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Some areas along the New Jersey coastline will be without power for another week and the water may be turned off as well. NBC's Ron Allen reports.

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President Barack Obama surveyed New Jersey's battered coastline on Wednesday, saying the federal government was "going to be here for the long haul,"?as the state and 15 others dealt with cleanup and power outages two days after Superstorm Sandy tore through.

After a helicopter tour, Obama visited residents in hard-hit Brigantine, where he made his promise of long-term support.

He was shown around by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and vocal backer of presidential challenger Mitt Romney who nevertheless has praised Obama and the federal response to the storm.

"We're going to work together to make sure we get ourselves through this crisis," Christie said after Obama's remarks.

Christie earlier said he would ask the president to task the Army Corps of Engineers with how "to rebuild the beach to protect these towns."

But, he added, "it won't be the same because some of the iconic things are washed into the ocean."

Christie on Wednesday ordered that Halloween trick-or-treating be moved to Monday due to unsafe conditions.?Aerial footage of the coastline Wednesday morning showed mile after mile of destruction: a neighborhood on fire, others swamped by sand and evacuations still happening in places with high water.

NBC's Lester Holt walks through a destroyed restaurant in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., which has been completely filled with sand by Sandy.

Recovery operations on Wednesday got a boost from the Navy, which ordered three helicopter carrier ships to the New Jersey and New York coasts, officials told NBC News.

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The USS Wasp, USS Carter Hall, and USS Mesa Verde will provide landing platforms for Coast Guard, National Guard and civilian agency helicopters if needed, the officials said, adding that the Atlantic Fleet command made the decision in the name of "prudent planning."

Wall Street reopened Wednesday,?as did some airports, but 5.7 million?homes and businesses -- two thirds in New Jersey and New York -- still were without power Wednesday afternoon.?

Aerial footage reveals devastation from New York City to North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Two days after landfall, Sandy was still impacting areas from the Atlantic coast to as far inland as Chicago:

• Some 500 patients at New York City's Bellevue Hospital were being evacuated Wednesday after lab equipment was damaged by floodwater.
• Three of seven flooded East River tunnels in New York City were cleared of water on Wednesday, and some subway service was set to resume Thursday. Full bus service was restored, as was some train service.
• New York City schools will be closed the rest of the week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
• 90 percent of Long Island was without power and it could take up to 10 days to restore all service, Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., told MSNBC.
• Sewage was backing up into homes near a flooded sewage plant in Long Island's Nassau County. An official feared it could spread to thousands of homes.?
• The U.N. Security Council had to relocate because of water damage to parts of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan.?
• Fires that destroyed more than a dozen homes in a New Jersey shore town rekindled overnight due to natural gas leaks,?NBCNewYork.com reported. Other communities up and down the coast also saw fires destroy homes.
• National Guard troops were evacuating flooded neighborhoods in Hoboken, N.J., NBCNewYork.com reported.?"About 20,000 people still remain in their homes, and we're trying to put together an evacuation plan, get the equipment here," Mayor Dawn Zimmer told MSNBC Tuesday night.?
• New Jersey's barrier islands were literally reshaped by the surge of water, NBC's Al Roker reported.
• More than three feet of snow had fallen in parts of West Virginia, where 225,000 homes and businesses were without power Wednesday morning. Red House, Md., saw 30 inches of snow.
• In Chicago, forecasters warned that high waves and flooding are possible on the Lake Michigan shore on Wednesday.?Sandy caused waves up to two stories high on the Great Lakes Tuesday, forcing cargo ships -- some longer than three football fields -- to seek shelter.?"We don't stop for thunderstorms and flurries," said Glen Nekvasil, spokesman for lake cargo association. "But this was just too much."
• In New Haven, Conn., Sandy blew down a tree that uprooted human remains and what appeared to be a time capsule.?

Helicopter aerials show an out-of-control blaze burning in Mantoloking, N.J., a community left devastated by Superstorm Sandy. TODAY's Natalie Morales reports.

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Sandy has claimed at least 47 lives in the U.S., after killing at least?71 in the Caribbean.

In New Jersey, aerial footage Wednesday showed fires raging among storm-damaged homes and sand pushed inland, with TODAY's Natalie Morales reporting from the air that she counted some 25 separate points of flame.

Boats that Morales said had been "tossed as if toys" could be seen piled up next to wrecked houses in the area.?

The National Guard has arrived in Hoboken, N.J., to give much-needed help to people trapped in their homes by flooding. Many of the city's streets are still under multiple feet of water. NBC's Natalie Morales takes an aerial view.

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In Hoboken, across from Manhattan, live wires dangled in floodwaters that were rapidly mixing with sewage.

The lower half of Manhattan remained without power after a transformer explosion at a Con Edison substation Monday night.

Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.

Two of the area's three major airports -- ?Kennedy in New York and Newark Liberty -- reopened with limited service on Wednesday.?New York's LaGuardia Airport was flooded and remained closed. Nearly 19,000 flights have been canceled since Sunday.

