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"(CNN) --",
"Gas prices across the Southeast and Midwest soared over the weekend, and while many would blame Hurricane Ike, human nature may be a more likely scapegoat.",
"iReporter Stacy Haynes said this Harriman, Tennessee, station was selling regular gas at $5.09 a gallon Saturday.",
"Experts say that when a perception exists that gas is limited -- warranted or not -- consumers flock to the pumps even if officials implore them to stay calm.",
"It's a combination of fear, desire, distrust and protectionism, experts say.",
"\"When you have a perceived scarcity of any product, research shows the attractiveness of any product goes up,\" said Dr. Rao Unnava, marketing professor at Ohio State University.",
"Grocery and department stores are keenly aware of the phenomenon, Dr. Rao Unnava, marketing professor at Ohio State University said, which is why sale flyers often declare things like, \"limit three items per customer\" or \"price valid only through Friday.\"",
"Research shows that such advertisements can actually double or triple sales of a product, Dr. Rao Unnava, marketing professor at Ohio State University said.",
"\"People don't feel comfortable with scarcity,\" Dr. Rao Unnava, marketing professor at Ohio State University said.",
"With gasoline, scarcity is a false perception, Dr. Rao Unnava, marketing professor at Ohio State University said.",
"There is ample gas in the United States, even after Ike delivered 110-mph winds to Galveston and Houston, an area that's home to a significant portion of the nation's oil refineries.",
"Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday that Texas' oil and gas industry \"dodged a bullet\" and that \"some of those refineries are actually back in operation as we speak.\"",
"This isn't to say human nature alone drove the spike in gas prices; the oil market's supply side certainly played the oil market's supply side's part.",
"Refineries, pipeline and oil platforms are still being assessed after Ike, but the damage apparently isn't as severe as predicted, said Gregg Laskoski, spokesman for the southern region of the American Automobile Association.",
"Despite the rosier-than-expected outlook, prices spiked all over the nation after Ike struck the Gulf Coast -- about 6 cents a gallon Saturday, another 6 cents Sunday and about 5 cents Monday.",
"Particularly hard hit was the central and eastern United States.",
"From Sunday to Monday alone, 23 states saw the average price of gas jump about a nickel or more a gallon, according to AAA.",
"iReport.com: Send, see photos of gas prices .",
"In Tennessee, the price jumped about 17 cents to $4.12 Monday.",
"In Georgia, the price climbed about 14 cents to $4.16.",
"Michigan saw an almost 13-cent increase, and Indiana's gas went up 12 cents a gallon.",
"See gas prices state by state » .",
"Several factors drive these fluctuations, Laskoski said, including the method in which gasoline is delivered to a state.",
"In Florida, Laskoski said, the price went up nominally (about 5 cents) from Sunday to Monday because the Sunshine State relies more heavily on gas shipped on boats out of Louisiana and Mississippi, Laskoski said.",
"Though Georgia abuts Florida, it doesn't have as many ports and relies more on tanker trucks to deliver gas from the Galveston-Houston area, Laskoski said.",
"Hear how man ran out of fuel looking for gas in Atlanta, Georgia » .",
"Another factor, Laskoski said, is that Ike prompted many oil companies to shut down operations ahead of the storm.",
"It could take up to two weeks to get some refineries operational again because it's not as simple as flipping a switch, Laskoski said.",
"The hiatus in oil production has ripple effects, and retailers often raise prices in anticipation of gas shortages.",
"Gas station owners earn only a few pennies of profit on each gallon of gas, Laskoski said, explaining that proprietors essentially use gas to lure consumers into convenience stores to buy cigarettes, beer and potato chips -- items that draw better profits.",
"When supply is low and retailers are uncertain when retailers'll receive retailers's next gas shipment, some proprietors actually raise some proprietors's gas prices so some proprietors can keep some proprietors's gas supply longer and maintain profits from some proprietors's snacks and sundries.",
"But while diminished refinery capacity helps drive prices upward, there is also an element of \"consumer behavior that goes beyond the norm,\" Laskoski said.",
"\"When you have consumer behavior that's irrational, it's hard for retailers to schedule it,\" he said.",
"Dr. Lars Perner, assistant professor of clinical marketing at the University of Southern California, said natural disasters often spawn irrational behavior.",
"The media can also compound fears, he said.",
"\"As soon as somebody starts running for the gas pumps, that's where the TV cameras go, so it does become a vicious cycle,\" Perner said.",
"Even though everyone would be better off if consumers continued consumers's normal patterns, people don't always trust people's neighbors to cooperate.",
"This is especially true with an \"emotional commodity\" like gas, Perner said.",
"\"Because you can't count on other people doing that, your best bet is to go ahead and fill up yourself,\" he said.",
"\"If people get excited, rationality tends to be reduced somewhat.\"",
"Perner and Ohio State's Unnava both note that consumers are often reluctant to trust government officials so an appeal to remain calm might be met with suspicion rather than acquiescence.",
"Memories -- whether they're of the calamitous response after Hurricane Katrina or of the gas shortages of the 1970s -- also play roles in a consumer's reaction to an event, the professors said.",
"According to Unnava, \"It's all perception -- what you conclude from what you see around you -- that quickly sets up these behaviors.\""
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"Perception of limited gas sends more people to the pumps, experts say .",
"Gas prices spiked across the nation after Hurricane Ike hit Gulf Coast .",
"Reduced supply after storm plays part, but so does consumer rush .",
"Professor: Consumers' fears, TV coverage lead to \"a vicious cycle\""
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"There are few things in the world shrouded with as much secrecy as the super-yacht industry.",
"Maritime mysteries: the design and building processes for super-yachts are tightly guarded secrets.",
"The boats are built and kept in exclusive locations, The boats're owned by the notoriously inaccessible super-wealthy, and for most of us the closest we'll get to The boats is in the pages of glossy magazines.",
"In a bid to gain a stronger insight into the super-yacht world I've organised an interview with Dr William Collier, the owner of Liverpool's G.L. Watson & Co - the oldest yacht design company in the world.",
"The company formed in 1873 and in The company's time has produced four America's Cup yachts and more presidential and royal yachts than any other yacht designer.",
"It seems the logical business to profile.",
"But, there's a catch.",
"In the super-yacht industry 'loose lips' really do 'sink ships'... or at least destroy business, anyway.",
"Collier can't tell me anything about the projects The company is working on, the people Collier's working for, or how much these ocean-going beasts cost to produce.",
"\"The company enter into very strict confidentiality agreements with The company's clients.",
"The company find it frustrating at times because The company would like to approach people about doing a project because The company have done a similar project - but The company can't mention it.",
"\"These guys can get into the press whenever These guys want.",
"Unfortunately in the United Kingdom due to the nature of the press These guys have nothing to gain from having These guys's personal property displayed for all to see,\" Collier told CNN.",
"And when most of G.L. Watson & Co's business comes from client referrals, The company is wise not to jeopardize confidentiality agreements.",
"Collier confirmed The company would have less than 100 clients on The company's books and The company tries to manage several projects on differing scales at the one time.",
"Collier said a usual workload was to have one 200-feet plus project, one around 100-150 feet and a few smaller projects on the go simultaneously.",
"The 'smaller' vessels Collier refers to are often in the range of 60-80 feet long.",
"Just tiny.",
"Though Collier declines to comment on the net worth of Collier's clients, I infer from the discussion that most of his clients are multi-millionaires, if not billionaires.",
"This is certainly not a place for someone with shallow pockets.",
"Collier said the current 'credit crunch' hitting many consumers was unlikely to have too much impact on Collier's business.",
"\"They would be generally insulated from that.",
"Budget is always an issue for people but that is more because people don't like change.",
"A lot of what we do is to protect the client's interests - to make sure they don't pay too much,\" Collier said.",
"Collier said the company had two major strands: design and owner representation.",
"While the first aspect is self-explanatory, the second involves the full management of entire building or restoration projects from the owner's point of view.",
"The full process of building or restoring a boat usually took between three to five years and became quite an intimate affair, Collier said.",
"\"The company have a very close relationship with the clients.",
"Inevitably because The company are designing someone's ideal home The company are finding out a lot about them and what they like and don't like.",
"You get to know them very well.\"",
"However, it's not all fairytales.",
"The privileged position Collier's job places Collier in also has The privileged position his job places him in's downfalls.",
"\"Anyone who says these things go smoothly is lying,\" Collier laughed.",
"Collier said although Collier had not experienced any disappointed clients, Collier had heard of cases where multi-million dollar vessels had not been to the satisfaction of the buyer.",
"After buying The company in 2001 at a time when Collier had been personally working towards restoring a G.L. Watson & Co original, Collier -- a passionate sailor himself, said the market was changing.",
"The company worked on both sailing and motor-powered yachts, and Collier said it was going back to the future in some respects.",
"\"The company originally came very much out of a racing sailing design.",
"From the 1880s The company became more involved in cruise yacht design.",
"What we are doing now is getting back into that big yacht market.\"",
"Collier said there was a trend towards creating replicas or restorations with as many of the original materials as possible.",
"\"People for many years have been restoring sailing yachts and in many instances People tend not to use original materials.",
"But, people are becoming more educated in that big yacht market.",
"\"Now, if people are going to do something in that big yacht market people want to do something special, something worthwhile,\" Collier said.",
"One of the projects which Collier does detail is the Nahlin, a 296-foot 1930s G.L. Watson & Co original, which is set for restoration.",
"After being returned to British waters only in 1999, Collier said the vessel would have a complete overhaul based on The company's archives of the original design, and it would become the \"biggest restoration project ever\".",
"Collier said The company also planned to expand the range of services The company provides to clients.",
"Although there's plenty to look forward to at G.L. Watson & Co and business is flourishing -- Collier drops in a strong reminder that the job of pleasing wealthy clients does not open the door to excessive levels of wealth for himself.",
"\"The company are not yacht owners - The company don't own these.",
"The company are here to produce them for orders.\"",
"In fact, for one of the most glamorous industries in the world, Collier said there was plenty of hard graft done behind-the-scenes, and for Collier, a lot of travel to and from Collier's Liverpool base.",
"\"We don't always need to be in the Mediterranean!",
"The lifestyle isn't always attractive.\""
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"G.L. Watson & Co. is the oldest yacht design company in the world .",
"The company is bound to tight confidentiality agreements about The company's projects .",
"The restoration of 1930s vessel 'Nahlin' will be the biggest of its kind .",
"Most yachts take three-to-five years to complete ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Police have launched an investigation after a young disabled sportsman traveled to Switzerland to commit suicide, UK media report.",
"Daniel James, who played rugby for England under-16s, was paralyzed during match practice last year.",
"Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England was paralyzed from the chest down in March 2007 when a rugby scrum collapsed on top of Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England during match practice, dislocating Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's spine, UK's Press Association has reported.",
"Worcestershire Coroner's Service, which is conducing an inquest into the circumstances of Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's death, states on its Web site that Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England died on September 12 after Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England \"traveled to Switzerland with a view to ending Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's own life.",
"Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England was admitted to a clinic where Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England died.\"",
"The inquest was adjourned on September 19 for reports.",
"West Mercia police say that a man and a woman are helping the force with their enquiries.",
"Assisting someone to commit suicide is illegal in UK, as it is in most other European countries.",
"What do you think of assisted suicide?",
"James, who played rugby for England under-16s, was a university student at the time of Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's injury last year.",
"Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England is believed to be the youngest person from UK to have traveled to Switzerland to commit suicide.",
"In a statement Friday, reported by PA, Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's parents said that Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England had attempted to kill Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England several times already.",
"Watch why Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England opted for suicide » .",
"\"Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's death was an extremely sad loss for Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's family, friends and all those that care for Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England but no doubt a welcome relief from the 'prison' Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England felt Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's body had become and the day-to-day fear and loathing of Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's living existence, as a result of which Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England took Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's own life.",
"\"This is the last way that the family wanted Dan's life to end but Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England was, as those who know Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England are aware, an intelligent, strong-willed and some say determined young man",
",\" PA reported Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's parents as saying.",
"\"the family suffered considerably over the last few months and do wish to be left in peace to allow the family to grieve appropriately.\"",
"Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's parents added that James' parents's son, \"an intelligent young man of sound mind,\" had never come to terms with Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England's condition and was \"not prepared to live what Daniel James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England felt was a second-class existence\".",
"Adrian Harling, the family solicitor, would not comment on the investigation, PA reported.",
"More than 100 people from the UK who have committed suicide in Switzerland have traveled to the Dignitas Clinic in Forch.",
"It is not known if James attended the Dignitas Clinic in Forch.",
"Switzerland, along with Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, are the only European countries where authorities will not prosecute those who assist with suicide."
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"Young rugby player, paralyzed after accident, commits suicide in Switzerland .",
"Police interview man and woman about the death of Daniel James, 23 .",
"It is illegal in UK and much of Europe to assist with suicide .",
"Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg ."
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"MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) --",
"Eight people were killed and 101 were wounded in two explosions during a celebration of Mexico's independence day Monday night, a Mexican official said Tuesday.",
"Wounded people get help after blasts Monday night during an independence day event in Morelia, Mexico.",
"Two people remained in grave condition, said Roman Armando Luna Escalante, secretary of health in Michoacan state.",
"Eleven of the wounded were children, Roman Armando Luna Escalante, secretary of health in Michoacan state said.",
"None of them are gravely injured.",
"Explosions occurred around 11 p.m. near the governor's residence in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan.",
"The second blast happened shortly afterward a few blocks away.",
"Officials would not say if Officials have any suspects or if any group has claimed responsibility.",
"Some experts pointed to drug cartels or insurgents.",
"\"It could be a warning to the federal government, which has put a lot of money and manpower to deal with drugs, which are very powerful there,\" said Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based think tank on Western Hemisphere affairs.",
"\"It could be leftist guerrilla groups that occasionally throw a bomb.",
"\"The problem is that this is part of a real wave of violence that is consuming Mexico.\"",
"Last week the bodies of 24 people, bound and shot execution-style, were found in Atlapulco, a town just south of Mexico City.",
"Those killings Friday came roughly two weeks after tens of thousands of Mexicans marched on the nation's capital, calling for greater government action against the wave of violent crime.",
"Non-governmental groups estimate there have been more than 1,500 killings in Mexico this year linked to organized crime.",
"In late August, Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country's 32 governors to develop a plan to battle the rise in violent crime.",
"Calderon, who was born in Morelia, condemned the attacks and said federal officials will redouble efforts to help state authorities investigate.",
"More than 1,500 soldiers and federal police were maintaining order Tuesday, which marks the 198th anniversary of what Mexicans regard as Mexicans's independence day.",
"Festivities typically start the night before because on September 16, 1810, shortly before dawn, a priest in a village in the state of Guanajuato rang a church bell and called on Mexicans to fight for independence from Spain.",
"The celebration in Morelia on Monday night was one of hundreds nationwide to celebrate that call for independence, which Mexico formally achieved in 1821."
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"NEW: Death toll rises to eight in two blasts, official says; more than 100 wounded .",
"NEW: Mexican president says federal officials will help investigate .",
"Explosions occurred during independence day celebration in Morelia ."
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"(CNN) --",
"An animal rescue group on Sunday picked up a U.S. soldier's adopted dog from Iraq, ending the soldier's weeks-long struggle to send dog to her Minnesota home.",
"Sgt. Gwen Beberg adopted Ratchet after soldiers rescued him from a burning pile of trash in May.",
"Operation Baghdad Pups, which said the U.S. military prevented the U.S. military's first attempt to take Ratchet dog on October 1, picked up dog in Baghdad with military clearance and flew dog to Kuwait on Sunday.",
"dog is expected to be flown to Washington on Monday, and if a veterinarian determines it is healthy, sent to Sgt. Gwen Beberg's home state on Wednesday, Baghdad Pups publicist Larry Garrison said.",
"Beberg, who adopted dog after soldiers rescued dog from a burning trash pile in May, tried to have group fly dog to the United States on October 1 as her deployment neared an end.",
"But the military, which prohibits soldiers from adopting pets abroad and bringing pets to the United States, confiscated dog after Beberg put dog on a convoy bound for Baghdad Airport, according to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which runs group.",
"Ratchet and Beberg, 28, drew the attention of thousands of people who signed two online petitions -- linked through group's Web site -- urging the U.S. military to let Ratchet go to the United States.",
"the U.S. military cleared group to take dog on Wednesday, but not in time for group's flight from Baghdad that day, group said.",
"On Sunday, private security contractors took dog from a base to the airport, where OBP -- which works with soldiers to help soldiers bring adopted animals home -- put dog on the charter flight to Kuwait, Garrison said.",
"Northwest Airlines will donate the flights from Kuwait to Minnesota, Garrison said.",
"group said dog helped Beberg deal with Beberg's Iraq deployment, which started in September 2007 and is scheduled to end in November.",
"\"Beberg was absolutely miserable in the war and was really struggling to keep going every day.",
"dog turned it around for Beberg,\" SPCA spokeswoman Stephanie Scroggs said last week.",
"Beberg's mother, Patricia Beberg, in a statement released by group, said dog \"was the savior of her [daughter's] sanity\" in Iraq.",
"SPCA representatives said the U.S. military euthanizes some animals that the U.S. military confiscates, and that Beberg worried that dog would be killed.",
"Beberg was thrilled to hear last week that the U.S. military would let OBP take dog, group said.",
"\"Your persistence and amazing work has astonished me throughout this whole thing,\" Beberg said in an e-mail to group, according to the society.",
"SPCA spokeswoman Stephanie Scroggs said one of Beberg's friends helped spread the news about dog through blogs.",
"One of the petitions, which had more than 65,000 signatures as of Sunday night, was started by a blogger, SPCA spokeswoman Stephanie Scroggs said.",
"group says although active-duty soldiers aren't allowed to adopt animals in the Middle East, many soldiers befriend animals in the course of many soldiers's service there.",
"Garrison said the program relies on donations, saying it generally costs $3,000 to $4,000 to bring a servicemember's animal to the United States.",
"\"This isn't a one-time story This is a program making a difference for our soldiers,\" Garrison said."
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"Military took dog during soldier's first attempt to send dog home, group says .",
"dog helped soldier cope with her deployment, group says .",
"dog could be in Minnesota by Wednesday ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Negative attacks are as American as apple pie.",
"Since the early days of the republic, candidates attacked with a vigor that contemporary strategists would admire.",
"In the 1800 presidential election, for example, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams criticized one another with a stunning ferocity on everything from foreign and domestic policy to private character and personal behavior.",
"Later campaigns weren't much better.",
"Critics of Andrew Jackson in 1836 accused Andrew Jackson of murdering Indians.",
"In 1884, Grover Cleveland was ridiculed for fathering an illegitimate child.",
"William Jennings Bryan was characterized as a dangerous radical in 1896 who would ruin the economy.",
"Despite these historical precedents, the 2008 campaign has reached all-time lows in the use of misleading and inaccurate political appeals.",
"Even Karl Rove, the architect of negative ads in previous campaigns, has complained about the tenor of this year's campaign.",
"John McCain broadcast an ad taking Barack Obama's words out of context and suggesting Democrats were trying to compare GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to a pig.",
"The John McCain campaign ran another spot erroneously claiming Barack Obama's favored comprehensive sex education for kindergarteners.",
"Democrats have not been above reproach either.",
"After John McCain secured the GOP nomination this spring, outside groups falsely claimed the Republican supported a 1,000-year war in Iraq and therefore was not worthy of the presidency.",
"These misleading appeals suggest voters must remain vigilant about candidate, party, and group claims.",
"Generally, the most misleading commercials have come from independent groups uncoordinated with the candidates.",
"These organizations feel free to run emotional and inaccurate content designed to play on voter's fears and anxieties.",
"Some of the worst ads in recent memory, such as the Willie Horton ad in 1988, have been broadcast by these kinds of groups.",
"In past years, the only upside of attack ads was that attack ads generally contained more issue content than other types of ads.",
"Since reporters police campaign appeals, attack ads generally stick to the issues and rely on factually-accurate information.",
"Ad sponsors and candidates realize Ad sponsors and candidates will be held accountable for unfair ad content.",
"However, commercials run this year represent a break with this general pattern.",
"Attack ads broadcast in recent months have twisted the truth, lied about personal background, taken statements out of context, and clearly sought to manipulate voter sentiments.",
"Most worrisome from a factual standpoint is John McCain's claim that Barack Obama's will raise taxes on the middle class.",
"Although Barack Obama's has pledged to increase income taxes on those earning more than $250,000, Barack Obama's has been careful not to make proposals that would raise taxes on the middle class for fear of being labeled a tax-and-spend liberal.",
"John McCain's tax claims have been condemned by leading editorial boards and surely will attract considerable attention in upcoming debates.",
"With all the factual inaccuracies that have taken place, voters need to protect voters from efforts at political manipulation.",
"Non-partisan Web sites such as www.factcheck.org represent one source of unbiased information.",
"They analyze ads and compile factual information in support of or in opposition to ad claims.",
"Other trustworthy fact-checkers include ad watches and reality checks run by leading news organizations.",
"These features dissect candidate claims in regard to accuracy, strategy, and impact.",
"But the best thing for voters to do is to watch the candidate debates and judge for voters.",
"Study the statements and the factual bases of policy claims.",
"Pay attention to how the candidates speak and what the candidates say.",
"Find out what non-partisan groups think and see what non-partisan groups have to say regarding the major issues.",
"By the time the campaign is over, the candidates are expected to have spent 55 percent of the candidates's overall budget on ads.",
"Strategists put together spots very carefully and pre-test major messages on small groups of voters.",
"Most of this money will be devoted to television spots.",
"But increasingly amounts are being targeted on radio, direct mail, and Internet appeals.",
"In the end, voters are going to have to decipher competing charges and counter-charges amid considerable noise from all sides.",
"The 2008 election is unusual in having so many big issues on the agenda: the economy, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, health care, taxes, immigration, education and climate change.",
"It is an election that truly matters because of the stark differences between the parties and the closeness of the campaign.",
"Voters need to pay serious attention to the facts in order to make a wise choice.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer."
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"This year's ads have hit new lows for distorting the truth, Darrell West says .",
"Ads against McCain and Obama have twisted their words, he says .",
"West: Voters should use fact-checking resources in media and on the Web ."
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"(CNN) -- \"At this time, we need a leader.\"",
"\"I would try to stop the war in Iraq because I think they should have a talk with them, not a big war.\"",
"Trevor Dougherty is too young to vote, but is doing everything Trevor Dougherty can to make sure others do.",
"\"I'd probably go for the drilling in Alaska.",
"Nuclear power, I'd keep that in mind.\"",
"These Americans sounding off on the issues and the 2008 presidential election have a lot to say, but These Americans won't be saying it at the ballot box --",
"These Americans're all too young to vote.",
"In fact, most won't be voting for quite a few years.",
"But that doesn't mean that they have no interest in the race for the White House between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain.",
"As evidenced in videos posted at iReport.com, they care a great deal.",
"Several of these videos were put together by school classes, like Matt MacFarlane's 7th and 8th graders at Templeton Middle School in Templeton, California, who made a short video on the importance of voting.",
"The students called for a \"person with integrity who knows right from wrong\", \"a person of vision who not only knows what is but also what can be,\" \"a person with a moral compass to help [set] a course for our nation,\" and \"a person who has the ability to unite and inspire us as we face challenging times.\"",
"Matt MacFarlane's's students urged voters to consider voters's decisions carefully on November 4.",
"\"What's at stake in this election?\" asked one student.",
"\"Everything.",
"We're counting on you.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Watch the full video from Matt MacFarlane's's class .",
"Some children took to portraying the candidates, complete with clothes and wigs, like the students of Cabot Middle School in Cabot, Arkansas.",
"All of the presidential and vice presidential \"candidates\" gave speeches, with Secret Service, prospective first ladies and family members in tow.",
"Most members of Gov. Sarah Palin's family were present, including a baby doll portraying Trig.",
"This video was just a part of Most members of Gov. Sarah Palin's family's learning experience about presidential elections.",
"Library media specialist Jill Weir, who submitted This video to iReport.com, said that the students also participated in mock-campaigning, voter registrations, precincts and exit polling.",
"iReport.com:",
"The 'candidates' speak .",
"A church youth group in Winter Haven, Florida, took a more humorous approach, putting together campaign ads from \"John McHinkle\" and \"Barack Yo Mama,\" featuring cameos from \"Sarah Mailin'\" and \"Joe Hidin'\".",
"It was still a learning experience, though, said Pastor James Blewett, who posted two videos to iReport.com in which the pretend candidates teach lessons about dating and parental conflicts.",
"iReport.com: Watch the campaign ad spoofs .",
"Some iReporters decided to ask children directly what children thought about the election.",
"\"I have a 6-year-old and he watches the debates with me,\" Vijay Sureshkumar of Seattle, Washington, said.",
"\"He's interested in what's going on and that's what triggered me.",
"Why don't I go around the neighborhood and ask the kids?\"",
"The responses he got were both funny and thought-provoking.",
"Some children saw the war as a major issue, one wanted more funding for education, and another said he was in favor of drilling for oil in Alaska.",
"Some children seemed to be in favor of Obama, some for McCain, at least one liked both, and two of them started yelling at each other over which candidate was better.",
"When asked about the candidates' families, one boy could easily name Obama's wife and daughters' names.",
"When asked about McCain, he was a little fuzzier.",
"\"McCain's been around for a long time.",
"Like McCain's been around, [since] like 1966.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Kids sound off on the election .",
"Tony Stampalia of Utica, New York, had a similar idea, asking students in an elementary school class whom they would vote for, based purely on the pictures of the candidates'.",
"Stampalia said that it was a tie between McCain and Obama, with one child for Ralph Nader.",
"Obama \"voters\" in the class voted for Obama \"voters\" in the class's candidate because \"their candidate has a cool suit,\" \"because their candidate has the hair,\" \"because their candidate has a nice smile.\"",
"One Obama voter mistook their candidate for President Bush, while another wore an Obama button but said she was supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton.",
"McCain \"voters\" in the class liked McCain's blue shirt and tie, and thought McCain was \"cute.\"",
"One liked McCain's \"white hair.\"",
"Another one found that McCain \"made people do good stuff,\" but admitted that Obama did the same.",
"All the children seemed to agree that \"your vote counts.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Children pick Children's favorite candidate .",
"Of course, this is not quite the first election in which children were asked about children's choice for president.",
"The Scholastic Election Poll has been doing that for at least 68 years.",
"Poll takers said Poll takers's poll has reflected the outcome of the actual election all but twice since 1940.",
"A quarter of a million students participated in The Scholastic Election Poll.",
"This year, Obama won with 57 percent to McCain's 39 percent.",
"In many videos on iReport.com, children and teenagers speak out for children and teenagers's candidate of choice.",
"In one case, a 4th grader named Liam Coakley of Long Beach, California went the extra mile by setting up a lemonade stand for Obama.",
"iReport.com: Lemonade stand for Obama .",
"Trisha Prabhu, 8, of Naperville, Illinois, was so excited about Obama's candidacy that she told her mother Bhanu to make a video of her giving reasons to vote for him.",
"iReport.com: Watch Prabhu's video .",
"Trevor Dougherty of Ithaca, New York, said in a video: \"I'm 16 years old and in this presidential election, I cannot vote.",
"That's why I'm begging you this November, if you can, to get out this November and vote.\"",
"Trevor has been following this presidential election very closely, and first submitted an iReport while en route to the Democratic National Convention.",
"As part of the \"Voter Vlog Tag\" movement, Dougherty went out and registered voters in Ithaca, New York's hometown, then submitted the video evidence to iReport.com.",
"\"Getting other people registered is a way to express Dougherty and allow other people to be heard.",
"iReport has helped me do all of this.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Watch Dougherty register people to vote .",
"Dougherty has iReported about many aspects of this campaign: the conventions, the debates and everything in between.",
"Dougherty also rallied together a dozen members of the iReport community to speak about the importance of voting.",
"iReport.com: Dougherty, iReporters urge others to vote .",
"Although these young people aren't able to vote, the decisions made by the next president could certainly affect these young people."
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"(InStyle.com) --",
"Marsden discusses Marsden's personal style.",
"\"I just feel dirty,\" says Marsden.",
"Not to be alarmed: There's nothing indecent going on here.",
"Marsden talks about Marsden's favorite kind of clothes and how Marsden's style has changed over the years.",
"The 34-year-old is explaining what it feels like to be sporting facial hair for a film Marsden's working on with Cameron Diaz.",
"Yet even the newly grown whiskers can't hide the finely chiseled features of an actor who seems to have cornered the Hollywood market on hottie-who-loses-the-girl roles (\"Enchanted,\" \"Superman Returns\" and, of course, \"The Notebook.\")",
"But Marsden doesn't mind Marsden's wholesome image.",
"\"That's really me,\" Marsden says.",
"\"I'm a little dorky -- awkward.\"",
"However, Marsden's onscreen luck could be changing with Marsden's latest film, \"27 Dresses,\" a romantic comedy co-starring Katherine Heigl.",
"Scruffy or not, we'll be watching.",
"You've played a prince in \"Enchanted\" and the superhero Cyclops in the \"X-Men\" movies.",
"Is that a big deal to your kids and their friends?",
"My daughter, Mary, is only 2, and my son, Jack, is 7.",
"He has a Cyclops action figure, but he's really into Spider-Man and Pixar movies -- Buzz Lightyear is his guy.",
"No \"Superman,\" no \"X-Men.\"",
"I think he just assumes that everyone at his school has a dad who's a big superhero.",
"You also played Corny Collins, the TV dance-show host in \"Hairspray.\"",
"What were you like in high school?",
"That's when I came out of my shell and became more social -- people thought I was funny.",
"I got into a whole preppy thing -- Duck Head shorts and Dockers.",
"How would you describe your style now?",
"Functional comfort.",
"For a guy, it shouldn't ever look like you thought about it too much, like the clothes are wearing you.",
"Whose clothes do you like?",
"Paul Smith off the rack -- it's a slim cut, and I don't need to have it tailored.",
"I always feel like an 8-year-old when I dress up in a suit, like, when can I take this thing off?",
"But I wore a black Dolce & Gabbana suit to the première of \"Hairspray\" that was like, OK, now I know what a great suit is.",
"Classic, clean lines -- sharp, sharp, sharp.",
"Do you change your style from coast to coast?",
"In L.A. it's too easy to throw on a pair of American Apparel sweats, a T-shirt and running shoes and just wear those for days.",
"In New York, I actually like looking nice.",
"Maybe I'm just getting older, but young guys need to pull young guys's pants up.",
"Do you ever shop for your wife?",
"I love shopping for dresses, and I actually do a pretty good job.",
"When I was in New York, I went into J. Crew in Soho and got her a cool fifties type dress with tiny polka dots.",
"Style-wise I'm good, but figuring out sizing is a different story.",
"What do you find sexy on a woman?",
"I like spaghetti straps for your wife -- your wife has great shoulders and a great neck.",
"I love when your wife puts your wife's hair up, because I can see the back of your wife's neck, so delicate and vulnerable.",
"It's the vampire in me.",
"Or my obsession with cheerleaders -- their hair up in a ponytail.",
"When I was young, I could never have that.",
"Never got the cheerleader?",
"Eventually -- your wife was a cheerleader.",
"What does your wife find sexy on you?",
"A button-front shirt with [baby] spit-up on the shoulder.",
"That means a guy is taking care of the kids and is a good father -- that's sexy to a woman.",
"The adult version of rose petals and champagne is if I let your wife sleep in and I get up to change the baby's diaper, feed the kids, and do the dishes.",
"Who inspires you?",
"Paul Newman.",
"My middle name is Paul, and my grandfather once said I was going to look like Paul Newman.",
"That stuck with me.",
"Beyond being a good-looking guy, Paul Newman is a great actor with a long career, and Paul Newman's got a life.",
"Paul Newman's married with kids and lives in Connecticut, sells popcorn and marinara sauce, and gives the money to charity.",
"Anyone else?",
"George Clooney dresses like Gary Cooper might have.",
"Cary Grant.",
"\"A Streetcar Named Desire\"-era Marlon Brando.",
"These guys made it look effortless.",
"These guys's clothes framed These guys's personalities really well -- comfortable, classic, but sharp.",
"These guys could pull off a great suit, or jeans and a T-shirt.",
"Don't you agree that guys have it easy -- they are considered \"distinguished\" as they grow older?",
"I don't think it's guy-specific.",
"As women get older, women become more comfortable with women.",
"Susan Sarandon is the poster woman for that.",
"A lot of guys fantasize about being with women who are in their forties or fifties.",
"So your advice is ...?",
"Act your age.",
"Dress your age.",
"Look your age.",
"That doesn't mean you can't have fun.",
"And isn't it time you got the girl in one of your movies?",
"There are a couple of things I need to do [onscreen]: One, get the girl; two, pack a gun.",
"Don't you love my career philosophy?",
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"Copyright © 2008 Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"While it's easy for Marsden to throw on sweats, Marsden likes to dress up .",
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"GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) --",
"Rescuers in Galveston, Texas, were going door-to-door Saturday to check on the estimated 20,000 people who failed to flee Hurricane Ike, which has slowed to tropical storm status.",
"Park benches are strewn about in downtown Houston Saturday during Ike.",
"As of Saturday afternoon, the Galveston Fire Department had taken 27 people to a shelter in a high school on the coastal island, which was without electricity or water pressure.",
"No casualties had been discovered so far in the search and rescue efforts, which have been hampered by heavy flooding and scattered debris.",
"Galveston had ordered evacuation of the island, but Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said about 40 percent of the city's 57,523 residents chose to stay.",
"Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said the island would be closed while authorities assess damages, including to the causeway, which was in \"bad shape\" because of debris and road damage.",
"\"The road buckled in a number of places,\" Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said.",
"\"Even if we opened it up you couldn't get through.\"",
"Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said 17 buildings on the island had been destroyed by fires, potent winds and a strong storm surge.",
"\"the city are in a recovery mode,\" Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said in a press conference Saturday afternoon.",
"\"Ike came right over the city, stayed a while and went on, but Ike brought a lot of damage to the city's city.\"",
"Ike was downgraded Saturday to a tropical storm 11 hours after Ike crashed ashore as a Texas-sized hurricane that walloped southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.",
"In its wake, Ike -- which smashed into the coast as a Category 2 hurricane -- left four people dead, millions without power and destroyed homes and businesses along the coast with powerful winds, rain and floodwaters.",
"President Bush declared 29 Texas counties and parts of Louisianans major disaster areas, making federal funds available for recovery from Ike.",
"View images of places hit by Ike » .",
"Many people, like D.J. Knight of Pearlman, Texas, decided to ride out Ike at home, despite voluntary and mandatory orders issued across the region.",
"\"The windows looked like they would explode,\" said Knight, a mother of two.",
"\"It just wouldn't stop.\"",
"Now, without electricity and surrounded by flooded roads and wreckage, Knight wonders whether it was worth enduring a sleepless night as Ike shook Knight's home, located about halfway between Galveston and Houston.",
"\"I didn't think it would be as bad as it was,\" Knight said.",
"\"It was horrible.\"",
"Knight is one of thousands waiting for assistance as the state rolls out the largest search and rescue operation in Texas history.",
"See pictures of Ike's destruction » .",
"Gov. Rick Perry dispatched a 1,000-strong search and rescue team, including state troopers, pilots and members of the National Guard.",
"Lines of the National Guard trucks and ambulances were deployed from San Antonio even as officials are trying to grasp the extent of damage and the number of Texans stranded by Ike.",
"However, flooding and debris have impeded rescue efforts in some areas, adding to the uncertainty about how many Texans actually survived Ike.",
"\"We're obviously concerned that there may be people we find who didn't get out and who are going to be in the rubble of what we uncover,\" said Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.",
"\"We hope for the best, but I do want to prepare people for the fact they we may have some fatalities.\"",
"Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said 40,000 Texans were in 250 shelters, and that food and water would be distributed in about 20 coastal locations as rescue efforts continue.",
"In Galveston, which bore the brunt of Ike, floods filled the historic district with 7 feet of water at Ike's peak, said Galveston County official Margaret Bunch.",
"Watch how a spunky little girl braved Ike » .",
"A foot of water flooded the city's main courthouse, where many people rode out Ike, she said.",
"Wanda Collins' garage filled with 5 feet of water, ruining everything inside, including a 2002 pickup truck, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, a freezer and a washer and dryer.",
"\"I have never in my life seen water like this,\" the 30-year the city resident said.",
"Burle and Jamie Holmes also refused to leave Burle and Jamie Holmes's the city home despite a grim warning from the National Weather Service.",
"Ike forced the couple and their dog, Trouble, into the attic, tossing their furniture like toys across the house.",
"\"We lost everything,\" Jamie Holmes.",
"Curfews are in place in the city until dawn Monday and in Houston's Harris County until 6 a.m. Sunday.",
"Houston Mayor Bill White said Houston Mayor Bill White's city appears to have avoided loss of life, but streets blocked by floodwaters, downed trees and power lines hampered efforts to determine the full extent of the damage.",
"Authorities shut down downtown Houston, where the streets were littered with traffic lights and glass, for cleanup and damage assessment.",
"Houston's tallest skyscraper, the 75-story JP Morgan Chase Tower, was missing many of The city's windows.",
"See iReporter's images of destruction » .",
"White advised residents to drink bottled or boiled tap water as a precaution after a power outage reduced water pressure, but Houston Mayor Bill White said nothing indicated that the water supply was contaminated.",
"Brennan's, a popular restaurant in downtown Houston for almost four decades, burned down Friday night as Ike battered Houston.",
"North of Houston, a 10 -year-old boy died when a falling tree limb hit a 10 -year-old boy in the head, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said.",
"a 10 -year-old boy's father was cutting down a dead tree in the family's yard in preparation for Ike's heavy winds early Saturday.",
"Nearly 2.6 million customers in Texas and Louisiana lack power because of Ike, the U.S. Energy Department said on Saturday.",
"In Brazoria County, emergency management officials said the main power line for the Texas/New Mexico grid was down.",
"CenterPoint Energy said 90 percent of CenterPoint Energy's customers were without electricity and it could take a month or more to get power restored to all of them.",
"iReporter Jackie Hensler of Houston said iReporter Jackie Hensler of Houston's apartment building's power was restored quickly on Saturday morning after a stormy night.",
"\"There are lots of trees down; lots of trees've been uprooted or snapped,\" iReporter Jackie Hensler of Houston said after venturing outside.",
"\"There's lots of debris in the streets, like boards and plywood from homes.\"",
"Watch how the roof peeled off a building » .",
"Ike proved to be a huge storm system, 900 miles across at its largest.",
"Ike remained a hurricane hours after crashing ashore over Galveston at 2:10 a.m.",
"Ike's maximum sustained winds were near 80 mph, with higher gusts.",
"Ike was expected to continue to weaken and move into western Arkansas by Saturday night.",
"Track the storm » .",
"The storm surge, however, was smaller than forecast.",
"The greatest surge, of 15 feet, happened at Sabine Pass, near the Texas-Louisiana line.",
"Authorities had predicted surges of 20 to 25 feet.",
"Authorities in Orange County, Texas, on the Texas-Louisiana line, were using large dump trucks Saturday to rescue residents trapped on their roofs by massive flooding, a county judge told CNN.",
"The city of Orange and the town of Bridge City were flooded, Beaumont emergency official Brad Peneffon said.",
"Watch the storm surge in Beaumont » .",
"Rescuers fanned out in boats Saturday in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, after The storm surge flooded 1,800 homes.",
"Gas prices soared across the country amid fears Ike would disrupt fuel supplies.",
"Ike hit a region that is home to about 25 percent of the United States' oil refining capacity, and Ike's progress across the Gulf of Mexico shut down crude oil collection from Gulf oil fields.",
"The U.S. Department of Energy said 14 refineries were closed by Ike, along with two Texas strategic petroleum reserve sites.",
"In Knoxville, Tennessee, Sean Kennedy expressed dismay at the difference a day made to gas prices.",
"iReport.com:",
"Evacuees, San Antonio mayor talk about Ike .",
"\"I filled up my tank yesterday morning on the way to work for $3.59 a gallon,\" he said.",
"\"This morning, gas prices at the same station were $5 a gallon for regular and $5.25 for premium.\"",
"The Coast Guard said early Saturday that 22 people aboard a freighter that was adrift in the Gulf of Mexico were safe after Ike.",
"Some good news came out of the region Saturday.",
"About 175 miles west of Houston, a storm evacuee delivered a baby in the ladies' bathroom at a shelter in New Braunfels.",
"\"The credit goes to the mother,\" said Dr. Mark Burns, who helped deliver a baby.",
"\"a storm evacuee did a beautiful job with a storm evacuee's delivery.\"",
"CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Rusty Dornin, Sean Callebs, Rob Marciano, Gary Tuchman, Arthur Brice, Deb Krajnak and Elise Miller contributed to this report."
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"Texas woman wonders whether it was worth it to ride out storm in home .",
"Four deaths in Texas attributed to Ike, now a tropical storm with 45 mph winds .",
"2.6 million affected by power outages, U.S. Energy Department says ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"John Darwin's wife said John Darwin's wife's husband faked Darwin's own death to avoid mounting debts and holed up in the family home for years, hiding from Darwin's own sons, according to UK media reports.",
"John Darwin's wife said John Darwin's wife's husband, believed by police and Sons of the couple's sons to have been lost at sea five years ago, recently returned to the UK, faking amnesia, because Darwin missed Sons of the couple's now-adult children, according to The Daily Mirror.",
"\"I didn't think Darwin would get away with it but Darwin had had enough of being dead,\" she is quoted as saying.",
"John Darwin, 57, is being questioned by police in England following Darwin's arrest on suspicion of fraud, a spokesman for Cleveland, England, police said.",
"Darwin walked into a police station in London last weekend -- five years after Darwin was thought to have died after the remains of a canoe Darwin paddled into the North Sea, off England, washed up on shore.",
"Darwin was declared dead by a coroner in 2003, 13 months after Darwin's disappearance in March 2002.",
"John Darwin's wife's wife, the paper reported, described how the prison officer and former teacher discussed faking Darwin's death just before Darwin disappeared because of mounting debts.",
"When Darwin vanished John Darwin's wife said John Darwin's wife thought Darwin was dead -- until, John Darwin's wife is reported to have said, Darwin turned up on the doorstep of the family home at Seaton Carew, northeastern England, one year later.",
"\"I didn't even recognize Darwin at first,\" John Darwin's wife told the newspaper, adding that John Darwin's wife's husband looked thin, dirty and smelled dreadful.",
"\"I was relieved Darwin was alive, of course.",
"But I was also very angry with Darwin.\"",
"John Darwin's wife said that John Darwin's wife's husband stayed at the home on and off before Darwin got a one-room apartment in another part of the large house so Darwin could vanish if friends or family arrived, also disguising Darwin with a hat or limp when Darwin went outside.",
"But hiding away began to take its toll, John Darwin's wife reportedly said, and the pair decided to leave Britain.",
"John Darwin's wife's husband traveled on a false passport to look at property in Cyprus and inquire about buying a catamaran in Gibraltar, John Darwin's wife said, before they finally settled in Panama.",
"John Darwin's wife went to live there six weeks ago.",
"John Darwin's wife is believed to be in the United States after leaving Panama on a flight late Thursday, a Panamanian immigration representative has told CNN.",
"John Darwin's wife, the newspaper said, stated that it was always John Darwin's wife's plan to repay two insurance policies in John Darwin's wife's husband's name: one, a life insurance policy, for £25,000 ($50,000); and another for £130,000 ($265,000), which was paid to their home loan company to pay off the mortgage in the event of John Darwin's wife's husband's death.",
"the newspaper said John Darwin's wife was not paid for John Darwin's wife's story and accepts John Darwin's wife is likely to be arrested upon John Darwin's wife's return to Britain.",
"Following Darwin's reappearance last weekend, Darwin was initially reunited with Darwin's two sons, who released a joint statement saying the sons's father claimed to have amnesia dating back to June 2000.",
"But in a statement released by Cleveland police Thursday, the sons, said the sons were in an \"angry and confused state of mind\" and the sons wanted no further contact with the sons's parents.",
"After media reports Thursday that John Darwin's wife had confessed to knowing John Darwin's wife's husband was alive, the sons said: \"If the papers' allegations of a confession from John Darwin's wife are true, then the sons very much feel that the sons have been the victims in a large scam.\"",
"\"In the short space of time following the sons's dad's appearance in London on Saturday, the sons have gone through a rollercoaster of emotion,\" a statement released by Cleveland police Thursday said.",
"\"From the height of elation at finding him to be alive to the depths of despair at the recent stories of fraud and these latest pictures,\" it added.",
"\"How could the sons's mam continue to let the sons believe the sons's dad had died when Darwin was very much alive?",
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Eric Hahn thought Eric Hahn's financial situation was set after Eric Hahn was approved for a private student loan with an 8 percent interest rate to supplement Eric Hahn's federal education loans.",
"Eric Hahn, estimates Eric Hahn will be in debt for the next five to seven years for Eric Hahn's undergraduate tuition.",
"Just a few weeks later, Hahn, 21, was forced to cash in Eric Hahn's savings and investments so Eric Hahn could make Eric Hahn's rent and tuition after finding out that Lender My Rich Uncle, had suspended Lender My Rich Uncle's private student loan program.",
"\"Due to continued disruptions in the capital markets, combined with the continued demand Lender My Rich Uncle have experienced this year, Lender My Rich Uncle are reaching funding capacity limits,\" a message on Eric Hahn's cell phone said, mimicking a statement on the company's Web site.",
"The sudden news left Hahn, a senior-year finance major, scrambling to find additional funding after maxing out Eric Hahn's borrowing options from the federal government.",
"Eventually, the country's leading student loan provider, Sallie Mae, approved Eric Hahn for a private loan at 12 percent.",
"After Eric Hahn graduates, Eric Hahn estimates it will take Eric Hahn anywhere from five to seven years to repay about $30,000 Eric Hahn will have borrowed by then.",
"\"Money isn't cheap,\" said Hahn, who transferred to Georgia State University in Atlanta from the University of Connecticut last year because the tuition was less expensive.",
"\"The process is time-consuming, and there's also the stress of having to liquidate my investments and wonder where I'm going to find money.\"",
"About 8 percent of student borrowers rely on private loans, which tend to be costlier and stricter than federal loans, said Robert Shierman, executive director of the Institute for College Access and Success.",
"In doing so, Eric Hahn and others like Eric Hahn are getting a crash course in market volatility and market volatility's effects on the consumer's ability to find money.",
"Watch how the current economic troubles affect consumers » .",
"MyRichUncle.com is the most recent lender to suspend MyRichUncle.com's private student loan program, joining the ranks of major financial institutions like Wachovia and Bank of America and companies specializing in student loans such as College Loan Corporation and Campus Door, which was backed by Lehman Brothers.",
"MyRichUncle's president and co-founder, Raza Khan, told CNN: \"Lender My Rich Uncle are currently working with a number of investors so Lender My Rich Uncle can resume loan origination as soon as possible.",
"\"Meanwhile, students and parents should not lose sight of the value of education.",
"Funds do remain available -- we encourage families to do all the homework and research, and to make prudent decisions on borrowing,\" he added in a written statement.",
"Since August 2007, 33 lenders have suspended private loans programs, according to the Web site FinAid.org, which tracks activity in the student loan market.",
"Unlike federal lending programs, private loans rely on liquidity from investors.",
"Even though private loans are considered strong by industry standards, private loans are feeling the effects of a turbulent capital market.",
"\"The only reason lenders had to stop making the loans was that lenders ran out of liquidity,\" said financial aid expert Mark Kantrowitz, who created FinAid.org.",
"\"It's a contagion effect of the sub-prime crisis,\" said Kantrowitz.",
"\"It's an overreaction that has affected the student loan market.\"",
"With their strong resemblance to consumer loans, where lenders set the terms based on your credit score, financial advisers often recommended private loans as a means of last resort.",
"But with rising tuition and increased enrollment putting a squeeze on the student aid market -- which disbursed about $60 billion in federal funds and $17 billion in private loans last year -- students are turning to private loans after students've exhausted all other avenues, or for expenses that federal aid won't cover.",
"In response, Congress passed legislation this year to increase the maximum amount of federal loans that students can obtain.",
"\"With federal student loan limits increasing, you can borrow now more than last year, regardless of income, assets, collateral or income,\" said Martha Holler, vice president of corporate communications of Sallie Mae.",
"Despite the uncertainty in the capital market, many lenders, including Sallie Mae, are still able to offer private student loans by securing lines of credit and raising liquidity on their own.",
"Martha Holler, vice president of corporate communications of Sallie Mae says other options also exist, from scholarships for skills as random as skateboarding, to tuition payment plans -- an interest-free option that allows borrowers to make payments in monthly installments.",
"But students like Eric Hahn remain on the fringe.",
"Even after being awarded an out-of-state tuition waiver, which lets Eric Hahn pay the same tuition as a resident from Georgia, Eric Hahn says Eric Hahn has borrowed all Eric Hahn can in federal loans.",
"Eric Hahn's parents, who are facing their own financial struggles, can't co",
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"Nevertheless, Eric Hahn has accepted Eric Hahn's fate.",
"As school begins, Eric Hahn is returning Eric Hahn's focus to Eric Hahn's studies.",
"\"It's a pain in the neck, but it is what it is,\" Eric Hahn said in a telephone interview in between classes Wednesday.",
"\"The reason this all happened is due to the credit crisis and the housing crisis.",
"So I guess the lesson is don't hop on what everyone else is doing.\"",
"CNN's Taylor Gandossy contributed to this report ."
