BOSTON (AP) -- As churchespaused to mourn the dead and con-sole the survivors of the BostonMarathon bombing Sunday, thecity's police commissioner said thetwo suspects had such a largecache of weapons that they wereprobably planning other attacks.

After the two brothers engagedin a gun battle with police earlyFriday, authorities surveying thescene of the shootout found it wasloaded with unexploded homemadebombs. They also found more than250 rounds of ammunition.

Police Commissioner EdDavis said the stockpile was "asdangerous as it gets in urban polic-ing."

"We have reason to believe,based upon the evidence that wasfound at that scene - the explosions, the explosive ordnance thatwas unexploded and the firepower that they had - that they weregoing to attack other individuals. That's my belief at this point."Davis told CBS's "Face the Nation."

On "Fox News Sunday," he said authorities cannot be posi-tive there aren't more explosives that haven't been found. But thepeople of Boston are safe, he insisted.

The suspects are two ethnic Chechen brothers from south-ern Russia - 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-oldbrother, Tamerlan. Their motive remained unclear.

The older brother was killed during a getaway attempt. Theyounger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remained hospitalized inserious condition Sunday after his capture Friday from a tarp-cov-ered boat in a suburban Boston backyard. Authorities would notcomment on whether he had been questioned, but several officialshave said Tsarnaev's injuries left him unable to communicate, atleast for now.

Shots were fired from the boat, but investigators haven'tdetermined where the gunfire was aimed, Davis said.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms andExplosives is tracing the weapons to try to determine how theywere obtained by the suspects.

Tsarnaev could be charged as early as Sunday, although it

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was not clear what those charges wouldbe. The twin bombings killed three peo-ple and wounded more than 180.

The most serious charge availableto federal prosecutors would be the useof a weapon of mass destruction to killpeople, which carries a possible deathsentence. Massachusetts does nothave the death penalty.

Across the rattled city, churchesopened their doors to remember thedead and ease the grief of the living.

At the Cathedral of the Holy Crossin South Boston, photographs of thethree people killed in the attack and anMIT police officer slain Thursday weredisplayed on the altar, the faces illumi-nated by glowing white pillar candles,one for each person lost.

"I hope we can all heal and moveforward," said Kelly McKernan, who was crying as she left theservice. "And obviously, the Mass today was a first step for us inthat direction."

A six-block swath of Boylston Street, where the bombs weredetonated, remained closed Sunday, though police at the scenetold pedestrians it was expected to reopen before Monday morn-ing.

Boston's historic Trinity Church could not host servicesSunday because it was within the crime scene, but the congrega-tion was invited to worship at the Temple Israel synagogue instead.The FBI allowed church officials a half-hour Saturday to go insideto gather the priests' robes, the wine and bread for Sunday's serv-ice.

Trinity's Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III offered a prayer for thosewho were slain "and for those who must rebuild their lives withoutthe legs that they ran and walked on last week."

"So where is God when the terrorists do their work?" Lloydasked. "God is there, holding us and sustaining us. God is in thepain the victims are suffering, and the healing that will go on. Godis with us as we try still to build a just world, a world where therewill not be terrorists doing their terrible damage."

Near the crime scene, Dan and Keri Arone were pushing

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Sue Haff, right, a member of Trinity EpiscopalChurch in Boston, greets a man arriving at TempleIsrael, which allowed the Trinity congregation to holdSunday service, Sunday, April 21, 2013, in Boston.Trinity is within the blocked-off area near the finishline of the Boston Marathon, where earlier in theweek two bombs exploded.

B O S T O N M A R AT H O NB O M B I N G S U S P E C TS H O T I N T H R O A TBOSTON (AP) -- A U.S. senatorsays the hospitalized suspect inthe Boston Marathon bombingwas shot in the throat, raisingquestions about his ability tospeak to investigators.

Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Dan Coatsof Indiana told ABC's "This Week" that there are ques-tions over whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) will be able to talk again.

Coats said that doesn't mean the 19-year-old can't com-municate, but he's "in a condition where we can't get anyinformation from him at all."

Tsarnaev was captured from a tarp-covered boat in asuburban Boston yard Friday night and remained hospi-talized in serious condition Sunday.

Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, were ina shootout with police early Friday. Tamerlan was killedand Dzhokhar fled the scene bleeding.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- For President Barack Obama, one ofhis most wrenching White House weeks saw the freshspecter of terrorism and the first crushing political defeat ofhis new term, and the more emotional side of a leader oftencriticized for appearing clinical or detached.

The events presented sharp tests for a president committedto an ambitious agenda in the limited window offered by asecond term.

There was the challenge to reassure a nervous nation aboutthreats at home and to keep the rest of his legislative goalson track after the Senate rejected gun control measures thathad become his top priority.

"This was a tough week," Obama said late Friday, shortlyafter authorities captured the second suspect in the BostonMarathon bombings.

The Boston Marathon explosions and the gun votes over-shadowed other events that would have captivated the coun-try and consumed the White House during almost any otherweek.

An explosion leveled a Texas fertilizer plant, killing at least 14people. Letters addressed to Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker,R-Miss., were found to contain traces of poisonous ricin intests, evoking parallels to the anthrax attacks after Sept. 11,2001.

"It's not new," David Axelrod, the president's former senioradviser, said of the White House balancing act. "It's neverwelcome, but it's not entirely unexpected."

The full fallout of the events and their impact on Obama'spresidency remains uncertain. That's particularly true inBoston, where the motivations of the two brothers accused inthe bombing are unknown, as are their connections to anyterrorist network.

But the capture of the teenager whose older brother waskilled attempting to escape police brought closure to Bostonand the White House.

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RIVERS CREST ACROSS MIDWEST,B U T R A I N I N F O R E C A S T

LARKSVILLE, Mo.(AP) -- Those fightingfloods in several com-munities along theMississippi River weremostly successfulSunday despite the

onslaught ofwater, but an ominous

forecast and the growing accumulation of snow in theupper Midwest tempered any feelings of victory.

