Louisville guard Russ Smith (2) reacts after his team's 77-69 win over Oregon in a regional semifinal against Oregon in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, March 29, 2013, in Indianapolis. At left is Oregon's E.J. Singler (25). (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Louisville guard Russ Smith (2) reacts after his team's 77-69 win over Oregon in a regional semifinal against Oregon in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, March 29, 2013, in Indianapolis. At left is Oregon's E.J. Singler (25). (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Louisville players react on the bench as they watch the end of a regional semifinal against Oregon in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, March 29, 2013, in Indianapolis. Louisville won 77-69. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Louisville guard Russ Smith (2) reacts during the second half of a regional semifinal against Oregon in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, March 29, 2013, in Indianapolis. Louisville won 77-69. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Oregon forward Carlos Emory holds his head down as he is benched during the second half of a regional semifinal against Louisville in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, March 29, 2013, in Indianapolis. At left is center Waverly Austin (20). Louisville won 77-69. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Oregon forward E.J. Singler passes the ball around Louisville center Gorgui Dieng (10) during the second half of a regional semifinal in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, March 29, 2013, in Indianapolis. Louisville won 77-69. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Louisville coach Rick Pitino is baffled by Russ Smith.
Not by the star guard himself, who is managing to outdo himself each time he steps on the court. No, Pitino doesn't understand why the rest of the country isn't as impressed with Smith as he ? and every opponent who's faced him ? is.
"I look at (player of the year) lists, and I don't see Russ Smith. I don't see him on the All-America teams," Pitino said. "I'm baffled, just baffled, because it wasn't like he was a Johnny-come-lately. He carried us on his back to a Final Four last year."
And he's one game from doing it again.
With Louisville having a rare off night, Smith lifted the Cardinals to a 77-69 victory over Oregon on Friday that put them in the Midwest Region finals. He matched his career high of 31 points, including seven during what would wind up being the game's decisive run.
Smith is averaging 27 points through the first three games of the tournament.
"Russ Smith is a talented young man," Oregon coach Dana Altman said. "When he got going, we didn't have an answer."
Louisville (32-5) plays Duke on Sunday, the first time Pitino and Mike Krzyzewski have met in a regional final since Christian Laettner's shot in 1992.
The 12th-seeded Ducks managed to make a game of it, though, which is more than most of Louisville's recent opponents can say.
After Louisville went up 66-48 with 9:01 left, Oregon made six straight field goals to close to 70-64. But Kevin Ware scored on a layup and Chane Behanan threw down a monstrous dunk to put the game out of reach.
Ware finished with 11, topping his previous career best by one, and Gorgui Dieng had 10 points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots.
E.J. Singler's 15 points led five Ducks in double figures. But Damyean Dotson had an off night, held without a field goal until five minutes were gone in the second half, and Oregon could never recover from its poor start.
Early foul trouble didn't help, with Johnathan Loyd picking up his third before halftime and Dominic Artis and Carlos Emory playing the last six minutes of the half with two.
"If it wasn't for the beginning, it would have been a completely different game," Loyd said. "We just came out, we weren't ready and we got smacked. If we were playing the way were playing in the second half the whole game, it's a completely different story."
The Cardinals were barely tested in either of their first two games in the NCAA tournament, beating North Carolina A&T by 31 and Colorado State by 26. They set an NCAA tournament record with 20 steals against A&T, outrebounded one of the country's best rebounding teams in Colorado State and left both teams with ugly shooting lines.
But a hacking cough that Smith has had the last few days is making its way around the Louisville team, and it was clear from the start this wasn't going to be another juggernaut performance by the Cardinals.
Peyton Siva spent the last 15:19 of the first half on the bench after picking up his second foul, and Louisville wasn't nearly as stingy on defense as it's been. The Cardinals (13) actually had more turnovers than the Ducks (12), and Oregon is only the third team to shoot 44 percent or better during Louisville's winning streak.
Thanks to Smith, however, the Cardinals finished like they always do lately: with a win.
After Siva went out, Smith hit a 3 to spark a 14-3 run that put Louisville up 24-8. When he capped the spurt with a layup, it was Russ Smith 9, Oregon 8.
"We really dug ourselves a big hole," Singler said. "We tried to figure back as much as possible, but Louisville's a really, really good team. They just played better than us today."
But the Ducks aren't a team that gives in.
After losing six of their last 11 regular-season games, the Ducks have been on a tear. They won the Pac-12 tournament, then upset Oklahoma State and Saint Louis last weekend.
They went on a 16-4 run that cut Louisville's lead to six points, the smallest it had been since the opening minutes of the game.
"We watched film and seen how they run, and we kind of figured out that would happen," Chane Behanan said.
Instead of panicking, the Cardinals regrouped and regained control. After Ware and Behanan's baskets, Smith shot 3-of-4 from the line to seal the win.
"Coach has been telling me to fight through (his cold), fight through it, dig in. My teammates as well," Smith said. "We're fighting through it and just doing whatever we can to get a win."
Billions of years ago, Mars could have been teeming with very small Martians
By Stephen Ornes
Web edition: March 22, 2013
Billions of years ago, Mars could have been teeming with very small Martians
By Stephen Ornes
Web edition: March 22, 2013
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The first sample of Martian rock drilled by the rover Curiosity. The rock offers evidence microbes could have lived on Mars.
Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS
In February, NASA?s Curiosity rover made history when it plunged a drill into the Martian surface to collect a powdery rock sample. Scientists now say that those bits of rock show the Red Planet may have been able to support?life ? billions of years ago, anyway.
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Mar. 22, 2013 ? Recent measurements of the rate at which children show DNA changes not seen in their parents -- the "mutation rate" -- have challenged views about major dates in human evolution.
In particular these measurements have made geneticists think again about key dates in human evolution, like when modern non-Africans split from modern Africans. The recent measurements push back the best estimates of these dates by up to a factor of two. Now, however an international team led by researchers at the University of T?bingen and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, present results that point again to the more recent dates. The new study is published in Current Biology.
The team, led by Johannes Krause from T?bingen University, was able to reconstruct more than ten mitochondrial genomes (mtDNAs) from modern humans from Eurasia that span 40,000 years of prehistory. The samples include some of the oldest modern human fossils from Europe such as the triple burial from Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic, as well as the oldest modern human skeletons found in Germany from the site of Oberkassel close to Bonn.