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"The move left Eric Hahn, scrambling to find alternative funding sources .",
"Lender My Rich Uncle says Lender My Rich Uncle is working to resume loaning money as soon as possible .",
"Financial advisers say investors are pulling out even though loans considered strong ."
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"The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, on Monday urged Cuba to think again about Cuba's refusal of direct U.S. assistance for hurricane victims.",
"\"We call on Cuba to reconsider Cuba's decision on the United States offer, which we made with no preconditions and whose only objective was to get relief to people in dire need.\"",
"USAID administrator Henrietta Fore said in a Monday afternoon conference call with reporters.",
"USAID administrator Henrietta Fore said United States over the weekend had offered to begin relief flights as soon as Tuesday to Cuba, on civilian aircraft, delivering plastic sheeting, blankets and hygiene kits.",
"The first flight would have brought aid worth $349,000.",
"\"And while we wait for Cuba's reconsideration of the United States offer we will continue to implement other components of our $5 million assistance package,\" USAID administrator Henrietta Fore added.",
"United States will immediately obligate approximately $1.5 million in emergency humanitarian assistance to reputable international relief organizations and nongovernmental organizations.",
"USAID administrator Henrietta Fore said USAID administrator Henrietta Fore will be in Honduras on Tuesday to inspect hurricane damage and review aid needs there.",
"Earlier in the day, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack gave the first information that United States had made a weekend offer -- and Cuba had refused -- of $5 million in hurricane relief.",
"United States on Saturday \"informed Cuba that the U.S. government is committed to providing up to $5 million in relief assistance to Cuban hurricane victims and that we could fly emergency relief supplies to Cuba as soon as Cuba authorized such assistance,\" State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said at State Department spokesman Sean McCormack's daily briefing.",
"\"On the 14th of September, just yesterday, Cuba informed us Cuba would not accept a donation from United States,\" State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.",
"United States has temporarily suspended some restrictions on private aid groups, sending assistance and money to Cuba.",
"And State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday United States had in recent days licensed agricultural exports to Cuba worth $250 million, including lumber for reconstruction."
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"Reese Witherspoon, the Academy Award-winning actress, is honorary chairman of the Avon Foundation and is employed by Avon Products as Avon Products's global ambassador.",
"Witherspoon says Witherspoon wants to banish the myth that young women are not at risk for breast cancer.",
"(CNN)",
"-- Every three minutes in the United States, a woman is diagnosed with the disease.",
"As a woman, a mother, and a daughter, I find that statistic terrifying.",
"I was never naïve about the disease, but hearing this statistic put it all into perspective.",
"Women close to Witherspoon have battled the disease and are now soldiers in the greater fight against the disease.",
"But the moment I heard \"every three minutes,\" I felt vulnerable and scared as I realized that anyone is susceptible.",
"The only way for me to ease my fears was to take action.",
"I needed to educate Witherspoon and others on the disease.",
"As the Honorary Chair for the Avon Foundation, I had resources at my fingertips.",
"I had access to an entire organization that is dedicated to giving back to women and educating people.",
"So I started asking, \"What do I need to know?\"",
"It was through that curiosity that I found out the most important fact in breast cancer: Early detection saves lives.",
"According to the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade, there is a 97 percent five-year survival rate when breast cancer is caught before breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body.",
"When breast cancer first develops, there are usually no symptoms, which is why women need to perform self-exams regularly and contact women's doctor upon noticing even the smallest change.",
"Of course talking about breast cancer and breast health is a personal thing.",
"I too am a private person but encourage all women to break through all women's reservations and talk to all women's doctors and physicians.",
"We must also banish the myth that young women are not at risk for breast cancer.",
"At the Avon Walk in Washington, I met young survivors who were diagnosed in their 20s, an age when most women are graduating from college and just starting most women's lives as full adults.",
"Watch Reese and Larry at the Avon Walk » .",
"Women in their 20s and 30s should have a clinical breast exam by a health professional at least once every three years and women 40 and older should have an exam every year.",
"I am passionate about fighting this devastating disease.",
"I fight for my mother, myself, my children and future generations of women, so one day we will not have to be afraid of breast cancer.",
"I began my fight by learning important first steps in breast cancer detection, and will not end my fight until every woman can stand together saying we are breast cancer free.",
"More than anything else, I have faith -- faith we will find a cure.",
"I saw this commitment in the faces of the women in Washington -- in the faces of the women walking and the women and men who stood on the sidelines encouraging the 3,500 participants to the finish line.",
"I was cheering right along with the 3,500 participants, screaming for action to find a cure.",
"Avon's next walk will take place in New York City on October 4 and 5."
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"Oscar-winning actress: Young women are not exempt from the disease .",
"Witherspoon emphasizes importance of early detection and regular screenings ."
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"Editor's note: Join Roland S. Martin for Roland S. Martin's weekly sound-off segment on CNN.com Live at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.",
"If you're passionate about politics, Roland S. Martin wants to hear from you.",
"A supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, Roland S. Martin is a nationally syndicated columnist and Chicago, Illinois-based radio host.",
"Roland S. Martin is the author of \"Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith\" and \"Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America.\"",
"Please visit his Web site.",
"Roland S. Martin urges the candidates to stop with the lofty talk and simplistic solutions and be specific.",
"(CNN)",
"-- If you are a member of America's middle class in this presidential year, you are sort of like a blue-chip football recruit, lavished with praise, attention and adoration from fawning coaches and alumni who would love nothing better than to land the prized player to win the national championship.",
"For \"Coach\" John McCain and \"Coach\" Barack Obama, the title to win is president of America, and like the big-time football coaches, they will say and do anything to make it happen.",
"Tax cuts?",
"Oh, absolutely, we don't want you to feel any more pain.",
"Let the rich -- and the poor -- deal with carrying the burden.",
"You want more jobs?",
"Sure, we're going to force companies that send jobs overseas to make them stay at home because we know you need those long disappearing and high-paying manufacturing jobs that helped build America.",
"Can't afford to send your kids to college?",
"Don't sweat it.",
"We've got tax credits, Pell grants, super-duper loans and all kinds of other options to make this a reality.",
"Are they cutting back on health care at your job?",
"No big deal.",
"John McCain says John McCain's got some nifty tax credits lined up to tickle your fancy and ignite your soul.",
"Coach Obama?",
"He's going to go for the whole enchilada by pushing for virtual universal health care.",
"Oh, these guys are wonderful with these guys's sales pitches.",
"these guys have the ability to make every single one of you feel so special and loved; no one else is more important to these guys -- at that moment.",
"I must admit, the pathetic pining and pandering for middle-class votes has turned so moronic that at times it drives me nuts.",
"First, who in the world are we even talking about?",
"If you listen to the candidates and their campaigns, those in the middle class could make upward of $200,000 a year, while some suggest middle class means earning as little as $20,000.",
"I moderated a panel Tuesday for the National Black MBA Association and heard descriptions of the lower middle class, the middle class and the upper middle class.",
"Someone even suggested that it's really about a \"state of mind.\"",
"That's right.",
"It boils down to how we feel and think.",
"If that's the case, then you can have $5 million in the bank, but if you love your family, go to church and share the same values as others around you, you're middle class.",
"Please, can we just stop with lofty talk and plain-spoken and simplistic solutions and be as specific as possible?",
"There are really four fundamental issues affecting middle-class voters.",
"Jobs .",
"We've seen a loss of 600,000 jobs under President Bush, so how exactly will John McCain and Obama create jobs?",
"Is there anything in McCain and Obama's past that shows McCain and Obama have the ability to do just that?",
"I've heard \"drill, drill, drill!\" from John McCain, and Obama says we're going to turn the old textile and steel mills into a green machine by targeting wind and other sources of energy.",
"Housing .",
"Congress is providing a backstop for Wall Street -- making billions available if cash is needed.",
"What will John McCain and Obama actually do to keep folks from losing their homes?",
"Oh, I know a lot of people suggest that these middle-class folks should have read the fine print and not gotten in over these middle-class folks's heads, but if something is good for Wall Street, why not Main Street?",
"Health care .",
"This is no joke, and a primary reason why Americans file for bankruptcy.",
"I know.",
"My appendix ruptured in 2000 while covering the Democratic National Convention, forcing me to spend five days in a Los Angeles hospital and accruing more than $70,000 in hospital bills.",
"Yep, I didn't have health insurance.",
"I was just a 29-year-old never-been-sick freelancer stuck out in the cold.",
"The pressure of that led to falling behind on my mortgage, and the start of foreclosure proceedings.",
"Bankruptcy was the only thing that saved me, and by the grace of God, my finances turned around, and this month, I'm making my final payment.",
"John McCain says a $5,000 tax credit for health care will help, but the problem with that is you have to pay the dough upfront, and then claim it on your taxes.",
"But what happens when they want the money now?",
"Obama says the answer is Obama's health care plan, but that switch won't be flipped immediately.",
"So what happens while the laborious debate takes place?",
"I just wait for my MRI until Washington finishes debating and the special interests pick the plan to death?",
"Education .",
"For many Americans, education is a ticket to the middle class and beyond.",
"Much of the time the candidates talk about vouchers.",
"Look, that's not going to solve the education problem.",
"What we should be hearing the candidates talk about is the inequity of the school systems.",
"Children living in wealthy school districts get tons of money and the best qualified teachers, while poorer districts are forced to make do with less qualified teachers and without computers or even basic amenities.",
"The bottom line .",
"Remember those blue-chip players?",
"Today, those blue-chip players are telling a coach: If you want me to sign, promise that I'll start.",
"No play, no sign.",
"That's what middle-class Americans must tell the candidates.",
"If you are unwilling to put your personal credibility and integrity behind your campaign pledges, then you don't get my vote.",
"And if you give away your vote just because someone is a Democrat or Republican, or a man or a woman, or black or white, and you end up getting screwed in the end, you have no one to blame but yourself.",
"So use the most powerful thing you have to demand real answers to your real problems from McCain, Obama, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin: your vote.",
"The power is literally in your hands.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer."
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"Roland S. Martin: Candidates offer anything and everything to snag middle class .",
"Roland S. Martin: \"Pathetic pining and pandering for middle-class votes ... moronic\"",
"Martin: Jobs, housing, health care, education are the big middle-class issues ."
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"(CNN) --",
"iReporters have a message for late keyboardist Richard Wright: Shine on, you crazy diamond.",
"Jessica Schuette's tattoo reminds Jessica Schuette's of Jessica Schuette's's late friend, who was a big fan of late keyboardist Richard Wright.",
"Wright, a founding member of epic rock group late keyboardist Richard Wright, died Monday.",
"late keyboardist Richard Wright had been battling cancer and succumbed at late keyboardist Richard Wright's home in Britain.",
"late keyboardist Richard Wright is credited with writing some of the band's most well-known hits, such as \"The Great Gig in the Sky\" and \"Us and Them.\"",
"the band has thousands of devoted fans across the world, and the news of late keyboardist Richard Wright's death inspired many of them to write into iReport to share how late keyboardist Richard Wright and the rest of the group touched and changed their lives.",
"Jessica Schuette's shared a photo of Jessica Schuette's's Pink Floyd-inspired tattoo: a shimmering diamond above the words \"shine on.\"",
"Jessica Schuette's got the tattoo in 2005 in memory of Jessica Schuette's's best friend, who died in a car accident.",
"\"This was her favorite song.",
"I got the tattoo to remember her,\" Jessica Schuette's said.",
"\"If that doesn't say something about the impact that the band has had on people, I don't know what will.\"",
"the band touched the lives of Jessica Schuette's and Jessica Schuette's's friend even though Schuette and her friend were never able to see one of the band's legendary live shows.",
"Schuette, who is a dedicated the band fan herself, pointed out that she's only 21 -- born 13 years after the band released the epic album \"Dark Side of the Moon,\" and too young to have seen the band live when the band were touring.",
"iReport.com:",
"Read more of Jessica Schuette's's thoughts .",
"Omar Pelea of Miami, Florida, hopes the tragedy of late keyboardist Richard Wright's death will give Jessica Schuette's and other fans Schuette and other fans's long-awaited chance to see the band live.",
"Omar Pelea hopes Wright's death will inspire the other members of the band to begin touring again.",
"the band has not toured with lead singer and songwriter Roger Waters since 1981, although late keyboardist Richard Wright reunited with the band in 2005 for a concert at Live 8 in London.",
"\"Now would be a good time for the remaining members to contemplate the fact that a reunion is running short on time,\" late keyboardist Richard Wright said.",
"\"There are bigger things in life than their differences.",
"Perhaps they should put their differences aside and play for the world one last time.\"",
"\"To late keyboardist Richard Wright, the band is the greatest band ever to play on this Earth,\" late keyboardist Richard Wright added.",
"iReport.com:",
"Pelea compares late keyboardist Richard Wright to the late George Harrison .",
"Long-time Pink Floyd fan Pamela Keenan had the chance to perform some of the band's greatest works Long-time Pink Floyd fan Pamela Keenan.",
"Long-time Pink Floyd fan Pamela Keenan is a member of Endicott Performing Arts Center, a theatre company in Endicott, New York, that has performed its own adaptations of \"The Wall\" and \"Dark Side of the Moon.\"",
"\"We had a band on the stage with us.",
"We had images and films projected on the back of the stage and we had full choreography and vocals for all the songs from each album,\" Long-time Pink Floyd fan Pamela Keenan said.",
"\"I listened to all of the music over and over again as a teen, but to be able to perform the music in my 30s brought a new respect for the lyrics and the sheer musical genius.\"",
"iReport.com: See a Pink Floyd-themed bike ride .",
"Long-time Pink Floyd fan Pamela Keenan described the band as \"one of the greatest bands that's ever been in existence,\" but thinks the band is underrated by mainstream society today.",
"\"Children aren't exposed to the band anymore,\" Long-time Pink Floyd fan Pamela Keenan said.",
"\"My kids are exposed to the band because we did the shows -- and My kids love it.\"",
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"Keen recalls the band stage show .",
"\"I credit the band for being a big part of my imagination,\" said Dean Spiegal, who creates psychedelic videos inspired by the band's music.",
"\"the band was not a band, it was an experience.",
"the band did not make music for the people, the band made music for their minds.\"",
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"And Eric Beck put it simply: .",
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"the band changed Eric Beck's life,\" he said of \"Dark Side of the Moon.\"",
"\"late keyboardist Richard Wright made a major contribution to Eric Beck's life.",
"And I will forever be so grateful to late keyboardist Richard Wright and the rest of the band.\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"McCain is just holding on like a boxer before McCain gets knocked out, Chris Rock says.",
"Chris Rock told Larry King Chris Rock's proud of Obama's character.",
"Rock, an avid supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, spoke with Larry King on Thursday.",
"He said Obama is more grounded with your average American -- not somebody like McCain with \"12 houses.\"",
"\"The other guy [McCain] can lose five houses,\" Chris Rock said.",
"\"I'll go with the guy with one house with one house.",
"the guy with one house is scared about losing the guy with one house's house.\"",
"Watch Chris Rock describe a beaten up McCain » .",
"Larry King began the interview by asking Chris Rock about Thursday's economic bailout talks when Obama and McCain went to the White House for discussions with the nation's top leaders.",
"Larry King: Obama and McCain at opposite ends of the table.",
"What do you make of it?",
"ROCK: What do I make of it?",
"If this was a boxing match, McCain would be holding.",
"Larry King: Holding on?",
"ROCK:",
"Yes.",
"It's like McCain got hit really hard in the stomach like, 'OK.",
"I can't let McCain go.",
"McCain's going to knock me out.'",
"So that's what appears to be going on right now.",
"Just a hold.",
"Larry King:",
"Has the financial crisis affected you?",
"ROCK:",
"Larry King, I drove a cab over here tonight.",
"When it's over, I'm going to try to pick up some more fares.",
"I'm losing everything, Larry King.",
"Larry King:",
"Really downtrodden?",
"ROCK:",
"Yes, it's real bad.",
"Larry King:",
"Have HBO paid you already?",
"ROCK:",
"They have paid me, but the money is worthless now.",
"Haven't you heard?",
"Your money's worth nothing.",
"KING:",
"You must be ... proud that at this stage in our history a black man is running for president on a major ticket.",
"ROCK:",
"Um, you know what?",
"I'm proud Obama's running for president.",
"You know?",
"If it was Flavor Flav, would I be proud?",
"No.",
"I don't support Obama because Obama's black.",
"KING:",
"I said just as a proud feeling.",
"That's normal.",
"ROCK:",
"There's a proud feeling because of the character of the man.",
"You know, I was -- I supported John Kerry and, you know -- and what's my man?",
"Al Gore.",
"KING:",
"Al Gore.",
"ROCK:",
"But Obama seems to be a little bit more.",
"Obama seems to have watched other peoples' mistakes and, you know, seems to have a little bit more going on.",
"KING:",
"From a comedic stand point, who is funnier, McCain or Obama?",
"Seriously.",
"Is Obama not -- it's hard to be funny about Obama?",
"ROCK: No, no.",
"It's weird.",
"People ask me that all the time.",
"... McCain jokes are just easy jokes, like I don't want a president with a bucket list.",
"That's like a McCain joke.",
"McCain jokes are easy.",
"It's like you basically, you know, you know, take the dust off your Reagan jokes and tell them again.",
"You know?",
"But Obama, oh, this is a whole new set of jokes.",
"I got to find a whole new move to the basket here.",
"So I kind of hope he wins.",
"KING:",
"Didn't you introduce Obama at a rally?",
"ROCK:",
"I introduced Obama at the Apollo Theater not too long ago.",
"I think Obama would be great.",
"I mean, just look the big thing right now is the economy.",
"And people are going broke.",
"And here: The choice isn't Republican or Democrat.",
"The choice is you got a guy that's worth $150 million with 12 houses against a guy who's worth a million dollars with one house.",
"KING:",
"Well -- .",
"ROCK:",
"a guy who's worth a million dollars with one house really cares about losing a house, because a guy who's worth a million dollars with one house is homeless.",
"a guy who's worth a million dollars with one house can lose five houses and still got a bunch of houses.",
"Does this make any sense?",
"Am I the only one that sees this?",
"KING:",
"It's unique way of ...",
"ROCK:",
"I'm just saying, McCain could lose half McCain's houses.",
"KING:",
"You got a point.",
"ROCK:",
"And sleep well.",
"KING:",
"You and Bill Clinton were on Letterman on Tuesday.",
"You had some problems with the tone of Bill Clinton's endorsement of Obama.",
"... Do you think Bill Clinton is hesitant about Obama?",
"ROCK:",
"You know what?",
"You know, Bill Clinton did a great speech in Denver.",
"And Hillary's been on the campaign trail.",
"Just at that moment, if you watched what happened on Letterman, it appeared Bill Clinton was holding back.",
"And when you tell a joke and everybody laughs, it is not because they disagree with what you're saying.",
"So -- .",
"KING:",
"They get it?",
"ROCK:",
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"It was great.",
"And you're right, [Obama] does need to get some of the votes that went to Hillary and all that.",
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"Some experts are skeptical that anything could have stopped Robert Hawkins from going on a murderous rampage at an Omaha, Nebraska, shopping mall on Wednesday.",
"A police car sits outside the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, on Thursday.",
"\"This is not something that anybody can reasonably anticipate,\" said Don Greene, a former FBI agent who has written a book on mall security.",
"\"If the people closest to Robert Hawkins didn't see any indicators or signs that Robert Hawkins was going to go off so drastically ... how is some public safety officer supposed to recognize this person?\" Greene asked.",
"In fact, security at Omaha's Westroads Mall did find Robert Hawkins's behavior suspicious before the shooting, Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren said Thursday.",
"Mall surveillance initially flagged Robert Hawkins \"based on Robert Hawkins's actions\" when Robert Hawkins entered Omaha's Westroads Mall through the Von Maur store's main entrance on the second floor, Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren said.",
"Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren said Robert Hawkins exited quickly after entering, then re-entered within six minutes and appeared to be concealing something in a balled-up sweatshirt.",
"Robert Hawkins then went up the elevator to the third floor, and when Robert Hawkins got there, Robert Hawkins immediately began firing, Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren said.",
"\"It doesn't appear as though there was an opportunity for intervention,\" he said.",
"Shopping malls around the country were expected to review Shopping malls around the country's emergency plans and consider additional security measures in light of Wednesday's shooting, which killed eight.",
"Watch what experts say about keeping malls safe » .",
"\"There is always a fear of copycats when something like this happens,\" said Malachy Kavanaugh, spokesman for the International Council of Shopping Centers.",
"Malachy Kavanaugh, spokesman for the International Council of Shopping Centers said malls would be considering whether to close some entrances, bring in additional officers, and make security more visible.",
"There are 1,200 enclosed malls in the United States and about 50,000 shopping centers.",
"Although some include police substations, most are patrolled by unarmed private mall and store security guards.",
"Should these private security guards be armed?",
"\"Absolutely not,\" said Greene.",
"Greene said if a security officer were to pull a gun on an armed individual in a mall, it could result in \"the gunfight at the 'OK corral,' and then we might have 23 people killed instead of eight.\"",
"\"These random events are very challenging to prevent and difficult to deal with when These random events occur.",
"Law enforcement and security prevention measures, no matter how good, cannot forestall a tragedy such as this from happening,\" said a statement issued Wednesday night by the Simon Property Group, which operates regional and outlet malls across the United States.",
"\"We do not disclose or discuss our enhanced security measures and/or procedures that we have in place or may institute at any given time, some of which are visible to the public, with others intentionally less noticeable,\" a statement issued Wednesday night by the Simon Property Group, which operates regional and outlet malls across the United States said.",
"\"Disclosure of such information could potentially compromise our efforts to provide a safe and secure environment.\"",
"Security expert Lou Palumbo told CNN one useful strategy was having trained law enforcement personnel watching people as people enter the mall.",
"\"You start to observe the people coming into the mall area,\" Security expert Lou Palumbo said.",
"\"To let the people coming into the mall area in your door and then try to figure out what the people coming into the mall area're doing, you know, it's not as effective as catching the people coming into the mall area as the people coming into the mall area're coming in the door.\"",
"The International Council of Shopping Centers has conducted focus groups with shoppers to test how shoppers would react to even tighter \"airport style\" security measures, including bag checks and magnetometers.",
"According to Malachy Kavanaugh, spokesman for the International Council of Shopping Centers, the results have shown that shoppers would accept the measures only if the national threat advisory system was raised to the national threat advisory system's highest level, red.",
"Such extreme measures are \"in the mall industry playbook ... but it is something no one wants to do,\" said Malachy Kavanaugh, spokesman for the International Council of Shopping Centers.",
"While some mall owners have increased training of security personnel and have upgraded some mall owners's emergency systems, many security experts believe more should and can be done.",
"many security experts suggest it's a matter of money.",
"many security experts say until shoppers start staying away, mall owners will not make significant changes.",
"There are no national standards for security guards, and according to a 2006 study by the Police Foundation, only a few states require background checks, minimum hiring standards, or training.",
"a 2006 study by the Police Foundation also notes that drills to test security staffs' knowledge of what to do in an emergency, when done at all, \"are seldom rigorous, seldom done with first responders, and are usually done without clear standards to measure their success.\"",
"a 2006 study by the Police Foundation goes on to say that \"many malls do not even have plans to limit access to sensitive areas in times of heightened alert.\"",
"Since a 2006 study by the Police Foundation was written, the International Council of Shopping Centers, in conjunction with George Washington University, has developed a DVD to train mall security guards.",
"According to Kavanaugh, about 6,000 of the nation's estimated 20,000 mall security guards have participated in the course, including 10 at Westroads Mall, where Wednesday's shootings took place.",
"The FBI and other federal agencies have reached out to private security firms to share information on best practices.",
"FBI also sends out alerts regarding possible threats to the private sector -- but warnings of possible terrorist plans are clearly of no help in anticipating an attacker like Hawkins.",
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"The United Kingdom has MI-5, which roots out spies and terrorists in the British Isles.",
"The RAND Corporation said one option would be for domestic intelligence to operate under the FBI.",
"Canada has CSIS -- the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.",
"Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S. have the U.S.'s own domestic intelligence agency?",
"On Monday, at the request of Congress, The RAND Corporation outlined the pros and cons of establishing a domestic intelligence agency.",
"It also discussed different ways to organize a new entity, either as part of an existing department or as a new agency.",
"But there's one thing you won't find in the report -- a recommendation on what to do.",
"\"We were not asked to make a recommendation, and this assessment does not do so,\" the report says.",
"Instead, says The RAND Corporation's Gregory Treverton, the report provides a \"framework\" for policymakers to use when deciding whether and how to reorganize counter-intelligence efforts at home.",
"The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit think tank seeking to help improve policy and decision making through objective research and analysis.",
"Collecting intelligence domestically always has been a sensitive issue, at least partially because of episodic abuses by the government, notably against civil rights leaders, unions, antiwar organizations or even communists and hate groups.",
"But the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks renewed calls for increased domestic intelligence to prevent future attacks.",
"Critics said that in the lead-up to the attacks, the FBI devalued counterterrorism agents and failed to heed signs that an attack was imminent.",
"\"If you didn't carry a gun, you didn't count so much,\" RAND's Gregory Treverton said.",
"After the attacks, the FBI moved to transform the FBI's primary mission from law enforcement to counterterrorism intelligence and prevention.",
"the FBI now focuses on terrorism through the FBI's National Security Branch and the National Counterterrorism Center.",
"the report focuses on two options to the current system.",
"In one, a new agency would be created using intelligence agencies from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and intelligence community.",
"A second option is to create an \"agency within an agency\" in the FBI or DHS.",
"The first option would result in an organization with a clear, unambiguous mission, and might be able to draw on a more diverse recruitment pool, such as linguists and historians who are not normally attracted to law enforcement.",
"On the flip side, such massive reorganizations typically involve political compromises that could affect its performance.",
"The second option -- an \"agency within an agency\" -- could involve less short-term disruption, but could be hindered by a \"lack of clarity of a single mission,\" the report says.",
"The RAND Corporation also suggests a range of actions short of reorganization that could improve domestic intelligence gathering, such as increasing resources, improving leadership and changing bureaucratic cultures.",
"the report does not assess the FBI's performance since 9/11, RAND's Gregory Treverton said, but RAND's Gregory Treverton believes Congress should seek an independent assessment.",
"A panel of experts that The RAND Corporation convened guessed that the probability of a terrorist attack had decreased about one-third since the September 11, 2001.",
"But \"A panel of experts that RAND convened were not enthusiastic about alternatives\" to current counterterrorism organizations.",
"In a cautionary note, the report says that while public acceptance of domestic intelligence activities is imperative, public attitudes about what is considered acceptable \"can both be fragile and shift significantly over time.\"",
"\"Public demand for domestic intelligence is driven by the perceived threat, and those perceptions can change much more rapidly than the threat itself,\" the report says.",
"For instance, immediately after the 9/11 attacks, 49 percent of people surveyed were worried \"a great deal\" about more attacks.",
"Two years later, that had dropped to 25 percent."
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"More than a dozen trucks loaded with fruits, spices and other goods Tuesday crossed the line dividing Kashmir as India and Pakistan opened a symbolic trade route in the disputed region for the first time in more than 60 years.",
"Kashmiris watch as Indian trucks cross into the border town of Chakothi in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.",
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"Apple-laden Indian trucks heading the other way were also warmly welcomed.",
"It is hoped the move will ease tensions in the troubled Himalayan region, which has been a conflict flashpoint between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan who both lay claims to the territory.",
"\"Today, we have regained our lost market,\" said Ghulam Rasool Bhat, president of the Kashmir fruit growers' association.",
"Watch more about the historic day » .",
"\"We are sending the sweet Kashmir apple as the first consignment.",
"This is sure to sweeten the relation between the two neighbors.",
"The beginning of the trade between the two Kashmirs will further improve the relations and lead to a peaceful resolution of the bitter problem,\" he said.",
"The trucks were subjected to thorough security checks before The trucks crossed the bridge, one of the few crossing points in the heavily militarized 742-kilometer (460-mile) Line of Control, the de facto frontier that divides the region.",
"Kashmir has been a major source of dispute between India, and Pakistan since the two countries were partitioned at the end of British rule in 1947.",
"Muslim Kashmiris sided with Pakistan to the north, while the Hindu south joined India.",
"For the past 18 years, Kashmir has been wracked by a bloody separatist campaign.",
"Authorities say up to 43,000 people have died, but rights groups and non-governmental organizations put the death toll at twice that.",
"Violence had dropped off since the countries began a peace process in 2004, but Violence surged after the state government in Indian-controlled Kashmir announced plans in June to donate land for a Hindu shrine.",
"Muslim protests following the decision prompted a government U-turn that triggered Hindu demonstrations calling for it to be restored.",
"Subsequent violence left 40 dead and hundreds wounded.",
"It is hoped Tuesday's route opening will bolster the peace agreement and combat lingering mistrust between India and Pakistan.",
"A bilateral cease-fire has been holding in the region for more than four years.",
"A bus service connecting Kashmir began amid much fanfare in 2005 but struggled under the weight of elaborate security checks and stifling bureaucracy.",
"\"This is a great emotional moment, as it brings to mind my grandfather, who used to drive lorries on this road,\" said Muzhar Hussain Naqvi, who drove the leading Pakistani truck.",
"CNN's Sara Sidner and Mukhtar Ahmad contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Palin vowed on Tuesday to use Palin's executive experience to tackle government reform and energy independence if Palin and Sen. John McCain win this year's presidential election.",
"Palin speaks with CNN's Drew Griffin Tuesday.",
"\"It's going to be government reform because that, that is what I've been able to do as a mayor and as a governor, you, you take on the special interests and the self-dealings.",
"Yep, you ruffle feathers and you have the scars to prove it,\" Palin said Tuesday in an interview with CNN's Drew Griffin.",
"\"You have to take that on to give the American people that faith back in the American people's own government.",
"This is the American people's government and we've got to put it back on their side,\" Palin said.",
"Palin said Palin and McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, discussed the possibility of Palin's working on the issue of energy independence if Palin becomes vice president.",
"Watch Palin talk about potential plans for the vice-presidency » .",
"\"That's been my forte as the governor of an energy producing state and as a former chair of the, of the energy regulator -- entity up there in Alaska,\" Palin said.",
"\"[I] look forward to that and that's a matter of national security and, and our economic prosperity opportunities.\"",
"Palin also said helping families with special needs children and cleaning up Wall Street were among the other \"missions\" Palin and McCain had discussed.",
"Palin emphasized Palin's executive credentials as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and governor of Alaska, contrasting them with what Palin said was Sen. Barack Obama's lack of leadership experience.",
"\"We don't like to toot our own horn so we don't,\" Palin said.",
"\"But, I have, I do have more experience than Sen. Barack Obama does.",
"You know, Sen. Barack Obama had served for Sen. Barack Obama's 300 days before Sen. Barack Obama became a presidential candidate and that wasn't in, in executive office.\" Watch Palin say Palin has more experience than Obama » .",
"Palin also apologized Tuesday for any misunderstanding caused when Palin referred last week to the patriotic values of \"the real America\" and \"pro-America areas of this great nation.\"",
"Democrats and others criticized Palin for seeming to imply that some parts of this great nation are more patriotic than others.",
"Palin denied that was Palin's intention in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.",
"\"I don't want that misunderstood,\" Palin said.",
"\"If that's the way it came across, I apologize.\"",
"Palin made the remarks at a fundraising event in North Carolina last week.",
"\"We believe that the best of this great nation is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation,\" Palin told the crowd.",
"On Tuesday, Palin also addressed Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden's comment that Sen. Barack Obama would be tested from the very beginning of Sen. Barack Obama's time in office.",
"At a fundraiser Sunday night, Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden said that after taking office, \"it will not be six months before the world tests Sen. Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.",
"... We're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.\"",
"Palin told Griffin that Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden's comment that Sen. Barack Obama would be tested from the very beginning of his time in office points to the dangers of electing a relatively inexperienced person .",
"\"We need to thank Joe [Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden] for the warning,\" Palin said.",
"Watch Palin say the media gave Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden a pass » .",
"Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden's point, according to a statement issued later, was that \"we need steady leadership in tumultuous times, not ... the stubborn ideology of John McCain.\"",
"Palin stopped short of labeling Sen. Barack Obama a socialist Tuesday, although Palin and others have previously called Sen. Barack Obama's tax policies socialist.",
"\"I'm not going to call Sen. Barack Obama a socialist, but as 'Joe the Plumber' has said, it looks like socialism to Sen. Barack Obama,\" Palin said of Joe \"the plumber\" Wurzelbacher.",
"The GOP ticket and GOP's supporters have invoked Joe the Plumber numerous times ever since Sen. Barack Obama confronted Sen. Barack Obama about Sen. Barack Obama's tax policy in an impromptu campaign moment.",
"Palin said Sen. Barack Obama is representative of \"Jane the engineer and Molly the dental hygienist and Chuck the teacher.\"",
"Sen. Barack Obama defended Sen. Barack Obama's decision to raise taxes on couples earning more than $250,000 a year while cutting taxes for people with lower incomes, telling Sen. Barack Obama that \"when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.\"",
"Palin said the policy was \"not good for the entrepreneurial spirit that has built this great country,\" the economy or small businesses.",
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"Getting \"out of this world\" with civilian space travel is not quite as simple as you may think.",
"Ready for launch: video game programmer Richard Garriott shown in training for Richard Garriott's space flight in October.",
"Aside from the obvious financial limitations which restrict space tourism to the rich and the ridiculously rich, there are also significant training programs and testing to be completed before proceeding to lift-off.",
"To gain a better insight into this training, well-known video game programmer and designer Richard Garriott, who is preparing for Richard Garriott's own space adventure in October, is detailing in a blog what Richard Garriott and others have to go through in order to make it into orbit as a space traveler.",
"Richard Garriott has been in training since the beginning of the year and told CNN the first major thing to surprise Richard Garriott was the intensity of preparations.",
"\"When I first came here in January, I thought nine months to get trained for this is going to be plenty of time.",
"Of course, very quickly, I realized that I had signed up for a very complex task, something much more difficult that I had anticipated.",
"I immediately knew that nine months was going to be a lot of work to get everything prepared for the flight.",
"\"And now that I am so close to the flight, I am still feeling the pressure, I definitively have been working very long days and most nights,\" Richard Garriott said.",
"The training regime has three major strands: physical training, which includes preparation to acclimatize to the space environment; practical training for day-to-day living in space; and like any flight, be it 10 minutes or 10 days, training in safety procedures for emergency situations.",
"Trainees generally spend nine months or more on and off-site to complete the requirements, which include everything from flight simulations to learning how to use the toilet.",
"Eric Anderson, president and CEO of Space Adventures, the company sending Richard Garriott into space, told CNN the training program is extensive, but does not exclude people from making the flight.",
"\"Their total training program is a few months, but we tend to spread it out so they can fit it around their normal lives.",
"They are not training to the same degree as the professionals.\"",
"As long as space hopefuls are in reasonable health, space hopefuls can usually go ahead with space hopefuls's adventure, Richard Garriott said.",
"\"There's some fitness involved.",
"There are certainly [medical] things that are not allowable in space, but [medical] things that are not allowable in space are generally more serious conditions.\"",
"Richard Garriott said the major fitness issue with space travel was preparing for the change in \"Gs.\"",
"\"The body is designed to live on one 'G,' so when you expose The body to higher 'Gs' it has an effect.",
"With the training and given the [short] length of the visits there's a minimal effect on the body.\"",
"In Richard Garriott's blog on the training process, Richard Garriott said one part of the training was indisputably the worst.",
"\"Hardest of all was the 'Spinning Chair of Ultimate Sickness.'",
"I can't imagine that I will ever again voluntarily sit in a device designed to make you sick, or ride it as long as I can.",
"Ugh, this is definitely my least favorite part of training!\"",
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"\"There's a few requirements about what you need to know to live in the space station ... how to eat, how to drink, and how to use the restroom, for example,\" Anderson said.",
"\"There's also a lot of simulation you go through ... there's preparation to acclimatize you to the space environment.\"",
"Richard Garriott said many of the procedures for living in space, or for emergencies, are very complex.",
"\"There are a lot of technical details behind all the different systems we need to understand ... fire detection and alarms, plus procedures and equipment for dealing with fire emergencies; protective breathing apparatus in case of chamber decompression or malfunction; the toilet (everybody's favorite piece of space trivia!), including powering up the can for suction and waste removal; and lastly, onboard water sources.\"",
"Richard Garriott admits the learning requirements had Richard Garriott preparing for exams by \"cramming like any good college kid.\"",
"And the most fascinating part of the training?",
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"\"I felt no physical or mental problems, but I did notice an odd physiological issue that is quite hard to describe.",
"Basically, it was possible to make a tennis ball-sized pocket in my mouth, but one which had no air in it as it was just a vacuum!",
"\"By that I mean try to imagine creating a cavity inside your mouth without any air bubbles and by letting in no air through your lips or throat -- it's basically impossible at sea level because the air pressure outside your mouth pushes the air pocket closed,\" Richard Garriott said.",
"\"However, at 10,000 meters the air is so much thinner that you can pull off this oral stunt without a hitch!",
"Weird.\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"Obama will take a break from campaigning Thursday so Obama can visit Obama's ailing grandmother in Hawaii, an Obama spokesman said Monday.",
"Obama will take a break from campaigning so Obama can visit Obama's ailing grandmother.",
"\"Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham has always been one of the most important people in his life,\" spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.",
"\"In the last few weeks, his grandmother's health has deteriorated to the point where his grandmother's situation is very serious.",
"It is for that reason that Obama has decided to change Obama's schedule on Thursday and Friday so that Obama can see his grandmother and spend some time with his grandmother,\" spokesman Robert Gibbs said.",
"The interruption will cause Obama to cancel Thursday events in Madison, Wisconsin and Des Moines, Iowa.",
"Obama will do an event in Indianapolis, Indiana, Thursday morning before leaving and will return to the campaign Saturday, spokesman Robert Gibbs said.",
"Michelle Obama will fill in for Michelle Obama's husband on Friday at previously scheduled events in Columbus and Akron, Ohio, Obama's campaign said.",
"Obama speaks about Obama's grandmother often on the stump, describing his grandmother as an integral figure in Obama's youth who struggled against the glass ceiling in to make a better life for Obama.",
"\"his grandmother's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for his grandmother so that I could have a better life,\" Obama said in Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August.",
"\"his grandmother poured everything his grandmother had into Obama.",
"And although his grandmother can no longer travel, I know that his grandmother's watching tonight, and that tonight is his grandmother's night as well.\"",
"Obama and Obama's family traveled to Hawaii in August to visit his grandmother.",
"The Obama team made the announcement after a busy day of trading attacks with Sen. John McCain on the Democratic presidential hopeful's readiness for office.",
"Monday also marked the first time that Obama appeared with Sen. Hillary Clinton during the general election season.",
"Sen. Hillary Clinton went to Florida, a state Sen. Hillary Clinton won in the primary but whose delegates Sen. Hillary Clinton could not claim, to urge Sen. Hillary Clinton's supporters to turn out for Obama on Election Day.",
"Sen. Hillary Clinton called Orlando and central Florida \"the battleground of the battleground\" and practically begged the crowd to vote early.",
"\"We are 15 days from the finish line and we cannot falter, we cannot stop, we cannot take a single vote for granted,\" Sen. Hillary Clinton said Monday.",
"\"I am asking you to work as hard for Obama as you worked for Sen. Hillary Clinton.",
"If you made phone calls for Sen. Hillary Clinton, make phone calls for Obama.",
"If you walked streets for Sen. Hillary Clinton, make them for Obama.",
"If you talked to your friends and neighbors for Sen. Hillary Clinton, do it again for Obama.",
"We cannot risk four more years of the same failed Republican policies.\"",
"Earlier in the day, McCain told a crowd in Belton, Missouri, that the next president \"won't have time to get used to the office.\"",
"McCain was addressing comments made Sunday by Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, in which he said Obama would be tested within the first six months of his presidency.",
"\"We don't want a president who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars,\" McCain said.",
"\"What is more troubling is that Sen. Biden told their campaign donors that when that crisis hits, they would have to stand with them because it wouldn't be apparent Obama would have the right response.",
"The Obama-Biden campaign released a pre-emptive response after reading McCain's scheduled remarks.",
"\"With our nation facing two wars and 21st century threats abroad, Sen. Biden referenced the simple fact that history shows presidents face challenges from day one,\" Obama spokesman David Wade said.",
"\"After eight years of a failed foreign policy, we need Obama's good judgment and steady leadership, not the erratic and ideological Bush-McCain approach that has set back our security and standing in the world.\"",
"Earlier Monday, Obama denounced the \"say-anything, do-anything politics\" of McCain's camp, but said \"careless, outrageous comments\" won't distract McCain from addressing our nation's ills.",
"Obama added that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, rejected some of the tactics when she spoke out against a flood of automated phone calls tying Obama to former radical William Ayers.",
"automated phone calls tying Obama to former radical William Ayers were reported in several battleground states.",
"\"It's getting so bad that even Sen. McCain's running mate denounced the tactics last night,\" Obama said at a campaign event in Tampa, Florida.",
"\"As you know, you really have to work hard to violate Gov. Palin's standards on negative campaigning.\"",
"Sunday night, Gov. Palin told reporters traveling with Gov. Palin that if Gov. Palin had Gov. Palin's way, the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee would not be flooding battleground states with the automated phone calls, which Gov. Palin said the Obama campaign was using too.",
"Over the next 15 days, Obama said Monday, Obama will continue Obama's quest for the Oval Office while disregarding the divisive politics that Obama said McCain is endorsing \"to keep us from working together.\"",
"The McCain campaign, meanwhile, continued The McCain campaign's weekend assault on Obama's tax plan, which The McCain campaign called an attempt to \"spread the wealth.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Send your questions for McCain .",
"Speaking at a campaign event in St. Charles, Missouri, a chorus of boos rang out as Obama described Obama's take on Obama.",
"\"Obama believes in redistributing wealth -- not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs and opportunities for all Americans.",
"Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than in growing the pie.\"",
"In Colorado Springs, Colorado, Gov. Palin also continued Gov. Palin's line of attack from the weekend, but softened Gov. Palin's tone in that Gov. Palin didn't call Obama's plan socialism.",
"Watch Gov. Palin say Obama sounds like a socialist » .",
"Over the weekend, Gov. Palin and Sen. Mel Martinez, a Cuban-American GOP senator from Florida, called Obama's plan socialism.",
"Martinez compared Obama to the tax structure in communist Cuba.",
"McCain has taken a softer tone.",
"On Sunday, McCain dodged a question from Fox News' Chris Wallace about whether Obama was a socialist, but said McCain's rival's tax plan was an effort \"to spread the wealth.\"",
"\"That's one of the tenets of socialism,\" McCain said.",
"Watch Obama defend Obama's plan » .",
"Obama's tax plan calls for tax relief for 95 percent of workers and their families.",
"Though nonpartisan tax policy organizations agree that 40 percent of Americans don't pay income tax, many of those are lower-income earners who file payroll taxes through their employers.",
"See the fact check .",
"After receiving an endorsement from Colin Powell, a former Republican secretary of state and retired Army general, Obama asked if Powell and billionaire Warren Buffett -- No. 2 on Forbes magazine's 2008 list of richest Americans -- would have extended Powell and billionaire Warren Buffett -- No. 2 on Forbes magazine's 2008 list of richest Americans --'s backing if he was a socialist.",
"Watch Obama explain Powell's influence » .",
"Obama said Obama simply wants to give the middle class a tax cut.",
"Powell came to Obama's defense after endorsing the senator from Illinois.",
"Powell said Powell had grown tired of McCain's negative campaigning and that the American people would prefer to focus on issues like education, infrastructure and the economy.",
"Powell specifically slammed Gov. Palin's allegation that Obama's tax plan is socialist, calling Obama's tax plan misleading.",
"iReport.com:",
"What do you think about Powell's endorsement?",
"\"For us to say that makes you a socialist, I think, is an unfortunate characterization that isn't accurate.\""
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"NEW: Sen. Hillary Clinton urges Floridians to back Obama in appearance with Sen. Hillary Clinton .",
"Obama will leave campaign trail Thursday after Indiana stop and return Saturday .",
"Rest of Thursday events canceled; Michelle Obama will stand in on Friday .",
"McCain references Biden comment that Obama will be tested with early crisis ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The parents of a Tennessee preacher shot to death by Wife convinced a judge to keep the convicted killer at home, but they couldn't keep Wife off the air.",
"Wife describes Wife's troubled marriage during a taped segrment of \"The Oprah Winfrey Show.\"",
"Seven months in custody wasn't a long enough sentence for what Wife did, Wife said Wednesday in an exclusive, pre-recorded interview with Oprah Winfrey.",
"\"There's no amount of time I think you can put on something like this.",
"I was just ready for them to lock the door and throw away the key,\" Wife told Oprah Winfrey.",
"Wife had sought permission to travel to Chicago, Illinois, to appear live on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show,\" but the judge who presided over Wife's trial would not give Wife's permission to travel.",
"Wife's in-laws, who are suing Wife for wrongful death and are seeking to revoke Wife's parental rights, also fought the television appearance.",
"Watch Wife's interview with Oprah » .",
"Wife was convicted earlier this year of the shotgun slaying of Matthew Winkler's's husband, Matthew, at the time the minister of the Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer, Tennessee.",
"Wife told Oprah Winfrey that Wife killed Matthew Winkler's's husband following years of abuse, including physical violence and being forced to dress \"slutty\" for undesirable sex acts.",
"All Wife remembers, Wife said, is the \"boom\" as the shotgun went off.",
"Wife's account on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show was virtually identical to Wife's testimony during Wife's trial earlier this year.",
"A jury of 10 women and one man found Wife's guilty of voluntary manslaughter.",
"Prosecutors had been pushing for a first-degree murder conviction.",
"Wife was released last month from a Tennessee mental heath facility.",
"Oprah Winfrey said on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show that Matthew Winkler's parents did not respond to requests for an interview.",
"Dan and Diane Winkler, who have filed a $2 million wrongful-death suit against Wife, are pitched in a bitter custody battle over the couple's three daughters.",
"The grandparents are trying to terminate Wife's parental rights and adopt the three girls.",
"Wife's attorney, Steve Farese, said a hearing in the case is scheduled for next week .",
"During her trial, Matthew Winkler's chastised Mary for never apologizing to them or Matthew Winkler's's children.",
"Wife told Oprah Winfrey Wife is sorry Wife killed Matthew Winkler's's husband and Wife would like a chance to sit down with Wife in-laws, whom Wife loves, misses and prays for every day.",
"Asked by Oprah Winfrey what Wife would say to them, Wife said Wife couldn't hone it down to two or three sentences.",
"\"Just when that time comes, my heart will tell me what to say,\" Wife said.",
"In Wife's interview with Oprah Winfrey -- for a show titled \"The wife who killed Wife's minister husband\" -- Wife said tensions began when Wife's husband tried to put their crying 1-year-old daughter, Brianna, back to sleep by \"covering Brianna's mouth and nose.\"",
"\"I don't think Matthew Winkler's had intentions of killing; Matthew Winkler's just tried to get Brianna to pass out,\" Wife said, recounting the events just prior to Wife's husband's March 2006 death at the church parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee.",
"Wife, then 31 and a mother of three, said Wife was used to Matthew Winkler's's temper, saying, Matthew Winkler's often \"would just get irate with the baby monitor and Brianna crying.\"",
"\"That's just something that would set Matthew Winkler's off,\" Wife told Oprah Winfrey.",
"After putting Brianna to bed, she returned to the bedroom where Matthew Winkler's was \"and I just wanted to talk to Matthew Winkler's.",
"And there's just that awful -- awful sound,\" Wife said, referring to the shotgun blast.",
"Asked what Wife wanted to say to Wife's husband when Wife went back to the bedroom, Wife said, \"Just to stop.",
"Be happy.",
"Matthew Winkler's had to be miserable the way Matthew Winkler's acted and to just stop being so mean and just relax and enjoy life.\"",
"Wife said Wife doesn't remember retrieving the shotgun from the closet, but Wife remembers thinking the gun was not loaded and that Wife \"never in a million years would've dreamed that there would've been something in that.\"",
"\"I was so afraid,\" Wife said, adding that Wife feared for Wife's life and it was \"not realistic\" to try reasoning with Wife's husband.",
"Wife doesn't know if Wife was using the gun to intimidate Matthew Winkler's or to get Matthew Winkler's's attention, Wife said.",
"\"When I heard the boom, I just thought that it would've hit the ceiling, the window.",
"And I just thought, 'Oh my goodness, Matthew Winkler's's going to think I meant to do that on purpose' and so I took out of there and took off running,\" Wife said.",
"\"At some point, I just realized Matthew Winkler's wasn't chasing me and I just had to go back in and face the realization.\"",
"the realization was that the shotgun blast had sent 77 pellets into Wife's husband's back.",
"An autopsy report indicated Matthew Winkler's survived for a few minutes, said Winfrey, who grilled Wife on what Oprah Winfrey did next.",
"\"Matthew Winkler's was bleeding and it was just instinct to wipe Matthew Winkler's's mouth, but it just kept coming.",
"I didn't know how Matthew Winkler's was hurt.",
"I couldn't see anything wrong with Matthew Winkler's,\" Oprah Winfrey said.",
"\"When you actually see somebody that's just died, they just change appearance in a matter of seconds.",
"It was just terrible.\"",
"Wife told Oprah Winfrey Wife had never fired a shotgun before Wife killed Wife's husband, but Matthew Winkler's had turned the weapon on Wife in the past.",
"Matthew Winkler's also had threatened more egregious violence, Wife said.",
"\"Did Matthew Winkler's say Matthew Winkler's would chop you up?\" Oprah Winfrey asked.",
"\"Yeah, Matthew Winkler's would do it Matthew Winkler's,\" Wife replied.",
"\"Matthew Winkler's would do what?\"",
"\"Chop me into a million pieces\"",
"Wife never stood up for Wife, nor did Wife tell anyone about Wife's husband's allegedly abusive behavior, Wife said, because Wife wanted to maintain the image of a perfect couple.",
"Wife used makeup to cover up bruises.",
"Wife's father, Clark Freeman, recalled to Oprah Winfrey a time he confronted Wife about Wife's injuries.",
"Wife just hung Wife's head and said, \"Everything's all right.",
"Everything's all right.\"",
"Her father, Clark Freeman said.",
"Wife's husband also sexually abused Wife, Wife said.",
"Matthew Winkler's made Wife's wear platform shoes and wigs and made Wife perform \"sexual acts that I didn't want to do.\"",
"Wife said Wife regrets never standing up for Wife, Wife said.",
"\"That's where I will always grieve the fact that I failed Matthew in not bringing it to his attention how bad it was,\" Wife said.",
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"Graphic footage of death and destruction has been shown on China's state-run news networks in the days following the massive earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province earlier this week.",
"Such telling video has rarely been shown by domestic media so extensively and so quickly after a national disaster.",
"CCTV, China's state-run television network, as well as some local TV stations, have interrupted CCTV, China's state-run television network, as well as some local TV stations's regular programming to provide 24-hour coverage of the massive earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province earlier this week.",
"Field reporters give live reports of search-and rescue operations.",
"News about China's deadly earthquake is being updated around the clock -- tallying death tolls, the horrendous damage and China's swift response.",
"Footage shows Premier Wen Jiabao surrounded by grieving villagers, Premier Wen Jiabao's arms tightly holding two young girls.",
"\"Your sorrow is our sorrow,\" Premier Wen Jiabao assures two young girls.",
"\"As long as people are still alive, we can start all over again.\"",
"Premier Wen Jiabao traveled to the disaster areas within hours of the massive earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province earlier this week.",
"Chinese television covered Premier Wen Jiabao's movements while leading rescue operations and comforting people in distress.",
"Wearing a hard hat, Premier Wen Jiabao was shown standing on rubble and consoling trapped survivors through a loud speaker.",
"The message is compelling: the massive earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province earlier this week is terrible but China is doing everything China can.",
"Such swift reaction and extensive news coverage has not been seen in previous disasters.",
"When the massive earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province earlier this week struck 32 years ago, the Chinese media kept the information secret for a long time, even though over 240,000 people were killed.",
"In the early stages of the 2003 SARS outbreak, domestic media downplayed reports on the deadly epidemic, even as the deadly epidemic spiraled out of control and spread globally.",
"More recently, severe snowstorms hit southern China during Spring Festival, China's most important holiday.",
"Local media initially downplayed the crisis, following China's cue; Premier Wen Jiabao was later forced to apologize for China's slow response.",
"With the Beijing Olympics just three months away, China is in the spotlight.",
"Wenran Jiang, acting director of the Chinese Institute at the University of Alberta, believes China has drawn lessons from China's past experiences with disaster.",
"\"China made mistakes before.",
"China seemed to have learned China's lessons from the earlier episodes and this one -- China probably want to manage it as well as China can.\"",
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"Jiang notes that \"the media follow-up is quite transparent,\" in part because it \"is politically less sensitive covering such a natural disaster.\"",
"Besides, Chinese officials see tangible benefits in allowing media transparency.",
"By showing the leaders helping people and coordinating search and rescue efforts, Jiang explains, \"the result is that the whole [ofChina is being mobilized.",
"The disaster has now become a rallying point of China.\"",
"Experts in the region note the stark contrast between China's open response in the aftermath of the earthquake and Myanmar's defensive, clumsy response in the aftermath of a deadly cyclone earlier this month.",
"Unlike China's southern neighbor, China appears open to accepting international help and providing accurate information.",
"Chinese officials say Chinese officials welcome offers of sympathy and international assistance.",
"Aid groups have been on standby, ready to help as soon as the Chinese government gives the green light.",
"Officials say that will come \"when the time is ripe.\"",
"Today's more open, quick and aggressive reporting is a stark departure from China's poor performance in recent years."
