Ultrasound, the same technology used to peer inside a mother?s womb to view a developing fetus, has been harnessed to non-invasively grip and move a millimeter-long roundworm.
The acoustic tweezers are about the size of a dime. The device is based on a piezoelectric material that converts vibrations into standing surface acoustic waves called SAWS.
The SAWs create pressure fields in the liquid medium that hold the specimen, according to Pennsylvania State University, where the technology was developed by bioengineer Tony Jun Huang and colleagues.
The electronics in the device can tune the SAWs to precisely and noninvasively hold and move the specimen, the university explained.
The researchers add that the technology is much cheaper than optical tweezers that use lasers to manipulate particles. What?s more, the acoustic tweezers don?t build up cell-damaging heat like their optical cousins.?
As a result, the acoustic technology can be used to mimic the conditions inside the body where cells are subject to waves of pressure and pulses of chemicals, the university said. This can, for example, allow researchers to study the effect of drug pulses on a cell?s biochemistry.
To prove the tweezers work, Huang?s team used them to spell PNAS and PSU in petri dishes with the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans,?which serves as a model organism for biological research.
A paper on the tweezers appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). PSU is the acronym for Pennsylvania State University.
John Roach is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. To learn more about him, check out his website and follow him on Twitter. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.
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Eight screeners at Newark Airport in New Jersey were fired Wednesday morning after they were caught on video sleeping on the job or failing to follow standard operating procedures for screening checked bags, authorities said.
On any given day at MultiFunding, I talk with a dozen or so bankers. As we work together to close loans, they demand precise information as they try to reach lending decisions. After all, precise information is what banking is all about.
When it comes to trying to figure out which banks are lending to small businesses, however, the conversation becomes a lot less precise. A lot of confusion arises from a lack of a clear definition of what constitutes a small-business loan (an issue I have blogged about previously). That?s why my company recently introduced a Web site called bankinggrades.com as a tool to help identify banks that are actively lending to small businesses.
We give every bank in the country a grade for their small-business lending activity based on the ratio of their small-business loan balances to their domestic deposits ? the more they lend, the higher their grades. Access to the site is free, and it?s intended to be a service to help small-business owners and entrepreneurs get to the finish line faster. My advice to those looking for a loan: start with the best-ranked banks in your community and work your way down the list.
In compiling our rankings, we define a small-business loan as any loan with a balance of $1 million or less, and we use data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the latest is from March 31) that the banks self-report to the government each quarter. We think this is the fairest indicator of small-business lending in the market.
But not everyone agrees. In a recent article in The Huffington Post, Elise Brooks, director of communications for the Financial Services Roundtable, an association that represents the nation?s largest banks, insurance companies, securities firms and other financial institutions, criticized our formula. She suggests that commitment to small-business owners ?goes beyond a simple loans-to-deposit ratio? to include things like ?offering financial education? and ?networking opportunities.? (I?d be curious to hear what readers think: How valuable are these kinds of services?)
And an article that ran last week in The Baltimore Sun introduced BankingGrades and reported that many big banks criticize our formula, arguing that it is biased against banks that could never get a good grade because of the sheer size of their deposits.
As you would expect, I disagree with that point of view. Our formula is simple and straightforward: Bank of America, the largest bank in the country,doesn?t grade well on BankingGrades because it controls 11.06 percent of all domestic deposits and only makes 3.94 percent of all small-business loans.
The four largest banks in the country ? Bank of America plus Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Citibank ? control 34.38 percent of all domestic deposits and make 13.8 percent of all small-business loans. If you take the top 50 banks in the country ranked by deposits, they control 67.16 percent of all deposits and make 36.9 percent of all small-business loans.
Meanwhile, the other 7,215 banks in the country control 32.84 percent of all domestic deposits and make 63.10 percent of all small-business loans. Any way you cut it, from my perspective, the big banks are not doing their share.
Access to capital for small-business owners is a critical component of economic recovery, and we think bankinggrades.com will increase transparency and clarity about who is doing what to help small businesses. What do you think?
Ami Kassar founded MultiFunding, which is based near Philadelphia and helps small businesses find the right sources of financing for their companies.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine ? A unique project is under way in Aroostook County to illustrate how a 100-year-old hospital took root in the area.
Officials from The Aroostook Medical Center, Cavendish Produce and Northeast Packaging Company gathered in a Presque Isle potato field early Monday to officially dedicate the TAMC Centennial Potato Plot.
