George Michael in Vienna hospital (AP)

VIENNA ? George Michael's publicist says the British singer has been hospitalized in Vienna with pneumonia.

Connie Filippello said Wednesday that Michael's upcoming tours in Vienna, Strasbourg, France, and Cardiff, Wales, have been postponed as a result and will be rescheduled.

Her statement said the singer has been "diagnosed with pneumonia and he is currently receiving treatment."

Austrian state broadcaster says that is happening at Vienna's AKH hospital. A woman who answered the phone there refused to comment due to privacy rules. She also did not give her name.

Michael, 48, canceled his planned Vienna concert on Monday two hours before it was due to start.

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Oil prices fall on global economic worries (AP)

NEW YORK ? Worries that the global economy is weakening pushed oil prices down Wednesday, even though the government said that oil supplies fell sharply in the U.S.

West Texas Intermediate crude, the benchmark used to price oil in much of the U.S., fell $1.84 to finish at $96.17 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, which is used to price oil produced in many foreign countries, fell $1.95 to end at $106.70 a barrel in London.

Oil prices and stocks have fluctuated for weeks with concerns about the European debt crisis. On Wednesday those worries intensified after a German bond offering failed to attract buyers. Germany is Europe's largest economy, and among its strongest, so its struggle to raise money increased anxiety that weaker economies could face a disastrous cash crunch that could ripple through the global financial system.

Oil prices have stayed relatively high, however, because investors worry that continuing strife in the Middle East could disrupt supplies. Also, demand for oil in China and other developing nations has remained strong. Global oil demand is expected to reach record levels this year of more than 89 million barrels per day.

But there are signs that even China's economy may be weakening after a survey found manufacturing activity slowing there.

When economies slow, demand for crude oil and refined products like diesel, jet fuel and gasoline falls because fewer goods are produced and shipped, and people travel less. Oil has fallen more than 6 percent since last Wednesday, when it spiked to $102.59 per barrel.

Phil Flynn, an analyst at PFG Best in Chicago said oil prices likely would have fallen much further this Wednesday, but U.S. government data showed that stocks of crude shrank by nearly 2 percent. That suggests more oil will be needed to replenish supplies.

Crude supplies fell by 6.2 million barrels to 330.8 million barrels, which is about 8 percent below year-ago levels, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report.

Supplies of gasoline, however, rose sharply. Gasoline supplies increased by 4.5 million barrels, or 2.2 percent, to 209.6 million barrels. That's triple the amount analysts expected.

Demand for gasoline in the U.S. has fallen steadily this year as pump prices rose to near record levels in the spring and remained high throughout the year. Demand for gasoline over the four weeks ended Nov. 18 averaged 8.6 million barrels a day, 4 percent lower than a year earlier when gasoline was 14 percent cheaper.

The reason, analysts say, is that demand for diesel has been extraordinarily strong around the globe, especially in Asia and Latin America. U.S. refiners have been working at near-full capacity to produce diesel, but the process also creates gasoline, adding to supplies even though the market is soft.

The excess supply of gasoline is good news for U.S. drivers. Retail gasoline prices are lower than expected, given the relatively high price of crude.

Pump prices extended a two-week slide that has seen average prices down 11 cents a gallon since Nov. 10. The average price of retail gasoline on Wednesday fell a penny to $3.33 per gallon, according to AAA, OPIS and Wright Express.

Gasoline futures rose 4 cents to finish at $2.5177 a gallon in New York.

In other energy trading in New York, natural gas rose 4 cents to end at $3.46 per 1,000 cubic feet, and heating oil fell 8 cents to finish the day at $2.9591 a gallon.

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Susan Stiffelman: After Divorce: Those Bittersweet Moments As Parents

A few nights ago I watched one of the "Parenthood" episodes queued up in my DVR list. The show is a gem; one of the most honest looks at the beauty and complexities of family relationships ever to grace the screen.

One of the stories in this particular episode had to do with the efforts of Sara -- a single mother of two teens -- to help her former husband get into, and stay in, rehab. Despite the admonitions of her worried father and brother, she visits Seth, wanting to offer support, participating in some of his therapy, and who knows? Perhaps harboring a secret desire to restore her family to wholeness.

One scene hit me squarely in the heart. Sara and Seth are sitting on a bench, reminiscing about a photograph of the four of them when their children were toddlers. There's a palpable tenderness as they share memories and feelings that no one but the two of them could understand. Seth takes a leap, inviting Sara to watch one of their favorite movies in the group lounge, and you can feel Sara grappling with the longing for the past she once hoped for with Seth -- a life in which her children lived happily under one roof with both parents -- and the truth of their lives now.

