Hezbollah man wanted by US freed from Iraq custody

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq freed a jailed Hezbollah commander wanted by the United States on Friday, his lawyer said, returning him home to Lebanon in a move that underscores Washington's waning influence in Baghdad since last December's troop pullout.

The U.S. believes Ali Mussa Daqduq is a top threat to Americans in the Middle East, and had asked Baghdad to extradite him even before two Iraqi courts found him not guilty of masterminding a complex raid that left five American soldiers dead in 2007. But Iraq's Shiite-led government, which is close to Hezbollah's top patron Iran, refused to hand him over.

The move vastly complicates the Obama administration's efforts to prosecute Daqduq, as Shiite Hezbollah dominates the Lebanese government and the U.S. has no extradition treaty with the country. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. was upset with the decision and had made its feelings known to the Iraqi government.

"Daqduq should be held accountable for his crimes," Nuland told reporters, adding that the U.S. would pursue him with all legal means possible, and had been in contact with Lebanon on the issue.

Washington believes Daqduq worked with Iranian agents to train Shiite militias to target the U.S. military during the years of sectarian violence that gripped Iraq over the last decade, and that he was behind the raid on a U.S. military base in the holy city of Karbala where the five soldiers were killed ? four of them shot after being kidnapped.

U.S. forces held Daqduq for four years, handing him over to Iraqi authorities when American troops left Iraq. Meanwhile, Iran has seen its influence in the country grow.

Two Iraqi courts, including the country's central criminal court, subsequently found him not guilty of the Karbala attack. However, until now he had been held under house arrest in the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad.

Analyst Hadi Jalo said Iraqi officials had likely sought to improve their standing among Iraq's Shiite-majority population by ordering the release, in a sign domestic concerns trumped the need to please Washington over the matter.

"This indicates how weak American pressure has become. Iraq is able to take decisions that are no longer in step with the Americans," Jalo said.

Daqduq's lawyer, Abdul-Mahdi al-Mitairi, said authorities had decided to free his client after U.S. elections, suggesting they had sought to avoid embarrassing President Barack Obama during his re-election campaign.

"He was supposed to be released once the court found him not guilty but because of the U.S. presidential elections, he was kept under house arrest," al-Mitairi said.

In the brazen attack Washington accuses Daqduq of masterminding, almost a dozen gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons killed one soldier and captured four at a provincial army headquarters, shooting the prisoners later. The assailants had traveled in black GMC Suburban vehicles ? the type used by U.S. government convoys at the time.

Daqduq was captured in the southern Iraqi city of Basra months later along with the head of a hardline Shiite militia.

The Obama administration at the time faced sharp criticism for allowing Iraqi courts to try the Hezbollah militant. Republican politicians had called for Daqduq to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay; administration officials hoped to try him in regular U.S. military courts.

After hearing the news, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the decision an "outrage," urging the government to take "appropriate actions" with regard to the Iraqi government.

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Associated Press writers Sinan Salaheddin in Baghdad, and Lolita C. Baldor and Bradley Klapper in Washington contributed to this report.

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Today's Environmental News: Nov 15, 2012

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Governor Cuomo Announces FEMA Emergency Assistance For Homeowners

(Governor Cuomo?s Press Office)

Schumer and Gillibrand Seek $1 Billion For N.Y. Coast Repair

Storm Recovery | Keeping Track: Updates To Service Restoration In New York City

Storm Recovery | Keeping Track: Updates To Service Restoration In Long Island

Schneiderman Subpoenas Con Edison And LIPA Over Storm

Gas Shortage Eases With Rations, Special Deliveries And Refinery?s Return

Taxpayers At Risk As Storm Bills Come Due

Attendant Dies As Storm Floods Underground Parking Garage

Displaced By Storm, Students Face Long Trek To Temporary School In Queens

For Visiting Utility Workers, Finding Comforts In A Tent City

ArtsBeat: Indie Bands Join Forces For Hurricane Benefit In Brooklyn

Special Parade Views For 5,000 Who Suffered From Hurricane

(New York Times)