The two-acre section of a field on U.S. Route 1 between Presque Isle and Caribou celebrates the hospital and its ties to agriculture.
According to hospital officials, the idea for what is now TAMC was envisioned by Frank White, an attorney, in 1908. During that time, he made frequent trips to outlying farms and neighboring smaller communities by horse and wagon, soliciting donations.
Through the efforts of White and other community leaders, Presque Isle General Hospital was incorporated on April 8, 1912. The hospital was sustained through the years by public donations, not only of money, but of food, furnishings and linens.
Cavendish Produce donated the two acres of russet potatoes that have already been planted.
Plans are for TAMC employees and their family members to harvest the field by hand in early October. The future of the harvested potatoes involves Northeast Packaging Company.
Bob Umphrey, president of the company, said Monday that a special commemorative five-pound potato bag will be designed to recognize TAMC?s centennial. That process will include an art contest to engage members of the public.
?We are launching an open contest to help us design one side of this special bag,? he explained. Northeast Packaging Company will produce the packaging later this summer in time for the harvesting of the potatoes.
A panel of judges from Northeast Packaging Company, Cavendish and TAMC will review the entries and pick a winner. The selected design will be unveiled at the Maine Potato Blossom Festival on the judges reviewing stand on Saturday, July 21, just before the parade during a new event called the Spuddy Recovery Triathlon organized and co-sponsored by TAMC.
Once the potatoes are harvested and placed in the special commemorative bags, TAMC will send the spuds to statewide elected officials and other dignitaries. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has agreed to see to it that a bag is delivered to the White House. In addition, TAMC intends to provide commemorative bags of potatoes to attendees at their annual Fall Health Fair, which this year will be themed Harvest, History and Health.
?We are so grateful to these two generous companies for working collaboratively with TAMC and making this unique project possible,? said Lynn Lombard, chairperson of the TAMC Board of Trustees. ?As we continue to mark 100 years of The Aroostook Medical Center, our hope is to engage as many residents as possible in the celebration. Certainly, the TAMC Centennial Potato Plot will be a visible reminder all summer long and into the fall of the significant contributions of both the agricultural community and TAMC to our wonderful quality of life here in The County.?
The design contest is open to all ages and will run through July 12. A special entry form, complete with contest rules and a designated area to match the printable space on the potato bag are available and will be mailed to prospective entrants.
For information on the contest or to have an official entry form mailed, call 768-4044 or email bcaron@tamc.org.
NIH awards $6.1 million grant to GUMC to establish Center of Excellence for Health DisparitiesPublic release date: 26-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Karen Mallet km463@georgetown.edu Georgetown University Medical Center
WASHINGTON -- The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a $6.1 million grant over the next five years to Georgetown University Medical Center to establish the Center of Excellence for Health Disparities in Our Nation's Capital (CEHD). The vision of the Center of Excellence is to eliminate or dramatically reduce health disparities with a particular focus on minority populations in Washington, D.C.
Part of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), the CEHD anchors a broader Georgetown University initiative that seeks to reduce and eventually eliminate health disparities by convening and leveraging the breadth of academic disciplines from across its campuses. Powered by this unified effort and Georgetown's commitment to social justice, the CEHD will expand and strengthen collaborations with other academic, government, nonprofit, faith-based and community partners to have maximum impact on disparities.
"The Center of Excellence requires a fully dedicated and engaged University community to achieve meaningful gains toward reducing health disparities," says Howard J. Federoff, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president for health sciences and executive dean of the School of Medicine at GUMC. "One of the first goals is to build new, and strengthen existing, relationships between the scientific and lay communities so that we can expedite evidence-based ways of impacting health disparities -- particularly those affecting African Americans in the District."
The African American population is the largest minority population within the District of Columbia and is disproportionately affected by chronic diseases. As such, the CEHD will conduct critical health disparities research in breast cancer and stroke. Washington, D.C., has the highest rate of breast cancer deaths in the country, and stroke is the 4th leading cause of death.
"We know we can make immediate inroads toward reducing health disparities in breast cancer and stroke because of our previous work in these areas," explains Lucile Adams-Campbell, Ph.D. associate dean for community health and outreach for GUMC, and co-principal investigator of the grant. "We have bridges in place, we have research-based, culturally appropriate evidence to guide our efforts and now we have NIH funding to help expand our delivery capabilities."
