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ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

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January 27, 2014 • DAILY

inside: Women’s Symposium and Mass casualty drill

Calling All Women

Story by MCSN Jenna Kaliszewski pproximately 80 Sailors attended an all-women symposium to discuss USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (CVN 71) female wellness program in the ship’s foc’sle Jan. 24.

Lt. Rachel Condon, Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Chelsea Turner, Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Camille Gordon and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Amber Sewell organized the meeting and led discussions specific to women.

“We’re trying to set up something where women have a comfortable location where they can ask questions,” said Sewell. “It’s just our way of getting the information out that needs to be put out to everybody. We want them to know we genuinely care about the women on the ship and that they have a support system.”

Sewell explained the female wellness program and provided important information about when and how often women should have exams. Turner talked about birth control options offered by the ship’s Medical department.

Those in attendance participated in a survey to suggest future topics for meetings. The group mingled over cookies in a relaxed open atmosphere following the meeting.

“I thought it was informative,” said Chief Electronics Technician Ann Holman. “I like the topic, especially because of the change. It’s new, so we don’t all know this information already.”

It was important for the women of Theodore Roosevelt to come together as a group and have an open discussion about being a woman stationed on a Navy warship, said event organizers.

“We’re women and things are different for us on the ship. It’s hard being a woman on the ship. This is the perfect opportunity to meet other women and know you’re not alone in

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Lt. Rachel Condon (center), Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Chelsea Turner (left) and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Camille Gordon (Right), along with Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Amber Sewell, hosted a women’s symposium to discuss female oriented topics with women aboard Theodore Roosevelt.

this,” said Sewell. “We really have to break the stereotypes of women in the military. We want to do the same thing men are doing and not be looked at differently because we are women.”

In the future, Condon and the corpsmen plan to bring in women from all rates and ranks to talk to female Sailors onboard.

“There are a lot of amazing women out there,” said Sewell.

“There are master chiefs, senior chiefs and officers. We don’t want to worry about rank, just what we can learn from the experience of others. We can respectfully talk to each other as women in the military.”

Condon plans to hold a meeting every underway, determining the future topics based on survey responses.

Condon hopes to see the group grow into an open and welcoming place for all TR’s female Sailors to come and discuss female-specific needs and issues on the ship.

Preparing for the Worst

Story by MCSN Bounome Chanphouang

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he aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) held a mass casualty drill Jan. 25, to prepare for real casualties that could occur in a moment’s notice.

During the drill, Sailors responded to a simulated cable break during an underway replenishment.

“We train in case of a true emergency, so that there’s nothing surprising that we have to anticipate,” said Lt. Cmdr. Charlene Ohliger, the ship’s nurse. “We can never be too prepared.”

A mass casualty drill tests the crew’s response to an emergency situation that causes more casualties than the Medical department can respond to alone.

Sailors participating in the drill worked as a unit to triage patients by the severity of their injuries, provided them medical attention and transfered them for additional care.

Medical, Dental and the Command Religious Ministries departments triaged the patients. The ship’s designated stretcher-bearers helped care for and transferred the victims.

Security personnel were on scene to secure the area and ease the flow of patient movement, while Weapons department controlled the elevators transferring patients to holding areas.

Stretcher-bearers and corpsmen practiced treating different wounds, including jaw fractures, sucking chest wounds, amputations and road rash.

“I felt confident, because I know what I’m doing,” said Personnel Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth Perkins, a stretcher-

Sailors participate in a mass casualty drill. TR conducts mass casualty drills to prepare for actual casualties that can occur.

bearer from repair locker 1B. “The guys around me knew what they were doing. We were confident going into the drill knowing that we can be the best that we can be.”

Theodore Roosevelt simulates a mass casualty drill every 90 days to train its rough riders to be ready in a moment’s notice.

Practicing mass casualty drills on a regular basis helps develop the kind of muscle memory needed to respond quickly in the event of a real emergency, said Ohliger.

Theodore Roosevelt is underway conducting training in preparation for future deployments.

F R O M T H E PA G E S O F

MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014

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2014 Races Likely to Keep Capital Split AFGHANistan exit IS SEEN AS PERIL TO DRONE MISSION

WASHINGTON — With the 2014 political landscape becoming more defined, it is increasingly likely that the midterm elections in November will maintain divided government in the capital for the final two years of President Obama’s second term, with the chief unknown being exactly how divided it will be.

A review of competitive congressional contests suggests that, at the moment, Republicans will hold on to the House, though Democrats could defy midterm history and gain a few seats. Senate Democrats, at the same time, are defending unfavorable terrain and will almost certainly see their majority narrowed. They are at risk of losing it altogether, an outcome that would leave Capitol Hill entirely in Republican control for the conclusion of Obama’s presidency.

“Democrats are going to lose seats, there is no question about that,” said Jennifer Duffy, who follows Senate races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

Hoping to offset losses and make it more difficult for Re-

publicans to net the six seats that would hand them the majority, Senate Democrats are taking aim at Republican-held seats in Georgia, an open contest, and Kentucky, where they hope to defeat Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader and 30-year Senate veteran who has seen his popularity dip back home.

They are also hoping Republicans, who are engaged in a continuing struggle over ideology, will end a series of bitter primaries by nominating far-right candidates who could be defeated in general elections even in Republican-leaning states, a phenomenon that cost Republicans in 2010 and 2012. Both parties will have to defend against an electorate sour on Washington’s dysfunction.

Republicans are coalescing around the health care law as their chief issue and plan to frame problems with the implementation of the law — and the individual stories of those adversely affected — to paint Obama and the Democrats as incompetent administrators of an overreaching expansion of government.

“Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare,” said Andrea Bozek, communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “It is going to be an issue in every single congressional race.”

The election is still 10 months away, and a major misstep by either party or an unexpected outside event could quickly shift the narrative of a campaign season. But in the end, many experts agree, the distribution of power in Washington could be guided by the popularity of the president, whose approval rating now stands at 46 percent, according to the latest CBS News poll. The number is being watched closely by both parties, and the assumption is that if it is in the low 40s or worse around election time, Republicans would benefit significantly.

“All signs are that we are heading for a traditional midterm election that is more about the president than the individual Republican candidates,” said Stuart Rothenberg, the editor of the Rothenberg Political Report.

CARL HULSE

Cannabis Legal, Localities Begin to Just Say No YAKIMA, Wash. — The momentum toward legalized marijuana might seem like an inevitable tide, with states from Florida to New York considering easing laws for medical use, and a fullblown recreational industry rapidly emerging in Colorado and here in Washington State.

But across the country, resistance to legal marijuana is also rising, with an increasing number of towns and counties moving to ban legal sales. The efforts, still largely local, have been fueled by the opening, or imminent opening, of retail marijuana stores here and in Colorado, as well as by recent legal opinions that have supported such bans in some states.

At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues from marijuana sales — promised by legalization’s supporters and now eagerly anticipated by state governments — that could be sharply reduced if local efforts

to ban such sales expand.

But the fight also signals a larger battle over the future of legal marijuana: whether it will be a national industry providing near-universal access, or a patchwork system with isolated islands of mainly urban sales. To some partisans, the debate has echoes to the post-Prohibition era, when “dry towns” emerged in response to legalized alcohol.

“At some point we have to put some boundaries,” said Rosetta Horne, a nondenominational Christian church minister here in Yakima, at a public hearing on Tuesday night where she urged the City Council to enact a ban on marijuana businesses.

