Arkansas falls to No. 2 Kentucky 86-63 (AP)

LEXINGTON, Ky. ? Arkansas wanted to run with No. 2 Kentucky. The Razorbacks could never run away from Anthony Davis.

The freshman forward scored a career-high 27 points and blocked seven shots to set a school season record in No. 2 Kentucky's 86-63 victory over Arkansas on Tuesday night.

"Their size was a big problem for us tonight, especially with Anthony Davis," Razorbacks coach Mike Anderson said. "He is a difference maker. No matter how we tried to mount an attack, I thought they did a good job answering."

The Wildcats (18-1, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) won their 10th straight overall and extended the nation's longest home winning streak to 46 games, including 45 straight at Rupp Arena.

Arkansas hasn't won in four road games this season and struggled against the nation's second-best defense by field goal percentage despite 12 points from Mardracus Wade and 10 points apiece from Marvell Waithe, Rashad Madden and B.J. Young.

Still, they couldn't avoid Davis, who had 14 rebounds, as the Wildcats jumped on the Razorbacks (13-5, 2-2) from the start.

"We tried to put two or three bodies on him and he was getting around us," Wade said. "He played really strong and athletic. He just did what he's supposed to do to help his team win tonight."

The Razorbacks never got closer than 14 points on the first basket of the second half.

Anderson said his team would try to run against Kentucky, a strategy most teams have tried to stay away from against the athletic Wildcats.

It didn't work as Davis scored in bunches and the rest of the Wildcats chipped in.

"They did a good job in their preparation and I told the team I'll take the blame for that," Anderson said. "We were playing one of the better teams in the country and they are playing some outstanding basketball. As we've seen throughout the course of conference play, everyone plays pretty good at home."

Arkansas beat the Wildcats in overtime last season in Fayetteville, but these Wildcats reloaded with Davis and fellow freshmen Marquis Teague, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Kyle Wiltjer. Arkansas remained winless in Lexington since the 1994 title team won here.

Doron Lamb scored 14 points, Terrence Jones 13, Darius Miller 11 and Kidd-Gilchrist 10 for Kentucky, which got nine assists from Teague.

In one sequence, Miller grabbed an offensive rebound and slashed across the paint, flipping a contested reverse layup. Then, Jones started a break by swatting Wade's attempt that Lamb finished with a floater that made it 19-6.

Davis matched the school record for blocks when he rejected Rickey Scott's layup off the glass with 8:02 left in the first half, matching the 83 that Turpin set in 1982-83 in 31 games and Riddick tied in 34 games in 1993-94. Davis set the record a little over 3 minutes later when he turned away Young's layup with Kentucky leading 28-12.

Kentucky took its first 20-point lead when Lamb hit a 3 with 3:22 left in the half. Davis blocked another layup by Young with 5 seconds left and swatted Wade's attempt at the buzzer as the Wildcats took a 37-21 lead.

When Arkansas cut it to 50-35 with 14:48 left, Kidd-Gilchrist threw an alley-oop pass to Davis, Jones blocked freshman Devonta Abron's shot and Teague fed Kidd-Gilchrist in the paint for another slam as part of a 13-2 run that put the game away before the midway point of the second half.

Davis finished 10 of 12 from the field, his best game with at least 10 attempts of his 19-game career and went 7 for 8 from the free throw line. He got a standing ovation with 4:23 left with his seventh and final block, an emphatic swat of Julysses Nobles' shot into the front row.

"Looking at him on TV he's really tall and lanky and you don't think he'd be that physical, but actually that guy is pretty physical," Wade said. "He gets in there, he's relentless. You hit him one time and he's just going to go back into you again."

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Kodak files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, expects to complete restructuring by 2013

Apparently suing Samsung (again) wasn't the only pressing business for Kodak today, as it just announced it has -- as expected -- filed for Chapter 11 business reorganization in New York. You can read the details in the press release after the break, where Chairman and CEO Antonio Perez is quoted saying he hopes Kodak will "emerge a lean, world-class, digital imaging and materials science company". The company has obtained $950 million debtor-in-possession financing, which it claims will provide the liquidity needed to continue operations during the restructuring. As far as its recent parade of lawsuits against Samsung, Apple and HTC, Perez comments on "monetizing non-core IP assets" so we'd assume its lawyers will stay busy going forward.

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Liberia president vows to continue fighting graft (AP)

MONROVIA, Liberia ? Liberia's president was sworn in Monday for a second term in a ceremony attended by her bitter rival, whose refusal to recognize her victory had threatened to undermine this country's fragile peace.

