness, drive and success.

Or not, because people who are depressed feel like it doesn't matter what they do, life's going to suck anyways. They may also respond to their constant unhappiness by looking for artificial mood boosters, which can lead to alcoholism or drug use. They frequently also fail to recognize the value of their accomplishments. By contrast, a happier person is more likely to trigger their brain's reward mechanisms when they do something productive, so they're likely to repeat the behavior.

And it's also worth noting that it's unclear to what degree "drive" and "competitiveness" has to do with "success": The best predictor of a person's level of educational attainment is their parents' educational attainment. The best predictor of athletic success is genetic advantages like height, eyesight, and weight. Artistic success has a fair amount to do with whether a kid's artistic efforts were encouraged or discouraged early on. Most of the really wealthy people in the US inherited a significant amount (Paul Allen is the exception on this front, not the rule).

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Dr. Abraham Verghese to give John P. McGovern Lecture on Oct. 24

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Best-selling author, physician launches India Studies Program at University of Houston

The University of Houston (UH) has invited best-selling author and noted physician Abraham Verghese to give the John P. McGovern Endowed Lecture in Family, Health and Human Values at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24 at the UH Hilton Hotel, Grand Ballroom.

"As an Indian-American immigrant to the United States, Dr. Verghese's varied professional accomplishments make him a perfect fit to inaugurate the new India studies program at UH," said Lois Zamora, chair of the department of comparative and cultural studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS). "Dr. Verghese will address his work in medicine, the medical humanities and his work as a writer."

The goal of the Indian studies program is to promote teaching and scholarship focused on the history, politics, economics, languages, religion and culture of India. Beginning in fall 2012, UH will offer minors in India studies and comparative cultural studies.

"UH began the process of creating an India studies program almost six years ago," said CLASS Dean John Roberts. "The current initiative represents an attempt to revitalize the program due, in large part, to our continuing recognition of the importance of India as a civilization of both historic and contemporary significance in the development of world culture. It also represents the importance of the Indian community in Houston, a city with one of the largest Indian populations in the United States."

Verghese's novel, "Cutting for Stone," No. 1 on the Independent Booksellers paperback fiction list, is a novel about an Indian boy born and raised in Ethiopia and trained as a physician in the U.S. (all true of the author himself.) Verghese is also known for his work with AIDS patients and his emphasis on imagining the patient's experience. In his memoirs, "In My Country" and "The Tennis Partner," he empathizes with his patients and describes their experiences in all their ethical and medical complexity.

"In My Country" is about the AIDS epidemic in the early '80s, when Verghese was working in a small town in Tennessee. "The Tennis Partner," is set in El Paso, his first academic post, and traces the cocaine addiction of one of Verghese's medical students. In both of these medical memoirs, Verghese presents himself as a young physician keenly aware of his cultural and educational differences. His outsider's powers of observation work to make the reader an insider, showing how compassion and expertise combine to provide the best medical treatment possible, even when the odds are stacked against both physician and patient.

Verghese is professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and senior associate chair of the department of internal medicine. He is a founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

The John P. McGovern endowment was established in 1999 and supports the John P. McGovern Annual Award Lectureship in Family, Health, and Human Values in CLASS at UH. This series focuses on speakers with notable expertise in the areas of family, health and human values. Each speaker is presented with the John P. McGovern Award Medal.

WHAT: John P. McGovern Lecture featuring Abraham Verghese Introduction by UH Professor Chitra Divakaruni

WHEN: 7:30 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24 8:30 9 p.m. Reception and Book Signing

WHO: Free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Anjali Kanojia at akanojia@uh.edu

WHERE: Hilton University of Houston, Grand Ballroom 4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, Texas 77204-3902
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Best-selling author, physician launches India Studies Program at University of Houston

The University of Houston (UH) has invited best-selling author and noted physician Abraham Verghese to give the John P. McGovern Endowed Lecture in Family, Health and Human Values at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24 at the UH Hilton Hotel, Grand Ballroom.

"As an Indian-American immigrant to the United States, Dr. Verghese's varied professional accomplishments make him a perfect fit to inaugurate the new India studies program at UH," said Lois Zamora, chair of the department of comparative and cultural studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS). "Dr. Verghese will address his work in medicine, the medical humanities and his work as a writer."

The goal of the Indian studies program is to promote teaching and scholarship focused on the history, politics, economics, languages, religion and culture of India. Beginning in fall 2012, UH will offer minors in India studies and comparative cultural studies.

"UH began the process of creating an India studies program almost six years ago," said CLASS Dean John Roberts. "The current initiative represents an attempt to revitalize the program due, in large part, to our continuing recognition of the importance of India as a civilization of both historic and contemporary significance in the development of world culture. It also represents the importance of the Indian community in Houston, a city with one of the largest Indian populations in the United States."

