GOP candidates: Fix US economy or fail like Europe

ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) — United in agreement for once, Republican presidential rivals warned forcefully Wednesday night the United States could be doomed to the same sort of financial crisis that is afflicting Europe unless federal deficits are drastically cut and the economy somehow revived.

Though sexual harassment allegations facing Herman Cain have dominated the GOP campaign for more than a week, the debate in economically ailing Michigan focused almost entirely on financial worries and proposed solutions in the U.S.

The candidates generally stuck to practiced speech lines — with a late exception. In the middle of one answer, Texas Gov. Rick Perry found himself unable to …

Italy health minister apologizes for botched birth

Italy's health minister has apologized to a new mother for an operating room fistfight between two doctors that led to her botched delivery.

According to news reports, Laura Salpietro had to have her uterus removed, and her son Antonio suffered heart problems following his birth Thursday in Messina's public hospital.

Hospital officials and Salpietro's husband, Matteo Molonia, say the …

Control and coping for individuals with end stage renal disease on hemodialysis: A position paper

Abstract

The hemodialysis regimen required to treat end stage renal disease (ESRD) can be extremely rigid, requiring individuals to adapt to and cope with multiple acute and chronic stressors. Stressors for individuals on hemodialysis can be treatment-related such as dietary and fluid restrictions and ingesting handfuls of medications, or psychosocial in nature such as alterations in sexual function, changes in self-perception, and fear of death. Coping for individuals with ESRD can be adaptive or maladaptive. Adaptive coping can produce desirable outcomes, such as employment and successful functioning within the family. If coping is maladaptive, however, marital and family …

Pop songs, billboards help overcome fear of census after decades of war in Liberia

The deep distrust of government created by years of war is evident in villages like this one, a tough, long drive through the forest from Liberia's capital, where people don't understand why census workers have been chalking numbers on every house, lean-to, hut and shack.

"What do you think they want with my house?" says Monogo Kebeh, 70-year-old woman outside her mud hut here.

The census is an exercise as old as the Roman Empire, but in a country that has not had a one for a quarter century it's anything but ordinary. For more than a year, over 9,000 census-takers have combed the densely forested nation mapping every structure. For three days …

Vonn's Olympics end with slalom mistake, 2 medals

The Vancouver Games were supposed to be Lindsey Vonn's Olympics, and she wanted to finish them skiing, not watching.

So she went to the starting gate for Friday's slalom _ her broken right little finger protected by a plastic brace and encased in a soft crimson mitten instead of a sturdy white glove.

Her back and famously bruised shin were aching and she was well aware she had little chance in an event she has struggled in all season.

Friday was no different. Vonn's right ski slid too wide as she came out of a left-hand turn early in the first of two slalom runs contested through a veil of dense fog and snowflakes. She straddled a gate instead of …

Von Bulow has a backer in Irons

A movie about Claus von Bulow won't reveal whether the Danishsocialite lawyer tried to kill his heiress wife, Sunny, but thathasn't stopped the actor who played von Bulow from sympathizing withhim.

"Acting a part is like a detective story," said British actorJeremy Irons. "You're following clues. I've just got this gutfeeling about many of the things von Bulow did. Finally you work outa hypothesis and all the clues just drop in. And you think: That'sit."

The movie, "Reversal of Fortune," is based on the book by vonBulow's appeal lawyer, Alan Dershowitz.

Von …

APNewsBreak: St. Paul's campers could stay to 2012

LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for protesters camped outside London's St. Paul's Cathedral said Wednesday that authorities have offered to let the tent city stay until next year, as the leader of the world's Anglicans backed a so-called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions as one way to alleviate the global economic crisis.

The loosely organized demonstration against capitalist excess, inspired by New York's Occupy Wall Street movement, has wrong-footed both city and church officials since it began last month, defying pleas to leave and the threat of legal action.

Authorities have suspended legal bids to remove the tents. On Wednesday John Cooper, a lawyer for the protesters, said …