Adams-Campbell is also associate director for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of GUMC.
Other co-investigators on the grant include Chelsea Kidwell, M.D., director of the Stroke Center at GUMC and Phyllis Magrab, Ph.D., director of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development. Adams-Campbell, Kidwell and Magrab are pioneers in the medical field all with extensive experience in research and practice with the underserved. The grant also includes support for collaboration with Howard University, which has an historic commitment to minority populations. Georgetown and Howard have an existing partnership -- the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, which was established in 2010 through a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.
"The mission of the Center of Excellence is to capitalize on current and future knowledge gained from ongoing research and translate it to actionable practice in the community practice that truly makes a difference," says Magrab. "But our work cannot and will not end there. We need to influence policies at the local and national level that best serve the underserved."
"We hear a lot about barriers to better care, and one of those barriers is a lack of communication between the medical community and the real world," explains Kidwell. "For example, we know African Americans are at a higher risk of having strokes and have worse outcomes. While the reasons for both issues vary, we know how to reduce the risk and we have some understanding about how to ensure better outcomes. Our challenge is take this information across the bridge and into the community where it can have a major impact."
Adams-Campbell will lead the research effort involving breast cancer. She says understanding breast cancer risk in African Americans is becoming increasingly challenging with the existence of co-morbidities such as diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.
"With breast cancer, we know that a woman's weight gain in her postmenopausal years is like adding fuel to the fire," Adams-Campbell says. "Now that we know that, we need to act on that information."
Adams-Campbell's recently opened community-based office is positioned to address this challenge with on-site nutritionists, exercise physiologists and exercise physiology and "exergaming" labs. All are available in the Southeast Washington, DC location to directly engage minority and underserved populations.
An additional goal of the CEHD is to promote careers in minority health research by creating educational and training programs. Training and education will include targeted mentorship to postdoctoral and junior faculty colleagues to help them advance their research interests. A significant focus will also include embedding cultural and linguistic competence in its program goals.
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About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC's mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical Translation and Science Award from the National Institutes of Health. In fiscal year 2010-11, GUMC accounted for 85 percent of the university's sponsored research funding.
The CEHD is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, a part of the National Institutes of Health (#1P60MD006920-01). The content of this release is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
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NIH awards $6.1 million grant to GUMC to establish Center of Excellence for Health DisparitiesPublic release date: 26-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Karen Mallet km463@georgetown.edu Georgetown University Medical Center
WASHINGTON -- The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a $6.1 million grant over the next five years to Georgetown University Medical Center to establish the Center of Excellence for Health Disparities in Our Nation's Capital (CEHD). The vision of the Center of Excellence is to eliminate or dramatically reduce health disparities with a particular focus on minority populations in Washington, D.C.
Part of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), the CEHD anchors a broader Georgetown University initiative that seeks to reduce and eventually eliminate health disparities by convening and leveraging the breadth of academic disciplines from across its campuses. Powered by this unified effort and Georgetown's commitment to social justice, the CEHD will expand and strengthen collaborations with other academic, government, nonprofit, faith-based and community partners to have maximum impact on disparities.
"The Center of Excellence requires a fully dedicated and engaged University community to achieve meaningful gains toward reducing health disparities," says Howard J. Federoff, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president for health sciences and executive dean of the School of Medicine at GUMC. "One of the first goals is to build new, and strengthen existing, relationships between the scientific and lay communities so that we can expedite evidence-based ways of impacting health disparities -- particularly those affecting African Americans in the District."
The African American population is the largest minority population within the District of Columbia and is disproportionately affected by chronic diseases. As such, the CEHD will conduct critical health disparities research in breast cancer and stroke. Washington, D.C., has the highest rate of breast cancer deaths in the country, and stroke is the 4th leading cause of death.
"We know we can make immediate inroads toward reducing health disparities in breast cancer and stroke because of our previous work in these areas," explains Lucile Adams-Campbell, Ph.D. associate dean for community health and outreach for GUMC, and co-principal investigator of the grant. "We have bridges in place, we have research-based, culturally appropriate evidence to guide our efforts and now we have NIH funding to help expand our delivery capabilities."
Adams-Campbell is also associate director for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of GUMC.