The surging Mississippi was at or near crest at severalplaces from the Quad Cities south to near St. Louis -some reaching 10-12 feet above flood stage. Problemswere plentiful: Hundreds of thousands of acres ofswamped farmland as planting season approaches;three people died; roads and bridges closed, includingsections of major highways like U.S. 61 in Iowa andMissouri and crossings at Quincy, Ill., and Louisiana, Mo.

The U.S. Coast Guard said 114 barges broke loose nearSt. Louis on Saturday night, and four hit the JeffersonBarracks Bridge in St. Louis County. The bridge wasclosed about six hours for inspection but reopenedaround 8 a.m. Sunday. Most of the runaway barges werecorralled but at least 10 sank and two others were unac-

counted for, Coast Guard Lt. Colin Fogarty said.

Two of the confirmed flood-related deaths occurred nearthe same spot in Indiana; another was in Missouri. In allthree cases, vehicles were swept off the road in flashfloods. High water could be responsible for two more,both in Illinois, where a decomposed body was foundThursday in an Oak Brook creek and a body was foundSaturday in the Mississippi River at Cora. Investigationscontinue.

And the danger is far from over, as spots south of St.Louis aren't expected to crest until late this week.Significant flooding is possible in places like Ste.Genevieve, Mo., Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Cairo, Ill.

Adding to concern is a forecast that calls for heavy rainMonday night and Tuesday throughout much of theMidwest. National Weather Service meteorologist JuliePhillipson said an inch of rain is likely in many places,some places even more. Rain is projected fromWisconsin through Missouri.

"That's not what we want to see when we have this kindof flooding, that's for sure," Phillipson said.

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JERUSALEM (AP) -- U.S.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagelheld out hope Sunday for a nonmil-itary way to ending the threat of anuclear-armed Iran, but he alsoemphasized Washington's willing-ness to let Israel decide whetherand when it might strike Tehran inself-defense.

Hagel, on his first visit toIsrael as Pentagon chief, seemedintent on burying the image thatRepublican critics painted of himas insufficiently supportive of theJewish state. That portrayal wascentral to a failed campaign toderail Hagel's Senate confirmationin February.

In an interview with reporters on his flight fromWashington, Hagel said the United States and Israel see "exact-ly the same" threat from Iran, which he described as a toxiccombination of nuclear ambition and support for terrorism.

But he acknowledged differences on when it may reach thepoint of requiring U.S. or Israeli military action.

Hagel stressed repeatedly that Israel has a sovereign rightto decide for itself whether it must attack Iran. He made no men-tion of the possibility that an Israeli attack would draw the U.S.into the conflict and lead to a wider regional war.

"Israel will make the decision that Israel must make to pro-tect itself, to defend itself," Hagel said as he began a weeklongtour of the Middle East.

Also Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was inIstanbul, where he urged Turkey to speed up and cement anAmerican-brokered rapprochement with Israel. On a trip toIsrael last month, President Barack Obama secured a pledgefrom Turkish and Israeli leaders to normalize ties that brokedown after a 2010 Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

Hagel said international penalties are taking a heavy toll onIran, though he said no one can be sure that economic coercionwill compel Iran to change course.

Referring to sanctions and diplomacy, Hagel said, "theseother tracks do have some time to continue to try to influencethe outcome in Iran."

Hagel acknowledged that while Israel and the U.S. share acommitment to ensuring that Iran does not acquire a nuclearweapon, there "may well be some differences" between the twoallies on the question of when Iran's leaders might decide to gofor a bomb.

"When you back down into the specifics of the timing ofwhen and if Iran decides to pursue a nuclear weapon, there maywell be some differences," he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tends to seemore urgency, reflecting in part the fact that certain Iranian tech-nological advances toward a nuclear weapon could put the pro-gram beyond the ability of the Israeli military to destroy it withairstrikes. U.S. forces have greater reach.

Hagel's first order of business upon arrival in Jerusalemwas a guided tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust history muse-um. He participated in a ceremony at the Hall of Remembranceand wrote an inscription in the guest book at a memorial for the1.5 million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust.

"There is no more poignant, more touching, more effectiveway to tell the story than this reality, as painful as it is, but it isa reality," he said after completing his visit. "It did happen, andwe must prepare our future generations ... for a clear under-standing that we must never allow this to happen again."

In his remarks while en route to Israel, Hagel repeatedly

emphasized Israel's right of self-defense and stressed that militaryforce - by implication, Israeli orAmerican - remains an option oflast resort.

"In dealing with Iran, everyoption must be on the table," hesaid.

During his two-day visit toIsrael, Hagel was expected to fur-ther discuss a U.S. arms deal thatwould provide Israel with missilesfor its fighter aircraft, plus KC-135refueling planes that could be usedin a long-range strike on a countrysuch as Iran, as well as V-22 Ospreytransport planes. He called the pro-posed sale a "very clear signal" to

Iran.

"The bottom line is, Iran is a threat - a real threat," he said.

Iran asserts that its nuclear program is designed entirely fornonmilitary purposes.

Yiftah Shapir, a military analyst at the Institute for NationalSecurity Studies think tank in Tel Aviv, said Hagel appearedeager to present a steady-as-she-goes attitude following hisSenate confirmation battle.

"He's here to say, `Folks, nothing has changed. We are stillwith you,'" Shapir said. "The goal is to deliver a relaxing mes-sage and to project business as usual."

Hagel suggested he holds hope that Iran's presidential elec-tion in June might change the trajectory of its nuclear drive.

After his talks in Israel, Hagel planned stops in Jordan,Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Each is animportant American ally in the Middle East, and each is worriedby Syria's civil war.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are part of a $10 billion pro-posed U.S. arms sale that includes Israel. The UAE would getabout 26 F-16 fighters and it and Saudi Arabia would getadvanced air-launched missiles.

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ROME (AP) -- A day after Italy's president was re-elected to an unprecedented second term, the leaderof an anti-establishment movement says citizens'patience with traditional parties is wearing thin.

Beppe Grillo, a comic who heads the Five StarMovement, has dismissed President GiorgioNapolitano's re-election as a bid by doomed partiesto hang onto power.

Grillo, whose party is the No. 3 bloc in Parliament,predicted in Rome on Sunday that traditional partieswould "last a year."

