Most dancers go without underwear, but if they are uncomfortable with this then they wear a thong or bikini underwear. Dancers also require a well fitting bra. Their bra should have no metal clips or hooks that could cause damage to the dancer or a partner. If their bra doesn’t provide enough support then the breast tissue can be torn away from the underlying musculature. Sports or dance bras provide enough support and allows the dancer to move with ease (Penrod 13).

The eyes are the most expressive part of the face. To enhance their features dancers should draw attention to and make their eyes appear larger. However, to maintain unity, the intensity of the eyes must be balanced with color and shape of the lips. The color of the lips needs to be complimentary to the skin color and costume (Art of Production 123).

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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian television is reporting that one of the wives of Southeast Asia's most-wanted militant has been detained less than a week after bombs on luxury hotels in Jakarta killed seven people.
Anti-terrorism police detained Ariana Rahma, who is married to Malaysian fugitive Noordin Mohammad Top, the channels reported without sourcing.
Broadcasters TVOne and MetroTV say Wednesday that she is to be questioned by police in the capital, Jakarta, where suicide bombers last Friday at the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton killed seven and wounded more than 50.
Noordin allegedly planned the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings and attacks on the J.W. Marriott and Australian Embassy in 2003 and 2004. Together they killed more than 240 people.

WASHINGTON (AFP) –
US President Barack Obama welcomes Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the White House on Wednesday hoping to push for stronger reconciliation efforts in the conflict-wracked country.

It will be the first meeting between Maliki and Obama since US troops withdrew from Iraqi cities at the end of June, a milestone in Iraq's rehabilitation since the 2003 US-led invasion.

Maliki also arrives in Washington having overseen a considerable transformation in his country from when he took office three years ago amid sprawling interfaith violence.

The leaders, who met in Baghdad in April, "will have frank conversations and we will have discussions on the need to keep the political process going (to avoid) any back-sliding or deterioration," said a senior administration official on Tuesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The United States "will not dictate the solutions to the Iraqi government," stressed the official, but will offer to support Baghdad's "efforts to address political issues and build national unity."

Over the course of his visit, Maliki is also set to meet all of the top players in Obama's administration, including Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and the Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

"This visit is a sign of a comprehensive and long term partnership between Iraq and the United States; it goes beyond security cooperation, we are not just looking at the short term, this is the beginning of a long-lasting, normal bilateral relationship with the sovereign nation of Iraq," said the official.

Maliki is hoping to drum up investment for a country in dire need of rebuilding after years of sanctions and war, and his visit will include an investment conference at the US Department of Commerce.

The prime minister's visit "is an opportunity to make progress on questions (regarding security), and to discuss economic, industrial and education cooperation," Ali Moussawi, one of Maliki's advisors, told AFP in Baghdad on Monday.

The Iraqi president is keen to stress the early success of his country's security forces since the US pullback just weeks ago, although relations with Washington have hit a bump over Baghdad's failure to improve relations between its Shiite, Sunni and Kurd communities.

On a trip to the Iraqi capital earlier this month, Biden urged Iraqi leaders to make more progress on reconciliation between the Shiite, Sunni and Kurd communities.

But the Iraqi government at the time refused a US offer to intervene, describing the process as an internal matter and warned that outside interference could cause additional problems.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to stop production of the F-22 fighter plane, handing President Barack Obama a victory as he tries to rein in defense spending.

The Senate voted 58 to 40 to strip $1.75 billion for the Lockheed Martin Corp-built planes from a $680 billion defense bill, overriding the objections of lawmakers seeking to protect manufacturing jobs in the midst of a deep recession.

The Senate's vote does not necessarily kill the program, as the House of Representatives included funding for the state-of-the-art fighter in its bill, which sets military spending priorities.

The two chambers must resolve their differences before sending a final bill to the president to sign into law.

Obama has threatened a veto if Congress continues to fund the F-22 beyond the 187 planes already built or in the production pipeline.

