No. 13 Oklahoma St. edges No. 9 Kansas St. 76-70

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) ? Le'Bryan Nash scored 24 points, Marcus Smart added 21 and No. 13 Oklahoma State hurt No. 9 Kansas State's chances to win the Big 12 championship by beating the Wildcats 76-70 on Saturday.

The Wildcats (25-6, 14-4 Big 12) came into the day tied with rival Kansas for the conference lead, but were left needing the Jayhawks to lose on the road at Baylor later Saturday to come away with their first conference title since 1977 in the Big Eight.

K-State led by as much as nine in the second half and was up 61-57 following Rodney McGruder's three-point play with 4:45 remaining. The Cowboys (23-7, 13-5) didn't allow another field goal for more than 4 minutes and hit 13 straight free throws during crunch time to come away with the win.

McGruder led the Wildcats with 22 points. He had a big game when the teams met in the Big 12 opener, scoring 26 of his 28 points and making all five of his 3-point attempts to lead K-State to a victory. He couldn't match that this time, connecting on only six of his 15 shots.

Thomas Gipson chipped in 15 points and Angel Rodriguez scored 10, but also struggled to a 3-for-16 outing. Kansas State allowed Oklahoma State to shoot 57 percent while making just 39 percent of its own shots, but still managed to hang in until the final minutes.

The Wildcats had a six-game winning streak snapped and lost for just the second time in 12 games.

After McGruder's three-point play, Smart tied it with a jumper and a pair of free throws before Nash's driving layup gave the Cowboys the lead for good at 63-61 with 2:47 remaining. The Wildcats missed eight straight attempts during a 14-1 Oklahoma State that flipped the game in the Cowboys' favor.

Markel Brown finished with 16 points, hitting seven free throws in the final 2 minutes for OSU.

Shane Southwell and Martavious Irving hit 3-pointers to get the Wildcats going after halftime, and soon they put together a 14-1 blitz to charge into the lead. Rodriguez had two baskets and two free throws during the run, and Nino Williams made a jumper along the left baseline to put K-State up 50-41 with 13:12 left.

The Cowboys responded by pushing the pace in transition, and Nash had a two-handed slam and a pair of layups during an 11-0 comeback. Smart's three-point play off a driving runner along the right side of the lane put OSU back up 56-53 with 6:21 remaining ? and fans chanted "One more year!" to the NBA prospect as he hit the free throw.

Oklahoma State led by as much as seven in the first half, going up 22-15 with 6:34 left when Smart finished an 8-0 run with a three-point play. Will Spradling fouled him as he went up for a dunk, and the ball still bounced in after Smart slammed it into the rim. K-State rallied back to get within two before the Cowboys scored the final four points of the first half to go up 36-30 at the break.

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Hopes fade of Higgs particle opening door to new realms soon

By Robert Evans

GENEVA | Fri Mar 8, 2013 12:28pm EST

GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists' hopes that last summer's triumphant trapping of the particle that shaped the post-Big Bang universe would quickly open the way into exotic new realms of physics like string theory and new dimensions have faded this past week.

Five days of presentations on the particle, the Higgs boson, at a scientific conference high in the Italian Alps point to it being the last missing piece in a 30-year-old cosmic blueprint and nothing more, physicists following the event say.

"The chances are getting slimmer and slimmer that we are going to see something else exciting anytime soon," said physicist Pauline Gagnon from CERN near Geneva in whose Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the long-sought particle was found.

And U.S. scientist Peter Woit said in his blog that the particle was looking "very much like a garden variety SM (Standard Model) Higgs", discouraging for researchers who were hoping for glimpses of breathtaking vistas beyond.

That conclusion, shared among analysts of vast volumes of data gathered in the LHC over the past three years, would push to well beyond 2015 any chance of sighting exotica like dark matter or super symmetric particles in the giant machine.

That is when the LHC, where particles are smashed together at light speed to create billions of mini-Big Bangs that are traced in vast detectors, resumes operation with its power doubled after a two-year shutdown from last month.

The Higgs - still not claimed as a scientific discovery because its exact nature has yet to be established - was postulated in the early 1960s as the element that gave mass to flying matter after the Big Bang 13,7 billion years ago.

UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES

It was incorporated tentatively into the Standard Model when that was compiled in the 1980s, and its discovery in the LHC effectively completed that blueprint. But there are mysteries of the universe, like gravity, that remain outside it.

