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Inspired cheap moncler jackets by recent deadly crashes — including one in which a teenager sent or received 11 text messages in 11 minutes before an accident — the recommendation would apply even to hands-free devices, a much stricter rule than any current state law.

The unanimous recommendation by the five-member National Transportation Safety Board would make an exception for devices deemed to aid driver safety such as GPS navigation systems.

A group representing state highway safety offices called the recommendation "a game-changer."

"States aren't ready to support a total ban yet, but this may start the discussion," Jonathan Adkins, a spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association, said.

NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman acknowledged the recommendation would be unpopular with many people and that complying would involve changing what has become ingrained behavior for many Americans.

While the NTSB doesn't have the power to impose restrictions, its recommendations carry significant weight with federal regulators and congressional and state lawmakers. Another recommendation issued Tuesday urges states to aggressively enforce current bans on text messaging and the use of cellphones and other portable electronic devices while driving.

"We're not here to win a popularity contest," she said. "No email, no text, no update, no call is worth a human life."

Currently, 35 states and the District of Columbia ban texting while driving, while nine states and D.C. bar hand-held cellphone use. Thirty states ban all cellphone use for beginning drivers. But enforcement is generally not a high priority, and no states ban the use of hands-free devices for all drivers.

A total cellphone ban would be the hardest to accept for many people.

Leila Noelliste, 26, a Chicago blogger and business owner, said being able to talk on the cellphone "when I'm running around town" is important to self-employed people like herself.

"I don't think they should ban cellphones because I don't think you're really distracted when you're talking, it's when you're texting," she said. When you're driving and talking, "your eyes are still on the road."

The immediate impetus for the recommendation of state bans was a deadly highway pileup near Gray Summit, Mo., last year in which a 19-year-old pickup driver sent and received 11 texts in 11 minutes just before the accident.

NTSB investigators said they are seeing increasing texting, cellphone calls and other distracting behavior by drivers in accidents involving all kinds of transportation. It has become routine to immediately request the preservation of cellphone and texting records when an investigation is begun.

In the past few years the board has investigated a train collision in which the engineer was texting that killed 25 people in Chatsworth, Calif.; a fatal accident on the Delaware River near Philadelphia in which a tugboat pilot was talking on his cellphone and using a laptop computer, and a Northwest Airlines flight that sped more than 100 miles past its destination because both pilots were working on their laptops.

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The board said the initial collision in the Missouri accident was caused by the inattention of the pickup driver who was texting a friend about events of the previous night. The pickup, traveling at 55 mph, hit the back of a tractor truck that had slowed for highway construction. The pickup was rear-ended by a school bus that overrode the smaller vehicle. A second school bus rammed into the back of the first bus.

The pickup driver and a 15-year-old student on one of the buses were killed. Thirty-eight other people were injured. About 50 students, mostly members of a high school band from St. James, Mo., were on the buses heading to the Six Flags St. Louis amusement park.

Missouri had a law banning drivers under 21 years old from texting while driving at the time of the crash, but wasn't aggressively enforcing the ban, board member Robert Sumwalt said.

"Without the enforcement, the laws don't mean a whole lot," he said.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported earlier this year that pilot projects in Syracuse, N.Y., and Hartford, Conn., produced significant reductions in distracted driving by combining stepped-up ticketing with high-profile public education campaigns.

Before and after each enforcement wave, NHTSA researchers observed cellphone use by drivers and conducted surveys at drivers' license offices in the two cities. They found that in Syracuse, hand-held cellphone use and texting declined by a third. In Hartford, there was a 57 percent drop in hand-held phone use, and texting behind the wheel dropped by nearly three-quarters.

However, that was with blanket enforcement by police.

The board's decision to include hands-free cellphone use in its recommendation is likely to prove especially controversial. No states currently ban hand-free use although many studies show that it is often as unsafe as hand-held phone use because drivers' minds are on their conversations rather than what's happening on the road.

Hersman pointed to an Alexandria, Va., accident the board investigated in which a bus driver talking on a hands-free phone ran into a bridge despite his being familiar with the route and the presence of warning signs that the arch was too low for his bus to clear. The roof of the bus was sheared off.

