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More Penn State victims said to emerge after TV interview (Reuters)

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) ? Several more people have told a private attorney they were abused as children by former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Sandusky, 67, was charged earlier this month with molesting eight young boys over a 15-year period. Several more alleged victims came forward after hearing Sandusky interviewed on an NBC news program that aired on Tuesday night, according to the Patriot-News newspaper, citing attorneys in State College.

His indictment has triggered a crisis at the prestigious university. Two other former officials have been charged in the case, and last week Penn State's revered football coach Joe Paterno and its president were fired.

"The folks we talked to are largely folks in their 20s, who in a lot of cases have never told their story before," attorney Andy Shubin told the Patriot-News of the new abuse claims.

One case went back to the 1970s. Sandusky founded The Second Mile, the charity through which he is alleged to have met his victims, in 1977.

Legal experts were dumbfounded that Sandusky's lawyer had let him be interviewed. His comments, such as his admission that he had showered with boys, could be cited at trial.

Attorney Joe Amendola defended the decision, telling television station WJAC in Johnstown that is was beneficial for many people to hear Sandusky say he did not commit the crimes.

Amendola added that the showers which Sandusky has admitted to sharing with boys "are large shower rooms. They're not the showers you have at home...."

Meanwhile, the Penn State Nittany Lions team are preparing for their second game since the football program was thrown into turmoil, against Ohio State in Columbus on Saturday.

Interim head coach Tom Bradley said this week that he had been contacted by Luke Fickell, his Ohio State counterpart, and "assured there will be no problems" for his team.

Behind the scenes, what is left of Penn State's football infrastructure is attempting to retain the 15 recruits who verbally committed to be freshmen in 2012.

(Writing by Ros Krasny; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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Can Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore?s Marriage Be Salvaged?

Can Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore’s Marriage Be Salvaged?

Is it possible for Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore to work things out in their marriage after his very-public affair with Sara Leal? Some people [...]

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Nickelback's Thanksgiving Show Makes United Way 'Grateful'

Organization addresses controversy surrounding band's halftime performance in Detroit in an email to MTV News.
By James Montgomery


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By now, you've no doubt heard what some Detroit Lions fans have to say about Nickelback's halftime performance at the team's annual Thanksgiving game (hint, it isn't good), but to date, folks with the Lions — and the NFL, for that matter — have remained silent on the matter.

The same cannot be said, however, for the United Way, the sponsors of the halftime show, who released a statement last week officially confirming that Nickelback were onboard for the event, and have now weighed in on the controversy surrounding their performance. In particular, the organization addressed criticism from some Lions fans that an artist from Detroit should have been booked for the high-profile game in an email to MTV News.

"We're grateful to Nickelback for generously donating time and resources to this effort," United Way director of publicity Sal Fabens wrote. "This is a nationally televised show that historically has featured artists from many locations, such as Indiana's John Mellencamp [and] New York's Mary J. Blige ... For the past two years, we featured Motown artists and Detroit's own Kid Rock, but the performers have never been limited to those from Detroit."

Fabens also wrote that, in one way, the fact that some 75,000 fans have signed an online petition calling for the band's ouster is fitting, since the theme of the United Way's halftime performance is "Live United."

"This is a call to action, an invitation for everyone to join us, regardless of their stance on various issues, to move forward on creating opportunities for a better life for all," he wrote. "It's going to take everyone working together ... to make progress on ambitious goals in the areas of education, income and health across the country ... We invite varying points of view and voices to all come together so we can move forward.

"We would hope that various opinions about a rock band don't overshadow the fact that the band's generosity is helping to bring attention to this message," Fabens' email concluded.

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Is Europe's Crisis a Glimpse of America's Future? (Time.com)

Throughout the richest parts of the world, rising debt and aging populations are causing economic instability. In Europe, of course, this problem has developed into a crisis that just keeps getting worse and from which the common currency zone is unlikely to emerge intact. It is only natural to wonder if similar structural economic problems are inevitably driving the U.S. in the same direction.

