Doubts, fears nag Iraqis as U.S. pulls out (Reuters)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) ? Zahora Jasim lost two brothers to bombs and gunmen in the years of turmoil and violence that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Now, as the troops leave for home, the Baghdad housewife fears her country's troubles are not over and wonders, like many Iraqis, if their fragile democracy will slide back into sectarian strife.

"The only images I have in my mind from these nine years are the deaths of my brother and his wife, of being forced from our homes, and the death of another brother in a bombing," she said.

"I don't think anything will really change. There will still be bombings, we will still have assassinations, and the government will not be able to do anything."

The U.S. military departure evokes mixed emotions. Some feel gratitude to the Americans for overthrowing dictator Saddam Hussein in the 2003 invasion. For others, a sense of sovereignty is tainted by sadness over lost relatives and memories of U.S. violations like the abuse of inmates in Abu Ghraib prison.

The last U.S. troops are rolling out of the country across the Kuwaiti border as President Barack Obama winds up the most unpopular war since Vietnam.

But Iraq remains uncertain in many ways. A power-sharing deal includes Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish parties, but the government struggles with sectarian tensions. Violence is down sharply but bombings and attacks remain part of daily life.

From the Shi'ite-dominated south to western Sunni strongholds, sectarianism bubbles just below the surface, and many are unsure their security forces can contain al Qaeda-linked insurgents and rival militias without U.S. help.

Bombings and attacks have eased since American and Iraqi security forces weakened insurgents. But roadside bombs, car bombs and assassinations still kill and maim almost every day.

A frail economy, constant power shortages, scarce jobs and discontent with political leaders all fuel uncertainty among Iraqis.

"Thanks to the Americans. They took us away from Saddam Hussein, I have to say that. But I think now we are going to be in trouble," Malik Abed, 44, a vendor at a Baghdad fish market. "Maybe the terrorists will start attacking us again."

SECTARIAN WORRIES

With the fall of a Sunni dictator, Iraq's Shi'ite majority has risen and a fragile power-sharing government is led by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. But for some Sunnis, there is no sharing.

"I think sectarianism will return, the struggle between Sunni and Shi'ite. It is clear from the struggle the government has," said security guard Mohammed Ibrahim. "I feel marginalized as a Sunni, there are no jobs for us in the government."

Falluja, the site of bloody urban fighting during the height of the war, has a distinct view of the American presence, with many questioning the massive U.S. military operations there.

Sitting in the Sunni heartland, Falluja was once the heart of al Qaeda operations in Iraq. U.S. troops used overwhelming troop force, gunships and jets to crush the insurgency there. Many still seek compensation.

A group of Falluja residents burned and stamped on U.S. flags on Wednesday in celebration over the withdrawal. Others waved pictures of dead relatives.

"No one trusted their promises, but they said when they came to Iraq they would bring security, stability and would build our country. Now they are walking out, leaving behind killings, ruin and mess," said Ahmed Aied, a Falluja grocer.

Even as their country shakes off the worst of its violence, memories of war leave old and young alike fretting over peace and stability.

"I was just a young girl when the Americans came. I used to walk with the U.S. soldiers and take pictures with them and they talked with me. They gave me pencils, and school books," said Roua Mansour, a young mother in Baghdad

"Now I am always scared. I prefer to stay inside at home. There was once a big bomb at the Sheraton Hotel and since then I have been frightened. A mortar landed in our garden once. I hope it gets better, but security still worries me."

(Additional reporting by Aref Mohammed and; Fadhel al-Badrani; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

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The Notebook and 5 other films bizarrely slated to become Broadway musicals (The Week)

New York ? Noah and Allie's dramatic kiss in the rain will now be adapted for the stage and set to a rousing score, as will Austin Powers and... Rocky?

There's no shortage of musicals based on films currently playing on Broadway ? Sister Act, Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and, most famously, Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark. More are due in 2012, including Ghost and Newsies. It's no surprise, then, that producers are mining the world of cinema for yet more possibilities. But not every project being developed seems like a natural choice. Here's a look at six recently announced movie-inspired musicals that, on the surface, seem like odd fits for the rialto:??

The Notebook
The Notebook quickly achieved classic tearjerker status with its time-jumping narrative of a tortured romance between two passionate lovers. A musical version of the Ryan Gosling-Rachel McAdams film (which is itself based on a Nicholas Sparks book) has been in the works since 2009 ? written by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Galeotti, of all people. In an interview this week with CBS' The Early Show, Sparks revealed that the project is now moving forward, with eyes set on the Great White Way. Perfect, says Jen Carlson at Gothamist, another medium in which girls can torture their boyfriends with Notebook viewings. After all, says Jean Bentley at Zap2it, "if you're a lady, you're genetically predisposed to love the crap outta this."