Al Gore?s 24-Hour Live Broadcast: ?The Dirty Weather Report? Live Until 8pm Tonight

Red Cross Spends $181,000 On Swanky Hotel For Sandy Volunteers

LIPA In The Spotlight As Cuomo, Schneiderman Launch Investigations

Fracking And Radium, The Silvery-White Monster

Hurricane Sandy Pushes Jobless Claims WAY Up

Rethinking The ?Occupy? Movement In The Wake Of Hurricane Sandy

Preparing For Future Disasters In The Wake Of Sandy

New York Hospital Faces $3 Million Bill After Taking In Sandy Victims

Post-Sandy Borrowers Face Uncertain Credit Help Due To Bank?s Murky Policies

After A Disaster, Children Need Special Attention To Recover

Staten Island Asks: Would Giant Ferris Wheel Stand Up To Hurricane?

A Journey Into The Fresh Kills Landfill

Fine Art Vs. Hurricane Sandy

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Speaker Quinn, UFT President Mulgrew Launch Major Effort To Help Thirty Thousand Displaced NYC Students

Council Votes To Fund Emergency Repairs At Storm Damaged Public Schools And Hospitals

Speaker Quinn Presents Visionary Blueprint for New York City?s Planning and Preparation in Era of Climate Change

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Mayor Bloomberg And Macy?s Announce 5,000 Tickets To Macy?s Thanksgiving Day Parade Will Go To New Yorkers Impacted By Hurricane Sandy

City Government Storm Response Update On Recovery And Assistance Operations ? November 14th

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Join Rockland In Saying NO To Desalination!

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New York Governor Pledges To Lead On Climate Change ? But What About On Fracking?

(Treehugger)

President Obama Receives Cheers In Staten Island

Michael Kimmelman And The AIA Debate New York After Sandy Tonight

City Marshal Richard McCoy Extends Citywide Suspension On Evictions

Inside The Flooded Hugh Carey Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, And A New Genre of Ruin Porn

(NY Observer)

DEC Re-Opens Particular Shellfishing Areas In Suffolk County

(NY DEC)

Obama Visits, But Offers No Firm Promise Of Sandy $$$

Storm Victims Get A Tax Break

(Capital Confidential)

Environmental Advocates of New York?Watchdog Report

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(NY Daily News)

Questioning The Power Grid

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President Obama Heads To Hurricane-Ravaged New York

Bike Corral Could Offer Parking On Columbus Ave.

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Hurricane Sandy?s Disproportionate Impact On NYC?s Most Vulnerable Communities

(NRDC Switchboard)

NY Attorney General Subpoenas Con Ed, LIPA Over Hurricane Sandy Response

Hurricane Sandy Roundup: Rockaways Sewage, Donation Center Freeloaders, Park Slope Bitching

Another Nor?Easter May Be Joining Us For Thanksgiving Dinner

Rockaway Resident To Red Cross: ?Suck My Di*k?

?Disenfranchised? Rockaway Residents Continue To Ask ?Where Is Our Hospital??

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New Report Reveals Dangers Of Fracking In Watersheds With Reservoirs

Fracking Voices?Pennsylvania Residents Warn New Yorkers About The Dangers Of Fracking

(Eco Watch)

Conservatives In Congress Appear Ready To Help Northeast Rebuild From Sandy

(The Record)

President Obama Delivers Emergency Hugs To Staten Island

Dear Wall Street: Occupy?s Surprisingly Kind Second Act

Big Problems, Little Solutions: For the New Occupy, Size Is Everything

(NY Magazine)

Lawyers Donate Time To Help Those Affected By Sandy

MTA Continues Efforts To Restore Remaining Subway Service

Homeowners In ?Safe? Buildings Still Spend Weeks Without Power

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Former Director Of NYC Dept. Of City Planning Says Giant Rotterdam-Style Floodgates Could Protect NYC From The Next Superstorm

Could Building-Sized Floodgates Protect Lower Manhattan From Future Superstorms?