Other co-investigators on the grant include Chelsea Kidwell, M.D., director of the Stroke Center at GUMC and Phyllis Magrab, Ph.D., director of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development. Adams-Campbell, Kidwell and Magrab are pioneers in the medical field all with extensive experience in research and practice with the underserved. The grant also includes support for collaboration with Howard University, which has an historic commitment to minority populations. Georgetown and Howard have an existing partnership -- the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, which was established in 2010 through a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.
"The mission of the Center of Excellence is to capitalize on current and future knowledge gained from ongoing research and translate it to actionable practice in the community practice that truly makes a difference," says Magrab. "But our work cannot and will not end there. We need to influence policies at the local and national level that best serve the underserved."
"We hear a lot about barriers to better care, and one of those barriers is a lack of communication between the medical community and the real world," explains Kidwell. "For example, we know African Americans are at a higher risk of having strokes and have worse outcomes. While the reasons for both issues vary, we know how to reduce the risk and we have some understanding about how to ensure better outcomes. Our challenge is take this information across the bridge and into the community where it can have a major impact."
Adams-Campbell will lead the research effort involving breast cancer. She says understanding breast cancer risk in African Americans is becoming increasingly challenging with the existence of co-morbidities such as diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.
"With breast cancer, we know that a woman's weight gain in her postmenopausal years is like adding fuel to the fire," Adams-Campbell says. "Now that we know that, we need to act on that information."
Adams-Campbell's recently opened community-based office is positioned to address this challenge with on-site nutritionists, exercise physiologists and exercise physiology and "exergaming" labs. All are available in the Southeast Washington, DC location to directly engage minority and underserved populations.
An additional goal of the CEHD is to promote careers in minority health research by creating educational and training programs. Training and education will include targeted mentorship to postdoctoral and junior faculty colleagues to help them advance their research interests. A significant focus will also include embedding cultural and linguistic competence in its program goals.
###
About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC's mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical Translation and Science Award from the National Institutes of Health. In fiscal year 2010-11, GUMC accounted for 85 percent of the university's sponsored research funding.
The CEHD is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, a part of the National Institutes of Health (#1P60MD006920-01). The content of this release is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
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June 22, 2012 ? McIntire School of Commerce Dean Carl P. Zeithaml said Friday that he believes all parts of the University of Virginia community ? including those with opposing views on President A. Teresa Sullivan's resignation and efforts to reinstate her ? are acting in what they passionately believe is the University's best interest.
"I understand right now that everybody is trying to do the right thing," Zeithaml said at a press conference where he explained his decision to step back as the designated interim president until Sullivan's future at the University is settled, possibly Tuesday at a special meeting of the Board of Visitors.
Also on Friday, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell issued a statement and sent a letter to the board demanding that they resolve the leadership crisis at Tuesday's meeting.
"If you fail to do so, I will ask for the resignation of the entire board on Wednesday," he wrote. "Regardless of your decision, I expect you to make a clear, detailed and unified statement on the future leadership of the University."
The board announced Sullivan's resignation June 10, with Rector Helen E. Dragas citing a desire to move more quickly on several areas of reform. The board voted Zeithaml as interim president early Tuesday morning after a marathon closed meeting. He was scheduled to take over Aug. 16.
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Friday, he cited the groundswell of support for Sullivan's reinstatement as the motivation for his decision to suspend his preparations to serve as interim president. On Thursday, Zeithaml's fellow deans and other University leaders unanimously called for Sullivan's reinstatement. Shortly afterward, the board announced a meeting to discuss Sullivan's status. That 3 p.m. meeting is scheduled to be held in open session in the Rotunda, according to University officials.
"I think the challenge here is to balance the competing views of well-intentioned people," he said. "But I believe my role is to step back, let the decision be made, and then next Tuesday night or Wednesday decide what the appropriate role is for me, given the circumstances."
The Board of Visitors has been deluged with messages from the University community in recent days, both favoring and opposing their decision. On Friday afternoon, the U.Va. Alumni Association delivered to the Board of Visitors office 5,500 alumni responses gathered via a Web form.
Zeithaml said he's prepared regardless of how the board votes Tuesday.
"If the board decides to reinstate President Sullivan, I will be very happy to work with her," he said. "If the board decides not to reinstate the president and if they want me to be the interim president, then I will do what I can to help in whatever way I can for the University of Virginia to move forward."
Zeithaml said meetings with groups such as the Faculty Senate and the department chairs of the College of Arts & Sciences helped solidify his decision to step back, as did the announcement of the board's upcoming meeting.