The researchers show that pre-ice age hunter-gatherers from Europe carry mtDNA that is related to that seen in post-ice age modern humans such as the Oberkassel fossils. This suggests that there was population continuity throughout the last major glaciation event in Europe around 20,000 years ago. Two of the Dolni Vestonice hunter-gatherers also carry identical mtDNAs, suggesting a close maternal relationship among these individuals who were buried together.
The researchers also used the radiocarbon age of the fossils to estimate human mutation rates over tens of thousands of year back in time. This was done by calculating the number of mutations in modern groups that are absent in the ancient groups, since they had not yet existed in the ancient population. The mutation rate was estimated by counting the number of mutations accumulated along descendent lineages since the radiocarbon dated fossils.
Using those novel mutation rates -- capitalizing on information from ancient DNA -- the authors cal-culate the last common ancestor for human mitochondrial lineages to around 160,000 years ago. In other words, all present-day humans have as one of their ancestors a single woman who lived around that time.
The authors also estimate the time since the most recent common ancestor of Africans and non-Africans to between 62,000-95,000 years ago, providing a maximum date for the mass migration of modern humans out of Africa. Those results are in agreement with previous mitochondrial dates based on archaeological and anthropological work but are at the extreme low end of the dates sug-gested from de-novo studies that suggest a split of non-Africans from Africans about thirty thousand years earlier.
"The results from modern family studies and our ancient human DNA studies are in conflict" says Krause. "One possibility is that mutations were missed in the modern family studies, which could lead to underestimated mutation rates." The authors argue that nuclear genomes from ancient mod-ern humans may help to explain the discrepancies.
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Study finds long nerve grafts restore function in patients with brachial plexus injuryPublic release date: 22-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: phyllis Fisher phyllis.fisher@gmail.com 212-606-1724 Hospital for Special Surgery
Hospital for Special Surgery study challenges widely held belief that long nerve grafts do poorly
A study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) challenges a widely held belief that long nerve grafts do poorly in adults with an axillary nerve injury. Investigators found that the outcomes of long nerve grafts were comparable to those of modern nerve transfers. Both procedures restored function. The axillary nerve supplies the deltoid muscle of the shoulder and an important rotator cuff muscle. It's part of the brachial plexus, a network of nerves that runs down from the neck and across the shoulder.
"Conventional wisdom is that grafts longer than seven centimeters (about three inches) don't work well. We set out to test this theory and found that long nerve grafts did work well. Our study concludes that this type of graft should not be overlooked as an effective treatment for an axillary nerve injury," said Dr. Scott W. Wolfe, lead author and director of the Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
The study, titled, "Comparison between Long Nerve Grafts and Nerve Transfers for Axillary Nerve Injuries," will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on March 22 in Chicago.
Injury to the brachial plexus can be devastating, leaving people unable to use their arms or hands. The most common cause is a motor vehicle accident or sports injury. The Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury (http://www.hss.edu/BrachialPlexusCenter) at Hospital for Special Surgery offers advanced diagnostic and treatment options, including complex nerve reconstruction surgery.
Nerve reconstruction is considered when nerves are so severely damaged they cannot recover on their own. These complex operations can take up to 12 hours. Surgeons reconstruct nerves either by bridging a nerve defect with a nerve graft or by performing a nerve transfer from a nearby healthy nerve to share its function. In the study, researchers compared these two different techniques to reactivate the deltoid muscle and enable patients to regain the use of their arm.
"A nerve transfer takes a working nerve from one muscle and transfers all or part of that nerve to a non-working nerve or another muscle, so that the two muscles can share the nerve and regain function," Dr. Wolfe explained. "A nerve graft involves taking a nerve from another part of the body. The nerve is removed from a location where its function is less important, usually the leg, and moved to the damaged area. It is used to bridge the defective gap between two ends of a nerve to restore function."
Only 150 to 200 highly specialized surgeons worldwide perform these complex brachial plexus surgeries, and Dr. Wolfe and his colleagues aim to raise awareness that the procedures can restore function in people severely debilitated by a nerve injury. It is important for patients to be treated in a timely manner.
Traditionally, nerve grafts longer than seven centimeters have demonstrated worse outcomes than short grafts and poorer functional outcome when compared to nerve transfer surgery. The purpose of the HSS study was to take another look at longer grafts and directly compare the outcomes to nerve transfers. The results were measured by the patients' recovery and by a test called electromyography, or EMG. This sophisticated test is used to objectively measure muscle and nerve function.
In the study, 11 patients treated with long nerve grafts (> 7cm, range 9cm to 15cm) were compared with 14 patients treated by a nerve transfer over a 10-year period. The average length of the nerve graft was 13cm (5.2 inches). Data was collected at regular intervals, beginning pre-operatively and continuing for up to 11 years.
Prior to surgery, all patients had EMG tests that showed complete absence of deltoid muscle function. After surgery, deltoid recovery, range of motion and EMG evidence of restored function were compared.
The study found no statistically significant differences in shoulder strength, range of motion or electromyographic recovery between nerve graft and nerve transfer patients. All adults in the long nerve graft group regained at least enough strength to be able to move their arm against gravity, but there were two failures in the nerve transfer group. "Going from no function with a limp and numb arm to gaining enough strength to be able to lift a glass to one's lips is a major gain for these patients," said Dr. Wolfe, who is also chief emeritus of the Hand and Upper Extremity Service at HSS.
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"Improvements in the patients receiving a nerve graft were identical to improvements in the nerve transfer group," he added, "so now surgeons can say with confidence that 'a long graft has a good chance of working,' instead of abandoning the procedure when a nerve transfer is not an option."
Unfortunately, some patients suffer long-term impairment from nerve injuries that could have been repaired because many physicians are unaware that nerve reconstructive surgery works, according to Dr. Steve K. Lee, director of research at the Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury. "When a nerve that controls a muscle loses function, it needs to be reactivated within about 12 months, before the muscle atrophies. Studies have shown that if nerve reconstruction surgery is done within six months after a nerve is damaged, patients do much better."
Dr. Joseph Feinberg, who is co-medical director of the Center and performs diagnostic testing to evaluate nerve injuries, says studies such as the one conducted at HSS are important to raise awareness. "In general, many people feel that these types of nerve injuries are permanent and not many treatments are effective. We want people to be aware that they do have options. Procedures can be done to restore function, even when a patient has completely lost the ability to use certain muscle groups," said Dr. Feinberg, who is physiatrist-in-chief at Hospital for Special Surgery.
Dr. Wolfe says the next step will be to conduct a rigorous multi-center study to better define the role of nerve grafts versus nerve transfers and how best to use the two techniques.
