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HBT: Angels' Morales continues to improve

Kendrys Morales is still a major question mark nearly two years removed from breaking his lower left leg while jumping onto home plate following a game-winning-home grand slam, but he did get some good news after visiting his doctor in Colorado earlier this week.

According to Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times, Morales was cleared to ?ramp up? some baseball activities. While he was previously jogging on a ?de-weighted? treadmill and hitting off a tee in Arizona, he has already begun running under his own body weight.?The real test will come when Morales begins running the bases aggressively, but this is a very positive early sign.

The Angels tendered Morales a contract this offseason, despite the fact that he hasn?t played in a?professional game since May 29, 2010. The 28-year-old switch-hitter figures to make around $4 million in his second year of arbitration, but the benefits are obviously huge if he can bounce back to his 2009 form. Mark Trumbo is behind in his rehab from foot surgery, but the Angels still have enough depth that they can afford to bring Morales along slowly.

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Oil rises above $102 ahead of key US jobs report

SINGAPORE (AP) - Oil prices rose to above $102 a barrel in Asia as investors await the latest U.S. employment data for clues about crude demand.

Benchmark crude for February delivery rose 37 cents to $102.18 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $1.41 to settle at $101.81 in New York on Thursday.

In London, Brent crude was up 12 cents at $112.86 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Traders will be closely watching the Labor Department's jobs report for December, scheduled to be released later Friday. The department on Thursday reported another drop in the number of people filing for unemployment benefits, and ADP, which processes payroll data, said private employers added 325,000 jobs last month.

Crude has jumped from $75 in October amid signs the U.S. economy is slowly improving. The unemployment rate was 8.6 percent in November, and a further drop would signal to investors that as the economy strengthens, so too will demand for crude products such as gasoline and diesel.

"We expect any surprises out of the employment report to lean toward the bullish side," energy consultant Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report. "However, euro zone debt problems are a more critical determinant to oil over the next couple of months."

Traders are also closely watching rising tensions between Iran and Western powers. Iran has threatened to close the key oil passageway Strait of Hormuz as possible retaliation to new U.S. and European economic sanctions. The U.S. has said it will not tolerate such a move.

"As much as $5 to $7 of risk premium is imbedded in the oil market to account for the possibility of a disruption of tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz," Ritterbusch said.

In other Nymex trading, heating oil gained 3.0 cents at $3.07 per gallon and gasoline futures added 1.6 cents at $2.75 per gallon. Natural gas futures were down 0.4 cents to $2.98 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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Love and war rage as PBS' 'Downton Abbey' returns (AP)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. ? It's an irony that acid-tongued Violet, aka the dowager countess of Grantham, would savor: One of TV's hottest romances is playing out among English nobility, with nary a cell phone or laptop in sight and, most shockingly, on PBS.

"Downton Abbey" devotees eagerly await the drama's season two return 9-11 p.m. EST Sunday, when the romance of Matthew and Lady Mary resumes its rocky course as World War I scars Europe. There's also fallout from the war within Mary's family digs, the stately mansion that gives the series its name.

Consider it "Yorkshire 90210," but with writer-creator Julian Fellowes' witty dialogue and rich characters, stunning period costumes and (generally) chaste love affairs.

Michelle Dockery and Dan Stevens, who play the star-crossed young couple, said they are both delighted and surprised at the series' international success.

"It's huge in Australia," Dockery said.

"And Spain," added Stevens. The 11 Emmy nominations and six trophies, including best miniseries, earned by the period drama's first season were a thrill: "For a show like this to get that kind of attention over here, it's great," he said.

Success has created a burden of secrecy regarding the fate of young lawyer Matthew, unexpected heir to Downton under England's early 20th-century inheritance laws, and Mary, who could keep her family's hold on the estate by marrying him.

In season one, the willful Mary had rejected, accepted and rejected again smitten Matthew, and then she was rebuffed. Now both have turned elsewhere for love, while war and other historical events toy with their fates.

Dockery, 30, and Stevens, 29, project such on-screen chemistry that people who know better confuse fiction with fact.

"There was a great picture of me and Dan at the Derby (the famed horse race) and even my boyfriend said, `It kind of looks like you're together,'" Dockery said, smiling.

Fans are desperate to know what happens next.

"Not least my own wife," said Stevens, interviewed on a California visit before season two aired in the U.K. "She's forever trying to find the scripts and is desperate to read them."

Spouse Susie Hariet now knows the story so far, with the season just concluded in Britain (a third season has been announced). But U.S. viewers who avoid spoilers online must wait for the drama to unfold over seven weeks, through Feb. 19.

Downton's younger generation matures quickly during wartime, with Matthew tested as an army officer slogging through trench warfare in France.

"It was a real delicious challenge to take on, such a far cry from the first season for me. I was caked in mud for half the series," Stevens said. "For a lot of us, it feels like a graduation in terms of what was asked of us, emotionally, and the intensity of the story lines. The stakes were higher and everything is notched up one or two pegs."

