Grammy winner Lambert breaks ground with new album (Reuters)

NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) ? Miranda Lambert's confidence is soaring since she won a Grammy award last year and got married this spring to country star Blake Shelton.

For her new album, "Four the Record," which hit stores on Tuesday, Lambert took some chances, choosing songs that differ from the hits "The House That Built Me," "White Liar" and "Only Prettier" from her third effort, "Revolution."

"There was no possible way I could remake 'Revolution,' which did such amazing things for my career," she said, including a Grammy for best female country performance with "The House That Built Me."

"I feel like I have grown as an artist because I didn't go into the studio with a theme in mind. All I thought about was 'may the best songs win.' I just wanted to have fun making this album, and I did," Lambert told Reuters.

Lambert, 27, who married the 35-year-old Shelton in May, has often pushed musical boundaries with thought-provoking hits such as "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," "Famous in a Small Town" and "Gunpowder and Lead."

But the Texas-born singer-songwriter hesitated to record "Fine Tune," a song written by Luke Laird and Natalie Hemby.

"I've had that song for seven years and finally I got the courage to record it after passing on it the last two albums," Lambert said. "I wanted it to sound kind of grungy and dirty, but still cute and fun."

Lambert writes many of her own tunes, so it takes something special for her to record someone else's compositions.

"If when I hear it I go, 'Why didn't I think of that?' then I know it's something I need to pay attention to," she said.

One such tune, "Mama's Broken Heart," penned by Kacey Musgraves, Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, almost got away.

"I had to beg for that song, because Kacey got signed to a record deal and it was going to be one of her first songs," Lambert said. Musgraves granted her wish.

MARRIAGE INSPIRED SONG 'SAFE'

The new album includes the song "Safe," that Lambert said was inspired by her relationship with Shelton.

"I don't know the first time I felt that way," Lambert said of the song's title. "Maybe it was the day I wrote it, by myself, while Blake was onstage performing.

"I had gone out to meet him at one of his shows and I was watching him from the side of the stage. I went to the bus for a minute, and I had on these fringy boots, and as I was walking the fringe was kind of swaying to his music. I could hear his voice in the background, and it sparked this feeling in me, and I went on the bus and wrote the song."

Lambert and Shelton co-wrote the tune "Over You," about the death of his brother in a car accident.

"He shared that story with me and what it was like after his brother passed. It was a very intimate thing for us; it was like another step in our relationship," Lambert said.

The couple recorded a duet, "Better in the Long Run," following in the footsteps of other famous country couples like Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, or George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

"It kind of feels like it's time to move in that direction professionally," Lambert said, adding that the tune is not the love song that people might expect from newlyweds.

Recording together was one of the few times the couple has been together since getting married.

"It's tough, but we are used to it. That's been our life since we've been together," Lambert said. "I think we are definitely both kind of ready to slow down and be married. This is what we both love and the good thing about it is we understand each other's life because we have the same one."

When they get the opportunity, the couple enjoys quiet moments at their home in Oklahoma.

"Our favorite thing to do is sit on the porch listening to music like (the late country singer) Gary Stewart. That's what will be there when this (career) is over," Lambert said.

Lambert will be in Nashville for the Country Music Association's awards on November 9, for which she is nominated for female vocalist of the year and musical event of the year with Loretta Lynn and Sheryl Crow. But she will be ecstatic to watch Shelton, who is nominated for seven awards.

"I'm so thrilled to be nominated but I feel like I want to sit back and watch Blake take in the glory that is so long overdue. I'm excited to be his wife and be there to be supportive," she said.

Lambert is scheduled to perform three shows with her group Pistol Annies in December, then kicks off her 2012 tour on January 12 with Chris Young and Jerrod Niemann.

(Editing by Andrew Stern and Bob Tourtellotte)

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Witness: Jackson's doctor didn't follow protocol (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? A prosecutor grilling a defense expert got the veteran anesthesiologist to acknowledge Monday that Michael Jackson's doctor deviated from the standard of care.

Dr. Paul White was repeatedly questioned about the ways in which Dr. Conrad Murray had broken guidelines and rules in his treatment of Jackson.

