Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux to Wed Next Month?


We almost feel bad for OK! Magazine. The same week as Us reveals Scott Disick got Kourtney Kardashian pregnant again, they try to fake marry her off. Ouch!

Also getting fake hitched before 2012? Jennifer Aniston!

According to the celeb gossip magazine's new cover story, Jen has weathered her share of romantic disappointments after a devastating divorce from Brad Pitt.

Whoop dee crap. Tell us something we don't know. Friends of the actress agree that Justin is a keeper, the real deal, etc. So naturally, a wedding is imminent!

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How do we know that America's favorite Lonely Girl is soon to be Mrs. Theroux?

As the pair settles into their new penthouse in NYC's Greenwich Village, "you can tell by the gleam in Jen's eye, the uncharacteristic PDA and Justin's unfailing tenderness."

Well, we don't know about you, but we're certainly convinced after hearing that testimonial. Soon, according to sources, the couple will head south of the border to elope.

Doubtful. But we don't expect the relationship to go south. The seem happy.

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Jamaica gov't minister resigns amid investigations (AP)

KINGSTON, Jamaica ? Allegations that a $400 million road project has been mismanaged have led to the resignation of a Jamaican Cabinet minister.

Transport Minister Mike Henry issued a statement late Tuesday announcing he is resigning due to "ongoing attacks" on the management of a five-year initiative launched in 2010 to upgrade rutted roadways.

Henry says he has "nothing to hide" and looks forward to the conclusion of an independent review of the program ordered by the prime minister.

Henry did not calls Wednesday.

He is the second casualty of the controversy. National Works Agency CEO Patrick Wong resigned this month after the auditor general issued a report raising numerous concerns about mismanagement.

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Islamists seen winners in Egypt election (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters) ? Initial results of Egypt's first free election in six decades will emerge on Thursday, with Islamist parties expecting to command a majority in parliament, hard on the heels of victories by their counterparts in Tunisia and Morocco.

Parliament, whose exact makeup will be clear only after Egypt's staggered voting process ends in January, may challenge the power of ruling generals who took over in February when a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak, an ex-air force chief.

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest and best-organized Islamist group, believes its new Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is on course to secure about 40 percent of seats allocated to party lists after the first stage of voting this week, which passed off peacefully, albeit with many irregularities.

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani was

quoted on Thursday as saying Islamists were likely to represent the next wave of political power in the Arab world and that the West should embrace them, saying moderate Islamists could help combat what he called extremist ideology.

"We shouldn't fear them, let's cooperate with them. We should not have a problem with anyone who operates within the norms of international law, comes to power and fights terrorism," Sheikh Hamad told the Financial Times.

Islamist success at the polls in Egypt, the most populous Arab nation, would reinforce a trend in North Africa, where moderate Islamists now lead governments in Morocco and post-uprising Tunisia after election wins in the last two months.

Western powers are coming to accept that the advent of democracy in the Arab world may bring Islamists to power, but they also worry that Islamist rule in Egypt might erode social freedoms and threaten Cairo's 1979 peace treaty with Israel.

Egypt's April 6 youth movement, a prime mover in the revolt against Mubarak, also said there was no cause for concern.

"No one should worry about the victory of one list or political current. This is democracy and this great nation will not allow anyone to exploit it again," its Facebook page said.

FJP officials have said the party is also leading the race for individual seats that account for a third of the total.

Al-Nour Party, one of several newly formed ultra-conservative Salafi Islamist groups, said during the voting that it would pick up at least 70 seats in the new assembly.

Such an outcome, if confirmed, would give Islamist parties an option to combine to form a solid majority bloc, although it is not certain that the Brotherhood would invite al-Nour to join a coalition after the party quit an FJP-led electoral alliance.

Senior FJP official Essam el-Erian said before the vote that

Salafis, who had kept a low profile and shunned politics during Mubarak's 30-year rule, would be "a burden for any coalition."

The FJP might seek other partners, such as the liberal Wafd Party or the moderate Islamist Wasat Party, set up by former Brotherhood members in 1996 although not officially licensed until a few days after Mubarak's fall.