Dockery said she and Stevens got the chance to switch up their acting game.

"Matthew becomes more harder as a result of what he's seen and been through, and Mary's much softer. It's really interesting playing that," she said.

There's more to "Downton Abbey," of course, than one star-crossed couple. Robert, the earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), is itching to jump into the war, while wife Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) and younger daughters Edith (Laura Carmichael) and Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) make their own wartime contributions, and the girls pursue romance.

And there's major action downstairs. Among the estate's servants, some are called for war duty while Bates (Brendan Coyle), Lord Grantham's valet, and head housemaid Anna (Joanne Froggatt), find their future together endangered by Bates' vengeful estranged wife.

Commenting with glee and self-interest on the action is Violet, her lines delivered impeccably by grande dame actress Maggie Smith, a 2011 Emmy-winner for her portrayal. In a scene in which she gives her granddaughters approval to aid the war effort, Violet reminds them that Great Aunt Roberta "loaded the guns at Lucknow."

Fellowes, the man behind all the clever words and stories, already proved his mastery of the genre with the Oscar-winning script for the 2001 stately mansion drama "Gosford Park."

PBS is hoping for a repeat of last year's ratings bonanza. "Masterpiece," the umbrella series under which "Downton Abbey" airs, had a 30 percent ratings increase and saw its ratings for young adult female viewers double.

New "Masterpiece" sponsor Viking River Cruises, which stepped in last year in after a difficult search to replace longtime underwriter ExxonMobil, found the experience rewarding enough to agree to support the series for 2012.

Another fund established to allow public TV station contributors to make direct donations to "Masterpiece" of $25,000 and up met its goal of $1 million, "Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton said recently.

That's "a Godsend as we go forward, because these programs are not getting any cheaper," she said. PBS teamed with British producers on the series.

Eaton gave vague but tantalizing hints of what is in store for season three, which will be set in the 1920s and which PBS hopes to air a year from now.

"People will live. People will die. People get married. People get born. Bates will probably continue to be in trouble. That man cannot seem to get out of trouble," she said.

Amen, say "Downton" fans.

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Levitating Fruit Flies To Learn About Space Travel

Physicist Richard Hill and colleagues at the University of Nottingham have a powerful magnet that they have used to levitate fruits, beer and most recently, fruit flies. It's a low-cost way to study the effects of zero gravity on biological systems, Hill says.

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Flora Lichtman is here with our Video Pick of the Week. Happy New Year to you, Flora.

FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: Happy New Year, Ira.

FLATOW: Ok, you got a good first of the year-video-for us?

LICHTMAN: Yeah, I think so. The question is, what happens when you levitate fruit flies? This is a question that Richard Hill, a physicist at The University of Nottingham, was wondering and executed in his lab. Can you imagine what would happen?

FLATOW: Is it like the trick, levitating?

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

LICHTMAN: I know it sounds like that.

FLATOW: How do you do that? I mean, you put a hoop around them to show there's nothing holding them up, so?

LICHTMAN: Actually, the technology of this is kind of the part that I like the most. It turns out, Richard Hill says, that we are all a tiny bit magnetic, just a really itsy-bitsy bit. And we - anything with electrons is. And it's a repulsive force. So if we interact with a magnetic field, we're sort of very slightly repelled by it. We're a little bit repulsive, but...

FLATOW: Well, speak for yourself.

LICHTMAN: Yes. It's just - I will. I am a little bit repulsive.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: I'm a lot repulsive, yeah. I really be levitating, but go ahead.

LICHTMAN: Right. So if you have a very powerful magnet, you can feel the force. And that's what they have. They have a superconducting solenoid magnetic at The University of Nottingham, which is basically a lot of wire coiled up with a ton of amps running through it.

FLATOW: Super cold, right? Super (unintelligible).

LICHTMAN: And, yeah. And liquid helium to keep it cool.

FLATOW: Yeah.

LICHTMAN: So this produces a big magnetic field, big enough so that this slight repulsion that all objects feel can be used to push them into the air and levitated. So they have all this footage of strawberries levitating, liquids levitating. And in this latest study, they looked at fruit flies to see if their behavior changed in a no-gravity situation.

FLATOW: So levitating in the air, they considered would - to be like no gravity. They were just floating in the air?

LICHTMAN: Yes. So it's - the magnetic force is counteracting the force of gravity, and they're floating there. But, you know, there is little Petri dishes.

FLATOW: Right.

LICHTMAN: So it's a little bit disappointing to me, anyway, because I wanted to see them like, floating all over the place, but they're mostly walking. But it turns out that they changed their walking speed a lot. They, like, start zipping around. And there's another place you can put them in this magnet where they feel 2 G, like double gravity. And they become coach potatoes. They just don't move at all.

FLATOW: It must be pretty heavy weight.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

LICHTMAN: Double fruit flies. Yeah. It would be like walking the two of you.