The emerging popular narrative of Sullivan's removal as the result of a larger existential struggle between traditional academics and business-minded executives is overblown, he said.
"I sort of span both worlds," said Zeithaml, who holds an MBA and a doctorate of business administration. "I understand business and finance in the private sector, and I think I understand it in the university world.
"I think there are a lot of principles that could be applied from the private sector into our world here, but not all of them, and not in total."
More diversity in its membership would help the board make such determinations, he said. All 16 members of the board are appointed by the governor, with one non-voting student member.
"I absolutely believe that there should be faculty representation on the board," he said. "I think some staff representation on the board wouldn't be a bad idea. And what I'd really like to see ? and we'd need to put a process together to figure out how to do this ? but I'd love to see some of the board members not be political appointees."
This could result in the appointment of people who are experts in the problems higher education institutions face, he said.
Zeithaml said he hasn't been in contact with Sullivan, but he left her a message Thursday thanking her for a statement in which she asked for civil discourse and called Zeithaml "an exemplary member of the University community."
Zeithaml also said the board and Dragas needn't be vilified.
"Helen Dragas is not an evil person," he said. "She has given so many years of service to this University. She has two degrees from this University. I honestly believe that she thinks in her heart of hearts that the decision they made to ask President Sullivan to resign was the right thing. ? It was a deeply flawed process and she realizes it now."
In his letter released Friday afternoon, McDonnell thanked the board members for their service but said the process by which they obtained Sullivan's resignation lacked transparency and explanation.
"The execution and communication of some of the decisions over the past 12 days has confused and angered people in the larger University community," he said.
He asked the board to eliminate any uncertainty about Sullivan's future; provide a clear explanation of whatever decision they make; and to make their determination without regard to political, personal or media pressure.
"Your decisions should be based solely on the best interests of the University," he wrote. "Members of the board are the only individuals who possess the complete information necessary to make important personnel decisions."
Finally, he told the board to unify when their deliberations are finished. "These past weeks of leaks to the media regarding closed sessions and vacillating positions are unacceptable," he wrote.
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CAIRO ? The Muslim Brotherhood declared early Monday that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt's presidential election, which would be the first victory of an Islamist as head of state in the stunning wave of protests demanding democracy that swept the Middle East the past year. But the military handed itself the lion's share power over the new president, sharpening the possibility of confrontation.
With parliament dissolved and martial law effectively in force, the generals made themselves Egypt's lawmakers, gave themselves control over the budget and will determine who writes the permanent constitution that will define the country's future.
But as they claimed victory over Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq after a deeply polarizing election, the Brotherhood challenged the military's power grab. The group insisted on Sunday that it did not recognize the dissolution of parliament or the military's interim constitution ? or its right to oversee the drafting of a new one.
That pointed to a potential struggle over spheres of authority between Egypt's two strongest forces. The Brotherhood has campaigned on a platform of bringing Egypt closer to a form of Islamic rule, but the military's grip puts it in a position to block that. Instead any conflict would likely center on more basic questions of power.
In a victory speech at his campaign headquarters, Morsi clearly sought to assuage the fears of the large sector of Egyptians that the Brotherhood will try to impose stricter provisions of Islamic law. He said he seeks "stability, love and brotherhood for the Egyptian civil, national, democratic, constitutional and modern state" and made no mention of Islamic law.
"Thank God who led successfully us to this blessed revolution. Thank God who guided the people of Egypt to this correct path, the road of freedom, democracy," the bearded, 60-year-old U.S.-educated engineer declared.
He vowed to all Egyptians, "men, women, mothers, sisters, laborers, students ... all its political factions, the Muslims, the Christians" to be "a servant for all of them."
"We are not about taking revenge or settling scores. We are all brothers of this nation, we own it together, and we are equal in rights and duties."
The Brotherhood officials and supporters in the room were ebullient over the turn of fate: The fundamentalist group that was banned for decades and repeatedly subjected to crackdowns under Mubarak's rule now held the chair that their nemesis was ousted from by last year's 18 days of mass protests. The uprising was launched by secular, leftist young activists, joined only later by the Brotherhood's leadership as millions took to the street, seeking an end to the authoritarian, corrupt regime.
Now some in Brotherhood were ready to challenge the generals. "Down with military rule," the supporters chanted.