Other contributing authors from Hospital for Special Surgery are Parker Johnsen, B.S., who is the presenting author, and Adele Mirbey, B.A.
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Paper: Comparison between Long Nerve Grafts and Nerve Transfers for Axillary Nerve Injuries, (Paper 801)
Friday, March 22, 2013, 4:36 p.m. 4:42 p.m. CDT. McCormick Place, Room N426.
About the Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury
The Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury at Hospital for Special Surgery is a national resource for men and women of all ages, providing diagnostic and reconstructive options for patients with injuries to or dysfunction of the peripheral nerve and brachial plexus. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the center utilizes the expertise of a wide range of health care professionals including orthopedic surgeons, physiatrists, neurologists, radiologists, psychiatrists, rheumatologists, pain management specialists, physical therapists and anesthesiologists, so that patients can benefit from a coordinated treatment experience.
About Hospital for Special Surgery
Founded in 1863, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is a world leader in orthopedics, rheumatology and rehabilitation. HSS is nationally ranked No. 1 in orthopedics, No. 3 in rheumatology, No. 10 in neurology and No. 5 in geriatrics by U.S. News & World Report (2012-13), and is the first hospital in New York State to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Credentialing Center three consecutive times. HSS has one of the lowest infection rates in the country. From 2007 to 2011, HSS has been a recipient of the HealthGrades Joint Replacement Excellence Award. HSS is a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System and an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College and as such all Hospital for Special Surgery medical staff are faculty of Weill Cornell. The hospital's research division is internationally recognized as a leader in the investigation of musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases. Hospital for Special Surgery is located in New York City and online at http://www.hss.edu.
For more information contact:
Phyllis Fisher
212-606-1197
FisherP@hss.edu
Phyllis.Fisher@gmail.com
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Study finds long nerve grafts restore function in patients with brachial plexus injuryPublic release date: 22-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: phyllis Fisher phyllis.fisher@gmail.com 212-606-1724 Hospital for Special Surgery
Hospital for Special Surgery study challenges widely held belief that long nerve grafts do poorly
A study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) challenges a widely held belief that long nerve grafts do poorly in adults with an axillary nerve injury. Investigators found that the outcomes of long nerve grafts were comparable to those of modern nerve transfers. Both procedures restored function. The axillary nerve supplies the deltoid muscle of the shoulder and an important rotator cuff muscle. It's part of the brachial plexus, a network of nerves that runs down from the neck and across the shoulder.
"Conventional wisdom is that grafts longer than seven centimeters (about three inches) don't work well. We set out to test this theory and found that long nerve grafts did work well. Our study concludes that this type of graft should not be overlooked as an effective treatment for an axillary nerve injury," said Dr. Scott W. Wolfe, lead author and director of the Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
The study, titled, "Comparison between Long Nerve Grafts and Nerve Transfers for Axillary Nerve Injuries," will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on March 22 in Chicago.
Injury to the brachial plexus can be devastating, leaving people unable to use their arms or hands. The most common cause is a motor vehicle accident or sports injury. The Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury (http://www.hss.edu/BrachialPlexusCenter) at Hospital for Special Surgery offers advanced diagnostic and treatment options, including complex nerve reconstruction surgery.
Nerve reconstruction is considered when nerves are so severely damaged they cannot recover on their own. These complex operations can take up to 12 hours. Surgeons reconstruct nerves either by bridging a nerve defect with a nerve graft or by performing a nerve transfer from a nearby healthy nerve to share its function. In the study, researchers compared these two different techniques to reactivate the deltoid muscle and enable patients to regain the use of their arm.
"A nerve transfer takes a working nerve from one muscle and transfers all or part of that nerve to a non-working nerve or another muscle, so that the two muscles can share the nerve and regain function," Dr. Wolfe explained. "A nerve graft involves taking a nerve from another part of the body. The nerve is removed from a location where its function is less important, usually the leg, and moved to the damaged area. It is used to bridge the defective gap between two ends of a nerve to restore function."
Only 150 to 200 highly specialized surgeons worldwide perform these complex brachial plexus surgeries, and Dr. Wolfe and his colleagues aim to raise awareness that the procedures can restore function in people severely debilitated by a nerve injury. It is important for patients to be treated in a timely manner.
Traditionally, nerve grafts longer than seven centimeters have demonstrated worse outcomes than short grafts and poorer functional outcome when compared to nerve transfer surgery. The purpose of the HSS study was to take another look at longer grafts and directly compare the outcomes to nerve transfers. The results were measured by the patients' recovery and by a test called electromyography, or EMG. This sophisticated test is used to objectively measure muscle and nerve function.
In the study, 11 patients treated with long nerve grafts (> 7cm, range 9cm to 15cm) were compared with 14 patients treated by a nerve transfer over a 10-year period. The average length of the nerve graft was 13cm (5.2 inches). Data was collected at regular intervals, beginning pre-operatively and continuing for up to 11 years.
Prior to surgery, all patients had EMG tests that showed complete absence of deltoid muscle function. After surgery, deltoid recovery, range of motion and EMG evidence of restored function were compared.
The study found no statistically significant differences in shoulder strength, range of motion or electromyographic recovery between nerve graft and nerve transfer patients. All adults in the long nerve graft group regained at least enough strength to be able to move their arm against gravity, but there were two failures in the nerve transfer group. "Going from no function with a limp and numb arm to gaining enough strength to be able to lift a glass to one's lips is a major gain for these patients," said Dr. Wolfe, who is also chief emeritus of the Hand and Upper Extremity Service at HSS.
.
"Improvements in the patients receiving a nerve graft were identical to improvements in the nerve transfer group," he added, "so now surgeons can say with confidence that 'a long graft has a good chance of working,' instead of abandoning the procedure when a nerve transfer is not an option."
Unfortunately, some patients suffer long-term impairment from nerve injuries that could have been repaired because many physicians are unaware that nerve reconstructive surgery works, according to Dr. Steve K. Lee, director of research at the Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury. "When a nerve that controls a muscle loses function, it needs to be reactivated within about 12 months, before the muscle atrophies. Studies have shown that if nerve reconstruction surgery is done within six months after a nerve is damaged, patients do much better."
Dr. Joseph Feinberg, who is co-medical director of the Center and performs diagnostic testing to evaluate nerve injuries, says studies such as the one conducted at HSS are important to raise awareness. "In general, many people feel that these types of nerve injuries are permanent and not many treatments are effective. We want people to be aware that they do have options. Procedures can be done to restore function, even when a patient has completely lost the ability to use certain muscle groups," said Dr. Feinberg, who is physiatrist-in-chief at Hospital for Special Surgery.