The liberal multi-party Egyptian Bloc has said it is on track to secure about a fifth of votes for party lists.

PERILS OF DEMOCRACY

Some Egyptians fear the Muslim Brotherhood might try to impose Islamic curbs on a tourism-dependent country whose 80 million people include a 10 percent Coptic Christian minority.

Ali Khafagi, the leader of the FJP's youth committee, dismissed such concerns, saying the Brotherhood's goal was to end corruption and start reform and economic development.

Only a "mad group" would try to ban alcohol or force women to wear headscarves," Khafagi told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Brotherhood's priority, which gained trust by aiding the poor during the Mubarak years, is likely to be economic growth to ease poverty and convince voters they are fit to govern.

"They are going to have to deliver something. The bread-and-butter issues will be their focus," said Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Centre.

Any new government will have to grapple with an economic crisis that has already forced the Egyptian pound to its lowest level in nearly seven years after tourism and foreign investment collapsed in the turmoil since Mubarak's fall.

The ruling military council, under increasing pressure to make way for civilian rule, has said it will retain powers to choose or dismiss a cabinet. But the FJP leader said on Tuesday the majority in parliament should form the government.

Essam Sharaf's outgoing government quit during protests against army rule last month in which 42 people were killed, most near Cairo's Tahrir Square, hub of the anti-Mubarak revolt.

Kamal al-Ganzouri, asked by the army to form a "national salvation government," aims to complete the task in the next day or two, but acknowledged on Wednesday that five presidential candidates had turned down invitations to join his cabinet.

Protesters who returned to Tahrir last month, angered by the military's apparent reluctance to cede power, say the generals should step aside now, instead of appointing a man of the past like Ganzouri, 78, who was a premier for Mubarak in the 1990s.

Officials were due to announce first-stage election results for individual seats at 7 p.m. (1700 GMT), but not those for party-list seats, which will be made public in January.

(Additional reporting by Marwa Awad, Yasmine Saleh, Shaimaa Fayed, Maha El Dayan, Tom Perry and Tom Pfeiffer; Writing by Alistair Lyon, editing by Peter Millership)

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Apple's founding documents go up for auction, estimated to bring in $150k

Sure, your OG iPhone may look like a relic from Apple's past, but for a true bite of old skool memorabilia you may want to consider bidding on the company's original founding documents signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The three-page treasure, which established the Apple Computer Company way back in 1976 won't come cheap, though, as they're expected to go for a cool $100,000 to $150,000. Besides the starting papers, Sotheby's New York is throwing in Ronald Wayne's Statement of Withdrawal as part of the package, a document that gives up his ten percent stake in the biz -- what some may call a $2.6 billion dollar mistake. Check out the source for more auction details.

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Maggie Daley remembered as helping shape Chicago (AP)

CHICAGO ? Dignitaries from the highest ranks of government grieved alongside ordinary citizens Monday as the woman who served as Chicago's first lady for 22 years was remembered as a passionate woman who helped shape the city's identity.

Hundreds gathered inside one of Chicago's oldest churches for Maggie Daley's funeral Mass, while others stood outside, listening to the service over a loudspeaker. The wife of former Mayor Richard Daley died Thursday after a long fight with cancer. She was 68.

Mourners included current Mayor Rahm Emanuel, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn.

The Rev. John Wall said "our Maggie" was the backbone of the Daley family and helped build the city's character with her love of the arts and education.

"A city is just a legal entity ... but we know how much more the city of Chicago is," Wall said. "Rich always said, `The city's gotta have a soul,' and Mayor Emanuel said, `And the heart of the city was Maggie.' She and Rich offered this great vision of inclusivity."

Maggie Daley was a patron of the arts known for her love of flowers, particularly pink tulips. A tulip named for her ? "Tulipa Maggie Daley" ? is planted along the city's Magnificent Mile shopping district. In 1991, she launched a program called After School Matters for the city's high school students.

The former mayor held his hand on his heart and watched solemnly as the motorcade and hearse bearing his wife's casket arrived at the church, led by an Irish bagpipe band, which played a song called "Maggie." Pallbearers included Bill Daley, the former mayor's brother and the White House chief of staff.