White acknowledged that the type of pulse monitor that Murray was using on Jackson's finger was inadequate to properly monitor the singer when the physician left the room.

Murray, who has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter, has acknowledged he was giving Jackson doses of the anesthetic propofol in the singer's bedroom as a sleep aid. He told police that he left Jackson's room for two minutes on June 25, 2009, and returned to find the pop superstar unresponsive.

White also said he would not leave the room if he were treating a patient who had indicated he liked to inject propofol into himself, as Murray claims that Jackson had told him.

Deputy District Attorney David Walgren pointedly questioned White, a retired professor and clinical researcher, about the circumstances of Murray's care based on his interview with police two days after Jackson's death. White told jurors last week that he believes all the evidence in the case shows that Jackson must have self-administered propofol when Murray left the room.

Walgren and White noted the unique circumstances of the case.

"Have you ever administered propofol in someone's bedroom," Walgren asked.

"No I have not," White replied.

"Have you ever heard of someone doing that prior to this case," the prosecutor asked.

"No I have not," White responded.

Later, White said Murray's treatment of Jackson was different from how propofol is supposed to be used ? as an anesthetic used in hospital or clinical settings.

"This was an unusual case because the doctor was trying to allow the patient to achieve a sleep state," White said.

White retired last year after conducting research on propofol before it was approved for use in the United States. He told jurors that he has been paid $11,000 for his work on the case so far.

White's testimony has put him at odds with his colleague and longtime friend, Dr. Steven Shafer, who testified for the prosecutor. Shafer said White's self-administration theory is not supported by the evidence in the case, in his view, and he called the theory "crazy" during his testimony earlier this month.

White and Shafer were colleagues at Stanford University and conducted research on propofol before it was approved for use in U.S. operating rooms in 1989. Both help edit a leading anesthesia journal. Until White's retirement last year, both were practicing anesthesiologists.

Shafer said Murray committed 17 egregious violations of the standard of care and should never have been giving the singer propofol as a sleep aid.

"We are in pharmacological never-never land here, something that was done to Michael Jackson and no one else in history to my knowledge," he told jurors.

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Why Obama is sending troops to Africa ??? a closer look (The Christian Science Monitor)

Nairobi, Kenya ? Earlier this month, President Obama sent a letter to Congress explaining why he had approved sending 100 US military advisers to fight a shadowy rebel group in central Africa.

The reason, President Obama wrote, is that the Lord???s Resistance Army ??? a brutal rebel group with a mixture of Christian fundamentalist and African traditional beliefs ??? is a threat to regional security in central Africa, and thus a threat to the interests of the US government and its strategic partners.

Noting that Congress had passed the Lord?s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act in 2009, Mr. Obama wrote, ?I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped US forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield.?

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While tracking down unhinged African warlords may be the stuff of bad Hollywood movies, it generally has not been a plank in US foreign policy. But with the advent of the US military?s relatively new Africa Command (AFRICOM), headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, America?s military is working closer with its African partners to ensure regional security.

Viewed with suspicion by some African leaders as part of a larger ?neo-colonial? foothold on the African continent, it is seen as a boon by other US partner nations such as Uganda, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, who work closely with the US military on common issues such as counterterrorism and insurgencies.

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In the current US AFRICOM operation, 100 Special Operations troops will travel with Ugandan People?s Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers trailing LRA leader Joseph Kony.

US to 'share lessons learned'A US diplomat with knowledge of the operation told the Monitor that US Special Forces soldiers will ?? share lessons learned from 10 years of fighting in a similarly rugged environment against small groups of people moving on foot,? such as the US military has faced in the Afghan war.

The US soldiers will not be ?hunting? Mr. Kony, the diplomat adds, and ?they will not take part in combat.?

?They will be helping the [Ugandan military] refine [its] operations by sharing tactics and procedures we have learned in 10 years of low intensity conflict while helping them look at the 'problem set' through fresh eyes. The [Ugandan military] is a professional force with a lot of combat experience, [and] embedded advisors will help them leverage their strengths.?

