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Monday, November 28, 2011
Lynn Margulis, Trailblazing Theorist on Evolution, Dies at 73
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Dr. Margulis was a biologist whose work on the origin of cells helped transform the study of evolution.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
UConn Upset By UCF: Connecticut Blows Big Lead In Basketball Loss
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas -- This one was particularly painful for Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun.
Jeremy Lamb scored 15 points, but the fourth-ranked Huskies blew a 17-point lead in the second half of a 68-63 loss to Central Florida in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis on Friday.
Connecticut finished with 13 turnovers in its first loss since March 5 against Notre Dame. The defending national champions had won 16 straight games.
Calhoun said it was one of the most "surreal" performances he has seen during his long tenure with the Huskies.
"I can't be more disappointed in how we played," he said. "We just stopped playing. We couldn't even get the ball inbounded near the end. Nobody stepped up and it was a complete disaster for us."
Marcus Jordan and Keith Clanton had 20 points apiece for the Knights (4-1), who had eight turnovers. Jordan also had seven rebounds and seven assists.
Connecticut put together a 10-0 run to take a 50-33 lead with 16 minutes left. Lamb sparked the run with a 3-pointer and also hit two free throws during the surge.
Central Florida then scored 17 of the next 19 points to pull within two. Clanton kicked off the rally with a 3-pointer and Jordan finished the spurt with a 3.
Lamb made another 3 to stretch the Huskies' lead to five, but they couldn't hold off the pesky Knights. Jordan converted a layup, then made two big free throws to give Central Florida a 58-57 advantage with 3:11 left. Jordan added four more foul shots down the stretch to preserve the big win.
Jordan, the son of Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, said he received an encouraging message from one of his teammates before he made the two free throws that gave the Knights the lead.
"He told me this shot is in my blood," Jordan said.
Isaiah Sykes added 10 points for the Knights, including consecutive layups that stretched Central Florida's lead to 62-57 late in the game.
Andre Drummond finished with 13 points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots for the Huskies (5-1), who led 38-29 at halftime. Alex Oriakhi had 14 points and 10 rebounds.
"I feel like I let the team down," Lamb said. "I turned the ball over in key moments. We've lost games before but this hurts. We just need to come out with energy tomorrow and be ready to play."
Starting point guard Shabazz Napier finished with seven turnovers, and Lamb had three. Napier went 1 for 7 from the field and finished with four points and five assists.
Jordan was whistled for a technical with 16 minutes left in the game, fueling his big final surge.
"I still don't know why I got the technical," he said. "But I do know I wanted to come out and be more aggressive."
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
23 bodies dumped in mass slaying in Guadalajara (AP)
GUADALAJARA, Mexico ? Twenty-three bodies were discovered bound and gagged Thursday in vehicles abandoned in the heart of Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city and the site of the recent Pan American Games, officials said.
Best known as the home of mariachi music and tequila, this picturesque colonial city has also been the historic base for methamphetamine trafficking by the powerful Sinaloa cartel. The cartel's tight grip on the city was shattered by the death of its regional commander, Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, in a shootout with federal police in July 2010.
Guadalajara's murder rate then soared as factions of the cartel known as the New Generation and the Resistance battled to control Coronel's territory and assets. Street battles have left hundreds dead in the city and surrounding areas.
Security officials have said they feared that the chaos could provide an opening for the Zetas drug cartel, which has been using paramilitary-style tactics and headline-grabbing atrocities in a national push to seize territory from older organized crime groups.
But killing slowed to a trickle during the Oct. 15-30 Pan American Games, which brought a massive influx of police and soldiers.
Now, the violence appears to have surged back, in the form of the mass killing and public dumping of bodies that has marred other cities such as Veracruz.
The state prosecutor's office said the slain men in Guadalajara were found at 6:29 a.m. in two vans and a pickup truck left near the Milennium Arches, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city in western Mexico.
