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It's not a bird! It's not a plane! It's a dragonfly, and researchers are using a microchip attached to its belly to understand the complex mechanics of its flight.
Dragonflies capture their prey mid-flight, requiring precise control of horizontal and vertical movement to line up their meal with their mouths.
"Dragonfly wings almost swim through the air," says electrical engineer Matt Reynolds from Duke University. "They have many more degrees of freedom than an airplane's wing."
That's Reynolds in the picture above, holding an example of the microchip, which, at 38 milligrams, weighs just one-tenth what a dragonfly does, and doesn't interfere with its ability to fly and hunt. It's so light because it's powered wirelessly and can transmit data at the rate of five megabits per second - about the speed of a typical home internet connection.
He is working with a team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to determine how dragonflies manoeuvre through the air, and what we can learn that may lead to advances in robotic flying vehicles of the future.
Electrodes connected to 16 neurons in the dragonfly's nerve cord will transmit information that travels from the dragonfly's eyes as they spy their prey to their motor control system.
High-speed video will be correlated with neural signals as the microchipped dragonflies capture fruit flies, giving researchers insight into flight-control laws that govern these winged wonders.
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FILE - This July 5, 2008 file photo shows Kent Couch lifting off from his gas station in Bend, Ore., riding a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons for a flight that ended 235 miles away in an Idaho farm field. Oregon's "lawn-chair balloonist" has put off his flight in Iraq until next year. Couch had planned another balloon flight Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 in Baghdad along with Iraqi daredevil Fareed Lafta. But a statement Monday from spokesman Mark Knowles says the two have delayed the flight until March to accommodate a number of groups that want to use it to raise awareness of the plight of Iraqi orphans. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard, File)
FILE - This July 5, 2008 file photo shows Kent Couch lifting off from his gas station in Bend, Ore., riding a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons for a flight that ended 235 miles away in an Idaho farm field. Oregon's "lawn-chair balloonist" has put off his flight in Iraq until next year. Couch had planned another balloon flight Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 in Baghdad along with Iraqi daredevil Fareed Lafta. But a statement Monday from spokesman Mark Knowles says the two have delayed the flight until March to accommodate a number of groups that want to use it to raise awareness of the plight of Iraqi orphans. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard, File)
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) ? The "lawn-chair balloonist" has put off his flight in Iraq until next year.
Kent Couch made headlines worldwide in 2008 when he flew a lawn chair supported by more than 150 helium-filled party balloons from the parking lot of the gas station he owns in Oregon to an Idaho field 235 miles (378 kilometers) east.
He had planned another balloon flight Tuesday in Baghdad along with Iraqi daredevil Fareed Lafta.
But a statement Monday from spokesman Mark Knowles says the two have delayed the flight until March to accommodate a number of groups that want to use it to raise awareness of the plight of Iraqi orphans.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? Pilot error could have caused the helicopter crash that killed Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake on Friday, according to a preliminary investigation cited by a local newspaper on Saturday.
A preliminary report by Mexico's civil aviation authority said there was no explosion or mechanical fault reported by the pilot prior to the accident, the newspaper Reforma said.
That report also said the pilot chose to fly manually, without using instruments that would have shown information about obstacles along the route, Reforma wrote.
The fog could have affected the pilot's distance perception, causing him to crash into the hill, Reforma said, citing the report.
A spokesman for Mexico's Communications and Transport Ministry declined to confirm the existence of that report.
The ministry is expected to give a news conference later on Saturday.
Mexico has requested help from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board as well as the French office in charge of investigating civil aviation accidents, Communications and Transport Minister Dionisio Perez-Jacome told reporters late on Friday.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Friday conditions were cloudy when the helicopter came down so that an accident looked probable.
The helicopter came down on a green hillside south of the capital, killing Blake and seven others on board.
(Reporting by Elinor Comlay, Editing by Sandra Maler)
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APRemember all the discussion after Bill Belichick?s famous fourth-and-two call against the Colts two years ago? (Almost to the day.)
Yeah, we?re about to go through that all over again.
The Saints took charge of the NFC South with a 26-23 overtime win in Atlanta Sunday that turned on a very similar decision by Falcons coach Mike Smith.
It was a back-and-forth game that included an epic performance by Marques Colston and a terrific 10-point comeback in the final five minutes by Matt Ryan to force overtime. ?Years from now, however, we?re only going to remember Smith?s call.
The Falcons and Saints traded three-and-outs to start overtime before Atlanta faced a fourth-and-inches from their own 29-yard line. ?With the Saints offense moving the ball well most of the day, Smith decided to go for it.
Shaun Rogers and Will Smith stuffed Michael Turner well behind the first down marker. It looked like every Saint on the roster was there for the stop. John Kasay kicked the game-winner from 26 yards out three plays later.
Mike Smith will get relentlessly criticized, but we have no problem with the decision despite the result. The Falcons ran well all day, including in short yardage. They should pick up that yard and the odds favor the Saints scoring if they get the ball back.
If the Falcons can?t pick up a few inches against New Orleans, they don?t deserve to win. The Falcons play smashmouth football. On that play, New Orleans was just tougher.
There were many plays in this game that could have swung the NFC South. Both teams had missed field goals. Saints safety Roman Harper dropped a potential interception that would have won the game in the final minute of regulation. Two plays later, Roddy White had a good chance to make the game-winning touchdown.
Those plays will get overlooked because of Smith?s decision. The Falcons coach had the guts to go for the win instead of hoping not to lose.
It didn?t work, and now the Saints are in charge of the NFC South race with a rematch looming in the Superdome on the day after Christmas.
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MAULDIN, S.C. ? Mitt Romney didn't win in South Carolina in 2008, but he's back in the state and looking to capitalize on his strong position atop this year's field of Republican presidential candidates. He hopes to sway voters who were cool to him four years ago.