She makes what she knows is the healthier decision, saying simply, "I can't". But it's a supremely poignant moment. The two of them hug for a long time. So much is said, without needing to be spoken.

Only a parent who has gone through divorce understands this scene. We share the longing that we might have been able to give our children both of their parents, sparing them the shuttling between houses, or worse, the loss of contact with a parent because of their inability to stay the course.

We know the grief, the guilt, or the worry that our children have been shortchanged. We know the pangs of sadness that occasionally descend when we see a happy family playing around in the park, or we observe the intimate glance between married parents as they comfort a troubled child. As well adjusted as our post-divorce children may be, it doesn't mean that that particular sorrow doesn't ever rear its head and ask to be felt for a little while.

That's what happened to me during that show. Something way down in my heart rumbled. I sat with it for a few minutes until -- duly acknowledged -- it moved on. I don't regret my divorce; my life is much better now, as is my former husband's. Our son is doing terrifically well; he's close to us both, and has never shown signs of significant harm because his parents didn't stay together, perhaps in part because of how we handled our separation. I speak often with his dad, who is a dear friend and will forever be part of my family.

But when those feelings bubble up, I give them their due. Even though I haven't been with my son's dad for 10 years and we clearly weren't right for one another, it is still a significant loss, and deserves to be treated as such. It is no small thing to create a life with someone, to become parents together, to embark down a road full of hope and promise, only to see it unravel. I for one believe in honoring that breeze of sadness when it occasionally blows through my heart, rather than talking myself out of those feelings with the list of reasons our marriage had to end.

Unless you have traveled this road, you won't understand what I'm talking about. And if you have traveled this road, you know exactly what I mean. Even years after loss, there will be moments when we're reminded of what might have been. I don't regret my marriage, and I don't regret my divorce. Mostly, I'm grateful that my heart is soft enough to feel these things -- all of them -- as bravely as I can.

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FBI arrests 7 in Amish haircut attacks in Ohio (AP)

MILLERSBURG, Ohio ? The leader of a breakaway Amish group allowed the beatings of those who disobeyed him, made some members sleep in a chicken coop and had sexual relations with married women to "cleanse them," federal authorities said as they charged him and six others with hate crimes in hair-cutting attacks against other Amish.

Authorities raided the group's compound in eastern Ohio on Wednesday morning and arrested seven men, including group leader Sam Mullet and three of his sons.

Several members of the group carried out the attacks in September, October and November by forcefully cutting the beards and hair of Amish men and women and then taking photos of them, authorities said.

Cutting the hair is a highly offensive act to the Amish, who believe the Bible instructs women to let their hair grow long and men to grow beards and stop shaving once they marry. One victim told the FBI he would rather have been "beaten black and blue than to suffer the disfigurement and humiliation of having his hair removed," according to court papers.

The attacks struck at the core of the Amish identity and tested their principles. They are pacifists and strongly believe that they must be forgiving in order for God to forgive them, which often means handing out their own punishment and not reporting crimes to law enforcement.

The attacks had terrorized Amish communities, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said at a news conference Wednesday.

"You've got Amish all over the state of Ohio and Pennsylvania and Indiana that are concerned. We've received hundreds and hundreds of calls from people living in fear," he said. "They are buying Mace, some are sitting with shotguns, getting locks on their doors because of Sam Mullet."

The sheriff added, "Sam Mullet is evil."

Mullet told The Associated Press in October that he didn't order the hair-cutting but didn't stop his sons and others from carrying it out. He said the goal was to send a message to other Amish that they should be ashamed of themselves for the way they were treating Mullet and his community.

"They changed the rulings of our church here, and they're trying to force their way down our throat, make us do like they want us to do, and we're not going to do that," Mullet said.

U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach said Wednesday that religious differences should be a matter of theological debate, not disputes "resolved by late night visits to people's homes with weapons and violent attacks." He said he did not know how often hate crimes involve intradenominational disputes.

The seven men were in custody and expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Youngstown. They include Mullet; his sons Johnny, Lester and Daniel; Levi Miller; Eli Miller; and Emanuel Schrock. The charges carry a penalty of up 10 years in prison.

Holmes County Prosecutor Steve Knowling, who filed state charges against five of the same defendants last month, said he would dismiss those counts and let federal prosecutors take the lead in the case.

In the state case, an Amish bishop and his son said they were held down while men used scissors and a clipper to cut their beards.