The short answer is no ? at least not inevitably. But it's crucial to understand why, because failure to address the very real problems America does have could eventually cause a lot of damage nonetheless.

Europe's troubles are the result of past debt, some of which is now compounding at such high interest rates that for all practical purposes it can never be paid back. Call it a problem of arithmetic. The U.S., by contrast, is still years away from a debt crisis of the same magnitude. But it is having great difficulty getting its current budget under control. America's problem, therefore, is not mathematical but political.

In one way, national debt is like credit card debt: If the interest on existing debt becomes greater than the monthly payment people can afford, the debt never gets paid off. It just grows and grows until it reaches the maximum amount that lenders are willing to provide. For countries, the equation is a lot more complex, of course. For starters, the interest rates countries pay are far lower than what credit cards charge. If interest rates are only 3% or 4% and the current budget (before interest) is more or less in balance, then economic growth may be enough to keep debt constant as a percentage of a country's economic output (GDP). Such a situation can be stable indefinitely even if the debt level is fairly high. (See what the Greek debt crisis means for you.)

Once investors begin to fear that a country may default on its debt, however, a vicious cycle takes hold. Interest rates soar, which in turn makes the debt compound faster. And that, in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, further increases the chances of default. This is exactly what has been going on in Italy.

Europe's common currency only makes this cycle more vicious. Typically, an overindebted country would see its currency decline in value relative to other currencies, which would help its economy by lowering labor costs compared with those of other countries. Such a policy would typically be accompanied by higher inflation that would also reduce the real value of the country's debt (in terms of the amount of goods that the money could purchase).

The euro, however, prevents such a devaluation from taking the pressure off a troubled economy. That only increases the risk of an eventual default and makes bond investors demand higher interest rates. Once interest rates climb above 7%, as they have recently for Italy, a debt spiral is hard to avoid.

Since the euro also directly links the economic fate of 17 out of the 27 countries that make up the European Union, Europe will probably be unable to escape some sort of broad default crisis. When this occurs, no matter how well it is managed, major banks will take losses on their bond portfolios. That could trigger a short-lived selloff of as much as 20% in stock markets around the world, according to bearish forecasters.

Equally serious, banks would probably respond by cutting back lending, thereby squelching the growth essential to recover from the default. Indeed, forecasters in Europe are already reducing their growth projections and warning of a possible double-dip recession.

For America, the picture is both better and worse. On the plus side, we have plenty of time before our debt reaches dangerous levels. If debt at 60% of GDP is no problem and 120% is Italy, we're still below 100% (and roughly one-third of that is money owed by one part of the U.S. government to another, as with Social Security, which means it doesn't really count). Moreover, because the U.S. is so big and so rich ? and because we control our own currency, which is still other countries' first choice for their foreign reserves ? we can support proportionally more debt than Italy. As a result, we are still able to borrow at less than 3%. (See why France [EM] not Greece or Italy [EM] will decidee the fate of the Euro.)

On the minus side, we have not been able to get our current budget under control the way most European countries have. Thanks to recent budget cuts, Italy is now running no annual deficit (if you don't count interest costs), while ours is a whopping 7% before interest costs. Economists such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman will tell you that austerity is not the answer, that we need stimulus to get out of the current slump, but that is only half-right. What we need is short-term stimulus and long-term spending cuts. What we have is exactly backwards ? debates over near-term austerity combined with unconstrained long-term deficits.

It may be true that taxes should be raised, that defense can safely be reduced and that the discretionary Federal budget can be trimmed. Doubtless the Congressional Super-Committee is debating such matters and we shall hear the fruits of their deliberations in the next two weeks ? or not. But whatever savings these negotiations produce, they will likely fail to slow the biggest cause of long-term deficits ? growth of entitlements.

Among all the entitlements, Social Security is the easiest to stabilize. The real intractable problem continues to be healthcare, including Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Benefits and such. With rising medical costs and an aging population, it is hard to see what the solution would be, especially since recent health-care legislation has not slowed rising costs, and the prospect of reopening the health-care debate is hardly encouraging. Although we still have plenty of time to fix things, the political challenges look daunting indeed.

