Egyptian protesters clash with police, 1 dead (AP)

CAIRO ? Egyptian security forces clashed with protesters camped outside the Cabinet building Saturday, leaving one man dead, as tensions rose two days ahead of parliamentary elections being held despite mass demonstrations against military rule.

The violence occurred as a wave of protests against military rule was given extra impetus by the Egyptian military's decision on Friday to appoint a Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri who served under deposed President Hosni Mubarak.

The Obama administration has increased pressure on Egypt's military rulers, who took over from Mubarak, to transfer power to civilian leaders throwing its support behind protesters massed on Cairo's central Tahrir Square for more than a week.

More than 100,000 demonstrators packed into the square on Friday in the biggest rally since the current unrest began. They rejected el-Ganzouri's appointment and presented an alternative to el-Ganzouri. By midday Saturday, the crowd size dwindled to some 5,000 on Saturday afternoon.

Twenty-four protest groups, including two political parties, have announced they are creating their own "national salvation" government to be headed by Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei with deputies from across the political spectrum to which they demanded the military hand over power.

Egyptian state TV said that the head of the ruling military council Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi met separately with ElBaradei and another presidential hopeful Amr Moussa, who was the former Arab League chief, on Saturday, but it gave no details.

Hundreds also set up camp outside the Cabinet building, spending the night in blankets and tents to prevent the 78-year-old politician from entering to take up his new post. Early Saturday, they clashed with security forces who allegedly tried to disperse them.

An Associated Press cameraman saw three police troop carriers and an armored vehicle firing tear gas as they were being chased from the site by rock-throwing protesters.

The man who was killed was run over by one of the vehicles, but there were conflicting accounts about the circumstances surrounding the death.

The Interior Ministry expressed regret for the death of the protester, identified as Ahmed Serour, and said it was an accident. Police didn't intend to storm the sit-in but were merely heading to the Interior Ministry headquarters, located behind the Cabinet building, when they came under attack by angry protesters throwing firebombs, it said in a statement. The ministry claimed security forces were injured and the driver of one of the vehicles panicked and ran over the protester.

One of the protesters, Mohammed Zaghloul, 21, said he saw six security vehicles heading to their site.

"It became very tense, rock throwing started and the police cars were driving like crazy," he said. "Police threw one tear gas canister and all of a sudden we saw our people carrying the body of a man who was bleeding really badly."

Officials say more than 40 people have been killed across the country since Nov. 19, when the unrest began after a small sit-in by protesters injured during the 18-day uprising that ousted Mubarak was violently broken up by security forces. That led to days of clashes, which ended with a truce on Thursday. It wasn't clear if the melee on Saturday was an isolated incident or part of new violence by security forces trying to clear the way for the new prime minister, and protesters frustrated by what they believe are the military's efforts to perpetuate the old regime.

"El-Ganzouri was pulled out of his grave. He was a dead man," said a 39-year-old employee Ahmad Anas as chants against the head of the military council rang outside the Cabinet building: "Tantawi and el-Ganzouri are choking me." A banner hanging over the building gates read: "closed until execution of field marshal."

El-Ganzouri served as prime minister under Mubarak between 1996 and 1999. His name has been associated with failed mega projects including Toshka, an ambitious expensive scheme to divert Nile water at the southern tip of Egypt to create a second Nile Valley. The project has cost billions and barely gotten off the ground.

The military's appointment of el-Ganzouri, its apology for the death of protesters and a series of partial concessions in the past two days suggest that the generals are struggling to overcome the most serious challenge to their nine-month rule, with fewer options now available to them.

Hala al-Kousy, a 37-year-protester, vowed that protesters will not leave the square until the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the formal name of the military's ruling council, gives up power.

"Our main goal is to have SCAR step down. They have patience and so do we," al-Kousy said. "They are willing to wait and so are we."

The latest crisis has overshadowed Monday's start of Egypt's first parliamentary elections since Mubarak was replaced by the military council. The vote, which the generals say will be held on schedule despite the unrest, is now seen by many activists and protesters to be serving the military's efforts to project an image of itself as the nation's saviors and true democrats.

The next parliament is expected to be dominated by the country's most organized Muslim Brotherhood group, who decided to boycott the ongoing protests to keep from doing anything that could derail the election. However, the outcome of the vote is likely to be seen as flawed given the growing unrest and the suspension by many candidates of their campaigns in solidarity with the protesters.

