First Immigration Bill to Be Announced Within the Week

The immigration debate is entering a new phase, ABC News has learned, as the bipartisan group known as the Gang of Eight is poised to introduce preliminary legislation within the next week.

The eight senators met Tuesday afternoon with Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and moved closer to sorting through the lingering issues between Democrats and Republicans. Leahy plans to hold the first hearing soon after the legislation is introduced, officials say, and has pledged to have unlimited debate and amendments during the committee discussion.

The Republican members of the group intend to explain the legislation to the full Republican conference on Wednesday.

Republicans plan to ask for as much time as possible to debate the bill, aides said. The Judiciary Committee is not expected to start "marking up" the bill until the week of May 6.

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who is a member of the immigration group, is calling for multiple public hearings to debate the legislation.

"Senator Rubio has said from the outset that we will not rush this process, and that begins at the committee level," Alex Conant, a spokesman for Rubio, told ABC News. "The Judiciary Committee must have plenty of time to debate and improve the bipartisan group's proposal, so it's good that senators and the public will have weeks to study this proposal before the Judiciary Committee will mark it up."

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Source: LG Optimus G Pro headed to AT&T this May

U.S. will get the 5.5-inch model on AT&T, May 10 pegged as likely launch date

U.S. carrier AT&T will launch the LG Optimus G Pro this May, Android Central has learned. A source familiar with launch plans for the device tells us that the U.S. model will feature a 5.5-inch screen like the Korean version, as opposed to the 5.0-inch Japanese variant.

The planned AT&T release date is May 10, however as with any unannounced date there might be some wiggle room either side of this. Our source couldn't confirm whether the Optimus G Pro would appear on any other U.S. carriers, but for the moment it seems AT&T is the only one on the horizon.

The timing of the launch would pit LG's latest against the similarly-specced Samsung Galaxy S4, expected to appear in the U.S. around the same time. But as we said in our review, it's the comparison with Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 that interests us the most, and the G Pro might represent the first real competition for the Note line.

For more on the Optimus G Pro, check out our review of the Korean version.

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IMF's Lagarde: Europe needs austerity but pace need not be brutal

"I like small penises," said no women interviewed for an actually scientific study released Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS. Yes, PNAS is a funny sounding acronym, and, yes, PNAS has found that size does matter ? and that women prefer "showers" to "growers."

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Mick Foley and his son, Dewey, reflect on Cactus Jack's infamous "Cane Dewey" rant

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Some eighteen years ago in the back of a bingo hall in Philadelphia, Mick Foley delivered a tirade that has long stood as the most passionate and haunting of his career. Known as ?Cane Dewey,? the rant found Foley ? then competing as Cactus Jack ? addressing a fan who had written the words ?Cane Dewey? on a sign ? a sickening message pointed at Foley?s then-3-year-old son.

Two decades later, WWEClassics.com had the opportunity to sit down with Foley and his 21-year-old son, Dewey, in a small office in East Rutherford, N.J.?s IZOD Center. Find out how father and son felt about the most personal interview of the WWE Hall of Famer?s career.

WWECLASSICS.COM: Mick, ?Cane Dewey? was your highest ranking interview on our list of ?The 25 greatest mic moments in wrestling history.? Do you think it?s your personal best?

MICK FOLEY: Yeah, I?d say top two or three. Even though I might rank a couple of others higher, I think the fact that it actually has a two-word name that is used regularly 18 years after I delivered it for a small promotion is proof that most guys would consider it the No. 1 promo I?ve given.

WWECLASSICS.COM: You?ve said how many of the interviews you delivered during this time came from a place of personal frustration. Was that the case here?

MICK: Yeah, but the odd thing is I wasn?t immediately angry about the sign. In fact, in fairness to the guy who made it, he actually asked me if it would be OK.

WWECLASSICS.COM: Is that true? You didn't have a problem with it initially?

MICK: I think he showed me the sign a week before he debuted it at the ECW Arena. I kind of shrugged and said, ?Yeah, that?s fine.? It wasn?t until I told my wife and she said, ?I?m sorry, but I just got sick to my stomach. You realize somebody is making a sign advocating the physical abuse of a 3-year old-child?? I thought she had a pretty valid point. It?s not a very positive sign for anyone to be carrying.

WWECLASSICS.COM: Dewey, you were too young at the time to be upset, but how did you feel when you were old enough to understand that someone had made a sign that said ?Cane Dewey??

DEWEY FOLEY: I didn?t know how to take it in until I got older. When my dad told me about it, I thought it was pretty cool that my name was on a sign. But like my dad said, I don?t know if it?s putting out the greatest message in the world.

MICK: It?s on a T-shirt now. The Foleys have received no royalties. But you did want a shirt.

DEWEY: I did.

MICK: If those gentlemen who made the shirts are reading, the Foleys would like a few.

WWECLASSICS.COM: The ?Cane Dewey? speech is one of your most popular moments now, but it was pivotal in making you an ECW villain when you first delivered it.

MICK: The idea of Cactus Jack becoming a bad guy in front of an ECW audience seemed almost unfathomable at the time. But I took a combination of the way my wife felt about that sign and some of the frustrations I had regarding the state of the wrestling business and my future in it. I was frustrated with the fans in ECW who I thought were asking a little bit too much from the wrestlers. And I was also frustrated by the fact that there was a pretty steady parade of weak performers entering WWE. I was frustrated and I had a way of letting that frustration out in a positive way, which was an emotional interview segment.

WWECLASSICS.COM: Dewey, what was your reaction when you first saw the clip?

DEWEY: It?s pretty cool knowing that your father has your back. That was 18 years ago, so he?s had my back since birth. I?m not surprised that he would do something like that for me.