The board has previously recommended bans on texting and cellphone use by commercial truck and bus drivers and beginning drivers, but it had stopped short of calling for a ban on the use of the devices by adults behind the wheel of passenger cars.

The problem of texting while driving is getting worse despite a rush by states to ban the practice, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said last week. In November, Pennsylvania became the 35th state to forbid texting while driving.

About two out of 10 American drivers overall — and half of drivers between 21 and 24 — say they've thumbed messages or emailed from the driver's seat, according to a survey of more than 6,000 drivers by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

However, the survey found that many drivers don't think it's dangerous when they do it — only when others do.

At any given moment last year on America's streets and highways, nearly one in every 100 car drivers was texting, emailing, surfing the Web or otherwise using a hand-held electronic device, the safety administration said. Those activities were up 50 percent over the previous year.

Driver distraction wasn't the only significant safety problem uncovered by NTSB's investigation of the Missouri accident. Investigators said they believe the pickup driver was suffering from fatigue that may have eroded his judgment. He had an average of about five-and-a-half hours of sleep a night in the days leading up to the accident and had had fewer than five hours of sleep the night before the accident, they said.

The pickup driver had no history of accidents or traffic violations, investigators said.

Investigators also found significant problems with the brakes of both school buses involved in the accident. A third school bus sent to a hospital after the accident to pick up students crashed in the hospital parking lot when that bus' brakes failed.

However, the brake problems didn't cause or contribute to the severity of the accident, investigators said.

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Le Canada devait impérativement informer les Nations Unies avant la fin de l'année de sa décision de se retirer du processus de Kyoto, sans quoi il aurait été légalement tenu de payer des pénalités pour le non-respect des mesures de réduction des émissions de carbone.

"Pour le Canada, Kyoto fait partie du passé. Par conséquent, nous invoquons notre droit légal à nous retirer officiellement du Protocole", a déclaré M. Kent aux journalistes au siège de la Chambre des communes.

"Il est maintenant clair que le Protocole de Kyoto n'est pas une solution viable pour l'avenir", a-t-il ajouté.

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Le Canada, comme les autres signataires du Protocole de Kyoto, était tenu de ramener ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre en dessous des niveaux de 1990, et de fournir un financement aux pays en développement pour les aider à réduire leurs émissions. Le Canada a ratifié cet accord en 1997.

Le gouvernement conservateur canadien, élu en 2006, a promis de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre de 17% par rapport à 2005. Cette réduction doit se faire d'ici 2020.

La députée Megan Leslie, porte-parole du Nouveau Parti démocratique en matière d'environnement, a critiqué la décision de M. Kent devant le Parlement au nom de l'opposition.

"Ce qui se passe en réalité, c'est que notre gouvernement se soustrait à ses obligations internationales. Nous sommes comme un enfant qui ne réussit pas en classe, et qui préfère abandonner l'école avant que les mauvaises notes n'arrivent", a expliqué Mme Leslie.

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The deal for Paul that the NBA nixed Friday for "basketball reasons" was reworked and being reconsidered by the league. But the Lakers apparently had enough, feeling the distraction was too great over whether players would be with the team or traded.
So they elected to pull out of the three-team deal and instead sent forward Lamar Odom and a 2012 second-round draft pick to the Mavericks in exchange for a protected 2012 first-round draft pick and an $8.9 million trade exception.
The Lakers can use the trade exception and the draft pick to go after Howard in a trade with the Magic. A Lakers' trade for Howard likely would include center Andrew Bynum going to Orlando.
"If I'm here, I'm looking forward to the season," Bynum said. "If they were able to pull a move like that off, it would be great for the organization, and I'd be in Orlando hooping."
At the camp Sunday, Kobe Bryant was asked about an Odom trade: "I don't like it. He's great at bringing guys together. I trust management knows what they're doing … but it's tough. … I've known Lamar for a long time. He's a big presence for us in the locker room, just from a team chemistry standpoint. …
"Pau (Gasol) is still here, and we're all thankful for that. It's hard when you've been through so many battles with players to just see them go somewhere else. It's tough."
Bryant also didn't like it that Odom would be going to the Mavericks, who eliminated the Lakers from the playoffs last season: "We were supposed to come back and get them back."
The Hornets, meanwhile, are left with trying to find a trade that will be approved for Paul, with the Clippers a likely spot, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported. Hornets coach Monty Williams also said the lingering trade reports are a distraction for his team.
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And Howard admitted Saturday to asking for a trade, likening his request to a divorce that only one party wants.
"I've done everything for this city. I don't think people understand the magnitude of love I have just for this city," he said. "It's beyond basketball. I think people, anybody should understand that. For me this has just not been a city I enjoy playing basketball in. I love everybody here, that's why it's been so tough."
But he said recent playoff disappointments played a role in asking out.
"I've been back and forth," he said. "Mainly because the people here really care for the city. Nobody's gonna understand that. And if you hate me because of a jersey, then you never really loved me. That's how I feel."
Magic general manager Otis Smith obviously would like to keep Howard but said he is exploring options.
"When you invest seven years in a player and that's what he decides, then you have to deal with that from that angle. But it's not the end of the world," Smith said. "Like I said before, the Orlando Magic franchise is what it's about. We like to make this into an individual game, but the fact of the matter is it's a team sport. And we'll continue to move forward. "
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New Orleans will also receive the Knicks’ first-round draft pick in 2012 from the Rockets, who acquired it in a previous trade.