Dr. Wolfe says the next step will be to conduct a rigorous multi-center study to better define the role of nerve grafts versus nerve transfers and how best to use the two techniques.
Other contributing authors from Hospital for Special Surgery are Parker Johnsen, B.S., who is the presenting author, and Adele Mirbey, B.A.
###
Paper: Comparison between Long Nerve Grafts and Nerve Transfers for Axillary Nerve Injuries, (Paper 801)
Friday, March 22, 2013, 4:36 p.m. 4:42 p.m. CDT. McCormick Place, Room N426.
About the Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury
The Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury at Hospital for Special Surgery is a national resource for men and women of all ages, providing diagnostic and reconstructive options for patients with injuries to or dysfunction of the peripheral nerve and brachial plexus. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the center utilizes the expertise of a wide range of health care professionals including orthopedic surgeons, physiatrists, neurologists, radiologists, psychiatrists, rheumatologists, pain management specialists, physical therapists and anesthesiologists, so that patients can benefit from a coordinated treatment experience.
About Hospital for Special Surgery
Founded in 1863, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is a world leader in orthopedics, rheumatology and rehabilitation. HSS is nationally ranked No. 1 in orthopedics, No. 3 in rheumatology, No. 10 in neurology and No. 5 in geriatrics by U.S. News & World Report (2012-13), and is the first hospital in New York State to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Credentialing Center three consecutive times. HSS has one of the lowest infection rates in the country. From 2007 to 2011, HSS has been a recipient of the HealthGrades Joint Replacement Excellence Award. HSS is a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System and an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College and as such all Hospital for Special Surgery medical staff are faculty of Weill Cornell. The hospital's research division is internationally recognized as a leader in the investigation of musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases. Hospital for Special Surgery is located in New York City and online at http://www.hss.edu.
For more information contact:
Phyllis Fisher
212-606-1197
FisherP@hss.edu
Phyllis.Fisher@gmail.com
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday that settlement building in the occupied West Bank did not "advance the cause of peace", but stopped short of demanding a construction freeze to enable negotiations to resume.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Obama said he remained committed to the creation of an "independent, viable and contiguous" Palestinian state, but said achieving that goal would not be easy.
"The core issue right now is how do we get sovereignty for the Palestinian people and security for Israeli people," he told reporters following almost two hours of talks with Abbas.
"That's not to say settlements aren't important. That's to say if we solve those two problems, the settlement issue will be resolved," he added.
U.S.-sponsored talks between Israel and the Palestinians broke down in 2010 over the issue of Jewish settlements and Abbas repeated on Thursday that he wanted to see construction halted on land seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.
On his first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Obama held lengthy talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday.
"I've been clear with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli leadership that ... we do not consider continued settlement activity to be constructive, to be appropriate, to be something that can advance the cause of peace," Obama said.
He offered no new proposals on how to revive talks, but said his new Secretary of State John Kerry would spend a significant amount of time trying to narrow the differences between the two sides as Washington seeks to move them back to negotiations.
In a 2009 speech in Cairo, Obama said the United States did not "accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements" and pressed openly for a freeze on settlement activity in talks with Netanyahu early in his first term.
More recently, however, he has largely avoided any direct mention of settlements and has instead urged both parties to refrain from "unilateral" moves, referring to settlement expansion and Palestinian statehood bids at the United Nations.
(Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch and Allyn Fisher-Ilan; editing by Crispian Balmer)
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In sentencing two high school football players to juvenile jail terms for raping a drunken girl, Judge Thomas Lipps issued a cautionary note to children and parents, urging them to reconsider "how you record things on the social media so prevalent today."
And certainly the countless texts, the photos and the tweets, not to mention a vile YouTube video that referred to the assault in the crudest terms, were regrettable and revolting ? a means not only of intimidating the 16-year-old victim, but also of victimizing her over and over again.
But they also made the convictions possible and shed light on a type of case that often stays in the shadows. And, experts say, the social media component of the Steubenville case may help educate young people who remain shockingly ignorant about the definition of sexual assault.
"What happens in basements and at drunken parties used to stay there," says Ric Simmons, professor at the Ohio State Moritz College of Law. But the huge role that social media played in the Ohio case, and the vast amount of evidence it created, he says, "brings these things out into the open. People are starting to talk about it, and people are starting to realize how the law treats this kind of behavior."
Of course, teenagers on social media is not new. Nor is the use of social media by prosecutors to gather evidence.
But the Ohio case, in which Trent Mays and Ma'Lik Richmond were found guilty of raping their victim twice with their hands, first in a car and then in a basement, attracted attention not only because of the crime's callousness, but also the shocking and equally callous manner in which it was documented.
Mays tweeted a photo of the girl naked and passed out. A friend made a video of one of the assaults, then deleted it. That YouTube video, viewed well more than a million times, showed a group of friends joking about the assault for 12 excruciating minutes.
But perhaps nothing speaks to the social media component as much as the way the victim herself gradually learned the details the next day: via text exchanges, forwarded photos, even watching the video.
"OMG please tell me this isn't (expletive) true," the girl texted a male friend.
"Imagine how horrible for the victim, waking up and hearing about what happened via text and Twitter, and then how quickly it all spread, through the school and the community," says Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute. "And then it spreads nationally and internationally. We're talking about a reverberation that will last, frankly, the rest of her life."
'Extraordinary evidence trail' And yet, says Balkam and other experts, "the social media aspect of this case is truly a double-edged sword. The video, the tweets, the texts ? they provided this extraordinary evidence trail that you couldn't run away from. They allowed activists to keep hunting for more evidence, to push prosecutors. Without it, do you think the case would have been brought?"
And so, Balkam says, the Ohio case has become "a huge teaching moment" for an organization like his, which seeks to make the online world safer. He plans to use it in events for kids and their parents, like an upcoming session at a Miami middle school.
"It used to be that we tried to protect kids from accessing porn online," he says. "Now, kids themselves are creating the very content that we were trying to keep them away from." Exacerbating the situation is the focus on mobile phones to share content.
Of course, the most horrible crime was the rape. Educators and counselors say they are saddened, though not totally shocked, that some of the teens were unaware of what constitutes a sex crime. Evan Westlake, who took the video of the rape, testified: "It wasn't violent. I didn't know exactly what rape was. I always pictured it was someone forcing themselves on someone."