How long does the U.S. have to sort these problems out? Debt could reach Italian levels in 10 to 12 years under what the Congressional Budget Office calls the Alternative Fiscal Scenario. Moreover, the oldest Baby Boomers just turned 65 and have a life expectancy of 22 years. That means the bulge of retirees will keep growing and won't start to shrink until after 2030. So the risk of a European-style crisis won't go away on its own. If we don't face up to our debt problem, there's a lost decade just waiting to begin not too far in the future.

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Siri Cracked Open, Theoretically Opening It Up To Other Devices (Or Even Android!)

siriServing as a stark reminder that there are people on the Internet who are way, way too damned clever, the guys over at the iPhone design/development house Applidium claim to have cracked open Siri to take an unsanctioned look at its (her? his?) inner workings. In a rare (but quite welcome. I mean, by us. Probably not by Apple) move, they've gone on to do a rather detailed debriefing of how they got through. So, what does this mean to you? Theoretically, it means that support for Apple's voice-powered portable assistant could be hacked not only onto devices like the iPhone 4, but to anything from laptops to Android phones as well. As the italics on "theoretically" imply, though, there's a bit of a catch.

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EU adopts guidelines on airport body scanners

(AP) ? The European Union adopted new guidelines Monday on using body scanners at airports, hoping to address the privacy concerns that have delayed their implementation across the continent.

Siim Kallas, the EU commissioner responsible for transport, said under the rules the technology will only be used with strict safeguards to protect health and fundamental rights.

"Security scanners are not a panacea but they do offer a real possibility to reinforce passenger security," he said.

The scanners, some of which produce nude-like images of passengers, are already used in the United States and elsewhere as a more effective screening of passengers than metal detectors.

Scanner technology is developing rapidly and has the potential to significantly reduce invasive pat-downs. The latest machines are equipped with software that displays a generic outline of a human body, with a red box around the area where a passenger may be concealing an object.

EU member states and airports do not have an obligation to deploy security scanners, but if they decide to use them, they will have to comply with the EU-wide operational standards.

Under the new EU law, security scanners must not store or copy any of the images, and the security staff analyzing the images will be in a room separate from where the actual screening is conducted. In addition, passengers must be informed and be given the right to choose an alternative method of screening.

And in order not to risk citizens' health and safety, only security scanners that do not use X-ray technology can be used at EU airports.

"The most important provision is that every passenger has the right to opt out and ask for the use of an alternative method," said Helen Kearns, spokeswoman for the transport commission.

EU states have been mulling the use of security scanners ever since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 24-year-old Nigerian, attempted in 2009 to blow up a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit with plastic explosives he had hidden in his underwear.

Until now, security scanners were used in a limited way under a patchwork of different national operational procedures. The scanners have tested in France, Italy, Finland and other countries, and been used at airports in Britain and the Netherlands.

But the whole body imaging machines have sparked outrage among some passengers and privacy advocates because the explicit images they display. Germany has already said it won't introduce them.

Authorities tested the scanners at Hamburg airport for 10 months on passengers who volunteered. Among the findings, they said the machines' software proved too sensitive to things such as creases in suits.

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Tebow leads Broncos to 17-10 win over Chiefs

Denver Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker (87) stretches for but misses a pass in the end zone during the first half of an NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Denver Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker (87) stretches for but misses a pass in the end zone during the first half of an NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel (7) looks for a receiver during the first half of an NFL football game against the Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

A B-2 bomber flies over during opening ceremonies of an NFL football game between the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Kansas City Chiefs fans thank veterans during a time out in the first half of an NFL football game with the Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow (15) is hit by Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Glenn Dorsey (72) as he slips into the end zone for a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

(AP) ? The Kansas City Chiefs knew what was coming, even after the Denver Broncos' top two running backs went down with injuries. Their AFC West rivals were going to keep running behind Tim Tebow until the Chiefs proved they could stop them.

Just when it looked like they finally did, Tebow went to the air.