"At a time when we're fighting two wars and facing a serious deficit, this would have been an inexcusable waste of money," Obama said after the vote.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has proposed capping production as part of an overhaul of the Pentagon's weapons programs as it tries to provide resources to fight insurgencies like those in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon applauded the vote.

Later on Tuesday the Senate voted 93-1 to extend the authorized end strength of the U.S. Army by 30,000 troops over the next three years starting October 1.

The amendment, by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, does not mandate the increase, but provides the authority for Defense Secretary Robert Gates to carry out his plan for a temporary increase of 22,000 in the Army's size and go further if he needs to, a Senate staffer said. The House has passed similar language.

In a separate voice vote, the Senate also adopted a measure that urges Obama to impose sanctions on Iran's central bank if that country continues to pursue its nuclear program and rejects an offer for diplomatic talks.

The radar-evading F-22 is designed for combat against other fighter jets but has not seen action in the Iraq or Afghanistan conflicts, where U.S. foes have not fielded an air force. Critics point out that each hour of flight time requires 30 hours of maintenance and say the plane is a relic of Cold War military strategy.

The Pentagon wants instead to ramp up production of the cheaper, more versatile F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and Gates said last week that funding for that program could be jeopardized if Congress continues to fund the F-22.

Lockheed Martin is the primary contractor for both planes. The company's stock closed at $75.13, down 8.5 percent, on a day when it posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings but failed to raise its full-year forecast.

F-22 backers in the Senate said national security could be compromised if the plane was canceled. Up to 95,000 jobs across the country also could be at risk, said Democratic Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a hub of defense manufacturing.

"To give up an aircraft of this sophistication and this capability, and simultaneously in an economic situation such as we're in .... I think is terribly shortsighted," Dodd said.

Republican Senator John McCain said it was more important to rein in unnecessary spending at a time when the country is amassing a record $1.8 trillion budget deficit.

McCain, Obama's rival in the 2008 presidential contest, said the president deserved credit for "being very firm on this issue" and described the vote as a "big victory for the American taxpayer."

The overall defense authorization bill includes $550.4 billion for military operations and $130 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the fiscal year starting October 1.

The bill has become a vehicle for several provisions unrelated to military spending, such as the Iran amendment.

Last week, the Senate approved a measure that would expand hate-crime protection to gays and lesbians, and on Monday also extended that protection to military members.

On Wednesday, the Senate is scheduled to consider a provision that would make it easier for gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines.

The House version includes $369 million in advanced procurement funds as a down payment on 12 more F-22 jets in fiscal 2011.

A final vote on the Senate bill could come later this week, but the two chambers might not begin to hammer out their differences until September.

(Additional reporting by Thomas Ferraro, David Morgan and Susan Cornwell, editing by Philip Barbara)

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says he's feeling positive about the outlook of the Fighting Irish football team heading into the fall.
Swarbrick says the Irish should be better after adding Frank Verducci as offensive line coach, Tony Alford as running backs coach and Randy Hart as defensive line coach. He also says Notre Dame had a strong recruiting season.
Swarbrick was named athletic director just over a year ago. He says he believes there will be a better team dynamic this season. He says Notre Dame's 49-21 over Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl boosted the team's spirits.
Notre Dame begins practice on Aug. 8.