FLATOW: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. I'm Ira Flatow, talking with Flora Lichtman about levitating fruit flies.

LICHTMAN: And other things.

FLATOW: And with - yeah. You just - you have a video up on our website, @sciencefriday.com. There is the video of a levitating - not just the fruit flies, but strawberries?

LICHTMAN: The water droplets, and strawberry is my personal favorite. And actually, Richard Hill told me this great story when he levitated - he wanted to levitate beer for scientific reasons, obviously.

FLATOW: Of course. Of course.

LICHTMAN: And here's - the question was, what happens to the bubbles in beer when you levitate it?

FLATOW: Oh, yeah. Yeah.

LICHTMAN: Because the bubbles, apparently, need a surface to nucleate on.

FLATOW: Right.

LICHTMAN: So where do they go? So if you put beer in your superconducting magnet - I can't even believe he did this. It looks like a $700,000 piece of equipment.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: It was New Year's so.

LICHTMAN: But it's documented on his website.

FLATOW: Yeah.

LICHTMAN: And he then - so he puts in and you don't see any bubbles, which he filmed with this camera that he stripped all the metal out of, by the way...

FLATOW: Of course. Yeah.

LICHTMAN: ...because of the magnet problem. And he bends over a stick a straw into it, and verifies that the bubbles are there. They're just not nucleated. So the gas is there. It just dissolved in the beer because there's no glass.

FLATOW: Wow.

LICHTMAN: So that sort of what would be like to drink beer in space, if you've been wondering.

FLATOW: Wow. I'm sure he wants more money for that. Beer time.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

LICHTMAN: Well, he said this is a bum for astronauts because the bubbles don't go up in space. You know, you don't - you can't burp in space.

FLATOW: That's right. That's right.

LICHTMAN: All these fun facts.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: So if you want to see this - the beer is on the video.

LICHTMAN: The beer is on a different video, but you see water. It looks very similar to the beer.

FLATOW: Water.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: Water droplets, they are levitated in space. The Great Houdini would love it.

LICHTMAN: Mm-hmm.

FLATOW: And strawberry is there.

LICHTMAN: Mm-hmm.

FLATOW: And did he just throw fruit in there and see what else...

LICHTMAN: I mean, I think anything little would work. I asked, you know, my first question was like, well, so can you levitate me? When am I going to be levitated? And this was kind of amazing. The diamagnetic susceptibility - this is this weak repulsive force that we all have - is different where you compare to, like, soft tissue, like your skin. So if you were to levitate a person - he said it's theoretically possible - but you'd probably be levitating your soft tissue higher than your bones. So your bones would kind of drop down and your soft tissue would be holding you up, which sounds uncomfortable.

FLATOW: Yeah. I hate it when that happens.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

LICHTMAN: Yeah. Might as well just go to space at that point.

FLATOW: Or would your soft tissue then flip you upside down like a - how can I put this delicately? If you have a lot of tissue in your tushy...

LICHTMAN: Well, what if you have a beer belly or something?

FLATOW: ...or - well, there you go. Would your best side float up, you know, higher than your bones?

LICHTMAN: I don't - well, Richard Hill, please tell us.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: OK.

LICHTMAN: Hopefully, we can find an answer to that.

FLATOW: We can find an answer. Yeah. And this is not something you could build at home, right? Because people are going to say, I can with a little bit of magnet, a little bit of this. That's going to...

LICHTMAN: I know. You did suggest that a car battery can be used. It's not a theory, Ira.

FLATOW: I - well, you said it was like 100 amps going through this, right? As the research in...

LICHTMAN: 120 amps, yeah.

FLATOW: 120 amps, a car battery puts that out when you start your engine...

LICHTMAN: Yeah.

FLATOW: ...for a very short period of time. But I don't have that superconducting...

LICHTMAN: Yeah. That's might be the missing component.

FLATOW: ...ring down right.

You know, I spent this thing for it. I got to go RadioShack and get those pieces for it so I can do this one at home.

LICHTMAN: Yeah. Well, we're not suggesting.

FLATOW: We're not suggesting any - but if you want to see the video, it's up on our website, @sciencefriday.com. Levitating all kinds of stuff.

LICHTMAN: Mm-hmm.

FLATOW: So now you've got from - we had stuff flying in our little tubes weeks before.

LICHTMAN: Mm-hmm.

FLATOW: Now we've got levitating stuff.

LICHTMAN: Yeah. What's next?

FLATOW: What's next?

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: You can see the video at our website, @sciencefriday.com. Let's us know what you think. Maybe you have some suggestions, or you got a video of your own you want to see along as a companion to that one. Thank you, Flora.

Absolutely. Thanks, Ira.

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Paul behind as Romney, Santorum in dead heat

(AP) ? Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum are running neck and neck in the Iowa caucuses, and Texas congressman Ron Paul has fallen too far behind to catch either of them.

With all but about 10 percent of the votes counted, Romney and Santorum are separated from each other by less than 100 votes.

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