Verghese's novel, "Cutting for Stone," No. 1 on the Independent Booksellers paperback fiction list, is a novel about an Indian boy born and raised in Ethiopia and trained as a physician in the U.S. (all true of the author himself.) Verghese is also known for his work with AIDS patients and his emphasis on imagining the patient's experience. In his memoirs, "In My Country" and "The Tennis Partner," he empathizes with his patients and describes their experiences in all their ethical and medical complexity.

"In My Country" is about the AIDS epidemic in the early '80s, when Verghese was working in a small town in Tennessee. "The Tennis Partner," is set in El Paso, his first academic post, and traces the cocaine addiction of one of Verghese's medical students. In both of these medical memoirs, Verghese presents himself as a young physician keenly aware of his cultural and educational differences. His outsider's powers of observation work to make the reader an insider, showing how compassion and expertise combine to provide the best medical treatment possible, even when the odds are stacked against both physician and patient.

Verghese is professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and senior associate chair of the department of internal medicine. He is a founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

The John P. McGovern endowment was established in 1999 and supports the John P. McGovern Annual Award Lectureship in Family, Health, and Human Values in CLASS at UH. This series focuses on speakers with notable expertise in the areas of family, health and human values. Each speaker is presented with the John P. McGovern Award Medal.

WHAT: John P. McGovern Lecture featuring Abraham Verghese Introduction by UH Professor Chitra Divakaruni

WHEN: 7:30 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24 8:30 9 p.m. Reception and Book Signing

WHO: Free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Anjali Kanojia at akanojia@uh.edu

WHERE: Hilton University of Houston, Grand Ballroom 4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, Texas 77204-3902
http://tinyurl.com/3crayq4
Off Calhoun Road, Entrance 1 parking in UH Welcome Center Garage
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Selena Gomez granted temporary restraining order (AP)

BURBANK, Calif. ? A judge has granted Selena Gomez a temporary restraining order from a man with a history of mental illness who police say threatened the singer-actress.

Court records show the "Wizards of Waverly Place" star was granted the order Thursday in Burbank, which is north of downtown Los Angeles. Thomas Brodnicki is required to stay 100 yards away from Gomez and her workplace until a Nov. 4 hearing, when the order may be extended for three years.

Gomez wrote in a sworn declaration that she is in "extreme fear" of Brodnicki.

The filings, first reported Monday by celebrity website TMZ, state police were notified by mental health workers that the 46-year-old had threatened to harm or kill the actress while on a psychiatric hold.

Attempts to reach Brodnicki were unsuccessful.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tv/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111018/ap_en_tv/us_people_selena_gomez

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Iran's Khamenei warns US over assassination claims (AP)

TEHRAN, Iran ? Iran's supreme leader warned the United States on Sunday that any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington would elicit a "resolute" response.

Two men, including a member of the Iranian special foreign actions unit known as the Quds Force, have been charged in New York federal court with conspiring to kill the Saudi diplomat, Adel Al-Jubeir. U.S. officials have said no one was ever in any immediate danger from the plot.

"If U.S. officials have some delusions, (they must) know that any unsuitable act, whether political or security, will meet a resolute response from the Iranian nation," state TV quoted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying.

Iran also demanded that a diplomat be allowed to visit one of the men in prison.

Khamenei's comments may reflect Iranian concerns that Washington would use the Al-Jubeir case to ratchet up sanctions and recruit international allies to try to further isolate Tehran.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been blunt in saying the United States would use the allegations as leverage with other countries that have been reluctant to apply harsh sanctions or penalties against Iran.

Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, said that the U.S. accused Iran of terror in order to divert attention from its economic woes and from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.

"By attributing an absurd and meaningless accusation to a few Iranians, they tried ... to show that Iran is a supporter of terrorism. ... This conspiracy didn't work and won't work," he said.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for his part, dismissed the U.S. accusations as a fabricated "scenario."

"Iran is a civilized nation and doesn't need to resort to assassination," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying Sunday by the official IRNA news agency. "The culture of terror belongs to you," he said, addressing the United States.

Iranian officials have consistently denied the allegations since they first emerged last week. An earlier statement by Khamenei on Saturday, and Ahmadinejad's remarks on Sunday, were the first comments made by the country's two highest leaders.

In a formal statement released Saturday, the Iranian government said it has no connection to Manssor Arbabsiar, the man arrested in the alleged plot.

On Sunday Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Swiss Charge d'Affairs to Tehran to demand consular access to Arbabsiar.

"Offering personal information about the accused and providing consular access to him is an obligation of the U.S. government. Any delay is contrary to international law," a report on Iranian state TV's website said.