Some physicists have been hoping that the particle as finally found would be something beyond a "Standard Model Higgs" - offering a passage onwards into a science fiction world of "New Physics" and a zoo of new particles.

They had been looking to the Italian gathering, called the Moriond Conference although it is held in the ski village of La Thuile, for reports bringing evidence of this.

Dark matter, the invisible stuff that makes up some 25 percent of the universe, and super symmetry, a theory that says all particles have unseen extra-heavy counterparts, were top of the target list after the finding of the Higgs.

Both are integral parts of the concept of "New Physics" that should take knowledge of how the universe works beyond that of the Standard Model blueprint.

There is little or no controversy about dark matter, whose existence is deduced from its gravitational influence on the visible galaxies, stars and planets which make up little more than four percent of the cosmos.

But super symmetry, dubbed SUSY by physicists, is controversial, championed by some physicists and dismissed as fantasy by others - like the string theory on how the universe is built, with which it is linked.

One of its proponents, Oliver Buchmueller of CERN's CMS research team, on Friday accepted that finding it would now take longer. "It seems we have to wait for 2015 and higher energy. That will be the showdown for Susy," he told Reuters.

(Reported by Robert Evans; editing by Andrew Roche)

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Google Updates Chrome For Android, iPhone And iPad With Focus On Speed, Search And Sharing

Ever since Google launched its Chrome browser on multiple mobile devices, more people have been getting used to syncing their desktop browsing experiences for on-the-go usage. Being able to have one browsing experience wherever you go is handy, but when a browser doesn’t move as fast as, say, Safari on the iPhone, it’s hard to dedicate yourself to making the switch. Google knows that and has pushed updates to its Chrome browser for Android, iPhone and iPad with the focus on bringing the speed of the experience up to snuff. On the Android side of the house, the company says that the browsing experience is now 25 percent faster thanks to expanded support for HTML5 and utilization of the latest V8 JavaScript engine. If pages load fast and scrolling is like butter, you’re going to use it more. Period. Those same changes will start being made on other platforms soon, Google says. Here’s what Grace Kloba and Rohit Rao had to say about the changes: We?re continuing to add plenty of under-the-hood stability, security improvements and bug fixes to Chrome for both Android and iOS. We look forward to your feedback on the latest versions of Chrome, now available on?Google Play?and in the?App Store. On the iOS side of the house, Google has added better search and sharing options, which are key components of a speedy experience on an iPhone or iPad. Clearly, Android has the advantage of having stronger sharing options baked into the OS, so Google has to be more creative with how things are done within its apps. Instead of seeing a long URL in the “Omnibox” at the top of the browser, you’ll see your search phrase so you can keep refining it instead of dealing with that ugly URL. After using a Chromebook for a while now, I’m longing for the day that I’ll never have to see an ugly URL again, especially when all you’re using is a browser on a screen. Here’s what the experience looks like; the changes might not be available to you for a few weeks: On iOS, sharing and history surfing got simplified as well. You can now hold the back button to see all of the pages you’ve previously visited and tap Share under Menu to share whatever page you’re on. You’ll also see more options than before. The big thing here is that you can share any

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Amazon.com adds new technology to compete in digital content and ...

AMAZON.COM (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; www.amazon.com) is a major online retailer.
It gets about 33% of its sales from books, music and videos. Other products, including electronics, computer games and toys, make up the other 67%. Amazon Marketplace lets other companies sell their products through Amazon?s websites.

In the three months ended December 31, 2012, Amazon?s earnings fell 45.2%, to $97.0 million, or $0.21 a share. A year earlier, it earned $177.0 million, or $0.38 a share. The profit decline came despite a 22.0% jump in sales, to $21.3 billion from $17.4 billion.

In the latest quarter, the company spent $1.3 billion on ?technology and content,? up 56.0% from $862 million a year earlier. That was a major reason for the lower earnings.

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Tech stocks: Amazon aims to compete with Apple in digital content and cloud computing services

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In addition, Amazon made big investments to expand its network of warehouses, especially near larger centres. That also weighed on its profits.

The company faces a number of challenges. For example, it must deal with intense competition in the e-book market from big rivals like eBay, Apple, Barnes & Noble and Google. As well, Apple still dominates the tablet market.

