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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many executives say they're anxious about the U.S. fiscal cliff negotiations, but Dow Chemical Co's chief executive says he's more bothered by the messy Chinese leadership transition, which he believes is wreaking greater harm on global markets. "Markets have, in a holistic sense, really been suffering more from China's slowdown than any slowdown here in the United States," Andrew Liveris said during the company's investor day in New York on Monday. ...
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FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Candidates hit the streets on Tuesday at the official start of a campaign for a parliamentary election that is expected to return the opposition Liberal Democrats to power but risks furthering the policy stalemate plaguing the world's third-biggest economy.
In a sign that last year's nuclear crisis still weighs on Japan's national psyche, both former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader, and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda kicked off the campaign in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, site of the world's worst radiation disaster in a quarter century.
The role of nuclear power is one hot topic in the first national poll since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi plant, causing meltdowns, forcing 160,000 people to flee and destroying a myth that atomic power is safe, cheap and clean.
Voters are also focused on how rival parties plan to rescue Japan's economy from what looks like its fourth recession since 2000 and cope with a rising China, ties with which have been chilled by a territorial feud that is feeding nationalist sentiment in both countries.
"Our mission is to protect the safety of our children and the public, to protect our territory and beautiful waters," Abe told a crowd in a city square in Fukushima City under cloudy skies. "We are determined to win a majority with (LDP ally) the New Komeito party and take back power.
"We just cannot afford to lose," he said to applause, though one listener carried a placard targeting the LDP's decades-long promotion of nuclear power saying, "It is the LDP that built nuclear plants in Fukushima".
Media opinion polls suggest that of the 12 parties running some 1,500 candidates, the LDP will win the biggest number of seats in parliament's powerful lower house.
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That would give Abe, who quit suddenly in 2007 after a troubled year in office, the best shot at forming the next government, probably with long-term ally, the New Komeito.
But surveys published on Monday also show that the LDP's lead over Noda's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has narrowed, increasing the possibility that the main conservative opposition party will need a third partner to form a government.
If so, the LDP would be eyeing potential post-election allies. Options include the newly launched, right-leaning Japan Restoration Party founded by popular Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto in a bid to woo voters fed up with the two main established parties, or other small groups, or even a chastened DPJ.
"Our economic policy is simple," Hashimoto told a crowd in Osaka, western Japan. "We will destroy the vested interests who until now have skimmed off all the cream."
Abe insists he will give no ground in a row with China over rival claims to tiny, uninhabited isles in the South China Sea and wants to spend more on defense and loosen the limits of Japan's pacifist constitution on the military.
He wants to pressure the Bank of Japan to ease its already hyper-loose monetary policy and to gear up public works spending to rescue the economy, steps Noda has criticized as irresponsible given Japan's mammoth public debt, already the worst among advanced nations at twice the size of the economy.
The pro-nuclear LDP says it will gradually restart off-line reactors judged safe, while thinking about Japan's best energy mix over the next decade. The Democrats aim to exit atomic power by the 2030s, although some skeptics doubt their commitment.
How any of the parties would secure lasting growth while reining in a ballooning social security bill in Japan's fast-ageing society remains unclear.
The Democrats surged to power for the first time in 2009, promising to put politicians, not bureaucrats, in charge of governing and to pay more heed to the interests of consumers than corporations in designing policies. Critics say the fractious party honored its pledges mostly in the breach.
"This election is about whether we will move forward with what we must do, or turn back the clock to the politics of the past," Noda told a crowd in Iwaki, also in Fukushima prefecture.
Noda, the party's third premier in three years, enacted - with opposition help - a sales tax rise to curb public debt. But that step sparked a stream of defections from the party.
Many voters have yet to decide how to vote.
"The LDP looks set to assume power. But I don't think things will change drastically under LDP rule," said a 62-year-old public servant after listening to Abe's speech.
"If you live in Fukushima, you would want quicker reconstruction and decontamination rather than constitutional amendments and military buildup."
(Additional reporting by Yoshiyuki Osada in Osaka; Writing by Linda Sieg in Tokyo; Editing by Ken Wills)
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SPOILER ALERT: Do not read on if you have not yet seen Season 2, Episode 10 of Showtime's "Homeland," titled "Broken Hearts," which aired on December 2.
For actor Jamey Sheridan, the death of "Homeland's" Vice President Walden, means he'll no longer have to keep a very big secret.
The actor, who plays Walden on the Showtime drama, said when he and his wife were checking out the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in New York last week, appreciative "Homeland" fans kept saying hello and asking him for photos. Many wanted to know what Walden's fate would be.
