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Normally I'd say "Working for the Weekend" is not the attitude you want to have when starting out your work week, but let's be honest: It's almost Thanksgiving here in the States, and the promise of a turkey-fueled binge is tough to ignore. So, for just this once, let's pull through the work week ahead with a little motivation from Loverboy.

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SEC rules: LSU, Alabama, Arkansas top AP rankings

LSU head coach Les Miles celebrates with his team following their 52-3 win over Mississippi in an NCAA college football game in Oxford, Miss., on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

LSU head coach Les Miles celebrates with his team following their 52-3 win over Mississippi in an NCAA college football game in Oxford, Miss., on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Alabama running back Trent Richardson (3) smiles at the end of a 45-21 win over Georgia Southern in an NCAA college football game at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Hallie Treece, 11, of Clinton, Ark., holds a sign looking forward to Friday's Arkansas - LSU football game during the second half of Arkansas' 44-17 victory over Mississippi State in an NCAA college football game in Little Rock, Ark., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/David Quinn)

Arkansas running back Broderick Green celebrates his fourth quarter touchdown in Arkansas' 44-17 victory over Mississippi State in an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in Little Rock, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The latest AP college football poll gives a new meaning to the term all-SEC.

The Southeastern Conference is the second league to have the top three spots in ranking all to itself.

No. 1 LSU held the top spot for the ninth straight week in Sunday's rankings, and after a weekend when three other top-five teams lost, Alabama moved up a spot to No. 2 and Arkansas jumped three places to No. 3.

The only other time in the 75-year history of The Associated Press rankings that the top three teams all came from the same conference was the final regular-season poll of 1971, when Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado from the Big Eight were 1-2-3.

And this time it's not just one conference, but one division (the SEC West) holding down the top spots.

No. 4 Stanford from the Pac-12 is the first non-SEC team in the rankings and Oklahoma State dropped from No. 2 to No. 5 after its first loss of the season. The Cowboys lost 37-31 in double overtime at Iowa State on Friday night.

That opened the door for Alabama to move up to No. 2.

"You're excited to see things like that of course because at Alabama we play for championships, that's what we do," defensive end Damion Square said after Alabama's easy victory against Georgia Southern on Saturday.

Little did Square realize the situation was about to get even better for Alabama and the SEC.

Oregon lost 38-35 at home to USC that night and Oklahoma fell at Baylor 45-38.

The last time three of the top five teams lost on the same weekend was Oct. 11, 2008, when No. 1 Oklahoma lost to No. 5 Texas; No. 3 Missouri lost to No. 17 Oklahoma State; and No. 4 LSU lost to No. 11 Florida.

Oregon slipped five spots to ninth with its second loss of the season. Oklahoma dropped from No. 5 to No. 12.

No. 6 was Virginia Tech, followed by Boise State, Houston, Oregon and Southern California at No. 10.

The Trojans, at one time a fixture in the top 10, have their best ranking since the middle of the 2009 season.

Houston has its best ranking since 1990, when David Klingler and the Cougars were as high as No. 3 in the rankings.

Record-breaking quarterback Case Keenum and the current Cougars are the only other unbeaten team in the nation outside of LSU.

Those SEC West powers might not have the top three spots locked up for long.

LSU hosts Arkansas the day after Thanksgiving. Another loss by the Razorbacks, whose only loss so far is to Alabama, would likely knock them back.

Though if Arkansas beats LSU, which beat Alabama, maybe the teams would stay the same but the order would change?

Alabama plays Auburn on Saturday.

In the event of a three-way tie for the SEC West title, the BCS standings are used as a tiebreaker to determine which team will play Georgia in the conference title game on Dec. 3 in Atlanta.

The second 10 in the Top 25 starts with No. 11 Michigan State, which has clinched a spot in the first Big Ten championship game.

Oklahoma is followed by No. 13 Georgia, No. 14 South Carolina and Wisconsin.

Kansas State is No. 16. Michigan is No. 17 heading into its rivalry game against unranked Ohio State.