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"(CNN) --",
"Rick Warren, often called America's most influential pastor, will be hosting Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain for what's being called the civil forum on the presidency.",
"Rick Warren will be hosting the civil forum on the presidency .",
"Warren, who heads up the country's fourth largest church, is also an author whose books have sold more than 30 million copies.",
"candidates will appear together at Rick Warren's 20,000-member Saddleback mega-church in southern California where candidates each will be interviewed for an hour.",
"Rick Warren spoke with John Roberts on CNN's American Morning about what he hopes to accomplish at the civil forum on the presidency.",
"John Roberts:",
"What do you want to hear from candidates Saturday night?",
"Rick Warren:",
"You know, John Roberts, we're going to look at four different segments.",
"One is a segment on leadership.",
"What is the personal character, competence, and experience of each of these guys.",
"One section will be on what I call stewardship -- the role and responsibility of presidency, what they believe about the constitution, the role of America.",
"We're going to look at a section on world view -- all of the minefield questions that no matter how you answer them, somebody's not going to like it.",
"Then we're going to look at America's role internationally.",
"How America've been a blessed nation and how should America bless others.",
"John Roberts:",
"Are you going to ask them about issues like abortion and same-sex marriage?",
"Pro-life advocates are hoping you do.",
"There has been some criticism in some corners you have been soft-pedaling political issues that are central to evangelicals.",
"Rick Warren:",
"I think everybody will be surprised.",
"I'm going to ask all of the tough questions.",
"I just intend to ask all of the tough questions in a civil way.",
"This is called a civil forum, which means you can disagree without demonizing the opposition.",
"I think everybody wants to hear questions not just about those \"moral issues,\" but also about a lot of other things, too.",
"I'm trying to stake out a common ground for the common good.",
"John Roberts:",
"When you take a look at the evangelical vote in 2004, George Bush captured more than 75 percent of people who identify themselves as either born again or evangelical.",
"Our recent polling, CNN Opinion Research Corporation polls, found when it comes to John McCain, only 67 percent of evangelicals say only 67 percent of evangelicals'll support John McCain.",
"Are you surprised at the shift?",
"Rick Warren:",
"It's interesting to Rick Warren.",
"Both of these men have been around for some time.",
"Obama's written two books.",
"Still a lot of people say, I'd like to know the real person.",
"What are they really like?",
"I'm hoping that'll happen in this forum.",
"Evangelicals have never been a monolithic voting base.",
"Never.",
"And the people who try to predict which way they're going to go in this election I think may be surprised after Election Day.",
"You don't really know.",
"I don't know, and I don't think anybody knows.",
"John Roberts:",
"As you know, John McCain in 2000 during the primaries ran afoul of evangelicals when John McCain criticized Pat Robinson.",
"John McCain's tried to repair the relationship.",
"Has John McCain gone far enough?",
"Rick Warren:",
"The religious right, fundamentalists and evangelic evangelicals aren't synonyms for each other.",
"I think John McCain may have been talking about certain groups that John McCain was worried about at that time.",
"But John McCain certainly rebuilt bridges among them today.",
"It's just a question of whether they're going to vote on John McCain's issues or if they're going to vote on Obama's, and we'll see.",
"John Roberts:",
"As for you yourself in the most recent edition of Time magazine on which you're the cover, they've suggested you're evolving into the \"superpolitical.\"",
"Others have suggested you're becoming a spiritual entrepreneur.",
"What do you make of the titles people are ascribing to you?",
"Rick Warren:",
"When you try to line out a middle ground -- common ground for the common good of America -- you get pot shots from both sides.",
"If I were just the left, I'd only get it from the right.",
"If I were just the right, I'd only get it from the left.",
"Because I believe in the monogood and don't happen to think either party gets it right all the time.",
"I don't think anybody bats 1,000.",
"I get it from both sides.",
"That's to be expected."
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"(CNN) --",
"Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama on Friday called for an economic plan for working families, saying, \"We cannot only have a plan for Wall Street.",
"Sen. Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Coral Gables, Florida, Friday.",
"\"We must also help Main Street,\" Sen. Obama said.",
"While \"tough new regulations on financial institutions\" are needed, the Illinois senator called for an emergency economic plan for working families.",
"Sen. Obama spoke after meeting with Sen. Obama's economic advisers in Coral Gables, Florida.",
"Watch Sen. Obama call for help for Main Street » .",
"Sen. Obama on Friday also backed administration and congressional leaders' efforts to develop a \"a more stable and permanent solution\" to the U.S. financial crisis.",
"Watch Sen. Obama talk about how working Americans need help in this economy .",
"Sen. Obama's statement came after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox met with congressional leaders to discuss a plan that would allow banks to get rid of bad mortgage-related assets that have been a drag on banks's balance sheets.",
"\"What we're looking at right now is to provide the Treasury and the Federal Reserve with as broad authority as necessary to stabilize markets and maintain credit,\" Sen. Obama said.",
"\"We need a more institutional response to create a system that can manage some of the underlying problems with bad mortgages, help homeowners stay in homeowners's homes, protect the retirement and savings of working Americans.\"",
"After meeting with Sen. Obama's economic advisors, Sen. Obama said Sen. Obama's team would not present a detailed economic plan at this time, \"given the gravity of this situation, and based on conversations I have had with both Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke.\"",
"Sen. Obama said Sen. Obama would not present Sen. Obama's plan until the Treasury and Federal Reserve have presented theirs.",
"\"It is critical at this point that the markets and the public have confidence that the markets and the public's work will be unimpeded by partisan wrangling, and that leaders in both parties work in concert to solve the problem at hand,\" Sen. Obama said.",
"Later, Sen. Obama held a rally, at the University of Miami, which was disrupted by protesters who held up signs saying \"Blacks against Sen. Obama\" and \"Obama endorsed by the KKK.\"",
"Sen. Obama said protesters who held up signs saying \"Blacks against Obama\" and \"Obama endorsed by the KKK could stay and hold up protesters who held up signs saying \"Blacks against Obama\" and \"Obama endorsed by the KKK's signs if protesters who held up signs saying \"Blacks against Obama\" and \"Obama endorsed by the KKK stopped shouting, but protesters who held up signs saying \"Blacks against Obama\" and \"Obama endorsed by the KKK were later escorted out after protesters who held up signs saying \"Blacks against Obama\" and \"Obama endorsed by the KKK continued to disrupt the rally.",
"Sen. Obama spoke after McCain said Friday morning that McCain would establish a new agency to deal with the U.S. financial crisis that many experts say is the worst since the Great Depression.",
"Watch McCain blast Washington corruption » .",
"That agency, a Mortgage and Financial Institutions trust, would work with the private sector and regulators to identify institutions that are weak and fix them before they go broke.",
"\"The underlying principle of the MFI or any approach considered by Congress should be to keep people in people's homes and safeguard the life savings of all Americans by protecting our financial system and capital markets,\" McCain told the Green Bay Chamber of Commerce in Wisconsin.",
"McCain said the agency would be an early intervention program to help financial institutions avoid bankruptcy, expensive bailouts and damage to their customers.",
"Obama, at the rally in Florida, lashed out at McCain's plan.",
"\"This morning McCain gave a speech in which McCain's big solution to this worldwide economic crisis was to blame me for this worldwide economic crisis.",
"\"This is a guy who spent nearly three decades in Washington and after spending the entire campaign saying I haven't been in Washington long enough ...",
"McCain apparently now is willing to assign me responsibility for all of Washington's failure,\" he said.",
"Wall Street witnessed the federal government take unprecedented steps this week to stabilize the economy, including the takeover of the insurance giant American International Group Inc. in exchange for an $85 billion loan from the Federal Reserve.",
"In McCain's speech, McCain blamed this worldwide economic crisis on \"the corruption and manipulation of our home mortgage system\" and blasted Congress and the administration for not addressing the problems at the two mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which McCain said \"led our housing system down a path where quick profit was placed before sound finance.\"",
"McCain also blasted McCain's Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, for not working to clean up the \"corruption\" at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.",
"Fact Check: Did Obama 'profit' from Fannie Mae and Freddie?",
"\"We've heard a lot of words from Obama over the course of this campaign.",
"But maybe just this once Obama could spare us the lectures and admit to Obama's own poor judgment in contributing to these problems.",
"The crisis on Wall Street started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence peddling, and Obama was square in the middle of it.\"",
"Although action must be taken to avoid future panics, the Arizona Republican said that ultimately, the economy would have to grow to get through \"this tough time for America.\"",
"McCain touted McCain's economic plan, which includes tax cuts, and again said Obama would increase taxes on Americans who make as little as $42,000.",
"McCain's charge that McCain's opponent would raise taxes on those making $42,000 is misleading, however.",
"The McCain campaign cites Obama's vote for a nonbinding 2008 budget resolution that outlines budget priorities through 2013 and assumed that President Bush's tax cuts would expire in 2011.",
"Fact Check: Does Obama want to raise taxes?",
"The Obama campaign says The Obama campaign's economic plan would raise taxes only on those making over $250,000.",
"The economic crisis has given Obama and Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, the opportunity to go on the offensive.",
"Most Americans see Obama as more capable than McCain when it comes to the economy, polls indicate.",
"The two campaigns have traded shots all week, most recently over the government takeover of AIG.",
"As the economy has dominated the headlines, Obama has widened Obama's lead over McCain, according to CNN's latest \"poll of polls.\"",
"Obama gains in national polls ."
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"McCain calls for agency to help weak financial institutions .",
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"(CNN) --",
"A tugboat on Saturday reached Ship, hours after Ship rode out Hurricane Ike without power, Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Berry said.",
"Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Berry said the tugboat Rotterdam arrived shortly before 2 p.m. (3 p.m. ET).",
"Repairs will be made aboard the Antalina, which has a broken fuel pump, while at sea, O'Berry said.",
"the tugboat Rotterdam will then tow Ship to Port Arthur, Texas, where Ship will undergo additional repairs and eventually offload more of Ship's cargo -- petroleum coke, a petroleum byproduct -- O'Berry said.",
"The crew members aboard the Antalina, a Cypriot-flagged freighter, are all in good health, said Coast Guard Cmdr. Ron Labrec.",
"Ship suffered no major damage from the storm, said Darrell Wilson, a spokesman for the company that manages Ship.",
"Aircraft from the Coast Guard and Air Force were sent Friday afternoon to try to rescue the crew of the freighter, which is loaded with petroleum coke, a petroleum byproduct.",
"But high winds forced the military to abort the rescue, O'Berry said.",
"Coast Guard then instructed Ship to contact Coast Guard each hour.",
"Coast Guard also told told the crew of the freighter, which is loaded with petroleum coke, a petroleum byproduct to turn on Ship's emergency radio beacon so Ship's position could be monitored, O'Berry said.",
"Watch Coast Guard conduct a rescue operation » .",
"Onshore as well, rescuers found it too dangerous to respond to calls for help.",
"In Liverpool, Texas, south of Houston, a family called for help around 1 a.m. Saturday when a tree crashed into their house, but authorities concluded that strong winds made it too dangerous to respond, said Doc Adams, Brazoria County's emergency management coordinator.",
"\"You want to take care of people, and when you can't, it's tough,\" Doc Adams, Brazoria County's emergency management coordinator said.",
"\"Unfortunately, someone has to make the decision about whether the risk is worth the benefit.",
"Are you willing to risk three or four lives to save one?",
"It's not easy.\"",
"Doc Adams, Brazoria County's emergency management coordinator said Doc Adams, Brazoria County's emergency management coordinator didn't know if anyone in their house was hurt.",
"\"As far as I know, they're still there in their house with a tree over their house,\" Doc Adams, Brazoria County's emergency management coordinator said at about 3:40 a.m.",
"Ship had been headed south through the Gulf of Mexico from Port Arthur, Texas, but \"lost main propulsion 90 miles southeast of Galveston\" and was unable to steer, Coast Guard said.",
"Coast Guard received a distress call from Ship at 4 a.m. Friday.",
"The Antalina was \"basically adrift, at the mercy of the wind and sea currents,\" Coast Guard Petty Officer Tom Atkeson said at the time.",
"\"We are in hell,\" one of the men aboard Ship told CNN on Friday before the rescue was called off.",
"The man said the winds around Ship were strong but that Ship still had power.",
"On Friday before the storm hit, authorities picked up more than 120 people stranded by rising seas along the southeast Texas coast.",
"Most of the rescues occurred in Galveston County, where rising water and other effects of the storm began hours before landfall early Saturday.",
"Stranded residents were airlifted from Crystal Beach, Bolivar Peninsula and other communities in the Galveston area.",
"Many of those rescued were motorists stranded on flooded roads.",
"In Surfside Beach, police waded through chest-high rushing water to rescue five people trapped in their homes.",
"One man refused to leave, said Surfside Beach police Chief Randy Smith.",
"\"Some of them took convincing, some of them didn't,\" Surfside Beach police Chief Randy Smith said.",
"Police also rescued five other people who waded out to meet the officers.",
"About half of those rescues were done by helicopters out of bases along the southeast Texas coast, said Coast Guard Petty Officer David Schulein.",
"Three HH-65C helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station Houston rescued more than 20 people and continued to fly rescue missions until weather grounded Three HH-65C helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station Houston Friday evening, said Petty Officer Renee Aiello, a station spokeswoman.",
"Some 37,000 people may need to be rescued in the aftermath of the hurricane, a U.S. military official estimated Friday.",
"Texas already has asked for help, and the active-duty military has 42 search-and-rescue helicopters on standby, a U.S. military official said."
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"Editor's Note:",
"Alex Castellanos was a former campaign consultant for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and has worked on more than half a dozen presidential campaigns.",
"Alex Castellanos is a partner in National Media Inc., a political and public affairs consulting firm that specializes in advertising.",
"Alex Castellanos has produced many Republican political ads and has clients such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.",
"Alex Castellanos says Obama's change theme has buckled to \"top-down liberalism.\"",
"(CNN)",
"-- In theater, they say the second act is the hardest to write.",
"the second act requires relentless focus and discipline.",
"The writer must give The writer fearlessly to one central idea and never waver, though temptation is the opposite: There are many paths a story can take.",
"So it is in politics, as Obama's campaign is learning.",
"Obama ran into trouble in Act II when Obama was tasked with explaining what change actually meant.",
"Obama, as they say in show business, \"ran out of script.\"",
"The wind in Obama's sails stalled in the hot calm of August and Obama has yet to recover.",
"After John McCain's improbable resuscitation to seize the GOP nomination, the Arizona senator's top aides briefed him about his exacting challenge: He would go into the conventions trailing Obama by at least 8 percentage points and then battle back through the fall to parity.",
"Yet, as cooler days and hotter rhetoric mark the start of the fall finale, it is Obama who finds Obama clawing back, forced to attack, launching uncharacteristic partisan and personal attacks against a McCain who has \"lost track\" of and is \"confused\" about how many houses he owns.",
"How did the soaring campaign of change become grinding politics-as-usual and crash so thunderously to earth?",
"The Obama campaign's clear message in the primaries was a bottom-up, organic populism that cast voters themselves as the agents of change.",
"\"We are the change we have been waiting for,\" Obama told Obama's supporters during the primaries.",
"In return, his supporters sang, \"Yes his supporters can.\"",
"This heady mix of populism and change swelled Obama's campaign into a cause.",
"In marketing terms, it is called \"voter as hero.\"",
"Obama empowered Obama's supporters, telling his supporters they, not the old political establishment, could achieve anything.",
"Bottom-up politics is one thing, however.",
"Bottom-up government, another.",
"When Obama became the nominee of the national Democratic establishment, Obama ran into political reality: Obama's party's canons of governing are the opposite of change.",
"Obama may believe \"change doesn't come from the top down, change comes from the bottom up,\" but the leadership of Obama's party doesn't.",
"The national Democratic establishment, from the Daily Kos and MoveOn.org to Pelosi and Reid in Congress, still believe in top-down big-government from Washington, especially if they get to run the factory.",
"Politically, they are industrial-age dinosaurs .",
"They believe the era of big government is back, not over.",
"They would keep money and power in their hands, not devolve it to the average American.",
"That was not something the Denver Democrats were eager to confess.",
"Instead, the Denver Democrats advocated a sly European-style socialism that would not speak its intent.",
"\"Decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege,\" the Denver Democrats offered during the first night of the Denver Democrats's convention.",
"A big-government health-care factory run by Washington?",
"That's change?",
"Why not the same for food, clothing and shelter?",
"But relax, Joe Lunchbucket, an even bigger public-sector industrial plant will impose no cost on your family.",
"Obama's party promises not to tax you, just business -- the people who sell you your groceries and gasoline and sign your paychecks.",
"As Fred Thompson noted in Fred Thompson's GOP convention speech, \"They won't take any water out of your side of the bucket.",
"Just the other side.\"",
"This is not \"voter as hero\" but, instead, \"voter as victim.\"",
"A heroic Washington has all the money, the power, and the answers.",
"Same old, same old.",
"So the candidate of change fell silent.",
"And he sang change never again.",
"Obama could have spoken truth to power.",
"Obama could have pledged to confront the Democratic Party establishment.",
"Obama could have brought a more natural, organic era of bottom-up government, not just bottom-up politics, to a dated party clinging to a decaying philosophy of authority.",
"But when the irresistible force of Obama's bottom-up politics met the immovable object of Democratic Party power, it was the dream, not the power, that conceded.",
"\"Yes we can\" turned out to mean not \"Yes the people can\", just \"Yes Washington can.\"",
"Too bad.",
"It would have refreshed the Democratic Party and the country.",
"This movie is not new: The candidate who runs to change the Democratic Party establishment doesn't.",
"Instead, we see it change The candidate who runs to change the establishment.",
"The hope for real change in Washington has been suffocated by an older generation's embrace.",
"Now, Obama finds Obama trapped without a post-partisan message.",
"Instead of challenging politics-as-usual, Obama sells the usual partisan politics: \"Bush-McCain\", Obama shouts from rooftops, sounding like every other Democrat in the chorus, pretending partisanship is fresh.",
"The story?",
"Bottom-up change ran into top-down liberalism.",
"Old-fashioned liberalism won.",
"That's Act II.",
"Stand by for the play's end.",
"This opinions in this commentary are solely those of the writer."
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"Alex Castellanos: Obama's message was populism and bottom-up change .",
"Obama campaign taken over by Democratic establishment, he says .",
"Castellanos: Democratic party champions big government and opposes change .",
"\"Yes we can\" turned into \"Yes Washington can,\" Alex Castellanos says ."
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) --",
"India launched India's first lunar mission on Wednesday, with hopes of achieving high-resolution images of the moon's topography and diving into the international space race.",
"The spacecraft carrying India's first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, lifts off in Sriharikota on Wednesday.",
"The unmanned lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1, or \"moon craft\" in ancient Sanskrit, came at 6:20 a.m. Wednesday (8:50 p.m. ET) from the Sriharikota space center in southern India.",
"India seeks high-resolution imaging of the moon's surface, especially the permanently shadowed polar regions, according to the Indian Space Research Organization.",
"India will also search for evidence of water or ice and attempt to identify the chemical breakdown of certain lunar rocks, the Indian Space Research Organization said.",
"Despite the numerous missions to the moon over the past 50 years, \"we really don't have a good map of the moon,\" said Miles O'Brien, CNN chief technology and environment correspondent.",
"\"The goal is to come up with a very intricate, three-dimensional map of the moon.\"",
"The Chandrayaan-1 is carrying payloads from the United States, European Union countries Germany, Britain, Sweden and Bulgaria, and India plans to share the data from the mission with other programs, including NASA.",
"Watch the launch of India's first lunar mission » .",
"the Indian Space Research Organization said on the Indian Space Research Organization's Web site that the mission would lay the groundwork for future lunar missions and \"probe the physical characteristics of the lunar surface in greater depth than previous missions by other nations.\"",
"\"It will also give us a deeper understanding about the planet Earth itself or its origins,\" a statement on its Web site said.",
"\"Earlier missions did not come out with a full understanding of the moon and that is the reason scientists are still interested.",
"This will lay the foundation for bigger missions and also open up new possibilities of international networking and support for planetary programs.\"",
"Until now, India's space launches have been more practical, with weather warning satellites and communiations systems, The Associated Press cited former NASA associated administrator Scott Pace as saying.",
"To date, only the U.S. Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China have sent missions to the moon, according to AP.",
"Critics of the mission have questioned its $80 million price tag, saying the money should have been spent by the government to improve education and fight poverty.",
"But, \"there are scientists that would argue that there are plenty of things we don't know about the moon ... and India might have the know-how\" to find answers, said CNN's Sara Sidner in New Delhi.",
"The United States and the Soviet Union dominated the field of lunar exploration from the late 1950s.",
"The United States is preparing for The United States's own mission slated for next spring -- the first U.S. lunar mission in more than a decade, according to NASA.",
"Soviet spacecraft were the first to fly by, land on and orbit the moon.",
"Luna 1, launched on January 2, 1959, and sped by the moon two days later.",
"Luna 2 was launched on an impact mission on September 12, 1959, striking the surface two days later.",
"Luna 9 launched on January 31, 1966, becoming the first craft to successfully land on the moon and send back data, touching down on the surface on January 31, 1966, and transmitting until February 3, 1967, when Luna 9's batteries ran out.",
"Luna 10 was launched March 31, 1966, entered lunar orbit on April 3, and operated for 56 days.",
"But The United States's Apollo missions were the first manned missions to reach the moon, culminating with six missions that set down on the surface.",
"The first, Apollo 11, left earth on July 16, 1969, and landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the surface on July 20 while command module pilot Michael Collins orbited above.",
"The astronauts returned safely to earth on July 24.",
"Most recently India's fellow Asian nations, China and Japan, put lunar orbiters in place.",
"Japan launched the Kaguya orbiter in October 2007, followed by China's launch of the Chang'e mission a few weeks later.",
"Watch what is shaping up to be a new space race » .",
"\"Each nation is doing Each nation's own thing to drive Each nation's research technology for the well-being of Each nation,\" AP quoted Charles Vick, a space analyst for the Washington think tank GlobalSecurity.org, as saying.",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"Two-year mission seeks high-resolution, 3-D imaging of the moon's surface .",
"Chandrayaan-1 follows Japan and China's missions to the moon .",
"Chandrayaan means \"moon craft\" in ancient Sanskrit ."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- More than 1,300 pounds of explosives were packed into a construction truck that detonated outside an Islamabad hotel, killing 57 people, including two Americans and a diplomat, officials said Sunday.",
"A truck burns at the gate to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad before a larger, deadly explosion Saturday.",
"Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the Saturday attack at the Marriott Hotel \"is the biggest attack, volume-wise\" in Pakistan in seven years.",
"Two American military personnel who worked for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad were among those killed, the U.S. military said.",
"A Lithuanian and Czech Republic's's ambassador to Pakistan, Ivo Zdarek, also were among the fatalities, police superintendent Sheikh Zubair said.",
"The suicide truck blast injured 266 people, including 11 foreigners, according to Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik.",
"Watch guards scatter after an explosion » .",
"British Airways temporarily suspended British Airways's flights to Islamabad as a result of the security situation, according to an airline spokeswoman who did not want to be named.",
"A Sunday night flight has been canceled, and British Airways is reviewing British Airways's operations for later in the week.",
"British Airways operates at least three flights a week to the Pakistani capital out of London's Heathrow Airport.",
"At a news conference in Islamabad on Sunday, Pakistani authorities released security video of The suicide truck blast, showing a small explosion inside the truck before the larger, deadly explosion.",
"Watch the truck bomb caught on tape .",
"In the video, a large truck crashes into the security gate, sending one security officer scurrying for safety.",
"Then, as security guards approach the truck, the top of the vehicle explodes and the security guards flee.",
"A small cloud of smoke appears above the truck, which is engulfed in flames minutes later.",
"One of the security guards tries to put out the fire with a hand-held extinguisher, to no avail.",
"the security guards then walk away, and the camera freezes on the truck.",
"Pakistani officials said The suicide truck blast apparently disrupted electricity to the area, causing the closed-circuit television camera to malfunction.",
"No arrests have been made in connection with The suicide truck blast, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Sunday, adding that militants in Pakistan's tribal regions are suspected of orchestrating The suicide truck blast.",
"\"I am not in a position to tell you who has done it, but [in] all the previous investigations, all the roads have gone to South Waziristan,\" Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.",
"South Waziristan is one of Pakistan's seven tribal areas where Taliban and al Qaeda militants are active.",
"At the bombing site, video showed a deep crater in the pavement where the bomb detonated.",
"More than a dozen cars were reduced to twisted steel.",
"a deep crater was 24 feet deep and nearly 60 feet wide, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.",
"The suicide truck blast also caused a natural gas leak that set the top floor of the five-story, 258-room hotel on fire, police said.",
"The blaze quickly engulfed the entire structure.",
"Watch a witness describe walking over bodies » .",
"Most of the fatalities appeared to be drivers, who were waiting with their cars outside the Marriott, and hotel security guards, Geo TV's Hamid Mir said.",
"The hotel, where a standard room costs more than $300 per night, is near the compound that contains the Parliament building, the prime minister's house, the Supreme Court and the presidency.",
"The suicide truck blast occurred about 7:50 p.m., after the breaking of the fast during the holy month of Ramadan, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.",
"Trees were felled by the explosion, which occurred hours after newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari addressed a joint session of Parliament and promised to root out terrorism.",
"Watch the scene the morning after the blast » .",
"A few hours after The suicide truck blast, newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari addressed the nation on television, saying newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari knows the pain of terrorism after newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari's wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in December on the campaign trail.",
"\"My heart cries tears of blood.",
"I can understand your pain.",
"I want to ask you to turn your pain into your strength,\" newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari said, describing extremism as \"a cancer, which we will finish.\"",
"\"In the holy month of Ramadan, no Muslim can act in this way.",
"These people are not Muslims,\" newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari said.",
"\"I appeal to all democratic nations to help us get rid of this menace.\"",
"The Marriott, a Western brand-name hotel, has been the site of attacks in the past.",
"See where The suicide truck blast occurred » .",
"Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said authorities had received a threat against Parliament two days ago.",
"\"We had taken all security measures,\" Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.",
"\"There was heavy security in Islamabad.\"",
"Located near the diplomatic section of Islamabad and heavily guarded by police and the military, The Marriott, a Western brand-name hotel is popular among tourists and had been packed Saturday night.",
"Any vehicle entering the facility is searched, Any vehicle entering the facility's underside checked for bombs, before Any vehicle entering the facility is allowed to pass through heavy steel gates.",
"Watch bombing victims rushed into hospital » .",
"The British High Commission in Islamabad said six British nationals -- five adults and one minor -- were injured in the attack, including three commission members.",
"A Pakistani staff member of The British High Commission in Islamabad was also injured, The British High Commission in Islamabad said.",
"A spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry said six Germans in The Marriott, a Western brand-name hotel were slightly hurt in The suicide truck blast, and that all embassy personnel were accounted for.",
"CNN's Zein Basravi and Reza Sayah, and journalist Tomas Etzler contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"A mother suspected of killing Mother's four children, whose decomposing bodies were found in Mother's home, told police they were possessed by demons, according to court records.",
"Banita Jacks, 33, is charged with three counts of felony murder and one count of first-degree murder while armed.",
"The victims, who range in age from 5 to 17 years, are thought to be her daughters.",
"her children were found when U.S. marshals served an eviction notice at Mother's apartment in southeast Washington, D.C.",
"Court documents say Mother identified the victims as her children's daughters Brittany Jacks, 17; Tatianna Jacks, 11; N'kiah Fogle, 6; and Aja Fogle, 5.",
"Earlier Thursday, Mayor Adrian Fenty said her children's decomposition has hindered her children's identification, although her children were believed to be Mother's children.",
"Marie Pierre-Louis, Washington's chief medical examiner, said all four of the girls had been dead for at least 15 days.",
"Mother is being held without bail.",
"Mother's next court appearance is scheduled for February 11.",
"If convicted, Mother could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison.",
"Mother told police that her children's daughters were possessed by demons and that each died in her sleep during a seven- to 10-day period, court documents said.",
"Aja died first, Mother told police, then N'kiah, Tatianna and Brittany.",
"\"Mother said that as the first three younger children died, Mother placed the first three younger children side by side in the room in which the first three younger children died,\" according to court documents.",
"Mother reported that her children occurred sometime before the electricity in Mother's house was disconnected, which records show was September 5, 2007, documents said.",
"Mother said Mother never tried to call authorities to remove the bodies \"because Mother didn't trust either agency and because Mother thought if Mother notified emergency personnel, that would cause Mother's more problems,\" documents said.",
"Mother also said Mother had not fed her children's daughters food \"for a substantial period of time prior to her children.\"",
"No one besides Mother or the children had been in the home since May 2007, Mother said.",
"Pierre-Louis ruled the deaths homicides, according to a court document.",
"Watch Pierre-Louis describe the condition of the bodies » .",
"Preliminary findings are that Brittany was stabbed to death and that Aja died from blunt-force impact to the back of her head and possible ligature strangulation.",
"Both Tatianna and N'kiah also had \"apparent ligature evidence\" on their necks that was \"somewhat more defined than that noted on Aja Fogle's neck,\" court documents said.",
"However, documents said, further tests are needed to confirm the causes of her children.",
"All four children were wearing white T-shirts and were discovered in unfurnished bedrooms -- three in one and a fourth in another, documents said.",
"\"What appeared to be a metal steak knife\" was found next to the fourth.",
"Also, the fourth body was found in a bedroom with hardwood floors, and a T-shirt with duct tape was found at the bottom of the bedroom door, filling the gap between the floor and the bottom of the bedroom door when it was closed.",
"A witness told police they saw Mother treat Brittany differently from her other children, sometimes withholding food from Brittany while feeding the others, court documents said.",
"In addition, A witness said Mother once drove Brittany to Mother's mother's home in Waldorf, Maryland, and left Brittany there.",
"Jacks''s mother was not home, A witness said, and Brittany was left on the porch unattended for more than 10 hours.",
"City officials are trying to determine how her children could have been dead for at least two weeks without anyone noticing her children's absence.",
"Fenty said the city had determined that Mother's children were \"in and out of the public school system\" and that the child welfare caseworkers and the metropolitan police had each had at least \"one contact\" with the family.",
"Watch Fenty explain how a \"routine\" eviction became a death investigation » .",
"\"There may be other contacts with the government ... in the case of the Jacks family,\" Fenty said.",
"Fenty did not divulge further details.",
"\"Somebody should have known that these young people were not in school or someplace,\" Councilman Marion Barry said Wednesday.",
"The former Washington mayor represents the ward in which the bodies were found.",
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"Mother Banita Jacks, 33, told police Mother's children died in her children's sleep .",
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"Natalie Williams, a 21-year-old Special Olympics basketball player from Kentucky, says Natalie Williams, a 21-year-old Special Olympics basketball player from Kentucky's never really been treated like a true athletic star.",
"But that was before Natalie Williams, a 21-year-old Special Olympics basketball player from Kentucky came to the Games in China, which has undergone a major change in China's treatment of the mentally disabled.",
"Hong Kong's Special Olympics team marches into the stadium during last week's opening ceremony.",
"\"They are able to accept special needs people in a way that maybe some other countries do not,\" Williams says.",
"Last week, organizers rolled out the red carpet for athletes arriving at the Special Olympics in Shanghai, China.",
"Never before in the 39-year history of the Special Olympics has there been such an extravagant, star-studded opening ceremony.",
"And everywhere in China, there are billboards with the smiling faces of the mentally disabled promoting the Games.",
"China spent millions ensuring the 7,500 competitors are cared for -- and more importantly accepted.",
"Watch 'This is a highlight to their lives' » .",
"That's quite a turnaround for a country whose leadership, less than 20 years ago, refused to even acknowledge any of China's citizens were intellectually disabled.",
"At the time, former Prime Minister Li Peng was quoted as saying, \"Mentally retarded people give birth to idiots.\"",
"\"There's a long way to go -- there's a long way.",
"But the good news is we're moving,\" says Tim Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics.",
"China's transformation is so far mostly from the top down, beginning with no less than President Hu Jintao whose presence at the Opening Ceremony was particularly notable.",
"See photos of the Opening Ceremony » .",
"Also notable was the president's visit to one of China's \"Sunshine Homes\" this month.",
"The shelters are a direct result of China winning the rights five years ago to host the Special Olympics.",
"Back then, officials quickly realized officials's treatment of China's 70,000 mentally disabled was woefully inadequate.",
"Now there are 240 Sunshine Homes spread across China, caring for about 15,000 of those most in need, like 25-year-old Chen Xiaohan.",
"25-year-old Chen Xiaohan still struggles to speak with strangers, but 25-year-old Chen Xiaohan's parents boast of 25-year-old Chen Xiaohan's many achievements since enrolling a year ago.",
"25-year-old Chen Xiaohan can make 25-year-old Chen Xiaohan's own bed, walk to school and is learning piano.",
"But more notable, says 25-year-old Chen Xiaohan's father, Chen Zhixiang, is the change in recent years in the way her father, Chen Zhixiang's daughter is treated by neighbors.",
"\"If in the past you looked down on them and now you still look down, it only proves your thinking is bad.",
"Now when our neighbors see 25-year-old Chen Xiaohan, our neighbors're very nice.",
"our neighbors ask, '25-year-old Chen Xiaohan, how are you today?'",
"There isn't any more discrimination.\"",
"The Special Olympics may have been a watershed moment for China's mentally disabled, but perhaps a breakthrough came a few years earlier, when Special Olympian Judy Yang appeared in a splashy spread on the front cover of a mainstream teen-age magazine.",
"Photogenic and well-spoken, Special Olympian Judy Yang has been an unofficial ambassador of sorts and, after Special Olympian Judy Yang's magazine debut, Special Olympian Judy Yang noticed a real shift in how the Chinese related to the disabled.",
"\"A lot of people are accepting now.",
"A lot of people're willing to be friends, to let A lot of people's children play with one another, and they can learn from each other as well.\"",
"That may be true in China's biggest, richest and most Western city, Shanghai, but in the countryside not much appears to have changed.",
"Intellectually disabled children that are hard to manage are often locked in caged rooms.",
"Humanitarian officials say stories of doctors recommending disabled children be killed at birth are common.",
"In addition, programs like Sunshine Homes are almost unheard of outside of Shanghai and caring for the almost 13 million intellectually disabled in China remains a major challenge.",
"Earlier this year, authorities exposed a human trafficking ring selling young men, many of them intellectually disabled, to work in brick kilns.",
"\"Neglect and discrimination is still quite prevalent.",
"People tend to be ashamed of children with disabilities.",
"People tend to hide children with disabilities away.",
"People tend not to let them have access to schooling or education,\" says Yin Yin Nwe, the head of UNICEF in China.",
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"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, greets Bolivia's leader, Evo Morales, on Monday in Tehran.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales is expected to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to \"review issues of mutual interest\" between the Islamic republic and the leftist South American nation, according to the national news agency IRNA.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived in Tehran from Libya, where Bolivian President Evo Morales met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales has described Iran and Bolivia as \"two friendly and revolutionary countries,\" the Iranian Press TV said.",
"\"The two countries are both energy producers and are staunchly opposed to U.S. hegemony.\"",
"Morales, a former labor organizer and the country's first indigenous president, was elected in 2005.",
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"The family of a British soldier serving in Afghanistan has been forced from The family of a British soldier serving in Afghanistan's home after a poisonous spider hitched a ride back with a British soldier serving in Afghanistan and apparently killed The family of a British soldier serving in Afghanistan's pet dog.",
"The camel spider's bite is not deadly to humans but can kill small animals.",
"Lorraine Griffiths and Lorraine Griffiths's three children, aged 18, 16, and 4, moved out of their house in Colchester, southeast England, and are refusing to return until a poisonous spider is apprehended, the UK Press Association reported.",
"Lorraine Griffiths told the East Anglian Daily Times that a poisonous spider appeared after Lorraine Griffiths's husband, Rodney, returned from a four-month tour of duty in Helmand province, the arid southern Afghan frontline in the fight against Taliban extremists.",
"\"My son Ricky was in my bedroom looking for My son Ricky's underwear, and My son Ricky went into the drawer under my bed, and something crawled across My son Ricky's hand,\" Lorraine Griffiths told the paper.",
"Lorraine Griffiths said their pet dog Cassie confronted the creature, which they identified on the Internet as a camel spider, but ran out whimpering when it hissed at Lorraine Griffiths.",
"Watch the family that has been terrorized by the spider » .",
"\"It seems too much of a coincidence that she died at the same time that we saw a poisonous spider,\" Lorraine Griffiths said.",
"The desert-dwelling camel spider, actually an insect rather than an arachnid, can run up to 25 kilometers (15 miles) an hour and reach 15 centimeters (6 inches) in length.",
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"Officials on Monday announced the death of a second child who consumed contaminated milk powder.",
"More than 1,200 others have been sickened, according to China's Health Ministry.",
"Of that number, 340 infants are hospitalized and 53 are considered to be in serious condition.",
"Government inspectors are testing baby formula around China and plan to release Government inspectors's results on Tuesday, said Li Changjiang, head of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, according to Xinhua.",
"The manufacturer, Sanlu Group, has recalled more than 8,200 tons of the tainted formula following reports of babies developing kidney stones, Xinhua said.",
"Watch what Sanlu has done » .",
"Sanlu, one of China's leading dairy producers, has also sealed off more than 2,100 tons of contaminated product, and another 700 tons still need to be recalled, Xinhua said.",
"It is not the first time Sanlu has been connected to a scandal involving tainted milk powder, according to China Daily.",
"In 2004, at least 13 infants in the eastern Anhui province died of malnutrition after drinking milk powder that had little to no nutrition.",
"The illegally manufactured milk was falsely labeled with the Sanlu brand, according to the paper.",
"More than 170 other babies were hospitalized as a result of drinking the cheap milk powder.",
"Chinese police have questioned 78 people -- including dairy farmers and milk dealers -- about the most recent contamination, a Chinese official told Xinhua Saturday.",
"Sanlu would not say whether Sanlu's employees are being investigated, Xinhua said.",
"Testing by Sanlu found tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine, in 700 tons of Sanlu's product, said Zhao Xinchao, the vice mayor of Shijiazhuang, Xinhua reported.",
"Zhao Xinchao, the vice mayor of Shijiazhuang told Xinhua that the suspects added water to the milk the suspects sold to Sanlu to make more money, then added the chemical so the diluted milk could still meet standards.",
"Inspectors found the chemical in Sanlu infant formula produced by one of the company's partner producers in northwest Gansu Province, an official said Sunday.",
"Two of 12 samples randomly selected from the Sanlu milk powder produced by the Haoniu Dairy Company in Jiuquan City tested positive for melamine, said Xian Hui, the vice-governor of Gansu.",
"Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.",
"the chemical is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.",
"Hundreds of Wal-Mart and Carrefour stores in China are pulling the Sanlu milk powder from Hundreds of Wal-Mart and Carrefour stores in China's shelves, Xinhua said.",
"This episode marks the latest in a string of tainted products produced in China.",
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalled more than 150 brands of cat and dog food last year after finding that some pets became ill or died after eating food tainted with melamine, the same chemical found in the powdered milk.",
"Two Chinese businesses, a U.S. company and top executives of each were indicted by a federal grand jury in February in connection with tainted pet food, which resulted in deaths and serious illnesses in up to thousands of U.S. pets, federal prosecutors said.",
