Bowyer beats Burton to give RCR 100th victory (AP)

TALLADEGA, Ala. ? Teamwork meant very little in the closing laps at Talladega Superspeedway.

Unless, of course, you were driving a Ford.

Clint Bowyer bailed on teammate Jeff Burton on the last lap of Sunday's race, pulling around him when the checkered flag was in sight to pick up his first win of the season and the 100th in the Sprint Cup Series for Richard Childress Racing.

"You hate that it comes down to that; it is what it is," shrugged Bowyer. "You owe it to your team, to your sponsors to go out and win the race. Unfortunately, it came down to that situation."

Burton and the RCR bunch understood that's how the game is played.

The grumbling was far behind the leaders, where Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne ditched Jeff Gordon because Bayne was part of a pact made by Ford drivers to only push fellow Ford drivers in an effort to help Roush Fenway Racing drivers Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth in the championship race.

Gordon was seventh on the final restart and thought Bayne was committed to pushing him over the last two laps. Instead, Bayne backed off, and Gordon, with no help, faded to 27th. An animated Bayne went immediately to Gordon's car after the race, then posted his thoughts on Twitter.

"I'm not happy about what this has become," he posted on Twitter in reference to Talladega's two-car drafting style and the reliance on partners.

"It's too premeditated. We should be able to go with whoever is around us. I would have rather pulled over and finished last than tell (Gordon) I would work with him and then be strong armed into bailing."

Gordon said he was deceived.

"The Fords made it very clear about what they were doing in working with one another," Gordon said. "So I didn't expect him to commit to me on the radio. I expected him to say, 'Man, I'm sorry, I can't.' And when he said, 'Yeah, I'm pushing you, we're good,' I believed him. I think they had a different plan."

The race at NASCAR's biggest and fastest track finished roughly 30 minutes after the memorial service for two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon ended in Indianapolis. Wheldon was killed in the IndyCar season finale a week ago at Las Vegas, and NASCAR honored him with decals on all the cars and a moment of silence before the start of the race.

The Wheldon death made for some poignant moments during pre-race, as Kevin Harvick clung tightly to wife, Delana, and many drivers were seen giving long embraces to loved ones.

And as expected, the race heated up in the closing laps.

Drivers jockeyed for position and partners in the new two-car drafting system. Although the race was not marred by "the big one," there was a series of accidents, and the last, with eight laps remaining, was a hard hit by Regan Smith that required repairs to the SAFER barrier.

It made for a shake-up in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship standings. Harvick and Kyle Busch were both in accidents, and five-time defending series champion Johnson finished 26th as he and partner Earnhardt never made their charge to the front.

Edwards, who came into the race up five points over Harvick, finished 11th and saw his lead swell to 14 points over Roush Fenway Racing teammate Matt Kenseth.

There were hard feelings after the race as drivers were upset at etiquette in the closing laps. Stewart had been working with RCR driver Paul Menard during the second half of the race, but Menard wasn't able to push him to the win when the race restarted after Smith's accident with two laps to go.

Instead of contending for the win, Stewart finished seventh.

But team owner Richard Childress said Menard was there to help Stewart, a fellow Chevrolet driver.

"I went on Paul's radio and told him go up there and push Tony and try to win the race," Childress said. "I wanted him to win the race, but I also wanted him to push Tony. That was just the way it was."

If Stewart had been a Ford driver?

"We were going to help Chevy try to win," Childress said. "I've been Chevy all my life. It's kind of hard to change an old dog."

That's what made Bowyer's move easier to swallow for Burton. When the two of them pulled away from the pack, and it became clear the race to the win was only between the two of them, Burton knew he was going to be challenged on the last lap.

"I knew he was going to make a move," Burton said. "He was supposed to make a move. He ain't expected to push me to the win."

It was redemption for Bowyer, too. He lost the spring race here when Dale Earnhardt Jr. pushed Jimmie Johnson past the Bowyer-Burton tandem and Bowyer settled for second. At New Hampshire last month, he led late but ran out of gas in the closing laps as Tony Stewart took the victory.

Bowyer, the defending race winner, snapped a 34-race losing streak and thanked Burton from Victory Lane.