The Bush years were a good time for relations between the world's two biggest democracies. After years of suspicion and tensions, India and the U.S. finally began to explore common ground, a shift that culminated in a breakthrough deal that opens the way for India to import civilian nuclear technology despite the fact it refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and has twice tested nuclear weapons.
The Obama administration seems intent on keeping that atmosphere of cooperation going. In a speech and question-and-answer session at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who began a five-day visit to India Friday, signaled a push to deepen relations further. "We are delighted that our two countries will be engaging in a very broad, comprehensive dialogue," Clinton said. "It's the most wide-ranging that I think has ever been put on the table between India and the United States. It has six pillars to it, one of which, of course, is foreign policy, strategic challenges, along with ... other matters like health, and education, and agriculture and the economy ... We believe India has a tremendous opportunity and a growing responsibility, which they acknowledge, to play not just a regional role but a global one as well." (See pictures of Hillary Clinton meeting Michelle Obama.)
In New Delhi, though, the feeling is one of caution more than enthusiasm. Senior Indian officials believe Washington's attention is now more focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea, and fret that India will be forgotten or, worse, actively ignored over the next few years. It doesn't help that Clinton arrives in India as the two countries quibble over a horde of issues - from trade talks at the WTO to climate change negotiations, from nuclear non-proliferation to how best to deal with Pakistan. "India has invested a lot in this relationship, often at the cost of other relationships," says former diplomat Rajiv Sikri. "India wants to be assured that the U.S. sees its point of view, and factors it in."
The nuclear agreement remains key. While both sides want to move forward on implementing the deal, enough legal hurdles remain to slow progress. U.S. regulators have not licensed American firms to share certain high-end technologies with India, for instance, while New Delhi has yet to pass a law to limit the liability of American nuclear companies in case of an accident, without which they cannot compete with state-owned rivals from Russia and France that enjoy sovereign liability protection. (See pictures of the worst nuclear disasters.)
At the G-8 summit in Italy last week, the U.S. persuaded other big nations to ban the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technologies to countries that have not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, including an infuriated India. The Obama administration also continues to emphasize its commitment to nuclear disarmament and is pushing India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty. New Delhi has always favored universal disarmament, and is unlikely to give in now. (Read a brief history of the G-8.)
Then there is Pakistan and terrorism. India is dismayed by Obama's new policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, which it sees as simply more of the same - pouring money into Islamabad while propping up a largely ineffective regime. At a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Reza Gilani on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Egypt this week, both sides agreed that dialogue was the way forward to resolve problems. But India expects the U.S. to force Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of last November's terror attacks on Mumbai to justice. "India is open to dialogue and discussion," says Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee, director, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi. "But Pakistan must account that it has done enough based on the evidence from India, the U.K. and the U.S." (See pictures of a Jihadist's journey from Pakistan.)
Little is likely to be resolved on Clinton's trip. But the visit will set the agenda for Prime Minister Singh's visit to Washington later this year. The key will be changing Indian perceptions that an Obama White House will somehow be less friendly toward India. "What Clinton is going to do is clear the fog," says Lalit Mansingh, a former ambassador of India to Washington, and now a New Delhi-based foreign affairs analyst. "There's been a long gap between high-level contact, and a lot of misunderstanding and mistrust has crept in on whether the Obama administration is as committed to the U.S.'s relations with India as the Bush administration was. Clinton will reassure India going ahead." That's the plan, at least.
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AOSTA, Italy (AFP) –
Pope Benedict XVI underwent an operation in hospital on Friday after falling and breaking his right wrist while on holiday in northern Italy, the Vatican said.

It was the first health scare for the 82-year-old pope since he became head of the Roman Catholic Church in April 2005. But Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told AFP there was "no cause for concern."

The pontiff fell during the night at a chalet where he is staying in the mountain resort of Val d'Aosta, the Vatican said in a communique.

Doctors used local anaesthetic on Benedict to operate on the wrist, Italian media reported.

Benedict, who is right-handed and an avid pianist in his leisure time, began a two-week holiday in the hamlet of Les Combes d'Introd on Monday. The pope had a piano sent to the chalet, media reports said.

Vatican sources told ANSA news agency the pope slipped and fell but was not ill and had not fainted.

Benedict has had no notable health problems since his election following the death of John Paul II, whose final years were marked by visible pain and suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Four years before he became pope however, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger spent nearly a month in hospital following a brain haemorrhage, according to the German daily Bild. It said he has suffered from fainting spells.

The pope's older brother Georg Ratzinger revealed that he was "very frightened" when Benedict was elected because of his age -- 78 at the time.