Sunday?s New York Marathon is still on, but?flying in runners from out of town will be tricky. The National Basketball Association canceled the season-opening game between the New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday, because of damage around the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

NBC Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski as well as Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Veterans' College Drop-Out Rate Soars

WASHINGTON -- In the decade after World War II, 2 million veterans went to college on the new GI Bill, and almost all of them graduated and went on to power the post-war economic boom.

This fall, tens of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans are enrolled in colleges and universities across the country, courtesy of the GI Bill. But almost all of them -- 88 percent -- will drop out by next summer, feeling isolated and frustrated in an alien culture.

Before they disappear from campus, they will contribute to another dismaying statistic: student veterans are seven times more likely to attempt suicide than their civilian counterparts.

"The trend is to hard to ignore," said John Schupp, a chemist and professor at Tiffin University in Ohio who is spearheading an effort to ease veterans' transition into academic life.

"For the country to succeed," Schupp said, "this generation of veterans has to succeed."

The struggle of veterans to stay in school, and the failure of many colleges and universities to help them, is part of a broader challenge as some 2.3 million veterans flood home from Iraq and Afghanistan to confront a difficult adjustment to civilian life.

Jobs and affordable housing are harder to secure. Many veterans find civilian life pointless and flat after the excitement and stress of war. Families are exhausted from the strain of long separations.

And many vets are trying to manage insomnia, anger, anxiety and depression, common symptoms of combat trauma. A study of veterans in college found one-third had experienced severe anxiety, one-fourth suffered from severe depression and 45 percent experienced "significant" symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Forty-six percent of veterans on campus had considered suicide, compared to six percent among civilian college students. Ten percent of student veterans thought of suicide "often" or "very often," and 7.7 percent had attempted suicide, according to study by M. David Rudd, clinical psychologist and scientific director of the National Center for Veterans Studies, University of Utah.

Life inside the military is one of tightly shared values and commitments. You show up on time, dressed in the right uniform with the right gear; you are responsible for your buddies and they watch your back. Decisions matter. You respect your superiors and question them only to a point.

In a Marine platoon in Afghanistan, for instance, everyone pays attention during the pre-mission brief; their lives will depend on knowing the plan. But back home in English class, Marine vets may watch in dismay as civilian students may come in late wearing a torn T-shirt and flip-flops, text during a lecture or skip class altogether.

Small wonder that on campus, many veterans feel a sense of vertigo from the sudden loss of community.

"We're used to high intensity life, constant vigilance on a very routinized lifestyle," said Cody Nicholls, an Iraq combat veteran and grad student who directs the VETS program at the University of Arizona. "Coming into higher ed is a stark contrast, especially coming out of combat. Here, it's kind of 'Here are the keys, good luck, you're on your own.'"

That's a key factor that defines the difference between the WWII veterans who attended college and today's veterans. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, with 13 million veterans pouring out of the ranks and the new GI bill providing free tuition to any four-year college, practically everybody in school was a veteran. Now, with less than 1 percent of military-age Americans volunteering for military service, veterans on campus are scarce and can feel alone.

As a Marine sergeant, Dan Standage relied on his team all the time. But arriving on campus at the University of Arizona, he found "you don't have a team any longer. That's what really messed me up; I was sitting all the time in the library totally isolated," he said. "Having other veterans around is just critical. When you have a bad day you can talk shop with another vet who totally understands you, you can laugh if off rather than take it out on someone."

Guessing that isolation was part of the problem, Schupp ran an experiment in the spring of 2008 that took veterans scattered throughout a university's chemistry classes and put them in one class. His hunch was that they'd do better working with other veterans than with civilian students. In their first set of exams, veterans scored far higher than the civilians.

"I was like, 'Holy crap! This is working!'" Schupp crowed. He said one veteran explained to him: "'We're not stupid, we just couldn't concentrate.'" Segregated with other veterans, though, Schupp said they could relax and really concentrate.

Similar work was underway at the University of Arizona, where Michael Marks, lead psychologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Tucson, was determined to keep vets from dropping out. He had watched the Vietnam veteran generation often fail in school. "I was damned if I was going to let that happen to another generation," he said.

What he and his colleagues found was that veterans assimilated fairly quickly into the general student population -- with the right kind of help. Student veterans enrolling at the University of Arizona are encouraged to start with an intensive, one-semester crash course in how to succeed in school.

"In our experience, six months, and they blossom," Marks said.

The university's SERV (Supportive Education for Returning Veterans) initiative is a three-course program designed to transition veterans into academia. One course teaches resilience skills; a second enables students to identify their own learning styles, to understand how tests are designed and graded and other insights into the academic culture. A third teaches leadership skills, instructing vets how to apply lessons learned from wartime service.

Student get full academic credit for the courses. And at semester's end, they're ready to merge into civilian campus life.

