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"(CNN) --",
"Sarah Palin's selection as McCain's running mate redefined how vice-presidential candidates influence a campaign.",
"Unfortunately for McCain, the Alaska governor hurt McCain's presidential bid more than she helped.",
"Sarah Palin, at McCain's concession Tuesday night, boosted the GOP ticket at first but ultimately became a drag on it.",
"Sarah Palin had been unfamiliar to most Americans, aside from some conservative writers and bloggers, who had admired Sarah Palin since Sarah Palin upended Alaska's Republican establishment by knocking off incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski in 2006.",
"That all changed on August 29 -- the morning after Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention -- when Sarah Palin was introduced by McCain.",
"It wasn't just reporters who were stunned.",
"Even McCain staffers at the event itself were shocked.",
"Many assumed McCain would tap a GOP heavyweight like Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty.",
"The most daring option, many thought, would be Joe Lieberman, a former Democrat.",
"See Sarah Palin's path to the ticket » .",
"But Sarah Palin's debut instantly energized the Republican base, which had long been cool to McCain, and the GOP ticket surged in the polls.",
"McCain took a shine to Sarah Palin's anti-establishment streak and Sarah Palin's familiarity with energy issues.",
"McCain's advisers believed Sarah Palin \"average hockey mom\" persona would attract women.",
"The party grass roots admired Sarah Palin's devotion to family and Sarah Palin's conservative positions on social issues.",
"Watch Sarah Palin as McCain concedes the election » .",
"But because the Alaska governor was largely unknown, Sarah Palin's record and background were immediately under scrutiny.",
"Journalists descended on Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla to examine Sarah Palin's record as mayor and governor, though Sarah Palin was still sheltered from questioners.",
"The craving for knowledge spread outside the media and paid huge dividends at the Republican National Convention, when Sarah Palin took the biggest stage of Sarah Palin's life and assuredly presented Sarah Palin as both a small-town mother of five and a pit bull who could smile Sarah Palin's way through a sharp political attack.",
"The speech garnered mammoth television ratings and rave reviews.",
"McCain came out of the convention with a healthy bounce -- leading Obama by a 10-point margin.",
"Sarah Palin's ratings were also riding high, with nearly 50 percent of Americans viewing Sarah Palin in a positive light.",
"Sarah Palin got bigger crowds than McCain, an unusual phenomenon that underscored Sarah Palin's newfound political clout.",
"But a series of missteps began to harm Sarah Palin's image and McCain's standing.",
"Sarah Palin was still kept away from the media, even friendly conservative talk radio shows, in a strategy that campaign aides later acknowledged was flawed.",
"Advisers chose to grant interviews only to two networks.",
"When Sarah Palin stumbled over foreign policy questions, Sarah Palin undercut the foundation of McCain's experience argument.",
"Sarah Palin's sometimes-rambling answers in the highly-scrutinized appearances formed the basis for Tina Fey's \"Saturday Night Live\" caricature.",
"Sarah Palin held Sarah Palin own on economic and energy issues in the first half of Sarah Palin's debate with Joe Biden -- the highest rated of the presidential and vice-presidential debates.",
"But when questioning turned to national security, Sarah Palin seemed to resort to talking points.",
"Back on the stump, Sarah Palin began to attack Obama, accusing Obama of \"palling around with terrorists,\" being a socialist and not as patriotic as Sarah Palin and McCain.",
"Sarah Palin's offensives were often scattershot, appearing at one rally and disappearing at the next.",
"And while Republicans enjoyed the aggression, Democrats and independents were turned off.",
"Over a month, poll numbers shifted and Sarah Palin became more of a polarizing figure.",
"Liberals called Sarah Palin the most divisive politician since Richard Nixon or George Wallace, and some former Hillary Clinton supporters said McCain's selection of Sarah Palin was a cynical gambit that wouldn't help him sway female voters.",
"Sarah Palin kept up Sarah Palin's rigorous campaign schedule but the problems continued.",
"A long-running ethics investigation in Alaska determined Sarah Palin abused Sarah Palin's power in firing the state's public safety commissioner, though Sarah Palin broke no laws.",
"News broke that the Republican National Committee had spent $150,000 on Sarah Palin's wardrobe, angering Sarah Palin and prompting Sarah Palin to deviate from the campaign's game plan.",
"iReport.com:",
"What's next for Sarah Palin?",
"Aides insisted Sarah Palin wanted to speak to reporters but had been reined in.",
"That changed in mid-October when Sarah Palin ditched Sarah Palin's staff and launched an impromptu press conference in which Sarah Palin criticized the use of robocalls, even as they were being used for Sarah Palin's boss.",
"Later Sarah Palin ad-libbed a diatribe on the wardrobe fiasco, stressing a preference for consignment-store clothing and flashing Sarah Palin's $35 wedding ring.",
"McCain aides refused to go on the record about it, but McCain aides groused anonymously that Sarah Palin was \"going rogue,\" that Sarah Palin was a \"diva\" and \"difficult\" to work with.",
"In the final two weeks, Sarah Palin was at last given a chance to make in-depth speeches on substantive issues like energy and special-needs children.",
"But the tide had long turned.",
"An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in October showed Sarah Palin had become a bigger drag on McCain than President Bush, with voters citing Sarah Palin's qualifications as voters's primary concern.",
"A CNN poll released last weekend showed Sarah Palin's unfavorable ratings were twice as high as when McCain picked Sarah Palin, and 57 percent of Americans believed Sarah Palin didn't have the personal qualities a president needed.",
"As for the future, the poll indicated that only four in 10 voters would support Sarah Palin if Sarah Palin chooses to run for president in 2012.",
"But Sarah Palin's fortunes have changed before."
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"Sarah Palin brought energy, popularity but ultimately became a drag on McCain ."
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"(CNN) --",
"His wife went to the United Nations on Monday to ask questions about His wife's husband, Bob, a former FBI agent who vanished in Iran last year.",
"His wife has sought help from Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.",
"His wife flew to New York with three of His wife's seven children in hopes of meeting the one man His wife hoped could really get things moving -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is at the United Nations for a speech he is scheduled to deliver Tuesday afternoon.",
"Ahmadinejad declined to meet with His wife.",
"\"I'm disappointed,\" His wife says.",
"His wife did meet, however, with the Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.",
"\"the United Nations said the United Nations would do whatever the United Nations could to help me,\" His wife told CNN.",
"His wife went to the United Nations with His wife's children -- Susan, 31, Sarah, 28, and Douglas, 14.",
"His wife's husband disappeared in March 2007 while on a business trip to the Iranian island of Kish.",
"Former FBI agent Bob Levinson is a retired FBI agent from Coral Springs, Florida.",
"After leaving the agency, Former FBI agent Bob Levinson's wife says, Former FBI agent Bob Levinson worked as a security consultant specializing in cigarette smuggling.",
"Over the last year and half, His wife says His wife has done everything His wife can to draw attention to His wife's husband's disappearance.",
"His wife has given interviews, met with U.S. State Department officials, set up a Web site -- www.helpboblevinson.com -- and staged a rally.",
"His wife even has offered a $5,000 reward, aimed primarily at Iranians who might have information about His wife's husband.",
"Has it yielded any tips?",
"\"No,\" His wife says.",
"\"Nothing.\"",
"Last year, His wife traveled to Iran to try to retrace His wife's husband's steps.",
"Back then, Iranian officials told His wife Iranian officials would investigate and report back to His wife.",
"His wife says His wife hasn't heard a word.",
"\"Iranian officials told me when Iranian officials have some information, Iranian officials will let me know and in the meantime will continue to search for Bob,\" His wife told CNN.",
"His wife has denied that His wife's husband was doing business for the US government when Former FBI agent Bob Levinson went missing --",
"His wife says His wife didn't believe so because Former FBI agent Bob Levinson's a private citizen.",
"And the State Department and FBI have denied Former FBI agent Bob Levinson was working for government.",
"the State Department has demanded Iran free His wife -- if it is holding Former FBI agent Bob Levinson.",
"His wife says His wife's husband suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure.",
"His wife insists His wife is confident His wife's husband is all right because \"I haven't heard anything bad.\"",
"At times, His wife listens to Former FBI agent Bob Levinson's voicemail message, just to hear Former FBI agent Bob Levinson's voice.",
"\"I still firmly believe Former FBI agent Bob Levinson is alive,\" His wife says.",
"\"Every day, I tell my children to take things one day at a time.",
"\"I just want Former FBI agent Bob Levinson to know I'm still looking for Former FBI agent Bob Levinson.",
"I'll never stop looking for Former FBI agent Bob Levinson.\""
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"Former FBI agent Bob Levinson's wife says His wife has done everything to draw attention to Former FBI agent Bob Levinson's disappearance .",
"A $5,000 reward has been offered, but no tips have come in ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Caroline Kennedy, who spent most of Late president's daughter's life looking to steer clear of the spotlight, is capping off a year of unusually public -- and political -- activity with interest in the Senate seat that would be vacated by Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton.",
"Late president's daughter could join Late president's daughter's uncle Edward in the United States Senate.",
"And Late president's daughter's interest in that seat could mean the continuation of a Kennedy legacy in the United States Senate that began 56 years ago with the election of her father's father, John F. Kennedy, as the junior senator from Massachusetts.",
"Late president's daughter's uncle Edward has represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate for more than four decades.",
"Late president's daughter's uncle Robert served as junior senator from New York from 1965 until he was assassinated in 1968.",
"\"Remember, Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton's] seat in the United States Senate was once held by Robert Kennedy,\" CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider said Saturday.",
"\"Her other uncle, Ted Kennedy, is ill right now.",
"If [New York Gov. David] Paterson appoints Caroline Kennedy to the United States Senate, it means there could be a Kennedy staying in the United States Senate for quite a long time.\"",
"And a the United States Senate appointment for Late president's daughter would mark a change for the woman who has rarely run into the glare of political attention.",
"\"Apparently, Late president's daughter has acquired a taste for politics, having endorsed Barack Obama early this year,\" CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider said.",
"\"Late president's daughter wants to be part of this new regime in America, clearly playing a key role in the United States Senate if Late president's daughter gets a Senate appointment for Caroline Kennedy.\"",
"Watch CNN's Bill Schnieder discuss Late president's daughter's prospects » .",
"Widely described as extraordinarily shy, self-deprecating and down-to-earth, Late president's daughter has tended to limit Late president's daughter's forays into the public sphere to nonpartisan activity, penning books on civil liberties and serving as the de facto guardian of Late president's daughter's father's legacy.",
"But in January, Late president's daughter backed a political candidate for the first time, announcing Late president's daughter's endorsement of Barack Obama during the Democratic primary season with an opinion piece in the New York Times that drew days of the kind of media attention Late president's daughter has spent Late president's daughter's life avoiding.",
"\"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that her father inspired people,\" Late president's daughter wrote.",
"\"But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president -- not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.\"",
"Late president's daughter willingly lingered in the spotlight, serving on Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, speaking at the Democratic National Convention and stumping for him through the primary and general election seasons.",
"In a campaign ad that featured video images of Late president's daughter's father followed by images of Barack Obama, Late president's daughter said, \"People always tell me how her father inspired People.",
"I feel that same excitement now.\"",
"There are a slew of high-profile candidates for Clinton's the United States Senate seat -- including Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose last name carries some star power of its own in the Empire State -- but their odds grew just a bit steeper when stacked against the wattage of a storied Democratic dynasty.",
"Robert Kennedy was elected to the United States Senate with few ties to Robert Kennedy's adopted home state, but Robert Kennedy's niece's New York roots run deep.",
"Late president's daughter relocated to New York after her father's husband's assassination in 1963, with children Caroline and John F. Kennedy Jr.",
"Caroline Late president's daughter has spent most of Late president's daughter's life in New York, working there after graduating from Harvard, meeting Late president's daughter's husband, Edwin Schlossberg, on the job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and attending Columbia Law School there.",
"Late president's daughter's most prominent public roles to date involved overseeing her father's father's presidential library and presenting the annual Profiles in Courage Award.",
"Late president's daughter's also edited several books, from a volume of children's poetry and an updated edition of Late president's daughter's father's book \"Profiles in Courage\" to a collection of patriotic verse (\"A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love.\")",
"Most of Late president's daughter's leadership positions have been based in the arts: hosting the annual nationally televised Kennedy Center Honors in Washington and serving as the honorary chairwoman of the American Ballet Theatre, as Late president's daughter's mother had.",
"Still, in late spring and early summer, Late president's daughter was whispered as a possible vice presidential candidate -- and more recently as a contender for secretary of education in an Obama Cabinet -- but elected office would mark a major shift for Late president's daughter.",
"Late president's daughter's history of avoiding partisan efforts, Late president's daughter's limited policy track record and the lingering legacy of Late president's daughter's father's presidency translated into a far less brutal Republican criticism than that experienced by the other members of Obama's vice presidential search committee, and there was a widespread continuing sense that Late president's daughter would not want to put Late president's daughter in line for the tough criticism aimed at elected officials.",
"\"I don't think Late president's daughter'd go that far,\" Late president's daughter White House speechwriter Theodore Sorenson told USA Today this summer after being asked whether Kennedy White House speechwriter Theodore Sorenson thought Late president's daughter wanted to hold office Late president's daughter.",
"In Kennedy White House speechwriter Theodore Sorenson's memoir, \"Counselor,\" Kennedy White House speechwriter Theodore Sorenson quoted Late president's daughter saying Late president's daughter's daughter had \"gotten Late president's daughter's horror of the press from Late president's daughter\" and said Late president's daughter used to hide Late president's daughter's face when Late president's daughter spotted a cameraman.",
"But in a 2002 Time magazine interview promoting the updated \"Profiles in Courage,\" Late president's daughter would not rule out the possibility of a run for public office.",
"\"I don't have any plans to do that right now,\" Late president's daughter said.",
"\"I don't plan ahead.",
"My kids are young, and I'm really happy to be able to be around.",
"But I do care about issues, and I'm interested in them.",
"So I don't see that now, but you know, I have a long life ahead of Late president's daughter.\"",
"The 51-year-old mother of three has still not spoken publicly about Late president's daughter's interest in the job -- or whether, after months of campaign-trail conditioning, Late president's daughter might be comfortable with the idea of seeking election in Late president's daughter's own right when Clinton's term ends.",
"CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand and Monte Plott contributed to this story."
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"MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) --",
"A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck southern Kyrgyzstan late Sunday night killing an estimated 70 people and destroying more than 120 buildings, government reported Monday.",
"A magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred near Kyrgyzstan's border with China.",
"Gulshat Kadirova, an official from the Kyrgyz Ministry of Emergency Situations, told CNN that casualty figures were preliminary and could rise as rescue efforts progress.",
"The weekend quake, measured by the U.S. Geological Survey Report, rattled all of Central Asia; however destruction is concentrated in the remote village of Nura on Kyrgyzstan's border with China.",
"\"The remoteness of the villages hit by A magnitude 6.6 earthquake, the absence of means of communications and the destruction of roads are hindering assistance to the injured,\" the Kyrgyz Health Ministry press service told Interfax.",
"The Health Ministry of Kyrgyzstan has set-up a crisis center in the region, however rescue efforts remain difficult, according to a ministry official.",
"The Kyrgyz Emergency Situations Ministry also sent humanitarian aid to the region.",
"\"Four helicopters have just left taking food and blankets to the people affected in the area,\" a ministry representative told CNN by phone.",
"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent a letter of condolence to Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, according to the Kremlin's Web site.",
"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev noted Russia's readiness to offer assistance.",
"Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev is scheduled to visit the region this week to monitor the search-and-rescue operations, Kadirova told CNN.",
"Temblors continued in Central Asia on Monday with two strong earthquakes striking part of Tibet within 15 minutes of each other."
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"Quake rattled large area of Central Asia; damage concentrated near China border .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Former England cricket star Chris Lewis was remanded in custody by a British court Tuesday, charged with attempting to smuggle drugs through an airport.",
"Chris Lewis joined Surrey to play in Twenty20 matches for the 2008 season.",
"The 40-year-old all-rounder, who played 32 Tests and 53 one-day internationals for England in the 1990s, was arrested Monday when border officials at London's Gatwick Airport found cocaine hidden in luggage that had arrived on a flight from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.",
"Four kilograms of cocaine with a street value of around $350,000 was seized by the UK Border Agency, the UK's Press Association said.",
"The drugs were in a liquid form hidden in fruit tins, officials said.",
"Lewis and basketball player Chad Kirnon, 26, both from London, were held and questioned by Customs officials and later charged.",
"British Revenue & Customs spokesman Bob Gaiger told PA: \"This was an excellent detection by UK Border Agency officers.",
"\"HMRC, together with UKBA, play a vital role in the fight to prevent illegal drugs from entering the UK and in protecting our communities from the violence and corruption that always accompany this hideous trade.\"",
"The two men made a brief appearance at Crawley Magistrates' Court in West Sussex on Tuesday afternoon, where Lewis had a bail application refused, PA reported.",
"The two men were remanded in custody to appear via video link in court next Wednesday."
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"(CNN) --",
"Caroline Kennedy, who spent most of Late president's daughter's life looking to steer clear of the spotlight, is capping off a year of unusually public -- and political -- activity with interest in the Senate seat that would be vacated by Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton.",
"Late president's daughter could join Late president's daughter's uncle Edward in the U.S. Senate.",
"And Late president's daughter's interest in that seat could mean the continuation of a Kennedy legacy in the U.S. Senate that began 56 years ago with the election of Late president's daughter's father, John F. Kennedy, as the junior senator from Massachusetts.",
"Late president's daughter's uncle Edward has represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate for more than four decades.",
"Late president's daughter's uncle Robert served as junior senator from New York from 1965 until he was assassinated in 1968.",
"\"Remember, [Clinton's] seat in the U.S. Senate was once held by Robert Kennedy,\" CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider said Saturday.",
"\"Her other uncle, Ted Kennedy, is ill right now.",
"If [New York Gov. David] Paterson appoints Late president's daughter to the U.S. Senate, it means there could be a Kennedy staying in the U.S. Senate for quite a long time.\"",
"[New York Gov. David] Paterson confirmed to CNN Saturday that Late president's daughter called and \"asked a few questions\" but did not express interest in [Clinton's] seat in the Senate.",
"\"I am sure if Late president's daughter's interested, Late president's daughter'll call back, but I'm not going to rate any of the candidates or talk about prospective candidates.",
"It just adds speculation to the speculation,\" [New York Gov. David] Paterson said.",
"But one Democratic source close to the Kennedy family said Late president's daughter \"is interested to say the least\" about discussing the the U.S. Senate vacancy.",
"one Democratic source close to the Kennedy family said Late president's daughter has asked a tight circle of family friends and political advisers for advice.",
"A second source, who has knowledge of Late president's daughter's conversation with [New York Gov. David] Paterson, tells CNN that Late president's daughter reached out to inquire about the responsibilities and impact such a move would have if Late president's daughter were selected by the governor to fill the position.",
"A the U.S. Senate appointment for Late president's daughter would mark a change for the woman who has rarely run into the glare of political attention.",
"\"Apparently, Late president's daughter has acquired a taste for politics, having endorsed Barack Obama early this year,\" Schneider said.",
"\"Late president's daughter wants to be part of this new regime in America, clearly playing a key role in the U.S. Senate if Late president's daughter gets A Senate appointment for Caroline Kennedy.\"",
"Watch CNN's Bill Schneider discuss Late president's daughter's prospects » .",
"Widely described as extraordinarily shy, self-deprecating and down-to-earth, Late president's daughter has tended to limit Late president's daughter's forays into the public sphere to nonpartisan activity, penning books on civil liberties and serving as the de facto guardian of Late president's daughter's father's legacy.",
"But in January, Late president's daughter backed a political candidate for the first time, announcing Late president's daughter's endorsement of Barack Obama during the Democratic primary season with an opinion piece in the New York Times that drew days of the kind of media attention Late president's daughter has spent Late president's daughter's life avoiding.",
"\"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired people,\" Late president's daughter wrote.",
"\"But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president -- not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.\"",
"Late president's daughter willingly lingered in the spotlight, serving on Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, speaking at the Democratic National Convention and stumping for him through the primary and general election seasons.",
"In a campaign ad that featured video images of Late president's daughter's father followed by images of Barack Obama, Late president's daughter said, \"People always tell me how my father inspired People.",
"I feel that same excitement now.\"",
"There are a slew of high-profile candidates for Clinton's Senate seat -- including Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose last name carries some star power of its own in the Empire State -- but their odds grew just a bit steeper when stacked against the wattage of a storied Democratic dynasty.",
"Robert Kennedy was elected to the Senate with few ties to Robert Kennedy's adopted home state, but Robert Kennedy's niece's New York roots run deep.",
"Late president's daughter relocated to New York after my father's husband's assassination in 1963, with children Caroline and John F. Kennedy Jr.",
"Caroline Late president's daughter has spent most of Late president's daughter's life in New York, working there after graduating from Harvard, meeting Late president's daughter's husband, Edwin Schlossberg, on the job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and attending Columbia Law School there.",
"Late president's daughter's most prominent public roles to date involved overseeing my father's father's presidential library and presenting the annual Profiles in Courage Award.",
"Late president's daughter's also edited several books, from a volume of children's poetry and an updated edition of Late president's daughter's father's book \"Profiles in Courage\" to a collection of patriotic verse (\"A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love.\")",
"Most of Late president's daughter's leadership positions have been based in the arts: hosting the annual nationally televised Kennedy Center Honors in Washington and serving as the honorary chairwoman of the American Ballet Theatre, as Late president's daughter's mother had.",
"Still, in late spring and early summer, Late president's daughter was whispered as a possible vice presidential candidate -- and more recently as a contender for secretary of education in an Obama Cabinet -- but elected office would mark a major shift for Late president's daughter.",
"Late president's daughter's history of avoiding partisan efforts, Late president's daughter's limited policy track record and the lingering legacy of Late president's daughter's father's presidency translated into a far less brutal Republican criticism than that experienced by the other members of Obama's vice presidential search committee, and there was a widespread continuing sense that Late president's daughter would not want to put Late president's daughter in line for the tough criticism aimed at elected officials.",
"\"I don't think Late president's daughter'd go that far,\" Late president's daughter White House speechwriter Theodore Sorenson told USA Today this summer after being asked whether [New York Gov. David] Paterson thought Late president's daughter wanted to hold office Late president's daughter.",
"In [New York Gov. David] Paterson's memoir, \"Counselor,\" [New York Gov. David] Paterson quoted Late president's daughter saying Late president's daughter's daughter had \"gotten Late president's daughter's horror of the press from Late president's daughter\" and said Late president's daughter used to hide Late president's daughter's face when Late president's daughter spotted a cameraman.",
"But in a 2002 Time magazine interview promoting the updated \"Profiles in Courage,\" Late president's daughter would not rule out the possibility of a run for public office.",
"\"I don't have any plans to do that right now,\" Late president's daughter said.",
"\"I don't plan ahead.",
"My kids are young, and I'm really happy to be able to be around.",
"But I do care about issues, and I'm interested in them.",
"So I don't see that now, but you know, I have a long life ahead of Late president's daughter.\"",
"The 51-year-old mother of three has still not spoken publicly about Late president's daughter's interest in the job -- or whether, after months of campaign-trail conditioning, Late president's daughter might be comfortable with the idea of seeking election in Late president's daughter's own right when Clinton's term ends.",
"CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand and Monte Plott contributed to this story."
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"Move would put Late president's daughter in seat once filled by Late president's daughter's uncle Robert .",
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"Late president's daughter said this year Late president's daughter was inspired by Barack Obama ."
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"Adventurer and TV show host Bear Grylls injured his shoulder in Antarctica during an expedition to raise money for an international charity, Discovery Channel said Sunday.",
"Bear Grylls, host of \"Man vs. Wild,\" was injured in Antarctica during an expedition to raise money for charity.",
"Grylls was injured Friday night after falling during the expedition, which was not for Discovery Channel, according to the network's statement.",
"the network's statement said that Bear Grylls is returning to UK to receive medical attention.",
"\"Once Bear Grylls sees a doctor, we will have a better sense of the level of seriousness of Bear Grylls's shoulder injury and the recovery time needed to get Bear Grylls back to Bear Grylls's full physical activity,\" according to the network's statement.",
"Grylls, 34, is the host of Discovery's \"Man vs. Wild\" in which Bear Grylls demonstrates extreme measures -- including eating snakes and insects -- used to survive in harsh environmental conditions.",
"In Bear Grylls's blog, Bear Grylls said the aim of Bear Grylls's expedition in Antarctica -- sponsored by Ethanol Venture -- is \"to promote alternative energies and their potential.\"",
"\"We will be using lots of different forms of alternative power, including wind-powered kite-skiing, part bio-ethanol powered jetskis and inflatable boats, electric-powered paragliders, solar- and wind-powered base camps -- and good old foot work,\" Grylls wrote in a November 14 entry.",
"Bear Grylls is a former member of the British Special Forces and has broken Bear Grylls's back in several places during Bear Grylls's service.",
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"The recent arrest and sentencing of a British disc jockey in Dubai highlights the need for foreign travelers to pay close attention to The Emirates's strict rules on prohibited substances, a legal charity said Wednesday.",
"Western tourists oblivious to the severe drugs laws in the UAE often end up in jail after arriving in the conservative Muslim country with tiny amounts of narcotics.",
"DJ Grooverider, whose real name is Raymond Bingham, was jailed Tuesday for four years in Dubai for possession of cannabis, said a spokesman for BBC Radio 1, where the The DJ presented a weekly drum 'n bass show.",
"The DJ was arrested November 23 after being caught with 2.16 grams of the drug at the airport, a spokesman for BBC Radio 1, where the he presented a weekly drum 'n bass show said.",
"\"It's another incident of exactly the sort of case we've seen occurring with increased frequency,\" said Catherine Wolthuizen, chief executive of Fair Trials International.",
"a legal charity issued a warning to travelers earlier this month, urging travelers to read up on Dubai's restrictions and make sure travelers are free of any substances.",
"a warning followed a series of cases in which Dubai authorities arrested travelers with trace amounts of banned substances or seemingly innocuous items.",
"Fair Trials highlighted the case of a Swiss man jailed for having three poppy seeds on a Swiss man jailed for having three poppy seeds on his shirt which apparently came from a sandwich he had eaten at the airport before departure's shirt which apparently came from a sandwich a Swiss man jailed for having three poppy seeds on his shirt which apparently came from a sandwich he had eaten at the airport before departure had eaten at the airport before departure.",
"UAE customs officials said a Swiss man jailed for having three poppy seeds on his shirt which apparently came from a sandwich he had eaten at the airport before departure was stopped after arriving in Dubai from Zurich on January 18, though it provided no other details on a Swiss man jailed for having three poppy seeds on his shirt which apparently came from a sandwich he had eaten at the airport before departure's case.",
"The U.S. State Department warns that poppy seeds are on UAE's list of controlled substances.",
"An official at UAE's police labs who declined to be named said the Emirates only ban raw poppy seeds -- not baked -- because raw seeds could be planted for drug use.",
"The British and U.S. governments have warnings in place for travelers to UAE, alerting travelers to the UAE to the severe penalties for being found with drugs, and the types of drugs which are illegal in the country.",
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"\"The presence of drugs in the system is counted as possession.\"",
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"Codeine, which is available over the counter in Britain, is allowed only with a doctor's prescription, the Foreign Office states.",
"a legal charity mentioned the case of an unnamed 20-year-old who was traveling back to England from Pakistan.",
"The charity said an unnamed 20-year-old who was traveling back to England from Pakistan was arrested after customs officers allegedly found 0.02 grams of cannabis in an unnamed 20-year-old who was traveling back to England from Pakistan's pocket.",
"UAE customs officials told CNN the 20-year-old was arrested January 16 and actually was found with 0.67 grams of cannabis.",
"\"Travelers must be aware about and understand the laws of any country Travelers visit,\" said a customs official, who also declined to be named.",
"a spokesman for BBC Radio 1, where the he presented a weekly drum 'n bass show said Grooverider, who went to Dubai to work at a club, claimed he forgot the drugs were in the pocket of a pair of trousers.",
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"Fair Trials' Wolthuizen said one thing is clear: Travelers to the UAE must be careful.",
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"Zimbabwe central bank governor Gideon Gono shows a new $50 million note Thursday.",
"After the $100 million note began circulating on Thursday, the price of a loaf of bread soared from 2 million to 35 million Zimbabwean dollars.",
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"Last week, restrictions on cash withdrawals -- due to severe money shortages -- triggered riots.",
"Sixteen soldiers now face possible court-martial due to alleged looting and assaults on civilians and police during the unrest, police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena told The Herald, a state-owned newspaper on Saturday.",
"\"We are still investigating the case,\" police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said.",
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"After spending several days waiting in bank lines, soldiers rampaged through downtown Harare, destroying shops and attacking riot police sent to disperse the protesters.",
"Cash shortages are not the only crisis plaguing Zimbabwe.",
"The United Nations has said that more than half of Zimbabwe's population is in dire need of food and clean water.",
"Watch how a cholera epidemic is affecting Zimbabweans » .",
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"\"The [Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe] is failing to deliver the demands of market, prices are doubling daily, and that demands more cash,\" Zimbabwean economist John Robertson said.",
"\"The huge price increases are resulting from severe shortages of most goods.\"",
"Zimbabwe is facing Zimbabwe's worst economic and humanitarian crisis since attaining independence from Great Britain in 1980.",
"Zimbabwe's official rate of inflation is 231 million percent, the world's highest.",
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"A CNN journalist in Harare contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Call it a self-fulfilling prophecy: An estimated three-fourths of gas stations in the Nashville, Tennessee, area ran dry Friday, victim of an apparent rumor that Nashville was running out of gas.",
"\"Everybody has just gone nuts,\" said Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council.",
"Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council said Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council has no idea about the origin of a rumor that there was going to be no gas in Nashville.",
"One reporter called Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council, saying One reporter had heard that Nashville would be without gas within the hour, Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council said.",
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"\"We panicked and looked online,\" Katie Givens Kime said.",
"\"And holy cow, there is no gas in Nashville.",
"... It has definitely gripped Nashville, for sure.\"",
"One store clerk told Katie Givens Kime there was no way Katie Givens Kime could get gas to go back home, Katie Givens Kime said.",
"Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council said some drivers were following gas trucks to see where they were headed, and lines at some stations were a mile long.",
"Fuel was continuing to enter Nashville, however, as pipelines were working and barges were coming in.",
"Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council likened it to Southerners rushing out to stock up on bread and milk when they hear it might snow.",
"As stations began running low, the situation snowballed, Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council said.",
"One station reported selling as much gas Friday as One station usually does in a weekend, Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council said.",
"The phenomenon seemed to be isolated to the Nashville area, Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council said.",
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"Katie Givens Kime said Katie Givens Kime found a station online that still had gas and waited more than an hour to pump it.",
"\"People were freaked out,\" Katie Givens Kime said.",
"A \"renegade bunch\" of men helped direct traffic to and from the pumps, even taking drivers' cash inside for drivers'.",
"Katie Givens Kime described people filling cans and other containers as well as cars.",
"Katie Givens Kime said that the station was not engaging in price gouging but that \"emotions were running very high\" among drivers.",
"CNN's Gary Bender contributed to this report."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"After spending nearly 28 years in an irreversible coma, heiress and socialite Martha \"Sunny\" von Bulow died Saturday in a NEW YORK nursing home, according to a family statement.",
"Sunny von Bulow was 76.",
"Sunny von Bulow is pictured during Sunny von Bulow's 1957 wedding to Prince Alfred von Auersperg.",
"Sunny von Bulow was subject of one of the nation's most sensational criminal cases during the 1980s.",
"Sunny von Bulow's husband, Claus, was accused of trying to kill Sunny von Bulow with an overdose of insulin, which prosecutors alleged sent Sunny von Bulow into the coma.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow was convicted of making two attempts on Sunny von Bulow's life, but the conviction was overturned on appeal.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow was acquitted in a second trial.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow's retrial in 1985 received national attention.",
"\"We were blessed to have an extraordinarily loving and caring mother,\" said the statement from Sunny von Bulow's three children -- Annie Laurie \"Ala\" Isham, Alexander von Auersperg and Cosima Pavoncelli -- released by a spokeswoman.",
"\"Sunny von Bulow was especially devoted to Sunny von Bulow's many friends and family members.\"",
"Sunny von Bulow was born Martha Sharp Crawford into a wealthy family.",
"Sunny von Bulow inherited a fortune conservatively estimated at $75 million, according to an article on the von Bulow case posted on truTV.com's Crime Library Web site.",
"In Sunny von Bulow's early years, Sunny von Bulow drew comparisons to actress Grace Kelly.",
"Sunny von Bulow became known as Princess von Auersperg with Sunny von Bulow's first marriage, to Prince Alfred von Auersperg of Austria.",
"That marriage produced two children: Alexander and Annie Laurie.",
"The von Bulows married in 1966 and had a daughter, Cosima.",
"On the morning of December 22, 1980, family members found Sunny von Bulow unconscious in the bathroom of the family's posh Newport, Rhode Island, home.",
"Sunny von Bulow never regained consciousness.",
"Sunny von Bulow had been hospitalized a year earlier after lapsing into a coma but recovered, according to truTV.com's Crime Library Web site.",
"Doctors had diagnosed Sunny von Bulow with hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.",
"Prosecutors accused Husband Claus von Bulow of twice attempting to kill Husband Claus von Bulow's wife by injecting Sunny von Bulow with insulin.",
"The case also led to a major motion picture, \"Reversal of Fortune.\"",
"Actor Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for Actor Jeremy Irons's portrayal of Husband Claus von Bulow.",
"Famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, who won Husband Claus von Bulow a new trial on appeal after Husband Claus von Bulow's conviction, said in a statement Saturday that Sunny von Bulow's death is \"a sad ending to a sad tragedy that some members of Sunny von Bulow's family tried to turn into a crime.",
"We proved overwhelming[ly] that there was no crime and that a coma was self-induced.",
"We saved Husband Claus von Bulow's life, but could not save hers.\"",
"Husband Claus von Bulow's defense team maintained that Sunny von Bulow's alcohol use, among other factors, caused Sunny von Bulow coma.",
"Dershowitz said Dershowitz had spoken with Claus von Bulow, who now lives in London, England.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow was saddened by Husband Claus von Bulow's former wife's passing, Dershowitz said.",
"The family statement said Martha von Bulow is survived by her children, their spouses and nine grandchildren.",
"Alexander von Auersperg and Ala von Auersperg Isham, who had sided with prosecutors against Claus von Bulow, filed a civil suit against their stepfather after Husband Claus von Bulow's acquittal.",
"The case was settled out of court in 1987, according to a 2007 article in the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow had agreed to waive Husband Claus von Bulow's claim to Husband Claus von Bulow's wife's money and to a divorce in exchange for a civil suit being dropped.",
"The von Bulows' daughter, Cosima, sided with her father.",
"Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne, who covered the von Bulow case, told the New York Daily News in 2007 that Sunny von Bulow was moved from Columbia Presbyterian hospital to a private nursing home in 1998.",
"Watch Dunne recall case » .",
"Ala von Auersperg Isham served for a time as president of the Sunny von Bulow Coma and Head Trauma Research Foundation, according to the Providence Journal.",
"An offshoot of that organization, the Brain Trauma Foundation, still operates in NEW YORK, the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island said.",
"The family statement notes that Martha von Bulow actively supported the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Opera and the J.P. Morgan Library in NEW YORK and the Preservation Society of Newport, Rhode Island.",
"A private memorial service will be held for family and friends in NEW YORK in the coming days, The family statement said Saturday, along with a private burial.",
"CNN's Julian Cummings contributed to this report."
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"Editor's note: Join Roland S. Martin for Roland Martin's weekly sound-off segment on CNN.com Live at 11:10 a.m. ET Wednesday.",
"If you're passionate about politics, Roland Martin wants to hear from you.",
"A nationally syndicated columnist, Roland Martin has said Roland Martin will vote for Obama in November.",
"Roland 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.",
"Roland Martin says Howard Dean bucked other leaders and insisted on a 50-state Democratic strategy.",
"(CNN)",
"-- If Obama is able to prevail over Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, all of those Democrats who ripped Dean's 50-state strategy over the last four years should call the head of the Democratic National Committee and offer a heartfelt apology.",
"First in line should be New York Sen. Charles Schumer, Chicago, Illinois, Rep. Rahm Emanuel and my CNN colleague, political strategist James Carville.",
"When Democrats were in the final stages of winning back Congress in 2006, those three were at odds with Howard Dean, saying Howard Dean should forget about Howard Dean's pie-in-the-sky plan to have the Democratic Party competitive in all 50 states.",
"They reasoned that money spent on get-out-the vote efforts in non-congressional elections was futile, and all the effort should be on reclaiming Congress.",
"But Howard Dean resisted their suggestions, weathering repeated calls for Howard Dean to resign after that election.",
"Howard Dean's insistence on having a Democratic Party that existed in the heartland, and not just California, New York and Massachusetts, was brilliant in that it made clear that the party recognized the rest of America.",
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"the party earned the party's liberal label because the party ignored the moderate and conservative voices that paved the way for the Reagan revolution to win three consecutive elections.",
"Yet the decisive wins weren't just on the national level.",
"Texas is a prime example.",
"What used to be a blue dog Democratic state now has Republicans holding every statewide office.",
"But things are looking up.",
"In Dallas County, all of the county positions except for a handful were in the hands of the GOP, especially the judges.",
"That changed four years ago, and now the party could solidify the party this time around.",
"The same thing in Harris County.",
"Texas's most populous county saw Republicans take everything in sight.",
"This time around, Democrats are poised to take back Houston and surrounding cities.",
"Texas Democratic leaders used to cry the blues when an election was near, but after seeing the massive turnout during the primary, Texas Democratic leaders have been able to build Texas Democratic leaders's voter database and cultivate a new generation of politicians to run for office.",
"Will Texas go red?",
"Sure.",
"But with a rock solid black vote, the ability to attract more Hispanic voters and a growing appeal to whites, Democrats may soon make Texas a competitive two-party state.",
"If Democrats are going to achieve success on the national level, Democrats must have significant enthusiasm on the local level.",
"It's hard to get your supporters ginned up for a national campaign if your supporters see no infrastructure, especially local get-out-the-vote operations.",
"When Obama announced that Obama was implementing a 50-state strategy, Obama was laughed at.",
"But here we are with six days left in the campaign and the Republicans are having to spend precious dollars on ads in Montana, North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada, GOP locks in past elections.",
"Obama deserves a lot of the credit for this because Obama's \"change\" campaign theme, along with the horrible leadership of Republicans nationwide, is helping Obama's candidacy.",
"But changing the attitude among the nation's Democrats was also vital, and that's where Howard Dean played a role.",
"Howard Dean saw firsthand the sorry shape of the party when Howard Dean ran for president in 2004.",
"Republicans, led by Karl Rove, perfected Republicans's voter registration efforts, targeting voters down to the neighborhood, block and household.",
"Republicans knew that to win Republicans needed a well-oiled machine that wasn't activated every four years; it needed to be active all year round and in every election cycle.",
"So Howard Dean put the people and resources behind substantial voter efforts in a number of states, and they went about rebuilding a crippled party that had no central voter registration effort, an outdated database of supporters, a fundraising arm that heavily relied on trial attorneys and Hollywood types, and a message that changed depending on the day.",
"In addition to seeing how Obama performs on Tuesday, we will also watch and see if Democrats are able to increase the number of governorships and legislatures Democrats control.",
"That will be critical in 2010, because that's when the electoral map will be gerrymandered, redrawing the borders of congressional districts, and the party that rules the general assemblies, legislatures and governor's mansions will write the rules to the game.",
"Old pols always said that all politics is local, and the only way for a revitalized Democratic Party to expand a revitalized Democratic Party's reach nationally is by re-branding a revitalized Democratic Party on the home front.",
"That takes time, money and leadership, and Howard Dean was willing to put Howard Dean's money where Howard Dean's mouth is.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin."