The Daleys' children remembered their mother as full of passion and someone who led by example.

Nora Daley Conroy and Lally Daley Hotchkiss stood with their brother, Patrick Daley, as he spoke.

"Mom set powerful examples in everyday life," he said. "She enjoyed life, laughter and the occasional piece of dark chocolate."

Patrick Daley said his mother loved Chicago and was devoted to numerous causes, but always made time for family.

"Mom and dad's love was a true partnership," he said. "With all her commitments, she always had the time to simply be our mother."

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Google Maps Goes Indoors, Pinpoints Orange Julius in Crowded Malls [Video]

As malls get bigger and more cluttered, it's getting harder to find the Hot Dog on a Stick or the shoe section at Macy's. Well, mall rats rejoice; Google's My Location feature just got an indoor upgrade to help navigate your way through malls, airports, and department stores. More »


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War vet arrested in Ala., Tenn. officer shootings

Joseph Scott Shriver, 23, of Lincoln County, Tenn., is seen in an undated photo provided by the Lincoln County Sheriff?s Dept. Shriver is suspected of shooting and wounding two law enforcement officers, one on each side of the Tennessee-Alabama border, during a police chase after a convenience store robbery early Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Shriver was charged with two counts of attempted murder, evading arrest and possession of a firearm. (AP Photo/Lincoln County Sheriff?s Dept.)

Joseph Scott Shriver, 23, of Lincoln County, Tenn., is seen in an undated photo provided by the Lincoln County Sheriff?s Dept. Shriver is suspected of shooting and wounding two law enforcement officers, one on each side of the Tennessee-Alabama border, during a police chase after a convenience store robbery early Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Shriver was charged with two counts of attempted murder, evading arrest and possession of a firearm. (AP Photo/Lincoln County Sheriff?s Dept.)

(AP) ? An Iraq war veteran shot an Alabama deputy sheriff in the face during a police stop minutes after a convenience store robbery late Monday, and then led police on a chase into Tennessee, where an officer was wounded during a shootout with the suspect, authorities said Tuesday.

Joseph Scott Shriver, 23, who gave a Lincoln County, Tenn., address but also had a Texas driver's license, was charged in Tennessee with two counts of attempted murder, evading arrest and possession of a firearm. He has a total bond of $1.6 million.

Madison County, Ala., District Attorney Rob Broussard said Shriver is likely to face attempted murder and assault charges there, according to The Huntsville Times.

Shriver served in the Army from 2008 until last April and was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, according to the U.S. Army. The former infantryman deployed to Iraq from November 2009 to August 2010. An Army human resources spokesman declined to disclose details of his separation from the service.

In Alabama, Madison County Deputy Brent Beavers remained Tuesday at Huntsville Hospital following surgery and was expected to recover. In Tennessee, Fayetteville police officer Justin Raby was treated and released at a local hospital for injuries from shrapnel and glass during the second shooting.

Madison County, Ala., Sheriff Blake Dorning said in a news conference that the spree began around 11:30 p.m. CST Monday when a convenience store was robbed northeast of Huntsville, Ala.

A short time later, Beavers spotted a vehicle matching the robbery description and pulled over the driver. Dorning said the driver got out and fired multiple rounds at the deputy's car, striking him in the face.

In a news briefing, Dorning also said a vehicle of the same description was spotted by a Lincoln County deputy, but he lost sight of it.

Lt. Joel Massey, who is in charge of investigations at the Fayetteville Police Department in Tennessee, said Raby and Sgt. Johnny Simmons spotted the suspect in the western part of the county early Tuesday and tried to pull him over. The suspect shot at the two officers, striking their police car several times, authorities said.

Massey said Raby dived into the car to avoid being shot and was injured by glass and shrapnel. Both officers were wearing bulletproof vests. Massey said Simmons returned fire at the suspect, who was armed with an assault rifle and a handgun.

Massey said the suspect drove away, but went off the road into a field and got stuck in the mud. The suspect was taken into custody without incident.

"Everybody is very lucky," Massey said of the shootings.