The trade came together just as Commissioner David Stern was announcing the ratification of a new labor agreement that was intended to promote parity and boost the league’s small-market teams. But nothing in that agreement can prevent veteran stars from exercising their considerable leverage, as Paul did.

Paul can become a free agent next summer, and it was well known that he wanted to play in one of the league’s glamour markets, New York or Los Angeles. Rather than lose Paul for nothing, the Hornets moved to trade him quickly.

For the Lakers, the trade re-energizes an aging lineup that was swept by the Mavericks in the 2011 playoffs after winning back-to-back titles. Paul will join Kobe Bryant to form the N.B.A.’s most lethal backcourt, and will eventually replace him as the face of the franchise.

Paul, just 26 years old, has been elected an All-Star four times in his first six seasons, averaging 18.8 points and 9.9 assists for the Hornets. He was the fourth overall pick in the 2005 draft and is widely regarded — along with Deron Williams — as one of the N.B.A.’s top two point guards.

The parameters of the deal were first revealed by Sports Illustrated early Thursday. The deal’s completion and final details were first reported Yahoo Sports.

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Tyson Chandler, who helped the Dallas Mavericks win the championship last June, is nearing a deal to join the Knicks, according to two people involved in the talks. Caron Butler, his teammate, plans to sign with the Clippers, according to multiple reports.

Shane Battier, one of the league’s top defenders, announced on Twitter that he would sign with the Miami Heat. Mike Dunleavy Jr. reached an agreement with the Milwaukee Bucks.

Tayshaun Prince, one of the last remaining pieces of Detroit’s 2004 championship team, will re-sign with the Pistons. Greg Oden, the injury-plagued Portland center, will accept a one-year qualifying offer to stay with the Trail Blazers.

The Mavericks will have lost two key free agents, while a third, J. J. Barea, continues to play the market. Dallas is believed to be protecting salary-cap space for next summer, when Williams and Dwight Howard could be available.

Paul had hoped to force a trade to New York, to join his close friend Carmelo Anthony, but the Knicks did not have the assets to make a deal with the Hornets.

The Hornets play in one of the league’s smallest markets and have struggled financially for years. The franchise is currently owned by the league, which bought out the previous owner, George Shinn, for a reported $300 million last year. Shinn, frustrated with efforts to sell the team to a local buyer, chose to sell it to the league rather than continuing subsidizing the losses.

Now the Hornets, a playoff team in three of the last four years, are starting overly competitively. Martin, 28, is one of the league’s best scoring guards, and the 31-year-old Scola is a skilled and rugged power forward. The versatile Odom, 32, was a key member of the Lakers’ championship teams in 2009 and 2010.
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The timing is carefully choreographed so that the moment of silence begins exactly at 7:55 a.m. — the moment Japanese planes began bombing the harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. But on Wednesday, emcee Leslie Wilcox was still speaking at 7:55 a.m., even as the Hawaii Air National Guard's F-22's roared overhead on schedule 42 seconds later.
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"Our tasking is to be over the target at 7:55 and 42 seconds, which we did," Anthony said. "We have this thing wired."

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