Texas Rangers sit Lance Berkman for another game with injury suffered in tumble down airplane stairs

Texas Rangers designated hitter Lance Berkman, left, reacts to taking a strike in front of Toronto Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia during the baseball game Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

ARLINGTON ? In what is bound to become the most famous accident involving airplane stairs since President Gerald Ford tumbled down the stairs of Air Force 1 more than 30 years ago, Rangers DH Lance Berkman missed his third consecutive game due to a twisted right knee suffered when he fell down the stairs exiting the Texas Rangers charter early Friday morning.

Berkman said he did not think he was a candidate for the DL. The Rangers are hopeful that with Monday?s off day, he could get rested and healthy enough to return to the lineup Tuesday when the Rangers face Seattle.

?It was a nasty fall, Rangers manager Ron Washington said.

Berkman has had four surgeries on the knee in his career, including one after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in a flag football game after the 2004 season.

The knee, however, is becoming more and more of a concern. After playing in 20 games in April and 27 in May, Berkman has played in just 16 games in June. While the knee has not often been painful, Berkman has had trouble keeping it straight when hitting from the left side and that forms the foundation for his swing.

After hitting .309 in April and .265 in May, Berkman hit just .194 in June with only two extra-base hits, both home runs. His last double was on May 18.

The Rangers full lineup for the series finale against Cincinnati: 2B Ian Kinsler, SS Elvis Andrus, DH Nelson Cruz, 3B Adrian Beltre, 1B Mitch Moreland, LF David Murphy, C Geovany Soto, CF Engel Beltre, RF Leonys Martin and RHP Yu Darvish.

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10 Things to Know for Friday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:

1. WHAT'S NEXT IN IMMIGRATION STRUGGLE

With Senate passage of wide-ranging legislation, attention turns to the GOP-led House ? where the bill's prospects are highly uncertain.

2. BOSTON MARATHON SUSPECT INDICTED

The charges provide a wealth of detail on the brothers' alleged involvement with Islamic extremism.

3. WHY SNOWDEN HASN'T LEFT RUSSIA

Some analysts believe the Ecuadorean government is divided on whether to grant him asylum.

4. PENDULUM SWINGING IN EGYPT

After a year of Morsi's presidency, religious fundamentalism doesn't seem to be the political selling point it once was.

5. WHO'S BALKING AT OBAMA'S CALL FOR GAY RIGHTS

As the president arrives in Africa, Senegal's leader says his country "still isn't ready" to decriminalize homosexuality.

6. A LESSON IN NUTRITION

Battling junk food, the Ag Department for the first time is telling schools what sorts of snacks they can sell.

7. HOW A SENATE DELAY WILL IMPACT STUDENTS

Rates on student loans will double Monday because so far senators haven't been able to reach a compromise to avert the hike.

8. IN GRAND STYLE, JAMES GANDOLFINI EULOGIZED

At his funeral in New York City at one of the world's largest churches, the actor is remembered as someone who "kept his heart open in his life and in his work."

9. ONE DAY, TWO FELONY ARRESTS

The arrests of Aaron Hernandez and Browns rookie Ausar Walcott highlight the NFL's ongoing problem of players landing at the center of criminal cases.

10. UNLV FRESHMAN ANTHONY BENNETT NO. 1 NBA PICK

Cleveland passes on big men Nerlens Noel and Alex Len in favor of the Mountain West Conference player of the year.

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Why People Aren't Buying into Organic Food Products

Although the organic market has grown, it is still a small slice of the pie

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Dear EarthTalk: I understand that, despite the popularity of organic foods, clothing and other products, organic agriculture is still only practiced on a tiny percentage of land worldwide. What?s getting in the way??Larry McFarlane, Boston

Organic production may still represent only a small fraction of agricultural sales in the U.S. and worldwide, but it as been growing rapidly over the last two decades. According to the latest global census of farming practices, the area of land certified as organic makes up less than one percent of global agricultural land?but it has grown more than threefold since 1999, with upwards of 37 million hectares of land worldwide now under organic cultivation. The Organic Trade Association forecasts steady growth of nine percent or more annually for organic agriculture in the foreseeable future.

