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Finding places to store water remains the biggest imperative at Fukushima Daiichi, in part because flooding has blocked access to the reactors' disabled cooling pumps.

Those efforts inched forward Friday, as the Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals blackgovernment moved water that had been stored in a tank outside the building of reactor No. 2 into a vessel even farther away. Having emptied the tank close to the reactor's turbine building, plant operators hope to fill it with the contents of a condenser unit inside the turbine building. Once that vessel is empty, in turn, officials hope to fill it with radioactive runoff water. Similar transfer processes are under way at reactors No. 1 and 3.

Authorities want toBuy nike cheap mens acg sandals black switch to regular cooling systems so they can stop using the jury-rigged systems—spraying water at reactors and spent-fuel pools, or injecting water into the vessels that surround the reactor core.

The station's three most troubled reactors—Nos. 1, 2 and 3—were stable on Friday, according to Tepco and theBuy nike cheap mens acg sandals black government, measured by pressure and temperature readings. "We have to remove the water and establish a sustainable cooling system as soon as possible," said Mr. Nishiyama. "The status of the reactors is to a certain degree stable, but it still does not allow us to be optimistic."

Mr. Nishiyama's caution was echoed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan. "We are ready to fight a long battle," he said. "But we will surely prevail."

One committee was appointed to investigate deaths in Dara’a and Latakia, two cities where the government has cracked down on protesters, according to the state news agency.

 Syrian Human Rights Information Link, an activist organization, has documented the names of 103 people killed across the country since the protests began March 15, including at least 73 in Dara’a and 10 in Latakia. It was not clear if the number for Latakia included those killed Wednesday night.

The government also announced the

 creation of a committee to study lifting the emergency law imposed in 1963 and replacing it with legislation “that secures the preservation of the country’s security, the dignity of citizens and combating terrorism,” according to the state news agency.

Lifting the emergency law, which has been in place since 1963, has been a major demand of the protesters. Among its provisions, the law silences dissent and allows security forces to detain citizens without charge.

Activists expressed little faith that the

 government would expand political freedoms in any meaningful way. Mr. Ziadeh said he feared that replacing emergency law with antiterrorism laws would constitute only a cosmetic change. “They will put the same restrictions on basic rights into the terrorism law that they put into the emergency law,” he said. “The emergency law might be lifted but the state of emergency that governs every aspect of our lives will be the same."

The FTC said that following the launch of Google Buzz, the Internet giant received thousands of complaints from consumers “who were concerned about public disclosure of their email contacts which included, in some cases, ex-spouses, patients, students, employers, or competitors.”

“Although Google led Gmail users to believe that they could choose whether or not they wanted to join the network, the options for declining or leaving the social network were ineffective,” the federal agency said in a statement.

The proposed settlement would bar Google “from misrepresenting the privacy or confidentiality of individuals’ information,” the FTC said. The agreement is subject to final approval after a public comment period, the FTC said.

Even as it settled thorny issues related to Buzz, Google unveiled a new service aimed at tapping into the online social-networking trend that’s propelled younger firms such as Facebook Inc. to Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals blacksuccess. The new service is called “+1.”

The new feature allows users of Google’s market-dominating search engine to flag particular search results and advertisements for friends and contacts, by clicking on a +1 button.

Google identifies a user’s Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals blacknetwork by tapping into his or her chat and email contacts.

“We’ll be slowly rolling out +1’s, starting in English on Google.com,” Google product manager Rob Spiro wrote in a post on a company website, adding that, “in the weeks ahead they’ll appear in many more places (including other Google products and sites Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals blackacross the web).”

Google has sought to assert itself in the social-networking market in a number of ways over the years, in addition to Buzz. Its Orkut social-networking service has become popular in some foreign markets, but has failed to take hold in the U.S. Meanwhile another service for blending social-networking tools and messaging, called Wave, was scuttled last year.

The announcement comes less than a week after the California Department of Water Resources found that the snowpack level was at about 159 percent of normal, its highest since 1995. That figure stands in stark contrast to the arid days of 2007, when the state had Find brand shoes to trade online, about 39 percent of its average snowpack. Thus began a three-year drought that cost farmers hundreds of millions of dollars as irrigation water became scarce and exacerbated the already soaring unemployment rate in many agricultural areas.

The farm-heavy  Find brand shoes to trade online,Central Valley bore the brunt of this pain, leading to Mr. Schwarzenegger’s proclamation, which allowed state agencies to enact a variety of emergency plans and urged cities to help conserve water. Although this was the second straight year of wetter weather, state officials were hesitant to lift the proclamation until now.