The arches stand less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Expo Guadalajara events center, the site of both Pan Am Games events and the Guadalajara International Book Fair, which opens Saturday and describes itself as the world's most important Spanish-language book fair. The fair's website said it was expecting more than 600,000 visitors from around the world.
On Wednesday, 17 bodies were found burned in two pickup trucks in a strikingly similar attack in Sinaloa, the home state of the eponymous cartel. Twelve of the bodies were in the back of one truck, some of them handcuffed and wearing bulletproof vests.
Luis Carlos Najera, public security secretary for the state of Jalisco, where Guadalajara is located, said Thursday morning that a message had been found in one of the vehicles containing the most recent bodies, but he didn't offer more details. Mexican drug cartels frequently leave threatening messages with the bodies of their victims as a way of sowing fear and taking credit for their actions.
Responding to a reporter's question, Najera told the Televisa television network that he believed the recent calm in Guadalajara was the result of an increase in security and not because drug cartels had struck a truce with each other during the games.
He declined to comment on the possible motives for the slayings, saying only that investigators had "various hypotheses."
The Zetas have taken over neighboring Zacatecas state in their push west, and are said to be eyeing Guadalajara both for the meth trade and for the potential of extortion.
Analysts have said there is some indication that factions such as the Resistance will join the Zetas, which would produce a coalition threatening Sinaloa's methamphetamine operations.
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Associated Press writer E. Eduardo Castillo in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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After Ohio State Clobbers Michigan, Cuddle Up With Professor Feynman
It's Thanksgiving weekend, so when you're footballed up, (or is it footballed out? Or maybe you're football indifferent?) whatever you are, here's a nice way to spend five minutes: Cuddle up with the great physicist Richard Feynman and hear him talk about beauty, curiosity and ? most important of all ? about doubt. Doubt is what drives Feynman's game. And boy oh boy, he's got game ? plus, the pictures are beautiful.
If you like this one, there are more. There's Feynman on curiosity and Feynman on honors. And, if they'd make it, I'd buy tickets to Feynman on Anything.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Australia to free some asylum seekers from centers (AP)
CANBERRA, Australia ? Australia on Friday loosened its highly charged policy of mandatory detention for asylum seekers who arrive by boat, freeing 27 from overcrowded, prison-like conditions and estimating more than 100 would be released monthly.
The move was welcomed by human-rights groups. They have strongly criticized the 20-year-old policy as inhumane, though it remains popular among many Australians who regard the increasing boat arrivals as a major political issue.
About 3,800 people seeking to stay in Australia live in detention centers surrounded by razor wire, either waiting for their asylum claims to be assessed or appealing rejections. Children and their mothers are usually accommodated elsewhere.
The 27 men released Friday are Afghans and Sri Lankans who will live on temporary visas with family and friends in Australia while their refugee claims are assessed.
"This is the initial batch of bridging visas," Immigration Minister Chris Bowen told reporters. "We estimate that at least 100 bridging visas will be issued each month."
The number freed and how long the releases will continue will depend on the rate of future arrivals, he said. The department will choose those freed on visas based on the length of their detention, their behavior and the ability of family and friends to house them.
Asylum seekers ? mostly from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Iran and Iraq ? have been heading to Australia on rickety boats in greater numbers since August, when the High Court ruled that a government plan to deport hundreds of new arrivals to Malaysia was illegal.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard attempted to salvage the plan but shelved the revised legislation last month when it became clear Parliament would reject it.
The opposition, which opinion polls show is likely to win the next elections in 2013, said the government "has flung the door open to illegal boat arrivals on the eve of the monsoon season, the most dangerous time of year to travel."
"A government who claims to want to provide a deterrent on boat arrivals would never do this," opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said.
Amnesty International and the Australian Human Rights Commission, a government-appointed watchdog, were among the groups welcoming the new policy as a more humane way to treat people seeking protection.