But despite this growth, no one expects organic agriculture to top conventional techniques any time soon. The biggest hurdle for organics is the added cost of sustainable practices. ?The cost of organic food is higher than that of conventional food because the organic price tag more closely reflects the true cost of growing the food,? reports the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF). ?The intensive management and labor used in organic production are frequently (though not always) more expensive than the chemicals routinely used on conventional farms.? However, there is evidence that if the indirect costs of conventional food production?such as the impact on public health of chemicals released into our air and water?were factored in, non-organic foods would cost the same or as much as organic foods.

Other problems for organic foods include changing perceptions about just how much healthier they are than non-organics. ?Many devotees of organic foods purchase them in order to avoid exposure to harmful levels of pesticides,? writes Henry I. Miller in Forbes. ?But that?s a poor rationale: Non-organic fruits and vegetables had more pesticide residue, to be sure, but more than 99 percent of the time the levels were below the permissible, very conservative safety limits set by regulators?limits that are established by the Environmental Protection Agency and enforced by the Food and Drug Administration.?

He adds that just because a farm is organic doesn?t mean the food it produces will be free of potentially toxic elements. While organic standards may preclude the use of synthetic inputs, organic farms often utilize so-called ?natural? pesticides and what Miller calls ?pathogen-laden animal excreta as fertilizer? that can also end up making consumers sick and have been linked to cancers and other serious illnesses (like their synthetic counterparts). Miller believes that as more consumers become aware of these problems, the percentage of the agriculture market taken up by organics will begin to shrink.

Another challenge facing the organic sector is a shortage of organic raw materials such as grain, sugar and livestock feed. Without a steady supply of these basics, organic farmers can?t harvest enough products to make their businesses viable. Meanwhile, competition from food marketed as ?locally grown? or ?natural? is also cutting into organic?s slice of the overall agriculture pie.

Organic agriculture is sure to keep growing for years to come. And even if the health benefits of eating organic aren?t significant, the environmental advantages of organic agriculture?which are, of course, also public health advantages?make the practice well worth supporting.

CONTACTS: Organic Trade Association, www.ota.com; OFRF, www.ofrf.org.

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Hawaii hiking trails to be on Google Street View

In this undated photo provided by Google, Rob Pacheco, president of Hawaii Forest & Trail, takes in the view at Pololu Valley's Awini Trail near Kapaau, Hawaii, while wearing the Street View Trekker. Hawaii's volcanoes, rainforests and beaches will soon be visible on Google Street View. The Mountain View, Calif., company said Thursday June 27, 2013 it was lending its backpack cameras to a Hawaii trail guide company to capture panoramic images of Big Island hiking trails. (AP Photo/Google)

In this undated photo provided by Google, Rob Pacheco, president of Hawaii Forest & Trail, takes in the view at Pololu Valley's Awini Trail near Kapaau, Hawaii, while wearing the Street View Trekker. Hawaii's volcanoes, rainforests and beaches will soon be visible on Google Street View. The Mountain View, Calif., company said Thursday June 27, 2013 it was lending its backpack cameras to a Hawaii trail guide company to capture panoramic images of Big Island hiking trails. (AP Photo/Google)

In this undated photo provided by Google, Rob Pacheco, president of Hawaii Forest & Trail, takes in the view at Akaka Falls near Honomu, Hawaii, while wearing the Street View Trekker. Hawaii's volcanoes, rainforests and beaches will soon be visible on Google Street View. The Mountain View, Calif., company said Thursday it was lending its backpack cameras to a Hawaii trail guide company to capture panoramic images of Big Island hiking trails. (AP Photo/Google)

In this undated photo provided by Google, Rob Pacheco, president of Hawaii Forest & Trail, walks across the beach at Pololu Valley near Kapaau, Hawaii, while wearing the Street View Trekker. Hawaii's volcanoes, rainforests and beaches will soon be visible on Google Street View. The Mountain View, Calif., company said Thursday June 27, 2013 it was lending its backpack cameras to a Hawaii trail guide company to capture panoramic images of Big Island hiking trails. (AP Photo/Google)

HONOLULU (AP) ? Hawaii's volcanoes, rainforests and beaches will soon be visible on Google Street View.