Clemson already has a spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game sewn up, but the Tigers dropped 11 spots in the latest rankings after a 37-13 loss at North Carolina State.

No. 19 is TCU, which has earned no less than a share of the Mountain West Conference title.

No. 20 Penn State will play Wisconsin for the right to play Michigan State in the Big Ten championship.

Baylor's big victory helped Robert Griffin III and the Bears moved up three spots to No. 21.

Nebraska and Notre Dame are tied at No. 22.

No. 24 Virginia beat Florida State 14-13 on Saturday night to move into the AP rankings for the first time since Dec. 2, 2007. The Cavaliers will play Virginia Tech next week for a spot in the ACC title game.

ACC rival Georgia Tech also moved back into the rankings at No. 25.

Florida State and Southern Miss dropped out after losses.

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AP Sports Writer John Zenor in Tuscaloosa, Ala., contributed to this report.

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Occupy protests spread to US college campuses

As the Occupy Wall Street protests have grown to cities across the United States, they've also taken root at US universities, where students have staged rallies and walk-outs from classes.

Mo Tarafa stood before students at a small, outdoor concrete auditorium at Florida International University and called for volunteers to sit in the 10 chairs before her. Each chair, she said, represented 10 percent of the wealth in the United States and 10 percent of the population.

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The students, mostly in their 20s and wearing jeans and T-shirts on a balmy autumn afternoon in Miami, took their places. Then Tarafa asked nine of the students to squeeze together into five of the chairs. This, she said, was the distribution of wealth in 1996.

Next she asked nine students to fit into three of the chairs. This, she said, is the distribution of wealth today.?"How are you all feeling right now?" she said.

"Uncomfortable," said one of the students piled up on one another.

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The exercise was part of a teach-in that took place recently at FIU and dozens of other campuses across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. As the protests have grown to cities across the United States, they've also taken root at US universities, where students have staged rallies and walk-outs from classes. On Thursday, students were among the thousands who took part in protests across the country.

They've even set up their own tent cities: At the University of California, Berkeley, where 40 people were arrested in a violent confrontation with police last week, officers removed 20 tents on Thursday. At Harvard University, dozens of students have set up tents in the middle of campus.

The students' concerns: The rising costs of tuition, seemingly insurmountable student debt and weak job prospects ? issues unique to them, but which student organizers see as directly connected to the larger issues being raised by the Occupy protests against economic inequality.

"I love my education. I think it was completely valuable; however, I feel I'm not using it on a daily basis," said Natalia Abrams, 31, a recent University of California at Los Angeles graduate who has been helping organize students through Occupy Colleges, a loose coalition of universities across the country. "We didn't go back to school to have $20,000 in debt to work at Starbucks."

Whether the protests mark a rejuvenation of student activism in the United States is yet to be seen, but already some important distinctions are being made from their involvement in politics and society over the last few decades. In the 1960s, students held sit-ins to protest racial segregation and marched against the Vietnam War. But since then, activism on campus has tended to focus on specific issues, like rape awareness, anti-sweatshop campaigns, and equality for gays and lesbians, notes Robert Self, a history professor at Brown University.

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Republicans seek Iowa social conservatives' nod (tbo)

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Gay soldier shares reaction to GOP debate boos (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO ? Army Capt. Stephen Hill says he wasn't trying to score political points when he asked the Republican presidential candidates if they would reinstate the ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military.

He wasn't worried that his debate question, posed via a YouTube video recorded in Iraq, would generate boos or reveal his sexual orientation to millions of people, including his superiors and fellow troops.

All Hill was thinking about in September was his husband of four-and-a-half months, Joshua Snyder, in Columbus, Ohio.

Now that "don't ask, don't tell" has been lifted, he needed to know if the military would take the next step and recognize his marriage, or if a new president would try to force soldiers like him back into the closet.