"We just were really good together. We thought about it, we talked about it a lot before the race and things really did play out just how we planned," said Bowyer, who is moving to Michael Waltrip Racing at the end of the season.

"It was a pretty calm day, to be honest, kind of methodical. We wanted to stay up front. I told him we needed to stay up front, that way when the time comes, we're ready for it and we can race the way we should race. I was trying to figure out where to pass him, and said 'I'm at least going to give a shot at it.' And I knew it was going to be a drag race."

Kurt Busch, who was involved in an accident with Bobby Labonte, also griped about the tandem racing after his 36th-place finish. Busch ran directly into Labonte, partly because he was pushing another car and didn't have any time to see Labonte spinning ahead.

"Our championship hopes are done just because of this two-car Talladega draft," said Busch, who is sixth in the standings, 50 points behind Edwards.

Burton finished second, his best finish in what was supposed to be a terrific season but turned south when his engine blew in the season-opening Daytona 500.

Dave Blaney worked with Brad Keselowski the entire race, and they finished third and fourth. Keselowski, who drives for top IndyCar owner Roger Penske, had "In Memory of Dan" across his back bumper.

"I'm very proud of the effort, proud to have a good day and very fortunate to have missed all the wrecks," Keselowski said. "It must have had something to do with (Wheldon) on the back of the car. It was a great day for us, and I just want to say a shout-out to him and his family."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111024/ap_on_sp_au_ra_ra_su/car_nascar_talladega

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Climate change: What we do ? and don't ? know

There is much we do not understand about Earth's climate. That is hardly surprising, given the complex interplay of physical, chemical and biological processes that determines what happens on our planet?s surface and in its atmosphere.

Despite this, we can be certain about some things. For a start, the planet is warming, and human activity is largely responsible. But how much is Earth on course to warm by? What will the global and local effects be? How will it affect our lives?

In these articles, Michael Le Page sifts through the evidence to provide a brief guide to what we currently do ? and don't ? know about the planet's most burning issue.

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Did Giant Stars Feed Blue Stragglers?

In a letter to the journal Nature published this week, astronomers Aaron Geller and Robert Mathieu offer an explanation for the origin of blue straggler stars in a star cluster called NGC 188. Geller suggests the stars fed on neighbor stars, leaving behind white dwarfs.

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Fed official says more bond purchases may needed (AP)

WASHINGTON ? A voting member of the Federal Reserve's policy-making committee on Thursday called for the central bank to consider buying mortgage bonds again as a way to spur economic growth.

Daniel Tarullo, a Fed governor, said Thursday that another round of purchases of mortgage-backed securities by the Fed could help the economy by further lowering interest rates, including mortgage rates.

Such a move would be an aggressive step by the central bank to provide support to the economy and boost the depressed housing market.

"I believe we should move back up toward the top of the list of options the large-scale purchases of additional mortgage-backed securities," Tarullo said in his speech at Columbia University in New York. He noted that was something the FOMC first did in November 2008 and then in greater amounts beginning in March 2009.

But it would almost certainly generate opposition within the Fed. Three members of the central bank's policy-making committee have dissented at recent meetings over less dramatic moves, arguing that the Fed risks triggering inflation.

Tarullo is one of 10 Fed officials who have a vote on the Federal Open Market Committee, the panel of Fed governors and regional bank presidents who meet eight times a year to set interest-rate policies.

The next meeting of the panel is Nov. 1-2. There has been speculation in financial markets that the Fed might go further in its campaign to jump-start an economy that many have feared is in danger of slipping back into a recession.

Tarullo's remarks came after Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said in an interview published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal that he believes the Fed should consider purchasing more securities, including mortgage-backed securities.

Minutes of the Fed's Sept. 20-21 meeting released last week showed that at least two members of the FOMC said that the weakening economy might require additional bond purchases.

In the end, the Fed stopped short of expanding its already massive portfolio of investments. Instead, the central bank opted to shift $400 billion of its investments to try to lower long-term interest rates.

That decision followed the Fed's announcement in August that it planned to keep short-term rates at record lows until at least mid-2013, assuming the economy remains weak.

Both the August and September Fed actions were approved on 7-3 votes. The three dissenting votes represented the largest number in nearly two decades and underscored the deep policy split on the board.

