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United is considering making a club-record transfer bid for Chelseas Mata with hopes of signing him during the January transfer window, The Telegraph reports.

A deal, which would break Uniteds transfer record, has been discussed with intermediaries, the report says. United would have to offer around 37 million [$60.8 million] for the 25-year-old Spanish international in the hope of pushing a deal through.

It is believed, however, that should United make a bid of around 37million for Mata, it could persuade Chelsea to sell especially if they also give [Chelsea manager Jose] Mourinho plenty of time to bring in a replacement before the window closes on Jan 31. That means an offer would have to be made in the next few days.

Matas status at Chelsea has plummeted since Mourinho arrived at Stamford Bridge last summer. Mata was Chelseas Player of the Seasonfor two straight seasons (2011-12 and 2012-13), but Mourinhos preference for Eden Hazard, Willian and Oscar has reduced his role from attacker-in-chief to outcast. It has been reported that Mourinho believes Matas qualities are incompatible with the style of play he wants to instill at Chelsea. Last week, Mourinho told reporters that Mata would not leave the club in January, but United could change his stance with an eye-popping transfer bid.

United has struggled under first-year manager David Moyes in 2013-14. Sundays loss to Chelsea effectively ended the Red Devils hopes of retaining their Premier League title, and it has become apparent that Uniteds squad needs rejuvenation.

Moyes controls Uniteds transfer strategy, and he has significant funds reportedly around 80 million ($131 million) at his disposal. Moyes hasnt made any signings in the current transfer window, as he reportedly had little interest in making a panic buy to ease Uniteds woes.

Its inevitable that pundits and fans will view Matas potential move to United in such a light, and that view is neither entirely true nor entirely false. Mata is hoping to earn a spot on Spains squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but his role as a Chelsea squad player (as opposed to automatic starter) significantly reduces the likelihood Spain selecting him this summer. If Mata agitates for a move, it would suggest a high level of panic on his part. Meanwhile, Matas reported fee would break Uniteds transfer record, surpassing the 30.7 million ($50.5 million) it spent on Dimitar Berbatov in 2008. The price would also aptly reflect the progression Mata has made since moving to English soccer in the summer of 2011. Chelsea signed him from Spanish club Valencia for 23.5 million ($38.6 million) in August of that year. The Blues could make a 13.5 million profit ($22.2 million) by selling him to United in January, and that doesnt even take Matas goals and the trophies he helped Chelsea win into account.

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Story by J. Israel Balderas / CBS 12 News WEST PALM BEACH, Fla -- The City of West Palm Beach requires that developers plant a specific number of hardwood trees in a neighborhood when homes are built. One common tree that's cheap and easy to put in the ground is the live oak tree. But once it grows, its roots can wreak havoc on developed property. It seems easy for someone to say, Just remove the tree. But for West Palm Beach resident Mario Burbano, he says the difficulty has come from having to his homeowners association to do so. He looked at my pictures and said, this is your tree? and I said, Yes it is, said Burbano, as he recalled a conversation with his HOA on-site property manager. And I'd like to have it removed. Last summer, the HOA management for the Sail Harbour townhome community got a permit from West Palm Beach to remove and replace 166 oak trees. In between every swale, there was a tree, remembers Burbano. So they removed every other tree because in those swales are the sewage system lines. But when Burbano asked that his tree be removed due to the inevitable damage the roots will cause to the property, he says the on-site property manager ignored his request. He pretty much laughed at my face. Burbano also has an email that warns him if he tried to remove the tree, 'the association will pursue all legal remedies available,' against him. The differences in my water bills in the last four months have gone up, said Burbano. That's because the live oak tree roots started causing water pipe damage. To fix it, a plumber charged him $628.60 last week. The roots are also creeping under the driveway which Burbano fears will be more costly down the road. Why I cant remove it? asked Burbano. I tried to and I would have taken care of it myself, and at that point the said no. CBS 12 News took Burbanos concerns to Kings Management Services, which is responsible for the Sail Harbour community. Bruce King, its owner, didn't want to go on camera. But in a conversation inside his office, King said its the City of West Palm Beach that heavily regulates how residential trees are maintained or removed. It took Kings Management a year to get a permit to remove the live oak trees. Burbanos wasnt included. King assured CBS 12 that if Burbano goes to city planners and gets a tree removal permit for his house, the HOA will work with him. This may resolve future problems for Burbano, however, it doesnt help the fact that out of pocket, Ive had to pay almost $800 to $900 damages.Homeowner battles HOA to remove damaging tree

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Time out.

This time around, I don't want to talk about airlines, airports or airplanes.

I want to talk about trees.

That's right, trees. Specifically, I want to talk about the decision made by a Somerville neighbor of mine to fell an old, beautiful, and perfectly healthy tree because it was "in the way" of his backyard improvement project -- in the process adversely affecting the quality of life for me and several of my neighbors.

Is it crazy or un-American to suggest that, at a certain point, a tree is no longer one person's private property per se, and belongs to the community? And at that point, should the property owner be restricted as to what he or she may do with said tree?

I first started asking these questions seven or eight years ago, when the person who owns the house across the street from me decided to chop down the large healthy tree in his front yard. I really liked that tree. In addition to being attractive in and of itself, it did the whole neighborhood a service by concealing the front facade of the guy's house, which -- there's no polite way of putting this -- is one of the ugliest and tackiest house on the block. It also hid the unsightly tangle of power lines and cables that are strung across the street.

He cut the entire thing down because, as it was explained to me by another neighbor, it was "attracting squirrels" and "dropping too many leaves."