Voices in the Obama administration concerned about growing access have joined antidrug crusaders like Patrick J. Kennedy, a Democratic former U.S. representative from Rhode Island, who contends the potential

health risks of marijuana have not been adequately explored, especially for juveniles — and who has written and spoken about his own struggles with alcohol and prescription drugs.

“In some ways I think the best thing that could have happened to the anti-legalization movement was legalization, because I think it shows people the ugly side,” said Kevin A. Sabet, a former drug policy adviser to President Obama and the executive director and co-founder, with Kennedy, of Smart Approaches to Marijuana.

The group, founded last year, supports removing criminal penalties for using marijuana, but opposes full legalization.

“If legalization advocates just took a little bit more time and were not so obsessed with doing this at a thousand miles per hour,” he added, “it might be better. Instead, they are helping precipitate a backlash.” KIRK JOHNSON

WASHINGTON — The risk that President Obama may be forced to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year has set off concerns inside the U.S. intelligence agencies that they could lose their air base used for drone strikes against Al Qaeda in Pakistan and for responding to a nuclear crisis in the region.

Until now, the debate here and in Kabul about the size and duration of an U.S.-led allied force in Afghanistan after 2014 had focused on that country’s long-term security. But these new concerns also reflect how troop levels in Afghanistan affect U.S. security interests in neighboring Pakistan, according to administration, military and intelligence officials.

The concern has become serious enough that the Obama administration has organized a team of intelligence, military and policy specialists to devise alternatives to mitigate the damage if a final security deal cannot be struck with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, who has declined to enact an agreement that U.S. officials thought was completed last year.

If Obama ultimately withdrew all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the C.I.A.’s drone base in the eastern part of the country would have to be closed because it could no longer be protected. The concern is that the nearest alternative bases are too far away for drones to reach the mountainous territory in Pakistan where the remnants of Al Qaeda’s central command are hiding. Those bases would also be too distant to respond as quickly if there was a crisis involving nuclear material or weapons from facilities in Pakistan and India.

An administration official said in an email Sunday that as the possibility of a pullout “has grown in Afghanistan, we have been undertaking a methodical review of any U.S. capabilities that may be affected and developing strategies to mitigate impacts.”

“We will be forced to adapt,” the official said, “and while perhaps less than most efficient, the United States will find ways necessary to protect our interests.” DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT

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INTERNATIONAL

Russians Debate The Sticker Price Of Sochi Games MOSCOW —With less than two weeks to go before the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the country is finally having a debate — of a sort — over the cost of the event, celebrated as Russia’s triumphal moment on the international stage, yet derided as a bacchanalia of waste and corruption.

President Vladimir V. Putin stoked the debate when he recently told television anchors that Russia had spent only 214 billion rubles, or roughly $7 billion, to erect the sporting venues for the games.

And less than half of that, he maintained, was government spending.

Others, though, say those figures are grossly understated.

An organization led by Aleksei A. Navalny, the anticorruption blogger who has become one of the Kremlin’s most prominent critics, has been working for two months to compile a detailed chronicle of Russia’s Olympic spending, culling figures from annual budgets and corporate reports since 2006.

The organization, the Foundation for the Fight Against Corruption, is to publish the result of its work on Monday on an interactive website.

Putin’s figure was, Navalny said, “a lie of an absolutely absurd scale.”

It is not only one-tenth of the spending that has been widely reported, but it is also less than the $12 billion Putin pledged in 2007 to spend on the Games when he personally appealed to the International Olympic Committee to choose Sochi as the host.

That Russia’s first Winter Olympics would be an expensive undertaking has been a given since the government broke ground in and near Sochi, which Putin called “the biggest building site on the planet.”

Now the cost issue appears to have become politically sensitive.

“It’s just senseless to take the cost of everything built in Sochi — and the building of roads in Sochi — and ascribe it to the Games,” said Aleksandr D. Zhukov, the deputy speaker of the lower house of Parliament and the chairman of the Russian Olympic Committee. “Were you in Beijing for the Games? They made boulevards twice as wide — built new roads there. What did that have to do with the Olympics?”

STEVEN LEE MYERS

Ukraine Protests Spread After Overture Spurned KIEV, Ukraine — After President Viktor F. Yanukovych failed to defuse Ukraine’s political crisis by offering concessions to opposition leaders, antigovernment protests spread on Sunday into southern and eastern Ukraine, the heart of the embattled president’s political base.

About 1,500 demonstrators gathered outside the regional administration building in Dnipropetrovsk, where there were reports of scuffling with the police, while some 5,000 rallied in Zaporizhzhya, and 2,000 marched and rallied in Odessa, local news media reported.

The growing unrest — in parts of the country that are most supportive of Yanukovych’s proRussia policies and where there had been little sympathy for the protest movement — raised the prospect of widening violence and deepening political chaos while conditions in Kiev, the capital,

continued to deteriorate.

In Dnipropetrovsk, in the southeast, the authorities said that they had arrested 37 protesters for disorderly conduct and that 18 police officers had suffered injuries. There were similar reports of arrests and injuries in Zaporizhzhya, another southeastern city where demonstrators sought to lay siege to the regional administration building and were held off by police officers who used tear gas and stun grenades.

In Kiev, antigovernment forces late Sunday night occupied the Justice Ministry headquarters, adding to the portfolio of public buildings under their control and following through on a pledge to continue — and even step up — protests regardless of Yanukovych’s proposed concessions.

Many now say they will settle for nothing less than Yanukovych’s resignation.

On Saturday, Yanukovych had

offered to dismiss the government and install one opposition leader, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, as prime minister, and a second, the former champion boxer Vitali Klitschko, as a deputy prime minister for humanitarian affairs.

Yanukovych also proposed an array of other concessions, including a rollback of constitutional changes, made at his direction, which broadly expanded the powers of the presidency earlier in his term.

The opposition leaders, who represent different minority parties in Parliament and share little in common politically other than their antipathy toward Yanukovych, rejected the offer. That decision came much to the relief of thousands of protesters on the street who say they have little faith in any of Ukraine’s elected politicians, and want deeper, more systemic changes.

DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

Militants Down Egyptian Helicopter, Killing 5 Soldiers CAIRO — Islamist militants shot down an Egyptian military helicopter in the Sinai Peninsula with a surface-to-air missile over the weekend, raising new alarms about the terrorist insurgency that developed there in response to the military takeover last summer.

All five soldiers in the helicopter were killed, security officials said.

The attack — described by witnesses, documented in a video released by the militants and confirmed by three people briefed on the Egyptian government’s investigation — validated fears

that such weapons would spill into Egypt and beyond after the Libyan civil war tore open Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s fearsome arsenals.

Known as manpads, for manportable surface-to-air defense systems, the missiles can bring down commercial airliners if they are flying at low altitude. They also strengthen Sinai-based militants’ hand against the Egyptian Army, and there is concern that the militants might seek to use the missiles on the Egyptian mainland, where terrorist attacks have become more frequent.

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a militant group based in Sinai that has claimed responsibility for an escalating series of attacks on police and soldiers, said in a statement posted on jihadist websites that it had succeeded in “downing a military helicopter with a surfaceto-air missile and killing its entire crew in the area around the city of Sheikh Zuweid” in North Sinai, near the border with Gaza. The group said it had targeted the aircraft “in an area clear of residents to preserve the lives of Muslims.”

DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

In Brief Protesters Block Early Voting Hundreds of thousands of people were blocked from voting on Sunday as antigovernment demonstrators obstructed polling places in Bangkok and southern Thailand in a campaign to suspend democracy and replace Parliament with an unelected “people’s council.” One protest leader was killed by an unknown assailant and 11 people were wounded, according to Bangkok’s emergency services. (NYT)

Tunisia Approves Constitution Members of Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve the country’s new Constitution on Sunday night, finally completing a two-year drafting process and opening the way to a new democratic era three

years after the uprising that set off the Arab Spring. The constitution passed with 200 votes of the 216 members present in the assembly, easily obtaining the necessary two-thirds majority needed for ratification.

(NYT)

Syria Talks Yield a Narrow Deal Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the government said President Bashar alAssad had no intention of giving up “the keys to Damascus.” The limited agreement to let women and children leave a blockaded part of the old city of Homs, under negotiation for two days, fell far short of expectations and was called into question by multiple reports of government shelling. (AP)

NATIONAL

MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014

Woman Taken Off Life Support After Order HOUSTON — A Fort Worth hospital that kept a pregnant, braindead woman on life support for two months, followed a judge’s order on Sunday and removed her from the machines, ending her family’s legal fight to have her pronounced dead and to challenge a Texas law that bars medical officials from ending life support to a pregnant woman.

On Friday, a state district judge ordered John Peter Smith Hospital to remove the woman, Marlise Muñoz, from life-support machines by 5 p.m. on Monday. The judge ruled that the state law barring doctors from withdrawing “life-sustaining treatment” to pregnant women did not apply to Muñoz because she was brain-dead and therefore legally dead.

The hospital had refused to honor the family’s request to disconnect her, claiming that the law prevented them from doing so until they could perform a cesarean delivery.

But on Sunday, the hospital decided against appealing the judge’s

decision and announced that it would follow his ruling. The J.P.S. Health Network, which runs John Peter Smith Hospital as part of the taxpayer-financed county hospital district, said in a statement that the past several weeks had been difficult for both the family of Muñoz and her caregivers, but it defended its handling of the case.

“J.P.S. Health Network has followed what we believed were the demands of a state statute,” said a spokeswoman, Jill Labbe. “From the onset, J.P.S. has said its role was not to make nor contest law but to follow it.” At roughly the same time, about 11:30 a.m., Muñoz was disconnected from the machines as her family gathered at her bedside in the hospital’s I.C.U. Her body was released to her husband, Erick Muñoz, the family’s lawyers and a relative said.

Muñoz, 26, a firefighter in a town near Fort Worth, had found his wife on the kitchen floor in late November after she suffered an apparent blood clot in her lungs. He, as well

as his wife’s parents, Lynne and Ernest Machado, had argued that she had died shortly after arriving at the hospital and they said they were disturbed by the move to keep her on life support.

“The Muñoz and Machado families will now proceed with the somber task of laying Marlise Muñoz’s body to rest, and grieving over the great loss that has been suffered,” Muñoz’s lawyers, Heather L. King and Jessica Hall Janicek, said in a statement.

Muñoz, 33, was 14 weeks pregnant with her second child when she first arrived at the hospital, on Nov. 26, and on Sunday had been at the end of her 22nd week of pregnancy. The fetus was not viable, the hospital acknowledged in court.

The fetus suffered from hydrocephalus — an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cavities of the brain — as well as a possible heart problem, and the lower extremities were deformed to the extent that the gender could not be determined. MANNY FERNANDEZ

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In Brief Sneezing for Science Forget being sneezed on: Government scientists are deliberately giving dozens of volunteers the flu by squirting the live virus straight up their noses. Participants must spend at least nine days quarantined inside a special isolation ward at a National Institutes for Health hospital. The incentive: About $3,000 to compensate for their time.

(AP)

A Frigid Midwest A persistent weather pattern driving bitterly cold air south out of the Arctic will cause temperatures from Minnesota to Kentucky to plummet Monday, turning this winter into one of the coldest on record in some areas.

For almost three days, actual temperatures will range from the teens to below zero, and the wind chills with be even colder, with minus 43 in Minneapolis.

(AP)

BUSINESS

MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014

Banks’ Role in Payday Lending Is Inquiry Target Federal prosecutors are trying to thwart the easy access that predatory lenders and dubious online merchants have to Americans’ bank accounts by going after banks that fail to meet their obligations as gatekeepers to the United States financial system.

The Justice Department is weighing civil and criminal actions against dozens of banks, sending out subpoenas to more than 50 payment processors and the banks that do business with them, according to government officials.

In the initiative, called “Operation Choke Point,” the agency is scrutinizing banks over whether they, in exchange for handsome fees, enable businesses to illegally siphon billions of dollars from consumers’ checking accounts, according to state and federal officials briefed on the investigation.

The critical role played by banks largely plays out in the shadows because they typically do not deal directly with the Internet merchants. What they do is provide banking services to third-party payment processors, financial middlemen who handle payments for their merchant customers.

The crackdown has already come under fire from congressional lawmakers, including Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who heads the House Oversight Committee.

They have accused the Justice Department of trying to covertly quash the payday lending industry.

As part of the operation, Justice Department officials brought a lawsuit this month against Four Oaks Bank of Four Oaks, N.C., accusing the bank of being “deliberately ignorant” that it was processing payments on behalf of

unscrupulous merchants — including payday lenders and a Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors say the bank enabled the companies to illegally withdraw more than $2.4 billion from the checking accounts of customers across the country.

The lawsuit shows how some senior bank executives brushed off warning signs of fraud while collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees. While the bank has reached a tentative $1.2 million settlement with prosecutors, the impact of the suit extends far beyond Four Oaks, and prosecutors say this points to a problem rippling across the banking industry.

In an email included in the lawsuit, one executive said: “I’m not sure ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is going to be a reasonable defense, if a state comes after one of our originators.”

JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG

Chairwoman of Universal Expands Her Portfolio UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — A drained Donna Langley, chairwoman of Universal Pictures, sat down for lunch and let loose a dramatic sigh. Who could blame her?

“Fast & Furious,” Universal’s biggest franchise, was reeling after the death of Paul Walker, one of the stars. A mega-budget production, “47 Ronin,” was only a few days from opening, and it was shaping up to be a mega-stinker.

Langley, 45, also had a brandnew boss. Would she remain at the studio?

Langley is not only staying put, she is expanding her duties — becoming perhaps the second most powerful woman in Hollywood behind Sony’s Amy Pascal.

On Sunday, NBCUniversal was expected to announce it has extended Langley’s contract through 2017 and handDonna ed her overLangley sight of worldwide marketing and overseas production.

“I picked her, so to speak, because she has really good judgment, filmmakers respect her and her skills are perfectly complementary to mine,” said Jeff Shell, who took over the business reins at Universal in September.

Comcast, which bought control

of NBCUniversal in a $16.7 billion deal, has a cold-eyed skepticism about Hollywood. By holding tight to Langley, Shell’s message is clear: Making money from movies still requires serious movie smarts.

While Langley has had hits — “Les Miserables,” “The Purge” and “Fast & Furious 6” — she has also had catastrophes like “47 Ronin,” which lost around $100 million.

“You can pursue any business model you want,” said Michael De Luca, who is producing “Fifty Shades of Grey” for Universal, when asked about Langley. “But to make a studio succeed,” he said, “you still need a movie person with taste, gut instinct and aggression.”