A sexuality educator in New York says this provides a key opportunity. "Clearly we have boys and girls who haven't had an education in sexual assault," says Kirsten deFur. "We need to teach them, for example, that consent is crucial at every step. And that if someone is drunk or unconscious, that person is unable to give consent."
Another disturbing aspect, to many, is the extent to which peer pressure appears to have affected the teens' responsibility as bystanders ? either actual or virtual. What should they have done? Prosecutors are continuing to investigate people ? teens, adults, coaches ? who may have failed to report a crime.
'They think they're anonymous' Teenagers interviewed by The Associated Press in several cities said they hoped they would have the strength to report their friends, but weren't sure they would. "I wouldn't know whom to report to," said Jasmine Flores, 18, a high school junior in Madison, Wis. She says many teenagers are reluctant to be tattletales.
"It's a taboo thing to do," Flores says. "If you are that person's friend, you don't want get that person in trouble."
Flores, though, is certain about one thing: What the Steubenville defendants did was terribly wrong. "I didn't think people were capable of something like that," she said. And that went for the online sharing, as well.
"They think they're anonymous," Flores said. "Or they're not even thinking. It's 'Oh, everybody needs to know about what we're doing. We're so cool. We're so awesome.' "
Flores is not shy about how much time she spends on social media. Like some other teens, she has moved on from Facebook but spends a few hours a day on Tumblr and texts hundreds of times. In the summer, that number goes up to about 1,000.
Julian Juarez, 16, of El Paso, Texas, says he uses Facebook "every day, every hour." And he often encounters unseemly content on social media. "Every day I see things that are inappropriate, like people that post pictures of themselves almost naked," he said. "They just want to be cool, I guess."
Wanting to be cool, wanted to be liked, mixed with heavy doses of alcohol: That's what struck Dana Edell, who heads SPARK, a group seeking to prevent the sexualization of girls, when she watched the Ohio YouTube video. "All those boys were egging each other on, trying to make each other laugh," she says.
Edell argues that what happened in Steubenville occurs every weekend at booze-fueled parties across the country. "What made this case unique is how it was documented," she says.
And so, as much as it's horrifying to speak of a silver lining, Edell is hoping the Ohio case has one.
"I hope it's really raising awareness of how dangerous what these boys did was, and all the other teenagers ? including girls ? who stood by and did nothing," she says. "The fact that there was confusion about whether what they were doing is right or wrong is tragic. And so the fact that the boys were convicted of rape and will serve time is hopefully a wake-up call. It's unfortunate that it took a tragedy to wake us up. But it's become a national conversation."
A conversation in which, at least at the trial, the victim's mother seemed to have, memorably, the last word.
"You were your own accuser," she said, "through the social media that you chose to publish your criminal conduct on."
Associated Press writers Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Kevin Wang in Madison and Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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Surprising scientists and horticulturalists, once-mild downy mildew disease has struck the popular blooms in 33 states
Surprising scientists and horticulturalists, once-mild downy mildew disease has struck the popular blooms in 33 states
By Susan Milius
Web edition: March 20, 2013
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Impatiens downy mildew, a disease that has recently become more aggressive in the United States, can turn a lush floral display (left) into sad stalks just five weeks later.
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A puzzling plant disease may dethrone one of the most popular and reliable flowerbed plants in North America, the garden impatiens.
A relatively benign condition known as impatiens downy mildew has recently turned ugly, for reasons under debate. For decades, U.S. gardeners rarely noticed downy mildew on their impatiens. But in the last two years, the disease has ravaged flower beds in some of the more humid parts of the country. After rain or fog followed by balmy nights, the disease can turn a lush flower border into a straggle of bare stalks that eventually collapse and die.
In recent years, aggressive impatiens downy mildew has flared up during disease-friendly weather in parts of Europe, South Africa and Australia. But the United States hadn?t seen more than a few scattered reports until widespread outbreaks began in 2011. By the end of 2012, pathologists had confirmed the disease in 33 states and Washington, D.C.
Since weather affects outbreaks, it?s hard to predict what 2013 will bring. But impatiens downy mildew was already active in Florida when the year began, says plant pathologist Colleen Warfield of Ball Horticultural Company, a Chicago-based company that breeds and distributes plants, including impatiens.
The disease is unlikely to eradicate the plants, but in some areas of the country, the risk can change a gardener?s mind about what to plant. Impatiens downy mildew ?thrives in our coastal climate,? says plant pathologist Nancy Gregory of the University of Delaware cooperative extension program in Newark. In advice that would have been shocking a decade ago, she suggests gardeners skip impatiens unless willing to cope with the risk of an unsightly die-off.
In New York, another state that has seen two years of mildew, floriculturist Nora Catlin of Suffolk County frets over giving such advice. ?I hate to tell people not to plant a plant,? she says, but this may be an opportunity to try growing something new.
Preventing an outbreak would require diligent pesticide treatment several times a month on the supposedly easy-care impatiens. Once the disease shows up in a plant, there?s no cure.
The pathogen can waft along on air currents, swim and perhaps survive the winter in soil. Gregory warns landscapers in her hard-hit state that even if they?re careful, ?chances are someone down the block or around the corner could have some infected plant material that could spread to your nice clean garden full of impatiens.?
Ned Chapman, owner of Sunnyside Gardens in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., says he and most other growers he talks with have either stopped growing garden impatiens or cut back by 75 percent or so. (In 2007, the most recent year for which data are available, growers sold $134 million of impatiens at wholesale.)
In Oregon, the disease has appeared only sporadically, says plant pathologist Melodie Putnam, who directs the Oregon State University Plant Clinic in Corvallis. The state does not have the summer humidity that encourages the mildew?s quick spread.
One peculiar aspect of this outbreak is that the pathogen that is thought to cause the disease has been reported in North America since the 19th century. Called Plasmopara obducens, it?s one of the oomycetes, or water molds, a group that includes the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine and the one wreaking havoc in California and Oregon with sudden oak death.
Until recently, P. obducens seemed relatively mild mannered, says Marco Thines, an evolutionary biologist at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt who has studied oomycetes. Cells of the pathogen whip through a film of water by lashing their propeller-like flagella. They colonize plant tissues by punching through cell walls and, once inside, poking nutrient-harvesting nubbins against the cell membrane like fingers squeezing a balloon.