Then, this past spring, the people who live next door decided to chop down one of their trees. I liked this tree because its canopy reached over into our driveway and yard, providing shade, attracting birds (we have a very active feeder) and drawing attention away from our rather unattractive garage.

They cut it down because it was "messy."

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NASHVILLE As Americans reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., an audiotape of an interview with the civil rights leader discovered in a Tennessee attic sheds new light on a famous phone call John F. Kennedy made to Kings wife more than 50 years ago.

Historians generally agree that Kennedys phone call to Coretta Scott King expressing concern over her husbands arrest in October 1960 and Robert Kennedys work behind the scenes to get King released helped JFK win the White House a month later.

King himself, while appreciative, wasnt as quick to credit the Kennedys alone with getting him out of jail, according to a previously unreleased portion of the interview with the civil rights leader days after Kennedys election.

The Kennedy family did have some part in the release, King says in the recording, which was discovered in 2012. But I must make it clear that many other forces worked to bring it about also.

A copy of the original recording will be played for visitors at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, for a King Day event on Monday.

King was arrested a few weeks before the presidential election at an Atlanta sit-in. Charges were dropped, but King was held for allegedly violating probation for an earlier traffic offense and transferred to the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia.

The Kennedys intervened, and King was released. Their intervention won the support of black voters who helped give Kennedy the winning edge in several key states.

Despite their help, however, King was careful not to give them too much credit.

I think Dr. King was aware in the tape that he probably did more for John F. Kennedy than perhaps John F. Kennedy did for him, said Keya Morgan, a New York-based collector and expert on historical artifacts. Morgan acquired the reel-to-reel audiotape from Chattanooga, Tennessee, resident Stephon Tull, who discovered it while cleaning out his fathers attic.

Raymond Winbush, director of the Institute for Urban Research at Marylands Morgan State University, said Kennedys call to Kings wife was political in nature because the Kennedys had been slow to get involved in the civil rights movement.

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A New Jersey rabbi is shedding light on his two-decade relationship with Bill Clinton in a book that features his correspondence with the former president, including during the low point of his impeachment.

Menachem Genacks book is titled Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership. It contains a forward by Clinton, who discusses the importance of the missives he received from Genack.

Over the years, these individual missives were invaluable to me in addressing the challenges of leadership and public service, the ex-president writes.

In a recent interview, Genack who became informally known as Bill Clintons rabbi said that what people will learn from the book is that Clinton, a Southern Baptist, has a deep relationship with scripture.

On one occasion, the rabbi said, Clinton corrected a typo from Genacks office in a specific biblical passage. He said he has also developed a connection with Hillary Clinton over the years.

The collection includes a note Genack sent the former president, with whom he has traveled overseas, during the low point of his presidency, the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal that led to his impeachment.

In it, the rabbi referred to Psalm 27:14, encouraging Clinton to wait on the Lord and remain strong.

When compiled, the letters Rabbi Genack and I exchanged both during and after my presidency paint a powerful portrait of an interconnected global society at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Clinton writes.

The book has received plugs from pols such as Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).

In the interview, the rabbi said the book reveals a deeply spiritual side of Clinton that the public doesnt always see a spirituality that has continued since he left office more than a decade ago.

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An expert sheds light on what polio virus found in the nations sewers means for the world

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Public health advocates have long set their sights on wiping out polio worldwide, but recent resurgences of the pernicious disease raise questions about its future eradication.

Several months ago a wild strain of the virus surfaced in a sewer system in Rahat in southern Israel, and now it has reportedly been detected throughout the country. Israels government this week launched a nationwide vaccination campaign, attempting to inoculate all children under nine years of age with oral polio vaccine (OPV), a form of the vaccine containing a live, weakened form of the virus. Most of these children were already vaccinated as babies with inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), otherwise known as the dead-virus vaccine. But people who were injected with IPV can still be healthy carriers of the disease and shed the virus in feces.

Scientific American spoke with Bruce Aylward, assistant director general for Polio, Emergencies and Country Collaboration at the World Health Organization, to find out more about the situation in Israel and how recent events there are affecting global efforts to wipe out the disease.

[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

What is happening in Israel right now? What we know is that there is widespread detection of a wild polio virus at a number of sites that we have sampled, going back three-plus months. This virus is very similar to a strain that was detected in December of last year in Egypt, in the sewage there. This original virus came from Pakistan. Whether it went into Egypt and then Israel or Israel and then Egypt or [whether it spread via] two separate importationsit is unclear.

The virus has only been found in sewage at this point. There have not been any clinical cases of this so far; no children have been paralyzed. In the past [Israel] has detected [polio] virus from surrounding countries and it has disappeared very quickly, but this time it is persisting for longer. The virus cant live in the sewage itself and multiply. What we are seeing is persistence of [people excreting] the virus.

How high is Israel's vaccination coverage? This is a country with quite high immunization coverageabout 94 percentage of coverage. Its with the inactivated virus, the dead-vaccine virus that Dr. [Jonas] Salk made in the 1950s (versus the live vaccine coverage that [Albert] Sabin developed, which we mainly use in the vaccination program). Since the kids dont have intestinal immunity, or not very much, the disease is managing to spread.

The reason the oral vaccination is used in the vaccine campaign is it provides intestinal immunity that is so crucial in stopping the person-to-person transmission spread in settings where you might have a high transmission rate of the viruslike in tropical areas or areas with suboptimal sanitation. For a long time in developed countries Sabins vaccine was the vaccine of choice, but the drawback was one in a million times a child can get the disease and get paralyzed. Its very rare, but its a risk.

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