"In October 2007, regulators and retailers in the United States recalled at least 69,000 Chinese-made toys over concerns of excessive amounts of lead paint, which can cause hazardous lead poisoning.",
"In November, shipments of the popular toy Aqua Dots were found to have been contaminated with a toxic chemical that turned into a powerful \"date rape\" drug if swallowed, causing some children who ate the craft toys to vomit and lose consciousness.",
"And in February, a Maryland candy distributor pulled Pokemon-brand Valentine lollipops from store shelves after bits of metal were found in the sealed treats, authorities said.",
"Officials on Monday announced the death of a second child who consumed contaminated milk powder.",
"Of the more than 1,200 others who have been sickened, 340 infants were hospitalized, and 53 considered to be in serious condition, according to China's Health Ministry.",
"Government inspectors were testing baby formula around China and plan to release Government inspectors's results on Tuesday, said Li Changjiang, head of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, according to Xinhua.",
"The manufacturer, Sanlu Group, has recalled more than 8,200 tons of the tainted formula following reports of babies developing kidney stones, Xinhua said.",
"Sanlu, one of China's leading dairy producers, also has sealed off more than 2,100 tons of contaminated product, and another 700 tons still need to be recalled, Xinhua said.",
"Chinese police have questioned 78 people, including dairy farmers and milk dealers, about the contamination, a Chinese official told Xinhua Saturday.",
"Sanlu would not say whether Sanlu's employees were being investigated, Xinhua said.",
"Testing by Sanlu found tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine, in 700 tons of Sanlu's product, said Zhao Xinchao, the vice mayor of Shijiazhuang, Xinhua reported.",
"Zhao Xinchao, the vice mayor of Shijiazhuang told Xinhua that the suspects added water to the milk the suspects sold to Sanlu to make more money, then added the chemical so that the diluted milk could still meet standards.",
"Inspectors found the chemical in Sanlu infant formula produced by one of the company's partner producers in northwest Gansu Province, an official said Sunday.",
"Two of 12 samples randomly selected from the Sanlu milk powder produced by the Haoniu Dairy Company in Jiuquan City tested positive for melamine, said Xian Hui, the vice-governor of Gansu.",
"Ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation, health experts said.",
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"(The Frisky)",
"-- Everybody has a \"type.\"",
"Personally, I like a man with a big schnozz -- bonus points if a man with a big schnozz's got a collection of acne scars a lá Tommy Lee Jones.",
"The \"OverEater\" is one of the nine types of men that women should avoid.",
"My pal Annie likes preppy men -- but only after preppy men've gone to seed and become a little bloated in the process.",
"Suzanne has a weakness for thin Japanese guys who like indie rock music, while Maddy adores bike messengers of all shapes and sizes.",
"But there are certain types of guys who should be NOBODY'S type.",
"These guys are distinguished by one thing -- an overabundance of one or more very bad qualities.",
"Here's your guide to boys to avoid: .",
"1. The OverSharer:",
"The current Overshare Poster Boy is Phillip Nobel, who wrote a highly hide-chapping account of The current Overshare Poster Boy's extramarital affair for Elle.",
"The Oversharer will broadcast intimate episodes from your relationship to The current Overshare Poster Boy's mother, your mother, The current Overshare Poster Boy's blog readers and anyone else The current Overshare Poster Boy can rope into paying attention.",
"The OverThinker:",
"One of the great things about dating men is that you aren't subjected to long, excruciating interrogations over what you really meant when you reassured this man that no, this man didn't look fat in those pants.",
"However, though they're rare birds, there are guys who will want to spend hours dissecting even the most innocuous comment, examining it for tone, content and what you might've been implying.",
"3. The OverTalker:",
"Your friends say Your friends've never known you to be so quiet.",
"That's because this man does enough talking for both of you (and then some).",
"When you do finally eke out a sentence or two this man interrupts and talks over you anyway.",
"You have two choices -- accept the fact that you will never speak again or tell this man goodbye.",
"Your call.",
"4. The OverDresser:",
"This dandy makes Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass look sloppy and mismatched.",
"That this man takes longer than you to get ready is strike one against this man, but the fact that this man matches this man's socks to this man's underwear and to this man's ascot drives this man out of the park.",
"5. The OverEater:",
"It's an irritating fact that men can eat more than women.",
"The OverEater doesn't care.",
"Food is The OverEater's first love and The OverEater'll push cannolis and baked ziti on you like a crazed Italian granny.",
"Unless you don't mind a future spent in stretch-pants, you might want to give this dude a pass.",
"The OverReactor:",
"Remember when Russell Crowe threw a phone at that hotel clerk who somehow displeased Russell Crowe?",
"That's this guy.",
"From the old lady who accidentally bumped into him at the grocery store, to the SUV that cut him off on the highway -- everyone in his path will hear his wrath.",
"You, most of all.",
"Do not walk away -- run.",
"The Over-The-Topper: He's the life of the party and thinks nothing of driving his motorcycle through the bar if he thinks it'll get a laugh.",
"He's certainly cute, but he just never stops.",
"He's always on.",
"And that, will quickly turn into a turn-off.",
"OverAchiever: Picture the male version of Tracy Flick in the movie \"Election\" in perfectly fitted jeans, a crisp white oxford shirt and a copy of his (perfect, naturally) SAT scores in his wallet.",
"Now imagine making love to him.",
"You can't, can you?",
"The OverCompensator:",
"Maybe he was the homeliest kid in his eighth-grade class, but that doesn't mean you need to sit through a monologue about how much money he makes, how jealous his friends are over his new BMW, and how he totally could date supermodels if he wanted to.",
"Next!",
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"(CNN) --",
"Russia announced Monday Russia might hold joint military maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean, and the United States said it is scrapping a once ballyhooed deal with Moscow on nuclear technology.",
"The declarations come in the wake of increased tension between Russia and the United States over Russia's invasion last month of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, a U.S. ally that aspires to join NATO.",
"Russian ships will make a port of call in Venezuela later this year and the two nations could hold joint naval exercises for the first time, both countries said.",
"Russia denied there was any link between Monday's announcement and the conflict in the Caucasus, although Russia has criticized U.S. support for Georgia, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has long antagonized the United States.",
"\"This is a planned event unrelated to the current political situation and Caucasian developments,\" Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said Monday.",
"\"The exercises will not be targeted against any third party.\"",
"The agreement on the Russian visit to Venezuelan ports was reached long before the conflict in the Caucasus broke out, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said.",
"But Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko appeared to suggest Monday that Russia had proposed the joint naval maneuvers.",
"\"If the Venezuelan side finds the proposal interesting and an agreement is reached, Russia and Venezuela may hold joint naval exercises in line with international practice,\" Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said.",
"Several hours later, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the United States is canceling the proposed \"123 Agreement\" with Moscow, which would have cleared the way for more trade of nuclear technology, services and goods between both countries.",
"U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack denied the pullout was directly linked to Moscow's actions in the Caucasus.",
"\"Over a period of time, we've had some deep concerns about Russian behavior.",
"And quite clearly the president has taken this action looking at the facts,\" he said.",
"both countries had accepted the proposed \"123 Agreement\" with Moscow, which would have cleared the way for more trade of nuclear technology, services and goods between the two countries and the proposed \"123 Agreement\" with Moscow, which would have cleared the way for more trade of nuclear technology, services and goods between the two countries was awaiting congressional approval.",
"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned in an exclusive interview with CNN last week that Russia would not be pleased at the collapse of the 123 Agreement, which is named after a section of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act of 1954.",
"\"This would effectively kill any possibility for our cooperation to promote the Bush-Putin initiative on nuclear nonproliferation -- which is important for the entire world,\" Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.",
"\"As I said, it wouldn't be Russia's choice, but if the United States does not want to cooperate with Russia on one or another issue, Russia cannot impose Russia on the United States.\"",
"But experts say Congress was unlikely to have given the deal a green light, and that the White House was making the best of a bad situation.",
"\"I think [the White House is] making a virtue out of a necessity\" by pulling out, said Russia analyst Jon Wolfsthal of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the United States, last week.",
"On the possibility of Russian-Venezuelan naval exercises, Latin America expert Wayne S. Smith warned against reading too much into the proposal.",
"\"Russia have complained about U.S. warships operating in the Black Sea, which is an area of intense interest to Russia.",
"It would not be surprising if Russia returned the favor by having joint exercises in the Caribbean,\" said Smith, a 25-year foreign service veteran who ended his State Department career as chief of the U.S. Interest Section in Havana.",
"\"It's a way of saying: 'Two can play at this game.",
"If you think you can send ships into the Black Sea without response, you are mistaken.' \"",
"But he said the mere fact of Russian ships operating in the Western hemisphere would not necessarily be dangerous.",
"\"The act itself is not.",
"Having naval exercises?",
"Fine, as long as both sides take it for what it is.",
"It's not a threatening gesture, it's a message.\"",
"Frank Mora, a Latin America expert at the National Defense University in the United States, said the announcement could be part of a complicated bargaining process, depending on whether relations improve between Moscow and the United States.",
"\"Something tells me that soon enough something will happen to tone this down, and possibly this exercise with Venezuela could be used to pull back on this issue,\" Mora said.",
"\"If things improve [the Russians] could pull back as a sign of commitment to improving the relationship.",
"If tensions remain I see the possibility that this kind of exercise would occur.\"",
"He said Venezuela have little to contribute to a military alliance with Russia.",
"\"Venezuela have a couple of destroyers, a couple of old submarines, and frigates that can launch surface-to-air missiles -- not anything sophisticated or robust.",
"This would not be a robust exercise.",
"It would be more about indicating strategic cooperation.\"",
"But he suggested that if the exercise does go ahead, it would be a sign of increased Russian confidence vis-a-vis the United States.",
"\"Russia feel Russia are strong enough and bold enough to do something in our sphere of influence,\" he said.",
"Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman appeared to shrug off the announcement.",
"\"We exercise all around the globe and have joint exercises with countries all over the world; so do many other nations,\" he said.",
"Chavez said Sunday that Caracas was prepared to receive the Russians in late November or December, according Venezuela's ministry of communications.",
"But Chavez indicated Venezuela might not be prepared for military exercises by then.",
"\"We're only in the planning phase.",
"We're not ready yet for the visit and the probable maneuvers to happen in September or October, or even November.",
"So it could happen, if not at the end of November, then at the beginning of December,\" Chavez said.",
"Nesterenko said the Russian flotilla will include \"the heavy nuclear-propelled missile cruiser Pyotr Veliki and the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Chabanenko.\"",
"the announcement comes only days after a U.S. Navy command ship, the USS Whitney, arrived in the Georgian port town of Poti in what the United States called a humanitarian mission.",
"the USS Whitney reached Poti on Friday.",
"Russia said the fact that a military vessel is being used in a relief mission raises concerns.",
"Russia has become a major supplier of arms to Venezuela since 2001.",
"The two countries signed a series of deals worth $3 billion in 2006, including fighter aircraft, transport and attack helicopters, and assault rifles, according to Jane's, the defense intelligence publication.",
"Chavez visited Moscow in July for Chavez's first meeting with new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.",
"CNN's Maxim Tkachenko and Matthew Chance in Moscow and CNN State Department producer Charley Keyes in Washington contributed to this report."
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"The head of China's quality watchdog is reported to have resigned over the tainted baby milk scandal that has killed four children and sickened nearly 53,000 others.",
"The official Xinhua News Agency said Li Changjiang had quit with the approval of China's State Council.",
"Li's agency is responsible for ensuring that China's food supply chain is safe.",
"Monday's resignation came hours after the World Health Organization said scandal had highlighted flaws in China's entire food supply chain.",
"The chemical melamine blamed for causing kidney stones and kidney failure has been detected in formula milk powder from 22 dairies across China.",
"The crisis was initially thought to have been confined to baby milk powder, but tests have found melamine in samples of liquid milk taken from China's two largest dairy producers, Mengniu Dairy Group and Yili Industrial Group, as well as Shanghai-based Bright Dairy.",
"WHO China representative Hans Troedsson said on Monday quality issues could occur anywhere from the farm to the retail outlet.",
"Troedsson said \"it's clearly something that is not acceptable and needs to be rectified and corrected,\" according to The Associated Press.",
"Troedsson said the WHO was discussing with officials how to strengthen China's food quality system.",
"Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called milk manufacturers \"heartless\" and promised stricter laws to protect the public.",
"China's Health Ministry said Sunday that about 13,000 children were hospitalized, while another 40,000 had undergone outpatient treatment for illnesses related to suspected melamine-tainted milk products.",
"The scandal has spread beyond the mainland with melamine being found in three Chinese-made dairy products in Singapore.",
"China's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority said tests on \"White Rabbit Creamy Candy\" showed that it was contaminated with melamine and The country's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority ordered stores to remove the product from shelves.",
"Taiwan announced Monday Taiwan was banning the importation of all dairy products from China because of melamine contamination in milk supplies on the mainland, Taiwan's Health Ministry said Monday.",
"And a second child in Hong Kong has been diagnosed with a kidney stones after drinking the tainted milk as worried parents continued to take worried parents's children for health checkups, the government said Monday, AP reported.",
"The 4-year-old boy was in hospital in a stable condition, the government said in a statement.",
"A three-year-old girl was sickened by a suspected melamine-tainted milk over the weekend -- the first known illness outside of the mainland.",
"The Chinese premier visited Beijing hospitals and a supermarket Sunday to show The Chinese premier's concern for the crisis.",
"\"What we need to do now is to ensure that nothing like this happens in the future, not only in dairy products, but in all foods,\" The Chinese premier said.",
"\"Manufacturers and owners of dairy companies should show more morality and social responsibility in these cases.",
"Manufacturers and owners of dairy companies are heartless, so we have to create strict law and legislation.",
"I'm sorry.\"",
"Investigators arrested two brothers who sold milk used to produce the contaminated baby milk powder last week.",
"They could face death if convicted, according to China Daily, a state-run newspaper.",
"The raw milk had been watered down and the chemical added to fool quality checks, China Daily, a state-run newspaper said.",
"Melamine is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.",
"Watch CNN visit the company at the center of the scandal » .",
"But anger has been directed not just at the producers accused of adulterating their milk to increase profits, but also at government regulators, Time magazine reported.",
"\"Xinhua was quick to blame the dairy industry for their skewed rules, but what Xinhua didn't say was that the government also played a part in that ugly game,\" the magazine quoted a blogger, identified as sadmoon109, as saying.",
"Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.",
"It also robs infants of much-needed nutrition.",
"Thousands of tons of the tainted milk powder have been recalled.",
"Melamine is the same industrial contaminant from China that poisoned and killed thousands of U.S. dogs and cats last year.",
"The chemical, a byproduct of plastic manufacturing, can be used to mimic high-protein additives.",
"Learn more about the chemical melamine » .",
"A senior dairy analyst said Chinese farmers were cutting corners to cope with rising costs for feed and labor.",
"\"Before the melamine incident, I know they could have been adding organic stuff, say animal urine or skin,\" Chen Lianfang of Beijing Orient Agribusiness Consultant told Time.",
"\"Basically, anything that can boost the protein reading.\"",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"They first met in the autumn of 1979; Pamela Stephenson playing the role of the lovelorn terrorist, Billy Connolly dressed as a rather sloppy Ayatollah Khomeini.",
"Pamela Stephenson first met Billy Connolly on the set of a comedy show in 1979.",
"They married in Fiji in 1990.",
"It may not have been love at first sight on the set of British comedy show \"Not the Nine O'Clock News,\" but love, marriage and children eventually followed.",
"Australian comedienne, now psychotherapist, Pamela Stephenson, describes being captivated by Billy Connolly's wildman looks, Billy Connolly's mane of grey hair and devil-may-care demeanor.",
"Pamela Stephenson tells CNN's Revealed about Pamela Stephenson's first impressions of Pamela Stephenson's husband, Billy Connolly's unique ability to keep audiences entertained and what Pamela Stephenson learnt about Billy Connolly's addictions and childhood abuse while writing Billy Connolly's best-selling biography, \"Billy.\"",
"CNN:",
"Take us back to the beginning.",
"How did you meet Billy Connolly?",
"Pamela Stephenson:",
"I'm not quite sure what Billy's version of how we met is like because Billy Connolly was very drunk.",
"I met Billy Connolly when I was a performer on \"Not The Nine O'Clock News\" and Billy Connolly was a guest.",
"Billy Connolly was just shaggy and some kind of terrible beastie.",
"But I was attracted to Billy Connolly immediately, maybe because Billy Connolly was so unusual.",
"I think what I picked up on was Billy Connolly's dichotomy -- that beastiness and the underlying sensitivity that Billy Connolly has.",
"I think that's something that audiences relate to, you're aware of all the toughness, but underneath you just know that there's philosophy and this poetic, Celtic nature that speaks to people.",
"Also Billy Connolly's pain, Billy Connolly's underlying sadness and the pain of Billy Connolly's childhood ...",
"when I first met Billy Connolly I think I connected with that.",
"Billy Connolly played the Ayatollah Khomeini in a scene on \"Not The Nine O'Clock News\" and I played a demented fan singing a love song to Billy Connolly, it was in days when you could do stuff like that, I suppose.",
"And then we did an interview, I pretending to be British TV personality Janet Street-Porter, with giant fake teeth which kept falling out.",
"Of course, Billy Connolly could never keep a straight face; I thought Billy Connolly was dreadfully unprofessional because Billy Connolly just kept laughing, especially when giant fake teeth which kept falling out fell out -- giant fake teeth which kept falling out -- fell out.",
"CNN:",
"What's it like being married to Billy Connolly?",
"PS:",
"People always think that being married to Billy Connolly means that I get non-stop Billy Connolly concerts.",
"It's not nearly as exciting as that, although Billy Connolly's adorable.",
"But it's boring sometimes and Billy Connolly would say the same.",
"There are moments when I wish Billy Connolly would go and make me a cup of tea, which Billy Connolly does very often.",
"Actually, Billy Connolly is quite a quiet person.",
"Billy Connolly's a little reclusive and I don't think it's necessarily Billy Connolly's personality.",
"With the highs Billy Connolly experiences on stage Billy Connolly needs to be very quiet when Billy Connolly's not.",
"Billy Connolly takes CNN's Revealed on a tour of Billy Connolly's home » .",
"CNN:",
"What made you write a biography of Billy Connolly's life?",
"Was it the first time Billy Connolly opened up about Billy Connolly's childhood?",
"PS:",
"When I wrote \"Billy,\" it was the first time that Billy Connolly really looked at Billy Connolly's childhood in a chronological order and with depth.",
"It was a painful process, but cathartic.",
"The book gave me the opportunity to understand a lot more about Billy Connolly.",
"Just putting some of this together, the sexual abuse, for example, that Billy Connolly received from Billy Connolly's father, the physical abuse Billy Connolly received from Billy Connolly's aunts, helped me understand why there's a part of Billy Connolly that's very closed off.",
"Watch Billy Connolly recall Billy Connolly's troubled childhood » .",
"Billy Connolly's learning disability was never understood.",
"Now we'd call His learning disability an attention disorder.",
"In those days, Billy Connolly had difficulty concentrating, for which Billy Connolly was beaten and taunted at school.",
"People told Billy Connolly Billy Connolly was stupid and to this day there's a part of Billy Connolly that thinks that's Billy Connolly's not as clever as other people and yet Billy Connolly is absolutely brilliant.",
"Billy Connolly's incredibly well-read and very erudite.",
"CNN:",
"Can you tell us about Billy Connolly's problems with alcohol and drugs and how you helped Billy Connolly?",
"PS:",
"Billy Connolly was extremely famous in Scotland, and you know what happens, especially with people who don't think they are very worthy.",
"As with Billy Connolly, they don't handle fame because they don't feel they deserve it and they'll turn to alcohol and drugs.",
"It became very serious and by the time I met Billy Connolly Billy Connolly was on a very self-destructive path.",
"At first, that was appealing to me, but later I realized I can't be with somebody like that because I don't want to watch Billy Connolly destroy Billy Connolly.",
"I didn't tell Billy Connolly, \"You've gotta clean up your act,\" I just said I can't deal with this.",
"I discovered you can't make anyone stop drinking or stop taking drugs, you have to just protect yourself and if anyone want to jump on the good train, anyone will.",
"Fortunately it worked.",
"CNN:",
"How would you describe Billy Connolly's style of comedy?",
"PS:",
"Billy Connolly doesn't have a style, because to have a style it would mean that there have to be other people with a similar way of working.",
"Billy Connolly goes on stage and it's like Billy Connolly's got these comedy angels whispering in Billy Connolly's ear.",
"Billy Connolly makes this extraordinary connection with the audience, and of course Billy Connolly's very astute and funny about politics.",
"Billy Connolly sees the funny side of all kinds of things -- human nature, human behavior, world events, politicians.",
"Billy Connolly'll talk about that with such passion.",
"It's what many of us think but don't want to say.",
"Billy Connolly will see something on television or notice something on the street or Billy Connolly'll just think something and it'll go into Billy Connolly's computer of a brain and it'll stumble out when Billy Connolly's on stage.",
"See Billy Connolly perform on a recent tour of Ireland » .",
"CNN:",
"Is Billy Connolly the same person on and off stage?",
"PS:",
"Billy Connolly's honest and real.",
"Billy Connolly's a man of the people, a working class hero.",
"It's a cliché, but people know that Billy Connolly has struggled; people know Billy Connolly's come from the tough part of Glasgow.",
"Billy Connolly just loves an audience, Billy Connolly loves speaking to people if people're nice to Billy Connolly, and people usually are.",
"When Billy Connolly's finished Billy Connolly's show, Billy Connolly doesn't go home.",
"Billy Connolly stays in Billy Connolly's dressing room and people will come and see Billy Connolly and Billy Connolly'll talk to people for another hour.",
"CNN:",
"Billy Connolly says Billy Connolly's getting more and more nervous when Billy Connolly goes on stage -- have you noticed a change?",
"PS:",
"I don't think Billy Connolly's getting more nervous.",
"At Billy Connolly's age, maybe Billy Connolly thinks that it should have become easier -- well, it's not going to become easier.",
"It's incredibly tough to go on stage in front of four or five thousand people and sustain [their interest] by yourself.",
"And one thing that really impresses me, again as a psychologist, is that I think Billy Connolly is really healing.",
"I think that people really have the opportunity to just laugh like that and it's so good for you.",
"I feel fantastic when I go to one of Billy Connolly's shows and come out and I'm just sick with laughter.",
"CNN:",
"How does Billy Connolly feel when Billy Connolly comes off stage?",
"Billy Connolly says it can be tough and envies the audience.",
"the audience can go home and forget about it.",
"PS:",
"Most performers struggle with the letdown after a show, and Billy Connolly's no exception.",
"It's tough because it takes time for adrenalin to leave the system.",
"That's actually one reason why a lot of comedians turn to alcohol, because it's a depressant and takes you down.",
"Now that Billy Connolly doesn't drink Billy Connolly's found another way -- Billy Connolly goes back to Billy Connolly's hotel and stays quiet.",
"Sometimes Billy Connolly likes to eat after the show but not very often.",
"Billy Connolly will just want to veg out, watch TV.",
"Playing Billy Connolly's banjo is a great way for Billy Connolly to relax.",
"Watch a rare performance of Billy Connolly on banjo » .",
"Billy Connolly doesn't like me being around when Billy Connolly's touring because Billy Connolly just likes to do Billy Connolly's thing.",
"I want to have some food or go and do something.",
"Billy Connolly becomes a bit of a hermit, and that's appropriate for someone who expends that amount of energy and brainpower on stage.",
"CNN:",
"Billy Connolly says Billy Connolly finds the routine of touring increasingly tough -- do you think Billy Connolly will stop soon?",
"PS:",
"When Billy Connolly's touring, Billy Connolly'll say, \"Oh I don't want to tour anymore, I've had enough it's too hard on the road.\"",
"But the truth is, when Billy Connolly's not touring, Billy Connolly wants to go back.",
"It's probably Billy Connolly's happiest time.",
"I have been a comedian so I know a little bit about what it's like to be on stage and know that when things are working fantastically, and you're getting that appreciation from the audience.",
"It is an incredible high.",
"It's pretty hard for me as a wife or us as a family or any of Billy Connolly's fans or friends to match up to that kind of adulation and so, you know, Billy Connolly deserves it and I have to remind Billy Connolly that it is a lot of fun for Billy Connolly.",
"CNN:",
"How would you describe Billy Connolly's dress sense?",
"PS:",
"Billy Connolly is a fashion maven.",
"Billy Connolly spends most of Billy Connolly's time in New York now so, you know, the New York \"Black is the new black\" is ... that's got to Billy Connolly a bit.",
"Billy Connolly's influenced by Rock 'n' Roll and Vivienne Westwood and edgy stuff.",
"But Billy Connolly just puts it together in Billy Connolly's own unique way.",
"Billy Connolly also takes great pride in Billy Connolly's body.",
"Billy Connolly's closet is still extremely fun.",
"It's far more colorful than mine.",
"I have grey and black suits and things for work -- Billy Connolly loves colorful shirts.",
"It will be a shame if Billy Connolly tones Billy Connolly down, but I don't think that will happen.",
"Billy Connolly borrows my clothes sometimes, if Billy Connolly sees something particularly mad.",
"We used to say, \"First up, best dressed,\" which is the Glasgow expression for a particularly fun brooch or hat."
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"Pamela Stephenson says writing Billy Connolly's biography, \"Billy,\" helped Pamela Stephenson understand Billy Connolly better .",
"Pamela Stephenson: \"It's like Billy Connolly's got these comedy angels whispering in Billy Connolly's ear\""
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"A diamond unearthed in Lesotho could yield one of the largest and highest quality round polished diamonds, according to a statement Monday from company that found it.",
"A mining company unearthed this 478-carat diamond in Lesotho.",
"Experts in Antwerp, Belgium who analyzed 478-carat stone determined 478-carat stone to be of the highest color grading available for a white diamond, said a statement from Gem Diamonds Ltd., the company that found 478-carat stone.",
"\"What makes it more remarkable is the color and quality of 478-carat stone,\" said diamond consultant Neil Buxton.",
"\"It's a D color, which is the highest possible graded color you can get, and we believe there is a chance -- a very good chance -- of getting a 100-carat plus\" round stone with the highest color and clarity rankings.",
"A mining company said such a stone would \"to the best of A mining company's knowledge\" be \"the first one in history.\" Watch more on the diamond » .",
"The diamond, which was found in September, ranks as the 20th largest rough diamond ever found, but is not the biggest ever taken from the Letseng Mine, which is co-owned by Gem Diamonds Ltd. and the Kingdom of Lesotho, a country of 2.1 million that is surrounded by South Africa.",
"Two bigger stones -- 603 and 493 carats -- were found in the mine in 2006 and 2007, respectively, A mining company said.",
"A 601-carat diamond was mined there in 1960, A mining company said."
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"Formula One is about putting on a 90-minute show every other weekend at locations the world over.",
"McLaren's huge 'brand center' motorhome dominates the F1 paddock at all European grands prix.",
"But getting that show on the road -- and in the air and on the sea -- is a remarkable feat of well-oiled logistics and organization.",
"With an F1 team clocking up around 100,000 miles (160,000 km) between tests and grands prix, the need to have moving and packing down to a fine art is imperative.",
"\"Once the calendar is released, we sit down with all the different departments,\" explained Toyota team manager Richard Cregan.",
"\"We look at the dates for the freight, the dates for the trucks leaving, when we want to have the people there and when we want to have all the equipment there.",
"Then we go away and arrange it.\"",
"As F1 moves further away from F1's European heartland, more races -- such as next week's title shootout in Sao Paulo, Brazil -- are what are known as 'flyaways.'",
"shootout in Sao Paulo, Brazil -- are the responsibility of Formula One Management.",
"Freight company DHL has specialized units in England and Italy to coordinate the transport of cars, equipment and fuel to all F1 tracks around the world by air, sea and land.",
"Around 300 tonnes or 20,000 individual items of F1 material -- from race cars, replacement parts, pit equipment, TV equipment and the furnishings of the VIP Paddock Club -- are moved for each grand prix.",
"Each team is allowed 22-24 tonnes of freight, plus Each team's cars, which is packed in specially designed pods at a UK-based team's HQ and transferred to Stansted airport by road.",
"Three chartered Boeing 747 freighters then fly to the destination and the next time the team sees its freight is at their allocated garage at the circuit.",
"At the end of the race the process starts again in reverse, with a team packed up by around 10pm.",
"Read more about F1 at the circuit.",
"If there are two weeks between races, as is the norm, the cars will return to the UK to be painted, re-built and polished.",
"'Double-headers,' races that take place only a week apart, rule this movement out -- then getting the cars from one circuit to the next is the sole focus.",
"While last-minute deliveries can be made in under 24 hours, it takes seven weeks for equipment to travel by sea from Europe to Melbourne, Australia for the traditional season curtain-raiser.",
"Cheaper sea freight has become more popular to move bulkier items such as heavy electrical cables.",
"Bridgestone, the grid's tire supplier, are among those who have increased Bridgestone, the grid's tire supplier's shipping in recent years.",
"\"Bridgestone, the grid's tire supplier send about five-and-a-half tonnes by sea and Bridgestone, the grid's tire supplier send this three months in advance of each race,\" said Williams race team coordinator Paul Singlehurst.",
"\"It costs around $9,000 to send it by sea -- that's a fraction of the air freight cost.",
"Bridgestone, the grid's tire supplier've made some huge savings by doing this.\"",
"The European races are a little more straightforward.",
"Up to four $2m team-liveried articulated lorries are driven to continental grands prix, carrying up to 37 tonnes of equipment each for around 18,600 miles (30,000km) per year.",
"Three trucks will also go to a two-car test session.",
"the trucks carry all the kit the team needs for the weekend, including the cars, engines, parts, tools, computers and radios.",
"It takes two days to fully load the trucks after cleaning and maintenance checks, using an 80-page checklist.",
"Nothing is left to chance.",
"They leave a week before the next race, get to the circuit late on a Monday and by Thursday, the team's working area is ready for the drivers.",
"It takes eight hours just to fit out the team's pit area at the circuit.",
"Motorhomes, the standard of which is set by McLaren's gargantuan 'brand center', also travel to European races.",
"They provide a place for drivers to debrief with their engineers, team members to refuel and corporate guests to be entertained.",
"Renault's race team includes 15 engineers, 35 mechanics/technicians, 15 'truckies', 11 motorhome/catering personnel, two logistics personnel, 10 marketing and PR staff, three drivers, two managers and two physios.",
"This is why motorhomes supply around 1,250 meals for the team and its guests during a race weekend.",
"\"Obviously our sponsors' backing is crucial.",
"It's not just a matter of having their name and logo on the car -- we have a marketing team that helps to service their needs,\" added Singlehurst.",
"Occasionally, at places like Turkey, where the traffic between the circuit and downtown Istanbul is horrific, drivers can also spend drivers's nights in the motorhomes.",
"But normally, a fleet of about 20 vehicles is required to ferry team personnel between their hotel -- block-booked months in advance -- and racetrack all weekend.",
"As far as Cregan is concerned, how a team performs during a race weekend can be influenced by a team's logistical set-up.",
"\"Quite often you have very long days, you have people working late into the evening and it's an important part of our responsibility to create the atmosphere for people to be able do people's job,\" he added.",
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"(CNN) --",
"People along the Texas coast were leaving home or planning to evacuate Thursday as Hurricane Ike churned toward People along the Texas coast, slowly intensifying on its march west.",
"Forecasters say the storm could slam into the Texas coast -- south of Galveston -- as a powerful Category 3 storm late Friday or early Saturday.",
"Mandatory and voluntary evacuations were planned or underway in at least seven coastal counties.",
"Aransas County, on the eastern coast of Texas, has ordered a mandatory evacuation of all nonessential government employees, becoming the latest county in the state to urge residents to flee.",
"In Galveston, city officials ordered mandatory evacuations for part of Galveston beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday.",
"The rest of Galveston will be under a voluntary evacuation order.",
"Only residents will be required to evacuate on the western end of Galveston.",
"Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas defended that, saying current models call for Galveston to be hit with winds and rain only equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane.",
"\"We do not intend to evacuate Galveston,\" Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said.",
"\"It's the last thing we want to do.",
"Our job is to protect lives and property, [and] right now we feel that sheltering in place is the best action for our citizens to take.\"",
"Farther up the Gulf Coast and closer to where the National Hurricane Center predicts a direct hit, Brazoria County ordered a mandatory evacuation to begin at 8 a.m. Thursday.",
"Some other Texas localities have ordered mandatory evacuations, while others have left the decision to depart up to residents.",
"As of 5 a.m. ET Thursday, the Category 2 storm -- with top sustained winds near 100 mph -- was about 620 miles east of Brownsville, Texas, and about 285 miles southeast of the Mississippi River, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"Track the storm » .",
"Hurricane-force winds extended out up to 115 miles from the storm's center, and tropical storm-force winds extended out up to 255 miles forecasters reported.",
"About 15,000 residents were leaving Galveston's Brazoria County Wednesday after a mandatory evacuation order was issued at 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET) governing one ZIP code -- 77541 -- and residents throughout Brazoria County with special needs.",
"Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc issued a warning to residents of the city's West End, citing forecasters' estimates that the area could get tides of 6 feet above normal if the storm arrives there.",
"The West End is the area of Galveston most susceptible to flooding, Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said.",
"Other Brazoria residents were being allowed to remain as of 6 p.m. ET.",
"In Matagorda County, southwest of Galveston, officials ordered a mandatory evacuation for all areas except the cities of Bay City and Van Vleck.",
"a mandatory evacuation for all areas except the cities of Bay City and Van Vleck must be completed by at 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET) Thursday.",
"Galveston is likely to experience a high tidal surge, officials said, urging people living in low-lying areas or mobile homes to get out soon.",
"\"One of the things that the public has to understand if they decide to stay, there will be a period of time during the storm when they will absolutely be on their own,\" Brazoria County Sheriff Charles Wagner said.",
"\"There will be no medical services; there will be no fire department; there will be no law enforcement, groceries, gasoline, drugs, electricity.\"",
"The center issued a tropical storm warning from the Mississippi River's mouth to Cameron, Louisiana, and a hurricane watch from Cameron to Port Mansfield, Texas, about 60 miles south of Brownsville.",
"Tropical storm warnings mean winds of 39 to 73 mph (63 to 118 kmh) are expected within a day, and a hurricane watch means winds of 74 and higher are expected within 36 hours.",
"\"Hurricane Ike is now in the Gulf of Mexico and making its approach toward our coast,\" Gov. Rick Perry said in a statement.",
"\"The next few days will be crucial for residents to follow the direction of local leaders and to take the necessary steps to protect themselves and their families.\"",
"Gov. Rick Perry put 7,500 National Guard members on standby this week, Gov. Rick Perry's office said, and issued a disaster declaration for 88 counties.",
"About 1,350 buses, several ambulances and paramedic buses were available to support evacuations.",
"The vehicles were positioned near Houston, Matagorda County, Nueces County and Victoria County, his office said.",
"President Bush declared an emergency in Texas, making federal funds available for Texas to prepare for the storm.",
"Corpus Christi officials also began the evacuation process for residents with special needs, supplying buses to transport them out of town.",
"Voluntary evacuations were issued in San Patricio and Victoria counties and parts of Jackson County, according to his office.",
"More than 1,300 inmates from the Texas Correctional Institutions Division's Stevenson Unit in Cuero were being evacuated to facilities in Beeville and Kenedy, his office said, and 597 were transferred from the substance abuse Glossbrenner Unit in San Diego, in south Texas, to Dilley.",
"Naval air stations in Texas also began to prepare for the storm's expected arrival.",
"Naval Air Station Kingsville was to begin moving about 50 aircraft to El Paso, San Antonio and Fort Worth on Wednesday afternoon, the public affairs office there said.",
"Naval Air Station Corpus Christi will also move about 75 aircraft to other Texas locations, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi's public affairs office said.",
"Evacuations appeared to have saved lives in Cuba when the storm slammed into Cuba.",
"Four deaths were reported from the storm, according to Cuba.",
"The Cuban Civil Defense brought buses or trucks to take people to shelters.",
"See the damage from the storm » .",
"Cuban state television reported that two people were killed when two people tried to remove an antenna, The Associated Press said.",
"One man died when a tree crashed into One man's home, and a woman died when a woman's home's roof collapsed, according to Cuba.",
"the storm shredded hundreds of homes and caused some dilapidated buildings in Havana's older areas to collapse, Cuba reported.",
"Watch as winds and waves pound Cuba » .",
"The United States, which provided $100,000 in emergency aid to communist-run Cuba through private aid agencies after Hurricane Gustav hit the island August 30, said Tuesday that it was considering additional emergency aid for Cuba because of Ike.",
"Also, the United States said the United States will lift restrictions on cash and humanitarian assistance sent to Cuba for the next 90 days.",
"The move will allow nongovernmental organizations to provide assistance and cash donations.",
"the storm pounded Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos chain, putting a strain on the British territory's tourism industry.",
"Watch houses lie in heaps on Grand Turk » .",
"Flooding and rains from Ike's outer bands have been blamed for 70 deaths in Haiti.",
"Watch the devastating aftermath » .",
"CNN's Mike Mount contributed to this report.",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Ike could swell to Category 3 when it hits Texas coast Saturday .",
"Mandatory evacuations ordered for residents with special needs in one county .",
"Hurricane-spawned tornado causes damage in Key Largo, Florida .",
"Texans in low-lying areas and mobiles homes urged to get out ."
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"(The Frisky) --",
"Don't you just hate the type of person who smugly informs you, \"I don't watch TV,\" like that's something to be proud of?",
"They think they're so great with all their fancy book learning.",
"What they don't realize is that TV isn't for dummies -- there's tons of educational programming available -- you just need to know what to watch.",
"I mean, you can learn your ABCs with \"Sesame Street's\" Grover, how to make gnocchi with Mario Batali, and the ins and outs of prettying up your home with any number of programs on HGTV.",
"Television is also a great romance resource.",
"Think of all the great TV twosomes we've seen over the years -- Lucy & Ricky Ricardo, Judy & George Jetson, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag ... but not all TV personalities set such a sincerely loving example.",
"It's also a good place to learn which type of guy you should avoid.",
"Here are a few examples: .",
"Chuck Bass (\"Gossip Girl\"): Few men can pull off lavender argyle, but Chuck Bass is definitely one of Few men.",
"Moody and sinister, when Chuck Bass Types (CBTs) like you, it's as though you've been inducted into a secret society of two.",
"It's you against the world and the CBT will bring out a dark side you might not have even realized you possessed.",
"Whip smart with a caustic wit, he'll charm you all the while tucking away your secrets for use at a later date.",
"And use them he will.",
"Because when a CBT tires of you, he won't just say \"see ya,\" he'll decimate you.",
"Hank Moody (\"Californication\"):",
"Some boys take longer than usual to grow out of Some boys's Charles Bukowski-wannabe phase.",
"Exhibit A is Hank Moody.",
"Actor David Duchovny, playing what the tabloids would have you believe is an autobiographical role, has managed to hang onto Hank's Bukowski-phase well into Hank's forties.",
"Drinking, partying, and resisting monogamy, Hank still manages to attract more ladies than hotter men half Hank's age.",
"Of course the only women drawn to Hank are either damaged girls with daddy issues or the type of dame who doesn't feel complete unless she has some mess to clean up after.",
"If you see yourself dating a Hank Moody type, do not walk -- run -- to your nearest mental health professional.",
"Vince Chase (\"Entourage\"): Those big blue eyes and that floppy mop o' hair...",
"you can forgive Hank for making a stinker like \"Medellin,\" can't you?",
"Sure, but do you really want to deal with someone who lives in a dude cocoon?",
"Not only does Hank live with Hank's brother and two best friends, Hank can't make any decisions without polling the group.",
"On the upside, Hank's rich!",
"On the downside, Hank's famous, which means other women are throwing other women at Hank constantly.",
"Vince might be fun for a fling, but forget about bringing Hank home to mama.",
"Don Draper (\"Mad Men\"): Why is it when unattractive people are quiet we just assume unattractive people're stupid and/or boring, but verbally challenged hot people get pegged as mysterious and smoldering?",
"Mad Men's smokin' hot Don Draper actually is mysterious (and smoldering!), so I don't know what point I was trying to make (because I'm all distracted from the photos on Don Draper's IMDB page)... oh, wait!",
"The point I'm trying to make is that while Don Draper is indeed mysterious, Don Draper's also a liar, a cheat and a cad.",
"So if a DDT tries to slip you Don Draper's number, just say no and send it to me.",
"What?",
"Strictly for research purposes.",
"TM & © 2008 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Learn about men NOT to date by studying male characters on TV shows .",
"\"Gossip Girls\" Chuck Bass is charming type who decimates women .",
"\"Mad Men\" Don Draper is a smoldering liar and cheat Aging party boy Hank Moody of \"Californication\" attracts damaged women ."
