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trust action. Its responsibilities range from negotiating a free trade deal with the U.S. to shaping financial regulations and holding gas talks with Russia. The commission's annual budget totals about 140 billion euros ($190 billion), and pays for agriculture subsidies, infrastructure investments and development aid.
• Juncker said the key challenges during his term will be boosting the bloc's meager growth and fostering job creation, reforming the EU's institutions, lessening energy dependence on Russia and keeping an increasingly Euroskeptical Britain from leaving the club.
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Got a rash? iPad, other electronic devices containing nickel might be the source, report says
• CHICAGO (AP) -- Unexplained rash? Check your iPad. It turns out the popular tablet computer may contain nickel, one of the most common allergy-inducing metals.
• Recent reports in medical journals detail nickel allergies from a variety of personal electronic devices, including laptops and cellphones. But it was an Apple iPad that caused an itchy body rash in an 11-year-old boy recently treated at a San Diego hospital, according to a report in Monday's Pediatrics.
• Nickel rashes aren't life-threatening but they can be very uncomfortable, and they may require treatment with steroids and antibiotics if the skin eruptions become infected, said Dr. Sharon Jacob, a dermatologist at Rady Children's Hospital, where the boy was treated. Jacob, who co-wrote the report, said the young patient had to miss school because of the rash.
• The boy had a common skin condition that causes scaly patches, but he developed a different rash all over his body that didn't respond to usual treatment. Skin testing showed he had a nickel allergy, and doctors traced it to an iPad his family had bought in 2010.
• Doctors tested the device and detected a chemical compound found in nickel in the iPad's outside coating.
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NYC artist creates 'empowering' wearable sculptures that take aim at sexism, racism
• NEW YORK (AP) -- Linda Stein wants people to armor themselves in her art.
• She creates full-length wearable sculptures embedded with all manner of found objects, including driftwood, engraving plates, steel wire, zippers, pebbles and (Continued on page 25)
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