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A man was found dead on the Ltrain tracks at the First Avenuestation early during yesterdaymorning’s rush-hour commute.

Police were investigatingwhether he was hit by a train.

The incident comes on theheels of the death of Queensman Ki-Suk Han last Monday,who was reportedly pushed in-to the tracks and then hit by aQ train at 49th Street after aplatform altercation.

According to the MTA, thenumber of people hit by trainsincreased 15 percent in 2011. In2010, 128 people had beenstruck by subway trains, and147 were hit in 2011, accordingto the MTA. As of April of thisyear, the most recent data theMTA could provide, 49 peoplehad been struck by trains.

In yesterday’s incident, theNYPD reported a 911 call it re-ceived at 7:10 a.m. detailing aman struck by a train. MTAspokesman Kevin Ortiz said itwas unclear whether the manhad been hit by the train.

The victim was a white malewho was declared dead on ar-rival, the NYPD reported.

At that rush-hour time, the Ltrain runs every four to six min-utes, Ortiz said.

The NYPD is conducting aninvestigation, but at this time itdoes not suspect criminal activ-

ity was involved. The man didnot have any identification onhim, which a law enforcementsource said usually may indi-cate a suicide.

After Han was crushed by atrain last week, Naeem Davis,30, was arraigned two days lat-er and charged with second de-gree murder.

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Monserratesentenced totwo yearsNEW YORK. Former stateSen. Hiram Monserratewas sentenced to 24months in prison, theDepartment of Investi-gation announced yes-terday. Monserrate wassentenced for directingmore than $100,000 infunding through a non-profit to his Senate cam-paign. He pleaded guiltyto fraud in May. “HiramMonserrate was undoneby his greed,” DOI Com-missioner Rose GillHearn said. METRO/AB

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Cops searchfor rapistELMHURST. Police arelooking for a rape sus-pect. According to theNYPD, a man enteredan Elmhurst residencethrough a bathroomwindow using a ladderDec. 9 around 4 a.m.Once he was inside, hesexually assaulted the24-year-old victim be-fore fleeing, cops said.The man is describedas male, black or His-panic, 20 to 25, and 5 foot 8. METRO/AB

US, New York suetour bus operatorsNEW YORK. Two companiesrun an illegal monopoly inNew York City’s $100 millionmarket for hop-on, hop-offbus tours, driving up pricesfor tourists in the city, stateand federal antitrust authori-ties said in a lawsuit filed yes-terday. Twin America LLC, ajoint venture of operatorsCoach USA Inc. and CitySights LLC, violates competi-tion laws and should be dis-solved, according to the suitfiled in U.S. District Court forthe Southern District of NewYork. REUTERS

Woman shot rightoutside hospitalBROOKLYN. A woman wasshot near a hospitalyesterday morning. Accord-ing to police, around 3:10a.m., cops found a 32-year-old woman shot in the neckat the corner of Hegeman Av-enue and East 98th Street,the rear side of BrookdaleHospital in Brooklyn. Thewoman, who policeidentified as Shalema Gaskin,32, was taken into the hospi-tal, where she waspronounced dead.

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Man arrested forstabbing neighborHARLEM. Cops arrested aman for stabbing another todeath after cops found thevictim stabbed in the neck.According to police, on Mon-day shortly before 8 p.m.,cops responded to a 911 callof a man stabbed inside aWest 110th Street residence.When they arrived, theyfound Keith Warney, 45,stabbed in his neck. He wastaken to the hospital and pro-nounced dead. They arrestedSaladin Saunders, 41, nearbyat 110th Street and LexingtonAvenue, charging him withmurder and criminal posses-sion of a weapon. The twowere reportedly neighbors ina homeless shelter.

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Fish sold inNew YorkroutinelymislabeledNEW YORK. Nearly three in fiveNew York City grocery storesand restaurants that sellseafood have mislabeled partof their stock, substituting va-rieties that could cause healthproblems, according to a newstudy. Some 39 percent of thefish obtained for the study bythe ocean conservation groupOceana was inaccurately iden-tified, Oceana said. Sometimescheap fish is substituted formore expensive varieties.Forensic DNA analysis re-vealed 58 percent of81 New Yorkretailers andeateries

sampled incorrectly labeledthe seafood they sold, accord-ing to the study. In someinstances, consumersunknowingly purchased fishthat could pose health risks.Blueline tilefish masqueradedas halibut and red snapper.The FDA urges pregnantwomen, nursing mothers andsmall children to avoid tilefishgiven its high mercurycontent. All but one of the 17white tuna samples obtainedfrom sushi restaurants turnedout to be escolar, a fish whosediarrhea-inducing propertiesearned it the nickname the“ex-lax fish.” REUTERS