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Barry Diller Contemplates A Major Investment In Hudson River Park

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Planning For Resilience

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NYC After Bloomberg

VIDEO: Drying Out the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel

(Transportation Nation)

Locals Fight To Save Rockaway Boardwalk Boards

(Metro New York)

Progress Slow On Fracking Health Review

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(New York Now)

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Texas A&M football player found safe in Dallas

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2012, file photo, Texas A&M wide receiver Thomas Johnson (8) carries for extra yardage after a reception during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Texas A&M police say Johnson is missing and was last seen leaving his residence in College Station, Texas, on Monday at 5 p.m. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2012, file photo, Texas A&M wide receiver Thomas Johnson (8) carries for extra yardage after a reception during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Texas A&M police say Johnson is missing and was last seen leaving his residence in College Station, Texas, on Monday at 5 p.m. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

(AP) ? Texas A&M freshman wide receiver Thomas Johnson has been found safe in Dallas after he disappeared from campus three days ago.

Johnson's mother, Linda Hanks, says Texas A&M University police told her Thursday the 18-year-old is unharmed.

University police said they traveled to Dallas to look for Johnson on Wednesday. Johnson was found safe about 2:30 a.m. Thursday with the help of the Dallas police and the Texas Rangers.

Police said Wednesday that Johnson was last seen leaving his College Station residence around 5 p.m. Monday.

Hanks told WFAA-TV (http://bit.ly/m32dB) she traveled from Dallas to College Station while authorities searched for her son. He turned up 180 miles away in Dallas.

Hanks says Johnson didn't contact her and that she has no other information. Campus police said that they are not releasing further details.

Coach Kevin Sumlin says he's relieved Johnson has been found and is concerned for Johnson's health and well-being.

Johnson played in 10 games this season, with 30 catches for 339 yards and a touchdown.

Associated Press

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Journey Together ? Together for Adoption

by Dennae Pierre Published Nov 15, 2012

Orphan care is not something God calls?a?believer to, but something he calls believers?to. Anyone who has adopted, fostered, or been involved with orphan care at some level quickly realizes that if you attempt it alone you end up burdened, overwhelmed, and lonely. International adoption?s financial cost is too high for most families to afford alone. The foster care system is too complex for one family to navigate by themselves. And the amount of vulnerable children is too high for one person, one church, or even one nation to tackle by itself.? If the orphan crisis is to be addressed, it must be within the context of community. Local churches across the?world?must partner together and individual believers?within?those local churches must operate as one.

That is what excites me so much about Journey Together Ministries. Journey Together is a missional community that has come together for a very important purpose. A missional community is a group of Christians who decide to walk together in their Christian journey and focus their energies on a common mission. Journey Together?s mission is to disciple, equip, and mobilize the church to care for vulnerable and orphaned children. They are not a monthly support group, or a weekly bible study, but a family that has committed to walk along side each other in the day-in-day-out work necessary for orphan care.

Our Together for Adoption team was introduced to Journey Together when they hosted a house conference for us last February. Journey Together Ministries then brought their leadership team to our first boot camp and brought along 16 people to our National?Conference?in Atlanta, Georgia. They have been a great encouragement to our ministry efforts as they continually testify how the theology of adoption has impacted their walks with the Lord and their care for the orphan. It has been an honor to watch their ministry flourish and grow and we are excited at the work the Lord is doing through them.

If you are in the Charleston, South Carolina area we strongly encourage you to check out their ministry and support them by attending their Gala December 1st. All the proceeds will go to benefit their Hope Fund which will be providing matching grants for adoptions within their Journey Together Missional Community. It will be a fun and encouraging evening with guest speakers, dancing, and great food.

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Source: http://www.togetherforadoption.org/?p=15719

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Congress panel blames Corzine for MF Global fall

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poor management decisions by MF Global former CEO Jon Corzine triggered the brokerage firm's collapse, while lax protections for customer funds contributed to the loss of an estimated $1.6 billion of customer money, congressional investigators have determined.