With this approach and other benefits for veterans -- accelerated admission, a drop-in center run by vets -- 95 percent of veterans are staying in school at the University of Arizona, said Marks.

The VA seems to be scrambling to catch up to the initiatives underway at the University of Arizona and other schools. The VA currently provides 26 counselors at 32 college campuses across the country to help veterans with adjustment issues, and more are being added, VA officials said.

The VA hopes this year to begin a mentor program in which third- and fourth-year veteran students can counsel younger veterans, said Curtis L. Coy, deputy undersecretary for economic opportunity at the Veterans Benefits Administration.

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British Army dog honored with highest award for bravery

LONDON (AP) ? British soldiers and military dogs gathered at a London army barracks Thursday to honor a fallen hero with selfless courage, nerves of steel ? and four legs.

Theo, a bomb-sniffing springer spaniel who died in Afghanistan on the day his soldier partner was killed, was posthumously honored with the Dickin Medal, Britain's highest award for bravery by animals.

Theo worked alongside Lance Cpl. Liam Tasker, searching for roadside bombs in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold.

Tasker, 26, died in a firefight with insurgents in March 2011, and Theo suffered a fatal seizure hours later. Tasker's mother, Jane Duffy, says the pair were inseparable. She's convinced Theo died of a broken heart.

"They'll be watching us, and they'll be so proud," she said. "I just wish they were here to get it themselves."

Since 1943, the Dickin Medal has recognized gallantry by animals serving with the military, police or rescue services. Some of these animal heroes:

CANINE COMMANDOS

Theo is the 28th dog to receive the medal, awarded by animal charity PDSA and named for its founder, Maria Dickin.

One of the earliest winners was Rip, a mongrel found abandoned in a bomb shelter and adopted by a London air raid warden. He was credited with finding more than 100 people trapped in rubble by German bombs during the 1940 Blitz.

Another World War II hero was Rob, a collie who joined British commandos in more than 20 parachute operations behind enemy lines in North Africa and Italy. His medal citation said that "his presence with these parties saved many of them from discovery and subsequent capture or destruction."

Dogs have also been honored for service in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan and during terrorist attacks.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, Apollo, a New York Police Department German shepherd, received the medal on behalf of all search and rescue dogs at the sites in New York and Washington, "for tireless courage in the service of humanity."

WINGED WARRIORS

Pigeons' homing instinct makes them excellent messengers, and more than 200,000 served with British forces during World War II. Some 32 were awarded the Dickin Medal for carrying back vital information from the frontline.

Feathered medal-winners include Gustav, a pigeon serving with the Royal Air Force, "for delivering the first message from the Normandy Beaches from a ship off the beach-head" on June 6, 1944, the day of the D-Day landings.

GI Joe, a member of the U.S. Army Pigeon Service, was honored for flying 20 miles (32 kilometers) in 20 minutes with a message that stopped U.S. planes bombing an Italian town occupied by British troops in October 1943, saving the lives of at least 100 Allied soldiers and many civilians.

HEROIC HORSES

Upstart, a London police horse, is one of three equine recipients of the medal.

He was honored for a World War II incident in which a German flying bomb exploded 75 yards away, "showering both horse and rider with broken glass and debris."

Despite this, "Upstart was completely unperturbed and remained quietly on duty with his rider," controlling traffic until calm was restored.

A FEARLESS FELINE

Only one cat has ever received the Dickin Medal.

Simon, a Royal Navy ship's mascot, was honored for his service on HMS Amethyst, a ship shelled by Chinese Communist forces on the Yangtze River in 1949.

Despite being seriously wounded by shrapnel, Simon returned to his rat-killing duties aboard the damaged ship, which was trapped for months in Chinese waters.

"Throughout the incident his behavior was of the highest order," the citation said.

Simon and the ship's crew were greeted as heroes when they made it back to England, but the cat died weeks before he was due to receive his medal.

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Syria commits to 4-day truce, but prospects dim

BEIRUT (AP) ? The embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad promised Thursday to observe a U.N.-proposed truce during a four-day Muslim holiday, while rebels claimed major gains in the key battleground of Aleppo.

But prospects of the cease-fire taking hold are dim, given Assad's history of broken promises and the rebel momentum in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, where fighters said they advanced into several regime-held neighborhoods.

The truce plan by U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been endorsed by the U.N. Security Council, including Assad allies Russia and China. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged all countries and groups with influence in Syria to pressure both sides to stop the violence in the civil war, his spokesman said.

The holiday cease-fire was the least a divided international community could agree on after the failure of a more ambitious plan for an open-ended truce and political transition talks by Brahimi's predecessor, Kofi Annan, in April.

Even the current truce, to begin Friday with the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday, appears in jeopardy from the outset. Neither side has shown an interest in laying down arms, instead pushing for incremental military gains.

