Big 3 combines for 83 points as Miami Heat takes 3-1 lead over Celtics

Dwyane Wade drives against Glen Davis during the second quarter
of Game 4 of the Miami Heat's series against the Boston Celtics at
TD Garden in Boston on Monday, May 9, 2011.

CHARLES TRAINOR JR / Staff Photo

BY JOSEPH GOODMAN

JGOODMAN@MIAMIHERALD.COM

BOSTON -- A split second after making the most important field goal of his career, Chris Bosh turned up court and screamed.

That was the sound of Boston’s pain.

Bosh rose above Celtics All-Star Ray Allen with 24.2 second left in overtime and tipped in a missed jumper by LeBron James to put the Heat ahead by five points.

Instantly, an arena filled with noise and hope suddenly shrank into quiet depression. The Heat defeated the Celtics 98-90 in overtime Monday night at once unconquerable TD Garden to take a 3-1 lead in this second-round, best-of-7 series.

“Us winning this game just means we have more hard work ahead of us and that’s what the playoffs are all about,” Bosh said. “It’s going to be twice as hard to beat this team from here on out.”

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Turgeon the safe, but not the right, hire for Maryland

If Maryland’s inability to land Sean Miller as its basketball coach can be analogized to an open layup that was blown over the rim, how best to describe the Terps’ decision to hire Mark Turgeon? One might say it’s like shooting at the other team’s goal.

Pursuing Miller was the right idea but horribly executed.

Hiring Turgeon away from Texas A&M was well executed by Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson, but he missed the target by a lot.

It’s hard to find anyone to say a bad word about Turgeon, and it doesn’t feel so great right here, right now. If he’d stayed at A&M, where reaching the NCAA Tournament regularly with overachieving players was more than acceptable under the circumstances, there never would have been any reason to criticize him.

Mark Turgeon instructs his now former Texas A&M players. Turgeon agreed Monday to become head coach at Maryland. (AP Photo)

Turgeon's teams play hard. They defend. They execute their offense. They lose the majority of their biggest games, but that was OK so long as he remained at A&M, where folks don't care passionately about basketball.

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Hitting the Bottle

SUDDENLY, there’s a baby boom going on around me. I’m making weekly shopping trips to stock friends’ nurseries, and I’m struck by how many signs on the shelves advertise BPA-free bottles, BPA-free sippy cups. It breaks my heart. Manufacturers might be removing BPA, a chemical used to harden certain plastics, from their products, but they are substituting chemicals that may be just as dangerous, if not more so.

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“BPA-free” seems like a step in the right direction. BPA, or Bisphenol A, is a synthetic estrogen that disrupts normal endocrine function. There is growing evidence in animal studies that exposure during fetal growth affects the development of reproductive systems and, in offspring, can lead to neurological problems. BPA has also been linked to prostate and breast cancer.

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Colorectal Cancer Urine Test Introduced in Canada

Colorectal cancer may be detected in its early stages with a new urine test.   Made in Canada, the test relies on a process known as "metabolomics," which is the analysis of the chemical fingerprints left behind by cellular processes in the body--in this case, the changes of normal cells into cancerous ones.   The test identifies cancer cell waste products that are excreted into the urine by small polyps and tumors. The test was over 80 percent effective in clinical trials.   The test is being looked at as a less invasive, more convenient method of screening. While it isn't likely that it will replace colonoscopies as the definitive form of colon cancer screening, it will allow doctors to make more educated guesses as to which patients should get the more conclusive test.

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Google says Android 'club' makes phone makers 'do what we want'

Last summer, in a private email message, the open source and compatibility program manager for Google's Android mobile operating system told a colleague that Google uses Android compatibility as a "club" to make phone makers "do what we want".

As reported by The New York Times, the email was turned up as part of the lawsuit brought against Google by Skyhook Wireless, the Boston-based outfit that pioneered the art of pinpointing a mobile device's location based on Wi-Fi and cell-tower signals. Filed this past September, Skyhook's suit accuses Google of using Android to strong-arm handset makers into choosing Google's location technology rather than Skyhook's.

In April 2010, Motorola and Samsung agreed to use Skyhook's location services, but in July, both companies dropped Skyhook in favor of Google's competing services. In its suit, Skyhook claims that Google Android boss Andy Rubin told Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha that if Motorola didn't drop Skyhook from its Android phones, Google would remove official Android support from the handsets. Without official support, Motorola could not use the Android trademark or proprietary Google services such as the Android Market or Google Maps. Although Google bills Android as an "open" platform, Skyhook's suit argues, the company retains tight control over how it is used.

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Euro Falls Before Greece Sells Bills Amid Restructuring Concern

By Yoshiaki Nohara and Ron Harui

May 10 (Bloomberg) -- The euro fell to a six-week low against the yen before Greece sells Treasury bills today amid speculation the nation will need to restructure its debt.

The 17-nation currency dropped against 11 of its 16 major counterparts after Standard & Poor’s cut Greece’s credit rating, renewing concern the region’s debt crisis is escalating. Australia’s dollar slid against 9 of its 16 major peers before Treasurer Wayne Swan releases his budget today amid assurances of “substantial” spending cuts. New Zealand’s dollar dropped after the International Monetary Fund said the currency may be as much as 20 percent overvalued.

“The markets now view a restructuring of Greece’s debt as a possibility, whereas they hadn’t previously,” said Marito Ueda, senior managing director in Tokyo at FX Prime Corp., a foreign-exchange margin company. “The euro is likely undergoing a downward correction. We may see risk aversion, which would probably benefit the yen.”

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Pakistan's prime minister rejects backlash on Bin Laden

Pakistanis in Karachi watch a televised address by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
to parliament in which Gilani rejected allegations that the sanctuary
 of Osama bin Laden in the country showed
Pakistani incompetence or complicity.
(ATHAR HUSSAIN, REUTERS / May 10, 2011)

Reporting from Washington and Islamabad, Pakistan— 

In signs of worsening relations with Washington, Pakistan'sprime minister angrily rejected claims that collusion or incompetence allowed Osama bin Laden to hide near the Pakistani capital for years, and news media made public what they claim is the name of the top CIA agent in the country.

A private TV station and a right-wing newspaper with ties to Pakistan's spy agency have each reported the name in recent days, marking the second time in six months that journalists here have sought to expose the local CIA station chief.

The U.S. and Pakistan have strongly criticized each other in the week since a team of Navy SEALs killed Bin Laden, although they say they intend to continue security cooperation.

U.S. officials have demanded an explanation of how Pakistan failed to find Bin Laden for more than five years inAbbottabad,

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