BROOKS BARNES

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In Brief Snowden Says N.S.A. Spies on Industry Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, claimed in a new interview that the U.S. agency is involved in industrial espionage.

In the interview aired Sunday on the German public television broadcaster ARD, Snowden said that if the German engineering company Siemens had information that would benefit the U.S., but had nothing to do with national security needs, the N.S.A. would still use it. It was not clear what exactly Snowden accused the N.S.A. of doing with such information. He said only that he didn’t want to reveal the details before journalists did.

(AP)

Tata Motors Official Dies in Thailand The Tata Motors’ managing director Karl Slym has died while on a business trip to Bangkok, Thailand, the Indian company said Sunday. He was 51. The statement did not give a cause of death, but the Press Trust of India news agency quoted a company spokesman as saying that Slym seemed to have fallen from a high floor of a hotel in Bangkok. He was in Bangkok to attend a meeting of the board of directors of Tata Motors Thailand, Ltd. Slym joined Tata Motors in October 2012, and he was providing leadership to the company through a challenging market environment, the company said in the statement, quoting Chairman Cyprus P. Mistry.

(AP)

Automakers Pack New Cars With Technology, but Younger Buyers Shrug DETROIT —Young, educated and upwardly mobile, Kristin Winn represents the ideal target for automakers trying to reach young buyers. Winn, a 24-year-old technician for an ophthalmologist, says she plans to replace her nine-yearold Chevrolet Cobalt this year.

She says that she would like to buy a new car that has the latest technologies, like hands-free calling, but that it’s not likely to happen considering the cost.

“I’ll probably buy used,” said Winn, from Ann Arbor, Mich., as she admired the Mercedes and Cadillac exhibits at the North

American International Auto Show last week. “I plan to go back to school, so I have to keep that in mind.”

Automakers have been in a race in recent years to woo the most coveted, if elusive, sector of the car market: younger buyers.

They have restyled cars, creating sportier versions that are more environmentally friendly, and loaded them with the latest dashboard technology. Despite these efforts, young buyers still say that price and fuel economy are the most important factors in deciding what to purchase.

Since 2009, the percentage of new cars registered to buyers ages 18 to 34 has remained flat, hovering between 10 percent and 13 percent, according to an IHS Automotive analysis of Polk data.

And in a recent survey of buyers born between 1977 and 1994 conducted by the global consulting firm Deloitte, four out of five respondents said cost was the main barrier to owning or leasing a vehicle.

Still, the allure of younger buyers remains for automakers, who see an opportunity to replace the aging baby boom generation with

a new group of loyal customers.

But figuring out what they want is a challenge.

Buyers say a vehicle’s cost takes precedence over bells and whistles.

Dashboard technology “is not something I’d look for specifically,” David Campanella, a 24-yearold architect from Washington, said after stepping out of Cadillac’s new ATS coupe on display at the Detroit show on Saturday.

“I have so many gadgets,” he said. “Do I need another one in my car? No. Would it be nice to have?

Yes.” JACLYN TROP

BUSINESS

MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014

Rough Patch for Uber’s Challenge to Taxis SAN FRANCISCO — It’s Travis Kalanick versus the world, and the world seems to be winning.

Kalanick, who is brash and aggressive even by the standards of Silicon Valley, created Uber four years ago to blow up the traditional taxi business. In more than 60 cities worldwide, it is doing just that.

Anyone with a smartphone can use Uber’s software to get a ride.

No more standing on the corner in the rain, trying desperately to conjure up something that is not there. For that achievement, Uber is valued at $4 billion.

Suddenly, however, Kalanick is a bit besieged. Uber is being sued by its drivers, who say it is stealing their tips. Competitors are pressing it from all sides. Celebrity riders like Salman Rushdie and Jessica Seinfeld have had gripes too, usually about pricing.

Much worse, there have been questions about the quality of the drivers, made more urgent after one here in San Francisco hit an immigrant family in a crosswalk on New Year’s Eve, killing a 6-year-old. Her death has provoked the first wrongful-death lawsuit against Uber, which is expected to be filed on Monday.

Uber and its abundance of

imitators represent a new stage for technology companies. These businesses directly insert themselves inTravis to the physical Kalanick world, arranging on-demand transportation, meals or even clean laundry in exchange for a sweet commission. Unlike Google, Facebook or Twitter, which thrive in the safe confines of cyberspace, these start-ups live on the streets.

That is a much messier place.

Regulators, courts and city halls are struggling to define Uber. Is it a taxi company or a technology platform? Are the drivers employees, as some are arguing in court, or “partners” — that is, freelancers — as Uber maintains?

Uber compares itself to the auction site eBay, connecting a buyer and seller but not liable for what happens between them. Regulating Uber, the company told the California Public Utilities Commission, would stifle innovation.

The commission, which oversees limousine companies, called Uber’s arguments “creative” but

decided in September that it was a transportation company after all, subject to regulation. Uber is appealing. A spokesman for Uber said the company’s system of asking passengers for feedback meant Uber was self-regulating.

The issue is pressing because, as the company rapidly expands and Uber drivers flood the streets, the possibility of accidents increases. Who is responsible when something goes wrong?

In a testy interview at Uber’s offices here, Kalanick declined to discuss the accident except in the most general terms. “We work our butts off to go above and beyond what is expected even by the regulators, including insurance, background checks,” he said.

“And so it always comes back to, did Uber do something wrong?”

Some say the answer is yes.

The San Francisco Cab Drivers Association, which is losing drivers to Uber, offered condolences to the 6-year-old’s family on its website.

“Uber may be the next Amazon, but Amazon doesn’t have the same potential capability to leave a trail of bodies in the street,” Trevor Johnson, a director of the association and a driver himself, wrote in an email. DAVID STREITFELD

Proposal to Raise Tip Wages Meets Resistance Nearly 50 years ago, federal law created a lower minimum wage for workers who receive tips. Congress decreed that it could not be less than 50 percent of the federal minimum wage.

But when the minimum wage inched up — raised to $5.25 in 1996 under President Clinton — Congress agreed, in a concession to the restaurant industry, to let the 50 percent rule on tip wages lapse.

Currently under federal law, restaurant owners are required to pay a minimum of $2.13 an hour toward a waiter’s wages as long as customers’ tips lift the waiter’s pay to the $7.25 federal minimum wage. (If tips are too small to reach the minimum wage, then the restaurant is required to top off the waiter’s pay.)

Nineteen states use the federal $2.13 tip wage; 24 states have set a subminimum tip wage above that. Seven other states, most of them in the West, require waiters’ base pay to be at least the state minimum wage. In Washington State, with the nation’s highest state minimum wage, that means

a base wage, before tips, is $9.32 an hour.

And now, as some Democratic senators and President Obama push to Dana Dreher raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, from $7.25, they are also backing increases to the tip wage (at $2.13, it is 29 percent of the minimum wage). Once again, the restaurant industry is fiercely opposed to a mandated increase.

Pointing to studies showing that many waiters live below the poverty line, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, argues that it is unfair that restaurant owners pay so little toward wages.

Advocates for restaurant workers protest that waiters’ pay has remained flat for years. The tip wage alone has gone unchanged since 1991: Taking inflation into account, the $2.13 enacted back

then is worth $1.24 today.

But the National Restaurant Association warns that if the tip wage is raised along with the federal minimum wage, customers will face higher menu prices and fewer waiters to serve them.