State’s topcourt rulesgang activitynot terrorismNEW YORK. A New York stateanti-terrorism law enacted inthe wake of the Sept. 11attacks cannot be used toprosecute a street gang mem-ber convicted of shooting a10-year-old girl and paralyz-ing a rival gang member, thestate’s Court of Appeals ruledyesterday. The court ordered anew trial for Edgar Morales,30, a member of the Bronx-based St. James Boys gangwho was sentenced to up tolife imprisonment for his rolein the 2002 shooting. Prosecu-tors had accused Morales andhis gang of terrorizing theMexican-American communi-

ty in their neighborhood.Morales is the only gangmember to have been prose-cuted under the law, hislawyer said. But the Court ofAppeals found that state law-makers never intended to ex-tend the definition of terror-ism to traditional gang activi-ties. REUTERS

Another subway tragedy,but this time a mystery

Man found dead in subway tracks yesterday Cops say identity andcause of death unknown 15-percent increase in people struck in 2011

What to do if you fall inThe MTA does not providesafety advice, because stationlayouts and trackbedconstruction varies. “I don’tthink there’s any sound ad-vice that could be given,”Straphangers Campaignspokesman Gene Russianoffagreed. In 2007, a 50-year-oldconstruction worker andNavy veteran saved a fallenman’s life by jumping in andlying on top of him betweenthe rails.

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Riders waited for the L yesterday at the First Avenue station.

This fish may not bewhat you

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“The concept ofterrorism has aunique meaning,and its implicationsrisk beingtrivialized if theterminology isapplied loosely.”JUDGE VICTORIA GRAFFEO

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barriers

Russianoff said one idea hasbeen to install some sort ofbarrier, similar to what ex-ists in Paris and London, be-tween the train and theplatform, “possibly at themost crowded” stations.

“It’s not going to bea solution for thevast majority ofcases. ... Olderstations weren’tdesigned withthose sort ofstructures in mind.”RUSSIANOFF

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A second incidentA second incident occurredjust a few days later onThursday night, when twomen were safely pulled outof the tracks in the uptown 5train station at BowlingGreen. One had jumped into rescue the other, the MTAsaid. Ortiz said that the on-coming train was approach-ing at a slow speed andstopped in time.

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The afternoon shootingnear Columbus Circleterrified bystanders in a typi-cally heavily populated areaof Manhattan.

NYPD spokesman PaulBrowne said yesterday thattesting indicated that thesame gun was used in a 2009shooting in Queens, where 12shots were fired at a residenceby two men.

The video shows the gun-man 10 minutes before the 2p.m. shooting, exiting a carand putting up the hood ofhis jacket. He lingers nearbyas people walk past him withumbrellas and shopping bags.

Police said Monday nightthat the man killed was Bran-don Lincoln Woodard, a 31-year-old from Los Angeles.

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released by police showsWoodard walking in front ofthe killer shortly before hewas shot. Woodard is walkingand looking at his phone.

Woodard reportedly had aprevious criminal record but

was then studying law at Loy-ola Marymount University.

He was shot at close rangein the back of the head oncefrom a silver semiautomatichandgun, cops said, on 58thStreet near Broadway.

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Ferrying steel to One World Trade tower

A barge carried sections of steel that will be the crowning spire for One World Trade Center alongthe Hudson River yesterday. The nine pieces of steel will eventually create the top of the tower atits height of 1,776 feet, which will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. METRO/AB

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Twitter adds photo tools to challenge InstagramTwitter unveiled tools to adjustthe color, size and style of pho-tos uploaded via applicationsfor Apple iPhones and Androidphones, as the social-media siteadds features to compete withFacebook’s Instagram.

The photo filters, developedin partnershipwith software

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date to the mobileapps made available yesterday,San Francisco-based Twittersaid in a blog post.

Twitter is letting users addpictures, video and audio totheir postings as it steps upcompetition with Facebook,which bought photo-sharingservice Instagram earlier thisyear. Last week, Instagram dis-abled a feature called TwitterCards for showcasing photosand other media. The movewas seen as a step that better

prepares Instagram for generat-ing revenue from its own serv-ices by driving traffic to its web-site.

