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By GRAHAM MESSNER

For Public Opinion

The smorgasbord of pro and college football the past several days has been a dream come true for football fans.

Not only did you get to dine on turkey and mashed potatoes, but pigskin was definitely also on the menu Thursday with the three professional games and the exciting, last-minute field goal by Texas to beat rival Texas A&M, 27-25.

But the game I was really looking forward to was the Arkansas at LSU (No. 3 vs. No, 1) game that kicked off at 2:30 on Friday.

It looked like it was going to be a smoker when Arkansas jumped out to a 14-0 lead. But LSU quickly gained control and eventually won the game 41-17.

What started as a Roman candle of a game wound up being nothing more than a smoke bomb.

But what happened toward the end of the game is what I'll remember.

With about five minutes to go, LSU was driving and wound up kicking a 37-yard field goal for the last score of the game.

No big deal, right?

For Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino, it was a very big deal.

After the kick cleared the uprights, Petrino could be seen having a hissy fit on the sidelines, pointing over at LSU coach Les Miles and yelling obscenities.

He was mad because he felt Miles was running up the score.

And, as many quality leaders of major universities usually do, you lead by example by acting like a punk 12-year-old who just got beat up fair and square and vows to come back with his big brother.

Then, as the two coaches met for a postgame handshake, Miles could be heard complimenting Petrino's team. Twice.

But the Arkansas coach more or less waved Miles off and continued on with his sad, bitter beer face. He was taking his ball and going home.

All this is occurring as the players from both teams shook hands, patted each other on the back and jogged off the field. Like men.

I have no dog in the hunt, and perhaps Miles rubs people the wrong way, but if I'm playing for a chance to compete in a championship game, I'm kicking that field goal as well. Being up 38-17 is three touchdowns, but it wasn't as if Arkansas had quit playing hard.

Stranger things have happened in college football than a team scoring 21 points in five minutes.

Is scoring that many times the likely scenario? No. But I'd rather be safe and get the extra three points than be sorry and risk the meltdown.

And you know what? Why is it that more and more people seem to blame everyone else for their own shortcomings?

Petrino was all about walking the sidelines with his chest puffed out when his team was up 14-0, but suddenly thin-skinned when his team sputtered. They were the No. 3 team in the nation for heaven's sake.

This wasn't a situation in which the score was 49-0 and Miles had his guys running trick plays and fly patterns.

If I had a son who was considering playing for Petrino at Arkansas, I'd cross that school off my child's list right then. I wouldn't want my son playing for someone who blames others who obviously were better prepared.

Now I sit here on a beautiful Saturday morning readying for another glorious helping of pigskin casserole.

Maybe I'll send Petrino an e-mail and see if he'll bring some whine ...

Things have gone too far for too long.

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Graham Messner is a free-lance writer and a former coach. He can be reached at graham@innernet.net.

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If you'll rewind your mind in time to earlier this week, you might remember a clever proxy server from @plamoni that enabled Siri's control of a thermostat through spoken commands. Now, the same bit of engineering has been exploited to enable voice control of third-party applications. In this example, FastPdfKit Reader is manipulated by various commands with SiriProxy acting in the middle. A plugin is used to add new commands to the ones recognized by Siri, and finally, the proxy then sends the final commands to the app. Those hoping to get hacking will find a complete list of instructions from the source link below. For everyone else, you'll find the true magic after the break.

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CAIRO ? Egyptian police clashed with anti-government protesters for a fifth day in central Cairo Wednesday as a rights group raised the overall death toll from the ongoing unrest to at least 38. The United Nations strongly condemned what it called the use of excessive force by security forces.

The clashes resumed despite a promise by Egypt's military ruler to speed up a presidential election to the first half of next year, a concession swiftly rejected by tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square. The military previously floated late next year or early 2013 as the likely date for the vote, the last step in the process of transferring power to a civilian government.

The standoff has plunged the country deeper into crisis less than a week before parliamentary elections, the first since the ouster nine months ago of longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.

Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi tried to defuse tensions with his address late Tuesday, but he did not set a date for handing authority to a civilian government, instead offering a referendum on the immediate return of the armed forces to their barracks.

The Tahrir crowd, along with protesters in a string of other cities across the nation, want Tantawi to step down immediately in favor of an interim civilian council to run the nation's affairs until elections for a new parliament and president are held.

Street battles have centered around the heavily fortified Interior Ministry, near the iconic square, with police and army troops using tear gas and rubber bullets to keep the protesters from storming the ministry, a sprawling complex that has for long been associated with the hated police and Mubarak's former regime.

The protesters, who have withstood tear gas and beatings, say they have no wish to storm the ministry but were trying to keep the police and army from moving on Tahrir Square.

Elnadeem Center, an Egyptian rights group known for its careful research of victims of police violence, said late Tuesday that the number of protesters killed in clashes nationwide since Saturday is 38, nine more than the Health Ministry's death toll. The clashes also have left at least 2,000 protesters wounded, mostly from gas inhalation or injuries caused by rubber bullets fired by the army and the police. The police deny using live ammunition.

Shady el-Nagar, a doctor in one of Tahrir's field hospitals, said three bodies arrived in the facility on Wednesday. All three had bullet wounds. "We don't know if these were caused by live ammunition or pellets because pellets can be deadly when fired from a short distance," he said.

Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, deplored the role of Egypt's military and security forces in attempting to suppress protesters during the ongoing unrest.

"Some of the images coming out of Tahrir, including the brutal beating of already subdued protesters, are deeply shocking, as are the reports of unarmed protesters being shot in the head," Pillay said. "There should be a prompt, impartial and independent investigation, and accountability for those found responsible for the abuses that have taken place should be ensured."

She said the actions of the military and police were inflaming the situation, prompting more people to join the protests. "The more they see fellow protesters being carted away in ambulances, the more determined and energized they become."