The mainstream blocs are still bickering over how toform the next government two months after inconclu-sive national elections. Napolitano was re-electedSaturday after Parliament's mainstream parties could-n't agree on a new personality. Napolitano could tapsomeone to try to form a governing coalition thisweek.

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their 11-week-old daughter, Alexandria in a stroller when theystopped along Newbury Street, a block from the bombing site, towatch investigators in white jumpsuits scour the pavement.Wearing his bright blue marathon jacket, Dan Arone said he hadcrossed the finish line 40 minutes before the explosions.

The Waltham, Mass., couple visited the area to leave behindpairs of their running shoes among the bouquets of flowers, hand-written signs and other gifts at a makeshift memorial on BoylstonStreet, near the police barriers.

"I thought maybe we'd somehow get some closure," DanArone said of leaving behind the sneakers. "But I don't feel any clo-sure yet."

At Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, surgeons said theBoston transit police officer wounded in a shootout with the sus-pects had lost nearly all his blood, and his heart had stopped froma single gunshot wound that severed three major blood vessels inhis right thigh.

Richard Donohue, 33, was in critical but stable condition. Heis sedated and on a breathing machine but opened his eyes,moved his hands and feet and squeezed his wife's hand Sunday.

In New York, thousands of runners donned "I Run for Boston"bibs during a 4-mile run in Central Park, one of a number of racesheld around the world in support of the victims of the marathonbombings.

Thousands of runners in the London marathon offered theirown tributes to Boston's dead and wounded. The race began aftera moment of silence for the victims, and many competitors woreblack armbands as a sign of solidarity. Two runners finished carry-ing a banner that read "For Boston."

which denies it is facing a popular uprising, describes therevolt as a foreign-backed plot and calls those trying totopple it "terrorists."

Lebanon's state-run news agency reported two shellsfired from Syria landed Sunday in the border town ofHermel, causing material damage but no casualties. Aday earlier, two mortar rounds landed in the town for thefirst time, marking an escalation in violence along thealready tense frontier.

Inside Syria, the Observatory said it had documented thenames of 80 people, including three children and sixwomen, who were killed in the past five days in the areasof Jdaidet Artouz and Jdaidet al-Fadel west ofDamascus.

One amateur video posted online showed seven bodies,some shot in the face, placed in black body bags on theground. The videos appeared genuine and correspondedto other Associated Press reporting of the events depict-ed.

The U.S. has long called for Assad to leave power, butfor months did not play an active role in backing therebellion. Recently, however, Washington has grownmore assertive, helping cobble together the Syrian

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, Turkish ForeignMinister Ahmet Davutoglu, center, and Syrian oppositionleader Moaz al-Khatib pose for photos after a "Friends ofSyria" group meeting at the Adile Sultan Palace onSunday, April 21, 2013, in Istanbul, Turkey. The UnitedStates said Sunday that it will double its non-lethal assis-tance to Syria's opposition as the rebels' top supportersvowed to enhance and expand their backing of the two-year battle to oust President Bashar Assad's regime

National Coalition late last year in the hopes that it couldunite the deeply divided opposition and provide a conduitfor aid to rebels on the ground.

At a conference on Saturday in Istanbul that broughttogether the opposition leadership and its chief interna-tional supporters, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerryannounced that the Obama administration would doubleits non-lethal assistance to the Syrian opposition with anadditional $123 million in supplies. That could include forthe first time armored vehicles, body armor, night visiongoggles and other defensive military supplies, officialssaid.

The additional aid brings total non-lethal U.S. assistanceto the opposition to $250 million since the fighting beganmore than two years ago. Washington has refused so farto provide weapons to Syria's rebels out of fears theycould fall in the hands of extremists.

The U.S. pledge was the only tangible, public offer ofnew international support at the meeting of the foreignministers of the 11 main countries supporting the opposi-tion and fell well short of what the opposition has beenappealing for: weapons and direct military intervention tostop the violence that has killed more than 70,000 peo-ple.

"I can't tell you how quickly it will change things on theground," Kerry said Sunday. "I can promise you that assoon as I return to Washington, I am going to press ashard as I can" to get it to the opposition within a matterof weeks. "This has to happen quickly, it has to have animpact," he said.

The Syrian National Coalition is seeking drone strikes onsites from which the regime has fired missiles, the impo-sition of no-fly zones and protected humanitarian corri-dors to ensure the safety of civilians.

On Sunday, Coalition president Mouaz al-Khatib submit-ted his resignation, according to a statement on the orga-nization's Facebook page. The Coalition said it wouldtake up the matter at its next meeting, without providinga date.

Al-Khatib, a respected Muslim preacher seen as a unit-ing figure and moderate, tried to quit his post in March,citing frustration over what he called a lack of internation-al support and constraints imposed on the body itself.The Coalition rejected his resignation then, and heagreed to stay on until his six-month terms ends in May.

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BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian opposition called onHezbollah to withdraw its fighters from the country, asactivists said regime troops supported by gunmen linkedto the Lebanese Shiite militant group battled rebelsSunday for control of a string of villages near theLebanon-Syria border.

Outside the capital, Damascus, activists said they haddocumented the names of 80 people killed in a govern-ment assault on the area over the past five days.

The Syrian National Coalition - the main Western-backedopposition group - warned that Hezbollah involvement inSyria's civil war could lead to greater risks in the area,and urged the Lebanese government to "adopt the nec-essary measures to stop the aggression of Hezbollah"and to control the border to "protect civilians in the area."

The statement, posted on the Coalition's Facebook page,coincided with a surge in fighting around the contestedtown of Qusair in Syria's Homs province near the frontierwith Lebanon.

Over the past two weeks, the Syrian military, supportedby a Hezbollah-backed militia, has pushed to regain con-trol of the border area. The region is strategic because itlinks Damascus with the Mediterranean coastal enclavethat is the heartland of President Bashar Assad's Alawitesect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

The fighting also points to the sectarian nature of theSyrian conflict, which pits a government dominated bythe president's Alawite minority against a primarily SunniMuslim rebellion, and underscores widely held fears thatthe civil war could drag in neighboring states.