Protesters were divided on whether to participate in elections.

"I don't agree with el-Ganzouri because he is too old and we don't want anybody who use to be a symbol of the old regime," protester Nevine Mustafa, 40, said. She added that she plans to vote even though she believes the elections should be postponed because of the unrest. "I still have a role to play and I need my voice to be heard."

Manal al-Adawy, however, said she was boycotting the vote.

"As long as the military council appoints people who were Mubarak's slaves, we will continue this sit-in," the 35-year-old protester. "I am not going to vote in the elections because I don't want to give the military or the elections, legitimacy."

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Hunger is still a major problem for American homes below the federal poverty line. But it's now starting to creep into homes that have never experienced it before, and children are suffering the most.

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Most Britons oppose children having mobile phones, poll finds (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Nearly three-quarters of Britons think it is inappropriate for children under 12 to own a mobile phone, despite the fact that most kids already have them, according to a poll on Thursday.

The survey of 2,000 people found that expensive bills, unmonitored internet use and lack of parental control were some of the reasons adults felt uncomfortable about kids owning mobiles.

However, more than one in 10 would buy a child a mobile phone as a treat to encourage good behavior, or for doing well at school.

The vast majority of parents (90 percent) also liked the idea of a child having a phone in case of an emergency.

Mobile phone information and price comparison website Recombu.com, which carried out the survey, noted that 79 percent of 7 to 11-year-olds already own a mobile.

Hannah Bouckley, editor of Recombu, said: "It is reassuring for parents to be in constant contact with their children, but there are clearly concerns about just how careful a young child will be with their own mobile phone.

"It is important for parents to sit down with their kids to discuss the responsibilities that come with the phone and set clear limits for its usage from the outset."

(Reporting by Li-mei Hoang, editing by Paul Casciato)

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Toll Brothers buys Seattle area homebuilder (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc. is expanding into a new state for the first time since the days of the housing boom.

The Horsham, Pa.-based company said Monday that it bought privately held Seattle-area builder CamWest Development LLC for an undisclosed amount.

Toll Brothers last made a foray into markets in a new state in 2005, when it entered Minnesota. The builder's last acquisition also was in 2005, when it bought the Orlando, Fla., division of Landstar Homes.

CEO Douglas Yearley Jr. said the CamWest acquisition does not represent the start of a broader expansion push by Toll, which operates in 20 states.

"We have been looking at Seattle for a decade, so this was a bit of a long time coming, and we found the right opportunity," Yearley said.

While Toll had been eyeing the Seattle market for years, it was put off by concerns over how to ramp up operations in a market where land can be hard to find and difficult to clear for new construction.

The CamWest deal not only gains Toll established operations in a new market, but a portfolio of some 1,300 or so land parcels, giving Toll an immediate jump start, Yearly said.

"They have a terrific land position in a difficult land market," he said.

CamWest, based in Kirkland, Wash., develops luxury single-family houses, condominiums and townhouses. The average selling price for homes in CamWest's backlog is about $500,000.

Toll said the acquisition will add to its earnings in fiscal year 2012, which began this month. For the 2011 calendar year, CamWest expects to deliver about 180 homes, generating $90 million in revenue.

Earlier this month, Toll reported home deliveries in the August-to-October quarter rose 8 percent from a year earlier, while net signed contracts grew by 15 percent. The company ended fiscal 2011 with 1 percent fewer home deliveries, but a 7 percent increase in net signed contracts.

Uncertainty over the U.S. economy, high unemployment and concerns that U.S. home prices have yet to hit bottom have kept many home buyers on the sidelines this year. That led to a lackluster spring-and-summer peak homebuying season and has placed U.S. sales of new homes on track to be the worst on records dating to 1963.

Sales of new homes rose in September after four straight monthly declines, but only after builders cut their prices because of depressed demand.

Yearley said he's impressed with how the Seattle market has held up during the housing downturn, and cites employment growth and the presence of large companies such as Boeing Co. and Microsoft Corp. as factors that bode well for home sales.

CamWest founder Eric Campbell said all of the company's home communities are starting to sell out, which prompted the builder to look for financing to build more communities.

Financing has been tough to come by for private builders ? a trend that has helped Toll and other publicly traded homebuilders take market share from smaller rivals during the housing downturn. Campbell said he was concerned that any financing he could get would not allow the company to be as aggressive as it would like to be, leaving the builder vulnerable to competition from a larger rival.