"Australia has been alone among industrialized nations in subjecting asylum seekers who arrive without visas to detention for the entire period taken to determine their refugee status," said Paul Power, chief executive of the Refugee Council of Australia, a nongovernment advocacy group.
The mandatory detention regime has been widely criticized by rights groups as punitive and has been blamed for suicides and psychiatric problems among detainees.
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Ranveer, Anushka in sync from day one
Following the mega success of ?Band Baaja Baraat?, the hot jodi of Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh has joined hands once again for Yash Raj?s next release ?Ladies vs Ricky Bahl?. The duo who gel up quite well, find it easier to work opposite each other and share a great on screen and off screen [...]
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Eating Turkey Does Not Really Make You Sleepy
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Don't blame the tryptophan in your Thanksgiving turkey. The post-dinner drowsiness probably results from carbs and alcohol
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'Tis the season for giving thanks and sharing blame. The supercomittee, the White House, "the One Percent," Greece, Italy -- the accusations seem to be swirling everywhere this fall. So in the spirit of sharing guilt, we thought it might be fun to ask a physician, Dr. Howard Markel of the University of Michigan, to help us re-examine a more classic case of finger-pointing: Is turkey the sole culprit behind our drowsy spells after Thanksgiving dinner? Or are other side dishes in on the act, too?
NewsHour: Can we blame it on the bird?
Dr. Markel: Most people blame it on simply stuffing one's stomach with too much food. More medically-minded folks cite the myth that a huge meal causes a diversion of the blood supply to the gastrointestinal system as it digests all that turkey, dressing, potatoes, and pumpkin pie. But in reality, the blood that is diverted tends to come from skeletal muscle tissue and is helped along by the heart's ability to increase the volume of blood pumped forward with each beat. In fact, the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain is rigidly controlled by the cardiovascular system and does not drop after any meal.
More recently, chemists have suggested that the post-feast drowsiness was caused by the high levels of an amino acid called L-tryptophan contained in turkey meat. (There was even a "Seinfeld" episode about trying to get someone to sleep by feeding them turkey.) But even though the turkey does contain high levels of L-tryptophan, it is comparable to that contained in many other meats that we consume. Moreover, in order for L-tryptophan to really make you sleepy, you need to take it on an empty stomach and without ingesting any other types of amino acids or protein. But there is a lot of protein in the average slice of turkey, and it's usually not the only dish being served.
So what is the real medical answer? It may well have to do with the other foods that are served at the Thanksgiving table, particularly those dishes rich in carbohydrates. Laboratory studies in both animals and human beings have demonstrated that carbohydrate-rich meals triggers the pancreas to release of insulin, the hormone that helps us breakdown and utilize sugar. But insulin also stimulates the muscles to take in large neutral branched-chain amino acids but not tryptophan, which is an aromatic amino acid. This results in a far greater ratio of L-tryptophan to branch-chained amino acids in the blood, and eventually, in the cerebral spinal fluid, the body fluid that bathes and cushions the spinal cord and brain. And now here's the climax of all this organic chemistry and human physiology: the brain converts the L-tryptophan into serotonin that is eventually metabolized by the pineal gland into melatonin, a substance many travelers know as nature's sleeping pill.
By the way, another sleep inducer that accompanies many Thanksgiving meals is alcohol. Too much of any spirit, wine or beer is bound to make you sleepy, at best, and grouchy or a dangerous driver at worst. So enjoy the meal, watch the carbohydrates and limit your alcohol intake for a safe Thanksgiving.
This article is reprinted with permission from PBS NewsHour. It was first published on November 23, 2011.
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Katy Perry on Pregnancy Rumors: ?Hell No!?