Dana Dreher, who works 20 to 40 hours a week as a waitress at a McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood and Steaks in St. Louis, says she makes $20,000 a year including tips. “I don’t think the tip wage is fair — it definitely needs to be increased,” she said. “There’s so much variability in pay.

“Sometimes I have to ask myself, Am I going to pay my rent or my utilities?” said Dreher, who has a master’s degree in social work from Washington University but has been unable to find a job in that field and owes $60,000 in student loans. “Once there was a bad snowstorm and business was really slow, and my pay was really cut. I had to plead with the woman at the utility to give me a few more weeks to pay my electric bill.”

STEVEN GREENHOUSE

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Web Journalism Is Asserting Itself After a week of speculation, it turns out that Ezra Klein, the prolific creator of The Washington Post’s Wonkblog, will be going to Vox Media, the online home of SB Nation, a sports The Media site, and The Verge, equaTion a fast-growing technology site.

David His change of adCarr dress could be read as the latest parable of Old Media cluelessness — allowing a journalism asset to escape who will come back to haunt them — or as another instance of a journalist cashing in on name-brand success. But it’s more complicated than that.

Klein is not running away from something, he is going toward something else. Vox is a digitally native business, a technology company that produces media, as opposed to a media company that uses technology. Everything at Vox, from the way it covers subjects, the journalists it hires and the content management systems on which it produces news, is optimized for the current age.

“We are just at the beginning of how journalism should be done on the web,” Klein said. “We really wanted to build something from the ground up that helps people understand the news better. We are not just trying to scale Wonkblog, we want to improve the technology of news, and Vox has a vision of how to solve some of that.”

Independent news sites like Business Insider, BuzzFeed and Vox have all received new funding, while traffic on viral sites like Upworthy and ViralNova has exploded. All the news has led to speculation that a bubble is forming in the content business, but something more real is underway.

Great digital journalists consume and produce content at the same time, constantly publishing what they are reading and hearing. And by leaving mainstream companies, journalists are often able to get their own hands on the button to publish, which is exciting. “If William Randolph Hearst and Bill Paley were alive today, they would think they were in heaven,” said Sir Michael Moritz, chairman of Sequoia Capital.

What we are witnessing now is not the formation of a bubble, it is the emergence of a commercial market, a game that has winners and losers, yet is hardly zero sum.

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Grammys Laud the Giants of Music and Its Upstarts Lorde, Daft Punk And Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Lead Winners LOS ANGELES — Newcomers, establishment stars and even a pair of French “robots” shared the spotlight at the 56th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, reflecting a changed music business in which top celebrities command constant attention yet a monster hit can come from anywhere.

Daft Punk, a French duo that hides their faces under robot-like helmets and have become elder statesmen of electronic dance music, won four prizes including album of the year for “Random Access Memories” and record of the year for “Get Lucky,” their ubiquitous hit with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, a hip-hop duo from Seattle that quickly went from the indie fringe to the top of the charts, were the biggest winners of the night with four awards, including best new artist and most of the Grammys’ rap categories, beating giants like Jay Z and Kanye West.

And Lorde, a 17-year-old New Zealander who in less than a year went from uploading songs to the Internet in obscurity to a nineweek run at No. 1, won song of the year and best pop solo perfor-

part of the show. It opened with Beyoncé and Jay Z performing a steamy version of “Drunk in Love” from Beyoncé’s new album.

And in keeping with the Grammys’ focus on flashy live spectacle, the show included 21 performances. Metallica played its classic “One” with the piano virtuoso Lang Lang; Pink sang while performing acrobatics suspended from acrobatics; and Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Blake Shelton smirked their MATT SAYLES/INVISION/ASSOCIATED PRESS way through “Okie Thomas Bangalter, of Daft Punk, accepts From Muskogee” and the award for record of the year for “Get “Highwayman.”

In what organizLucky” at the Grammy Awards. ers hoped would be a showstopper, 33 gay mance for “Royals,” a stark and and straight couples were married sensuous sendup of the fantasies of — by Queen Latifah, deputized conspicuous consumption in pop. by Los Angeles County — during (Record of the year recognizes a re- a performance of Macklemore & cording of a song; song of the year Ryan Lewis’s marriage-equality anthem “Same Love,” which also is for songwriting.)

“Thank you everyone who featured Madonna.

Among the other big winners of has let this song explode,” Lorde, whose real name is Ella Yelich- the night, Bruno Mars, whose risO’Connor, said, “because it’s been ing pop profile will bring him to the Super Bowl halftime show next mental.”

Yet the incumbent stars of the Sunday, took best pop vocal album music world were also very much for “Unorthodox Jukebox.”

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Jay Z won his 19th Grammy for best rap/sung collaboration for “Holy Grail,” featuring Justin Timberlake. Accepting it, he said he wanted to thank God “a little bit for this award,” and, holding up the trophy, sent a message to his 2-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy: “Look, Daddy got a gold sippy cup for you!”

Vampire Weekend won best alternative music album for “Modern Vampires of the City,” and Imagine Dragons, a young alternative band that had one of the biggest hits of the year with “Radioactive,” won best rock performance for that song.

But in keeping with the Grammys’ reverence for older rock acts, most of the awards in that field went to heroes from decades ago.

Led Zeppelin won its first Grammy ever for “Celebration Day,” a concert recording from its reunion in 2007, and Black Sabbath took best metal performance for the song “God Is Dead?” Best rock song went to “Cut Me Some Slack,” a jam between Paul McCartney and the surviving members of Nirvana.

The show was also drenched in Beatlemania as part of the music industry’s celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Ringo Starr, introduced by a blabbering Black Sabbath, sang his song “Photograph,” and later joined McCartney during his performance of “Queenie Eye.” BEN SISARIO

A list of winners at the 56th annual Grammy Awards. A complete list is at nytimes.com/music.

Album of the Year “Random Access Memories,” Daft Punk.

Record of the Year “Get Lucky,” Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers Song of the Year “Royals,” Lorde.

New Artist Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

Pop Solo Performance “Royals,” Lorde.

Pop Vocal Album “Unorthodox Jukebox,” Bruno Mars Pop/Duo Group Performance “Get Lucky,” Daft Punk with Pharrell and Nile Rodgers Rap/Sung Collaboration “Holy Grail,” Jay Z with Justin Timberlake.

Rock Song “Cut Me Some Slack,” Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear.

Country Album “Same Trailer Different Park,” Kacey Musgraves.

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In South Korea, Spam Is the Stuff Gifts Are Made Of “Here, Spam is a classy gift you can give to people you care about during the holiday,” said Im So-ra, a saleswoman at the high-end Lotte Department Store in downtown Seoul who proudly displayed stylish boxes with cans of Spam nestled inside.

South Korea has become the largest consumer of Spam outside the United States, according to the local producer. And that does not include the knockoffs that flood the market.

Spam’s journey from surplus pork shoulder in Minnesota to the center of the South Korean dining table began at a time of privation — hitching a ride with the U.S. military in the Korean War and becoming a longed-for luxury in the desperate years afterward.

SEOUL, South Korea — As the Lunar New Year holiday approaches, Seoul’s increasingly well-heeled residents are scouring store shelves for tastefully wrapped boxes of culinary specialties. Among their favorite choices: imported wines, choice cuts of beef, rare herbal teas. And Spam.

