Latos outdueled by Chacin in Padres' 6-3 loss

DENVER (AP) — Mat Latos was done in by dink hits and that's something he can live with.

Latos matched Jhoulys Chacin pitch for pitch before running out of steam as the San Diego Padres fell 6-3 to the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday.

The righty was cruising along until the sixth inning, when a flurry of singles chased him from the game. The Rockies broke the game open with five runs to take two of three in the series.

Latos (4-8) was hardly discouraged by his outing but noticeably angry.

"It is frustrating. That's how it is," he scowled. "That's how baseball is."

The last time Latos was at Coors Field on May 15, he was highly effective at the high altitude. He …

Filipino police pull back from hostage bus

Philippine police have pulled back from a bus where 15 Chinese tourists are held hostage after commandos attempted to storm it in a bid to end a daylong standoff led by a dismissed policeman.

There was no immediate confirmation of any casualties in the standoff in downtown Manila late Monday.

However, police officer Roderick Mariano cited the Filipino driver who escaped moments …

Multisensory Recognition of Actively Explored Objects

Abstract

Shape recognition can be achieved through vision or touch, raising the issue of how this information is shared across modalities. Here we provide a short review of previous findings on cross-modal object recognition and we provide new empirical data on multisensory recognition of actively explored objects. It was previously shown that, similar to vision, haptic recognition of objects fixed in space is orientation specific and that cross-modal object recognition performance was relatively efficient when these views of the objects were matched across the sensory modalities (Newell, Ernst, Tjan, & B�lthoff, 2001). For actively explored (i.e., spatially unconstrained) …

Human rights group protests arrest of Bangladeshi labor activist

An international human rights group denounced Thursday the arrest of a Bangladeshi labor activist for allegedly encouraging textile workers to hold illegal protests.

Human Rights Watch said last week's arrest of Mehedi Hasan, a field investigator for the Washington, D.C.-based Worker Rights Consortium, was an abuse of emergency powers to target those trying to protect workers rights in the country's most important export industry.

Police have accused Hasan of instigating garment workers' protests in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to demand unpaid wages and better working conditions.

"This should set off alarm bells among donors and …

Sweden wins doubles to go up 2-1 against Israel

Sweden gained the initiative in a protest-marred Davis Cup series against Israel as Simon Aspelin and Robert Lindstedt beat Andy Ram and Amir Hadad in the doubles match Saturday to put the hosts up 2-1.

The Swedes won 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 in a near-empty arena in Malmo as police clashed with anti-Israel demonstrators outside.

The Israelis surged after dropping the first set but couldn't respond when Aspelin and Lindstedt raised their game one notch in the third. Ram and Hadad saved two match points in Aspelin's serve before Lindstedt's drop-shot winner.

"They played a good tiebreak to win the third set," Ram said. "And they …

Mouseketeer Funicello finds fans remember

The girl who was America's sweetheart 30 years ago is now amiddle-aged woman best known for peanut butter promotion. But forAnnette Funicello, the magic is still there when she steps outonstage to greet an audience.

"It's overwhelming," said Funicello, 47, who will always beremembered as everyone's favorite Mouseketeer. "The crowds are soreceptive; they throw flowers; they sing `M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E.' "

Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon - teen sweetheart of ageneration past and her old co-star from the beach movies of the '60s- appear together in a "musical variety show" that is on a 35-cityU.S. tour. The tour marks the first time Funicello has …

Correction: Cars Torched-Bigotry story

NEW YORK (AP) — In a Nov. 12 story about three cars being torched and Nazi swastikas being scrawled on benches in a predominantly Jewish …