Nearly Half of Evangelicals Say Mormons Aren't Christians (ContributorNetwork)

The Washington Post reports GOP front-runner Mitt Romney's Mormon faith will be examined as part of his attempt to become the Republican nominee for president to face President Barack Obama in the November general election.

Here's a look at the Mormon faith, by the numbers.

14,131,467: The total number of worldwide members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints . The term "Mormon" refers to the Book of Mormon, the main religious text for followers. The church is called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or LDS for short.

117: The number of years it took the LDS Church to grow from its original six members to 1 million. That milestone was reached in 1947.

52,483: The number of missionaries affiliated with the church. Members are serving in more than 350 areas of the world to preach the Gospel and to convert people to the message of Jesus Christ. Usually, missionaries are younger than 25.

152: The number of temples around the world affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Only members in good standing with the church may enter a temple. The main temple is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Temple buildings are much larger and more ornate than normal LDS Church buildings. The number of temples includes those already constructed, in the process of being built, and those that are planned.

1,019: The number of Mormons surveyed by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The survey entitled "Mormons in America" was conducted from Oct. 25 to Nov. 16, 2011.

97: The number of Mormons, as a percentage, who believe their religion is a Christian-based group. Three-fourths of the respondents said they attend church regularly.

32: The number of non-Mormon adults in America, as a percentage, who feel Mormonism is not a Christian faith. A Pew survey conducted in November 2011 found 51 percent of 2,001 non-Mormon adults surveyed felt Mormons are Christians.

47: Evangelical Protestants, as a percentage, who believe Mormons are not Christians. South Carolina was listed as the third-most religious state in the union, according to a Gallup poll taken in 2009. About half of the respondents in the non-Mormon Pew study felt they knew a "great deal" about the Mormon religion. About half were also aware that Romney is a practicing Mormon.

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Carbonite rival Code 42 raises $52.5 million (Reuters)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) ? Accel Partners and SplitRock Partners have invested $52.5 million in backup software company Code 42, underscoring venture capital's continued fascination with anything related to the burgeoning field of Big Data.

Minneapolis-based Code 42 helps companies manage their information through its data centers and software. It can cope with large amounts of data generated from the continued proliferation of such devices as smartphones and tablets.

This is Code 42's first funding round. It is best known for Crashplan, a backup software rival to Carbonite.

Chief Executive Matthew Dornquast said the company will use the cash to develop brand awareness and for international sales and marketing.

Late last year, Accel said it was allocating $100 million to Big Data companies. Partner Ping Li said the firm could expand that amount. "We're less worried about running out of money than finding good companies to invest in," he said. "It's rare to find companies in the Big Data space that have achieved this level of growth."

Dornquast said the company ended 2011 with 86 employees and is profitable, but declined to provide details on revenue and profits.

(Reporting By Sarah McBride; Editing by Gary Hill)

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Obama names Zients as acting budget chief (AP)

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama on Tuesday named Jeffrey Zients as his acting budget chief but held off on nominating him for the permanent job, avoiding a tough election-year battle with Senate Republicans.

Zients becomes acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, the department in charge of developing Obama's budget proposal, overseeing agency performance and ensuring that the executive branch is putting in place Obama's policies. He takes over leadership of the prominent agency just weeks ahead of Obama's new budget request to Congress.

Zients had been the office's deputy director for management and has already served one stint as acting director, too.

He takes over for Jack Lew, named by Obama as White House chief of staff to replace the departing William Daley.

No Senate confirmation is required for an acting director. Zients was confirmed by the Senate for the deputy job, but any major Obama nomination in this election year is likely to face a fight from Republicans. The White House said Obama has made no decision on a permanent director.

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Gov't choppers under fire in Mexico drug war (AP)

MEXICO CITY ? The Mexican armed forces and prosecutors have suffered at least 28 gunfire attacks on helicopters in the five years since the government launched an offensive against drug cartels, according to official documents made public Monday.

The attacks show the increasing ferocity of Mexico's drug gangs, and also suggest support for what the Mexican government has said in the past: that 2010 may have been the worst year for the upward spiral in violence.

In the first two years of the drug war, reporting government agencies such as the air force, navy and Attorney General's Office reported no chopper attacks. But in 2008, four helicopters were hit by gunfire, wounding at least one officer aboard.

In 2009, bullets struck six government helicopters in the rotors, side doors or motor compartments. All the craft were apparently able to land safely.

2010 was the worst year for helicopter attacks, with 14 hit and one crew member wounded. Some craft had as many as seven bullet holes in them when they landed, with rounds going through windshields, fuselages, rotors and even landing gear.

In 2011, only three helicopters were hit by gunfire, but the number is almost certainly higher. The federal police refused to release data on attacks on its craft, but publicly acknowledged that on May 24, suspected cartel gunmen opened fire on a federal police chopper, hitting two officers and forcing the craft to land, though officials insisted it had not been shot down.

Federal police said the pilot in that incident landed "to avoid any accident." The Russian-made Mi-17 touched down about 3.5 miles (6 kilometers) from the shooting scene in the western state of Michoacan. Two officers aboard suffered non-life-threatening wounds.