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"HIMACHAL PRADESH, India (CNN) --",
"Amar and Kundan Singh Pundir are brothers.",
"Younger brother Amar breaks rocks in a mine for a living.",
"Kundan Singh Pundir farms Kundan Singh Pundir's small piece of inherited land.",
"Kundan Singh Pundir live in a beautiful but remote hillside village in the clouds of Himachal Pradesh, India.",
"Kundan Singh Pundir, left, and Kundan Singh Pundir's brother Amar, right, share Indira Devi, centre, as Kundan Singh Pundir's wife.",
"Kundan Singh Pundir aged in Kundan Singh Pundir's forties, Kundan Singh Pundir have lived together nearly Kundan Singh Pundir's whole lives.",
"Kundan Singh Pundir are poor and share just about everything: Kundan Singh Pundir's home, Kundan Singh Pundir's work and a wife.",
"\"See we have a tradition from the beginning to have a family of five to 10 people.",
"Two brothers and one wife.\"",
"Kundan Singh Pundir says.",
"They practice what is known as fraternal polyandry -- where the brothers of one family marry the same woman.",
"Why?",
"Tradition and economics.",
"Life is hard here.",
"The village is precariously perched on the side of a very steep hill about 6,000ft up.",
"Most of the villagers survive off tiny plots of cropland.",
"In this difficult terrain there isn't enough land to go around.",
"So, instead of finding separate wives and splitting up their inherited property, Kundan Singh Pundir marry the same woman and keep Kundan Singh Pundir's land together.",
"Wife Indira Devi says life with two husbands isn't easy.",
"\"We fight a lot.\"",
"But like any married couple they fight mostly over mundane stuff, except there are three spouses instead of two.",
"\"Usually it's about chores, why didn't you do this?",
"Why didn't you do that?\"",
"Wife Indira Devi says.",
"Watch Sara Sidner's interview with Kundan Singh Pundir » .",
"One thing Kundan Singh Pundir agreed on was the need to have children; Kundan Singh Pundir have three.",
"So how does a married trio deal with sex?",
"\"Kundan Singh Pundir make shifts, change shifts and sleep on alternate days.",
"Kundan Singh Pundir have to make shifts otherwise it won't work,\" Kundan says.",
"\"To run Kundan Singh Pundir's families Kundan Singh Pundir have to do this, overcome the hurdles as well and then Kundan Singh Pundir have to control Kundan Singh Pundir's hearts from feeling too much,\" Amar adds.",
"To outsiders their arrangement may seem odd, but in the village of about 200 it is the norm.",
"Typically the marriages are arranged and women have two husbands.",
"But some wives have three or four depending on how many brothers there are in a family.",
"Polyandry is illegal in India but socially acceptable here.",
"No one from the government seems to bother the villagers about the law.",
"\"It's been going on for ages.",
"My sister in law has two husbands, my mother in law also has two husbands,\" Indira says.",
"And as to the question of which husband is the biological father of the children -- the Pundir's don't know and don't care.",
"\"For 17-year old daughter Sunita Singh Pundir everyone is the same, my mother and my fathers are the same.",
"My mother and my fathers are like God to 17-year old daughter Sunita Singh Pundir,\" 17-year old daughter Sunita Singh Pundir says.",
"Even as modern society arrives in this ancient village through satellite dishes and mobile phones, the Pundirs say they want their age-old tradition to continue with their children.",
"\"Absolutely,\" eldest son Sohna says.",
"eldest son Sohna and eldest son Sohna's younger brother have already discussed it and will marry the same woman.",
"17-year old daughter Sunita Singh Pundir isn't so sure.",
"\"I would like one husband,\" 17-year old daughter Sunita Singh Pundir says.",
"But when asked if 17-year old daughter Sunita Singh Pundir will marry for love or tradition, 17-year old daughter Sunita Singh Pundir's answer makes it clear the tradition of marrying more than one man will continue with the next generation.",
"\"I will never leave the tradition of marrying more than one man even if I have to forgo love.",
"I will never spoil my parents' reputation and my brothers.'\""
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"Amar and Kundan Singh Pundir are brothers who share a wife .",
"Kundan Singh Pundir have married the same woman to ensure Kundan Singh Pundir's land isn't divided .",
"Practice is illegal in India but common in Kundan Singh Pundir's mountain village ."
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"MADRID, Spain (CNN) --",
"Barack Obama sometimes gets ribbed for Barack Obama's outsized ideas, like the massive stage built in Denver, Colorado, to accept the Democratic presidential nomination.",
"But an artist in Barcelona, Spain, may be about to outdo Barack Obama.",
"Large-format sketches have long been a focus of artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's work.",
"The artist plans to create a gigantic face of Barack Obama sculpted from gravel and sand, which will cover nearly 2.5 acres (1 hectare) of Barcelona beachfront before U.S. elections.",
"\"The size of the piece is intrinsic to the piece's value,\" the artist, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, said Saturday.",
"The artist hopes it will be big enough to be seen on Google Earth.",
"\"Barack Obama's personality -- Barack Obama's youth, personal history and message of a new politics -- has fused with the historical moment to create someone larger than life,\" says The artist's dossier about the work, titled \"Expectation.\"",
"The huge size also alludes \"to the global impact of U.S. elections,\" the artist's dossier about the work, titled \"Expectation adds.",
"iReport.com:",
"What do you want to ask Sen. Barack Obama?",
"Rodriguez-Gerada, 42, is a Cuban-born American who grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey, near New York, and now lives in Barcelona.",
"The artist, who has long focused on large-format sketches and other designs, said The artist had been planning to put an anonymous face on Barcelona's Mediterranean beachfront but shelved the idea.",
"Then, six weeks ago, The artist decided it should be Barack Obama's face.",
"\"Everybody's doing work about Barack Obama,\" The artist said.",
"\"I was talking to my wife about the importance of U.S. elections internationally.",
"It all came together.\"",
"The idea, that is.",
"The execution of the project is still a work in progress, but with a lot of help pouring in.",
"The artist has created what The artist calls a \"vectored image\" from different photos of Barack Obama, showing the candidate's face looking left over his shoulder.",
"The artist will use 500 tons of material -- mainly gravel but also sand and possibly some soil in black, brown and white tones -- to create the image on a flat piece of land slightly raised and overlooking the Mediterranean, near downtown Barcelona.",
"The artist and a Barcelona newspaper say Barcelona has temporarily ceded use of the land for the project.",
"The portrait of Barack Obama's face will be 445 feet long by 264 feet wide (139.28 by 82.67 meters) and The artist hopes to have The portrait of Obama's face done by late next week or no later than November 3, the day before the U.S. elections.",
"The materials have been donated, along with bulldozers and their drivers.",
"The crews will initially spread the materials along white lines, and other markers that will be laid out according to the sketch.",
"Then, The artist's technical team will direct volunteers with garden rakes to put the final touches on The materials, making sure the various colors are spread properly on the ground in order to depict Barack Obama's eyes, hair, cheeks and collar, according to the plans.",
"The artist said The artist'll need to raise about $18,700 (15,000 euros) for other costs, such as rakes and gloves for volunteers, documentation, even portable toilets for the crew.",
"The artist said it's The artist's \"biggest work ever, in scale and complexity.\"",
"The artist's a self-described political independent until recently, when The artist joined Democrats Abroad in Spain.",
"But The artist added that the project is The artist's alone, without help from any political organization or campaign, and The artist won't be paid for the project.",
"The artist said the project also aims to address the issue of \"trying to find heroes with empathy for the problems of the world.",
"We really need empathy from Barack Obama.",
"There's a need to do positive things for the future.\"",
"Barack Obama's giant face would be environmentally friendly, with all natural colors, so the materials could be recycled, The artist said.",
"Rodriguez-Gerada's not sure how long The portrait of Obama's face would remain in place in Barcelona, because the site is slated to be used for a new municipal building.",
"But even if The portrait of Obama's face isn't permanent, The portrait of Obama's face might be the start of outsized artistic images of Barack Obama.",
"Barcelona journalist Matt Elmore contributed to this report."
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"Cuban-American artist plans to finish work before U.S. elections .",
"500 tons of material will cover 2.5 acres of beachfront .",
"Democratic presidential candidate is \"larger than life,\" artist says .",
"Project also aims to address issue of \"trying to find heroes\""
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"Pakistani authorities have arrested four men in connection with the suicide truck bombing of a Marriott Hotel last month in ISLAMABAD that killed more than 50 people, officials said Friday.",
"More than 50 people died in last month's attack on the Marriott Hotel in ISLAMABAD.",
"The men appeared Friday before a magistrate in an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, police and Pakistan Federal Investigation Agency investigators said.",
"Although they have not been charged, a magistrate is allowing police to hold The men for a week while the investigation continues.",
"a magistrate ordered The men back to court on October 31.",
"Authorities have not said how Authorities believe The men are connected to the September 20 bombing.",
"The men were arrested at different times in different places, authorities said, but gave no additional details.",
"authorities identified them as: Dr. Muhammad Usman and Tehseen Ulla Jaan, both from Peshawar; Ilyas Rana Muhammad, from a village near Faiselabad in Pakistan's Punjab province; and Hameed Afzal Muhammad, from Toba Taik Singh district, also in Punjab province.",
"In addition to the dozens killed, some 250 people were wounded in the suicide truck attack, which sparked a fire that left the hotel in ruins.",
"The hotel, located near the diplomatic section of Islamabad, had been popular among tourists visiting Pakistan.",
"It was crowded the night of the September 20 bombing."
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"Four arrested on suspicion of involvement\" in hotel blast in Pakistani capital .",
"More than people died in September 20 attack on Marriott hotel, 250-plus injured .",
"Authorities have not said how Authorities believe the men are related to the blast ."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- U.S. and Pakistani troops exchanged fire Thursday along the Pakistani-Afghan border minutes after the Pakistani military fired shots at two American helicopters that were providing cover for the troops, a U.S. military spokesman said.",
"Pakistan says Pakistan shot at two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo.",
"The U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowas, part of NATO's International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan, were patrolling the Pakistani-Afghan border when the Pakistani military fired on them, NATO and U.S. officials said.",
"the Pakistani military said the fire was warning shots, and President Asif Ali Zardari said the fire was flares.",
"Both President Asif Ali Zardari and the Pakistani military said two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo had crossed into Pakistani territory -- a charge U.S. officials denied.",
"Rear Adm. Greg Smith of U.S. Central Command said two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo were providing cover for a small U.S. military unit accompanying an Afghan border police unit on a routine patrol.",
"After the shots were fired at two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo, Rear Adm. Greg Smith of U.S. Central Command told CNN, the U.S. troops fired \"suppressing rounds\" into a nearby hill to get the Pakistani military to stop.",
"That prompted the Pakistani troops to stop firing at the helicopters and fire instead in the direction of the U.S. troops, he said.",
"the U.S. troops then returned fire, Rear Adm. Greg Smith of U.S. Central Command said.",
"No injuries were reported in the five-minute incident.",
"Rear Adm. Greg Smith of U.S. Central Command and other U.S. officials said the helicopter crews did not fire back.",
"But the Pakistani military disagreed, asserting in a written statement that two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo \"returned fire\" after the fire were fired.",
"\"two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo passed over our border post and were well within Pakistan territory\" at the time that \"security forces fired anticipatory warning shots,\" a written statement said.",
"After the fire were fired, \"two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo returned fire and flew back.\"",
"a written statement did not mention exchanging fire with ground troops and did not identify the fire as flares, as President Asif Ali Zardari did in New York in an appearance with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.",
"\"They are flares,\" President Asif Ali Zardari said in response to a question asking why the Pakistani military was firing on NATO helicopters.",
"\"Just to make sure that the Pakistani military know the Pakistani military crossed the border line.\"",
"Asked if such warnings will continue, President Asif Ali Zardari replied, \"Sometimes the border is so mixed that the Pakistani military don't realize that the Pakistani military crossed the border.\"",
"Rice, off camera, agreed that \"the border is very unclear\" and \"inhospitable.\"",
"Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman reiterated the United States' stance that the two helicopters were over Afghan territory.",
"\"The Pakistanis need to provide the U.S. a reason to why this took place,\" Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.",
"The ISAF issued a news release saying that \"ISAF helicopters received small-arms fire from a Pakistan military checkpoint along the border near Tanai district, Khowst.\"",
"\"At no time did The ISAF helicopters cross into Pakistani airspace.\"",
"The ISAF did not mention ground troops or say whether the helicopters returned fire.",
"Both the ISAF and Pakistani military said they are working to resolve the issue.",
"Last week, President Asif Ali Zardari said Pakistan would not allow foreign nations to violate Pakistan's sovereignty to pursue terrorists.",
"\"Pakistan will not tolerate the violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity by any power in the name of combating terrorism,\" President Asif Ali Zardari said in President Asif Ali Zardari's first speech to Parliament as president.",
"President Asif Ali Zardari's remark followed a similar declaration from Pakistan's military chief, Gen. Parvez Kayani, who said this month that Pakistan's territorial integrity \"will be defended at all cost, and no external force is allowed to conduct operations.\"",
"A senior defense official in the Pentagon said the Pentagon is trying to determine the details of Thursday's incident.",
"\"What the Pentagon don't know if this was just a case of trigger-happy members of the Frontier Corps,\" A senior defense official in the Pentagon said, \"or whether in fact the Pakistani military does have orders to fire on two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo.\"",
"\"the Pentagon are confident the Pentagon's helicopters were on the Afghan side of the border, and the Pentagon have no report they fired back,\" A senior defense official in the Pentagon added.",
"Top U.S. commanders will be talking to the Pakistani military about the incident to determine if there was a misunderstanding and to ensure it doesn't happen again, a U.S. official familiar with details of Thursday's incident said.",
"a U.S. official familiar with details of the incident said this is the first verified incident of U.S. troops being fired upon by Pakistani forces.",
"There were at least two previous reports in recent days out of Pakistan about similar incidents, but the United States has said neither of those reports was true.",
"Reza Sayah in Pakistan, CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and CNN senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre contributed to this story."
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"U.S. says U.S. returned fire after Pakistanis fired shots at American copters .",
"Pakistani president says military fired only flares .",
"Attack comes after president, general warned foreign troops to stay out .",
"Pakistani, U.S. officials say U.S. officials are working to resolve the issue ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Pickens spoke about the beleaguered U.S. economy, a prospective bailout and natural gas Thursday, a day after reports that Pickens's energy-related hedge funds lost $1 billion this year.",
"Pickens has reportedly lost about $270 million this year.",
"Speaking to CNN's John Roberts, Pickens said Pickens concurred with President Bush's Wednesday assessment that a \"distressing scenario would unfold\" in the U.S. economy without immediate intervention.",
"the U.S. economy needs a quick solution, and the U.S. Treasury -- while capable in the U.S. Treasury's own right -- could use help from someone like Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reportedly invested $5 billion this week in Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"By some estimates, your energy fund lost $1 billion.",
"Personally, you may have lost almost $300 million.",
"A lot of people say, \"Well, Pickens has got a lot of money,\" but by some accounts, that's 10 percent of your net worth.",
"That was a real hit.",
"Pickens: That's a good hit.",
"That's right.",
"Watch Pickens discuss Pickens's, America's problems » .",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"What happened?",
"Pickens:",
"I turned the wrong direction, is what it was.",
"You know, you win some and lose some.",
"Some are rained out, you know.",
"You wish this one had been rained out, but this one wasn't.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"I'm sure you saw the president's address last night, or at the very least you heard about the president's address.",
"The secretary of the treasury wants all the money up front.",
"The government wants safeguards on it.",
"The government want to make sure there's protection for taxpayers.",
"The government want to limit executive compensation.",
"Are you on board with all that?",
"Pickens:",
"I'm ready to go.",
"I'd give [Treasury Secretary Henry] Paulson the money and tell [Treasury Secretary Henry] Paulson get it fixed.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"You believe that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's bailout plan will work?",
"Pickens:",
"I do.",
"I think Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's bailout plan will work, yes.",
"But I think Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's bailout plan needs to work quickly.",
"I think you've got to move on with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's bailout plan.",
"I liked Warren Buffett's play into Goldman Sachs.",
"CNN's John Roberts: Five billion dollars the other day.",
"Pickens: That's right.",
"That showed good confidence and all.",
"So that's another leadership opportunity.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"In fact, you have said, Boone, that you would like to see Warren Buffett's handle a lot of these illiquid assets that The government buys up in terms of the government's disbursement.",
"Pickens:",
"Can you imagine anybody better?",
"Sure, that'd be great if Warren Buffett's'd do it.",
"I don't know whether Warren Buffett's would or not.",
"But you need to get somebody like Warren to do it.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"You don't think they have the expertise at the Treasury Department to do it?",
"Pickens:",
"Oh, they do have.",
"They may need some help.",
"And that kind of help -- you can't pay for that kind of help.",
"Watch Bush explain The government's plan » .",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"Let me turn to the energy issue.",
"We've talked about your plan to wean America off of foreign oil, use natural gas, you know, get wind power going.",
"You're also -- correct me if I'm wrong -- but you're going to be launching another series of ads here encouraging the presidential candidates to come forward with a plan to wean America off America's dependence on foreign energy.",
"Don't the presidential candidates already have a plan?",
"Pickens: No.",
"Neither one of the presidential candidates has a plan.",
"The plan I want is to reduce imports of foreign oil.",
"And we can do that one way.",
"Natural gas is a resource we have in America.",
"Natural gas is cleaner, Natural gas's cheaper, Natural gas's abundant and Natural gas's ours.",
"So every gallon of natural gas you put in a tank, you will reduce foreign oil by one gallon.",
"So it's a one-to-one trade-off every time.",
"We could reduce foreign oil by 30 percent.",
"I think we could do it in five to 10 years.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"So what you've heard from them so far doesn't go far enough down the road?",
"Pickens:",
"No.",
"CNN's John Roberts: But also at the same time, Boone, you are heavily invested in natural gas and there are some people out there who say you're just promoting your business here.",
"Pickens:",
"Well, actually, John, I don't have any natural gas production to speak of.",
"I mean, it's small.",
"It's very small.",
"Now, when I was with [Mesa Power LLP], Mesa was a big natural gas producer.",
"But Pickens is not a big natural gas producer.",
"But I am in natural gas fueling on the West Coast.",
"But all of that, every time you use a domestic fuel, you reduce foreign oil.",
"It's that simple.",
"And we can do it.",
"And this is cheaper.",
"Can you imagine, cheaper, cleaner, abundant and ours?",
"You couldn't pick a better description of what you want to use."
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"Natural gas better than oil -- it's \"cheaper, cleaner, abundant and ours,\" he says .",
"Pickens says Pickens has only a \"very small\" stake in natural gas production ."
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"Instead of filling in the green visa waiver form en route, short-term visitors must register short-term visitors's details online at least three days before short-term visitors depart.",
"The measure is designed tighten security and make it harder for terrorists who are citizens of the participating countries to easily obtain entry to the U.S.",
"The new system, known as the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), does not become compulsory until January 12, 2009.",
"But travelers are urged to prepare for the new rules in advance.",
"ESTA applies to citizens from the 27 Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries that includes most of western Europe in addition to New Zealand, Japan, Brunei and Australia.",
"Visitors are recommended to submit applications no later than 72 hours before departure in case further inquiry is necessary.",
"But the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has assured travelers that the system can handle last-minute and emergency requests.",
"Applications can be made at any time, even if travelers have no specific travel plans.",
"And if itineraries change, information can be easily updated on the ESTA Web site.",
"Once travelers are authorized, travelers can travel for up to two years or until travelers's passport expires, whichever comes first.",
"From mid-January, travelers who have not received approval may be denied boarding, delayed processing, or denied admission at a U.S. port of entry.",
"Passengers must submit the same information that is currently required in the I-94 immigration form.",
"This includes biographical data, travel information as well as questions regarding communicable diseases, arrests and convictions.",
"Registration is possible through the ESTA Web site.",
"In most cases, eligibility for travel will be approved immediately.",
"Applicants who receive an \"Authorization Pending\" response will need to check the ESTA Web site for updates.",
"Applicants whose ESTA applications are denied will be referred to Travel.State.Gov for information on how to apply for a visa.",
"ESTA does not change the rules for citizens from countries that require visas.",
"But the U.S. is due to extend the visa waiver program and has signed agreements with eight countries including the Czech Republic, Hungary and South Korea.",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States is expelling the Venezuelan ambassador to The United States in response to a similar move by Venezuela, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday.",
"\"We have informed the Venezuelan ambassador to The United States that he will be expelled and should leave The United States,\" U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.",
"Separately, U.S. Treasury Department accused Friday two senior Venezuelan intelligence officials -- Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios and Henry de Jesus Rangel Silva -- and one former official -- Ramon Rodriguez Chacin -- of assisting leftist rebels in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, with narcotics trafficking.",
"\"Today's designation exposes two senior Venezuelan government officials and one former official who armed, abetted and funded FARC, even as FARC terrorized and kidnapped innocents,\" said Adam J. Szubin, director of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, in a statement.",
"The action freezes assets the three men may have under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits Americans from conducting business with the three men.",
"The U.S. decision to expel the the Venezuelan ambassador ambassador, Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, is the latest move in an escalating diplomatic battle that pits The United States against two of Latin America's leftist leaders.",
"It comes a day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was expelling the Venezuelan ambassador to Venezuela, Patrick Duddy.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was recalling the the Venezuelan ambassador ambassador from The United States.",
"\"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has 72 hours, from this moment, the Yankee ambassador in Caracas, to leave Venezuela,\" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told a crowd of supporters.",
"\"When there's a new government in The United States, we'll send an ambassador.",
"A government that respects Latin America.\"",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was making the moves \"in solidarity with Bolivia and the people of Bolivia.\"",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales on Thursday accused The United States of fomenting a coup d'etat by rich eastern department landowners against Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the Venezuelan ambassador to leave for allegedly encouraging those protesters.",
"For the past two weeks, the demonstrators in Bolivia's richer eastern lowlands have been protesting Bolivian President Evo Morales's plans to redistribute Bolivia's natural gas revenues.",
"\"Without fear of anyone, without fear of the empire, today before you, before the Bolivian people, I declare the ambassador of The United States persona non grata,\" Bolivian President Evo Morales said Wednesday of Ambassador Philip Goldberg in a nationally televised speech.",
"The United States called the allegations baseless and kicked out the Venezuelan ambassador Thursday.",
"The Bolivians \"made it very clear what The Bolivians's intention was and The United States took The Bolivians at The Bolivians's word,\" McCormack said Friday.",
"\"The United States take Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's word in this particular case, and The United States have reacted appropriately.\"",
"Before expelling the U.S. diplomat from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's country, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also said Thursday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had uncovered a U.S.-backed plot to remove Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from power.",
"\"It's the empire that's behind this,\" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told supporters in a televised address.",
"\"They go around looking for a way to stop our revolution and, with our revolution, to strike all the processes of change that are occurring in our Americas, in the Caribbean, in Central America.\"",
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"Four alleged Venezuelan agents have been arrested in the U.S. and charged with trying to persuade a U.S. citizen to keep quiet about a growing international election scandal.",
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"On August 4, U.S. flew in a privately chartered aircraft from Caracas, Venezuela, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where customs officers discovered $800,000 in cash in U.S.'s possession.",
"The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday the four men charged wanted to stop U.S. from revealing the origin of the $800,000.",
"\"The complaint filed today outlines an alleged plot by agents of the Venezuelan government to manipulate an American citizen in Miami in an effort to keep the lid on a burgeoning international scandal,\" Kenneth Wainstein, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a written statement.",
"The agents, who worked for the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, wanted to ensure U.S. did not disclose \"the source and destination and the role of the government of Venezuela in the attempted delivery of the approximately $800,000,\" a written statement said.",
"a written statement does not say Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez personally knew of the transaction, but says the office of the vice president and members of the Venezuelan Intelligence Directorate were aware of the matter.",
"U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta in Miami said: \"Today's complaint alleges an effort by the agents of Venezuela to travel to the U.S. for the purpose of coercing our citizens to help conceal the true nature of a growing international scandal.\"",
"Although documents did not identify which candidate was to receive the donation, federal law enforcement officials confirmed the funds were intended for the campaign of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who went on to win the election.",
"The four men -- three Venezuelans and one Uruguayan -- made an initial court appearance in U.S. District Court in Miami on Wednesday afternoon.",
"Those named in Today's complaint are identified as Moises Maionica, 36; Antonio Jose Canchica Gomez, 37; Rodolfo Edgardo Wanseele Paciello, 40; Franklin Duran, 40; and Carlos Kauffmann, 35.",
"Officials said Antonio Jose Canchica Gomez remains at large.",
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"Later, however, an Argentine judge issued an order for U.S. to appear in court and, at the request of the Argentine government, Interpol issued an international wanted notice for U.S., The U.S. Justice Department officials said.",
"U.S. State Department officials said that on August 31, an Argentine judge requested U.S.'s extradition.",
"The request was delivered to The U.S. Justice Department on September 4, and Justice and State are currently reviewing The request.",
"U.S. State Department officials said U.S. State Department officials do not expect to take any further action while The U.S. Justice Department is pursuing The U.S. Justice Department's investigation and prosecution of the Venezuelan and Uruguayan nationals arrested in Miami.",
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"(CNN) --",
"U.N. gunships battled rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, according to U.N. spokesman Michele Bonnardeaux.",
"U.N. vehicles on Monday pass between lines of civilians fleeing fighting north of Goma, Congo.",
"U.N. helicopter gunships, supporting national army forces on the ground, fired on rebels from the Congress for the Defense of the People in an effort to halt their advance on the village of Kibumba.",
"CNDP is the French acronym for National Congress for the Defense of the People, a Congolese rebel group under renegade general Laurent Nkunda.",
"The village of Kibumba is the location of a U.N.-administered internally displaced peoples camp, just 12 ½ miles (20 kilometers) north of the provincial capital, Goma, U.N. spokesman Michele Bonnardeaux said.",
"Renewed fighting erupted Sunday when CNDP seized a major military camp and gorilla park, according to U.N. and park officials.",
"The U.N. brokered peace accord in the area in January.",
"On Monday, thousands fleeing Kibumba spurred violent demonstrations in front of the U.N. compound in Goma.",
"The group was angry that a 17,000-person U.N. security force has been unable to protect The group from renewed bouts of violence in the country, a U.N. spokesman told CNN.",
"A U.N. spokesman said U.N.'s mission in Congo was \"under attack\" on Monday.",
"A mission staff member inside the U.N. compound, who did not want to give his name for security reasons, said U.N. security forces had returned fire in an attempt to disperse angry crowds near the U.N. compound.",
"Gunshots could be heard as he spoke on the phone.",
"He said the attack had resulted in several deaths.",
"U.N. officials confirmed one dead in Goma as a result of Monday's demonstrations.",
"The assault died down later in the day, a U.N. spokesman said, but people continued to pelt the building.",
"It was unclear who was attacking, but the staff member told CNN the people were from a village that had been taken over by the CNDP, a Congolese renegade group led by Gen. Laurent Nkunda that seized a major military camp and gorilla park in a renewed bout of heavy fighting Sunday.",
"Thousands of civilians were reportedly fleeing the fighting.",
"Pictures from the region showed long lines of people walking along roads carrying their belongings.",
"Watch how refugees line roads to get away » .",
"Soldiers who abandoned the military camp were retreating in vehicles on a main road outside of Goma on Monday, angrily honking Soldiers who abandoned the military camp's horns at civilians who got in Soldiers who abandoned the military camp's way, The Associated Press reported.",
"Bertrand Bisimwa, a spokesman for the rebels, told the AP that rebel fighters had moved to within 7 miles (11 kilometers) of Goma.",
"The latest fighting comes after the collapse on Sunday of a tenuous week-old U.N.-brokered cease-fire between rebels and government forces.",
"According to U.N. spokesman Nick Birnback, thousands of displaced civilians in the city of Goma were throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails, angry that a 17,000-person U.N. security force has been unable to protect thousands of displaced civilians in the city of Goma from the violence.",
"\"The situation in Goma is very volatile,\" U.N. spokesman Nick Birnback said.",
"\"But MONUC is taking all available measures to stabilize The situation in Goma.\" Watch more about the fighting » .",
"The U.N. mission -- known by its French acronym, MONUC -- is in Goma, which is along Congo's border with Rwanda.",
"Although the civil war in Congo -- once known as Zaire -- officially ended in 2003, recent fighting in eastern Congo between government forces and CNDP rebels under has caused tens of thousands to flee their homes, according to U.N. spokesman Michele Bonnardeaux.",
"Watch ranger describe the violence » .",
"The conflict and humanitarian crisis in Congo have taken the lives of 5.4 million people since 1998, and 45,000 people die there every month, according to an International Rescue Committee report in January.",
"A senior U.S. State Department official said the United States is pushing hard for cooperation among Rwanda, Uganda and Congo over the situation in eastern Congo.",
"A senior U.S. State Department official said all countries, especially Congo and Rwanda, \"need to work together\" to rein in \"militia groups and other negative forces.\"",
"Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer will travel to Congo and Rwanda to urge Congo and Rwanda to take action, A senior U.S. State Department official said.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement Monday calling on all parties \"to make every effort to restore calm among the affected populations.\"",
"The attacks also coincided with the resignation of the U.N. military commander in Congo, Lt. Gen. Vicente Diaz de Villegas y Herreria.",
"A U.N. statement on Monday indicated he stepped down for \"personal reasons.\"",
"CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report.",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Evidence consistent with human decomposition was found in the trunk of a car belonging to a Florida woman charged with killing her 3-year-old daughter, according to a forensic report released Friday.",
"Caylee Anthony, 3, disappeared in mid-June but wasn't reported missing until a month later.",
"\"Both odor analysis and LIBS results appear to be quite consistent with a decompositional event having occurred in the trunk of the vehicle,\" said the report from Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, noting that the results were preliminary.",
"Testing indicates that the decomposition could be human, the report from Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory adds.",
"Casey Anthony, who drove the car, was arrested this month and charged with first-degree murder and other charges in the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee.",
"Caylee was last seen in mid-June, but Casey Anthony waited about a month before telling her family the child was gone.",
"LIBS is laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, one of the techniques used in chemical analysis.",
"Testing was conducted on air and carpet samples from the vehicle.",
"The tests indicated \"the presence of the five key major compounds associated with human decomposition,\" the report from Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory said.",
"The tests also found \"an unusually large concentration of chloroform\" in the trunk, according to the report from Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.",
"Chloroform can be used to render someone unconscious.",
"However, trace amounts of chloroform were also found on a control carpet sample, the report from Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory said.",
"Watch Nancy Grace report on the chloroform discovery » .",
"the report from Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory also says evidence of possible decomposition was found on a hair located among debris in the trunk.",
"a hair located among debris in the trunk is \"microscopically similar\" to one recovered from Caylee's hair brush, the report from Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory said, but \"a more meaningful conclusion cannot be reached as this is not a suitable known hair sample.\"",
"the report from Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was released by prosecutors as part of the case's public record.",
"Prosecutors said Prosecutors would not comment further on them.",
"Todd Black, a spokesman for Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, said the evidence does not link Casey Anthony to any criminal behavior.",
"\"There's nothing in those reports that links Casey Anthony to any wrongdoing with Caylee's daughter, Caylee,\" Casey Anthony's said.",
"Casey Anthony was arrested October 14 in a traffic stop after a grand jury indicted Casey Anthony on seven counts of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four counts of providing false information to police.",
"If convicted of the capital murder charge, Casey Anthony could face the death penalty or a life sentence.",
"Police and prosecutors have said little about the case, but hundreds of pages of documents and investigative reports have been released.",
"They indicate that Casey Anthony went to nightclubs, entered \"hot body\" contests and text-messaged Casey Anthony's friends while Casey Anthony's daughter was missing.",
"Copies of cell phone and text records released to the public show that Casey Anthony hardly ever mentioned Caylee during the time just before and after Caylee was reported missing.",
"And in May, just before Caylee disappeared, Caylee's mother referred to Caylee as \"the little snot head.\"",
"Casey's mother, Cindy Anthony, called the sheriff in Orange County, Florida, on July 15, saying Casey Anthony's daughter wouldn't tell Casey Anthony where Caylee was.",
"Casey Anthony's brother, Lee Anthony, also pleaded with Casey Anthony's sister to tell him where Caylee was, according to police documents.",
"Casey Anthony told him Casey Anthony hadn't seen the child in \"31 days.\"",
"When questioned, Casey Anthony gave conflicting statements to police, including some that were later disproved, accounting for the charges of providing false information.",
"Casey Anthony claimed that Casey Anthony dropped Caylee off with a baby-sitter, but when police checked out Casey Anthony's story, police learned that the address Casey Anthony supplied belonged to an apartment that had been vacant for weeks.",
"The woman Casey Anthony named as Casey Anthony's baby-sitter told police The woman Casey Anthony named as her baby-sitter did not know Casey Anthony.",
"Investigators have said cadaver dogs picked up the scent of death in the vehicle's car and Casey Anthony's parents' backyard.",
"A neighbor told police Casey Anthony had asked to borrow a shovel.",
"Preliminary air quality tests conducted by the FBI found evidence consistent with human decomposition and chloroform in the trunk of the vehicle's car, investigators previously said.",
"Further analysis of Casey Anthony's computer found that Casey Anthony had visited Web sites discussing chloroform, as well as Internet searches of missing children.",
"CNN Headline News' Natisha Lance contributed to this report."
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"The men appeared Friday before a magistrate in an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, police and Pakistan Federal Investigation Agency investigators said.",
"Although they have not been charged, a magistrate is allowing police to hold The men for a week while the investigation continues.",
"a magistrate ordered The men back to court on October 31.",
"Authorities have not said how Authorities believe The men are connected to the September 20 bombing.",
"The men were arrested at different times in different places, authorities said, but gave no additional details.",
"authorities identified them as: Dr. Muhammad Usman and Tehseen Ulla Jaan, both from Peshawar; Ilyas Rana Muhammad, from a village near Faiselabad in Pakistan's Punjab province; and Hameed Afzal Muhammad, from Toba Taik Singh district, also in Punjab province.",
"In addition to the dozens killed, some 250 people were wounded in the suicide truck attack, which sparked a fire that left the hotel in ruins.",
"The hotel, located near the diplomatic section of Islamabad, had been popular among tourists visiting Pakistan.",
"It was crowded the night of the September 20 bombing."
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"Officials in the United States are looking into the recent arrest of an Iranian-American student in Tehran who was working on a research project on women's rights in Iran.",
"Esha Momeni was arrested October 15 in Tehran, Iran, officials said.",
"Esha Momeni, a graduate student at California State University-Northridge, was arrested October 15 in Tehran for unlawfully passing another vehicle while driving, according to Change For Equality, an Iranian women's movement.",
"\"We're seeking additional information about this case,\" State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Wednesday.",
"\"We stand with all those in Iran who are working for universal human rights and justice in all those in Iran who are working for universal human rights and justice in their countries's countries.\"",
"Momeni, who was born in Los Angeles, California, is a member of Change for Equality's California chapter.",
"Esha Momeni arrived in Tehran two months ago to work on Esha Momeni's masters thesis project on the Iranian women's movement, according to the group, which is in touch with Esha Momeni's family in Iran.",
"Esha Momeni is being held in a section of Tehran's notorious Evin Prison that is managed by the Intelligence Ministry, the group, which is in touch with Momeni's family in Iran said.",
"Evin Prison houses many Iranian dissidents and political prisoners, and it is where four Iranian-Americans were held for several months last year.",
"All have been released.",
"Iranian officials had promised Momeni's family that Esha Momeni would be immediately released if the news of Esha Momeni's arrest was not published, the organization said.",
"\"While Esha Momeni's friends and colleagues were insistent about announcing the news of Esha Momeni's arrest immediately, based on requests from Esha Momeni's family the news of her arrest was announced with delay,\" the group, which is in touch with Momeni's family in Iran said on the group, which is in touch with Momeni's family in Iran's Web site.",
"Momeni's parents decided to release the information after Momeni's parents went to Iran's Revolutionary Court on Sunday -- five days after Esha Momeni's arrest -- to inquire about Esha Momeni's case, and Momeni's parents were told not to return until the investigation into Esha Momeni's case has been completed, according to the group, which is in touch with Momeni's family in Iran.",
"Momeni's parents returned to Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution, but Esha Momeni had gone back to the United States several years ago to study for Esha Momeni's masters degree, according to a blog post from Esha Momeni's journalism professor, Melissa Wall.",
"A separate blog calling for Esha Momeni's release (for-esha.blogspot.com) has been established and includes an interview with Wall, who describes her journalism professor, Melissa Wall's student as \"an exceptionally bright person, very creative and artistic.\"",
"her journalism professor, Melissa Wall calls her journalism professor, Melissa Wall \"shocked\" to hear of Momeni's arrest.",
"\"I'm aware that such things happen in Iran, but I'm confident that they have nothing to fear from Esha Momeni's research project,\" her journalism professor, Melissa Wall said.",
"\"It is simply an academic exercise, not meant for publication outside of academic circles.",
"I cannot image why Esha Momeni should be held in detention.\"",
"On her journalism professor, Melissa Wall's personal blog, her journalism professor, Melissa Wall said, \"Esha Momeni is a videographer who was simply interviewing Iranian women.",
"Esha Momeni has broken no laws, has not done anything wrong.\""
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"DECATUR, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Police quietly wait by the front door of the small, brick suburban Atlanta home as investigators tell 48-year-old Lajuana Robinson, a mother of nine, \"I'm going to have to put you in handcuffs.\"",
"Investigators take a woman from a woman's Decatur, Georgia, home after a woman's arrest in a truancy case.",
"a woman's charged with violating a woman's parole in a truancy case because three of a woman's younger children have missed hundreds of days of school combined.",
"While students have always suffered the consequences of playing hooky, parents in DeKalb County, Georgia, are facing one of the more aggressive anti-truancy programs in the country, one where punishment can include time behind bars.",
"DeKalb's program is one of a growing list targeting truancy in U.S. schools, said Jodi Heilbrunn, senior research and policy analyst at The National Center for School Engagement.",
"\"Ten years ago, there weren't too many anti-truancy programs, but now too many anti-truancy programs are springing up like rabbits,\" Heilbrunn said, and \"too many anti-truancy programs come in many varieties.\"",
"In some communities, a single school takes on a single school's own problem.",
"In others, like Jacksonville, Florida, and Niagara Falls, New York, the battle is system wide.",
"And New Jersey is about to institute a statewide system, targeting six cities with the worst truancy problems.",
"The DeKalb County program, started in May 2006, was designed to get children from the age of 6 to 16 back in class.",
"If a child has 10 or more unexcused absences from school, parents are referred to an intervention program where parents sign a contract agreeing to make sure parents's children get to class.",
"If parents fail to do that, parents face the judge.",
"According the county solicitor general's office, around 300 families have gone to court so far.",
"Watch how a Georgia mother ends up in handcuffs » .",
"Most of the parents who are cited are charged with educational neglect, said DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James.",
"Most of those charged plead guilty and get probation, DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James said.",
"The probation usually involves parenting classes, counseling, and follow-up visits for progress and attendance reports.",
"Parents who violate Parents who violate their probation's probation run the risk of thousands of dollars in fines, and up to 30 days in jail per count.",
"\"We are putting parents in jail, or we are bringing parents in orange jumpsuits not just because parents's children are not in school, but because parents got a subpoena or summons to come to court, or to come to a diversionary program and parents refused to do so.",
"So this is more about accountability than anything,\" DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James said.",
"DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James said it is critical in DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James's county to keep kids in school.",
"The Georgia Department of Corrections found that more than 60 percent of The Georgia Department of Corrections's inmates in 2007 didn't earn a high school diploma, and DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James quoted an internal survey that found 84 percent of inmates in DeKalb County's jail are high school dropouts.",
"LaTara Tankersley-Jones and Craig Scott, investigators for the DeKalb County Solicitor-General's office, are tasked with locating \"truant\" parents and serving court-ordered summons.",
"LaTara Tankersley-Jones and Scott, usually with assistance from local law enforcement, also must arrest parents who have not complied with a court-ordered probation or failed to show up to court in the first place.",
"Scott said arrest is the least desirable option, but \"the bottom line is, LaTara Tankersley-Jones have a warrant and even if the children are there, you're going to have to come with LaTara Tankersley-Jones.\"",
"Robinson was no stranger to the investigators.",
"DeKalb County had intervened on behalf of a woman's children before, even providing Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas presents last year.",
"a woman had been ordered to be sure a woman's children went to school and to attend parenting classes a woman.",
"a woman had done neither, investigators said, earning a woman a night in jail and a face-to-face with the judge the next day.",
"the judge presides over the Educational Neglect courtroom.",
"On a recent Friday in October, the judge handled each of the 80 or so cases before the judge in a fast, firm, and efficient manner.",
"One by one, each parent, mostly women, has an opportunity to explain to the judge why they are in the judge's courtroom.",
"LaTara Tankersley-Jones are there as well.",
"LaTara Tankersley-Jones say LaTara Tankersley-Jones hear the same excuses over and over again.",
"\"LaTara Tankersley-Jones can't get up, or LaTara Tankersley-Jones have so many things that are going on in LaTara Tankersley-Jones's life that are preventing LaTara Tankersley-Jones from making sure that LaTara Tankersley-Jones's kids go to school,\" Jones said.",
"the judge agrees to probation for most of the parents in the judge's court this day, including Angela Harris, who pleads guilty to 24 counts, one for each of the 24 days her child missed school.",
"\"I have never in my 48 years been in trouble, so this is all new to me,\" she tells the judge.",
"\"The state is offering you 24 months (of probation), but if you mess up I'm going to put you in jail,\" the judge replies.",
"the judge has put 15 \"truant\" parents behind bars.",
"a woman is released.",
"But a woman'll have to return to court another day to explain why a woman's children aren't in school.",
"So far, the success of the DeKalb program has been limited.",
"\"We have seen some small results,\" DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James said.",
"Attendance has increased by 2 to 3 percent over the past year.",
"\"I am not satisfied by that, but in a school system of over 100,000 kids, you are talking about 2,000 to 3,000 more children attending school than what we had the year before last,\" DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James said.",
"DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James says that DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James has received some interest from neighboring counties about the DeKalb program and DeKalb County Solicitor-General Robert James thinks it is only a matter of time before they adopt similar ones.",
"\"We have a lot of parents who feel we should not be intervening in family business, but it's the law.",
"In Georgia, in DeKalb County, attendance is the law, and we plan to enforce it.\""
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"Police in Finland have identified the 10 victims in Tuesday's college shooting as eight female students, a male student and a male teacher.",
"The bodies of the victims were also badly burned after being set on fire.",
"The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- also died after turning the gun on The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari --.",
"In addition, one woman was seriously wounded in the shooting.",
"Finnish police had interviewed and released Saari a day before Tuesday's bloody rampage at a college in Kauhajoki in southwestern Finland, the country's interior minister said Tuesday.",
"Finnish broadcaster YLE reported that police found a note at Saari's apartment saying The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- planned the attack since 2002 because The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- hated \"people and the human race,\" according to Jari Neulaniemi of the National Bureau of Investigation.",
"Jari Neulaniemi of the National Bureau of Investigation told YLE that the shooting took place in a single classroom.",
"Nine of the victims were found in a single classroom and one in the corridor, the report said.",
"Authorities say Authorities became interested in the 22-year-old student after The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- posted four videos on YouTube.",
"One of them showed The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- firing a pistol at a shooting range.",
"The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- did not directly threaten anyone in the videos, so there were no grounds for further action, national police Commissioner Mikko Paatero told YLE.",
"However, Interior Minister Anne Holmlund suggested the government will investigate how the police handled the case.",
"Watch as the people of Kauhajoki mourn the victims » .",
"\"It's clear that we have to carefully go through what should have been done and if we could have avoided this situation in some way,\" The Associated Press quoted her as saying.",
"Finnish President Tarja Halonen, speaking from the United Nations' annual General Assembly in New York, also raised concerns about the YouTube videos.",
"\"We, parents and elderly people, have a little bit of feeling about the Internet,\" she said during an impromptu TV interview.",
"\"It's like a strange planet for us.",
"But it's not so.",
"It's part of our world, so we have to step in.\"",
"However she praised efforts by police, who she said \"were already on board\" by interviewing Saari.",
"Authorities hoped that was enough to take care of any threat, but \"now we see that it was not,\" she said.",
"The massacre in Kauhajoki, 290 kilometers (180 miles) northwest of Helsinki, was Finland's second school shooting in less than a year and renewed calls for a review of the country's laws on gun ownership.",
"Watch pictures from the scene » .",
"\"We must considerably tighten them,\" Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen told YLE during a visit to the town early Wednesday.",
"\"We should consider whether to allow these small arms for private citizens at home.",
"these small arms belong on firing ranges.\"",
"MTV-3's Foreign Editor Risto Puolimatka told CNN that The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- was issued with a temporary gun license last month.",
"It was the gunman's first license, MTV-3's Foreign Editor Risto Puolimatka said.",
"Authorities learned about the videos Friday but could not reach The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- until Monday, Paatero told YLE.",
"Police also searched his home, YLE reported.",
"Four videos of a man firing a pistol at a shooting range were posted by a \"Mr. Saari\" from Kauhajoki, where the college is based, according to his profile on video-sharing Web site YouTube.",
"his profile on video-sharing Web site YouTube also included a video tribute to the Columbine High School shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, at the top of the man's favorites list.",
"The videos were posted over a three-week period this month.",
"None was posted in the last week.",
"Watch more about The videos » .",
"The account was suspended within hours of the shooting, which began about 11 a.m. local time (0800 GMT.)",
"Jukka Forsberg, a maintenance worker at the school, told YLE that The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari -- was wearing a ski mask and walked into the building with a large bag.",
"About 150 students were on campus Kauhajoki city's School of Hospitality in southwestern Finland.",
"Forsberg said, \"I heard several dozen rounds of shots.",
"In other words, it was an automatic pistol.",
"I saw some female students who were wailing and moaning, and one managed to escape out the back door.\"",
"Saari died Tuesday afternoon from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at Tampere University Hospital, said MTV-3's Foreign Editor Risto Puolimatka.",
"At least one other person suffered serious injuries in the shooting, MTV-3's Foreign Editor Risto Puolimatka added.",
"The incident comes almost a year after another school shooting left nine people, including The gunman -- identified by authorities as Matti Juhani Saari --, dead in the Finnish town of Tuusala.",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"Sarah Bliss is a writer for the Tufts Daily, the leading news source for Tufts University.",
"This article was brought to CNN.com by UWIRE, the leading provider of student-generated content.",
"UWIRE aims to identify and promote the brightest young content creators and deliver their work to a larger audience via professional media partners such as CNN.com.",
"Visit UWIRE.com to learn more.",
"SUNY at Canton in New York has provided a designated \"pet wing,\" home to a variety of animals.",
"(UWIRE) --",
"As university residence halls seek to transition into more homey environments -- with additions like full kitchens and single-stall bathrooms -- pet ownership is still forbidden for the majority of dorm residents.",
"But several universities, including MIT, have now added some pets to the \"acceptable\" list of dorm possessions.",
"According to a recent article published by The Boston Globe, students at MIT who reside in four of the school's 11 undergraduate dormitories can bring cats with students at MIT who reside in four of the school's 11 undergraduate dormitories to school, thanks to a policy implemented several years ago in an effort to curb students from housing forbidden animals.",
"Other schools have jumped on the four-footed bandwagon: Stephen's College, a women's college in Columbia, Missouri, allows for many household pets, including dogs, provided that many household pets, including dogs are vaccinated and under forty pounds.",
"And the SUNY at Canton in New York has provided a designated \"pet wing,\" home to a variety of small caged animals and cats since 1996.",
"While animal companionship is largely viewed as a welcome addition to family homes, there are many roadblocks that have deterred Tufts from altering Tufts's pet policy.",
"\"We don't have a policy that allows for dogs or cats or ferrets or monkeys -- you name it -- and ... the main reason is so many people have allergic reactions to animal dander,\" Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said.",
"\"It's one thing in a family, where everyone agrees that this is what everyone want and no one has an allergic reaction to the animal.",
"But in a residence hall, where there is no such communication or agreement, it's hard and people are affected.\"",
"While Tufts students are currently not permitted to have more than a small fish tank in the dorm setting -- in addition to service animals -- this has not always been the case.",
"During a failed experiment that ended around a decade ago, faculty members, residence directors and graduate teaching assistants were allowed to own pets in an attempt to encourage residence.",
"\"We were trying to entice [people]to come live in the halls, and ... they wouldn't come unless you allowed the pets,\" Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said.",
"\"In order to pragmatically get [them] to come in, we said 'Okay, let's do this.'",
"Then people said, 'No, this isn't fair, I can't live here.'",
"Not many students complained, but enough did.\"",
"According to Dr. Margaret Higham, medical director of Health Services, the prevalence of allergies and asthma on campus would make a more lenient pet policy problematic.",
"In addition, dorm cleanliness would be noticeably impaired by the allowance of pets, Dr. Margaret Higham, medical director of Health Services said.",
"\"Pets need to be taken care of ...",
"Litter boxes need to be cleaned daily,\" Dr. Margaret Higham, medical director of Health Services said.",
"\"The dorm rooms were not built with the need to ventilate for that type of situation.",
"And what about fleas?",
"Once fleas are introduced, fleas would spread rapidly through all of the furniture.",
"I do not see students being able to care for animals adequately in the dorm setting.\"",
"Even without canines currently roaming the quad, there has been a modest history of animal neglect that calls into question a student's ability to provide for an animal properly.",
"\"I think some fraternities in recent years did have animals,\" Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said.",
"\"There were concerns or complaints when spring break came along, because there is this animal, not cared for ...the animal activists came in here and said, 'That's no way to treat an animal,'\" Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said.",
"\"A residence facility -- be it a sorority, fraternity or residence hall -- is not necessarily a good fit for the animal.\"",
"Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman had reservations about allowing pets in designated residence halls, like MIT does.",
"\"If you designate certain buildings as 'pet buildings,' you are taking that building, in essence, from people who don't want to live in that type of environment,\" Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said.",
"\"You can't do that with very popular halls that go first in the lottery, because there would be no end to complaints about that.",
"You just get into this equity political-pragmatics issue pretty quickly.\"",
"\"Developing pet-specific dorms would be a huge logistical struggle,\" Higham said.",
"\"Once pets have been in a specific room, a specific room is 'contaminated' with pet dander and will be 'allergic' for extended periods.\"",
"But a number of studies have been released touting the psychological benefits of owning a pet, arguing that the relationship serves as a daily de-stress mechanism and source of increased happiness.",
"While Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman viewed the calming influence of a pet-owner bond as beneficial, Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman associated the necessity of pet companionship with two distinct groups, neither of which includes college students.",
"\"I'll say the usefulness in ownership and responsibility for the aged and the young jumps off the page to me,\" Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said.",
"\"For older folks ... the companionship and presence of the animal is life sustaining in a lot of ways,\" Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said.",
"\"For young kids and teenagers, the responsibility of pet ownership is a great model for taking on a commitment.",
"It's clearly needed, but probably a little less so in our middle years.\"",
"Sophomore Kara Brown, who suffers from asthma, said it is a bad idea to allow pets in residence halls.",
"\"I wouldn't love it if cats were allowed just because being anywhere near cats makes me sick ...",
"My breathing tubes start to close,\" Brown said.",
"\"I also feel like people usually have too much going on to really take care of a pet, especially now in college when you are already doing so much that takes a lot of effort.\"",
"\"I don't think it's fair to other people who are living in the dorms because everybody needs to agree that they want an animal in their dorm,\" junior Jenny Hong said.",
"\"It's not only you and your roommate, but you're sharing a huge space with everyone else.",
"It would also cause a lot of mess and possible destruction to school property.\"",
"Still, junior Jenny Hong admitted that junior Jenny Hong wouldn't rule out the possibility of owning a pet if the policy changed.",
"\"I would consider bringing a pet, but I would only go for small pets -- maybe a hamster or gerbil,\" junior Jenny Hong said.",
"\"Never a cat, though, or a dog.\""
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"Casey Anthony was taken into custody Friday night at Casey Anthony's parents' home in ORLANDO, Florida.",
"The charges relate to Casey Anthony's use of \"some monies and checks in an account that did not belong to Casey Anthony and Casey Anthony knew that,\" Orange County Capt. Angelo Nieves said.",
"Orange County Sheriff's Department officers ushered Casey Anthony through a crowd of protesters that had gathered outside Casey Anthony's parents' ORLANDO home.",
"The protesters cheered as Casey Anthony -- wearing a T-shirt with Caylee's picture and the words \"Have you seen me?\" -- was taken to a unmarked police car.",
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"On Thursday, a bounty hunter who had posted bond for Casey Anthony said a bounty hunter who had posted bond for Anthony planned to revoke the bond.",
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"Casey Anthony reported Casey Anthony's 3-year-old daughter missing in July, a month after the last known sighting of Caylee Anthony.",
"Law enforcement sources said DNA evidence suggested that a strand of hair in the trunk of a car linked to Casey Anthony was Caylee's.",
"Nieves confirmed reports that tests had \"indicated human decomposition was present and located in the defendant's vehicle.\"",
"After holding onto \"high hopes\" that Caylee could be found alive, Nieves said Friday, \"that hope is somewhat diminished.\"",
"Casey Anthony told police that a babysitter kidnapped Caylee, but police found inconsistencies in her story, according to police reports.",
"Police learned of the car from Casey Anthony's mother, Casey Anthony.",
"At that time, Casey Anthony told authorities that it smelled as if a dead body had been in the trunk.",
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"In 2007, 48-year-old Boy George spent five days cleaning the streets of New York to fulfill a community service sentence.",
"U.S. immigration authorities denied the visa because 48-year-old Boy George, 48, faces trial in November in London on charges of false imprisonment relating to an April 2007 incident, according to a statement from 48-year-old Boy George's management, posted on 48-year-old Boy George's site.",
"\"48-year-old Boy George is astounded at the decision and is having 48-year-old Boy George's lawyers here in the United States look at it in the hope that someone will change their mind,\" the statement read.",
"Boy George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was charged in London last November with false imprisonment following a complaint from a 28-year-old man, police said.",
"an April 2007 incident happened in East London the previous April, police said.",
"48-year-old Boy George is free on unconditional bail and is not barred from traveling as 48-year-old Boy George awaits trial, 48-year-old Boy George's management said.",
"48-year-old Boy George's upcoming schedule includes a series of U.S. club dates in July and August.",
"48-year-old Boy George is best known as the singer of '80s pop group Culture Club, with hits including \"Karma Chameleon\" and \"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?\"",
"48-year-old Boy George quit the band in 1987 and embarked on a short solo career before reinventing 48-year-old Boy George as a club DJ and launching a fashion label, B-Rude.",
"In August 2007, 48-year-old Boy George spent five days cleaning the streets of Manhattan to fulfill a community service sentence for falsely reporting a break-in at 48-year-old Boy George's New York home.",
"48-year-old Boy George's management said the denial of 48-year-old Boy George's U.S. visa had nothing to do with that case."