The pro-regime gunmen are members of the PopularCommittees, which were set up last year in Syria withHezbollah's backing to protect Syrian villages inhabitedby Lebanese Shiites, although rebels accuse the fightersof attacking opposition villages in the area and fightingalongside government forces.

While Hezbollah confirms backing the PopularCommittees, it denies taking part in Syria's civil war.

The fighting along the border region has flared in recentweeks, and on Saturday government forces captured thevillages of Radwaniyeh and Tel al-Nabi Mando. OnSunday, regime forces shelled the villages of Abu Houri,Saqarigh, Nahriyeh and Ein al-Tanour in the Qusairregion, according to the Britain-based SyrianObservatory for Human Rights activist group. It said atleast four rebels were killed in the fighting.

Syrian state television said the army was trying to"uproot all the terrorists from the area." The government,

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has arange of legal options in the Boston Marathon bombings,and they could include seeking the death penalty againstthe 19-year-old suspect in the case.

The administration has indicated it intends to move quick-ly to build a criminal case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Butinvestigators plan to first question him without informinghim of his legal rights to remain silent and have an attor-ney present.

Several Republican lawmakers on Saturday criticized theadministration's approach because they said it wouldafford Tsarnaev more rights than he deserves. The feder-al public defender for Massachusetts called for the quickappointment of a lawyer to represent Tsarnaev becauseof serious issues involving his interrogation in theabsence of a lawyer.

Prosecution of Tsarnaev in federal court would seem anatural course for an administration that previously won alife sentence against Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ofNigeria for trying to blow up a packed jetliner using abomb sewn into his underwear on Christmas Day 2009.

The administration also will put Osama bin Laden's son-in-law on trial in January on charges that he conspired tokill Americans in his role as al-Qaida's chief spokesman.

As a U.S. citizen, Tsarnaev could not be tried by a militarycommission under current law; the only option for prose-cuting an American is in civilian courts. A federal officialwith knowledge of the case said Tsarnaev was natural-ized as a U.S. citizen in September 2012. The official wasnot authorized to speak publicly about details of the caseand requested anonymity.

Tsarnaev was under armed guard at a Boston hospitaland was reported in serious condition and unable to beinterrogated Saturday. He has yet to be charged but pros-ecutors appear to have no shortage of federal laws attheir disposal.

The most serious charge would be the use of a weaponof mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possi-ble death sentence. Three people died in the twin explo-sions in Boston and more than 180 were injured.

Massachusetts does not have the death penalty, and itremains to be seen whether the administration would tryto persuade a jury to sentence Tsarnaev to death. Thestate could try to bring charges against him, including forthe death of Sean Collier, the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology police officer who authorities say was killedby Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan.

An early question that arose after Tsarnaev's capture on

Investigators work near the location where the previous night asuspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was arrested,Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. Police capturedDzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving Boston Marathon bombingsuspect, in a backyard boat after a wild car chase and gun battleearlier in the day left his older brother dead

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must submit a long form crash report when investigating:• Motor vehicle crashes resulting in death or personal injury, or• Motor vehicle crashes in which one or more of the following conditions

occur:• Leaving the scene involving damage to an attended vehicle or property

(Section316.061 (1), F.S.), or• Driving while under the influence of alcoholic beverages, chemical sub-

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People - China's symbolic heart of political power. "Thatwas pretty remarkable to listen to," Schwarzman said."That was pretty awesome."

Vice Premier Liu Yandong attended the announcementand gave a speech.

The announcement also was the top news on state-runChina Central Television's evening newscast, which istypically reserved for the activities of China's top leaders.

The program's advisory board includes former worldleaders such as France's Nicolas Sarkozy, Britain's TonyBlair, Canada's Brian Mulroney and Australia's KevinRudd. Former U.S. secretaries of state Henry Kissinger,Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice are also on theboard, as is renowned cellist Yo-yo Ma.

"The board shares my belief that fostering connectionsbetween Chinese students, American students and stu-dents from around the world is a critical aspect of ensur-ing geopolitical stability now, and into the future,"Schwarzman said.

He said the program would be jointly governed by theSchwarzman Education Foundation and TsinghuaUniversity on matters including curriculum and faculty.

Schwarzman said he believes the program will enjoyacademic freedom like any other Western educationalinstitute and that he understands no topic will be off limitsin the classrooms at the Schwarzman College, home tothe program, to be built on the Tsinghua campus.

Many international corporations already have signed onas donors to the program, including BP, Bank of AmericaMerrill Lynch, Boeing, GE, JPMorgan Chase, BloombergPhilanthropies, Caterpillar, Credit Suisse and Deloitte.International companies often give charitable gifts to cul-tivate ties with potential future leaders.

Tsinghua traces its roots to 1911, when the United Statesused the indemnity money paid by the Chinese govern-ment after an anti-foreigner rebellion to establish apreparatory school for students later sent to study inAmerica.

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BEIJING (AP) -- A U.S. private equity tycoon announcedSunday the establishment of a $300 million endowedscholarship program in China for students from aroundthe world, and billed it as a rival to the prestigiousRhodes Scholarship.

Stephen A. Schwarzman, founder of the private equityfirm Blackstone, said he would give $100 million as apersonal gift and raise another $200 million to endow theSchwarzman Scholars program at Beijing's TsinghuaUniversity. It will be the largest philanthropic gift with for-eign money in China's history, according to the tycoonand the university.

The Wall Street mogul said China's rapid economicgrowth and rising global influence would define the 21stcentury, as U.S. ties to Europe did to the 20th century -when the Rhodes Scholarship was created at OxfordUniversity with the goal of producing outstanding leaders.

"China is no longer an elective course, it's core curricu-lum," he said in Beijing.

By partnering with the prestigious Chinese university,Schwarzman said he hoped the educational programwould train future world leaders and play a positive rolein relations between China and the United States.

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Harley-Davidson riders and bicyclists zipped throughGrafton, Ill., a tourist town 40 miles north of St. Louis,many pausing to snap pictures of the swollen river.

Floodwaters were lapping against the side of Grafton'sArtisan Village, a flea market-type business for artists.Owner Marty Harp, 53, sipped a Miller Lite as he cast awary eye to the sky.