Downy mildews can often attack only a restricted range of species, says plant pathologist Phil Jennings of the United Kingdom?s Food and Environment Research Agency. P. obducens strikes garden impatiens, Impatiens walleriana, and some cousins. It doesn?t destroy a related blooming annual, the New Guinea impatiens, I. hawkeri.
Delving into the genetics of the pathogen may clarify how the disease has changed to become more virulent. What has been considered one species may actually be several, and some variant may have evolved into an alarming form.
?I don?t think this is our grandfather?s Plasmopera obducens,? says plant pathologist and former U.S. national mycologist Joe Bischoff of the American Nursery & Landscape Association.
Preliminary analyses show at least three distinct genetic groups within P. obducens populations, Warfield says. In the lab, all three ?are equally destructive,? she reports. Each can wreak havoc in at least come gardens, but whether they survive equally well in varied environments remains to be seen.
Garden impatiens may come in an array of colors, but all commercial varieties of Impatiens walleriana and interspecific hybrids with an I. walleriana parent are susceptible to the disease, Warfield says. ?Developing a downy mildew?resistant garden impatiens is likely to take many years, and it may not even look like the garden impatiens of today.?
Divshot, a Santa Monica-based startup offering a drag-and-drop interface builder for web applications, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by Rincon Venture Partners, and saw participation from 500 Startups, Daher Capital, Floodlight Ventures, Cooley LLP, Drummond Road Capital, and Eric Hammond.
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Mar. 19, 2013 ? Better diagnosis and treatment of cancer could hinge on the ability to better understand a single cell at its molecular level. New research offers a more comprehensive way of analyzing one cell's unique behavior, using an array of colors to show patterns that could indicate why a cell will or won't become cancerous.
A University of Washington team has developed a new method for color-coding cells that allows them to illuminate 100 biomarkers, a ten-time increase from the current research standard, to help analyze individual cells from cultures or tissue biopsies. The work is published this week (March 19) in Nature Communications.
"Discovering this process is an unprecedented breakthrough for the field," said corresponding author Xiaohu Gao, a UW associate professor of bioengineering. "This technology opens up exciting opportunities for single-cell analysis and clinical diagnosis."
The research builds on current methods that use a smaller array of colors to point out a cell's biomarkers -- characteristics that indicate a special, and potentially abnormal or diseased, cell. Ideally, scientists would be able to test for a large number of biomarkers, then rely on the patterns that emerge from those tests to understand a cell's properties.
The UW research team has created a cycle process that allows scientists to test for up to 100 biomarkers in a single cell. Before, researchers could only test for 10 at a time.
The analysis uses quantum dots, which are fluorescent balls of semiconductor material. Quantum dots are the smaller version of the material found in many electronics, including smartphones and radios. These quantum dots are between 2 and 6 nanometers in diameter, and they vary on the color they emit depending on their size.
Cyclical testing hasn't been done before, though many quantum dot papers have tried to expand the number of biomarkers tested for in a single cell. This method essentially reuses the same tissue sample, testing for biomarkers in groups of 10 in each round.
"Proteins are the building blocks for cell function and cell behavior, but their makeup in a cell is highly complex," Gao said. "You need to look at a number of indicators (biomarkers) to know what's going on."
The new process works like this: Gao and his team purchase antibodies that are known to bind with the specific biomarkers they want to test for in a cell. They pair quantum dots with the antibodies in a fluid solution, injecting it onto a tissue sample. Then, they use a microscope to look for the presence of fluorescent colors in the cell. If they see particular quantum dot colors in the tissue sample, they know the corresponding biomarker is present in the cell.
After completing one cycle, Gao and co-author Pavel Zrazhevskiy, a UW postdoctoral associate in bioengineering, inject a low-pH fluid into the cell tissue that neutralizes the color fluorescence, essentially wiping the sample clean for the next round. Remarkably, the tissue sample doesn't degrade at all even after 10 such cycles, Gao said.
For cancer research and treatment, in particular, it's important to be able to look at a single cell at high resolution to examine its details. For example, if 99 percent of cancer cells in a person's body respond to a treatment drug, but 1 percent doesn't, it's important to analyze and understand the molecular makeup of that 1 percent that responds differently.
"When you treat with promising drugs, there are still a few cells that usually don't respond to treatment," said Gao. "They look the same, but you don't have a tool to look at their protein building blocks. This will really help us develop new drugs and treatment approaches."
The process is relatively low-cost and simple, and Gao hopes the procedure can be automated. He envisions a chamber to hold the tissue sample, and wire-thin pumps to inject and vacuum out fluid between cycles. A microscope underneath the chamber would take photos during each stage. All of the images would be quantified on a computer, where scientists and physicians could look at the intensity and prevalence of colors.
Gao hopes to collaborate with companies and other researchers to move toward an automated process and clinical use.
"The technology is ready," Gao said. "Now that it's developed, we're ready for clinical impacts, particularly in the fields of systems biology, oncology and pathology."
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and the UW's Department of Bioengineering.
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In this Nov. 15, 1975 file photo, University of Oklahoma quarterback Steven Davis (5) sweeps for a 15-yard gain against Missouri in Columbia, Mo. A University of Oklahoma official says the starting quarterback for Oklahoma's national championship teams in 1974 and 1975 is one of two men killed when a small plane slammed into a house in northern Indiana. St. Joseph County Coroner Randy Magdalinski identified the victims of Sunday's march 17, 2013 crash as 60-year-old Steven Davis and 58-year-old Wesley Caves, both of Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Arego, File)
In this Nov. 15, 1975 file photo, University of Oklahoma quarterback Steven Davis (5) sweeps for a 15-yard gain against Missouri in Columbia, Mo. A University of Oklahoma official says the starting quarterback for Oklahoma's national championship teams in 1974 and 1975 is one of two men killed when a small plane slammed into a house in northern Indiana. St. Joseph County Coroner Randy Magdalinski identified the victims of Sunday's march 17, 2013 crash as 60-year-old Steven Davis and 58-year-old Wesley Caves, both of Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Arego, File)
South Bend firefighters work at the scene, Monday, March 18, 2013, where a plane crashed on Sunday, near the South Bend Regional Airport, in South Bend, Ind. The plane damaged homes, as well as causing injuries. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)
In this June 28, 2007 file photo, former University of Oklahoma quarterback Steven Davis speaks at the Petroleum Club in Oklahoma City, Okla. A University of Oklahoma official says the starting quarterback for Oklahoma's national championship teams in 1974 and 1975 is one of two men killed when a small plane slammed into a house in northern Indiana. St. Joseph County Coroner Randy Magdalinski identified the victims of Sunday's crash as 60-year-old Steven Davis and 58-year-old Wesley Caves, both of Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jaconna Aguirre)
FILE - In this Jan. 2, 1976 file photo, University of Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer, right, and quarterback Steven Davis, give the "number one" sign in Miami Beach, after the Associated Press named the Sooners as the national champions for the second year in a row. A University of Oklahoma official says the starting quarterback for Oklahoma's national championship teams in 1974 and 1975 is one of two men killed when a small plane slammed into a house in northern Indiana. St. Joseph County Coroner Randy Magdalinski identified the victims of Sunday's March 17, 2013 crash as 60-year-old Steven Davis and 58-year-old Wesley Caves, both of Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo, File)
The front end of a Hawker Beachcraft Premier jet sits in a room of a home on Iowa Street in South Bend, Ind., Sunday, March 17, 2013. Authorities say a private jet apparently experiencing mechanical trouble crashed resulting in injuries. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig says the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet had left Tulsa, Okla.'s Riverside Airport and crashed near the South Bend Regional Airport on Sunday afternoon. (AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Mike Hartman)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) ? Steve Davis, Oklahoma's starting quarterback when it won back-to-back national championships in the 1970s, was one of two people killed when a small aircraft smashed into three homes in northern Indiana, officials said Monday.