Google Inc. said Thursday it was lending its backpack cameras to a Hawaii trail guide company to capture panoramic images of Big Island hiking trails.

Photos will be loaded to Google Maps and the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau website, gohawaii.com.

"The most magical places that we all know and love in Hawaii need to be reached on foot ? they need to be explored that way," said Evan Rapoport, Street View project manager.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google has already taken Street View images of the Grand Canyon and other places popular with travelers.

This is the first time the Silicon Valley company has handed over its "Street View Trekker" to another party to have someone else take the images.

Rapoport said Google will offer the technology to other organizations around the world who want to sign up for similar partnerships. Groups like tourism boards, government agencies, universities and nonprofit organizations might be among those to use the device, he said.

Having people who know a given place best take Street View images will make Google Maps more interesting and useful, he said.

On the Big Island, Hawaii Forest & Trail guides carrying the trekker device will walk along more than 20 state and national park trails by the end of September.

Hawaii Forest & Trail will mail memory cards with the images to Google, which will process the data. Photos from 15 cameras in the trekker will be stitched together for a 360-degree panorama, Rapoport said.

The images should be online by the end of the year or early next year, said Jay Talwar, chief marketing officer of the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau.

The project is a partnership between Google and the visitors bureau, which promotes the state to North American markets. The agency plans to expand the effort to the rest of the state. It's currently looking for partners who will take Street View images of trails on other Hawaii islands.

Associated Press

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Suspect in Boston Marathon bombing indicted

FILE - This file photo provided Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. A federal grand jury in Boston returned a 30-count indictment against Tsarnaev on Thursday, June 27, 2013, on charges including using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use, resulting in death. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation, File)

FILE - This file photo provided Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. A federal grand jury in Boston returned a 30-count indictment against Tsarnaev on Thursday, June 27, 2013, on charges including using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use, resulting in death. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation, File)

FILE - In this April 15, 2013 file photo, medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston. A federal grand jury in Boston returned a 30-count indictment against bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Thursday, June 27, 2013, on charges including using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use, resulting in death. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

FILE - In this April 15, 2013, file photo, blood from victims covers the sidewalk on Boylston Street, at the site of an explosion during the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston. At right foreground is a folding chair with the design of an American flag on the cover. A federal grand jury in Boston returned a 30-count indictment against bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Thursday, June 27, 2013, on charges including using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use, resulting in death. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

BOSTON (AP) ? A federal grand jury on Thursday returned a 30-count indictment against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, and many of the charges carry the possibility of life in prison or the death penalty.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was indicted on charges including using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use, resulting in death.

Three people were killed and more than 260 injured in twin explosions near the finish line of the marathon on April 15. The charges also cover the death of MIT police officer Sean Collier, who authorities say was shot to death in his cruiser by the Tsarnaevs a few days after the bombing.

Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed following a shootout with police on April 19.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured later that day hiding in a boat in a backyard in Watertown, Mass. According to the indictment, he wrote a message on the inside of the boat that said, among other things, "The U.S. Government is killing our innocent civilians," ''I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished," and "We Muslims are one body you hurt one you hurt us all."

The Tsarnaev brothers had roots in the turbulent Russian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, which have become recruiting grounds for Islamic extremists. They had been living in the United States for about a decade.

Authorities said each of the brothers placed a knapsack containing a shrapnel-packed pressure cooker bomb near the finish line of the 26.2-mile race. The bombs went off within seconds of one another.

The U.S. attorney's office says 17 of the charges against Tsarnaev could bring life in prison or the death penalty.