The five days of clashes are the longest spate of uninterrupted violence since the 18-day uprising that toppled the former regime in February, deepening the country's economic and security woes. the unrest also threatens to cloud the country's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections, which are scheduled to begin on Monday.

In his address, Tantawi rejected all criticism of the military's handling of the transitional period and sought to cast himself and the generals on the military council he heads as the nation's foremost patriots. Significantly, he did not mention the protesters gathered in Tahrir Square or elsewhere in the country.

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's strongest and best organized group, is not taking part in the ongoing protests in a move that is widely interpreted to be a reflection of its desire not to do anything that could derail a parliamentary election it is sure to dominate.

Hundreds of Brotherhood supporters, however, have defied the leadership and joined the crowds on the square.

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Associated Press writer Frank Jordans contributed to this report from Geneva.

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Alice Hoffman offers a feminist take on the siege of Masada in what may be her best novel yet.

Few times in history has the phrase ?death before dishonor? been taken to such an extreme as at the siege of Masada. After holding out for months against the Romans, more than 900 Jews, including children, died in a suicide pact rather than surrender.

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Only two women and five children survived the the first century A.D siege, according to the historian Josephus, who published the only known account.

In The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman travels far from the New England setting of bestsellers such as ?Practical Magic? and ?Here on Earth? for the biggest, most ambitious book of her career. And, for the most part, she succeeds ? delivering her best novel in years. Fans of both Hoffman?s earlier work and Anita Diamant?s bestselling ?Red Tent,? another feminist take set in Biblical times, should devour the multipart epic.

Hoffman views the siege from the eyes of four outsiders: Yael, a girl who arrives pregnant with her dead lover?s child; Revka, who is tending her two grandsons, who have not spoken since witnessing the torture and murder of their mother; Shirah, a witch with ties to the Zealot leader; and Shirah's daughter, Aziza, who was raised as a warrior by her foster father in Moab. All the women are assigned to care for the dovecotes, which supply fertilizer for Masada?s gardens, a lowly task that allows them more freedom. In the beginning, the women, who are all guarding secrets, are wary of one another, but they ultimately form an alliance.

?The Dovekeepers? follows the arrival of all four to the fortress and the run-up to the massacre, thus prolonging the coming horror. Yael and her father, a Zealot assassin who blames Yael for her mother?s death in childbirth, escape the slaughter of the fall of Jerusalem. They flee into the desert with another assassin and his family. I found Yael?s story slow going initially, given her penchant for overwrought wallowing. (In fairness, she has plenty to wallow about.) But in the desert, Yael discovers something about herself: She wants to live, and she?s willing to do whatever it takes to do so.

Once Yael and her father make it to Masada, the novel kicks into a higher gear. ?The fortress was impenetrable, they said, the surrounding land so fierce no attack upon them would prove successful. The retreat had once been a palace built by King Herod, a place of unearthly beauty concealed by clouds.? There?s already a legend associated with Masada, which is passed around by the refugees, of a man who killed his family and then himself, rather than submit to the king. This is, of course, about to be relived on a more horrifying scale.

Hoffman occasionally tries to cram in too much research, which causes dead spots in the writing. Not surprisingly, given that she?s working from a distance of 2,000 years, there is dialogue that feels anachronistic, as when Yael flirtily tells a handsome slave who admires her red hair, ?Be careful ? you could get burned,? and he later tells her, ?You think I don?t see you, but I do.?

But Hoffman is working with harrowing stuff, and ?The Dovekeepers? only gains in power as the Roman soldiers move closer to their destination.

Yvonne Zipp regularly reviews fiction for the Monitor.

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2011) ? ;./For more than a century, the use of X-rays has been a prime diagnostic tool when it comes to human health. As it turns out, X-rays also are a crucial component for studying and understanding molecules, and a new approach-just published by researchers at the University of Georgia-may dramatically improve what researchers can learn using the technique.

One of the primary ways scientists can understand molecules is to bombard their crystalline forms with X-ray beams. This allows a crystallographer to discover many things about the molecule, from the arrangement of atoms to the position of chemical bonds. Thus, the techniques of X-ray crystallography have been central to numerous important scientific discoveries in many fields.

Now, a team led by B.C. Wang, Ramsey-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology at UGA, has shown for the first time that by using multiple data sets, each under-exposed simultaneously, one can produce a composite data set that may give three to five times better signal levels than standard techniques for structural analysis. This new technique is particularly better than standard procedures when it comes to studying large molecules, many of which are important in drug development and other important processes.

"When compared to crystals of small molecules, macromolecular crystals diffract X-rays poorly and usually tend to have a much shorter lifetime in the X-ray beam," said Wang. "So a macromolecular crystal can only withstand a certain amount of X-ray dose before it is destroyed as a result of radiation damage. Obtaining accurate and complete diffraction data sets of these crystals is very important."

Strikingly, the new procedure used by the Wang team could be adapted for use with X-ray techniques in studying human health. This could eventually mean that doctors utilizing it could get more information on a patient while using a lower X-ray dose. That, however, is still in the future.

The research, just published in the online edition of the journal Foundations of Crystallography, could lead to a much more rapid acquisition of knowledge about molecules, Wang said. Authors of the paper, in addition to Wang, include from the Wang lab Lirong Chen, Hua Zhang, Weihong Zhou and Zheng-Qing Fu. Collaborators from the Institute of Biophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing include Zhi-Jie Liu, Dong Wu and Wei Ding. Wang is a member of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA.

X-ray diffraction data on crystals have been steadily improving over the past few decades, but the study of large molecules has continued to present sometimes-intractable problems. One always present issue is that while X-rays can reveal much about molecule, the technique also destroys the molecules, just as too much radiation can be lethal in humans. So the question has persisted: How can we get the same quality of data using a lower amount of total X-ray radiation than what we use now to study molecules?