In the latest edition of Stock Pickers Digest, we look at whether Amazon?s heavy spending on technology will pay off with a growing clientele, rising sales and higher profits. We conclude with our clear buy-hold-sell advice on the stock.

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Buffett calls year with 45 pct. profit jump subpar

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? Most companies would undoubtedly be thrilled with the results Warren Buffett called "subpar" at Berkshire Hathaway because his company's value trailed the overall market.

But the fact that Buffett wasn't satisfied with the 45 percent jump in profit his company reported Friday is part of why he's built such a remarkable record.

Buffett sounded optimistic about both the economy and his company in an annual letter to shareholders that was released Friday. Buffett urged other businesses to either invest in the future or sell their profitable ventures to Berkshire.

"Charlie and I love investing large sums in worthwhile projects, whatever the pundits are saying," Buffett said in reference to Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger.

So it didn't really matter much that 2012 was only the ninth time in the past 48 years that Berkshire's book value per share failed to outpace the S&P 500's 16 percent growth. Berkshire's value ? calculated by subtracting liabilities from assets ? still grew by 14.4 percent.

The legendary investor also confessed that the two investment managers he hired over the last few years left Buffett in their dust largely, because he didn't make a big acquisition last year.

Berkshire's chairman and CEO had considerably more good news than bad to offer, and Buffett offered more explanation about the company's recent newspaper purchases and its opposition to paying derivatives.

Berkshire's net income soared in 2012 to $14.8 billion, up from $10.3 billion the previous year, but most of the increase came from paper gains on its investments and derivative contracts.

Without those gains, Berkshire's operating earnings advanced 17 percent to $12.6 billion, up from the previous year's $10.8 billion. Nearly all of its major business groups performed well in 2012, with the insurance units that include Geico and General Reinsurance leading the way because of significantly fewer natural disasters in the year.

"Berkshire really did pretty well," said Jeff Matthews, who wrote "Warren Buffett's Successor: Who It Is and Why It Matters."

Buffett said Berkshire's acquisition luck turned last month when he agreed to work with the 3G Capital investment fund to buy the H.J. Heinz Co. for $23.3 billion.

Berkshire will own half the company, receive 9 percent dividends on $8 billion, and get warrants to buy another 5 percent of Heinz. But Buffett and Munger won't be satisfied by the ketchup deal.

"We still have plenty of cash and are generating more at a good clip," Buffett wrote. "So it's back to work; Charlie and I have again donned our safari outfits and resumed our search for elephants."

Andy Kilpatrick, who wrote "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett," said the warrants make it likely that Heinz will one day be entirely owned by Berkshire.

And Buffett said Berkshire finished 2012 with nearly $47 billion on hand, so he does have plenty to work with even if he insists on keeping about $20 billion around in case of emergencies.

Many of the companies Berkshire owns outright ? including MidAmerican Energy, Lubrizol chemicals and HomeServices of America ? together made 26 smaller acquisitions for $2.3 billion last year.

Kilpatrick said he was impressed with the report because for the first time in several years, it looks like all parts of Berkshire are performing well, and it looks like the 82-year-old Buffett is doing well after a prostate cancer scare last year.

"He looks to be in terrific health, and the company looks to be in terrific health," Kilpatrick said.

Buffett did not offer any new details in the letter on the plan to eventually replace him. He has said Berkshire's board plans to split Buffett's job into three roles: CEO, chairman and investment management. The board knows who it would choose immediately to succeed him as CEO.

The investment piece seems set with the recent hiring of hedge fund managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. They manage portfolios worth about $5 billion while Buffett continues to make most of Berkshire's investment decisions. Buffett praised both on Friday.

"Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, our new investment managers, have proved to be smart, models of integrity, helpful to Berkshire in many ways beyond portfolio management, and a perfect cultural fit. We hit the jackpot with these two," Buffett said.

In his letter, Buffett defended the newspaper investments he made last year. But mostly his comments just elaborated on what he's said previously about newspapers that are the primary source of information about their communities will continue delivering decent returns.

Berkshire will own 28 daily newspapers in small and mid-sized cities once its acquisition of the Tulsa World is complete. Berkshire bought 63 Media General newspapers last year for $142 million.

"Wherever there is a pervasive sense of community, a paper that serves the special informational needs of that community will remain indispensable to a significant portion of its residents," Buffett said.