Tarullo, Rosengren and Charles Evans, head of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, have argued for stronger policy moves, contending that the economy, with unemployment stuck around 9 percent, needs more help.

The three dissenters, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota and Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, contend that the central bank has already driven a key interest rate it controls to a record low near zero and purchased massive amounts of securities. They argue that the Fed has done all it can and further action runs the risk of making inflation worse once the economy gains momentum.

In June, the Fed completed a $600 billion bond-buying program, its second round of large-scale Treasury purchases. Supporters said the bond purchases kept rates low and encouraged spending. But critics charged that it weakened the dollar and stoked inflation risks.

Another major round of bond buying would be the most dramatic move the Fed has left in a dwindling list of options.

Tarullo's discussion of further bond purchases came in a speech in which he examined what he said was an urgent crisis in unemployment with 30 million people either officially unemployed, being forced to work part-time or who had dropped out of the job market because they couldn't find work.

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Jobs questioned authority all his life, book says (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO ? A new biography portrays Steve Jobs as a skeptic all his life ? giving up religion because he was troubled by starving children, calling executives who took over Apple "corrupt" and delaying cancer surgery in favor of cleansings and herbal medicine.

"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, to be published Monday, also says Jobs came up with the company's name while he was on a diet of fruits and vegetables, and as a teenager perfected staring at people without blinking.

The Associated Press purchased a copy of the book Thursday.

The book delves into Jobs' decision to delay surgery for nine months after learning in October 2003 that he had a neuroendocrine tumor ? a relatively rare type of pancreatic cancer that normally grows more slowly and is therefore more treatable.

Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He also was influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, the book says, before finally having surgery in July 2004.

Isaacson, quoting Jobs, writes in the book: "`I really didn't want them to open up my body, so I tried to see if a few other things would work,' he told me years later with a hint of regret."

Jobs died Oct. 5, at age 56, after a battle with cancer.

The book also provides insight into the unraveling of Jobs' relationship with Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and an Apple board member from 2006 to 2009. Schmidt had quit Apple's board as Google and Apple went head-to-head in smartphones, Apple with its iPhone and Google with its Android software.

Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive-laced rant that Google's actions amounted to "grand theft."

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google's Internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.

"I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want." The meeting, Isaacson wrote, resolved nothing.

The book is clearly designed to evoke the Apple style. Its cover features the title and author's name starkly printed in black and gray type against a white background, along with a black-and-white photo of Jobs, thumb and forefinger to his chin.

The biography, for which Jobs granted more than three dozen interviews, is also a look into the thoughts of a man who was famously secret, guarding details of his life as he did Apple's products, and generating plenty of psychoanalysis from a distance.

Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO on Aug. 24, six weeks before he died.

Doctors said Thursday that it was not clear whether the delayed treatment made a difference in Jobs' chances for survival.

"People live with these cancers for far longer than nine months before they're even diagnosed," so it's not known how quickly one can prove fatal, said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Michael Pishvaian, a pancreatic cancer expert at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, said people often are in denial after a cancer diagnosis, and some take a long time to accept recommended treatments.

"We've had many patients who have had bad outcomes when they have delayed treatment. Nine months is certainly a significant period of time to delay," he said.

Fortune magazine reported in 2008 that Jobs tried alternative treatments because he was suspicious of mainstream medicine.

The book says Jobs gave up Christianity at age 13 when he saw starving children on the cover of Life magazine. He asked his Sunday school pastor whether God knew what would happen to them.

Jobs never went back to church, though he did study Zen Buddhism later.

Jobs calls the crop of executives brought in to run Apple after his ouster in 1985 "corrupt people" with "corrupt values" who cared only about making money. Jobs himself is described as caring far more about product than profit.

He told Isaacson they cared only about making money "for themselves mainly, and also for Apple ? rather than making great products."

Jobs returned to the company in 1997. After that, he introduced the candy-colored iMac computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, and turned Apple into the most valuable company in America by market value for a time.

The book says that, while some Apple board members were happy that Hewlett-Packard gave up trying to compete with Apple's iPad, Jobs did not think it was cause for celebration.

"Hewlett and Packard built a great company, and they thought they had left it in good hands," Jobs told Isaacson. "But now it's being dismembered and destroyed."