The Obama administration?s deployment has won some praise from activist groups like the Enough Project.

?President Obama should be lauded for deploying qualified military advisers to the region,? said Enough?s co-founder John Prendergast, adding that if the Obama administration ?helps generate multilaterally the necessary logistical and intelligence support for those troops, the LRA?s days will be numbered.?

But other humanitarian aid groups have been more cautious.

Concerns for civiliansNoah Gottschalk, a senior humanitarian policy advisor for Oxfam America, says that a military operation is just one of many potential tools for combating the LRA, and one that could put countless thousands of civilians in harm?s way.

?The truth is that the LRA are really good at evading military action,? says Mr. Gottschalk, noting that the area in which the LRA operate ? including northern Uganda, South Sudan, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic ? is about the size of California.

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The Ugandan military has tried a military solution in dealing with the LRA in the past, Gottschalk said, most recently with their Operation Lightning Thunder at the end of 2008. ?That operation was designed to go after the LRA with the stated intent of making the LRA go away, but it left civilians a lot worse off.?

In the long run, the solution may be the boring work of development, Gottschalk says.

?The LRA goes to places where there is little development, they don?t go to places where there are big roads," he says. "So if you start to squeeze that area, building roads, bringing in infrastructure, you?re not only bringing development to the most neglected corners of Africa, you?re also reducing the territory that the LRA can operate in.?

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October snow tricks Northeast, leaves 3M powerless (AP)

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. ? When winter's white mixes with autumn's orange and gold, nature gets ugly.

A freak October nor'easter knocked out power to more than 3 million homes and businesses across the Northeast on Sunday in large part because leaves still on the trees caught more snow, overloading branches that snapped and wreaked havoc. Close to 2 feet of snow fell in some areas over the weekend, and it was particularly wet and heavy, making the storm even more damaging.

"You just have absolute tree carnage with this heavy snow just straining the branches," said National Weather Service spokesman Chris Vaccaro.

From Maryland to Maine, officials said it would take days to restore electricity, even though the snow ended Sunday.

The storm smashed record snowfall totals for October and worsened as it moved north. Communities in western Massachusetts were among the hardest hit. Snowfall totals topped 27 inches in Plainfield, and nearby Windsor had gotten 26 inches by early Sunday.

It was blamed for at least 11 deaths, and states of emergency were declared in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of New York.

Roads, rails and airline flights were knocked out, and passengers on a JetBlue flight were stuck on a plane in Hartford, Conn., for more than seven hours. And while children across the region were thrilled to see snow so early, it also complicated many of their Halloween plans.

Sharon Martovich of Southbury, Conn., said she hoped the power will come back on in time for her husband's Halloween tradition of playing "Young Frankenstein" on a giant screen in front of their house. But no matter what, she said, they will make sure the eight or so children who live in the neighborhood don't miss out on trick-or-treating.

"Either way we will get the giant flashlights and we will go," she said.

More than 800,000 power customers were without electricity in Connecticut alone ? shattering the record set just two months ago by Hurricane Irene. Massachusetts had more than 600,000 outages, and so did New Jersey ? including Gov. Chris Christie's house. Parts of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York, Maine, Maryland and Vermont also were without power.

"It's going to be a more difficult situation than we experienced in Irene," Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said. "We are expecting extensive and long-term power outages."

Thirty-two shelters were open around the state, and Malloy asked volunteer fire departments to allow people in for warmth and showers. At least four hospitals were relying on generators for power.

Around Newtown in western Connecticut, trees were so laden with snow on some back roads that the branches touched the street. Every few minutes, a snap filled the air as one broke and tumbled down. Roads that were plowed became impassible because the trees were falling so fast.

One of the few businesses open in the area was a Big Y grocery store that had a generator. Customers loaded up on supplies, heard news updates over the intercom, charged up their cell phones, and waited for a suddenly hard-to-get cup of coffee ? in a line that was 30 people deep and growing.

Many of the areas hit by the storm had also been hit by Irene. In New Jersey's Hamilton Township, Tom Jacobsen also recalled heavy spring flooding and a particularly heavy winter before that.