The former Massachusetts governor's mission recently became easier, as several rivals struggle to mend damaged campaigns ahead of Saturday's debate on foreign policy.
Rick Perry is spending nearly $1 million on a national ad buy as he tries to recover from a gaffe in a debate earlier this week when he couldn't name the third federal Cabinet agency he says he'd eliminate.
Georgia businessman Herman Cain, on the defensive over allegations that he sexually harassed women in the 1990s, spent Friday in New York.
Romney's strategy is to maintain the steady, it's-all-about-the-economy campaign that's landed him in the top tier and, behind the scenes, prepare for any of his rivals to rise.
"I know there will be one or two others that will be doing well in the polls, that'll be you know, be real contenders. That's the nature of the process," Romney told reporters after spending part of Veterans Day at a barbecue restaurant near Greenville, S.C.
"Whether it's Newt (Gingrich), or Rick (Perry), or Rick Santorum or Herman Cain, I can't tell at this point," Romney said. "I just think that I'm in a uniquely qualified position."
Romney spent most of his 45 minutes at Mutt's barbecue listening to veterans describe difficulties with the Department of Veterans Affairs' health care system or their trouble finding work after leaving the service. He also spent time prepping for the debate.
Perry was also returning to the debate stage, just three days after saying a "minor brain freeze" caused him to forget the name of the Energy Department.
Since then, Perry's campaign has spent $975,000 to air an ad nationally on Fox News Channel. He's also done a blitz of TV interviews ? including David Letterman's "Late Show" ? and used humor to laugh off the embarrassing gaffe as a humanizing moment.
Perry marched in Veterans Day parade in Columbia on Friday, as did fellow GOP rival Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman.
Perry rocketed to the top of some polls when he entered the race in August. But a series of less-than-inspiring debate performances have hurt him. National donors privately worry that he won't be able to survive the gaffe.
"It's not helpful," Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad told The Associated Press on Friday.
Cain, the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza, avoided the early voting states on Friday as he continued to face questions about the sexual harassment allegations. He was in New York for fundraisers, foreign policy briefings and interviews with Fox News Channel and the New York Post.
Cain conceded on Fox that his campaign might have to moderate its approach to the allegations. He has strongly denied the accusations against him.
"I'm going to dial it back from a 10 to a 9," Cain said, referring to his oft-repeated assertion that he's going to "let Herman be Herman."
He also defended a joke he made Thursday in Michigan about Anita Hill, who accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings.
Cain said Friday that he was approached at an event by a supporter who said Hill was trying to contact him.
"And my response was `Is she going to endorse me?'" he said.
Cain said the supporter was trying to be funny and that he tried to respond in kind.
"I gave back a humorous response. It was in no way intended to be an insult toward Anita Hill or anybody else," he said in an interview on Albany, N.Y., radio station WGDJ-AM.
Taken together, Cain and Perry's woes have Republicans privately wondering about yet another conservative alternative to Romney: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Gingrich spent Friday in New Hampshire but planned several appearances Saturday in South Carolina before the debate.
Gingrich suggested that Republicans are still searching for an alternative to Romney. He was referring to a new CBS News poll showing Cain atop the GOP field with 18 percent support and Gingrich and Romney tied at 15 percent.
"The 85 percent who have not chosen Mitt Romney, who have known him now for five years, I think are looking for a conservative activist who will stand firm and who will fight to change Washington," Gingrich told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham.
Gingrich has ramped up his campaign efforts in recent weeks and is set to open a South Carolina headquarters Saturday. He has nine people working for him in the state, while Romney has just three paid staffers. Gingrich has been endorsed by the head of the Columbia Tea Party. Aides also say Republican Sen. Jim DeMint's decision not to endorse in the primary is a boon for the former speaker. DeMint backed Romney in 2008.
But Gingrich is just the latest conservative candidate to begin to emerge as a possible alternative to Romney, who has held a steady though not breakaway lead in the polls and has run his campaign without major gaffes or problems.
Romney wouldn't answer questions about Gingrich's popularity Friday, saying only that his responsibility is to continue to talk about fixing the economy and creating jobs.
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Associated Press writers Philip Elliott in Washington, Beth Fouhy in New York, Thomas Beaumont in Iowa, Jim Davenport in South Carolina and Shannon McCaffrey in Georgia contributed to this report.
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'It's not a beginning-to-end sex scene; it's memories,' she tells MTV News.
By Kara Warner with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Kristen Stewart in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
There is so much hype surrounding the "Breaking Dawn - Part 1" sex scene between Edward Cullen and Bella Swan that we probably won't ever be able to stop writing about it. The fans demand it!
Lucky for us, the stars in question keep talking about it as well, so we're all able to revel in the warm romantic (after?) glow for a little while longer. When MTV News caught up with Kristen Stewart recently, we asked what her reaction was when she finally saw the intense scene play out on the big screen.
"I think, for me, it really reflects what I felt when I was reading the book," Stewart said. "It's funny, because it's not in the book. It's totally just what you imagine in between those chapters, but without it, because you imagine it, it leads you to — it picks up right after, and then sort of really indulges in memory. And so I think that's how you see it. It's not a beginning-to-end sex scene; it's memories, it's nice. So because of that, I never really got to shoot, we didn't shoot a sex scene; it was all close-ups and such."
Stewart's steamy scene partner Robert Pattinson had a little more fun talking about the filming of their scene, in that he was happy to fulfill fans' sexual fantasies with his acting.
"That's the one time where I have felt kind of like the coolest person," Pattinson said of filming the scene. "[I thought] this is easy! I can fulfill people's sexual fantasy expectations without even thinking about it, piece of cake. That isn't acting," he joked.