The 73-year-old Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addressed opposition leader Winston Tubman, thanking him for agreeing to attend the ceremony, where he was seated in a place of honor in the front row. The ceremony was also attended by a nine-member delegation from the United States, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Tubman had called for a boycott of the November vote, after it became clear that he could not beat Sirleaf, prompting many to accuse him of being a spoiler. His supporters repeatedly clashed with police and until this weekend, he continued to say he would not recognize Sirleaf and that he would lead a demonstration on the day of her inauguration. He changed his mind only after a private meeting with Sirleaf on Saturday.

"We inaugurate a new beginning ? a rebirth of our democracy," Sirleaf told the crowd of thousands, as supporters blew horns. "Today we can say with conviction that our country has turned the corner. Liberia is no longer a place of conflict, war and deprivation. We are no longer the country our citizens want to run away from."

Sirleaf became an international symbol of women's empowerment when she became Africa's first elected female head of state in 2005, just two years after the end of the nation's disastrous 14-year civil war. Her popularity has continued to soar abroad, even as it plummeted at home due to endemic poverty and the country's crippling unemployment. Days before last year's election, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, further underscoring the contrast between her image inside and outside the West African nation.

Tubman's party accused the president of having done too little to end the country's poverty. Liberia remains one of the world's poorest nations, ranked nearly at the bottom of the United Nations' index tracking development.

Economists disagree, however, saying the country was on its knees when she took over. Nearly 80 percent of its schools were destroyed and almost all the roads were impassable. In the years since she took office, the government added nearly 3,500 miles of paved roads and people are earning double what they made when she was first elected, according to a report by the ministry of planning and economic affairs.

In her inaugural address, Sirleaf directly addressed those who feel she has not done enough to lift them from poverty.

"To all who have yet to feel the hands of progress touch your life, your time has come," she said, as cheers erupted. "We have laid the foundations for peace and prosperity, and must now hasten our true mission: Putting people ? especially young people ? first. And lifting the lives of all Liberians."

And she responded to the opposition's claim that she was not listening to the country's disenfranchised youth: "The youth of Liberia are our future and they have sent us a message," she said. "Let me say to them: We heard that message. It is our solemn obligation to ensure that their hope will not be in vain."

Thousands of people, many of them dressed in colorful ceremonial garb, gathered hours before the start of the ceremony in Liberia's capital. The military fired two cannons Monday and hoisted the flag at the presidency.

Clinton, who led the U.S. delegation, urged Sirleaf to focus on "the cancer of corruption" that continues to plague Liberia, another charge often levied by Tubman's party. She told reporters at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new embassy that she had spoken with Sirleaf earlier on Monday about fighting corruption.

Liberians are expecting more this term.

Benedict Korlubah, a peace and conflict studies student of the University of Liberia said "given and judging from where we've come the government's first priority should be peace and reconciliation."

Fayia Kanteh, a pastor, wants the government to prioritize the restoration of lights and running water because "in our world today to have a nation's capital without electricity is a major setback."

The opposition also claims that Sirleaf did not do enough to open up to her critics.

"In the cabinet I had presidential candidates, vice presidential candidates; throughout the government we had people from the opposition, maybe not in the numbers they wanted," she said. "But I feel satisfied that we had an inclusive government in the first term; and in this term we will do the same."

Sirleaf is already negotiating with opposition leader Tubman. After their meeting Saturday, the former U.N. envoy to Somalia said "We have reached a point of the discussion where we can say the negotiation has gained fruition."

Tubman said his Congress for Democratic Change party still did not think the president had won the election fairly, even though the international community felt the president won.

"We realized that we couldn't fight all of that, so we thought the best thing would be for us to negotiate our involvement in a government of inclusion," he said, adding that Sirleaf will be recognized by his party as the president.

"We hope that this will defuse the tension and that there will be stability, cooperation and atmosphere of peace," he said.

But Sirleaf's pledge to reach out to her opponents, including all 15 opposition parties that ran against her in the first round of voting, could also cause Sirleaf to make deals with those directly responsible for dragging the country into war.

Among them is Prince Johnson, who gained notoriety for being videotaped as his men tortured Liberia's deposed ruler Samuel K. Doe in 1990. The image of Johnson drinking Budweiser as his men cut off the ex-president's ears is emblematic of the hell from which Liberia is still attempting to emerge. Currently a senator, Johnson was one of Sirleaf's rivals in the October election and endorsed her before the Nov. 8 runoff between Sirleaf and Tubman.