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Zuckerberg sawthe importanceFacebook CEO MarkZuckerberg similarly ar-gued for the importance

of photo-sharingwhen heshockedSiliconValley ear-lier thisyear by

making an offer to Insta-gram valued at the timeat $1 billion.

Twitter’s new photoeffects will be incorporat-ed as part of an update tothe Twitter’s iPhone andAndroid apps, availablebeginning Monday, thecompany said. REUTERS

Rich-case scenario:The $300,000iPhone case The price of the world’smost expensive iPhone 5case is $300,000. That’s forthe unique “Lotus” (phonenot included) unveiled inNovember by Mischa Barton.

Sublime or ridiculous,the “Lotus” — crafted fromrose gold, pink and white di-amonds and the finest Ital-ian leather — sits majestical-ly at the top of an industry.Mike Morgan, senior analystfor mobile devices at ABI re-search, believes that “it’splausible to say that $600million worth of iPhone cas-

es for Q4 will be sold global-ly because they’re attachedto the biggest device magneton the planet.”

The reason behind thismarket’s growth is obvious:“Smartphones are takingover from feature phonesand have a higher attachrate,” says Morgan.

That’s why owners aremore willing to invest in ac-cessorizing and personaliz-ing their device, with Mischabeing the latest celebrity tojoin the fashionable tech-cessories fold, whichincludes Versace, Mulberry,Marc by Marc Jacobs andeven the traditional station-ers Smythson, to rattle off afew. MWN/RICHARD PECKETT

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Twitter’s filters mimic the features that has defined Instagram.

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Delta buys 49%Virgin AtlanticStake for NYC-UK serviceATLANTA/LONDON. Delta AirLines agreed to buy a 49 per-cent stake in Richard Bran-son’s Virgin Atlantic Airwaysfor $360 million to boost itsshare of the lucrative trans-Atlantic travel market.

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Cayman Island police arrestpremier over credit card useCayman Islands Premier McK-eeva Bush was arrested formisuse of a government creditcard and importing explosivesubstances, the Caribbeancountry’s police said.

Bush, 57, was taken intocustody at 7 a.m. today at hishome in West Bay, accordingto a statement e-mailed by thepolice. The premier, who tookoffice in 2009 and has been inthe legislature since 1984, is

known in the assembly as the“Father of the House,” accord-ing to his official biography.

Officials with the rulingUnited Democratic Party aremeeting to determine how thegovernment will proceed, theCayman Compass newspaperreported on its website, citingsources it didn’t name. DeputyPremier Julianna O’Connor-Connolly would serve in Bush’splace. BLOOMBERG

Throngs in Michigan protestunion dues: ‘There Will Be Blood’Michigan lawmakers approvedbills to prohibit mandatoryunion dues in workplaces asthousands of chanting protest-ers thronged the Lansing Capi-tol.

“This is the day when Michi-gan freed its workers,” Repre-sentative Lisa PosthumusLyons, an Alto Republican, saidtoday during debate on twobills, one for public employeesand another for private ones.

If Republican Governor RickSnyder signs the so-calledRight-to-Work measures aspromised, Michigan would be-come the 24th state to enact

such legislation, and the sec-ond this year after Indiana. Thechange would be a practicaland symbolic rout in a strong-hold of organized labor in theU.S., and opponents said it pre-saged political warfare.

“There will be blood,” Repre-sentative Douglas Geiss, a De-mocrat from Taylor, said in de-bate.

Labor supporters convergedon the statehouse as lawmak-ers debated the measures forthe state that’s home to theUnited Auto Workers and thethree largest U.S. automakers.BLOOMBERG

Union members from around the country rallied at the Michigan State Capitol to protest a vote on Right-to-Work legislation yesterday in Lansing.

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‘Civil war’Bill Bagwell, a 55-year-old UAWmember from Westland, saidthe measure would create fric-tion at his General Motors plantin Ypsilanti. Members who payunion dues would detest those

who enjoy the benefits of thecontract but don’t contribute,he said.

“It’ll create civil war,” Bagwellsaid.

Officials spent days gearingup for crowds brought out bythe legislature’s sudden action

last week to give initial approvalto the anti-dues bills, which ex-clude police and firefighters.