Wang and his team had the idea of taking what might be called "slices" of radiation dosage to produce multiple scans. The total information from these combined multiple "weaker" scans might then actually surpass what could be found with normal X-ray crystallography with a single stronger scan. In order to see if this actually worked, Wang and his collaborators came up with a theoretical prediction for the strategy and then tested it using six bovine insulin crystals.

"The calculations from the diffraction data of these six insulin crystals collected using two different data-collection systems showed that the data is much better with the MDS strategy than with the regular single-path strategy," said Wang.

While the new technique could one day be important in breakthroughs in medicine and human health, the immediate impact is that it will allow researchers to study large molecules with greater depth and understanding by avoiding the use of too much X-ray radiation that would destroy the sample.

The work was supported by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the Georgia Research Alliance and the University of Georgia Research Foundation. The study was carried out at the Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team beamline at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.

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DALLAS ? Former President George W. Bush will travel to Africa next month to raise awareness about cervical and breast cancer, an effort he calls a "natural extension" of a program launched during his presidency that helps fight AIDS on the continent.

Bush, former first lady Laura Bush and officials with the George W. Bush Institute are heading to Tanzania, Zambia and Ethiopia from Dec. 1 through Dec. 5, where they'll visit clinics and meet with governmental and health care leaders.

"We believe it's in our nation's interest to deal with disease and set priorities and save lives," Bush told The Associated Press.

In 2003, Bush launched the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, to expand AIDS prevention, treatment and support programs in countries hit hard by the epidemic.

The new program, called the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon initiative, seeks to expand the availability of cervical cancer screening and treatment and breast care education in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

Bush said existing AIDS clinics will be used to screen and treat cervical cancer, which is four to five times more common among those living with HIV than those who don't have the virus. Last year, 3.2 million people received antiretroviral treatments as a result of PEPFAR.

The initiative is a partnership among several organizations, including the Bush Institute, PEPFAR and the United Nations' program on HIV and AIDS. Its goal is to reduce deaths by 25 percent in five years among women screened and treated through the initiative.

"We want to show what works and hopefully others across the continent of Africa will join us,'" Bush said.

Dr. Eric G. Bing, director of global health at the Bush Institute, said it's often more difficult for African women to reveal they have cancer of the reproductive organs than to reveal they have HIV. There are more support groups and treatment available for HIV than cancer, he said.

"There's silence around cancer for many of these communities and in many of these nations. And that's one of the things that we hope to change," Bing said.

Bush moved to Dallas after leaving office in 2009. The George W. Bush Presidential Center, which is set to be completed in 2013 on the campus of Southern Methodist University, will include his presidential library and the already-operating policy institute. Besides global health, the institute focuses on education reform, human freedom and economic growth.

Bush said he and the former first lady will be "pouring our hearts" into the Bush presidential center as it grows.

"This is where we will spend the rest of our lives in the sense of being involved with public policy," Bush said.

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The electric car was just as popular as its gasoline counterpart when it first went into production around the turn of the 20th century. People loved it because it was much less messy than an internal combustion engine. But with the advent of highways, they wanted to go farther than their battery life allowed, and the electric car fell out of use. Today, new electric cars in the market face a similar challenge as consumers admire their cleanliness but balk at their limited range.

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A sharp incision in his right eye may have contributed to the rapid demise of ?tzi the Iceman, the famous mummy who died in the Italian Alps more than 5,000 years ago.

Twenty years after two hikers stumbled upon the Iceman in a melting glacier, new analyses have revealed that a deep cut likely led to heavy bleeding in the man's eye. In the cold, high-altitude conditions where he was found, that kind of injury would have been tough to recover from.

The official opinion remains that an arrow in his left shoulder was the cause of death for ?tzi. But the new study raises the possibility ? for some, at least ? that he fell over after being shot by an arrow. And, at higher than 10,000 feet in elevation, his alpine fall may have made the situation much worse.

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"Maybe he fell down or maybe he had a fight up there, nobody knows," said Wolfgang Recheis, a physicist in the radiology department at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "With this cut alone, at 3,250 meters, it would have been a deadly wound up there. Bleeding to death in the late afternoon when it was getting cold up there, this could be really dangerous."

Ever since his discovery in 1991, ?tzi has been measured, photographed, X-rayed, CT-scanned and endlessly speculated about. The Iceman Photoscan website allows anyone to scrutinize every inch of the body, which belonged to a 5-foot-3-inch, 110-pound, 45-year old man.

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Ten years ago, researchers found a flint arrowhead buried in ?tzi's left shoulder blade inside a 0.8-inch-wide hole. They concluded that the arrow pierced a major artery and killed him within minutes. At a conference in September, experts reaffirmed that assessment.

But in one of the latest studies, Recheis used the most advanced CT-scanning technology available to take a closer look at ?tzi's right eye. Earlier examinations had shown a crack in the skull in that spot. The new work revealed a deep incision in the same place.

Scans also revealed iron crystals around the right eye and forehead, which produce a bluish hue. And since the region's rocks are naturally low in iron, Recheis and colleagues suspect the iron is a sign of a hematoma, or massive bleeding outside of the blood vessels. A biopsy is needed for confirmation.

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Despite the officially stated opinion on ?tzi's cause of death, Recheis is not convinced that the arrow wound was deadly on its own.

"My South Tyrolean colleagues say the arrow most probably hit the sub-clavicular artery or other vital vessel and thus the Iceman died," Recheis said. "But there are doubts. It's justified that the arrow did not hit any vital vessels or nerves as far as we can say from the data we have."

"This could be the first thing," he added. "He was up there and shot by an arrow. And then he fell down, cut his eye and bled to death."

Albert Zink, head of the EURAC Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, Italy, was surprised and perplexed to hear of these new claims. At a conference this fall, he said, a whole table-full of experts discussed the evidence and unanimously agreed that the arrow killed the Iceman.

The shoulder wound, he said, was clearly fresh and bleeding heavily when ?tzi died.