"I'm very frightened. I thought that his advanced age and his health, which is not so stable, would be reason enough for the cardinals to look for someone else," Georg Ratzinger, now 85, told German television.

In another interview he told the German Catholic news agency KNA that his brother was not in "very robust health... nor is his heart especially strong."

Benedict set off alarm bells early Friday when he was seen entering the emergency wing of the Aosta hospital accompanied by his personal secretary Monsignor Georg Gaenswein.

The Vatican communique said an X-ray had determined that the German pope had a "slight fracture" to the wrist.

Benedict celebrated mass and had breakfast before going to hospital, the Vatican said.

He entered the hospital at 9:45 am (0745 GMT) and the operation began shortly after noon.

ANSA, citing "semi-official" hospital sources, said the pope also underwent an overall check-up that revealed no serious problems.

The Holy See does not issue regular bulletins on the pope's state of health.

Journalists have observed signs of fatigue in the pontiff following some of his overseas trips.

When he travelled to Australia last year, Benedict took several days off in the country before beginning his official appearances at World Youth Day celebrations in Sydney.

CINCINNATI – Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Dave Bush was sent for another medical exam after a poor showing in his latest rehabilitation start.
Bush has been on the disabled list since June 23 with a small tear in his right triceps. He made his second medical rehab start on Wednesday for Double-A Huntsville and gave up six hits and five runs in only three innings, struggling to throw strikes. The Brewers decided on Thursday to have him checked again.
The Brewers were hoping that Bush could return next week. Bush is 3-4 with a 5.67 ERA.

Cap Cana is located in the Eastern region of the Dominican Republic known as Juanillo. The site was founded as a new and more ambitious touristic site with contributions from international investors and strategic partners such as Ritz-Carlton, Sotogrande, Donald Trump and many others. The site has a Marina, Large resorts, beaches, and many others. Primarily founded as a site to attract international visitors. The Cap Cana Championship, a Champions Tour golf tournament, is held at Punta Espada Golf Club in Cap Cana, a course designed by Jack Nicklaus.

Cap Cana is a tourism development with an investment of upwards of two billion dollars in the eastern lands of the Dominican Republic. This area renown for its great hotels and beaches, lacks exclusivity to the high upper class which Cap Cana hopes, in part, to offer. The area was conceived with the backing both financially and publicly of "elites" such as Donald Trump, Jack Nicklaus, and other holders.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a second quarter profit of $2.72 billion, a 36 percent jump that easily surpassed expectations as strength in its core consumer and investment banking businesses offset a jump in credit losses.
Shares of the New York-based banking giant fell 1 percent in premarket trading to $35.90.
JPMorgan, the second big financial institution in a week to release upbeat earnings news, reported net income of $2.72 billion, or 28 cents per share, up 36 percent from $2 billion, or 53 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 39 percent to $25.62 billion from $18.4 billion.
Earnings per share fell despite an increase in profit because the company had more stock outstanding in the most recent quarter ending June 30.
Analysts forecast earnings of 4 cents per share on revenue of $25.89 billion for the quarter.
The profit came despite a $1.1 billion charge, or 27 cents a share, as JPMorgan repaid in full $25 billion in loans it received from the government as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. The bank was also hit by a 10-cents-a-share FDIC special assessment penalty.
CEO Jamie Dimon said he was "pleased" by the results, even as the company's latest numbers were weighed down by higher credit costs, particularly in the company's consumer lending and credit card businesses.
Results were driven by record investment banking fees and revenue in fixed income markets, much like rival Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which reported strong earnings on Tuesday. At JPMorgan's investment bank, revenue jumped 33 percent to $7.3 billion. The segment's profit more than tripled to $1.5 billion.
But that was offset by credit costs that remain high in consumer lending and card services. The bank said it set aside $9.7 billion for credit losses, up from $4.29 billion a year earlier but down from the first quarter's $10 billion.
Dimon said the company expects credit costs to "remain elevated for the foreseeable future."
Still, the company has continued to lend, Dimon said.
JPMorgan said it extended $150 billion in new credit to consumers, corporations, small businesses, municipalities and non-profits and has approved 138,000 trial mortgage modifications in the quarter, bringing total foreclosures prevented since 2007 to 565,000.
"Throughout this crisis, we have remained committed to doing our part to help bring stability to the communities in which we operate and to the financial system overall," Dimon said.