A defense attorney in the state case, Andy Hyde, said Sam Mullet would fight the federal charges. Hyde said he didn't know if he would represent Mullet in federal court.

The seven men were sleeping when the FBI and local police showed up at their homes before dawn Wednesday, Abdalla said. Three men initially refused to come out of their rooms, but all seven were arrested without incident, he said.

Abdalla, the sheriff, said he didn't know the specifics of the religious disagreements that prompted Mullet to form his own community in 1995.

But the heart of his recent dispute with Amish bishops stemmed from his desire to excommunicate several members, the FBI said. Other bishops concluded the excommunications weren't consistent with Amish teachings and scripture and decided not to recognize the penalties, the FBI said.

One of Mullet's daughters-in-law and a former brother-in-law told investigators that Mullet controls everything that happens within the community outside Bergholz and that he allowed others to beat members of the group who disobeyed him, according to an affidavit filed in federal court Wednesday.

Mullet punished some by making them sleep in a chicken coop for days and was sexually intimate with married women in the community so that he could "cleanse them of the devil," the two said in the affidavit.

Both said they left the community because they did not want to live under Mullet's control.

An FBI affidavit detailed four hair-cutting attacks. The attacks occurred against a couple in Trumbull County on Sept. 6; on Oct. 4 against a man and his son in Holmes County; later on Oct. 4 against a man in Carroll County; and on Nov. 9 against a man allegedly lured to the Mullet complex in Jefferson County.

Authorities said previously that some Amish refused to press charges, following their practice of avoiding involvement the courts.

Dettelbach alluded to the issue, saying: "It is not the victim's job to decide or to bring charges. I think that's a message I would like people to understand. These charges in this case are the result of our independent determination that crimes occurred."

Stephen Anthony, head of the FBI in northern Ohio, said hate crimes are a priority for the agency.

"The message we'd like to send should be clear that the FBI and all of our law enforcement partners represented here today take civil rights violations very, very seriously," he said.

Ohio has an estimated Amish population of just under 61,000 ? second only to Pennsylvania ? with most living in rural counties south and east of Cleveland.

They have a modest lifestyle and are deeply religious. Their traditions of traveling by horse and buggy and forgoing most modern conveniences distance themselves from the outside world and symbolize a yielding to a collective order.

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Cuts loom for science as 'supercommittee' fails

After three months of wrangling, the congressional "supercommittee" charged with lopping $1.5 trillion from the US federal budget deficit over the next 10 years conceded today that it has failed to agree on a plan. According to the rules laid down when the committee was established in early August, cuts totalling $1.2 trillion over a decade should now be triggered automatically across the federal budget from 2013 onwards.

Exactly what that means for science won't become clear until next year, but the required cuts are so large that major projects and research facilities are likely to find themselves on the chopping block. Space missions, national laboratories and "big science" efforts in fields like ecology could all be threatened.

"It's going to be real bloodletting," says Michael Lubell, head of public affairs with the American Physical Society. "Everything is up for grabs."

Half of the cuts will fall on defence and national security. Spending to provide a safety net against poverty, including Social Security, is protected. So that means a roughly 8 per cent cut all around for other programmes, says Patrick Clemins, who analyses the federal budget for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

National labs

These cuts may not fall evenly, however. Next year, after Congress agrees on the federal budget for 2013, the axe will fall on each number in the final spending bill. So President Barack Obama's administration, in how it words the 2013 budget request, and Congress, in how it writes the resulting spending bill, can try to protect certain programmes at the expense of others. This may mean frenzied lobbying for prized projects that could set groups of scientists against one another.

Which projects and labs look most vulnerable? That's hard to say, but the Department of Energy's system of national laboratories, which cost more than $10 billion a year to run, may come under close scrutiny. Earlier this month, the DOE's Inspector General, which acts as an independent watchdog, suggested that opportunities for "consolidation and realignment" should be considered.

The ageing Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, used for materials science and to determine the structures of biological molecules, looks particularly vulnerable. More radical options could include cuts to Fermilab near Chicago, which recently closed its Tevatron accelerator, and an administrative merger with the Argonne National Laboratory, also in Illinois.

Climate science

At NASA, the seriously over-budget James Webb Space Telescope, which last week fought off an attempt to zero out its funding, may come under renewed pressure.

Other potentially vulnerable big-ticket science items include the Joint Polar Satellite System, seen as the future of remote sensing for weather, climate and ocean science, and the National Ecological Monitoring Network, a series of long-term field sites that will monitor the impacts of climate change.

