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JERUSALEM (Reuters) ? The Israeli navy Friday boarded two boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists toward the Gaza Strip in a fresh challenge to Israel's blockade of the Islamist-controlled territory.
The military said in a statement the boats -- a Canadian vessel called Tahrir and an Irish boat named Saoirse -- which together had 27 people on board, would be taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod.
"The Israel navy soldiers operated as planned, and took every precaution necessary to ensure the safety of the activists onboard the vessels as well as themselves," the statement said.
A military source said nobody was injured in the operation.
In May 2010, Israeli commandos boarded the Turkish Mavi Marmara aid vessel to enforce the naval blockade of the Palestinian enclave, and killed nine Turks in clashes with activists, some of them armed with clubs and knives.
Israel spurned Ankara's demand for an apology over the incident. Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador two months ago.
Carrying a small amount of medical supplies, the Canadian and Irish boats had sailed from Turkey Wednesday. The Israeli military said they were in international waters when they were stopped, between 40 and 60 miles from the coast.
The activists on board came from Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United States, and included Palestinians and at least one Arab citizen of Israel, organizers said.
The two boats had continued sailing toward Gaza, ignoring instructions to turn around or unload their supplies in Israel or neighboring Egypt, Israeli military officials said.
Citing the need to prevent weapons smuggling, Israel has blockaded Gaza since the Islamist group Hamas seized control of the territory in 2007.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States agreed Israel's interception of the boats was a measure "appropriate for their (Israel's) security."
Israeli authorities said once the two boats had reached Ashdod, they would undergo security checks. Those on board would be questioned, then taken to prison service holding facilities where they will wait until booked on flights back home.
They have the right to a court hearing before being deported.
A U.N. report on Israel's interception of the 2010 Turkish ship said the blockade was a "legitimate security measure," adding "its implementation complied with the requirements of international law." Turkey has rejected that ruling.
Pro-Palestinian groups behind the latest attempt to reach Gaza by sea condemn the blockade as illegal and inhumane.
"We are going to keep sending boats until the immoral blockade of Gaza is lifted," Claudia Saba, a spokeswoman for the Irish Ship to Gaza group told Irish state broadcaster RTE.
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Paul Murphy, a socialist member of the European Parliament on board one of the ships, wrote in an earlier blog post that the mission was in "response to the call from people within Gaza to try to break the siege they suffer under."
Israel allows humanitarian aid, food and some other supplies into Gaza for its 1.7 million people, many of them impoverished refugees, via land crossings it closely monitors. Gaza also has a border with Egypt over which goods are imported.
Gaza's Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh praised the attempt to break the blockade in a sermon at a mosque on Friday: "We appreciate highly those activists who came in solidarity and we stress that their goal is being achieved whether or not they arrived by exposing (Israeli) occupation (measures)."
Turkey had threatened to give naval protection to future aid flotillas following the 2010 violence, but Ankara has kept largely quiet about this latest operation.
Some of the activists, who dubbed their mission "Freedom Waves," had participated in a thwarted seaborne attempt in June to reach Gaza, which was blocked from setting sail from Greece.
(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Maayan Lubell, Carmel Crimmins and Washington Newsroom; Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan and Crispian Balmer; Editing by Sophie Hares)
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AMSTERDAM ? A prominent Dutch social psychologist who once claimed to have shown that the very act of thinking about eating meat makes people behave more selfishly has been found to have faked data throughout much of his career.
In one of the worst cases of scientific fraud on record in the Netherlands, a review committee made up of some of the country's top scientists has found that University of Tilburg Prof. Diederik Stapel systematically falsified data to achieve the results he wanted.
The university has fired the 45-year-old Stapel and plans to file fraud charges against him, university spokesman Walther Verhoeven said Thursday.
Stapel acknowledged in a statement the accusations were largely true.
"I have manipulated study data and fabricated investigations," he wrote in an open letter published by De Volkskrant newspaper this week. "I realize that via this behavior I have left my direct colleagues stunned and angry and put my field, social psychology, in a poor light."
Stapel said he was ashamed and offered his apologies.
The committee set up to investigate Stapel said after its preliminary investigation it had found "several dozen publications in which use was made of fictitious data" in the period since 2004, though Stapel's career goes back to the early 1990s.
This year, Stapel co-authored a paper published in Science magazine that said white people are more prone to discriminate against black people when they encounter them in a messy environment, such as one containing litter, abandoned bicycles and broken sidewalks.
"These findings considerably advance our knowledge of the impact of the physical environment on stereotyping and discrimination and have clear policy implications," the paper's abstract says.
Science has now flagged the article with a note to readers that "serious concerns have been raised about the validity of the findings."
Although the paper that linked thoughts of eating meat eating with anti-social behavior was met with scorn and disbelief when it was publicized in August, it took several doctoral candidates Stapel was mentoring to unmask him.
Verhoeven said the three graduate students grew suspicious of the data Stapel had supplied them without allowing them to participate in the actual research. When they ran statistical tests on it themselves they found it too perfect to be true and went to the university's dean with their suspicions.
