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The insurgent group, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army North (SPLA-N), denied it had troops stationed in the area named by Sudan’s armed forces, located in the loosely demarcated border region with newly independent South Sudan.

Fighting on both sides of the boundary has strained ties between Khartoum and Juba and complicated talks over issues such as oil and debt left unresolved since the south seceded in July under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war.

Both sides have accused the other of supporting rebel groups on either side of the border.

“The Sudanese army attacked and took control of an SPLA base at 4:30 this afternoon in the Baheirat al-Abiyad Jau region,” Sudan’s armed forces spokesman Al-Sawarmi Khalid said by phone.

“This is considered the headquarters of the SPLA in South Kordofan,” he said, adding that “a number” of rebels were killed in the fighting.

Qamar Dalman, a spokesman for the SPLA-N in South Kordofan, denied the group had soldiers in the area.

“Our troops aren’t present in that area because it falls in South Sudan according to the … 1956 border,” he said, referring to an internal boundary drawn shortly before Sudan became independent.

A spokesman for South Sudan’s military was not immediately available to comment.

The SPLA-N fighters in South Kordofan and Blue Nile served as divisions of the southern rebel army during Sudan’s civil war, but were left on the northern side of the border when the south seceded.

Clashes broke out between the insurgents and government troops in June, with both sides blaming the other for provoking the violence.

Khartoum accuses Juba of continuing to back the SPLA-N rebels, which both South Sudan and the rebels deny.

South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to secede in a January referendum, culmination of the 2005 peace deal that ended what was one of Africa’s longest and deadliest wars. Some 2 million people died in the conflict.

(Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz and Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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While anti-smoking campaigns are credited with slicing cigarette use drastically over the past 40 years — from 42 percent of all Americans in 1965 to just under 20 percent in 2010 — the number of people who haven’t been able to nix their nicotine habit has flatlined in recent years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Two out of three adults who smoke want to quit, a CDC report out earlier this month said, and more than half (52 percent) had attempted to quit in the past year.

The authors of the new study, released online in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of Demography, say new tactics may be needed to help the remaining smokers.

“Federal and social policies may be somewhat less effective now because maybe the composition of those at risk [those who smoke] has changed,” said study co-author Fred Pampel, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a research associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science there. Those who can quit easily have probably done so, the authors said.

Study lead author Jason Boardman, an associate professor of sociology, said anti-smoking messages, higher taxes and restrictions on smoking have made a difference. “But for hard-core smokers, there may be something else going on,” he said. That “something else” is likely genetics, he added.

The researchers drew this conclusion after analyzing the smoking habits between 1960 and 1980 of nearly 600 pairs of twins who answered an extensive health questionnaire — 363 were identical sets of twins and 233 were fraternal twins. Identical twins come from the same fertilized egg before it splits into two embryos and they share the same genes or DNA, while fraternal twins come from two separately fertilized egg cells and only share some genetic similarities.

In the identical twin group, 65 percent of both individuals quit within a two-year period of each other, while only 55 percent of the fraternal twins quit within that same stretch of time.

“The logic here is that the identical twins share genes, so if they act alike it probably reflects a genetic component,” said Pampel.

The new research adds to a growing body of literature suggesting there is probably a substantial genetic influence when it comes to nicotine addiction, said Dr. Aditi Satti, an assistant professor of medicine and director of the smoking cessation program at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. But scientists are still trying to pinpoint the gene or genes involved, she said.

“There has not been one specific gene linked to nicotine addiction,” said Satti.

She noted that while numbers of smokers have decreased over the years, smoking is up among women and black Americans, possibly another clue as to who is genetically at risk. Inner city, low socioeconomic and less-educated populations are more likely to be smokers, too, Satti added.

“I think the combo of finding better medications and educating people, even if doctors just spend five minutes talking with your patient about smoking, will lead to higher quit rates,” Satti said.

Boardman said a policy shift might be in line. Instead of government anti-smoking campaigns focusing on high taxes and splashy advertisements, he said current smokers may discover more success using medication aimed at nicotine addiction, as well as counseling.