The truce plan remained vague Thursday evening. It wasn't clear when exactly it was supposed to begin, and there were no arrangements for monitoring compliance. Brahimi never said what would happen after four days, a potentially dangerous omission considering that Assad and those trying to topple him sharply disagree on a way forward. Assad refuses to resign while the opposition says his departure is a prerequisite for talks.

"It's a longshot," Beirut-based analyst Paul Salem said of the cease-fire. "We are completely in war mode, at least for the next many months."

Both sides kept fighting into late Thursday.

In an apparent setback for the regime, activists said rebel fighters pushed into predominantly Christian and Kurdish neighborhoods in northern Aleppo that had previously been held by pro-Assad forces.

"It was a surprise," local activist Abu Raed said via Skype. "It was fast progress and in an unexpected direction."

He asked to be identified only by his nickname for fear of reprisals.

The battle for Aleppo, a former regime stronghold and Syria's business hub, has been largely deadlocked since rebels first captured parts of the city in late July. A complete rebel takeover could change the momentum of the war, although in recent months, front lines have shifted repeatedly and it was not clear if rebel fighters could maintain Thursday's gains.

Activists also reported fighting and shelling by government forces near the capital of Damascus, and scores of people were reported killed nationwide. Since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, more than 35,000 people have been killed, including more than 8,000 government troops, according to activists.

Even as it lost some ground in Aleppo, the Assad regime said Thursday it would abide by the holiday truce. With Russia backing the truce and presumably bearing down on Damascus, such a step had been expected. Another Syria ally, Iran, welcomed what it called a "positive action" by Syria's army.

But in endorsing the plan, the Syrian military added major loopholes, saying it would respond with force not only if attacked, but if it believes opposition fighters are reinforcing positions or smuggling weapons from abroad.

The regime also accepted the previous cease-fire plan ? proposed by Annan ? which called for an open-ended truce to begin April 12. But it failed to implement major provisions, such as withdrawing troops and heavy weapons from urban centers. The truce soon collapsed.

Opposition leaders and rebel commanders dismissed Thursday's announcement by the regime as empty talk. Some said opposition fighters would halt their fire but respond if attacked by regime troops.

Gen. Mustafa al-Sheikh, a commander of the Free Syrian Army, said that "the brigades operating under the umbrella of this council will respect the cease-fire, if the regime indeed stops operations."

"However, we have experienced the regime's promises and lies before, ... Unfortunately with such dictatorial and sectarian regimes, you cannot believe such promises will be kept," he said.

The Syrian opposition is fractured and rebel fighters are organized in different groups, with rival agendas and command structures. Jabhat al-Nusra, a radical Islamic group that has been fighting alongside the rebels and has taken a lead in the battle for Aleppo, said it won't comply with the truce.

The U.S. put the onus on the Assad regime. "What we are hoping and expecting is that they will not just talk the talk of cease-fire, but that they will walk the walk, beginning with the regime," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi welcomed the cease-fire as a "positive action" in a telephone conversation with his Syrian counterpart, Walid al-Moallem, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

In Aleppo, it remained unclear how significant the rebels' gains were, as their forces often push into new areas only to swiftly abandon them when the regime bombs their positions.

An Aleppo activist reached via Skype said rebel fighters had seized the predominately Kurdish neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh and were pushing into Al-Siryan al-Jadideh, a nearby Christian neighborhood, where they were trying to capture a security office used as an army post.

The advance expanded the fight for Aleppo from the poorer, mostly Sunni Muslim neighborhoods on its eastern and southern sides ? where the rebels can often count on support from the local population ? into a new section of the city farther north.

The city's northwest has seen very little rebel activity since fighting in Aleppo began, and it was unclear how residents would react to the rebels, who are mostly from the countryside.

While the uprising has split Syria's Kurds between the rebels and the regime, the country's Christians have tried to remain neutral.

Abu Raed, the activist, said neither group had actively joined the uprising and that many were fleeing as the regime struck back.

"They have started leaving the neighborhoods because the shelling has started," he said.

Amateur video posted online Thursday showed gray smoke rising from a cluster of apartment buildings in Aleppo. A narrator said the video showed the aftermath of government shelling in the Midan neighborhood. In another video, a rebel fighter fired a machine gun from the back of a pickup truck before the vehicle sped off to take him out of the line of fire.

The videos appeared to be genuine, matching activist descriptions of events.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists, said more than two dozen people were killed in the city Thursday, including eight Kurds who died when mortar rounds exploded in their neighborhood. It was unclear who fired them, it said.

The Observatory also said about 20 people were killed in shelling and clashes near Damascus, most of them in the restive suburb of Duma.

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Associated Press writers Zeina Karam and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed reporting.