Austin Powers
None other than the International Man of Mystery himself, Mike Myers, is working on adapting the Austin Powers films into a Broadway musical (though reports are that he won't star in it). Casey Nicholaw, the co-director of the stage smash The Book of Mormon, is in talks to direct. Jamie Feldmar at Gothamist isn't optimistic: The only people who benefit from this deal are "Myers, for whom this will be a total cash cow, and the legions of Midwestern tourists who will feed him."

Rocky
No one watching Rocky Balboa for the first time 35 years ago was thinking "I can't wait for this musical!" says Julie Miller at Movieline. Nevertheless, a song-and-dance version of the venerable underdog boxing film is being vigorously prepped, with music to be written by esteemed Broadway music team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Actually, says Mandi Bierly at Entertainment Weekly, this is not "as crazy as it sounds." Remember, Rocky, like the best Broadway musicals, is at heart a love story.

Because of Winn-Dixie
The Notebook isn't the only tearjerking novel-turned-film poised to morph into a musical. Because of Winn-Dixie, the 2000 novel about a stray dog who helps a young girl rekindle a relationship with her father ? the source material for a 2005 movie starring AnnaSophia Robb and Dave Matthews ? is also being adapted. Duncan Sheik, the soft rocker-turned Tony-winning composer (Spring Awakening) will write the music, while plans call for a real dog to star. "Yes, a musical starring a dog in the lead role," says The Broadway Blog. Though, given the talent involved with the score, this production may be "nothing to sniff at."

Tuck Everlasting
Director Casey Nicholaw is apparently very keen on film-to-musical adaptations. In addition to his involvement with the Austin Powers musical, Nicholaw will reportedly direct a musical version of the 1975 children's novel Tuck Everlasting (which was turned into a film twice, in 1985 and 2002, starring Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, and Sissy Spacek). The story follows a girl's friendship with a boy whose family becomes immortal after drinking out of an enchanted fountain in the forest.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
A musical version of the '90s comedy Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion ? which starred Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino as flighty, unaccomplished twentysomethings who attend their small town high school's reunion ? received a private industry reading this week. Producers of the show revealed that a Broadway perch is the ultimate goal. If nothing else, says Mallika Rao at The Huffington Post, the film's classic "Time After Time" dance scene must be included.

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Computing: Improving security in the cloud

ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2011) ? Less and less of today's computing is done on desktop computers; cloud computing, in which operations are carried out on a network of shared, remote servers, is expected to rise as the demand for computing power increases. This raises some crucial questions about security: Can we, for instance, perform computations on data stored in "the cloud" without letting anyone else see our information? Research carried out at the Weizmann Institute and MIT is moving us closer to the ability to work on data while it is still encrypted, giving an encrypted result that can later be securely deciphered.

Attempting computation on sensitive data stored on shared servers leaves that data exposed in ways that traditional encryption techniques can't protect against. The main problem is that to manipulate the data, it has to be first decoded. "Until a few years ago, no one knew if the encryption needed for this sort of online security was even possible," says Dr. Zvika Brakerski, who recently completed his Ph.D. in the group of Prof. Shafi Goldwasser of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department. In 2009, however, a Ph.D. student at Stanford University named Craig Gentry provided the first demonstration of so-called fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). But the original method was extraordinarily time consuming and unwieldy, making it highly impractical. Gentry constructed his FHE system by using fairly sophisticated math, based on so-called ideal lattices, and this required him to make new and unfamiliar complexity assumptions to prove security. Gentry's use of ideal lattices seemed inherent to fully homomorphic encryption; researchers assumed that they were necessary for the server to perform such basic operations as addition and multiplication on encrypted data.

Brakerski, together with Dr. Vinod Vaikuntanathan (who was a student of Goldwasser's at MIT), surprised the computer security world earlier this year with two recent papers in which they described several new ways of making fully homomorphic encryption more efficient. For one thing, they managed to make FHE work with much simpler arithmetic, which speeds up processing time. And a surprise discovery showed that a mathematical construct used to generate the encryption keys could be simplified without compromising security. Gentry's original ideal lattices are theoretical collections of points that can be added together -- as in an ordinary lattice structure -- but also multiplied. But the new research shows that the lattice does not have to be ideal, which simplifies the construction immensely. "The fact that it worked was something like magic, and it has challenged our assumptions about the function of the ideal lattices in homomorphic encryption," says Brakerski.

