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Let go, Leo!

The Swi and Cancer are inMerairy making us a bit more ctionate and emotional. They aspect Saturn in Virgo, drawing attention to faults, details andproblems. You can balance affectionate gentleness with critical insight, but it may be a challenge!

ARIES (March 20 -April 19): Your home may not be as neat, as large, or as pretty as it could be, but it's home and that's what counts. Still, you could make it neater, and that will help pretty it up - and make more space!

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): Your attempts at wit, or at critical analysis , may be sharper than you intend. Focus on being kind, supportive and helpful. Your cleverness and insight will shine through. Talking …

Schumacher skids out in first day of motorcycle racing at superbike stop in Germany

Michael Schumacher's first day of motorcycle racing ended when he skidded onto a gravel pit and failed to finish at the superbike German International Championship on Sunday.

The seven-time Formula One champion, who came 28th in the morning race, was still delighted.

"What incredible fun," Schumacher said. "A race like that is lot better than a test, and it was great to prove myself out there."

The 39-year-old Schumacher, who retired from Formula One in 2005, started in the last row and was 37th of 39 riders following electronic problems in Saturday's qualifying.

During Sunday's second race, Schumacher had passed …

U.S. athletes urged to keep it low-key at Olympics 'Play hard, lie low,' Americans told in time of terror fears

Even before she arrives in Athens, Olympian Lauren McFall has madesome curious amendments to her to-do list. Don't speak too loudly,for one. Don't go out with large groups of friends, for another. And,despite all her patriotic tendencies, avoid wearing anything thatsays "USA."

The synchronized swimmer has already gotten a taste of what it islike to be so obviously American, so far from home. Like the timesomeone spray-painted epithets on the team's flag, or the time theywere booed.

By the opening ceremonies next Friday, each American athlete willprobably have heard the same thing in memos and seminars: Play hard,lie low.

It is, on one hand, a common-sense tip …

Howard Levy: more than blues around the world

The music was American. The audience was Russian. But the language was interna-tional as Howard Levy displayed his virtuosity in a program of jazz before listeners who came from a country which had banned this form of music.

Levy, playing harmonica and piano in a concert of George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Cole Porter, along with some of his own compositions, also discussed the music, explaining the roots of jazz and illustrating how jazz musicians approach the music.

"Improvisation is what jazz musicians do," he explained. "They like to take a piece and make it their own."

This was the music that the Communists considered "the penetration of a rotten ideology," Hill …

Jeter: No decision yet by Yankees on disabled list

NEW YORK (AP) — Derek Jeter will need at least a week to recover from his strained right calf, and the New York Yankees waited Tuesday to decide whether to put him on the disabled list and delay his pursuit of 3,000 hits.

A move could come before Tuesday night's game against Texas. The All-Star shortstop limped off the field Monday night with 2,994 hits.

"I'm still pleading my case," Jeter said.

The Yankees said they wanted to speak to a doctor and Jeter before determining if the team captain needs to go on the DL for the first time since 2003. An MRI exam revealed a Grade I sprain, the mildest kind.

"That's what we are really talking about, that it will take at …

Venezuela asks for details of charges in ETA case

Venezuela has asked authorities in Spain to detail their accusations against an alleged ETA operative accused of helping the Basque separatist group arrange explosives training with Colombian rebels in Venezuela.

Venezuela asked Interpol in Madrid for details of the indictment naming Arturo Cubillas Fontan, who is among a group of ETA suspects wanted by Spanish authorities, Venezuelan Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said Thursday.

El Aissami expressed willingness to investigate but also skepticism about possible political motives behind the case. He echoed President Hugo Chavez in dismissing as "pure lies" the claims by a Spanish judge that …