Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial marked its first holiday named for the slain civil rights leader Monday with a controversy.

Shortly after the memorial was dedicated in August, it became obvious that an inscription at the base of the 9.1-meter high statue inaccurately quotes King.

It says, “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.”

A columnist for The Washington Post researched King’s speeches just after the dedication ceremony to discover the true statement.

During his sermon titled “The Drum Major Instinct” two months before he was assassinated in November 1968, King said, “Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness.”

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week ordered the National Park Service to correct the inscription or find a new one within 30 days.

The National Park Service is now working with the King family and their foundation to come up with a modification to the inscription.

Visitors to the memorial discussed the controversy and their reasons for visiting the memorial Monday morning with All Headline News.

“It’s a mockery,” said Rory Cavanaugh Wilson, a Washington, D.C., carpenter. “It’s not a complete quote.”

Benjamin Dudley, a project management consultant from Washington, said, “I can see the concern people had and I agree with it.”

The inscription is deeply etched into the base of King’s standing image, which prompted Dudley to say, “The only thing is that it’s going to cost a ton. The logistics are going to be challenging.”

Other visitors believed visiting the memorial on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was important, regardless of any controversy about an inaccurate quote.

“I first came here when I was 12 years old when he did the ‘I have a dream’ speech,” James Jamison, a Baptist minister from Wilmington, N.C., told All Headline News.

He and his family left their home in North Carolina at 3 a.m. Monday so they could visit the memorial on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“It brings me to tears when I read about it,” said Jamison, who added that he touched the monument during his visit. “It’s like historical.”

President Barack Obama discussed the memorial Monday during a visit to a Washington school to promote volunteer service.

Regardless of whether the inscription is a misquote, it should be read as a call to action, he said.

“I know there’s been a lot of controversy lately about the quote on the memorial,” Obama said. “If you look at that speech about Dr. King as a drum major, what he really said was that all of us could be a drum major for service, all of us could be a drum major for justice, and there’s nobody who can’t serve, nobody who can’t help somebody else.”

The poet Maya Angelou, who knew King personally, told The Washington Post the misquote makes King look like “an arrogant twit.”

The truth is that King “had no arrogance at all,” Angelou said. “He had a humility that comes from deep inside. The ‘if’ clause that is left out is salient. Leaving it out changes the meaning completely.”

Obama and his wife planned to attend a celebration later in the day at the Kennedy Center to honor King.

The day started in Washington with a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial.

The Washington National Cathedral held a special religious service for King Monday. King preached his last sermon at the cathedral before he was shot and killed by an assassin at a Memphis motel.

In addition, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation posted about 200,000 new documents on its Web site related to his life and civil rights efforts. They include his personal notes, letters to Vice President Richard Nixon and telegrams to President John F. Kennedy.

In one Aug. 30, 1957 letter to Nixon, King wrote, “It is almost my firm conviction that the full effect of the Civil Rights Bill will depend in large degree upon the program of a sustained mass movement on the part of Negroes. History has demonstrated that inadequate legislation supported by mass action can accomplish more than adequate legislation which remains unenforced for the lack of a determined mass movement.”

Lagos, Nigeria (NewsBahn) – Officials of CNN and the BBC called on the Nigerian government Monday afternoon to explain why security forces entered its offices unannounced earlier in the day.

The police action came as the governor of Lagos state protested soldiers entering Lagos amid nationwide protests of the removal of fuel subsidies by President Goodluck Jonathan.

BBC Newshour reported on Twitter about 8 a.m. Eastern time that “We’re investigating reports that secret service have forced their way into CNN, BBC building in Lagos, Nigeria.”

About an hour later, the BBC tweeted “Security services leave BBC, CNN building in #Lagos. Correspondent tells us #Nigeria wants to keep media on a ‘short finger’.”

Via Twitter, CNN said, “Nigerian authorities enter CNN Lagos bureau unannounced today. No raids occur. CNN requests explanation and continues to report as usual.”