Sirleaf's spokesman said she had made no deals with Johnson, who has tried to bury his past as a warlord and draws strong support in his native Nimba County.

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Mars probe could fall late Sunday

14 January 2012 Last updated at 19:06 ET By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

The failed Russian Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, continued its descent to Earth on Saturday, losing hundreds of metres in height every hour.

By 23:00 Saturday (GMT), the 13-tonne spacecraft was circling the planet at a mean altitude of 147km.

It is likely to impact the thicker parts of the atmosphere and burn up sometime late on Sunday, according to orbital tracking experts.

The Russian space agency says little of the probe will survive to the surface.

It calculates no more than 200kg in maybe 20-30 fragments.

Precisely where on the Earth's surface - and when - this material could impact is impossible to say, however. There are huge uncertainties in forecasting the final moments of a re-entry.

"The major uncertainty for prediction is the atmospheric density the spacecraft encounters in orbit, but it's also due to the orientation of the vehicle as it comes in," explained Prof Richard Crowther, the UK Space Agency's chief engineer.

"It can very quickly tumble and if pieces break off - that all changes the trajectory and where debris might impact."

This is the third high-profile spacecraft re-entry in four months, following the return in September of the American UARS satellite and the German Rosat telescope in October. Both fell over the ocean.

With so much of the Earth's surface covered by water, there is every chance Phobos-Grunt will do the same. (More information on the spacecraft's orbit can be found here)

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• Phobos-Grunt sits on the cruise stage that was supposed to take it to Mars. Attached also is Yinghuo-1, China's first satellite built to go to the Red Planet
• Most of this 2.5 tonnes of hardware will burn up in the atmosphere. The more-than-10-tonnes of fuel is expected to explode when the tanks rupture
• Phobos-Grunt's orbit around the Earth means that it can only enter the atmosphere between the latitudes of 51.4 degrees North and South
• Roughly one old satellite or rocket body will fall to Earth every week, but at 13 tonnes Phobos-Grunt is one of the biggest, uncontrolled falls in recent years

'Flying fuel tank'

The mission was supposed to be the most exciting Russian space science venture in decades - an audacious bid to scoop up rocky fragments from the Martian moon Phobos and bring them back for study in Earth laboratories.

The spacecraft launched successfully on 8 November, entering a "parking orbit" some 345km above the Earth. But Phobos-Grunt then failed to push on to the Red Planet as planned.

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Phobos-Grunt - Mishap sequence

• 8 Nov (GMT): The probe launched successfully on its Zenit rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
• It was dropped off 11 minutes later in an elliptical orbit some 345km above the Earth
• Two firings from the probe's hydrazine-fuelled cruise stage were planned over South America
• The first, lasting 11.5 minutes, should have raised the orbit of Phobos-Grunt to 4,000km
• A second burn, four hours into the mission, was to have sent the probe on a path to Mars
• But Russian engineers later confirmed that neither burn took place
• Controllers have had only limited radio contact with the probe; mission recovery was not possible
• Re-entry is now imminent; 20-30 fragments are expected to survive the descent to Earth

For some reason, its big boost engine did not fire. Attempts to contact the spacecraft and diagnose the fault have proved fruitless.

Both professional and amateur tracking groups have since been trying to work out when it will fall out of the sky. Their most recent estimates continue to cluster around late Sunday (GMT). But, again, these forecasts have large uncertainties.

The spacecraft's rate of descent is being monitored by radar and the tracking groups will be using this information to try to narrow the uncertainties as the weekend progresses.

A lot of attention has focussed on the amount of fuel that Phobos-Grunt is carrying.

Out of the total launch mass of more than 13 tonnes, in excess of 10 tonnes was the fuel needed to complete the mission.

Phobos-Grunt's tanks were filled with the propellants Unsymmetrical DiMethylHydrazine (UDMH) and Dinitrogen TetrOxide (DTO), both of which are toxic.

But, crucially, the tanks are made of aluminium, which has a relatively low melting temperature.

Analysts are confident the tanks will rupture and their contents will be destroyed or dispersed long before any debris can reach the surface.

"Depending on when something breaks up and what it's made of and how it comes away from the main vehicle, it can either burn up or survive re-entry," said Prof Crowther.

"In the case of Phobos-Grunt, it's a flying fuel tank in many respects, and so most of the mass is fuel which should explode."

The Russians have had a torrid run of space failures recently, leading the head of the country's space agency to wonder even if saboteurs were at work.