In the future, the university plans to require raw data from studies to be preserved and made available to other researchers on request ? a practice already common in most disciplines.
The commission found that co-authors of Stapel's papers seem to have been unaware of the fraud, naively trusting in Stapel's reputation and fooled by elaborate preparations for tests that were never actually carried out.
In his statement, Stapel didn't directly say what his motivations were. He said he had succumbed to competitive pressures and the need to publish. But he said "it's important to me to underline that the mistakes I made weren't for selfish reasons."
The review panel noted Stapel had enjoyed a position of prestige as a professor and head of his department, and that he had access to subsidies and funding for his projects as a result of the fraud.
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As confident in its looks as it is in its performance, the Asus U56E-RBL8 ($779.99 list at Staples) has almost everything going for it, inside and out. Only a couple of demerits dull the impact of its robust selection of hardware, not the least of which is another Asus budget laptop that offers an almost identical configuration at a lower price. Even if the U56E-RBL8 isn't the absolute best value to be found out there, it?s nonetheless a good one.
Design
There?s distinct "mod business" flair to the U56E-RBL8, thanks to its eye-catching two-tone design scheme. The laptop?s brushed-metal lid is a shiny blue-gray "slate" color, with the silvery Asus logo positioned just above center. You?ll find this color inside the laptop as well: on the keyboard deck, where it?s solidly visible between all the chiclet-style keys. Those keys are a dark gray, with white printing, and include a half-size number pad on the right, though there are no dedicated media keys: The arrow keys double as play controls, and F10, F11, and F12 double as volume controls. Another design fillip that might annoy some users: There?s no right Window key.
The display bezel, which features a webcam on the top edge, is a matte dark gray color, and provides a nice visual contrast, especially when the 15.6-inch, 1,366-by-768 widescreen is activated. The bezel's color is replicated, albeit in a rubberized form, on the palm rest; the touch pad is likewise the same hue, but of a smoother texture. The shiny metal buttons are firm and clicky, but not distractingly so.
The U56E-RBL8 measures 1.1 by 14.9 by 10.7 inches (HWD), which is about average for a laptop of this class and price. Weighing 5.7 pounds, it's marginally heavier than most other comparable systems, but you shouldn't experience too much trouble lugging it around.
Features
If you're buying a laptop priced in the upper portion of the budget range, you'd expect it to be decently equipped from a hardware perspective. There, the U56E-RBL8 does not disappoint. The laptop is driven by an Intel Core i5-2430M processor, a dual-core chip that runs natively at 2.4GHz but can increase in speed to as much as 3GHz when the maximum amount of Turbo Boost is activated. Plus, thanks to Intel's Hyper-Threading technology, the processor can handle four threads at a time, which will bestow a significant performance boost on multithread-aware software. The processor also grants access to the full collection of technologies from the second-generation Core family of products, including Quick Sync Video for accelerated transcoding and Wireless Display 2.0 (WiDi) for streaming video to your HDTV if you have a Netgear Push2TV adapter (a $99 extra).
Sweetening the deal here are the system's 8GB of RAM and 750GB hard drive, which respectively grant you performance efficiency and more space for storing files and installing programs. The port selection is a bit more run-of-the-mill: Ethernet (to complement the 802.11n Wi-Fi), VGA and HDMI for outputting to external displays, and a single USB 2.0 port on the left edge; a multiformat card slot and downward-facing 1.5-watt Altec Lansing speakers on the front edge; and headphone and microphone jacks, two more USB 2.0 ports, and the DVD burner on the right edge. There are no USB 3.0 ports here; they're getting to be staples on even budget PCs, and are significant for their absence.
Asus includes on the U56E-RBL8 a number of its own tools and utilities, including FancyStart (for changing the laptop's boot logo), LifeFrame 3 (for image and video recording and capturing), Power4 Gear eXtreme for easily switching between power-saving settings, and SmartLogon facial recognition software. Of potentially more use is a trial version of Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security.
In addition to a one-year warranty, several additional services are available from Staples for customers who buy the U56E-RBL8 there. These include setting up the new system, data transfer from your old PC to your new one, software installation, and tech support and protection plans that range in price from $14.99 to $169.99.
Performance
The U56E-RBL8 faltered only on our gaming tests, just like the Lenovo V570-1066AJU and Asus U56E-BBL6. It scored highest on our two 1,024-by-768 DirectX 9 tests, 3DMark 06 (5,120 versus 4,831 for the Asus U56E-BBL6 and 4,865 for the Lenovo V570-1066AJU), and Lost Planet 2 (20.2 frames per second, or fps, versus 19.1 for the Asus U56E-BBL6 and 19.3 for the Lenovo V570-1066AJU), but lowest on the real-world games of Crysis (13.1fps versus 15.7 for the Asus U56E-BBL6 and 15.6 for the Lenovo V570-1066AJU). ?High? and ?low? are largely irrelevant concepts here, however, as none of these represent actual playability. For that, you'll need better graphics than the integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 system here; one of the few low-cost laptops we've seen recently that can deftly handle lower-resolution gaming is the Gateway NV55S05u ($579.99 list, 4 stars), which managed 36.7fps in Crysis and 38fps in Lost Planet 2.