MOSCOW – Russian engineers broke a red wax seal and six men emerged from a metal hatch after 105 days of isolation in a mock spacecraft, still smiling after testing the stresses that space travelers may face on the journey to Mars.
Sergei Ryazansky, the captain of the six-man crew, told reporters at a Moscow research institute near the Kremlin on Tuesday that the most difficult thing was knowing that instead of making the 172-million mile (276-million kilometer) journey they were locked in a windowless module of metal canisters the size of railway cars.
The men, chosen from 6,000 applicants, were paid euro15,000 ($20,987) each to be sealed up in the mock space capsule since March 31_ cut off almost entirely from the outside world.
They had no television or Internet and their only link to the outside world was communications with the experiment's controllers — who also monitored them via TV cameras — and an internal e-mail system. Communications with the outside world had 20-minute delays to imitate a real space flight.
Each crew member had his personal cabin. The interiors had hatches similar to a submarine's and were paneled in faux wood according to Soviet style of the 1970s, when the structure was originally built for space-related experiments.
The module's entrance was locked with a padlock and red sealing wax and twine — the kind that Soviet government bureaucrats have used for years to close up their offices at the end of the work day.
Common facilities included a gym and a small garden, and the modules were equipped with the new European and Russian exercise and training equipment for biomedical research. The crew also specially prepared meals and used toilets closely resembling those on the space station.
Some veteran space explorers belittled the value of the experiment, but its backers at the Russian and European space agencies insist it will only move humans closer to a real mission.
"What we're doing is important for future missions exploring the solar system," said Simonetta Di Pipo, director of the human space flight program at the European Space Agency.
"The most difficult part was that the flight was not for real," Ryazansky, wearing a blue, NASA-style jumpsuit with a large patch reading "MARS 500," told reporters hours after he and the crew emerged from the modules.
Crew member Alexey Baranov complained that the worst thing was not being with his relatives: "The separation from my loved ones and nature was depressing."
Russian TV showed images of the men — four Russians, a German and a Frenchman — during their stay, conducting experiments, lifting weights or lounging in leather reclining chairs, surrounded by throw pillows and Oriental rugs.
The men said most of them gained weight during their stay, exercising much of the time, and running experiments for medical researchers.
Psychologist Olga Shevchenko said they avoided conflicts thanks to a busy schedule and intense physical training. However, she said they all complained being deprived of sights of the natural world and separation from their families.
While officials at the Institute for Medical and Biological Problems praised the experiment as a success and promised to conduct a 500-day simulation experiment later this year, some veterans of the Soviet or Russian space programs doubted its value.
"This is nothing but a test for a long isolation of average people," a two-time cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev wrote in an opinion column published in the Sovietskaya Rossiya newspaper daily last month. "Such an experiment has only vague relation to understanding the possibility of interplanetary flight."
The experiment was the second for the institute, whose previous effort in 1999 ended in scandal when a Canadian woman complained of being forcibly kissed by a Russian captain and said that two Russian crew members had a fist fight that left blood splattered on the walls.
Russian officials at the time downplayed the incidents, attributing it to cultural gaps and stress.

Soviet engineers also tried a similar yearlong experiment, but that was interrupted because of unending conflicts between crew members.

Live food is living food for carnivorous or omnivorous animals kept in captivity; in other words, small animals such as insects or mice fed to larger carnivorous or omnivorous species kept in either in a zoo or as pet.