Their result promises to pave a path to applying FHE in practice. Optimized versions of the new system could be hundreds -- or even thousands -- of times faster than Gentry's original construction. Indeed, Brakerski and Vaikuntanathan have managed to advance the theory behind fully homomorphic encryption to the point that computer engineers can begin to work on applications. These might include, for instance, securing medical information for research: A third party could perform large medical studies on encrypted medical records without having access to the individuals' information.

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Of Bosons And Disappearing Spoons

This week, physicists in Geneva say they turned up evidence that something that they imagine exists might actually exist. It's called a Higgs boson, and for the moment it's a hypothetical particle. No one has ever seen one, but this week the scientists suggested, "We're not sure, but maybe we caught a glimpse."

Welcome to the wonderful world of theoretical science.

Fifty years ago, Peter Higgs (among others) conjured up a particle to explain how things "get their mass." (What? We don't know this? We don't know why a big thing has more heft than a little thing? Isn't this kind of fundamental? How could we not know this?)

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Look And Ye Shall Find

Well, we don't. But Higgs & Company had a notion, which they worked out mathematically, and the equations told them, "Look for a massive elementary particle." If our explanation is right, it should be there. In the last sentence of his paper, Higgs said, if we can design the right experiment, I expect we will find "incomplete multiplets of scalar and vector bosons." I don't exactly know what that means, but Higgs just trusted the logic of his equations.

What a strange way to do business. Normal people don't say, "Logic tells me there's got to be a highway to Cleveland, so I'll gas up and go out and look for it. It's got to be there." (Though I have friends who sometimes behave this way...)

I Know You're Out There...

But in science, this happens all the time. And sometimes what the theorists imagine is exactly right. Here's a crazy example.

In the 1860s and '70s, one of the greatest chemists who ever lived, Dmitri Mendeleev, thought up a way to take all 62 of the metals and gasses known to exist and organize them by atomic weight into a table. We know it today as the Periodic Table of Elements.

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Mendeleev, says science writer Sam Kean, had "a deep, deep knowledge of how elements felt and smelled and reacted," and he was so confident of his system that when there were gaps, when there was no known gas or metal where the table said there should be, Mendeleev said, in effect, "Oh, they are there. Look harder, you'll find them."

In the 1870s Mendeleev pointed to a place on his table and predicted "in this spot, there will be a metal that closely resembles aluminum." Mendeleev was cocky; he even described this "eka"-aluminum's density and atomic weight.

Look Harder...

Then, only a few years later, a French surgeon with the amazingly long name Paul Emile Francois Lecoq de Boisbaudran was looking at a bit of metal under a spectrascope and found a light pattern he'd never seen before. It was, it turned out, a new element that indeed behaved much like aluminum, and had a silvery color. And it slipped smack into the spot assigned to it by Mendeleev.

This metal, which Lecoq de Boisbaudran called gallium, after Gallia, the Latin name for France, had a strange quality. You could hold it in your hand, and because it melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit, and your body is roughly 98 degrees, it will turn into a puddle right in your palm.

The Disappearing Spoon

One way to totally frighten your dinner guests (and prankster chemists still do this) is you get some gallium, fashion it into what looks like a silver spoon, and you give it to your guest along with a hot cup of tea. When the guest dips the spoon in the tea, OH MY GOD ? WHAT DID I DO!, the spoon literally disappears. It just dissolves. You've got to see this ...

If That's What You Found, You're Wrong!

So that's how gallium became an official element. But here's the best part. When Mendeleev read Lecoq de Boisbaudran's paper, he looked at the fine print, at the data which described gallium as weighing such and so, with a density of this and that, and with amazing audacity, Mendeleev said, "There must be some mistake. I predicted a different weight and density, and if this is what you found, you must be wrong!"

Imagine being the guy who spent two years purifying, weighing, measuring the first-ever hunk of gallium in a lab and being told by some Russian who'd never touched the stuff that you got it all wrong. Lecoq de Boisbaudran was furious, insulted, but, of course, he checked, and the weird thing is, once again, Mendeleev was right!

Lecoq de Boisbaudran retracted his data and republished along the lines predicted by Mendeleev.

This is what humans sometimes do: They look, they think, they build models of what they imagine is out there, they do this in their heads and on blackboards, and sometimes they get it exactly right. So right, that they can tell the discovers what they discovered.

I don't know if Peter Higgs is going to be right about his boson, but hey, sometimes, it happens.

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Radiolab regular Sam Kean's account of Mendeleev's gallium controversy is described in his book The Disappearing Spoon And Other true Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements (Little Brown & Co. 2010). Sam has a new book coming next summer; it's about what we've learned in the 10 years after the human genome project.