Still, as with everything in the Brown administration —  Find brand shoes to trade online,so far marked by a tough-love approach — even happy news comes with a caveat.

“While this season’s surplus of rain and strong snowpack has clearly ended the dry spell for now,” Mr. Brown said in a statement, “it is critical that Californians continue to conserve water.”

Baylor coach Kim Mulkey cringed when her Big 12 champion Lady Bears and Texas A&M were made the top two seeds in the same bracket.

"It was a shock to me that they would do that to us. It was a shock. And Gary knows it was a shock to him," Mulkey said Monday. "When we shook hands at the Big 12 tournament, we were like we can get there, we're telling each other we'll see you in the Final Four. That's basically the conversations that were taking place between me and him and the players."

Except the familiar foes are now in each other's way. Baylor is trying to get to its third Final Four in seven seasons, and the Aggies (30-5) are trying to get there for the first time.

The Lady Bears had to overcome a nine-point deficit midway through the second half at home last month to beat Texas A&M. They then had to come back from Texas A&M's 12-0 start in the Big 12 tournament championship game three weeks ago.

"You just have to have a lot of respect for A&M. Every time we've played them it's just been close," Bears senior guard Melissa Jones said. "Every game has been a battle. And that's what we'll expect again this time around."

Since their 61-58 loss in the Big nike mens acg sandals 2011 online12 championship, the Aggies have won their three NCAA tournament games by an average margin of 34 points. They had a 79-38 rout against Georgia on Sunday, just before Baylor had to hold off feisty Green Bay 86-76 in a game when Griner had a career-high 40 points with 10 rebounds and six blocked shots.

And now the Aggies have the matchup they were hoping for with another chance against Baylor.

"We've looked fornike mens acg sandals 2011 online this opportunity since we lost to them in the Big 12 championship," Aggies leading scorer Danielle Adams said. "I mean, the first three times we played them, we weren't quite there, and we played them close."

Adams certainly hasn't beennike mens acg sandals 2011 online herself against Baylor.

While Adams averages 22.7 points a game and is shooting 49 percent from the field for the season, those figures are cut in half for the three games against Griner and Co. The 6-foot-1 senior is 12 of 50 (24 percent) from the field and had three of her four lowest-scoring games of the season — 13, nine and 12 points — against Baylor.

March 29 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese stocks fell amid concern the nation is struggling to contain a nuclear crisis as potentially fatal radiation levels were detected near a power station crippled after an earthquake almost three weeks ago.

Tokyo Electric Power Co.,shoes Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals black the operator of the stricken nuclear plant, was set to fall for a fifth day, as sell orders outnumbered buys. Fast Retailing Co., Asia’s biggest clothing chain, dropped 1.9 percent. Dentsu Inc., Japan’s largest advertising company, slumped 7.3 percent.

“The issue of radioactive contamination from theshoes Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals black nuclear- power plant just doesn’t seem to settle down,” said Yasushi Noguchi, a strategist in Tokyo at SMBC Friend Securities Co.

The Nikkei 225 Stock Average declined shoes Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals black1.2 percent to 9,369.61 as of 9:02 a.m. in Tokyo. The broader Topix index lost 1.2 percent to 847.24, with about five stocks falling for each that gained. The Nikkei dropped 7 percent from March 11 to March 25, the biggest decline among indexes for the world’s largest equity markets, after the earthquake and tsunami killed more than 10,000 people, razed homes and factories and crippled the Fukushima nuclear-power station northeast of Tokyo.

Egypt's stock exchange surged by about 5 percent early Sunday as investors previously cautious about its nearly two-month closure returned to the market and began reversing the earlier losses.

The broader EGX100 index traded up

almost 5.1 percent within five minutes of the market's opening, forcing the suspension of trading for 30 minutes in a pattern repeated since the Egyptian Exchange resumed operations on Wednesday.

The exchange had been shuttered since

Jan. 27, just two days after the mass protests that eventually forced President Hosni Mubarak from power began. It had fallen over 16 percent before closing down, and on its first day back in business, the benchmark EGX30 index closed down almost 9 percent, and fell another roughly 3.7 percent the following day.

On both those days, trading was suspended within minutes of the market's opening.

But individual investors who had largely

stood on the sidelines last week, stepped back in the market, while institutional investors were seen the still selling, though at lower volumes than before, traders said.

"The buyers are mainly Egyptians and (Gulf) Arabs," said Khaled Naga, a broker with Mega Investments who on Thursday had predicted that most shares could move back into the black after spending the first two days of the market's reopening trading at or near their 10 percent limit down.