Ohio gas explosion destroys buildings; woman hospitalized (Reuters)

CLEVELAND (Reuters) ? A gas explosion in southeastern Ohio on Wednesday morning destroyed at least two buildings and sent one woman to the hospital, officials said.

A 25-inch high pressure gas line owned by Tennessee Gas Pipeline ruptured and exploded, resulting in a large number of fires, Ron Lucas, Jr., Athens County spokesman, was quoted in a statement as saying.

The explosion could be felt and heard by residents as far as 12 miles away, officials said. One residential home and barn caught fire. However, both were empty at the time.

A woman was hospitalized for respiratory symptoms. According to Lucas, all fires were out before noon and clean-up efforts were underway.

Richard Wheatley of El Paso Corp, the parent company of Tennessee Gas Pipeline, said that an investigation is underway as to the cause of the rupture. Wheatley could not confirm how much gas was traveling through the pipeline at the time but did say it was a high-pressure line.

El Paso has 14,000 miles of pipeline in the United States.

(Reporting by Kim Palmer; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Jerry Norton)

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Keen On? How The Internet Is Making Us Both Richer and More Unequal (TCTV)

The good news about information technology, according to Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, the authors of Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy is that it?s making America more innovative, productive and richer. But the bad news, the two MIT professors add, is that this new wealth, innovation and productivity is being spread unequally, so that only a minority of Americans are benefitting from it.

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Patti LaBelle Sued for Allegedly Attacking a Mom & Baby

Parents, beware: If you like to give your kids a little freedom to roam, just make sure they don't do it around Patti LaBelle. The 67-year-old Grammy-winning R&B singer is being sued for allegedly throwing a bottle of water on Roseanna Monk and her 18-month-old daughter Genevieve -- and then taking a swing at the mother, the New York Daily News reports.

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Obama to backers: Everything on the line in 2012 (AP)

KAPOLEI, Hawaii ? Politicking in his boyhood home, President Barack Obama told supporters Monday that everything they worked for and that the country stands for is on the line in his 2012 re-election bid, warning of a bleak America should a Republican win.

At ease in Hawaii, where he was born and vacations each year, Obama sprinkled his standard campaign speech with personal memories and called himself the "hometown kid." But his message turned urgent in trying to get his backers to think of the next election as a choice between a vision of a big country of opportunity or one where regular people lose their voice.

"You kept up the fight for change long after the election was over, and that should make you proud," Obama said inside a lush resort on the western side of Oahu. "It should make you hopeful. But it can't make you satisfied."

He added: "Everything we fought for in the last election is now at stake in the next election. The very core of what this country stands for is on the line."

Obama made time for domestic politics and the constant demand for cash amid a nine-day trip otherwise dominated by foreign affairs. He was enjoying a lighter schedule on Monday after hosting an Asia-Pacific economic summit of 21 nations over the weekend, and before heading to Australia Tuesday morning. Obama was also was to visit Indonesia before a Nov. 20 return to Washington.

As he raised money for his re-election bid, the president sought to defend his record of change as more than a campaign slogan. Obama reminded his audience that he has presided over the return of the American auto industry, financial help for college students, higher fuel efficiency for cars and more.

When it came to noting his signature health care law, Obama spoke of expanded and improved coverage for Americans but made no mention of Monday's move by the Supreme Court. The high court promised a full review over the constitutionality of the historic health care overhaul, likely in time for a ruling just before the presidential election next November.

The president spoke inside the waterfront Disney-themed Aulani Resort to a relaxed crowd of about 250 people at the fundraising brunch, where tickets started at $1,000 per person.

Obama said Republicans want to engage in a "race to the bottom" with other countries, rolling back wage protections and environmental standards. "Their attitude is, `Let's go ahead and pollute," Obama said.

As for his promised change, he said he still needs time: "It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president."

The president promised that his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Sasha and Malia, would be back in Hawaii for the winter holidays as usual. "Let's see if Washington gets its business done so I can get here as well," he said.

Following the fundraiser, the president headed for a round of golf at a course on a nearby military base. Among his golfing partners was childhood friend Bobby Titcomb, who was arrested and pleaded no contest earlier this year to soliciting a prostitute.

A court agreement allowed the charge to be stricken from Titcomb's record last month because he stayed out of trouble for six months.

Titcomb attended Punahou School in Honolulu with Obama in the 1970s. The two have often played golf and basketball and headed to the beach together when the president has been back in the islands on vacation.

"The president has been a friend of Bobby's since childhood ? and remains loyal to him as Bobby confronts some difficult challenges in his personal life," White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

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Pressey helps No. 24 Mizzou top Mercer 81-63 (AP)

COLUMBIA, Mo. ? Coming off two knee surgeries, it would be understandable if it took Jibri Bryan a few games to regain his composure on the court.

But in just the second game of his college career, Bryan scored 19 points to lead Mercer in an 81-63 loss to No. 24 Missouri on Monday night.

"It felt great," Bryan said. "Really it started from the bench, encouraging everyone else. When you get in the game, you already feel like you're in the game, so it just flowed right in to it."

Missouri (2-0) built a 16-point halftime lead and pushed it to 61-39 midway through the second half before Mercer (1-1) used a 14-2 run to get within 10 points, capitalizing on Missouri's 10 turnovers in the second half.

"When we sped the game up, they started turning it over and we started making some plays and our guys just hung in there and kept fighting the rest of the game," Mercer coach Bob Hoffman said.

Missouri's Phil Pressey had a career-high 22 points with four assists and five steals. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound guard had contemplated leaving to go to Arkansas alongside coach Mike Anderson, who joined the Razorbacks this year after recruiting Pressey at Missouri.