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'The Muppets' Meet MTV's #7 Movie Of 2011

The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning, and for all the talk of outrageous snubs ? "Bridesmaids" scene-stealer Melissa McCarthy gets no love? David Fincher is denied for his work on "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"? ? there's one omission that's not getting much attention: "The Muppets" was completely shut out.
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China shifts focus to growth, as momentum falters

A worker cleans a building in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A worker cleans a building in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

An investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 in Shanghai, China. Mainland Chinese shares lost ground Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index falling 1.9 percent to 2,248.59, the lowest closing since March in 2009. (AP Photo)

SHANGHAI (AP) ? Weakness in the West is exposing China's failure to make consumers a bigger part of the economy, pushing its leaders to promise a more balanced response to tough times than they managed during the previous barrage of stimulus. For China's stability, and world growth, they need to get it right.

After two years of cooling the economy following the splurge in spending in 2009, China has pledged a more "pro-active" economic agenda for 2012. The aim: to keep growth steady while preventing a potentially destabilizing rebound in inflation through what Beijing calls a "prudent" monetary policy.

But the long-promised shift to growth that is less reliant on supercharged and often wasteful levels of investment could be even harder to swallow this time around: China cannot count on support from recoveries in the U.S. and Europe to buoy exports, and another investment binge would lead to even greater imbalances.

Foreign investment in China fell nearly 10 percent in November in the latest evidence of the rising toll that weakness in the West is taking on the world's No. 2 economy.

With the European Union ? China's largest export market ? in the doldrums, Commerce Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang described trade prospects Thursday as "grim."

An economic planning meeting this week ended with pledges of greater flexibility in moving to fend off the chill from the European debt crisis.

After 30 years of rapid growth, the economy is bound to slow, Yu Bin, head of macroeconomic research at the Development Research Center of the State Council, or Cabinet, said Thursday.

"We believe China is now coming to the end of this period of high economic growth," he told reporters in Beijing.

The question is by how much.

China's economy grew 9.1 percent in July-September, after expanding 9.5 percent in the first half of the year. Yu said the government's forecast for growth in the coming year was "lower than 9 percent."

Three years ago, with exports plunging, a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus package backed by lavish bank lending helped China's manufacturing sector bounce back quickly from the ripple effects of the global crisis. Investment in construction projects and real estate went into overdrive.

That helped shift the economy toward a greater reliance on domestic demand instead of exports ? a needed rebalancing sought both by Beijing and by its trading partners. But the lending spree was so heavily weighted toward investment that it failed to raise consumer spending as a share of the economy, economists say.

Investment rose from 43 percent of economic activity in 2008 to over 50 percent in 2010. Consumer spending, the lion's share of activity in most modern industrial economies, fell.

"The failure to make significant progress in reorienting the economy toward household spending is now being exposed as foreign demand is again slowing," economist Mark Williams of Capital Economics said in a research note Thursday.

Despite the double-digit growth in retail sales, partly because it is coming from a low base, spending remains too low to make up for the demand lost from the no longer free-spending American baby boomers.

China's leaders have acknowledged the country's need to expand social services, slash household tax burdens and put more money in consumer pockets.

"It is unsustainable to have China's long term economic growth be overly reliant on investment," said Yu, of the Development Research Council. "The government has recognized that, which is why it has emphasized the importance of boosting domestic demand, especially consumer demand, to shift away from a model excessively reliant on investment."

Still, as China's leaders prepare for a succession to a new generation of communist leaders, the likelihood of major reforms appears slight. With labor unrest flaring and financial conditions deteriorating across many sectors, from small companies to government-backed building projects, Beijing is obsessed with stability.

Though most recognize the urgency for a more balanced, consumer-led economy, "Officials are most likely to err on the side of maintaining growth," Williams said. "In practice, the imbalance is likely to grow."

For now, China's leaders are committing to "fine-tuning" policies, such as easing credit by further loosening bank reserve requirements to put more cash back into the economy.

Reports say the government will support exports by setting up special trade "bases" and aiding exporters in inland areas, which have lagged behind the richer coastal regions.

Controls on the property sector will remain as authorities work to deflate a bubble brought on by the lending spree unleashed in 2009.

Stringent curbs on bank lending helped bring inflation down from a 6.5 percent peak in July to 4.2 percent in November. Property prices also have begun coming down, but they remain a priority for leaders anxious to prevent unrest linked to a weakening of the gains in quality-of-life that buttress the Communist Party's claim to power.

Other likely strategies include tax cuts and increased government spending in areas such as high-tech and renewable energy that Beijing hopes will help drive growth while keeping inflation in check.