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"It is impossible that he walked around or that this was an old injury because this was a very severe injury," Zink said. "If you don't have the possibility to do surgery, you cannot survive from this for longer than 10 or 15 minutes."

The eye injury could have happened from a fall after ?tzi was shot or from a blow to the head by his attacker. But whatever the cause, Zink is sure that it was secondary to the arrow strike.

"It's true that there might be new evidence that there was a little crack in the skin, so maybe he was bleeding from skull trauma," he added. "But it doesn't change anything in the end."

According to some news reports, the new findings could support a theory that ?tzi was the victim of a mountaineering accident. Both Recheis and Zink agreed that this was unlikely. Based on his muscle strength and patterns of joint degeneration, the Iceman was a fit and experienced climber. And he was near an easy path when he died.

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(Reuters) ? Medicare and Medicaid will cover the cost of infusion associated with Dendreon Corp's prostate cancer vaccine Provenge, the company said on Monday.

The ruling by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent Dendreon shares up as much as 9 percent.

The Seattle-based company said that under the updated coverage policy, the costs associated with administering Provenge can now be billed separately.

Provenge costs about $93,000 for a standard course of treatment. Physicians are reimbursed $125 per infusion, on average, for biologic drugs, depending on geographic location and the length of the infusion, said Katherine Stueland, a spokeswoman for Dendreon.

The CMS decision covers claims for infusion costs of Provenge retroactive to June 30.

Provenge is a new type of cancer treatment that uses cells from a patient's own body to treat the disease.

Dendreon shares were up 4.2 percent to $8.69 in midday trading on Nasdaq. Earlier in the day they rose as high as $9.09.

(Reporting by Toni Clarke in Boston, editing by Gerald E. McCormick and John Wallace)

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VIENNA ? Satellite surveillance has shown an increase in activity at an Iranian site suspected of links to alleged secret work on nuclear weapons, officials tell The Associated Press.

One of the officials cited intelligence from his home country, saying it appeared Tehran is trying to cover its tracks by sanitizing the site and removing any evidence of nuclear research and development. Counterparts from two other countries confirmed sightings of increased activity but said they did not have reasons to believe it was linked to such efforts.

Their focus is on a structure believed to be housing a large metal chamber at a military site that a Nov. 8 International Atomic Energy Agency report described as being used for nuclear-related explosives testing.

Officials from the three IAEA member countries say that recent satellite imagery of the site, at Parchin, southwest of Tehran, shows increased activity, including an unusual number of vehicles arriving and leaving. One of the officials described the movements, recorded Nov.4-5, as unusual and said his country views it as evidence that Iran is trying to "clean" the area of traces of weapons-related work

"Freight trucks, special haulage vehicles and cranes were seen entering and leaving... (and) some equipment and dangerous materials were removed from the site," said a summary he provided to the AP.

His counterparts agreed there had been more activity than usual at the site around that date but could not conclude that pointed to an attempted cover-up by the Iranians.

The IAEA was alerted to the suspicions late last week and a senior diplomat familiar with the issue said the agency was closely monitoring all suspect sites mentioned in the agency's report. He, like the officials, asked for anonymity because his information was confidential.

The IAEA said it would have no comment. Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA, dismissed the reports as "childish stories." He told the AP he had not heard of any such activity, describing the claims as "ridiculous."

The large complex is used for research, development, and production of ammunition, missiles, and high explosives. IAEA experts had already visited the Parchin site twice in 2005 and were allowed to pick several buildings at random for inspections that revealed nothing suspicious. But a former inspector who was part of that inspection told the AP that the site was too vast to be able to draw conclusions on the basis of such restricted and haphazard visits.

Iran ? which is under U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to stop work that could be used to arm nuclear warheads ? asserts it is interested only in producing energy. But it has refused for over three years to allow the IAEA to probe growing suspicions that it is conducting research and development of such weapons.

Summarizing such fears in a Nov. 8 report that first mentioned the steel chamber believed to be used for nuclear testing, the agency concluded that some of the alleged activities it listed could have no other purpose than to make the bomb.

Ahead of that report, on Oct. 30. Iran invited top IAEA investigator Herman Nackaerts to Tehran for talks "aiming at a resolution of matters." That would have given Nackaerts a chance to ask for a renewed trip to Parchin that included a visit to the suspected building.

On Friday, however, Soltanieh abruptly announced that the trip was postponed, if not canceled. He blamed the IAEA, saying it had "messed up" the trip by publishing its report.

The decision could give Iran time to clean up sites mentioned in the report as being part of the secret work, should it chose to do so. The senior diplomat said the IAEA was aware of that possibility ? even if the official reason for postponement given the agency by the Iranians was that domestic sentiment was too negative in the wake of the report for such a visit.

Such cleanups would not be new. Iran razed the Lavizan Shian complex in northern Iran, before allowing IAEA inspectors to visit the suspected repository of military procured equipment that could be used in a nuclear weapons program five years ago. Tehran said the site had been demolished to make way for a park, but inspectors subsequently found traces of uranium enriched to or near the level used in making the core of nuclear warheads.

The Iranians also embarked on an extensive redo at the Kalay-e Electric Co., just west of Tehran, before agency inspectors were given access nine years ago. Although the site was repainted and otherwise sanitized, samples taken from Kalay-e also showed traces of enriched uranium, though at levels substantially below warhead grade.

Based on the IAEA report, the agency's board on Friday expressed "deep and increasing concern about the unresolved issues regarding the Iranian nuclear program, including those which need to be clarified to exclude the existence of possible military dimensions." The concerns were voiced in a resolution supported by 32 of the 35 board nations.

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OAKLAND?? Anti-Wall Street protesters took over a vacant lot and adjacent park in downtown Oakland late Saturday and erected a tent camp to replace one torn down by police, setting the stage for a potential showdown.

Protesters marched to the lot and tore down a chain-link fence before pitching tents as a light rain started. Police on the scene did not immediately intervene and the camp later expanded into an adjacent public park.