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Patches, Counseling, Persistence Can Help Smokers Quit (HealthDay)

MONDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Quitting smoking isn't easy for most people but medication and counseling can help them succeed, according to the results of two new studies.

In the first of the two reports published in the Nov. 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, a team led by Dr. Anne Joseph, co-leader of the Prevention & Etiology Research Program at the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota, tried helping people by keeping in touch with them and reminding them to quit smoking.

"We looked at a model that treated smoking as a chronic condition like high blood pressure or diabetes," Joseph said. "We know that using a combination of behavioral therapy and medication therapy, people do better than quitting on their own," she said.

For the study, more than 400 smokers received counseling over the phone along with nicotine replacement therapy (such as patches, gums, lozenges) for a month. Next, the participants were randomly assigned to receive two final calls, or more calls plus nicotine replacement therapy for another 48 weeks.

After 18 months, 30 percent of those who received calls and nicotine replacement hadn't smoked for six months compared with 23.5 percent of those who didn't receive long-term help, the researchers found.

In addition, people given long-term counseling tried to stop smoking more often than those who received only a few calls. And among those given long-term counseling, even those who did not quit smoked less than the people who received only a few calls.

Joseph's team assumed people would fail along the way and make several attempts to quit. The researchers reframed that into a positive step, she said.

"This approach takes a chronic disease treatment model, instead of a one-shot model," she explained. "If you want to quit smoking, you have to keep working at it and having your treatment adjusted to accommodate the possibility that it might not work the first time. That doesn't mean it's not going to work in subsequent attempts," Joseph added.

"If someone has tried and failed, they should try again," agreed Patricia Folan, director of the Center for Tobacco Control at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Great Neck, N.Y. "People often try to quit five to seven times before they're successful," Folan pointed out.

"The fact that long-term care, like ongoing support, results in better quit rates makes sense as we believe that nicotine addiction is like other addictions such as heroin or alcohol, which have been clearly shown to be best managed with ongoing long-term interventions," said Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association.

However, if the method in Joseph's study was to be widely used by hospitals or health care providers, that would likely be more expensive than current approaches, Edelman added, and cost-effectiveness would first need to be analyzed.

In another new study, researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina wanted to see if a smoking cessation program that included nicotine replacement therapy and counseling could help people quit even though they had no desire to stop smoking.

"Nicotine replacement therapy is proven as an effective smoking cessation medication, yet few smokers use it," said lead researcher Matthew Carpenter, an associate professor in the department of psychiatry.

Although most smokers are interested in quitting, many are hesitant to try quitting in the near future. In addition, many smokers have misconceptions about what nicotine replacement therapy is, how it works, and its safety, Carpenter noted.

The team randomly assigned more than 800 smokers to various programs. Some practiced quitting alone and some with the help of nicotine replacement therapy. Those given no nicotine replacement therapy received help in motivation, confidence and coping skills.

At four weeks, 22 percent of those who received counseling and nicotine replacement therapy had tried to stop smoking for a day, as did 13 percent of those who received counseling alone. At final follow-up after treatment was stopped, 49 percent of those who received nicotine replacement therapy had made an attempt to quit versus 40 percent of those given counseling alone, the researchers found.

"Compared to those who did not receive nicotine replacement therapy samples, those who did showed stronger motivation, higher confidence and more favorable attitudes towards nicotine replacement therapy," Carpenter said.

The study suggests nicotine replacement therapy could be marketed for trial use, which might be attractive to a greater number of smokers, he noted.

However, Edelman doesn't think this study went on long enough to draw any definitive conclusions. "The study had no long-term follow-up, thus lacking what I consider to be the gold standard of smoking-cessation experimentation," he said.

Two research letters published in the same journal issue drove home that point. In the first, G. David Batty, of University College London, England and colleagues followed up people who took part in the Whitehall Smoking Cessation Survey three decades ago.

In that study, about 1,450 men either received information on the dangers of smoking or no information. After 30 years, most of those still living had quit smoking -- 81 percent in the group that got counseling and 79 percent in the group that didn't, the investigators found.