"I hope I've left a stronger legacy so that will never happen at Apple," he added.

Advance sales of the book have topped best-seller lists. Much of the biography adds to what was already known, or speculated, about Jobs. While Isaacson is not the first to tell Jobs' story, he had unprecedented access. Their last interview was weeks before Jobs died.

Jobs reveals in the book that he didn't want to go to college, and the only school he applied to was Reed, a costly private college in Portland, Ore. Once accepted, his parents tried to talk him out of attending Reed, but he told them he wouldn't go to college if they didn't let him go there. Jobs wound up attending but dropped out after less than a year and never went back.

Jobs told Isaacson that he tried various diets, including one of fruits and vegetables. On the naming of Apple, he said he was "on one of my fruitarian diets." He said he had just come back from an apple farm, and thought the name sounded "fun, spirited and not intimidating."

Jobs' eye for simple, clean design was evident early. The case of the Apple II computer had originally included a Plexiglas cover, metal straps and a roll-top door. Jobs, though, wanted something elegant that would make Apple stand out.

He told Isaacson he was struck by Cuisinart food processors while browsing at a department store and decided he wanted a case made of molded plastic.

He called Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief, his "spiritual partner" at Apple. He told Isaacson that Ive had "more operation power" at Apple than anyone besides Jobs himself ? that there's no one at the company who can tell Ive what to do. That, says Jobs, is "the way I set it up."

Jobs was never a typical CEO. Apple's first president, Mike Scott, was hired mainly to manage Jobs, then 22. One of his first projects, according to the book, was getting Jobs to bathe more often. It didn't work.

Jobs' dabbling in LSD and other aspects of 1960s counterculture has been well documented. In the book, Jobs says LSD "reinforced my sense of what was important ? creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."

He also revealed that the Beatles were one of his favorite bands, and one of his wishes was to get the band on iTunes, Apple's revolutionary online music store, before he died. The Beatles' music went on sale on iTunes in late 2010.

The book was originally called "iSteve" and scheduled to come out in March. The release date was moved up to November, then, after Jobs' death, to Monday. It is published by Simon & Schuster and will sell for $35.

Isaacson will appear Sunday on "60 Minutes." CBS News, which airs the program, released excerpts of the book Thursday.

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Ortutay reported from New York. AP Technology Writer Peter Svensson in New York and AP Chief Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee also contributed to this report.

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In Time For The Holiday Shopping Season, PayPal?s In-Store Integration Will Debut At A National Retailer In Q4

PayPalWe know PayPal has been investing in a comprehensive solution for in-store merchants to integrate the payments service into the point of sale payments experience. Today, on eBay's earnings call, eBay CEO John Donahoe said that the launch of the new technology will take place in the fourth quarter. He said that the in-store PayPal technology will be tested on a 'friends and family' basis in a national retailer in two markets. The exact details on how this will work is still unclear, but we do know that features of this new offering will include location-based offers, making payments accessible from any device and offering more payments flexibility to customers after they?ve checked out. Users will have the ability to access realtime store inventory, receive in-store offers, and real-time location-based advertising from stores.

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PFT: Some fear Luck, dad might make power play

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As the 22nd overall pick in last year?s NFL draft, Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas was a major disappointment, catching just 22 passes for 283 yards in his rookie year.

And so far this year Thomas has done even less.

Thomas has had injuries to his foot, ankle, Achilles tendon, hand and head, and he hasn?t even been able to get into a game yet this season. Thomas knows people are already calling him the B-word, and he says he?s been concerned that the Broncos might release him.

?I?ve been stressing, really, feeling that frustration, that I could have been cut,? Thomas told the Denver Post. ?I was worried about that, actually. I don?t want to be that guy they say that?s injury prone. I?ve already had three injuries since I?ve been in the league that set me back. I don?t want to get here and be that bust. I told my mother this and I told my family this. I told them I was going to be the guy who had success. I just want to stick to what I say.?

The Broncos hope Thomas can finally produce, which is one of the reasons they traded starting receiver Brandon Lloyd. Thomas thinks he can repay that confidence by becoming the team?s No. 1 receiver.

?I still want to be that guy,? Thomas said. ?I think I?m ready to be that guy. I?ve been saying this, but this is the healthiest I?ve been, right now, since I?ve been in the league.?

