ranked first among major urban areas with the most people living near hazardous waste facilities. The captain of a cruise ship that sank in the Aegean Sea, sending more than 1,500 passengers and crew members onto rescue boats, was charged with causing a shipwreck through negligence.The 469-foot Sea Diamond hit a well-marked and charted reef Thursday in fair weather in the sea-filled volcanic crater at the Greek island of Santorini.The ship's Greek captain was also charged with breaching international shipping safety regulations and polluting the environment, officials said. When we broke spring training, we all got in a room for the first time. It was to Moura that he entrusted his papers when he returned from Europe to Russia, fearing what might happen were they to fall into Stalin's hands, which, alas, they did.Although Berberova does not state unequivocally that Moura was a Soviet agent, the inference seems clear enough.Berberova, who fled Russia in 1922, lived for three years under the same roof with Moura in the Gorky household. It wasn't until Jim Tudor got his new Honda Element that he noticed a quirk in its design. Relearn how to feed the stomach only when it is truly hungry.2. Unlike a permanent safety net, disaster relief's top priority is to help as many people as fast as possible, which comes at the price of reduced efficiency.But just because FEMA faced a daunting task does not mean it should be given a pass for its sloppy oversight.

Though William Mooser III is credited as the courthouse's primary architect, Hershey's designs, Ooley said, "had a strong influence on the building," which is among Santa Barbara's top landmarks.Like Neff, Reginald Johnson and Roland Coate, Hershey was closely associated with the Spanish Colonial Revivalism movement that dominated California architecture in the 1920s. "How many are going to play in the NBA, and how many are going to go play in the developmental league a couple of years and have nothing afterwards?"Coaches who once faced decisions about whether to spend time and money recruiting a player they believed would probably go straight to the NBA now must decide whether it is worth it to recruit a player for one year.It was for Syracuse, which lost Carmelo Anthony after one season but won the 2003 NCAA title.But at programs such as Duke, North Carolina and Arizona, hit repeatedly by early departures in recent years, coaches worry about recruiting players year after year for careers that are both brief and unpredictable."Very seldom does one year of college benefit either the player or the program," Olson said "Carmelo Anthony might be the only example of that. They look good."The stamps feature the Liberty Bell, which last appeared on a stamp issued Oct. "Any FCC order adopting the same 30% cap tossed out by the courts would be astonishing," said Kyle McSlarrow, president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Assn.Given the increased competition from satellite services and phone companies, McSlarrow said, the agency should eliminate the ownership cap for cable.The FCC's proposal comes six years after the U.S. Armando Elizalde told Colombian RCN television that most of the 113 people aboard "sank with the boat," which the Colombian navy said was meant to hold 15 people.The immigrants were believed to be headed to the United States.

Those particles are closely tied to truck traffic and have become a major problem in Southern California.In rural areas, regulation of coarse particles would fall to individual states California is the only state with its own rule. "What an enormous responsibility."In Crenshaw, as he has elsewhere in the country, Obama vowed to end the war in Iraq and expand health coverage to all Americans."There's a sense that we have a government that is no longer responding to ordinary people, that it's become an insider's game, that it's all about slash and burn, and negative politics and deal-making, but that it is not expressing the basic values and ideals that we hold as Americans," he said.The message resonated with Marilyn Ventress, a 51-year-old Pasadena woman in the real estate mortgage business."People are craving authenticity," she said after hearing Obama at the rally, "and I think that's what he has."*michael.finneganTimes staff writer Tina Daunt contributed to this report.. Chanting "Death to the dictator" and carrying a banner reading "Fascist Ahmadinejad," the crowd sent a shoe sailing toward the president as he stood at the podium.A large number of parliamentary deputies signed letters this year demanding answers from the president on the nuclear issue and the economy. But many more have settled into shaky, borderline existences.Dat Nguyen, now of Westminster, was traded at 19 in Vietnam to a fake family for a secondhand pedicab Once they arrived in the U.S., his fake family put him out. And if you think about that, that's a pretty devastating situation these folks are in."As for the tone of Fox's pregame show, Bradshaw said, "There won't be a lotta yuks. But the negative reaction was so strong that he decided to keep the fire rings."There was a fairly large groundswell in the community that holds fire rings very near and dear to its heart," he said.On some nights, as many as 100 bonfires blaze along San Francisco's four-mile Ocean Beach.As Mitsuyasu and two colleagues prepared to patrol it one recent night, the rangers predicted what they would find before setting foot on the sand.Besides booze and pallets, they were on the lookout for other air-fouling items bonfire builders sometimes ignite: mattresses, painted fences, telephone poles, old furniture layered in varnish."If they think they might be able to burn it, people have tried to burn it," Ranger Matthew Harris said.One of Mitsuyasu's pet peeves is when people extinguish the flames by covering them with sand instead of dousing them with water. Six were released after treatment at the scene.Ron Myers, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, said none of the injuries appeared to be serious.The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority said the Line 55 bus was westbound on Adams about 9 a.m when it was hit by the northbound truck.