St. Joseph County Coroner Randy Magdalinski identified the victims of Sunday's crash in South Bend as 60-year-old Steven Davis and 58-year-old Wesley Caves, both of Tulsa, Okla. An Oklahoma athletics official confirmed it was the same Davis who played for the Sooners. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the school has not yet announced the death.
Caves owned the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet that clipped one house before slamming into two more Sunday afternoon. Caves had a pilot's license, but it was not immediately clear if he was flying the plane when it crashed.
The plane leaked enough fuel to force the evacuation of hundreds of people from surrounding homes, but most residents were allowed to return Monday morning.
Frank Sojka, 84, who lives in the first home that was struck, went back to his home Monday morning so police could retrieve some items. A total of eight homes remain under mandatory evacuation.
"I'm surprised people survived that," he said as he sat in his car with his son, waiting for police to move the barricade on his street.
Sojka said he was in the front bedroom of the home he's lived in for 55 years when he heard a loud, dull sound.
"I got up and went into the living room and I could see the sky through the ceiling and all kinds of debris in the far end of the living room," he said.
The front part of the fuselage sat wedged inside the third house just southwest of the South Bend Regional Airport, where the pilot had tried to land the plane Sunday afternoon.
Two others on board the plane survived, South Bend Assistant Fire Chief John Corthier said. South Bend Memorial Hospital spokeswoman Maggie Scroope said Monday that Jim Rogers was in serious condition and Christopher Evans was in fair condition.
A woman who neighbors said lived in the middle house that was struck, Diana McKeown, was in fair condition, Scroope said.
Authorities cut the power to several homes in the neighborhood after fuel leaked from the jet's engine into the basement of the home where the fuselage sat creating a "very dangerous" situation, Corthier said.
One neighbor described her terror as the plane bore down on her home.
"I was looking out my picture window," said Mary Jane Klaybor, who lives across the street from the crash site. "This (plane) was coming straight at my house. I went, 'Huh?' and then there was a big crash, and all the insulation went flying."
She said: "I saw the plane, then I heard the boom."
The plane began its journey in Tulsa, Okla. It is registered to 7700 Enterprises in Helena, Mont., which does business in Tulsa as DigiCut Systems and is owned by Caves. It isn't clear how Caves and Davis know each other.
Davis went 32-1-1 as the Sooners' starter from 1973 to 1975, starting every game of Barry Switzer's first three seasons as head coach. Oklahoma tied Southern California in the second game of the 1973 season, and then ran off 28 straight victories with Davis under center. The Sooners went 11-0 in 1974. They won the national title again the following year after going 11-1.
Mike Daigle, executive director of the St. Joseph County Airport Authority, said the plane attempted a landing at the South Bend airport about 4:15 p.m., then went back up and maneuvered south to try another landing, but eight minutes later, the airport learned the plane was no longer airborne.
He provided no information to indicate if the pilot said the plane was experiencing mechanical trouble.
Daigle said Monday he has no firsthand knowledge about what caused the crash.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Todd Fox said late Sunday the agency will be looking for the cause of the crash and "to identify and remedy any issues that could have prevented this accident."
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Latzke reported from Oklahoma City.
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Associated Press writers Ken Kusmer and Pam Engel in Indianapolis, and Chuck Bartels in Little Rock, Ark., contributed to this report.
>>>ten years ago this week, the
united states
and its allies launched its shock and awe attack on
iraq
. the
early days
of the war saw success with touster of stape buaddam hussein, but violence in
iraq
continues. we talk with a few of the many journalists embedded with
u.s. troops
in
iraq
and kept americans in the know about what was happening there. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent
kerry sanders
, who was embedded in
iraq
from kabul, afghanistan.
mike taibbi
also embedded in
iraq
and also in kabul for us tonight, former cbs news correspondent
kimberly dozier
now with the associate press, she was seriously wounded. her
camera crew
killed while they were covering the war. good to see all of you.
>>good to be here.
>>hello.
>>let me start with you. the neiman foundation back in the summer of
2003
called embedding a success saying in part, embedding allowed far greater access to the battlefield than the press endured in more than two decades and dampened the long hostilitity between the pentagon and the press. highway dp being embedded affect your ability to cover the war?
>>you know, i'd add to that statement that it was also law, and the true new complexion to all of this. we weren't just there able to be exactly with. i was with the 28, with the marines, it wasn't just i was with them as they were working but with them with a live camera and microphone literally crawling in the dirt up on a sand berm, putting my microphone out as a young marine would have his weapon out trained on the enemy here. i kind of like didn't to this -- if you wanted to get a picture of the whole war, you weren't going to get it from me. imagine you wanted a disruption how i looked, all i could give you, a description of the tip of my finger. you wouldn't know what
kerry sanders
looked like. but if you had all the different reporters weighs in with different parts of it you might be able to piece it together. that's what we doing. little snapshots from locations so people at home could piece it together and get an overall picture how the war was proeging on the battlefield.
>>mike, you spent a good chunk of time with one specific unit'sthe
3rd infantry
. what wases that experience like?