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"A Dutch-operated container ship outran pirates off the coast of Tanzania this weekend, an official with the International Maritime Bureau said Sunday.",
"French soldiers, who have joined British, Indian, Russian and American patrols off Tanzania, during an exercise.",
"The incident took place \"very far out to sea,\" showing that Somali-based pirates are extending Somali-based pirates's reach further and further, Noel Choong of the IMB's Piracy Reporting Center told CNN.",
"\"Earlier attacks were on ships off the coast of Tanzania, then off the coast of Kenya, and now this was 450 nautical miles off Dar es Salaam,\" Noel Choong of the IMB's Piracy Reporting Center said, tracing the southward expansion of Somali-based pirates's area of operations.",
"The ship, which Noel Choong of the IMB's Piracy Reporting Center declined to name, came under attack from rocket-propelled grenades, starting a fire on board, Noel Choong of the IMB's Piracy Reporting Center said.",
"The crew was able to put out a fire on board and escape by increasing speed.",
"The ship and crew are now out of danger, Noel Choong of the IMB's Piracy Reporting Center said, following the incident at 11:42 GMT Saturday.",
"Piracy has become increasingly common in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean this year.",
"So far, pirates have attacked almost 100 vessels off Tanzania's coast and successfully hijacked nearly 40, according to the IMB's Piracy Reporting Center.",
"Watch how NATO is combating piracy » .",
"Those hijacked vessels include an enormous oil tanker, a chemical tanker, and a ship laden with Soviet-era arms including tanks.",
"pirates normally hold the ships for ransom.",
"A luxury cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 passengers and crew successfully outran pirates off the coast of Yemen last weekend.",
"The IMB has tracked at least 11 incidents of actual or attempted piracy near the coast of Tanzania this year.",
"A multinational fleet, including vessels from the U.S., NATO member states, Russia and India, has been patrolling the the Indian Ocean waters near the Gulf of Aden, which connects the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.",
"Around 20,000 oil tankers, freighters and merchant vessels pass along the crucial shipping route each year.",
"Watch anti-piracy vessels patrol the region. » .",
"In a recent interview provided to CNN, a pirate leader claimed attacks on shipping would continue as long as life in Somalia remained desperate.",
"\"pirates are living between life and death,\" said the pirate leader, identified by only one name, Boyah.",
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"(CNN) --",
"\"Shh ... shh get back,\" the man with the walkie-talkie said.",
"\"We're filming.\"",
"Contadora, one of Panama's Pearl Islands, draws visitors with beautiful beaches and excellent snorkeling.",
"We had stumbled onto the set of a \"Survivor\"-like television show.",
"But I'm getting ahead of myself.",
"First let me tell you how we stumbled onto the Pearl Islands in Panama, and then I'll tell you how we came upon the Orange Tribe on the island of Mogo Mogo.",
"Every year, my husband and I take my niece on a summer vacation.",
"This year, we decided to go to Panama.",
"Besides the canal, Panama has a lot to offer: There are mountains, beaches, colonial cities and rain forests.",
"After we found a $158 round trip flight from Miami, Florida, the decision was made.",
"My only fear was the weather; it was rainy season in Central America.",
"After weeks of research, I was torn.",
"We had enough time to visit one set of islands, and there were two island chains that I was having a hard time choosing between.",
"The San Blas Islands are off the northeast coast of Panama in the Caribbean.",
"The San Blas Islands're also known as Kuna Yala and are home to the Kuna Indians.",
"It would be a chance to see the Kunas up close, living as they have for centuries in grass huts along the water's edge.",
"The other option was Panama's Pearl Islands.",
"The Archipiélago de las Perlas, less well-known than the San Blas, is off the southern Pacific coast of Panama.",
"After an agonizing week of self-debate, I decided that our summer vacation would include a trip to Panama's Pearl Islands.",
"The flight was only 20 minutes from Panama City, but more importantly, I was told it didn't rain as much on the Pacific side.",
"The sales pitch to my niece: \"We are going to where the 2003 edition of 'Survivor' and 'Survivor: All-Stars' were filmed.\"",
"I was referring to the popular American reality TV show, and I didn't realize that dozens of other countries had dozens of other countries's own versions.",
"I admit my destination choice was not as educational as a few days with the Kuna Indians, but I thought my destination choice would be better than being rained in with a bored teenager.",
"After a short flight from Panama City in a puddle jumper, we were on the island of Contadora, one of hundreds that make up the Pearl Islands and one of three that can be reached by commercial flight.",
"It's a tiny island with a handful of places to stay and even fewer places to get a meal.",
"Golf carts, the primary mode of transportation, can be rented upon arrival.",
"All of Contadora's entertainment is provided by the sea.",
"It's a beach bum's paradise.",
"If you are a beach bum and a reality TV fan, you can sit on the sand and watch props being built for the contestants' challenges.",
"It's probably the best set shop in the world, or at least the one with the nicest view.",
"But the Pearl Islands offer more than just an exotic TV set.",
"For $30 an hour, you can go snorkeling and island hopping in a small but comfortable wooden fishing boat.",
"We found Niño, our boat captain and guide, on Playa Larga, the beach in front of the Contadora Beach Resort.",
"We did some of the best snorkeling I've ever done anywhere in the world.",
"After a morning of fantastic snorkeling, I asked Niño where \"Survivor\" was filmed.",
"\"Close by.",
"I will take you there,\" he said.",
"Niño took us to Mogo Mogo, one of many uninhabited islands just off the shore of Contadora.",
"As Contadora's white sandy beaches came into sight, we noticed a clearing where people were putting finishing touches on what looked like a game for contestants.",
"Our boat captain told us it was for \"Desafío\" (\"Challenge\"), a Colombian version of the popular reality show.",
"The word on Contadora was that a few countries (Bulgaria, Serbia and Israel, to name a few) were either finishing filming \"Survivor\"-type shows or starting new seasons.",
"A representative for the Panamanian Institute of Tourism told me the government had limited information on the filming and could not confirm the word on the street.",
"We jumped out of the boat, waded through the clear, warm blue water and onto Mogo Mogo, unacknowledged as work continued on the wooden set.",
"Noticing a well-worn path, we decided to check out the rest of Contadora.",
"We thought we were alone when we reached the beach on the other side.",
"But as we walked down what we thought was a deserted beach, we spotted an orange flag in the sand.",
"We knew the American \"Survivor\" was filmed on Contadora, but we did not expect to be standing in front of contestants in orange buffs, sitting on a log in the shade.",
"This is when the man with the walkie-talkie shushed us because they were filming.",
"The locals talk about the shows and the many countries The locals hail from, but The locals don't seem to capitalize on the \"Survivor\" fame.",
"Contadora locals certainly make money off the film staff, medics and contestants, but evidently Contadora locals haven't printed the T-shirts yet.",
"The only shirts we saw were on the backs of others that identified them as \"Survivor Crew.\"",
"Perhaps a true fan could purchase a shirt directly off someone's back.",
"Contadora is only so big, and you are bound to run into a crew from some country.",
"One night, we were the only non-reality show customers in Gerald's restaurant, a popular place for beer and pizza.",
"After our innocent but failed attempt at a guest appearance on \"Desafío,\" we returned to the basic comforts on Contadora.",
"That night, as we relaxed in a restaurant -- cold drinks in hand, a warm hearty meal just ordered -- darkness fell.",
"The rain, as The rain often does in the tropics, started coming down in sheets.",
"I leaned back and thought to myself, \"If I was a contestant, tonight I would vote myself off of Mogo Mogo.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"California voters on Tuesday appear to have approved Proposition 8, a measure banning same-sex marriage in California.",
"CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin says U.S. Supreme Court may have to rule on the issue of same-sex marriage.",
"California's secretary of state late Tuesday released semi-official results showing Proposition 8 had passed 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent.",
"CNN has not officially called the result one way or the other.",
"On Wednesday protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles to voice protesters's opposition to ban.",
"And there are at least three legal challenges to ban now pending in court.",
"Kiran Chetry of CNN's \"American Morning\" spoke Thursday with the program's legal analyst, Sunny Hostin, about the issue.",
"Chetry:",
"California's attorney general says that the constitutional amendment is not retroactive, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom says San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will continue to marry people until someone sues him to stop.",
"So what does Prop 8 mean first of all to people who want to get married in the state of California?",
"Hostin:",
"Well, we already know in Los Angeles they are no longer issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.",
"So in Los Angeles, it's a no go.",
"In San Francisco, as you mentioned, the mayor is saying, \"We're still going to be doing it.\"",
"So for people that aren't married yet, it's really legal limbo.",
"Chetry: All right.",
"And what about people who from the time that they allowed same-sex marriage, this was in May until November, some 18,000 couples decided some 18,000 couples were going to do it.",
"What happens to some 18,000 couples?",
"Is some 18,000 couples's marriage still valid?",
"Hostin:",
"It's still valid right now.",
"But really some 18,000 couples are also in a legal limbo.",
"The bottom line it's all over the place.",
"The law is really unclear here.",
"Last night, I was poring over these legal papers.",
"I was also discussing this with a lot of law professors, a lot of different lawyers, and everyone is all over the place.",
"Some folks said, you know, the bottom line is when you look at the language of Proposition 8, it is very clear that it was meant to be retroactive and that means that all the marriages will be invalidated.",
"Then another law professor that I spoke to said that is absolutely fundamentally ridiculous.",
"The bottom line is this is a fundamental right that was given to couples and this is a right that is not going to be given away.",
"I think we're going to see a lot of litigation here, Kiran, and the bottom line is everyone is in a legal, legal limbo.",
"Chetry:",
"It's very interesting the grounds for which they are challenging.",
"At least in one of these lawsuits they said that it was a constitutional revision rather than an amendment.",
"And that means it would need two-thirds approval of the House in the legislature.",
"So do we think it could go to the House as well as being fought in the courts?",
"Hostin:",
"I really think this is going to be a legal issue.",
"I think this is going to go before the California Supreme Court.",
"And we already know as you mentioned that there are three cases pending before the California Supreme Court.",
"And what is interesting to note is that it's the very same court that allowed these marriages in the first place.",
"And so, my guess is that the California Supreme Court is going to weigh in, probably reinstitute the right to marry for same-sex couples and then that's going to be likely based on the U.S. Constitution and the California Supreme Court is going to weigh in.",
"What is I think extremely interesting here is that we now know that we have a president-elect, Obama.",
"He's going to get the opportunity likely to appoint the California Supreme Court justices.",
"So we don't even know which type of court or the makeup of the California Supreme Court that will hear this.",
"But I think the California Supreme Court will likely weigh in on this issue.",
"Chetry:",
"This was such a hot button issue in the state.",
"More spending on either side, $35 million, $37 million on both sides.",
"CNN:",
"Yes.",
"Chetry:",
"It was the highest funded campaign on any state ballot.",
"CNN:",
"That's right.",
"Chetry: They say it trumped every other campaign except the presidential.",
"CNN:",
"People care about this issue.",
"I mean, they're talking about discrimination, equal protection.",
"It's an issue that's a hotbed issue.",
"We also know, Kiran, that in Arizona and Florida that this ban was implemented.",
"And so, you know, it's all over the place.",
"People care about this issue, and this is an issue that is really present.",
"And I think that it's something that, we, of course, have to watch because we're talking about equal protection, we're talking about discrimination.",
"People care about these issues.",
"Chetry:",
"Sunny Hostin, great to see you.",
"Thank you.",
"Hostin:",
"Thanks.",
"iReport.com:",
"Did you vote on a same-sex measure?"
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"Editor's Note:",
"Drew Westen, Ph.D., is professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, founder of Westen Strategies, and author of \"The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.\"",
"He has been a consultant or adviser to several candidates and organizations, including the AFL-CIO, and has informally advised the Obama campaign.",
"Drew Westen says Democrats realized you need more than position papers to sway the voters.",
"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"A single factor never produces a complex event like the historic election of Obama.",
"But when the final post-mortem on the election of 2008 is someday written, the final post-mortem on the election of 2008 will no doubt include at least three.",
"First, John McCain started with three strikes against John McCain.",
"three strikes against him happen to be the three strongest predictors that enter into the equations used by political scientists to predict who will win an election: an unpopular incumbent president (in this case, the most unpopular in the history of polling), an economic downturn (in this case an understatement), and an unpopular war.",
"In some ways, John McCain lost the presidency twice to George W. Bush.",
"In the 2000 South Carolina primary, John McCain was defeated by what have been generously referred to as \"dirty tricks;\" and in the two-year run-up to the historic election of Barack Obama, John McCain allied John McCain with George W. Bush and George W. Bush's policies to win John McCain's party's nomination (even referring to George W. Bush as \"one of our greatest presidents\"), which was John McCain's undoing with independent voters in the general election.",
"Second, whether John McCain rues the day John McCain chose Sarah Palin (who moved from the asset to the liability column around the same time Lehman Brothers did), Sarah Palin (who moved from the asset to the liability column around the same time Lehman Brothers did) no doubt rues the day Sarah Palin (who moved from the asset to the liability column around the same time Lehman Brothers did) chose to become a small-town mayor instead of a community organizer.",
"It was precisely the extraordinary capacity to organize people that allowed Obama and Obama's chief advisers to bring such unprecedented numbers of people to the polls.",
"Not only was this the first election in recent memory in which Democrats outgunned Republicans with Democrats's get-out-the-vote efforts, but it was the first time since Eisenhower recognized the potential value of television as a medium for advertising over 50 years ago that Democrats have led Republicans in technology.",
"From the moment I met Obama's media wizard, Scott Goodstein, 18 months ago, I realized Obama would have a tremendous advantage on that front, but I didn't realize by how much.",
"But then there's that other major factor: For the first time since Bill Clinton, the Democrats chose a candidate with both the general intelligence to govern and the emotional and political intelligence to win.",
"And the Democrats finally abandoned the approach to campaigning that has been the Democrats's downfall for generations: peppering voters with facts, figures, and policy positions and assuming voters will see what a rational choice the candidate is.",
"We don't choose any of the important people in our lives that way, whether spouses or presidents.",
"Obama beat John McCain the same way Obama beat Hillary Clinton: by out-inspiring them, boxing them into the role of the candidate against hope, and defining Obama as the candidate who represents change.",
"And in the last few weeks of the campaign, Obama finally began to control the four stories that matter in an election: . 1. the story you tell about your yourself (that Obama was the candidate of change, fleshing out what Obama meant by change); . 2. the story you tell about your opponent (that John McCain was four more years of George W. Bush); .",
"3. the story the other candidate is telling about John McCain (McCain the maverick, which Obama countered by citing John McCain's proud proclamation that John McCain had voted with George W. Bush over 90 percent of the time and parrying, \"That's not a maverick, that's a sidekick\"); and . 4. the story John McCain was telling about Obama (that John McCain lacked the experience and judgment to lead, which Obama countered with Obama's steadiness in the face of the Wall Street meltdown and Obama's strong, steady performances in the debates).",
"Elections are won by candidates who control those four stories and in so doing inspire the electorate and channel the electorate's fears (in this case, fears about the economy trumping all else).",
"Going forward, Obama needs to find Obama's way as a leader between the excesses of the \"permanent campaign,\" in which a president remains in campaign mode throughout his presidency -- taken to its extreme under George W. Bush, who allowed his political strategist, Karl Rove, an inordinate role in crafting policies rather than just figuring out how to talk with the public about policies -- and Obama's more natural predilection to talk like a law professor.",
"What Democrats learned from this election is that if Democrats's candidate thinks like a professor but inspires like a preacher, Democrats can have Democrats's cake and eat their cake, too.",
"Obama faces enormous mountains to climb that will require enormous public support.",
"Obama will no doubt pursue the policies Obama considers best for digging our nation out of some deep ditches, both domestically and internationally.",
"But the best policies don't sell the best policies, whether the date is November 3 or January 21, and the style that led Obama to the White House -- a calm, thoughtful, steady approach to policy combined with an extraordinary capacity to inspire -- is the same style that will make Obama an extraordinary leader.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Drew Westen."
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"Drew Westen: McCain was burdened by bad economy, Bush unpopularity .",
"Democrats had technological edge for first time in decades, Drew Westen says .",
"Drew Westen says Democrats learned you can't win with position papers, statistics .",
"Democrats dealt with people's fears, mostly about the economy, Drew Westen says ."
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"LAKE LANIER, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a water supply emergency in North Georgia on Saturday as its water resources dwindled to a dangerously low level after months of drought.",
"But an Army Corps official denied there is a water crisis.",
"Perdue, who signed an executive order Saturday, asked for President Bush's help in easing regulations that require Georgia to send water downstream to Alabama and Florida.",
"He also asked President Bush to declare 85 counties as federal disaster areas.",
"Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue blasted what Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue called the \"silly rules\" governing the water supplies, noting that even if Georgia got replenishing rains, Georgia could not by law conserve those, but must release 3.2 billion gallons a day downstream.",
"\"The actions of the Corps of Engineers and Fish and Wildlife Service are not only irresponsible, I believe The actions of the Corps of Engineers and Fish and Wildlife Service're downright dangerous and Georgia cannot stand for this negligence,\" Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said.",
"Army Corps, however, presented a different assessment.",
"If there were nine months without rain, water supplies still would be adequate, said Maj. Daren Payne, Army Corps's deputy commander for the Mobile, Alabama, District.",
"Army Corps sent a letter to Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue assessing the situation and pointing out that Army Corps are \"not going to run out [of water] any time soon,\" Payne said.",
"Army Corps -- under an agreement reached in the 1980s with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state and downstream users -- releases 5,000 feet of water per second from the dam between Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee River.",
"The figure was based on a Florida hydroelectric power plant's needs, as well as concern for endangered species in the river, including mussels and sturgeon.",
"On Friday, Georgia filed a motion seeking to require Army Corps to restrict water flows from the lake and other north Georgia reservoirs.",
"Watch Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue blast a \"disaster of federal bureaucracy\" » .",
"Army Corps said Army Corps needs 120 days to review its water policies, according to Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.",
"The Bush administration has been in contact with the Georgia congressional delegation on the matter, the White House said Saturday afternoon .",
"\"We have already begun drafting interim rules to ... address the endangered species requirements, and Army Corps has started the process of revising the operations manual for the river basin,\" said the White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.",
"Months of drought .",
"Rainfall in north Georgia, which includes the Atlanta metropolitan area, is far below normal for this time of year.",
"That was evident as Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue addressed reporters on packed red clay on the shore of Lake Lanier -- the main water source for the Atlanta area's 5 million residents.",
"Normally, he'd be standing in water, but levels have dropped to historically low levels.",
"The drought is hurting businesses and scaring away tourists.",
"Efforts are under way to try to reduce the flow from Lake Lanier by looking into requirements for endangered species and demands downstream for power plants and industries, Payne said.",
"A new biological review of endangered species needs will end in November and will be examined by officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to see if water requirements can be reduced, Payne added.",
"\"Army Corps is not opposed to reducing the flow, if Army Corps can do it legally,\" Payne said.",
"Georgia, Alabama and Florida have been wrangling over how to allocate water from the Chattahoochee watershed for years as metro Atlanta's population has doubled since 1980.",
"\"No one is sacrificing, no one is sharing the pain like the people in north Georgia are,\" Perdue said, noting there are no water restrictions in Florida or southern Alabama.",
"Georgia has imposed a mandatory ban on outdoor water use by homeowners in the region, but Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle warned this is a situation \"we cannot conserve our way out of.\"",
"Meanwhile, individual counties are monitoring illegal water use.",
"In Douglas County, violators will have violators's water supply turned off and may have to pay up to $1,000 to get their water supply turned back on.",
"Cobb County, just north of Atlanta, is doling out fines of up to $500 for repeat offenders.",
"E",
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"CNN's Rusty Dornin and Tristan Smith contributed to this report."
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"Army Corps official denies there is a Lake Lanier water crisis .",
"Army Corps releases millions of gallons daily from Lake Lanier .",
"Georgia will seek injunction to stop water releases from reservoir ."
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"(CNN) --",
"EU will launch EU's first naval operation Tuesday, protecting vessels from pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia, EU policy chief Javier Solana announced Monday.",
"A French army helicopter taking off from French frigate Nivose, on patrol in the Gulf of Aden.",
"EU foreign ministers approved the mission during EU foreign ministers's regular meeting in Brussels on Monday.",
"EU policy chief Javier Solana said its first naval operation is \"very important\" because EU vessels will be operating \"in a place in the world that everybody's looking at because of the new problems related to piracy.\"",
"\"It's very important that we have taken that decision to launch it tomorrow,\" he added.",
"The EU naval force will take over the role of escorting United Nations World Food Program vessels carrying food and relief supplies to war-torn Somalia, an EU news release said.",
"Its mandate, which is spelled out in several U.N. Security Council resolutions, also will include \"the protection of vulnerable vessels cruising off Somalia's coast, and the deterrence, prevention and repression of acts of piracy and armed robbery off Somalia's coast,\" an EU news release stated.",
"The deployment follows a decision by the European Council in September that established a coordination cell that supported surveillance and protection operations by several member states off Somalia's coast.",
"Piracy has become increasingly common in that area this year, particularly in the Gulf of Aden.",
"So far, pirates have attacked almost 100 vessels off Somalia's coast and successfully hijacked nearly 40, according to the International Maritime Bureau.",
"Those hijacked vessels include an enormous oil tanker, a chemical tanker, and a ship laden with Soviet-era arms, including tanks.",
"pirates normally hold the ships for ransom.",
"pirates have extended pirates's reach beyond Somalia's coastline.",
"On Saturday, a Dutch-operated container ship outran pirates off the coast of Tanzania, an IMB official told CNN.",
"A luxury cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 passengers and crew successfully outran pirates off the coast of Yemen last weekend.",
"A multinational fleet -- including vessels from the United States, NATO member states, Russia and India -- has been patrolling the Indian Ocean waters near the Gulf of Aden, which connects the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.",
"Around 20,000 oil tankers, freighters and merchant vessels pass along the crucial shipping route each year.",
"In a recent interview provided to CNN, a pirate leader claimed attacks on shipping would continue so long as life in Somalia remained desperate.",
"\"pirates are living between life and death,\" said the pirate leader, identified by only one name, Boyah.",
"\"Who can stop pirates?",
"Americans and British all put together cannot do anything.\""
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"After spending nearly 28 years in an irreversible coma, heiress and socialite Martha \"Sunny\" von Bulow died Saturday in a NEW YORK nursing home, according to a family statement.",
"Sunny von Bulow was 76.",
"Sunny von Bulow is pictured during Sunny von Bulow's 1957 wedding to Prince Alfred von Auersperg.",
"Sunny von Bulow was subject of one of the nation's most sensational criminal cases during the 1980s.",
"Sunny von Bulow's husband, Claus, was accused of trying to kill Sunny von Bulow with an overdose of insulin, which prosecutors alleged sent Sunny von Bulow into the coma.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow was convicted of making two attempts on Sunny von Bulow's life, but the conviction was overturned on appeal.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow was acquitted in a second trial.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow's retrial in 1985 received national attention.",
"\"We were blessed to have an extraordinarily loving and caring mother,\" said the statement from Sunny von Bulow's three children -- Annie Laurie \"Ala\" Isham, Alexander von Auersperg and Cosima Pavoncelli -- released by a spokeswoman.",
"\"Sunny von Bulow was especially devoted to Sunny von Bulow's many friends and family members.\"",
"Sunny von Bulow was born Martha Sharp Crawford into a wealthy family.",
"Sunny von Bulow inherited a fortune conservatively estimated at $75 million, according to an article on the von Bulow case posted on truTV.com's Crime Library Web site.",
"In Sunny von Bulow's early years, Sunny von Bulow drew comparisons to actress Grace Kelly.",
"Sunny von Bulow became known as Princess von Auersperg with Sunny von Bulow's first marriage, to Prince Alfred von Auersperg of Austria.",
"That marriage produced two children: Alexander and Annie Laurie.",
"The von Bulows married in 1966 and had a daughter, Cosima.",
"On the morning of December 22, 1980, family members found Sunny von Bulow unconscious in the bathroom of the family's posh Newport, Rhode Island, home.",
"Sunny von Bulow never regained consciousness.",
"Sunny von Bulow had been hospitalized a year earlier after lapsing into a coma but recovered, according to truTV.com's Crime Library Web site.",
"Doctors had diagnosed Sunny von Bulow with hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.",
"Prosecutors accused Husband Claus von Bulow of twice attempting to kill Husband Claus von Bulow's wife by injecting Sunny von Bulow with insulin.",
"The case also led to a major motion picture, \"Reversal of Fortune.\"",
"Actor Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for Actor Jeremy Irons's portrayal of Husband Claus von Bulow.",
"Famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, who won Husband Claus von Bulow a new trial on appeal after Husband Claus von Bulow's conviction, said in a statement Saturday that Sunny von Bulow's death is \"a sad ending to a sad tragedy that some members of Sunny von Bulow's family tried to turn into a crime.",
"We proved overwhelming[ly] that there was no crime and that a coma was self-induced.",
"We saved Husband Claus von Bulow's life, but could not save hers.\"",
"Husband Claus von Bulow's defense team maintained that Sunny von Bulow's alcohol use, among other factors, caused Sunny von Bulow coma.",
"Dershowitz said Dershowitz had spoken with Claus von Bulow, who now lives in London, England.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow was saddened by Husband Claus von Bulow's former wife's passing, Dershowitz said.",
"The family statement said Martha von Bulow is survived by her children, their spouses and nine grandchildren.",
"Alexander von Auersperg and Ala von Auersperg Isham, who had sided with prosecutors against Claus von Bulow, filed a civil suit against their stepfather after Husband Claus von Bulow's acquittal.",
"The case was settled out of court in 1987, according to a 2007 article in the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island.",
"Husband Claus von Bulow had agreed to waive Husband Claus von Bulow's claim to Husband Claus von Bulow's wife's money and to a divorce in exchange for a civil suit being dropped.",
"The von Bulows' daughter, Cosima, sided with her father.",
"Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne, who covered the von Bulow case, told the New York Daily News in 2007 that Sunny von Bulow was moved from Columbia Presbyterian hospital to a private nursing home in 1998.",
"Watch Dunne recall case » .",
"Ala von Auersperg Isham served for a time as president of the Sunny von Bulow Coma and Head Trauma Research Foundation, according to the Providence Journal.",
"An offshoot of that organization, the Brain Trauma Foundation, still operates in NEW YORK, the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island said.",
"The family statement notes that Martha von Bulow actively supported the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Opera and the J.P. Morgan Library in NEW YORK and the Preservation Society of Newport, Rhode Island.",
"A private memorial service will be held for family and friends in NEW YORK in the coming days, The family statement said Saturday, along with a private burial.",
"CNN's Julian Cummings contributed to this report."
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"Conviction overturned on appeal; Husband Claus von Bulow was acquitted in second trial .",
"Claus von Bulow, living in England, is saddened by Sunny von Bulow's death, lawyer says .",
"Sunny von Bulow is survived by three children and nine grandchildren ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A Washington woman who hid a sedated monkey under her blouse on a flight from Thailand was convicted of violating wildlife laws for smuggling the monkey into the United States, prosecutors said Tuesday.",
"Authorities rescued a sedated monkey from Gypsy Lawson's fake womb.",
"Gypsy Lawson, 28, and Gypsy Lawson's mother, Fran Ogren, 56, were convicted of smuggling and conspiracy to smuggle a sedated monkey in violation of the Endangered Species Act and other federal laws.",
"Gypsy Lawson hid a sedated monkey under a loose-fitting blouse on a flight from Bangkok, Thailand, to Los Angeles, California, International Airport, pretending Gypsy Lawson was pregnant, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of Washington said.",
"Permits are required to possess rhesus monkeys and many other species of animals.",
"Such permits are granted for research, enhancement and conservation purposes.",
"Additionally, transporting such species into the United States requires a customs declaration.",
"Gypsy Lawson and Ogren had neither.",
"\"Lawson and Ogren purposely undertook a course of action which could well have endangered many citizens, as well as the life of a sedated monkey in question,\" said U.S. Attorney James McDevitt.",
"Rhesus monkeys are known to carry viruses and parasites that can be transmitted to humans, said Paul Chang, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent.",
"\"a sedated monkey tested negative,\" Paul Chang, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent said.",
"Paul Chang, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent said a sedated monkey has been placed with a rescue center for abandoned primates, \"but a sedated monkey could have been living out a sedated monkey's life with a sedated monkey's family in a sedated monkey's native habitat.\"",
"Authorities found journals and handwritten notes describing the mother and daughter's attempts to find a monkey small enough to smuggle back to the United States.",
"The journal also described the pair's \"acquisition of a small monkey and Lawson and Ogren's experimenting with different medicines to sedate the monkey for Lawson and Ogren's journey home,\" U.S. Attorney James McDevitt's office said.",
"Authorities also found photographs of Gypsy Lawson at two airports and on an airplane in which Gypsy Lawson is wearing loose-fitting clothing and appears to be pregnant.",
"\"The journal confirms that Gypsy Lawson and Gypsy Lawson's mother smuggled a sedated monkey into the United States by hiding a sedated monkey under Gypsy Lawson's shirt, pretending Gypsy Lawson was pregnant in order to get past authorities,\" the statement from McDevitt's office said.",
"Co-defendant James Edward Pratt, 34, already has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of possession and transportation of prohibited wildlife.",
"Co-defendant James Edward Pratt, 34 will be sentenced in January.",
"Sentencing for Gypsy Lawson and Ogren is scheduled for March 3, 2009.",
"The smuggling conviction carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and up to three years of court supervision after release.",
"The conspiracy charge carries a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and up to three years of court supervision after release.",
"Flight itineraries show the pair flew from Spokane, Washington, to Bangkok on November 4-5, 2007, with stops in Seattle, Washington, and Inchon, South Korea.",
"They returned on a direct flight from Bangkok to Los Angeles, California, on November 28, 2007."
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"Smuggling conviction carries maximum 20-year sentence ."
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"Two airmen were found dead in Pacific Ocean and rescuers were trying to find four others after a U.S. Air Force B-52 crashed off the island of Guam on Monday, the Air Force said.",
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"A U.S. Air Force B-52 was scheduled to fly over crowds celebrating Liberation Day, which commemorates the U.S. capture of the island of Guam from Japan in 1944, the Air Force said.",
"A U.S. Air Force B-52 was based at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana but was at the island of Guam's Andersen Air Force Base as part of a four-month rotation, said Capt. Joel Stark, an Andersen Air Force Base spokesman.",
"No weapons or munitions were aboard the aircraft and information on what led to the crash wasn't available, the Air Force said.",
"In February, a B-2 stealth bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base.",
"Two crew members ejected and were in good condition afterward."
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"A U.S. Air Force B-52 with six airmen crashed off the island of Guam .",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"A new space race is officially under way, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating.",
"Lift to space:",
"This is a NASA interpretation of what a space elevator may look like.",
"The project is a \"space elevator,\" and some experts now believe that the concept is well within the bounds of possibility -- maybe even within our lifetimes.",
"A conference discussing developments in space elevator concepts is being held in Japan in November, and hundreds of engineers and scientists from Asia, Europe and the Americas are working to design the only lift that will take you directly to the one hundred-thousandth floor.",
"Despite these developments, you could be excused for thinking it all sounds a little far-fetched.",
"Indeed, if successfully built, the space elevator would be an unprecedented feat of human engineering.",
"A cable anchored to the Earth's surface, reaching tens of thousands of kilometers into space, balanced with a counterweight attached at the other end is the basic design for the space elevator.",
"It is thought that inertia -- the physics theory stating that matter retains its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force -- will cause the cable to stay stretched taut, allowing the space elevator to sit in geostationary orbit.",
"the cable would extend into the sky, eventually reaching a satellite docking station orbiting in space.",
"Engineers hope the space elevator will transport people and objects into space, and there have even been suggestions that the space elevator could be used to dispose of nuclear waste.",
"Another proposed idea is to use the space elevator to place solar panels in space to provide power for homes on the Earth.",
"If it sounds like the stuff of fiction, maybe that's because it once was.",
"In 1979, Arthur C. Clarke's novel \"The Fountains of Paradise\" brought the idea of a space elevator to a mass audience.",
"Charles Sheffield's \"The Web Between the Worlds\" also featured the building of a space elevator.",
"But, jump out of the storybooks and fast-forward nearly three decades, and Japanese scientists at the Japan Space Elevator Association are working seriously on the space-elevator project.",
"Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida said Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida's organization was working with U.S.-based Spaceward Foundation and a European organization based in Luxembourg to develop an elevator design.",
"The Liftport Group in the U.S. is also working on developing a design, and in total it's believed that more than 300 scientists and engineers are engaged in such work around the globe.",
"NASA is holding a $4 million Space Elevator Challenge to encourage designs for a successful space elevator.",
"Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida said the technology driving the race to build the space elevator is the quickly developing material carbon nanotube.",
"It is lightweight and has a tensile strength 180 times stronger than that of a steel cable.",
"Currently, it is the only material with the potential to be strong enough to use to manufacture elevator cable, according to Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida.",
"\"At present we have a tether which is made of carbon nanotube, and has one-third or one-quarter of the strength required to make a space elevator.",
"We expect that we will have strong enough cable in the 2020s or 2030s,\" Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida said.",
"Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida said the most likely method of powering the space elevator would be through the carbon nanotube cable.",
"So, what are the major logistical issues keeping the space elevator from being anything more than a dream at present?",
"Hoffman said that designing the carbon nanotube appeared to be the biggest obstacle.",
"\"We are now on the verge of having material that has the strength to span the 30,000 km ... but we don't have the ability to make long cable out of the carbon nanotubes at the moment.\"",
"Hoffman said.",
"\"Although I'm confident that within a reasonable amount of time we will be able to do this.\"",
"Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida said that one of the biggest challenges will be acquiring funding to move the projects forward.",
"At present, there is no financial backing for the space elevator project, and all of the Japanese group's 100-plus members maintain other jobs to earn a living.",
"\"Because we don't have a material which has enough strength to construct the space elevator yet, it is difficult to change people's mind so people believe that it can be real,\" Hoffman said.",
"Hoffman feels that international dialogue needs to be encouaraged on the issue.",
"Hoffman said a number of legal considerations also would have to be taken into account.",
"\"This is not something one nation or one company can do.",
"There needs to be a worldwide approach,\" Hoffman said.",
"Other difficulties for space-elevator projects include how to build the base for the space elevator, how to design it and where to set up the operation.",
"Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida said some possible locations for an elevator include the South China Sea, western Australia and the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean.",
"Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida said all of those locations usually avoided typhoons, which could pose a threat to the safety of an elevator.",
"\"As the base of space elevator will be located on geosynchronous orbit, [the] space elevator ground station should be located near the equator,\" Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida said.",
"Although the Japanese association has set a time frame of the 2030s to get a space elevator under construction -- and developments are moving quickly -- Hoffman acknowledges that it could be a little further away than that.",
"\"I don't know if it's going to be in our lifetime or if it's 100 or 200 years away, but it's near enough that we can contemplate how it will work.\"",
"Building a space elevator is a matter of when, not if, said Hoffman, who believes that it will herald a major new period in human history.",
"\"It will be revolutionary for human technology, and not just for space travel.",
"That's why so many people are pursuing it,\" Hoffman said.",
"\"This is what it will take to turn humans into a space-bearing species.\""
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"(CNN Student News) --",
"Record the CNN Special Investigations Unit Classroom Edition: Busted! Mortgage Meltdown when it airs commercial-free on Monday, October 6, 2008, from approximately 4:10-- 5:00 a.m. ET on CNN.",
"(A short feature begins at 4:00 a.m. and precedes the program.)",
"Program Overview .",
"Home loans gone bad are wrecking the U.S. economy.",
"CNN teams up with Fortune Magazine's Andy Serwer to investigate how the housing boom went bust.",
"The fallout begins on Wall Street, where billions of dollars in American mortgages were bought, bundled and sold around the world.",
"CNN takes the high-stakes mortgage game to Delmonico's, a Wall Street institution since 1837, where the likes of J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie once wheeled and dealed.",
"Fortune Magazine's Andy Serwer plays dealer and invites a few experts to face off on the mortgage crisis.",
"Guest players include New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman, CNN's Personal Finance Editor Gerri Willis, securities guru Janet Tavakoli, investment strategist Peter Dunay and mortgage broker Jon Shibley.",
"Grade Levels: 11-12, College .",
"Subject Areas: Business, Economics, Finance, Social Studies, Life Skills .",
"Objectives: .",
"The CNN Special Investigations Unit Classroom Edition: Busted! Mortgage Meltdown and its corresponding discussion questions and activity challenge students to: .",
"Curriculum Connections .",
"Economics America National Standards .",
"Standard 10 : Role of Economic Institutions .",
"Students will understand that: Institutions evolve in market economies to help individuals and groups accomplish individuals and groups's goals.",
"Banks, labor unions, corporations, legal systems, and not-for-profit organizations are examples of important institutions.",
"A different kind of institution, clearly defined and enforced property rights, is essential to a market economy.",
"Standard 16 : Role of Government .",
"Students will understand that: There is an economic role for government in a market economy whenever the benefits of a government policy outweigh a government policy's costs.",
"Governments often provide for national defense, address environmental concerns, define and protect property rights, and attempt to make markets more competitive.",
"Most government policies also redistribute income.",
"The Economics America National Standards (http://www.ncee.net/ea/standards/) are published by the National Council on Economic Education (http://www.ncee.net/).",
"Social Studies .",
"Standard V. Individuals, Groups and Institutions:",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions.",
"Standard VI. Power, Authority, and Governance:",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance.",
"The Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands/) are published by the National Council for Social Studies (http://ncss.org/).",
"Discussion Questions .",
"Suggested Activity .",
"Point out to students that one of the best ways for students to prepare for homeownership is to arm students with knowledge, and that the purpose of this activity is to help students obtain this information.",
"Group students and instruct each group to prepare a PowerPoint presentation on the top ten things that first-time homebuyers should know before first-time homebuyers shop for a mortgage.",
"Groups may want to include information that addresses these points: .",
"Have groups deliver groups's presentations to the class.",
"If possible, invite a realtor or mortgage broker to attend the presentations and discuss the guidelines that are used to determine whether or not a homebuyer can afford a home.",
"Extension .",
"Following the presentations, direct students to print and online resources to identify homes that are for sale in students's community, as well as the current interest rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage, a 15-year fixed mortgage and a 5/1 ARM.",
"Next, have each student select a house and use an online amortization schedule calculator to determine what the monthly payment (principle + interest) would be for each type of loan, assuming that the loan was for 80% of the purchase price of the home.",
"Instruct students to identify the potential benefits and drawbacks of each type of loan, and to select the loan type that students feel would be the best choice for the homebuyer.",
"Then, have each student determine the salary that each student or she thinks a person would need to earn to afford the monthly mortgage payments.",
"After students share students's research, ask: . Keywords . mortgage, subprime, foreclosure, economy, interest rates, credit risk, housing prices, homeowner, real estate, mortgage broker, reverse redlining, Wall Street, Federal Reserve, securities, regulation, predatory lending, housing bubble, capitalism, recession, depression ."