In addition, the overall risk of death was slightly lower for people who received counseling; and while the difference was not statistically significant, it was about 0.4 life-years gained, the researchers said.

In the other letter, researchers looked at the benefit of not smoking in cutting the odds of dying young. The team led by Yin Cao, from the Harvard School of Public Health, collected data on more than 19,000 men who took part in the Physicians' Health Study.

Among these men, 42 percent had been smokers and nearly 7 percent still were. About 5,600 men died in the follow-up period. Of the more than 600 deaths among smokers, nearly 14 percent died before they reached age 65, compared with about 8 percent of those who had never smoked, the researchers found.

The highest death risk was among those who smoked the most, but that risk could be cut by 44 percent within 10 years after quitting, and after 20 years it was the same as if they never smoked, the study found.

"Reduction of mortality should not be considered to be the only important outcome measure of smoking-cessation programs," Edelman said. "There is considerable morbidity, such as disability, effects of treatment for heart and lung disease, etc., to be taken into account."

David Abrams, executive director of the Schroeder Institute on Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the American Legacy Foundation, said that evidence-based treatments "will double to quadruple your chance of successful quitting" compared to willpower alone.

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Needless MRIs may be moneymakers for docs

There may be good reason to ask about financial ties if your doctor orders an expensive imaging test for your aching back: Patients whose physicians own the equipment are more likely to get scans they might not need than those whose doctors have no financial interest, a small study suggests.

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Researchers analyzed reports on 500 MRI scans performed on patients with lower back pain that had been sent for review to Duke University. Of the scans with normal results, 106 were ordered by orthopedic surgeons who owned the machines versus 57 by doctors without financial ties.

The normal scans accounted for about half of those ordered by surgeons with financial connections, compared with about a quarter in the other group. The authors only examined the scans, so there's no information on the patients' medical history or outcome.

But the results suggest that some doctors who own MRI scanners use them excessively on patients who probably don't need them, to help pay for the expensive equipment and make a profit, said study co-author Dr. Ramsey Kilani, a radiology instructor at Duke University.

"Once you own a scanner, you have an incentive to run it 24 hours a day," Kilani said.

The study isn't the first to suggest that overtreatment is a risk when doctors have a financial stake in medical care they order, and others have questioned the usefulness of imaging tests for back pain, but the research "helps to quantify the degree of overutilization," Kilani said.

Medicare bars that kind of financial relationship but there's an exemption for in-office medical scanners versus off-site machines, Kilani said.

Kilani declined to identify the city or the two orthopedic offices involved in the study, citing research confidentiality agreements, but said similar results likely would be found in other cities.

The study was presented at this week's Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago.

MRI scanning equipment generally costs more than $1 million. A scan of the lower back can cost patients close to $2,000, and Kilani said doctors who own the machines receive a fee that can total more than $1,000 per scan.

The study involved adults who had MRI scans to search for causes of lower back pain. The researchers reviewed results of 250 scans ordered during a recent six-month period by orthopedic surgeons who owned MRI scanners and 250 scans ordered by surgeons who had no financial stake.

About one-third of the scans studied showed no abnormalities ? 106 were ordered by doctors with financial ties, versus 57 ordered by the other group. Patients in the group without financial ties were slightly older ? 57 on average versus 50, which could partly explain why that group had more abnormal results.

San Francisco physician Dr. Rita Redberg, who as editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine has highlighted overtreatment in medicine, noted that most lower back pain gets better without treatment. MRIs can lead to needless and risky surgery for harmless abnormalities, and the study doesn't answer whether any of the scans should have been performed, she said.

The Archives journal published a paper earlier this year listing the top five procedures with limited benefits and potential risks in primary care medicine; imaging tests for most cases of lower back pain within the first six weeks of symptoms topped the list.

Severe back pain that gets progressively worse likely warrants a scan; otherwise, it may make sense for patients to ask if physicians ordering scans owns the equipment, Kilani said. That doesn't mean arguing with their doctors, but doctors should be free from bias and having a discussion about reasons a scan is being ordered, and the benefits and risks of the scan is a good idea, he said.

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