Troops entered Lagos Monday morning to quell protests by trade unions and Occupy Nigeria over hikes in the price of gasoline. The Vanguard news site reported that soldiers had taken over a park in the city that had been the site for rallies by Occupy protestors.

Vanguard said there reports that solders had been deployed on major roads in the city.

CNN said they had received reports the army was barring protestors from demonstration sites, but no violence had been reported.

Lagos State governor Babatunde Fashola, speaking on Lagos State television, protested the soldiers’ presence, saying that citizens had a right to protest as long as they did it peacefully. He called on Jonathan to reconsider his action against protestors.

As soldiers moved into Lagos, two large trade unions said they were suspending a strike that had begun eight days before after the president said he was reinstating the fuel subsidy.

Jonathan had suspended the subsidy on Jan. 1, saying the money saved would be used on infrastructure projects. The suspension caused gasoline prices to soar from 65 naira per liter (40 cents) to 141 naira (86 cents).

In reinstating the subsidy on Monday, the president said fuel prices would be set at 97 naira (60 cents).

New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Natural gas prices have plummeted a whopping 35 percent over the past year, a boon for homeowners, factories and businesses who heat with the fuel.

The United States is rich with natural gas, a result of new drilling techniques that have enabled energy companies to tap vast supplies that were unreachable just a few years ago.

This winter season’s mild weather has slowed the demand for natural gas, adding to the glut in storage.

December in the Northeast was the fourth warmest in 17 years, leaving natural gas winter supplies 17 percent above their five year average.

Natural gas futures fell 13 percent last week, to $2.67 per cubic feet, the lowest winter-time level in 10 years.

Analysts forecast the average price of natural gas to remain near $3 for all of 2012, and if the mild winter weather persists, a dip below $2 is possible.

Cheap natural gas is welcome for the more than half of U.S. households that heat with natural gas. Additionally, companies that make plastics, fertilizers and other chemicals derived from natural gas are reaping a windfall from low natural gas prices.

But not everyone is cheering low natural gas prices. Companies that drill solely for natural gas are earning less.

Natural gas hit nearly $15 in 2005. But over the next few years drillers perfected methods that allowed them to more profitably extract gas trapped in shale formations. Improved drilling methods eventually turned the shortage into an oversupply.

Analysts see low natural gas prices for years to come, and industrial customers are betting on it. But that could change if demand increases or cold snaps are more frequent. Exports of U.S. natural gas could also reduce the glut. And, natural gas drilling could be curtailed by environmental concerns.

But for now, low natural gas prices have hit a warm spot for many in the U.S.

Myrtle Beach, SC, United States (AHN) – Jon Huntsman ended his run in the GOP presidential race Monday and endorsed Mitt Romney.

The former Utah governor, flanked by his wife and daughters, announced his decision to quit the presidential race at a news conference in Myrtle Beach.

Huntsman, who also served as U.S. ambassador to China under Democratic President Barack Obama, never gained traction in the Republican campaign.

He said he is calling on his party to unite and to end “an onslaught of negative and personal attacks” in the campaign. Huntsman said he is endorsing Romney, the candidate he feels has the best chance to beat Obama.

Huntsman lagged in public opinion polls. He finished third in New Hampshire, skipped Iowa, and early polls reported an extremely poor showing for Saturday’s primary in South Carolina.

Huntsman’s announcement came just hours before a debate for Republican candidates in the Palmetto State. His withdrawal leaves Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry still in the race.

Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – More highly anticipated by many than the winners are what the guests wore. And this year’s 2012 Golden Globes red carpet did not disappoint.

The year’s first awards show and fashion fest featured fabulous women looking glamorous, graceful and all glitzed up.

Among repeat standouts were Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, and Kate Beckinsale. The trio looked stylish in simple and subtle cuts. Angelina sizzled in satin. Nicole dazzled in a body-hugging Versace gown, and Kate looked stunning in a strapless cream gown, hair pulled back and dark eye makeup.