As Congress deals with fallout from the supercommittee's failure, some members ? including former Republican presidential candidate John McCain ? are exploring options for preventing the automatic cuts from coming into effect. As Bloomberg News noted earlier today: "Congress has a history of undoing previous attempts to require debt reduction."

For now, though, supporters of science are bracing for pain. "A viable alternative has yet to surface," Clemins says.

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To Build Or Not To Build, That Is The Windows Phone App Dev Question

tobe2A while back, I used one of my phone reviews as a platform to make a desperate, but necessary, plea to developers: Please build cool apps for Windows Phone 7.5. Come to find Microsoft had been making the same plea for a while as part of a broader support program called BizSpark, which gives tech startups from all walks of life ranging from desktop to the cloud to mobile the support they need to get their companies off the ground. To that end, the company recently held an event in New York called Mobile Acceleration Week (just one in a series of Mobile Acceleration Weeks that take place worldwide), in which 12 startups were offered hands-on training and support to build mobile apps for the platform. Obviously these developers had above-and-beyond support from Microsoft, but I was somewhat surprised to find that many of them are pretty infatuated with the platform. Some talked up the OS's enterprise-friendliness, while others bragged about how quickly they can build for WP7 compared to iOS and Android, while others simply prefer their app on a Metro UI. From the way that developers in general have been so hesitant to make the shift, I simply had to ask, "Why are developers — at least the ones who've moved over to WP7 — so gung-ho about Mango?" Microsoft's senior director of Windows Phone apps seemed to have the answer: "we give a f%*k."

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Weak spot discovered on deadly ebolavirus

ScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2011) ? Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and the US Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have isolated and analyzed an antibody that neutralizes Sudan virus, a major species of ebolavirus and one of the most dangerous human pathogens.

"We suspect that we've found a key spot for neutralizing ebolaviruses," said Scripps Research Associate Professor Erica Ollmann Saphire, who led the study with US Army virologist John M. Dye.

The new findings, which were reported November 20, 2011, in an advance online edition of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, show the antibody attaches to Sudan virus in a way that links two segments of its coat protein, reducing their freedom of movement and severely hindering the virus's ability to infect cells. The protein-linking strategy appears to be the same as that used by a previously discovered neutralizing antibody against the best-known ebolavirus species, Ebola-Zaire. The new study suggests that this may be the best way for vaccines and antibody-based therapies to stop ebolaviruses.

Deadly Outbreaks

Ebolaviruses first drew the attention of the medical world with simultaneous deadly outbreaks in 1976 in the nations of Sudan and Zaire (currently known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo). These two outbreaks were caused by the two major viruses: Ebola-Sudan and Ebola-Zaire, and early field studies showed that sera from patients that survived one virus could not help patients infected with the other. . Both viruses persist in animal hosts-probably bats-and when they spread to humans, typically cause severe hemorrhagic fevers, killing up to 90 percent of people they sicken. Although not as contagious as influenza or measles, ebolaviruses can be transmitted in bodily fluids including exhaled airborne droplets, and scientists who study these viruses are generally required to use special "Biosafety Level 4" facilities. The US government regards the ebolaviruses as a potential bioterror threat.

Ebolavirus researchers hope to develop a vaccine that could be used to protect health workers and others in the vicinity of ebolavirus outbreaks, as well as an antibody-based immunotherapy that could help infected people survive. However, these tasks are complicated by the fact that there are now five recognized species of ebolavirus: Ebola-Zaire, also known simply as Ebola virus; Ta? Forest virus; Reston virus; Bundibugyo virus; and Sudan virus.

"These species differ enough from each other that neutralizing antibodies to one don't protect against the rest," said Ollmann Saphire. "Sudan virus is a particular concern because it has caused about half of the ebolavirus outbreaks so far, including the largest outbreak yet recorded."

Uncovering the Body's Natural Protection

US government researchers recently demonstrated that an experimental vaccine containing proteins from Ebola and Sudan viruses provides monkeys with some protection against those viruses. But precisely how the vaccine works is unclear, and it has never been tested in humans. Moreover, until now no laboratory has isolated a neutralizing antibody against Sudan virus.

To find such an antibody, Dye and his colleagues at Fort Detrick, Maryland, injected lab mice with a harmless virus engineered to make copies of the Sudan virus coat protein. The coat protein provoked the mice's immune B cells to make various antibodies against it, and the scientists were able to reproduce the mice's repertoire of antibodies by harvesting their B-cells and culturing them in the lab. Testing each type of antibody for its ability to block the infection of cells with Sudan virus, the researchers found one good candidate, antibody 16F6, which not only neutralized Sudan virus in the lab dish but also significantly delayed the deaths of infected mice. They then sent 16F6 to Ollmann Saphire's lab at Scripps Research in California.