"They're sort of foaming at the mouth about the show and they all want to know, 'Are you going to be president?' 'Are they going to kill you?'" Sheridan told The Huffington Post in an exclusive interview.
As viewers saw in Sunday's shocking episode, Walden's potential running mate, Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), helped terrorist Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban) kill Walden using unusual high-tech methods. With Brody's help, one of Nazir's followers was able to hack the politician's pacemaker and send it into overdrive (and murder-by-pacemaker is actually a plausible scenario, the show's producers said in this extensive recent interview).
Sheridan said that executive producer Alex Gansa called him to let him know that his character was going to be exiting in "Broken Hearts," and the actor got the script for the episode the same day. He wasn't necessarily surprised that the polician would be exiting, the actor said.
"Obviously, the show is not about Walden," Sheridan said with a laugh. "And after the first season, when I got a look at how it was written, I think we all kind of realized anything could happen."
Sheridan leaves "Homeland" with a bit of wistfulness -- he noted that he never had a scene with Claire Danes' Carrie Mathison, and he only had one scene with Mandy Patinkin's Saul Berenson, and he'd always hoped the two men would meet again. But he sounded quite cheerful and even-keeled, saying he had no regrets.
"Actors are being surprised all the time, and I don't think anyone resents anything because the material is so great," he said. "[The 'Homeland' writers in particular] always surprise me with the direction they go -- you think the plot has been laid out and then they turn left."
Still, there were some things that took a little while to process once he got the news about Walden's death. For one thing, in Sheridan's mind, Walden "worked out four times a week and was as healthy as an ox," and he said he was "shocked" to find out that Walden had a pacemaker.
"It being the end of the character didn't bother me that much," Sheridan said. "It was more that ?my interior life for the character was running on a pretty different track, so it was a big surprise. But I quickly warmed to the sort of operatic idea of going ahead and playing this shocking scene. I think I would have had a line a few episodes before that about a pacemaker, though."
Part of the backstory he'd constructed for the character involved the idea that Walden had been a CIA operative in Afghanistan in the late '70s and early '80s, and that he was always an "embedded" CIA guy, even after his switch to politics.
"I thought of him as a warrior, not a politician. And as a result, he would carry a sword, even as a politician. It gave me an opportunity to play a guy who's not going to pussyfoot around," Sheridan said. "I loved playing the part."
And filming his last episode -- with a death that's sure to be talked about for days, if not weeks -- presented one of his most exciting challenges.
"Once I got over the pacemaker thing and, 'You're going to die,' I let the scene just wash over me, and slowly I began to realize, [Brody's betrayal] is going to be this revelation while he's killing me. While the elephant is starting to squash his heart, it's all dawning that this guy's been screwing him the whole time. That's great writing," Sheridan said.
His scene partner attacked the scene with gust as well; Sheridan pointed out that Lewis' character had been waiting for a long time to kill Walden, who approved a drone strike that killed 83 children, including Nazir's son Issa.
When he and Lewis were shooting Walden's death, Sheridan recalled, "There were times when he whispered, 'I'm killing you!' -- [he seemed] like he was 10 times the bad guy I was. He got right down next to my ear and waited and said, 'I'm killing you!' I was like, '[Brody is] a mean guy!'"
I couldn't let Sheridan go without asking about his other TV gig on The CW's "Arrow." He said he hasn't booked any additional guest spots as Oliver Queen's father (who's seen in flashbacks), but he wouldn't rule it out. "I loved doing it because I really like Stephen Amell -- a great guy and incredible athlete," Sheridan said. "It was a real pleasure to work with Steve."
As for his immediate future? "It'll be fun to see what happens when I walk around New York next week," he said.
"Homeland" airs on Sundays at 10 p.m. EST on Showtime.
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A federal agency has proposed listing 66 species of coral under the Endangered Species Act, which would bolster protections of the animals.
The proposed listing comes after a 2009 petition by the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group, asserting that the federal government needed to do more to protect coral species.
Under the proposal, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would list seven coral species as endangered and 52 as threatened in the Pacific, with five endangered and two threatened in the Caribbean.
The listing could lead to further protections for areas where these corals live, perhaps earning them designation as "critical habitat." Such a step would restrict commercial activities in the areas, while preventing any trade or harvesting of the corals.
"Corals provide habitat to support fisheries that feed millions of people; generate jobs and income to local economies through recreation, tourism and fisheries; and protect coastlines from storms and erosion," said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco in a statement from the agency.