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Samsung Galaxy Note II for Verizon hands-on

So far we've had the opportunity to review the global edition of the Samsung Galaxy Note II -- as well as get our hands on three of the five variants known to be making their way to the US -- but tonight we got our first official look at Verizon's particular flavor. Not that it's much different than the rest of the crowd: it's loaded with the same specs we've seen on the N7000 model (5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED display at 1,280 x 720, 3,100mAh battery and a quad-core Exynos processor clocked at 1.6GHz), with the exception of Verizon-specific LTE bands, and have the same button layout that we've come to expect. Of course, there's that hideous Verizon logo on the main button, but that's the only visual difference we could spot.

Software-wise, Verizon's version of the Note II contains the built-in apps we've gotten accustomed to with its Android phones: VZ Navigator, My Verizon Mobile, and Mobile Hotspot. The device we picked up was running Jelly Bean, like its counterparts from other carriers. Sadly, no pricing or availability is yet available for the Note II on Verizon, with reps at the Samsung event we're at saying that it's up to Verizon to loose that news.

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Microsoft officially launches Windows 8

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Microsoft Thursday?launched Windows 8, the latest version of its operating system, a version it hopes will be modern enough to keep existing users and draw new ones to it.

Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live, kicked off the event in New York City?by saying?that Microsoft is celebrating the global availability of Windows 8 on Thursday.?

Sinofsky revealed that WIndows 7, the prior version of Microsoft's desktop operating system, has sold more than?670 million licenses. Yes, over?670,000,000 copies of Windows 7 are out there in the world, on people's computers. Windows 8?uses Windows 7 as its foundation, so naturally there are high expectations. The new?operating system has undergone more than 1,240,000,000 hours of testing, according to Sinofsky.

Sinofsky referenced the days when we were basically "living in caves," the time of Windows 95. He used memories of that era to emphasize just how far Microsoft's operating system has come. Now, more than?1,000 PCs have been certified for Windows 8, bringing on what the folks at Microsoft describe as a new era of computing (and of Windows).

Sinofsky did at one point acknowledge that some folks might call out Microsoft's newly launched app store for having a small selection of apps, in comparison to what is available on other platforms, such as Apple and Google.

"We see today as a grand opening, and a very strong one," he said. And he says that there are more apps in the Windows app store than there were in any competitor's at launch.

Microsoft executives Mike Angiulo and Julie Larson-Green offered a demonstration of Windows 8 on older (and updated) devices, as well as on new gadgets. They emphasized how the new operating system runs significantly faster than its predecessor on older devices?? cheers were heard from a group in the audience when this detail was pointed out?? but focused on all the new Windows 8 devices hitting the market right now.

After Angiulo and Larson-Green wrapped up their demonstration, the booming voice of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer flooded the event space. "It's an exciting day," he declared.

Ballmer walked everyone, once again, through the basics of the Windows 8 ecosystem, declaring several features as working ?"magically."

With Windows 8, "seeing, touching, clicking, and swiping is really?believing," Ballmer says. "Welcome to the world of Windows 8."

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Ecuador fears for Assange's health, seeks UK safe passage

MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - Ecuador is worried about the health of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and has asked Britain to guarantee him safe passage from its London embassy to hospital if he needs medical treatment, a senior Ecuadorean diplomat said in Moscow.

Assange, an Australian, has been holed up inside Ecuador's embassy in central London since June to avoid extradition to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations.

British authorities say Assange will be arrested if he sets foot outside the embassy. The apartment building, located just behind London's famed Harrods department store, is under constant police surveillance.

"Assange has grown noticeably thinner, and we are very concerned about his health," Voice of Russia radio quoted Vice Foreign Minister Marco Albuja Martinez as saying in comments confirmed by the Ecuadorean embassy in Moscow.

"If he falls ill, we will have to choose between two alternatives: to treat Assange in the embassy or hospitalize him," Albuja Martinez said. "This is a very serious situation and it can affect Assange's human rights."

Later on Wednesday, Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters in Quito that while he does not know if Assange has any medical problems, he is worried about his health as time goes on.

"It's obvious that his health will deteriorate and we don't have a protocol, we don't have the necessary conditions" to deal with a possible health emergency, Patino said.

Ecuador has asked the British Foreign Office for a document that would enable Assange to enter hospital safely if necessary and return to the embassy with refugee status.

"I still haven't had a response from Britain to see what we do if Mr. Julian Assange has an emergency ... . At this point, the threat that they will arrest him if he sets foot outside the embassy still stands," Patino said, adding that Assange is "suffering."

Assange is said to be living a cramped life inside the embassy. He eats mostly take-out food and uses a treadmill to burn off energy and a vitamin D lamp to make up for the lack of sunlight.

In late August, the former computer hacker said he expected to wait six months to a year for a deal that would allow him to leave the embassy.

The Foreign Office said it was unaware of Assange's health problems.

"Ecuador have not told us that Mr Assange is ill. However, were they to do so, we would consider the matter," said a Foreign Office spokesman.

Ecuador granted Assange asylum in August and said it shared his fears that he could face charges in the United States over the publication by WikiLeaks in 2010 of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables.