Ultimately, he said, a buyout by the nation's largest builder of luxury homes proved the best option.

"When this opportunity came about, we just saw it as a really great strategic fit," Campbell said.

Shares of Toll Brothers rose 7 cents to close at $18.93.

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George W. Bush to raise cancer awareness in Africa (AP)

DALLAS ? Former President George W. Bush will travel to Africa to raise awareness about cervical and breast cancer.

Bush's policy institute is one of the organizations that announced this fall the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon initiative to expand the availability of cervical cancer screening and treatment and breast care education in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

Bush and former first lady Laura Bush will travel next month to Tanzania, Zambia and Ethiopia, meeting with governmental and health care leaders.

Bush tells The Associated Press it's in the nation's best interest to "deal with disease and set priorities and save lives."

He says it's a "natural extension" of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which he launched in 2003.

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Are You Part Of The 'Worried Well?' How To Alleviate Health Anxiety

By Nadia Goodman For YouBeauty

Do you worry about your health? Would you say you?re pretty healthy?

That?s how neurologist and author Robert Burton, M.D., began our conversation about the "worried well" -- people who are basically healthy but worry that they?re not doing everything they should be to stay well.

(I answered yes to both questions.)

I?m not alone. "The worried well is most of us," says Burton. "It?s a normal state." An educated, health-concerned and well-read bunch, the worried well often misinterpret normal symptoms as signs of larger problems.

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Take depression, for example.

You?re watching TV when a depression commercial comes on asking if you experience sadness, lack of interest, trouble concentrating. (Oh, you do? You and everyone else.) With such a generic symptom list, the worried well may wonder if their daily ups and downs are signs of a mental health problem?which most likely isn?t the case.

Carol Greenwood, Ph.D., a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto, works with older populations and finds many of the worried well among them. "They?re really concerned that any sign or symptom might suggest that they?re moving into an age-related disorder," she says. Memory loss is one of the biggest triggers for this type of anxiety, where ordinary forgetfulness might be interpreted as an early sign of dementia.

"The worried well often over-interpret the ordinary," says Burton. Whether an irregular heartbeat or a forgotten appointment gives you a rush of anxiety, both are just par for the course. No second opinions or witty last words needed.

YouBeauty Wellness Advisor Beth Ricanati, M.D., aims to help the worried well breathe easier. She encourages patients to focus on the big picture instead of beating themselves up about the details. "When we lose the big picture, we try to micromanage our health," says Ricanati. "Is it really the blueberries that are so good or is it that they?re part of a bigger, well-balanced diet? It?s about the way these different substances interact together."
When we?re bombarded with questionably reliable headlines like, "The Blueberry Drink That Can Shrink Tumors," or "The Secret to Eternal Youth? Try a Tomato," it?s easy to believe that we?re choosing between life and death every time we push our shopping carts past the produce aisle.

What the news sources rarely explain is that there are plenty of other ways to get the same nutrients. "We end up studying single foods in isolation because it?s the only way we can design a good experiment," says Greenwood, noting that this often skews our perspective. "There?s no question that blueberries have a lot of antioxidants, but we ignore all the other fruits and vegetables that also do. A healthy diet is more than just a blueberry."

Believing that eating blueberries is all it takes to be your family?s first centenarian is a seductive proposition. "Everybody wants that magic bullet," says Ricanati. "Is it vitamin D? Is it acai? That [search] is not really practical at the end of the day."

Recently, Burton had a conversation with a 72-year-old Harvard law school graduate (a really smart guy, by all accounts). Every day, he goes mountain biking for two hours then goes hiking then plays basketball then does yoga. (Whew!) When asked how he feels, he says, "I?m f---ing exhausted." (No kidding.) He has no free time and his legs feel like concrete, but still he perseveres. "His whole goal in life is to live longer," says Burton, who points out that we all eventually lose that battle.

Ricanati would rather people focus on living well, rather than living longer. "You can only do so much," she says. "You can control whether you remember to pack your lunch or if you stop at McDonald?s. But if you?re worrying about whether you took your twenty vitamins, I think you?re missing the big picture. Sitting down to dinner with your family or thanking the gardener is just as important for your overall wellness." In other words, don?t miss the present because you?re busy freaking out about the future.

Follow these quick tips to alleviate health anxiety:

1. Know your body. "You need a general understanding of your body," says Burton. He recommends taking an introductory anatomy course or subscribing to a trusted newsletter like the Harvard Health Letter. "Over time, you?ll build up a fact base and that will help you know when to worry."