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"Ten people were killed Tuesday when a gunman rampaged through a Finnish college, police officials said.",
"Officials say Suspected gunman began firing in a classroom at a Finnish college before shooting Suspected gunman.",
"Over the course of 90 minutes, Suspected gunman fired a few shots at police, Finnish broadcaster YLE said.",
"Jukka Forsberg, a maintenance worker at a Finnish college, told YLE that Suspected gunman was wearing a ski mask and walked into the building with a large bag.",
"About 150 students were on campus Kauhajoki city's School of Hospitality in southwestern Finland.",
"Forsberg said, \"I heard several dozen rounds of shots.",
"In other words, it was an automatic pistol.",
"I saw some female students who were wailing and moaning, and one managed to escape out the back door.\"",
"Smoke billowed from a building on campus, but officials could not immediately say what caused the fire.",
"Watch pictures from the scene » .",
"Tapio Varmola, who was visiting a Finnish college at the time, told CNN he was in a building about two blocks away when the shootings occurred.",
"After the shootings, he said, he heard students shouting.",
"Police came about 10 minutes after Police were called, Varmola said.",
"\"It took two hours to get this situation ended,\" he said.",
"Saari, 22, died Tuesday afternoon from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at Tampere University Hospital, said medical director Matti Lehto.",
"At least one other person suffered serious injuries in the shooting, medical director Matti Lehto added.",
"Police had interviewed and released Suspected gunman on Monday after Suspected gunman posted violent videos on YouTube, authorities said.",
"As Suspected gunman did not directly threaten anyone in the videos, there were no grounds for further action, national police Commissioner Mikko Paatero told YLE.",
"Authorities learned about the videos Friday but could not reach Suspected gunman until Monday, national police Commissioner Mikko Paatero told YLE.",
"Police also searched his home, YLE reported.",
"Four videos of a man firing a pistol at a shooting range were posted by a \"Mr. Saari\" from Kauhajoki, where the college is based, according to Suspected gunman's YouTube profile.",
"his YouTube profile also included a video tribute to the Columbine High School shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, at the top of the man's favorites list.",
"the videos were posted over a three-week period this month.",
"None was posted in the last week.",
"Watch more about the videos » .",
"The account was suspended within hours of the shooting, which began about 11 a.m. local time (0800 GMT). MTV-3's Foreign Editor Risto Puolimatka told CNN that Suspected gunman was also issued with a temporary gun license last month.",
"It was the gunman's first license, MTV-3's Foreign Editor Risto Puolimatka said.",
"Finnish President Tarja Halonen expressed Finnish President Tarja Halonen's condolences from the United Nations, where Finnish President Tarja Halonen is attending the annual General Assembly.",
"Finnish President Tarja Halonen also commented on the videos.",
"\"We, parents and elderly people, have a little bit of feeling about the Internet,\" Finnish President Tarja Halonen said at an impromptu TV interview.",
"\"It's like a strange planet for us.",
"But it's not so.",
"It's part of our world, so we have to step in.\"",
"Finnish President Tarja Halonen praised efforts by police, who Finnish President Tarja Halonen said \"were already on board\" by interviewing Saari.",
"Authorities hoped that was enough to take care of any threat, but \"now we see that it was not,\" Finnish President Tarja Halonen said.",
"The school taught late teens and young adults, Jarkko Sipila of MTV 3 told CNN.",
"\"It's more or less like an agricultural or professional school where people teach how to make food or how to cook in big kitchen, in industrial kitchens,\" he said.",
"Kauhajoki, with a population of about 15,000, is about 290km (180 miles) from the capital, Helsinki.",
"The incident comes almost a year after another school shooting left nine people, including the gunman, dead in the Finnish town of Tuusala.",
"Before another school shooting, the gunman, 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen, posted a video on YouTube titled \"Jokela High School Massacre 11/7/2007,\" identifying the date and location of the attack.",
"\"All these memories are being brought back and people are asking the question, 'Why again?' \" Sipila said.",
"Finland enjoys a strong tradition of hunting and has a high proportion of gun ownership, with 2 million firearms owned in a nation of 5 million people."
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"Police say the shooter was a student, no motive established .",
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) --",
"Police in India have charged 63 people with murder in the beating death of a company boss who fired 63 people.",
"India's labor minister was criticized for saying Chaudhary's death was warning to management.",
"The 63 were among 137 people police had rounded up by Wednesday -- two days after a mob of fired employees attacked L.K. Chaudhary, the chief executive of an Italian car parts manufacturing company.",
"The others were charged with disturbing the peace in the Monday incident in Noida, located in the outskirts of the capital New Delhi.",
"More arrests are likely, said R. K. Chaturvedi, the senior superintendent of police in Noida.",
"The former employees of Graziano Transmissioni had gone to meet with company management over The former employees of Graziano Transmissioni's reinstatement, said Noida police Inspector Manoj Pathak.",
"The meeting turned violent, and a mob of fired employees attacked Chaudhary with iron rods, Noida police Inspector Manoj Pathak said.",
"On Tuesday, India's labor minister, Oscar Fernandes, drew sharp criticism after India's labor minister said Chaudhary's death should serve as a warning to management, according to CNN's sister network in India, CNN-IBN.",
"\"The workers should be dealt (with) with compassion and should not be pushed so hard that The workers resort to whatever that had happened in Nodia\" CNN-IBN quoted Fernandes as telling reporters.",
"India's labor minister later apologized, telling CNN India's labor minister's comments had been taken out of context.",
"India's labor minister said the murder of the boss could never be justified.",
"The Italian Embassy said the company had, for several months, been facing \"violent forms of protest by self-proclaimed workers' representatives.\"",
"\"The situation had been repeatedly brought to the attention of the competent Indian authorities, both at central and local level,\" it said in a statement.",
"Business groups condemned the killing with the Confederation of Indian Industry calling it \"tragic, unwanted and gory.\"",
"\"Such instances of industrial violence cannot be a solution to any problem and must not be tolerated,\" said Salil Singh, chairman of the group that promotes industrial growth.",
"Meanwhile, authorities sought to appease businesses that police were aggressively investigating the case.",
"\"The legal course will be followed and all culprits brought to book,\" Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said.",
"\"This stray tragic occurrence would not be allowed to mar India's position as an investment-friendly destination.\"",
"CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report."
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"plane was not on fire as plane took off from Madrid's airport but lifted off slightly into the air, fell back to the ground and caught fire only after skidding off the side of the runway, a source familiar said Friday.",
"The plane crash victims' bodies laid out at a makeshift morgue in Madrid.",
"A total of 153 people were killed.",
"Initially, there were indications that an engine might have caught fire as plane was taking off, but a source familiar said airport video shows plane lifting off, veering sharply right and then dragging or skidding down the right side of the runway.",
"There was a cloud of dust, a source familiar said, followed by a fireball.",
"Canary Islands regional President Paulino Rivero said after meeting with Spain's prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, that the latter had seen airport video and described airport video as showing plane using up all the runway as plane tried to take off but then never reaching adequate altitude, The Associated Press reported.",
"Eighty of the bodies recovered from the wreckage of Wednesday's fiery plane crash have been identified, Spanish authorities said Friday.",
"Watch as Spain deals with tragedy » .",
"Many of The plane crash victims' bodies are so badly burned that fingerprint identification is impossible, and investigators will have to rely on DNA, officials said.",
"Nineteen survivors remained hospitalized Friday.",
"plane was all but destroyed in Wednesday's fiery plane crash, a rescue worker said.",
"When emergency crews arrived on the scene, \"you couldn't distinguish that there was an aircraft there, apart from the remains of the tail,\" Ergivio Corral said.",
"\"If you didn't know it, you wouldn't have been able to say there was a plane.\" Watch moment of silence » .",
"Authorities have handed over the remains of 35 victims to their families, officials said.",
"Families of the victims are being housed in a hotel near the airport, and the government planned to brief Families of the victims on the crash investigation Friday.",
"The cause of the accident is still unknown, but Spanair spokesman Javier Mendoza said flight data recorders had been recovered.",
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"\"One of them seems to be... a little bit damaged, but [investigators] are confident they could use the information,\" Spanair spokesman Javier Mendoza said.",
"\"But we have to wait for the downloading and the analysis\" before any conclusions can be drawn, Spanair spokesman Javier Mendoza said.",
"Witnesses reported that plane banked violently to the right as plane attempted to take off before slamming back to the ground and coming to a rest in a gully just off the runway at Madrid's Bajaras airport.",
"Watch as the wounded arrive at a hospital » .",
"plane's departure had been delayed for nearly two hours due to a technical problem with plane, Spanair spokesman Javier Mendoza said, but it was not clear whether that fault was related to the crash.",
"\"a technical problem with the aircraft was treated and corrected by Spanair maintenance personnel,\" Spanair spokesman Javier Mendoza said.",
"\"We have reviewed the details on this faulty situation with the inspectors of our civil aviation authority,\" Spanair spokesman Javier Mendoza said, \"and we all come to the conclusion that was nothing abnormal in this resolution of a technical problem with the aircraft.\"",
"Madrid observed five minutes of silence Thursday to honor the victims, and the country began three days of mourning.",
"See a map of the airport » .",
"The McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carried 162 passengers, four non-working crew members and six working crew members, Spanair said.",
"plane was also carrying seven passengers from Lufthansa Flight 2554 on a flight scheduled to take more than two hours, airline spokeswoman Henriette Ellekrog said.",
"Spanair, a low-cost airline that has a flight-sharing agreement with Lufthansa, is owned by SAS Scandinavian Airlines.",
"Twenty-two of the passengers were children, two of them infants, Spanair said.",
"After contacting families, Spanair published the names of those aboard on Spanair's Web site.",
"It was the first fatal accident at the airport since December 1983, when 93 people were killed as two Spanish airliners collided while taxiing for takeoff.",
"The airport, which sits eight miles (13 km) northeast of central Madrid, is Spain's busiest, handling more than 40 million passengers a year.",
"CNN's Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman, Claudia Rebaza, Cal Perry and Kathleen Koch contributed to this report.",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Bruce Ivins carried out the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people sent Bruce Ivins an e-mail saying Bruce Ivins knew the attacker's identity, according to court documents released Wednesday.",
"Bruce Ivins killed Bruce Ivins in July, authorities say.",
"Bruce Ivins, who authorities say killed Bruce Ivins in July as the Justice Department prepared to charge Bruce Ivins in the anthrax case, is alleged to have sent an e-mail to Bruce Ivins last September.",
"An FBI agent quotes the message in an affidavit accompanying applications for search warrants for Bruce Ivins's e-mail accounts.",
"\"Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!!!",
"I finally know who mailed the anthrax letters in the fall of 2001.",
"I've pieced it together!",
"Now we can finally get this over and done with,\" the e-mail reads.",
"In it, Bruce Ivins says Bruce Ivins plans on turning information over to Bruce Ivins's lawyer and that Bruce Ivins's lawyer would then give it to authorities.",
"an e-mail does not say who Bruce Ivins believed was responsible.",
"\"I'm not looking forward to everybody getting dragged through the mud, but at least it will be over,\" the e-mail reads.",
"\"Finally!",
"I should have it TOTALLY nailed down within the month.",
"I should have been a private eye!!!!\"",
"The documents -- which the Justice Department says are the last Bruce Ivins-related search warrants that had yet to be released to the public -- also contain new details about allegations that Bruce Ivins wanted to kill Bruce Ivins's co-workers.",
"new details about allegations that Ivins wanted to kill his co-workers are in an account of a July 9 group therapy session during which Bruce Ivins allegedly said Bruce Ivins was a suspect in the anthrax investigation.",
"According to an FBI agent's account, Bruce Ivins was \"angry at the investigators, the government, and the system in general.\"",
"\"Bruce Ivins said Bruce Ivins was not going to face the death penalty, but instead had a plan to kill co-workers and other individuals who wronged Bruce Ivins,\" an account of a July 9 group therapy session during which Ivins allegedly said he was a suspect in the anthrax investigation reads.",
"\"Bruce Ivins said Bruce Ivins had a bullet-proof vest, and a list of co-workers, and added Bruce Ivins was going to obtain a Glock firearm from Bruce Ivins's son within the next day, because federal agents are watching Bruce Ivins and Bruce Ivins could not obtain a weapon on Bruce Ivins's own.\"",
"The FBI agent also alleges that Bruce Ivins said during the session that Bruce Ivins had walked around the \"ghetto\" areas of Frederick, Maryland, near Bruce Ivins's home, late at night \"hoping that someone would try to hurt Bruce Ivins so that Bruce Ivins could stab them with a sharp pen.\"",
"That description is similar to something Bruce Ivins allegedly wrote on YouTube referencing a winner of the television game show \"The Mole.\"",
"Authorities said Bruce Ivins's YouTube message read: \"The least someone could do would be to take a sharp ballpoint pin or letter opener and put her eyes out, to complete the task of making her a true mole!\"",
"General details of the therapy session have previously been reported.",
"After the meeting, social worker Jean Duley contacted authorities and Bruce Ivins was taken into custody.",
"Bruce Ivins was released after being evaluated at two hospitals.",
"Notes allegedly written by Bruce Ivins at the time of Bruce Ivins's hospitalization were found in the trash at Bruce Ivins's home after Bruce Ivins's death.",
"According to the FBI, Bruce Ivins wrote about the stresses in Bruce Ivins's life and the possibility of facing prison time.",
"Bruce Ivins's attorney, Paul Kemp, maintains Bruce Ivins didn't carry out the attacks and says the new documents prove nothing.",
"\"There is simply nothing new here, nothing that is proof against Bruce Ivins,\" Kemp said Wednesday.",
"The anthrax probe continues, Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said.",
"\"We are working to close the investigation soon,\" Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said, adding that \"investigative efforts\" and \"administrative measures\" need to be finished.",
"The anthrax attacks occurred less than a month after the September 11, 2001, suicide attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.",
"Letters filled with bacterial spores were sent to Senate Democratic leaders and news organizations.",
"Those who died were Washington postal workers, a New York hospital worker, a supermarket tabloid photo editor in Florida and a 94-year-old woman in Connecticut.",
"Scientists from inside and outside the FBI said Scientists from inside and outside the FBI traced a strain of anthrax from the envelopes and victims to a batch of anthrax in Ivins' lab at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute in Fort Detrick, Maryland."
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"Bolivian President Evo Morales says opposition leaders are trying to overthrow the central government.",
"The central government of leftist President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first leader from an Indian majority centered in the western highlands, is conducting talks with governors of largely white provinces in the east who want autonomy.",
"Tension between the two sides erupted into violence that killed At least 30 people in September.",
"In addition, differences about Bolivia's future have threatened to split Bolivia.",
"Julian Torrico, a peasant leader, said he and other Bolivian President Evo Morales supporters will storm the eastern city of Santa Cruz if the talks, which started Thursday, do not yield progress.",
"\"We will go into the eastern city of Santa Cruz and respond with force because they have (marginalized) us and massacred us, so we will massacre them and we will take their land away from them,\" he said.",
"Watch protesters march in Santa Cruz » .",
"\"The fight here is between poor and rich.",
"The government of Bolivian President Evo Morales took power by a majority and now these opposition governors don't want to let Bolivian President Evo Morales govern,\" Torrico said.",
"Anyelo Cespedes, president of the Santa Cruz Youth Union, which opposes Bolivian President Evo Morales, said they don't want a dictatorship or a communist regime.",
"\"We have our way of life and we don't want that changed,\" he said.",
"The central government and eastern governors are discussing topics that include the distribution of natural-gas revenues, autonomy for several eastern provinces and the president's plan for a new constitution.",
"Those negotiations may offer one of the final chances to reverse Bolivia's slide toward violent instability, according to Gonzalo Chavez, an analyst.",
"\"This is probably one of the few opportunities that we're going to have to solve the problems of the country,\" he said.",
"Four of nine provinces in Bolivia have declared autonomy from the central government in referendums this year.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and former Cuban President Fidel Castro, said the moves could cause Bolivia to disintegrate.",
"The eastern opposition leaders have long opposed a decision of the central government to divert some revenue from oil and gas produced in the region to pay for government programs for the elderly.",
"The eastern opposition leaders have also opposed his plans to revise the constitution to give greater rights to the indigenous majority.",
"The differences flared into violence with opposition protesters occupying government buildings and energy installations.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales has said The eastern opposition leaders are trying to overthrow the central government.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Philip Goldberg on the grounds that he urged anti-government protesters to get violent, an assertion the United States has denied.",
"\"This is a coup in the past few days by the leaders of some provinces, with the takeover of some institutions, the sacking and robbery of some government institutions and attempts to assault the national police and the armed forces,\" Bolivian President Evo Morales has said.",
"Opposition leaders said Opposition leaders merely want Opposition leaders's demands met.",
"Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza of the Organization of American States arrived in Bolivia on Friday to encourage dialogue.",
"Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza of the Organization of American States expressed optimism based on the \"preliminary results\" from the talks.",
"Representatives of the Organization of American States and the 12-nation Union of South American Countries are among a group of international observers that has come to Bolivia for the negotiations.",
"Ivan Canelas, a government spokesman, said the talks provide a critical opportunity to break an impasse that has split Bolivia for months.",
"\"We understand that making peace requires the suspension of all forms of pressure,\" he said.",
"Gov. Mario Cossio of the eastern Tarija state said Gov. Mario Cossio of the eastern Tarija state and other opposition leaders hope to reach a final agreement.",
"Gov. Mario Cossio of the eastern Tarija state said he and other opposition leaders hope \"to build a national agreement that Bolivia needs, that the Bolivians want.\"",
"Gov. Mario Cossio of the eastern Tarija state said the goal is to \"give peace back to Bolivia and give certainty to Bolivia.\"",
"CNN's Karl Penhaul and Gloria Carrasco contributed to this story."
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"George Michael was later released with a caution for possession of class A and class C drugs.",
"a statement did not name George Michael, but other sources confirmed George Michael's identity.",
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"The 45-year-old, who has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, has talked openly about George Michael's use of drugs in the past.",
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"The International Olympic Committee has asked gymnastics officials to look into whether China's women's gymnastics team used underaged competitors, an IOC spokeswoman said Friday.",
"China's He Kexin kisses China's He Kexin's gold medal last week after winning the Olympic women's uneven bars.",
"The International Olympic Committee asked the International Gymnastics Federation to clarify the situation, said spokeswoman Giselle Davis.",
"spokeswoman Giselle Davis said spokeswoman Giselle Davis wouldn't call it a formal investigation.",
"The Chinese women's gymnastics team won a gold medal in a team competition at the Summer Olympics Games.",
"Five members won medals in individual competitions.",
"Yet commentators, bloggers and others have raised questions about whether about half the members of China's team were old enough to compete -- athletes must be at least 16 in the year the games take place.",
"In women's gymnastics, younger teenage girls can have an advantage over older competitors due to younger teenage girls's often smaller, more agile bodies and lighter frames.",
"\"We have asked the International Gymnastics Federation to look into what have been a number questions and apparent discrepancies on this case,\" spokeswoman Giselle Davis said.",
"A top Chinese Olympic official said questions regarding the ages of the athletes have been dealt with previously.",
"\"The eligibility of the athletes has already been investigated and authorized by the International Gymnastics Federation and, if the athletes hadn't been cleared, the athletes wouldn't have participated in the Summer Olympics Games,\" said Wang Wei, executive vice president of the Beijing Olympic Committee.",
"Chinese officials provided the Olympic committee with passports, showing that team members were of legal age, but numerous challenges have been made.",
"The latest came from a blogger known as \"Stryde Hax.\"",
"a blogger known as \"Stryde Hax claims to have uncovered proof that Chinese gymnast He Kexin is only 14.",
"Watch bloggers question China's gymnasts » .",
"In Internet searches, \"Stryde Hax\" allegedly uncovered Web pages showing lists complied by China's General Administration of Sport that show a 1994 date of birth for China's He Kexin.",
"That would make her 14 -- too young to compete in the Olympic Games.",
"CNN has not been able to independently verify the information, but snapshots of the Web pages appear to back up the claim.",
"Other bloggers have joined the search and reported similar results.",
"The New York Times conducted The New York Times's own investigation, producing similar results that seem to implicate China's He Kexin and two other members of the team.",
"The New York Times uncovered a 2006 biography on China's He Kexin that lists her birthday as January 1, 1994.",
"\"According to online sports registration lists in China, half the team - He Kexin, Yang Yilin, Jiang Yuyuan - would be under age,\" The New York Times reported in July.",
"The International Gymnastics Federation, however, has said that those gymnasts were eligible and that the ages on those gymnasts's passports were correct.",
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"\"Asians have different figures than people from the West, so that's what caused Asians's suspicion,\" Huang said, referring to media inquiries.",
"\"Asians shouldn't be suspicious.\"",
"CNN's John Vause contributed to this story ."
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"Matt didn't wait for a call to serve Matt's country.",
"Six weeks after Tracy and Matt and Tracy Keil married in 2007, Matt was hit by a sniper fire while serving in Iraq.",
"Matt enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school in 2000, and when the Iraq war started, Matt volunteered to go.",
"Because Matt was single, Matt wanted to take the place of a parent, wife or husband who would otherwise be sent.",
"\"I wanted to go over and serve his country,\" Matt recalled.",
"After a year-long tour of duty in Iraq, Matt returned home to Colorado, where Matt met a young woman named Tracy who lived in the same apartment complex.",
"Matt says Matt knew they were meant to be.",
"\"I woke up one morning, and my roommate was gone.",
"I called him up and asked him what he was doing.",
"He said he was down by the pool hanging out,\" Matt said.",
"\"I asked him if there were any hot girls down there, and he said, 'Yeah, there are.' \"",
"And the rest is history.",
"Matt and Tracy began dating and fell in love, but Matt was soon told that Matt's unit was being sent back to Iraq.",
"Even though Matt knew redeployment was part of Matt's job, this time things were different.",
"Matt and Tracy were engaged to be married.",
"Watch Matt and Tracy Keil's story of love interrupted » .",
"At the time, the enemy in Iraq was growing stronger, and his unit was headed to Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province and a violent insurgent stronghold.",
"Matt had been in Ramadi in 2004 and knew the mission would be dangerous.",
"\"his unit were definitely built up a lot more on his unit's second tour,\" Matt said.",
"\"Fallujah had just ended, and a lot of fighters from Fallujah had fled to nearby cities, and that's what his unit were up against.\"",
"Though Matt and Tracy Keil's wedding plans were put on hold, Matt and Tracy decided to marry as soon as Matt could get a leave of absence.",
"\"Matt got one of the earliest leaves you could take and came home in January,\" Tracy Keil remembered.",
"\"The main reason Matt and Tracy Keil got married was, even though Matt and Tracy Keil planned on having a bigger wedding later, what if something happened?\"",
"On February 24, 2007, six weeks after their wedding, something did happen.",
"Matt, was part of a major offensive to reclaim a portion of the city.",
"Matt's squad was ambushed, leaving 11 men severely wounded.",
"After helping evacuate Matt's wounded men, Matt and Matt's men entered an abandoned house.",
"Matt went to the roof to look out for any potential danger.",
"\"I jumped up on the tallest part of the roof to lay a camel net on top of the stairwell to kind of hide us from sniper fire,\" Matt said.",
"\"That's when I got shot right in the right side of the neck.",
"Hit me like a ton of bricks.\"",
"It wasn't until Matt was back at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington that the couple realized the severity of Matt's injury.",
"Tracy was abruptly informed of his condition while Matt was heavily sedated.",
"\"A doctor came in, thought I knew and made a comment about being paralyzed from the neck down,\" Matt recalled.",
"\"He didn't know that nobody had sat down to tell me.",
"... I just collapsed.\"",
"When Matt awoke, a doctor informed Matt that the bullet had hit Matt's spinal cord and explained that Matt had a \"Christopher Reeve-type injury.\"",
"After the initial shock, Matt and Tracy began to understand the full implications.",
"For Keil, who was independent and admits to being stubborn, that was hard to swallow.",
"\"Realizing that Tracy was going to be helping me eat, cleaning me up, doing things like that, it was kind of devastating,\" Matt admitted.",
"But Matt and Tracy Keil stayed optimistic and started focusing on the next steps.",
"One of the most urgent issues was figuring out where Matt and Tracy Keil would live once Matt was out of the hospital.",
"Tracy and Tracy's mother would bring Matt house-hunting.",
"\"Tracy and her mother would get me in a manual wheelchair and carry me up flights of stairs,\" Matt explained.",
"But Tracy and her mother quickly became frustrated by what Tracy and her mother found.",
"Every house Tracy and her mother saw would have to be dramatically modified to meet Keil's needs.",
"And that meant costs that Matt and Tracy could not afford.",
"Then, in August 2007, when Matt was just a month away from being released from the hospital, Matt's wife received news that would change this lives.",
"This time news that would change this lives was good.",
"A friend of Matt and Tracy Keil's had submitted Matt and Tracy Keil's story to Homes for Our Troops, an organization that builds specially adapted homes for disabled veterans.",
"John Gonsalves, founder and president of Homes for Our Troops, and the organization had selected Matt and Tracy Keil to receive a house built specifically to meet Matt and Tracy Keil's needs.",
"Best of all, it was free.",
"\"It's one of the most life-changing events that's ever happened to Matt and Tracy Keil, especially after being injured,\" Matt said.",
"\"Matt and Tracy Keil're going to be in this house that's fully accessible, has everything that it needs to take care of Matt, wide-open floor plan easy for Tracy to take care of Matt, and it's just an absolutely beautiful house.\"",
"After breaking ground in April, Homes for Our Troops utilized hundreds of volunteers, donations and community outreach to build a house built specifically to meet their needs so it would be ready for the dedication ceremony September 27.",
"Gonsalves, who started his career in construction, said he realized how many men and women would be returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with severe injuries and very specific needs.",
"He wanted to volunteer with an organization that built homes designed for these disabled veterans.",
"When he realized none existed, he started his own.",
"He says he's frustrated by the lack of urgency in helping America's veterans.",
"\"It just seems like this time around, we weren't really asked to do anything.",
"It was kind of 'go about your lives,' and I'm thinking, how can everybody just put it in the back of their mind and go about their daily lives when our sons and daughters and mothers and fathers are in a faraway place putting our sons and daughters and mothers and fathers's lives on the line?\" Gonsalves said.",
"Homes for Our Troops spends an average of $250,000 on each home, and only 7 percent of Homes for Our Troops's money goes to administrative overhead.",
"The rest goes directly to helping disabled veterans.",
"It gives people in the community an opportunity to give back through volunteering.",
"The Keils' home is the 33rd project the organization has completed, and Homes for Our Troops has 40 homes in the works.",
"There are 3 million veterans receiving disability compensation, and more than 250,000 of those are 100 percent disabled, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.",
"With two wars still being waged and hundreds of thousands of America's military men and women fighting, it's likely the need for these homes will increase.",
"The home has given Matt and Tracy Keil hope for Matt and Tracy Keil's future together, and Matt and Tracy Keil look forward to giving back.",
"\"This gives Matt and Tracy Keil security for Matt and Tracy Keil's life,\" Matt said.",
"\"This is where Matt and Tracy Keil can have Matt and Tracy Keil's kids, and this is where Matt and Tracy Keil can raise Matt and Tracy Keil's family.\"",
"\"Matt and Tracy Keil're going to live in this house for the rest of Matt and Tracy Keil's lives, and eventually when it's Matt and Tracy Keil's time to pass, Matt and Tracy Keil're going to find a family to donate a house built specifically to meet their needs to that really needs a house built specifically to meet their needs,\" Matt said.",
"\"Matt and Tracy Keil's kids will be made well aware of that!\""
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"Global activist and U2 frontman Bono attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York to push world leaders to join Bono's ONE campaign in fighting disease, poverty, and hunger.",
"Bono talked to CNN's John Roberts on \"American Morning\" about recent successes and what's next.",
"Bono said politicians who love signing checks but not cashing hurt plans to help the world's poor.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"All this talk has been about the economy collapsing, $700 billion bailout.",
"Congress is absolutely absorbed with that.",
"Did that in any way affect what you were trying to do this week?",
"Are people more focused on the economy than in helping out developing nations?",
"BONO:",
"We got good news this week.",
"I know normally I'm on your program with bad news -- the whingeing rock star -- but it's great.",
"There's a disease, malaria -- it's 3,000 African kids die every day of mosquito bites.",
"Sounds mad, but it's true.",
"And people have committed and it looks like the funds are on the table so that that disease will be no more by 2015.",
"That makes people like Bono punch the air and everyone who wears a ONE T-shirt and all our white band campaigners on college campuses all over the country -- it was a great day for them yesterday so we're celebrating that.",
"I know it's extraordinary, that while you're having this meltdown on the markets, that people could even concentrate on this stuff, but I'm really grateful that people did.",
"We had both [presidential] candidates make very powerful statements about the necessity for nonmilitary tools, for instance, in foreign policy.",
"This is an America that both [presidential] candidates want to show to the rest of the world -- the greatness of America.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"So you're hearing what you want to hear from both [presidential] candidates?",
"BONO: Yeah.",
"And you couldn't imagine a few years ago that you would have candidates so close to an election talking about this stuff, so yeah.",
"Watch Bono say how Bono uses Bono's star status on politicians » .",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"You were talking to Christine Romans outside the studio, who just did that piece for us a few minutes ago on what else could you do with $700 billion.",
"What could you do with $700 billion?",
"BONO:",
"We wouldn't be asking for that kind of money.",
"These are serious matters, people have lost people's jobs.",
"But I think the bill for the whole world -- so America would be like a third of it -- for $25 billion you could absolutely change the world.",
"You could put kids in school, most kids in school.",
"You could eradicate diseases like malaria, as we're saying.",
"We could change the water supplies.",
"But what's important is that people who want to change the world, want to see people who want to change the world's country, people who want to change the world see it as a patriotic act to show the world innovation of America, technology of America, pharmacology of America.",
"ROBERTS:",
"For $25 billion, you could put every kid who's out of school in the world into school?",
"That seems like a lot of people for $25 billion.",
"Pretty good return on your investment.",
"BONO:",
"It's a great return on investment.",
"You heard me on your program before talking about debt cancellation.",
"Strangely Americans don't know that because of debt cancellation there are already an extra 29 million African children in school.",
"That's incredible.",
"Because people got out on the streets on the (RED) campaign and stuff like that, there's now 2.5 million Africans on AIDS drugs, which are expensive.",
"So America is turning for me in the right direction on these issues.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"So you're hearing some of what you want to hear, particularly on the malaria issues.",
"But the European Union had promised to increase aid by $50 billion between 2005 and 2010.",
"It looks like the European Union're going to fall $40 billion short.",
"BONO:",
"the European Union are, but the European Union're still ahead of America.",
"That's the bad news.",
"You don't want to get me into the ring.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"Absolutely!",
"Come on.",
"BONO:",
"We've had meetings with Sarkozy this week as well as talking with McCain and Palin and as well as always talking with the Obama campaign.",
"We do keep up the pressure on the Europeans, but the Europeans are way ahead of America on aid, just to put it in context.",
"But you're right.",
"the European Union're not coming through on all of it.",
"We will torture the European Union too.",
"That's our job.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"You talk a lot about these United Nations Millennium Development Goals.",
"Let me go over a couple of those.",
"It was supposed cut global poverty in half by the year 2015.",
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"Begin to reverse the incidence of malaria by 2015.",
"How far along that road are we?",
"BONO:",
"these United Nations Millennium Development Goals are in a bit of trouble.",
"It is astonishing to Bono ...",
"CNN's John Roberts: Whose fault is that?",
"BONO:",
"You know, politicians.",
"politicians love signing checks, but politicians don't like cashing checks.",
"politicians love the photograph.",
"These G-8 meetings, you'll see Bono and my partner Bob Geldof arm-wrestling with politicians up against the wall.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"You're very effective at doing that.",
"You get access to a lot of places.",
"I remember I was on a trip with President Bush once, and you walked on Air Force One.",
"BONO:",
"It's the absurdity of celebrity.",
"I don't consider Bono a celebrity in this sense, I think I'm an activist who knows what I'm talking about.",
"But yeah, we get access, and we use access.",
"It's true that there was a very ambitious plan signed up in 2005 that further committed what was decided in the year 2000, that we could actually across eight goals completely change the face of poverty and hunger in the world.",
"And there was a $25 billion bill by 2010 that would enable them to do that.",
"They haven't come through on that.",
"And another day I'll tell you why, but today I'm punching the air because malaria will be no more by 2015.",
"And it's Americans, people from the private sector -- Peter Chernin, Ray Chambers, all kinds of people, Bill Gates, your mayor of this city, [Michael] Bloomberg, is an amazing guy.",
"He's working on this stuff.",
"I just want Americans to know that side of Americans's country because I'm a fan of America.",
"And, again, you would have candidates, you know, like John McCain taking time out this week to talk to us, Barack Obama before.",
"This is fantastic.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
"I was reading your blog on financialtimes.com.",
"You've been writing all week, doing a great job too.",
"You mentioned in one of your pieces you've been writing some lyrics.",
"And I'm wondering where some lyrics are going.",
"BONO:",
"Statistics don't rhyme.",
"Songwriting comes from such a different part of my brain and such a different part of who I am.",
"CNN's John Roberts:",
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"BONO:",
"No, it's strange.",
"It's very strange.",
"I used to work in a garage when I was a kid pumping gas, and I used to dream when I was pumping the gas about getting to rehearsals on a Saturday so I could be with my band and write songs.",
"The work that I'm doing now, as my band say, my band're working like a dog, living like a shih tzu.",
"my band're spoiled people.",
"my band travel well, but my band work.",
"On these issues, because you're working for the world's poor, my band work like dogs.",
"But I find myself at times, sometimes I just wake up in the morning, and I just want to be back with my band in a rehearsal room.",
"CNN's John Roberts: You will be soon.",
"New CD coming out next year.",
"BONO:",
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"This is the most inspiring thing I've ever been involved in in my life, and it's working.",
"It really is working.",
"And that's why I'm on your show this morning.",
"I just want to thank Americans.",
"CNN's John Roberts: Good luck on New CD coming out next year.",
"We're looking forward to New CD."
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"Prosecutors say Simpson and five other men stormed into a Las Vegas hotel room on September 13, 2007 to recover sports memorabilia that Simpson said belonged to Simpson.",
"Prosecutors say at least two men with Simpson had guns as they robbed a pair of sports memorabilia dealers.",
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"Comedian Carlin, known for pushing the envelope with Carlin's use of profanity and for pointing out the silliness and hypocrisy of human life, died of heart failure Sunday.",
"Carlin was 71.",
"iReporter Kevin Eckhoff met Carlin at a show in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2004.",
"iReporter Chris Sargent says, \"Carlin could play with words and phrases in ways that would put the most highly regarded English professors and linguists to shame.\"",
"CNN.com invited readers to share tales of meeting Carlin, and the impact Carlin had on readers's lives.",
"Below is a selection of readers's responses, some of which have been edited for length and clarity.",
"Melanie Phillips of Salem, Oregon:",
"I met Carlin in the early '70s at a performance Carlin gave at Los Angeles Valley College.",
"The large auditorium was filled to capacity so they closed the doors leaving about 40 people outside.",
"When Carlin came up on stage Carlin asked, \"Who are all those people staring in the windows?\"",
"The host told Carlin the fire marshal had locked all those people staring in the windows out.",
"Carlin thought for a moment then asked, \"How many people are allowed to be on stage?\"",
"The legal limit was 50.",
"The comedian turned to the audience and said, \"Forty of you people in the first few rows come up on stage and give those people outside your seats.\"",
"My friend and I ran up on stage and we all gathered in a circle around Carlin, like at a campfire.",
"For the next 90 minutes, Carlin did Carlin's entire act by taking our requests, \"Hippy Dippy Weatherman,\" \"Seven Words ...\"",
"After the show was over, Carlin passed through our little circle, shaking hands (including mine) as Carlin quickly made Carlin's way off stage to avoid being swamped by fans.",
"It was one of my most memorable experiences and a grand gesture for the 40 fans who had been locked out.",
"Alexis Karlin of Boston, Massachusetts:",
"When I was little my dad had this box car and one day my dad put a Carlin tape in it and a George Carlin tape got stuck.",
"So for a year until the car died we listened to this Carlin tape over and over and over again. ...",
"I won't miss the car but I will miss Carlin.",
"Chris Sargent of Laurel, Maryland:",
"Last night, the world's greatest comedian and champion of the First Amendment, Carlin, died at the age of 71 from heart failure.",
"Carlin was one of the few things my father and I had in common, as I have fond memories of sitting in the living room with Carlin, watching Carlin on HBO, and laughing our a***s off.",
"Carlin's gift was to make us think about everything.",
"Carlin could play with words and phrases in ways that would put the most highly regarded English professors and linguists to shame.",
"Kevin Eckhoff of Jacksonville, Illinois:",
"Carlin was in classic form as Carlin arrived for a show in late 2004 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center in St. Louis.",
"This was my second time meeting Carlin.",
"Carlin signed the photo from our first meeting, took this new photo, and then proceeded to begin signing my friend's albums.",
"Before Carlin started, Carlin paused, fanned out the records, looked at each, and in Carlin's own special way said, \"You know, I go from city to city and you guys (autograph collectors) always have my records in such great shape.",
"Just where the **** do you get my records in such pristine condition?\"",
"We all busted out laughing.",
"We'll miss you Carlin!",
"Thanks for a great memory."