Evidence unearthed by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight puts the blame squarely on Corzine, the panel's chairman, Rep. Randy Neugebauer, said in a preview of the report that will be released on Thursday.

"The responsibility for failing to maintain the systems and controls necessary to protect customer funds rests with Corzine," the report says. "This failure represents a dereliction of his duty as MF Global's chairman and CEO."

Corzine, a former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs who also served as a U.S. senator and as governor of New Jersey, has denied any wrongdoing.

A Corzine spokesman on Wednesday said: "While we have not yet been able to review the whole report, it is worth noting that ... the House Subcommittee apparently did not find any evidence that Mr. Corzine acted in bad faith or engaged in any intentional wrongdoing."

MF Global filed for bankruptcy more than a year ago, as investors scrambled to pull out funds after revelations the firm bet heavily on European sovereign debt and after credit downgrades.

Regulators, prosecutors and lawmakers have been looking into the estimated $1.6 billion in customer funds missing after the firm's collapse.

The House subcommittee said it has held three hearings, interviewed more than 50 witnesses and reviewed thousands of documents from MF Global, its regulators and other sources.

The report will show that risks were exacerbated by an atmosphere at the firm in which no one could question Corzine's decisions, the subcommittee said.

Corzine's spokesman said MF Global's significant business decisions were all subject to review by its board.

Corzine also kept his own trading activities out of the firm's risk management review process, the subcommittee said. The group said it also found that regulatory agencies had not shared crucial information with each other, and other problems.

A trustee liquidating the company's broker-dealer unit released a critical report in June that said that in his attempt to build the firm into a global investment powerhouse, Corzine failed to address growing liquidity needs.

(Reporting by Karey Wutkowski, Sarah N. Lynch, Emily Stephenson and Aruna Viswanatha; Editing by John Wallace, David Gregorio and Dan Grebler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/congress-panel-blames-corzine-mf-global-fall-003653582--finance.html

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First ET Interview: Denzel Washington Talks TV Sex

Denzel Washington is getting raves for his intense portrayal of a hero pilot struggling with addiction in Flight, and we're flashing back to one of the Oscar winner's first-ever ET interviews!

Related: How They Pulled Off That Intense 'Flight' Crash

Back in the late '80s when Denzel was a regular doc on the hospital show St. Elsewhere, we caught up with the handsome actor and his co-star Alfre Woodard to see how well they handled their onscreen love scenes.

Video: Denzel Washington: 'Bad Guys Have More Fun'

Asked if he was embarrassed to take it all off on camera, Denzel replied, "It didn't bother me to do it; what made me nervous was when I saw some outsiders on the set and I told the director they've got to go ? it's not a freak show," he said with a laugh. "So there's kind of an unwritten law about cast and crew ? it's like we're all in it together, there's nothing that no one hasn't seen before?"

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Xander to buy 35 per cent stake in Indiabulls Realty for Rs 1000 crore

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NEW DELHI: The real estate private equity arm of global investment firm Xander Group is close to acquiring a 35% stake in a unit of Indiabulls Real Estate for 1,000 crore, according to a person involved in the deal.

Indiabulls Infra Estate owns two land parcels in Mumbai?s Worli area. It had bought 8.37 acre of land that used to house Bharat Mills for 1,580 crore and 2.39 acre of Poddar Mill?s land for 474 crore in an e-auction of National Textile Corporation in 2010.

The term sheet for the deal has been signed and the deal is expected to close in the next two weeks, the person quoted above said. Spokesmen for both Indiabulls and Xander said they do not respond to market speculation.

Indiabulls recently launched a high-rise residential project called Blu on the combined 10.76-acre land parcel in central Mumbai, one of the largest plots to be developed in the area. Apartments in the project, spread over 1,480-2,940 square feet, are priced between 7 crore and 15 crore. Apartments in Worli range between 40,000 per sq ft and Rs 50,000 per sq ft.