"The only thing [that was difficult] is the vanity aspect," Pattinson continued. "Taylor [Lautner] just ruined the whole series for me. As soon as he buffed up, I went, 'Well, I'm throwing in the towel' on 'New Moon.' "
Check out everything we've got on "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1."
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. ? After nearly a half-century on the job, Joe Paterno says he is still getting used to the idea of not being Penn State's football coach. So is the rest of the shaken campus, after one of the most tumultuous days in its history.
In less than 24 hours Wednesday, the winningest coach in major college football announced his retirement at the end of the season ? then was abruptly fired by the board of trustees.
Also ousted was Penn State President Graham Spanier ? one of the longest-serving college presidents in the nation ? as the university's board of trustees tried to limit the damage to the school's reputation from a child sex abuse scandal involving one of Paterno's former assistant coaches.
Paterno's firing sent angry students into the streets, where they shouted support for the 84-year-old coach and tipped over a news van.
In less than a week since former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually assaulting eight boys over a 15-year period, the scandal has claimed Penn State's storied coach, its president, its athletic director and a vice president.
"Right now, I'm not the football coach. And I've got to get used to that. After 61 years, I've got to get used to it," Paterno said outside his house late Wednesday night. "Let me think it through."
Paterno had wanted to finish out his 46th season ? Saturday's game against Nebraska is the last at home ? but the board of trustees was clearly fed up with the scandal's fallout.
"In our view, we thought change now was necessary," board vice chairman John Surma said at a packed news conference where he announced the unanimous decision to oust Paterno and Spanier.
Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will serve as interim coach, and the university scheduled a news conference with him for later Thursday. Provost Rodney Erickson will be the interim school president.
"I take this job with very mixed emotions due to the situation," Bradley said at a news conference Thursday morning. "I have been asked by the board of trustees to handle this. I told them I would do it last night. I will proceed in a matter that Penn State expects."
He also said: "I have no reservations about taking this job."
Bradley said he called Paterno after the firings last night but declined to divulge what was said.
"I think that's personal in nature," he said.
However, when asked, he was clear about his admiration of and devotion to the man he is replacing for the time being.
"Coach Paterno has meant more to me than anybody except my father. I don't want to get emotional talking about that," Bradley said. "Coach Paterno will go down in history as one of the greatest men, who maybe most of you know as a great football coach. I've had the privilege and the honor to work for him, spend time with him. He's had such dynamic impact on so many, so many, I'll say it again, so many people and players' lives."
He added: "It's with great respect that I speak of him and I'm proud to say that I worked for him."
As word of the firings spread, thousands of students flocked to the administration building, shouting, "We want Joe back!" and "One more game!" They then headed downtown to Beaver Avenue, where about 100 police wearing helmets and carrying pepper spray were on standby. Witnesses said some rocks and bottles were thrown, a lamppost was toppled and a news van was knocked over, its windows kicked out.
State College police said early Thursday they were still gathering information on any possible arrests.
Paterno had come under increasing criticism ? including from within the community known as Happy Valley ? for not doing more to stop the alleged abuse by Sandusky. Some of the assaults took place at the Penn State football complex, including a 2002 incident witnessed by then-graduate assistant and current assistant coach Mike McQueary.
McQueary went to Paterno and reported seeing Sandusky assaulting a young boy in the Penn State showers. Paterno notified the athletic director, Tim Curley, and a vice president, Gary Schultz, who in turn notified Spanier.
Curley and Schultz have been charged with failing to report the incident to authorities. Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly has not ruled out charges against Spanier.
Paterno is not a target of the criminal investigation, but the state police commissioner called his failure to contact police himself a lapse in "moral responsibility."
Paterno said in his statement earlier Wednesday that he was "absolutely devastated" by the abuse case.
"This is a tragedy," Paterno said. "It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more."
The Penn State trustees had already said they would appoint a committee to investigate the "circumstances" that resulted in the indictment of Sandusky, and of Curley and Schultz. The committee will be appointed Friday at the board's regular meeting, which Gov. Tom Corbett said he plans to attend, and will examine "what failures occurred and who is responsible and what measures are necessary to ensure" similar mistakes aren't made in the future.
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Education said it has launched an investigation into whether Penn State failed to report incidents of sexual abuse on campus, as required by federal law.
Surma said it was "in the best interest of the university to have a change in leadership to deal with the difficult issues that we are facing."
"The past several days have been absolutely terrible for the entire Penn State community. But the outrage that we feel is nothing compared to the physical and psychological suffering that allegedly took place," he added.
Sandusky, who announced his retirement from Penn State in June 1999, maintained his innocence through his lawyer. Curley has taken a temporary leave and Schultz has decided to step down. They also say they are innocent.
Sandusky founded The Second Mile charity in 1977, working with at-risk youths. It now raises and spends several million dollars each year for its programs. Paterno is listed on The Second Mile's website as a member of its honorary board of directors, a group that includes business executives, golfing great Arnold Palmer and several NFL Hall of Famers and coaches, including retired Pittsburgh Steelers stars Jack Ham and Franco Harris.
The ouster of the man affectionately known as "JoePa" brings to an end one of the most storied coaching careers ? not just in college football but in all of sports. Paterno has 409 victories ? a record for major college football ? won two national titles and guided five teams to unbeaten, untied seasons. He reached 300 wins faster than any other coach.
Penn State is 8-1 this year, with its only loss to powerhouse Alabama. The Nittany Lions are No. 12 in The Associated Press poll.
After 19th-ranked Nebraska, Penn State plays at Ohio State and at No. 16 Wisconsin, both Big Ten rivals. It has a chance to play in the Big Ten championship game Dec. 3 in Indianapolis, with a Rose Bowl bid on the line.
