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Thursday, July 18, 2013 – Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING told him to raise his head and keep his eyes open so ''I make sure that you are listening to me and understanding what I'm saying, OK?'' ''I'm trying,'' said Castro, who in past court appearances had kept his head down and his chin tucked on his chest. One of his attorneys, Craig Weintraub, declined later to discuss Castro's courtroom demeanor. ''I'm not going to comment on that,'' he said. House GOP pushes for delay in health law requirements WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pressed ahead Wednesday on delaying key components of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, emboldened by the administration's concession that requiring companies to provide coverage for their workers next year may be too complicated. The House has scheduled votes later Wednesday to delay the law's individual and employer mandates, the 38th time the GOP majority has tried to eliminate, defund or scale back the program since Republicans took control of the House in January 2011. The votes were a chance to score political points, as the legislation is going nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Still, public unease with the law and the Republican attacks clearly caused consternation at the White House. Eager to counter the Republican criticism, Obama plans to deliver remarks Thursday focusing on rebates that consumers are already receiving from insurance companies under the health care law. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama will draw attention to the 8.5 million consumers who have received an average consumer rebate of about $100. Carney also highlighted reports that some states are already anticipating lower premiums under the Affordable Care Act. Experts say Cuba arms shipment explanation credible HAVANA (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday repeated Cuba's assertion that the antiquated weapons systems found on a cargo ship in Panama were headed to the Asian county for repair. But while the explanation is potentially credible, it leaves troubling questions unresolved, international arms experts say. Acting on intelligence it hasn't publicly described, Panama seized the rusting, 34-year-old North Korean freighter Chong Chon Gang on July 11 as it headed toward the Caribbean entrance of the Panama Canal on its way to the Pacific and its final destination of North Korea. Hidden under about 240,000 white sacks of raw brown Cuban sugar, Panamanian officials found shipping containers with parts of a radar system for a surface-to-air missile defense system, an apparent violation of U.N. sanctions that bar North Korea from importing sophisticated weapons or missiles. The North Korean Foreign Ministry commented on the seizure for the first time Wednesday, saying: ''This cargo is nothing but aging weapons which (North Korea) are to send back to Cuba after overhauling them according to a legitimate contract.'' A Foreign Ministry spokesman, who was not named by the official Korean Central News Agency, said ''the Panamanian investigation authorities rashly attacked and detained the captain and crewmen of the ship on the plea of 'drug investigation' and searched its cargo but did not discover any drug.'' Memory lapses may be earliest sign of dementia BOSTON (AP) — Memory problems that are often dismissed as a normal part of aging may not be so harmless after all. Noticing you have had a decline beyond the occasional misplaced car keys or forgotten name could be the very earliest sign of Alzheimer's, several research teams are reporting. Doctors often regard people who complain that their memory is slipping as ''the worried well,'' but the new studies show they may well have reason to worry, said Maria Carrillo, a senior scientist at the Alzheimer's Association. One study found that self-reported memory changes preceded broader mental decline by about six years. Another tied these changes to evidence on brain scans that dementia is setting in. ''Maybe these people know something about themselves'' that their doctors don't, ''and maybe we should pay attention to them,'' said Dorene Rentz, a Massachusetts General Hospital psychologist. She helped run one of the studies, which were discussed Wednesday at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Boston. Study finds police are recording license plates WASHINGTON (AP) — You can drive, but you can't hide. 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(AP) — The spacewalking astronaut who came close to drowning in a flooded helmet searched for clues in his spacesuit Wednesday, in hopes of understanding the unprecedented water leak. Engineers in Houston, meanwhile, conducted their own investigation into what should have been a routine, yet still risky, maintenance job outside the International Space Station. But a day after one of NASA's most harrowing spacewalks in decades, answers eluded the experts. ''There still is no smoking gun or definite cause of what happened or why that water ended up'' inside Luca Parmitano's spacesuit, said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries. Parmitano, Italy's first and only spacewalker, could not hear or speak by the time he re-entered the space station on Tuesday, 1 1/2 hours after stepping out. He also had difficulty seeing because of the big globs of water in his helmet and elsewhere in his suit. He'd worn the same suit on a spacewalk a week earlier, without mishap. NASA aborted the second spacewalk because of the deluge and later acknowledged it was a serious situation in which Parmitano could have choked or even drowned. He looked all right, although wet, when his crewmates pulled off his helmet, and was reported to be in fine shape. ''Back to normality on the ISS - Cupola is still a fantastic sight, even after a (very short) EVA,'' Parmitano wrote Wednesday in a tweet. EVA is NASA shorthand for spacewalk: extravehicular activity. He followed with photos of Italy's Lake Como, the Italian Alps and the Rimini sea resort that he snapped from the station's cupola, or observation deck. