Reuters.com - 12/27/12

(Reuters) - Former President George H.W. Bush remained in the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital on Thursday, according to a hospital spokesman.

Bush, 88, a Republican who during his one term in office led a coalition that ejected Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991, was admitted to Methodist Hospital November 23 for bronchitis. He was transferred to intensive care on Sunday after setbacks including a persistent fever, family spokesman Jim McGrath has said.

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Los Angeles Times - Kim Murphy, 12/28/12

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf is shown in Saudi Arabia days before the start of Operation Desert Storm in 1991 Schwarzkopf died Dec. 27 at age 78. (Bob Daugherty, Associated Press / January 11, 1991)

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who presided over the swift and devastating 1991 military assault on Iraq that transformed the Middle East and reminded America what it was like to win a war, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 78.

Weather.com - 12/27/12, Zachary Fagenson, Reuters

Stone crabs sit in a cooler. (Wikimedia/Techygirlga)

MIAMI (Reuters) - Record low hauls of stone crabs off the coast of Florida are creating a scarcity of one of the holiday season's favorite seafood delicacies, pushing up prices and sparking a bidding wars among high-end restaurants.

"No question, there is a shortage and people are feeling it," said Roger Duarte, a former investment banker and owner of Miami-based supplier George's Stone Crab. "I have clients calling me who I have never had business with. Everyone is looking for stone crabs anywhere they can get them," he said.

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 12/27/12

View of the San Cristobal volcano from Chinandega, 150km from Managua, on Dec 26, 2012. (AFP/Hector Retamal)
 

December 27, 2012 – MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan authorities say they’ve ordered the evacuation of some 300 families living on the flanks of the country’s highest volcano after it began spewing hot gas and ash Tuesday. Some 1,500 farmers living on the slopes of the San Cristobal volcano refused to leave, despite being ordered to evacuate as the volcano spewed gas, sand and ash. “People have not evacuated because we do not want to go and leave the area abandoned,” Maria Pereira told AFP.

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