Paterno has raised millions of dollars for Penn State in his career, and elevated the stature of what was once a sleepy land-grant school. Asked why he was fired over the phone, Surma said, "We were unable to find a way to do that in person without causing further distraction."
At Paterno's house, his wife, Sue, was teary-eyed as she blew kisses to the 100 or so students who gathered on the lawn in a show of support.
"You're all so sweet. And I guess we have to go beat Nebraska without being there," she said. "We love you all. Go Penn State."
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Tata Communications Ltd. may look at offering telecommunication infrastructure services to Reliance Industries Ltd., as the Indian energy company led by billionaire Mukesh Ambani prepares to launch wireless broadband services.
Tata Communications "would be as interested like any others in serving them with our back bone (telecom infrastructure) or with other services," Srinivasa Addepalli, senior vice president for corporate strategy and communications at the Tata group firm, told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday.
Tata Communications provides video conferencing suites and operates undersea cables, offering network connectivity.
A spokesman for Reliance Industries declined to comment.
Reliance, India's largest company by market value, in June 2010 paid INR48 billion ($975 million) to buy 95% of Infotel Broadband Services Ltd., which won a government auction of radio waves to offer wireless broadband services across India. Reliance plans to offer fourth-generation wireless broadband services by mid-2012, along with a range of tablet computers for different income groups, a person familiar with the matter told Dow Jones Newswires in October.
Reliance has been in talks with other service providers, similar to Tata Communications, to lease telecom infrastructure such as towers and fiber optic bandwidth. This is in line with its stated plan of following an "asset-light" approach, meaning that it will sign contracts with service providers, infrastructure providers and device manufacturers, rather than build everything up from scratch.
Any business from Reliance could help Tata Communications add revenue and narrow losses.
On Thursday, Tata Communications reported a consolidated net loss of INR1.65 billion for the second quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with a loss of INR2.03 billion a year earlier. Total income rose 12% to INR33.76 billion.
Its losses narrowed despite a more than 83% surge in interest costs. Quarterly earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization rose 60% on year, while total costs were up about 9%.
The company's stock closed 4.7% up at INR195.80 Friday on the Bombay Stock Exchange, where the benchmark index fell 1.0%.
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SAGUARO LAKE, Ariz. (AP) ? A lot of cats get stuck in trees, but an Arizona kitty was perched atop a giant saguaro cactus for at least three days before finally coming down on its own.
Residents living in a desert area northeast of Phoenix noticed the black cat with white patches at the very top of the 30- to 40-foot cactus.
At times, the feline would stand up and survey the area, possibly trying to figure out how to get down ? or how it got up there.
Helicopter video from ABC15.com (http://bit.ly/sTm1U4) shows the cat eventually climbing down the cactus Friday. It started making its way down head-first before turning around and scooting backward. It finally took a big leap and landed on its feet before wandering into the desert.
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Information from: KNXV-TV, http://www.abc15.com
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'Even though nothing can bring back our son, justice has finally been served!' family says in a statement to TMZ.
By Andrea Duncan-Mao
LaToya Jackson outside court in Los Angeles on Monday
Photo: Toby Canham/Getty Images
Seventeen members of Michael Jackson's family — including his parents, brothers Jermaine and Randy and sister LaToya — were on hand Monday (November 7) in the Los Angeles courtroom when a guilty verdict was read in the involuntary manslaughter case against Jackson's former physician, Dr. Conrad Murray.
While the audible gasp heard when the verdict was read was reportedly that of Kathy Hilton — a close Jackson family friend and mom to Paris and Nicky Hilton — the family remained stoic during the proceedings and did not hold a formal press conference afterward.
Upon exiting the courthouse, Jackson's mother, Katherine, told local news cameras, "Justice was served. I want to thank the jury for doing the right thing," while brother Randy said he was "ecstatic," and Jermaine said the verdict felt "wonderful." Latoya, wearing a black and gold jacket reminiscent of something her late brother would wear, waved her arms at the crowd in celebration and also tweeted: "VICTORY."
TMZ reported that the family later released a statement, reading, "We have been waiting for this moment for a very long time and we couldn't hold back tears of joy in the courtroom. Even though nothing can bring back our son, justice has finally been served! We can't wait to go home and share this day with Michael's children."
Dr. Murray was found guilty on one count of involuntary manslaughter and faces up to four years in jail and the loss of his medical license. He is due to be sentenced November 29.
MTV News will be covering the Conrad Murray case live. Go to MTVNews.com for breaking news, reactions and analysis from Los Angeles or tune to MTV for the latest updates.
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(Reuters) ? MakeMyTrip, the largest online travel booking company in India, reported quarterly results that beat analysts' expectations helped by higher sales in its air ticketing business.
The company, which went public a little more than a year ago, reported second-quarter earnings of $74,240 or roughly break even on a per share basis, compared with a loss of $1.8 million, or 7 cents a share a year ago.
Excluding items, it earned 4 cents a share. Analysts, on average, were expecting earnings of 3 cents a share.
Total revenue jumped 84 percent to $43.8 million. Revenue after service costs rose to $21.3 million, beating analysts' expectations of $18.7 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Shares of the company closed at $31 on Monday on Nasdaq.