Final official results are not expected until Thursday. The Brotherhood's declaration was based on results announced by election officials at individual counting centers, where each campaign has representatives who compile the numbers and make them public before the formal announcement. The Brotherhood's early, partial counts proved generally accurate in last month's first round vote.
The group said Morsi took 51.8 percent of the vote to Shafiq's 48.1 percent out of 24.6 million votes cast, with 98 percent of the more than 13,000 poll centers counted. There was no immediate comment from the Shafiq campaign.
The Arab Spring uprisings have brought greater power to Islamists in the countries where longtime authoritarian leaders were toppled ? but Eygpt is the only one to have an Islamist president. The Islamist Ennahda party won elections in Tunisia for a national assembly and it leads a coalition government, but the president is a leftist. Libya's leadership remains in confusion and there is no president, though Islamists play a strong role, and an Islamist party is part of the coalition government in Yemen.
The question now will be how a Brotherhood president will get along with the military generals who have ruled since Mubarak fell on Feb. 11, 2011 and who will still hold powers that can potentially paralyze Morsi. The Brotherhood has reached accommodations with the generals at times over the past 16 months, as it struck deals with Mubarak's regime itself ? gaining it a reputation among critics as willing to sell out for a taste of authority.
But after a highly polarized presidential election and the miltary's arrogation of powers to itself, the Brotherhood presented itself as willing to get into a confrontation with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the body of top generals headed by Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's defense minister for 20 years.
Just before the election, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled since Mubarak's fall, slapped de facto martial law on the country, giving military police and intelligence agents the right to arrest civilians for a host of suspected crimes, some as secondary as obstructing traffic. Then came Thursday's ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court dissolving parliament, followed by the interim constitution declaration just after polls closed Sunday following two days of voting.
According to a copy of the document obtained by The Associated Press, the generals would be the nation's legislators and control the budget. They also will name the 100-member panel tasked with drafting a new constitution, thus ensuring the new charter would guarantee them a say in key policies like defense and national security as well as shield their vast economic empire from civilian scrutiny.
The president will be able to appoint a Cabinet and approve or reject laws.
Under the document, new parliament elections will not be held until a new constitution is approved, meaning an election in December at the earliest. In the constitution-writing process, the military can object over any articles and the Supreme Constitutional Court ? which is made up of Mubarak-era appointees ? will have final say over any disputes.
Earlier Sunday, the Brotherhood's speaker of parliament Saad el-Katatni met with the deputy head of the military council, Chief of Staff Gen. Sami Anan and told him the group does not recognize the dissolution of parliament, according to a Brotherhood statement that pointedly referred to el-Katatni by his title.
El-Katatni insisted the military could not issue an interim constitution and that the constituent assembly formed last week would meet in the "coming hours" to go ahead with its work in writing the permanent charter.
Still, the Brotherhood has no power to force recognition of the parliament-created constituent assembly, which already seems discounted after parliament's dissolution and is likely to be formally disbanded by a pending court ruling. Lawmakers are literally locked out of parliament, which is ringed by troops.
The generals, mostly in their 60s and 70s, owe their ranks to the patronage of Mubarak. All along, activists from the pro-democracy youth groups that engineered the anti-Mubarak uprising questioned the generals' will to hand over power, arguing that after 60 years of direct or behind-the-scenes domination, the military was unlikely to voluntarily relinquish its perks.
The presidential race was a bitter one.
Shafiq, a former air force commander and an admirer and longtime friend of Mubarak, was seen by opponents as an extension of the old regime that millions sought to uproot when they staged a stunning uprising that toppled the man who ruled Egypt for three decades.
Morsi's opponents, in turn, feared that if he wins, the Brotherhood will take over the nation and turn it into an Islamic state, curbing freedoms and consigning minority Christians and women to second-class citizens.
Trying to rally the public in the last hours of voting, the Brotherhood presented a Morsi presidency as the last hope to prevent total control by the military council of Mubarak-era generals.
"We got rid of one devil and got 19," said Mohammed Kanouna, referring to Mubarak and the members of the military council as he voted for Morsi after night fell in Cairo's Dar el-Salam slum. "We have to let them know there is a will of the people above their will."
But the prospect that the generals will still hold most power even after their nominal handover of authority to civilians by July 1 has deepened the gloom, leaving some feeling the vote was essentially meaningless.
"Things have not changed at all. It is as if the revolution never happened," Ayat Maher, a 28-year-old mother of three, said as she waited for her husband to vote in Cairo's central Abdeen district. She said she voted for Morsi, but did not think there was much hope for him.