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, a crewmate, added via Twitter: ''Just happy Luca's safe!'' On Wednesday, Parmitano shined a long flashlight through the ring collar of his suit, while his SCHOOL PHYSICALS ARE YOUR CHILD'S IMMUNIZATIONS UP-TO-DATE? 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Over time, it's unlikely many vehicles in a covered area escape notice. And with some of the information going into regional databases encompassing multiple jurisdictions, it's becoming easier to build a record of where someone has been and when, over a large area. NASA still perplexed by astronaut's flooded helmet DON'T FORGET PHYSICAL FORMS AND IMMUNIZATION RECORD Gold Cross approx 6" x 3" in vicinity of More 4 Less or Denny's 586-1984 Accepting Most Insurances Including M-Cal & CHDP www.lassenmedical.com colleague, American Christopher Cassidy, examined other equipment used Tuesday. Nothing suspicious popped up, Humphries said. 22 children die after eating free lunch at Indian school PATNA, India (AP) — The children started falling violently ill soon after they ate the free school lunch of rice, lentils, soybeans and potatoes. The food, part of a program that gives poor Indian students at least one hot meal a day, was tainted with insecticide, and soon 22 of the students were dead and dozens were hospitalized, officials said Wednesday. It was not immediately clear how chemicals ended up in the food at the school in the eastern state of Bihar. One official said that the food may not have been properly washed before it was cooked. The children, between the ages of 5 and 12, got sick soon after eating lunch Tuesday in Gandamal village in Masrakh block, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of the state capital of Patna. School authorities immediately stopped serving the meal as the children started vomiting. Savita, a 12-year-old student who uses only one name, said she had a stomach ache after eating soybeans and potatoes and started vomiting. Rolling Stone cover prompts anger NEW YORK (AP) — Sultry eyes burn into the camera lens from behind tousled curls. A scruff of sexy beard and loose T-shirt are bathed in soft, yellow light. The close-up of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of Rolling Stone to hit shelves Friday looks more like a young Bob Dylan or Jim Morrison than the 19-year-old who pleaded not guilty a little more Sierra Sound NEW & USED CD's than a week ago in the Boston Marathon bombing, his arm in a cast and his face swollen in court. Has the magazine, with its roundly condemned cover, offered the world its first rock star of an alleged Islamic terrorist? The same image of Tsarnaev was widely circulated and used by newspapers and magazines before, but in this context it took on new criticism and accusations that Rolling Stone turned the bombing defendant into something more appealing. ''I can't think of another instance in which one has glamorized the image of an alleged terrorist. This is the image of a rock star. This is the image of someone who is admired, of someone who has a fan base, of someone we are critiquing as art,'' said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a communications professor and the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Dead stars that crashed long ago forged gold LOS ANGELES (AP) — A strange glow in space has provided fresh evidence that all the gold on Earth was forged from ancient collisions of dead stars, researchers reported Wednesday. Astronomers have long known that fusion reactions in the cores of stars create lighter elements such as carbon and oxygen, but such reactions can't produce heavier elements like gold. Instead, it was long thought that gold was created in a type of stellar explosion known as a supernova. But that doesn't fully explain the amount of the precious metal in the solar system. About a decade ago, a team from Europe using supercomputers suggested that gold, platinum and other heavy metals could be formed when two exotic stars — neutron stars — crash and merge. Neutron stars are essentially stellar relics — collapsed cores of massive stars. Now telescopes have detected such an explosion, and the observation bolsters the notion that gold in our jewelry was made in such rare and violent collisions long before the birth of the solar system about 4 1/2 billion years ago. Get Moving Tehama Need low cost options for fun activities this summer? ➞ find ideas TODAY! Special Orders Avail. Car Stereo Sales - Service Installation We make house calls! View a complete list of activities in Tehama County at our website: tehamacountycaa.org 226 So. 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