WWECLASSICS.COM: Were amends ever made with the guy who created the sign?

MICK: I believe I actually spit at him at the next ECW show. A few months later, I saw the guy at a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike after an ECW show. He gave me a copy of a book called, ?When the Game Was Black and White? and told me that every photo in the book was taken from his personal collection of Negro League memorabilia. It turned out this man, Paul Mellows, had one of the largest personal collections of memorabilia from the historic days before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball.

WWECLASSICS.COM: This story has taken some unexpected turns.

MICK: I developed an interest in the history of the Negro leagues to the point where I visited the museum in Kansas City, Mo., twice and made the museum an integral part of my unheralded 2005 coming of age baseball novel, ?Scooter.? So there?s a happy ending to the ?Cane Dewey? story after all. Now give us some free T-shirts!

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Surprising predictor of ecosystem chemistry

Apr. 8, 2013 ? Carnegie scientists have found that the plant species making up an ecosystem are better predictors of ecosystem chemistry than environmental conditions such as terrain, geology, or altitude. This is the first study using a new, high-resolution airborne, chemical-detecting instrument to map multiple ecosystem chemicals.

The result, published in the April 8, 2013, Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is a key step toward understanding how species composition affects carbon, nitrogen and other nutrient cycling, and the effects of climate change, land use, and other ecosystem pressures.

Two important ecological goals are to understand the distribution and diversity of plants in their environment and how nutrients and energy flow through ecosystems. Both are essential to predict how the environment may change in the future, but untangling the relative importance of different influences has remained challenging.

Lead author Kyla Dahlin explained: "We used the high-resolution mapping capabilities of the Carnegie Airborne Observatory Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System (CAO AToMS), and found that the plant communities that make up Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in Northern California were the strongest predictors. They explained 46% to 61% of the variation in plant chemical traits, and these traits hold the key to how ecosystems function."

The plant communities at Jasper Ridge include savanna/grasslands, evergreen oaks and chaparral, wetland ecosystems, and more. The researchers measured four traits mapped with CAO AToMS from the air: leaf nitrogen, leaf carbon, leaf water concentration, and canopy water content.

The researchers combined the airborne data with maps of known environmental regulators, such as terrain and geology, and maps of plant communities and land-use history to ask whether environmental conditions or plant communities were more indicative of the chemical variation of the vegetation. They found that environmental conditions played a role, but that plant communities were the stronger predictor.

Co-author Greg Asner, principal investigator of the CAO, commented, "The results are a powerful demonstration of the use of the latest airborne spectroscopic mapping techniques to understand the multiple chemicals in the foliage of vegetation, allowing us to relate the chemical information to biodiversity and environment. These are the tools of the future for ecological research and conservation science."

"This study is especially exciting for Carnegie because it answers questions about the roles of landscapes and plant communities that were posed by Carnegie investigators in the early decades of the 20th century," said co-author Chris Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology.

The Carnegie Airborne Observatory is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, Avatar Alliance Foundation, W. M. Keck Foundation, the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, Mary Anne Nyburg Baker and G. Leonard Baker, Jr., and William R. Hearst III.

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Fatheads: How neurons protect themselves against excess fat

Apr. 8, 2013 ? We're all fatheads. That is, our brain cells are packed with fat molecules, more of them than almost any other cell type. Still, if the brain cells' fat content gets too high, they'll be in trouble. In a recent study in mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins pinpointed an enzyme that keeps neurons' fat levels under control, and may be implicated in human neurological diseases. Their findings are published in the May 2013 issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

"There are known connections between problems with how the body's cells process fats and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis," says Michael Wolfgang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. "Now we've taken a step toward better understanding that connection by identifying an enzyme that lets neurons get rid of excess fat that would otherwise be toxic."

Wolfgang says one clue to the reason for the neurodegeneration/fat-processing connection is that neurons, unlike most cells in the body, seemingly can't break down fats for energy. Instead, brain cells use fats for tasks such as building cell membranes and communicating information. At the same time, he says, they must prevent the buildup of unneeded fats. Neurons' fat-loss strategy is rooted in the fact that a fat molecule attached to a chemical group called coenzyme A will be trapped inside the cell, while the coenzyme A-free version can easily cross the cell membrane and escape. With this in mind, Wolfgang, along with colleagues Jessica Ellis, Ph.D., and G. William Wong, Ph.D., focused their study on an enzyme, called ACOT7, which is plentiful in the brain and lops coenzyme A off of certain fat molecules.

The team created mice with a non-working gene for ACOT7 and compared them with normal mice. The scientists saw no obvious differences between the two types of mice as long as they had ready access to food, Wolfgang says. But when food was taken away overnight, so that the mice's cells would start to break down their fat stores and release fat molecules into the bloodstream for use as energy, ACOT7's role began to emerge. While the normal fasting mice were merely hungry, the mice lacking ACOT7 had poor coordination, a sign of neurodegeneration. More differences emerged when the researchers dissected the mice; most strikingly, the livers of mice missing ACOT7 were "stark white" with excess fat, Wolfgang says.

Wolfgang cautions that his group's results are not quite a smoking gun for ACOT7's involvement in human neurological disease, but says they add to existing circumstantial evidence pointing in that direction. He notes that a special diet that changes the levels of fats and sugars in the bloodstream -- the so-called ketogenic diet -- can prevent seizures in epileptics; in addition, one study found that patients with epilepsy have less of the ACOT7 enzyme than healthy people.

"We think ACOT7's purpose is to protect neurons from toxicity and death by allowing excess fat to escape the cells," Ellis says. "Our next step will be to see whether this enzyme does indeed play a role in human neurological disease."

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Margaret Thatcher Dies (Voice Of America)

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