(Reporting by Fareha Khan in Bangalore; Editing by Viraj Nair)
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Former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz enters a district judge's office for an arraignment Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, in Harrisburg. Schultz has been charged with perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania?s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into allegations that former football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused young men. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower)
Former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz enters a district judge's office for an arraignment Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, in Harrisburg. Schultz has been charged with perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania?s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into allegations that former football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused young men. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower)
Former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley, center, and former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz, right, enter a district judge's office for an arraignment Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, in Harrisburg, Pa. Curley and Schultz have been charged with perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania?s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into allegations former football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young men, the state attorney general?s office said Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower)
In this photo taken Oct. 29, 2011 Penn State president Graham Spanier, left, and athletic director Tim Curley, center, present head football coach Joe Paterno with a plague commemorating his 409th collegiate win after an NCAA college football game against Illinois in State College, Pa. Curley is expected to turn himself in on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, in Harrisburg, Pa., as he has been charged with perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania?s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into allegations former football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young men, the state attorney general?s office said Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
In this photo provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, center, is placed in a police car in Bellefonte, Pa. to be taken to the office of a Centre County Magisterial District judge on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing eight young men. Also, Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and Penn State vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz, 62, are expected to turn themselves in on Monday on charges of perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania?s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into the abuse allegations against Sandusky. (AP Photo/Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Commonwealth Media Services)
Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly discusses details of the Jerry Sandusky child sex crimes investigation during a news conference at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., as Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan looks on, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? Football coach Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials didn't do enough to try to stop suspected sexual abuse of children at the hands of a former assistant football coach, the state police commissioner said Monday.
Paterno may have fulfilled his legal requirement to report suspected abuse by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, state police Commissioner Frank Noonan said, "but somebody has to question about what I would consider the moral requirements for a human being that knows of sexual things that are taking place with a child."
He added: "I think you have the moral responsibility, anyone. Not whether you're a football coach or a university president or the guy sweeping the building. I think you have a moral responsibility to call us."
Paterno, who recently became the coach with the most wins in Division I football history, wasn't charged and the grand jury report didn't appear to implicate him in wrongdoing. He has called the criminal charges shocking and troubling.
"If this is true we were all fooled, along with scores of professionals trained in such things, and we grieve for the victims and their families," he said in a statement Sunday.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly said Paterno is not a target of the investigation into how the school handled the accusations. But she refused to say the same for university President Graham Spanier.
"All I can say is again, I'm limited to what's contained in the presentment, and that this is an ongoing investigation," Kelly said.
Noonan said the case went beyond football and the university.
"It is a case about children who have had their innocence stolen from them, in a culture that did nothing to stop it or prevent it from happening to others," he said.
Also Monday, two Penn State officials surrendered on charges that they failed to alert police to complaints that Sandusky had sexually abused eight boys. They are also charged with lying to a state grand jury investigating the former defensive coordinator.
Senior Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley both stepped down from their posts late Sunday, one day after the charges were announced.
On Monday, they appeared in a Harrisburg courtroom, where a judge set bail at $75,000. They weren't required to enter pleas but they had to surrender their passports.
Schultz, 62, and Curley, 57, are innocent and will seek to have the charges dismissed, their lawyers said. Curley's lawyer, Caroline Roberto, called the case weak while Schultz's lawyer, Tom Farrell, said the men did what they were supposed to do by informing their superiors of the accusations.
Kelly and Noonan encouraged anyone who would accuse Sandusky of sexual assault to step forward and talk to police, with Kelly specifically asking that a child reportedly assaulted by Sandusky in view of a graduate student in 2002 to call detectives.
When asked if it was possible that there were more victims, she said: "When you look at the totality of the circumstances and the number of victims that we have, I don't think it would be beyond the realm of possibility that there are other victims that exist here."
Sandusky sexually abused eight boys over 15 years through his charity for at-risk youth, authorities charged.
Once considered Paterno's heir apparent, Sandusky retired in 1999 but continued to use the school's facilities for his work with The Second Mile, a foundation he established to help at-risk kids. The charges against him cover the period from 1994 to 2009.
Under Paterno's four-decades-and-counting stewardship, the Nittany Lions became a bedrock in the college game, and fans packed the stadium in State College, a campus town routinely ranked among America's best places to live and nicknamed Happy Valley. Paterno's teams were revered both for winning games ? including two national championships ? and largely steering clear of trouble.
The allegations against Sandusky, who started The Second Mile in 1977, range from sexual advances to touching to oral and anal sex. The young men testified before the state grand jury that they were in their early teens when some of the abuse occurred; there is evidence even younger children may have been victimized.
Sandusky's attorney Joe Amendola said his client has been aware of the accusations for about three years and has maintained his innocence.
The grand jury report that lays out the accusations against the three men cites the state's Child Protective Services Law, which requires immediate reporting by doctors, nurses, school administrators, teachers, day care workers, police and others.
It appears neither Schultz nor Curley had direct contact with the boys Sandusky is accused of abusing.
Schultz's lawyer said his client was not among those required by law to report suspected abuse. He also argued that the two-year statute of limitations on the summary offense has expired.
Spanier, Penn State's president, called the allegations "troubling" but predicted the school officials would be exonerated.
Kelly, the attorney general, said Penn State officials never made any attempt to identify the child that the grad assistant saw in the showers with Sandusky in 2002.
"Today as we stand here, we encourage that person who is now likely to be a young adult to contact investigators from the attorney general's office," she said. "This is an ongoing and active investigation. ... We are determined to quickly respond to any new witnesses or any additional information that may appear."
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NEW YORK ? LSU put a lock on the top spot, Oklahoma State moved up to No. 2 for the best ranking in school history, and Alabama slipped to No. 4 in The Associated Press Top 25 poll after losing a 1 vs. 2 showdown against the Tigers.
LSU received 59 out of 60 first-place votes after beating the Crimson Tide 9-6 in overtime in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday night.
Oklahoma State moved up one spot after a wild 52-45 victory against Kansas State and Stanford also moved up a spot to third.
Alabama slipped two spots Sunday. Boise State remained No. 5 with one first-place vote.
The rest of the top 10 was No. 6 Oregon, followed by Oklahoma, Arkansas, Clemson and Virginia Tech.