"Occupy Oakland has a new home at 19th and Telegraph," organizers said in a message to supporters, adding there would be a big "housewarming" party. "Bring tents!"

The move appeared to be a direct challenge to Oakland police who less than a week ago forcibly dismantled a similar protest camp nearby , and risked igniting a confrontation. Police have said they would not allow another encampment.

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Previous unrest surrounding protests in Oakland has helped rally support nationwide for the Occupy Wall Street movement launched in New York in September to protest economic inequality and excesses of the financial system.

The lot and adjacent park are in a rapidly gentrifying area, and protesters said establishing a camp there would be a symbolic move in a city they complained looked out most "for the interests of big business and developers" over ordinary residents.

Oakland police had said they had a "non-confrontational strategy" for preventing a new campsite from being established, but did not elaborate.

"While peaceful forms of expression and freedom of speech will be facilitated, acts of violence, property destruction and overnight lodging will not be tolerated," police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said in a statement.

Story: 87-year-old Occupy protester can't get arrested

Watson added that surrounding streets had been closed and officers were protecting surrounding buildings.

One nearby resident expressed unhappiness about the new site.

"I supported Occupy Oakland," Sherbeam Wright told the San Francisco Chronicle. "At this point I don't know what they stand for anymore."

Fatal shooting
Police on Monday evicted protesters from their camp in Frank Ogawa plaza after weeks of indecision over how to deal with the protests, spurred to act after a fatal shooting nearby fueled pressure on the city to close the camp down.

"I support the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and I am a passionate supporter of freedom of speech. However, camping on city property ? whether it is in a park or in open space ? is illegal and won't be allowed," Mayor Jean Quan said in a statement on Friday.

An earlier attempt to remove the camp in October had sparked clashes between protesters and police that wounded a former U.S. Marine and evolved into one of the most violent episodes linked to the Occupy movement.

Story: Tea Partier to Occupier: 'Y'all ought to be joining us'

The Oakland protesters also announced plans to shut down all West Coast ports on Dec. 12, cooperating with protesters in Los Angeles. The Oakland group had briefly forced the northern California city's port to close earlier this month.

'Visual statement'
As a cold, wet night enveloped the new camp on Saturday, a few hundred protesters took shelter under a canopy of blue tarps and huddled in about 25 tents as police watched from a distance.

One man, pushing a shopping cart, passed out rocks and sticks "just in case" as organizers pleaded for protesters to stay and "defend" the encampment.

"I think it's important to be able to show an ongoing presence. It's to show our physical numbers. It makes a visual statement," said Thandiwe Satterwhite, a Berkeley music teacher who carried a placard saying "Do Not Disturb Occupants."

To the north in Davis, the University of California campus in that city said it would launch an investigation over video footage that appeared to show campus police using pepper spray against seated student protesters at close range.

Story: UC Davis chancellor says she won't step down over pepper-spraying

"Yesterday was not a day that would make anyone on our campus proud," UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi wrote in a public statement. "The use of pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this."

She described the video images as "chilling."

In the video, an officer dispassionately pepper-sprays a line of several sitting protesters who flinch and cover their faces but remain passive with their arms interlocked as onlookers shriek and scream out for the officer to stop.

However, a law enforcement official who watched the clip called the use of force "fairly standard police procedure."

Story: Occupy protests spread to college campuses

As the images were circulated widely on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter on Saturday, the university's faculty association called on Katehi to resign, saying in a letter there had been a "gross failure of leadership."

At a news conference, Katehi said what the video shows is, "sad and really very inappropriate" but defended her leadership and said she had no plans to resign.

The protest was held in support of the overall Occupy Wall Street movement and in solidarity with protesters at the University of California, Berkeley who were jabbed by police with batons on Nov. 9.

Slideshow: Occupy Wall Street: A day of action (on this page)

Charles J. Kelly, a former Baltimore Police Department lieutenant who wrote the department's use of force guidelines, said pepper spray is a "compliance tool" that can be used on subjects who do not resist, and is preferable to simply lifting protesters.

"When you start picking up human bodies, you risk hurting them," Kelly said. "Bodies don't have handles on them."

After reviewing the video, Kelly said he observed at least two cases of "active resistance" from protesters. In one instance, a woman pulls her arm back from an officer. In the second instance, a protester curls into a ball. Each of those actions could have warranted more force, including baton strikes and pressure-point techniques.

"What I'm looking at is fairly standard police procedure," Kelly said.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45374977/ns/us_news-life/

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While some foods and drinks like Kool-Aid can conceal medications very successfully, the courts have ruled that drugs should not be given to patients unawares. In U.S. hospitals, according to the landmark ruling Rogers v. Okin, competent patients can be manipulated into taking drugs only if they present an immediate danger to themselves or others, or if a court order has been issued to allow forced medication. Even if a court order has been issued, medical ethics dictate that the patient should be warned, and given the choice to take the drug voluntarily, before being compelled to take it. Dissolving a pill in Kool-Aid or another liquid proves useful even though there?s no deception in play: That way, a doctor can ensure that the patient won?t ?cheek? the pill next to his teeth and spit it out later. Risperdal, the drug administered to Loughner in the Kool-Aid, commonly comes in the form of a very small pill that can be easily cheeked.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Three former top military officials are slamming the Republican presidential field ahead of Tuesday night's GOP debate on foreign policy.

Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig and retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton ? Democratic-leaning military leaders ? say the entire Republican field is all over the map on foreign policy and that the candidates lack leadership qualities. The three particularly focused on GOP front-runner Mitt Romney at a news conference organized Monday by the Democratic National Committee.

Danzig says he sees "too much moving" of positions from Romney and that he doesn't think he'd be decisive enough to lead American foreign policy.

Andrea Saul, a Romney spokeswoman, responded by assailing Obama's foreign policy but did not directly respond to the officials' criticism of Romney.