The former Heisman Trophy winner connected with Eric Decker on a 56-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, helping the Broncos to a humbling ? even humiliating ? 17-10 defeat of Kansas City.

"''It's just a mindset. It's a low-risk offense. It's not an indictment on Tim Tebow or whoever our quarterback is," Broncos coach John Fox said. "It's just whatever is working for us. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. We tried to possess the ball and keep our defense fresh."

Willis McGahee went down with a hamstring injury on the Broncos' first offensive series, and Knowshon Moreno left later in the first quarter with a knee injury. That left journeyman Lance Ball to tote the ball 30 times for 96 yards, churning up the Chiefs' banged-up defense.

Tebow finished 2 of 8 for 69 yards, but added 44 yards and a score on the ground, as the Broncos (4-5) moved into a tie with Kansas City and San Diego behind AFC West-leading Oakland (5-4).

"I'm not trying to send a message," said Tebow, who is 3-1 since taking over as the starter. "I'm just trying to be a football player. We can improve from what we did today and get better."

Fox scrapped a large chunk of his playbook when he made Tebow the starter, trying to cater to his deft ability to run the read-option. And despite losing his best two running backs, Fox stuck with the ground game, content to wear down the Kansas City defense.

The Broncos made that clear when they ran eight straight times on their opening possession.

Moreno had the highlight carry when he hurdled the Chiefs' Brandon Flowers on a 24-yard scamper, and Tebow finished off the drive when he scored up the middle from 7 yards out.

The way the Chiefs played, that nearly was enough.

"We knew that was going to be a great challenge coming into this game," Kansas City coach Todd Haley said. "We had a Plan A, B and C for how we were going to stop the run, because it's a numbers issue, and no plans ended up working like we needed it to."

Nothing worked on offense, either.

Matt Cassel was 13 of 28 for 93 yards and a touchdown, and the Chiefs only managed 258 yards of total offense, a performance every bit as ugly as last week's 31-3 loss to Miami.

"It was a tough game," said Cassel, who didn't go out for the Chiefs' final series because the medical staff decided he was too banged up to continue. "We didn't do enough offensively, we didn't execute throughout the day, and we just need to execute better."

Cassel said he hopes to play next Monday night against New England.

Rookie wide receiver Jon Baldwin tried to give Kansas City a spark when he hauled in an acrobatic 58-yard pass in the second quarter, reaching around safety Brian Dawkins to make the grab. Baldwin held onto the ball, still behind Dawkins' back, as both players fell to the ground, but the play was called back because wide receiver Steve Breaston had lined up illegally.

Matt Prater's 38-yard field goal gave Denver a 10-0 lead at halftime.

Tebow wound up missing all four of his pass attempts in the half, making Denver the first team to lead at the break without a completion since the Green Bay Packers led the Chicago Bears 14-0 on Oct. 31, 1994, according to STATS LLC. Brett Favre was 0 for 6 at halftime of that game.

Kansas City finally scored when Cassel hit Le'Ron McClain on a play-action pass from just outside the goal line midway through the third quarter. It was the first points scored by the Chiefs' offense since 12:01 left in the fourth quarter against San Diego two weeks ago.

The Broncos snuffed out the comeback bid with 6:44 left in the game, when Tebow hit Decker with the long touchdown pass. Ryan Succop kicked a field goal with 7 seconds left for Kansas City, but the Broncos recovered the onside kick, sending the Chiefs to their second straight loss.

"We have to do a better job of playing on Sundays, because it doesn't matter how practices go, how things look, you have to do it on Sunday," Haley said. "The good thing is I know we can. We've done it against quality opponents, and we have some quality opponents coming up."

Notes: Chiefs DE Glenn Dorsey left late in the game with an undisclosed injury. ... There were no turnovers in the game, though a fumble by Chiefs RB Dexter McCluster was overturned after video review. ... QB Tyler Palko was 5 of 6 for 47 yards while running the Chiefs' no-huddle offense that set up Succop's field goal. ... Miller finished with seven tackles and 1? sacks for Denver.

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