"If we can hold off the crest and it doesn't rain for a cou-ple of days, it'll be OK," Harp said.

But anxiety looms regarding the heavy snow the northernMidwest has received this month and what happenswhen it melts and makes its way into tributaries of theMissouri and Mississippi rivers. Forecasters said up to 6inches of new snow was possible in the Black Hills areaof South Dakota through Monday morning.

Hundreds of miles to the southeast, in La Grange, Mo.,Lewis County emergency management director DavidKeith wasn't bothered by the soggy forecast. Sandbagswere holding back the murky Mississippi from La GrangeCity Hall, a bank and a handful of threatened homes.The water was receding.

"What we're worried about now is all that snow melt inNorth and South Dakota and Minnesota," Keith said.

AccuWeather meteorologist Alan Reppert said the timingof the snow melt could prove lucky: It may stay cold longenough up north to make for a gradual melt, giving therivers time to thin out. Of greater concern, he said, is theRed River in North Dakota, which could see significantflooding in the coming weeks.

Along the Mississippi, a handful of river towns are mostaffected by the high waters - places like Clarksville, Mo.,and Grafton that have chosen against flood walls or lev-ees.

By Sunday, sandbagging had all but stopped inClarksville, evidence of the confidence that the makeshiftsandbag levee hurriedly erected to protect downtownwould hold. Volunteers, including nearly three dozenprison inmates, worked since Wednesday, using 6,000tons of sand and gravel.

The river was at 34.7 feet Sunday, nearly 10 feet abovethe 25-foot flood stage - a somewhat arbitrary term theNWS defines as the point when "water surface levelbegins to create a hazard to lives, property or com-merce" - and expected to rise another foot before crest-ing Monday.

"We believe we'll have a successful conclusion," said JoAnne Smiley, longtime mayor of the 442-resident hamlet.

Richard Cottrell, a 64-year-old antique shop owner, washopeful, but nervous. After two days of endless sandbag-ging, Cottrell thought he could rest Saturday night, butthe constant beeping of heavy equipment outside andflood worries kept him up.

"I had a rough night last night. I had an anxiety attack,"

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"For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, weneed to build a culture of greater trust and understandingbetween China, America and the rest of the world," hesaid.

Tsinghua - known for its engineering programs but in themidst of transforming itself to be more comprehensive inacademic offerings - also has produced many of China'ssenior leaders, who have traditionally been technocrats.It is the alma mater for both President Xi Jinping and for-mer President Hu Jintao.

The $300 million endowment will allow 200 studentseach year to take part in a one-year master's program atTsinghua - all expenses paid - in public policy, economicsand business, international relations or engineering,beginning in 2016. Schwarzman said 45 percent of thestudents would come from the United States, 20 percentfrom China and the rest from other parts of the world.

Already, $100 million has been raised in the last sixmonths from private donors, Schwarzman said.

Both President Barack Obama and Chinese President XiJinping sent congratulatory letters, which were read outloud at the announcement ceremony at the Great Hall of

Throughout Friday, Obama aides watched coverage of themanhunt on Boston television stations being specially broad-cast throughout the White House. When the searchappeared to stall, the president retreated to the residence,but returned quickly to the Oval Office when news reportsshowed authorities closing in on 19-year-old DzhokharTsarnaev.

Shortly before 9 p.m., FBI Director Robert Mueller relayednews of his capture to Obama counterterrorism adviser LisaMonaco.

"They have him in custody, it is white hat," Monaco quicklywrote in an email to the president's chief of staff DenisMcDonough, describing the hat the younger Tsarnaev waswearing in photos released by the FBI.

Just one day earlier, Obama had been in Boston to speak atan interfaith service for the three people killed and more than180 others injured in the blasts at the marathon's finish line.

Obama balanced sorrow with resolve as he sought to con-sole the grieving city. He said Boston would "run again" andpledged to bring the "small, stunted individuals" responsiblefor the bombings to justice.

His words won him rare praise from some Republicans,including former presidential rival Mitt Romney.

"I thought the president gave a superb address to the peopleof this city and the state and the nation," said Romney, a for-mer Massachusetts governor who attended the interfaithservice.

Previous terrorist attacks in the U.S. have turned into keyleadership moments for the men who occupied the OvalOffice directly before Obama.

For President Bill Clinton, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombingproved an opportunity to regain stature after his party's elec-tion defeats. For President George W. Bush, the events ofSept. 11, 2001, were a chance for the country to rally arounda president elected under controversial circumstances.

Obama's address in Boston was his second emotionalappeal of the week.

On Wednesday, he stood stone-faced in the White HouseRose Garden after the Senate struck down the gun control

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E M O T I O N A L W E E K measures he pressed for following the December massacreof school children in Newtown, Conn.

Flanked by the families of the Newtown victims, Obama lethis anger show. He accused senators, including some fellowDemocrats, of giving into their fear of the National RifleAssociation and called the vote a "shameful day forWashington."

The White House, as it looks to restore order after a hecticweek, has promised to keep fighting for stricter gun laws. ButObama's path forward is uncertain. Senate Majority LeaderHarry Reid, D-Nev., has shelved the issue indefinitely andObama almost certainly won't spend much political capitalgetting them to do so.

Instead, the president probably will focus acutely on immi-gration. The long-anticipated release of a bipartisan Senategroup's draft bill was largely overshadowed by other events.

Unlike his push on guns, Obama's immigration efforts have aclearer path to passage. The growing political power ofHispanic voters, who overwhelmingly sided with Obama inthe November election, has led some Republicans to droptheir opposition to an immigration bill that could grant citi-zenship to millions of people living in the U.S. illegally.

Still, obstacles remain, a reality underscored when authori-ties disclosed that the suspects in the Boston bombings wereimmigrants. While there was no evidence that the menentered the U.S. illegally, some Republicans seized on theevents in Boston to raise questions about the existing immi-gration system and the proposed changes.

Despite the administration's desire to move on, former WhiteHouse press secretary Ari Fleischer said "the smartest thingthe White House can do is pause."

"Events are swirling furiously and they need to give it timeand space to let the events settle," said Fleischer, whoserved in the White House during the Sept. 11 and anthraxattacks.

