Kendall Paciorek was born three months ago, but she didn't come home until this week, just days before Christmas. The premature girl was one of the tiniest victims of a deadly outbreak of listeria in contaminated cantaloupe.
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ATHENS, Greece ? Greek guards say scores of archaeological sites and museums across the country will be shut down over weekends beginning at Christmas as they strike to protest the lack of extra weekend pay.
The guards' association says in a statement Thursday it has not been paid extra for working weekend shifts for over two months.
It says workers will keep the weekend strike going until the ministries of culture and finance solve the problem.
Greece has been kept solvent only through international bailouts since May 2010.
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Ever since Britney Spears got engaged to Jason Trawick last week, celebrities everywhere - and even K-Fed for that matter - have been wishing her all the best.
One of more vocal supporters over the years (really) has been 50 Cent, who told told reporters at the VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul concert in NYC how happy he is.
"I am so happy for her," the rapper said, before musing, "Britney Spears had a rough time. The press took the biggest opportunity ever to dog her."
"When you reach that point, you work really hard to get where she is. It’s very interesting because the public likes to build you to destroy you for entertainment's sake."
"I’m just really happy for her to be happy."
Fiddy continued by saying he thinks Britney is ready to be married for a third time (before K-Fed, she wed high school pal Jason Alexander for 55 hours).
"I hope she is," he remarked. "Wouldn’t you like to hope that? Let’s just put that out there in the universe, that she is ready."
She seems it. She and Jason Trawick, her former agent, were close long before they were a couple, and he's been an enormously positive influence on her.
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ORLANDO, Fla. ? Imagine winning two of golf's biggest trophies only a couple of months apart. Then, right when it looks as though a dream season can't get any better, competing against a limited field of stars and beating Tiger Woods on the last day when no one gave you much of a chance.
That's how it was for Mark O'Meara in 1998.
And that's why he can appreciate how difficult it was this year for Graeme McDowell to follow up on a blockbuster season.
"I was winding down in my career, so it was a little different," O'Meara said Monday. "But I know Graeme a little bit. Look, it's hard to live up to the hype. All of a sudden, you feel like every major you should be in contention. You're thrust into the limelight. It heightens the expectations that people place on you.
"And sometimes, there's a little bit of a letdown."
O'Meara scooped up a career's worth of magic in 1998 when he birdied the last two holes to win the Masters, and at age 41, became the oldest man to win two majors in one season when he captured the British Open in a playoff at Royal Birkdale. If that wasn't enough, he went to Wentworth for the World Match Play Championship and wound up facing Woods in the 36-hole final. All square with seven holes remaining ? three of them par 5s ? O'Meara beat him with a birdie on the last hole.
McDowell's season in 2010 was eerily similar.
He won his first major in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, and then topped that with a week in Wales that felt better than a major. The Ryder Cup came down to the final match, and McDowell hit a 6-iron to 15 feet for a birdie on the 16th hole to take the lead and go on to win the cup for Europe.
Wrapping up his season in an 18-man field at Sherwood, he rallied from a four-shot deficit and made a pair of 20-foot birdie putts on the 18th hole to beat Woods in a playoff. No one had ever come from more than two shots behind to beat Woods in any pro tournament.
The encore proved more difficult than McDowell realized.
"No doubt the expectation levels were cranked up," he said last week at Lake Nona during a corporate day for Ecco golf shoes. "I played like a man who wanted it really, really badly. And you can't want it so badly that you get in your own way."
As he looks back on a year in which he had as many top 10s as missed cuts ? seven each ? McDowell wishes he would have taken more time off. He spent the holidays with his family in Northern Ireland, and then flew across two oceans to Kapalua to start the new season. He shot 62 the last day and missed a playoff by one shot, and then he flew halfway around the world to Abu Dhabi and tied for third.
Not a bad start.
Finally, he gave himself a four-week break to recharge and reflect. He's not sure he accomplished either.
"It was a switched-on break, not a switched-off break, and I think there's a difference," he said. "There's a huge difference between taking two, three, four weeks off in the middle of the season because you never really switch off. And when I did switch back on, things felt different. My swing wasn't there. My head wasn't there."
He had a one-shot lead at The Players Championship until closing with a 79. He never missed a shot in practice at the British Open, then chopped his way to a double bogey on the opening hole at Royal St. George's and wondered what hit him.
"Last year, everything went right," he said. "This year, everything went wrong."
Even so, McDowell figures he learned more about himself during a winless 2011 than when he felt as though he won everything in 2010.
The greatest lesson?
"That your own expectations are dangerous," he said. "The good times in golf and bad times in golf are so different. As golfers, we're unbelievably good at berating ourselves when things go wrong. We're not so good at giving ourselves credit when things go right. And there's something to be learned there."
Was it that bad a year?
He only made it through two rounds of the FedEx Cup playoffs, and he only made it to the weekend at one major. Still, he fell only seven spots in the world ranking and finished the year at No. 13. It was only two years ago that McDowell was thrilled to crack the top 50.
He earned 158 world-ranking points, slightly more than Rickie Fowler. It wasn't all bad.
"I probably earned enough world-ranking points for a top 50 or 35 player. In the past, that would have been a great season for me," McDowell said. "All of a sudden, it's not a great season for me. It's a huge disappointment. Have I really changed that much in a couple of years? It's the perception of what's good.
"I started experiencing great highs, and all of a sudden I needed so much more of it," he said. "When the game wasn't giving me them as readily, I was getting frustrated with myself. I went into the year promising I wouldn't make these mistakes. Even though I knew the pitfalls, I couldn't stop from falling in them."
A year ago, McDowell didn't want his year to end. This year, it couldn't end soon enough.
He carries a lighter load home to Northern Ireland this week to spend Christmas with his family. McDowell no longer has possession of the U.S. Open trophy. Memories of the Ryder Cup are not as fresh. Woods won the very tournament where McDowell beat him a year ago.
He can only hope he is bringing with him something that ultimately proves as valuable as any trophy ? perspective.
"The biggest thing I learned this year was to never take anything for granted," McDowell said. "And to realize that expectation levels are dangerous."
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Controversial radio shock jock Howard Stern will be the new judge on TV show "America's Got Talent", NBC said on Thursday, and will also continue to host his daily radio program for SiriusXM.
Stern, 57, will replace departing talk show host Piers Morgan on the panel when the talent show returns for a 7th season in the summer of 2012.
Production of the show will move to New York to accommodate Stern's schedule.
"Howard Stern's larger-than-life personality will bring a thrilling new dynamic to 'America's Got Talent' starting this summer," said NBC alternative programming chief Paul Telegdy.
"He's a proven innovator and his track record in broadcasting is truly remarkable. Howard is very passionate about this show and is fully committed to its future," Telegdy said in a statement.
Stern is known for conducting sexually explicit interviews, his raunchy sense of humor and for his satirical comments on religion, race and other hot button topics.
"America's Got Talent" created by British entrepreneur Simon Cowell, is one of the most successful shows for NBC and the outspoken Stern had been Cowell's top choice to join the judging panel.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Patricia Reaney)
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