Beijing has little choice, given the massive debt loads for banks and local governments left over from the 2009 lending bonanza, says Ren Xianfang of IHS GlobalInsight.

Though the investment boom worked wonders then, it carried risks of its own.

"The bottom line is: the policy tools available to China this time around will be much more limited compared with three years ago ? leaving the country's economy much more vulnerable to severe shocks," she said.

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Alexa Olesen in Beijing contributed to this story.

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Bush helps Dolphins beat Raiders 34-14

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updated 6:35 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2011

MIAMI - Miami Dolphins cornerback Vontae Davis blitzed from the blind side for his first career sack, then dashed upfield in jubilation. A dazed Carson Palmer rose slowly, looked back at Davis and did a double take, as if startled to discover his tackler was a 5-foot-11 cornerback.

The Dolphins are full of surprises lately.

Once-woeful Miami won for the fourth time in the past five games Sunday by beating Oakland 34-14. Reggie Bush ran for 100 yards and a touchdown, Matt Moore had a hand in two TDs and Kevin Burnett returned an interception 34 yards for Miami's final score.

The surge by the Dolphins (4-8) comes after they lost their first seven games. In the past five weeks they've outscored opponents 139-54, with the lone loss a one-point defeat at Dallas on Thanksgiving.

"We've been on a wild ride here," Moore said.

"We've had our ups and downs," Bush added, "but I couldn't be more proud."

The Raiders (7-5) fell into a tie with Denver atop the AFC West, and the rout ended their three-game winning streak. Oakland fell to 6-25 in regular-season games in the Eastern Time Zone since December 2002.

"We couldn't run. We couldn't stop the run. We didn't pass very well," coach Hue Jackson said. "Just a bad day at the office."

The rout takes some luster off Oakland's next game against unbeaten Green Bay.

Miami ? a team that totaled four touchdowns during one five-game stretch ? secured the victory with a 21-point third quarter, including two TDs in a 20-second span. The Dolphins led 34-0 before Palmer threw two touchdown passes in the last eight minutes.

By the final period, the Dolphins were feeling frisky. Bush took a jarring hit from linebacker Aaron Curry trying to catch a pass, then showed his resilience by rolling onto his stomach and doing five pushups.

"I just wanted to let them know their hits weren't going to affect me at all," Bush said.

"One of the biggest reasons we're playing so well is we're having a lot of fun," Burnett added.

Raiders defensive tackle Richard Seymour was ejected for throwing a punch as the Dolphins drove for the score that put them up 27-0.

"I apologize to the team, to our players and to Raider nation," Seymour said. "I wasn't there to finish the game with my teammates."

Oakland linebacker Rolando McClain played three days after he was arrested on misdemeanor assault, firearms and other charges in his Alabama hometown. He made eight tackles, but that wasn't nearly enough to slow Miami.

"We didn't play well. That's on me," Jackson said. "It's not about coming to the East, and it's not about anything that happened this week. It's my fault. I didn't get them ready."

The Raiders came into the game last in the league in yards allowed per run and were outgained on the ground 209 yards to 46. Bush reached the 100-yard rushing mark for the third time in his career, and Daniel Thomas added 73 yards.

Miami scored twice before Oakland had a first down. The Raiders' best starting position all day was their 28-yard line, and they had the ball for less than 22 minutes, in part because they went 2 for 11 on third down.

The Dolphins took a 13-0 lead by scoring on their first three possessions. The first two ended in field goals, and a 63-yard march culminated with Moore's 12-yard scoring pass to Davone Bess.

The halftime break didn't slow Miami's momentum. Clyde Gates returned the second-half kickoff 77 yards, and two plays later Bush scored on a 1-yard run for a 20-0 lead.

Moore capped a 91-yard drive by scoring on a 6-yard keeper. Miami struck again when Burnett intercepted a tipped pass, weaved upfield and dove across the goal line.

"Kevin looked like a running back," Moore said. "It's so much fun watching our defense play."

Palmer went 20 for 41 despite late scoring passes of 40 yards to T.J. Houshmandzadeh and 3 yards to Darrius Heyward-Bey.

"They meant nothing," Palmer said.

Notes: Jackson said Raiders injured included tight end Kevin Boss (hip pointer), defensive tackle John Henderson (knee) and receiver Chaz Schilens (foot). Jackson and the Raiders provided no further information. ... The late Jim Mandich, a Dolphins tight end and broadcaster, joined the team's honor roll during a halftime ceremony. ... The margin of victory was Miami's largest against Oakland. ... Burnett has four career interceptions and has returned three for scores.

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