Putting on the brakes could prove difficult for the ObamaWhite House, which began the year with a bold domesticagenda.

Aides know this year is their best chance of getting legisla-tion through a divided Congress, before lawmakers turn theirattention to the 2014 elections, then the race to replaceObama.

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P A R E N T S O F B O S T O N S U S P E C TD E S C R I B E H I S R U S S I A T R I PMAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) -- The parents of TamerlanTsarnaev insisted Sunday that he came to Dagestan andChechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do withthe militants operating in the volatile part of Russia, with hisfather saying he slept a lot of the time. But the Boston bombingsuspect couldn't have been immune to the attacks that savagedthe region during his six-month stay.

Investigators are now focusing on the trip that Tsarnaev made toRussia in January 2012 that has raised many questions. Hisfather said his son stayed with him in Makhachkala, the capitalof Dagestan, where the family lived briefly before moving to theU.S. a decade ago. The father had only recently returned.

"He was here, with me in Makhachkala," Anzor Tsarnaev toldThe Associated Press in a telephone interview. "He slept until 3p.m., and you know, I would ask him: `Have you come here tosleep?' He used to go visiting, here and there. He would go toeat somewhere. Then he would come back and go to bed."

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his 19-year-old brother, DzhokharTsarnaev - both ethnic Chechens - are accused of setting off thetwo bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April15 that killed three people and wounded more than 180 others.Three days later, Tamerlan died in a shootout with police, whilehis brother was later captured alive but wounded.

No evidence has emerged since to link Tamerlan Tsarnaev tomilitant groups in Russia's Caucasus. On Sunday, the CaucasusEmirate, which Russia and the U.S. consider a terrorist organi-zation, denied involvement in the Boston attack.

A woman who works in a small shop opposite Tsarnaev's apart-ment building said she only saw his son during the course ofone month last summer. She described him as a dandy.

"He dressed in a very refined way," Madina Abdullaeva said."His boots were the same color as his clothes. They were sum-mer boots, light, with little holes punched in the leather."

Anzor Tsarnaev said they also traveled to neighboringChechnya.

"He went with me twice, to see my uncles and aunts. I have lotsof them," the father said.

He said they also visited one of his daughters, who lives in theChechen town of Urus-Martan with her husband. His son-in-law's brothers all work in the police force under Chechen leaderRamzan Kadyrov, he said.

Moscow has given Kadyrov a free hand to stabilize Chechnyafollowing two wars between federal troops and Chechen sepa-ratists beginning in 1994, and his feared police and securityforces have been accused of rampant rights abuses.

What began in Chechnya as a fight for independence has mor-phed into an Islamic insurgency that has spread throughoutRussia's Caucasus, with the worst of the violence now inDagestan.

In February, 2012, shortly after Tamerlan Tsarnaev's arrival inDagestan, a four-day operation to wipe out several militantbands in Chechnya and Dagestan left 17 police and at least 20militants dead. In May, two car bombs shook Makhachkala,killing at least 13 people and wounding about 130 more. Otherbombings and shootings targeting police and other officials tookplace nearly daily.

The Caucasus Emirate said Sunday that its mujahedin are notfighting with the U.S.

"We are at war with Russia, which is not only responsible for theoccupation of the Caucasus, but also for heinous crimes againstMuslims," it said in a statement on the Kavkaz Center website.

The group suggested that Russia's secret services would havehad a greater interest in carrying out the attack in Boston.

Despite the violence in Dagestan, Anzor Tsarnaev said Sundaythat his son did not want to leave and had thoughts on how he

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could go into business. But the father said he encouraged himto go back to the U.S. and try to get citizenship. TamerlanTsarnaev returned to the U.S. in July.

His mother said that he was questioned upon arrival at NewYork's airport.

"And he told me on the phone, `imagine, mama, they were ask-ing me such interesting questions as if I were some strange andscary man: Where did you go? What did you do there?'"Zubeidat Tsarnaeva recalled her son telling her at the time.

When the two ethnic Chechen suspects were identified, the FBIsaid it reviewed its records and found that in early 2011, a for-eign government - which law enforcement officials confirmedwas Russia - had asked for information about TamerlanTsarnaev. The FBI said it was told that Tsarnaev was a "followerof radical Islam" and was preparing to travel to this foreigncountry to join unspecified underground groups.

The FBI said that it responded by interviewing Tsarnaev andfamily members, but found no terrorism activity.

Both parents insist that the FBI continued to monitor TamerlanTsarnaev and that both of their sons were set up.

Their mother went so far on Sunday to claim that the FBI hadcontacted her elder son after the deadly bombs exploded at themarathon. If true, it would be the first indication that the FBI con-sidered him a suspect before Boston descended into violenceon Thursday.

The FBI declined to comment publicly Sunday.

The mother's claim could not be independently confirmed, andshe has made statements in the past that appeared to show alack of full understanding of what occurred in Boston.

Investigators released photos and video of the two Tsarnaevbrothers on Thursday afternoon, but at that point their identitieswere not known. By late that night, Tamerlan Tsarnaev wasdead.

Tsarnaeva said her elder son told her by telephone that the FBIhad called to inform him that they considered him a suspect andhe should come in for questioning.

She said her son refused. "I told them, what do you suspect meof?" Tsarnaeva quoted her son as saying. "This is your problemand if you need me you should come to where I am."

He then told her he was going to drive his younger brother tothe university, she said, speaking by telephone from Chechnya.Tsarnaeva claimed that her son later called his wife to tell herthey were being chased and fired upon.

This combination of undated file photos shows Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26,left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. The FBI says the two brothers are thesuspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, and are also responsible forkilling an MIT police officer, critically injuring a transit officer in a firefightand throwing explosive devices at police during a getaway attempt in along night of violence that left Tamerlan dead and Dzhokhar captured,late Friday, April 19, 2013. The ethnic Chechen brothers lived inDagestan, which borders the Chechnya region in southern Russia. Theylived near Boston and had been in the U.S. for about a decade, one oftheir uncles reported said. Since Monday, Boston has experienced fivedays of fear, beginning with the marathon bombing attack, an intensemanhunt and much uncertainty ending in the death of one suspect andthe capture of the other

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Friday was how to conduct his initial interrogation.The administration said it would not immediately informhim of legal protections known as the Miranda rights.Instead, prosecutors planned to invoke a public safetyexception created by the need to protect police and thepublic from immediate danger.