Associated Press

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Ecuador says Snowden asylum document unauthorized

Transit passengers eat at a cafe with a TV screen with a news program showing a report on Edward Snowden, in the background, at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Russia?s President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has remained in Sheremetyevo?s transit zone, but media that descended on the airport in the search for him couldn?t locate him there. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Transit passengers eat at a cafe with a TV screen with a news program showing a report on Edward Snowden, in the background, at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Russia?s President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has remained in Sheremetyevo?s transit zone, but media that descended on the airport in the search for him couldn?t locate him there. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Activists of Ukraine's Internet party, one of them acting as a CIA agent making telephone taps, demand the American authorities stop the pursuit of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden at an action of protest near the US Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Planes of different air companies are parked at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow early Thursday, June 27, 2013. Russia's President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has remained in Sheremetyevo's transit zone, but media that descended on the airport in the search for him could not locate him there. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ? An Ecuadorean diplomatic employee issued a safe conduct pass for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to travel to Ecuador to seek political asylum, but the action was unauthorized and the pass has no validity, government officials said Thursday.

Ecuador's scramble to explain the document, revealed by the Univision television network, came as President Obama was seeking to downplay the international chase for "a 29-year-old hacker" and lower the temperature of an issue that has already raised tensions between the U.S. and uneasy partners Russia and China.

Obama said in Senegal that the damage to U.S. national security has already been done and his top focus now is making sure it can't happen again.

Ecuadorean officials have repeatedly expressed sympathy for Snowden for revealing secret global U.S. surveillance programs, but have insisted they have taken no decision on granting him asylum, and they rushed to distance themselves from the unsigned letter shown by Univision.

Secretary of Political Management Betty Tola told a news conference that "any document of this type has no validity and is the exclusive responsibility of the person who issued it."

Another government official said that while the document is authentic, it was issued without approval from the Foreign Ministry or other officials in the capital and thus has no legal power. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

Tola told reporters that Snowden's asylum application hadn't been processed because he was not in Ecuador as required by law. She also threatened legal action against whoever had leaked the document. She and other officials offered no further details about his case.

The back-and-forth over the document appears to be part of broader debate within Ecuador's leftist government about whether to offer asylum to Snowden, who is believed to remain in limbo in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after flying in from Hong Kong.

Snowden's American passport has been revoked by U.S. authorities. Ecuadoran officials have defended Snowden in public, saying his revelations of U.S. spying benefited the world, but also seem taken aback by the intensity of global attention and U.S. criticism focused on Ecuador for considering his asylum request.

Communications Minister Fernando Alvarado reacted defiantly on Thursday, saying the country rejects economic "blackmail" to force its hand. He said "Ecuador unilaterally and irrevocably renounces" tariff benefits on hundreds of millions of dollars in trade that are up for renewal by the U.S. Congress. Nearly half of Ecuador's foreign trade depends on the U.S.

The program, initially meant to help Andean countries aiding in the fight against drugs, was facing an uphill fight for renewal. Alvarado did not explicitly mention a separate effort to win trade benefits under a presidential order.

On Wednesday, Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, promised to lead an effort to block extension of the tariff benefits aid if Ecuador grants asylum to Snowden.

In Senegal, President Barack Obama said Thursday that The United States won't be scrambling military jets or engaging in high-level diplomatic bartering to get Snowden extradited to the U.S.

"I'm not going to have one case with a suspect who we're trying to extradite suddenly be elevated to the point where I've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues, simply to get a guy extradited so he can face the justice system," Obama said at a joint news conference with Senegal's President Macky Sall.

Snowden's intercontinental efforts to evade U.S. authorities ? taking him from a hotel hideout in Hong Kong to an airport transit zone in Moscow, where he's believed to be holed up ? has already undercut Obama's efforts to strengthen ties with China and threatened to worsen tensions with Russia just as Obama is seeking Moscow's cooperation on Syria. At the same time, Snowden's attempts to seek asylum from Ecuador and other nations have underscored Obama's limited sway in a number of foreign capitals.

Obama's comment came on the first full day of a weeklong, 3-country trip to Africa, his first major tour of sub-Saharan Africa since he took office more than four years ago.

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Pace reported from Dakar, Senegal.

Associated Press

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