Katy Perry is still not ready to trade her teenage dream for motherhood. The singer, who has been married to Russell Brand for just more than one year, became the subject of fresh pregnancy rumors after her belly showed a teensy bit of bulge at the American Music Awards. But when gossip website Hollyscoop asked her point-blank, they received a definitive "Hell no!" from the pop star.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Teamsters expand lawsuit against Mexican trucks
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The International Brotherhood of Teamsters labor union on Wednesday expanded its lawsuit against the government in a long-running battle that has stopped Mexican trucks from coming deep into the United States.
In papers filed in federal appeals court in Washington, the union said the government must first assess the environmental impact of a pilot project before letting it continue. The first Mexican truck in the pilot program crossed the border last month.
Teamsters President James P. Hoffa said opening the border to the trucks is an attack on the environment, on highway safety and on American truckers and warehouse workers.
"It's outrageous enough that we've outsourced millions of jobs to foreign countries, but now we're bringing foreign workers here to take our jobs," Hoffa said in a statement. "This is another pressure the American middle-class doesn't need."
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement signed nearly two decades ago, trucks from both countries were supposed to have unhindered access to highways on either side of the border.
Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, said that the Teamsters are engaging in protectionism.
"First it was about the safety of Mexican rigs; now, with nowhere to run with that argument, the new red herring is an alleged environmental impact," Sarukhan said in a statement.
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Most docs return to work after addiction treatment (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Surgeons and other types of doctors were equally likely to return to medical practice after being treated for drug or alcohol addiction, in a new study.
Surgeons were also no different from non-surgeons in the proportion who relapsed after treatment, or the number who had their medical licenses revoked.
Researchers wrote Monday in the Archives of Surgery that they had expected surgeons might make a stronger turn-around than other doctors, in part because of the expectation of "perfection" in everything they do.
"Being a safety-sensitive specialty, they receive greater scrutiny when returning to practice following chemical dependence treatment," said Amanda Buhl from the Washington Physicians Health Program, who worked on the study. "We actually hypothesized that they would have more favorable outcomes following treatment."
While that turned out not to be the case, the majority of surgeons and non-surgeons were able to return to practice within a few years of treatment.
The study included 144 surgeons and 636 other physicians, including family practice doctors and anesthesiologists, who were treated for a substance abuse disorder in 16 different state physician health programs from 1995 to 2001.
Physician health programs allow doctors to be treated for drug abuse and addiction without repercussions as long as they complete program contracts, including random testing, and recover before returning to practice.
The participating doctors, mostly men, and in their mid-40s, on average, were followed for five years after treatment to see how many of them fulfilled the contracts and if they went back to work.
Alcohol abuse was the most common reason for enrolling in the physician health programs, and was more prevalent in surgeons than non-surgeons. Other reasons for treatment included opioid, stimulant and sedative abuse.
About one in five surgeons and non-surgeons had a positive alcohol or drug test result after treatment, and the same number were reported to state licensing boards because of relapses or non-compliance with the programs.
Still, after five years, 60 to 65 percent of all doctors had completed post-treatment monitoring contracts, and as many as 75 percent had their licenses restored and were practicing medicine again.
Slightly more surgeons than non-surgeons didn't return to medicine for a variety of reasons, including having a license revoked, leaving voluntarily or dying.
The findings "certainly demonstrate favorable outcomes following successful treatment for a substance use disorder," Buhl told Reuters Health.
Studies have estimated that about ten percent of doctors will abuse drugs or alcohol at some point during their careers -- similar to figures in the general population.
But if they do get treatment, they tend to do better than the average non-doctor, possibly because they have a lot to lose, said Dr. Keith Berge, an anesthesiologist from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who has studied drug dependence in physicians.
Although physician health programs have helped address addiction by emphasizing treatment over punishment, there's still a long way to go in terms of getting doctors the help they need in a timely fashion, added Berge, who wasn't involved in the new research.
"There's a huge barrier to physicians admitting to these problems, and often they're pretty far gone in their addictive illness by the time they come to the attention of (other) physicians or state medical boards," he told Reuters Health.