The Swiss Embassy handles American interests because the U.S. and Iran do not have diplomatic relations,

Arbabsiar is a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who also had an Iranian passport. In May 2011, the criminal complaint says, he approached someone he believed to be a member of the vicious Mexican narco-terror group Los Zetas for help with an attack on a Saudi embassy. The man he approached turned out to be an informant for U.S. drug agents, it says.

The U.S. charges that Arbabsiar had been told by his cousin Abdul Reza Shahlai, a high-ranking member of the Quds Force, to recruit a drug trafficker because drug gangs have a reputation for assassinations.

Iranian lawmakers and analysts have said Iran would not benefit from killing the Saudi ambassador in Washington, even if it might have sought to punish its Saudi rivals for intervening in Bahrain to crush a Shiite-led uprising there. Majority Shiite Iran regarded with deep suspicion on the Arab side of the Gulf, which is largely Sunni.

Political analyst Sadeq Zibakalam said the accusations were part of a U.S. strategy to encircle Iran.

"The Americans seek to close the circle around Iran at the international level. ... It's a prelude to transferring Iran's dossier to the U.N. Security Council," he said in comments posted on the fararu.com news website Sunday.

Zibakalam, however, said there was no plausible or logical reason for Iran to assassinate the Saudi envoy in Washington.

"If we assume that Iranian officials sought to punish the Saudis for their intervention in Bahrain, there were tens of other venues such as Turkey, India and Pakistan where Iran could carry out an assassination with the least political costs and consequences, not in U.S.," he said.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111017/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_us_ambassador_plot

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What If You Could Legally Resell Your Digital Music? ReDigi May Have Found The Solution.

Screen shot 2011-10-14 at 3.37.16 AMHere's an interesting piece of news that's sure to reignite debate over consumers' rights in the digital age: A Boston-based startup called ReDigi has this week launched an eMarketplace that allows users to resell their digital music -- as well as buy new and used songs for cheap. While the idea of a secondary resale marketplace for digital content no doubt sounds appealing, given the tumultuous (and lawsuit-heavy) history of the sale and distribution of music on the Web, there are a number of tricky legal issues in play. Namely, with the rise in the digital distribution of music, movies, software, and more, there has come surfeit legal confusion over whether or not the so-called "first sale doctrine" applies to digital transactions.

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Liberia's Johnson-Sirleaf leads on early vote count (Reuters)

MONROVIA (Reuters) ? Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has won 44.5 percent of votes counted so far in the West African country's election, the poll body said on Thursday, releasing the first official tally.

That put the newly-named Nobel Peace laureate well ahead of closest rival Winston Tubman on 26.5 percent, but short of the overall majority she would need to avoid a second-round run-off against the former top U.N. diplomat early next month.

National Election Commission chairman James Fromayah told a news conference the tally was based on 195,178 valid ballots counted so far in Sunday's election, for which 1.8 million Liberians were registered to vote.

Former rebel leader Prince Johnson, now a senator in rural Nimba county, came third. His score was initially read out as 19.5 percent but a written statement from the Commission later put it at 13.5 percent, a result which could still make his endorsement a key factor for the second round.

"If there is a run-off, I will get to my constituencies to ask them which way to go. Based on what they will tell me, I will then make a decision, but for now, I cannot say anything," Prince Johnson told Reuters earlier on Thursday.

Fromayah said there had been no formal complaints from any candidate so far, but added that Tubman had made what he called an unsubstantiated, unofficial complaint of some ballot boxes being broken into.

"Our people are concerned about the result that is coming out. We are still waiting to see. For now, we will wait. In the overall, we are pursuing our complaints," Tubman said by phone.

Liberia's constitution allows authorities up to 15 days to finalize results after a presidential election. Turnout at the 737 polling stations counted so far -- around 16.5 percent of the total -- was just over 70 percent.

The vote is seen as a test of Liberia's progress since the 1989-2003 civil war killed nearly a quarter of a million people and left infrastructure in ruins. If smooth, the election could pave the way to billions of dollars in investment in Liberia's mining, energy and agriculture sectors.

"We are all waiting for the results, and from my perspective, I think they will be accepted," said Amadou Kante, a resident of the Sinkor neighborhood in the capital Monrovia.

VOTING PEACEFUL

Voting on Tuesday passed off peacefully in Monrovia. Observer groups said they had received no reports of trouble elsewhere in the country of four million people, but have expressed concern that the results could be a flashpoint.

A dispute over the results of the 2005 election, which brought Johnson-Sirleaf to power as Africa's first freely elected female head of state, triggered several days of rioting.

"The mission is of the view that there were no major irregularities and incidents of violence. It estimated that on the whole, the elections of October 11, 2011 were conducted under acceptable conditions of freedom of voters and transparency of the process," said Attahiru Jega, head of the observer mission from West African bloc ECOWAS.

Election watchdog the Carter Center said voting in the election was "peaceful, orderly and remarkably transparent" and urged Liberians to be patient ahead of official results.