Though the U56E-RBL8 did not prove a medal-winning champion as far as battery life, it did very well. Its 74Wh battery helped it last 6 hours 30 minutes in our MobileMark 2007 battery-rundown test was well behind the time of the Asus U56E-BBL6 (7:42) and just a shade short of the 6:37 time of the much less expensive Samsung NP300E5A-A01UB ($599.99 list, 4 stars).
Given its excellent components, the Asus U56E-RBL8 is a compelling choice from a performance standpoint: If you need a relatively powerful laptop but don't want to spend more than $800, it has almost everything you need. Its cousin, the Editors' Choice-winning Asus U56E-BBL6, however, delivers equivalent performance in most areas, runs longer on its battery, is equipped with a USB 3.0 port, and costs $80 less. The extra 2GB of RAM in the U56E-RBL8 isn't quite worth that much, so our final recommendation remains with the Asus U56E-BBL6. Even so, the U56E-RBL8 is a fine machine.
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In this Oct. 28, 2011 photo, a 2012 Chrysler 300 is displayed at the 41st annual South Florida International Auto Show, in Miami Beach, Fla. Chrysler said Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, its U.S. sales jumped 27 percent in October because of strong demand for its Jeep and Chrysler brand vehicles. It was the company's best October sales since 2007.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
In this Oct. 28, 2011 photo, a 2012 Chrysler 300 is displayed at the 41st annual South Florida International Auto Show, in Miami Beach, Fla. Chrysler said Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, its U.S. sales jumped 27 percent in October because of strong demand for its Jeep and Chrysler brand vehicles. It was the company's best October sales since 2007.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
In this Oct. 28, 2011 photo, the Chevrolet logo is featured on the hood of a 2012 Colorado pick-up truck at the 41st annual South Florida International Auto Show, in Miami Beach, Fla. General Motors Co.'s U.S. sales rose 2 percent in October led by the Chevrolet Cruze compact and Equinox crossover.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2010 picture, plant employees drive 2011 Ford Explorer vehicles off the assembly line at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant in Chicago. Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, its U.S. sales were up 6 percent in October thanks to strong sales of pickups and SUVs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
This Oct. 28, 2011 photo, shows a wheel of a 2012 Ford Explorer at the 41st annual South Florida International Auto Show, in Miami Beach, Fla. Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, its U.S. sales were up 6 percent in October thanks to strong sales of pickups and SUVs. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
DETROIT (AP) ? Car buyers were out in force in October, snapping up trucks and SUVs and taking advantage of deals on Japanese cars.
U.S. car and truck sales were expected to top 1 million in October, a surprising number for a month when sales are usually slow. When adjusted for seasonal factors, that would be the best pace since the Cash for Clunkers program in August 2009.
Pent-up demand drove October sales. Japanese inventories are finally reaching normal levels after the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Many buyers who spent the summer waiting for Japanese cars could finally buy them in October.
Deals on those cars also inspired some buyers. Auto information site TrueCar.com said Honda Motor Co. raised its incentives by 18 percent to an average of $2,380 per vehicle, while Nissan Motor Co.'s incentives were up 15 percent to $2,917. But Detroit automakers didn't follow suit, with deals that were only slightly higher than last October.
Trucks and SUVs were the big winners for Detroit automakers. Ford Motor Co. said sales of its Explorer SUV more than tripled from a year ago, while F-Series truck sales were up 7 percent. Ford's overall sales were up 6 percent from a year ago, even though its car sales fell 8 percent.
Ram pickup truck sales jumped 21 percent at Chrysler Group LLC. Chrysler also benefitted from strong sales of the Jeep Compass and Grand Cherokee SUVs. Chrysler sales were up 27 percent from last October.
General Motors Co.'s sales were up 2 percent, with sales of the Chevrolet Silverado pickup rising 11 percent. Sales of the Chevrolt Cruze compact car were more than double last year, when the car was first introduced.
Other automakers reporting results Tuesday:
? Nissan Motor Co. said sales were up 18 percent, thanks to big increases for the Altima sedan and Rogue crossover.
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UFC exec Lorenzo Fertitta tweeted this picture of B.J. Penn and Nick Diaz from after their fight. The two put their friendship aside for the bout, but had no problem sitting together after their bruising fight.
Penn's is gripping a bag of ice and his left eye is swollen shut, and Diaz has plenty of reminders from the fight on his face. However, the bruises are the last thing you notice about the photo. What is memorable is two men who were so ready to fight that officials had to pry them apart at weighins, during their prefight faceoff, and even between rounds, are sitting together peacefully. It's a quick snapshot of why MMA fans love this sport.
Matt Mitrione picked up a few bumps of his own.
In case you were wondering, that's what Cheick Kongo can do. As was shown in last week's Dana White video blog, fighters can experience the greatest of highs from their wins, but there is often an ugly downside to a career that involves getting punched in the face.
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