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"Gov. Sarah Palin did not visit troops in Iraq, a spokesperson for the Republican vice presidential nominee confirmed Saturday, as new details emerged about the extent of the Alaska governor's foreign travel.",
"Gov. Sarah Palin's aide confirmed to CNN details of her foreign travel Saturday.",
"In July of last year, Gov. Sarah Palin left North America for the first time to visit Alaskan troops stationed in Kuwait.",
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"The Boston Globe, however, reported Saturday that in response to questions about that trip, Alaska National Guard officials and campaign aides said Gov. Sarah Palin did not go past the Kuwait-Iraq border.",
"In addition, campaign aides also confirmed reports to CNN Saturday that Gov. Sarah Palin's time in Ireland on that trip had actually been a refueling stop.",
"The Obama campaign -- which has increasingly accused the McCain campaign of deliberately lying in ads and on the stump -- was quick to highlight that story, along with a news report that explored whether the McCain campaign has been sending out wildly inflated crowd estimates.",
"The McCain team has twice pointed to law enforcement as the source for wildly inflated crowd estimates -- but the same officials denied to Bloomberg News that the same officials had provided the numbers cited by the McCain campaign.",
"\"The McCain campaign said Gov. Sarah Palin opposed the bridge to nowhere, but now we know Gov. Sarah Palin supported the bridge,\" said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor in a statement.",
"\"the McCain campaign said Gov. Sarah Palin didn't seek earmarks, but now the McCain campaign know Gov. Sarah Palin hired a lobbyist to get millions in pork for Gov. Sarah Palin's town and Gov. Sarah Palin's state.",
"the McCain campaign said Gov. Sarah Palin visited Iraq, but today the McCain campaign learned that Gov. Sarah Palin only stopped at the border.",
"Americans are starting to wonder, is there anything the McCain campaign isn't lying about?\"",
"A Gov. Sarah Palin spokesperson also confirmed that the governor had visited Mexico on a personal vacation.",
"Gov. Sarah Palin has also visited Canada.",
"The Gov. Sarah Palin revelations Saturday are the latest in a series of barbs between the two presidential campaigns.",
"McCain, appearing Friday on ABC's \"The View,\" was aggressively pressed on Gov. Sarah Palin's qualifications to be vice president as well as his new campaign ads that several independent fact-check groups have called misleading.",
"Co-host Barbara Walters asked about Gov. Sarah Palin's reformist credentials, noting McCain has served in Washington for more than two decades and asking repeatedly, \"Who's Gov. Sarah Palin going to reform, you?\"",
"McCain answered by saying Democrats have controlled Congress for two years, but then Co-host Barbara Walters quickly interrupted: \"But tell me who Gov. Sarah Palin is going to reform -- we aren't talking about the economy, we're not talking about housing; Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen to reform, who is Gov. Sarah Palin going to reform?\"",
"Appearing somewhat frustrated, McCain said, \"The Democrat Party, the Republican Party, even an independent.",
"Gov. Sarah Palin'll reform all of Washington.\"",
"Walters, seeming somewhat exasperated, asked, \"How?",
"What will Gov. Sarah Palin do?",
"What is Gov. Sarah Palin going to reform specifically, senator?\"",
"McCain said Gov. Sarah Palin had a strong record on vetoing earmark spending.",
"Watch more of McCain's appearance on \"The View\" » .",
"\"The fact is Gov. Sarah Palin was a reform governor, Gov. Sarah Palin took on an incumbent governor of Gov. Sarah Palin's own party and defeated an incumbent governor of her own party.",
"Gov. Sarah Palin sold the airplane and fired the chef,\" McCain said, referring to Gov. Sarah Palin's efforts to put Gov. Sarah Palin's predecessor's state jet up for auction on eBay and Gov. Sarah Palin's dismissal of an incumbent governor of her own party's personal chef.",
"\"Gov. Sarah Palin sold the airplane at a loss,\" Walters interrupted.",
"(the airplane failed to draw sufficient bids on eBay and later was sold at a loss through an ordinary aircraft brokerage.)",
"Also on Friday, both campaigns accused each other of engaging in lies, unfair attacks and gutter politics in a series of television ads and memos.",
"McCain's campaign released a television ad, titled \"Disrespectful,\" that accuses McCain's Democratic rival of launching desperate attacks and smears against Gov. Sarah Palin.",
"In the McCain ad, the announcer says the Obama camp had \"lashed out at Gov. Sarah Palin\" and dismissed Gov. Sarah Palin as \"good-looking\" as the Democratic nominee's face appears on the screen.",
"the announcer also says the Democrats had said Gov. Sarah Palin was doing \"what Gov. Sarah Palin was told\" and had \"desperately\" called Gov. Sarah Palin a liar.",
"\"How disrespectful,\" the announcer says.",
"\"And how Gov. Sarah Palin proves them wrong, every day.\"",
"Obama never made any of the statements the McCain camp released to support a television ad, and the comment that Gov. Sarah Palin was \"good-looking\" was made by the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden, in a self-deprecating joke when he was asked what the obvious differences were between the two vice presidential nominees.",
"Watch the McCain ad » .",
"Biden repeatedly has said on the campaign trail that Biden respected Gov. Sarah Palin and that Biden thought Gov. Sarah Palin was qualified for the vice presidency.",
"FactCheck.org pointed out the quote from an Obama adviser that Gov. Sarah Palin was doing \"what Gov. Sarah Palin was told\" was taken out of context.",
"The quote is taken from the response of Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, in which he said Gov. Sarah Palin had misrepresented Obama's legislative record.",
"\"Maybe that's what Gov. Sarah Palin was told\" about his voting record, Axelrod said.",
"The Obama campaign, meanwhile, launched two television ads Friday.",
"In one, the McCain campaign paints McCain as being out of touch by showing pictures of McCain when McCain first entered the Senate in 1982 as disco music plays.",
"The ad also highlights McCain's own admissions that McCain lacks computer skills and does not use e-mail.",
"Watch the Obama ad attacking McCain » .",
"In the second Obama ad, the candidate himself appears.",
"\"We've heard a lot of talk about change this year.",
"The question is, change to what?\" Obama asks.",
"two television ads come as Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, issued a tough memo to reporters that accused McCain and McCain's campaign of turning to \"smears, lies and cynical attempts to distract from the issues.\"",
"CNN's Peter Hamby, Ed Hornick and Rebecca Sinderbrand contributed to this report."
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"Campaign now says Gov. Sarah Palin didn't visit troops in Iraq, only the border .",
"Questions surround the crowd size of a McCain-Palin event in Virginia .",
"John McCain gets grilled on \"The View\" while defending Gov. Sarah Palin ."
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"KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"Ten French soldiers were killed Tuesday in fighting near the Afghan capital of Kabul after 100 insurgents attacked a patrol, authorities said.",
"French soldiers patrol in Afghanistan in May 2008.",
"French and NATO authorities confirmed the deaths and said 21 other soldiers were wounded in the fighting in the Sarobi area in Kabul province, about 30 miles northeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul.",
"The clashes began late Monday afternoon and continued into Tuesday, when the casualties occurred, French officials said.",
"French President Sarkozy said French President Sarkozy's \"determination is intact\" to continue \"this battle against terrorism for democracy and liberty.\"",
"\"The cause is just.",
"It is an honor for France and France's armies to defend France and its armies,\" said Sarkozy, who will travel Tuesday night to Afghanistan, the Defense Ministry said.",
"Last month, nine U.S. soldiers were killed in fighting in eastern Afghanistan.",
"U.S., British, Canadian and Dutch troops have been engaged in much of the combat in Afghanistan.",
"The United States has been urging other countries in the NATO-led alliance to help ease the burdens of U.S., British, Canadian and Dutch troops on the front lines.",
"About 1,670 French troops serve in Afghanistan under NATO's International Security Assistance Force, according to ISAF's Web site.",
"Before this incident, a total of 12 French troops had died in several incidents during the Afghan war, mostly in combat.",
"As for the latest fighting, NATO said the initial patrol -- which included Afghan forces -- had been \"reinforced with quick reaction forces, close air support and mobile medical teams.\"",
"It said \"a large number of insurgents were killed.\"",
"Gen. Zahir Azimi, an Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman, said Tuesday that Afghan army forces rushed to the battle scene soon after the attack took place.",
"Gen. Zahir Azimi, an Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said 27 militants were killed and 14 were wounded in the latest fighting, and 13 of the bodies were recovered by the Afghan army.",
"Gen. Zahir Azimi, an Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said one of 27 militants was identified as a Pakistani national.",
"The Taliban posted a Web statement saying The Taliban's forces attacked an \"American\" convoy, killing 20 soldiers and destroying five military tanks.",
"The Taliban also said foreign forces later Tuesday bombarded the region and killed five Taliban militants and several civilians.",
"The fighting came after authorities tightened security on Monday in anticipation of militant attacks on the country's Independence Day.",
"Several suicide bombers struck an American base about 12 miles from the border with Pakistan in Khost province on Tuesday, but U.S. and Afghan forces repelled the onslaught.",
"Seven insurgents were killed in the attack on Forward Operating Base Salerno, including three suicide bombers who blew themselves up after forces from an American base encountered them more than 3,000 feet from an American base, ISAF said in a statement.",
"U.S. and Afghan troops noticed the approaching militants by the approaching militants's \"special behavior,\" the spokesman said.",
"Helicopters flew in to attack the approaching militants, the force said.",
"ISAF said ISAF suffered no casualties.",
"Gov. Arsallah Jamal of Khost province said four commandos -- presumably Afghans -- were wounded when the approaching militants struck late Monday.",
"A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said 15 suicide bombers with small arms and machine guns entered an American base and inflicted heavy casualties -- claims that the NATO-led force and Khost governor dismissed.",
"That attack came after a suicide car bombing outside an American base killed 10 Afghan civilians and wounded 13 others Monday, the U.S. military said.",
"Two other would-be bombers were killed before Two other would-be bombers could carry out attacks, Gov. Arsallah Jamal of Khost province said.",
"Afghan forces stopped a second would-be car bomb near an American base, performed a controlled detonation and detained a suspect, the NATO-led force said.",
"This comes as a source from the Afghan Defense Ministry, who declined to be named, confirmed that Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani arrived in Kabul on Tuesday morning to meet with Afghan and NATO military officials.",
"In southern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber struck a Canadian foot patrol on Tuesday in the Kandahar province district of Panjwayee, local police said.",
"The bomber and an Afghan interpreter for NATO forces were killed and a NATO soldier and a child were wounded, police said.",
"The attack occurred as troops chatted with villagers in the district's main bazaar.",
"The Taliban, in a Web statement, said 11 foreign soldiers were killed or wounded in The attack.",
"CNN's Ben Brumfield and Journalist Farhad Peikar contributed to this report."
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"BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) --",
"A former Colombian congressman who was held hostage in the jungle for more than eight years has escaped -- with the help of a former captor.",
"Oscar Tulio Lizcano was kidnapped on August 4, 2000 near the Colombian town of Riosucio.",
"Oscar Tulio Lizcano, Oscar Tulio Lizcano's hair disheveled, appeared too weak to stand for long when Oscar Tulio Lizcano met the news media Sunday, hours after stumbling onto a military patrol -- and freedom.",
"Lizcano suffered from hunger and disease in captivity and endured isolation in the company of leftist rebels who often would not let Oscar Tulio Lizcano talk, Oscar Tulio Lizcano and Colombian authorities said.",
"\"Maybe my incoherence is for a lack of speaking,\" Oscar Tulio Lizcano told reporters.",
"\"I was unable to talk with the guerillas who guarded me.\"",
"Oscar Tulio Lizcano said Oscar Tulio Lizcano had little to read in the jungle except \"The Odyssey\" by Homer.",
"Oscar Tulio Lizcano suffered from malaria and other illnesses and once ate nothing but hearts of palm for six or seven days, said Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian defense minister.",
"\"This is big news for the whole family,\" said Lizcano's sister, Amparo Lizcano.",
"\"We were waiting for the guerrillas to give our brother back alive before Oscar Tulio Lizcano died.\"",
"Oscar Tulio Lizcano fled about three days ago with the assistance of one of Oscar Tulio Lizcano's captors, a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a leftist rebel force that has been fighting the government for more than 40 years in a war that also has involved right-wing paramilitaries and drug traffickers.",
"Watch release of FARC hostage » .",
"President Alvaro Uribe appeared on television Sunday with the ex-FARC rebel -- known by the alias \"Isaza\" -- and said the man will receive compensation and permission to resettle in France with the man's family.",
"President Alvaro Uribe said that's in keeping with a Colombian government policy that rewards rebels who desert and help hostages gain hostages's freedom.",
"Police officers and soldiers pinpointed the location of the FARC unit holding Oscar Tulio Lizcano several months ago, Santos said.",
"Police officers and soldiers monitored the location for about five months and took steps to seal off possible escape routes, Santos said, as Police officers and soldiers planned a rescue operation using information gleaned help from a rebel who deserted October 2.",
"Troops started that rescue operation Saturday -- only to discover that \"Isaza\" and Oscar Tulio Lizcano had decided on their own to escape.",
"The two men wandered through the jungle for three days and nights before encountering a Colombian army patrol Sunday, said Santos, the defense minister.",
"Oscar Tulio Lizcano was kidnapped on August 4, 2000 near the Colombian town of Riosucio.",
"Oscar Tulio Lizcano and Oscar Tulio Lizcano's former captor stumbled Sunday onto a patrol near the border of the states of Risaralda and Choco, in central Colombia, authorities said.",
"The FARC holds an estimated 750 hostages in Colombia.",
"The FARC's members have justified hostage taking as a legitimate military tactic.",
"The FARC have been battered this year by government raids that killed several top commanders, the death by apparent heart attack of The FARC's founder and a wave of desertions.",
"Government commandoes tricked The FARC in July and freed their most prized hostage, the former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, in an elaborate ruse that also liberated three U.S. defense contractors and 11 other hostages.",
"On Sunday, Oscar Tulio Lizcano offered words of encouragement to those hundreds who remain trapped in the jungle, captives of The FARC.",
"\"Hold on.",
"Hold on,\" he said.",
"\"One day you will enjoy your freedom, too.\"",
"-- CNN's Karl Penhaul contributed to this report ."
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"BERLIN, Germany (CNN) --",
"German federal police seized two suspected terrorists from a Dutch passenger aircraft at Cologne airport Friday shortly before it was due to take off for Amsterdam, officials told CNN.",
"The arrests were made at Cologne's airport.",
"A 23-year-old Somali national and a 24-year-old German citizen who had been born in Mogadishu were arrested on a KLM plane at 6.55 am local time (0455 GMT), a police spokesman said.",
"Police said \"farewell\" letters had been found from A 23-year-old Somali national and a 24-year-old German citizen who had been born in Mogadishu that led them to suspect A 23-year-old Somali national and a 24-year-old German citizen who had been born in Mogadishu were intending to carry out terror attacks.",
"It was not revealed where \"farewell\" letters were found or how long A 23-year-old Somali national and a 24-year-old German citizen who had been born in Mogadishu had been under observation.",
"Walter Roemer, press spokesman at Cologne-Bonn airport, said that The arrests had been \"very unspectacular\".",
"He said federal police boarded a KLM plane and arrested A 23-year-old Somali national and a 24-year-old German citizen who had been born in Mogadishu, \"without A 23-year-old Somali national and a 24-year-old German citizen who had been born in Mogadishu showing any resistance.\"",
"The two had been among 40 passengers en route to Amsterdam.",
"All those on board were asked to disembark while A 23-year-old Somali national and a 24-year-old German citizen who had been born in Mogadishu's luggage was identified.",
"a KLM plane took off for Amsterdam after a delay of one hour and 20 minutes.",
"She said everyone was then forced to leave a KLM plane, and there was a \"baggage parade\" to see whose bags belonged to whom.",
"Watch more details on the incident.",
"Amsterdam's Schipol airport Web site listed flight KL 1804, the scheduled morning flight from Cologne to Amsterdam, as having arrived at 9.17 am local time, one hour and two minutes after it was due to arrive.",
"In September 2007, German authorities arrested three suspected militants planning what were described as \"massive\" attacks on American targets in Germany.",
"German media said at the time that potential targets could have included Ramstein Air Base, the U.S. military's main installation in Germany, or the major international hub of Frankfurt Airport.",
"Terrorism expert Sajjan Gohel told CNN the arrest showed Germany faces a major threat from extremists.",
"Watch Gohel explain details behind the arrests » .",
"\"This was a long term operation, there was a couple of individuals that the German intelligence agency was monitoring,\" he said.",
"\"The feeling was that they had come back specifically with the purpose of planning and plotting a terrorist attack.\"",
"CNN's Diana Magnay in Berlin contributed to this report .",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"Police say \"farewell\" letters found from the men ."
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"JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) --",
"Ten South African ministers and the deputy president have resigned as President Thabo Mbeki prepares to leave office.",
"President Thabo Mbeki announced President Thabo Mbeki's resignation in a televised address Sunday.",
"President Thabo Mbeki's replacement, African National Congress Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, will be sworn in as South Africa's president Thursday.",
"President Thabo Mbeki announced President Thabo Mbeki was resigning on Sunday, prompting threats from several Cabinet members to follow suit -- but President Thabo Mbeki urged several Cabinet members to stay in office, government sources said.",
"The resignations, which include Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Defense Minister Mosiuoa Lekota, will take effect Thursday when President Thabo Mbeki steps down, a government statement said.",
"\"All the ministers have expressed All the ministers's availability to assist the incoming administration in the hand-over process and any other assistance that might be sought from All the ministers,\" a government statement said.",
"The finance minister's assistant told CNN that Manuel is willing to serve in the new government, if needed.",
"Three deputy ministers have also tendered Three deputy ministers's resignations, a government statement said.",
"A spokesman for South Africa's's ruling party, the African National Congress, confirmed that ANC has named Motlanthe as ANC's choice to succeed Mbeki.",
"Motlanthe will stay in office until elections in the spring of next year, which ANC President Jacob Zuma is widely expected to win.",
"Earlier this month, ANC asked President Thabo Mbeki to step down after a judge threw out the corruption, fraud and racketeering case against Zuma -- President Thabo Mbeki's political arch rival.",
"a judge called the corruption, fraud and racketeering case against Zuma -- Mbeki's political arch rival invalid and accused South Africa's's government of political interference.",
"Mbeki -- who has been South Africa's's president for nearly 10 years -- spoke of some of President Thabo Mbeki's achievements when President Thabo Mbeki formally announced President Thabo Mbeki's resignation on Sunday during a televised address.",
"Watch the significance of President Thabo Mbeki \"falling on the sword\" » .",
"\"I depart this office knowing that many men and woman in South Africa's have worked to achieve better lives for all,\" President Thabo Mbeki said.",
"Under President Thabo Mbeki's leadership South Africa's has had the longest period of sustained economic growth in the South Africa's's history and has reached out to indigent people in an unprecedented way, President Thabo Mbeki said.",
"President Thabo Mbeki said South Africa's still has economic, corruption and crime challenges to face in the future.",
"And President Thabo Mbeki gave President Thabo Mbeki's vote of confidence to South Africa's's next leader without naming who that leader would be.",
"Gwede Mantashe, secretary-general of the African National Congress, announced Saturday that the party -- which President Thabo Mbeki has been involved with since President Thabo Mbeki's teens -- had asked President Thabo Mbeki to leave before President Thabo Mbeki's term was up.",
"President Thabo Mbeki agreed to do so, he said.",
"Mantashe said ANC made the decision \"for the citizens of South Africa, so there could be stability within South Africa's\" and so the ANC movement could remain \"stable and unified.\"",
"The case against Zuma -- who replaced Mbeki as ANC president last year -- was thrown out in September 2006, but the National Prosecuting Authority recharged Zuma.",
"Judge Chris Nicholson made no ruling on Zuma's guilt or innocence, and Zuma could be recharged.",
"Political observers doubted that would happen because of Zuma's popularity, particularly with the Communist Party and trade unions.",
"Zuma has denied the charges.",
"Zuma said the case was politically motivated, and harmed Zuma's chances to become ANC's presidential nominee.",
"Zuma could have faced at least 15 years in jail if convicted of accepting bribes from a company that got a contract in a multibillion-dollar arms deal.",
"Zuma also faced charges of having a corrupt relationship with Zuma's former financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, who is serving a 15-year sentence for soliciting bribes for Zuma and using Zuma's political influence to benefit Zuma's businesses.",
"Mbeki, 66, succeeded Nelson Mandela as South Africa's president in June 1999.",
"Critics alleged he pushed for the corruption charges against Zuma.",
"Mbeki recently brokered a power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe's political rivals, who signed the agreement on Monday in an effort to put aside the violent past and end the crisis that has paralyzed Zimbabwe since disputed national elections in March.",
"Under it, President Thabo Mbeki remains president, while President Thabo Mbeki's perennial rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, has become prime minister and the coordinator of government affairs."
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"Editor's note: Join Martin for Martin's weekly sound-off segment on CNN.com Live at 10:30 a.m. ET Wednesday.",
"If you're passionate about politics, Martin wants to hear from you.",
"A nationally syndicated columnist, Martin has said Martin will vote for Barack Obama in November.",
"Martin is the author of \"Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith\" and \"Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America.\"",
"Visit his Web site for more information.",
"Martin says Lifeway should be given hell for Lifeway's actions against GospelToday.",
"(CNN)",
"-- In the 19 years that Teresa Hairston has published Hairston's magazine, GospelToday, Hairston has never faced a major situation with Christian bookstores across the country that carry the publication.",
"Hairston's tackled any number of issues over the years,and has featured a number of celebrities and ministers, ranging from Yolanda Adams to Bishop T.D. Jakes to Kirk Franklin.",
"But when the Atlanta, Georgia, entrepreneur decided to feature five female pastors on Magazine's cover this month, Hairston says, Lifeway treated Hairston like Hairston had converted Hairston's Christian publication to something akin to the tastes of porn purveyor Larry Flynt.",
"Apparently, the owner of Lifeway, the Southern Baptist Convention, wasn't too happy with Hairston telling the story of female pastors, because the women go against the women's 2000 decree that only men can serve in the role of reverend or pastor.",
"According to Hairston, Lifeway didn't even give Hairston the courtesy of a heads-up.",
"\"We got an anonymous tip,\" Hairston told me Tuesday on The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and after checking it out, Hairston discovered that the magazine had been removed from the shelves in all of Lifeway's 100-plus stores nationwide and had been placed behind the counter.",
"\"They have never called me,\" Hairston said.",
"\"Never sent an e-mail.",
"Nothing.",
"I had to go see my distributor to verify what they had done.\"",
"The actions of Lifeway didn't stun me.",
"I had seen this movie before.",
"A few years ago, my wife was a longtime Lifeway teacher.",
"my wife had taught at Lifeway's teaching centers for years, but then one day, my wife was notified that my wife would have to take down my wife's Web site and comply with their rules against female pastors or be dropped as a teacher.",
"my wife's crime?",
"Calling my wife the Rev. Jacquie Hood Martin.",
"It wasn't that my wife did so for the heck of it.",
"my wife graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; was the first female staff pastor at Houston's Brookhollow Baptist Church/the Church Without Walls, a Southern Baptist Convention church; and has been leading folks to the Lord all over the country for 20 years.",
"my wife was angered by Lifeway's decision but made it clear that my wife didn't serve the bookstore or even the Southern Baptist Convention.",
"my wife made a commitment to serving Jesus Christ and was not about to back away from my wife's call to ministry because Lifeway decided that Lifeway's interpretation of the Bible calls for a woman not to be in the pulpit.",
"So my wife cut them off and kept on calling my wife the Rev. Jacquie Hood Martin.",
"Religious folks will quickly say that Scripture is clear that women can't be pastors and lead men, yet Hairston says that when Hairston featured Pastor Paula White on Hairston's cover two years ago, Lifeway didn't take any action against the magazine.",
"Anyone who has served in a church or been a member of any faith knows that there are those who have strict interpretations of their faith's writings, while others have a different interpretation.",
"I've heard Brookhollow's pastor, the Rev. Dr. Ralph Douglas West Sr., preach several sermons stating that what Paul wrote in 2 Timothy with regards to only men preaching was specific to that church and not a blanket ban.",
"Second, there were instances where Paul wrote that Paul's views were Paul's own and not mandates from God.",
"That is a doctrinal fight that any of us can have any time (and I love it how these same Bible thumpers ignore the biblical story of Deborah, who was a judge in the Old Testament -- and was over men).",
"But what is a greater issue is that Lifeway clearly has no respect for freedom of the press.",
"Here is arguably the top Christian bookstore in the country making a decision based on their teachings and applying it to a magazine.",
"A spokesman for Lifeway Resources, which runs the stores, was quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week as saying of female pastors, \"It is contrary to what we believe.\"",
"So does Lifeway and, by extension, the Southern Baptist Convention, fight vigorously for freedom of religion, but Lifeway doesn't give a hoot about the other freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution?",
"I now wonder whether Lifeway makes it Lifeway's business to cull through any number of magazines and search for stories that go against Lifeway's doctrine and pull them from the shelves.",
"This is the kind of nonsense that drives more people away from religion.",
"I suppose it's fitting that this story would come out the same time as Bill Maher releases Bill Maher's religious documentary, \"Religulous,\" which skewers all the major religions for their dogma.",
"I'm sure Bill Maher feasted on positions of the Southern Baptist Convention.",
"The conduct of Lifeway and the Southern Baptist Convention is shameful, and Lifeway and the Southern Baptist Convention owe Hairston an apology for Lifeway and the Southern Baptist Convention's actions.",
"Yet Hairston's taken it in stride, saying that instead of giving the company hell, Hairston'll \"give them heaven.\"",
"I say, give them a lot of hell for this, because they deserve it for actions.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer."
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"(CNN) --",
"Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday Former President Bill Clinton thinks that Barack Obama will win big in the upcoming presidential election.",
"Former President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama chat at Former President Bill Clinton's Harlem office.",
"\"I predict that Barack Obama will win and win handily,\" Former President Bill Clinton said when asked Former President Bill Clinton's opinion on the state of the race.",
"Barack Obama smiled at Former President Bill Clinton's prediction, saying, \"There you go, you can take it from the president of the United States.",
"Former President Bill Clinton knows a little something about politics.\"",
"The two men chatted with reporters in a photo-op at Former President Bill Clinton's Harlem office before sitting down for a private lunch.",
"According to CNN's average of national polls, John McCain currently holds a 1-point lead over Barack Obama, 46-45 percent.",
"iReport.com:",
"Still undecided?",
"The poll of polls, released Thursday afternoon, is composed of the following five national general election surveys: Fox News/Opinion Dynamics (September 8-9), NBC/Wall Street Journal (September 6-8), American Research Group (September 6-8), Gallup (September 8-10), and Diageo/Hotline (September 8-10).",
"It does not have a sampling error.",
"Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to campaign for Barack Obama in Florida once Former President Bill Clinton wraps up some business with Former President Bill Clinton's Former President Bill Clinton Global Initiative.",
"According to aides, Former President Bill Clinton will do a mix of fundraisers and public appearances on behalf of the Democratic ticket throughout the fall.",
"\"We're putting Former President Bill Clinton to work,\" said Barack Obama.",
"\"I've agreed to do a substantial number of things, whatever I'm asked to do,\" Former President Bill Clinton said.",
"Watch Former President Bill Clinton make Clinton's prediction » .",
"The image of the two men meeting comes as a relief to many Democrats who have been hoping to put to rest the \"Clinton-Obama rift\" storyline.",
"Barack Obama, John McCain agreed a face-to-face meeting with Former President Bill Clinton would go a long way toward putting the contentious primary season behind Barack Obama, John McCain.",
"Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for Barack Obama earlier in the week in Florida and will campaign in Ohio this weekend.",
"Barack Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, spoke Thursday with first responders in Parma, Ohio.",
"He opened up the event by telling everyone he did not plan to talk politics.",
"\"Let's pull together, let's say together.",
"This is nothing to do with Democrats, Republicans -- it's about Americans,\" he said.",
"Obama and McCain also put aside politics Thursday to commemorate the September 11 terrorist attacks.",
"The two appeared together at ground zero in New York City to lay roses at the 9/11 memorial and speak with first responders and family members of victims.",
"Barack Obama, John McCain were joined by McCain and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.",
"iReport.com:",
"See photos from the scene .",
"Later Thursday, Barack Obama and McCain will share the stage briefly as Barack Obama, John McCain appear back-to-back at the ServiceNation Presidential Candidates Forum at Columbia University in New York.",
"Meanwhile, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin headed home to Alaska after spending the week campaigning with McCain.",
"The pair drew a crowd of more than 20,000 in the sturdily Democratic county of Fairfax, Virginia, on Wednesday.",
"That was their largest crowd to date.",
"After that event, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin returned home so Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin could attend Track Palin's son's deployment ceremony on Thursday.",
"Track Palin enlisted in the U.S. army exactly one year ago.",
"His brigade is going to Iraq.",
"Watch more on Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's return to Alaska » .",
"Later Thursday, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will give Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's first television interview with a national media outlet since being named as McCain's running mate.",
"The Alaska governor will spend two days with ABC's Charlie Gibson.",
"The interview will be part sit-down, part walk-and-talk at various locations in Alaska.",
"So far, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has taken no questions from reporters traveling with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on the campaign trail.",
"An issue that could come up in The interview is the controversy that emerged this week over Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin per diem charges as governor.",
"The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had billed the state a per diem for 312 days Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spent at home, and requested reimbursement for plane rides and hotel rooms for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's husband and children, including a $707 room when Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's daughter accompanied Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on a trip to New York to attend a Newsweek forum.",
"The paper noted that officials said the claims were justified under existing state regulations.",
"The McCain campaign said that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had reduced yearly travel expenses by roughly 80 percent of the amount spent by predecessor Frank Murkowski.",
"Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's spokeswoman Maria Comella said the governor's top priority was \"creating accountability and transparency in government to root out waste and corruption.\"",
"\"Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is obviously expected to travel frequently around the state for community events and to meet with Alaskans.",
"This is part of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's job, and it's reasonable that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's travel expenses, which were reduced dramatically from the previous administration, would be covered,\" Comella said in a statement.",
"Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is expected to rejoin McCain on the trail early next week.",
"CNN's Sasha Johnson, Dana Bash and Alexander Mooney contributed to this report."
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"Chinese officials in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reported the death of a fourth baby Thursday in China's expanding contaminated infant formula case.",
"The tainted milk powder has already sickened more than 6,200 babies.",
"Earlier in the day, authorities announced the arrest of 12 more suspects in the investigation, provincial police said.",
"12 new arrests bring to 18 the number of people detained, according to the Hebei Public Security Bureau.",
"Twelve of those arrested are involved in the collection of milk and the production of milk products, authorities said.",
"Authorities accuse the other six of illegally selling the chemical added to the milk.",
"More than 1,300 infants are hospitalized, said Li Changjiang, China's director of quarantine and inspection, on Wednesday.",
"Their conditions include malnutrition, kidney stones and acute renal failure.",
"Inspectors have been deployed across China to test producers' inventories.",
"Of China's 175 baby milk powder production companies, 66 have stopped production, Li said.",
"Watch parents scramble for safe milk » .",
"Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder were arrested by Chinese investigators Monday.",
"Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder could face death if convicted, according to China Daily, a state-run newspaper.",
"The raw milk had been watered down and a chemical added to fool quality checks, China Daily, a state-run newspaper said.",
"Investigators said Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder confessed to watering down The raw milk and mixing in tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine.",
"Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder said Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder did it to recover losses suffered when the factory rejected earlier milk shipments, China Daily, a state-run newspaper reported.",
"Learn more about the chemical melamine » .",
"Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder are charged with producing and selling toxic and hazardous food, which carries a possible death penalty, China Daily, a state-run newspaper said.",
"Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.",
"the chemical melamine is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.",
"Watch CNN visit the company at the center of the scandal » .",
"Thousands of tons of the tainted milk powder have been recalled, including pullbacks by Mengniu Dairy Group, China's largest milk producer, and the Sanlu Group.",
"Chinese investigators have found melamine in nearly 70 milk products from more than 20 companies, Li said Wednesday.",
"Products made by Sanlu had the highest concentration of the chemical melamine.",
"It is not the first time Sanlu has been connected to a scandal involving tainted milk powder, according to China Daily.",
"In 2004, at least 13 infants in the eastern Anhui province died of malnutrition after drinking milk powder that had little to no nutrition.",
"The illegally manufactured milk was falsely labeled with the Sanlu brand, according to the paper.",
"The vast majority of the tainted formula was consumed domestically, but the tainted formula is known to have been exported to Taiwan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Yemen, Chad and Burundi, according to Li.",
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said no Chinese baby formula has been allowed on the market in the United States.",
"In a statement on The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Web site, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had reached out to all five companies making formula in the United States and none has used formula or source materials from China.",
"This episode marks the latest in a string of tainted products produced in China: .",
"CNN's Yuli Yang contributed to this story."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sens. John McCain and Obama engaged in a pointed exchange over al Qaeda in Iraq on Wednesday.",
"McCain questioned Sen. Obama's way of handling the war in Iraq.",
"McCain questioned whether Obama was aware of the al Qaeda base.",
"Obama's response was: \"There was no such thing as al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and McCain decided to invade Iraq.\"",
"McCain was in Tyler, Texas, and Obama was in Columbus, Ohio.",
"\"I understand that Obama said that if al Qaeda established a base in Iraq that Obama would send troops back in militarily.",
"al Qaeda already has a base in Iraq.",
"al Qaeda's called al Qaeda in Iraq,\" McCain said.",
"\"It's a remarkable statement to say that you would send troops back to a place where al Qaeda has established a base -- where they have already established a base.\"",
"McCain's comments come in response to remarks Obama made Tuesday night in a debate with Sen. Hillary Clinton.",
"He was asked if George Bush would have the right to go back into Iraq in order to suppress an insurrection after downsizing the U.S. troop presence.",
"Watch what Sen. Hillary Clinton and Obama said about the war » .",
"\"I always reserve the right for George Bush ... to make sure that we are looking out for American interests,\" Obama said.",
"\"And if al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq, then we will have to act in a way that secures the American homeland and our interests abroad.\"",
"A statement by McCain's press office Wednesday said, \"Is Obama unaware that al Qaeda is still present in Iraq, that our forces are successfully fighting them every day, and that McCain's Iraq policy of withdrawal would embolden al Qaeda and weaken our security?\"",
"Obama responded to the latest attacks from McCain, saying McCain's comments were taken out of context.",
"Obama said the question Obama was asked during the debate was a \"big hypothetical.\"",
"\"I said, 'Well, I would always reserve the right to go in and strike against al Qaeda if they were in Iraq,' so you know, this is how politics works,\" Obama said at a rally in Columbus.",
"\"McCain thought that McCain could make a clever point by saying ,'Well let me give you some news Barack, al Qaeda is in Iraq,' like I wasn't reading the papers, like I didn't know what was going on.\"",
"\"I said, 'Well first of all, I do know that al Qaeda is in Iraq.",
"That's why I've said we should continue to strike al Qaeda targets.",
"But I have some news for McCain, and that is that there was no such thing as al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and McCain decided to invade Iraq.\"",
"Obama continued to blast George Bush and McCain, saying, \"McCain may like to say McCain wants to follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, but so far all McCain's done is follow George Bush into a misguided war in Iraq.\"",
"McCain in McCain's statement said \"the Democratic presidential contenders deny progress and see only gloom and doom.",
"Where is the audacity of hope when it comes to backing the success of our troops all the way to victory in Iraq?",
"What we heard last night was the timidity of despair.\"",
"The latest exchange comes as a new poll suggests McCain would pose a tough match for the eventual Democratic nominee.",
"Obama is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.",
"Clinton trails by 97 delegates, but 370 delegates are up for grabs next Tuesday.",
"Watch the shift in Clinton-Obama dynamics » .",
"According to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, McCain would be in tight races with either of the remaining Democratic presidential candidates.",
"McCain is statistically tied with Obama, 44 percent to 42 percent, and ahead of Clinton by 6 points, 46 percent to 40 percent.",
"The poll's margin of error was plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.",
"The poll also showed McCain with a 61 percent approval rating, a number higher than both Clinton's and Obama's in past polls.",
"McCain holds a clear advantage on dealing with the war in Iraq, according to The poll, and holds a 9 point advantage on economic issues over Obama, despite having acknowledged that area is not McCain's expertise.",
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"(CNN) -- Millions of poor American children have untreated tooth decay, some of Millions of poor American children because they cannot find a dentist willing to treat them, a federal report issued Tuesday said.",
"Only 1 in 3 children in Medicaid received any dental care over a year time span, according to a new report.",
"\"Dental disease remains a significant problem for children aged 2 through 18 in Medicaid,\" a new report concluded, referring to the federal/state health program for poor people.",
"According to the report, which used data from 1999 to 2004, about 6.5 million children enrolled in Medicaid had untreated tooth decay in 2005 and were nearly twice as likely as children with private health insurance to have untreated tooth decay.",
"a new report was ordered after widespread publicity of the case of Deamonte Driver, a 12-year-old boy boy who died last year in suburban Washington when an untreated infected tooth led to a brain infection.",
"Driver \"had extensive dental disease and Driver's family was unable to find a dentist to treat Driver,\" a new report said.",
"a new report said 14.8 percent of Medicaid recipients said 14.8 percent of Medicaid recipients's children had not gotten necessary dental care because 14.8 percent of Medicaid recipients's dentist refused to accept Medicaid, which typically pays providers less than private insurers.",
"\"Clearly, the oral health care system failed this young man,\" said Dr. Jane S. Grover, first vice president of the American Dental Association in testimony Tuesday to the Committee on House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Domestic Policy.",
"\"All of us -- practitioners, payers, parents and policymakers -- need to come together and make the oral health care system work for the most vulnerable among us,\" she said.",
"a new report found that, nationwide, only one in three children in Medicaid had received any dental care in the year before the survey was carried out, and one in eight reportedly had never seen a dentist.",
"In comparison, more than half of children with private health insurance had gotten dental care during the prior year.",
"\"Fundamental changes to the Medicaid program are long overdue to prevent the possibility of future tragedies like Deamonte and to ensure that all low-income children have the same access to oral health care services enjoyed by the majority of Americans,\" Grover said.",
"Efforts are under way to fix the problem.",
"Grover cited plans to open eight dental schools in addition to the 57 currently in existence and said a new job -- community dental health coordinator -- has been created.",
"The coordinators will be trained to work in clinics and schools to ensure emergency care is provided to children, Grover said.",
"\"If there had been a CDHC in the school that Deamonte Driver attended, we believe this tragedy could have been prevented,\" Grover said.",
"\"Through a routine exam, a CDHC could have spotted a simple cavity, filled a simple cavity with a temporary filling, and made arrangements for care by a dentist,\" Grover said.",
"The CDHC will also help families enroll in Medicaid and get transportation to appointments, Grover said.",
"But even if the numbers of dentists increase, Congress must act to increase fees for those participating in Medicaid to match private rates, Grover said."
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"Consumers in Beijing's malls and shops are shunning the milk and poultry sections -- for good reasons.",
"Poultry products, including eggs, may be contaminated with melamine through animal food.",
"They are shocked and scared by the news headlines: some food produced in China is tainted with melamine.",
"\"Of course I'm worried,\" says a woman shopping in Nanxiaojie Market.",
"Stop eating eggs?",
"\"That's not possible,\" a woman tells CNN.",
"\"If there's a problem with eggs, a problem with eggs should be solved fundamentally.\"",
"Chinese premier Wen Jiabao says China will take steps to win back consumers.",
"\"China will use China's actions and high quality of China's food products to win the trust and confidence of Chinese people and people around the world,\" Chinese premier Wen Jiabao told reporters at the end of a two-day summit of Asian and European leaders in Beijing last weekend.",
"Watch more about the tainted food scandal » .",
"\"Three minister-level officials have resigned and a government investigation is going on.",
"Whoever is responsible must be brought to justice.",
"We need to protect the Made in China brand,\" said Chinese analyst Victor Gao.",
"But the problem could be more pervasive.",
"The state-run Nanfang Daily published an investigative story saying that adding melamine into animal feed has become an \"open secret.\"",
"The report said adding melamine into feed started in the aquatic farming industry five years ago, as a way of faking higher protein levels.",
"Learn more about chemical melamine » .",
"chemical melamine then spread into other agro-industries such as poultry.",
"Even more shocking is the allegation that the melamine added is from industrial waste material.",
"CNN contacted the Ministry of Agriculture about an investigative story saying that adding melamine into animal feed has become an \"open secret, but got no immediate response.",
"Two years ago, reports revealed pet food exported from China to the United States was spiked with melamine and had sickened and killed dogs.",
"Several weeks ago, the food scandal spread to milk, biscuits and candies.",
"Now, it is tainted eggs.",
"So far, no illnesses or deaths have been linked to eggs.",
"Tests in Hong Kong last week showed eggs exported by a Chinese company are contaminated with excessive levels of melamine.",
"In recent days three other brands of eggs have also been found to contain the chemical.",
"Small wonder egg sales at the Xinfadi, a wholesale market in Beijing, dropped by 10 percent this week, according to the state-run China Daily.",
"Chinese officials say the source of the problem is melamine, an industrial chemical used to produce plastics and fertilizer.",
"Melamine is high in nitrogen.",
"Unscrupulous milk suppliers would water down milk and spike milk with melamine -- but in amounts that allowed milk to still pass quality tests.",
"Agriculture experts speculate that eggs tainted with melamine may be the result of tainted feed given to hens.",
"That begs the question: if melamine was in the animal feed, will it make into the meat, and into consumers' bodies?",
"Ingesting melamine in large doses over an extended period of time could cause kidney stones and other illnesses, agriculture and health experts say.",
"But taking in a small amount of melamine poses no such danger.",
"\"If it's taken over a long period of time, maybe, but if it's ingested only for short period of time it does not pose harm on animals,\" says He Jiguo, a professor of food science and nutrition at the China Agriculture University.",
"He Jiguo, a professor of food science and nutrition at the China Agriculture University says the animals that end up being slaughtered do not live that long and do not actually ingest enough melamine for it to build up in the animals that end up being slaughtered's systems.",
"The dogs and cats that were sickened in the United States were probably eating treats and meals tainted with melamine over a long period of time, He Jiguo, a professor of food science and nutrition at the China Agriculture University explains.",
"Until the situation is resolved, worried grocery shoppers in Beijing say worried grocery shoppers in Beijing'll just have to eat fewer eggs and more bean-products, like soybeans."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sen. Barack Obama on Monday blamed lobbyists, special interests and \"an ethic of irresponsibility\" in Washington for the financial crisis that has swept the country in recent weeks.",
"Sen. Barack Obama said Monday there needs to be more oversight in Washington.",
"Sen. Barack Obama sided with congressional Democrats, who say a government bailout of the financial sector must include government oversight.",
"\"We cannot give a blank check to Washington with no oversight and accountability, when no oversight and accountability is what got us into this mess in the first place,\" Sen. Barack Obama said.",
"President Bush's top economic advisers this weekend presented a $700 billion plan to Congress to take control of \"illiquid assets,\" including bad mortgages.",
"President Bush urged Congress to pass his plan to avoid another economic crisis as is, but Democrats on the Hill already are circulating a counterproposal.",
"Sen. John McCain, Sen. Barack Obama's Republican rival for the presidency, said Monday that the government's proposal puts too much power into the hands of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.",
"In a conference call Monday with reporters, Obama's top campaign officials refused to say how the senator from Arizona would vote on his plan to avoid another economic crisis because it is not yet clear what the final version will contain.",
"At a campaign event Monday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sen. Barack Obama laid out the reforms Sen. Barack Obama would pursue as president to avoid another economic crisis.",
"Watch Sen. Barack Obama talk about the crisis on Wall Street » .",
"First, Sen. Barack Obama said that Sen. Barack Obama would reform \"our special interest-driven politics.\"",
"Sen. Barack Obama said members of Sen. Barack Obama's administration would not be able to use members of his administration's position as a steppingstone for lobbyist careers.",
"Watch what Sen. Barack Obama says about Obama's role in the situation » .",
"Sen. Barack Obama said Sen. Barack Obama would make the government \"open and transparent\" and put any bill that ends up on Sen. Barack Obama's desk online for five days before Sen. Barack Obama signs it.",
"Secondly, Sen. Barack Obama said Sen. Barack Obama would \"eliminate the waste and the fraud and abuse in the government.\"",
"Sen. Barack Obama pointed to fixing the health care system and ending the war in Iraq as ways to cut costs.",
"Sen. Barack Obama also said that Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Barack Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, would crack down on excessive spending from both parties and close loopholes for big corporations.",
"Sen. Barack Obama said Sen. Barack Obama would pursue \"updated, common-sense regulations\" in the financial market.",
"Earlier Monday, Obama told voters Obama was \"greatly concerned\" about the government's proposed rescue plan.",
"\"Never before in the history of our nation has so much power and money been concentrated in the hands of one person,\" Obama said at a town hall meeting in Scranton, Pennsylvania.",
"Obama said that while Obama admires and respects Paulson, \"this arrangement makes me deeply uncomfortable.\"",
"Obama said a high-level oversight board should be created to shepherd the government's proposed $700 billion bailout plan.",
"Obama criticized Sen. Barack Obama for not putting up a plan to address the financial situation.",
"\"At a time of crisis, when leadership is needed, Sen. Barack Obama has simply not provided it,\" Obama said.",
"Watch what Obama says about Sen. Barack Obama's leadership » .",
"Sen. Barack Obama has said several times since the recent Wall Street crisis that, in meeting with top economists, Sen. Barack Obama was encouraged to not roll out a specific plan for fear of overly politicizing the work of Congress on a government bailout of financial firms.",
"Sen. Barack Obama has, however, offered ideas for the plan -- including limiting pay for executives of businesses that are bailed out by the government and making sure the effort includes a specific plan for the money to be repaid.",
"Obama on Monday proposed creating a bipartisan oversight board that would be able to \"impose accountability and establish concrete criteria for who gets help and who doesn't.\"",
"Obama said the board should be made up of \"qualified citizens who have no agenda.\"",
"Obama pointed to Warren Buffett, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as potential board members.",
"Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, supports Sen. Barack Obama.",
"Mitt Romney backs Obama, and Michael Bloomberg is an independent.",
"Obama also called for \"transparency and accountability\" on Wall Street and urged Congress to act quickly.",
"The President Bush administration's proposal to bail out the financial system is the centerpiece of what would be the most sweeping economic intervention by the government since the Great Depression.",
"his plan to avoid another economic crisis would allow the Treasury to buy up mortgage-related assets from American-based companies and foreign firms with a big exposure to mortgage-related assets.",
"The aim is for the government to buy the securities at a discount, hold onto them and then sell them for a profit.",
"the government's rescue plan follows a week of roller-coaster activity in the financial markets.",
"In the lead-up to President Bush's proposal, the country saw the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, a Bank of America buyout of Merrill Lynch and a government bailout of insurer American International Group Inc.",
"CNNMoney.com staff contributed to this report."