Turning heads was Charlize Theron in a flowing down by Dior and a vintage Cartier headband, while Sofia Vergara, who always knows how to play up her curves, looked fantastic in a strapless mermaid silhouette by Vera Wang. And Jessica Biel looked heavenly in white.

Madonna wore a tight low neckline dress that looked uncomfortable. Salma Hayek looked squeezed into her strapless Gucci gown.

George Clooney’s date, Stacey Keebler, looked radiant in red.

Best actress Meryl Streep didn’t win any awards for her full length gown by Alessandra Rich.

Looking stylish and a bit subdued was the beautiful Heidi Klum in Calvin Klein, and Emma Stone looked lovely in a two-tone Lanvin gown.

Beledweyne, Somalia (AHN) – Ethiopian troops in the Somali town of Beledweyne arrested officials from the pro-government Sufi militia and Shabelle Valley administration on Monday, according to local residents.

Abdifitah Hassan Afrax, president of the Shabelle Valley administration, and Aden Abdulle Grasso, the district representative of moderate Islamist group Alhu Sunna Wal-Jama’a, were arrested after troops loyal to them fought Sunday at the outskirts of Beledweyne. The clash killed at least four people and wounded four others after the two sides disagreed over control of a strategic position on the edge of town.

A Beledweyne resident, Ahmed Abdikarim, said the two men were being held at Beledweyne University, which Ethiopian troops use as their base in the town.

Alhu Sunna Wal-Jama’a, Shabelle Valley administration officials and members of the Parliament in Beledweyne had a bitter difference of opinion over who had the legitimacy to establish an administration in the town after the Al-Shabaab militant group was evicted from the town in late December.

Ethiopians, who helped evict Al-Shabaab insurgents, tried to mediate the dispute but without tangible results, according to sources close to the parties.

Beledweyne is located in central Somalia near the border with Ethiopia.

The sleep lab has six testing rooms, each of which looks just like a room at a Holiday Inn, with striped wallpaper, a floral bedspread, framed prints of the seaside and free wifi.

“They have a brochure that says it’s just like being in a hotel room, and it is,” says Martin, sitting on the edge of her bed wearing a pair of soft grey pajamas and watching a football game on her flat-screen TV. Aside from the two-dozen colorful electrodes taped to her body to monitor her every motion and the scuba-style mask on her face to enhance her breathing, she looked ready for a cozy night of slumber.

In the tech room a few doors down, a professional sleep technician observed her over a video monitor, testing the electrodes and preparing to listen in to the sounds of her sleep.

Snoring was once considered a simple annoyance for bed partners, but there is a growing awareness in the medical community that the grunts and snorts of noisy sleepers can also be a sign of sleep apnea, a condition shown to increase the risk of numerous serious illnesses, including heart disease, stroke and dementia. Critics, however, worry that overnight tests to diagnose apnea, particularly those done in sleep labs, may be overprescribed at great cost to the health care system.

Testing can be a lucrative business, and labs have popped up in free-standing clinics and hospitals across the country. Over the past decade, the number of accredited sleep labs that test for the disorder has quadrupled, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). At the same time, insurer spending on the procedure has skyrocketed. Medicare payments for sleep testing, for example, increased from $62 million in 2001 to $235 million in 2009, according to the Office of the Inspector General.

Sleep apnea occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax, causing an airway obstruction that can stop a person’s breathing for several seconds or even minutes. It causes restless sleep and sometimes dangerously-low blood oxygen levels. The disorder can be diagnosed by monitoring a snorer’s sleep patterns, either in an overnight visit to a sleep lab or at home using a portable testing device. It is then often treated with a CPAP machine, which helps keep a snorer’s airway open during sleep.

Sleep apnea has likely gotten more common as the population has grown older and more obese, two major risk factors for apnea, and the National Institutes of Health estimates that more than 12 million Americans suffer from the disorder. Many are never diagnosed.