“I’d argue that nicotine replacement therapies may be far more effective with existing smokers still trying to quit than the posters showing images of smokers that are not cool. Behavior-changing efforts — I don’t think that’s going to help the two-pack a day smokers,” said Boardman, who is also a research associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science.

Smoking-related diseases lead to approximately 443,000 deaths a year in the United States, including babies born prematurely to women who smoke while pregnant and those harmed by secondhand smoke, according to the American Lung Association.

Satti is concerned that cigarette addiction isn’t taken seriously enough by some.

“Maybe we don’t see smoking as being as important as alcohol and drug addiction, but I’m a pulmonologist and I see chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema and lung cancer every day,” she said. “And we know tobacco smoke is linked to cardiovascular disease and stroke. It’s one of the most preventable things you can do. If you quit smoking, you’ll see a huge impact on health.”

More information

The American Cancer Society can help you determine if you need help to quit smoking.

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Spiegel, a resident of the Hartford suburb of Berlin and a native of New York City, died Wednesday after a struggle with cardiac disease and dementia. He was eulogized in a quirky obituary written by his son that appeared Friday in central Connecticut newspapers.

It quickly started spreading on strangers’ Facebook pages and Twitter feeds, usually accompanied by the readers’ admissions they did not know him ? but wished they had, based on the richly detailed obituary.

“Whereas the disease did thankfully erase most memories of the `62 Mets season, it eventually also claimed his life,” his obituary read, referring to his beloved team’s 40-120 record in a year that took 10 games just to get their first win.

Friends and family say the obituary and its response are a fitting coda for the life of a man who loved spurring conversation, whether it was about good writing, New York sports teams or the satisfaction of sipping a high-quality single malt Scotch whiskey.

“He was a very humble man, and reaching some level of postmortem fame would really please him. I’m sure he would have been delighted by it, and surprised,” said Kevin Lynch, a fellow English professor emeritus at Central Connecticut who worked with Spiegel for 32 years.

Spiegel was a high school teacher in Brooklyn before joining Central Connecticut State’s faculty in 1965. He was accompanied on his move by his wife, Ursula, whom he’d met on a blind date under New York City’s Washington Square arch.

He quickly took on a reputation at Central Connecticut as a teacher who could leave a roomful of students entranced by anything from Dostoyevsky to the literature of baseball ? something his obituary called “a thinly veiled therapy to alleviate the trauma he sustained from coaching arguably the worst Little League team in recorded (or unrecorded) history and from the sufferings he endured from 40 years as a devout Mets fan.”

Such lines in his obituary were what caught the eye of many strangers Friday, some of whom pondered in Facebook postings whether Spiegel had written the death notice himself.

Though his family would have liked that, they said, the progress of his dementia made it impossible. Instead, it was written by his son, Jeff, who described himself in the obituary as someone “who, if nothing else to show from his lineage, inherited his father’s sardonic sense of humor.”

The unusual obituary also gave readers a window into the effects of the dementia that first became evident when it stole Robert Spiegel’s ability to read, then continued creeping onward as caretakers helped his wife keep him in their home until his hospitalization late last week.

Spiegel’s obituary was so untraditional that family members and the funeral home traded calls back and forth Thursday as the directors wanted to double check that yes, indeed, the Spiegels wanted it to appear exactly that way.

“Robert Spiegel of Kensington was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 2, 1934, lived and subsequently died,” the opening line reads. “Most of his noteworthy accomplishments happened in said middle part.”

The obituary described the dayslong vigil at his hospital bed before his death amid what his son described as lively conversation against a backdrop of the music of Jimmy Buffett and Bob Marley, “chicken curry and the occasional smuggled glass of Glenlivet.”

And true to his love of Russian literature, the password for callers seeking information at the hospital about his condition was “Vanya,” an ode to the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov ? a detail his family is sure he would have loved.

As his dementia progressed in recent years, Spiegel sat down one day with his wife, and they wrote a list of things to remember for his eventual memorial service: their daughter should read some Emily Dickinson poetry aloud, the dress code should be strictly casual, and they should dab his favorite Drakkar Noir cologne on his body after the traditional washing under their Jewish faith.