But it wasn't a perfect night for Pressey, who received some words after the game from new coach Frank Haith about committing three turnovers in the second half.

"I have to take control of the game, and finish the game like a great point guard should do," Pressey said.

In the first round of the CBE Classic, Missouri extended its school-record winning streak over nonconference opponents at home to 60 games, since the 2005-06 opener. The Tigers entered the season ranked for the first time since 2003-04 coming off three NCAA tournament bids, and gave Haith his second victory at the school.

Kim English added 18 points and Michael Dixon had 14 as Missouri used its speed to force 14 steals. Dixon and Pressey combined for 18 points in the Tigers' first game against Southeast Missouri State on Friday.

Mercer, picked to finish in the middle of the Atlantic Sun Conference, started one senior and four sophomores after losing two-thirds of its scoring and 60 percent of its rebounding from last season. The loss of seniors Jeff Smith and Brandon Moore leaves the team with 12 players on the roster who are freshmen or sophomores.

Justin Cecil, the lone senior on the roster and a former junior college teammate of Missouri's Ricardo Ratliffe, added nine points for the Bears.

"It was pretty cool going up against him at this level," Cecil said. "It was nice. It was something I was always hoping to get to do."

Bud Thomas, who scored a career-high 18 points against Emory on Saturday, was limited to a field goal and free throw at Missouri.

The Tigers lack height without 6-foot-9 Laurence Bowers, out for the season with a knee injury, and often had four guards on the court, but Mercer failed to take advantage on the boards, getting outrebounded by four.

"Rebounding is not just about how tall you are," Haith said. "It's about your desire, your passion. Paying attention to detail and blocking out. Those are the fundamentals."

After Mercer closed within 63-53, English hit a 3-pointer with 5:12 left to end the threat.

Missouri leads the series, 4-0. It was the first time the schools met since 1996.

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Amazon Kindle Touch 3G

If you're a Kindle fan, but don't want to bother with physical buttons, Amazon finally has an ebook reader for you. The Kindle Touch 3G ($149 direct) adds an impressive array of features to the entry-level Amazon Kindle ($79, 4.5 stars) including an easier shopping experience, the ability to take notes (thanks to the on-screen QWERTY keyboard), and a cool X-Ray feature that lets you delve deeper into your books. The recently renamed Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch ($99, 4.5 stars) retains our Editors' Choice award for touch-screen ereaders, thanks to B&N's $40 price drop, ad-free design, and recent speed improvements, but the Kindle Touch runs a close second.

Design, Screen, and Reading Books
The Kindle Touch 3G comes in four varieties: Wi-Fi only with ads ($99), Wi-Fi only without ads ($139), Wi-Fi + 3G with ads ($149; the subject of this review), and Wi-Fi + 3G without ads ($189).

When turned off, the Kindle Touch 3G looks slightly more attractive than the Nook Touch, thanks to its slimmer design and smooth, gray plastic bezel. The Kindle Touch 3G measures 6.8 by 4.7 by 0.4 inches (HWD) and weighs 7.5 ounces. Since it's slightly larger and heavier than the entry-level Kindle, Amazon offers a different leather case, albeit for the same $34.99. Both cases come with built-in LED lights for reading at night. In the box, Amazon includes a USB cable, but no AC adapter.

The 6-inch E Ink display still offers 600-by-800-pixel resolution (167 pixels per inch) with 16 shades of gray. Aside from the touch capability, fonts appear as crisp as they do on the non-touch version; they're slightly lighter on the Kindle Touch 3G, but you'd only notice it with the two devices side by side?I think I prefer the Touch, actually.?You get three fonts, eight text sizes, and three choices each for line and word spacing. I'd like to see more fonts, though; both the Barnes & Noble Nook Touch and the Sony Reader Wi-Fi ($149, 3.5 stars) have larger, nicer font selections. As with the base Kindle, page turns are quick. The Kindle Touch 3G only does full page refreshes every six page turns; the rest of the time, it employs a caching scheme to fade out the letters and fade in new ones.

While reading a book on the Kindle Touch 3G, you don't need to swipe pages. Instead, you can just tap the surface of the touch screen, which I found intuitive. Most of the screen acts as a Next Page button, with the left edge acting as a Previous Page button; this lets you use the device with a single hand. If you tap the area near the top, you'll bring up the menu and toolbar. Here you can view your library, organize your ebooks, choose an ebook to read, or tap and hold a book for options. The single Home button at the bottom of the Kindle?which looks like a speaker grille in photos, but is actually a hardware button?returns you to the home screen at any point.?

User Interface, Typing, and X-Ray
Like other Kindles, the home screen just shows you a text-based list of what's on your ereader, sorted by when you last read each item. The Nook does it better, with an attractive presentation of what you're reading now, what's new on your device, and what your "Nook Friends" may suggest. Some Kindle ebooks are beginning to come with real page numbers that correspond to specific ISBN printings, but many still don't display page numbers (especially free ebooks).?

Typing on the on-screen QWERTY keyboard is surprisingly quick and easy. This is the Kindle to get if you want to take notes in the margins, or if you simply can't put up with the entry-level Kindle's quirky, cursor-based on-screen keyboard?which is much, much slower.

One interesting new feature is X-Ray; tap on the screen, and the Kindle will display passages from the book that mention ideas or concepts, along with descriptions from Wikipedia and Shelfari. Right now, it only works in roughly 1,000 books; Amazon is promising at least a few thousand for launch time. I tested X-Ray on Around the World In Eighty Days; the feature offered an interesting array of topics, although the barcode-like position guides for where each word was located in the text were tough to understand at a glance. It's also a lot of information; seemingly every other word led to a huge array of items.

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Video: How far will Penn State probe reach?

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