"I'm starting to think we really ticked off Mother Nature somehow, because we've been getting spanked by her for about a year now," he said while grabbing some coffee at a convenience store.

It wasn't just the trees that weren't ready for a wintry wallop.

Kerry McNiven said she was "totally unprepared" for the storm that knocked out her water and power and sent tree limbs crashing into her Simsbury, Conn., home. She was buying disposable plates and cups in a darkened supermarket, a setting that she said resembled "one of those post-apocalyptic TV shows."

"They didn't hype this one as much" as Irene, she said. "I didn't think it was going to be as bad."

In Concord, N.H., Dave Whitcher's company had yet to prep its sanding equipment before the storm dropped nearly 2 feet of snow. His crews were plowing and shoveling parking lots Sunday and would be back Monday to salt sidewalks and walkways.

"It was a bit of a surprise, the amount and how heavy it was. We should've probably come out and got a little earlier start, but we did all right," Whitcher said.

Vaccaro, the weather service spokesman, said the snowstorm "absolutely crushed previous records that in some cases dated back more than 100 years." Saturday was only the fourth snowy October day in New York's Central Park since record-keeping began 135 years ago.

There usually isn't enough cold air in the region to support a nor'easter this time of year, but an area of high pressure over southeastern Canada funneled cold air south into the U.S., Vaccaro said. That cold air combined with moisture coming from the North Carolina coast to produce the unseasonable weather.

A few businesses enjoyed the early snow: Ski resorts in Vermont and Maine opened early. But it was more commonly an aggravation.

Many residents were urged to avoid travel altogether. Speed limits were reduced on bridges between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A few roads closed because of accidents and downed trees and power lines, said Sean Brown, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

The JetBlue passengers stranded Saturday at Hartford's Bradley International Airport were on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Newark, N.J., that had been diverted. Passenger Andrew Carter, a football reporter for the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, said the plane ran out of snacks and bottled water, and the toilets backed up.

JetBlue spokeswoman Victoria Lucia said power outages at the airport has made it difficult to get passengers off the plane, and added that the passengers would be reimbursed. In 2007, passengers in JetBlue planes were stranded for nearly 11 hours at New York's Kennedy Airport following snow and ice storms.

There were other flight delays in the region over the weekend, and commuter trains in Connecticut and New York were delayed or suspended because of downed trees and signal problems. Amtrak suspended service on several Northeast routes, and one train from Chicago to Boston got stuck overnight in Palmer, Mass. The 48 passengers had food and heat, a spokeswoman said, and they were taken by bus Sunday to their destinations.

Five people died in Pennsylvania because of the storm, two each in car accidents in suburban Philadelphia. An 84-year-old Temple man was killed Saturday when a snow-laden tree fell on his home while he was napping in his recliner.

Storm-related traffic accidents also killed people in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. A New Jersey man died Saturday in a house fire sparked by a downed power line, and a man in Springfield, Mass., was electrocuted by downed wires.

The snow was a bone-chilling slush in New York City, and a taste of what's to come for demonstrators camping out at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for the Occupy Wall Street protest.

Nick Lemmin, of Brooklyn, spent his first night at Zuccotti in a sleeping bag in a tent, wearing thermals, a sweatshirt and a scarf.

Lemmin said he thought the early snow was actually "a good test." But it was too much for protester Adash Daniel, who had already been in the park for three weeks.

"I'm not much good to this movement if I'm shivering," Daniel said as he left.

There was much more snow in Concord, where 9-year-old Nate Smith and his brother had fun making a snowman. But Nate wasn't sure he'd be able to go trick-or-treating Monday. Even if he did, his werewolf costume could end up looking a little different than he had imagined.

"I might have to put on snow pants," he said.

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Associated Press writers Noreen Gillespie-Connolly in Newtown, Conn.; Ron Todt in Philadelphia; Verena Dobnik, Deepti Hajela and Candice Choi in New York; Mary Esch in Albany, N.Y.; Holly Ramer in Concord, N.H.; and Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J., contributed to this report.

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Struggling Saab may get yet another lifeline

Two Chinese companies have reached a tentative deal to take over struggling car maker Saab for 100 million euros ($141 million), the company's owner Swedish Automobile said Friday.