The American Civil Liberties Union's executive director,Anthony Romero, said the exception applies only whenthere's a continued threat to public safety, like whetherthere is imminent danger from other bombs, and is "notan open-ended exception" to the Miranda rule.

The federal public defender for Massachusetts, MiriamConrad, said her office expects to represent Tsarnaevafter he is charged and that he needs a lawyer appointedas soon as possible because there are "serious issuesregarding possible interrogation."

But several congressional Republicans said Tsarnaev'srights should be even more restricted than the administra-tion intends.

"I am disappointed that it appears this administration isonce again relying on Miranda's public safety exception togather intelligence which only allows at best a 48-hourwaiting period that may expire since the suspect hasbeen critically wounded," Sen. Saxby Chambliss ofGeorgia, the top Republican on the Senate IntelligenceCommittee, said in a statement hours after Tsarnaev wascaptured.

Chambliss' concerns were echoed by Sens. JohnMcCain, R-Ariz., Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., and LindseyGraham, R-S.C., as well as Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.

"A decision to not read Miranda rights to the suspect wassound and in our national security interests," the four saidin a statement. "However, we have concerns that limitingthis investigation to 48 hours and exclusively relying onthe public safety exception to Miranda, could very well bea national security mistake. It could severely limit our abil-ity to gather critical information about future attacks fromthis suspect."

But Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a former federal prosecu-tor and member of the House Intelligence Committee,said the administration should ignore "hasty calls to treatthe suspect as an enemy combatant."

"This is not a foreign national caught on an enemy battle-field, but an American citizen arrested on American soil,"Schiff said. "The Justice Department has demonstrated afar greater ability to successfully prosecute suspected ter-rorists in federal courts than the military commissionshave thus far been able to show. Nothing must be doneto compromise the public safety, the ability of prosecutorsto seek justice for the victims or our constitutional princi-ples."

While the Republicans asserted that Tsarnaev can beheld as an enemy combatant, the Supreme Court hasnever resolved whether citizens or foreign nationalsarrested on U.S. soil can be held by the military, asopposed to civilian authorities.

The court twice was prepared to take up that question inrecent years, once while George W. Bush was presidentand once since Barack Obama became took office. Bothtimes, the administration moved the suspected terrorists,U.S. citizen Jose Padilla and graduate student Ali al-Marri, from a military brig to civilian confinement to headoff the high court case.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- While world finance leaders say the global econo-my has improved slightly this year, they said the outlook for the futurewas uneven with growth and job creation still too weak.

The policy-setting committee for the 188-nation International MonetaryFund said governments need to act decisively to nurture a lasting recov-ery and restore the resiliency of the global economy.

But the major economies could not reach a consensus on what policiesto follow as they move forward.

"The commodity that is in shortest supply now is confidence," TharmanShanmugaratnam, the chairman of the IMF panel and Singapore'sfinance minister told reporters. "We need to regenerate optimism andconfidence."

The World Bank announced that its steering committee had approved aproposal to establish the goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030.The bank defines this condition as living on less than $1.25 a day. Thebank estimates there are 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty,mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia.

A spokeswoman for Oxfam , the anti-poverty group, Emma Seery, saidwhile the World Bank target was welcome "we are concerned that it willduck the tough choices needed to reach it."

The weekend began with two days of discussions among finance leadersof the Group of 20 nations, composed of major economies such as theUnited States, Germany and Japan and fast-growing developing nationslike China, Brazil and India. The meetings of the IMF and its sister lend-ing institution, The World Bank, followed.

The finance ministers tried to show they were cooperating even thoughthey did not resolve differences that surfaced after an initially flawedbailout of Cyprus in March. The banking troubles on the Mediterraneanisland renewed fears that a prolonged European debt crisis still posedrisks to the global economy.

The U.S. urged European nations to scale back their austerity programsof spending cuts and tax increases in favor of more stimulus to boostgrowth and combat high unemployment in countries such as Spain andGreece.

But the push was met with resistance from Germany and Britain, whichbelieve heavily indebted European nations must reduce their debts togive markets confidence and keep government borrowing costs low. Inthe end, the financial leaders sought to bridge the difference by issuingeconomic blueprints that left room for both the growth and austeritycamps to claim victory.

The G-20 nations did reject proposals to issue hard targets for reducingbudget deficits, a victory for the United States and Japan, which hadargued for more flexibility.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- A solar-powered

plane that has wowed aviation fans in Europe took

to the skies Friday over the San Francisco Bay area

in a successful test flight.

Considered the world's most advanced sun-powered

plane, the Solar Impulse took off from Moffett Field

in Mountain View at first light for a two-hour practice

run in advance of a planned multi-city, cross-country

tour.

"That's a mythical step in aviation," André

Borschberg, one of the plane's pilots and creators,

said about flying cross-country. "We are something

like between 1915 and 1920, compared to traditional

aviation, when pioneers tried these non-stop flights."

He said a flight around the world could occur in two

years.

The Solar Impulse is powered by about 12,000 pho-

tovoltaic cells that cover massive wings and charge

its batteries, allowing it to fly day and night without

jet fuel. It has the wing span of a commercial air-

plane but the weight of the average family car, mak-

ing it vulnerable to bad weather.

Its creators say the Solar Impulse is designed to

showcase the potential of solar power and will never

replace fuel-powered commercial flights. The deli-

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cate, single-seat plane cruises around 40 mph and

can't fly through clouds.

Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse co-

founder and chairman, said the plane should be

ready for the cross-country journey on May 1,

depending on the weather.

"We like nice weather. We like sunny days,"

Borschberg said.

Stops are planned in Phoenix, Dallas, Washington,

D.C., and New York. Each flight leg will take 20 to

25 hours, with 10-day stops in each city.

Between Dallas and Washington, the plane will also

stop at one of three other cities - Atlanta, Nashville

or St. Louis.

Borschberg said the plane's creators are close to

being able to launch the non-stop flights needed to

go around the world.