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MADRID ? Spain held a national election on Sunday, and it was expected to become the third eurozone country in as many weeks to throw out its governing party in an attempt to dig itself out of an economic crisis.

Spanish opposition leader Mariano Rajoy and his conservative Popular Party were expected to win control of Parliament in a landslide, even though Rajoy has said little about what his party would do to fight Spain's sky-high unemployment, painful austerity measures and piles of debt.

A win for Rajoy, 56, would bring the conservatives back to power after nearly eight years of rule by Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

On social policy, he put a patently liberal stamp on traditionally Catholic Spain by legalizing gay marriage and ushering in other northern European-style reforms. But on economic matters Zapatero has been widely criticized as first denying, then reacting late and erratically, to Spain's slice of the global financial crisis and the implosion of a real estate bubble that had fueled Spanish GDP growth robustly for nearly a decade.

Unlike Italy and Greece, which recently replaced their elected governments with bureaucrats in an attempt to better cope with the euro crisis, Spain will stick with an elected government.

"I am ready for whatever Spaniards may want," said Rajoy after casting his vote Sunday.

Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Rajoy's Socialist opponent, urged his supporters not to let a low turnout reduce his party's chances. "The next four years are going to be very important for our future," he said. "The big decisions that have to be taken must be made by citizens, so it's important to vote," he said.

But poor weather was causing some polling stations to open late, and a station in the country's south had to be relocated because of flooding, election office spokesman Felix Monteira said. The Interior Ministry also said voter turnout appeared to running lower than during Spain's 2008 election.

Voters are casting ballots to elect 350 members of Parliament and 208 senators.

In Barcelona, Spaniard Juan Sanchez in Barcelona said he had voted for Rajoy's party because when it was last in power from 1996 to 2004 unemployment had fallen, whereas under the Socialists that figure had risen to five million.

"Hundreds of small and big businesses have closed down," Sanchez said.

In Madrid, civil servant Diana Bachiller said: "I voted for the Socialists because I am sure that if the Popular Party comes to power it is going to begin to cut everything."

Almost two years of recession have left Spain with a euro-zone high 21.5 percent unemployment rate and a bloated budget deficit. The country's key borrowing rate rose above 6 percent for five consecutive days last week, just one percent below a rate considered unsustainable.

The winner of Sunday's election will have little room for maneuver and will almost certainly need to continue implementing austerity measures begun by the outgoing government.

The increasing severity of the recession forced Zapatero to cut civil servants' wages, freeze pensions and, with a hard-bargained agreement of the trade unions, pass legislation making it easier for companies to hire and fire workers.

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COMMENTARY | A group of millionaires calling themselves the "Patriotic Millionaires" marched on 13 congressional offices, seven of which sit on the super committee to cut the federal budget $1.2 trillion by next week. They marched to demand that the government raise taxes on those who make more than $1 million per year -- in other words, themselves.

This really catches the reader's eye because it appears that even millionaires are begging to be taxed more. It does not make sense for people who fought and struggled for success to want to give it to a bloated and wasteful government.

Yet things are not always as they appear. If someone was to look at who these millionaires are, that person would find out that the group is comprised of some of the Democrat Party's biggest supporters. According to CampaignMoney.com, one supporter, Lawrence Benenson, has donated almost $1 million to Democratic Party causes since 2004. This group also has contributed to partisan organizations such as MoveOn.org and ActBlue, which is a Democratic political action committee. What appears to be a concerned group of independent rich people is in fact some of the Democratic Party's biggest supporters.

Setting that aside for the moment, is what they propose the answer to our fiscal shortcomings?

The group wants to raise taxes on people who make more than $1 million per year with some in the group going further down to the $250,000 per year level. What effect would this have on the economy?

According to Forbes.com, average income earners (about $54,453 per year) spend the majority of their money on living expenses. Almost 85 percent of average income earners' expense goes toward housing, food, healthcare, savings, and transportation. That leaves only 15 percent of the expenditures to go towards entertainment and disposable spending. This amounts to only about $5,000 to $6,000 a year. Higher income earners (about $132,158 per year) spend only 70 percent of their yearly expenses towards living expense, which leaves nearly 30 percent for disposable spending. Since they make more, that means that this figure runs around $25,000 per year. Simply put, the higher income you have, the more likely are you to reinvest it into the economy by purchasing things. This benefits everyone.

So what does this mean for this debate? It means that when you tax millionaires, you reduce the biggest wells of disposable income we have. This means cars will not be bought, houses will not be built, planes will go unproduced, and charities will suffer. It means fewer jobs in our economy as the engines of purchasing power get burdened by higher taxes. We need to promote wealth and high incomes by making it easier to achieve that lofty goal rather than making it something at which to sneer.

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UFC 139 domination: Faber fabulous in earning another shot against Cruz

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Urijah Faber was tired of hearing he didn't deserve an immediate rematch against Dominick Cruz's UFC bantamweight title, so he took matters into his own hands and laid some lumber on Brian Bowles.

Faber crushed Bowles with an uppercut in the second. The Georgian was stunned and eventually found himself on his back when Faber nailed him with a knee in close quarters. Faber went into overdrive on the ground. Bowles couldn't fend him off. Faber eventually got control of Bowles' head and locked on a mean guillotine choke to get the submission victory at 1:27 of the second round at UFC 139 in the HP Pavilion.

Just seconds after the fight was finished, Faber immediately turned his attention to his nemesis Cruz,.

"Dominick, you can run but you can't hide. Throw some gel in that widow's peak and let's do some work. Let's battle," said Faber.

Faber and Cruz brawled for five hard rounds at UFC 132. Cruz won via unanimous decision, but Faber believes the judges blew it. Before Saturday's fight, he admitted he needs to play the judges more to get a win against Cruz, who is a whirling dervish, winning over MMA judges with his high-volume style.