The move by Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile Co. and Pang Da Automobile Trade Co. marks the latest rescue attempt for cash-strapped Saab, which has been fighting for survival since General Motors Co. sold it in 2010 to a small Dutch company specializing in luxury cars.

Production at Saab's manufacturing plant has been suspended for most of the year while the company has struggled to pay suppliers and staff. In September it entered a reorganization process similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S.

Swedish Automobile, the Dutch company previously known as Spyker Cars, said it had entered a memorandum of understanding with Youngman and Pang Da for the sale of all shares in Saab.

If the deal is finalized and approved by regulators it would mean that both of Sweden's car makers end up in Chinese hands. China's Geely Holding Group bought Volvo Cars from Ford Motor Co. for $1.5 billion in 2010.

"It's fantastic because the future of the company is now secured," Swedish Automobile CEO Victor Muller told Swedish Radio. "We know will have the stability and the funding to execute our business plan."

Guy Lofalk, who is in charge of Saab's reorganization under bankruptcy protection, withdrew his earlier request to terminate that process, saying the Chinese deal had improved the chances of a successful outcome.

In a document filed at the Vanersborg District Court, Lofalk said that Pang Da and Youngman had agreed to finance the reorganization as well as Saab's business plan.

"These new conditions must be investigated before a decision can me made on terminating the reorganization," he said.

The two Chinese firms had earlier agreed to invest ?245 million for a 53.9 percent stake in Saab, but the deal was held up by Chinese regulators and Swedish Automobile canceled that agreement on Sunday.

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Perry to GOP: I could handle Obama in debate (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry says he may not be the best debater, but he's confident he can draw clear distinctions with President Barack Obama onstage next year.

The Texas governor is trying to reassure Republican primary voters in the wide-open nominating contest.

He says he may skip some debates with the other GOP hopefuls between now and the end of January. But he says he's "not worried a bit" about his ability to contrast his plans on the economy and foreign policy with the president's during scheduled debates in the 2012 elections.

Perry's campaign has said he'll participate in at least five more debates against his GOP rivals, including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Perry tells "Fox News Sunday" that he prefers other types of campaigning.

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Automotive Rental Guide | usdems.org

Nearly all of individuals are excited about automotive rentals once they?re on vacation. But what many travels could not know is that car rental within the United States, or North America generally, is completely different than automobile leases in other international locations like Europe.

Automotive rental within the United States is usually quite simple to do. The higher recognized, and perhaps most secure, car rental businesses can simply be found in a cellphone guide like your native White or Yellow Pages. It?s even doable to search out automotive rental companies on the Internet. If you happen to?re in search of an automobile rental in the United States, all you must do is take the phone numbers you learn within the cellphone e-book or online, and call every automotive rental agency. Question for the agency?s location, automotive availability and partnerships with any airways or hotels. Don?t forget to question about any particular deals or rates, like group rates.

Most American automobile rental agencies offer pick-up at no extra price, even when only some advertise this feature. If an automobile rental company would not offer pick-up, then question if the company will reimburse the cost of cab fare.

And do not feel like you must buy further automobile insurance from an American automobile rental agency. Most reps gives you a hard sell on this, but most times it is not necessary. Your automotive rental will usually be coated underneath your own automobile insurance. But if you do not have automobile insurance below your name, it is a excellent thought to accept the provide of car rental insurance coverage from the agency.

In the United States, you will must be not less than 25-years-ancient to have the ability to get an automotive from an automotive rental agency. Some will give you an automobile rental in the event you?re youthful, but you will have to pay an a lot larger cost.

The procedure for automotive rentals in other nations like Europe is normally a small bit different than within the United States. Naturally, for European automobile leases you won?t be capable of look in your local Yellow Pages phone book. But you should be capable to collect all the information you need for arranging an overseas car rental on the Internet.

European or other overseas automotive rentals are often a lot smaller than American automobile rentals. So reduce the quantity of bags you?re taking along. Plus most international automotive leases are stick-shift. The minimum age for automobile rentals in European nations is also 25, but this age varies between car rental companies and countries.