Mexico has long used helicopters in anti-drug operations. While security forces have updated their helicopter fleet in recent years, they have also retired some older craft, so the total number of choppers would not account for the variation in attacks.

The newspaper Milenio originally requested the attack reports through a freedom of information request, and the reports were independently accessed by The Associated Press.

Mexican drug gangs have long strung steel cables around opium and marijuana plantations to try to bring down police and military helicopters. In 2003, in what prosecutors said was the first fatal attack of its kind by drug traffickers in Mexico, gunmen guarding an opium-poppy plantation shot down two police helicopters, killing all five agents aboard.

But those attacks were infrequent compared to what's occurred since 2008.

Overall Drug-related killings rose 11 percent in the first nine months of 2011, when 12,903 people were killed, compared to 11,583 in the same period of 2010, the office said. But the Attorney General's Office found one small consolation: "It's the first year (since 2006) that the homicide rate increase has been lower compared to the previous years."

Drug-related killings jumped by 70 percent for the same nine-month period of 2010 compared to January to September 2009, when 6,815 deaths were recorded.

The carnage continued Monday, when seven gunmen were killed in a pre-dawn shootout with police on a highway in the city of Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City.

A federal police officer was recovering from a gunshot wound to the foot following the confrontation.

The prosecutors office in the central Mexican state of Morelos says the gunmen belonged to an organized crime gang, but did not say which one.

"Organized crime" in Mexico generally refers to drug cartels, and remnants of the Beltran Leyva cartel have been fighting for control of Cuernavaca.

Prosecutors said the gunmen were traveling in three stolen vehicles when police confronted them early Monday.

Also on Monday, Mexico City's top prosecutor said the two decapitated victims left inside a burning SUV a the entrance of a high-end fashion mall had been kidnapped a day before and lacked criminal backgrounds.

Jesus Rodriguez Almeida, the capital's attorney general, said the victims were a 19-year-old secretary in a state-owned educational radio station and her 28-year-old boyfriend who sold household appliances.

The headless bodies were found in the wealthy district of Santa Fe, but Rodriguez said they were killed in a different borough. The motive in the killings remains a mystery, but the pattern is common among Mexico's drug gangs.

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Russian space probe to crash on Earth within hours (AP)

MOSCOW ? A failed Russian probe designed to travel to a moon of Mars but stuck in Earth orbit will come crashing down within hours, the Russian space agency said Sunday.

Roscosmos said the unmanned Phobos-Ground will crash between 1641 and 2105 GMT (11:41 a.m. and 4:05 p.m. EST). It could crash anywhere along the route of its next few orbits, which would include Europe, southeast Asia, Australia and South America. The U.S., Canada and much of Russia are outside the risk zone.

A large part of each orbit is over water, and scientists have estimated that the risks of the probe crashing into any populated areas are minimal. Thousands of pieces of derelict space vehicles orbit Earth, occasionally posing danger to astronauts and satellites in orbit, but as far as is known, no one has ever been hurt by falling space debris.

At 13.5 metric tons (14.9 tons), the Phobos-Ground is one of the heaviest pieces of space junk ever to fall on Earth, and one of the most toxic too. The bulk of its weight is a load of 11 metric tons (12 tons) of highly toxic rocket fuel intended for the long journey to the Martian moon of Phobos. It has been left unused as the probe got stuck in orbit around Earth shortly after its Nov. 9 launch.

Roscosmos predicts that only between 20 and 30 fragments of the Phobos probe with a total weight of up to 200 kilograms (440 pounds) will survive the re-entry and plummet to Earth. It said all of the fuel will burn up entirely in the atmosphere.

The probe's fuel tanks are made of aluminum alloy and should melt early on re-entry, backing up the official assurances. If the fuel indeed burns on re-entry, the probe's dry weight of 2.5 metric tons (2.75 tons) puts it firmly in the league of the ordinary.

By comparison, NASA's Skylab space station that went down in 1979 weighed 77 metric tons (85 tons) and Russia's Mir space station that deorbited in 2001 weighed about 130 metric tons (143 tons). Their descent fueled fears around the world, but the wreckage of both fell far away from populated areas.

The $170-million Phobos-Ground was Russia's most expensive and the most ambitious space mission since Soviet times. The spacecraft was intended to land on the crater-dented, potato-shaped Martian moon, collect soil samples and fly them back to Earth, giving scientists precious materials that could shed more light on the genesis of the solar system.

Russia's space chief has acknowledged the Phobos-Ground mission was ill-prepared, but said that Roscosmos had to give it the go-ahead so as not to miss the limited Earth-to-Mars launch window.

Its predecessor, Mars-96, which was built by the same Moscow-based NPO Lavochkin company, also suffered an engine failure and crashed shortly after its launch in 1996. Its crash drew strong international fears because of some 200 grams of plutonium onboard. The craft eventually showered its fragments over the Chile-Bolivia border in the Andes Mountains, and the pieces were never recovered.

The worst ever radiation spill from a derelict space vehicle came in January 1978 when the nuclear-powered Cosmos 954 satellite crashed over northwestern Canada. The Soviets claimed the craft completely burned up on re-entry, but a massive recovery effort by Canadian authorities recovered a dozen fragments, most of which were radioactive.

