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• 6. IT'S MORE THAN TESTOSTERONE
• Research shows a lack of estrogen -- the female hormone -- may cause men as they age to gain weight and lose their sex drive.
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• 7. WHERE MOLASSES IS OOZING INTO THE SEA
• A broken pipe allows more than 230,000 gallons of the syrupy brown sugar to leak into Honolulu harbor. Thousands of fish are expected to die.
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• 8. CHAINED TO A DESK NO LONGER
• Putting fitness first, more U.S. office workers are standing, walking and even cycling their way through the day at treadmill desks, standup desks or other moving work stations.
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• 9. WHICH GIZMOS MIGHT MAKE GREAT GIFTS
• The AP's Nick Jesdanun says brightly colored iPhones, video game players and smartwatches could be hot sellers this holiday season.
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• 10. YANKEE STAR ON THE SHELF AGAIN
• An injured left ankle will sideline New York shortstop Derek Jeter for the rest of the season.
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AP News in Brief
Kerry to press Russia for tough stance on Syrian chemical weapons as focus shifts to diplomacy
• GENEVA (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva Thursday morning to test the seriousness of a Russian proposal to secure Syria's chemical weapons.
• Kerry and a team of U.S. experts will have at least two days of meetings with their Russian counterparts on Thursday and Friday. They hope to emerge with an outline of how some 1,000 tons of chemical weapons stocks and precursor materials as well as potential delivery systems can be safely inventoried and isolated under international control in an active war zone and then destroyed.
• Officials with Kerry said they would be looking for a rapid agreement on principles for the process with Russians, including a demand for a speedy Syrian accounting of their stockpiles.
• One official said the task is "doable but difficult and complicated."
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