An IL&FS real estate fund had picked up a 10% stake in the same company for 200 crore in January this year. The current transaction is being done at a 35% premium to the price at which the lands were bought in two years, said the person involved.

Private equity funds have slowed down their investments in the real estate space in the last one year. According to a report by property advisory firm Cushman & Wakefield, the sector saw investments worth 3,500 crore between January and September this year against 4,110 crore a year ago.

While investments in commercial real estate have fallen drastically, some funds are continuing to invest in residential projects because home sales in certain parts are still doing well. The report pointed out that maximum private equity investment happened in the residential segment in India in the first three quarters of 2012. Mumbai was the preferred market for private equity investments followed by Bangalore and the National Capital Region.

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Rebuilding lives after Sandy, one photo at a time - PhotoBlog

By Jon Sweeney

Thousands of photos have been taken of the destruction left in Sandy?s wake, but as people return home to pick up the pieces of their disrupted lives, it?s the family photos that remind residents of happier times.

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Nancy Gardini holds wedding pictures of her parents and of her mother and her two grandmothers that she salvaged from the remains of her home, destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, on Fox Beach Avenue on the south side of Staten Island, New York City.

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A photograph lays on the stoop of a home condemned after flooding from Hurricane Sandy in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City, Nov 13.

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Family photos lie in the debris of Michael Russo's flood damaged home on Nov. 1, in the Ocean Breeze area of the Staten Island borough of New York City.

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Rosalind Silletto displays 43-year old water logged photos of her aunt's wedding party removed from her basement on Nov. 6, in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of the Staten Island borough of New York City.

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A damaged family portrait is propped outside of a flooded home in the heavily damaged Rockaway neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City.

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Photographs of Elliott Miller's wedding day and graduation lay on a snow covered bench on Nov. 8, in Point Pleasant, N.J.

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Kerilynn and Drew Allen clean flood ravaged items out of their Breezy Point, N.Y., home on on Nov. 2.

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Family photographs are piled on a water-logged chair in the backyard of Dean Stavley 's home following the damage by Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights, N.J.

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Photographs are seen jammed into a fence left by Hurricane Sandy on the south side of hard-hit Staten Island in New York City.

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Discovery could lead to faster diagnosis for some chronic fatigue syndrome cases

ScienceDaily (Nov. 14, 2012) ? For the first time, researchers have landed on a potential diagnostic method to identify at least a subset of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a complex disorder with no known definitive cause or cure.

In a pilot study of six patients, scientists detected specific antibodies linked to latent Epstein-Barr virus reactivation in blood samples from people who had experienced classic CFS symptoms and responded to antiviral treatment. Control blood samples from 20 healthy people showed no such antibodies.

The research team, led by scientists from Ohio State University and Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, acknowledges that the number of patients is small. But the researchers say the study's power rests in their access to 16 months of blood samples for each patient -- a collection allowing for an unprecedented longitudinal look at CFS.

The researchers plan to move forward with development of a clinical laboratory test that can detect these antibodies in blood samples.

The study is published in the Nov. 14 issue of the journal PLOS ONE.

The Epstein-Barr virus is a human herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis and several different types of tumors. An estimated 95 percent of Americans have been infected with the virus by adulthood, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but fewer than half have experienced an active illness. Once a person is infected, the virus remains dormant in the body, and can be reactivated without causing symptoms of illness.

In these six patients, the study suggests that a latent Epstein-Barr virus had begun to reactivate, but that the newly awakened virus never reached its full potential to take over its host cells. That partial reactivation advanced enough to generate at least two viral proteins, DNA polymerase and dUTPase, and these patients produced antibodies specifically designed to identify and neutralize those proteins for more than a year.

The scientists theorize that even in the absence of a complete active infection, these viral proteins' ability to induce inflammatory chemical signals causes enough immune system chaos to lead to CFS. The disorder's main symptom is profound fatigue for at least six months that does not improve with rest, and is accompanied by problems that can include weakness, muscle pain, impaired memory and depression. Because the illness mimics many other disorders, diagnosis is difficult. An estimated 1 million Americans have CFS, but experts believe only 20 percent are diagnosed.