When he appeared on a balcony of the building to address supporters in August, Assange appeared tanned and in good health. But a BBC reporter who saw him recently described him as "a very pale man" in a story broadcast on Sunday.

Assange, 41, broke the conditions of his bail when he entered the embassy after running out of legal options to avoid being sent to Sweden.

Speaking about the safe passage request he said Ecuador had lodged with the Foreign Office, Albuja Martinez said his country was pleased that Britain "did not reject it outright".

"We will not put pressure on them and will patiently await an answer, so that Assange can receive medical treatment if necessary," he was quoted as saying in Moscow.

(Writing by Steve Gutterman and Maria Golovnina; Additional reporting by Eduardo Garcia in Quito; Editing by Xavier Briand)

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Robert S. McNamara's archive sells for $1 million at auction

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The personal archive of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who served under President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis 50 years ago, sold for over $1 million at auction, far exceeding a pre-sale estimate, Sotheby's said on Tuesday.

The top-selling items in the sale were two cabinet room chairs from the Kennedy administration, along with a second signed letter from the then first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, that together fetched $146,500.

The sale included personal papers, letters, furniture and memorabilia, and marked the half century anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.

McNamara, who died in 2009, helped to broker a deal to end the confrontation over the Soviet Union's plans to place nuclear weapons on Cuba.

"For two hours, the history of the 1960s became a vivid reality for those who participated in this auction. The sale was filled with extraordinary pieces from the remarkable life of this pivotal figure," David Redden, vice chairman of Sotheby's, said in a statement announcing the results.

A silver engraved paperweight given by Kennedy to close staff, showing the month of October engraved with the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, sold for $95,500, more than three times its pre-sale estimate.

"It is a paperweight created by Tiffany," Redden said in an interview ahead of the auction, adding it would be "extremely vivid for people whether they lived through that (the crisis) or not."

Another highlight of the auction was the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, which he was awarded when he left the defense department in 1968 to head the World Bank. It sold for $34,375, nearly five times its pre-sale estimate.

All of the items were sold by his estate.

McNamara, who died at the age of 93, served as secretary of defense for both Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961-1968. During the Johnson administration, McNamara's time was dominated by the Vietnam War, which he later described in his memoir as "terribly wrong".

(Reporting by Patricia Reaney; editing by Andrew Hay)

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Dow Chemical to slash 2,400 jobs, close 20 plants

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) ? The Dow Chemical Co. will eliminate about 2,400 jobs and close roughly 20 manufacturing facilities as part of a restructuring plan aimed at coping with slowing economic growth in Europe and elsewhere.

The manufacturing giant said Tuesday that the job cuts amount to 5 percent of the company's workforce worldwide.

Dow expects the strategy will result in roughly $500 million in annual cost savings by the end of 2014.

The company also plans to slash capital spending and investments. It expects that will save an additional $500 million.

All told, Dow anticipates it will save $2.5 billion, including other cost-cutting measures.

Dow produces materials used in nearly every business sector and region of the world, leaving it exposed to shifts in global economic growth.

The company's business has been hurt by Europe's debt crisis and slower growth in China. Manufacturers, construction businesses and some transportation customers have reduced demand for Dow products. The company's coatings and materials for electronic devices also have been weak.

"The reality is we are operating in a slow-growth environment in the near-term and, while these actions are difficult, they demonstrate our resolve to tightly manage operations particularly in Europe and mitigate the impact of current market dynamics," Andrew Liveris, Dow's chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

Rival DuPont Co. on Tuesday reported a big drop in quarterly profit and missed Wall Street expectations. The company announced a restructuring that includes 1,500 layoffs.

Over the next two years, Dow plans to close certain manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan.

The company projects it will book between 50 and 60 cents per share in charges related to the restructuring in the fourth quarter of this year. That includes a write-down of assets related to its Dow Kokam LLC joint venture ? a move the company is making due to weak global demand for lithium-ion batteries.

Despite the sweeping cost reductions, Dow plans to continue to invest in areas where it believes that it can clearly expand its profit margins. Those include Dow AgroSciences, Dow Electronic Materials and its Sadara and U.S. Gulf Coast investments.

"Taken on the whole, Dow's strategy remains intact, and our long-term growth fundamentals are strong," Liveris said.

Dow shares ended regular trading down $1.19, or 4 percent, at $28.55 amid a broad market decline. The stock slipped another 24 cents to $28.31 in extended trading.