"Yet, scientific research indicates that climate change and other activities are putting these corals at risk. This is an important, sensible next step toward preserving the benefits provided by these species, both now and into the future."
NOAA has identified 19 threats to the survival of coral, including ocean acidification, rising ocean temperatures and coral diseases. As the concentration of carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, the oceans warm beyond what corals can withstand, leading to coral bleaching and eventually to die-offs.
Before the proposed listing is finalized in late 2013, the agency will hold 18 public meetings during a 90-day public comment period.
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Animals kept as exotic pets include but are not limited to the following:
It has been estimated that as many as 15,000 non-human primates are kept by private individuals as pets in the United States. While many professionals, including veterinarians, zoologists, humane societies and others, strongly discourage the keeping of non-human primates as pets, we reveal the top 10 exotic animals people keep as pets in the United States. These figures are according to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) 2001 pet ownership statistics.
By Households (in 1,000)
#1.? Fish????????????????????????????????? 6,396
#2.? Rabits?????????????????????????????? 1,783
#3.? All others???????????????????????????? 839
#4.? Hamsters???????????????????????????? 734
#5.? Turtles???????????????????????????????? 629
#6.? Livestock????????????????????????????? 524
#7.? Guinea pigs????????????????????????? 524
#8.? Ferrets??? ?????????????????????????????472
#9.? Lizards???????????????????????????????? 419
#10. Other birds, other rodents,
other reptiles, and snakes???? 315
By Population (in 1,000)
#1.? Fish???????????????????????????????? 49,251
#2.? Rabbits????????????????????????????? 4,813
#3.? Livestock?????????????????????????? 2,936
#4.? Other birds??????????????????????? 2,894
#5.? All others???? ??????????????????????2,013
#6.? Turtles?????????????????????????????? 1,070
#7.? Ferrets????????????????????????????????? 991
#8.? Hamsters????????????????????????????? 881
#9.? Other rodents??????????????????????? 786
#10. Snakes???????????????????????? ????????661
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Brides Penelope Gnesin, seated, and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate, hold hands during their wedding, Saturday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
By The Associated Press
Cadet Chapel, the landmark Gothic church that is a center for spiritual life at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was hosting its first same-sex wedding Saturday.?
Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate, were exchanging vows in the regal church in an afternoon ceremony attended by around 250 guests and conducted by a senior Army chaplain.?
The two have been together for 17 years. They had a civil commitment ceremony that didn't carry any legal force in 1999 but had longed hoped to formally tie the knot. The way was cleared last year, when New York legalized same-sex marriage and President Barack Obama lifted the "Don't ask, don't tell," policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military.?
The brides both live in New Jersey and would have preferred to have the wedding there, but the state doesn't allow gay marriage.?
"We just couldn't wait any longer," Fulton told The Associated Press in a phone interview Saturday. They wanted to get married quickly also because Gnesim, 52, is a breast cancer survivor with multiple sclerosis, USA Today reported.
Cadet Chapel, Fulton said, was a more-than-adequate second choice.?
"It has a tremendous history, and it is beautiful. That's where I first heard and said the cadet prayer," Fulton said, referring to the invocation that says, "Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half-truth when the whole can be won."?
The ceremony will be the second same-sex wedding at West Point. Last weekend, two of Fulton's friends, a young lieutenant and her partner, got married in another campus landmark, the small Old Cadet Chapel in West Point's cemetery.?
Fulton has campaigned against the ban on gays in the military as a board member of two groups representing gay and lesbian servicemen and servicewomen. She graduated in 1980 in the first West Point class to include women.
?I was just a small town kid awed by West point and I loved the Army. I was so proud that we created a legacy that opened doors for so many young women leaders to serve and make our army stronger,? Fulton said in a statement posted to YouTube. ?Gay and lesbian soldiers no longer have to hide their lives and their families ? makes them stronger, makes our army stronger, makes our military stronger.?
Fulton said the only hassle involved in arranging her ceremony came when she was initially told that none of West Point's chaplains were authorized by their denominations to perform same-sex weddings.?
Luckily, she said, they were able to call on a friend, Army Chaplain Col. J. Wesley Smith. He is the senior Army chaplain at Dover Air Force Base, where he presides over the solemn ceremonies held when the bodies of soldiers killed in action oversees return to U.S. soil.?
The couple planned on adding other military trappings to their wedding, including a tradition called the saber arch, where officers or cadets hold their swords aloft over the newlyweds as they emerge from the church.
Sue Fulton, who married Saturday at West Point's historic Cadet Chapel, discusses the significance of the end of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy in the military.
NBC's Isolde Raftery contributed to this report.
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