All the time you?ll want to buy further automobile insurance on an overseas automotive rental. Additionally bear in mind that foreign car leases will be very expensive. So can the gas.

Wherever you choose to get an automotive rental, make sure that the vehicle is in excellent shape. Earlier than leaving the automotive rental agency?s lot, look at the automotive for dents, scratches, tears in the upholstery or balding tires. Should you find any, immediately report them to the automobile rental representative. When you don?t, you may be answerable for the costs of those repairs.

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High tech detection of breast cancer using nanoprobes and SQUID

ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2011) ? Mammography saves lives by detecting very small tumors. However, it fails to find 10-25% of tumors and is unable to distinguish between benign and malignant disease. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research provides a new and potentially more sensitive method using tumor-targeted magnetic nanoprobes and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) sensors.

A team of researchers from University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Cancer Research and Treatment Center, Senior Scientific, LLC, and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies facility at Sandia National Laboratories created nanoprobes by attaching iron-oxide magnetic particles to antibodies against HER-2, a protein overexpressed in 30% of breast cancer cases. Using these tiny protein-iron particles the team was able to distinguish between cells with HER-2 and those without, and were able to find HER-2 cancer cells in biopsies from mice. In their final test the team used a synthetic breast to determine the potential sensitivity of their system.

Dr Helen Hathaway explained, "We were able to accurately pinpoint 1 million cells at a depth of 4.5 cm. This is about 1000x fewer cells than the size at which a tumor can be felt in the breast and 100x more sensitive than mammographic x-ray imaging. While we do not expect the same level of nanoparticle uptake in the clinic, our system has an advantage in that dense breast tissue, which can mask traditional mammography results, is transparent to the low-frequency magnetic fields detected by the SQUID sensors."

Future refining of the system could allow not only tumor to be found but to be classified according to protein expression (rather than waiting for biopsy results). This in turn could be used to predict disease progression and refine treatment plans and so improve patient survival.

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Ala. immigration battle recalls civil rights past (AP)

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ? The epicenter of the fight over the nation's patchwork of immigration laws is not Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico and became a common site for boycotts. Nor was it any of the four states that were next to pass their own crackdowns.

No, the case that's likely to be the first sorted out by the U.S. Supreme Court comes from this Deep South state, where the nation's strictest immigration law has resurrected ugly images from Alabama's days as the nation's battleground for civil rights a half-century ago.

And Alabama's jump to the forefront says as much about the country's evolving demographics as it does the nation's collective memory of the state's sometimes violent path to desegregation.

With the failure of Congress in recent years to pass comprehensive federal immigration legislation, Arizona, Georgia, Utah, South Carolina and Indiana have passed their own. But supporters and opponents alike agree none contained provisions as strict as those passed in Alabama, among them one that required schools to check students' immigration status. That provision, which has been temporarily blocked, would allow the Supreme Court to reconsider a decision that said a K-12 education must be provided to illegal immigrants.

Its stature as the strictest in the nation, along with the inevitable comparisons of today's Hispanics with African-Americans of the 1950s and `60s, makes it a near certainty the law will be a test case for the high court.

"It really offers the Supreme Court a broad canvas to reshape what being an immigrant in the United States means," said Foster Maer, an attorney with LatinoJustice in New York, which is challenging the law.

Alabama was well-suited to be the nation's civil rights battleground because of its harsh segregation laws, large black population, and the presence of a charismatic young minister named Martin Luther King Jr., who led a boycott of segregated buses in 1955.

Opponents say the new law's schools provision conjures images of Gov. George Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door to block integration.

"Today we have a different stand in the schoolhouse door. We have efforts to intimidate children who have a constitutional right to go to school," said Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Although no solid numbers exist, schools have reported fewer Hispanic students attending school, with some saying as much as 10 percent of their Hispanic students have withdrawn since the law took effect a month ago.

Illegal immigrants interviewed by The Associated Press have said their children were bullied and told to go back to Mexico, while others have described their intense fears of arrest and deportation.