They can be purchased at most pet stores and bait shops. They are also available via mail order and via internet suppliers (by the thousand). Mealworms are typically sold in a container with bran or oatmeal for food. When rearing mealworms, commercial growers incorporate a juvenile hormone into the feeding process to keep the mealworm in the larval stage and achieve an abnormal length of 2 cm or greater.

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TOKYO (AFP) –
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has urged US President Barack Obama to visit the city on the anniversary of the attack as part of his drive to rid the world of nuclear arms.

"I realized that I have, perhaps now more than ever, a personal and moral responsibility to speak out as one who survived what Mr. Obama called the 'flash of light,'" the designer wrote in an opinion piece published in the International Herald Tribune on Wednesday.

He said he hoped Obama would accept an invitation by the southern port city to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the bombing on August 6.

"If Mr. Obama could walk across the Peace Bridge in Hiroshima ... it would be both a real and a symbolic step toward creating a world that knows no fear of nuclear threat," the 71-year-old designer added.

Miyake, who witnessed the attack when he was seven years old, shared his memories for the first time -- something he said he had not done before because he "did not want to be labeled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb.'"

"When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape -- I remember it all," he wrote.

His mother died from radiation exposure within three years of the attack.

The bombing killed an estimated 140,000 people by the end of 1945, either instantly or from radiation or horrific burns, and many more afterwards.

The US dropped a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki three days later, killing more than 70,000 people. Japan surrendered less than a week later, ending World War II.

No sitting US president has visited the Hiroshima memorial, although Jimmy Carter visited after leaving office and Richard Nixon came as a private citizen between his stints as vice president and president.

Obama has pledged to eliminate nuclear arms and last week agreed with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on a roadmap to reduce their nuclear stockpiles.

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will make reforming the nation's 137-year-old hardrock mining law a top priority despite a full plate of higher profile issues, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday.
Salazar told a Senate committee considering reform legislation that "it is time to ensure a fair return to the public for mining activities that occur on public lands and to address the cleanup of abandoned mines."
The General Mining Act of 1872, which gives mining preference over other uses on much of the nation's public lands, has left a legacy of hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines that are polluting rivers and streams throughout the West. Mining companies also don't pay royalties on gold, silver, copper and other hardrock minerals mined on public land.
Reform bills have been introduced in the House and Senate, but past attempts at reform have foundered in the face of opposition from industry and many Western lawmakers.
However, a new crop of conservation-minded lawmakers from the West and a new administration sympathetic to reforming the law have generated renewed interest in an overhaul.
Despite the press of health care reform and other signature issues embraced by President Obama, Congress still needs to take care of important but more mundane business like mining reform, Salazar told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Salazar, a former Colorado senator, said he sees "an emergence of bipartisan pressure to get this done."
He said when he meets with key members of this department, mining law reform will be among several "top tier" issues.
"We are committing significant resources from the Department of Interior to get this done," Salazar told reporters after the hearing. "I think there is a possibility we can get mining reform done in this Congress."
The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement Monday that it plans to develop new regulations related to bonds or other financial assurance by mining companies to protect against environmental abuses creates "a greater sense of urgency" for reform, Salazar said.
The EPA announcement follows a recent Supreme Court decision giving a mining company the go-ahead to dump waste from an Alaskan gold mine into a nearby 23-acre lake, although the material will kill all of the lake's fish.
The National Mining Association has said it supports reform in principle, but it has expressed reservations about the details of legislative proposals, particularly royalty formulas.
Some of the proposed royalty formulas would put otherwise profitable mines out of business and cost jobs, Heckla Mining Co. President and CEO Phillips Baker Jr. told the committee.
Environmentalists said they were surprised and pleased by Salazar's testimony and the forcefulness of his remarks to reporters afterward.
"I think it's a very positive development that we have an Interior secretary in the Obama administration saying mining reform is a top priority and it needs to be done in the Congress," said Jane Danowitz, director of U.S. public lands programs at the Pew Environment Group.