"The medical community -- families, colleagues -- need to remain vigilant to not only the signs and symptoms of substance use disorders, but to stress and burnout, those conditions that can lend themselves to drug and alcohol abuse," Buhl agreed.
Berge said that the question of drug and alcohol addiction in doctors is increasingly being seen as an important patient safety issue -- but the safest thing isn't necessarily to remove doctors from the operating room or bedside for good.
"There is a scarcity of physicians, so the goal is not to basically take good physicians that can have a useful, safe career out of practice," he said. "The goal is to have a valuable societal resource fixed and put back into place to provide safe, competent patient care."
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/sR4i1x Archives of Surgery, online November 21, 2011.
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John Neville, who had role on 'X Files,' dies
TORONTO?? John Neville, a British-born Canadian actor and stage director who appeared in the hit TV series "The X-Files," has died. He was 86.
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Neville, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died Saturday in Toronto surrounded by family. The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where Neville worked as an artistic director in the 1980s, announced his death in a statement over the weekend.
Neville appeared in dozens of movies, television shows and theater productions during a career that spanned six decades.
Perhaps the one that gave him the most prominence came in the '90s when he landed the recurring role of the "The Well-Manicured Man" in the "The X-Files."
Neville was born in England, emigrated to Canada in 1972 and later became a citizen.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Court upholds protections for Yellowstone grizzlies (Reuters)
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) ? Endangered Species Act protections, including habitat safeguards, should remain intact for some 600 grizzly bears roaming the area around Yellowstone National Park, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the bulk of a lower-court ruling in 2009 that required the federal government to restore the status of the iconic bear as a threatened species.
Conservation groups successfully argued then that the government failed to analyze the impact of climate change on Yellowstone region grizzlies when Endangered Species Act protections were lifted in 2007.
The U.S. Wildlife Service, an Interior Department agency, had asserted that the population of the out-sized, hump-shouldered bears which roam parts of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming had made a healthy comeback during the past three decades.
But environmentalists pointed to the dwindling supply of whitebark pines, high-elevation trees that provide a crucial source of food for grizzlies. Scientists say a warming climate in the West is the chief culprit in the decline of whitebarks, which are under assault from diseases and pests.
Conservationists also had won support for their argument that the Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to devise an adequate plan to ensure the bear's continuing recovery once stripped of federal safeguards.
The government appealed the U.S. district judge's decision to re-list the grizzly. But a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit unanimously sided with conservation groups on the question of whitebark pines, finding that the trees' decline was reason enough to keep bears protected.
The decision dealt a blow to sportsmen who were eager to hunt the trophy animals once they were de-listed.
The appellate panel nevertheless reversed the lower-court finding that the government had fallen short in its post-listing recovery plan.
(Editing by Steve Gorman and Cynthia Johnston)
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Egypt military, political parties in crisis talks (AP)
CAIRO ? Egyptian state television says the military rulers are in a crisis meeting with leaders of political parties across the spectrum and the head of the ruling military council will address the nation shortly.
The report Tuesday came as tens of thousands massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand the military set a date for presidential elections soon to enable the quick transfer of power to a civilian government.
The military-appointed government of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf submitted its resignation on Monday in apparent response to some of the demands of protesters. The military has not yet said whether it accepted the resignation.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
CAIRO (AP) ? Tens of thousands of Egyptians massed on Tahrir Square for a mass demonstration Tuesday while fresh clashes broke out elsewhere in Cairo as protests demanding the country's military rulers step down entered a fourth day.
Activists are hoping to increase the number of protesters in the square ? which was the epicenter of the revolt that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February ? with a demonstration to bolster popular support for a "second revolution" despite bloodshed that has left at least 29 people dead nationwide.
Security forces stayed away from the square since Monday to avoid confrontations after several failed efforts to clear the area in downtown Cairo turned violent. But clashes broke out in streets connecting Tahrir Square to police headquarters, with black-clad security forces backed by military troops firing volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets to block groups of angry young men, who responded by hurling stones and fire bombs.
