| Ottawa 2 0 2_4 | |||
| Pittsburgh 1 0 0_1 | |||
| First Period_1, Pittsburgh, Malkin 19 (N.Johnson, Fedotenko), 1:34. 2, Ottawa, Fisher 18 (Foligno, Carkner), 10:06. 3, Ottawa, Kelly 10 (Ruutu, Neil), 13:39. Penalties_Cooke, Pit (interference), 10:38 | Volchenkov, Ott (tripping), 15:13 | Rupp, Pit (hooking), 18:25 | Kovalev, Ott (hooking), 18:33. |
| Second Period_None. Penalties_Kovalev, Ott (interference), :44 | Crosby, Pit (slashing), 5:00. | ||
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It is moments before midnight, in a crucial test of the FederalAviation Administration's computer system. The clocks in the airportcontrol center are about to turn from Dec. 31, 1999, to Jan. 1, 2000.
The controller calls out, "Time is one minute prior to enteringthe new millennium in our test systems. How do you read thistransmission?"The pilot of the Convair replies: "Loud and clear, and if wedisappear off the screen, it means we went into the nextmillennium."A minute later, after the clocks …
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s stock remains undervalued but its price should rise during the coming months, the independent natural gas and oil company's CEO said Tuesday.
On Monday, the Oklahoma City-based company reported a $205 million loss during the first quarter, citing the marking down of the value of derivatives contracts used to guard against rising energy costs. Excluding special items Chesapeake earned $518 million, or 75 cents a share, during the quarter, which was above analysts' expectations.
CEO Aubrey McClendon didn't mention those numbers in a conference call with analysts Tuesday, instead focusing on what he said are three "significant …
Foreign investment in Myanmar, one of the world's poorest and most authoritarian countries, dropped more than two thirds last fiscal year as Chinese investment tailed off and economic sanctions on the military-ruled nation continued, according to government figures.
A statistical report from the country's Ministry of National Planning and Development that was seen Wednesday said foreign investment in the 12 months through March 2010 fell 68 percent to $315 million from $985 million the previous year.
The main reason for the drastic drop was because of China's unprecedented investment in Myanmar in 2008-2009. It spent $855.9 million in the mining sector, …
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"We only went to one store and everything was half price," saysTorres, who spent about $450 at the store. "I think we got a lot ofstuff for our money."
Torres wasn't alone in finding bargains this Christmas season. AndOld Navy wasn't alone in offering deeply discounted merchandise, asstores are struggling to draw shoppers scared off by a recession andthe Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
As the final days of the holiday shopping season draw near,retailers are luring bargain-hungry customers with signs offeringdiscounts of 30 percent, …
NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana's Supreme Court ruled that a man may be executed for raping an 8-year-old girl, and lawyers say his case may become the test for whether the nation's highest court upholds the death penalty for someone who rapes a child.
Both sides say the sentence for Patrick Kennedy, 42, could expand a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held the death penalty for rape violated the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The high court said then that its ruling applied only to adult victims.
Attorney Jelpi Picou, director of the New Orleans-based Capital Appeals Project, said he will ask the Louisiana Supreme Court for a rehearing and, if rejected, will go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"As horrid as (rape) is and as harshly as we believe it should be condemned, death is inappropriate in this case," Picou said.
Louisiana law allows the death penalty for the aggravated rape of someone less than 12 years old.
"He's the only person in the United States on death row for non-homicide rape," Picou said.
Kennedy was convicted in 2003 of raping a relative as she sorted Girl Scout cookies in the garage of her home in suburban New Orleans. He bragged to one man that the girl "became a lady today," deputies said.
His defense attorney at the time argued that blood testing was inconclusive and that the victim - who didn't report that Kennedy was her rapist until 21 months later - was pressured to change her story.
In Tuesday's opinion, Justice Jeffrey Victory wrote, "Our state Legislature and this court have determined this category of aggravated rapist to be among those deserving of the death penalty, and, short of a first-degree murderer, we can think of no other non-homicide crime more deserving."
Victory wrote that the Louisiana law meets the U.S. Supreme Court test requiring an aggravating circumstance - in this case the age of the victim - to justify the death penalty.
The governors of South Carolina and Oklahoma signed laws last year allowing the death penalty for people who repeatedly rape children. Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., said he doesn't know of any successful prosecution under either of those laws.
A bill that would allow the death penalty for a second offense of child rape is awaiting the governor's decision in Texas.
Georgia law allows death as a penalty for rape. Dieter said Florida and Montana also have such laws, but authorities have said the penalty would be invoked only for rape of a child.
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Associated Press writer Janet McConnaughey contributed to this report.
Premier Wen Jiabao arrived Wednesday in military-ruled Myanmar for a two-day official visit, the first by such a high-ranking Chinese figure in almost a decade.
Wen is scheduled to meet junta chief Senior Gen. Than Shwe, Prime Minister Thein Sein and other top leaders Thursday in Naypyitaw, the country's capital. The visit wraps up Wen's four-nation Asia tour after previous stops in South Korea, Japan and Mongolia.
China is Myanmar's main ally, giving diplomatic and economic support. Myanmar is shunned by the West because of its poor human rights record and failure to hand over power to a democratically elected government.
The trip comes at a politically sensitive time as the ruling generals prepare for elections being boycotted by the party of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The polls are part of the government's "roadmap to democracy," which critics have dismissed as a sham. They say the military, which has been in power since 1962, shows little sign of relinquishing control, and note the government has made every effort to prevent Suu Kyi from taking part.
Wen will sign a trade package that will strengthen bilateral economic cooperation, according to China's state Xinhua News Agency, quoting Chinese ambassador to Myanmar Ye Dabo.
Ye said China wanted to expand cooperation in hydropower, energy, mining, communications, fisheries, manufacturing and infrastructure.
China is now Myanmar's third largest trading partner and investor after Thailand and Singapore, with bilateral trade totaling $2.907 billion in 2009. Up to January 2010, China had invested $1.848 billion in Myanmar, or 11.5 percent of Myanmar's total foreign direct investment.
China's then-President Jiang Zemin visited Myanmar in December 2001, and then-Premier Li Peng came in 1994.