>>well, i think that the
3rd infantry
, the characterization of them being the tip of the sword was accurate and with other campaigns. i hooked up after our colleague
david bloom
died away from kuwait. great reporting at that point came to an end when 3rd i.d. settled in, saddam's old palace. i joined them then. one of the things i remember of that notion talking about, being right in the middle of a unit involved in the war, you get to see all the things they go through and all the ways the war impacts them. we did a long story on a critical incidentful stress bebriefing session. 14 guys in one squad, through the horrific aspects. a terrible incident at checkpoint at the end, opened fire on somebody they thought just jumped the checkpoint. a family who panicked. and the father and the daughter were killed and the mother survived, and came out and
stars and stripes
gave a photograph saying, why? what happened? these guys were so devastated by it. they sue prelsed it to a point, but in this long three-hour session talked how it seared into them and they'd never forget and they'd raised them to figure they came up with a translator making it clear everybody coming through the checkpoint exactly what was happening. to be that close to a unit as they go through that, acknowledge that, confront it, tells you something about the cost of war not being embedded would not allow you to tell.
>>kimberly, protecting, about 140 journalists killed. the
iraq war
, from
2003
to
2009
, were you badly wounded. colleagues,
paul douglas
,
james brolin
killed and, of course, as mike alluded to, we lost
david bloom
there died traveling in the iraqi desert. how did you deal with the constant danger? with the constant fear?
>>well, you know, i would say one of the ironic things was towards the end of my time there, we were hit, in my particular case in
2006
, we had started going out with the troops occasionally, because early on -- because its would lead to a good story from their point of view, but we tried to balance it
spending time
with iraqis. we'd drive to mosul up north. weez drive out to fallujah on the highway. but it got more and more dangerous. kidnapping became a threat. insurgents started targeting us. so we started embedding with troops towards the end of my time there because it was the safest way, ironically, to try to see what was going on outside the walls of our
hotel rooms
. that's how we ended up in our case on
memorial day
in
2006
with a foot patrol that was doing the kind of patrols that would later lead to some security in baghdad,
face to face
with the people. they wanted to be out talking to the people on that street, asking them who planted a roadside bomb the day before. unfortunately, someone knew we coming and we walked into an ambush. car bomber waiting until we were close enough and command detonated it through us. you always news that kind of risk was there. the nigh before any shoot, you always talked with your team. you relied on everyone's instincts. we didn't see this one coming. there were other times when we all said, no. we're not going to go there. not tomorrow. somebody feels badly. someone's -- you know, senses going off. not today. but there were times, you talked to troops the same way. they're instincts telling them, don't go out today, but they would have to take that patrol. have to do that mission and walk into it. it's just always with you, and it becomes
part of the job
.
>>kerry sanders
, you were one of the first us that a female u.s. soldier,
jessica lynch
, had been rescued from an iraqi hospital. take a look, take a listen.
>>inside that saddam hospital, which i need to note is also an
iraqi military
headquarters, 19-year-old
jessica lynch
. she was inside and the authorities, the military knew she was in there, because somebody inside the hospital had written a hand. written note say that she here. that she's alive, and they even gave the
room number
where she was.
>>kerry, tell us how all of that came about.
>>it was really strange. first of all, we were in this area near nasiriyah, and somebody stopped and told me that there was an
american woman
who was being held, a soldier, held and tortured, they said, inside that hospital. and so not exactly sure why they came up and talked to me as opposed to those who were in uniform around me. maybe i was non-threatening, but they came up to me, told me what was going on. i passed the information on. as it turned out, there she was. we're not sure about the whole torture thing but at the
end of the day
, her rescue took place. the
young woman
from
west virginia
, in the army, took a wrong turn and wound up being wounded and being taken to that hospital, and then eventually the rescue. bought very tense
early days
of the war, because here we had a woman who was being held at the time, believed to being held prisoner. unclear whether you call somebody who is being treated at hospital a the prisoner, but at that moment, she was a prisoner who was wounded.
>>mike taibbi
, how much did the military try to exercise over embeddeds like you?
>>depends how much of a, success you had, or whatever the team has had with the command. with the
command center
. it they tend to trust you. they're going to tell you more. they're not going to turn down any kwe69 you come to them with but if they trust you, they'll let you know. the briefings, tell you what they're going to do. you have a choice, kim was saying, whether you think, your instincts tell you it's a safe thing to do. harp on two things. i think they're fairly significant. one what kim said about being embedded was the safest way, least dangerous way to cover the wars. that's true because of a reason that has to do whip where we are. this is the
internet age
. when i cut my teeth in the '70s, go to a checkpoint,
american television
written ot
wind screen
and shout
american television
, all sides needed us to tell their story. now they --
>>a passport.
>>if they want to make a point, get their story told, they have the internet. make a point, they can and have beheaded, executed somebody on camera. they don't need us. our only real value to the insurgents on either side, hostages. increasing the danger on us exponentially and kerry talks be a the fact, potential for live coverage. we saw and heard a lot of that in the beginning of this war. think about it. a terrible loss in
iraq
, over 4,000 losses's men and women.
terrible tragedy
. on the third day of gettysburg, pickett's trarg, 6,000 casualties in three hours. imagine if
live television
, on the spot realtime reporting was available then, what the public would have known about that war, what opportunity to react in the a day of way? it's a whole different ball game.
>>kimberly, i'm --
>>the one thing you have to be --
>>i was going to say, i want to endy were you. you're on the intelligence beat for the a.p. quickly what has the mill -- what has the press, for that matter as well, what have we learned from some of the intelligence failures in the
iraq war
?
>>well, you know, the cia reformed thousa ed how it did its whole analytic process. the things that led to the conclusion than
saddam hussein
had
weapons of mass destruction
, created the whole system of red teaming, where you'd question yourself and question yourself and kquestion yourself and it's through that process that we were led to the raid that got
osama bin laden
. they questioned that information
over and over
and over again until they were sure, because they didn't want to make another mistake like
iraq
. one of the positive things that came out of that whole process in
iraq
, the hunt for the
al qaeda
leader apew abu czar ca -- zicari. have-o some would say, had the invasion not taken place we wouldn't have had that. that's for another segment.
>>thank you all for your work then and thanks for your work now as well. be safe, guys.
>>>we should note here as well that during the eight years of the
war in iraq
, as we mentioned in our conversation, more than 4,400 americans were killed. some 32,000 were wounded. that does not, of course, include the more than 100,000 civilian deaths as well. the financial costs of the war, it reached somewhere north of $800 billion. but most non-partisan experts suggest that by the time we're finished paying all the bills it will be closer to $2 trillion or $3 trillion.
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