“I think the medical community is sort of dropping the ball” on apnea, explains Dr. David Gross, medical director of the sleep lab at the National Rehabilitation Hospital. “It’s just sad when you walk through the hospital and you see these patients with heart failure—the person might be 35 years old, he’s 350 lbs — but no one’s thinking that he has sleep apnea, which he statistically does.” He says more than three-quarters of the patients who come to the lab are diagnosed with apnea.

But the testing isn’t cheap: each night at a hospital sleep lab can cost $1,900 and is usually mostly covered by a patient’s health insurance. Some patients, including Martin, end up spending two nights at the lab – one to test for apnea, and the second to try the CPAP machine.

Dr. Fred Holt, an expert on fraud and abuse and the medical director of Blue Cross Blue Shield in North Carolina, says some patients aren’t having basic exams done first and are therefore being prescribed expensive tests they don’t need. Not everyone who snores has a chronic disorder, he notes.

In other cases, Holt says the labs prescribe CPAP machines right away without first suggesting other strategies like losing weight of sleeping on your side, which can also reduce apnea.

“We are spending more and more money on sleep testing and treatment, and like anything else in health care, there are unscrupulous people out there who are more than happy to do testing and treatment that might be of questionable value,” says Holt. “This might be because of naiveté on the part of the physician, or unfortunately, it could be done for the sake of improving the cash flow of one’s business.”

It’s no secret that the sleep business can be lucrative for physicians. A website for Aviisha, a sleep testing company, has a section for physicians showing a picture of a doctor with a stack of money in his lab coat pocket. And in February, the AASM is offering a seminar on the “business of sleep medicine for physicians” at a golf resort in Arizona.

Dr. Nancy Collop, president of the AASM, says that while many sleep centers offer comprehensive care for sleep disorders, others are largely focused on overnight sleep testing. “A lot of people have gotten into the sleep business specifically to do that procedure,” she explains. The goal of the AASM’s accreditation process, she says, is to make sure sleep labs are offering more because “many patients may not even need a sleep study.”

Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, which represents large employers offering health insurance to their workers, says the tests are driving up the cost of premiums. “This is a good example of something where we have technology, we have financial incentives to use more of it then we have historically done, you have enough problems including a growing obesity epidemic, and you sort of put together the so-called perfect storm for driving up overuse and health care cost.”

She says doctors should focus instead on common-sense approaches to sleep apnea, like losing weight, before turning to expensive testing and medical devices.

Another option are home sleep tests, which costs less than a fifth of the cost of a lab test, and are considered effective for most patients. Medicare began paying for home sleep tests in 2008, but the tests have had only modest growth.

“I believe lab tests, as opposed to the home tests, are being wildly overprescribed,” says Mike Backus, senior vice president of American Imaging Management, a subsidiary of Wellpoint. Right now, he says, 99 percent of the sleep tests given to Wellpoint patients are done in the lab, but “it should be 70 percent at home and 30 percent in the lab.”

Backus adds that the majority of patients who are diagnosed with apnea and then given CPAP machines stop using them within the first year.

Some insurers, including Wellpoint, are changing the way they pay for sleep testing to curb the costs. Many now require a special pre-authorization. They also ask the doctor whether a patient qualifies for a home sleep test instead of one at the lab.

Those changes are now widespread among Massachusetts insurers and are having an effect on the sleep industry in the state.

Dr. Lawrence Epstein, the chief medical officer of Sleep Healthcenters in Massachusetts, says the labs have already experienced a 20 percent drop in the number of patients coming in for testing. While the past decade was focused on industry growth, he says it’s “now going to be about consolidation and provision of better quality, more efficient care.”

Sleep Healthcenters has shut down three of its 15 sleep labs, and more closures may be on the way. Epstein says the company is focusing more on “sleep wellness,” including treating and managing sleep disorders, and less on testing. The key, he explains, is to become more efficient without decreasing access to care for patients who need it.

- Provided by Kaiser Health News.

Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – Host Ricky Gervais did his best not to totally tick off the Hollywood Press Association at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.

While Gervais was, for the most part, uncontroversial, after last year’s highly controversial display, the host with the most offending jokes was not totally quiet.