The two sides have been engaged in intense clashes since the unrest began on Saturday with protesters trying to force out the generals who have failed to stabilize the country, salvage the economy or bring democracy more than nine months after taking the reins from Mubarak.
Three foreigners were arrested after they were seen throwing fire bombs at security forces from the roof of a building belonging to the American University near Tahrir Square, an Interior Ministry official said. The official did not give the nationalities of the three men.
An airport official also said a U.S. citizen who had been arrested while allegedly filming security forces at Tahrir Square was deported Tuesday to the United Arab Emirates from which he had arrived.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information
In many ways, the protests bear a striking resemblance to the 18-day uprising beginning Jan. 25 that toppled Mubarak. The chants are identical, except that military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi's name has replaced Mubarak's.
"The goal is to get rid of the government. They're still stealing and people can't eat," said protester Raed Said, 23, as he walked with an arm around his friend who was choking from the tear gas. "The field marshal has to leave because he's trying to protect Mubarak and doesn't want to try him, so he has to go."
Hundreds of protesters arrived early Tuesday to join several thousand who have been camping on Tahrir Square, sleeping in tents or on the grass rolled up in blankets despite efforts by police to clear the area. The crowds hoisted a giant Egyptian flag and chanted slogans demanding the generals immediately step down in favor of a presidential civilian council.
One man held a sign reading "ministry of thuggery" with photos of Mubarak, Tantawi, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and others. A few hundred young men nearby chanted "say it, don't fear, the council must go" and "the people want to execute the field marshal."
The rally, dubbed "Egypt's Salvation," came a day after Sharaf's civilian Cabinet submitted its resignation to the military council, a move that had been widely expected given the government's perceived inefficiency and its almost complete subordination to the generals. The ruling military council gave no word if the offer had been accepted, but regardless, it failed to satisfy the protesters.
"That was a game, like playing the joker in a game of cards. We want the military council to resign," said 60-year-old protester Mustafa Mursi, who wore a pair of goggles on his forehead with a gas mask and a laminated picture of his slain son around his neck.
Mursi, who has been at the square since the latest protests began on Saturday, said that his son Mohammed was shot in head on Jan. 28 during clashes with security forces in the earlier uprising.
"I'll stay until military rule ends and there is civilian rule," he said.
The clashes came few days before the country's first parliamentary elections since Mubarak was forced to step down. Fears were high that the turmoil would disrupt elections due to begin on Nov. 28.
Amnesty International harshly criticized the military rulers in a new report, saying they have "completely failed to live up their promises to Egyptians to improve human rights."
The London-based group documented steps by the military that have fallen short of increasing human rights and in some cases have made matters worse than under Mubarak.
"The euphoria of the uprising has been replaced by fears that one repressive rule has simply been replaced with another," according to the report, issued early Tuesday.
The report called for repeal of the Mubarak-era "emergency laws," expanded to cover "thuggery" and criticizing the military. It said the army has placed arbitrary restrictions on media and other outlets.
Egyptian security forces have continued to use torture against demonstrators, the report said, and some 12,000 civilians have been tried in military trials, which it called "unfair."
A military spokesman, meanwhile, told The Associated Press that the military has set up barbed wire and barricades around the security headquarters to prevent protesters from storming the building. "We are only here to protect the interior ministry," he said.
The spokesman, who asked not to be identified because he wasn't authorized to release the information, also said army officers and soldiers had been forbidden to enter Tahrir Square.
In violence elsewhere, Egypt's state-TV reported that three people were killed overnight in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, east of Cairo, raising the overall death toll from the protests to 29.
The unrest also had an immediate impact on Egypt's economy, which is heavily dependent on tourism and had not fully recovered from the effect of the January revolution. The stock exchange temporarily suspended trading after the broader EGX100 index slumped 5 percent.
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