Faber showed some stones trading shots with the heavy-handed Bowles throughout the first. Bowles lone path to victory was probably landing a big right hand. Faber's movement, fakes and speed threw Bowles off. He wasn't aggressive.

In the second, Faber took advantage of a very flat-footed Bowles. The 5-foot-6 Faber covered roughly five feet of space in seconds and landed the huge uppercut.

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After splitting from Ryan Edwards, who got her pregnant and in doing so, launched her reality TV career on Teen Mom, Maci Bookout has moved on from her ex.

Her current, live-in beau, Kyle King, is a much better influence on Maci, and frankly, on Bentley, her three-year-old son with Ryan. Life's good for the redhead.

So why is she jealous of Ryan's new girlfriend, Dalis Connell?

"I want him to be happy because he excels when he’s happy," Maci Bookout said of Edwards ... but that was before he started dating, and talking marriage with Connell.

Not surprisingly, she's singing a different tune now.

“Maci has been pretty jealous,” a close source says of Ryan's baby mama. “Dalis feels like it could be because she and Ryan may actually get married before Maci does or maybe because Maci is not getting Ryan’s attention anymore.”

But Ryan and Dalis are trying to rise above Maci’s envy. “Their relationship is definitely true love. They have both been completely supportive of each other. But Maci clearly still has feelings for Ryan. And Kyle can’t be too happy about it.”

We'll see how this plays out. In the meantime, for more drama coming your way next month, check out the just-released Teen Mom 2 Season 2 trailer!

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Accurate statistics are critical for proper economic planning, a senior government official has said.

Speaking on the occasion to mark the African Statistics Day in Kigali, yesterday, Enata Dusenge, the Ag. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, said: ?We need to realize the essence of getting accurate statistics because that is the basis for any economic planning?.

The day is marked every November 18 across the continent. In Rwanda, it was held after a week-long campaign on a series of awareness activities across the country.

The theme for the 2011 celebration is ?Keeping Accounts to Improve Africa?s Present for a Brighter Future.?

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Updated?Nov 19, 2011 10:16 AM ET

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It?s all about Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway as they race head to head for the Sprint Cup championship.

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Their showdown in the season finale is sure to cap one of the best championship races in NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup history.

Yet their battle is not the only big story that could develop at Homestead.

Numerous drivers have unfinished business, goals to achieve and scores to settle.

Here?s a look at the other storylines that could share the spotlight with Edwards and Stewart:

1. Dale Earnhardt Jr. finally wins

The 2011 season has been a good one, with close competition, thrilling finishes, fireworks and feuds on the track and a compelling championship race.

Nothing could cap it off better than a win by Earnhardt Jr.

The sport?s most popular driver hasn?t won in more than three years now. He rebounded from two years of struggles by making the Chase this season, but his recovery and resurgence will never be complete until he wins another race with Hendrick Motorsports.

Though he typically struggles at Homestead, he could take this season from good to great ? for he and his team and all of NASCAR Nation ? with an upset at Homestead.

2. Matt Kenseth seeks revenge

Kenseth, who has three wins this year and was a championship contender until a few weeks ago, could cap a good season with another win at Homestead, where he won in 2007.

But the mild-mannered Kenseth just might have other things on his mind ? like getting even with Brian Vickers.

The frustrated and angry Vickers has retaliated against Kenseth twice in the past three races. After an incident on the track at Martinsville Speedway, Vickers ran down Kenseth and rammed into him late in the race.

Not satisfied since Kenseth had already wrecked and was running 30th, Vickers decided once was not enough. He wrecked Kenseth again last week at Phoenix, knocking him out of the race and officially ending his championship hopes.

Though the mild-mannered Kenseth normally is not the revengeful sort, it would not be surprising to see him make Vickers pay.

3. Kevin Harvick gets Kyle Busch ? again

Busch paid dearly for wrecking Ron Hornaday in the Truck series race at Texas, getting suspended for both the Nationwide and Cup races that weekend.

Missing the Cup race eliminated Busch from championship contention and contributed to him falling to last in the Chase standings.

The retaliation against Hornaday simply continued Busch?s long-running feud with Harvick, who owns the truck Hornaday was driving.

Busch and Harvick have been at it all season, starting with their postrace confrontation at Darlington in May.

And now Harvick appears to owe Busch again after Busch wrecked Hornaday, ruining his championship hopes in the Truck series.

Harvick punted Busch in the season finale last year, sending him spinning when he believed Busch was holding him up to help teammate Denny Hamlin, whom Harvick was racing for the championship.

This year, Harvick is out of championship contention and Busch is essentially helpless since he?s on NASCAR probation.

Don?t be surprised if Harvick enacts more revenge on Busch, continuing their bitter feud on into next season.

4. Busch gets the last laugh

No one has been more ridiculed and embittered this year than Busch, who has gone from being caught speeding at 128 mph on a public road to getting punched by team owner Richard Childress to being parked by NASCAR for two races to being dumped for the final two races by his primary sponsor.

Busch now has nothing to race for, except a win.

A victory in the season finale might soothe some of the pain and ill feelings Busch has inflicted upon himself, his sponsors, Joe Gibbs Racing and everyone around him.

It would also give him an opportunity to finish the season by thumbing his nose at all his detractors. Busch?s trademark bow to the fans would be a fitting way for the embattled driver to end the year.

5. Another Kurt Busch tirade

The elder Busch always seems on the verge of blowing a gasket ? and not necessarily under the hood of his car.

The 2004 champion has suffered a familiar fade in the Chase, finishing 13th or worse in his past six races thanks to a series of mistakes, mishaps and just plain poor performance.

It has left Busch on the verge of blowing his top. After he ran out of gas while leading and then got a speeding penalty last week, Busch, as usual, had some harsh words for his crew.

Crew chief Steve Addington has been rumored to be on the move after the season, and one more tirade by Busch in the season finale might just be the final straw.

