Penguins beat Red Wings, square Stanley Cup

The Pittsburgh Penguins scored three goals in six minutes to rally for a 4-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday, leveling the Stanley Cup finals at 2-2.

A series that appeared over when defending champs Detroit won the opening two games is now back in the balance. Game 5 is Saturday in Detroit, with Game 6 in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Game 7 would be in Detroit.

"It's a race to four (wins) now," Pittsburgh's Pascal Dupuis said.

Evgeni Malkin, enjoying the best postseason scoring run since Wayne Gretzky's in 1993, and Sidney Crosby had a goal and an assist each to help the Penguins win _ a year to the day since Detroit raised the …

Demographics Don't Set One's Views on Abortion

Afew final facts on what we, the people, think about abortion -as opposed to what the pro-choice high priests and the ill-informedmedia tell us we think. A favorite pro-choice line is the suggestion that opposing anunlimited right to an abortion is some kind of a "guy thing," andthat efforts to moderate this country's abortion-on-demand policyspring from a male scheme to control women's bodies. If this wereso, then opinion polls would show that men want far more restrictionsplaced on the right to choose.

But a 1991 poll by the Gallup organization shows the opposite:Men are slightly more willing than women to accept abortion duringthe first three months of pregnancy for …

Friends: Pilot in Reno crash was skilled airman

RENO, Nevada (AP) — Friends of an air racer and movie stunt pilot whose plane crashed into the edge of the grandstand at a show said the 74-year-old was a skilled airman and member of a tight-knit flying community.

Pilot Jimmy Leeward of Ocala, Florida, died in the crash Friday after apparently losing control of the P-51 Mustang, which spiraled into a box seat area at the National Championship Air Races at about 4:30 p.m. Friday. Leeward and at least eight others were killed; dozens were injured.

Family members were at the air show and saw the crash, said Reno Air Races President and CEO Mike Houghton.

"They obviously are devastated," he said. "I talked to Jimmy's son …

Latin American cultural event slated for US

Latin American artists will display works including such eclectic pieces as a mural chiseled out of vinyl and a large-scale reproduction of the first ever particle accelerator during a monthlong event that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said will highlight the Western Hemisphere's common heritage.

The event featuring artists from 35 countries will be a "world's fair" of ideas, Hickenlooper said, with current and former world leaders also participating in forums around the city beginning July 1.

The festival will be called the "Biennial of the Americas."

The goal is to have Colorado's capital city host the event every …

Scare tactics credited for drop in New Year's fireworks injuries

MANILA, Philippines - Firecracker and other New Year's-relatedinjuries dropped to their lowest level in eight years after agovernment scare campaign advertised the long surgical saw andpliers used in amputations on victims, the Philippine healthsecretary said today.

The number of Filipinos injured by firecrackers and celebratorygunfire in end-of-year celebrations dropped by nearly half to 446compared to 2006, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said. One mandied after ingesting a firecracker, officials said.

"Filipinos chose to be safer this year," Duque told a newsconference, which he traditionally holds on Jan. 1 to announce gorydetails of the injuries and …

Project Manager's Portable Handbook

Reviewed by LTC Kenneth H. Rose (USA, Ret.), Tidewater-Richmond Area Manager for WPI in Hampton, VA, and a former member of the Army Acquisition Corps.

Anyone who recently purchased a project management handbook probably needed a shopping cart to convey it to the checkout line. What the world needs now is the literary equivalent of a laptop computer-a handbook that is small, durable, powerful, and complete. David I. Cleland and Lewis R. Ireland have delivered just such an item with their new Project Manager-'s Portable Handbook.

Published by McGraw-Hill as part of their portable handbook series, the book is designed for use, not reverence. Its 5.5by 8.5-inch format makes …

Pearl Flip is first BlackBerry that folds up

Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of BlackBerry phones, is set to reveal Wednesday a phone that folds in half, a departure from the slab-like design that has defined its products.

The long-rumored phone will be called the BlackBerry Pearl Flip, and will be available from T-Mobile USA and with overseas carriers later this year, at an undisclosed price.

The "flip" or "clamshell" design, where the display and keyboard are separated by a hinge, is a popular one for conventional cell phones, particularly in the U.S. Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive of RIM, said 70 percent of handsets in the country have this …