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"Identify the economic and social ripple effects of the current mortgage crisis in the U.S. .",
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"Editor's Note: Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.",
"Eichengreen is the author of \"Golden Fetters: the Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939.\"",
"Eichengreen says strong action should be taken to stop the financial crisis from getting worse.",
"BERKELEY, California (CNN)",
"Every time the economy and stock market turn down, financial historians get predictable calls from reporters.",
"Could this be the start of another Great Depression?",
"Could \"it\" possibly happen again?",
"My stock answer has always been no.",
"Depression resulted from a series of economic and financial shocks -- the end of a housing bubble in 1926 and the end of a high-tech bubble in 1929 -- but also from truly breathtaking neglect and incompetence on the part of policymakers.",
"It couldn't happen again precisely because policymakers know this history.",
"Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is a student of Depression.",
"Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson remembers the mistakes of Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover's treasury secretary.",
"We can be confident, I always answered, that there will not be another Great Depression because policymakers have read financial histories like mine.",
"At least that was my line until recently.",
"Now I have stopped taking reporters' calls.",
"The first thing that made Depression great, of course, was the Fed's failure to act.",
"the Fed basically stood by as the banking system and the economy collapsed around the Fed.",
"This time, in contrast, the Fed can hardly be criticized for inaction.",
"Not only has the Fed cut rates, but the Fed has rolled out one new unprecedented initiative after another.",
"Unfortunately, the Fed has reacted more than acted.",
"First, the Fed provided funds to the commercial banks.",
"Then, the Fed targeted broker-dealers.",
"Now, the Fed is desperately propping up the commercial paper market.",
"All the while however, the problem has been infecting new parts of the financial system.",
"One thing that restrained the Fed in the 1930s was the fear that rate cuts might cause capital to flee to other countries and the dollar to crash.",
"The danger was that the same liquidity that the Fed poured in through the top of the bucket might just leak back out through these holes in the bottom.",
"There was a solution: coordinated rate cuts here and in Europe.",
"Unfortunately, central bankers couldn't agree on what was needed.",
"The result was further instability.",
"That central banks have learned this lesson of history and now see the need for coordinated action is at least one ground for hope.",
"The problem is that central banks have already used central banks's bullets.",
"iReport.com:",
"What lessons have your family passed down from the Great Depression?",
"U.S. Treasury bill rates have essentially fallen to zero, and the Fed's policy interest rates are only slightly above that level.",
"Central banks are out of ammunition.",
"This is no longer a problem Central banks can solve by Central banks.",
"What is needed now is U.S. Treasury action to address what has morphed into a global banking crisis.",
"Between 1930 and 1933, not just the U.S. but also Europe and Latin America experienced rolling banking crises.",
"When Austria took desperate measures to prop up Austria's banking system, Austria's banking crisis only shifted to Germany.",
"When Germany did the same, its banking crisis spread to the United States.",
"This was beggar-thy-neighbor policy at its worst.",
"We have seen some disturbing evidence of the same in recent weeks, as when Ireland unilaterally guaranteed all bank deposits and thereby sucked funds out of the British banking system.",
"G7 leaders, when G7 leaders meet in Washington at the end of this week, need to explain exactly how G7 leaders will address this aspect of the problem.",
"G7 leaders need to commit money to recapitalizing G7 leaders's banking systems -- now, and not next week.",
"The U.K., which has just announced a $50 billion plan for bank recapitalization, has shown how this can be done in a matter of days.",
"But a coordinated initiative will require the United States to put up a considerably larger sum.",
"My recommendation would be to abandon the idea of reverse auctions for toxic assets and instead use the $700 billion of the recently passed rescue plan for bank recapitalization.",
"Although Depression started in 1929, it took until 1933 for American leaders to grasp this nettle and recapitalize the banks.",
"We can't afford to wait for years this time around.",
"A final thing that made Depression such a catastrophe was that some of the worst shocks occurred right before the 1932 presidential election.",
"There then followed an extended interregnum between the election and inauguration of the new president when no one was in charge.",
"The outgoing president, Hoover, asked The outgoing president, Hoover's successor designate, Franklin Roosevelt, to cooperate with The outgoing president, Hoover on joint statements and policies, but FDR refused to do so.",
"Meanwhile, the banking crisis deepened.",
"Corporations failed.",
"The economy was allowed to spiral downward.",
"It was this disaster that led us to amend the constitution to shorten the time between presidential election and inauguration from 4 to 2½ months.",
"The implication is clear.",
"The two presidential candidates should be assembling The two presidential candidates's financial SWAT teams now.",
"Paulson should promise that they will be invited into Paulson's office on November 5.",
"This problem cannot wait until Inauguration Day.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer."
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"Today's leaders know the lessons of Depression, Eichengreen says .",
"Still, events are rapidly overtaking the resources of the central banks, Eichengreen says .",
"Eichengreen: The problem can't wait until Inauguration Day to be solved ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- China has canceled or postponed several military exchanges with the U.S. in reaction to last week's announcement that the U.S. is selling weapons to Taiwan, a the State Department spokesman said Monday.",
"Apache attack helicopters are part of the $6.4 billion weapons deal between the U.S. and Taiwan.",
"Officials announced last week an intention to sell $6.4 billion in arms to Taiwan, though U.S. still needs to be approved by Congress.",
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"U.S. comes at a time when the U.S. needs China in negotiations over Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programs.",
"\"The Chinese reaction is unfortunate and results in missed opportunities,\" Upton said.",
"\"We feel that the global security environment calls for U.S. and [Chinese] officials to maintain close relations to address common security challenges.\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"On Tuesday, America elected America's first black president, Obama.",
"But what does Obama's sweeping victory mean for America?",
"Bill Maher is the host of \"Real Time with Bill Maher,\" which airs on Friday nights on HBO.",
"Bill Maher has the answer to that, and other questions -- including why Bill Maher wants President George W. Bush to stay at home for the next 76 days.",
"Maher, the host of HBO's \"Real Time with Bill Maher\" and the star of the current film \"Religulous,\" was a guest on Wednesday's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"Bill Maher talked with CNN's King about Sarah Palin's future, President George W. Bush's past and the impact of GOP adviser Karl Rove.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview.",
"Larry King:",
"Were you ever -- I don't want to use the word scared -- were you ever worried last night?",
"Bill Maher:",
"Why?",
"What happened?",
"(LAUGHTER)",
"I think, you know, we all had this paranoid feeling like we're Charlie Brown and they're going to snatch the football away again.",
"So, you know, until about when President George W. Bush won Pennsylvania, that's when it started to look pretty good for the people who were for President George W. Bush.",
"Larry King:",
"What does this election say to you, Bill?",
"Bill Maher:",
"I think that the lesson of this election is that the old America that Sarah Palin's was saying was the real America, the small town, \"Joe the Plumber,\" white America, that's still out there.",
"But the other America, the more diverse, liberal America, has edged it out.",
"And maybe that's the real America now.",
"Watch King and Maher talk about the election » .",
"Larry King:",
"Is Karl Rovism dead?",
"Bill Maher: Never.",
"Negative campaigning, mudslinging, tearing people down -- that will always be in vogue.",
"McCain did make a classy speech last night.",
"But, you know, they all make a classy speech when they lose.",
"What else can you do?",
"And it does ring a little less true when only a day before you're calling the guy a socialist, a communist, a terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American.",
"Oh, we lost?",
"McCain's a great guy.",
"Forget what I said yesterday.",
"Let's all get behind the guy I just said was a communist.",
"Please.",
"King:",
"Did the McCain campaign -- I know you admired McCain in the past -- did it disappoint you?",
"Maher: Terribly.",
"I think it even disappointed the people who were voting for McCain.",
"I sensed something in conservatives reacting to the election yesterday.",
"Even the ones who voted for McCain, Even the ones who voted for McCain sort of were relieved.",
"I sensed that.",
"It was like, yes, I guess I kind of had to pull the lever for McCain, but secretly a part of me knew that this country needed a breath of fresh air, needed a new kind of president, a new kind of politics, a new face, a smart guy, a flexible guy, a supple leader.",
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"If they're not very bright, Sarah Palin's is.",
"I mean, that's going to be the gut check for the Republicans ... what direction are the Republicans going to go in now?",
"Now, I think politicians are usually led by the idea that politicians want to win elections.",
"And Sarah Palin's was a bit of an Alaskan albatross around McCain's neck -- not that McCain would have won anyway.",
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"President George W. Bush's got 76 days left to pull off one more giant screw-up and I don't think it's beyond President George W. Bush.",
"I mean, President George W. Bush does have a track record, Larry.",
"You know, I keep saying it, but I don't think President George W. Bush will be happy until President George W. Bush leaves the White House smoldering behind President George W. Bush as President George W. Bush walks back to Texas.",
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"Any suggestions?",
"Bill Maher: No.",
"It's very difficult.",
"We have been spoiled, first with Bill Clinton and then President George W. Bush.",
"And here's a president now who -- President George W. Bush's not stupid.",
"President George W. Bush's not angry.",
"President George W. Bush's not a phony.",
"President George W. Bush's not fat.",
"President George W. Bush's not cheating on President George W. Bush's wife.",
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"President George W. Bush's not a black person.",
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"I think what people did not understand about Sarah Palin's was that Sarah Palin's campaigned for that job.",
"Sarah Palin's wanted that job.",
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"But, you know, God works mysterious ways, as we know.",
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"Sarah Palin's's only 44 years old.",
"I mean Sarah Palin's could be on the public stage for the next 30 years."
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"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.",
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"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.",
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"An undated photo of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, whose death has sparked riots across Greece.",
"\"Under no circumstances will Government accept what is occurring,\" said Greek Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos.",
"\"We will do what is necessary.\"",
"It was unclear what would be necessary to placate demonstrators.",
"\"We've just lost count of how many demonstrations are taking place now,\" a police spokesman in Athens told CNN.",
"Police said 34 civilians and 16 police officers were injured Monday in rioting that spread into new municipalities, including Trikala, Larissam and Veria.",
"Riots broke out Saturday in Thessaloniki and Athens, where police killed the teen.",
"Watch the latest report on the rioting » .",
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"\"Rage is what I feel for what has happened, rage, and that this cop who did it must see what it is to kill a kid and to destroy a life,\" a student in Athens told reporters Monday.",
"Watch protesters clash with police » .",
"In a nationally televised address broadcast on state television, Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis condemned the violence and promised to punish those responsible for Saturday's shooting.",
"Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis also announced a decision to drop plans to reimburse business owners affected by the rioting.",
"The police officer who fired the fatal shot has been charged with \"manslaughter with intent\" and suspended from duty, police said, adding that a second police officer was arrested Saturday on criminal accessory charges.",
"Government officials have condemned Saturday's shooting.",
"\"An investigation is under way and those found responsible will be punished,\" said Pavlopoulos.",
"\"Measures will also be taken to avoid such incidents again in the future.\"",
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"The U.S. and British embassies issued warnings to employees and tourists on Sunday, instructing them to avoid downtown Athens and other major cities until rioting subsides.",
"Tourists in central Athens hotels were advised by hotel staff not to leave Tourists in central Athens hotels's rooms as police fanned out across the city.",
"\"There are lots of burning bins and debris in the street and a huge amount of tear gas in the air, which we got choked with on the way back to our hotel,\" according to Joel Brown, a CNN senior press officer visiting Athens on Sunday.",
"A police statement about the teenage boy's death said the incident started when six young protesters pelted a police patrol car with stones.",
"The teen was shot as he tried to throw a petrol bomb at the officers, police said.",
"Other angry teens converged on the site almost immediately.",
"Fighting between youths and police erupted elsewhere, including Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city.",
"Hundreds of young people took to the streets of the sprawling port city, finally barricading Hundreds of young people behind the gates of a state university.",
"Authorities have been barred from entering university grounds since tanks crushed a 1973 student uprising protesting the ruling military junta.",
"It was not clear what authorities would do about the demonstrators still holed up at a state university.",
"No deaths have been reported since Saturday.",
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"Federal immigration agents executed a criminal search warrant at 9 a.m. at the Columbia Farms poultry processing plant, capping a 10-month investigation into the plant's employment practices, said Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.",
"About 58 of those arrested were allowed to return to their homes to take care of their children or for other humanitarian reasons, Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.",
"The others were to be held in an ICE detention facility in the area.",
"\"They are all illegals,\" Gonzalez said.",
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"a 10-month investigation into the plant's employment practices has already resulted in criminal charges being filed against 11 supervisors and a human resources manager, Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.",
"Maria Juan, 22, was one of about 50 relatives and friends of workers who huddled at the edge of Greenville, South Carolina after Greenville, South Carolina, some weeping and others talking frantically on cell phones, The Associated Press reported.",
"Maria Juan was seeking information about Maria Juan's 68-year-old grandmother, a legal immigrant from Guatemala who went to work without identification papers but was later released, the AP reported.",
"\"Families are going to be broken apart,\" Maria Juan told the AP.",
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"No one from Columbia Farms or from Columbia Farms's parent company, House of Raeford Farms in Raeford, North Carolina, responded immediately to telephone messages.",
"The Charlotte Observer newspaper first reported in February that plant workers were in the country illegally and company managers knew it, the AP reported.",
"Greenville, South Carolina \"is a drop in the bucket\" that is unlikely to persuade anyone in the United States illegally to go home, said Dan Kowalski, an Austin, Texas-based lawyer specializing in immigration law.",
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"Blake Mycoskie is the founder and \"chief shoe giver\" of TOMS Shoes, a company that matches every pair of shoes it sells with a free pair to an impoverished child.",
"Blake Mycoskie started TOMS Shoes in 2006.",
"The company is committed to giving free shoes to poor children around the world.",
"CNN caught up with the 32-year-old entrepreneur to talk about the inspiration behind Blake Mycoskie's revolutionary business and what Blake Mycoskie has planned next.",
"CNN: Tell CNN about the TOMS model.",
"Blake Mycoskie:",
"The TOMS initiative is very simple: For every pair of shoes The company sell, The company give a pair away.",
"When The company know that say, The company're going to sell 10,000 pairs this spring, The company make another 10,000 to be given away.",
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"I started thinking, what if I started a business where every time I sold a pair of shoes, I would guarantee that customer that I would give another pair to someone who does not have shoes?",
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"That was when I was really like, 'Wow, The company is not just some small little shoe philanthropy that I have created.' The company could be a real business and The company could be a real player in the fashion industry and The company could really set a tone for how fashion companies could give back.",
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"Blake Mycoskie: One thing that is most unique about The company and I think that I'm most proud of is that every single pair [of shoes] is hand placed onto a child's foot.",
"CNN:",
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"A big part of The company's business that has changed over the past year is that now The company also have a travel organization that takes volunteers all over the world on these trips and [they] get the experience of giving away the shoes.",
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"One of the things The company have always done with all of The company's factories is I personally visit all of our factories and The company actually show The company's documentary film about what The company do.",
"When you connect with the factory like that, everything goes much better.",
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"You've called yourself a serial entrepreneur.",
"Do you have another business in the pipeline?",
"Blake Mycoskie:",
"I can honestly say that The company is my future.",
"I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.",
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"What's next for The company?",
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"The future of The company is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the The company model from shoes into other products as well.",
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"Jan said the decision to suspend travel came after local leaders met with representatives of some of the shipping firms.",
"Jan said trucks will be allowed through the pass once the security situation improves, but did not specify a date.",
"Dozens of trucks idled by the side of roads Sunday in Khyber Agency and in Peshawar waiting for the green light.",
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"The Louisiana man who Saturday became the first Vietnamese-American elected to the U.S. House says Anh \"Joseph\" Cao hopes Anh \"Joseph\" Cao's win will push more young people to become politically active.",
"Anh \"Joseph\" Cao says Anh \"Joseph\" Cao's win shows that \"really anything can happen.\"",
"\"I am very honored and at this point, somewhat speechless to be the first Vietnamese-American congressman,\" Anh \"Joseph\" Cao told CNN on Sunday.",
"\"But I also hope that many of our young people will consider being more politically active and being move involved in the community.",
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"nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson had been expected to win a 10th term despite battling scandals and a federal indictment for the past three years.",
"The contest, which drew a light turnout, was delayed until Saturday after Hurricane Gustav swept through southern Louisiana in late August.",
"Had the vote been held during the November 4 general election, nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson -- who is black -- may have benefited from the heavy African-American voter turnout for Barack Obama.",
"Anh \"Joseph\" Cao conceded that low voter turnout aided Anh \"Joseph\" Cao's victory.",
"\"We were hoping for a low turnout because it would provide us with the greater chance of winning,\" said Cao, a lawyer and community activist.",
"\"Based on the demographics of the district, a high voter turnout would have gone to our disadvantage.\"",
"Anh \"Joseph\" Cao also may have been helped by the scandal that has plagued nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson.",
"nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson, denies any wrongdoing.",
"In 2005, nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's private homes in Washington and New Orleans were raided, and FBI agents say FBI agents found $90,000 in cash stashed in one of nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's freezers.",
"Officials say the money was part of a payment in marked bills from an FBI informant in a transaction captured on videotape.",
"nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson also is accused of soliciting and receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson and nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's family in exchange for promoting himself and his family's products and services to countries in Africa.",
"Anh \"Joseph\" Cao said Anh \"Joseph\" Cao came to the United States at the age of 8 after Anh \"Joseph\" Cao's family fled Vietnam as it fell to communists.",
"\"When I [was] 9 years old, I received a letter from my father while he was in the re-education camp,\" Anh \"Joseph\" Cao said.",
"\"He told me to study hard, to work hard and to give back to your country and to your community.",
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"Anh \"Joseph\" Cao says Anh \"Joseph\" Cao hopes win will encourage young people to become politically active ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The U.S. Embassy in Beirut is asking for assistance in locating two missing American journalists who were on vacation in Lebanon and have not been heard from since they left the Lebanese capital last week.",
"Holli Chmela, 27, was last heard from when Chmela and a fellow journalist left Beirut, Lebanon, on October 1.",
"Holli Chmela, 27, and Chmela's male companion, Taylor Luck, 23, arrived in Lebanon on September 29 from Amman, Jordan, The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said.",
"They left Beirut on October 1, telling friends they were headed for the northern Lebanese cities of Byblos and Tripoli that day.",
"No one has reported any contact with them since then, The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said.",
"\"They were then to cross by land to Syria before returning to Jordan,\" The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said.",
"\"Chmela and Luck were due to report to work in Jordan on October 4.\"",
"Luck is an editor with The Jordan Times in Amman, and Chmela had been working as a freelancer for the newspaper, said Sameer Barhoum, the paper's editor.",
"After flying into Beirut last week, the two planned to travel by land to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo before returning to Jordan -- also by land -- by Saturday, Barhoum said.",
"Luck's mother called Barhoum on Sunday after not hearing from Mom's son in three days, he said.",
"Mom also said the last time Luck used Luck's credit card was October 1 in Lebanon.",
"\"We are hoping that both are safe and looking forward to see them with us soon,\" Barhoum said.",
"Abdul Wahab Zugaylat, the head of Jordan's press association, said, \"We are waiting to hear officially from The U.S. Embassy in Beirut that they did not depart the Lebanese borders.\"",
"The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said The U.S. Embassy in Beirut is working with the Lebanese Internal Security Force to investigate the whereabouts of the pair.",
"\"In addition, The U.S. Embassy in Beirut is coordinating efforts with the U.S. embassies in Amman and Damascus [Syria] as well as with the Department of State in Washington,\" The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said.",
"In Washington, the Department of State in Washington spokesman Sean McCormack said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack had no details about the missing Americans.",
"CNN's Caroline Faraj in Dubai contributed to this report."
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"California Supreme Court has cleared the way for Californians to vote in November on whether to ban same-sex marriages in California.",
"A gay couple is married in California in June.",
"Voters could void same-sex marriages in California in November.",
"California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a petition to remove ballot initiative from California's general election ballots.",
"The unanimous decision was handed down without elaboration.",
"Hundreds of marriage licenses have been issued to same-sex couples since mid-June, a month after California Supreme Court overturned California's laws against such unions.",
"However, on June 2, opponents of same-sex marriage filed for ballot initiative.",
"Such a ban would overturn California Supreme Court's May ruling.",
"Equality California, a Sacramento-based activist group, filed a petition against the initiative -- Proposition 8 -- arguing that it involves a constitutional revision that can't be adopted through a ballot vote.",
"Equality California, a Sacramento-based activist group also contended that petitions circulated to qualify the proposition for the ballot contained material that misled readers about ballot initiative's effects.",
"Jennifer Kerns, a spokeswoman for ballot initiative, called Wednesday's decision \"a huge victory.\"",
"\"Equality California, a Sacramento-based activist group believe it deals a strong blow to Equality California, a Sacramento-based activist group's opponents and sends a strong message that our opponents won't be able to keep ballot initiative away from the people of California,\" she said.",
"Calls Wednesday to Equality California, a Sacramento-based activist group were not immediately returned.",
"If ballot initiative is approved, it would be the second time same-sex marriages have been voided in California.",
"In February 2004, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom -- who is considering a run for governor -- challenged California's laws against same-sex marriage, ordering city officials to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.",
"Those unions were voided by the California Supreme Court, though the justices sidestepped the issue of whether banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, allowing legal cases to work their way through the lower courts.",
"Several gay and lesbian couples -- along with the city of San Francisco and gay-rights groups -- sued, saying Several gay and lesbian couples were victims of unlawful discrimination.",
"A lower court ruled San Francisco had acted unlawfully in issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.",
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"As Georgian troops launched a major military offensive Friday to regain control over the breakaway province of South Ossetia, the former Soviet republic's president accused Russia of bombing Georgia's territory.",
"Georgian troops fire rockets at seperatist South Ossetian troops from an unnamed location not far from Tskhinvali.",
"According to the Associated Press, Mikhail Saakashvili said in a televised statement that Russian aircraft bombed several Georgian villages and other civilian facilities.",
"Mikhail Saakashvili said there were injuries and damage to the buildings.",
"\"A full-scale aggression has been launched against Georgia,\" Mikhail Saakashvili said in a televised statement.",
"A Georgian official said seven people were hurt in the attack, AP reported.",
"Mikhail Saakashvili urged Russia to immediately stop bombing Georgian territory.",
"\"Georgia will not yield Georgia's territory or renounce Georgia's freedom,\" Mikhail Saakashvili said.",
"Meanwhile, AP reported that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, speaking in televised remarks Friday during his trip to the opening of the Beijing Olympics, blamed Georgia for launching the effort to take control over South Ossetia and warned South Ossetia would cause an unspecified retaliatory action.",
"Watch more about the increased violence in Georgia » .",
"The bombing charge came about an hour after Russia's ambassador to the United Nations brushed off a question about whether Russia would intervene militarily in a conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia's breakaway territory.",
"Violence in Georgia prompted an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council that lasted into Friday morning.",
"the United Nations Security Council failed to issue a statement on the dramatic escalation of violence in a breakaway territory of Georgia.",
"Meanwhile, Georgia's president also announced that Mikhail Saakashvili's government will be calling up reservists as fighting continued to rage in South Ossetia's capital.",
"Georgian forces launched fresh attacks into region late Thursday after a top government official said a unilateral cease-fire offer was met with artillery fire.",
"About 2,000 Georgian troops attempted to storm South Ossetia's capital overnight and were regrouping south of the city, Tskhinvali, according to Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency.",
"Georgia's ambassador to the United Nations, Irakli Alasania, said that \"Russia has become a party to the conflict.\"",
"He said Russia has supported separatists in South Ossetia, a charge Russia dismissed.",
"Around 10 a.m. Friday, Georgia said Russian military aircraft violated Georgian airspace and dropped two bombs on Kareli, a part of Georgia that is about 50 miles northwest of the capital, Tblisi, and is not in the conflict zone, said Shota Utiashvili, spokesman for the Georgian Ministry of Interior.",
"No casualties were reported, he said.",
"Georgian troops pushed into South Ossetia after separatists attacked Georgian soil, destroying one village and killing several civilians, soldiers and police officers, Alasania said.",
"Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, denied allegations that his country planned to intervene militarily.",
"In comments to the Security Council, he decried the \"blatant aggressive action of Georgia.\"",
"The latest developments follow a week of sporadic clashes between the Georgian central government and authorities in South Ossetia, which declared South Ossetia's independence from Georgia in the early 1990s after a bloody ethnic conflict between Georgians and Ossetians.",
"Alexander Lomaia, the secretary of Georgia's National Security Council, said Georgia had to act.",
"\"The objective of the operation is to protect the civilian population, to ensure the civilian population's security and then convince the separatists that there is not a military solution to this conflict,\" he said.",
"Lomaia said Georgian troops were responding proportionately to separatist mortar and artillery attacks on two villages -- attacks Lomaia said followed a Thursday evening cease-fire and call for negotiations by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.",
"\"There were up to 10 people killed, including peacekeepers and the peaceful population, and up to 23 people wounded, including four of to 23 people wounded quite badly,\" Lomaia said.",
"But Lomaia said Georgia wants a peaceful solution to the conflict and is leaving the door open to negotiations and has offered the territory \"the widest possible autonomy.\"",
"The official news agency of the South Ossetian government reported heavy shelling in the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, that left dozens of buildings ablaze.",
"Lomaia said Georgian troops have no plans to reclaim control over the territory as part of the operation launched Thursday night -- but Lomaia said how far Georgian troops advance \"is really dependent on how the situation evolves on the ground.\"",
"\"Obviously, there will be a moment when Georgian troops will be forced to respond, Georgian troops will be forced to advance in order to prevent such bombardment,\" Lomaia said.",
"\"But at the time being, there is no such aim of the operation.\"",
"Georgia, located on the Black Sea coast between Russia and Turkey, has been split by Russian-backed separatist movements in South Ossetia and another region, Abkhzia.",
"Neither region's government has international recognition.",
"-- Journalist Elene Gotsadze contributed to this report."
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"Protests continued Friday in several California cities, including San Francisco, Palm Springs and Long Beach, over the passage of Proposition 8, which outlaws same-sex marriage.",
"The passage of California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriages, has led to a number of protests.",
"The ballot initiative, which passed 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent Tuesday, overturns a May ruling by the California Supreme Court that struck down a 2000 ban on same-sex unions.",
"In San Francisco, an estimated 2,000 protesters marched down Market Street toward Dolores Park.",
"The march stretched out for at least three city blocks, and an estimated 2,000 protesters completely blocked Market Street's westbound lanes and the eastbound lanes in places.",
"\"I believe that politics and religion should be completely separate,\" protester Eric Rogers told CNN affiliate KGO-TV.",
"\"This has been, actually, one of those lines that has been blurred by that.\"",
"\"It really feels personal.",
"It feels like why would someone not want us to live in love and respect,\" said protester Jayne Dean-McGilpin.",
"A demonstration in Long Beach stretched out for five or six blocks.",
"\"Hate is not hot,\" read a banner at the front of the marchers.",
"About 2,000 demonstrators marched in a peaceful protest in Long Beach, and a few hundred remained in the streets around 10 p.m. (1 a.m. ET), said Sgt. David Marander of the Long Beach Police Department.",
"Marander said Long Beach officers arrested three people after three people tried to persuade others to leave the protest route that was described in a permit that organizers obtained for the march.",
"At one point, demonstrators stopped at a street corner for a few moments to allow traffic to cross.",
"Later, demonstrators congregated for about 20 minutes at the intersection of Broadway and Alameda Street, blocking traffic in all directions.",
"The demonstrators then moved on before stopping at the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard and First Street, where many of The demonstrators sat down in the street.",
"After a few minutes, The demonstrators were on the move again.",
"Police kept a watchful eye on the protesters but did not intervene.",
"In Palm Springs, a crowd of several hundred gathered in front of the city hall, chanting \"Civil rights\" and \"Tax the Church.\"",
"One sign read: \"We will not give up.\"",
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"Several protesters surrounded an elderly looking woman, an apparent Proposition 8 supporter, and shouted at her.",
"No arrests were reported at any of the demonstrations.",
"In Salt Lake City, Utah, about 2,000 demonstrators gathered at Temple Square to protest against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.",
"the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints strongly supported Proposition 8, which amends California's constitution to define marriage as legal only between one man and one woman.",
"Proposition 8 opponents say the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated a majority of the money raised in support of the measure.",
"the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should not be singled out when other groups also supported Proposition 8.",
"\"It is disturbing that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being singled out for speaking up as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints's democratic right in a free election,\" the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a statement Friday.",
"On Thursday, Roman Catholic and Mormon leaders said Roman Catholic and Mormon leaders's efforts did not target any specific group.",
"The coalition of religious communities and citizens who supported Proposition 8 wanted to preserve \"the bedrock institution of marriage\" between a man and a woman, said Cardinal Roger Mahoney, the Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles.",
"\"Proposition 8 is not against any group in our society,\" Cardinal Roger Mahoney, the Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles said in a written statement.",
"About 2,000 protesters picketed Thursday afternoon outside the Los Angeles temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.",
"Several groups have petitioned the California Supreme Court to prevent the constitutional revision from taking effect.",
"The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights have filed a lawsuit contending the ballot initiative was \"improperly used.\"",
"According to the three groups, \"such radical changes\" as outlawing gay marriage cannot be made by ballot initiative, but must, \"at a minimum, go through the state legislature first.\"",
"the three groups also argue the measure takes away a \"fundamental right\" from lesbian and gay Californians.",
"The three organizations filed the legal challenges on behalf of Equality California and six same-sex couples who did not marry before Tuesday's election, but would like to be able to wed now.",
"the three groups contend that California must honor the marriages of the 18,000 lesbian and gay couples who have already married.",
"Sunny Hostin, a CNN legal analyst, said Thursday it is unclear whether same-sex weddings that took place before Tuesday are still valid.",
"Referring to those couples, she said, \"I think those couples really are in a legal limbo, a legal black hole.\"",
"Voters in Arizona and Florida also banned same-sex marriages in ballot initiatives Tuesday."
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"Iran's parliament speaker has criticized U.S. President-elect Barack Obama for saying that Iran's development of a nuclear weapon is unacceptable.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has outlined where Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks U.S. policy needs to change.",
"Ali Larijani said Saturday that Obama should apply Obama's campaign message of change to U.S. dealings with Iran.",
"\"Obama must know that the change that Obama talks about is not simply a superficial changing of colors or tactics,\" Ali Larijani said in comments carried by the semi-official Mehr News Agency.",
"\"What is expected is a change in strategy, not the repetition of objections to Iran's nuclear program, which will be taking a step in the wrong direction.\"",
"In Obama's first post-election news conference Friday afternoon, Obama reiterated that Obama believes a nuclear-armed Iran would be \"unacceptable.\"",
"Obama also said Obama would help mount an international effort to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran from happening.",
"Ali Larijani said that U.S. behavior toward Iran \"will not change so simply\" but that Obama's election showed internal conditions in the United States have shifted.",
"Ali Larijani added that Iran does not mind if the United States provides other Persian Gulf countries with nuclear technology, but \"you should know that you cannot prevent Iran [from reaching Iran's goals in the nuclear field],\" according to the semi-official Mehr News Agency.",
"Obama cautioned Friday that it had only been a few days since Obama's election and that Obama was not in office.",
"\"Obviously, how we approach and deal with a country like Iran is not something that we should simply do in a knee-jerk fashion.",
"I think we've got to think it through,\" Obama said.",
"\"But I have to reiterate once again that we only have one president at a time.",
"And I want to be very careful that we are sending the right signals to the world as a whole that I am not the president, and I won't be until January 20th.\"",
"Larijani was speaking two days after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated Obama, the first time an Iranian leader has offered such wishes to a U.S. president-elect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.",
"One analyst said the welcome was a gesture from the hard-line president that he is open to a more conciliatory relationship with the United States.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tehran \"welcomes basic and fair changes in U.S. policies and conducts,\" according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency on Thursday.",
"Relations between the United States and Iran have historically been chilly and have been further strained in recent years over Iran's nuclear program.",
"Tehran insists that Iran's nuclear program exists for peaceful purposes, but the United States and other Western nations are concerned by Iran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment activities.",
"CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr 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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"The United States and other Western powers have \"exacerbated Somalia's downward spiral\" and must revise The United States and other Western powers's policies in the east African country, a Human Rights Watch report has warned.",
"Recent image of Islamist fighters at a camp in the northern outskirts of Mogadishu .",
"The report, released Monday, blames the policies under Bush for \"breeding the very extremism that it is supposed to defeat.\"",
"\"The new administration of U.S. President Barack Obama should urgently review U.S. policy in Somalia and the broader Horn of Africa and break with the failed approach of his predecessor,\" a Human Rights Watch report said.",
"a Human Rights Watch report also cites key European governments for failing \"to address the human rights dimensions of the crisis, with many officials hoping that somehow unfettered support to abusive TFG (Somali transitional government) forces will improve stability.\"",
"Somalia's weak transitional government, backed by Ethiopian forces, continues to battle Islamic militias with the fighting concentrated in Mogadishu.",
"Ethiopian forces have not withdrawn from Somalia, as required under a recent cease-fire agreement.",
"Ethiopia invaded Somalia two years ago and successfully routed the Islamic militia that seized control of Mogadishu.",
"a Human Rights Watch report states that the United States \"directly backed Ethiopia's intervention.\"",
"Since the 2006 overthrow of the Islamic Courts Union, Somalia has suffered from \"unconstrained warfare and violent rights abuses\" by all warring parties.",
"\"All sides have used indiscriminate force as a matter of routine, and in 2008 violence has taken on a new dimension with the targeted murders of aid workers and civil society activists,\" a Human Rights Watch report states.",
"\"The human rights and humanitarian catastrophe facing Somalia today threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions of Somalis on a scale not witnessed since the early 1990s.\"",
"Heavy fighting in Mogadishu and across Somalia has driven more than a million people from their homes.",
"The lawlessness has also spilled onto the seas off the Horn of Africa, where international vessels are routinely hijacked by suspected Somali pirates who demand large ransoms.",
"Human Rights Watch offers specific recommendations to the Somali and Ethiopian governments, the main militias, and the international community to address the human rights abuses.",
"Human Rights Watch calls on the West to \"insist upon an end to the impunity that has fueled the worst abuses - and the right place to start is by moving the U.N. Security Council to establish a Commission of Inquiry to document abuses and lay the groundwork for accountability.\"",
"Journalist Abdinasir Mohamed Guled contributed to this report."
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"Rio Tinto has nearly $39 billion in corporate debt.",
"Rio Tinto made the announcement as part of a plan to cut Rio Tinto's nearly $39 billion in corporate debt by an estimated $10 billion by the end of 2009.",
"Rio Tinto issued a gloomy forecast in October.",
"\"Since that time, demand conditions have worsened further, and as a result the group's priorities have reoriented around conserving cash flow and reducing near-term borrowings,\" Rio Tinto said in a statement announcing the cuts.",
"The layoffs would include 5,500 direct employees and 8,500 contract jobs, the elimination of which would save about $1.2 billion a year, Rio Tinto said.",
"The layoffs would cost $400 million in severance packages, however.",
"BHP withdrew from BHP's planned buyout in late November, citing a high level of debt the combined company would be required to service in \"difficult\" economic conditions and concerns about whether it would be able to sell off units Rio Tinto already had targeted for divestment.",
"Rio Tinto said Rio Tinto would consider selling off other elements of Rio Tinto in an effort to raise more cash, but disclosed no details."