Berkshire owns roughly 80 subsidiaries, including railroad, clothing, furniture and jewelry firms, but its insurance and utility businesses typically account for more than half of the company's net income. The Omaha, Neb., company employs more than 288,000 and holds major investments in such companies as Coca-Cola Co., IBM and Wells Fargo & Co.

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Gridlock: No budging at the budget-cuts deadline

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following his meeting with congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following his meeting with congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following a meeting with President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama pause as he speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following a meeting with congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, after a meeting at the White House between President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders before billions of dollars in mandatory budget cuts were to start. The meeting ? lasting less than an hour ? yielded no immediate results. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio talks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following a meeting with President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Gridlocked once more, President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders refused to budge in their budget standoff Friday as $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts bore down on individual Americans and the nation's still-recovering economy. "None of this is necessary," said the president after a sterile White House meeting that portended a long standoff.

Even before Obama formally ordered the cuts required by midnight, their impact was felt thousands of miles away. In Seattle, the King County Housing Authority announced it had stopped issuing housing vouchers under a federal program that benefits "elderly or disabled households, veterans, and families with children."

The president met with top lawmakers for less than an hour at the White House, then sought repeatedly to fix the blame on Republicans for the broad spending reductions and any damage that they inflict. "They've allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit," he said, renewing his demand for a comprehensive deficit-cutting deal that includes higher taxes.

Republicans said they wanted deficit cuts, too, but not tax increases. "The president got his tax hikes on Jan. 1," House Speaker John Boehner told reporters, a reference to a $600 billion increase on higher wage earners that cleared Congress on the first day of the year. Now, he said after the meeting, it is time take on "the spending problem here in Washington."

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was equally emphatic. " I will not be part of any back-room deal, and I will absolutely not agree to increase taxes," he vowed in a written statement.

At the same time they clashed, Obama and Republicans appeared determined to contain their disagreement.

Boehner said the House will pass legislation next week to extend routine funding for government agencies beyond the current March 27 expiration. "I'm hopeful that we won't have to deal with the threat of a government shutdown while we're dealing with the sequester at the same time," he said, referring to the new cuts by their Washington-speak name.

Obama said he, too, wanted to keep the two issues separate.

White House officials declined to say precisely when the president would formally order the cuts. Under the law, he had until midnight. Barring a quick deal in the next week or so to call them off, the impact eventually is likely to be felt in all reaches of the country.

The Pentagon will absorb half of the $85 billion required to be sliced between now and the end of the budget year on Sept 30, exposing civilian workers to furloughs and defense contractors to possible cancellations. Said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, only a few days on the job: "We will continue to ensure America's security" despite the challenge posed by an "unnecessary budget crisis."

The administration also has warned of long lines at airports as security personnel are furloughed, of teacher layoffs in some classrooms and adverse impacts on maintenance at the nation's parks.

The announcement by the housing agency in Seattle was an early indication of what is likely to hit as the cuts take effect. It said it was taking the action "to cope with the impending reduction in federal funding," adding that it normally issues 45 to 50 vouchers per month.

After days of dire warnings by administration officials, the president told reporters the effects of the cuts would be felt only gradually.

"The longer these cuts remain in place, the greater the damage to our economy ? a slow grind that will intensify with each passing day," he said. Much of the budget savings will come through unpaid furloughs for government workers, and those won't begin taking effect until next month.

Obama declined to say if he bore any of the responsibility for the coming cuts, and expressed bemusement at any suggestion he had the ability to force Republicans to agree with him.

"I am not a dictator. I'm the president," he said. "So, ultimately, if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?" He also declared he couldn't perform a "Jedi mind meld" to sway opponents, mixing Star Wars and Star Trek as he reached for a science fiction metaphor.

Neither the president nor Republicans claimed to like what was about to happen. Obama called the cuts "dumb," and GOP lawmakers have long said they were his idea in the first place.

Ironically, they derive from a budget dispute they were supposed to help resolve back in the fall of 2011. At the time, a congressional Supercommittee was charged with identifying at least $1.2 trillion in deficit savings over a decade as part of an attempt to avoid a first-ever government default. The president and Republicans agreed to create a fallback of that much in across-the-board cuts, designed to be so unpalatable that it would virtually assure the panel struck a deal.