"I was looking forward to the future and hoping everybody would realize we are soldiers first, always," said Hill, 41, an Army reservist who returned last week from his yearlong deployment. "I was hoping `don't ask, don't tell' would be a distant memory for everybody."

In an interview with The Associated Press, Hill reflected publicly for the first time on his reasons for submitting the pre-recorded question for the Sept. 22 debate, as well as his reaction to the heckles heard around the world; the answer that former Sen. Rick Santorum gave to thunderous applause; and the outrage expressed on his behalf by, among others, his commander in chief.

With Snyder on the telephone, Hill watched the debate live from Iraq at 4 a.m. And this is what he asked: "In 2010, when I was deployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was because I'm a gay soldier and I didn't want to lose my job. My question is, under one of your presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?"

Santorum replied that he would reinstitute the ban on open service by gay troops because "any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military."

"What we are doing is playing social experimentation with our military right now. That's tragic," he continued. "Leave it alone. Keep it to yourself whether you are heterosexual or homosexual."

Hill says the fact that he just outed himself on national television had barely registered when he absorbed the boos and Santorum's answer followed by applause.

"When the actual booing occurred, my gut dropped out, because my first inclination was, did I just do something wrong?" he said. "The answer, obviously, wasn't very supportive of gay people, and there was a lot of fear of how the Army would take the question."

He did not have to wait long to find out. At breakfast later that morning, the segment was playing on the chow hall television. Hill immediately tracked down his commander, who told him she had no problem with what he'd done but that she would need to run it up the chain of command. She later relayed the response.

"She said, `What the military's most concerned with is that you are OK, because it's a lot of pressure on you and we want to make sure if there is anything we can do to help,'" he recalled.

President Barack Obama, about a week later, chided the Republican contenders for staying silent when several people booed an American soldier. Santorum said he had not heard the booing but condemned the audience members who did it.

What Hill remembers most was that a presidential candidate defined his marriage and military service in terms of sex. He holds that up against the times he hid Snyder's photograph because Army buddies were coming over to play video games, introduced his husband as his roommate or brother, and the legal vows they exchanged at the grave of Air Force Sgt. Leonard Matlovich, who was discharged in 1975 after becoming the first gay service member to challenge the U.S. military's ban on gay troops.

Snyder and Hill last month joined other same-sex military couples in suing the government for the same benefits as straight military couples, which the Pentagon denies them on grounds that federal law defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

"This is not about sex," Hill said. "A special privilege is not hiding pictures in my house or God forbid, taking mortar fire again and not knowing if Josh will be recognized. I'm fighting every day to protect everyone's rights as human beings, and it seems counterintuitive for me to be fighting for those rights and not have them."

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UNC students lace up their kicks to honor murdered student body president

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CHAPEL HILL -- Saturday, the fourth annual Eve Carson Memorial 5k got underway in Chapel Hill. The former UNC student body president was murdered in March of 2008. Officials at UNC say this year's run is the largest in school history.

Last year, more than 1,700 runners participated and more than $30,000 was raised. Proceeds from the race will go directly toward the Eve Carson Memorial Scholarship.

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FDA Revokes Approval of Avastin for Breast Cancer (HealthDay)

FRIDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Saying the risks outweigh the benefits in patients with advanced breast cancer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg said on Friday that the agency has rescinded its approval of the cancer drug Avastin for that use.

Avastin (bevacizumab), however, will remain available for treating some types of colon, lung, kidney and brain cancer.

"Today, I am revoking the FDA's approval of the breast cancer indication for Avastin after concluding that the drug has not been shown to be safe and effective for that use," Hamburg said during a late morning press conference.

"Sometimes, despite the hopes of investigators, patients, industry, and even the FDA, the results of rigorous testing can be disappointing," she said. "This is the case with Avastin when used for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer."

The risks of Avastin include severe high blood pressure, bleeding, heart attack or heart failure and the development of perforations in different parts of the body such as the nose, stomach and intestines.

"These are considerable risks from taking Avastin, and can be justified only if there is good evidence that the use of the drug will benefit the patient," Hamburg said. "In breast cancer, it was clear that there was no proof of benefits that would justify the risks."