Yes, Spam. In the United States, the gelatinous meat product in the familiar blue and yellow cans has held a place as thrifty pantry staple, culinary joke and kitschy fare for hipsters without ever losing its low-rent reputation. But in economically vibrant South Korea, the pink bricks of pork shoulder and ham have taken on a bit of glamour as they worked their way into people’s affections.

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“PX food was the only way you could get meat,” said Kim Jong-sik, 79, a South Korean veteran who was stationed at U.S. bases in the 1950s. “Spam was a luxury available only to the rich and well-connected.”

These days, Spam remains ubiquitous, so much a part of the fabric of culinary life here that many young people have no idea of its origins, even as they order “military stew,” or budaejjigae.

Restaurants that specialize in the stew — a concoction that often mixes Spam with the more-indigenous kimchi — dot urban alleys.

Some harried Korean mothers revel in the convenience of opening a can and serving a breakfast of pan-fried Spam with eggs, and a mixture of little cubes of Spam, sour kimchi and rice (stir-fried and preferably served with an egg sunnyside up on top) is a favorite snack Korean women say they crave when pregnant.

And then there are the gift boxes, which have helped loft Spam’s sales in South Korea fourfold in the last decade to nearly 20,000 tons, worth $235 million, last year. The local producer, CJ Cheil Jedang, said it released 1.6 million boxed sets this holiday season alone, boasting of contents that make Koreans “full of smiles.”

George H. Lewis, a sociologist at the University of the Pacific, noted in a 2000 article in the Journal of Popular Culture that Spam won its “highest” status in South Korea. He observed that Spam not only outranked Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken, but was given as a gift “on occasions of importance when one wishes to pay special honor and proper respect.”

Even some who do not consider themselves big fans said they have their own fond memories of Spam as a fixture of their childhoods.

Seo Soo-kyung, 40, said it had been a revelation when her American brother-in-law looked shocked to see her buy Spam and told her it was “junk food for the homeless in the U.S.” “To me, Spam was just a tasteful and convenient food that mother used to cook for us,” she said. “The thing about Spam is that it goes marvelously well with kimchi and rice.”

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OPINION

MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

PAUL KRUGMAN

The Expanding Power of U.S. v. Windsor

Plutocrat Paranoia

The heartening effects of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last June striking down the core of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, continue to ripple outward. On Jan. 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that gays and lesbians may not be excluded from juries on the basis of their sexual orientation.

In a strongly worded opinion, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, explained that the reasoning of United States v. Windsor — in which the Supreme Court gutted DOMA, the spiteful 1996 law that denied federal benefits to married same-sex couples — compelled the Ninth Circuit’s holding.

“Jury service is one of the most important responsibilities of an American citizen,” Reinhardt wrote. Although the Windsor case addressed only marriage, Reinhardt added, the Supreme Court’s decision was premised on the idea of equal dignity for all, a dignity enhanced by “responsibilities, as well as rights.”

The Ninth Circuit is just the latest court to rely on the Windsor decision to expand the equal treatment of gays and lesbians. In recent weeks, federal judges in Utah and Oklahoma have cited Windsor in striking down state bans on samesex marriage, a federal judge in Ohio ordered that state to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, and state courts in New Jersey and New Mexico have relied on the ruling to permit same-sex marriages there.

The Ninth Circuit case involved a dispute between two drug companies, SmithKline Beecham and Abbott Laboratories, over the marketing and pricing of certain H.I.V. medications.

During jury selection, Abbott’s lawyer eliminated a prospective juror who had made references to his male partner. The lawyer relied on what is known as a peremptory challenge, which allows the striking of a limited number of potential jurors without explanation. The Supreme Court has prohibited the use of such strikes based on a juror’s race or gender; after the Windsor case, the Ninth Circuit reasoned, that prohibition must extend to a juror’s sexual orientation.

Critics contend that the Windsor ruling is more properly understood to protect each state’s right to decide its own marriage laws.

But that misses Windsor’s essence, which is that DOMA’s purpose was “to impose inequality” on a class of individuals without legitimate justification. In applying heightened judicial scrutiny to classifications based on sexual orientation, the Ninth Circuit used a standard the Windsor ruling never explicitly applied. But the impact is likely to be felt throughout the circuit’s nine states, in cases involving public employment, family law and same-sex marriage itself.

While the Supreme Court has so far declined to decide whether there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, it is clear that because of its holding in Windsor, the court will be confronted with that issue sooner rather than later. Seventeen states now permit same-sex marriage — not counting Utah and Oklahoma, where officials are challenging the recent judicial rulings — and that number is likely to grow in the next few years. The court has laid the groundwork for the recognition of equal rights for all. Now it must follow through on its own reasoning.

A Formula for Repelling Women Voters Republican leaders have chosen an odd way to try to win back female voters alienated by relentless G.O.P. attacks on women’s health care and freedoms. Instead of backing off, they’re digging in, clinging to an approach that gave President Obama a 12-point advantage among women in the 2012 election and provided the slim margin of victory for Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia, in 2013. On the national level and even in some red states, the party’s stance on women’s rights is plainly not helping it.

Yet the ideological tide rolls on. States dominated by Republicans continue to enact new abortion restrictions. The Republican National Committee last week heard Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, suggest that Democrats favor universal access to free contraception because they think women “cannot control their libido” without the help of “Uncle Sugar.” And this week, the Republican-led House is expected pass the deceptively named No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. Federal financing for abortion has been outlawed since 1976 by what’s known as the Hyde Amendment, harming poor women and others who rely on the federal government for their health care. Now the House has a new

bill that would erect obstacles to women who might seek an abortion. For instance, it would deny tax credits to small businesses that offer health plans including abortion coverage, discouraging businesses from offering such plans. Other insidious provisions would permanently codify the Hyde Amendment, now subject to annual approval, and a ban on the District of Columbia’s use of locally raised revenue to provide abortion care.

The new measure is the latest iteration of a bill introduced by Rep. Christopher Smith, RN.J., in 2010 and passed by the House in 2011 after gaining notoriety because of wording (subsequently deleted amid broad public criticism) limiting the rape exception to “forcible” rapes.

As House Republicans well know, the measure stands no chance of being approved in the Senate. It is thus tempting to dismiss the coming vote as political theater of the absurd.

But in forging ahead, as expected, to approve the bill, the House would lend it undeserved legitimacy, encouraging more states to pass copycat legislation. And it will reinforce the notion of the Republican Party as insensitive to women at just the moment when the party — not to mention society at large — would profit from a more welcoming approach.

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Rising inequality has obvious economic costs: stagnant wages despite rising productivity, rising debt that makes us more vulnerable to financial crisis. It also has big social and human costs.

There is strong evidence that high inequality leads to worse health and higher mortality.

But there’s more. Extreme inequality, it turns out, creates a class of people who are alarmingly detached from reality — and simultaneously gives these people great power.

The example many are buzzing about now is the billionaire investor Tom Perkins, a founding member of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In a letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal, he lamented public criticism of the “one percent” — and compared such criticism to Nazi attacks on the Jews, suggesting that we are on the road to another Kristallnacht.

You may say that this is just one crazy guy and wonder why The Journal would publish such a thing. But Perkins isn’t that much of an outlier.

He isn’t even the first finance titan to compare advocates of progressive taxation to Nazis. In 2010, Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman and chief executive of the Blackstone Group, declared that proposals to eliminate tax loopholes for hedge fund and private-equity managers were “like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.”