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"(CNN) -- Pop superstar Madonna reaches a major milestone Saturday.",
"Pop superstar Madonna's turning 50.",
"Becky Oliphant went skydiving two weeks before turning 50.",
"\"I'm doing things I've never done before,\" she said.",
"Pop superstar Madonna is showing no signs of slowing down as Pop superstar Madonna reaches 50.",
"Pop superstar Madonna will soon begin a world tour and is still regarded as a beauty and fashion icon by many.",
"In honor of Pop superstar Madonna's big day, we asked iReporters to share iReporters's stories about turning 50 and what the milestone means to iReporters.",
"Becky Oliphant jokes with Becky Oliphant's marketing students at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, that Becky Oliphant and Pop superstar Madonna are just months apart in age.",
"Becky Oliphant turned 50 in May.",
"Becky Oliphant went skydiving with Becky Oliphant's graduate class weeks before Becky Oliphant's birthday.",
"The jump was a first for Becky Oliphant, one of many exciting things Becky Oliphant hopes to experience now that Becky Oliphant's 50.",
"\"It's a very liberating feeling,\" Becky Oliphant said.",
"\"I'm doing things I've never done before; I'm trying more things.",
"Maybe it's because I feel like I don't have that much time left to do everything that I want to.\"",
"Becky Oliphant says Becky Oliphant works hard to maintain a healthy diet and walks often.",
"Becky Oliphant said it's necessary to stay in shape to keep up with Becky Oliphant's sons, ages 12 and 14.",
"\"I have to stay young to keep up with them.\"",
"John Tackett Jr. celebrated turning 50 by running in a marathon in San Diego, California, followed by two days of hiking in Yosemite National Park.",
"See photos of iReporters who have reached the 50-year mark » .",
"Now 51, John Tackett says John Tackett's \"doing more now than I ever thought I could.\"",
"After losing 140 pounds in 2004, John Tackett has embraced a healthy and active lifestyle.",
"John Tackett bikes three times a week to work and runs and swims on a regular basis.",
"John Tackett ran the Boston Marathon in 3 hours and 45 minutes in April.",
"Three weeks later, John Tackett clocked in at 6½ hours during a half-Iron Man competition in Panama City Beach, Florida.",
"Watch John Tackett describe how John Tackett prepared for races » .",
"\"As I got older, my eyes opened up,\" John Tackett said.",
"Learning that the human life span is increasing made John Tackett realize the importance of staying healthy.",
"In 2006, life expectancy at birth in the United States hit a record high of 78.1 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"Life expectancy for white males is 76 years, and white women have a life expectancy of 81 years.",
"The numbers are slightly lower for black men and women, at 70 and 76.9 years, respectively.",
"\"If I'm going to live that long, I want to be in the best shape I possibly can be,\" John Tackett said.",
"At 50, Deborah Elston says Deborah Elston's in the best shape of Deborah Elston's life.",
"The Chicago, Illinois, resident does yoga and walks at least 15 miles a week.",
"Deborah Elston and Deborah Elston's partner regularly walk 13.1-mile half marathons, and Deborah Elston recently completed 26-mile marathon walk with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.",
"Although Deborah Elston was not athletic in Deborah Elston's younger years, Deborah Elston works hard to stay active.",
"Deborah Elston's brother died of a heart attack in February 2004 at the age of 39, a tragedy that strengthened Deborah Elston's desire to be healthy.",
"\"If that isn't a wakeup call to live each day as if each day were your last, nothing is,\" Deborah Elston wrote on iReport.com.",
"Although Deborah Elston said the thought of turning 50 initially scared Deborah Elston, Deborah Elston continues to feel \"young at heart.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"See why Deborah Elston thinks \"50 is the new 30\"",
"\"I feel great and plan on fighting the aging process every step of the way,\" Deborah Elston said.",
"Like many iReporters, Carol Herm is embracing 50 with open arms.",
"The mother of three celebrated Carol Herm 50th in December and said that, since then, \"life has taken off.\"",
"\"I feel like I am the best 'me' I have ever been,\" Carol Herm wrote on iReport.com.",
"\"I am confident and so sure of Carol Herm, something that I never enjoyed in my younger years.\"",
"Herm, who lives in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, said Carol Herm and Carol Herm's husband love being 50.",
"With three grown children, they spend more time together and less time worrying about the cost of braces, tuition and other expenses.",
"\"This is an awesome age,\" Carol Herm said.",
"\"My husband and I are enjoying every minute.\"",
"Elonda Abrams of Beaverton, Oregon, agrees.",
"\"Turning 50 has given me a new awakening and zest for life,\" Elonda Abrams of Beaverton, Oregon said.",
"Elonda Abrams of Beaverton, Oregon explained that a vigorous lifestyle is achieved physically and mentally.",
"Elonda Abrams of Beaverton, Oregon exercises often, has a healthy diet, surrounds Elonda Abrams of Beaverton, Oregon with positive friends and regularly attends church.",
"Elonda Abrams of Beaverton, Oregon believes that Madonna is just one example of \"the 50, fit and foxy club.\"",
"\"I want to be an example to women all over that age really doesn't matter.\""
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"Becky Oliphant celebrated Becky Oliphant 50th by skydiving in Florida .",
"After losing 140 pounds, John Tackett says John Tackett's more active than ever .",
"iReport.com: Are you 50 and fabulous?",
"Share your story ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"U.S. President Bush signed an executive order Friday expanding U.S. sanctions against Zimbabwe, the White House said.",
"About 200 victims of election violence seek safety outside the U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, this month.",
"\"an executive order significantly enhances our ability to designate individuals in and entities connected to the Robert Mugabe's regime,\" U.S. President Bush said in a written statement that calls Zimbabwe under president Robert Mugabe \"illegitimate.\"",
"Just after the announcement, the Treasury Department said the Treasury Department has designated for sanctions 17 entities, including three government-owned or controlled companies used by Robert Mugabe's and Zimbabwe \"to illegally siphon revenue and foreign exchange from the Zimbabwean people,\" as well as one individual.",
"\"This action is a direct result of the Robert Mugabe's regime's continued politically motivated violence, disregarding calls from the Southern African Development Community, the African Union and the United Nations to halt the attacks,\" the White House said.",
"\"Zimbabwe has also continued Zimbabwe's ban against NGO activities that would provide assistance to the suffering and vulnerable people of Zimbabwe.",
"No regime should ignore the will of its own people and calls from the international community without consequences.\"",
"The U.S. has been pushing for sanctions against Zimbabwe since Robert Mugabe's ignored a U.N. Security Council appeal to postpone a presidential runoff election June 27.",
"The vote initially was intended to be a runoff between Robert Mugabe's and opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai, who did not win the presidency outright in the general election, according to government tallies.",
"But Tsvangirai, of the Movement for Democratic Change, withdrew just before The vote, saying Robert Mugabe's's supporters had orchestrated a campaign of beatings, intimidation and murders against Tsvangirai supporters.",
"Earlier this month, Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution pushed by the United States, Britain and France that would have imposed international sanctions on Robert Mugabe's and senior members of Robert Mugabe's's government.",
"U.S. President Bush said last week U.S. President Bush was \"displeased\" at the vetoes, but the Treasury and State Departments were working on potential U.S. action.",
"Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer told members of Congress last week that more than 100 people have been murdered, more than 3,000 have been injured by beatings or torture and more than 30,000 have been driven from their homes because of violence that broke out after the general election.",
"Entities designated by the Treasury Department include Minerals Marketing Corp. of Zimbabwe, the company that serves as the sole marketing and export agent for all minerals mined in Zimbabwe except gold and silver; Zimbabwe Mining Development Corp.; and Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Co., among others.",
"The individual named is Thamer Bin Saeed Ahmed al-Shanfari.",
"the Treasury Department said The individual named is an Omani national who has close ties to Robert Mugabe's and Robert Mugabe's's top officials and uses his company, Oryx Natural Resources, to \"enable Robert Mugabe's ... to maintain access to, and derive personal benefit from, various mining ventures in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.",
"Under the sanctions, any assets tied to al-Shanfari or to the designated companies that are within U.S. jurisdictions must be frozen, and people living in the United States are prohibited from doing business with them.",
"On Monday, Robert Mugabe's and Tsvangirai signed an agreement that paves the way for power-sharing talks to take place in the next few weeks.",
"They will be mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki, as a representative of the Southern African Development Community, and Jean Ping, chairman of the African Union Commission.",
"U.S. President Bush said Friday the United States is ready to provide a \"substantial assistance package, development aid and normalization with international financial institutions\" should those talks result in a new government \"that reflects the will of the Zimbabwean people.\"",
"In the meantime, U.S. President Bush said U.S. President Bush is authorizing the use of up to $2.5 million from the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund to assist Zimbabwean refugees and those displaced by the violence.",
"In addition, U.S. President Bush said the United States will continue efforts to provide food and medical care to Zimbabweans."
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"In written statement, U.S. President Bush calls Zimbabwe's government \"illegitimate\"",
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"Robert Mugabe's, Tsvangirai have signed agreement paving way for power-sharing talks ."
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"(The Frisky) --",
"Despite the tough economic times, you can't just expect to stop lusting after those Frye riding boots you've had your eye on forever, or that your longtime trusted hair stylist is going to suddenly start cutting your longtime trusted hair stylist's prices.",
"From hobbies to bake sales to your own Web site, there are ways to make extra money in your spare time.",
"The fact is no matter how frugally you learn to live, there are still going to be some things you'll want to splurge on, and that's okay.",
"I mean, this is a recession, after all, not a potato famine.",
"You don't have to give up all your luxuries or switch to low-cost everything; you just have to get savvier about making extra money for those treats you enjoy.",
"But I'm not talking about getting a second job or really working that much harder; a true recessionista knows how to make extra cash for little luxuries while leaving plenty of free time to enjoy little luxuries, too.",
"After the jump, seven ways to make more money without taking a second job... 1. Become a focus group participant:",
"An old co-worker turned me on to focus groups about 8 years ago and after I made 75 bucks giving my opinion on a series of coffee ads, I immediately went home, opened the phone book (remember those?), and called dozens of market research companies to get my name added to dozens of market research companies's databases for future groups.",
"Over the years I've made thousands of dollars telling people what I think about ads, product concepts, packaging, services, and the taste of food and beverages.",
"Once, I even made $200 tasting vodka for an hour.",
"Talk about easy money!",
"Check the \"Etc.\" section of Craigslist for current focus groups in your area, or do an online search for market research recruiting companies and then can call and have your name added to market research recruiting companies's databases.",
"2. Use your blog: If you have a blog -- and who doesn't these days? -- you're sitting on valuable real estate.",
"Depending on the size of your readership, you could make anywhere from enough money to buy a magazine and a latte to enough to support your entire family (á la Dooce).",
"There are lots of different ways to make money on a blog, from virtual tip jars to product reviews, but the most popular is through running ads.",
"In the past, I've recruited sponsors directly for a niche blog I used to write, but I currently use an advertising program on my personal blog that basically takes care of everything so all I have to do is post regularly and collect my check at the end of the month.",
"Free money for writing about my cats and boyfriend and favorite TV shows!",
"What could be easier?",
"There are a host of ad programs open to anyone, so do your research to find one that's right for you.",
"3. Sell the stuff you no longer want: When I moved to New York from Chicago a year ago to be with my long-distance boyfriend, I used the opportunity to unload all the crap I no longer wanted or needed.",
"I sold furniture, home goods, clothes, accessories, and my car (no need for one in Manhattan!).",
"In addition to hosting a yard sale where I made about 200 bucks for candles, pots and pans and old Halloween costumes, I used the hell out of Craigslist and eBay, both before my move and after I arrived when I realized I still needed to unload quite a bit to fit into my boyfriend's one-bedroom apartment.",
"I honestly don't miss anything I got rid of (and can't remember what most of it even was), and the money from the sales paid a big chunk of my moving costs.",
"Now that I'm settled in, I like to go through my belongings each season, selling a few items and making room and money for new stuff, like dresses and cute shoes.",
"4. Make money from your hobbies: From hawking your crafts on Etsy, and selling produce from your garden, to playing piano once a week at a local restaurant, or reading tarot cards at a party, there are innumerable ways to make cash doing the activities you love.",
"The key here is to convince yourself you have a product or skill someone else wants and then search out those people or companies who can pay you for skill someone else wants.",
"5. Host a bake sale:",
"Remember when we were kids and our parents used to make cookies and brownies and stuff for school bake sales to raise money for a new flagpole or air conditioning in the gym?",
"Well, why not do the same thing now that we're grown-ups and need to raise money for our vacations to Barcelona?",
"I say get a few friends together, bake up a storm, and then sell your goods at a local market, a festival, or even online at a place like Etsy.",
"If you love baking, this is another great way to make money from a hobby...without inhaling all the extra calories eating the goods yourself!",
"6. Shop and sell:",
"What recessionista doesn't like shopping, right?",
"So instead of giving it up or cutting back, start making money off your great eye and awesome buying skills.",
"Whether you live in an area with fantastic sample sales, or a town with the best thrift and antique stores, chances are you're able to score stuff your recessionista sisters in other parts of the country can't.",
"So make your next shopping spree a moneymaking one and sell your finds for a profit on eBay, or open a vintage shop on Etsy (can you tell I'm a fan of the site?).",
"Pet sit:",
"If you know people with pets, volunteer to watch people with pets -- for a small fee, of course -- the next time people with pets leave town for a few days.",
"Sure, people with pets could kennel people with pets or hire a professional, but most people feel better when most people leave most people's beloved pets (not to mention most people's house keys) in the hands of someone most people know and trust.",
"And, hey, if they have cable and throw in a bottle of wine for your trouble, you'll score a bit of a vacation yourself...and make money for a pedicure, to boot.",
"TM & © 2008 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Sell the stuff in your home that you no longer use -- try eBay or Craigslist .",
"Sign up to be a focus group participant or become a dog sitter .",
"Set up your own blog and use an advertising service ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Armored cars patrolled the streets of Zimbabwe's capital and residents flocked to banks Thursday after limits on cash withdrawals were lifted in the inflation-ravaged African nation.",
"With prices rising even more than once a day, shopping is a mathematical proficiency test for Zimbabweans.",
"The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe had capped maximum daily withdrawals at 500,000 Zimbabwean dollars -- about 25 U.S. cents, and about a quarter of the price of a loaf of bread.",
"But faced with mounting chaos in Zimbabwe already in economic free fall, The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe decided last week to raise that limit to 100 million dollars ($50 U.S.) per week.",
"Soldiers were deployed to all banks in anticipation of throngs of people lining up to withdraw money Thursday, when the increase took effect.",
"Wednesday, police chased depositors away and arrested union leaders who planned to protest the limits.",
"Zimbabwe's inflation rate of 231 million percent is the world's highest.",
"In addition, Zimbabwe is faced with a growing outbreak of cholera that Zimbabwe's government declared a national emergency Thursday.",
"The outbreak has killed at least 565 people and sickened more than 11,000, the U.N. Humanitarian Affairs Office said.",
"Medical professionals blame the resurgence of the water-borne disease on the lack of safe water in many parts of Zimbabwe.",
"The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions said 69 people were arrested across Zimbabwe during Wednesday's demonstrations.",
"Amnesty International has demanded to know the whereabouts of human rights activist Jestina Mukoko, whom it said was abducted at dawn Wednesday by armed men in plainclothes posing as police.",
"And angry, unpaid soldiers clashed with foreign currency exchangers and some civilians Monday, three days after troops who had failed to get cash from cash's banks looted shops they suspected to be illegally dealing in foreign currency."
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"Central bank caps maximum daily withdrawals at 500,000 Zimbabwean dollars .",
"Bank last week raise that limit to 100 million dollars ($50 U.S.) per week .",
"Zimbabwe's inflation rate of 231 million percent is the world's highest ."
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"(CNN) -- What do Copernicus and a Britney Spears look-a-like have in common?",
"Despite centuries separating the two, both have inspired greatness in Poland.",
"Maxim named Joanna Crupa, a Polish/American model and actress, 61st in its 2006 Hot 100 list.",
"Here we look at some of Poland's most famous nationals -- from years gone by to the present day.",
"Many have influenced a world far beyond their country's boundary.",
"Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist.",
"Copernicus is primarily known, however, for Copernicus's theory that earth is not the center of the universe.",
"Copernicus's book, \"De revolutionibus orbium coelestium\" (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining moment that began the Scientific Revolution.",
"Copernicus was born in 1473 in Thorn.",
"Thorn was a city in Prussia, an autonomous region in the old Kingdom of Poland.",
"Frederick Chopin (Fryderyk Chopin) (1810-1849) Born in the village of Zelazowa Wola in Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French father, Frederick Chopin (Fryderyk Chopin) was regarded early on as a child-prodigy piano virtuoso.",
"Frederick Chopin (Fryderyk Chopin) is generally considered to be Poland's greatest composer, and ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets.",
"Always in fragile health, Frederick Chopin (Fryderyk Chopin) died in Paris in 1849 from chronic pulmonary tuberculosis.",
"Frederick Chopin (Fryderyk Chopin) was only 39.",
"Mari-Sklodowska (Marie Curie) (1867-1934) Marie Curie, a Polish physicist and chemist, is arguably the most famous female scientist.",
"Mari-Sklodowska (Marie Curie) was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.",
"Mari-Sklodowska (Marie Curie)'s French husband Pierre Curie and both Mari-Sklodowska (Marie Curie)'s daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie were awarded a Nobel prizes.",
"Mari-Sklodowska (Marie Curie) was born in Warsaw.",
"In 1891 Mari-Sklodowska (Marie Curie) moved to Paris to further Mari-Sklodowska (Marie Curie)'s studies and work on scientific projects.",
"Mari-Sklodowska (Marie Curie) found the theory of radioactivity and also found two new elements, radium and polonium (the latter being named after Mari-Sklodowska (Marie Curie)'s native Poland.)",
"Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) (1920-2005) Karol Józef Wojtyla was born on 18 May, 1920 in the Polish town of Wadowice.",
"At only 58 years of age, Karol Józef Wojtyla was the youngest pope elected since Pope Pius IX in 1846.",
"Karol Józef Wojtyla reigned as the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 until Karol Józef Wojtyla's death in 2005.",
"Karol Józef Wojtyla's reign of over 26 years was the second-longest after Pius IX's 32-year reign.",
"Karol Józef Wojtyla has been the only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the Dutch Adrian VI in the 1520s.",
"The pope traveled extensively, visiting over 100 countries, more than any other pope and was fluent in numerous languages: Polish, Italian, French, German, English, Spanish, Croatian, Portuguese, Russian and Latin.",
"Karol Józef Wojtyla was the victim of several assassination attempts, but later said Karol Józef Wojtyla forgave the perpetrators.",
"Karol Józef Wojtyla was chosen twice as person of the year by Time magazine.",
"Andrzej Wajda (1926 - ) Wajda, born in Suwalki, Poland is an award-winning Polish film Director.",
"Andrzej Wajda received an honorary Oscar in 2000.",
"After the fall of communism in 1989, Andrzej Wajda was elected as a government senator while Andrzej Wajda continued Andrzej Wajda's role as artistic director of Warsaw's Teatr Powszechny.",
"Andrzej Wajda's films often raise social awareness and have dealt with a number of subjects including war, communism and murder (based on the murder of Andrzej Wajda's own father by the Soviets in 1940).",
"Andrzej Wajda married four times.",
"Andrzej Wajda has one daughter and is currently married to actress Krystyna Zachwatowicz.",
"Roman Raymond Polanski (1933 - ) Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Polish film director, writer, actor and producer.",
"After beginning his career in Poland, Polanski became a celebrated filmmaker and director of such films as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974).",
"Recently Polanski has made acclaimed films such as the Academy Award-winning and Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or-winning The Pianist (2002), and Oliver Twist (2005).",
"Polanski has a tragic personal history.",
"Polanski lived in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War and was persecuted for being Jewish.",
"Polanski escaped death by hiding in a farmer's cow shed, while Polanski's mother was murdered in the infamous Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.",
"After surviving the Holocaust and moving to the United States, Polanski married American actress Sharon Tate.",
"In 1969, Tate, who was pregnant at the time, was murdered by serial killer Charles Manson's sect.",
"In 1978, Polanski pleaded guilty in the United States to \"unlawful sexual intercourse\" with a 13-year-old girl.",
"Polanski fled to France before sentencing.",
"Polanski now lives there and has French citizenship.",
"Polanski cannot return to the United States because Polanski is likely to be imprisoned.",
"Lech Walesa (1943 - ) A former President of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Walesa is often credited with changing the Polish political system.",
"Walesa founded the organization \"Solidarity,\" the country's first independent trade union, which was pivotal in bringing about the fall of the communist regime.",
"Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for Walesa's human rights activism.",
"In 1989, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Walesa persuaded leaders from formerly communist parties to form the first non-communist coalition government.",
"Walesa was president of Poland from 1990 to 1995.",
"In 2000, Walesa once again stood for the presidential election, but received very little support and subsequently announced Walesa's retirement.",
"Joanna Krupa (1979 - ) Krupa is a Polish-American model and actress.",
"Born in Warsaw, the daughter of hotelier Steven Krupa, Joanna Krupa eventually moved with Joanna Krupa's family to the United States at the age of five.",
"Joanna Krupa has appeared on various magazine covers including FHM, Personal, Inside Sport, Stuff, Steppin' Out, Teeze and Maxim, in which Joanna Krupa was named the Sexiest Swimsuit Model in the World.",
"Maxim named Joanna Krupa 61st in Maxim's 2006 Hot 100 list.",
"Joanna Krupa was also voted German Maxim's Model of the Year 2004-2005.",
"Joanna Krupa posed nude in the July 2005 issue of Playboy and also did a nude photoshoot for animal rights group PETA.",
"The advertisements all have \"I would rather go naked than wear fur\" as a motto.",
"Joanna Krupa has been quoted as saying, \"There is nothing sexy about wearing something that is so obviously tied to senseless pain and killing.\"",
"Robert Kubica (1984 - ) Born in Krakow, Kubica is the first Polish racing driver to compete in Formula One.",
"Since 2006 Robert Kubica (1984 - ) has driven for the BMW Sauber F1 team, promoted from test driver to race driver during the 2006 season.",
"In June 2008, Robert Kubica (1984 - ) achieved Robert Kubica (1984 - )'s maiden F1 victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, becoming the 99th F1 racer to win a Grand Prix.",
"Dorota Rabczewska or \"Doda\" (1984 - ) Dorota Rabczewska, or Dorota Rabczewska-Majdan, is often nicknamed Doda or Doda Elektroda or \"the Polish Britney Spears.\"",
"Dorota Rabczewska was born in Ciechanow, and is one of the most famous and successful pop singers in Poland.",
"Dorota Rabczewska started Dorota Rabczewska's career at the age of 14 and became popular after Dorota Rabczewska's participation in a reality TV show \"Bar.\"",
"In 2000, at the age of 16, Rabczewska became the vocalist of the Polish rock band Virgin.",
"In December 2005 and October 2007, Dorota Rabczewska posed nude for the Polish edition of Playboy Magazine.",
"Dorota Rabczewska also posed for CKM Magazine several times.",
"Dorota Rabczewska received a Superjedynka award on National Festival of Polish Song in Opole in 2006.",
"In 2007, Dorota Rabczewska left Dorota Rabczewska's record company, Virgin, to begin a solo career.",
"Dorota Rabczewska's first solo album was released in 2007 and was certified as gold on the day before Her first solo album's official release.",
"In 2008, Dorota Rabczewska's album \"Diamond Bitch\" went double platinum after 60,000 copies of the album had been sold."
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"Pope John Paul ll: 27 year-reign, visited over 100 countries, spoke ten languages .",
"Joanna Crupa: Former \"Sexiest Swimsuit Model\" in the world ."
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"LONDON, England --",
"Extra-time goals from an emotional Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba gave Chelsea a 3-2 victory over Liverpool to send the London side into a Champions League final showdown against English Premier League rivals Manchester United, 4-3 on aggregate.",
"Didier Drogba and an emotional Frank Lampard both found the net as Chelsea secured their final place in Moscow.",
"Lampard, playing an emotional Frank Lampard's first game since the death of an emotional Frank Lampard's mother last week, coolly slotted home a 98th-minute penalty and Drogba, who had opened the scoring in the first-half, sent Chelsea to the final in Moscow on May 21 with a timely second goal.",
"Fernando Torres had given Liverpool hope with a second-half equaliser but Liverpool failed to finish the job and Chelsea made Liverpool pay in a pulsating extra period which also saw Ryan Babel grab a late consolation goal for the visitors.",
"Drogba, who Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez had accused of being a 'diver' prior to the match, looked like a man on a mission to ram the Spaniards words down his throat.",
"Didier Drogba forced Jose Reina to turn Jose Reina's skidding 15-meter effort around the post in the fifth minute.",
"Four minutes later, Liverpool put together their only meaningful move of the opening half when a quick Steven Gerrard pass put Fernando Torres in behind the Chelsea defense.",
"However, Fernando Torres's first touch was not deft enough and although Fernando Torres bore down on Petr Cech, the Chelsea goalkeeper did well to close down his space and options.",
"The wet conditions hampered both sides but it was Chelsea who mastered them quicker.",
"In the 18th minute, Lampard despatched a delightful pass into the path of Drogba but Didier Drogba was a meter wide with his shot.",
"Chelsea were in the ascendancy and their supremacy was underlined by Michael Essien's 20-meter effort which had to be collected by Jose Reina at the foot of his right-hand post.",
"Liverpool were struggling to keep pace with the home side and their worries increased when central defender Martin Skrtel was forced off with a knee injury in the 21st minute to be replaced by Sami Hyypia.",
"Jose Reina was forced to punch clear a long-range effort from Ballack but the goal Chelsea had threatened for most of the half arrived in style in the 33rd minute.",
"The architect was England midfielder Lampard.",
"He cleverly split the Liverpool defense to give Salomon Kalou the chance to run on and fire a shot that Jose Reina could only palm into the path of the onrushing Drogba.",
"The Ivorian does not miss such gifts and Didier Drogba sent a low drive fizzing into the net at the near post to give London side a 2-1 aggregate lead.",
"Drogba, clearly hurt by Benitez's criticism of Didier Drogba's 'diving', then ran the length of the half to celebrate Didier Drogba's goal in front of the Liverpool manager.",
"Chelsea's domination almost brought them a second four minutes before the interval but Michael Ballack's measured free-kick veered just the wrong side of the post.",
"Dirk Kuyt almost hauled Liverpool back into the tie three minutes after the restart but Dirk Kuyt's shot met the outstretched leg of Cech before Ashley Cole cleared.",
"After Lampard's 53rd-minute volley was well held by Reina, Liverpool finally broke their goalscoring hoodoo when Yossi Benayoun carved out a chance for Torres.",
"Fernando Torres collected the ball in Fernando Torres's stride just inside the penalty area before sliding it beyond the exposed Cech to make it 2-2 on aggregate -- the 64th-minute effort was Liverpool's first at Stamford Bridge in nine games under Benitez.",
"Both sides sought a winner -- but the 90 minutes ended all-square and the contest went into extra-time.",
"Liverpool almost snatched the lead within minutes of the restart but Hyypia's header fell wide of the post with Cech beaten.",
"Chelsea then thought they had done enough when Essien sent a 15-meter effort into the net -- but it was rightly disallowed for offside.",
"However, in the 98th minute, Ballack was brought down by Hyypia inside the box and referee Roberto Rosetti pointed to the spot.",
"an emotional Frank Lampard kept an emotional Frank Lampard's composure to send Jose Reina the wrong way and was in tears as an emotional Frank Lampard celebrated with an emotional Frank Lampard's teammates near the corner flag.",
"Worse was to come for Liverpool when substitute Nicolas Anelka got free on the right and pulled the ball back for Drogba to fire under Jose Reina.",
"An error from Cech gifted Babel a late goal from longe range but Chelsea held on to reach their first ever Champions League final.",
"\"This is something amazing.",
"I am really pleased for the club because we have been looking for this final for too long,\" said Drogba, who admitted that he was \"disappointed\" by Benitez's pre-match comments.",
"\"Benitez is a fantastic coach and I was a bit disappointed but I think Benitez felt Benitez's team was not strong enough and Chelsea were going to beat Chelsea.",
"\"I am just happy for Chelsea and I don't want to think about others.",
"It's not good for my image.",
"I'm giving my best to put Chelsea at the top and I think it's not fair but it's finished now.\"",
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"Chelsea manager Avram Grant admitted Chelsea manager Avram Grant was proud to have succeeded in beating Benitez's Liverpool in the the Champions League last four -- something Chelsea manager Avram Grant's predecessor Jose Mourinho failed to manage.",
"\"There is only one special one,\" Chelsea manager Avram Grant joked.",
"\"But this was special against Liverpool.",
"They are a fantastic team and Rafa played it tactically well.",
"\"You need to be clever against Rafa but Chelsea did it.",
"Chelsea have created history and I am very proud Chelsea did it my way -- but I don't like to say 'I' because owner Roman Abramovich created this club.",
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"\"Frank played very well and in my opinion was one of Chelsea's key players today.",
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"Four Boy Scouts who died Wednesday when a tornado swept through a wilderness camp were remembered for the very qualities that had brought Four Boy Scouts who died Wednesday when a tornado swept through a wilderness camp to a wilderness camp in the first place.",
"Clockwise from top left: Sam Thomsen, 13; Josh Fennen, 13; Aaron Eilerts, 14; and Ben Petrzilka, 14.",
"Josh Fennen, 13, Sam Thomsen, 13, Ben Petrzilka, 14 , and Aaron Eilerts, 14, were among 93 Boy Scouts who were chosen by their troop leaders to attend leadership training this week at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch outside Omaha, Nebraska.",
"In addition to the deaths, 48 Scouts and staff members were injured.",
"Friends on Thursday described Four Boy Scouts who died Wednesday when a tornado swept through a wilderness camp as multitalented, dedicated teens whose enthusiasm for life was matched only by their passion for Scouting.",
"Aaron Eilerts' best friend described Aaron Eilerts' as a \"kindhearted\" person who took Aaron Eilerts''s commitment to Boy Scouts very seriously.",
"\"Aaron Eilerts' would do anything that you asked Aaron Eilerts' to do,\" Colby Gochanour, told CNN's Larry King.",
"\"Aaron Eilerts' just helped people.\"",
"As a member of the Humboldt Boy Scout Troop No. 108 in Eagle Grove, Iowa, Aaron Eilerts' used Aaron Eilerts''s own money to make pillowcases for hospital patients, Gochanour said.",
"Aaron Eilerts' tried to donate pillowcases to hospitals during a family vacation to Memphis, where Aaron Eilerts' visited the home of Elvis, one of Aaron Eilerts''s heroes, according to a story that was published in the Eagle Grove Eagle last year.",
"Aaron Eilerts' extended the same dedication to making fleece blankets for the Humane Society, according to the Omaha World-Herald.",
"\"Aaron Eilerts' embodied everything Scouting stands for,\" Dawn Sievertsen, principal of Robert Blue Middle School in Eagle Grove, Iowa, told the newspaper.",
"\"Aaron Eilerts' would start these projects to earn badges, but took these projects very seriously and would continue these projects long after Aaron Eilerts' earned the badge.\"",
"People who knew Josh Fennen of Omaha said Josh used many of the skills Josh learned in Scouting in everyday life.",
"\"We'd go hiking.",
"Josh was a good hiker.",
"Josh knew what to do, how to start fires and good with pocketknives,\" Josh's best friend, Jack Cormaci, told affiliate KETV.",
"\"Josh'd always be there when you needed Josh, always playing outside.\"",
"Jeff Alfrey, the principal at Andersen Middle School, where Josh recently finished eighth grade, described Josh as inquisitive and confident, with natural leadership qualities, according to the newspaper.",
"\"Josh was a good student, a hard worker, and Josh was always trying to be creative,\" Alfrey told the newspaper.",
"Sam Thomsen, who was days away from Sam's 14th birthday, divided Sam's time among the Boy Scouts, sports, home-schooling and the Southwest Church of Christ, according to the newspaper.",
"Sam's Facebook page, where Sam last wrote, \"Sam is ready for a week in the great outdoors,\" lists Sam's interests as Jesus, football, video games and the Roadrunners, a basketball team for home-schooled children, according to the newspaper.",
"\"Sam was always just full-board with everything Sam did, whether it be church or Boy Scouts or sports,\" Dr. Jim White, pastor of Southwest Church of Christ, told Larry King.",
"\"Sam always had a wonderful, engaging smile on Sam's face.\"",
"Ben Petrzilka, who just finished seventh grade at Mary Our Queen Catholic School, was remembered as kind and caring.",
"\"He always gave it his best effort.",
"It is a very devastating loss to Mary Our Queen Catholic School,\" principal Kayleen Wallace told the newspaper.",
"A candlelight vigil was scheduled for Thursday evening at the Durham Scout Center in Omaha, the Boy Scouts said."
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"The factories involved in the production of the tainted drugs have been closed for investigation.",
"According to Xinhau, the State Food and Drug Administration and the Ministry of Health suspended the production, sale and usage of methotrexate and cytarabin hydrochloride, produced by Shanghai Hualian Pharmaceutical Co., on September 5.",
"There is no indication the drugs in question were ever exported outside of China.",
"On Friday, the two agencies issued a notice saying that vincristine sulfate was the culprit -- an anti-cancer medicine which had been mistakenly mixed with the leukemia drugs, causing leg pains and retention of urine -- Xinhua reported.",
"The factories involved in the production of the tainted drugs have been closed, while the cause is being investigated.",
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"BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) --",
"More than 10,000 charred bone fragments were found buried at the site of a former Argentine government detention center, the first find of its kind at one of the secret centers, Argentine officials said.",
"Bones were unearthed during a seven-month search at an ex-detention post in La Plata, Argentina, officials said.",
"Searchers said Searchers also found a wall with more than 200 bullet holes and an \"important quantity\" of spent ammunition shells on the ground nearby.",
"In some cases, bullets were still lodged in a wall.",
"The announcement was made Tuesday at a news conference by government officials and representatives of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, better known as EAAF, the initials of its name in Spanish.",
"A team of six professional anthropologists and support crew said it believed the remains were human, but it was unable to determine how many bodies the fragments represented.",
"\"I ask the forgiveness of family members, because I can imagine what the mothers and all who are gathered here will feel, but what we are about to show is not to detail the genocide but so that we have proof for the trials that are to come",
",\" said Sara Derotier de Cobacho, secretary of human rights for Buenos Aires province.",
"\"But let us not forget,\" she said in a statement, \"that behind every clandestine center there were the names of the repressors.",
"... So it is very important for all citizens to know those names.\"",
"The detention center was among those used in Argentina during Argentina's \"Dirty War,\" which started in 1976 when a group of generals staged a coup and started a vicious crackdown against anyone considered a subversive.",
"By the time civilian control of the government resumed in 1983, up to 30,000 Argentines had been abducted and taken to the secret government detention centers, where to 30,000 Argentines were tortured and killed.",
"to 30,000 Argentines are widely called \"los desaparecidos,\" or \"the disappeared.\"",
"Thousands more people were abducted and killed by right-wing dictatorships in other South American countries during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in Chile and Uruguay.",
"The bone fragments in Argentina were unearthed during a seven-month search at the former detention post in the city of La Plata, near Buenos Aires.",
"In 25 years of searching, this was the first time that human remains were found at a former detention center, said Luis Fondebrider, president of the EAAF.",
"\"We've worked throughout Argentina and have always found remains in cemeteries, never outside,\" Luis Fondebrider, president of the EAAF said in the release.",
"The conference was called, Luis Fondebrider, president of the EAAF said, because of the extraordinary nature of the find.",
"\"We usually don't hold press conferences about our work or what we find,\" Fondebrider said.",
"\"But we understand that the magnitude of what we have found where the Clandestine Center of Arana was located merits that sometimes we show partial results.\"",
"Searchers determined that bodies had been burned inside graves along with tires, combustibles and other material, Luis Fondebrider, president of the EAAF said.",
"\"The possibilities of identifying some of these remains is low because of the state these remains are in,\" Luis Fondebrider, president of the EAAF said.",
"Searchers will start analyzing these remains next year and are working with two prominent forensic genetic laboratories that specialize in working with remains that are in poor condition, Luis Fondebrider, president of the EAAF said.",
"Lending an official air to Tuesday's proceedings, Carlos Stornelli, minister of security for the province of Buenos Aires, and Pablo Buruera, mayor of La Plata, also attended the news conference.",
"\"We are looking for the truth so we can attain justice and construct, from there, the memory of our 30,000 'desaparecidos,' \" Derotier said."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A few months ago, it seemed liked nothing could stop Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain from representing Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain's country in the upcoming Summer Olympics.",
"Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain was devastated to learn Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain could not participate in the upcoming Summer Olympics.",
"Then, the International Olympic Committee banned Iraq from competing because of what the International Olympic Committee says is Iraqi government's political interference in sports.",
"Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain cried for hours after hearing the news, which arrived in the form of a letter to Iraqi officials.",
"\"Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain hasn't stopped.",
"It's like finding out that a close relative has died,\" said Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain's coach, Yousif Abdul Rahman.",
"Yousif Abdul Rahman attempted to console Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain by assuring Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain that Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain could compete in the 2012 Olympics.",
"Watch Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain react to the news » .",
"\"In this horrible situation,\" Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain said, \"who can say I'll even be alive in 2012?\"",
"CNN received a copy of the letter sent to Jassim Mohammed Jaffer, Iraqi minister of youth and sports, and Ali Mohsen Ismail, acting secretary general of the Iraqi general secretariat of the Council of Ministers.",
"\"We deeply regret this outcome, which severely harms the Iraqi Olympic and Sports Movement and the Iraqi athletes, but which is unfortunately imposed by the circumstances,\" said the letter, signed by two IOC officials.",
"Watch an official explain the decision » .",
"The move stems from an Iraqi government decision in May to suspend the nation's Olympic Committee and form a temporary committee to handle its duties.",
"Iraqi government thought the nation's Olympic Committee had not been operating properly and as a result undermined the sporting movement there.",
"Iraqi government said the nation's Olympic Committee held meetings without quorums and had officials serving in one-year posts for more than five years.",
"Many of the officials also lived outside Iraq, Iraqi government said.",
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"Emmanuelle Moreau, a spokeswoman for the International Olympic Committee, said the International Olympic Committee suspended Iraq's national Olympic Committee in June after Iraqi government removed elected officials and put in people the International Olympic Committee didn't recognize.",
"Moreau said the International Olympic Committee proposed to Iraqi government that officials come to the organization's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, \"to discuss possible solutions.\"",
"But Moreau said they didn't respond.",
"\"We're extremely disappointed with the situation.",
"The athletes have been ill-served by the government in Iraq,\" Moreau said.",
"Moreau said Iraq missed a Wednesday deadline for the entry of athletes to compete in archery, judo, rowing and weightlifting.",
"Watch a historian discuss the Olympics in Iraq under Saddam Hussein » .",
"Moreau said there is a chance that track and field athletes could compete if the nation's Olympic Committee is reinstated.",
"The deadline for the track team to register is at the end of the month.",
"The Games begin August 8.",
"A former official from the nation's Olympic Committee said the decision was justified because Iraqi government interfered with the nation's Olympic Committee by suspending it.",
"A former official from the disbanded Iraq Olympic Committee spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.",
"A former official from the disbanded Iraq Olympic Committee said A former official from the disbanded Iraq Olympic Committee believed that Iraqi government suspended the nation's Olympic Committee out of \"jealousy.\"",
"the nation's Olympic Committee was making great strides, and the government, namely the Ministry of Youth and Sports, wanted control of the nation's Olympic Committee,",
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"The seven Iraqi athletes who were to travel to China for The Games's start in August are disappointed by the decision, officials said.",
"They include an archer, a weightlifter, a judoka, two rowers and two sprinters, one of whom is Dana Hussain.",
"Her coach called the decision unfair and said Her coach blames \"everyone\": the Iraqi government and the Iraqi and International Olympic committees.",
"In the end, Yousif Abdul Rahman said, The seven Iraqi athletes who were to travel to China for the Games' start in August are paying the price.",
"\"It's a shame after all the efforts, ambitions, risks and dangers,\" Yousif Abdul Rahman said.",
"\"I wish from the bottom of my heart they would reconsider the decision for the sake of The seven Iraqi athletes who were to travel to China for the Games' start in August.\"",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report."