They wanted to know, among other things, how much Leisure World was paying its administrator and for landscaping most of its 533-acre property."The way to keep things honest is to keep things transparent," said David Lyon, 60, one of the 10 residents who sued in small claims courts after their requests were denied.The foundation has appealed some cases. Now I'm doing musical theater and just singing more because I love music. Petrino is 29-8 in three seasons with the Cardinals, who went 9-3 last season, losing to Virginia Tech in the Gator Bowl.Under the new contract, he would earn a $200,000 bonus for playing in one of the four BCS games and $100,000 for winning the national championship.HOCKEYBuffalo Goalie Biron Accepts Qualifying OfferBuffalo goaltender Martin Biron accepted the team's one-year qualifying offer. A mixture of rain and snow lashed parts of Zabol overnight, and the provincial governor, Dilber Jan Arman, said through a spokesman that poor conditions might have been a factor."It was rainy and snowy," said the spokesman, Gulab Shah Ali Khail. "The boys are still kind of walking on shells a little bit." Westerhof, who will retain his title of director of football for all three of owner Jorge Vergara's teams -- Chivas de Guadalajara, Chivas USA and Saprissa in Costa Rica -- plans to implement a more direct approach."We have to change a little bit our way of playing, but it's only one step back," he said. Hundreds more were still missing.Francisco Xhicay, 29, a spiritual leader in Tzanchaj, said that the Maya shrine at his home and a strong belief in ancient ways spared his village, and that his neighbors' neglect of those traditions killed them.The Maya who live around Lake Atitlan clung to their ancient culture long after the arrival of Spaniards in the 16th century, absorbing elements of Catholicism.

"Hopefully, everything will be fine and I'll be on the mound Friday."If not, the Angels won't be too pressed Scot Shields has handled the closer role masterfully. (Prices remain well below levels reached in the early 1980s when inflation is taken into account.)Motorists are feeling the pinch as gasoline prices also have soared to record highs. While there are several good -- and even very good -- titles that will be available at launch, there's nothing truly great.Admittedly, tastes vary.... She spoke Tuesday evening by phone from her home in the Bosnian city of Tuzla, which became a refuge for tens of thousands of survivors.Natasa Kandic, whose Serbia-based human rights organization obtained the video and provided it to the international war crimes tribunal at The Hague during the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, also criticized Tuesday's decision."Considering the gravity of the crime, the ruling did not deliver justice ... The Oilers have been silent this week, except for Laraque's comment about Avery not fighting.Back in October, Laraque's teammates were so convinced the "monkey" comment had been made that they went looking for Avery, who was walking along Staples Center's lower level to his car. However, his Platinum Equity has been growing rapidly in recent years, largely through acquisitions.The company bought Dallas-based information technology firm CompuCom Systems Inc for $254 million a year ago. Its governing notion -- that we don't know what we are capable of in terms of both right and wrong behavior -- turns out to be an especially provocative one.These ideas play out in what is in effect two intertwined narratives, a personal drama and a story of men at war, both pivoting around the figure of Michael (Ulrich Thomsen).