The Supercommittee dissolved in disagreement, though. And while Obama and Republicans agreed to a two-month delay last January, there was no bipartisan negotiation in recent days to prevent the first installment of the cuts from taking effect.

It isn't clear how long they will last.

Of particular concern to lawmakers in both parties is a lack of flexibility in the allocation of cuts due to take effect over the next few months. That problem will ease beginning with the new budget year on Oct. 1, when Congress and the White House will be able to negotiate changes in the way the reductions are made.

For his part, Obama suggested he was content to leave them in place until Republicans change their minds about raising taxes by closing loopholes.

"If Congress comes to its senses a week from now, a month from now, three months from now, then there's a lot of open running room there for us to grow our economy much more quickly and to advance the agenda of the American people dramatically," he said.

"So this is a temporary stop on what I believe is the long-term, outstanding prospect for American growth and greatness."

But Republicans say they are on solid political ground. At a retreat in January in Williamsburg, Va., GOP House members reversed course and decided to approve a debt limit increase without demanding cuts. They also agreed not to provoke a government shutdown, another traditional pressure point, as leverage to force Obama and Democrats to accept savings in benefit programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

Obama has said repeatedly he's willing to include benefit programs in deficit-cutting legislation ? as long as more tax revenue is part of the deal.

"I am prepared to do hard things and to push my Democratic friends to do hard things," he said at the White House on Friday.

Republicans speak dismissively of such pledges, saying that in earlier negotiations, the president has never been willing to close a deal with the type of changes he often says he will accept.

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Associated Press writers Robert Burns, Andrew Taylor, Jim Kuhnhenn and Darlene Superville in Washington and Manuel Valdes in Seattle contributed to this story.

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Woods goes nowhere in Honda Classic

Tiger Woods reacts after hitting the ball into a bunker on the fourth hole during the third round of the Honda Classic golf tournament, Saturday, March 2, 2013 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Tiger Woods reacts after hitting the ball into a bunker on the fourth hole during the third round of the Honda Classic golf tournament, Saturday, March 2, 2013 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Tiger Woods watches his shot after teeing off the fifth tee during the third round of the Honda Classic golf tournament, Saturday, March 2, 2013 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Tiger Woods hits out of a bunker on the fourth hole during the third round of the Honda Classic golf tournament, Saturday, March 2, 2013 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) ? Instead of making a move, Tiger Woods was stuck in neutral Saturday at the Honda Classic.

Woods never found his tee shot that plugged into the bank below the par-3 17th green and eventually made double bogey. That ruined a good start and sent him to a third straight round of even-par 70 that left him in the middle of the pack.

"If you play well, you can shoot about 5- or 6-under par, there's no doubt," Woods said. "There are some accessible pins. The greens are perfectly smooth out there. They are not that fast, so you can be pretty aggressive."

In the third group off, it was the perfect time to post a low number and try to get into contention.

Woods, however, said his momentum was slowed by mud on his ball in the 10th fairway that caused his shot to wobble toward the green and fall short in a bunker. He missed about a 10-foot par putt, backing off when he heard someone in the gallery take his picture, and muttering under his breath as he walked off the green.

He only had a few reasonable looks at birdie the rest of the way, and then 17th was his undoing.

Woods stared for the longest time after his tee shot came up short. There was no splash, not even a ripple, and there was no signal from a marshal. He never found his ball, despite looking longer than five minutes. A rules official gave him a ride back to the other side of the lake. Woods started to get out by the drop area until realizing he had to go all the way back to the tee.

Because he never found the ball, Woods couldn't be sure where it landed. If the ball had been inside the red hazard line, he could have gone to the drop area.

"You don't know, and then it's a lost ball," he said.

He said another mud ball was the reason he hit what amounted to a foul ball into the stands left of the 18th green. It landed in the bleachers, bounced over the first row and a fan caught it on one hop. He waited for Woods to arrive, and then tossed it back to him. Woods hit wedge through the green and into a back bunker, the sixth time in the round he had to play out of the sand.

Not only did he fail to get in the mix, he finished before television coverage came on, and that might be the case on Sunday, too.

"Go out there and execute, simple as that, same thing I do every day," Woods said on his outlook for the final round. "Hopefully, I'll get it going early."

Woods was nine shots behind going into the final round last year at the Honda Classic, closed with a 62 and tied for second behind Rory McIlroy.

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