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"\"We usually don't hold press conferences about our work or what we find,\" Fondebrider said.",
"\"But we understand that the magnitude of what we have found where the Clandestine Center of Arana was located merits that sometimes we show partial results.\"",
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"\"The possibilities of identifying some of these remains is low because of the state these remains are in,\" Luis Fondebrider, president of the EAAF said.",
"Searchers will start analyzing these remains next year and are working with two prominent forensic genetic laboratories that specialize in working with remains that are in poor condition, Luis Fondebrider, president of the EAAF said.",
"Lending an official air to Tuesday's proceedings, Carlos Stornelli, minister of security for the province of Buenos Aires, and Pablo Buruera, mayor of La Plata, also attended the news conference.",
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"BERLIN, Germany (CNN) --",
"A German cruise liner said Tuesday A German cruise liner plans to fly A German cruise liner's passengers over the Gulf of Aden, instead of sailing them through, out of fear of pirate attacks in the region.",
"U.S. Navy image of pirates operating off coast of Somalia in October this year.",
"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said Passengers, will disembark at an undisclosed port, then fly to Dubai to continue Passengers's journey.",
"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises called the move a precautionary measure.",
"Pirate attacks in the waters off Somalia have shot up this year, with pirates staging increasingly bolder attacks on ever-bigger targets.",
"So far this year, pirates have attacked almost 100 vessels off Somalia's coast and successfully hijacked nearly 40, according to the International Maritime Bureau.",
"Freight and cargo ships, cruise liners, and private yachts have all come under attack.",
"In many hijackings, pirates take the crew and passengers hostage while pirates demand a ransom.",
"The problem has forced companies like Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, that use the Gulf of Aden, to make new plans, including stepping up security or changing companies like Hapag-Lloyd, that use the Gulf of Aden's routes.",
"One shipping company announced last month One shipping company would bypass the region altogether, sailing instead around the Cape of Good Hope and adding thousands of kilometers to One shipping company's voyages.",
"Read more about how to solve the pirate problem here.",
"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said a general travel warning for the area, issued by the German Foreign Ministry, played a part in the decision.",
"But Hapag-Lloyd Cruises also said Hapag-Lloyd Cruises had asked the German government for naval protection and the request was turned down.",
"Representatives of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and the German Defense Ministry could not immediately be reached for further comment.",
"The passengers on board the A German cruise liner began the first leg of Passengers's world cruise November 28 in Genoa, Italy and are due in Dubai on December 17, according to Hapag-Lloyd Cruises's Web site.",
"Further stops include Singapore, Bali, Indonesia and Sydney, Australia.",
"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said that after the passengers and most of the crew disembark, A German cruise liner will sail through the Gulf of Aden with a skeleton staff.",
"Passengers will stay in a five-star hotel in Dubai for three days until A German cruise liner arrives to take Passengers back onboard, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said.",
"Both the crew and passengers approve of the safety measure, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said.",
"The U.S. State Department and British Foreign Office advise those traveling near the Somali coast to use extreme caution because of the recent pirate attacks.",
"Last week, the Australian government issued a similar warning about travel to the region.",
"The advice also urged Australian ships \"to apply a robust and layered protective security regime\" when traveling through the area.",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice invited the woman set to replace Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the nation's top diplomat, Sen. Hillary Clinton, to dinner Monday night, a State Department spokesman said.",
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Sen. Hillary Clinton dined together Monday night.",
"dinner took place at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's home in the Watergate complex in downtown Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.",
"The meeting lasted for two hours, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.",
"\"They talked just very generally about policy -- the challenges, the opportunities -- talked a little bit about the job of secretary of state, talked about the 'building,' managing a big operation,\" State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.",
"The two dined after Sen. Hillary Clinton met with members of President-elect Barack Obama's State Department transition team on Monday.",
"Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Tuesday that important information often is exchanged during such dinners between outgoing and incoming secretaries of state.",
"Albright, who was former President Bill Clinton's top diplomat during Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's second term, said Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had a similar dinner with Colin Powell, President Bush's first secretary of state, in 2001.",
"Watch Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright give Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's advice to Obama » .",
"\"I'm sure they had a social part of it, but Secretary Rice told her what the major challenges are, how State Department works -- we call State Department 'the building' -- and, generally, I think they are very nice times,\"",
"Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said.",
"\"It's just a matter of really turning over the most important job in the world on foreign policy,\" Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright added.",
"Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Sen. Hillary Clinton will have to get up to speed on a number of issues, including the status of negotiations the U.S. is engaged in, who will be part of Sen. Hillary Clinton's team and how Sen. Hillary Clinton will work with other members of Obama's national security team.",
"\"I know from talking to Sen. Hillary Clinton that Sen. Hillary Clinton has a great sense of excitement and desire to ... reintroduce America to the rest of the world,\" said Albright, who said she thought that Sen. Hillary Clinton would be \"a very great secretary of state.\"",
"Earlier, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was looking forward to meeting Sen. Hillary Clinton's successor and said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice believes Sen. Hillary Clinton will do \"a great job.\"",
"\"I talked with Sen. Hillary Clinton and we're going to sit down, and I'm really looking forward to it.",
"I've known Sen. Hillary Clinton a long time, and Sen. Hillary Clinton is someone that I admire,\" Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told CNN on Sunday.",
"Despite being from different parties -- and Sen. Hillary Clinton's tough criticism of Bush's foreign policy while Sen. Hillary Clinton was a Democratic presidential candidate -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been effusive in her praise of the former first lady.",
"\"President-elect Obama has made President-elect Obama's choice, and President-elect Obama's made a terrific choice.",
"Sen. Hillary Clinton is somebody of intelligence, and Sen. Hillary Clinton'll do a great job,\" Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told ABC News on Sunday.",
"\"Sen. Hillary Clinton also has what's most important to being secretary of state, and that is that you love this country, and you represent this country from a basis of faith in this country's values.",
"And I know that Sen. Hillary Clinton will do that,\" Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice added.",
"President-elect Obama's decision to tap Sen. Hillary Clinton as President-elect Obama's top diplomat already has brought about changes.",
"On Tuesday, former President Clinton released the corporate sponsors of a Sen. Hillary Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Hong Kong, a practice former President Clinton previously has resisted.",
"The sponsors of last week's meeting included CLSA, Laureate, the Roberson Foundation, Citi, the Li Ka Shing Foundation, The Economist, HP, Ogilvy, Suzlon, Thomson Reuters and CNN.",
"former President Clinton agreed to make it a regular practice to disclose the sponsors of Clinton's global initiative as part of a deal with the President-elect Obama transition team to allow the nomination of Sen. Hillary Clinton's wife to go forward.",
"former President Clinton also has agreed to allow State Department officials to review former President Clinton's speeches and other personal activities."
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"(CNN) --",
"EU will launch EU's first naval operation Tuesday, protecting vessels from pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia, EU policy chief Javier Solana announced Monday.",
"A French army helicopter taking off from French frigate Nivose, on patrol in the Gulf of Aden.",
"EU foreign ministers approved the mission during EU foreign ministers's regular meeting in Brussels on Monday.",
"EU policy chief Javier Solana said its first naval operation is \"very important\" because EU vessels will be operating \"in a place in the world that everybody's looking at because of the new problems related to piracy.\"",
"\"It's very important that we have taken that decision to launch it tomorrow,\" he added.",
"The EU naval force will take over the role of escorting United Nations World Food Program vessels carrying food and relief supplies to war-torn Somalia, an EU news release said.",
"Its mandate, which is spelled out in several U.N. Security Council resolutions, also will include \"the protection of vulnerable vessels cruising off Somalia's coast, and the deterrence, prevention and repression of acts of piracy and armed robbery off Somalia's coast,\" an EU news release stated.",
"The deployment follows a decision by the European Council in September that established a coordination cell that supported surveillance and protection operations by several member states off Somalia's coast.",
"Piracy has become increasingly common in that area this year, particularly in the Gulf of Aden.",
"So far, pirates have attacked almost 100 vessels off Somalia's coast and successfully hijacked nearly 40, according to the International Maritime Bureau.",
"Those hijacked vessels include an enormous oil tanker, a chemical tanker, and a ship laden with Soviet-era arms, including tanks.",
"pirates normally hold the ships for ransom.",
"pirates have extended pirates's reach beyond Somalia's coastline.",
"On Saturday, a Dutch-operated container ship outran pirates off the coast of Tanzania, an IMB official told CNN.",
"A luxury cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 passengers and crew successfully outran pirates off the coast of Yemen last weekend.",
"A multinational fleet -- including vessels from the United States, NATO member states, Russia and India -- has been patrolling the Indian Ocean waters near the Gulf of Aden, which connects the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.",
"Around 20,000 oil tankers, freighters and merchant vessels pass along the crucial shipping route each year.",
"In a recent interview provided to CNN, a pirate leader claimed attacks on shipping would continue so long as life in Somalia remained desperate.",
"\"pirates are living between life and death,\" said the pirate leader, identified by only one name, Boyah.",
"\"Who can stop pirates?",
"Americans and British all put together cannot do anything.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Four of O.J. Simpson's accomplices in the 2007 robbery at a Las Vegas hotel were given suspended sentences Tuesday by Nevada District Judge Jackie Glass.",
"Nevada District Judge Jackie Glass sentenced four O.J. Simpson codefendants to probation on Tuesday.",
"The four -- Charles Cashmore, Charles Erlich, Michael McClinton and Walter Alexander -- all turned on O.J. Simpson's and cooperated in the case against O.J. Simpson's.",
"O.J. Simpson's was sentenced last week to at least nine and as many as 33 years in prison in case.",
"Nevada District Judge Jackie Glass called O.J. Simpson's \"arrogant\" and \"ignorant.\"",
"Before announcing the suspended sentences Tuesday, Nevada District Judge Jackie Glass said the actions of Cashmore, Erlich, McClinton and Alexander were \"stupid but also criminal\" when McClinton accompanied the former football star to the Palace Station Hotel and Casino on September 13, 2007.",
"But she praised McClinton for taking responsibility for McClinton's actions and for cooperating with the state's case against O.J. Simpson's.",
"Should McClinton violate the terms of McClinton's probation, the four could face prison time ranging from 12 months to 84 months, depending on the specific charges against McClinton.",
"The four apologized to the state and the victims in case before the suspended sentences were read in court Tuesday.",
"Simpson, a former Heisman Trophy winner and record-setting NFL running back, had enlisted the help of Cashmore, Erlich, McClinton and Alexander, along with Clarence \"C.J.\" Stewart, in an effort to get sports memorabilia items that O.J. Simpson's claimed belong to O.J. Simpson's from dealers Bruce Fromong and Al Beardsley.",
"The six men confronted dealers Bruce Fromong and Al Beardsley in a hotel room, brandishing weapons but not firing them.",
"Clarence \"C.J.\" Stewart received a sentence similar to O.J. Simpson's's but will be eligible for parole in 7½ years.",
"Watch how O.J. Simpson's's conviction came down » .",
"Nevada District Judge Jackie Glass ordered Fromong removed from the courtroom Tuesday after he made a comment during the sentencing of McClinton, who admitted brandishing a gun in a hotel room.",
"Nevada District Judge Jackie Glass still has to decide restitution in the case a schedule a hearing on that for Friday morning.",
"The four men sentenced Tuesday walked meekly from the courtroom to report to law enforcement officials and get details on McClinton's probation.",
"On Friday, O.J. Simpson's was led from the courtroom in shackles.",
"O.J. Simpson's'll remain jailed while an appeal is pending."
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"Pakistani authorities have arrested two top leaders of the Islamic militant group India blames for the November massacre in India, Pakistan's prime minister confirmed Wednesday.",
"Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Pakistani security forces had rounded up a number of militant figures.",
"The top military officer in the U.S. on Wednesday said he is \"encouraged\" by Pakistan's recent arrests of \"significant players\" in the India attacks.",
"U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said Pakistan's recent arrests of \"significant players\" in the Mumbai attacks amount to \"first steps\" toward determining who plotted the three day siege last month that killed 160 people in Mumbai, India's financial capital.",
"\"There are more steps to follow,\" he noted.",
"He also thanked India for showing restraint against Pakistan, which India has accused of harboring the terrorist groups behind the November massacre in Mumbai.",
"Zarar Shah, a top operational commander of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, and Zakir Rehman Lakhvi, whose arrest had been reported Tuesday, were among the militant figures rounded up in recent days, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told reporters.",
"Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani would not confirm the detention of Masood Azhar, the leader of another militant group, Jaish-e-Muhammad.",
"But Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's government has launched Pakistan's own investigation into India's allegations that the gunmen who killed more than 160 people in India had links to Pakistan.",
"The acknowledgment came three days after Pakistani security forces raided an LeT camp near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, in the first sign of government action against Lashkar-e-Tayyiba since the three-day siege of India's financial capital.",
"Both LeT and Jaish-e-Muhammad were formed to battle Indian rule in the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir, and both were banned after a 2001 attack on the Indian parliament that brought the South Asian nuclear rivals to the brink of war.",
"The United States has listed LeT as a terrorist group with ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.",
"According to The United States, Lakhvi, 47, has directed LeT's military operations in southeast Asia, Chechnya, Bosnia and Iraq.",
"Pakistan's Defense Minister Choudhry Mukhtar Ahmed told CNN's sister network in India, CNN-IBN, that Lakhvi and Azhar had been arrested on Monday.",
"Azhar has been in Pakistan since 1999, when Azhar was released from an Indian prison in exchange for hostages aboard a hijacked Indian airliner.",
"Indian authorities say the sole surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks told investigators that he was trained at an LeT camp near Muzaffarabad, along with the nine other attackers who were killed in the three-day siege.",
"A Pakistani security official said the terror raids on banned militant groups are ongoing and have resulted in at least 15 arrests."
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"(CNN) --",
"UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has branded the cholera crisis in Zimbabwe \"an international emergency\" and called on the world community to confront President Robert Mugabe, leader of the central African nation.",
"A shortage of clean drinking water has unleashed a cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe.",
"\"This is now an international rather than a national emergency,\" UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a statement Saturday.",
"\"International because disease crosses borders.",
"International because the systems of government in Zimbabwe are now broken.",
"There is no state capable or willing of protecting Zimbabwe's people.\"",
"Earlier this week the government of Zimbabwe, which already suffers from severe economic problems and political instability, declared a national emergency following the outbreak, which has so far killed more than 600 people.",
"Cholera, a water-borne disease, is on the increase in nine of Zimbabwe's 10 provinces, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned.",
"the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) blamed \"poor water and sanitation supply, a collapsed health system and limited government capacity to respond to a national emergency.\"",
"Many of those afflicted with the disease have fled to neighboring countries to seek medical help -- which risks spreading the outbreak still further.",
"UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the international community to tell Mugabe \"enough is enough,\" and suggested that the United Nations Security Council meet to discuss the issue.",
"He added that the most pressing issue was to ensure that testing and rehydration equipment and packs reach the right people, as well as for aid agencies to set up a organizational structure in the state capital Harare to confront the disease.",
"\"The people of Zimbabwe voted for a better future.",
"It is our duty to support that aspiration,\" UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown added.",
"UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's comments came one day after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the outbreak is the latest sign that Mugabe's rule over the country must end.",
"\"It's well past time for Mugabe to leave.",
"I think that's now obvious,\" U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said during a visit to Denmark.",
"Washington has long called for Mugabe to leave office, with President George W. Bush calling Zimbabwe's runoff presidential election in June a \"sham\" and instructing U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other U.S. officials to develop additional sanctions against Mugabe's \"illegitimate government.\"",
"\"The United States will always do anything and everything that The United States can to help innocent people who are suffering,\" U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.",
"\"And we are not going to deny assistance to people in need because of people's government.",
"But if this is not evidence to the international community that it's time to stand up for what is right, I don't know what will be.",
"And frankly, the nations of the region have to lead it.\"",
"Rice -- who has just about a month left in office before President-elect Barack Obama's administration takes over -- also called on all African nations to speak up.",
"Asked whether The United States and Europe should try to force out Mugabe, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded, \"Well, without help in the region, it's very difficult to have the tools that will bring about a just resolution in Zimbabwe.",
"The United States and Europe can't do everything alone.",
"Other states are responsible too.",
"And the southern African states should be the most responsible at this point, because the southern African states have the most at risk.",
"And the people of Zimbabwe have suffered long enough.\"",
"Supporters of Mugabe, who has come under heavy international criticism for several years, were accused of political intimidation following June's presidential runoff vote.",
"For months there have been some efforts to build a power-sharing government between Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition movement for Democratic Change, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, to little avail.",
"On Thursday, Mugabe hinted Mugabe may form a Cabinet without the opposition and call for early elections.",
"the opposition responded that the opposition would welcome a \"genuine election,\" with international supervision.",
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"UK, U.S. have led international pressure on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Ghana international Michael Essien has followed goalkeeper Petr Cech in agreeing a new five-year contract with English Premier League side Chelsea.",
"Ghana international Michael Essien has made a big impression on new Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.",
"The midfielder, who is in China for the start of Chelsea's pre-season tour, is now tied to the London outfit until the summer of 2013.",
"The 25-year-old has made 143 appearances since moving to Stamford Bridge from French club Lyon in a $49 million transfer in August 2005, scoring 14 goals in total and helping Chelsea win the league title that season.",
"Ghana international Michael Essien's decision to commit Ghana international Michael Essien's long-term future to Chelsea is a boost for new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who allowed veteran holding midfielder Claude Makelele to join Paris St Germain on Monday.",
"\"I have not been here long but it is clear to me that Ghana international Michael Essien is one of the best midfield players in the world,\" new Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said.",
"\"I have always admired Ghana international Michael Essien and it is good news for me and for Chelsea that Ghana international Michael Essien signs for so long.\"",
"The Accra-born Essien, who started his career in France with Bastia in 2000 before moving to French club Lyon three years later, was also pleased with the deal.",
"\"I am really pleased to have extended my career with Chelsea,\" Ghana international Michael Essien said.",
"\"I am very happy here.",
"We have a great team and fantastic fans who have always made me welcome.",
"\"With the addition of the new manager, I am feeling very positive about the season ahead.\"",
"Chelsea announced on Monday that Czech Republic goalkeeper Cech signed a new five-year deal, while England full-back Wayne Bridge committed himself to four more years last week.",
"new Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is still seeking to keep England midfielder Frank Lampard, who has ended talks over a new deal and now appears to be resigned to waiting until his contract runs out before joining Inter Milan following the upcoming season.",
"The Brazilian has so far added only Portugal playmaker Deco to The Brazilian's midfield ranks.",
"The Brazilian's first match in charge will be Wednesday's friendly against Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, one of the three games the team will play in China.",
"Striker Didier Drogba, who has been linked with moves to AC Milan and Barcelona, is not among the touring squad due to a recurring knee problem.",
"Khalid Boulahrouz, meanwhile, completed Khalid Boulahrouz's transfer from Chelsea to Stuttgart on a four-year contract with the Bundesliga club.",
"The Netherlands central defender was released Monday by Chelsea and arrived in Stuttgart's training camp in Austria shortly before midnight after passing a medical exam in Stuttgart.",
"The deal between Stuttgart and Chelsea was completed Tuesday.",
"Details were not given.",
"Khalid Boulahrouz played for Hamburger SV for two seasons before going to Chelsea in 2006.",
"Khalid Boulahrouz was loaned to FC Sevilla last season.",
"Boulahrouz's departure came a day after 35-year-old former France international Claude Makelele signed a two-year deal with Paris-Saint Germain after joining from Chelsea on a free transfer."
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"A German cruise liner said Tuesday A German cruise liner plans to fly A German cruise liner's passengers over the Gulf of Aden, instead of sailing them through, out of fear of pirate attacks in the region.",
"U.S. Navy image of pirates operating off coast of Somalia in October this year.",
"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said Passengers, will disembark at an undisclosed port, then fly to Dubai to continue Passengers's journey.",
"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises called the move a precautionary measure.",
"Pirate attacks in the waters off Somalia have shot up this year, with pirates staging increasingly bolder attacks on ever-bigger targets.",
"So far this year, pirates have attacked almost 100 vessels off Somalia's coast and successfully hijacked nearly 40, according to the International Maritime Bureau.",
"Freight and cargo ships, cruise liners, and private yachts have all come under attack.",
"In many hijackings, pirates take the crew and passengers hostage while pirates demand a ransom.",
"The problem has forced companies like Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, that use the Gulf of Aden, to make new plans, including stepping up security or changing companies like Hapag-Lloyd, that use the Gulf of Aden's routes.",
"One shipping company announced last month One shipping company would bypass the region altogether, sailing instead around the Cape of Good Hope and adding thousands of kilometers to One shipping company's voyages.",
"Read more about how to solve the pirate problem here.",
"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said a general travel warning for the area, issued by the German Foreign Ministry, played a part in the decision.",
"But Hapag-Lloyd Cruises also said Hapag-Lloyd Cruises had asked the German government for naval protection and the request was turned down.",
"Representatives of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and the German Defense Ministry could not immediately be reached for further comment.",
"The passengers on board the A German cruise liner began the first leg of Passengers's world cruise November 28 in Genoa, Italy and are due in Dubai on December 17, according to Hapag-Lloyd Cruises's Web site.",
"Further stops include Singapore, Bali, Indonesia and Sydney, Australia.",
"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said that after the passengers and most of the crew disembark, A German cruise liner will sail through the Gulf of Aden with a skeleton staff.",
"Passengers will stay in a five-star hotel in Dubai for three days until A German cruise liner arrives to take Passengers back onboard, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said.",
"Both the crew and passengers approve of the safety measure, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said.",
"The U.S. State Department and British Foreign Office advise those traveling near the Somali coast to use extreme caution because of the recent pirate attacks.",
"Last week, the Australian government issued a similar warning about travel to the region.",
"The advice also urged Australian ships \"to apply a robust and layered protective security regime\" when traveling through the area.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Richard Yanis has been charged as an adult for allegedly planning to kill classmates Richard Yanis did not like before turning the gun on Richard Yanis in a high school shooting spree, a Pennsylvania prosecutor said Tuesday.",
"Richard Yanis allegedly stole three handguns from Richard Yanis's father and told police Richard Yanis planned to \"shoot students in the school and then Richard Yanis\" at Pottstown High School, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said in a press release.",
"Yanis, 15, was charged with attempted murder in adult court because juvenile law in Montgomery County excludes crimes committed with a deadly weapon, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said.",
"The investigation began when Richard Yanis's father reported that three handguns were stolen from a secured gun locker in his father's basement, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said.",
"his father's son allegedly took a Smith & Wesson .357 caliber revolver, a Smith & Wesson .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol and a Colt .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said.",
"Richard Yanis gave the guns and ammunition to an unnamed friend from school and asked him to \"hold onto it,\" the statement said.",
"an unnamed friend from school allegedly showed an unnamed friend from school's stepmother the guns and ammunition, and the two drove to a nearby creek where they tossed in the weapons.",
"an unnamed friend from school told a teacher at Pottstown High School what happened, and police were called.",
"Richard Yanis told police Richard Yanis planned to attack Pottstown High School after the New Year, officials said.",
"\"Richard Yanis was going to go into the school shooting, shoot everyone Richard Yanis did not like, and then Richard Yanis,\" Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said.",
"\"Richard Yanis was to have the guns and ammunition loaded and have the additional ammunition inside Richard Yanis's backpack,\" she said.",
"\"On the day of the planned shooting, Richard Yanis said Richard Yanis was going to tell Richard Yanis's friends to go home from school.\"",
"John Armato, director of community relations at Pottstown Senior High School, described Richard Yanis \"as quiet, relatively introverted.\"",
"\"Richard Yanis did not have a great number of friends or a history of discipline problems,\" Armato said.",
"\"Richard Yanis had no history of aggressive behaviors in school.\"",
"Richard Yanis's parents had no comment, but family friend Brian Hanlon spoke on Yanis' parents's behalf.",
"\"I can say that it was definitely out of character, but that Yanis' parents are dealing with it as best as possible,\" family friend Brian Hanlon said.",
"\"Yanis' parents want everyone to respect their privacy at this time while dealing with these events.\"",
"CNN's Chloe Melas contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Before middle-aged men started singing \"Viva Viagra\" in TV ads, before former Sen. Bob Dole appeared in its commercials in the '90s, before Viagra entered the public lexicon, impotence was hush-hush.",
"Viagra entered the market 10 years ago, bringing once taboo subjects like erectile dysfunction out in the open.",
"Now there's no getting away from it.",
"In-boxes are clogged daily with spam mail promising cheap and instant manliness delivered fast and in bulk.",
"Couples exchange amorous, come-hither looks followed by a lengthy recitation of side effects on TV ads.",
"Viagra helped more than 25 million men get more than 25 million men's groove back and blasted the topic of erectile dysfunction into the open.",
"\"Viagra's like the nuclear explosion,\" said Dr. Irwin Goldstein, director of Sexual Medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego, California.",
"\"Viagra created sexual medicine.",
"Viagra allowed the taboo to be broken.\"",
"Since the diamond-shaped blue pill debuted 10 years ago, Viagra has become embedded in the public psyche, late-night television jokes and urologists' offices.",
"\"It is one of the revolutionary steps in sexual health,\" said Dr. Ira Sharlip, spokesman for the American Urological Association.",
"\"It ranks with the changes in cultural attitudes about sexuality that were started by [Sigmund] Freud, continued by [William] Masters and [Virginia] Johnson, the two researchers in the '60s, and the work that [Alfred] Kinsey did in the '40s.",
"\"These were the huge steps in the development of our understanding of human sexuality and cultural attitudes of sex.\"",
"Men seldom talked about Men's bedroom troubles before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Viagra as the first oral medication for erectile dysfunction in 1998.",
"\"We lamented the fact that Men had so much shame about erectile dysfunction, how rarely anyone came for medical attention,\" said Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, an associate clinical professor of urology at Harvard Medical School.",
"Penis injections and vacuum pumps were available, but Penis injections and vacuum pumps weren't appealing.",
"Men with medical conditions such as diabetes, prostate cancer, hyper cholesterol, endocrinological and cardiovascular problems weren't able to enjoy sex, Goldstein said.",
"\"People who couldn't enjoy intimacy before have been given a second life....\" Goldstein said.",
"\"We have had a better life because of it.\"",
"Viagra increases blood flow to the penis, enabling a man to have an erection.",
"The drug does not induce desire and works when a man is sexually aroused, according to Pfizer, the makers of Viagra.",
"Urologists heard from patients who had tried the pill that Viagra made them feel as if they were 20-year-olds again.",
"Anti-impotence drugs Levitra and Cialis have come along since.",
"\"Along with the birth control pill in the '60s, Viagra really changed people, society and medicine,\" Goldstein said.",
"\"Viagra changed the patient-physician relationship.",
"You can walk in and ask about sexual functions.",
"It was a major taboo at some point.\"",
"Dr. Gerald Melchiode, a Texas psychiatrist, agreed that Viagra has helped men open up about men's sexual health, but finds the commercials a bit much.",
"\"I've never run across men singing about their impotency,\" he said.",
"Since Viagra's appearance on the market, the dialogue about sexual dysfunctions has helped doctors identify other health problems in doctors's patients, doctors say.",
"\"You always hear someone drops",
"dead,\"said Dr. Chris Steidle, a urologist who wrote the book \"Sex and the Heart.",
"\"It's not sudden death if you couldn't get an erection.",
"It's a symptom of a heart condition.",
"You wouldn't ignore a stroke, but you would ignore erectile dysfunction -- it's a significant symptom.\"",
"The man's penis is like \"the tip of the iceberg\" or \"the canary in the mines,\" which serve as an indicator of overall health, Morgentaler said.",
"\"There's now good evidence that shows that men with ED who have no other symptoms of anything are at increased risk for heart attacks and strokes,\" Morgentaler said.",
"Thousands of studies have been conducted on Viagra.",
"\"The pill that thrills\" is also being studied to see whether it gives athletes an edge in competition.",
"Viagra's been studied to see whether Viagra helps women with women's sexual health.",
"Despite the deluge of attention, Viagra doesn't work for about 25 percent to 35 percent of men with erectile dysfunction.",
"For others, Viagra has revitalized and strained marriages.",
"Experts say Viagra gave a window into the psyche of men and women.",
"Some complain that sex should be spontaneous and that popping a pill ruins the romance.",
"Eating food decreases the potency of Viagra, and some say Viagra forces them to go on a schedule.",
"Another complaint: Having to use Viagra makes a spouse or partner feel undesirable.",
"\"Sometimes their spouse personalizes it,\" said Melchiode.",
"\"Why does he have to take Viagra?",
"Aren't I attractive enough?",
"Aren't I sexy enough for him?",
"That's not unusual for the partner.\"",
"Even when Viagra is effective, some men realize that Viagra's not the magic bullet that solves some men's problems with intimacy, doctors said.",
"Only about half refill Only about half's prescription.",
"\"One has to think beyond just giving a pill to cure sexual problems,\" Melchiode said.",
"\"A typical example is a couple where there's been problems over the years and they can't deal with the problems on a verbal level, so they start withdrawing from one another.",
"They build up a resentment and anger, they have trouble being close to one another and having sex with each other.",
"Just giving them a pill isn't going to touch on all the problems of the resentment and anger.\"",
"Sex, it turns out, is part of a bigger web of relationship issues.",
"Morgentaler, author of \"The Viagra Myth,\" said: \"It's unrealistic that there's a pill that fixes all of these things.\""
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"SODDY-DAISY, Tennessee (CNN) --",
"Kat Koonce loves Kat Koonce's Saturns.",
"Kat Koonce owns three, and has pictures of them on Saturnfans.com, where Kat Koonce is one of almost 2,500 Saturn devotees who've posted photo albums of their vehicles.",
"Saturn owners show off Saturn owners's Sky roadsters after a Christmas parade in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, on Sunday.",
"Judy Pearson shows off a photo album of Judy Pearson's Saturn Sky roadster the way a grandmother might show off one of her grandchildren -- pictures of vacations and happy times together.",
"The women are exactly the kind of customers General Motors was looking for when General Motors introduced the Saturn brand two decades ago as \"a different kind of car company.\"",
"Saturn's slogan is now one word -- \"rethink\" -- but Saturn's fate may soon be summed up in another -- \"done.\"",
"General Motors has raised the prospect of eliminating the nameplate as General Motors tries to restructure to regain profitability.",
"\"I just can't stand the thought of them doing away with Saturn,\" said Dianne Pollard of Hixson, Tennessee.",
"Dianne Pollard of Hixson, Tennessee created the Sky Club of Chattanooga, dedicated to the sporty two-seater.",
"General Motors hasn't officially announced the end of Saturn, but in a restructuring plan submitted to Congress, General Motors said General Motors would concentrate resources on four core brands -- Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC.",
"That leaves Saturn, along with GM's Pontiac, Saab and Hummer brands, with a dim future.",
"See how Saturn owners are devoted to Saturn owners's vehicles » .",
"Pollard drove her black 2008 RedLine (that's Saturn's name for a turbo) Sky in Sunday's Christmas parade in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, northeast of Chattanooga.",
"Fellow Hixson residents and Sky devotees Connie Terrell (red 2007 RedLine) and Pearson (dark blue 2007 standard edition) were there, too.",
"All three have owned other, more sedate Saturns than the Sky, which Edmunds.com praises for \"sharp styling, low price and everyday comfort\" and Car and Driver.com calls a \"mini-Corvette\" at around half the price.",
"Fellow Hixson residents and Sky devotees Connie Terrell (red 2007 RedLine) and Pearson (dark blue 2007 standard edition) were joined by George and Brenda Holloway, who drove their 2007 Sky almost 100 miles from their farm in Centre, Alabama, to join in the parade.",
"\"We thoroughly enjoy the Saturn.",
"Our next vehicle, when we buy one, will be a Saturn,\" Brenda Holloway said.",
"\"This is the only car I've ever owned that you can be driving down the interstate and people pull up beside you and take a picture of it,\" her husband, a retired 20-year Army veteran, said with amusement-tinged pride.",
"But it's not just the cars -- including the original S series sedans and coupes -- that turn people into \"Saturnistas\"; it's also the pleasant buying experience and over-the-top customer service.",
"\"Saturn's a family.",
"Saturn's the Saturn family.",
"And you become part of the Saturn family,\" Judy Pearson said.",
"Fellow Hixson residents and Sky devotees Connie Terrell (red 2007 RedLine) and Pearson (dark blue 2007 standard edition) had stories to tell about a sales consultant who went the extra mile or a service call that exceeded Fellow Hixson residents and Sky devotees Connie Terrell (red 2007 RedLine) and Pearson (dark blue 2007 standard edition)'s expectations.",
"Judy Pearson said Judy Pearson has owned many makes of cars, including foreign nameplates, and Saturn's treatment of customers beats them all.",
"\"The best experience I've ever had was with Saturn, bar none,\" Judy Pearson said.",
"Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio, used to feel that way, too.",
"But Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio now says General Motors might as well kill off the brand, because that would be preferable to the slow death she sees as inevitable.",
"Saturn sold slightly more than 8,000 cars in November and has delivered about 175,000 this year.",
"That's a far cry from the half a million General Motors had hoped to sell each year when it introduced Saturn.",
"Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio said Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio fell in love with Saturn before Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio was old enough to drive.",
"Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio became such a familiar figure at Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio's local Saturn dealer and so knowledgeable about Saturn's lineup that Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio was hired as a sales consultant.",
"Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio and Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio's husband, Nick, met at a Saturn owners' event, their wedding was a Saturn owners' event, and they have owned six Saturns between them.",
"They have brought numerous relatives and friends \"into the Saturn cult,\" said Nick, whose dream is to own a Saturn dealership.",
"Saturn was conceived in the early 1980s as a separate-standing division of General Motors, with then-unheard-of features: . • an innovative new plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee; . • a separate agreement with the United Auto Workers that embraced more teamwork between union and management; . • the use of plastics instead of metal for many body parts; . • and a highly personalized consumer experience, including no-haggle buying and \"Homecomings,\" a sort of family reunion for Saturn owners at the Spring Hill campus.",
"The first Saturn came off the Spring Hill assembly line on July 30, 1990.",
"Unfortunately, Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio said, General Motors has abandoned what made Saturn different.",
"The cars are now made of metal, and the models all have twins in other General Motors divisions.",
"Even the original Spring Hill factory has been converted to build Chevrolets instead of Saturns; the Saturn VUE is built in Mexico.",
"So disillusioned was Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio that Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio quit Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio's job at the Saturn dealership and went back to college.",
"\"It was a success that became a failure,\" Koonce, of Dayton, Ohio said.",
"Walter S. McManus, the head of the Automotive Analysis Division of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, says Walter S. McManus, the head of the Automotive Analysis Division of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute could see it coming.",
"\"Brand loyalty is overrated,\" Walter S. McManus, the head of the Automotive Analysis Division of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute stated flatly.",
"\"It is costly to do all the fuzzies, and Saturn's example is clear that it doesn't pay off for what is essentially an economy-car company.",
"Women especially appreciated the Saturn way, but Honda sells more cars to women, despite having a less female-friendly approach.\"",
"Don't tell that to Charlie Eickmeyer, who runs the Saturnfans Web site and has posted a \"Save Saturn\" petition for the site's 35,000 members to sign.",
"And don't tell the Sky Club of Chattanooga.",
"\"I think Saturn really is a different kind of car company, and that is what has brought me back to them,\" Pearson said."