The Phobos-Ground also contains a tiny quantity of the radioactive metal Cobalt-57 in one of its instruments, but Roscosmos said it poses no threat of radioactive contamination.

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9 Ways to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk | Care2 Healthy Living

There are many great anti-cancer foods and lifestyle changes that can reduce your risk of getting breast cancer, but here are some simple ones you can incorporate into your life right away:

1. Increase the fiber in your diet since high fiber diets have been shown to decrease breast cancer risk by up to 54 percent. That could be because fiber binds to harmful substances in the intestines and escorts them out of the body.? Increasing fiber in your diet is easy: sprinkle flax seeds on your toast or cereal, choose whole grains over refined, add beans to soups and stews, and snack on almonds through the day.

2.? Add sea vegetables to your diet.? Research by Jane Teas, Ph.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health shows that rats fed kelp had less breast cancer than rats who were not fed kelp.? Kelp and other forms of seaweed are full of nutrients, reduce radioactive waste in our bodies, and strengthen the glands.

3.? Eat more cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and cabbage.? They contain sulfur compounds called indoles, which help eliminate excess estrogen from the body and prevent it from triggering the growth of breast cancer. ?Indole-3-carbinol (I3C) is particularly powerful at inhibiting cancer cell development in the breasts. Cruciferous vegetables convert cancer-promoting forms of estrogen to protective forms according to Dr. Gaynor, author of Dr. Gaynor?s Cancer Prevention Program One particular indole, indole-3-carbinol (13C), inhibits the development of potentially cancerous cells in the breast.

Keep reading to learn about the fats that increase breast cancer risk and those that reduce risk?

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Mount Rainier park official: Snowshoer found alive (AP)

SEATTLE ? A 66-year-old snowshoer who was missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday was found alive Monday afternoon by a team of three rescuers, a national park spokeswoman said.

Yong Chun Kim, of Tacoma, Wash., was alert and conscious, and was cold but otherwise in stable condition, park spokeswoman Lee Taylor said. Rescuers were working to bring in a Sno-Cat snow vehicle to carry him out because weather conditions prevented a helicopter from landing in the area, she said.

"As soon as we heard he was alive, my sister, his wife, praised God and said `Hallelujah'," Kim's sister-in-law, Sang Soon Tomyn told The Associated Press after learning from relatives that Kim had been found. "We were so worried. We prayed every day."

She said her brother-in-law was a strong hiker, had food in his backpack and knew the area very well, so they prayed he would be all right.

"He's a very strong person," she said.

Kim was leading a group on a snowshoe hike on the mountain when he slid down a slope and became separated from his party. He radioed to the group twice to say he was OK. But when he failed to meet up with them in the parking lot, a search was launched Saturday afternoon.

Teams of park rangers, search dogs and volunteers had been combing a snowy area of Mount Rainier for the third straight day on Monday. Rescuers found him in the upper Stevens Creek basin, Taylor said. Weather conditions prevented a helicopter from joining the search.

Kim, who has been snowshoeing for a decade, was well equipped for a day of snowshoeing but did not have overnight gear. Temperatures dropped into the teens and eight inches of new snow fell in some areas since Saturday, with more snow forecasted in coming days. With winds whipping on the mountain, some areas saw as much as 30 inches of snow.

Kim was leading a group of 16 members of a hiking club on a snowshoe hike in the Paradise area, a popular high-elevation destination on the mountain's southwest flank, about a 100-mile drive south from Seattle.

He was still in contact with other members of his hiking club after his slide but decided not to try to climb back up the slope. "He yelled or gestured he would hook back up" farther down the trail, Taylor said.

"He radioed twice and said he was on his way in," she said.

Because Kim was the leader of his group, other members of his group weren't initially able to accurately describe where he had slipped, Taylor said.

It wasn't until Sunday afternoon that a member of the group was able to better pinpoint where Kim had fallen. Searchers had initially believed Kim fell in a different area, based on initial descriptions from the group, Taylor said.

"We're so thankful for the community and for everyone who was willing to volunteer" to help find him," Tomyn said. "It's dangerous rescue work. But we really appreciate it."

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'The Real Housewives Of Atlanta': Can NeNe And Kim Be Friends Again? (VIDEO)

Regular viewers of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" (Sun., 9 p.m. EST on Bravo) know all about the simmering feud between former BFFs NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak.

However, so far this season the pair haven't indulged in so much mutual trash-talking, and NeNe even recently admitted on "The Talk" that all the drama really takes its toll on her.

So, over dinner Mama Joyce wonders if the relationship between the two former BFFs could be repaired.

"No," NeNe says flatly. "Sometimes ... people can go too far."

As the other "Housewives" fidget uncomfortably, NeNe sums up the ex-friendship: "It's sort of like one of those things where it is what it is, and that's just what it is."

Kim spells it out even more firmly: "We're divorced. That's it."

Catch all the continuing Season 4 drama on "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" every Sunday night at 9 p.m. EST on Bravo.

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