When Ursula Spiegel got out that list again this week, she found a few words added on the back in her husband’s handwriting: “Glenlivet and spicy food.”

That single malt Scotch whiskey, spicy food and other items that invoke Spiegel’s personality are expected to be part of a memorial service next spring at Central Connecticut State University. The date had not been set as of Friday, and his funeral services this week were private.

In addition to his wife and son, Spiegel is survived by a daughter, three grandchildren and several other family members. According to the obituary, he was also predeceased by his “bevy of beagles, all eternally loyal to their benevolent master, if not lacking a tad in their own intellect.”

Ursula Spiegel said she and others in the family were surprised and pleased that her husband’s obituary had struck a chord with strangers, and that he was bringing a smile to them even after his death.

“Thank God Jeff has inherited his humor,” she said. “He wrote it exactly the way Bob would have written it himself.”

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Online:

The obituary written by Robert Spiegel’s son: http://bit.ly/vVDtdB

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The second in line to the British throne, who is a Royal Air Force helicopter pilot and known professionally as Flight Lt. William Wales, was aboard an aircraft which rescued two crew members early on Sunday, after their vessel suffered a cracked hull in gale-force winds off the coast of north Wales.

Britain’s ministry of defense said William had been co-pilot of the helicopter, which carried two people back to his base RAF Valley, on the Welsh island of Anglesey.

Authorities said five people remained missing after the 265-foot Swanland cargo ship, which had eight people on board, sent a mayday call at around 2 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET).

‘Challenging’ conditions
Holyhead Coastguard said one body had been recovered from the sea, but that the fate of the other crew members was not yet known.

“We know that at least some of them are wearing immersion suits and have strobe lighting with them, however sea conditions are challenging at best,” said Jim Green, a coastguard spokesman.

The Swanland was reportedly carrying 3,000 tons of limestone. Its crew members were believed to be Russian.

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Rescue helicopters from RAF Valley and from Dublin coastguard base in Ireland were initially sent to the scene, about 20 miles? northwest of the Llyn peninsula in north Wales.

Helicopters from RAF Chivenor, in southwest England, and the Irish Coastguard are continuing to search for the missing crew, along with boats from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

“Two RNLI lifeboats, along with four search and rescue helicopters and two other commercial boats, are searching for the remaining six crew,” the RNLI said in a statement.

Gale force winds battered the Irish Sea on Sunday and the coastguard said it is believed the poor condition could have caused the incident.

The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.

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He just kept throwing ? and winning.

Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and the Green Bay Packers built a big lead in the third quarter thanks in part to Ndamukong Suh’s ejection during a 27-15 victory in Detroit on Thursday.

Detroit’s best chance to beat the Packers was to knock Rodgers out of the game, just as it did last year in a victory that started a nine-game winning streak.

The Lions gave that tactic a shot, hitting him even if he had already gotten rid of the ball. Kyle Vanden Bosch was flagged for one of those late hits and could’ve drawn another penalty for trying to rough up the star quarterback even more on the same drive.

Rodgers refused to be rattled, kept his cool and won ? again.

“We try to rise above things like that,” Rodgers said. “We knew in a rivalry game, there are going to be a hard of hard hits, but we kept things between the whistles.”

The defending champion Packers are 11-0 for the first time in franchise history and have won a team-record 17 straight, including the playoffs.

“I don’t feel any pressure, this is a good place to be,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “Who doesn’t want to be 11-0?”

Green Bay easily passed what was expected to be one of its toughest tests toward joining the 2007 New England Patriots as the NFL’s only teams to have 16-0 regular seasons.

“We’re a long way from there,” Rodgers said. “This is a big step toward our first goal, which is winning the division. If we are undefeated after 14 or 15 games, we’ll talk about 16.”

While the Packers are working on a perfect season, Detroit (7-4) has to figure out a way to avoid the physical and mental mistakes that have put the team on the playoff bubble after a 5-0 start.