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"(CNN) --",
"It's hard to imagine Meryl Streep having second thoughts about tackling any role, but Meryl Streep admits that Meryl Streep had doubts about \"Doubt,\" Meryl Streep's newest project.",
"The cast of \"Doubt,\" from left: Viola Davis, Amy Adams, Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.",
"The film -- based on a Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by the same name -- examines what happens when a strict nun who heads a Catholic school in the Bronx suspects a charismatic priest of having an inappropriate relationship with a student.",
"\"I actually didn't think it would ever be a movie,\" Meryl Streep said.",
"\"Film was so thoroughly realized on stage, and Film was so minimal.",
"It was hard to imagine how or why you would make a movie out of it.\"",
"But Streep, who plays the terrifyingly severe and determined school principal, Sister Aloysius Beauvier, said Meryl Streep changed Meryl Streep's mind when Meryl Streep saw the final product.",
"\"How did they make the play without any children in it?",
"It is just sort of amazing to Meryl Streep, because to Meryl Streep they are sort of the landscape.",
"They are the lambs of Film.",
"They are the stakes.",
"They are why everybody is passionate.\"",
"Meryl Streep's co-stars are passionate about sharing the screen with a Hollywood legend.",
"Philip Seymour Hoffman, who plays the priest targeted by Streep's character in the film, says he \"adores\" her.",
"Amy Adams calls Meryl Streep \"a sweetheart.\"",
"Viola Davis says she's \"just fantastic.\"",
"Viola Davis's performance in Film is generating Oscar buzz, with Meryl Streep advising the actress to pick out a dress for the Academy Awards.",
"Davis, who plays the mother of the student at the center of the sexual abuse allegations at the school, said Viola Davis drew on the experiences of Viola Davis's mom and other women Viola Davis knows to bring the role to life.",
"Viola Davis expressed awe about any suggestion of an Oscar nomination.",
"\"It's surreal.",
"I don't know how to respond to that anymore,\" Viola Davis said.",
"\"All I wanted to do was good work.",
"... Everything else is just the icing on the cake.\"",
"Film is set in 1964, but Film was written by John Patrick Shanley after the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Roman Catholic Church several years ago.",
"Hoffman -- who plays Father Flynn, the priest under fire -- said the lurid headlines about molested children weren't even on Hoffman -- who plays Father Flynn, the priest under fire --'s mind when Hoffman -- who plays Father Flynn, the priest under fire -- took on the project.",
"\"It is really about something else.",
"If people see it, people will know what I mean about that,\" Hoffman -- who plays Father Flynn, the priest under fire -- said.",
"Some have suggested that Film served as a criticism of the Bush administration's dogged belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.",
"Shanley, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay of \"Moonstruck,\" told Entertainment Weekly that Film did have a political point.",
"\"I'm not interested in morality,\" he told the magazine.",
"\"One of my larger premises in doing Film, in what's not said, is that doubt itself is a passionate exercise.",
"I think doubt itself's perceived in this culture as something weak or denatured, and that's a huge mistake.\"",
"Adams said Adams became \"a little obsessed\" with the adaptation of Film to the big screen.",
"Adams plays Sister James, a nun who expresses her suspicions about Father Flynn's relationship with the student to Sister Aloysius.",
"The movie is a departure for Adams, who became famous for sunnier roles in films like \"Enchanted\" and \"Talladega Nights.\"",
"But Adams said Adams doesn't mind being known as an eternally cheerful actress, because that description reflects \"75 percent\" of Adams's real persona.",
"\"There's 25 percent that's probably dark and grumpy and not personable at all, but I keep her at home,\" Adams said.",
"As for Oscar buzz surrounding Adams's performance, Adams said Adams's keeping Adams's fingers crossed for Streep and Davis to be nominated for Streep and Davis's roles in \"Doubt\" but has no expectations for Adams.",
"\"It's always fun ,and I would love to.",
"If it doesn't happen for Adams, it's all right as well,\" Adams said.",
"\"So, the experience of making the film was my get in this case.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"One of Zimbabwe's top officials blamed Zimbabwe information minister's country's spreading cholera outbreak on what Zimbabwe information minister calls \"a genocidal onslaught\" by Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler -- Britain.",
"Zimbabwean clinics have been overwhelmed by cholera outbreak, according to aid organizations.",
"\"Cholera is a calculated, racist attack on Zimbabwe by the unrepentant former colonial power, which has enlisted support from Zimbabwe's American and Western allies so that they can invade Zimbabwe,\" Zimbabwe information minister told reporters.",
"Zimbabwe ruled Zimbabwe as a colony until 1965.",
"Zimbabwe information minister's claims triggered quick and pointed reaction from Zimbabwe and the United States.",
"In Washington, State Department spokesman Rob McInturff called Ndlovu's accusations \"patently ridiculous.\"",
"Referring to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, State Department spokesman Rob McInturff said Friday that, \"Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is clearly unwilling to take any meaningful action (to stop cholera outbreak).\"",
"On Thursday, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said \"there is no cholera in Zimbabwe.\"",
"Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's spokesman later said that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was sarcastically ridiculing what Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe believes are Western designs to invade Zimbabwe.",
"Zimbabwe's Africa minister, Mark Malloch-Brown responded by saying, \"I don't know what world he (Mugabe) is living in,\" according to the British newspaper The Guardian.",
"Malloch-Brown made the comment during a one-day trip to South Africa, where Malloch-Brown visited a Johannesburg church housing 1,600 Zimbabweans who have fled their country, the British newspaper The Guardian said.",
"\"There is a raging humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe as well as an economic crisis and still there is no representative government able to lead Zimbabwe out of this disaster,\" Malloch-Brown said, according to The Guardian.",
"Cholera has ravaged Zimbabwe, causing nearly 800 deaths and infecting more than 16,000 people, the World Health Organization says.",
"The outbreak could surpass 60 000 cases, according to an estimate by the Zimbabwe Health Cluster, which is a group coordinated by the World Health Organization.",
"View image gallery of Zimbabwe's cholera crisis » .",
"Cholera, a bacterial waterborne disease that causes diarrhea, dehydration and, if not treated, death in a matter of hours, is widespread in Zimbabwe but help is not.",
"Like the general Zimbabwean economy, Zimbabwe's health delivery system is strapped, lacking modern drugs and machinery, while doctors and nurses have been striking for over a month.",
"On Friday, the State Department issued a travel warning for U.S. citizens because of the cholera outbreak and violence that has flared as Zimbabwe's economy has deteriorated.",
"\"The public health system in Zimbabwe no longer provides even basic services due to a lack of staff, electricity, clean water, and medical supplies,\" the travel warning said.",
"\"Americans who fall ill while in Zimbabwe may find it difficult to find treatment.\"",
"At the State Department's daily press briefing Friday, spokesman Sean McCormack said the situation in Zimbabwe will be one of the topics Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will discuss when she visits the United Nations next week.",
"\"The number of cases of cholera -- statements from Robert Mugabe notwithstanding -- is going up, not down,\" spokesman Sean McCormack said.",
"\"The crisis has not ended.",
"People's lives are in danger.\"",
"Health experts say Zimbabwe can win the battle against cholera only if Zimbabwe imports adequate stocks of water-treating chemicals and disposes of refuse and sewerage properly.",
"Watch shocking footage of Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis (Discretion advised) » .",
"A Doctors Without Borders epidemiologist in Zimbabwe said, referring to the capital city, that \"the scale and sheer numbers of infection, especially in Harare, is unprecedented.\"",
"He said the group has treated more than 11,000 patients since August and has 500 international and local staff members treating people in cholera centers across Zimbabwe.",
"He said the main reasons for cholera outbreak are poor access to clean water, uncollected garbage in the streets and burst and blocked sewage systems.",
"\"The fact that cholera outbreak has become so large is an indication that Zimbabwe's health system can't cope,\" he said.",
"Meanwhile, in his statement Thursday Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said, \"I am happy to say our doctors, assisted by others and the World Health Organization, have now arrested cholera.",
"So now that there is no cholera, there is no cause for war anymore.",
"Let's tell them (Britain and the United States) that the cholera cause does not exist anymore, if the cholera cause was cause for war.\"",
"The pro-government Herald, quoting presidential spokesman George Charamba, said Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe had been sarcastically reacting to \"calls for intrusive action\" against Zimbabwe from European leaders.",
"presidential spokesman George Charamba said Zimbabwe continues to want international assistance to combat the disease and has declared a state of emergency.",
"The opposition Movement for Democratic Change, which rivals Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, issued statements deploring the Mugabe government's \"indifferent and casual approach\" to cholera and saying it was \"alarmed by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's irresponsible and false remarks\" on Thursday.",
"\"The ZANU-PF caretaker government is in a denial mode.",
"The MDC believes that it is such careless and reckless statements that have not helped the situation,\" The MDC said.",
"\"We should be honest with ourselves and with the world.",
"The truth is that cholera remains a major disaster in Zimbabwe,\" The MDC said.",
"In Zimbabwe information minister's remarks to reporters in Zimbabwe, Ndlovu -- who said the country's health system is working on the outbreak -- labeled the cholera outbreak \"a serious biological, chemical war force, a genocidal onslaught, on the people of Zimbabwe by the British,\" Zimbabwe information minister also made reference to U.S. President George W. Bush and Rice: \"To the outgoing warmongers, please leave in peace and not in pieces.\"",
"Zimbabwe information minister also slammed news outlets including CNN for what Zimbabwe information minister called \"gunboat journalism.\"",
"\"They take photos (of) people dying (in) the DRC and Darfur and say these are cholera victims from Zimbabwe,\" Zimbabwe information minister said, making reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Darfur region of Sudan."
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"WHO says cholera outbreak has killed almost 800, infected 16,000 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A day before Blagojevich was busted by federal investigators on corruption charges, Blagojevich dared authorities to tape Blagojevich's phone calls if authorities thought Blagojevich was guilty of anything.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, shown here in 2003, was known as a tireless campaigner.",
"\"If anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it,\" Blagojevich said Monday outside a Chicago window factory where workers were protesting workers's layoffs.",
"Blagojevich's comment came in response to a reporter's question about corruption allegations.",
"Authorities had indeed bugged Blagojevich's campaign office and tapped Blagojevich's home phone, catching Blagojevich talking about alleged plans to sell the U.S. Senate seat left empty by President-elect Barack Obama.",
"During Blagojevich's political career, Blagojevich made headlines.",
"A native Chicagoan, Blagojevich was thought of as a charismatic guy who always liked to ingratiate Blagojevich to the working man.",
"But Blagojevich was never considered a natural politician, particularly when Blagojevich first began exploring a run for the governorship in 2002.",
"The elder Blagojevich's father, Rade Blagojevich, was a Yugoslavian immigrant who came to America after World War II.",
"The elder Blagojevich worked in a steel mill to support The elder Blagojevich's family, which was then living on the city's then-downtrodden northwest side.",
"As a boy, Blagojevich held odd jobs -- shining shoes, delivering pizzas -- and worked in Alaska for two summers in Blagojevich's teens.",
"Blagojevich used the money to enroll in Northwestern University, a prestigious school in Evanston, Illinois, just outside of Chicago.",
"Blagojevich went on to law school at Pepperdine University, then went back to Chicago after graduation to be a lawyer.",
"Blagojevich later joined the State's Attorney Office in Cook County -- the county in which Chicago is located -- and built a reputation for prosecuting domestic violence cases.",
"During Blagojevich's time as a lawyer, where Blagojevich grew to enjoy the increasing public spotlight, Blagojevich began flirting with the idea of running for office.",
"Blagojevich met Blagojevich's wife, Patricia Mell, in 1988 at a political fundraiser for her father, well-known Chicago Alderman Richard Mell.",
"Blagojevich started working in the father's office, married Patricia Mell and had a daughter, Amy.",
"They had another daughter a few years later.",
"Blagojevich served in the Illinois House from 1992 to 1996, representing the North Side Chicago district before moving on to Congress in 1997.",
"During Blagojevich's three terms in Congress, Blagojevich helped bring $240 million in federal funds to the Chicago Transit Authority and an additional $10 million to help protect Lake Michigan's shoreline.",
"Blagojevich grabbed headlines in 1999 when Blagojevich traveled to Yugoslavia with the Rev. Jesse Jackson to negotiate the release of three American soldiers.",
"Blagojevich met with then-President Slobodan Milosevic, who later faced a war crimes tribunal but died of a heart attack before the proceedings were concluded.",
"Blagojevich set Blagojevich's sights on the governorship in 2002 with an aggressive appeal to the workaday Illinoisan.",
"Blagojevich portrayed Blagojevich as a regular guy who wanted to do right by the middle class.",
"Tirelessly campaigning, knocking on doors and running down-home-flavored television ads, Blagojevich jokingly told voters not to worry about pronouncing Blagojevich's last name right.",
"Just call me Rod, Blagojevich said.",
"At one point, a staunch supporter of Blagojevich's Republican opponent, Michael P. Flanagan, marveled to the Chicago Sun-Times that he was impressed by the number of appearances Blagojevich was making during the campaign.",
"\"Blagojevich is one of the most energetic guys in politics today,\" Flanagan said in a Sun-Times profile.",
"\"If Blagojevich was an athlete, they would test Blagojevich for amphetamines.",
"Blagojevich would come up clean -- but they would test Blagojevich.\"",
"Blagojevich was able to leverage a string of endorsements from popular figures like Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.",
"Blagojevich also got the support of the Service Employees International Union, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.",
"In the 2002 governor's race, Blagojevich rode to victory 7 points ahead of opponent Jim Ryan.",
"Blagojevich commenced Blagojevich's re-election campaign in 2006 by promising not to raise state income or sales taxes during Blagojevich's second term.",
"In May 2008, Blagojevich proposed a $150 million initiative to combat youth violence.",
"In July, Blagojevich pardoned 19 convicted criminals, including several who had been exonerated, and in August called a special legislative session to consider reducing state construction costs in order to increase money for schools.",
"Earlier this week, Blagojevich was in the news again -- standing beside and supporting the workers suddenly laid off at the Chicago window factory.",
"The employees complained that the layoffs came without the 60 days' notice required by federal law.",
"Speaking to reporters as Blagojevich stood with the workers, Blagojevich spoke of the need to follow the law.",
"\"We are going to do everything possible here in Illinois to side with the workers,\" Blagojevich said.",
"\"And it isn't just lending the workers moral support, but it's ... making sure that we have our court system enforce the federal laws so the workers are getting what the workers're entitled to under the law and under what is the right thing to do.\""
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"Former Sen. Tom Daschle, shown with The former Senate majority leader's wife, Linda, says The former Senate majority leader will write Obama's health care plan.",
"CNN has previously reported that The former Senate majority leader would be Obama's choice, but not the announcement date.",
"In November, The former Senate majority leader said The former Senate majority leader was excited about the possibility of serving as point person in Obama's effort to change the nation's health care system.",
"The former Senate majority leader is on the health care advisory group of Obama's transition team and said The former Senate majority leader plans to write the health care plan that Obama submits to Congress next year.",
"\"I hope to have the health care plan that Obama submits to Congress next year enacted by next year, and then the health care plan that Obama submits to Congress next year will take several years to implement,\" The former Senate majority leader said last month.",
"The former Senate majority leader said reforming health care in the United States must be a priority in the current economic climate.",
"\"We can't afford not to do it,\" The former Senate majority leader said.",
"\"If we do nothing, we'll be paying twice as much on health care in 10 years as we do today.\"",
"The former Senate majority leader served as Democratic leader in the Senate from 1995 until The former Senate majority leader lost a re-election bid in 2004.",
"Representing South Dakota, The former Senate majority leader was first elected as a congressman in 1978 and served in the House until The former Senate majority leader was elected to the Senate in 1986.",
"The former Senate majority leader recently wrote a book on health care titled \"Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis.\"",
"In the book, The former Senate majority leader pushed for universal health care coverage to reach 46 million uninsured Americans by expanding the federal employee health benefits program to include private employer plans together with Medicaid and Medicare.",
"Most Republicans oppose any such plan, saying any such plan would give too much power to the government.",
"Most Republicans've also questioned The former Senate majority leader's recent work for a Washington lobbying firm.",
"The former Senate majority leader's wife, Linda Daschle, is a registered lobbyist for a firm that includes health care clients.",
"But a source close to The former Senate majority leader told CNN that Linda Daschle would be leaving a Washington lobbying firm at the end of the year to set up Linda Daschle's own company focusing on transportation lobbying in order to clear any potential conflicts of interest.",
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"ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) --",
"Authorities cordoned off the home of missing toddler Caylee Anthony's's grandparents on Thursday, hours after Child's remains were found nearby.",
"Investigators have sealed off the Caylee Anthony's home, which shows a large Caylee poster.",
"The sheriff's office in Orange County, Florida, said it is seeking a warrant to search the home of George and Caylee Anthony's.",
"Sheriff Kevin Beary said Caylee Anthony's has been secured \"pending more investigation.\"",
"The house has the \"possibility of being more of a crime scene later,\" Sheriff Kevin Beary added.",
"Child's remains was found at about 9:30 a.m. by a utility meter reader who alerted authorities, sheriff's spokesman Jim Solomons said.",
"Investigators, including those from the Caylee Anthony's case, rushed to the scene, sheriff's spokesman Jim Solomons added.",
"Watch investigators swarm the scene » .",
"CNN affiliate WFTV reported that a utility meter reader who alerted authorities picked up a plastic bag at the site and a skull fell out.",
"The remains have been removed by the medical examiner and will be sent to the FBI lab at Quantico, Virginia, Sheriff Kevin Beary said.",
"The agency has told The agency's lab analysts that the Anthony case is top priority, Sheriff Kevin Beary added.",
"\"If they have to work through the weekend, they'll work through the weekend.\"",
"\"Bottom line, it's real simple, folks,\" Sheriff Kevin Beary said.",
"\"We've recovered Child's remains, Child's remains appears to be that of a small child, and now the investigation continues.",
"We've got a lot of lab work to do, a lot of DNA work to do, a lot of crime scene work to do.",
"We could be here all night.\"",
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"Prosecutors have asked police not to disclose many details surrounding the discovery, Sheriff Kevin Beary said.",
"Caylee Anthony, 3, has been missing since June in the Anthony case.",
"Casey Anthony, the child's 22-year-old mother, was charged last month with murder and other offenses.",
"She is being held at the Orange County Jail.",
"The area where Child's remains were found had been searched as part of the investigation into Caylee's disappearance, he said.",
"But the precise spot where a county meter reader found them -- \"45, 50, 60 feet back\" from the street -- was flooded at the time of the search.",
"No clothes were found with Child's remains, Sheriff Kevin Beary said.",
"Asked whether Child's remains could belong to another child, Sheriff Kevin Beary said, \"Not that we know of, but that's always a possibility, and that's why we've got a lot of work to do on the Anthony case still.\"",
"Earlier, authorities said the Anthony family had been notified of the discovery.",
"Child's remains were found \"in very close proximity\" to the Anthony home, Solomons said.",
"View a map of where Child's remains were found » .",
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"A hearing has been scheduled for Friday morning.",
"In a court hearing earlier Thursday, 9th Circuit Judge Stan Strickland postponed Caylee Anthony's's trial at the request of The attorney.",
"The attorney said The attorney had not received all the evidence due The attorney from prosecutors and was not ready to proceed with the January 5 trial.",
"The attorney asked 9th Circuit Judge Stan Strickland whether the January 5 trial could be delayed until March.",
"9th Circuit Judge Stan Strickland scheduled a hearing January 15 to consider a new trial date as well as a possible change of venue.",
"Caylee Anthony's remains in protective custody and has no contact with other inmates, corrections officials said.",
"\"Caylee Anthony's has been seen by a Corrections Health Services psychologist and Caylee Anthony's's status was reviewed,\" officials said in a statement, adding Caylee Anthony's was under psychological observation -- which is not the same as suicide watch.",
"The attorney arrived at the jail just before noon Thursday and stayed about an hour and a half, officials said.",
"Prosecutors said this month that Prosecutors would not seek the death penalty against Caylee Anthony's.",
"If convicted of murder, Caylee Anthony's could be sentenced to life in prison.",
"Authorities have said Caylee Anthony's waited about a month before telling Caylee Anthony's's family that Caylee Anthony's was gone.",
"Cindy Anthony -- Caylee's grandmother and Caylee Anthony's's mother -- called the Orange County sheriff's office July 15, saying Casey Anthony's's daughter would not tell her where Caylee Anthony's was.",
"When questioned, Caylee Anthony's gave conflicting statements to police, including some that were later disproved, according to hundreds of documents and investigative reports released in the case.",
"Caylee Anthony's claimed that Caylee Anthony's dropped Caylee Anthony's off with a baby-sitter, but when police checked out Caylee Anthony's's story, police learned that the address Caylee Anthony's supplied belonged to an apartment that had been vacant for weeks.",
"The woman Caylee Anthony's named as Caylee Anthony's's baby-sitter told police The woman Casey Anthony named as her baby-sitter did not know Caylee Anthony's.",
"Investigators have said that cadaver dogs picked up the scent of death in Caylee Anthony's's car, as well as in Caylee Anthony's's parents' backyard.",
"Investigators also said air quality tests conducted by the FBI found evidence consistent with human decomposition and chloroform in the car's trunk.",
"A neighbor told police Caylee Anthony's had asked to borrow a shovel.",
"Also, an analysis of Caylee Anthony's's computer found that she had visited Web sites discussing chloroform and had done Internet searches on missing children, according to information released in the case.",
"\"There isn't a motive, and they haven't found a motive,\" Caylee Anthony's said Wednesday night on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\" Watch Caylee Anthony's insist Caylee Anthony's's daughter is innocent » .",
"Caylee Anthony's added, \"They told us they thought it was an accident, and Caylee Anthony's's scared and tried to cover it up.",
"They don't feel there's a motive.\"",
"Caylee Anthony's stressed that five searches for Caylee Anthony's's body have \"come up with nothing.",
"There's nothing that they have found that, you know, has given them any evidence that Caylee is no longer with us.\"",
"The Anthonys said The Anthonys believe that Caylee Anthony's is still alive and that someone has Caylee Anthony's, noting several reports of sightings.",
"Last month, 9th Circuit Judge Stan Strickland denied prosecutors' request to impose a gag order in Caylee Anthony's's case, saying 9th Circuit Judge Stan Strickland could not state that continued publicity would pose a threat to Caylee Anthony's's trial or even that a gag order would stem the flood of media attention.",
"CNN's John Couwels and \"Nancy Grace\" producer Natisha Lance contributed to this story."
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"COVINGTON, Louisiana (CNN) --",
"A woman recruited over the Internet and shot to death during a Ku Klux Klan group's initiation rite felt a need to be wanted and was eager to be part of a group, authorities say family members told authorities.",
"Relatives describe Cynthia Lynch as having a deep need to feel wanted and eager to join groups.",
"Cynthia Lynch's relatives told investigators that Cynthia Lynch, 43, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, had never been outside Cynthia Lynch's home state, said Capt. George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Department.",
"But Cynthia Lynch recently took a bus to Slidell, Louisiana, where Cynthia Lynch was met by two Klan members and taken to a campsite in the woods near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans.",
"Bonnett and Sheriff Jack Strain gave CNN this account of what happened: .",
"During a Ku Klux Klan group's initiation rite, members of the Klan group, which calls itself Louisiana Klan group, shaved Cynthia Lynch's head.",
"After 24 hours of drills, including chanting and running with torches, Cynthia Lynch asked to be taken to town.",
"An argument began and the group's leader, Chuck Foster, allegedly pushed Cynthia Lynch to the ground and shot Cynthia Lynch to death without warning.",
"Cynthia Lynch wanted to leave a campsite in the woods near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans because Cynthia Lynch was homesick, investigators concluded after talking to Cynthia Lynch's family in Tulsa.",
"Watch how an initiation rite went wrong » .",
"Sheriff Jack Strain told CNN that Foster used a knife to remove the bullet.",
"Other members of Louisiana Klan group helped cover up the slaying for Foster, Louisiana Klan group's leader or \"Grand Lordship,\" Sheriff Jack Strain added.",
"The attempt to conceal the killing included burning the woman's personal items, Sheriff Jack Strain said.",
"The new details emerged Thursday as the FBI announced the FBI was assisting local authorities.",
"the FBI's top agent in New Orleans, Louisiana, said the FBI usually doesn't monitor specific groups, but will look into whether any federal laws were violated.",
"\"the FBI is working closely with local law enforcement authorities investigating this recent incident,\" said Special Agent in Charge David W. Welker.",
"Special Agent in Charge David W. Welker added that the FBI would \"aggressively investigate\" any leads and urged anyone with information to call the FBI at 504-816-3000 .",
"Sheriff's investigators said Sheriff's investigators received the intitial tip about the killing from a convenience store clerk.",
"Two of the group members went into a convenience store clerk and asked a convenience store clerk if a convenience store clerk knew how to get bloodstains out of the group members's clothes, Sheriff Jack Strain said.",
"a convenience store clerk told the group members no, and called the sheriff after the group members left.",
"Officials tracked down the group members and arrested the group members.",
"Authorities established telephone contact with other members of the group who were still at a campsite in the woods near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans and let them know law enforcement officials were on their way.",
"They surrendered without incident.",
"Foster was elsewhere in the woods, but Foster also surrendered, the sheriff said.",
"Watch report on Klan initiation gone awry » .",
"The woman's body was found under loose brush along a road several miles from a campsite in the woods near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans.",
"At a campsite in the woods near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans, investigators found Confederate flags, KKK banners, five Klan robes and an Imperial Wizard robe.",
"Foster, 44, is charged with second-degree murder.",
"He remained Thursday at the St. Tammany Parish jail with no bail set, authorities said.",
"Seven other suspects also remained in jail Thursday, charged with obstruction of justice.",
"Bail for each was set at $500,000.",
"On Wednesday, Sheriff's investigators searched a house Foster had rented for the past five years in Bogalusa.",
"Sheriff's investigators found Klan paraphernalia, documents and computer files.",
"Among the seized documents were membership applications, titles and a chain of command for group members .",
"\"Sheriff's investigators recovered various documents out of that home that are giving Sheriff's investigators an indication of the organizational structure and the organizational guidelines of the group,\" Bonnett said.",
"Fred Oswold, chief of criminal investigations for the sheriff's office, said the group is small and that most of the group's members already had been arrested.",
"\"So far Sheriff's investigators have learned that the group were a small group, but the group were fairly organized,\" said Oswold, who said his agency is working with the FBI to learn more about the group.",
"CNN's Katie Ross contributed to this report."
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"Suleman Ali cashed out just in time.",
"Suleman Ali sold Esgut, Esgut's portfolio of Facebook applications, for seven figures in April.",
"The 26-year-old, a former Microsoft employee who helped put together the Windows Home Server product, founded a company called Esgut within months of the debut of Facebook's developer platform in May 2007.",
"Esgut is a portfolio of Facebook applications, and a few of Esgut, like Superlatives and Entourage, became genuine viral hits.",
"In April, Suleman Ali sold Esgut to the Social Gaming Network, a Silicon Valley company backed by the likes of Bezos Expeditions, the Founders Fund, and Greylock Partners.",
"Suleman Ali said the price was in the seven figures.",
"But Suleman Ali is the first to acknowledge that for upstart social-platform developers, hailed just months ago as the Valley's hottest breed of bright young things, the condition has taken a significant turn for the worse.",
"\"Most people are not counting on anything,\" the lanky and bespectacled Suleman Ali said over lunch at an organic restaurant near New York's Union Square in early December.",
"\"They're just operating from day to day.\"",
"When Facebook's developer platform launched, the social network's traffic began to really skyrocket.",
"What had started as a no-frills networking site for students at elite universities became a Silicon Valley buzz factory with legitimate geek credentials.",
"And however gimmicky many of the most popular Facebook Platform apps were, millions of people decided millions of people now had a reason to join the site.",
"The floodgates had opened.",
"Facebook was a phenomenon.",
"When other social networks such as MySpace, Friendster, and Hi5 also paraded out developer platforms, the tech world took it as evidence that there was a big future in building platform applications.",
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"\"The social platform (on Facebook) actually launched the last day that I was at Microsoft...",
"I was quitting without any idea of what I was going to do,\" Suleman Ali recalled.",
"Suleman Ali's aims for leaving Redmond were starry-eyed.",
"\"I left because I wanted to do a start-up.",
"I wanted to see what I could do out there on my own.",
"And I wanted to care deeply about what I was working on.\"",
"But Suleman Ali had no concrete plans to go the Facebook route initially, Suleman Ali said.",
"\"I ended up in my parents' house in Florida and was kind of bored, and started building Facebook apps just out of restlessness and the desire to do something.\"",
"Then, Suleman Ali continued, Suleman Ali went to the Graphing Social Patterns West conference in San Diego in March and met Social Gaming Network founder Shervin Pishevar.",
"At the time, Suleman Ali was looking to raise venture funding but hadn't thought about selling Suleman Ali's apps.",
"\"We talked for 30 minutes and he was like, 'You sound like the exact type of people we want at SGN.'\"",
"Suleman Ali sold Esgut to Pishevar's company the next month.",
"Widgets buzz turns into hush .",
"Suleman Ali got lucky.",
"Even before the reality of the recession set in, the social-platform craze was subsiding.",
"The venture capital buzz about widgets began to quiet over the summer.",
"Some of the sillier novelty apps wore off in popularity.",
"Companies that were snapping up small apps and raising huge amounts of venture capital, like Slide and RockYou, grew intimidatingly bigger--but the glut of independent apps made it more difficult to grab the attention of potential buyers.",
"And after new restrictions, a redesign, and then Facebook's focus on expanding through Facebook's Facebook Connect log-in service, it became evident that a social-network platform is still a new phenomenon that can change dramatically, and not always to the benefit of little start-ups.",
"\"There's definitely a lot of tightening up,\" Suleman Ali said.",
"\"There's a few people that I know that have apps that are relatively small, and a few people that I know that have apps that are relatively small're selling them for valuations lower than what a few people that I know that have apps that are relatively small could've sold them for a month ago, and there are just no buyers in the marketplace.",
"I think a few people that I know that have apps that are relatively small're going to have a hard time selling, period--forget trying to sell at a lower valuation.",
"a few people that I know that have apps that are relatively small're just having a hard time getting rid of them.\"",
"So would Suleman Ali still be able to sell Suleman Ali's company as easily now?",
"\"No, probably not,\" Suleman Ali admitted.",
"\"If Facebook were the same company Facebook were then, it would be much harder to sell today.",
"I think Facebook would've had to evolve as a company.",
"I think Facebook would need to be generating more revenue than Facebook were.\"",
"But for all Suleman Ali's concern about the fate of social-platform developers in a recession, Suleman Ali is still strikingly bullish on Facebook--enough so that Suleman Ali's newest project is a fund for Facebook stock.",
"Suleman Ali started purchasing it in November, Suleman Ali said, and is meeting with investors in the hopes of purchasing more.",
"Suleman Ali added with surprising gusto that Facebook's decision to delay direct cash-outs hasn't derailed Suleman Ali's plan.",
"\"I think that's actually good news for Facebook,\" Suleman Ali said.",
"\"I think that means that the price that Facebook pay will actually go down because there are all these employees who intended to sell stock back to Facebook, and now all these employees who intended to sell stock back to Facebook're not going to be able to sell it to Facebook, (so) all these employees who intended to sell stock back to Facebook'll have to sell it somewhere else.\"",
"Suleman Ali hopes to keep the stock until Facebook files for an initial public offering, and Suleman Ali still thinks that's on track, too.",
"\"I think it's going to be a function of the economy and when the markets open back up for an IPO,\" Suleman Ali said, and cited target dates that had been provided in interviews by Facebook investor and board member Jim Breyer.",
"\"From a Facebook perspective, I think it'll be ready to IPO in 2011.\"",
"Many critics would say that's wishful thinking, and that Facebook will sell--to existing investor Microsoft, maybe--for much lower than Facebook's $15 billion preferred-stock valuation.",
"But Suleman Ali got lucky on Facebook once already, and even in a recession Suleman Ali hasn't given up hope that it could happen again.",
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"All rights reserved.",
"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc.",
"Used by permission."
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"(CNN) --",
"Despite Patricia Blagojevich's myriad charitable endeavors, Patricia Blagojevich is now thought of as the goading voice in the background of a November phone call taped by the FBI.",
"Illinois first lady Patricia Blagojevich was born into a political family.",
"\"Hold up that f---ing Cubs s---.",
"F--- them,\" Patricia Blagojevich allegedly said as the governor's husband, Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, bandied about a scheme to withhold state funds from Cubs's parent Tribune Company unless the owner agreed to fire certain Chicago Tribune employees.",
"Seven days later, according to the affidavit, Patricia Blagojevich took part in a meeting about whether President-elect Barack Obama would secure a lucrative job for Patricia Blagojevich if Patricia Blagojevich's husband appointed Obama's preferred candidate to his vacant Senate seat.",
"U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has said Patricia Blagojevich is not the target of the investigation of the governor's alleged attempts to sell Obama's Senate seat, pressure Chicago Tribune and threaten to withdraw funding from a children's hospital.",
"Watch what prosecutors say was the first lady's role in alleged scandal » .",
"A glance at Patricia Blagojevich's profile on the governor's Web site details a list of philanthropic endeavors, including awareness campaigns for breast cancer, heart disease and food allergies.",
"Patricia Blagojevich also has championed children's health care and literacy, and has parlayed Patricia Blagojevich's love for gardening into the State Beautification Initiative.",
"\"As first lady, Patricia Blagojevich works hard to promote initiatives that will help the families of Illinois bring up happy, healthy and successful children,\" Patricia Blagojevich's biography says.",
"Patricia Blagojevich and Patricia Blagojevich's family have been part of the Chicago machine for decades.",
"The 43-year-old mother of two is the oldest daughter of Margaret Mell and longtime Chicago Alderman Richard Mell, whose district includes part of Chicago's Northwest Side, where Rod Blagojevich was raised.",
"Patricia Blagojevich has two siblings, Rich Mell Jr. and Deborah Mell, a gay rights activist and incoming state representative who was arrested in March 2004 while protesting Cook County, Illinois,' refusal to grant her a same-sex marriage license.",
"Deborah Mell had said Deborah Mell would run for the seat of U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel after Obama tapped Deborah Mell as his chief of staff, but Deborah Mell later withdrew from consideration.",
"Richard Mell is a well-known Chicago power player who has served on the City Council since 1975.",
"Rod Blagojevich met Rod Blagojevich's future wife in 1988, at one of the alderman's fundraisers.",
"The couple married in 1990, and Richard Mell put Richard Mell's political weight behind Rod Blagojevich, who quickly ascended the political ranks.",
"Richard Mell has long been credited as choreographer of that rise, which took Rod Blagojevich from the Cook County state's attorney office to the Illinois General Assembly (1992) to the U.S. House of Representatives (1997) to the governor's office (2003).",
"Rod and Patricia Blagojevich did not move into the governor's mansion in Springfield, opting instead to live 200 miles north in Chicago's upscale Ravenswood Manor neighborhood.",
"There, Rod and Patricia Blagojevich live with Rod and Patricia Blagojevich's daughters -- Amy, 10, and Annie, 4.",
"After Rod Blagojevich was elected to the state's top post, a public feud erupted between the governor and Richard Mell.",
"Tensions reached a flash point in January 2005, when Rod Blagojevich reportedly shut down a Joliet, Illinois, landfill owned by Patricia Blagojevich's second cousin.",
"Richard Mell, in an interview with the Chicago-Sun Times, castigated Rod Blagojevich as someone who \"uses everybody, and when there's no more use, Rod Blagojevich discards them.\"",
"Richard Mell further said that Richard Mell's daughter was wearing \"blinders\" and didn't realize Patricia Blagojevich's husband was a manipulative political animal who would \"throw anyone under the bus.\"",
"Richard Mell also leveled a flurry of allegations against Rod Blagojevich's son-in-law's administration -- most notably that Rod Blagojevich's fundraising chief, Christopher Kelly, \"trades appointments to commissions for checks for $50,000\" to the governor's political fund, the newspaper reported.",
"Asked Wednesday if Richard Mell would discuss Richard Mell's 2005 allegations, Richard Mell responded via e-mail, \"My main concern right now is for my daughter and grandchildren.",
"I would rather not discuss this sad situation in the public venue at this time.\"",
"Reports vary on whether the family feud was ever laid to rest.",
"Though fences were mended two years ago, after Richard Mell's wife died of a terminal brain disease, the Sun-Times reported the bad feelings later resurfaced.",
"Though Richard Mell did not accuse Richard Mell's daughter of improprieties in Richard Mell's well-publicized rant, Patricia Blagojevich has been the subject of scrutiny over Patricia Blagojevich's real estate deals, most notably those involving businessman Antoin Rezko.",
"Rezko, who was convicted in the summer on 16 counts, including fraud, money laundering and abetting bribery, is part of this week's allegations against Rod Blagojevich.",
"Federal authorities allege businessman Antoin Rezko is one of the conspirators with whom Rod Blagojevich schemed in what Fitzgerald called \"a corruption crime spree.\"",
"The first lady, a licensed real estate broker and appraiser with an economics degree from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, has not been charged with wrongdoing.",
"Patricia Blagojevich's ties to businessman Antoin Rezko came under fire after Chicago Tribune in 2005 reported that 25 percent of Patricia Blagojevich's income in 2004 -- about $38,000 -- came via deals with Rezko, one of Rod Blagojevich's top fundraisers at the time.",
"Aides to Rod Blagojevich said there was nothing nefarious about the business relationship.",
"In October, Chicago Tribune reported that the first lady's home-based real estate firm, River Realty, had received about $700,000 in commissions since 2000, when Rod Blagojevich began raising funds for Rod Blagojevich's gubernatorial run.",
"Of about $700,000 in commissions, Chicago Tribune reported, about three-quarters came from \"state contractors, family and others with political ties.\"",
"Among her associates, Chicago Tribune reported, were William Cellini, a key player in the businessman Antoin Rezko trial, and Anita Mahajan, who was charged in 2007 with bilking Illinois out of more than $2 million for drug-screening services her firm never performed.",
"Chicago Tribune reported that Mahajan's husband, Amrish, was a former Rod Blagojevich fundraiser.",
"Despite the reported income, the federal affidavit outlining the charges against Rod Blagojevich states Rod Blagojevich was bemoaning Rod Blagojevich's family's \"financial stress\" and expressing hope that Obama might help alleviate his family's \"financial stress\".",
"A six-figure salary for serving on a corporate or nonprofit board would help the \"struggling\" family, Rod Blagojevich allegedly said, noting that Patricia Blagojevich's Series 7 license to sell securities makes Patricia Blagojevich an apt candidate for such work.",
"the federal affidavit outlining the charges against Rod Blagojevich says Rod Blagojevich had harsh words for the president-elect should Rod Blagojevich not help the Blagojeviches.",
"Calling Obama a \"motherf---er,\" Rod Blagojevich scoffs incredulously at the idea of appointing Rod Blagojevich's preferred candidate without a kickback, the federal affidavit outlining the charges against Rod Blagojevich says.",
"\"For nothing?",
"F--- Rod Blagojevich,\" Rod Blagojevich said, according to the federal affidavit outlining the charges against Rod Blagojevich.",
"The next day, the federal affidavit outlining the charges against Rod Blagojevich says, Rod Blagojevich firmly ruled out appointing Obama's preferred successor.",
"\"They're not willing to give me anything except appreciation.",
"F--- them,\" the federal affidavit outlining the charges against Rod Blagojevich quotes Rod Blagojevich as saying.",
"CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot is meeting with investigators Thursday in the Netherlands in response to the recently released videotape in the Natalee Holloway case, Joran van der Sloot's U.S.-based attorney said.",
"Joran van der Sloot awaits transfer from the Netherlands to Aruba in November.",
"Joran van der Sloot later was released.",
"The exact location of that meeting was not disclosed, but van der Sloot's attorney, Joe Tacopina, said Joran van der Sloot's client has \"agreed to answer any questions.\"",
"In the video that aired Sunday on Dutch television, van der Sloot, a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway, told a man Joran van der Sloot was with the Alabama teen on an Aruban beach when she apparently died and that a friend of Joran van der Sloot with a boat disposed of Holloway's body.",
"Van der Joran van der Sloot later said the statements were lies, and on Monday, Tacopina said the video that aired Sunday on Dutch television contains \"no admission of a crime.\"",
"The lawyer said facts in the case contradict two assertions van der Sloot made in the video that aired Sunday on Dutch television, including that the boat-owner friend mentioned wasn't in Aruba in May 2005.",
"Watch how video has brought new interest in case » .",
"Meanwhile, prosecutors are still awaiting a decision from a three-judge appellate panel on the nearby Caribbean island of Curacao as to whether van der Sloot can be arrested in reaction to the video that aired Sunday on Dutch television.",
"The chief prosecutor in Aruba, Hans Mos, was denied an initial attempt to arrest van der Sloot by the investigating judge last Sunday.",
"the investigating judge determined that numerous pretrial detentions of van der Sloot in the past have created a \"high bar\" that current circumstances do not meet.",
"The prosecutor appealed the investigating judge's decision on Tuesday, and a three-judge appellate panel on the nearby Caribbean island of Curacao will have eight days to respond.",
"Holloway disappeared while visiting Aruba with about 100 classmates celebrating their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, and was last seen leaving a nightclub with van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.",
"Mos dropped charges against the three men in December, saying Mos couldn't be sure of a conviction.",
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"MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) --",
"The Lear jet that crashed on landing last week in Mexico City, killing all aboard, including Mexico's interior minister, may have been felled by the turbulence from a large passenger jet it was following too closely, nation's transportation secretary said Friday, citing results of a preliminary investigation.",
"The scene of the plane crash in Mexico City was one of panic and confusion, witnesses said.",
"Radar tapes show that the Lear 45 -- carrying three crew members and six passengers from San Luis Potosi -- was flying just 4.15 nautical miles behind a Boeing 767-300 at 6:45 p.m. November 4, transportation secretary said.",
"The International Civil Aviation Organization calls for a separation of at least 6 nautical miles between a heavy jet like the Boeing and a medium-weight jet like the Lear to ensure that turbulence does not affect the smaller plane's control, transportation secretary said.",
"The flight controller in Mexico City recognized that the separation was insufficient and, at 6:44 p.m., told the Lear to reduce the Lear's speed, but \"the the Lear jet didn't begin to decelerate significantly until a minute and 12 seconds later,\" transportation secretary said.",
"\"The transcript of the [cockpit voice recorder] reveals that, in this period, the Lear entered a turbulence that surprised the crew members, and the pilot attributed it to the wake of the plane ahead,\" transportation secretary said.",
"the pilot asked the co-pilot, who had more experience, to take over, but the pilot was unable to regain control, transportation secretary said.",
"\"We know that the crew recognized the presence of the turbulence provoked by the wake of the plane that preceded it and, immediately after recognizing it, the Lear gave a sharp turn and initiated the Lear's descent at a pronounced angle that culminated in the Lear's impact on the ground,\" he said.",
"The Boeing, which weighs 175 tons, is classified as a heavy plane.",
"The 8-year-old Lear, which weighed 9.5 tons, was classified as a medium-weight plane, though it was on the light end of that scale, transportation secretary said.",
"\"Therefore, it is more vulnerable than most medium-sized planes to the phenomenon of turbulence,\" transportation secretary said.",
"Officials said last week that the left engine fell off the Lear before it crashed.",
"Lab tests found no traces of alcohol or drugs in either pilot and no evidence of sabotage or explosives, transportation secretary said.",
"Scrutiny of the wreckage has found no indication that anything was wrong with the plane or its engines, transportation secretary said.",
"But the investigation did find \"presumed deficiencies\" in the pilot's certification to operate a Lear jet, transportation secretary said.",
"Audio from the cockpit voice recorder \"shows the lack of familiarity\" of the pilot, Capt. Martin de Jesus Oliva Perez, with the instruments in the cabin, he added.",
"Among the Lear's passengers was Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, the nation's second most-powerful official and a confidant of President Felipe Calderon's.",
"the Lear crashed in Mexico City traffic and erupted in flames, killing five people on the ground and injuring 14 in addition to killing the nine people aboard.",
"transportation secretary said the final report, which will take several months to complete, will include studies carried out in a NASA simulator to confirm whether the wake was responsible."