The crowd numbered morethan 10,000, according to StatePolice Inspector GeneAdamczyk, with more buses stillarriving. BLOOMBERG

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HSBC to pay $1.9 billion USfine in money-laundering caseHSBC Holdings agreed to pay arecord $1.92 billion in fines toU.S. authorities for allowing it-self to be used to launder a riv-er of drug money flowing outof Mexico and other bankinglapses.

Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel andColombia’s Norte del Valle car-tel between them laundered$881 million through HSBC anda Mexican unit, the U.S. JusticeDepartment said yesterday.

In a deferred prosecutionagreement with the Justice De-partment, the bank acknowl-edged that it failed to maintainan effective program againstmoney laundering and failed toconduct basic due diligence onsome of its account holders.

Under the agreement,which was reported by Reuterslast week, the bank agreed totake steps to fix the problems,forfeit $1.256 billion and retaina compliance monitor. Thebank also agreed to pay $665

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“We accept responsibilityfor our past mistakes. We havesaid we are profoundly sorryfor them, and we do so again.The HSBC of today is a funda-mentally different organizationfrom the one that made thosemistakes,” HSBC Chief Execu-tive Stuart Gulliver said.REUTERS

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Boehner standsfirm but hopeful on ‘fiscal cliff’ WASHINGTON. House of Repre-sentatives Speaker JohnBoehner offered no concretesigns of progress yesterday on

the “fiscalcliff” talks butsaid heremainedhopeful thatboth sideswould reach

an agreement by the end-of-year deadline.

Amid signs that the WhiteHouse and Boehner’s officeare making headway in thetalks, Boehner repeated hisnow-familiar call for PresidentBarack Obama to offer a newproposal to avert theautomatic steep tax hikes andspending cuts set for the endof the year unless Congressintervenes.

“I’m an optimist. I’m hope-

ful we can reach anagreement,” Boehner said onthe House floor.

While Boehner demandedmore specific spending cutsfrom Obama, White Housespokesman Jay Carney saidthe administration hadsubmitted extensive propos-als to reduce spending but Re-publicans had not offeredspecifics on increasingrevenues.

“There is a deal out therethat’s possible,” Carney toldreporters. It could include re-duced spending, morerevenues and tax reform aslong as Republicans acceptedhigher tax rates on thewealthiest Americans, he said.

“We do believe the param-eters of a compromise arepretty clear,” Carney said.

The pace of staff-level talkshas quickened since Boehnermet on Sunday with Obama atthe White House in a meetingthat the Republican describedas “nice” and “cordial.”

But Senate Democraticleader Harry Reid said itwould be difficult to reach anagreement before Christmas.REUTERS

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Yahoo rolled out new versionsof its popular Web e-mail onTuesday, the first major prod-uct makeover since Chief Exec-utive Marissa Mayer took thehelm of the struggling Internetcompany five months ago.

Yahoo released new versionsof its Yahoo Mail product forsmartphones and tablets — inkeeping with Mayer’s focus onmobile devices — and a re-vamped version of its Web-based mail product for PC usersthat cuts out ancillary featuresand that the company said de-livers faster performance.

Yahoo is the No. 1 Web e-mail product in the UnitedStates and No. 3 worldwide, be-hind Google’s Gmail and Mi-crosoft’s Hotmail, according tocomScore.

But the number of uniqueusers of Yahoo e-mail declined16 percent in November from ayear earlier in the United Statesand 7 percent worldwide, ac-cording to comScore.

Analysts say the declineowes partly to a younger gener-ation of Internet users who pre-fer to communicate with textmessages on their phones

rather than e-mail.Mayer, a former Google ex-

ecutive who is widely admiredin Silicon Valley for her Web-product savvy, is moving to re-vitalize Yahoo’s various Webproducts and reverse years ofdeclining revenue.

She has said her top priorityis to create a coherent mobilestrategy for Yahoo and that sheintends for at least half of thecompany’s technical workforceto be working on mobile prod-ucts.

As part of yesterday’s an-nouncement, Yahoo unveiledan update to its mobile emailapp for smartphones based onthe Android operating system,as well as Yahoo’s first stand-alone app for Apple’s iPhone.

Yahoo also released a ver-sion designed for tablets andPCs based on Microsoft’s newWindows 8 operating system.

