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6A – Daily News – Monday, September 6, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Future hiring will generate jobs in service Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with special- ized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all. Job creation will likely remain weak for months or even years. But once employers do step up hir- ing, some economists expect job openings to fall mainly into two cate- gories of roughly equal numbers: — Professional fields with higher pay. Think lawyers, research scien- tists and software engi- neers. — Lower-skill and lower-paying jobs, like home health care aides and store clerks. And those in between? Their outlook is bleaker. Economists foresee fewer moderately paid factory supervisors, postal work- ers and office administra- tors. Gulf oil spill probe ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Inves- tigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evi- dence is secure aboard a ship. Engineers took 29 1/2 hours to lift the 50-foot, 300-ton blowout preven- ter from a mile beneath the sea. The five-story high device breached the water’s surface at 6:54 p.m. CDT, and looked largely intact with black stains on the yellow metal. FBI agents were among the 137 people aboard the Helix Q4000 vessel, taking photos and video of the device. They will escort it back to a NASA facility in Louisiana for analysis. The AP was the only news outlet with a print reporter and photographer on board the ship. The blowout preventer was placed into a metal contraption specifically designed to hold the mas- sive device at 9:16 p.m. CDT Saturday. As it was ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● maneuvered into place, crew members were silent and water dripped off the device. US forces help battle attackers in Baghdad BAGHDAD (AP) — Days after the U.S. official- ly ended combat operations and touted Iraq’s ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed mil- itants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sun- day. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens. It was the first exchange of fire involving U.S. troops in Baghdad since the Aug. 31 deadline for formally ending the combat mission, and it showed that Ameri- can troops remaining in the country are still being drawn into the fighting. The attack also made plain the kind of lapses in security that have left Iraqis wary of the U.S. drawdown and distrustful of the ability of Iraqi forces now taking up ultimate responsibility for protecting the country. 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Lowest Price Guaranteed! even managed to fight their way inside the compound and were only killed after running out of ammunition and detonating explosives belts they were wearing. Republicans count on gains in Senate WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In the turbulent year of the tea party, Repub- lican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It’s the way Republi- can strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians point- ing the party toward signifi- cant gains in the Senate. ‘‘He brings our style of civility and independence to Washington and works to develop solutions,’’ is the soothing, even quaint mes- sage on the 71-year-old lawmaker’s campaign web- site, which shows him in a suit and tie, working alone at his desk. Experience ‘‘is hugely important,’’ he said in an interview. After two terms as gov- ernor and nine as the state’s lone congressman, Castle appears better positioned than other veterans who faced a tea party-backed challenge this year. If he prevails over Christine O’Donnell on Sept. 14 — he and GOP officials have launched a fierce counterat- tack — he would join more than a half-dozen other vet- eran Republican officehold- ers on the ballot in Senate races. In matters of style as well as policy and political experience, they are the polar opposite of Rand Paul of Kentucky, Sharron Angle of Nevada and Ken Buck in Colorado. Those three tapped into an anti-govern- ment sentiment, espouse politically risky positions, won primaries over estab- lishment candidates, and now face difficult races in the fall. No matter the blend of candidates that Republicans end up with, a persistently weak economy and voter anger add up to enough competitive races to give them at least an outside chance of winning Senate control. Already, a constel- lation of outside groups is spending heavily on televi- sion in Senate races, includ- ing more than $5 million this summer for two groups backed by former George W. Bush political adviser Karl Rove.