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Sprint rolls out new 4G tablet data plans November 11th, likely just in time for new(er) iPad, iPad mini

As a carrier trailing Verizon and AT&T in terms of subscribers and now 4G coverage, Sprint has made it a habit to undercut the other two on value. While its upcoming tablet-specific data plans won't necessarily be cheaper, they do promise up to 20 percent more data for the same price and still do not require a contract. Sure to come in handy now that it's offering the fourth generation iPad and iPad mini on its network, they are 300MB/$14.99, 3GB/$34.99, 6GB/$49.99, or 12GB for $79.99. There are also $10 and $15 offers for customers that also have Sprint smartphones that offer 100MB and 1GB of data, respectively, and activation fees for all 3G/4G tablets are being waived for a limited time. As you'll recall, Verizon and AT&T's offerings include 2GB/$30 (3GB/$30 on AT&T), 5GB/$50 and on Verizon, 10GB/$80 packages. Even if you're not an Apple user these plans apply for all 4G capable slates, with Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 specifically mentioned. For those planning to pick up one of the latest iPads with wifi + cellular capability however, their mid-November launch date may have narrowed slightly , since these plans go into effect November 11th. Check the press release after the break or a post on its Sprint Community blog for more info.

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Who?s the Greatest Jewish Athlete?

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When I was bar mitzvah in 1983, I received four Swiss Army knives as presents. Starting this week, and for decades to come, every Jewish bar mitzvah boy will probably get four copies of Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame. Edited by Franklin Foer and Mark Tracy, Jewish Jocks collects dozens of short, opinionated biographical essays about the greatest Jewish athletes, coaches, team owners, trainers, and sports journalists of all time. Contributors include David Remnick, Howard Jacobson, Buzz Bissinger, Simon Schama, and Jane Leavy?not to mention Slate?s own Emily Bazelon, Josh Levin, Dahlia Lithwick, and me. Later this week Slate will run the essays from Steven Pinker (on Red Auerbach), Jonathan Safran Foer (on Bobby Fischer), and Bazelon (on Renee Richards).

I interviewed Franklin Foer about the book.

Great Jewish Athletes is supposedly the world?s shortest book. How did you manage to get 300 pages out of the subject? ?

That old joke from the movie Airplane!: It's both true and a smear. Yes, Yeshiva Flatbush isn't winning many football championships these days. But the history of Jewish athletics is much richer than most folks realize. Basketball and boxing were both dominated by Jews during the interwar years. (Back then, a third of all boxing champions were Jews. You could find them in every weight class.) Football, not a very Jewish discipline on the surface, was practically invented by our people. Benny Friedman and Sid Luckman created the modern quarterback as we know him. Sid Gilman was the genius who conceived the basic structure of offense you see on your television sets each Sunday. Al Davis?yeah, we own him, too?reshaped the image of the game. That's to say nothing of the TV executives, the newspaper journalists, and marketing geniuses who left their sizable stamps on football.

Our thesis is that the Jewish contribution to sports is very much akin to the Jewish contribution to Hollywood. To paraphrase: We built that.?

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What kind of sports have Jews been especially good at and why? And which ones have we struggled at?

Jews were very good at any sport that thrived in New York City in the early 20^th century, which is not surprising given their large presence in the five boroughs. That was also a time when Jews lived in working-class neighborhoods, where physical strength was an everyday imperative. You needed to know how to fight back against the Irish and Italian kids threatening to pound you. And credit must also be paid to the Settlement House movement, which built gyms across the Lower East Side in the first decades of the century.?

You can find Jewish champions in almost every sport, with one strange exception: golf. There are lots of Jewish country clubs and lots of Jewish doctors on the links, but there are stunningly few members of the tribe on the PGA tour. I have struggled to find a theory to explain this paucity. (Perhaps golf is a sport that punishes neurotics. Or perhaps there's some hangover from the era when country clubs excluded the Goldbergs and Epsteins.) The one great Jewish golfer in recent memory, Corey Pavin, became an evangelical Christian.

Is there any reason to believe that Jews are better or worse athletes than non-Jews?

My father has called this book the most triumphalist document to emerge from the Jewish community since the '67 war. Many of the essays hit the same theme: Jews compensate for their lack of physical acumen with their heads. They are innovators, who must devise new strategies and new techniques to win. Jewish boxers were invariably described as "scientific." That is, they used precision and creativity in order to foil their foes. Henry Ford, for one, hated the scientific fighters. He considered the use of feints and trickery to be less than manly. Yet, the slips and punches that Jewish boxers invented ultimately found their way into every gym in America.?

Who?s the greatest Jewish Jock of all time?

The strongest (and most screamingly obvious) case can be made for Sandy Koufax. His image and career come very close to perfection. It helps that he retired before we could witness him at less than full strength. (In his final season, he won 27 times, each of them a complete game!) And his decision to sit out Yom Kippur?and the applause he received for it?certified Jewish assimilation in this country.?

I can also make a case for Benny Leonard, the greatest of the Jewish pugilists. He won the lightweight title in 1917 and didn't let it go until 1925. The authoritative Bert Sugar (also a Jew) has rated him the sixth best pound-for-pound fighter of all time?just one spot below Muhammad Ali.