Vivek Sharma, GeneralManager of Yahoo Mail & Mes-senger, said the group of newmobile apps was part of Ya-hoo’s goal of ensuring that itsproducts are available acrossall major mobile platforms.REUTERS

Yahoo CEO unveilsoverhaul of e-mail

New stretchyelectronicsinspired by natureScientists in Switzerlandhave come up with amaterial mimicking the waytendons connect to bones,which could speed thedevelopment of stretchy,wearable electronic devices.

The stretchableelectronics industry is in itsinfancy, but devices that areable to flex withoutbreaking could revolutionizedevices from smartphonesand solar cells to medicalimplants.

But while circuits andwiring are quite happy onrigid surfaces like those in atablet computer, they breakeasily when combined withmaterials that stretch.

“You have two materialswith very differentmechanical properties,” saidAndre Studart, a researcherat the Swiss Federal Instituteof Technology in Zurich,said. “The challenge is tobridge these differentproperties.” REUTERS

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Hawking, CERN win $3M prizeStephen Hawking, the British cosmologist who urged peo-ple to “be curious” at the Paralympics opening ceremony,has landed the richest prize in science for his work on howblack holes emit radiation. Hawking won $3 million fromRussian Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who set up hisprize this year to address what he regards as a lack of recog-nition in the modern world for leading scientists.Along with Hawking, a second $3 million award has gone tothe scientists behind the discovery this year of a newsubatomic particle that behaves like the theoretical Higgsboson. REUTERS

Science. Big prize

Arguably the world’s most famous scientist was honored.

“You told us loudand clear that youwanted fewerdistractions whenit comes to e-mail.You want toquickly log in,communicate andget on with yourday.”MAYER IN A POST ON YAHOO’SOFFICIAL BLOG

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Stewart is cool withgetting naked, OK?Kristen Stewart is sick and tiredof all the attention her nudescenes in “On the Road” aregetting. “I do hate also whenpeople go, ‘Oh wow, greatperformance. So brave,’” shetells the Huffington Post.“Because I’m naked? That’sannoying. But at the same time,if that’s what they’re focusingon, then ‘On the Road’ probablyisn’t for them anyway.” Stewart

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One Direction isn’ttoo keen on Swift’sprivate jetTaylor Swift’s fledgling romancewith Harry Styles appears toalready be causing strife among

his One Direction bandmates. Sowhat’s got them all workedup? Travel arrangements, itturns out. After the band’s

stay in New York, Stylesreportedly headed back toEngland with Swift on herprivate jet while the rest of theband traveled separately,according to E! News. “The

rest of the band were a bitannoyed about the wholething,” a source says. “Theytook a Virgin commercialflight and there were tonsof spare seats on the jet.They had just finished a

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Cruise’s Christmasincludes all the kids

Tom Cruise is spendingChristmas with the kids, he tellsPeople magazine. “We have gotlots of very special thingsplanned,” Cruise said while at theLondon premiere of “JackReacher,” his first publicappearance since his divorcefrom Katie Holmes. Thosespecial plans involve his childrenBella, 20, and Connor, 17, plusSuri, the 6-year-old daughter heshares with Holmes. “We are allgoing to be together.”

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Hilaria Thomasand Alec BaldwinThe deets: The twolovebirds got engaged inApril, less than a year afterthey first met. Wedding date: It alreadyhappened (Baldwin movesfast). The two were wed inJune in New York City.

Avril Lavigne andChad KroegerThe deets: Oh, Canada! Thetwo got engaged in August,surprising a lot of fans (andgossip columnists) whodidn’t even know they weredating. “Things just clickedreal quick,” Kroeger, thelead singer of Nickleback,told a radio station aboutLavigne. Wedding date: I’m kind ofgetting the vibe they’ll skipthe wedding and just gostraight to procreatingCanadian royalty.

Evan RachelWood and Jamie BellThe deets: The two got en-gaged in January. They metwhile starring in a GreenDay music video in 2005;they broke up when shemoved on with MarilynManson and reconnectedwhen her engagement tothe goth rocker ended in2010.Wedding date: Already hap-pened! They were marriedon Halloween in California.“It was a small ceremonywith close family andfriends,” said her rep in astatement.