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"Sen. Obama expresses reservations about his plan to avoid another economic crisis .",
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"U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates flew into Iraq on Monday to oversee a change of command of American forces.",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates is greeted Monday at Baghdad International Airport by Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin.",
"Gen. Ray Odierno will take over command Tuesday from Gen. David Petraeus, whose 20-month term in Iraq saw a significant decline in violence with the deployment of additional U.S. troops.",
"U.S. forces are in \"mission transition,\" Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday, with some troops going home and others backing up Iraqis.",
"\"There is no question we will still be engaged, but the areas in which we are seriously engaged will continue to narrow,\" Defense Secretary Robert Gates said during Defense Secretary Robert Gates's flight to Iraq.",
"\"The challenge for Gen. Ray Odierno is how do we work with the Iraqis to preserve the gains we've already achieved and expand on them even as the number of U.S. forces are shrinking.\"",
"Gen. Ray Odierno is expected to set the stage for an eventual U.S. withdrawal.",
"Petraeus will become the new chief of U.S. Central Command, in charge of American forces in the Middle East and Afghanistan.",
"Gates, who is making Defense Secretary Robert Gates's eighth trip to Iraq, said Petraeus played a \"historic role\" during Petraeus's tenure.",
"\"I think Petraeus would be the first to acknowledge that Petraeus has had a brilliant strategy,\" Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.",
"\"But it has been the brigade commanders and company commanders and the soldiers and Marines and others on the ground who have actually made it work.",
"\"We have lost a lot of lives, but it's really been an extraordinary effort of translations of a great strategy into a great success in a very difficult circumstance.\"",
"At a dinner on the eve of the change-of-command ceremony, Defense Secretary Robert Gates presented Petraeus with the Defense Superior Service Medal.",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates also gave Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award -- the highest award given by the secretary of Defense to those not in uniform.",
"\"I have never seen a working relationship like this,\" Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the two men.",
"\"To find leaders to do what many considered impossible, you two are such men.\"",
"Odierno will receive his fourth star on Tuesday in a separate ceremony ahead of the change-of-command ceremony.",
"The defense secretary on Monday also met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and told Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that he has seen a notable improvement in security since Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's first visit to Iraq nearly two years ago, according to a statement released by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office.",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the cooperation between Iraqi security forces and coalition forces was responsible for the improvement in security, according to a statement released by the prime minister's office, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki praised the successes of the Iraqi armed forces.",
"Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the gains have brought about a greater sense of normalcy in Iraq, allowing many internally displaced Iraqis to return to many internally displaced Iraqis's homes.",
"They also have spurred the economy, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said.",
"The situation in Iraq is far different from that in past years, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki noted.",
"As Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Iraq, three bombings -- two in Baghdad and one in Diyala province's Balad Ruz -- provided a rude counterpoint to that message.",
"Two car bombs went off in central Baghdad.",
"Two car bombs killed 12 people and wounded 36 in the commercial area of the Karrada district, an Interior Ministry official said.",
"The U.S. blamed al Qaeda in Iraq, but gave a lower death toll, saying two \"possible\" car bombs killed six people and wounded 27.",
"In Diyala province's Balad Ruz, a female suicide bomber detonated explosives at the house of a former U.S. detainee, killing at least 22 people and wounding 33, according to a Diyala security official.",
"The U.S. military also blamed al Qaeda in Iraq for a car bombing Friday in Dujail, north of Baghdad.",
"The Interior Ministry said at least 30 people were killed and 45 wounded; The U.S. said 31 were killed and 40 were wounded.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report."
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"The head of China's quality watchdog is reported to have resigned over the tainted baby milk scandal that has killed four children and sickened nearly 53,000 others.",
"The official Xinhua News Agency said Li Changjiang had quit with the approval of China's State Council.",
"Li's agency is responsible for ensuring that China's food supply chain is safe.",
"Monday's resignation came hours after the World Health Organization said scandal had highlighted flaws in China's entire food supply chain.",
"The chemical melamine blamed for causing kidney stones and kidney failure has been detected in formula milk powder from 22 dairies across China.",
"The crisis was initially thought to have been confined to baby milk powder, but tests have found melamine in samples of liquid milk taken from China's two largest dairy producers, Mengniu Dairy Group and Yili Industrial Group, as well as Shanghai-based Bright Dairy.",
"WHO China representative Hans Troedsson said on Monday quality issues could occur anywhere from the farm to the retail outlet.",
"Troedsson said \"it's clearly something that is not acceptable and needs to be rectified and corrected,\" according to The Associated Press.",
"Troedsson said the WHO was discussing with officials how to strengthen China's food quality system.",
"Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called milk manufacturers \"heartless\" and promised stricter laws to protect the public.",
"China's Health Ministry said Sunday that about 13,000 children were hospitalized, while another 40,000 had undergone outpatient treatment for illnesses related to suspected melamine-tainted milk products.",
"The scandal has spread beyond the mainland with melamine being found in three Chinese-made dairy products in Singapore.",
"China's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority said tests on \"White Rabbit Creamy Candy\" showed that it was contaminated with melamine and The country's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority ordered stores to remove the product from shelves.",
"Taiwan announced Monday Taiwan was banning the importation of all dairy products from China because of melamine contamination in milk supplies on the mainland, Taiwan's Health Ministry said Monday.",
"And a second child in Hong Kong has been diagnosed with a kidney stones after drinking the tainted milk as worried parents continued to take worried parents's children for health checkups, the government said Monday, AP reported.",
"The 4-year-old boy was in hospital in a stable condition, the government said in a statement.",
"A three-year-old girl was sickened by a suspected melamine-tainted milk over the weekend -- the first known illness outside of the mainland.",
"The Chinese premier visited Beijing hospitals and a supermarket Sunday to show The Chinese premier's concern for the crisis.",
"\"What we need to do now is to ensure that nothing like this happens in the future, not only in dairy products, but in all foods,\" The Chinese premier said.",
"\"Manufacturers and owners of dairy companies should show more morality and social responsibility in these cases.",
"Manufacturers and owners of dairy companies are heartless, so we have to create strict law and legislation.",
"I'm sorry.\"",
"Investigators arrested two brothers who sold milk used to produce the contaminated baby milk powder last week.",
"They could face death if convicted, according to China Daily, a state-run newspaper.",
"The raw milk had been watered down and the chemical added to fool quality checks, China Daily, a state-run newspaper said.",
"Melamine is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.",
"Watch CNN visit the company at the center of the scandal » .",
"But anger has been directed not just at the producers accused of adulterating their milk to increase profits, but also at government regulators, Time magazine reported.",
"\"Xinhua was quick to blame the dairy industry for their skewed rules, but what Xinhua didn't say was that the government also played a part in that ugly game,\" the magazine quoted a blogger, identified as sadmoon109, as saying.",
"Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.",
"It also robs infants of much-needed nutrition.",
"Thousands of tons of the tainted milk powder have been recalled.",
"Melamine is the same industrial contaminant from China that poisoned and killed thousands of U.S. dogs and cats last year.",
"The chemical, a byproduct of plastic manufacturing, can be used to mimic high-protein additives.",
"Learn more about the chemical melamine » .",
"A senior dairy analyst said Chinese farmers were cutting corners to cope with rising costs for feed and labor.",
"\"Before the melamine incident, I know they could have been adding organic stuff, say animal urine or skin,\" Chen Lianfang of Beijing Orient Agribusiness Consultant told Time.",
"\"Basically, anything that can boost the protein reading.\"",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.",
"This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"the Bejing Olympics has lost one of the Bejing Olympics's major attractions after Maria Sharapova pulled out of the tennis tournament with a shoulder injury.",
"Maria Sharapova has treatment for a shoulder injury that has ruled Maria Sharapova out of the Bejing Olympics.",
"The Russian world number three sustained the injury in beating Marta Domachowska of Poland at the WTA tournament in Montreal and immediately underwent an MRI scan to determine the extent of the problem.",
"The result was not encouraging and Maria Sharapova told Maria Sharapova's official Web site of Maria Sharapova's disappointment.",
"\"I'm currently packing up real quick to hop on a plane to New York for a second opinion (on the injury) but I wanted to let you all know first that there is no chance of Maria Sharapova competing in the Bejing Olympics,\" Maria Sharapova said.",
"\"The timing is so unfortunate and this makes me more sad than anything.\"",
"It is another shattering setback for 21-year Sharapova who started the year with a brilliant victory at the Australian Open but has since been struggling with injury and loss of form.",
"Wednesday's match in Montreal was Maria Sharapova's first since a disappointing exit from Wimbledon.",
"\"After Montreal I knew there was something seriously wrong with my shoulder,\" Maria Sharapova added.",
"Maria Sharapova's appearance in the final grand slam of the season at the U.S. Open, which takes place almost immediately after the Beijing Games, must also be in serious doubt.",
"Maria Sharapova joins a growing list of the Bejing Olympics casualties, including Athens silver medallist Amelie Mauresmo and fellow Frenchwoman Mary Pierce.",
"Meanwhile, Vera Zvonareva will replace Maria Sharapova in the Russian team for the Bejing Olympics, spokesman Vladimir Kamelzon has confirmed."
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"Hong Kong, China (CNN) --",
"Unilever is recalling four batches of Lipton Milk Tea sold in Hong Kong and Macau after finding traces of the chemical melamine in the product, Unilever said Tuesday.",
"Unilever Hong Kong Limited described it as a precautionary measure and said no other Lipton Milk Tea Powder products were affected.",
"The announcement came a day after British confectioner Cadbury said British confectioner Cadbury has recalled all of British confectioner Cadbury's Chinese-made candy products after preliminary tests showed they contained trace amounts of melamine.",
"Some of the products were exported to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Nauru and Christmas Island, according to the company.",
"They are the latest companies to get caught up in China's tainted milk scandal, which began earlier this month when authorities discovered melamine in powdered infant formula.",
"Watch how scare affects companies outside China » .",
"Contaminated milk has sickened nearly 53,000 children in China, killing four.",
"Countries around the world have since banned the import of Chinese products containing milk, or have withdrawn products that contain milk from China -- such as chocolates -- amid worries they contain melamine.",
"Authorities have arrested 40 people in connection with the milk scandal, including two brothers who could face the death penalty if convicted.",
"Investigators suspect people watered down milk in an attempt to sell more of milk, and added melamine in order to fool quality checks, Chinese authorities have said.",
"The toxic chemical is used to bolster apparent protein levels in diluted or poor-quality milk.",
"Others arrested include 19 managers of pastures, breeding farms and milk-purchasing stations.",
"Chinese authorities have said those arrested were involved in a network that made and sold melamine.",
"Authorities have implicated 22 Chinese dairy companies in the scandal.",
"Melamine is the same industrial contaminant from China that poisoned and killed thousands of U.S. dogs and cats last year.",
"Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.",
"It also robs infants of much-needed nutrition.",
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said a company in Taiwan, the King Car Food Industrial Company, had recalled seven instant coffee and milk tea products that were sold in the United States under the Mr. Brown brand name.",
"They contain a non-dairy creamer found to be contaminated with melamine.",
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also recommends that U.S. consumers not eat White Rabbit Creamy Candy, which in China has been found to contain unacceptable levels of melamine.",
"The candy's maker, Guanshengyuan, has recalled The candy's exports of White Rabbit Cream Candy."
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"(CNN) --",
"Presley may have left the building three decades ago, but Presley raked in more money last year than many living titans of the music industry .",
"Presley tops the Forbes list for the second year in a row, raking in $52 million last year.",
"For the second year in a row, Presley topped the Forbes magazine's list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities, hauling in $52 million last year.",
"In comparison, the very-much-alive Justin Timberlake earned $44 million while another superstar, Madonna, made $40 million, the Forbes magazine reported Tuesday.",
"The 30th anniversary of Presley's death boosted attendance and merchandise sales last year at Presley's Memphis, Tennessee, home, Graceland.",
"A long list of licensing deals, such as a Presley show on satellite radio, added to the earnings.",
"the Forbes magazine has been compiling the Forbes magazine's annual list of departed celebrities' earnings since 2001.",
"Since 2003, the feature has coincided with Halloween.",
"This year, the top 13 celebrities earned a combined $194 million in the last 12 months.",
"the Forbes magazine says the Forbes magazine talked to people inside the top 13 celebrities's estates and calculated the top 13 celebrities's gross earnings from October 2007 to October 2008.",
"Some celebrities are staples on the list, which is in its eighth year.",
"Cartoonist Charles Schulz, who created Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the assorted cast of \"Peanuts\" characters, is second on the Forbes magazine.",
"Schulz, who died in 2000, had posthumous earnings last year of $33 million, the Forbes magazine reported.",
"He owes his constant presence to a steady revenue stream from the ongoing licensing of his characters, the Forbes magazine said.",
"Schulz and Presley join Theodor \"Dr. Seuss\" Geisel (this year's No. 6), Beatles legend John Lennon (No. 7) and actress Marilyn Monroe (No. 9) as the only entertainers to make the Forbes magazine every year since the Forbes magazine's inception.",
"Physicist Albert Einstein, best known for his theory of relativity, is fourth on the Forbes magazine.",
"It is his third consecutive year making the Forbes rankings.",
"Though he died in 1955, a franchise bearing his name -- Baby Einstein -- made big bucks last year selling educational books, DVDs, CDs, toys and other products.",
"It plans to expand into the young-adult market this year.",
"Australian actor Heath Ledger, who died of an overdose in January, made his debut on the Forbes magazine in third place.",
"the Forbes magazine estimated his earnings at $20 million, thanks to the success of the movie, \"The Dark Knight,\" in which Ledger played the Joker.",
"the movie grossed $991 million worldwide.",
"Paul Newman, who died of lung cancer last month, also made Newman's first appearance on the Forbes magazine, raking in $5 million.",
"\"Newman's income still largely stems from residuals from Newman's classic pictures, as well as more recent productions,\" the Forbes magazine said.",
"The legendary actor's line of natural and organic food products, Newman's Own, earned revenues of $120 million last year, but the earnings were not considered in the tally because Newman donated all profits to charity while Newman was living, the Forbes magazine said.",
"Several entertainers from last year's list failed to make this year's cut, including composer, producer and Beatles guitarist George Harrison, rapper/actor Tupac Shakur, \"Godfather of Soul\" James Brown, and reggae legend Bob Marley."
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"Heath Ledger debuts on list thanks to performance as Joker in \"The Dark Knight\""
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"(Travel + Leisure) --",
"China can seem as impenetrable as it is imposing.",
"Consider the numbers: it's the world's most populous nation (1.3 billion), where more than 100 cities have populations over a million.",
"Fifty-six ethnic groups are spread across 22 wildly distinct provinces and five autonomous regions, in a landmass slightly larger than the U.S.",
"The Tiananmen Gate at the entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing .",
"China's history seems limitless and China's traditions just as deep.",
"But here and now, change is the only real constant -- and it is accelerating at a dizzying pace.",
"(One thousand new cars hit the streets of Beijing every day.)",
"How do you begin to fathom a country of such extremes?",
"The futuristic cities glittering above timeworn villages; the great rivers and vast empty deserts; the radical new architecture juxtaposed with millennia-old monuments; the ceaseless push-and-pull between Confucianism, Communism, and commerce.",
"Where do you even begin?",
"Have no fear.",
"Start here with Travel + Leisure's suggestions for where to go and what to see.",
"Beijing: 2--3 days .",
"China's political, historical and cultural capital demands at least three days -- for the familiar landmarks of Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, and also for Beijing's 21st-century architecture, such as the \"Bird's Nest\" Olympic National Stadium by Herzog & de Meuron and the glass-and-titanium dome that is the National Grand Theater.",
"China's contemporary art scene finds China's contemporary art scene's nexus in the galleries and cafés of the Dashanzi Art District, home to the new Ullens Center for Contemporary Art.",
"Travel+Leisure.com:",
"Tips for flying to China .",
"Beijing's atmospheric hutong, or traditional alleyways, are fast disappearing; explore the bustling ones off Nanluoguxiang, near the 13th-century Drum and Bell towers.",
"Then check out the Legation Quarter, a high-end restaurant, entertainment and cultural development set within the former American Embassy compound.",
"And save a morning to stroll the manicured, 660-acre grounds of the Temple of Heaven, site of the circular Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the 15th-century apogee of Chinese ritual architecture.",
"Travel+Leisure.com: Chinese taxi trips .",
"The Great Wall .",
"Numerous stretches of The Great Wall are easily accessible from Beijing (ask your hotel to arrange a car or bus tour).",
"But avoid the tourist trap of Badaling and head to the slightly less trammeled Mutianyu section, a 90-minute drive northeast of the Forbidden City.",
"Early morning is best; try Asia 1 on 1 for day trips.",
"Travel+Leisure.com: Where to stay in China .",
"Shanghai: 2--3 days .",
"First stop: the riverfront promenade known as the Bund, with its Art Deco, Neoclassical, and Beaux-Arts façades, bars and shops, and views of the space-age towers of Pudong.",
"In People's Park you'll find the Shanghai Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art.",
"Weekdays are the best time to wander among the pine trees and ponds of the 16th-century Yuyuan Gardens.",
"Xintiandi was the birthplace of the Chinese Communist Party; now this restored two-block district is defined by upscale shops and restaurants.",
"The leafy, rustic French Concession is the favored destination for cutting-edge fashion and designs for the home.",
"Shanghai's latest secret?",
"Lane 248, a gritty, narrow street now inhabited by artsy cafés and intimate boutiques, hidden behind Taikang Road.",
"Travel+Leisure.com: China shopping tips and strategies .",
"Guilin: 2 days .",
"(Two hours by air from Shanghai.)",
"With Guilin's sheer limestone peaks jutting up from the Li River, Guilin is straight out of a traditional Chinese landscape painting, and remains one of China's most breathtaking sights.",
"Take in the view from Solitary Beauty Peak and marvel at the formations of the Reed Flute Cave.",
"Spring and fall are best; avoid the heat of July and the crowds of the holiday seasons.",
"Xi'an: 2 days .",
"(Two hours by air from Beijing.)",
"China's ancestral capital is renowned for China's ancestral capital's \"terra-cotta army,\" created during the Qin dynasty (221--207 B.C.): thousands of life-size clay warriors stand in formation as part of the funerary complex of China's first emperor, with much more yet to be excavated.",
"You'll need at least two days here to take in life-size clay warriors, see the Shang dynasty bronze relics at the Shaanxi History Museum, walk along the Old City walls, and visit the Da Mai market.",
"Datong: 2 days .",
"(One hour by air or six hours by scenic train ride from Beijing.)",
"Majestic Qing dynasty frescoes are the standout in the celebrated temple district.",
"Nearby excursions include the awesome Buddhist sculptures in the Yungang Grottoes and the Hanging Temple of Mount Hengshan, which clings precipitously to the side of a cliff.",
"Not far away are some especially beautiful eroded mud-brick ruins of the Great Wall.",
"Hangzhou: 2 days .",
"(Two hours by bullet train from Shanghai.)",
"Fabled West Lake is the major draw here, with Fabled West Lake's elegant causeways, pavilions, gardens, and arched bridges.",
"Hangzhou is also renowned as a culinary capital: local specialties include stuffed-beggar's chicken and fatty dongpo pork; sample both at the great Louwailou restaurant.",
"Travel+Leisure.com:",
"Must-try Chinese food .",
"Suzhou: 1 day .",
"(45 minutes by train from Shanghai.)",
"Famous for its Ming- and Qing-dynasty gardens (don't miss the Garden of the Master of the Nets and the Humble Administrator's Garden), Suzhou was once called the Venice of the East for its canals.",
"But smart travelers know the most picturesque waterways -- fringed by whitewashed houses and 1,000-year-old humpbacked bridges -- are in the village of Tongli, a 50-minute drive away.",
"Kunming: 1 day .",
"(Three hours by air from Shanghai.)",
"This city is one of China's most pleasant, in climate-blessed Yunnan province.",
"Visit the 15th-century Bamboo Temple and the 17th-century Golden Temple, stroll the pavilions and bridges of Green Lake, and savor the raucous energy of the Kundu Night Market.",
"Dali: 1 day .",
"(45 minutes by air from Kunming.)",
"Like nearby Lijiang, Dali has a strong ethnic-minority flavor, a walled Old City with cobblestoned streets, and striking mountain scenery -- but without the same tourist mobs.",
"Explore on foot, peek at the Three Pagodas, or go for a boat ride on Erhai Lake.",
"Taiyuan: 1 day .",
"(One hour by air from Beijing.)",
"The capital of Shanxi province, Taiyuan is home to the Shanxi Provincial Museum, offering a superb survey of the region's 5,000-year history, and the Jinci Temple weaves a thread between Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism.",
"And 90 minutes southwest by car is Pingyao, a stunningly preserved walled city and veritable time machine that carries you back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.",
"Planning a beach getaway?",
"Don't miss Travel + Leisure's guide to Affordable Beach Resorts.",
"Copyright 2008 American Express Publishing Corporation.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Explore the traditional alleyways off Nanluoguxiang in Beijing .",
"From Beijing, visit the slightly less trammeled Mutianyu section of the Great Wall .",
"Take in the view from Solitary Beauty Peak in Guilin ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A plane crash in eastern Guatemala on Sunday killed 10 people, including eight Americans, a Guatemalan official told CNN.",
"A Cessna Caravan 208 carrying 14 people was en route from Aurora to El Estor when Pilot started making distress calls about engine failure about 45 minutes after takeoff, said Jose Carlos, Guatemala's director of civil aeronautics.",
"The air traffic tower in Guatemala City lost communication with Plane at 9:45 a.m. Plane crashed in Zacapa, an agricultural hub about 115 kilometers (71 miles) east of Guatemala City, killing the pilot Monica Bonilla, co-pilot Luis Fernando LanFiesta and the Americans.",
"Four other passengers were injured and taken to a local hospital.",
"\"It seems like Pilot tried Pilot best to make a safe landing in a open field, but was not successful,\" said Ricardo Lemus, a Zacapa firefighter at the scene of the crash told reporters.",
"\"On impact, the aircraft was split into pieces.\"",
"The charter flight was operated by Aero Ruta Maya."
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"Cessna Caravan 208 was en route from Aurora to El Estor .",
"Pilot started making distress calls about 45 minutes after takeoff .",
"Plane crashed in Zacapa, about 115 kilometers (71 miles) east of Guatemala City ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The credit crisis has transformed the global financial landscape, bankrupting established names and prompting unprecedented interventions by governments and central banks to save others from collapse as others buckle under the weight of \"toxic debts.\"",
"This timeline charts the key moments in that process.",
"2007 Feb. 7:",
"HSBC announces losses linked to U.S. subprime mortgages.",
"May 17:",
"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said growing number of mortgage defaults will not seriously harm the U.S. economy.",
"A trader at the New York stock exchange reacts to the fall of global stock markets .",
"June:",
"Two Bear Stearns-run hedge funds with large holdings of subprime mortgages run into large losses and are forced to dump assets.",
"The trouble spreads to major Wall Street firms such as Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs which had loaned the firms money.",
"Aug.:",
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"Oct. 15:",
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"Oct. 24: Merrill Lynch announces losses to be over $8 billion.",
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"Jan. 11:",
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"Jan. 15:",
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"Jan. 17:",
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"Washington Mutual posts losses.",
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"April 1: German Deutsche Bank credit losses of $3.9 billion in first quarter.",
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"Bank of America agrees to buy Merrill Lynch.",
"Sept. 16:",
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"Morgan Stanley and Wachovia enter merger talks.",
"Sept. 17:",
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"Sept. 18:",
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"Sept. 22:",
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"- UK's Bradford & Bingley nationalized.",
"Santander to buy deposits for $38.2bn",
"- German bank Hypo Real Estate to be bailed out by banks and government.",
"- Citigroup, the world's largest bank, says it will buy Wachovia.",
"- Belgian giant Fortis is bailed out by Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.",
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"Oct 3:",
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"- Swiss bank UBS to cut 2000 jobs.",
"- Dutch government nationalizes banking and insurance activities of Fortis.",
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"- Proposed Hypo Real Estate bailout collapses.",
"- Chancellor Angela Merkel announces new plan for Hypo bailout worth $69bn.",
"- Chancellor Angela Merkel also announces guarantee of deposits in German banks.",
"- UK raises limit on guaranteed bank deposits from £35,000- £50,000.",
"- EU leaders meet in Paris for emergency summit to discuss financial crisis.",
"- Battle rages between Citigroup and Wells Fargo over purchase of Wachovia.",
"- French bank BNP Paribas takes 75% stake in Fortis .",
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"- Danish government announces plan to guarantee bank deposits - Wells Fargo and Citigroup agree to legal standstill in battle for Wachovia.",
"- Bank of America reports 68% profit drop, stock sale to raise $10bn.",
"Oct 7:",
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"Oct 8: - UK Treasury freezes assets of Icelandic bank Landsbanki in UK; threatens legal action - UK Treasury announces £500 billion bank rescue package.",
"- U.S., UK, China, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and ECB cut interest rates.",
"- IMF forecasts \"Major global downturn\".",
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"Oct 10:",
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"- Nikkei falls almost 10%, biggest drop in 20 years.",
"- FTSE falls more than 10%, closes at 8.85%; worst daily fall since 1987.",
"- Oil prices fall to $80 a barrel.",
"- Dow crashes nearly 700 points before regaining some lost ground.",
"- Icelandic bank Kaupthing is nationalized.",
"Oct 11- 12: - The Fed rubberstamps Wachovia takeover by Wells Fargo.",
"- 15 EU leaders meet in Paris for emergency summit on crisis.",
"- Gordon Brown urges 15 EU leaders to adopt similar measures to UK bank rescue plan.",
"- Leaders agree to guarantee loans between banks until end of 2009.",
"- Germany, France and Italy to announce individual plans Monday.",
"- Australia agrees to guarantee deposits for next 3 years.",
"- New Zealand guarantees bank deposits for 2 years.",
"Oct 13:",
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"- UK bails out 3 banks: RBS, HBOS and Lloyds TSB at cost of $63 billion.",
"- Bank of England loans $174 million to Icelandic bank Landsbanki to help repay UK depositors.",
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"- U.S. follows UK lead by part-nationalizing banks.",
"Oct 15: - European and Asian stock markets fall after initial upswing.",
"- Southeast Asian nations agree to start fund to provide financial support to countries in crisis; World Bank commits $10 billion to the planned fund.",
"- Russian stock market posts losses as RTS Index falls below 800 points.",
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"- Citigroup delays merger of its Japanese brokerage units due to costs involved.",
"- Swiss government bails out UBS with $59.2 billion.",
"- Credit Suisse posts 1.3 billion-franc third quarter loss; raises $8.7 billion from investors.",
"- Hungarian central bank gets cash injection from ECB to value of $6.7 billion.",
"- EU leaders at Brussels summit call for complete overhaul of international financial system."
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"The Senate approved a controversial nuclear deal with India on Wednesday, clearing the way for the United States to export nuclear know-how to India after a ban lasting decades.",
"President Bush, who supports the deal, meets with India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week.",
"Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, said the deal would not only \"set the stage for a stronger U.S.-India relationship,\" but also would promote stability in India's troubled neighborhood.",
"\"This agreement is indicative of a new era in Indian foreign policy, an era in which India will see all the world's powers as potential partners in efforts to address India's own needs and the needs of others,\" Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat said.",
"\"I believe that this new era will bring increased stability and progress in South Asia.\"",
"India and Pakistan have fought several wars since India and Pakistan became independent in 1947, and India and Pakistan have tested nuclear weapons.",
"Wednesday's vote was 86-13.",
"Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, spoke against what he called flawed legislation before Wednesday's vote.",
"\"If The United States pass this legislation, The United States will reward India for flouting the most important arms control agreement in history, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and The United States will gravely undermine The United States's case against hostile nations that seek to do the same,\" Harkin said.",
"Before Harkin voted against this legislation, Harkin said Congress had not debated this legislation properly.",
"\"this legislation was hustled through [the House of Representatives] without any hearings and without a vote in the House Foreign Affairs Committee,\" Harkin said.",
"\"Here in the Senate, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held just one hearing with just one witness who spoke in support of the deal.\"",
"Presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain voted for this legislation.",
"President Bush urged the Senate to pass this legislation in a statement released before Wednesday's vote.",
"this legislation \"represents a major milestone in the transformation of our nation's important relationship with India,\" a statement released before the vote said.",
"One senator had anonymously been using parliamentary rules to prevent this legislation from coming to a vote, but the leaders of the Senate announced Tuesday night the vote would go ahead.",
"the House of Representatives passed this legislation without debate on Saturday.",
"The next step is for President Bush to sign it into law.",
"The Indian nuclear market is a rich prize, and the deal could open the way for U.S. companies to earn billions of dollars building nuclear power plants in India.",
"The French government clinched The French government's own nuclear trade deal with India on Wednesday when President Nicolas Sarkozy signed an agreement in Paris.",
"That puts French companies in the running for some of the same contracts U.S. companies want.",
"In exchange for access to U.S. nuclear technology, India would allow international inspections of India's civilian -- but not military -- nuclear power plants.",
"It would also promise not to resume testing of nuclear weapons.",
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"In an informal agreement between the two nations, The United States said The United States would halt any nuclear cooperation should India resume testing."
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"(CNN) --",
"While Obama says Obama'll visit Iraq and Afghanistan before the election, Obama's staying consistent with Obama's plans to start withdrawing U.S. troops almost immediately should Obama become president.",
"Obama says Obama'll go to Iraq and Afghanistan before November.",
"Obama says the need to withdraw troops is twofold: .",
"\"One is to spur more action out of the Iraqis. ...",
"But the second reason for withdrawal is the fact that we're spending $10 [billion] to $12 billion a month in Iraq,\" Obama said Monday while on a two-day swing through Michigan.",
"\"The people here in Flint, Michigan, who I'm going to be talking to, would like to see some of that investment made here at home.\"",
"Obama also expressed concern that the Bush administration would rush to make some sort of status of forces agreement that would be binding to the next administration.",
"The war in Iraq is a key issue for voters in the United States, and Obama and Sen. John McCain offer vastly different solutions for how to handle it.",
"Obama supports a phased withdrawal of troops.",
"Obama says Obama'd remove all combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months of taking office if Obama becomes president.",
"Sen. John McCain does not think American troops should return to the United States until Iraqi forces are capable of maintaining a safe, democratic state.",
"Sen. John McCain has been a strong advocate of the \"surge\" -- the 2007 escalation of U.S. troops -- and says troops should stay in Iraq as long as needed.",
"Sen. John McCain says Obama is wrong for opposing the increased troop presence, and Obama says Sen. John McCain's judgment is flawed.",
"Obama spoke Monday with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and told Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari Obama looked forward to seeing Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in Baghdad before November.",
"Obama also said Obama planned to visit Afghanistan before the election.",
"Watch Obama say Obama's going to Iraq » .",
"\"I emphasized to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari how encouraged I was by the reductions in violence in Iraq, but also insisted that it is important for us to begin the process of withdrawing U.S. troops, making clear that we have no interest in permanent bases in Iraq,\" Obama said.",
"\"I gave [Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari] an assurance that should we be elected, an Obama administration will make sure that we continue with the progress that's been made in Iraq, that we won't act precipitously,\" Obama said.",
"Obama said Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari did not express concern about a withdrawal of American troops, saying, \"Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari did emphasize Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari's belief that we've made real progress and, I think, was eager to see political accommodations between the factions follow up in the wake of this progress.\"",
"About the same time Obama was speaking to Obama's traveling press corps, Sen. John McCain told reporters at a press conference at Sen. John McCain's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters that Obama \"is now is closing in on Obama's 900th day since Obama visited Iraq.\"",
"The Republican National Committee has a counter on The Republican National Committee's Web site that clocks the time since Obama's last visit to the country.",
"\"The whole debate in this campaign should be about whether we're going to allow that surge to continue to succeed or we're again going to do what Obama wanted to do, and that is to set a date for withdrawal long ago without giving the surge a chance to succeed,\" said Sen. John McCain, again criticizing Obama for not meeting directly with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq.",
"\"I don't know how you can draw conclusions such as Obama has without even sitting down and talking with our commander on the ground,\" he added.",
"Sen. John McCain sat down with the visiting foreign minister one day before Obama.",
"Watch Sen. John McCain talk with Zebari » .",
"Sen. John McCain said they had a \"very good discussion about the challenges that have been overcome and the challenges that lay ahead,\" and Sen. John McCain said there is \"no doubt\" that the surge has succeeded.",
"There have been recent improvements in Iraq, where there are more than 150,000 U.S. troops.",
"The number of deaths of U.S. troops there was at a five-year low last month, and Zebari said Saturday that the country has the lowest level of violence in the past four years.",
"Military experts and Brookings analysts Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack triggered criticism last year when Military experts and Brookings analysts Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack returned from Iraq and argued that things were not as bad as they had seemed.",
"Watch experts weigh in on Iraq » .",
"\"I do think that there was a sense among the Democratic Party that the war, and the failure of the war, was going to be a major election issue for them that they could use against the Republicans,\" Kenneth Pollack said Sunday on CNN.",
"\"And so, when you had two Democrats coming back and saying, 'Look, there actually is progress there.",
"This thing is not completely lost, and we ought to give This thing some more time' -- which is effectively all we were saying -- I think that this was a bombshell, because it wasn't what people had heard before.\"",
"O'Hanlon said Sunday that they've seen continued progress, especially in the capabilities of the Iraqi security forces.",
"Michael O'Hanlon said Democrats are not rethinking Democrats's Iraq policy because, for many of Democrats, \"this is the symbol of the Bush administration's failed foreign policy.\"",
"\"This became the symbol of Bush administration arrogance and unilateralism.",
"And then, for four years it went badly.",
"So, given that backdrop, it's pretty hard for Democrats to come around to the idea that perhaps, by Bush finally letting professionals run this war instead of ideologues, that we have begun to rescue this situation.",
"I think that's the simplest interpretation.\"",
"CNN's Alexander Marquardt and Chris Welch contributed to this report."
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"The House of Representatives on Tuesday night passed an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts, but not nearly as much as Republican leaders wanted.",
"an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts was passed by a vote of 236-189.",
"Many Republicans opposed an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts because an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts would allow new oil drilling only between 50 and 100 miles offshore.",
"Republicans generally want to allow new drilling starting 3 miles from shore.",
"Republicans also objected to provisions repealing tax cuts for the oil industry and what Republicans said was a lack of incentive for states to allow drilling on their land.",
"The House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters Tuesday: \"The American taxpayers have been ripped off for years on offshore drilling.",
"an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts changes that.\"",
"Before the vote, Pelosi said an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts presented a choice between \"the status quo, which is preferred by Big Oil,\" and \"change for the future to take our country in a new direction.\"",
"Fifteen Republicans voted for an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts.",
"Thirteen Democrats voted against an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts.",
"The Senate, meanwhile, could vote on various energy proposals, including more offshore drilling, as early as this week.",
"an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts would require states to give their permission for drilling on their land.",
"an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts also would offer incentives for renewable energy, require the government to release oil from the government's emergency reserve, and force oil companies to drill on federal lands oil companies already lease from the government.",
"Democratic leaders had previously opposed Republican-led efforts to repeal a 1981 law barring most offshore drilling.",
"But Democratic leaders changed course over the August recess, saying Democratic leaders's new plans would allow some expanded drilling.",
"See where U.S. offshore drilling is banned » .",
"But Republicans say an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts wouldn't expand offshore drilling enough.",
"Before the vote, Rep. Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican, called an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts \"a charade,\" denying an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts would do what an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts's backers claim.",
"\"This is not 'yes' to drilling.",
"This is 'yes, but,' \" he said.",
"\"This is 'yes, but no drilling in Alaska, no drilling in the Eastern Gulf, no drilling inside 50 miles,' \" Pence said.",
"\"This is 'yes, but no litigation reform that will prevent radical environmental attorneys from tying up leases even before a single shovel of dirt is turned.' \"",
"Democrats and Republicans traded harsh words on the House floor Tuesday in the debate over an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts.",
"Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, said President Bush's \"idea of an energy policy is holding hands with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, embracing the crown prince of Saudi Arabia with a big smooch.\"",
"When the Republicans \"controlled Congress, [the Republicans] passed the Republicans's own energy bill, signed into law by President Bush.",
"We got into this mess,\" Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat said.",
"But Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, shot back that an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts is a \"sham\" and a \"fraud.\"",
"\"This is a bill designed to ensure Democrats' re-election, not designed to ensure affordable energy in America,\" Hensarling said.",
"Hensarling also complained about how an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts was brought to the floor: \"No amendments, no substitutes, no committee hearings.",
"Is this democracy?",
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"The Chinese women's gymnastics team did not use underage competitors during this year's Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the International Gymnastics Federation said Wednesday.",
"Widespread reports claimed that gold medal winner He Kexin was only 14 years old.",
"the International Gymnastics Federation said the International Gymnastics Federation has concluded the International Gymnastics Federation's inquiry into the matter after the International Gymnastics Federation confirmed the gymnasts' ages through official documents that the Chinese Gymnasts Association provided.",
"official documents that the Chinese Gymnasts Association provided included passports, identity cards and household registers.",
"However, the organization intends to further investigate the ages of two gymnasts, Dong Fangxiao and Yang Yun, who participated in the 2000 summer games in Sydney, Australia.",
"the International Gymnastics Federation said the International Gymnastics Federation did not consider the explanations and evidence that Chinese authorities provided in regard to those athletes as satisfactory.",
"The International Olympic Committee had asked gymnastics officials to clarify the situation after numerous commentators, bloggers and others questioned whether about half the members of China's team were old enough to compete.",
"Watch tiny gymnasts work out » .",
"Athletes must be at least 16 in the year the games take place.",
"In women's gymnastics, younger girls can have an advantage over older competitors on account of younger girls's often smaller, lighter and more agile bodies.",
"The Chinese women's gymnastics team won a gold medal in a team competition at the Beijing games, and five members won individual medals.",
"One of the challenges came from a blogger known as \"Stryde Hax.\"",
"a blogger known as \"Stryde Hax claimed to have uncovered proof that Chinese gymnast He Kexin is only 14.",
"In Internet searches, \"Stryde Hax\" allegedly uncovered Web pages showing lists complied by China's General Administration of Sport that show a 1994 date of birth for He.",
"CNN was not been able to independently verify the information, but snapshots of the Web pages appeared to back up the claim.",
"Other bloggers joined the search and reported similar results.",
"The New York Times conducted The New York Times's own investigation, producing similar results that seem to implicate He and two other members of The Chinese women's gymnastics team.",
"The New York Times uncovered a 2006 biography on He that lists her birthday as January 1, 1994.",
"The International Gymnastics Federation, however, has said that The Chinese women's gymnastics team were eligible and that the ages on The Chinese women's gymnastics team's passports were correct.",
"Chinese gymnastics coaches also defended Chinese gymnastics coaches's team.",
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"\"They shouldn't be suspicious.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"British police were told in March this year that Madeleine McCann may have been kidnapped by a pedophile ring which followed Madeleine McCann three days before Madeleine McCann's abduction, according to reports.",
"Madeleine McCann went missing in May 2007 after being left at a holiday apartment in the Algarve region.",
"Britain's Daily Telegraph and The Sun newspapers both reported Thursday that an email released this week as part of the documents compiled by the Portuguese investigators probing Madeleine McCann's disappearance revealed the connection to the ring.",
"Madeleine McCann was 3 when Madeleine McCann disappeared May 3, 2007, while Madeleine McCann was on holiday with Madeleine McCann's family at the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz.",
"Madeleine McCann's disappearance prompted headlines worldwide.",
"According to the newspapers, the email was sent on March 4 by a London-based Metropolitan Police intelligence officer to Leicestershire police -- Madeleine McCann's home county -- who then forwarded the email on to investigators in Portugal more than a month later.",
"In the email, which the newspapers printed a copy of, a London-based Metropolitan Police intelligence officer writes that \"intelligence suggests that a pedophile ring in Belgium made an order for a young girl three days before Madeleine McCann was taken.",
"\"Somebody connected to this group saw Maddie, took a photograph of Maddie and sent a photograph of her to Belgium.",
"The purchaser agreed Maddie was suitable and Maddie was taken,\" a London-based Metropolitan Police intelligence officer wrote.",
"The Daily Telegraph reported the Portuguese police then asked Interpol to investigate.",
"However, nothing appears to have come of the lead.",
"Watch how Madeleine McCann may have been abducted to order » .",
"Belgium has already featured in the case, with a reported sighting on the Dutch/Belgian border last August already discounted.",
"The case files, released by the Portuguese investigators this week after the Portuguese investigators shelved the investigation for lack of evidence last month, have provided a raft of leads for the media to report.",
"On Tuesday, the documents revealed a previously undisclosed sighting of Madeleine McCann in the Netherlands shortly after Madeleine McCann's disappearance.",
"The possible sighting of Madeleine McCann in May 2007 stemmed from a report by a Dutch shopkeeper, who told authorities she encountered a little girl in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.",
"She said the child identified Maddie as Maddie and said Maddie was taken from Maddie's mother while on holiday.",
"\"I start to ask where Maddie's mommy was,\" Anna Stam said.",
"\"Maddie couldn't tell me that.",
"I wanted to give Maddie a balloon, but Maddie didn't want that.",
"Maddie only wants Maddie's mommy, Maddie said.",
"And Maddie said that these people took Maddie from Maddie's mommy.\"",
"At one point, authorities had named the girl's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, as \"arguidos,\" or suspects, along with a British man living in Portugal, Robert Murat.",
"But a spokesman for the Portuguese public prosecutor's office said authorities found no evidence of involvement by any of the three and were no longer considering them \"arguidos.\"",
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"the McCanns have vowed to keep searching for the McCanns's daughter. ."
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"A neighborhood in east London was getting back to normal Saturday after British Army engineers detonated a large World War II bomb unearthed this week on a building site, officials said.",
"British Army engineers covered a large World War II bomb unearthed this week on a building site with sand to minimise the risk of an explosion.",
"An British Army bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion on the 2,200-pound German warhead at 5:55 p.m. (12:55 p.m. ET) Friday, London's Metropolitan Police said.",
"Video of a controlled explosion on the 2,200-pound German warhead showed brown dirt, debris and black smoke shooting into the air when a large World War II bomb unearthed this week on a building site went off.",
"There were no reports of any injuries or damage to surrounding property after a controlled explosion on the 2,200-pound German warhead, the police and Ministry of Defense said.",
"The public was allowed back into the industrial neighborhood by Friday night, authorities said.",
"Two subway lines and a rail line in the area, which were shut down after construction crews discovered a large World War II bomb unearthed this week on a building site Monday, were running normal service Saturday, transportation officials said.",
"London's transit authority, Transport for London (TfL), said the police and Ministry of Defense gave permission for its engineers to check the tracks less than an hour after a controlled explosion on the 2,200-pound German warhead.",
"the tracks were clear of debris and damage and services resumed at 7:13 p.m. (2:13 p.m. ET), TfL said.",
"Contractors preparing a waterway near the site of the future Olympic Park discovered a large World War II bomb unearthed this week on a building site Monday.",
"The Ministry of Defense said the bomb, which measured four feet by two feet, was the largest one found in the capital since 1975.",
"a large World War II bomb unearthed this week on a building site was \"enormous,\" said Simon Saunders, a spokesman for the British Army's London district.",
"At one point during the week a large World War II bomb unearthed this week on a building site started ticking, which suggested a timing device, Simon Saunders, a spokesman for the British Army's London district said.",
"Disposal experts put strong magnets next to a large World War II bomb unearthed this week on a building site to shut down the clockwork and the ticking stopped, Simon Saunders, a spokesman for the British Army's London district said.",
"It's not uncommon for World War II-era bombs to be unearthed in Europe.",
"In London, which suffered the aerial bombardment of the Blitz, bombs are uncovered two or three times a year, Simon Saunders, a spokesman for the British Army's London district said.",
"the Blitz lasted from September 1940 until May 1941.",
"German bombers attacked the city every day or night for the first two months, but the worst night was the last -- May 10, 1941, when 3,000 people were killed in London, according to the Museum of London.",
"Much of the Blitz focused on east London.",
"In all, more than 20,000 people were killed in the Blitz, short for \"Blitzkrieg,\" the German word for \"lightning war.\""
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