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GREENBURGH,Howard right now and that’, N.Y. (AP)—Kevin Durant(notes) is too unselfish.

That’s the one criticism U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski has of the Oklahoma City
Thunder forward so far in the Americans’ preparations for the world
championships. He’s watched Durant pass up too many shots.

A team’s best player can’t do that. Krzyzewski freely bestows that
distinction on the 21-year-old Durant and is confident the other players on this
young squad agree. It’s hard to argue, considering Durant last season became the
youngest to win the NBA scoring crown.

“They look to him all the time,” Krzyzewski said after Friday’s practice
at the Knicks’ training facility. “They’re OK with Kevin shooting. If he
misses, they want him to shoot again. They know. They’ve seen it.”

He needs to keep shooting even in games like Thursday’s intrasquad scrimmage
at Radio City Music Hall, when Durant was 4 of 12 and missed all five 3-point
attempts.

“He’s our guy,” elder statesman Chauncey Billups(notes) said. “He’s the go-to
guy. He’s the guy who for us is going to be the scorer and do all the things
that Kobe, LeBron did on the Olympic team.”

Durant sounded a bit conflicted upon being told his coach wanted him to be
less unselfish.

“I thought I was doing a better job of finding the open man, but I guess he
wants me to be more aggressive,” he said.

“I don’t want to be a guy that comes out here and tries to take all the
shots,” Durant added. “We have a lot of scorers here, so I just want to be a
complement on the floor.”

But he’s noticed his point guards, Billups and Rajon Rondo(notes), reminding him
when he’s not assertive enough.

“Certain situations during the game, I’m just letting him know we have to
go through him down the stretch,” Rondo said. “There’s going to be some games
where he has to take us home and not be so passive and be aggressive. The
coaches obviously are drawing up plays to put him in situations to score the
ball.”

Durant averaged 30.1 points in his third NBA season to earn All-NBA first
team honors. He led the Thunder to the playoffs, where they pushed the eventual
champion Lakers to six games in the opening round.

“Be yourself,” Lakers veteran Lamar Odom(notes) said of his advice for Durant.
“He led the league in scoring. If he could lead this league in scoring, too,
that would help.”

No pressure.

But that’s the prominent position Durant finds himself in even though this
is his first stint on the national team. The U.S. heads into the world
championships in Turkey later this month looking to win to clinch a berth at the
2012 Olympics.

“Everyone says Kevin Durant’s the leader. He may be our best player; that
doesn’t mean you’re the leader,” Krzyzewski said. “Let him just be the best
player. Let Chauncey and Lamar, those guys be the leaders.”

The Americans play an exhibition Sunday against France at Madison Square
Garden, the next chance for Durant to show he’s not passing up on the shots a
team’s best player needs to take. His performances these coming weeks will
determine not only whether the U.S. automatically qualifies for the Olympics,
but perhaps how quickly he can carry his young Thunder team to even greater
heights.

“Kevin wants to be an outstanding player,” Krzyzewski said. “He wants to
be the best. So being in this environment with this caliber of player, how he
asserts himself here in a different environment will help him even more when he
goes back to his current environment.”

it is willing to come up with 20 million U.S. dollars for relief.

BEIJING, Aug. 13 Xinhua, according to Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao," 13, quoted foreign reports, the United Nations called upon the international community to contribute 400 million 60 million U.S. dollars (nearly 600 million 27 million Singapore dollars) in emergency assistance for battered by floods wreak havoc Pakistan relief.

The organization also warned that if disaster relief is not available quickly, the second wave of deaths surge in sick and hungry victims of the outbreak group. Pakistan's 80 years of this most serious floods, has been claimed over 1,600 lives.

For Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Under-Secretary-General Holmes Wednesday in New York issued a call to the donor, said the donation for the victims of Pakistan to provide food, clean water, tents and medical supplies and other materials.

Humanitarian relief organizations complaint, since the outbreak of floods in Pakistan two weeks ago, the international community's contribution to the country, there are still less active.

United Nations Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesman Zhu Li Anuo said: "If we do not respond in time to meet victims needs no helping hand Lai Jinkuai rescue may get the disease outbreaks and food shortfall in the second wave of Si Wang tide. "

Subjected to flooding of the affected areas now the biggest problem is that victims may be drinking contaminated water and suffer from infectious diseases.

Sindh Governor Arisa said: "What we need is a lot of foreign support, not to peanuts, the promised assistance has only peanuts, hardly enough to meet the great challenges before us."

The United States has promised to provide more assistance for the victims of Pakistan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the dispatch of a helicopter can carry 19 aircraft carrier to participate in disaster relief coastal waters of Karachi. U.S. worried that Taliban forces would be stepped in, using the disaster to expand its influence. The United States has recently decided to flood the country to Pakistan increased 20 million U.S. dollars assistance to 55 million U.S. dollars. Washington also announced Wednesday, 16.2 million U.S. dollars donation to the UNHCR and the International Red Cross to help disaster relief. British government earlier pledged to contribute 24 million U.S. dollars to Pakistan.

However, the Taliban called for the Government of Pakistan not to accept foreign aid, it is willing to come up with 20 million U.S. dollars for relief.

Government of Pakistan estimates that as many as 1,400 people were directly or indirectly, floods affected the number of affected 8% of the total population, of which an estimated 200 people homeless.

While some disaster areas for flood water level has receded, but there is still a large number of victims in the hot weather, poor facilities in the refugee camp in tents, waiting for relief.

In addition, Zhu Li Enuo told Reuters yesterday, Pakistanis living out of agriculture, disaster is expected to take tens of billions of dollars to recover, including settled farmers and rebuilding infrastructure.

Pakistan accused of disaster weakness, opposition parties and the victims have denounced President Asif Ali Zardari during the disaster, to stay in Europe to buy regardless of the victims live or die.

Has ended his visit yesterday, Zardari returned to Sukur to disaster areas quickly inspect, and distribute relief supplies to the victims, trying to calm public anger.

This is the first person hit Zardari. According to local state-run television showed footage of Zardari, comfort a woman in the disaster area, after he went to observe the flow volume of the dam Sukkur.

A local official told AFP, Zardari went to university in a refugee camp to distribute relief supplies to victims to ensure that government has made every effort to help them.

The official quoted Zardari as saying: "Do not feel alone,According to reports, we'll do our best to help you settle down as soon as possible."

Zardari, Wednesday in the "Wall Street Journal" The author in his own defense, saying his visit in London and Paris, fight for local people to provide assistance to the victims.

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BEIJING, Aug. 17 Kyodo Xinhua reported for job creation, environmental protection, President Obama has proposed economic stimulus, high-speed railway network construction plan, set up the 2010 fiscal year (2009 October ~ September 2010) subsidy framework. Minister of Transport,and a larger size, 16, Lahoud said, from 25 states to consider building high-speed rail has 77 applications for benefits received.

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DENVER Aug. 17 news, AC Milan defender Alessandro Nesta had a minor surgery today to treat his injured right hand bones.

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