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Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., walks on stage before taking part in the Republican Presidential Forum on Manufacturing, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in Pella, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., walks on stage before taking part in the Republican Presidential Forum on Manufacturing, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in Pella, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann is telling college students in politically important Iowa that all Americans should pay taxes since they all benefit from services such as roads and bridges, national defense and the courts.
Her position, which she was outlining Thursday at Iowa State University in Ames, is a direct challenge to rivals Rick Perry and Herman Cain, who are advocating plans that would allow low-wage earners to continue paying no taxes while implementing a form of a flat tax on all other workers.
The Tax Policy Center estimates that some 46 percent of households this year will not pay federal income taxes.
Bachmann, a congresswoman from Minnesota, was set to talk about the economy as polls show her trailing behind other contenders in Iowa, which holds the first presidential caucuses in January next year.
She made a big splash when she got in the race this summer and won an early test vote in Ames in August. But her standing slipped as the GOP electorate rallied around Perry and then Cain. Now, she's hoping Iowans give her a second look as Perry looks to overcome a month of stumbles and as Cain tries to weather the fallout from recently disclosed allegations that he was accused of sexual harassment in the 1990s when he was head of the National Restaurant Association.
With jobs and the economy as the top issues on voters' minds, Bachmann hopes her tough talk will help her regain her footing in a state that her advisers see as a linchpin in their strategy.
In an outline of her speech released late Wednesday, she criticizes the current federal tax code as too complicated and corporate tax rates as unreasonably high. She criticizes a tax code that allows larger businesses to take advantages of loopholes to avoid paying their fair share. And she talks about her background as a former federal tax attorney.
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Potomac Electric Power Company worker Mike Fitzgerald, of Baltimore, Md., works to restore power to homes left in the dark since Saturday's storm in Teaneck, N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Potomac Electric Power Company worker Mike Fitzgerald, of Baltimore, Md., works to restore power to homes left in the dark since Saturday's storm in Teaneck, N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Connecticut Light & Power workers tend to a high voltage power line in Windsor Locks, Conn., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Over 90% of the town has been without power since the Oct. 29, 2011 snowstorm. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy greets Christine Hallet, of Enfield, during his visit to JFK Middle School, which has been serving as a shelter, on Wednesday Nov. 2, 2011, in Enfield, Conn. The president of Connecticut Light and Power says he still believes most of the hundreds of thousands of customers still without electricity due to last weekend's snow storm will have their service restored by midnight on Sunday. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Leslloyd F. Alleyne)
Potomac Electric Power Company workers work to restore power to homes left in the dark since Saturday's storm in Teaneck, N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? Alison Takahashi thought autumn of her senior year would be filled with memories-to-be like the homecoming dance, crossing her fingers over college applications and counting down to graduation from Glastonbury High School.
Instead, the dance is delayed, her graduation date is a question mark and she's squeezing in study time during daylight hours as she ? and hundreds of thousands of other Northeast residents ? spends days without power after last weekend's snowstorm.
"I feel so disorganized and disoriented because we've been living all over the place," said the 17-year-old Takahashi, whose family has bunked in hotels since losing power Saturday, and who has squeezed in study time for an SAT specialty test in Spanish as part of her application to Georgetown University.
She must take that test Saturday in her high school, where that night's homecoming dance has been postponed and town residents pop in to take showers and recharge their cellphones and computers.
Throughout the region and especially in hard-hit Connecticut, many school districts that lost several snow days to the remnants of Hurricane Irene in August found themselves losing this full week, too, because of snow-related power failures and tree damage.
A handful of districts in New Jersey also remained closed Thursday, leaving those and other districts wondering they would have to cut into vacations to regain the lost days.
Throughout the Northeast, the storm's legacy has left students, working parents and others looking for last-minute baby-sitters as power-free day care centers remain closed, or going without access to email and other modern conveniences.
About 700,000 homes and businesses in the Northeast ? more than half of them in Connecticut ? went without power for a fifth day Thursday. Makeshift relief centers filled with weary parents and restless children.
The number of lost school days is forcing some districts to consider trimming their winter or spring vacations to ensure school doesn't stretch beyond June ? a consideration virtually unheard of so early in the academic year.
"It's a difficult situation when you lose five off the bat. It's only November and we haven't even had the real snow yet," said Paul K. Smith, superintendent of Bolton's schools, which were set to remain closed Friday for their fifth consecutive day.
He and several other superintendents said that the past 10 months have been unlike any they remember in recent decades.
Record-setting snows in January forced many districts in Connecticut and elsewhere to stretch their school years to compensate for lost days ? and just as they breathed a sigh of relief, Irene swept through the Northeast to steal away days at the start of the new school year.
Then, last weekend's rare October snow completed the triple whammy, forcing them to cancel even more days.
It also comes as many districts were wrapping up their marking periods and trying to compile report cards; as several sports were heading into state and regional tournaments; and as many students faced a Nov. 1 deadline for early admission consideration in certain colleges, some of which have said they will be flexible under the circumstances.
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and some other states require public schools to have at least 180 days of classes and cannot extend the school year beyond June 30. Their state education departments can grant waivers in extraordinary circumstances, but rarely do.
"If this were to have occurred in March or April, then you're really up against it and at that point you'd probably be looking for some relief at the state level. But at this point so early in the year, there's still some flexibility to make up those days," said Joseph Cirasuolo, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents.
Schools in Tolland, outside Hartford, lost 11 days to snow cancellations last year, 10 of them in January alone. As of this week, its numbers were sneaking up again for the new school year: three days lost from Irene and five this week from the snowstorm, forcing its school board to consider whether to reduce winter or spring vacations.
As for whether snowy days are ahead that could exacerbate the situation, Tolland schools Superintendent William Guzman was trying Thursday to balance optimism and realism: "I'm wishing for a mild winter and just taking it one day at a time."