Johnson-Sirleaf got a pre-poll boost with her award of the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday, but rivals have said Liberians will judge her on her success in fighting poverty in a country with an average annual income of $300 a head.

(Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Andrew Roche)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111013/wl_nm/us_liberia_election

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Fitch cuts ratings on European banks (AP)

LONDON ? Concerns that governments are less likely to come to the rescue of financial institutions prompted Fitch credit ratings agency to downgrade its outlook for Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, Lloyds Banking Group and Swiss lender UBS AG on Thursday.

Fitch also said it is reviewing the ratings of a host of European lenders, citing ongoing exposure to sovereign-debt in peripheral Europe and sluggish economic growth prospects. The costs of additional bank regulation and political pressure to reduce state support for banks continue to pose challenges to lenders, Fitch said.

Fitch is the second major credit rating agency in less than a week to slash its ratings of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds. Last week, Moody's cut its ratings on the two U.K. banks for the same reason.

"The banking system is not only very large relative to the U.K. economy, but there is also more advanced political will to reduce the implicit support for the country's banks," Fitch said in a statement explaining its downgrade of the British lenders.

It lowered its long-term ratings for the two large bailed-out banks by two notches to A from AA-.

The credit rating agency dropped Swiss lender UBS one notch to A from A+ and Germany's Landesbank one notch to A+ from AA-.

The moves follow similar actions taken against Italian lenders

Fitch also put Barclays on notice for a possible downgrade, but the British arms of HSBC PLC and Spain's Banco Santander SA were unaffected.

France's BNP Paribas and Societe Generale were also put on negative ratings watches, along with Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Rabobank.

U.S.-based Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs rounded out the banks put on negative ratings watch.

Fitch said it expects to make a decision on possible ratings downgrades "within a short time frame and take corresponding rating actions where warranted."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111013/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_britain_banks_fitch

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More Teen Males Using Condoms When They First Have Sex: Survey (HealthDay)

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- A new national survey finds that significantly more teenaged males are using condoms when they have sex for the first time.

Since 2002, there has been an increase of 9 percentage points in young males who reported using a condom the first time they had sex, with 80 percent now taking that precaution. There was also an increase of 6 percentage points in males using a condom in tandem with their female partner using a hormonal method of birth control.

Teenaged girls also showed some changes in contraception use: 2 percent used a hormonal method of birth control other than the Pill in 2002, while 6 percent said they made that choice by 2010. The alternate methods included contraceptive patches, injectable devices and emergency contraceptives.

Coupled with statistics that show a continuing trend toward slightly less sexual activity overall among youths aged 14 to 19, it did not surprise the researchers that teen birth rates have again dropped.

"That helps explain why the teen birth rate has lowered," said survey author Gladys Martinez, a statistician with the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. In 2009, the teen birth rate hit an historic low of 39.1 births per 1,000 teenaged females, a 37 percent decrease from a peak rate of 61.8 births per 1,000 teenaged females in 1991.

But, she said, there are still troubling numbers in the report, which was released Wednesday.

"Black males still have higher levels of sexual experience than white and Hispanic males, and Hispanics have lower levels of contraceptive use," she noted.

The findings come in the results of a 2006-10 survey of adults and children, including 4,662 teenagers. Forty-three percent of females who'd never been married said they'd had sex at least once, compared with 42 percent of males. Those numbers are roughly the same as they were in a 2002 survey.

It's not clear why some of the sexually active teens don't use contraceptives since the survey didn't ask that question, Martinez said, although future research will ask about that.

The surveys did ask the teens who didn't have sex why they avoided it. The most common reason was that it was against their religion or morals; 41 percent of the females in that group said that was their most important reason, compared with 31 percent of males.

There wasn't much difference compared to 2002 in the percentage of teens who said they'd be at least somewhat pleased if a sexual encounter resulted in a pregnancy: 13 percent of females and 19 percent of males said they'd be a "little pleased" or "very pleased."

The findings suggest that the dip in sexual activity that began in the 1990s hasn't reversed itself, said Jennifer Manlove, a senior research scientist with Child Trends, a non-profit research organization that focuses on children and families. On the other hand, she said, "we're no longer seeing the big declines in sexual activity that we saw in the 1990s."

Researchers speculate that the big dip in sexual activity that occurred in that decade may have had something to do with the AIDS epidemic or an increased focus on abstinence in sex education, she said.

She said that while the new numbers about contraceptive use are promising, "there's still room to improve," especially when it comes to consistent use of birth control. Considering the role of the Pill and other medical devices, she said, "doctors need to focus on finding the right method that works for females, and keep them on the more effective methods [once] they are sexually active."

More information

For details about teen sexual health, try the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20111012/hl_hsn/moreteenmalesusingcondomswhentheyfirsthavesexsurvey

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