Western countries, which use Russian rockets to launch their satellites, are just worried though that some systematic failures have started to appear in what has traditionally been a highly regarded space industry.

With their own opportunity to go to Mars now lost, the Russians may decide to put their future interplanetary efforts into joint ventures with the Americans and the Europeans. The Russians have an offer from the US and Europe to join the ExoMars missions to the Red Planet in 2016 and 2018.

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Graham, Scott: If Romney Wins South Carolina, He Wins the Nomination (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | With the South Carolina Primary looming, politicians from the Palmetto State are everywhere one turns, appearing on talk shows and in videotaped segments, offering their opinions on the GOP presidential race and the importance of the South Carolina Primary itself. Sen. Lindsay Graham and Congressman Tim Scott appeared on NBC's "Meet The Press" today and asserted that a Mitt Romney win in their state basically seals the Republican nomination for the former Massachusetts governor. Were the two Republicans engaging in a little political hyperbole? And if not, how could that be, especially with 47 more primaries and caucuses to go in the 2012 nominating cycle?

"If for some reason he's not derailed here and Mitt Romney wins South Carolina, no one's ever won all three, I think it should be over," Graham told "Meet The Press." "That would be quite a testament to his ability as a candidate and a campaigner."

Scott agreed on the same episode. "If Romney wins South Carolina," he said, "I think the game is over."

But how can that be? Simply put: By the time the South Carolina Primary is held (Jan. 21), the war chests of the Republican campaigns will either be empty, nearly empty, or even running in the red. Most won't be able to stay in the race without continued financing. This happens during each presidential nomination cycle, where the candidates sink their money in the first several contests -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida. Without a good showing in these contests, many of the contenders drop out, winnowing the overall field. Those who have plenty of backing or get backing after posting strong results can expect their campaign coffers to be refilled and at least carry on through one or several more contests.

But Mitt Romney has won the first two contests (the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire Primary), something no non-incumbent Republican candidate has ever done before. And even with strong anti-Romney sentiment in the Republican ranks, it does not appear to be strong enough to stop him. At least, not while the Republicans are fragmented.

Attempting to rectify that problem, a meeting of conservative evangelical Christian leaders over the weekend voted to endorse Sen. Rick Santorum (via the National Post ) in an effort to unify the Christian vote and support a candidate more conservative than Romney. With less than a week before the South Carolina Primary, it is uncertain if the move will be effective.

Romney, who has battled accusations that he is too liberal, that he flip flops on issues, and that he is not a true Christian (although that factor, that Romney's religion is seen as a cult by many evangelicals, is mostly subtext and rarely mentioned), has the lead in the South Carolina polls (as tracked by Real Clear Politics). His strongest contender appears to be Newt Gingrich, although Santorum made a strong bid in evangelical Iowa and helped produce the closest race in the Caucus' history. Santorum currently is polling in third and fourth in a dead heat with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.

But Graham and Scott may also be buying into the idea that South Carolina traditionally has picked the Republican nominee, which gives it a sort of benedictory status. According to NPR, since the Primary's inception in 1980, South Carolina has chosen the candidate that eventually became the Republican nominee for president.

But it does not have to be that way. By the time South Carolina has voted and allocated its 25 delegates, there still will have only been 55 delegates appointed (some non-binding). There will be 2,286 appointed by the end of the primary cycle.

But by the time Florida holds its Primary on Jan. 31 (the fourth contest in the cycle), the race will either be over or nearly so. Candidates will have reached the end of their financial limits, hoping for something to give their campaign a spark or make the frontrunner stumble. If Romney takes the first-in-the-South primary in South Carolina, it would appear that momentum would be in his favor going into Florida. Financial backers become reluctant to back long shots as the race gets to Florida (and beyond) and only a candidate like Rep. Ron Paul, who has a solid base of supporters that rally periodically with "money bombs" to refill his campaign coffers, will continue for any extended period after South Carolina without some sign of a surge.

Although Sen. Lindsay Graham and Rep. Tim Scott shouldn't be correct in their assertions, especially given the number of states left to hold primaries and caucuses and the great number of delegates yet to be allocated, they most likely are.

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GOP candidates fail to get on some primary ballots

Republican presidential candidate former, House Speaker Newt Gingrich waves as he arrives at a rally for home ownership, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, at the State Capitol in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential candidate former, House Speaker Newt Gingrich waves as he arrives at a rally for home ownership, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, at the State Capitol in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Karen Santorum, right, interjects during a question and answer session with her husband Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, at a campaign town hall meeting Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry greets people during a campaign visit, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, in Summerville, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at the conclusion of a campaign stop at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Many of Mitt Romney's presidential challengers are having trouble fulfilling a fundamental requirement of running for public office: getting on the ballot.

Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman have all failed to qualify for the ballot in at least one upcoming GOP primary. In other states, they have failed to file full slates of delegates with state or party officials, raising questions about whether these candidates have the resources to wage effective national campaigns.

And if one of them were able to marshal enough anti-Romney forces to challenge the front-runner, the ballot blunders could limit their ability to win delegates in key states.

The exception: Ron Paul, who appears to have avoided such pitfalls so far.

"This is why you need a real-life, no-kidding-around campaign," said Rich Galen, a GOP strategist and former Gingrich aide who is neutral in the 2012 race. "All these guys who have been crowing that they found a new way to run for president, it's like saying I'm inventing a new airplane, and it has only one wing."

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, won the first two contests, in Iowa and New Hampshire, and he is leading in the polls in South Carolina and Florida, the next two states to have primaries. Romney raised $56 million in 2011 for his campaign, giving him big financial and organizational advantages over his GOP rivals.

Those advantages are on display as many of his competitors miss deadlines or fail to collect enough signatures to meet ballot requirements in upcoming contests.

Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who came within a few votes of winning the Iowa caucuses, failed to get on the ballot in Virginia or the District of Columbia. His campaign also filed incomplete slates of delegates in Illinois and Ohio, which could limit his ability to win delegates in those key states.

Virginia has been a tough ballot to crack for several GOP candidates because the state requires campaigns to collect signatures from at least 10,000 registered voters. Romney and Paul were the only ones who made the ballot for the March 6 primary. Perry sued, and he has since been joined in the lawsuit by Gingrich, Huntsman and Santorum.

Santorum is the only major candidate who will be left off the ballot in the District of Columbia primary April 3, said Paul Craney, executive director of the DC Republican Committee. The party provides two ways to get on the ballot: Pay $10,000, or pay $5,000 and collect signatures from 296 registered Republicans in the heavily Democratic capital city.

"It's not easy, but it can be done, if you are a serious presidential candidate," Craney said. "All the presidential candidates who are serious about winning the nomination will be on the D.C. ballot."

Santorum adviser John Brabender acknowledged that Romney has more money and a larger campaign organization. But, he said, Santorum's campaign has gained resources and momentum since the close finish in Iowa. Romney, he said, has been running for president for the past six years, giving him more time to build his organization.

"It's a different campaign than it was earlier," Brabender said.

Huntsman, the former Utah governor, failed to get on the ballot in Arizona or Illinois.

The requirements to get on the GOP ballot in Arizona are pretty easy ? all you have to do is fill out a two-page form. Twenty-three candidates managed to do it properly, so they will be on the ballot for the state's Feb. 28 primary.

Huntsman, however, was left off the ballot because his filing had a photocopied signature and wasn't notarized, said Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett.

"If you can't get on the ballot around the country, you're a regional candidate, by definition," said Rich Beeson, the Romney campaign's political director. "Barack Obama is going to be on the ballot in all 50 states, and so will we."

Gingrich, the former House speaker, didn't make it on the ballot for primaries in Missouri or Virginia, though he has joined the lawsuit to get on the Virginia ballot and Missouri won't award any delegates based on its Feb. 7 primary. Instead, Missouri Republicans will hold caucuses March 17.

Perry, the Texas governor, made the ballot in Illinois, but he will only be eligible to win one delegate in the state's March 20 primary ? a contest in which 54 delegates will be up for grabs.

It will take 1,144 delegates to win the nomination at the Republican national convention this summer.

Illinois has a unique way of awarding delegates to candidates. The winner of the state's GOP primary doesn't necessarily get any delegates. Instead, Republicans will vote for the actual delegates, who are listed separately on the ballot but are identified by the candidate they support.

Each of the state's 18 congressional districts will elect three delegates, for a total of 54. To appear on the ballot as a delegate, candidates had to collect signatures from at least 600 registered voters in the district where they are running.

Only one Perry delegate filed signatures by the deadline, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections. Gingrich, Paul and Romney filed full slates, while only 44 Santorum delegates filed signatures.

The system is designed to keep fly-by-night candidates from crowding the ballot, said Christopher Mooney, a political science professor at the University of Illinois in Springfield.

"It keeps people who don't know what they're doing out of the arena," Mooney said.

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Associated Press writers Paul Davenport in Phoenix and Ann Sanner in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.

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