2. Limit your supplements. If you already have a healthy diet, then taking a handful of supplements every morning can be overload. "You can get into the toxic range, over and above the upper limit of intake," says Greenwood. Instead, ask your doctor before taking a supplement and focus your energy on eating a healthy, balanced diet.

3. Keep your self-talk positive. We?re constantly reminded of our health, so worrying is natural. Instead of telling yourself that your headache is probably a brain tumor, take a breath. "The healthy state is to be able to tell yourself, that?s just me worrying," says Burton.

4. Ignore the headlines. "If you read the sensationalist headlines every day, then today it would be blueberries and tomorrow it would be something else," says Ricanati. "You?d drive yourself mad." Instead, take a more moderate approach. "Try to get all your nutrients through food, be mindful of your physical activity, remember to use your breath." In short: Be reasonable.

5. Don't worry about the details. "The worried well are more likely to pick up a tomato and worry about whether it counts as one or two servings," says Greenwood. Instead, she recommends looking at your plate to make sure that most of it is filled up with fresh fruits and vegetables. No need to get any more obsessive than that.

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Gadhafi son Seif al-Islam seized in southern Libya

FILE - Seif al-Islam Gadhafi talks to reporters at the ancient city of Cyrene near the city of al-Bayda, northeastern Libya in this Sept. 10, 2007 file photo. A Libyan militia commander has told reporters at a press conference that Moamar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam has been captured in southern Libya. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

FILE - Seif al-Islam Gadhafi talks to reporters at the ancient city of Cyrene near the city of al-Bayda, northeastern Libya in this Sept. 10, 2007 file photo. A Libyan militia commander has told reporters at a press conference that Moamar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam has been captured in southern Libya. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

(AP) ? Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam ? the only member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large ? was captured as he traveled with aides in a convoy in Libya's southern desert, Libyan officials said Saturday. Thunderous celebratory gunfire shook the Libyan capital as the news spread.

A spokesman for the Libyan fighters who captured him said Seif al-Islam was detained about 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of the town of Obari with two aides as he was trying to flee to neighboring Niger, but the country's acting justice minister later said the convoy's destination was not confirmed.

The International Criminal Court had charged Gadhafi, Seif al-Islam and Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi with crimes against humanity for the brutal crackdown on dissent as the uprising against the regime began in mid-February and escalated into a civil war. Seif al-Islam's capture leaves only al-Senoussi at large.

Libyan TV posted a photo purportedly of Seif al-Islam in custody. He is sitting by a bed and holding up three bandaged fingers as a guard looks on.

Mohammed al-Alagi, the National Transitional Council's justice minister, told The Associated Press that Seif al-Islam was detained deep in Libya's desert Friday night by revolutionary forces from the mountain town of Zintan who had been tracking him for days.

Seif al-Islam was being held in Zintan but would be transported to Tripoli soon, according to al-Alagi.

A spokesman for the Zintan brigades, Bashir al-Tlayeb, who first announced the capture at a press conference in Tripoli, said the NTC, which took over governing the country after Gadhafi was ousted, would decide where Seif al-Islam would be tried.

He also said that there was still no information about al-Senoussi's whereabouts.

Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, at 39 the oldest of seven children of Moammar and Safiya Gadhafi, had long drawn Western favor in by touting himself as a liberalizing reformer in the autocratic regime but then staunchly backed his father in his brutal crackdown on rebels in the regime's final days.

He had gone underground after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces and issued audio recordings to try to rally support for his father.

The International Criminal Court had earlier said that it was in indirect negotiations with a son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi about his possible surrender for trial.

Mindful of past arrest claims that proved false, an ICC spokesman said the court was waiting for proof that Seif al-Islam had been captured but stressed Libya has a legal obligation to cooperate with the international arrest warrant.

"First we have to verify if it really is him and that he's actually been arrested this time," the spokesman, Fadi El Abdallah, said. "If they decide they want to try the suspect in Libya instead of at the ICC, there's a necessary process."

He said the Libyans could formally request that the case be transferred, then ICC judges would make a decision.

"The main criteria is that he generally be prosecuted for the same crimes," the spokesman said. "For us there's an obligation, a legal obligation under international law, for the national government to cooperate with the ICC."

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Associated Press writers Hadeel al-Shalchi in Cairo and Toby Sterling in Amsterdam contributed to this report.

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