The study's senior researchers agree that the work should be repeated in more patients "to confirm that these observations are real," said virologist Ron Glaser, director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research at Ohio State and a co-author of the study. "But finally, after more than 20 years, this is at least something to go on."

Glaser's primary collaborators on this work are Marshall Williams, professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics at Ohio State, and A. Martin Lerner, a professor of internal medicine at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.

Ohio State and Lerner's private practice, CFS LLC, have applied for a patent for the diagnostic method.

Glaser and Williams first published a paper in 1988 suggesting that these two viral proteins associated with partially reactivated Epstein-Barr virus could function as biomarkers for certain illnesses, including CFS. Meanwhile, Lerner became severely ill in 1986 and struggled for 10 years with CFS symptoms before treatment with antivirals dramatically improved his health.

Lerner, an infectious diseases specialist, runs his private CFS practice in Michigan, and his long-term tracking of patients' characteristics and response to treatment made this longitudinal research possible.

The fact that CFS patients experience different symptoms and multiple types of viral and bacterial infections has led researchers to believe CFS potentially has numerous causes. That lack of uniformity also complicates the diagnostic process and development of treatments.

"Part of the problem in trying to identify an agent or biomarkers for chronic fatigue syndrome is the extreme variability among people who say they have CFS. How to sort that out has held the field back a lot of years," said Glaser, who has studied the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) for decades.

Lerner had long ago separated 142 of his patients into two groups: those who had tested positive for various antibodies against three types of herpes viruses and responded to months-long treatment with one of two types of antivirals, and a smaller group that had viral infections and a variety of co-infections who showed minimal response to antiviral treatment. As part of this tracking, he collected multiple blood serum samples for more than a year from each patient.

From those patients, he selected blood samples from six for this study. Five had been identified as an Epstein-Barr virus subset, and the sixth had Epstein-Barr virus and a bacterial co-infection. For comparison, researchers collected samples from 20 healthy people matched to the six CFS patients for age and sex.

Lerner, too, had independently hypothesized that CFS patients might be experiencing partial virus reactivation. Patients might test negative for the most active antibodies required to fight a virus, but could still recover from CFS after long-term antiviral treatment. One antiviral he uses is known to inhibit DNA polymerase, which would halt Epstein-Barr virus reactivation in its tracks.

With the CFS patients' and control blood samples in hand, Williams used a highly sensitive laboratory method to detect whether they contained antibodies to the two target Epstein-Barr viral proteins, DNA polymerase and dUTPase, that are produced early in the process of viral reactivation.

Overall, 78.8 percent of the serum samples from the six CFS patients were positive for antibodies against DNA polymerase and 44.2 percent were positive for antibodies against dUTPase. No antibodies to these two proteins were detected in the 20 control samples.

"Every one of the six had antibodies to DNA polymerase or EBV dUTPase and those antibodies persisted over some 408 days," Lerner said. "And the antibody levels were extraordinarily high." High levels of antibodies circulating in the blood suggest long-term immune activation against those proteins.

Williams noted that the levels might be less significant than the antibodies being present in the first place.

"If you look at most healthy individuals, they wouldn't have any reason to have an antibody against either of these proteins," he said. "The antibodies alone are a good differentiator."

This work was partially supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Additional co-authors include Maria Ariza of the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics and Stanley Lemeshow, dean of the College of Public Health, both at Ohio State; Leonard Jason of DePaul University; Safedin Beqaj of Pathology Inc., in Torrance, Calif.; and James Fitzgerald of the University of Michigan School of Medicine.

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  1. A. Martin Lerner, Maria E. Ariza, Marshall Williams, Leonard Jason, Safedin Beqaj, James T. Fitzgerald, Stanley Lemeshow, Ronald Glaser. Antibody to Epstein-Barr Virus Deoxyuridine Triphosphate Nucleotidohydrolase and Deoxyribonucleotide Polymerase in a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Subset. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (11): e47891 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047891

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