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Bruno Mars gets ‘Unorthodox’He may have had success with ‘The Lazy Song,’ but when the singer got

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Q&A: Bruno’sother jukeboxIf we were in a bar …I’d say, ‘What’s up, toots?’… and I gave you a dollarfor the jukebox, what threesongs would you play?Right now? The way I’m feel-ing right now? We’re in abar. … Is it nighttime?Yes. … It’s around 10 p.m.and we’ve had three beers.I’d play Zeppelin, “WholeLotta Love” to start the s—off. And then I would play“I’m Too Sexy” by Right SaidFred. Why not? We’ve hadthree beers and I’m hittingon you. I’m gonna dance,too. And the third one … toreally freak and weird thepeople out is Celine Dion,“My Heart Will Go On.” Justto really bum out the wholebar. But I’d sing along. These are all really old …You’re asking me, right? I likeold songs. And for some rea-son, I see you and me at thebar feeling kind of sexy.

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Loneliness linkedto dementia Study subjects: 2,000 peoplewith no signs of dementia livingindependently for three yearsLocation of study: Amsterdam Results: A study published on-line in the Journal of Neurology,Neurosurgery and Psychiatryfound that elderly people whoreported feeling lonely had a2.5 times increased incidence ofdementia. Significance: The degree ofone’s social support — alongwith older age, underlyingmedical conditions, genes, im-paired cognition anddepression — could be anothertool in predict the developmentof dementia in later life.

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Fewer wars, fewerwounded to care forin the aftermathOver the next 50 or 60 years,American taxpayers will bepaying for the disabled veter-ans of past military actions.Let’s hope we have no more.

It has been my own per-sonal observation that whenthe central government isconfronted with a major na-tional security issue, it spas-modically reacts by increas-ing the size of the military— both head count and ma-terial. During thesespasmodic periods, person-nel are recruited who aremore susceptible to disabili-ties than the norm.

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Americans: Just likethe Whos, but withless crazy hairRE: “THE BEST HOLIDAY MOVIE?‘MIRACLE ON CAPITOL HILL’”(METRO, DEC. 11) Over the pastfew days, I have read lettersstating that people’s holidaywishes include politicianssitting down together, butBoehner (and the GOP) con-sistently act like the Grinch.You see, all the Whos inWhoville love their socialistpresents from biggovernment that create theirholiday we call retirement.But the Grinch hates govern-ment and socialism. To him,nothing’s funny, especiallythe poor, ill and elderly get-

ting his money. So he got anawful idea that he was quitefond of, to create a cliffmade of tax cuts and seques-tration to throw their pres-ents off of. But the cliffwasn’t too tall, the Whos nottoo scared, to stand up andfight, their retirement tospare. So to the mayor ofWhoville, I say with smile,stand up for our holiday,don’t cross the aisle.COREY SAGENICH, VIA E-MAIL

Israelis claimingland with a deedthey wrote RE: “EU NEEDS TO GET ITSPRIORITIES STRAIGHT” (METRO,DEC. 10) Letter writer ArthurHorn needs to get his histori-cal facts together. TheCanaanites were in

Jerusalem before the Israelis.This is according to Jewishscriptures. The Romans builtgreat cities out of Londonand Paris, and the Americaswere populated by nativepeople. The Palestinianshave been in the so-calledpromised land for about2,000 years. The Romans de-stroyed and sacked the sec-ond temple and built theColosseum with the templeloot. Emperor Titus exiledthe Israelis from Palestine inthe first century. The worldis what it is today, and theIsraelis cannot use a bookwritten by their ancestors tojustify removing the long-term residents of Palestinebecause their God promisedthem a territory occupied byCanaanites, which they hadto ethnic cleanse. Almostevery nationality would beable to justify moving intoanother nationality’s territo-ry based on historical factsor self-created history if wewere to take the Israelis’right to Palestine as a legalprecedent to do so. CARLTON NICKERSON, VIA E-MAIL

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Braylon Edwards probablydoesn’t think Jets manage-ment are “idiots” now.

The Jets yesterday broughtback the wide receiver, whoperhaps never should haveleft. Edwards signed a con-tract with his old team afterhe was claimed on waivers.

Edwards, a former first-round pick of the Browns, wastraded to the Jets in 2009 andplayed 28 regular-seasongames with the team. Edwardshad his second-best profes-sional season, with 53 catchesfor 904 yards and seven touch-downs with the Jets in 2010.But his contract was not re-newed and he has had injury-riddled seasons in San Francis-co and Seattle since. He wasreleased by the Seahawks onMonday.

“It feels great to be goinghome,” Edwards tweeted yes-terday after the news. “I’mback and it’s go time.”