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"(CNN) --",
"An ancient race that lived 2,700 years ago in the Gobi Desert may have been among the first to use cannabis for medical or religious purposes.",
"Researchers believe an ancient Gushi shaman may have consumed or burned pot for medical or religious purposes.",
"Nearly two pounds of the plant was found stashed in the tomb of a Gushi shaman.",
"Nearly two pounds of the plant was high in the chemical compounds that provide Nearly two pounds of the plant's psychoactive properties.",
"\"Nearly two pounds of the plant had evidence of the chemical attributes of cannabis used as a drug,\" said Dr. Ethan Russo, an author of a study published in the Journal of Experimental Botany.",
"\"Nearly two pounds of the plant could have been for pain control.",
"Nearly two pounds of the plant could have been for other medicinal properties.",
"Nearly two pounds of the plant could have been used as an aid to divination.\"",
"The Gushi people were a Caucasian race with light hair and blue eyes who likely migrated thousands of years ago from the steppes of Russia to what is now China.",
"A nomadic people, they were accomplished horsemen and archers.",
"Chinese archaeologists excavating a network of 2,500 tombs near the town of Turpan in the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region unearthed the shaman's grave, which contained Nearly two pounds of the plant, along with a trove of artifacts such as bridles, archery equipment and a rare harp.",
"the shaman is thought to have been about 45 years old when the shaman died.",
"Many of the bodies recovered in the area were found in an incredibly well-preserved, almost mummified condition.",
"the shaman, however, was a skeleton.",
"\"The deceased was laid out on the bottom of this tomb on a little bier,\" Russo said.",
"\"This individual seemed to be very high status because of the variety and quality of the grave goods, including the equestrian equipment, the archery equipment and the large amount of cannabis.\"",
"Russo said no pipe for smoking Nearly two pounds of the plant was found in the shaman's tomb.",
"Researchers think he might have eaten Nearly two pounds of the plant or possibly put Nearly two pounds of the plant on a burning fire to create fumes.",
"Researchers don't think Nearly two pounds of the plant was used to make hemp clothing or rope, as some other early cultures did.",
"Genetic analysis of the plant suggests the plant was cultivated rather than gathered from the wild.",
"This find is not the first or the oldest example of ancient people using cannabis, but This find may be the best studied.",
"\"There may have been older finds of cannabis, but not with this level of scientific investigation attached to them,\" Russo said."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) --",
"A child cries from hunger, but no tears come from A child's swollen eyes.",
"Zimbabwean clinics have been overwhelmed by the cholera epidemic, according to aid organizations.",
"Malnutrition has left this baby born in Zimbabwe fighting for A child's life.",
"A child is the face of an unfolding crisis in a country once known as Africa's bread basket.",
"Today a loaf of bread costs 35 million worthless Zimbabwean dollars, and people are forced to sift through garbage piles for any morsel of food.",
"Others huddle for warmth around a fire burning inside the shell of a broken-down van.",
"All of these images were captured on video recently smuggled out of Zimbabwe by Solidarity Peace Trust, a South African human rights group.",
"Zimbabwe's government maintains that the situation is being exaggerated by the West in an effort to exert pressure on President Robert Mugabe to leave office.",
"But the World Health Organization (WHO) says the desperate situation has triggered a widening cholera outbreak that has killed 775 people and infected more than 15,000.",
"\"You have to eat in the same place you sleep right next to the buckets, the same buckets that we used as toilets,\" one cholera patient says on the video.",
"\"There is no water to bathe.\" Watch shocking footage of Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis (Discretion advised) » .",
"And little to eat.",
"Women foraging for food in the bush find dry branches with only a few berries.",
"\"This packet of juice will be my supper tonight,\" one woman says.",
"Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai -- who is still trying to form a unity government with President Robert Mugabe under a recent power-sharing deal -- said the situation can only be addressed once a \"legitimate government\" is in place.",
"\"Once there is a legitimate government, it is up to a legitimate government to deal with the problems the country is facing, which are quite wide-ranging,\" Tsvangirai told CNN on Wednesday.",
"\"But the immediate intervention of the health crisis has exacerbated the situation to the extent that it has now become an international crisis.\"",
"The WHO says the current cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has a high fatality rate because sufferers are either not able to reach health centers in time or because health centers lack the capacity to treat the cases.",
"View image gallery of Zimbabwe cholera crisis » .",
"\"The epidemic is clearly on the increase,\" Dr. Eric Laroche, a WHO official in Harare, told CNN on Wednesday.",
"\"I think it's going to last for several months.\"",
"In addition to The WHO, the Red Cross has responded to the outbreak and is sending staff and medical supplies into Zimbabwe.",
"Zimbabwe's main hospitals have all but shut down and the small clinics equipped by international aid organizations are overcrowded and unable to cope with the thousands of cholera patients.",
"Health workers inside Zimbabwe believe scores are dying at home.",
"Laroche said the WHO is receiving cooperation from the government, but the health care system is abysmal.",
"\"The quality of the care, the supplies that come inside Zimbabwe, also need to be restored,\" Laroche said.",
"\"So there's a lot of work to do, because the health care system is collapsing for the time being.\"",
"One Zimbabwean health care worker, who would not show his face on the video, said he fears the death toll will skyrocket.",
"\"People are dying even at the health institution,\" he said.",
"\"It's beyond control.",
"We are going to witness so many deaths in the coming weeks.\"",
"He expressed frustration that so many people are dying from cholera, a disease that \"is both preventable and curable.\"",
"\"Nobody should die from cholera,\" he said.",
"\"We are quite unfortunate.\"",
"Zimbabwe, already experiencing an economic crisis, was struck with the raging water-borne cholera in August.",
"Health experts say the battle against the disease can only be won if Harare has adequate water-treating chemicals and disposes of refuse properly.",
"Zimbabwe's information minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said Tuesday that Zimbabwe has enough chemicals to purify water and enough money to buy pipes to mend sanitation lines.",
"Zimbabwe's information minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu maintained that the outbreak is under control, blaming the West for causing the crisis as an excuse for military intervention.",
"International leaders -- including U.S. President George W. Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Kenyan premier Raila Odinga -- have recently called for President Robert Mugabe to step down for failing to contain the outbreak.",
"Frustration inside Zimbabwe is building.",
"Last week, doctors and nurses protested over the lack of medical supplies and other resources at Zimbabwe's hospitals.",
"Labor unions have protested over the deteriorating economy.",
"Even soldiers once shielded from economic hardships by the President Robert Mugabe regime went on a rampage Last week when they were unable to access wages from Zimbabwe's banks.",
"Human rights activist Elinor Sisulu, who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe and now coordinates civil action outside Zimbabwe, called on African leaders to demand President Robert Mugabe step down before Zimbabwe explodes.",
"\"In any population where you have high levels of desperation, anger and ... people arrive at the conclusion that we've tried a peaceful political process and this is not working, then anything can happen,\" she said.",
"CNN's Nkepile Mabuse in Johannesburg, South Africa contributed to this report."
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"The former Senate majority leader will be announced Thursday as President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, a Democratic source said Wednesday.",
"Former Sen. Tom Daschle, shown with The former Senate majority leader's wife, Linda, says The former Senate majority leader will write Obama's health care plan.",
"CNN has previously reported that The former Senate majority leader would be Obama's choice, but not the announcement date.",
"In November, The former Senate majority leader said The former Senate majority leader was excited about the possibility of serving as point person in Obama's effort to change the nation's health care system.",
"The former Senate majority leader is on the health care advisory group of Obama's transition team and said The former Senate majority leader plans to write the health care plan that Obama submits to Congress next year.",
"\"I hope to have the health care plan that Obama submits to Congress next year enacted by next year, and then the health care plan that Obama submits to Congress next year will take several years to implement,\" The former Senate majority leader said last month.",
"The former Senate majority leader said reforming health care in the United States must be a priority in the current economic climate.",
"\"We can't afford not to do it,\" The former Senate majority leader said.",
"\"If we do nothing, we'll be paying twice as much on health care in 10 years as we do today.\"",
"The former Senate majority leader served as Democratic leader in the Senate from 1995 until The former Senate majority leader lost a re-election bid in 2004.",
"Representing South Dakota, The former Senate majority leader was first elected as a congressman in 1978 and served in the House until The former Senate majority leader was elected to the Senate in 1986.",
"The former Senate majority leader recently wrote a book on health care titled \"Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis.\"",
"In the book, The former Senate majority leader pushed for universal health care coverage to reach 46 million uninsured Americans by expanding the federal employee health benefits program to include private employer plans together with Medicaid and Medicare.",
"Most Republicans oppose any such plan, saying any such plan would give too much power to the government.",
"Most Republicans've also questioned The former Senate majority leader's recent work for a Washington lobbying firm.",
"The former Senate majority leader's wife, Linda Daschle, is a registered lobbyist for a firm that includes health care clients.",
"But a source close to The former Senate majority leader told CNN that Linda Daschle would be leaving a Washington lobbying firm at the end of the year to set up Linda Daschle's own company focusing on transportation lobbying in order to clear any potential conflicts of interest.",
"CNN's Candy Crowley and Ed Henry contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Former England cricket star Chris Lewis was remanded in custody by a British court Tuesday, charged with attempting to smuggle drugs through an airport.",
"Chris Lewis joined Surrey to play in Twenty20 matches for the 2008 season.",
"The 40-year-old all-rounder, who played 32 Tests and 53 one-day internationals for England in the 1990s, was arrested Monday when border officials at London's Gatwick Airport found cocaine hidden in luggage that had arrived on a flight from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.",
"Four kilograms of cocaine with a street value of around $350,000 was seized by the UK Border Agency, the UK's Press Association said.",
"The drugs were in a liquid form hidden in fruit tins, officials said.",
"Lewis and basketball player Chad Kirnon, 26, both from London, were held and questioned by Customs officials and later charged.",
"British Revenue & Customs spokesman Bob Gaiger told PA: \"This was an excellent detection by UK Border Agency officers.",
"\"HMRC, together with UKBA, play a vital role in the fight to prevent illegal drugs from entering the UK and in protecting our communities from the violence and corruption that always accompany this hideous trade.\"",
"The two men made a brief appearance at Crawley Magistrates' Court in West Sussex on Tuesday afternoon, where Lewis had a bail application refused, PA reported.",
"The two men were remanded in custody to appear via video link in court next Wednesday."
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"Kate Meinhardt felt like a clown jammed into a Volkswagen bug when Kate Meinhardt lived in a 21-square-foot room aboard a circus train.",
"Kate Meinhardt crammed Kate Meinhardt's life into a 21-square-foot room while Kate Meinhardt lived aboard a circus train.",
"Bungee cords crisscrossed Kate Meinhardt's walls once a week to prevent an avalanche of items from raining down.",
"A microwave, mini refrigerator, Kate Meinhardt's laptop and baskets of personal items lined a 21-square-foot room.",
"Showering, going to the bathroom and even doing laundry became racing contests on a circus train, Kate Meinhardt said.",
"The 13 people on board shared one shower, two toilets and one washer and dryer.",
"\"It's a pretty tough life living in such a small space,\" Kate Meinhardt said.",
"The 23-year-old spent almost a year as an animal handler for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.",
"While most iReporters haven't run off to join the circus, some have traded in their homes for smaller digs.",
"One iReporter even opted for a floating lifestyle, where One iReporter could sail away at a moment's notice.",
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"\"I have lived in a 25-foot sailboat, a 28-foot motor home, a 32-foot sailboat and now an 800 square-foot apartment,\" Jim Smith said in Jim Smith's iReport.",
"\"I was happiest with the 25-foot sailboat.\"",
"While docked in Panama City, Florida, Jim Smith kept Jim Smith's expenses to a minimum.",
"The marina slip rent was only $200 and electricity was included in the rent, Jim Smith said.",
"The boat did not have refrigeration so Jim Smith kept Jim Smith's food inside an insulated ice box.",
"For 79 cents at the discount grocery store, Jim Smith could buy a 10-pound bag of ice that would last Jim Smith several days, even during the summer.",
"Air conditioning wasn't a luxury Jim Smith had either, but fans and sea breezes kept Jim Smith cool.",
"\"Sometimes the less you have, the more you like it,\" Jim Smith said.",
"The portable lifestyle also charmed a father-son duo who set out on a yearlong European vacation.",
"A camper van took them wherever they wanted, whenever they wanted.",
"Spencer Pearson and Spencer Pearson's 15-year-old son, Bryce, bought a 150-square-foot van in Germany for their European excursion.",
"Living out of a 150-square-foot van meant \"no reservations, no packing and unpacking of suitcases, no strange beds,\" Spencer Pearson said.",
"Modern amenities weren't amiss on the van, which included everything from the Internet and entertainment to a complete bath and kitchen, and there were occasional hotel stays and meals out that made the trip more pleasant.",
"The simple life also enticed Deborah Greant and Deborah Greant's husband to trade in Deborah Greant and her husband's Calgary, Canada, home for an RV.",
"Both Deborah Greant and Deborah Greant's husband have neuromuscular problems and needed extra help taking care of Deborah Greant and her husband's large home.",
"Since moving into a 240-square-foot RV, Deborah Greant and her husband can manage the house Deborah Greant and her husband.",
"\"Deborah Greant and her husband didn't want to be owned by Deborah Greant and her husband's things,\" Deborah Greant said.",
"\"Deborah Greant and her husband jettisoned pretty much everything except things from former generations.\"",
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"Mounting living expenses and a job relocation prompted the family to sell their home and move into a 32-foot RV.",
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"the family's goal was to become debt-free and save money for the family's children's college educations.",
"When pilot Tim Chervenka got transferred to Charlotte, North Carolina, the family set up camp in a 32-foot RV.",
"The temporary situation turned into a permanent one.",
"the family said goodbye to paying a first and second mortgage and pricey utilities.",
"the family now pay only $500 a month, utilities included.",
"\"It's made such an adjustment in the family's personal life without the juggling,\" Cindy Chervenka said.",
"\"the family have so much more family time.",
"It's a good feeling.\"",
"Cindy Chervenka has some advice for others thinking of a drastic downsizing: \"Step out of your comfort zone and try it.",
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"(CNN) --",
"The rapper Common wants to take hip-hop in a new direction, Common says, and Common has an unsuspecting ally -- President-elect Barack Obama.",
"Common says Common was looking for a new sound on Common's eighth album, \"Universal Mind Control.\"",
"Barack Obama \"is going to change hip-hop for the better,\" predicted the rapper, whose eighth album, \"Universal Mind Control\" (G.O.O.D. Music/Geffen), hits shelves Tuesday.",
"\"I really do believe we as hip-hop artists pick up what's going on in the world and try to reflect that,\" Common told CNN, outlining Common's belief that mainstream as well as so-called \"conscious\" rappers -- the more socially aware -- will pick up on what Common sees as the more optimistic prospects of an Barack Obama presidency.",
"\"I think hip-hop artists will have no choice but to talk about different things and more positive things, and try to bring a brighter side to that because, even before Barack, I think people had been tired of hearing the same thing,\" Common said.",
"Likewise, \"Universal Mind Control,\" with its hook-heavy, synthed-out tracks, represents a \"broadening\" of hip-hop's audience -- one that demands evolution rather than hackneyed revamps of old beats, rhythms and rhymes, Common said.",
"Listen to clips from the album and Common's interview with CNN.com » .",
"Not that Common, is altogether removed from the temptations of Common's hip-hop brethren.",
"Common serves as a spokesman for Lincoln Navigator and purports on Common's new album to \"rebel in YSL,\" a reference to designer Yves Saint Laurent.",
"Money is also a weakness, as Common -- No. 14 on Forbes magazine's 2008 list of richest rappers -- regularly invokes the greenbacks Common makes and spends.",
"iReport.com: Talk Grammy Awards and more showbiz with Todd .",
"Still, Common has come at hip-hop from a different angle from many of Common's colleagues.",
"Common was generally considered \"underground\" until Common linked up with Kanye West, who produced Common's albums \"Be\" (2005) and \"Finding Forever\" (2007).",
"Even now, while paying homage at mainstream hip-hop's altar, Common also enters parishes where most rappers wouldn't be seen.",
"Common's helped front movements for HIV/AIDS awareness and vegetarianism, and Common's written two children's books emphasizing the importance of self-esteem.",
"Lyrically, violence has never been Common's thing; soft-drug use has been mentioned but rarely glamorized; Common removed homophobic references from Common's lyrics years ago; and while there have been hints of misogyny and the occasional N-word in Common's verses, neither has been a staple of Common's rhymes.",
"\"I've always been conscious, honestly,\" Common said.",
"\"I made a choice on this album, 'Universal Mind Control,' to really make some music that was bright, that would be a little more lighthearted, just because of what was going on in the world.\"",
"Read more from the interview .",
"With a few exceptions, Common's latest lyrics are consummate Common.",
"In Common's beat poet's cadence, the 36-year-old rhymesmith aggressively courts the ladies, personifies hip-hop, aggrandizes Common and Common's hometown (lovingly, \"the Chi\"), and respectfully doles out props to hip-hop's forefathers -- most notably to Afrika Bambaataa on the album's title track.",
"Hear the title track » .",
"The album's sound, however, is atypical, moving -- sometimes jerkily -- from club-banger to anthem to ballad to Top 40.",
"The latter even runs counter to the opening verse of \"Everywhere\": \"No pop, no pop, no pop, no pop/We gonna do this thing till the sky just drop.\"",
"But the sound is part of \"a whole new sound and a new movement\" in hip-hop, something Common explored out of disdain for repetition and predictability, Common said.",
"That might explain Kanye West's relative absence on \"Universal Mind Control.\"",
"The Louis Vuitton don appears on only one track, the pop-drenched \"Punch Drunk Love.\"",
"But Kanye West's has long been credited, even by Common, with bringing Common's fellow Chicagoan to the mainstream after \"Be\" and \"Finding Forever\" went gold and leapt up the Billboard 200.",
"Of course, it's not all Kanye, said Common.",
"\"I'm a true believer that it all boils down to the music, because Kanye West's can endorse something, and if people don't like it people ain't gonna get with it -- regardless of whoever endorses it,\" Common said.",
"Common compared Common's working relationship with Kanye West's to the collaboration Common enjoyed with The Neptunes' Pharrell Williams on \"Universal Mind Control.\"",
"Williams, whom Common casually likened to Quincy Jones, pushed Common lyrically, much like Kanye West's did, Common said.",
"Between Williams and Mr. DJ -- who composed backbeats for some of OutKast's biggest hits -- Common arrived at the evolution Common sought, Common added.",
"Common also is plotting a change, or at least a detour, in Common's career path.",
"Though Common's past cinematic endeavors have been primarily gangster flicks, Common has landed a role in the upcoming \"Terminator Salvation\" and could play Green Lantern in \"Justice League: Mortal\" should the derailed movie get back on track.",
"\"I would truly love to go increasingly in the acting direction,\" Common said.",
"\"My goal is to be a movie star.",
"I want to be at Will Smith's level.",
"I want to be co-leading with Leonardo DiCaprio.\"",
"Fear not, Common fans.",
"Common is confident Common can pull off both, though hip-hop might ride sidecar to the silver screen.",
"Acting, Common said, seems to improve Common's music.",
"\"I don't take as much time overthinking it.",
"Actually, since 'Be' I've been working on films and each album has been expanding and increasing, so I feel like I would still make music, but it wouldn't be the main gig,\" Common said.",
"Selling albums, Common said, is about more than good music, and though Common stands proudly by the music Common made pre-West, Common concedes Common didn't do enough to claw Common's way up from the underground.",
"\"After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.",
"I feel like I wasn't doing that early on,\" Common said.",
"\"Now I am, and I feel like I'm growing as a songwriter and working with producers that are very incredible, so I feel all that is contributing to Common getting the recognition that I'm getting.\""
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"Common sat down with CNN to discuss \"Universal Mind Control,\" Common's movie career .",
"Producers Pharrell Williams, Kanye West pushed Common lyrically, Common says .",
"Common concedes Common didn't do enough to promote Common's music in Common's early years ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"The conviction of a terrorist doctor in UK exposes how any section of society can become radicalized, a top police officer said Tuesday.",
"Abdulla is shown being arrested after the attack at Glasgow Airport.",
"Abdulla was well-educated and working as a doctor when Abdulla carried out Abdulla's plot to plant car bombs in London -- rather than unemployed or with feelings of being outside or abandoned by society as has been seen before in UK.",
"Born in southern England, Abdulla's family moved to Iraq when Abdulla was a child.",
"Abdulla grew up in the capital during Saddam Hussein's rule and went to the University of Baghdad before returning to Britain to attend Cambridge University.",
"The Cambridge-educated graduate became a doctor working in the National Health Service where the maxim is to treat anyone regardless of the ability to pay.",
"Deputy Assistant Commissioner John McDowall, who heads the Counter Terrorism Command, said Abdulla and Kafeel Ahmed -- who died from burn injuries after he crashed a jeep into Glasgow International Airport, Scotland -- reveal a new type of terrorist.",
"He told UK's Press Association: \"These individuals were not on our radar and that in itself is very interesting.",
"When you look at the profile of These individuals These individuals are very different from the terrorists we have dealt with in this country before - being professional people.",
"McDowell added These individuals were probably inspired by al Qaeda in Iraq but developed These individuals's plan in Britain without help from abroad.",
"\"I think this was a group that was largely self-motivated, came up with the ideas These individuals, tutored These individuals through the Internet.",
"I don't think These individuals received significant training elsewhere, which is unusual from what we have had in the past,\" he told PA.",
"Abdulla's motive, prosecutors said, was revenge for the bloodshed in Iraq.",
"Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said: 'There is no longer a conventional approach to terrorism.",
"There are no rules to be broken any more, nothing can be taken for granted.\"",
"Abdulla was found guilty Tuesday of conspiracy to murder and conspiring to cause explosions.",
"Abdulla will be sentenced to Woolwich Crown Court, London, on Wednesday.",
"The jury rejected Abdulla's defense that Abdulla had planned only to set fire to cars in central London as a way of highlighting the plight of Iraqis."
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"Abdulla was found guilty of conspiracy to murder in June 2007 ."
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"MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) --",
"An engine fell off a Mexican government jet before it crashed, killing the second-highest official in the nation, the Cabinet member in charge of the investigation said Saturday.",
"Firefighters at the scene of the crash Tuesday night in Mexico City.",
"Officials also said Officials have ruled out the possibility that the crash was caused by a bomb.",
"\"There is no trace of explosives on the plane wreckage or the [crash] site,\" said Luis Tellez, Mexican secretary of communication and transportation.",
"Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino, former deputy attorney general Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos and six others onboard were killed in the crash.",
"At least five others on the ground died, and others were reported missing.",
"Officials said 40 people were injured.",
"Camilo Mourino and Santiago Vasconcelos had been instrumental in the war on drugs, leading to widespread speculation among Mexicans that drug lords orchestrated the crash.",
"But Mexican authorities have said there is no indication that foul play was involved.",
"The government Learjet 45 was traveling at 500 kmh (310 mph) when The government Learjet 45 crashed in central Mexico City as The government Learjet 45 approached Benito Juarez International Airport.",
"Gilberto Lopez Meyer, Mexico's director of airports and auxiliary services, said the jet's left engine fell off when The government Learjet 45 was traveling between 250 and 300 kmh (150 to 186 mph), according to Mexico's state-run Notimex news agency.",
"An examination of the wreckage indicates that the engines were functioning at high speed, Lopez Meyer said.",
"Tallez said the day after the crash that The government Learjet 45 did not explode in the air because when that happens, pieces of the airplane are scattered over a wide area.",
"But the wreckage in this instance was limited to a small area, Tallez said.",
"Tallez also said Wednesday that the pilot did not report an emergency, Mexico's state-run Notimex news agency said.",
"A recording released Wednesday of what Mexican officials said was dialogue between the pilot and the airport control tower did not appear to have an emergency call from the aircraft.",
"Officials have vowed to make all aspects of the investigation public.",
"Mexican President Felipe Calderon inspected the crash site Saturday, Mexico's state-run Notimex news agency said."
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"Mexicans had speculated that drug lords were behind crash ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Despite acknowledgment from the White House a day earlier that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is unlikely before a new U.S. president takes office, Condoleezza Rice said Friday Condoleezza Rice is confident that ongoing efforts would produce success.",
"Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speak Thursday.",
"\"Carried to the Annapolis process's state of conclusion, the Annapolis process will produce a state of Palestine,\" Rice, referring to negotiations in the wake of last year's U.S. summit on Israel-Palestinian peace in Annapolis, Maryland, said at a joint news conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, West Bank.",
"Condoleezza Rice is on Condoleezza Rice's eighth trip to the region since last year's U.S. summit on Israel-Palestinian peace in Annapolis, Maryland.",
"On Thursday, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the Bush administration does not \"think that it's likely that it (a peace agreement) would happen before the end of the year.\"",
"Condoleezza Rice said Friday that Condoleezza Rice realizes the lack of a peace agreement in the months following the Annapolis summit had caused some concerns that talks had stalled or might fail, but \"it's quite the opposite -- the Annapolis process has laid the foundation for the eventual establishment for the state of Palestine.\"",
"The purpose of Condoleezza Rice's current trip, Condoleezza Rice said, was \"to advance the Annapolis process,\" and while Condoleezza Rice did not speculate on a timetable for the future of the Annapolis process or offer specifics on peace talks, Condoleezza Rice added, \"I've seen them move forward a great deal in the past year.\"",
"Both Israeli and Palestinian officials have expressed doubts about achieving a peace agreement before President Bush leaves office, but until this week U.S. officials had been more optimistic in U.S. officials's public comments.",
"Speaking in Israel on Thursday, Condoleezza Rice blamed part of the inability to secure a deal on recent political changes in Israel, which Condoleezza Rice noted is \"in the midst of elections.\"",
"With Abbas on Friday, Condoleezza Rice emphasized that the commitment expressed by Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed an agreement to work toward a peace deal by the end of 2008 is still strong.",
"\"I hope that the tremendous commitment (by both sides) is fully understood,\" Condoleezza Rice said.",
"While Condoleezza Rice did not discuss any impact a new administration in Washington might have on the process, Condoleezza Rice said, \"The United States really does understand why the Palestinian people want unity.\"",
"Israel in recent months has seen political upheaval.",
"Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resigned in September amid allegations of corruption.",
"Kadima Party leader and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni gave up efforts to form a new coalition government late last month and is seeking to hold early general elections, which could be held in February, Livni's spokesman has said.",
"Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will continue to lead as Israel's interim prime minister until a successor assumes power either by forming a coalition in the current Knesset or through general elections.",
"However, it is unclear whether he will be able to strike a deal with the Palestinians before Israel forms Israel's new government.",
"Last month, Rice postponed a trip to a Middle East conference because of the global crisis in financial markets."
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"Secretary of State Rice meeting with Middle East leaders .",
"Recent political changes in Israel cited as one reason peace deal elusive .",
"Israeli leader has resigned but will stay in office until successor assumes power ."
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"PARIS, France (CNN) --",
"A plane with seven people aboard crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday, a French regional government official told CNN.",
"A New Zealand Airbus 320 flying into Auckland from France, from a file picture taken in 2003.",
"Airbus was on a training flight when the crash occurred about 5 p.m. (4 p.m. GMT), said the official at the Maritime Prefecture in Toulon, France.",
"There were no immediate reports of survivors, but rescue efforts involving French navy vessels and a helicopter were launched.",
"Floating debris had been located, a French regional government official said.",
"Airbus confirmed the crash in a written statement, saying Airbus was owned by Air New Zealand and operated by XL Airways Germany.",
"\"Airbus was operating a local technical flight from Perpignan, France,\" Airbus said.",
"The Airbus statement did not say how many people were thought to be on board.",
"See a map of where the flight originated » .",
"The twin-engine plane involved in the crash had accumulated about 7,000 flying hours, Airbus said.",
"Learn more about the Airbus A320 » .",
"\"At this time, no further factual information is available,\" Airbus said.",
"\"In line with international convention, Airbus will provide full technical assistance to the authorities of France, who will be responsible for the investigation into the crash.",
"A team of five specialists from Airbus is being dispatched to the site.\"",
"People in a civilian vessel saw the crash take place off the coast near Perpignan, a French regional government official said.",
"\"the investigation into the accident remains the entire responsibility of the relevant authorities, and it would be inappropriate for Airbus to enter into any form of speculation into the cause of the crash,\" the Airbus statement said.",
"\"The concerns and sympathy of the Airbus employees go to the families, friends and loved ones affected by the crash.\""
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"French official: Airbus A320 Air New Zealand jet crashes off southern French coast .",
"Rescue efforts launched, no immediate reports of survivors, floating debris found .",
"Airbus was on a training flight when Airbus crashed at about 4 p.m. GMT ."
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"MALE, Maldives (CNN) --",
"The new president of Maldives wants to relocate -- Newly sworn-in Maldives president's entire country.",
"Much of Male, capital of Maldives, was flooded following tsunami of 2004.",
"Mohamed \"Anni\" Nasheed, a former political prisoner, was sworn in Tuesday after Newly sworn-in Maldives president unseated Asia's longest-serving leader in the country's first multi-party elections two weeks ago.",
"Newly sworn-in Maldives president inherits an island nation with several problems.",
"Foremost among them: the very likely possibility that Maldives will sink under water if the current pace of climate change keeps raising sea levels.",
"Maldives is an archipelago of almost 1,200 coral islands located south-southwest of India.",
"Most of Maldives lie just 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) above sea level.",
"The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has forecast a rise in sea levels of at least 7.1 inches (18 cm) by the end of the century.",
"The island was badly hit by the December 2004 tsunami, which killed an estimated 273,800 people and left thousands missing across Asia and Africa.",
"In Maldives, at least 82 people were killed and 26 unaccounted for from a population just over 270,000, according to the Maldives Disaster Management Center.",
"Sixty-nine islands were completely flooded and a further 30 islands half flooded.",
"The capital of Male was also flooded, although sea walls protected The capital of Male from further devastation.",
"Maldives has calculated that creating a similar barrier around the rest of Maldives would cost too much.",
"Watch Maldives president vow to save Maldives.",
"And so the tourist nation, which has white sandy beaches that lure well-heeled Westerners, wants to set aside some of the $1 billion a year it receives from tourism and spend that money on buying a new homeland.",
"\"Maldives will invest in land,\" Nasheed said.",
"\"Maldives do not want to end up in refugee tents if the worst happens.\"",
"Maldives has said that Maldives has broached the idea with several countries and found several countries to be \"receptive.\"",
"Lands owned by Sri Lanka and India are possibilities because the countries have similar cultures, cuisine and climate as the Maldives.",
"Australia is also being considered because of the vast unoccupied land Australia owns.",
"Climate change is not the only challenge the new president will have to tackle, though.",
"Other thorny issues include rising unemployment, corruption and a staggering drug epidemic.",
"By some estimates, one of every three Maldivian youth uses drugs.",
"Maldivians also worry that Maldivians's tiny secular nation of 370,000 Muslims could fall prey to the reach of Islamic radicals.",
"A bombing in Male, attributed to Islamic extremists, wounded 12 tourists in September 2007.",
"\"Maldives have made many pledges,\" Newly sworn-in Maldives president said in Newly sworn-in Maldives president's inaugural address.",
"\"The citizens gave The citizens's majority vote to Maldives to implement these.\"",
"Newly sworn-in Maldives president said Newly sworn-in Maldives president will work to bring affordable housing and medical care for everyone.",
"Twenty-one percent of the population lives below the poverty line.",
"Nasheed, a 41-year-old one-time journalist, was among the fiercest critics of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who came to power in 1978 and ruled the Maldives for 30 years.",
"Gayoom won the six previous elections as the only candidate on the ballot.",
"Newly sworn-in Maldives president contended that Gayoom ruled with an iron fist, crushing dissent, amassing wealth and stacking Gayoom's administration with friends and relatives.",
"Gayoom's critics say Gayoom's government enforced a system of 'apartheid' tourism that banned most Maldivians from nearly 90 luxury resorts.",
"Shortly before election day, an auditors' report said that millions of dollars were improperly accounted for by Gayoom's government.",
"Gayoom disputed the findings.",
"Newly sworn-in Maldives president was arrested several times in the last 15 years and held as a political prisoner.",
"Five candidates challenged Gayoom for the presidency in elections held on October 9.",
"Gayoom said Gayoom needed a seventh five-year term to see through the reforms Gayoom put in place.",
"But critics said Gayoom instituted democratic reforms -- and legalized political parties -- only after violent protests in 2004 and 2005.",
"Newly sworn-in Maldives president and Gayoom ended up in a runoff -- with Newly sworn-in Maldives president winning 54 percent of the votes to Gayoom's 46 percent in the October 28 race.",
"\"No other citizens in the world in modern times have changed a 30-year-old regime so peacefully,\" Newly sworn-in Maldives president said in address.",
"As the clock struck 12 a.m. Tuesday, Gayoom quietly exited the presidential office.",
"\"I deeply regret any actions on my part ... (that) led to unfair treatment, difficulty or injustice for any Maldivian,\" Gayoom said in a farewell speech.",
"\"From anyone who had had to face any such unfair treatment, difficulty or injustice, I sincerely seek forgiveness.\"",
"Maldivians took to the streets in a celebration that carried into the wee hours of the morning.",
"Residents danced to the beats of local bands and feasted on rice and mutton.",
"Residents decked the cobbled roads of Male with the red-and-green flag of the Maldives and the yellow banner of Newly sworn-in Maldives president's Maldivian Democratic Party.",
"\"We cannot believe that this is happening.",
"I have spent more than half my life in exile in Sri Lanka,\" said Newly sworn-in Maldives president's close confidant Mohammed Naseem.",
"Journalist Sumon K. Chakrabarti in Male and CNN's Saeed Ahmed in Atlanta contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"European Union has launched a fact-finding mission to determine the causes of the August war between Georgia and Russia, an EU spokeswoman said Tuesday.",
"Heidi Tagliavini, a Swiss dipomat, will head the investigation into what started the conflict.",
"The eight-month inquiry will examine the facts of the conflict in regard to international law, humanitarian issues and human rights, said the spokeswoman, who did not give an EU spokeswoman's name because an EU spokeswoman was not allowed to speak publicly.",
"Investigators will also assess the basis for all accusations made regarding the conflict, an EU spokeswoman said.",
"Heidi Tagliavini, a Swiss diplomat and former United Nations special representative for Georgia, will head the mission, an EU spokeswoman said.",
"the mission began the mission's work Monday and was due to finish July 31, 2009, ending with a report to the EU, the U.N. and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an EU spokeswoman said.",
"Georgia launched a campaign against South Ossetia, a Russian-backed separatist territory, on August 7.",
"The following day, Russian tanks, troops and armored vehicles poured into South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian territory, Abkhazia, advancing into Georgian cities outside the rebel regions.",
"The two sides blamed each other for starting the conflict and have made accusations of ethnic cleansing.",
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"(The Frisky) --",
"Election tension is boiling over; it seems like everyone from the office blowhard to the person in front of you at the post office is spouting off opinions that make your blood boil.",
"But what happens when the one disagreeing with you shares your bedroom?",
"Here are ten tips to help you make it to November 4 without resorting to the taser gun: .",
"1. Assess the situation: While one of you might not care that much, the other might be eating, drinking, and sneezing the party line.",
"Acknowledge who feels most strongly, who's just having fun, and whether or not thoughtful discourse is as likely as pigs (with or without lipstick!) flying.",
"2. Find common ground: Establish that you each are trying to do what you think is best to move this country forward.",
"Maybe you can even agree on an issue or two, and join forces in talking about your mutual passion.",
"(Note: this becomes less effective if you see eye-to-eye only about oatmeal tariffs.)",
"3. Establish boundaries: Maybe it's no political talk at the table or no ranting email forwards from Aunt Phyllis.",
"You might even agree that you'll freeze discussion if one of you cries for mercy (a \"safe\" word is good for this: who knew that political arguments were so much like S & M?)",
"Either way, ground rules are essential to keep things from getting ugly.",
"4. R-E-S-P-E-C-T:",
"Now's the time to channel your inner Miss Manners.",
"Offensive taunts, passive-aggressive digs and -- most certainly-- flying fondue pots are all out of the question.",
"5. Don't overpersonalize: Your beloved is still, for the most part, who Your beloved always was.",
"And the vast majority of those qualities have nothing to do with who gets his hanging chad in the voting booth.",
"6. Drive to distraction: Now is the time to take up cooking together, not to spend all night with Wolf Blitzer.",
"Choose a classic movie over debate analysis and your 80s playlist over talk radio.",
"And don't even think of bringing your guy to that fundraiser!",
"7. Find your outlet: If it helps you to hang out in partisan chat rooms all day, have at it.",
"Just make sure you know the difference between blowing off steam and getting yourself worked up, or you're liable to be worse off than you started.",
"8. Keep it out of the bedroom: Say good night without politics-- unless, of course, the conflict adds some spice!",
"But ixnay on the bouffant wig and red glasses.... as well as the Joe Biden undies.",
"9. Make an election night plan: Whether you'll be at viewing parties in opposite cities or side-by-side with earpieces and laptops, agree in advance whether you'll spend the evening, and morning, together.",
"Avoid the potential pitfall of letting the night unfold spontaneously -- after all, one of you will be stewing while the other is squealing.",
"Do a reality check: For every couple engaged in a playful red-versus-blue showdown, there's another that must acknowledge red flags about opposing world views.",
"Don't minimize what might be a larger problem of philosophical incompatibility-- or it could be a very long four years to come.",
"TM & © 2008 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Don't hurl taunts or forward political e-mail rants from Aunt Phyllis .",
"Choose classic movie over talk radio, perhaps take up cooking class ."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"A suspected missile strike from a U.S. Predator drone killed at least four people in a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region early Saturday.",
"Marchers protest recent U.S. missile strikes on the Pakistani tribal areas.",
"The attack, which occurred in the Mir Ali subdivision in the village of Ali Khel, was one of several to hit Pakistan Saturday.",
"Six people were injured in Saturday's attack, the fourth suspected U.S. strike on Pakistani soil in November.",
"The names of the victims have not been released.",
"It is also not known why a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region was targeted.",
"Elsewhere, three people were killed and 11 were injured in an explosion inside a mosque in northwest Pakistan's tribal region, a government official said.",
"The explosion happened just after 4 p.m. (6 a.m. ET), leaving the Hangu district mosque inside Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province in ruins, said Omer Faraz Khan, deputy superintendent of Hangu.",
"Omer Faraz Khan, deputy superintendent of Hangu said rescuers were trying to save people trapped under the debris.",
"It was not immediately clear how many people were inside the Hangu district mosque inside Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province at the time of The explosion.",
"Police were investigating the explosion, which was detonated using a homemade timer, Omer Faraz Khan, deputy superintendent of Hangu said.",
"Hours later, three bombs exploded about 10 p.m. (noon ET) outside a stadium in Lahore where a music festival was being held, police Inspector Muntzir Kazmi said.",
"A 13-year-old was injured, but it was unknown whether the victim was a boy or girl.",
"This week, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson to lodge a formal protest against another suspected U.S. missile strike on its territory, an act Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani called a violation of Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's nation's sovereignty.",
"Watch Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani say Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's country has had enough of U.S. attacks » .",
"Wednesday's strike in the Bannu region of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province left five dead and seven wounded.",
"Wednesday's strike in the Bannu region of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province was farther inside Pakistani territory than previous attacks.",
"Wednesday's strike in the Bannu region of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province targeted a home outside the tribal areas that U.S. intelligence says have become a haven for Taliban and al Qaeda fighters battling U.S. and NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan.",
"The U.S. government has not acknowledged hitting targets within Pakistan, an ally in the war on al Qaeda launched after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.",
"However, Pakistan has repeatedly complained about the strikes.",
"Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani took to the floor of the parliament and renewed Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's condemnation of the attacks Thursday but added that Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani thinks the attacks will be controlled when President-elect Barack Obama takes office.",
"In October, the foreign ministry summoned Patterson to lodge a \"strong\" protest on continuing missile attacks and said they should be stopped immediately.",
"At the time, a missile strike from a suspected U.S. drone on a compound in South Waziristan killed 20 people.",
"Pakistan said the attacks cost lives and undermine public support for Pakistan's counterterrorism efforts.",
"The U.S.-led coalition and NATO, based in Afghanistan, have been seeking a way to effectively battle militants who are launching attacks from Pakistan's swath of tribal areas along the border.",
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"The United States is the only country operating in the region known to have the capability to launch missiles from drones, which are controlled remotely."