The FDA's decision was based on an expert panel's unanimous recommendation in June that the drug was not safe or effective when used for women with metastatic breast cancer. The drug had been approved for use along with the cancer drug Taxol (paclitaxel) for an aggressive type of breast cancer called HER2-negative breast cancer.

In 2008, Avastin was approved to treat metastatic breast cancer under the FDA's accelerated approval program, Hamburg said. Under this program, a drug can gain approval before final data on its safety and effectiveness is complete if its use appears promising in treating serious and life-threatening conditions, she explained.

Avastin's approval was based on results from one study that suggested it extended the lives of certain breast cancer patients.

After its approval for this use, Avastin's maker Genentech completed two clinical trials that found only a small effect on tumor growth without evidence that patients lived any longer or had a better quality of life compared with standard chemotherapy alone.

Some said Friday that they thought the FDA's decision was a sound one.

In a statement, the National Breast Cancer Coalition said it "applauds the FDA and Commissioner Margaret Hamburg for the decision to revoke the approval of Avastin in the first-line treatment of metastatic breast cancer. We understand the devastation of metastatic breast cancer and the fact that we do not know how to prevent or cure it. We remain committed to and focused on finding those answers."

However, Genentech took issue with the agency's decision.

"We are disappointed with the outcome," Dr. Hal Barron, Genentech's chief medical officer, said in a statement. "Despite today's action, we will start a new phase III study of Avastin in combination with paclitaxel in previously untreated metastatic breast cancer, and will evaluate a potential biomarker that may help identify which people might derive a more substantial benefit from Avastin."

Several experts also questioned the FDA's decision.

"I can only say it's not good," said Dr. Stefan Gluck, an oncologist at the University of Miami's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. "They have been agonizing over it, and they still made the wrong decision."

Avastin gives a subset of patients a large advantage over chemotherapy alone, Gluck said. "In metastatic breast cancer, we give therapy to improve symptoms and improve quality of life and occasionally to improve quantity of life," he explained.

Avastin should only be used in late-stage breast cancer where the disease has spread to other organs such as the lungs, liver, bone or kidneys, Gluck said.

"I would not use Avastin in an older woman with small tumors in the lung without symptoms," Gluck said. "But in a young woman with huge lung masticates, then I need a quick response and a long-lasting response, and this is only available if you add chemotherapy and Avastin together," he said.

In these cases, "the cancer is worse than the side effects," Gluck said. "I need to weigh what is worse at the moment, the side effects, which may not happen, or the cancer. Eventually, the cancer kills the patient, but until the cancer kills the patient I want to give her the best quality of life."

Gluck noted that doctors can still use Avastin for breast cancer patients on an off-label basis. However, the FDA decision may mean that the drug will no longer be covered by insurance companies for use in treating breast cancer.

Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, said in a statement: "The full impact of this decision is difficult to determine at this time. This decision will obviously lead insurance companies to review their payment policies regarding Avastin in breast cancer. Other experts have made their opinions known that in their experience Avastin has proven beneficial for breast cancer patients. Whether those opinions will provide sufficient reason for insurers and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid to pay for this treatment remains unknown."

"At the least, we would hope that insurers will continue to cover treatment with Avastin in those women with metastatic breast cancer who are currently on the drug and who are showing a benefit from its use," he added. "Ultimately, as noted by the Commissioner, this was a difficult decision to make, but one that had to be made based on the science."

Elizabeth Thompson, president of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, said in a statement that "as a patient advocacy organization, we want to ensure that women who are successfully using Avastin today continue to have access to the drug, and that their treatment be covered by third-party payers."

"This decision underscores the need for aggressive research to develop treatments that will allow women to live full, high-quality lives even with advanced and metastatic breast cancers. At the same time, we encourage continued research into biomarkers that will help identify which patients will or will not benefit from certain treatments," she said.

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For more information on breast cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.

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