The deal comes just a weekafter Edwards took to Twitterto rip apart the team. Edwardstweeted a message of supportfor Mark Sanchez after the Jetsbenched him in the secondhalf of their win over the Car-dinals.

“Don’t blame Sanchez. I

played there,” Edwards tweet-ed. “Blame the idiots callingshots. Mark is a beast and willprove it when given a properchance.”

Edwards later apologized tothe Jets’ front office for thecomments.

Head coach Rex Ryanpraised Edwards on Monday,but didn’t say the team was

looking to sign him.“You guys know what I’ve

always said about Braylon inthe past, so you know how Ifeel about him,” Ryan said.“But right now, I think we’lljust focus on the guys wehave.”

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Hill injury not asserious as feared JETS. The Jets’ banged-up re-ceiving corps got goodnews late Monday whenMRI results on StephenHill’s right knee showed nosignificant damage.

The Jets diagnosed therookie wideout with asprained right LCL, thesame injury Redskins starquarterback Robert GriffinIII is dealing with. Like Grif-fin, he is listed as day-to-day. METRO

Saints bountysuspensions axedSAINTS. Former NFL commis-sioner Paul Tagliabue deliv-ered a strong rebuke to hissuccessor yesterday.

Tagliabue, who wasbrought in as an independ-ent party to hear the appealof several players’ suspen-sions in the Saints’ bountycontroversy, struck downall bans.

Former Jets linebackerJonathan Vilma was themost prominent player in-

volved in thescandal tohave his sus-pension over-turned. Hewas suspend-ed for the en-

tire season. Saints defensiveend Will Smith and ScottFujita, now on the Browns,were also suspended. Thecoaches’ suspensionsremain in effect.

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Dickey, MetscontinuenegotiationsR.A. Dickey left lastweek’s winter meetingswith no new contract —but no new team either.

The reigningNL Cy Youngwinner hasbegun negoti-ations with

the Mets againbut realizes a trade is stillpossible if a new deal can-not be reached.

“I’m hoping it ends upin a good place, but also inthe back of your mind youthink it may not,” Dickeysaid yesterday at a charityevent at Citi Field. “That’ssad.”

Dickey, 38, won 20games for the Mets lastseason, but for a teamthat needs all the help itcan get, a trade could beuseful. The knuckleballersaid he’d likely not re-signif a deal isn’t reached thisoffseason. METRO

BRAYLON’S BACKOne week after calling management ‘idiots,’ Edwards is re-signed by JetsReceiver spent two wasted years away Says he is now ‘going home’

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Playing with the enemyFormer Red Sox infielder Youkilis signs deal with Yankees, according to

reports Struggled last season, traded to Chicago Contract worth $12MKevin Youkilis has become thelastest to join a club that in-cludes Wade Boggs, JohnnyDamon and Roger Clemens.

Multiple reports last nightindicate Youkilis will sign aone-year deal with the Yan-kees, pending a physical. Thedeal will be worth $12 million.

The Yankees were left in alurch at third base when AlexRodriguez announced hewould need surgery on hiship, putting him out for fourto six months. Yankees gener-al manager Brian Cashmanpublicly stated at the winter

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Still waitingon IchiroThe Yankees are still waitingto hear from Ichiro Suzuki,but it appears as though thetwo sides are close to agree-ing to a deal to bring backthe future Hall of Famer.

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Why are homemadedecorations more special?When someone asks, “Oh,where did you get these trim-mers?” the last thing you wantto say is Pottery Barn. You wantto have a story, like, “Oh, whenI was 8 years old I made thesewith my mother; we’ve had

them generation to genera-tion.” So what I was trying to dowith this book was to take theidea of making things by handand make it easy for peoplewho truly don’t have a lot ofskill.What’s a good starter project?During the holidays, everybodygives out gift cards; it’s an easygift, but it’s hard to wrap. WhatI do is I save Altoids tins andcover it in a really pretty paper.[see directions to the left]. Onceit’s done, throw some pepper-mint candies inside, place thegift card on top, tie it with a rib-bon and you’re done. Howdo you plan to decorateyour home for the holidays?I’m making a big newspaperwreath this year. You cut six orseven squares of newspaper outand then you put the squaresonto a wreath frame — whichare like $2 at a craft store. Thenyou zip-tie that bunch of news-paper onto the frame and takeyour hands and scrunch it; theybecome these newspaperrosettes. Once you do thewhole thing, you can create agiant wreath using newspapersyou already have, and the onlytools you need are a wreathframe, zip ties and scissors.