Broncos coach John Fox says he sees Thomas?s potential. But Fox also pointed out that he?s not the one who drafted Thomas.

?He has size, speed, strength, a lot of the things you look for,? Fox said. ?That?s probably why he was selected as high as he was, and we?re looking forward to getting him back.?

Fox?s phrasing ? ?that?s probably why he was selected as high as he was? ? is interesting. It suggests that Fox isn?t sure that Thomas was really worth a first-round draft pick, but now that Fox has Thomas on his team, he feels like he has little choice but to give Thomas a shot.

The same could be said for the Broncos? other first-round draft pick last year, Tim Tebow. Maybe Tebow-to-Thomas will become the Broncos? pass-catch combination for years to come, and the Josh McDaniels era won?t look so bad in hindsight.

Or maybe Fox will end up cursing the day he inherited a couple of first-round busts.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/19/some-fear-luck-could-make-a-power-play/related/

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Wheldon's death hits Schmidt hard (AP)

LAS VEGAS ? As a driver, Sam Schmidt understood the inherent danger of driving a car at more than 200 mph. Even after a practice crash left him in a wheelchair, he accepted the this-is-part-of-it perils that go along with racing.

After watching Dan Wheldon's death punctuate an emotionally draining month, Schmidt may have had enough.

Speaking Monday from his go-kart facility not far from the Las Vegas Strip, Schmidt acknowledged that Dan Wheldon's death at Las Vegas Motor Speedway had left him shaken ? maybe even enough to leave the sport he loves.

"I'd by lying if I said I wasn't ? you've got to think about it," Schmidt said. "It's one thing to take the risk yourself and my situation, it's something I was doing since I was 5 years old and I'm still here to watch my kids grow up. It's an amazing parallel between Dan's age and my age when I got hurt and the ages of his kids.

"I just don't know if I can be this tightly associated with something like that in the future."

Schmidt knows a bit about adversity.

A rising star in the IndyCar series, he became a quadriplegic following a 2001 practice-session wreck near Orlando, Fla. Instead of folding his hand, the Las Vegas transplant instead used the cards he was dealt to start his own racing team.

Sam Schmidt Motorsports has been hugely successful in Indy Lights, winning five series titles, and this season in IndyCar ? its first as a full-time team in the series ? earned the pole at the Indianapolis 500 with Alex Tagliani. Sam Schmidt Motorsports also supplied Wheldon's winning car at the Indianapolis 500 last May for Bryan Herta Autosport.

The past month, though, has been trying for Schmidt and his team.

It started on Sept. 12, when Indy Lights team manager Chris Griffis died after collapsing during a pickup basketball game.

The team got an emotional lift when Josef Newgarden drove to the team's fifth Indy Lights title at Kentucky two weeks ago, and again when Victor Carbone drove to his first race victory at Las Vegas on Saturday.

The joy didn't last a day.

Starting from the back of the field as part of a $5 million promotion, Wheldon had moved up to the middle of the pack when cars started crashing all around him. Unable to avoid what would become a 15-car melee, Wheldon got caught up and his car went sailing over another vehicle and whirled into a catch fence, where it landed cockpit-first and burst into flames.

Wheldon was airlifted to the hospital and declared dead about two hours later from what the Clark County coroner said Monday was blunt head trauma. The 33-year-old Englishman was survived by a wife and two kids under 3.

"It's been a roller coaster," Schmidt said. "We lost a team member five weeks ago and we're still kind of reeling in that. Winning the championship in Kentucky really kind of uplifted the guys' spirits over that, then come here and have this happen. It's pretty trying.

"I'm generally a positive guy, silver lining and everything, but I haven't been able to find a silver lining lately."

Wheldon had teamed up with Schmidt for the chance at a $5 million promotion being offered by IndyCar to any non-full-time driver who could win the race. Wheldon and the team did a warmup race at Kentucky, finishing 14th, and had to start at the back of the field for Sunday's race as part of the promotion.

The partnership came to a disturbing end with the crash that left Wheldon dead and Schmidt devastated.

"I still feel like I'm in a state of shock," he said.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111018/ap_on_sp_au_ra_ne/car_indycar_wheldon_schmidt

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