In his opening monologue, Gervais called the Globes, “the Kim Kardashian of awards shows: a bit louder, a bit thrashier, a bit drunker than the Oscars, and more easily bought.”

But the Golden Globes is about the stars, and most importantly, the winners.

For film, The Best Picture, Drama was won by “The Descendants.” Best Picture, Musical or Comedy, was won by “The Artist.”

George Clooney took the award for best actor in a drama for his role in “The Descendants.” Meryl Streep won for best actress in a drama for her role in “The Iron Lady.”

Jean Dujardin won best actor in a musical or comedy for his role in “The Artist.” Michelle Williams took the honors for actress in the same category for “My Week With Marilyn.”

Christopher Plummer won for supporting actor for “Beginners.” Octavia Spencer took supporting actress for “The Help.”

Martin Scorsese won for director for “Hugo,” and the award for animated film went to “The Adventures of Tintin.”

Woody Allen won for screenplay for “Midnight in Paris,” while the award for foreign language film went to “A Separation.”

Original song went to “Masterpiece,” with music and lyrics by Madonna, Julie Ford and Jimmy Harry.

In television, “Homeland” won for best drama series and “Modern Family” won best comedy series.

Kelsey Grammar won the best actor award for the series “Boss,” while Claire Danes took the honors for best actress for the series “Homeland.”

Laura Dern won best actress in a musical or comedy, and Matt LeBlanc won best actor, both for “Enlightened.”

Masterpiece Theater’s “Downton Abbey” won best miniseries.

Noticeably left out was the acclaimed film “Moneyball,” nominated for four awards. The baseball film, inspired by a true story and starring Brad Pitt, ended the night 0 for 4.

Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – “Contraband” stole the top spot at the weekend box office. The Universal action drama staring Mark Wahlberg took in $24 million, securing the No.1 slot.

The movie’s very solid start is a nod to Wahlberg’s star power and his ability to continue to attract movie goers.

The 3-D version of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” grabbed the second spot with $18.5 million. The animated film’s box office haul will no doubt entice more studios to release 3-D versions of previously issued box office hits.

Paramount’s “Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol,” starring Tom Cruise, settled at No. 3 with $11.5 million.

The gospel-themed movie from Warner Bros., “Joyful Noise,” took in $11.3 million, good for the fourth spot.

Rounding out the top five was “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” with $8.4 million.

Mumbai, India (AHN) – Indian doctors have reported the country’s first case of totally drug-resistant tuberculosis.

It is not the first time highly resistant cases of the killer lung disease have been seen.

Since 2003, patients have been documented in Italy and Iran. While it has been mostly contained to impoverished areas and has not spread widely, experts believe there could be many cases that have been undocumented.

Experts are not fearful that the Indian TB strains will rapidly spread.

The disease is mainly transmitted through close personal contact and is not nearly as contagious as the flu. Most of the cases of the drug resistant Indian strain were not spread from person-to-person, but were mutations that occurred in poorly treated patients.

The Indian hospital that saw the initial cases tested a dozen medicines and none of them worked. A TB expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they do appear to be totally resistant to available drugs.

Usually, TB is easily treated and cured by taking antibiotics for a period of six to nine months. However, if that treatment is interrupted, or the dose is reduced, the persistent bacteria battles back and mutates into a stronger strain that can no longer be killed by standard drugs. The disease then becomes much more difficult and expensive to treat.

Indian doctors detailed the first four cases in a letter to a U.S. medical journal in December. They blame private doctors for prescribing inappropriate drug plans that sparked greater resistance in three of the four infected patients.

Tuberculoses is an age-old affliction that lies dormant in an estimated one in ratios people. About 10 percent of those people eventually develop active TB, which kills roughly 2 million people a year, the World Health Organization reports. Each victim infects an average 10 to 15 others every year, most typically through coughing or sneezing.

An estimated 20 percent of the world’s multi-drug resistant cases are found in India. which is home to a quarter of all types of tuberculosis cases globally.