The Lions have lost a franchise-record eight consecutive Thanksgiving games and added to their misery in ugly fashion.

“It really does ruin the holiday,” center Dominic Raiola said. “You put so much into this and to go out there and lay an egg like that, it’s disappointing. My day’s ruined.”

Suh’s day might lead to another fine ? and possibly a suspension.

He was tossed for stomping on Evan Dietrich-Smith’s right arm in the third quarter.

Suh insisted he didn’t intentionally step on the opposing lineman with his right foot, saying he was just trying to separate himself from the situation.

“I apologize to my teammates and my fans and my coaches for putting myself in a position to be misinterpreted and taken out of the game,” Suh said.

Dietrich-Smith wouldn’t say it was a dirty play.

“Stuff happens,” he said.

Green Bay defensive end Ryan Pickett was more outspoken.

“There’s no place for that,” Pickett said.

The Packers took advantage of Suh’s misstep just as they did on Matthew Stafford’s three interceptions.

John Kuhn followed nose tackle B.J. Raji for a 1-yard TD plunge after Suh was flagged on third down, and Green Bay turned Stafford’s interceptions into two TDs and a field goal.

Detroit became the NFL’s first team to win three games in a season after trailing by 17 points with Sunday’s comeback win over Carolina, but the Packers proved they weren’t as vulnerable as the Panthers.

The Lions finally scored when Keiland Williams ran for a 16-yard TD with 13:11 left and added the 2-point conversion on a pass from Stafford to Titus Young that trimmed Green Bay’s lead to 16. They scored a meaningless TD on Stafford’s 3-yard pass to Calvin Johnson with 11 seconds left.

Detroit had raised expectations for a competitive and entertaining game during its annual showcase after losing the last seven games by three-plus TDs on average.

The Lions kept it close early ? in a punt- and penalty-filled first half ? then simply couldn’t keep up with Rodgers’ passing attack and failed to stay disciplined.

A game that was scoreless for the first 25 minutes turned into a 24-0 lead for Green Bay late in the third.

“You have to keep your composure,” Green Bay cornerback Charles Woodson said. “In big games, you need your best players there.

“They broke and we took advantage of it.”

Rodgers doesn’t need any help, but he did get an assist when Detroit lost three defensive backs to injuries, leaving the Lions with receiver Rashied Davis in the secondary.

Rodgers was 22 of 32 for 307 yards. He threw a 3-yard TD pass to Greg Jennings with 4:51 left in the first half for the first score of the game and a 65-yard pass to James Jones in the third for a 21-0 lead.

Stafford was 32 of 45 for 276 yards. He was picked off by Woodson, Clay Matthews and Robert Francois.

Despite the humbling loss, Stafford remained confident about how his team stacks up with the Packers.

“I still do feel like we match up really well against those guys,” he said. “We didn’t play our best. We didn’t get a bunch of breaks.”

Green Bay’s winning streak, including its run in the 2010 playoffs, equals the streak the Oakland Raiders had during the 1976-77 seasons.

New England won 18 straight during the 2007 season only to lose to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl.

The Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints were the last teams to start a season 11-0, pulling off the feat two years ago.

“We know we have something special, 12-0 is our goal,” Pickett said. “And if 16-0 is there when we get there we’ll embrace that.”

NOTES: Packers RB James Starks (ankle), LB A.J. Hawk (calf), LB Desmond Bishop (calf) and OG Josh Sitton (knee) were injured. … RB Kevin Smith (right ankle), FS Louis Delmas (knee), CB Chris Houston (knee) and CB Brandon McDonald (knee) went down for Detroit. … Green Bay’s next game is on the road against the New York Giants and Detroit plays at New Orleans.

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COMBAT OUTPOST HANSON, Afghanistan ? A turkey trot it was not.

The U.S. Marines’ top general, James Amos, sprinted up and down the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, visiting frontline Marines at nine remote outposts to share Thanksgiving and applaud their gains against the Taliban in a region where al-Qaida hatched the 9/11 plot a decade ago.