6. An exorcist by Denny Hamlin

Hamlin delivered one of the biggest choke jobs in NASCAR history in last year?s season finale, blowing the points lead and the championship when he wrecked early in the race at Homestead.

He has been haunted all season by the demons from his late-season collapse. After winning eight races last year, he has struggled most of this season, barely made the Chase and is 10th in the standings with one race to go.

Two years ago, he won the season finale at Homestead to jump-start his title-contending run last season.

If Hamlin could win again, it might finally exorcize those demons, put last year?s collapse behind him and set him up for a return to contention in 2012.

7. Honoring Jimmie?

One of the most intriguing side stories this weekend is the end of Jimmie Johnson?s reign as champion. He has been on top for so long it?s hard to remember who won the last championship before he took over (Stewart in 2005).

Most fans are ecstatic that Johnson?s dominance has come to an end and that NASCAR will finally get a new Cup champion.

But how will they respond when Johnson congratulates the new champion and officially gives up his crown?

Will they honor Johnson for his remarkable and historic five-year reign? Or celebrate that it is finally over?

8. AJ Allmendinger wins

Marcos Ambrose, Paul Menard, David Ragan and Regan Smith all scored their first Sprint Cup victories this year. Even upstart Trevor Bayne pulled off a stunning upset in the Dayton 500, making this the year of the first-time winner.

The most noticeable driver absent from that list is Allmendinger, who has been more consistent than all of them, ranking higher than any of them in the standings (16th) and finishing the season strong.

It would be fitting for Allmendinger to win the season?s final race, scoring his first win and giving NASCAR a stunning six first-time winners this year.

9. Juan Pablo wins on an oval

Juan Pablo Montoya, a native of Bogot?, Colombia, and a resident of the Miami area is a local favorite at Homestead.

It?s also the track where he made his Cup debut in 2006.

Montoya, the former IndyCar and Formula One star, has had mixed results in NASCAR so far. He made the Chase in 2009, but has struggled the past two years. He has two Cup wins, but both came on road courses. He has yet to win an oval-track race.

What better place for it to finally happen than at Homestead?

10. David Reutimann makes MWR official go ?uh oh?

Reutimann was both shocked and devastated when told that he would not return to Michael Waltrip Racing next year.

Despite struggling all season, Reutimann has the only two wins in MWR history and has been with the team since its inception in 2007. He will be replaced next season by veteran Mark Martin.

Reutimann, who ran well last week at Phoenix, would like nothing better than to win in his final race with the team. And don?t think it can?t happen ? Reutimann?s two wins both came on 1.5-mile tracks.

A victory at Homestead would not only show that the team might have made a mistake in releasing him but would go a long way in helping Reutimann find a new ride for next season.

It also would be a fitting twist for one of the sport?s nicest and most well-liked drivers.

Source: http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup-season-finale-has-lots-of-intriguing-storylines-111611

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Walt Hazzard, a stellar point guard who helped John Wooden win his first national championship at UCLA and became the fifth coach to follow the college basketball legend, died Friday. He was 69.

Hazzard, who suffered a stroke in 1996, died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center following a long illness, the university announced. Hazzard had endured complications following heart surgery, his family said.

The backbone of UCLA's undefeated 1964 championship team, Hazzard directed the Bruins' offense to a 98-83 victory over Duke in the NCAA final. But he was unable to bring another NCAA title banner to Pauley Pavilion as the Bruins' coach from 1984 to 1988. He was a special consultant with the Lakers at the time of his death.

PHOTOS: Walt Hazzard | 1942-2011

"Walt was the catalyst for Coach John Wooden's first championship team and played the game with a style that excited Bruin basketball fans everywhere," Dan Guerrero, UCLA's athletic director, said in a statement.

Hazzard, who played 10 seasons in the NBA, including three for the Lakers, was a scout for the L.A. team until suffering the stroke. He had open-heart surgery soon after and was in rehabilitation for years.

UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland called Hazzard "one of the pillars of UCLA's first championship team in men's basketball."

"He was a great player and an outstanding coach at UCLA," Howland said in a statement. "He is a huge part of the UCLA legacy."

Walter Raphael Hazzard Jr. was born April 15, 1942, in Wilmington, Del., and grew up in Philadelphia. As an 8-year old he went to a performance by the Harlem Globetrotters and later said, "I went out and practiced dribbling like Marques Haynes for hours every day."

Hazzard was soon absorbed into Philadelphia's basketball high society, honing his game as an Overbrook High School sophomore on the playground "against Guy Rodgers, Wilt Chamberlain, Woody Sauldsberry and Andy Johnson," he later said.

Like Chamberlain, Hazzard became a star at Overbrook, where his teams were 89-3. He was the city player of the year as a senior.

UCLA provided a grander stage, and the 6-foot-2 point guard helped the Bruins to their first Final Four appearance in 1962.

Hazzard's skills as a ball handler were such that Wooden once said, "I never had a better man on the fast break than Walt Hazzard."

The coach later recalled that he brought Hazzard into his office one day and "asked him to pattern himself after Oscar Robertson, who looks for the pass first and the shot second. I told him his passing could make him an All-American."

A three-year starter, Hazzard did become an All-American in 1963 and again in 1964, when the Bruins went 30-0 and won the first of Wooden's 10 NCAA titles. Hazzard was named the outstanding player of the 1964 NCAA Final Four.

"Recruiting after that 1964 national championship was tremendous," Wooden said later. "Lew Alcindor [Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] would never have come to UCLA had we not won it in 1964 and 1965."

UCLA was also where Hazzard met his future wife, Jaleesa, who was a Bruin cheerleader.

Hazzard, attired in a sweater, shorts and sandals, was on campus one day with his roommate, tennis player Arthur Ashe, and said, "See that girl? I'm going to marry her."

She told him, "Not if you don't wear socks." The two were married in May 1964. By then Hazzard's future lay before him.

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1. Dale Earnhardt Jr. finally wins

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