Make your ownholiday magic

Lifestyle expert Danny Seo shows us how to create cost-effective, eco-friendly and supercute decorations out of everyday items You don’t need art skills to make any of these good-for-the-Earth projects

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‘Happy Holidays’bannerMake your own quirkyholiday banner to greet yourguests and spruce up a blankspace.

HOW-TO: Cut thick office-supply paper (like cardstock)into circles. With a hot-gluegun, attach dried-out pens,markers and broken pencilsto the front of each circle tospell out a letter. Repeat untilyour phrase is completed.Use a hole punch to maketwo holes at the top of eachcircle, and run yarn or stringthrough it to make thegarland.

Put your old lightbulbs to useand make these adorablehot-air balloon ornaments.

HOW-TO: Cut tissue paperinto small strips that willcover the outside of the bulb,from the base of the socketto the top of the bulb. Coverthe whole bulb in ModPodge glue and attach thetissue paper on top. Wait forit to dry slightly (about 10minutes; do other bulbs asyou wait) and then apply athin layer of more ModPodge on top to seal it in. Toget the striped appearance,use strips of identical tissuepaper and attach them oneat a time, alternating colors.Allow to dry completely. Tietwo pieces of string aroundthe socket tightly, and bringthem up along the sides ofthe bulb and knot at the top.Leave excess so you haveenough string to looparound the tree to hang it.Twist a champagne metalcage around the bottom tomake the “basket” for theballoon.

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Altoids tin gift card casesForget envelopes: Savesome trees and useyour empty Altoids tinswhen giving gift cardsto your loved ones.

HOW-TO: You don’thave to cover the out-side of the tin with dec-orative paper, but ifyou don’t, you are sim-ply reusing an Altoidstin and not upcyclingit. If aesthetics matterto you, it’s easy to do:Spread craft glue onthe top of the Altoidstin and lay it flat on apiece of pretty paper.Press it firmly in placeand then use an X-Actoknife to trim off the ex-cess along the edgesfor a clean finish. Dothe same along theedges of the tin. Painta thin layer of gluearound the edges andsprinkle with glitter,place a gift card insideand tie it all up with aribbon.

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We all want that perfect center-piece to set the scene whenwe’re entertaining during theholidays, but how can you wowguests without dropping majorcash at the fancy florist? Floraldesigner and founder of Ameri-can Schools of Flower Design,Michael Gaffney, gives us acrash course.

Get inspired“Page through magazines look-ing for a style you like. ‘Copy,copy, copy’ is my motto.Arrangements in magazinesare by designers who know thelooks; those are the looks thateverybody admires. Sometimesif you just pick it apart, you’llfigure it out.”

The vessel is key“Avoid wicker baskets — inother words, choose the rightcontainer. Go out on a limb anduse something modern, such asconcrete or metal.”

Think beyond poinsettia“Use flowers that you normallydon’t see. It doesn’t have to bepoinsettias and white mums, itcan be hydrangeas, kale orwhite stock — which is actuallya spring flower, but with pineand cedar it looks beautiful.Use lots of branches — not on-ly the pines and cedars, butdark woods and curly willows

can be incorporated into reallymodern arrangements.”

Easy tricks“Take lots of one type of flowerand collar it with different ma-terials. Take four bunches ofwhite stock and collar withmagnolia leaves, then collar itwith another material like pine— very chic, very high-endlooking. I also like ornamentswhere you stick a [branch] in itand you use them as flowers inyour design.”

Preserving your work“Designers put bleach in thewater. A couple of drops ofbleach in an average size vasestops the bacteria from destroy-ing the drinking mechanisms.

Also, submerge your flowersunderwater for a half hour to45 minutes — they’ll hydratethrough the surface. Use aproduct called Crowning Glory,which is a wax sealant thatkeeps them from dehydrating.If you don’t have that, justspray them with water daily.Flowers are all about water.”

Source the best blooms “Start knowing your source,whether it’s your grocerystore, florist or wholesale mar-ket. When you feel flowers,they should feel almost plastic— which means they’re justplump with water.”

All eyes on the tableDon’t even think about reaching for those poinsettiasHow to deck your tablescapes this holiday season

Use nontraditional flowers like hydrangeas in your holiday centerpiece this year.

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