Several students and parents said Thursday that being flexible was the only way they could maintain their humor as they gritted their teeth and faced another day without power, classes and many basic amenities. Several districts expected to reopen Monday but were not certain whether it would be possible.
"There's wires down all over in our neighborhood, so I don't know if they'll be gone and the buses can get in and out," said 13-year-old Brigid Gauthier, an eighth-grader in Simsbury, one of several towns remaining largely without power Thursday.
Even students and families whose electricity had been restored or who never lost it were thrown off kilter by the school days cancellations and what it meant to their schedules.
Seventeen-year-old Josh Florez, a senior at West Hartford's Conard High School, was spending his days volunteering at the town's relief shelter at the school, keeping up with training for his cross-country team and trying to schedule interviews with members of the state's congressional delegation for his hoped-for nomination to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
But he had faith Thursday that once classes resumed, teachers would pace the lessons to catch up without overwhelming students and that in the end, it would all work out.
"They'll make it so it's not impossible on us. I feel pretty confident they'll figure it out," Florez said.
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MOSCOW?? A Russian pilot inadvertently put the wheel brakes on during takeoff, causing a crash that killed 44 people including a professional ice hockey team, investigators said Wednesday, citing lax oversight and insufficient crew training as key reasons behind the error.
The Interstate Aviation Committee said the Sept. 7 crash of the Yak-42 plane near Yaroslavl in central Russia occurred because one of the two pilots accidentally activated the brakes and then yanked a control wheel to his chest, pulling the plane up too sharply in a desperate attempt to take off.
It was one of the worst aviation disasters ever in sports, shocking Russia and the world of hockey, as the dead included 36 players, coaches and staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team. The only player who survived the crash later died of burns. A flight engineer was the sole survivor.
Alexei Morozov, leader of the investigation, said the crew should have aborted the takeoff the moment they realized it was going wrong. He said one possible reason the pilot obstinately still tried to take off was a fear of reprisals from his employer.
Industry experts say when Russian crews abort takeoffs, make second runs or divert their planes to other airports they can risk losing their bonuses or face other sanctions as carriers focus on cutting costs.
"Many pilots say that those who cause delays in flight schedules ... run into various problems at many carriers," Morozov told a news conference. "Company management doesn't like it."
Morozov blamed the plane's owner, Yak-Service, for failing to observe safety standards and adequately train the crew. The company was closed in September by Russia's federal aviation authority following a check that found severe violations.
"The company practically lacked a proper system of flight oversight and controls over air safety," Morozov said.
Story: 'Superhero' pilot: Landing might've been betterMorozov said both pilots had flown another type of plane with a slightly different cockpit layout and apparently had never learned the correct position for their feet on takeoff. He said in the Yak-42, like most other Russian and Western planes now, a pilot steers the aircraft by pressing the lower part of pedals and activates the brakes by pressing their upper part.
But instead of putting their heels on the cockpit floor as regulations require, one or both of the pilots left their feet resting on the pedals in line with old habits, inadvertently activating the brakes and slowing the plane down on takeoff.
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At first they didn't notice the brakes were on, and then they made the fatal mistake of failing to halt the takeoff, he said.
"A properly trained pilot would have immediately aborted the takeoff when he saw the nose failing to lift," said Ruben Yesayan, a highly decorated test pilot who took part in the probe. "The plane would simply have rolled past the runway and everyone would have been safe."
Morozov said the second pilot was taking phenobarbital ? a sedative used to control seizures that is prohibited for pilots ? and that also contributed to the disaster. He said the pilot suffered from polyneuropathy ? a neurological disorder that could affect the feet and hands and cause weakness and loss of sensation. It had passed unnoticed during an official medical certification, but investigators found that the pilot had consulted private doctors about it.
A clash of egos could also have been a factor, Morozov said, noting that the second pilot felt like the real leader.
The plane was already past half of the 3,000-meter (9,900-foot) runway when the crew tried and failed to lift it. Both pilots then threw their body weight on the steering wheels desperately trying to lift the plane and managed to apply even more pressure on the brakes while doing so.
The jet sped past the runway and ran nearly 450 meters (1,485 feet) onto the grass before finally taking off. It lifted up too sharply and immediately banked on its wing, crashing on the side of the Volga River, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow.
The team had been heading to Minsk, Belarus, to play its opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season.
Among the dead were Lokomotiv coach and National Hockey League veteran Brad McCrimmon, a Canadian; assistant coach Alexander Karpovtsev, one of the first Russians to have his name etched on the Stanley Cup as a member of the New York Rangers; and Pavol Demitra, who played for the St. Louis Blues and the Vancouver Canucks and was the Slovakian national team captain.
Other standouts killed were Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek, Swedish goalie Stefan Liv, Latvian defenseman Karlis Skrastins and defenseman Ruslan Salei of Belarus.
The crash raised new concerns about Russia's aviation safety and prompted the president to suggest replacing all aging Soviet-era aircraft with Western-made planes.
But industry experts say recent Russian air disasters have been rooted not just in the age of the planes, but in a combination of other factors, including insufficient crew training, crumbling airports, lax government control and widespread neglect of safety in the pursuit of profits.
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WASHINGTON ? Four prominent deficit-cutters told Congress' bipartisan supercommittee on Tuesday that they should raise revenues and make major changes to expensive health programs on their way to a debt-reduction compromise that should exceed their $1.2 trillion, 10-year mandate.
But in an indication of the partisan divisions that have stalled the evenly divided panel, lawmakers on the committee spent much of their time touting their own plans for mopping up red ink and sparking the economy.
If the two parties prove unwilling to make concessions ? like Republicans accepting higher revenues and Democrats backing significant overhauls to programs like Medicare ? then "they are both complicit in letting America destroy itself," testified Pete Domenici, a former GOP senator from New Mexico who headed the Senate Budget Committee.