Traveling mostly in an MV-22 Osprey, the hybrid that flies like an airplane and takes off and lands like a helicopter, Amos began shortly after daylight and finished 14 hours later ? and, improbably, managed to confront just one turkey dinner.

At one point the 65-year-old Amos referred to his unusual daytrip as the “Bataan death march,” a reference to the gruesome forced march of American POWs in the Philippines during World War II.

Amos shook hands with hundreds of Marines, all veterans of tough fighting in Helmand Province, which has been a focal point of the U.S.-led strategy to counter the Taliban and other insurgent groups. The Marines have vastly improved security in Helmand over the past year, but with President Barack Obama having ordered 33,000 U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan by next September, the prospects for sustaining those gains are uncertain, and the subject of debate at home.

At each stop Amos struck similar themes in pep talks to his Marines: they are coming close to winning, and when the Marine Corps leaves Afghanistan it will shift its focus to the Pacific, where he said “a whole lot of opportunities” will await a Corps no longer bogged down by land wars in the greater Middle East. He also said Thanksgiving is a time for Marines to reflect on “the unique fraternal bond” among men and women at war.

Take a look at photos from other Thanksgiving celebrations in Afghanistan.

US soldiers wait in line for their Thanksgiving Day meal at Bagram air base, 50 kms north of Kabul, on November 24, 2011. The meal was served to mark the US celebration of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. (Getty)

US soldiers wait in line for their Thanksgiving Day meal at Bagram air base, 50 kms north of Kabul, on November 24, 2011. The meal was served to mark the US celebration of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. (Getty)

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US soldiers wait in line for their Thanksgiving Day meal at Bagram air base, 50 kms north of Kabul, on November 24, 2011. The meal was served to mark the US celebration of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. (Getty)

Marine Sgt. Maj. Michael Barrett, the top enlisted Marine, who accompanied Amos, said that for most troops Thanksgiving was just another day at war ? until they finished their work.

“Then they’ll have a meal of a lifetime,” he said.

The feast was finally set for Amos when he arrived after dark at Camp Dwyer, the southern-most stop on his trip. He helped heap plates with roast turkey, baked ham and prime rib ? with all the traditional fixings ? and then sat amongst the troops to finish it off.

Amos said “Happy Thanksgiving” at each Marine outpost, but the troops did not seem in a festive mood ? at least in the presence of their commandant. The business of war does not take a holiday. When he asked the Marines what was on their minds, they asked about the future of the Corps, the latest of Washington’s stalled budget debate, the possibility of seeing some of their retirement benefits go away, and internal Marine issues.

Some conveyed a sense of confidence that Afghanistan would soon be behind them.

At Combat Outpost Hanson, one member of the 3rd battalion, 6th Marine Regiment asked, “Who do you want us to fight next, sir?” Amos said he did not know, but he reassured the Marine that there would be no shortage of security crises in the years ahead.

At Combat Outpost Alcatraz, in Sangin district where fierce fights against the Taliban have waned only recently, the top overall commander of the war, Marine Gen. John Allen, joined Amos for a pep talk to several dozen Marines.

Allen said Marines will “go home under the victory pennant,” but he stressed that the struggle to degrade Taliban influence and build up Afghan security forces ? in Helmand and throughout Afghanistan ? is far from over.

“As big as this is, and as hard as it has been, we are going to be successful here,” Allen said. “We’re going to win this. We’re going to liberate these people, we’re going to set this country up to be a free country in one of the toughest regions in the world.”

There are now about 97,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. All are scheduled to leave by the end of 2014.

Amos clearly relished the chance to see so many combat Marines, but his trip was no joy ride. His itinerary was a closely-held secret, and the aircraft on which he flew was heavily armed.

As a CH-53 helicopter lifted off from a barren field across a dirt highway in the northern Helmand village of Puzeh, with Amos and part of his entourage aboard, a bearded special operations Marine quipped, “Cross your fingers.” And then, as the chopper rose above a billowing wall of powdery dust, the Marine added, only half jokingly, “Whew! Getting the commandant shot down at your (outpost) would not be a good thing.”

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Robert Burns can be reached on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/robertburnsAP

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