Using solar power, "we are close to the notion of

perpetual flight," he said.

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The Solar Impulse is seen after landing from a test flight at MoffettField NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.,Friday, April 19, 2013. A solar-powered plane that has wowed avi-ation fans in Europe is set to take an early morning test flight overthe San Francisco Bay area. Considered the world's mostadvanced sun-powered plane, the Solar Impulse is set to take offfrom Moffett Field in Mountain View at first light for a two-hourpractice run leading up to the start of a multi-city, cross-countrytour

WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA's planet-hunting telescopehas discovered two planets that seem like ideal placesfor some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the rightsize and in just the right place.

One is toasty, the other nippy.

The distant duo are the best candidates for habitableplanets that astronomers have found so far, said WilliamBorucki, the chief scientist for NASA's Kepler telescope.And it's got astronomers thinking that similar planets thatare just about right for life - "Goldilocks planets" - mightbe common in the universe.

The discoveries, published online Thursday in the journalScience, mark a milestone in the search for planetswhere life could exist. In the four years that Kepler hasbeen trailing Earth's orbit, the telescope has found 122exoplanets - planets outside our solar system.

In the past, those planets haven't fit all the criteria thatwould make them right for life of any kind from microbesto man.

Many planets aren't in the habitable zone - where it's nottoo hot and not too cold for liquid water. And until now,the few found in that ideal zone, were just too big. Thoseare likely to be gas balls like Neptune and that's not suit-able for life.

Similarly, any Earth-size planets weren't in the right placenear their stars, Borucki said.

In the Goldilocks game of looking for other planets likeours, the new discoveries, called Kepler-62-e andKepler-62-f are just right. And they are fraternal twins.They circle the same star, an orange dwarf, and are nextto each other - closer together than Earth and its neigh-bor Mars.

The planets are slightly wider than Earth, but not too big.Kepler-62-e is a bit balmy, like a Hawaiian world andKepler-62-f is a bit frosty, more Alaskan, Borucki said.

The pair is 1,200 light-years away; a light-year is almost6 trillion miles.

"This is the first one where I'm thinking `Huh, Kepler-62-freally might have life on it'," said study co-author DavidCharbonneau of Harvard. "This is a very important barri-er that's been crossed. Why wouldn't it have life?"

To make it warm enough for life the planet would needgreenhouse gas trapping its star's heat because the staronly gives off one-fifth the energy of our sun, but that'ssomething that is likely to happen, Borucki said.

Both planets are tantalizing. The dozens of researcherswho co-authored the study disagree on which one is bet-ter suited to life. Lisa Kaltenegger of the Max PlanckInstitute of Astronomy in Germany likes Kepler-62-emore because it's closer to the star and is warmer. Shesaid it is probably "like Washington in May."

That planet is so close it may need clouds to cool off andit's more likely to be an all-water world, unlike any otherin our solar system, Kaltenegger said. Astronomers can-not confirm that either planet has water, but based onother research, it's a good assumption, she said.

The planets circle a star that is 7 billion years old - about2.5 billion years older than our sun. Kepler spots theplanets as they go between Earth and their star ever soslightly, reducing the light from the star.

This undated handout artist concept provided by HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows the newly discoveredplanets named Kepler-62e and -f. Scientists using NASA's Keplertelescope have found two distant planets that are in the rightplace and are the right size for potential life. This handout imagefrom Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows anartist concept of what these two planets, called Kepler-62-e andKepler-62-f look like. The larger planet in the left corner is some-what covered by ice and is f, which is farther from the star. Theplanet below it is e, which is slightly warmer and has clouds andmay be a water world.

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"If there's life at all on those planets, it must be veryadvanced" evolutionarily because the planets are so old,said Borucki.

On a watery planet, oceans are prime spots for life,including flying fish that could evolve into birds, Boruckisaid. And on the rocky planet, with a heavier gravity thanEarth, life might look a tad different, he said.

In another study also published by some of the sameauthors in Astrophysical Journal, the astronomers founda different set of planets that are slightly bigger, but prob-ably not gas giants, and circle a star that more resem-bles our sun. One of those planets is on edge of the hab-itable zone - maybe in, maybe out - and could be consid-ered a potential third good place for a habitable zone,said Thomas Barclay of NASA's Ames Research Center,which runs the Kepler telescope.

All told, researchers announced seven new exoplanetson Thursday, upping the grand total found so far byKepler and Earth-bound telescopes to about 850,according to NASA.

Pennsylvania State University professor James Kastingcalled the findings "a big discovery." Kasting and SaraSeager of MIT, who weren't part of the research, pointedout that Kepler's job is to look at one distant corner of thesky and to find what fraction of stars seemed to have theright sized planets in the habitable zone.

"This is HUGE," Seager wrote in an email. "Do you real-ize that as soon as Kepler could find close-to-Earth-sizeplanets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, Keplerfound it. Goldilocks planets must be everywhere."

men. Its close resemblance to its ancient ancestorsearned it the "living fossil" nickname.

And in line with that, analysis shows its genes have beenremarkably slow to change, an international team ofresearchers reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Maybe that's because the sea caves where the coela-canth lives provide such a stable environment, saidKerstin Lindblad-Toh, senior author of the paper and agene expert at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass.

Modern coelacanths make up two endangered speciesthat live off the east coast of Africa and off Indonesia.They grow to more than 5 feet long and have fleshy fins.

The coelacanth's DNA code, called its genome, is slightlysmaller than a human's. Using it as a starting point, theresearchers found evidence of changes in genes and ingene-controlling "switches" that evidently aided the moveonto land. They involve such things as sense of smell,the immune system and limb development.

NEWYORK(AP) --Scientistshavedecodedthe DNAof a cele-brated "liv-

ing fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today'smammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from afish ancestor.

The African coelacanth (SEE-lah-kanth) is closely relatedto the fish lineage that started to move toward a majorevolutionary transformation, living on land And it hasn'tchanged much from its ancestors of even 300 millionyears ago, researchers said.

At one time, scientists thought coelacanths died outsome 70 million years ago. But in a startling discovery in1938, a South African fish trawler caught a living speci-