"The same people are running the country. The same oppression and the same sense of enslavement. They still hold the keys to everything."
___
AP correspondents Hamza Hendawi and Maggie Michael contributed to this report.
OSLO (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country's full transformation to democracy was still far off.
"What the Nobel Peace Prize did was to draw me once again into the world of other human beings outside the isolated area in which I lived, to restore a sense of reality to me," Suu Kyi said as the packed crowd, led by Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja, rose in a standing ovation at the ornate Oslo City Hall.
Suu Kyi, 66, the Oxford University-educated daughter of General Aung San, Myanmar's assassinated independence hero, said much remained to be resolved in her country.
"Hostilities have not ceased in the far north; to the west, communal violence resulting in arson and murder were taking place just several days before I started out the journey that has brought me here today," said Suu Kyi, on her first visit to Europe in nearly a quarter of a century.
"There still remain (political) prisoners in Burma. It is to be feared that because the best known detainees have been released, the remainder, the unknown ones, will be forgotten," she said, wearing a purple traditional Burmese dress and looking strong and healthy after falling ill on Thursday.
Still, Suu Kyi - elected to parliament in April - said she was confident President Thein Sein wanted to put the country on a new path.
"I don't think we should fear reversal," she told public broadcaster NRK. "(But) I don't think we should take it for granted there is no reversal."
Suspending rather than lifting sanctions was also the right move to keep pressure on the government, she said a day after arriving from Switzerland to a jubilant, dancing and chanting crowd, which showered her with flowers.
"If these reforms prove to be a fa?ade, then the rewards will be taken away."
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Suu Kyi, who spent a total of 15 years under house arrest between 1989 and her release in late 2010, never left Myanmar even during brief periods of freedom after 1989, afraid the military would not let back in.
Her sons Kim and Alexander accepted the Nobel prize on her behalf in 1991, with her husband Michael Aris also attending the ceremony. A year later Suu Kyi said she would use the $1.3 million prize money to establish a health and education trust for Burmese people.
She was unable to be with Aris, an Oxford academic, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and died in Britain in 1999.
On Saturday, Kim and Anthony Aris, her late husband's identical twin brother, attended the ceremony.
Suu Kyi thanked Norway, a nation of just 5 million people, for its support and the instrumental role it played in Myanmar's transformation.
In 1990, the Bergen-based Rafto Foundation awarded its annual prize to Suu Kyi, after a Norwegian aid worker in South-East Asia highlighted her work.
The award provided lasting publicity for her non-violent struggle against Myanmar's military junta, putting her in the international spotlight and setting the stage a year later for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Norway has also provided a home to the Democratic Voice of Burma, an opposition television and radio outlet, which broadcasts uncensored news into Myanmar.
Suu Kyi acknowledged that recent violence between Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Muslim Rohingyas in the northwestern Rakhine region was a test of Myanmar's transformation but she blamed lawlessness for the escalation.
The violence, which displaced 30,000 people and killed 50 by government accounts, flared last month with a rampage of rock-hurling, arson and machete attacks, after the gang rape and murder of a Buddhist woman that was blamed on Muslims.
"The very first time a crime was committed... they should have taken action in accordance with the rule of law," Suu Kyi told the BBC.
"If they had been able to do that, and to satisfy all parties involved that justice was done ... I do not think these disturbances would have grown to such proportions."
Tensions stem from an entrenched, long-standing distrust of around 800,000 Muslim Rohingyas, who are recognised by neither Myanmar nor neighbouring Bangladesh, and are largely considered illegal immigrants.
Suu Kyi is also due to visit Ireland, Britain and France.
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House Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. participates in a conversation moderated by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, in Washington, Wednesday, June 6, 2012, to talk about her experiences and achievements over 25 years in Congress. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is predicting the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the health care law by a 6-3 vote.
Pelosi didn't say how she thought individual justices would vote in her appearance Friday on "CBS This Morning."
But the California Democrat said her party is "prepared for any eventuality," including the possibility the high court may overturn some or all of the law that critics have labeled "Obamacare."
Pelosi said "we're ironclad on the constitutionality" and the public already is taking advantage of some features, including allowing young people up to age 26 to be covered on their parents' policies and prohibiting discrimination against the young based on pre-existing conditions.
The high court is expected to rule in the case in the next two weeks.
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