"I think it would be devastating," Alice Rivlin, a White House budget director under President Bill Clinton, said of the outcome should the panel fail. "We could face a long period of stagnant growth, another recession that would be worse than the one we're slowly climbing out of."
Erskine Bowles, a White House chief of staff under Clinton, said the public would reward the lawmakers "if you're bold and do it in a smart manner" ? a euphemism for going well beyond their goal of finding at least $1.2 trillion in savings.
But he sounded a note of pessimism: "I have great respect for each of you individually. But collectively, I'm worried you're going to fail."
All four budget experts urged the panel to go trillions beyond its savings target.
The testimony came with the supercommittee so far showing little sign of progressing toward a bipartisan deal. The panel has until Nov. 23 ? three weeks away ? to recommend proposals for savings. If it fails or if Congress does not enact a package by Dec. 23, $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts to defense and many domestic programs would begin in 2013.
Reinforcing the sense that the panel has been stumbling, many remarks by supercommittee members were aimed at their own favorite proposals.
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., asked about the impact on poor people of deep spending cuts while House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., asked about curbing taxes on profits U.S. companies earn abroad. Murray asked about a "balanced approach" to deficit reduction that relies on revenues and benefit program savings. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., inquired about the merits of raising revenue by spurring economic activity.
With Democrats insisting on tax increases as their price for accepting savings from Medicare and other major benefit programs, conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist came under fire from two quarters. Norquist has long circulated a pledge against raising taxes that scores of Republicans have signed.
Republicans, "these poor folks, are being led like puppets by Grover Norquist," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters.
And at the supercommittee hearing, former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., told the panel that Norquist "should run for president, there's no question about his power."
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, top Democrat on the supercommittee, said the panel is entering "the final critical phase" of its work. But she warned that both sides have to compromise ? a clear shot at Republicans who so far have been unwilling to accept higher taxes as part of a deal.
"Everyone needs to be putting some real skin in the game and offering serious compromises," Murray said.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, the supercommittee's No. 1 Republican, said expensive health programs like Medicare are the top budget problem and said "tinkering around the edges" with those programs would achieve little.
Asked afterward about evidence that Republicans are willing to compromise on taxes, Hensarling said, "Republicans want to raise revenue, we want to raise it through pro-growth policies."
Democrats want to raise revenue by making tax code changes that directly raise more money for the government.
Domenici and Rivlin produced a bipartisan deficit-cutting plan last year producing trillions in budget savings. Bowles and Simpson wrote a similar package. Both blueprints relied heavily on revenue increases and on savings from benefit programs.
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UNITED NATIONS ? The prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal said Wednesday that his office will "impartially and independently" examine allegations of crimes committed by NATO and opposition forces, as well as by pro-Gadhafi troops, during this year's fighting in Libya.
Along with alleged crimes by Gadhafi's forces, "There are allegations of crimes committed by NATO" and opposition forces, Luis Moreno Ocampo said.
He said allegations of crimes perpetrated by the opposition National Transitional Council included detention of civilians suspected of being mercenaries and the killing of detained combatants. He did not provide details of possible crimes by NATO forces.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court told the U.N. Security Council that his office has been informed that Libya's new leaders will look at the circumstances surrounding Gadhafi's Oct. 20 death as they prepare a strategy to address crimes committed during the conflict. Questions remain about the death of Gadhafi, who was still alive when opposition forces took him into custody.
The ouster of Gadhafi's regime would have been impossible without the involvement of NATO, which carried out a 7-month air campaign against Libya that was legally authorized by the Security Council.
That campaign ended on Monday, setting Libya on the path to a democratic transition less than two weeks after Gadhafi was captured and killed.
"To demonstrate their clear break from the past, Libya's authorities should continue to speak out against reprisals and hold those guilty of abuses to account," British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said. "In this regard, we welcome the National Transitional Council's investigation into the circumstances of Gadhafi's death."
"We call on the National Transitional Council to ensure independent and impartial investigations to establish the facts of alleged human rights abuses and war crimes committed by both sides of the conflict," said German Ambassador Petter Wittig. "Dealing successfully with this issue will pave the way for national reconciliation."
Libya's deputy U.N. Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi told the council that his country's new leaders would handle with "transparent investigations and fair and just trials" those crimes not covered by the international tribunal.
The new Libyan authorities "will have the realization of justice as its highest priority because security cannot be achieved without justice," said Dabbashi, "and democracy, development and prosperity cannot be achieved without security."
Moreno Ocampo, an Argentine attorney, said his office is investigating numerous allegations of sexual violence by Gadhafi forces amid evidence that indicates hundreds of rapes were committed during the conflict.
"The prosecution has collected some evidence showing that commanders gave orders to commit rape in the western mountains area, and is screening possible witnesses that indicated that Moammar Gadhafi, al-Senussi and other high officials were discussing the use of rape to persecute those considered dissidents or rebels," he said.
Moreno Ocampo said the prosecution also is focusing on the two surviving individuals with war crimes arrest warrants against them: Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi and Abdullah al-Senussi, a colonel who headed the country's military intelligence.
They and Gadhafi were named in arrest warrants the court issued in June for attacks against unarmed civilians Benghazi, Tripoli, and other parts of Libya in February.
The court at the time concluded that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe that Gadhafi and his son were "indirect co-perpetrators of the crimes against humanity and persecution," and that al-Senussi was "responsible as a direct perpetrator."
Moreno Ocampo said that people linked to Saif al-Islam Gadhafi had approached his office about the legal conditions that would be attached to his potential surrender, and said that Gadhafi's son and al-Senussi should give themselves up.
"It is up to the U.N. Security Council and states to ensure that they face justice for the crimes for which they are charged," he said.
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