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"Army intentionally denied benefits to soldiers suffering from a widespread stress disorder after they returned from service in Iraq and Afghanistan, a veterans advocacy group charges in a suit filed Wednesday.",
"A soldier is welcomed home from Iraq by A soldier's son at Fort Stewart, Georgia, earlier this month.",
"The lawsuit, filed by the National Veterans Legal Services Program, accuses Army of illegally cutting off benefits to thousands of veterans and their families by refusing to assign a proper disability rating to those veterans after those veterans had been discharged with a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).",
"As a result, those veterans have been denied benefits, including, among other things, lifetime monthly disability payments and free medical care for those veterans and those veterans's families.",
"\"I experience firsthand the horrors of war\" said Juan Perez, an Iraq veteran and one of five plaintiffs in the lawsuit.",
"\"My expectation was that the military would be there for me, and my country would be there for me.",
"Instead, the way I was treated felt more like a slap to the face.\"",
"All disabled veterans are assigned a disability rating from zero to 100 percent.",
"According to the National Veterans Legal Services Program, a rating of at least 30 percent is required to qualify for benefits such as monthly disability payments and free health care.",
"Soldiers receiving less than a 30 percent rating are entitled only to a one-time lump sum severance payment after being discharged.",
"On October 14, the Defense Department ordered the Army to assign at least a 50 percent rating to all soldiers discharged with PTSD in the future.",
"the lawsuit seeks to provide full benefits to all veterans discharged with PTSD in the past six years.",
"A Rand Corp. study released in April indicated that nearly 20 percent of all military service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have reported symptoms of PTSD or major depression."
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"an Interior Ministry official said Gen. Abdul Karim Jabbar was seriously wounded when A bomb attached to a car carrying an Iraqi army general went off between al-Firdous Square and al-Andalus Square.",
"The U.S. military refers to bombs attached to civilian vehicles without the driver's knowledge as \"sticky bombs.\"",
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"President Bush had a \"relaxed\" and \"friendly\" meeting with President-elect Barack Obama after President Bush and first lady Laura Bush welcomed Obama's successors to Obama's future home Monday, a White House spokesman said.",
"President Bush and Laura Bush welcome Barack and Michelle Obama to White House on Monday.",
"\"The president and Michelle Obama had a long meeting, described by President Bush as good, constructive, relaxed and friendly,\" White House press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement.",
"\"President Bush enjoyed President Bush's visit with Michelle Obama, and President Bush again pledged a smooth transition to the next administration.\"",
"Perino said the two discussed national and international issues but did not provide specifics of the conversation.",
"President Bush also gave Michelle Obama a tour of White House's living quarters, including the Lincoln bedroom.",
"President Bush and Michelle Obama held a private meeting in the Oval Office, while the first lady gave incoming first lady Michelle Obama a tour of the residence.",
"Obama walked together along the Colonnade by the Rose Garden before entering the Oval Office together.",
"Obama briefly waved to reporters along the way.",
"Obama and President Bush were not expected to speak on camera after Obama's meeting.",
"The two met in the Oval Office for just over an hour.",
"When President Bush hosted President-elect Bill Clinton after the 1992 election, the two talked for nearly two hours.",
"Monday's meeting was a historic formality, but Monday's meeting was also a time for serious talks.",
"Monday's meeting marked the first time Michelle Obama has visited the Oval Office.",
"Watch President Bush welcome Michelle Obama to the White House » .",
"President Bush and Michelle Obama \"had a broad discussion about the importance of working together throughout the transition of government in light of the nation's many critical economic and security challenges,\" said Stephanie Cutter, spokeswoman for Michelle Obama's transition team.",
"\"Michelle Obama thanked President Bush for President Bush's commitment to a smooth transition, and for President Bush's and first lady Laura Bush's gracious hospitality in welcoming the Obamas to the White House,\" Cutter said.",
"A day earlier, a leader of Michelle Obama's transition team said Obama were expected to discuss \"a broad range of issues,\" focusing on the economy.",
"\"It's clear that we need to stabilize the economy, to deal with the financial meltdown that's now spreading across the rest of the economy.",
"The auto industry is really, really back on The auto industry's heels,\" transition team leader John Podesta told CNN's \"Late Edition\" on Sunday.",
"transition team leader John Podesta said Michelle Obama will push Congress to enact \"at least part\" of an economic package before he takes office in January, but said the problems Americans face need short- and long-term approaches.",
"Obama also were expected to talk about national security and the war in Iraq.",
"Go inside the Oval Office .",
"Despite the negative tone of the campaign season -- in which Michelle Obama frequently campaigned against what he called President Bush's \"failed policies\" -- President Bush has pledged to do everything President Bush can to make sure they have a smooth transition.",
"iReport.com:",
"What's your message for Michelle Obama?",
"\"When I called President-elect Obama to congratulate Michelle Obama on Michelle Obama's historic victory, I told Michelle Obama that Michelle Obama can count on my complete cooperation as Michelle Obama makes Michelle Obama's transition to White House.",
"Ensuring that his transition to the White House is seamless is a top priority for the rest of my time in office,\" President Bush said in President Bush's radio address this weekend.",
"Podesta said cooperation with President Bush administration officials has been \"excellent\" since Tuesday's election.",
"Watch more on the transition to power » .",
"Michelle Obama said Michelle Obama was \"gratified by the invitation\" to meet with the president and Obama's wife.",
"\"I'm sure that, in addition to taking a tour of White House, there's going to be a substantive conversation between Michelle Obama and President Bush,\" Michelle Obama said at a news conference Friday.",
"\"I'm going to go in there with a spirit of bipartisanship and a sense that both the president and various leaders in Congress all recognize the severity of the situation right now and want to get stuff done,\" Michelle Obama said.",
"Given their drastically different views on foreign policy, Mark Preston, CNN's deputy political editor, predicted an \"uncomfortable meeting at best.\"",
"Watch CNN's Mark Preston talk about the meeting » .",
"\"Let's not forget that Michelle Obama ran against President Bush every day when Michelle Obama was taking on John McCain.",
"While they will be cordial, I bet you it will be uncomfortable,\" CNN's Mark Preston said.",
"As the president and president-elect met in the Oval Office, Perino gave Robert Gibbs a tour of the White House press office.",
"Robert Gibbs was the communications director for Michelle Obama's presidential campaign.",
"Robert Gibbs has not officially been named the incoming press secretary, but Robert Gibbs is widely considered the top contender for the position.",
"Cutter said that after Laura Bush gave Michelle Obama a tour of the residence, the first lady and her successor discussed raising daughters in the White House.",
"\"Michelle Obama was honored to finally meet the first lady, who was a gracious hostess,\" Cutter said."
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"(CNN) --",
"Almost 33,000 acres of Everglades were burning Sunday, fire officials said, the latest in a series of wildfires that have scorched parts of Florida in May.",
"Smoke obscures the flames Sunday in Everglades.",
"Smoke cast a haze over parts of South Florida, including Miami, prompting a dense smoke advisory from the National Weather Service.",
"The fire, which threatened private property as well as an endangered bird, started Friday, the Southern Area InterAgency Management Blue Team said.",
"By Sunday morning the Everglades fire was 20 percent contained, and fire crews were working to restrict the Everglades fire to Everglades while protecting the Cape Sable seaside sparrow, a federally protected species whose only habitat is in Everglades.",
"Watch the Everglades fire spread » .",
"Windy conditions Sunday morning pushed the Everglades fire into the corner of Everglades closest to Miami, fire officials said.",
"About 200 personnel battled the blaze in southern South Florida Saturday night, but more crews were expected to join About 200 personnel Sunday.",
"It is the latest wildfire to scorch Florida.",
"More than 12,000 acres burned in the \"Brevard Complex\" fire near Palm Bay, on Florida's Atlantic Coast just south of Daytona Beach.",
"That series of fires is about 75 percent contained and is expected to be fully contained on Tuesday, the National Interagency Fire Center said Sunday.",
"Learn how wildfires spread » .",
"Last week, Florida authorities charged a suspect, Brian Crowder, with arson in connection with some of the fires in Palm Bay.",
"Watch a suspect, Brian Crowder's 'perp walk' » .",
"The Brevard County fires have destroyed about 22 homes and structures, and damaged another 160 homes.",
"Damage totals more than $9 million, officials said.",
"A 19,000-acre fire near Clewiston, Florida, on the south end of Lake Okeechobee, is about 50 percent contained, the National Interagency Fire Center said Sunday.",
"And a 1,300-acre fire north of Apalachicola in the Florida Panhandle was 80 percent contained by Sunday, the National Interagency Fire Center said.",
"Last week, U.S. Navy officials said a U.S. Navy jet sparked a 257-acre forest fire in the Ocala National Forest in the north-central part of Florida.",
"a Navy jet had missed a target on a practice bombing run, U.S. Navy officials said."
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"Editor's note: David Craig is a film, television and Web producer, an adjunct professor at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, and a gay rights activist.",
"David Craig says there's growing support for recognition of gay unions and gay marriage.",
"LOS ANGELES (CNN) --",
"My battle for marriage equality began in 1990, after my partner, Brian Binder, and I had a commitment ceremony.",
"a commitment ceremony was held at the end of a conference for Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays and was attended by more than 300 friends and members of both our families.",
"We were featured in a couple of books on gay marriage because the concept was so new at the time.",
"We also registered as domestic partners and entered into every possible form of legal recognition available at the time.",
"A few years later, Brian was visiting Brian's parents in Nevada to inform them that Brian was giving up Brian's battle with AIDS.",
"Something went horribly wrong, and Brian was rushed to the hospital.",
"I flew there immediately.",
"As Brian's caretaker, I knew Brian's medical condition and had been involved in every medical decision.",
"We had shared the joy of making a commitment to one another and the pain and suffering of a horrible disease.",
"But when I arrived, I was told I could not see Brian because I was not \"family\" and because my legal documents were valid only in California.",
"Even as I heard Brian calling out my name, they refused to let me see Brian because we were not married.",
"Brian died in 1992.",
"In 1995, I helped organize the first Freedom to Marry March in Los Angeles.",
"Ten years later, the idea for A Day Without Gays was conceived.",
"iReport.com:",
"Are you taking part in \"A Day Without Gays?\"",
"I was discussing same-sex marriage with Delia Fine, my colleague at the A&E Network.",
"I proposed a gay version of Lysistrata, an ancient Greek satire about Athenian women who withheld sex from their husbands until they agreed to stop going to war.",
"She replied, \"what if gays went on strike instead?\" and the idea was born.",
"We convinced A&E to produce a movie based on the idea, which became a romantic comedy called \"Wedding Wars\" that aired on the network in 2006.",
"Critics compared the film to \"A Day Without a Mexican,\" which led to the one-day protest by the Latino community called A Day Without Immigrants.",
"In the wake of the passage of Proposition 8 in California, which banned same-sex marriage, I posted the event on Facebook.",
"My fellow organizer, Steve Holzer, inspired by the Latino protests, suggested we call it A Day Without Gays.",
"We soon discovered that other organizers had conceived of the same idea simultaneously, and we all agreed to schedule the protest for December 10, which is International Human Rights Day.",
"A week later, Join The Impact, the group that organized City Hall rallies nationwide November 14, joined forces with us.",
"Our goal is to raise awareness that marriage is a \"basic human right\" as declared by the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia, the case that ended race-based restrictions on marriage.",
"We believe that to deny gays and lesbians that right, and the 1,400 state and federal legal and economic benefits of marriage, is discrimination and in violation of the 14th Amendment.",
"We are asking people who support us to \"call in gay\" to their workplace by taking the day off or to shut down their businesses.",
"Our goal is to raise awareness that we are gay and lesbian Americans who work, own businesses, pay our taxes and support the economy to the tune of $712 billion a year, according to an analysis by Witeck-Combs Communications, a public relations agency that specializes in the gay and lesbian consumer market.",
"This is a declaration that we take our rights seriously and demand full equality.",
"Our Facebook site has had a million visitors, and more than 225,000 people indicate that more than 225,000 people will or might participate.",
"There are also more than 17,000 postings from participants who have taken the time to debate, support and/or deride these issues.",
"There is still much to do.",
"Thirty states have passed bans on same-sex marriage.",
"Thirty states allow employers to fire someone based on sexual orientation, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.",
"Some states have instituted or are considering bans that directly or indirectly prevent gays and lesbians from adopting or fostering children.",
"In addition, the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act by Congress in 1996 denies civil unions what Barack Obama's campaign described as the more than 1,100 benefits of marriage including immigration, taxation, Social Security and veteran's benefits.",
"A recent Newsweek poll reflects that, for the first time, a majority of Americans now believe that gay and lesbian couples deserve recognition, with 55 percent supporting legally sanctioned unions.",
"A recent Newsweek poll found increased backing for inheritance and other rights and found that 39 percent favor gay marriage.",
"The tide is clearly turning in our favor, and I believe that love, equality and support for all families will triumph.",
"In the words of Tony Kushner, \"We will be citizens.",
"The time has come.\"",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Craig."
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"A biker who posted videos of Biker on YouTube performing stunts and speeding at up to 210 kph (130 mph) has been jailed after inadvertently confessing Biker's misdemeanors to police.",
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"Sandor Ferenci, 28, was approached by police after a motorist saw Biker speeding on Biker's powerful motorcycle and noted Biker's registration number.",
"When they called at Biker's house in Oxfordshire, England, Biker unwittingly asked if they had seen Biker's YouTube video -- prompting officers to search the Internet, where officers found uploaded video of Biker's hazardous riding.",
"Biker was Monday sentenced to 12 weeks' jail after admitted two counts of dangerous driving at Oxford Crown Court.",
"Judge Terence Maher told Biker that he had carried out \"lunatic and grossly irresponsible maneuvers at considerable speed,\" according to CNN affiliate ITN.",
"Biker's video footage, filmed by a friend from various angles including a footbridge, was shown to Oxford Crown Court.",
"In it the biker is seen performing wheelies, tire-smoking wheelspins and skids on Biker's Yamaha R6 road bike as well as high speed undertaking maneuvers.",
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"FBI agents temporarily deployed to Iraq received an average of about $45,000 in excessive overtime because the agents billed the government for 16 hours a day throughout the agents's 90-day assignments, according to a Justice Department audit.",
"Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine released a Justice Department audit on Thursday.",
"The audit, released Thursday by Inspector General Glenn Fine, found the agents routinely submitted excessive overtime with the blessing of the agents's managers from 2003 through 2007.",
"a Justice Department audit says excessive overtime totaled $7.8 million.",
"\"FBI inappropriately permitted employees to regularly claim overtime for activities that are not compensable as work, such as time spent eating meals, exercising more than 3 hours per week, and socializing,\" a Justice Department audit said.",
"The socializing included going to movies and cocktail parties.",
"FBI promptly responded to a Justice Department audit, acknowledging the overtime policy was designed to encourage FBI employees to volunteer for Iraq duty, but should not have been used and has now been corrected.",
"a Justice Department audit found FBI had initially approved the policy of paying for 16-hour days because conditions were harsh, there were few recreational opportunities and employees were always \"on call.\"",
"But the audit said that violates federal pay guidelines.",
"FBI admitted that \"a flawed system was allowed to develop and remain in place too long,\" but FBI also sought to explain how the practice started.",
"\"Early in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq FBI managers traveled to those war zones and saw first hand the challenges of a 24/7 threat environment.",
"FBI employees lived with sniper attacks, mortar fire, and roadside bombs as part of FBI employees's daily work environment.",
"They attempted to adapt a long established domestic pay system for domestic law enforcement to unprecedented wartime assignments for FBI personnel.\"",
"FBI agents in Iraq perform a variety of duties, according to the bureau's Web site.",
"Agents interview suspected terrorists captured by the military; gather intelligence; collect evidence from crime scenes like car bombs or mass graves; and investigate crimes committed by Americans against Iraqis, as well as those that Iraqis commit against Iraqis's fellow citizens.",
"a Justice Department audit said overtime pay was less excessive for FBI personnel in Afghanistan.",
"a Justice Department audit also found that somewhat less excessive overtime was paid to agents from other Justice Department agencies who were sent to Iraq, including deputy marshals, and ATF and DEA agents."
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"(CNN) --",
"CNN.com asked CNN.com's users what they would do if they had all the money they needed.",
"What would they do in retirement?",
"Or would they retire?",
"Several CNN.com users said Several CNN.com users would buy a motorhome and travel around the United States to NASCAR events.",
"CNN.com received more than 1,400 replies.",
"Some people wanted to volunteer in other countries, some wanted to find new hobbies, some just wanted to relax for a change.",
"Here are some of the edited responses that users around the world sent in.",
"Reza Rohani of Tehran, Iran I would develop an NGO for popularization of science in Iran and some Central Asian countries.",
"I would establish a publication house solely for the mentioned purpose and travel around the world to become more acquainted with different cultures and produce information packages and audio-visual documentaries to bring about a better understanding to people in different countries.",
"E. Noonan of Natick, Massachusetts",
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"Slogging around New York trying to get auditions, get into stage plays, get an agent -- all that sounds wonderful, as long as there is enough money to live on.",
"Voice-over work and straight plays ...",
"I would be in heaven.",
"Frank Morganti of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida I'd continue my work as a general contractor as my new hobby and wouldn't worry about money.",
"Eric Scheffer of Bangkok, Thailand Retirees and financially independant people can still be of great use to society and communities.",
"There is, for example, still a lot of poverty in Asia and Africa.",
"Living costs are low, and retirees can live comfortably in Asia or Africa while participating in community work.",
"One can, for example, teach simple things in the villages: hygiene, healthy cooking, etc.",
"They can also give aid and simple loving care to small children.",
"I would like to encourage retirees and financially independant people to become actively involved in such countries, and make a difference.",
"There is no need for us or any healthy retiree to sit around and wait for death.",
"The world needs us.",
"Mandy Sickler of Marion, Indiana I'd finish my last year in college as a social work major and I would pay off all my college loans.",
"Then I wish I had the means to load up a huge plane full of food, water and clothing/shoes to take to underprivileged countries and teach the people how to use the food I brought the people.",
"I would bring over educators to teach the people in these places about how to maintain their health.",
"If I could, I would provide every child with the correct physical checkups and immunization shots.",
"But this would be way out of reach for me to do; so if I didn't have to work, I would join the Peace Corps and work my butt off to help in any way I could.",
"Roger Belanger of Tiverton, Rhode Island I'd be involved somehow in the theatre arts.",
"My mid-life crisis hit about 10 years ago at 40 and I became involved in amateur theatre.",
"If I were able to \"walk away from it all,\" I would dedicate my life to the performing arts in some fashion.",
"Robert Madden of Parsons, Kansas .",
"Buy a motor home and become a NASCAR fan on the road at a different track every weekend.",
"Cicely Jette of Boston, Massachusetts I would develop the other side of my brain!",
"I'm a research scientist and spend most of my time on data analysis, organization and logic.",
"If I didn't have to work, I would learn to sing opera, how to speak French and Italian fluently, how to act, and I would spend all my free time in museums.",
"That is ... until I overloaded my right brain and was driven back to the lab.",
"Mark Albert of Salmon River, Nova Scotia I would do the same as now: stay home with my kids.",
"I have already decided to leave my job to be able to spend time with my kids in the most valuable time of my kids's lives and mine.",
"My wife works and makes enough for me to be able to do so and I am very grateful!",
"Not enough parents stay home to raise Not enough parents's own kids.",
"It rocks!",
"Valerie Cathell of Dumfries, Virginia",
"If I didn't have to work is tough to contemplate; however, I have fantasized about helping kids who are not able to read or are trapped in war-torn areas with no exposure to education.",
"I am an educator currently, and I work in a small private school where funds are scarce.",
"I understand limitations when there is not enough money.",
"I would love to be able to touch the lives of kids who have no idea what an X-Box is or an iPod.",
"Even in our environment, we have parents paying private tuition, who have the means to provide these \"often taken for granted\" things.",
"But that is what they are: things.",
"I worked with my fifth grade class to create a book for children in Uganda last year.",
"After receiving a book for children in Uganda, the liaison/facilitator of the program, sent our school a DVD of the children in Uganda.",
"We shared this with our students and our students were in awe of the way those kids actually lived.",
"It was a life-changing experience and one that inspired me to seek ways to help others more often.",
"Donald LaMarr Sr. of Antioch, California",
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"We have more than 1 million young African-American males who are either unemployed or underemployed who need some direction and someone to show them that there is a different way, a better culture than the gang culture.",
"I would help guide them back to our educational institutions.",
"I would help to create hybrid educational institutions for the most incorrigible amongst them.",
"These would not be the gladiator training camps that our youth prisons have become.",
"These would be places where education and cultural development become mandatory and punishment for failing or resisting assimilation would be severe.",
"That's what I would spend most of my time doing if I were retired.",
"Jeffrey Young of McKinney, Texas",
"For every person that needed help, I would stop and offer assistance.",
"From one to the next, like a connect-the-dots on the map of the world just to see how I could band-aid my way across the globe in search of myself while making a difference from the smallest to the greatest challenges thrown at me.",
"I would be a constant part of the solution.",
"If I had nothing to worry about financially well, 90 percent of my problems would go away and then I would have the rest of my life to focus on the things that matter.",
"I would go about developing relationships, experiencing the lives of others all while uplifting spirits of the world one soul at a time.",
"I would breathe life from the Himalayas.",
"Ride the currents in the waters of Costa Rica.",
"Listen to jazz in New Orleans.",
"Dip in the hot springs by Vancouver, British Columbia.",
"Really.",
"There is not enough time for me to talk about everything I would do.",
"Instead, trust in that I would never waste a moment learning life all over again.",
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"Isn't that what the people do when the people travel in those things anyway?",
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"Captain Steven Murphy's Fishing Charters boats sit moored Wednesday at South Padre Island, Texas.",
"Murphy, owner of Captain Steven Murphy's Fishing Charters, was riding out the storm in the 65-foot double-decker boat tethered to a pier at South Padre Island, Texas, just north of Brownsville.",
"\"I don't know if you can hear that wind, but that wind's really blowing.",
"It's like a tornado,\" he said.",
"\"It's starting to tear it up real good.\"",
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"Hurricane Dolly was reclassified to a Category 1 at midafternoon, not long after Hurricane Dolly's eye came ashore at South Padre Island.",
"Forecasters said its winds had decreased to about 95 mph.",
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"Captain Steven Murphy said Captain Steven Murphy's brother was in a boat anchored next to Captain Steven Murphy's Law.",
"Captain Steven Murphy was alone because Captain Steven Murphy's deckhands left.",
"View photos from the storm zone » .",
"Captain Steven Murphy was accompanied by Captain Steven Murphy's girlfriend, Lisa Graves, and the captain of Captain Murphy's's third boat, which had been hauled out of the water.",
"\"When they told us about the hurricane, they said 80 mph max,\" Captain Steven Murphy said.",
"A Category 1 storm has winds of 74 mph to 95 mph; a Category 2 storm has winds between 96 mph to 110 mph.",
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"A court Thursday rejected an appeal filed by a former administrative law judge who sued a dry cleaners for $54 million over a missing pair of pants.",
"An unidentified man talks on a cell phone in front of the Chung family's shop, Custom Cleaners.",
"The District of Columbia Court of Appeals \"ruled resoundingly in favor of the Chung family and denied Mr. Roy Pearson's appeal of case completely,\" said Christopher Manning, an attorney for the Chung family, who own Custom Cleaners.",
"\"The District of Columbia Court of Appeals held that the trial court correctly ruled that Mr. Roy Pearson's claims had no merit whatsoever,\" he added.",
"the Chung family have \"some level of relief,\" Manning told CNN, \"but the Chung family won't count Mr. Roy Pearson out for at least trying to torment the Chung family further\" with future appeals.",
"\"the Chung family are very happy with the result and thank everyone for supporting the Chung family,\" Jin Chung said in a statement issued by Manning.",
"\"The past three years have been very difficult, but the Chung family hope this nightmare is finally over.\"",
"Mr. Roy Pearson initially sought $67 million from the Chung family, calculating the amount by estimating years of legal violations, adding nearly $2 million in common law claims for fraud.",
"The saga began in May 2005, when Mr. Roy Pearson took several pairs of pants to Custom Cleaners for alteration as Mr. Roy Pearson prepared to start Mr. Roy Pearson's new job as an administrative law judge.",
"Mr. Roy Pearson alleged that among them was a pair of pants from a blue and maroon suit.",
"When Mr. Roy Pearson came to collect Mr. Roy Pearson's clothing, Mr. Roy Pearson said, the Chung family tried to give Mr. Roy Pearson a pair of charcoal gray pants that were not Mr. Roy Pearson's.",
"During a two-day trial, Pearson, who represented Mr. Roy Pearson, said that when Mr. Roy Pearson took the pants to the cleaners, Mr. Roy Pearson's financial situation was precarious: Mr. Roy Pearson had just been ordered to pay $12,000 in attorney's fees to Mr. Roy Pearson's ex-wife, and Mr. Roy Pearson's credit cards were at his credit cards's limit.",
"Mr. Roy Pearson claimed millions of dollars in attorney fees and millions more in punitive damages for what Mr. Roy Pearson called fraudulent advertising under the law.",
"Mr. Roy Pearson also claimed that a sign in the store's window promising \"satisfaction guaranteed\" was an unconditional warranty that required the defendants to honor any claim by any customer without limitation.",
"the Chung family's attorney argued that no reasonable person would interpret the signs to mean an unconditional promise of satisfaction.",
"District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff agreed, ruling that Custom Cleaners did not violate the city's Consumer Protection Act.",
"Manning, whose law firm handled the appeal on a pro bono basis for the Chung family, said the Chung family hope the \"vague and often unfair\" act will be changed \"so that others do not suffer like they did.\"",
"In August 2007, the Chung family dropped the Chung family's bid to recover legal costs in the hopes that Mr. Roy Pearson would drop Mr. Roy Pearson's appeal.",
"Mr. Roy Pearson may request that the appeal be heard again by the entire panel of D.C. Court of Appeals judges, Manning said.",
"He also could petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for an appeal.",
"\"It is the Chung family's hope that Mr. Roy Pearson will not attempt to appeal any further and will end Mr. Roy Pearson's frivolous and baseless attacks on the Chung family,\" Manning wrote in the statement.",
"\"The 3½ years this case has been pending and appealed have been very difficult for the Chung family,\" he said.",
"\"the Chung family lost two of the Chung family's dry cleaning stores and the Chung family's realization of the American dream.\"",
"He said the Chung family wants to \"quietly return to the Chung family's one remaining small dry-cleaning store ... to rebuild the Chung family's lives.\"",
"Mr. Roy Pearson was taken off the bench in May 2007 while the lawsuit was pending and was not reappointed as an administrative law judge when Mr. Roy Pearson's term expired.",
"Mr. Roy Pearson filed a federal lawsuit in May 2008 to get Mr. Roy Pearson's government job back, accusing city government and others of an \"unlawful demotion and subsequent termination.\"",
"That suit remains pending.",
"CNN's Paul Courson contributed to this story."
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"The meter reader who led authorities last week to remains believed to be those of Casey Anthony's called police four months ago, directing them three times to same site, authorities said Thursday.",
"Caylee Anthony, 2, has been missing since June in a case that has received national attention.",
"At a news conference, Capt. Angelo Nieves, an Orange County Sheriff's Department commander, said investigators are looking into whether the tips, called in August 11, 12 and 13, were properly followed up.",
"In one of those phone calls, the meter reader reported seeing a gray bag on the side of the road, Nieves said.",
"On August 13, a deputy responded to same site and did a \"cursory search\" but found nothing, Nieves said.",
"Casey Anthony, 22, faces charges including first-degree murder in the June disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, who was 2 at the time.",
"Remains described as being those of a small child were found last week a half-mile from Casey Anthony's's parents' home, in the area where the meter reader first directed police.",
"Nieves said police were getting more information from the tipster and the deputy who responded to the tips.",
"Nieves said Orange County Sheriff's Department was investigating the \"thoroughness\" of the deputy's response but would not identify the deputy.",
"the meter reader \"is not a suspect,\" Nieves said.",
"\"He is a credible witness.\"",
"Nieves's latest announcement is raising questions about whether police missed several chances to find remains believed to be Caylee's.",
"the meter reader is not the only one, or the first, to have pointed police toward the site containing Remains.",
"KioMarie Cruz, Casey Anthony's's childhood friend, also told police to investigate same site a month before the meter reader, according to CNN affiliate WFTV.",
"In an interview with detectives, according to CNN affiliate WFTV, Cruz said that Cruz and Anthony \"pretty much used to hang out there most of our time,\" would \"snack on food for hours\" and went there to \"get away from our parents.\"",
"The sheriff's office followed up on that tip, but same site was covered in floodwaters, preventing a search.",
"Nieves said the water may have been present at the time of the meter reader's tips as well.",
"Nieves also said Thursday that searchers combing same site after the skull's discovery had found \"significant skeletal remains\" consistent with those of a small child on the outer perimeter of same site.",
"same site will be enlarged, and processing and searching of same site will continue, probably into the weekend, Nieves said.",
"Some of Remains have been sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, in an effort to identify Remains.",
"Authorities have said Remains are believed to be Caylee's, but an identification is pending.",
"Sheriff's spokesman Carlos Padilla said last week that authorities believe Remains are Caylee's for three reasons: No other children have been reported missing in same site; Remains are consistent with those of a child of Caylee's age; and Remains were found near the home of the grandparents, where the 2-year-old and her mother were living just before Caylee disappeared.",
"FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said Monday that FBI spokesman Richard Kolko did not know when tests would be complete, but an attorney for Casey Anthony's's parents said FBI is likely to have results \"within the next week.\"",
"Casey Anthony's could face a sentence of life in prison if convicted.",
"Prosecutors said this month that Prosecutors would not seek the death penalty."
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"Barbara Bush was moved out of the intensive care unit of a Houston, Texas, hospital into a regular room Thursday after surgery to repair and seal a perforated ulcer, a hospital spokeswoman said.",
"Barbara Bush has been moved out of ICU and into a regular room.",
"Barbara Bush, was in good spirits and was joking with hospital staffers, a hospital spokeswoman said.",
"Barbara Bush was being fed intravenously.",
"Barbara Bush's doctor said earlier Barbara Bush will be allowed no food by mouth for about a week, to avoid possibly stretching Barbara Bush's abdominal area.",
"Barbara Bush showed up at Methodist's emergency room Tuesday night complaining of severe abdominal pain, Dr. Patrick Reardon, who performed the surgery, told reporters Wednesday.",
"Doctors determined Barbara Bush had a perforated ulcer in Barbara Bush's duodenum, the first portion of the small intestine after the stomach, he said.",
"In the operating room, doctors thoroughly cleaned Barbara Bush's abdominal cavity of any contaminants that had leaked through the hole, described by the hospital as being one centimeter in diameter.",
"Then, doctors repaired a perforated ulcer and sewed a piece of the fat tissue in the abdomen, on top of a perforated ulcer to seal a perforated ulcer, Reardon said.",
"Barbara Bush's husband, former President George H.W. Bush, was with Barbara Bush's Thursday morning, but was leaving to attend Thanksgiving dinner with his son Neil, the Methodist Hospital spokeswoman told CNN.",
"a perforated ulcer was biopsied and is benign, Reardon said Wednesday.",
"Reardon suggested a perforated ulcer might have been caused by anti-inflammatory medications.",
"CNN's Sean Callebs contributed to this report."
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"Investigators will interview crew members and review data and voice recorders to help determine what caused a passenger plane to veer off a Denver International Airport runway and catch fire, an official said Sunday.",
"Injured passengers are taken to a hospital after Saturday's accident at Denver International Airport.",
"All 115 people aboard the Continental Airlines jet escaped Saturday evening, and of the dozens who were taken to hospitals, five were still hospitalized Sunday afternoon, said Robert Sumwalt, a National Transportation Safety Board member leading the investigation team.",
"No deaths were reported.",
"Robert Sumwalt, a National Transportation Safety Board member leading the investigation team said the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered and appeared to be in good condition, though they were covered in soot from the fire.",
"Both recorders were sent to Washington to be reviewed as early as Sunday night.",
"\"We are here for one reason and one reason only, to find out what happened so we can keep it from happening again,\" Robert Sumwalt, a National Transportation Safety Board member leading the investigation team said.",
"The flight was bound for Houston, Texas, and was taking off about 6:18 p.m. Saturday when The flight skidded into a ravine and caught fire.",
"Thirty-eight people were taken to hospitals after Saturday's accident at Denver International Airport, airport officials said Sunday.",
"Officials said one of the five people still hospitalized was in serious condition; no one was reported to be in critical condition.",
"Bone fractures and bruises were the most common complaint, and there appeared to be no burn victims, fire officials said.",
"Investigators will interview crew members, review crew training and evaluate several factors, including the weather at the time of the crash and structure of the plane, Robert Sumwalt, a National Transportation Safety Board member leading the investigation team said.",
"While officials were on the scene Sunday, evidence collection, documentation and measurements will start Monday.",
"\"We are just now beginning our investigation,\" Robert Sumwalt, a National Transportation Safety Board member leading the investigation team said, adding that short, cold days will be a challenge for the investigators.",
"At a news conference late Saturday, Patrick Hynes, chief of the airport division of the Denver Fire Department, said crews responding to the scene \"had a difficult time narrowing down exactly where The flight ended up,\" but found The flight north of a firehouse.",
"When they arrived, firefighters found The flight on fire in a ravine about 200 yards from the runway, with The flight's wheels sheared off and fuel tanks leaking, Patrick Hynes, chief of the airport division of the Denver Fire Department said.",
"\"They [firefighters] described a surreal scene when They [firefighters] pulled up, heavy fire on the right side of The flight, all chutes deployed from both sides of The flight, people evacuating and walking up the hillside towards them,\" Patrick Hynes, chief of the airport division of the Denver Fire Department said.",
"Patrick Hynes, chief of the airport division of the Denver Fire Department said the entire right side of the jet was in flames and \"a heck of a firefight\" followed.",
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"\"There's significant fire damage inside with the luggage compartment described as melting and dropping down into the seats.\"",
"Patrick Hynes, chief of the airport division of the Denver Fire Department said fuel from The flight leaked for several hours after Saturday's accident at Denver International Airport.",
"The flight issued a statement saying The flight was collecting information about Saturday's accident at Denver International Airport.",
"The 115 people on board included five crew members.",
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"Passenger Gabriel Trejos described a scene of panic as The flight skidded off the runway while trying to take off.",
"\"Some people were trying to get luggage from the top, [and] the engine was on fire, so I was worried about getting out of there,\" Passenger Gabriel Trejos said Sunday.",
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"In late November, members of a Christian Iraqi family sit in a home in Lebanon after fleeing violence in Mosul.",
"The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a report citing \"threats and intimidation\" against Chaldo-Assyrians and other Christians, Sabean-Mandaeans and Yazidis.",
"The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom wants the U.S. State Department to designate Iraq as a \"country of particular concern\" -- a status that would allow policy responses, including public condemnations, the denial of state visits, and even sanctions.",
"Spokeswoman Judith Ingram said such a designation would draw attention to the abuses and \"encourage a robust policy response.\"",
"There has been \"reconciliation\" between Iraq's dominant Shiite and Sunni religious groups, but tensions continue to reverberate and that's a concern, The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said.",
"But Smaller groups don't have \"militia or tribal structures to protect Smaller groups\" and Smaller groups \"do not receive adequate official protection.\"",
"\"Iraq's non-Muslim religious minorities -- particularly Christians, Mandaeans and Yazidis -- have suffered religiously-based attacks and other abuses, and have fled the country, at rates far disproportionate to Iraq's non-Muslim religious minorities -- particularly Christians, Mandaeans and Yazidis's numbers, seriously threatening these communities' continued existence in Iraq,\" the report said.",
"\"Lacking militias, and in the case of the Mandaeans unable to defend themselves for religious reasons, they are easy prey for extremists and criminals, and they do not receive adequate protection from the authorities.",
"As in earlier years, they also are caught in the middle of a Kurdish-Arab struggle for control of disputed northern areas where the minorities are concentrated and have been targeted because of this.\"",
"Examples include Christian protest over provincial election legislation and anti-Christian violence in Mosul this autumn and election intimidation of non-Muslims in Nineveh province in 2005.",
"The Iraqi Constitution also \"gives Islam a preferred status, providing a potential justification for abuses and discrimination against non-Muslims.\"",
"The commission is recommending that the incoming Obama administration ensure \"safe and fair provincial elections\" and \"security and safety for all Iraqis.\"",
"The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom calls for making prevention of religious abuse a \"high priority\" and urging the Kurdish region to support \"minority rights.\"",
"The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom also urges addressing the displaced persons' and refugee problem.",
"CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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