Or, in the spirit of the book, I should mention Daniel Okrent. He is the journalist, the first public editor of the New York Times, who invented rotisserie baseball, a game that has transformed the experience of fandom. He took the quintessential Jewish obsession with stats and elevated it into a national obsession, the very definition of fantasy. In effect, Okrent made us a nation of Jewish nerds.

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What the Hell Is a Crystal Dust Plug for Your Phone?

I know a lot of people like to throw on a lot of trinkets and flair and pizazz on your phone but would people really use this crystal dust plug? It's a little cubic zirconia diamond that plugs into your phone's headphone jack to add some bling and presumably protect the interior of your headphone jack. More »

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Nuance Dragon Mobile Assistant launches on Android, but only on ICS for now

Dragon Go! has been given the elbow, with the slightly more professional sounding Dragon Mobile Assistant taking its place. Nuance has expanded on its predecessor's verbal commands, with new functionality for maps (you'll be able to bark direction requests at the new app and it'll plan the route), alongside a hands-free wake-up feature activated by saying "Hi Dragon" -- we hope you have a high embarrassment threshold. Other Siri-esque features include weather updates and dictated SMS and email responses. The beta app can be downloaded below, although compatibility is limited to Android Ice Cream Sandwich and above for now. Nuance is promising more features and increased availability later this year.

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Zynga?s Boston, Austin Layoffs Today: ?Almost Everyone Was In The Dark?

We have more on the backstory behind Zynga's layoffs today. None of the rank and file employees knew until this morning, although senior management had planned cuts ahead of time (just as Zynga indicated this month when it lowered its bookings estimates for the year). This morning, Zynga's senior vice president of games Todd Arnold came into the Boston office and told the studio of 50 people that the company was shutting it down. Similarly in Austin, most of the employees (about two-thirds of which were working on The Ville and one-third on Bingo), had no idea until today. We still don't have final figures on the total number of layoffs and Zynga hasn't replied to requests for comment.

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Hands On With The New iMac: Apple?s All-In-One Sheds The Pounds And Packs In The Features

Apple unveiled a redesigned iMac today, one that takes the all-in-one computer and makes it even more of a tightly packed engineering marvel. The rumors proved true, and it got a tapered design that thins out to 5mm at its thinnest point. This makes the machine appear surreal at first glance, but it's the changes inside that make the biggest lasting impressions.

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According to their sources the image you see above is the new Sony Xperia C650X that many have heard of simply as Odin. Their stating this 5-inch smartphone will rock an impressive 1920 x 1080p full HD resolution (441 ppi) and Qualcomm?s 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and more. Basically Sony?s version of the J Butterfly from HTC.

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Japan-China Senkaku spat may hurt Tokyos 2020 Olympic bid

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Sports editor Cetin Cem Yilmaz, of the English-language Hurriyet Daily News, said that the ongoing conflict has been mentioned as a 'possible advantage' for the Turkish bid.

The dispute between Japan and China has sparked protests, vandalism, economic boycotts and complicated already tense diplomatic relations between the nations.

According to the Japan Times, the general public's unbridled enthusiasm to host the 2020 Summer Olympics could also give Istanbul the boost it needs to win the vote over Tokyo and Madrid, and Yilmaz believes that is the driving force behind the Turkish Olympic Committee's bid.

"Actually, that looks as the most important factor in Istanbul's Olympic aspirations," he wrote in an email, providing an important perspective just 11 months before International Olympic Committee members will convene in Buenos Aires, officially on Sept. 7, 2013, to vote for the 2020 host city.

"The local officials, the government and the public are firmly standing behind Istanbul's bid. A well-known survey stated that 87 percent of the public want Istanbul to host the Olympic Games, which is a remarkably higher number than other candidate cities," he added.

"The biggest factor in the support is the belief that this Games would showcase Turkey's rising to the global stage," Yilmaz said.

"For many people, hosting the Olympic Games would symbolize Turkey's power that it can be up there with other major countries: USA, China, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany or France who have hosted previous events. On the other hand, people know that Istanbul can benefit greatly for the Games for infrastructure, city planning, etc," he added.

For Turkey, its unique status as "bridge between different cultures," Yilmaz pointed out, "is a key selling point of the bid.

Indeed, Istanbul is a city that connects Europe and Asia in a modern, secular, Muslim nation in a region surrounded by nations with governments fueled by Islamic ideology.

"National Olympic Committee leader Ugur Erdener has told the Hurriyet Daily News that Turkey's economic and political consistency is a key factor, as well as the country having a charismatic leader in (Prime Minister) Recep Tayyip Erdogan," he said.

"I believe that bringing the Olympic Games to a new destination after Beijing (in 2008) and Rio (the 2016 Summer Games host city) will boost Turkey's chances, given that Istanbul is one of the biggest cities in the world that has never hosted the Olympics," he added.

"Of course, the Olympics are a completely different experience, but the last decade of hosting sports events do look quite good on Turkey's resume," he added.(ANI)

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