The lawyer leading the state's defense, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, faults President Barack Obama's Justice Department for stirring the civil rights comparisons by falsely predicting the law would lead to the kind of widespread discrimination and profiling that marked Alabama's past.

"The idea they seem to have is there's a Bull Connor on every corner here in Alabama, which is so widely out of touch with our state," he said, referring to the public safety commissioner who unleashed police dogs and fire hoses on civil rights marchers in Birmingham in the 1960s.

At first glance, Alabama seems ill-suited to be the nation's immigration battleground. It's not a border state and is home to fewer illegal immigrants than several other Southern states.

"Why are we getting all the publicity? I think it has to do with Alabama's past and the perception that people have of Alabama over the years that don't live in our state and really don't recognize the amount of progress we've made in Alabama over the last 50 to 60 years," said Republican Gov. Robert Bentley, who advocated the law and signed it into effect.

Alabama's law, pushed through by a new Republican super-majority in the Legislature, is being challenged in federal court by the Justice Department, about 30 civil rights organizations and some prominent church leaders. Judges have blocked some provisions, but sections still stand that allow police to check a person's immigration status during traffic stops and make it a felony for illegal immigrants to conduct basic state business, like getting a driver's license.

State Rep. Alvin Holmes, the senior black member of the Legislature, said Republicans can't undo the voting rights gains of Democrat-leaning blacks, so they are going after brown-skinned people in hopes they won't gain a voting foothold. "They feel if these Hispanics come in and get registered to vote, they will team up with black voters to take over Alabama politics," he said.

Proponents say the law had nothing to with race. They say it was the result of frustration with the federal government's inaction and an effort to open up jobs for the nearly 10 percent of legal state residents out of work.

"There are people who try to make racism a cottage industry and profit off it, but I would put the harmony in Alabama up against any place in the country," said Republican Sen. Scott Beason, one of the law's sponsors.

Beason, the powerful chairman of the state Senate's Rules Committee, has prompted some of the comparisons with the civil rights era by telling one group that the Legislature needed to "empty the clip" on the immigration issue. And in tapes played during the federal trial of several lawmakers and lobbyists accused of buying and selling votes on gambling legislation, he referred to customers of a dog track in a predominantly black county as "aborigines."

Opponents of the law have fueled the comparisons by holding rallies at historic civil rights sites and drawing support from civil rights organizations.

No one in the Alabama Legislature was talking about immigration laws a decade ago because the Hispanic population was so small. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates the number of illegal immigrants in Alabama has grown from 25,000 in 2000 to 120,000 in 2010 ? a nearly fivefold increase ? though it's only a fraction of the 11 million or so estimated in the country.

That rapid rise drew complaints from residents who blamed Hispanics for knocking them out of jobs by working for cheaper wages and no benefits.

"They were coming in here like thieves in the night and taking our jobs and tax revenue," said Republican Rep. Micky Hammon, who also sponsored the new law.

To be sure, construction businesses and farms say Hispanic workers they have relied upon have fled the state. So far, they haven't been able to find legal residents willing to take on what is usually backbreaking work.

The governor said lawmakers in other states are eyeing Alabama's law as a blueprint for their own, but some fear that notoriety could come at a steep price: The state's image as an international automotive hub.

In 1993, a few months after state officials quit flying the Confederate battle flag on the Capitol dome, Mercedes selected Alabama for an assembly plant. Then came Honda, Toyota and Hyundai, and many auto suppliers.

The CEO of the state pension system, David Bronner, helped recruit those plants and now fears Alabama has hurt its ability to recruit.

"You are giving the image, whether it's valid or not, that you don't like foreigners, period," he said, adding that state leaders frequently seize on bad publicity to knock other states out of competition for new jobs.

That bad publicity has made its way to Hillsboro, Wis., where information technology businessman Charles Manser and 11 of his buddies have canceled a 10-day golfing vacation to Alabama.

Manser said one friend was born in Puerto Rico and another is a British citizen. They were concerned about being hassled over their legal status.

"Whether it's legitimate or not, that's the message seen by people who might come to Alabama," he said.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111029/ap_on_re_us/us_alabama_s_immigration_image

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