"We were very excited about developing this antibody as a potential treatment for Ebola virus," said Dye. "Collaborating with the Ollmann Saphire lab to determine the binding site was the perfect complement to our previous work."

Ollmann Saphire's lab specializes in the use of X-ray crystallography and related techniques to visualize the atomic-scale details of viruses bound by antibodies. These details reveal where on a virus an antibody binds, and if the antibody is one that neutralizes a virus's ability to infect cells, its binding site usually offers important clues to the virus's workings and vulnerabilities.

In the new study, Ollmann Saphire's team found that 16F6 attaches to the Sudan virus in a way that links two segments of the viral coat protein. The virus is known to use one of these segments, GP1, to grab hold of a host cell. When this happens, the cell automatically brings the virus inside, encapsulated within a bubble-like chamber known as an endosome. Normally the cell would destroy the contents of such an endosome, but Sudan virus-like some other viruses-employs its other viral coat-protein segment, GP2, to fuse to the wall of the endosome so that it and the rest of the virus escape into the doomed cell's interior. Antibody 16F6 seems to prevent this fusion process from happening by keeping GP2 bound to GP1.

"The virus is like a wolf in sheep's clothing because its outer part is covered with human sugar molecules, that the antibodies do not see as foreign," said Ollmann Saphire. "The binding site of the 16F6 antibody is one of the few places where viral protein is exposed, and it's exposed because it's a place where GP1 and GP2 need to be free to move." To fuse to the endosomal wall, GP2 must separate from GP1 and uncoil itself. When it is held fast to GP1 by the antibody 16F6, GP2 can't uncoil and perform its function-and so the Sudan virus, instead of escaping into the relatively unprotected interior of the cell, stays within the endosome and is eventually destroyed.

A Strategy Against Ebolaviruses

Ollmann Saphire and her colleagues suspect that 16F6's protein-linking strategy is the best one that antibodies have against ebolaviruses. The antibody's binding site on the Sudan virus coat protein is virtually the same as the binding site of an Ebola-Zaire-neutralizing antibody known as KZ52, which Ollmann Saphire and Scripps Research colleague Professor Dennis Burton found and analyzed three years ago. KZ52 is derived from antibodies made by an African patient who survived an Ebola-Zaire outbreak in 1995, and aside from 16F6 it is the only ebolavirus-neutralizing antibody whose binding site has been determined with X-ray crystallography.

"We think it's not just a coincidence that these two different antibodies, evoked in two different host species by two different ebolaviruses, use the same strategy of linking GP1 and GP2," Ollmann Saphire said.

She and her colleagues now are trying to obtain structural data on several other ebolavirus-neutralizing antibodies, and she suspects that at least one of these also works by linking GP1 to GP2. "There may be other neutralizing sites on ebolaviruses, but so far the only one we've found is this one," she said.

The recognition that ebolavirus-neutralizing antibodies share this protein-linking strategy should guide the further development of vaccines and immunotherapies. "It helps us to understand more precisely what an ebolavirus vaccine or immunotherapy ought to do," Ollmann Saphire said.

The lead authors of the paper, "A shared structural solution for neutralizing ebolaviruses," are Jo?o M. Dias, a research associate in the Ollmann Saphire lab who is now a senior scientist at Heptares Therapeutics in the UK; and Ana I. Kuehne, a researcher in the Dye laboratory at Ft. Detrick. The other authors are Majidat A. Muhammad and Eugene Kang of the Dye lab at Ft. Detrick; Dafna M. Abelson, Shridhar Bale and Marnie L. Fusco of Scripps Research; Anthony C. Wong and Kartik Chandran of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Peter Halfmann of the University of Wisconsin at Madison; and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Tokyo. Funding for the research was provided in part by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

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Chemical plant blast in China kills 14 workers

An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed 14 workers and injured five others.

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Chinese state media and an official said the explosion happened Saturday at a plant in Xintai city in Shandong province.

Xinhua News Agency says workers were maintaining and repairing a condenser at a melamine production facility when the explosion occurred.

It says no poisonous or harmful substances were released. Melamine is a nitrogen-rich chemical used in making plastics and many other products.

An official surnamed Xu at the Xintai city government says the cause of the blast is under investigation.

He says the plant's owner, Shandong Liaherd Chemical Industry Co., used to be state-run but is now a shareholding company.

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