And there are a number of other plutocrats who manage to keep Hitler out of their remarks but who still hold, and loudly express, political and economic views that combine paranoia and megalomania in equal measure.

I know that sounds strong. But look at all the speeches and opinion pieces by Wall Streeters accusing President Obama — who has never done anything more than say the obvious, that some bankers behaved badly — of demonizing and persecuting the rich. And look at how many of those making these accusations also made the self-centered claim that their hurt feelings were the main thing holding the economy back.

I suspect that today’s Masters of the Universe are insecure about the nature of their success.

We’re not talking captains of industry here, men who make stuff. We are, instead, talking about wheeler-dealers, men who push money around and get rich by skimming some off the top as it sloshes by. They may boast that they are job creators, the people who make the economy work, but are they adding value? Many of us doubt it — and so, I suspect, do some of the wealthy themselves, a form of self-doubt that causes them to lash out even more furiously at their critics.

It’s impossible to read screeds like those of Perkins or Schwarzman without thinking of F.D.R.’s famous 1936 Madison Square Garden speech, in which he spoke of the hatred he faced from the forces of “organized money,” and declared, “I welcome their hatred.”

Obama has not, unfortunately, done nearly as much as F.D.R. to earn the hatred of the undeserving rich. But he has done more than many progressives give him credit for — and like F.D.R., both he and progressives in general should welcome that hatred, because it’s a sign that they’re doing something right.

SPORTS

MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014

In Brief

A Bizarre Finale Yields Unexpected Champion MELBOURNE, Australia — After two weeks of madness that included extreme temperatures, a player who hallucinated and saw Snoopy, a lightning strike, a rain delay, a prominent blister and back injury, new rackets, celebrity coaches and upsets galore, the Australian Open ended Sunday.

After all that, officials crowned a men’s singles champion: Stanislas Wawrinka.

Stanislas Wawrinka?

Indeed. For all the talk of Boris Becker’s and Stefan Edberg’s becoming coaches, of Roger Federer’s new racket, of swings in the weather and of early exits by the defending champions, Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka, Wawrinka triumphed. With that, he brought the strangest match of an odd tournament to a conclusion one could not have expected.

The final tally read 6-3, 6-2, 3-6,

6-3, Wawrinka of Switzerland over Rafael Nadal of Spain, yet the score explained only a fraction of what took place. Wawrinka, No. 8 in the world and at this tournament, became the lowest-ranked man to win a Grand Slam singles title since 2004, the lowest-seeded man to win the Australian Open since 2002 and, at 28, the oldest first-time men’s Grand Slam champion since 2001.

“I still think that I’m dreaming,” Wawrinka said.

His championship was, to understate it, unusual. In the previous 35 men’s Grand Slam singles finals, four men accounted for 34 titles: Nadal, Federer, Djokovic and Andy Murray.

It seemed all but certain Sunday at Melbourne Park that Nadal would make it 35 of 36.

He did not. But the end came with muted celebration, with

Wawrinka seeking out and consoling an ailing Nadal before the championship ceremony. Wawrinka smiled, but not too widely and not for long. He threw a wristband into the stands. He sipped water and patted Nadal on the back.

“That’s not the real moment to talk about that,” Nadal said afterward of his back injury. “Stan is playing unbelievable. He deserved to win that title.”

The first three sets played out like a three-act play, each so different as to seem a separate match.

Set 1: Wawrinka pushed Nadal around. Set 2: Nadal appeared to throw out his back and needed a medical timeout; he played with a permanent grimace. Set 3: Nadal moved better, and Wawrinka came undone.

Strange match. Strange tournament.

GREG BISHOP

Playing Outdoors, Rangers Are in Their Element Maybe it was the midwinter cold. Or maybe it was the chipped ice, or even the jovial atmosphere among the fans on Sunday.

Whatever the reason, the RangRANGERS 7 ers and the Devils played a game DEVILS 3 of old-fashioned pond shinny in the Bronx.

The Rangers won, 7-3, scoring six straight goals to secure the victory. But the enduring memory will be of blue-clad Rangers fans and red-clad Devils fans — an announced crowd of 50,105 — under a light snowfall at the first hockey game at Yankee Stadium.

“It was just a great day,” Rangers Coach Alain Vigneault said.

“I know we won, and it’s easy to say after you’ve won it, but it was an unbelievable atmosphere, and I’m really fortunate to have been part of one of these.”

The Rangers’ seven goals — their highest total against the Devils in a regular-season game since 1993 — were the most scored by an N.H.L. team in an outdoor game.

That helped the Rangers improve to 2-0 in outdoor games, with a victory at Philadelphia in the 2012 Winter Classic. They play the Islanders at the Stadium on Wednesday night.

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“The atmosphere and the mixed fan colors — the aura of it all was special,” he said. “The whole thing was unbelievable, beside the hockey game.”

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Nets Down Celtics Andray Blatche scored 17 points to lead Brooklyn to an 85-79 victory in the first visit by Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to Boston since they were traded last July. Garnett stole the ball from Rajon Rondo and dribbled ahead of the field for a layup that ended Boston’s last threat. That put the Nets ahead, 82-77, with 20 seconds left and secured their 10th win in 11 games.

(AP)

N.B.A. SCORES SATURDAY’S LATE GAMES Chicago 89, Charlotte 87 L.A. Clippers 126, Toronto 118 Oklahoma City 103, Philadelphia 91 Memphis 99, Houston 81 Atlanta 112, Milwaukee 87 Denver 109, Indiana 96 Utah 104, Washington 101 Portland 115, Minnesota 104 SUNDAY Miami 113, San Antonio 101 Knicks 110, L.A. Lakers 103 New Orleans 100, Orlando 92 Phoenix 99, Cleveland 90 Nets 85, Boston 79 Dallas 116, Detroit 106 Golden State 103, Portland 88 Denver 125, Sacramento 117

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SPORTS JOURNAL

Committing to Play for a College, Then Starting Ninth Grade SANFORD, Fla. — Before Haley Berg was done with middle school, she had the numbers for 16 college soccer coaches programmed into the iPhone she protected with a Justin Bieber case.

She was 14, but Hales, as her friends call her, was already weighing offers to attend the University of Colorado, Texas A&M and the University of Texas, free of charge.

Haley is not a once-in-a-generation talent like LeBron James.

She just happens to be a very good soccer player, and that is now valuable enough to set off a frenzy among college coaches, even when — or especially when — the athlete in question has not attended a day of high school.

For Haley, the process ended last summer, a few weeks before ninth grade began, when she called the coach at Texas to accept her offer of a scholarship four years later.

“When I started in seventh grade, I didn’t think they would talk to me that early,” Haley, now 15, said after a tournament late

In Brief Stallings Survives In a tournament that was up for grabs, Scott Stallings hit a 4-iron worthy of a winner Sunday at the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego. Stallings was in a five-way tie for the lead when he hit his second shot on the par-5 18th hole as hard as he could. It was enough to barely clear the water, and he took two putts from 40 feet for birdie and a four-under-par 68 at Torrey Pines. That was enough for a one-shot victory when no one could catch him.

(AP)

Knicks Beat Lakers No 62-point game for Carmelo Anthony on Sunday. He didn’t even match his first-half total from Friday night. He didn’t have to, with the Knicks offering him plenty of support for a change. Anthony scored 35 points, four teammates had at least 13, and New York beat the Los Angeles Lakers, 110-103. n Chris Bosh scored 24 points, LeBron James added 18 points and the Miami Heat rolled past the San Antonio Spurs, 113-101, on Sunday in an N.B.A. Finals rematch from last season. (AP)

Haley Berg, 15, accepted a scholarship to Texas four years in advance. their future rosters. This is happening despite N.C.A.A. rules that appear to explicitly prohibit it.

COOPER NEILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The N.C.A.A. last month in Central Florida, rules indicate that coaches canwhere Texas coaches showed up not call players until July after to watch her juke past defenders, their junior year of high school.

Players are not supposed to comblond ponytail bouncing behind.

“Even the coaches told me, mit until signing a letter of intent ‘Wow, we’re recruiting an eighth in the spring of their senior year.

But these rules have enormous grader,’ ” she said.

In today’s sports world, stu- and widely understood loopholes. dents are offered full scholarships The easiest way for coaches to before they have taken their first circumvent the rules is by conCollege Boards, or even the Pre- tacting the students through their liminary SAT exams. Coaches high school or club coaches. Once flock to watch 13- and 14-year-old the students are alerted, they can girls who they hope will fill out reach out to the college coaches.

The heated race to recruit ever younger players has accelerated over the last five years. It is generally traced back to the professionalization of college and youth sports, a shift that has transformed soccer and other recreational sports from after-school activities into regimens requiring strength coaches and managers.

Early scouting has also become more prevalent in women’s sports than men’s, in part because girls mature sooner than boys. But coaches say it is also an unintended consequence of Title IX, the federal law that requires equal spending on men’s and women’s sports. Colleges have sharply increased the number of women’s sports scholarships they offer, leading to a growing number of coaches chasing talent pools that have not expanded as quickly.

After the weekend in Florida, the coach at Virginia, Steve Swanson, said, “To me, it’s the singular biggest problem in college athletics.”

NATHANIEL POPPER

For a Star With Dementia, Time Is Running Out WilloW Park, Tex. The Hall of Famer Rayfield Wright’s increasingly imperfect memory retains an indelible image of his first N.F.L. start.

It was NovemSporTS of ber 1969. The The TiMeS Dallas Cowboys Juliet Macur against the Los Angeles Rams.

Wright, a Cowboys offensive tackle, lined up opposite Deacon Jones, the Rams’ feared defensive end.

“Hey, boy,” Jones growled.

“Do your mama know you’re out here?”

Jones slapped his dinner-platesize right hand against Wright’s helmet so hard that it sent Wright tumbling backward. He remembers being knocked out, then waking to see a galaxy of stars as he lay on the turf, unable to move.

“It was as if I’d just been hit in the head by a baseball bat,” Wright said. He turned toward his sideline. Coach Tom Landry just glanced at him, and turned away.

“Lord,” he thought. “I’m in this by myself.”

For the longest time, he was sure that was true. It took Wright nearly 40 years to recognize that he probably sustained a concussion in his first N.F.L. start, one of many head injuries he says he had

in 13 seasons with the Cowboys.

Only recently — albeit through the fog of his worsening dementia, Rayfield which he acWright knowledged publicly for the first time last week in an interview at his Texas home — has he realized he is not in this by himself after all.

Wright, 68, is among more than 4,500 players who have sued the N.F.L., contending that the league concealed for years what it knew about the dangers of repeated hits to the head. This month, a federal judge rejected a proposed $765 million settlement that would compensate players young and old for those injuries.

The judge, Anita B. Brody, was exactly right to express concern that the settlement was too small to pay for medical tests and treatment for the thousands of players who face — or could face — health problems related to their N.F.L. careers. She has asked the league’s lawyers to justify their math.

The N.F.L. has argued that its offer was “fair and adequate,” but

it should be ashamed to even suggest such a figure. The league generates revenue of about $10 billion a year, and the $765 million was earmarked to cover all claims over a 65-year period. It’s no surprise that the N.F.L. is trying to get out of the lawsuit on the cheap after years of denying a link between football and brain injuries.

Some plaintiffs, furious that they may have paid a terrible physical price to make the N.F.L. rich, want to hold out for more.

Wright played in more than 180 regular-season and playoff games from 1967 to 1979. Now, more than 30 years after retiring from the N.F.L., he is still considered one of the best offensive linemen ever.

But Wright, who for his safety cannot be left alone, can barely make ends meet, said Jeannette DeVader, his former girlfriend who is now his caregiver. His monthly income is less than $2,500, including his $82.20 N.F.L. pension. He owes, she said, “tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills” and has no private health insurance to cover what Medicare doesn’t.

Wright needs more help.

“I need this issue with the N.F.L. to be resolved now,” he said. “A person could die before they ever settle this.”

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS Stennis Receives Third Consecutive Retention Excellence Award

By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Daniel Schumacher, USS John C. Stennis Public Affairs

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) was announced as a recipient of the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet fiscal year (FY) 2013 Retention Excellence Award (REA) Jan. 9th.

This is the third consecutive year Stennis has been recognized for exceeding the retention expectations and criteria set forth by the chief of naval operations.

“This award speaks volumes about the phenomenal teamwork, mentorship,and support provided by this crew to each of our shipmates,” said Stennis’ Commanding Officer Capt. Mike Wettlaufer. “I could not be more proud of our Stennis team.”

To qualify for the award Stennis had to meet or exceed reenlistment rates of 55 percent for Sailors between zero and six years of service (Zone A); 60 percent for Sailors between six and 10 years of service (Zone B); and 71 percent for Sailors between 10 and 14

years of service (Zone C).

An attrition rate of 5.5 percent or lower for Zone A Sailors was also required.

Stennis had to meet all qualifications for the Professional Apprenticeship Career Track, a program for undesignated Sailors to receive

on-the-job training to qualify for a permanent rate; and the Navy Leadership Development Program, which aims to develop essential leadership skills for all Sailors.

“We could not have gotten everything done without the great support of the departmental and divisional career counselor teams and every leader on board,” said Stennis’ Command Career Counselor, Chief Navy Counselor Jean-Hero Lamy, from Miami. “This was a team effort.”

In recognition of earning the FY 2013 REA, Stennis’ anchors will remain painted gold and the REA pennant will be flown on the ship’s mast.

SUDS Visits Guantanamo Bay

By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jason Bawgus, Naval Station (NS) Guantanamo Bay, Public Affairs

A variety of organizations from Naval Station (NS) Guantanamo Bay hosted Soldiers Undertaking Disabled Scuba (SUDS) veterans, Jan. 16-23.

SUDS is designed to help improve the lives of injured service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

By training the warriors in a challenging and rewarding activity, it can help facilitate the rehabilitation process and promote mobility. Offering scuba diving provides the service member with a sport they can enjoy during their rehabilitation and throughout their life.

“It makes you weightless

in the water, so it really takes away from any obstacles you have on the land,” said Michael Martinez, SUDS participant.

“All of the pressure and weight on your joints doesn’t matter when you are in the water.

None of that matters down

there.”

SUDS is based at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in Bethesda, Md. The SUDS program is for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom

(OEF) service members under physical therapy and occupational therapy care.

“I started SUDS in 2007 after a visit to Walter Reed National Military [Medical] Center,” said Jason Thompson, president of the SUDS Board of Directors. “As soon as you walk through the door you immediately are impacted by some of the injuries and I just wanted to try and help in any way I could.”

The SUDS foundation makes yearly trips to many destinations with NS Guantanamo Bay being the only military base the SUDS members visit.

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