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1c6880a268805ccad0cedf1dcd6d5f0d412a2fc7	[ "(CNN) --", "A firefighter in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was arrested Monday in connection with two recent arson incidents, authorities said.", "Coatesville has recorded more than 20 arson cases in 2009.", "Robert Tracey, 37 is held in two of two fires.", "Robert Tracey, 37, was taken into custody Monday afternoon for allegedly setting two fires Friday night, Chester County District Attorney Joe Carroll said.", "Coatesville has been hit by a string of arsons in recent months and although the arson task force investigating those cases made Monday's arrest, officials did not link Monday's arrest to any other arson cases.", "The criminal complaint against Robert Tracey, 37 lists nine charges stemming from a fire set to a homeowner's porch swing and a fire set in another homeowner's trash can.", "The fires, both Friday night, were extinguished before any serious damage was done, authorities said.", "No injuries were reported.", "Chester County District Attorney Joe Carroll said eyewitness accounts, including descriptions of the suspect's clothes, helped lead to Monday's arrest.", "Chester County District Attorney Joe Carroll said Monday's arrest was \"extremely troubling.\"", "Chester County District Attorney Joe Carroll said the arson task force investigating those cases is working diligently to solve the arson cases and that \"there is no more important investigation\" to Chester County District Attorney Joe Carroll's office.", "On January 23, Tracey, who was then an assistant chief of volunteer firefighters in Coatesville, told CNN affiliate WPVI that fighting multiple fires was \"really taxing the fire department.\"", "Robert Tracey, 37 recently became a paid firefighter with the fire department, according to Chester County District Attorney Joe Carroll.", "Robert Tracey, 37 was jailed with bond set at $2 million, Chester County District Attorney Joe Carroll said.", "He is expected to be arraigned March 30, according to Chester County District Attorney Joe Carroll.", "Robert Tracey, 37 is the third person arrested this year in connection with arsons in Coatesville, which has recorded more than 20 arson cases so far in 2009." ]	[ "Robert Tracey, 37, arrested for allegedly setting two fires Friday night .", "String of arsons investigated in Coatesville; Robert Tracey, 37 not linked to others .", "Robert Tracey, 37 recently became a paid firefighter with Coatesville department ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1 ]	[ 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 0, 3, 1 ]
ffaa717f0fb02cdaaade105690405247d1c8007f	[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --", "Imagine the Batmobile busting bad guys in Bismarck, North Dakota, or \"Knight Rider's\" KITT corralling criminals on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.", "Car was on display recently near the U.S. Capitol.", "Car might not be quite up to superhero specs, but some police say Car could be a welcome addition to some police's arsenal.", "\"I don't see any downside to Car,\" said Carl Latorre, a Pennsylvania State Police dispatcher who served 35 years as a Philadelphia police officer.", "\"I am so excited about Car.", "This car rates up there with cops carrying automatic weapons to combat what the criminals carry now.", "It's about time that something like Car came about.\"", "OK, so Car doesn't have a nanotech cloaking capability or rocket boosters, but every feature on Car draws on suggestions from more than 3,000 law enforcement professionals.", "The result is a futuristic prowler with a 300-horsepower clean diesel engine, flashing lights visible from all angles, an ergonomic cockpit, an onboard computer with voice command and instant license plate recognition, integrated shotgun mounts, and more.", "(Weapons of mass destruction detectors are available as an option -- seriously.)", "See how Car stacks up against KITT and the Dark Knight's Tumbler » .", "Car was designed by cops for cops, breaking the tradition of recruiting family sedans into the force, company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "\"The current vehicles that they (police departments) use were designed for driving around, going to the grocery store, taking kids to school -- things like that,\" company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "\"You don't have an engineer sitting at one of the other automakers who says, 'Y'know, I think what we need to do is we need to take this car, and we need to run into a curb at 50 miles an hour and see how many times it takes before the wheels and the suspension fails on it.\"", "The rear passenger compartment alone is enough to make experienced cops get teary-eyed.", "The rear-hinged \"suicide doors\" make it easier for handcuffed passengers to get in and out, and the seat is designed so \"guests\" can ride comfortably with their hands cuffed behind their backs.", "For officer safety, Latorre likes how the seat belts are anchored in the center of the seat and buckle near the door so the officer doesn't have to lean across the prisoner.", "\"When you put a prisoner in the back seat, you're supposed to strap a prisoner in,\" Latorre said.", "\"Nowadays, you have to make sure your gun isn't going close to a prisoner's hands, and how are you going to strap somebody in doing that?\"", "Perhaps most popular among cops is the rear compartment, which is sealed off from the front and made entirely of seamless, washable plastic, with drain plugs in the floor.", "\"Numerous times I've had less than pleasant experience\" with prisoners vomiting or relieving prisoners in the back seat, said Stephens, a former Texas police officer.", "The seat innovations are up front, too, where the seats have recesses to accommodate officers' bulky gun belts.", "\"The front seat -- I couldn't believe the front seat.", "They thought of everything,\" Latorre said.", "\"You don't know how difficult it is to get out of a car.", "The first thing you've got to do is adjust your gun belt.", "your gun belt shouldn't be a problem.\"", "Car can go 0 to 60 mph in 6.5 seconds, has a top speed of 155 mph and can withstand a 75-mph rear impact, according to the company's Web site.", "Car has bullet-resistant panels in the doors and dash and has push bumpers incorporated into the aluminum frame.", "The upper flashing lights are integrated into the roof panel, eliminating the need for a bolted-on light bar that causes aerodynamic drag -- reducing fuel economy -- and can lead to rust.", "Watch police check out the car and hear the engine growl » .", "Despite the technological \"wow\" factor and officer enthusiasm, Car could prove to be a tough sell.", "\"The people are very intelligent and smart that are setting this up,\" said Lt. Michael Arnold, fleet manager of the Bismarck, North Dakota, police department.", "\"What scares me is they don't give you a price.\"", "Company officials say the price -- possibly around $50,000 per unit -- will be \"competitive\" considering the cost of equipping a conventional car for police work and how long each vehicle lasts.", "Car will be built to last 250,000 miles, compared with 75,000 to 120,000 miles for the typical patrol car, Stephens said.", "\"When it's all said and done it's a matter of how much it costs per mile,\" said Bismarck Deputy Chief Fred Wooten.", "Regardless of how good it looks on paper, a state or big-city agency won't be willing to take a chance on a vehicle with no track record, said Detective Mary Wheat, spokesperson for the Portland, Oregon, police department.", "\"If Car do cost $50,000, nobody's going to buy Car,\" Wheat said.", "\"Nobody's going to buy Car.", "No, police agencies can't afford $50,000 cars.", "We have huge fleets of cars.", "We have hundreds of them; hundreds and hundreds of cars.", "And we turn them over.", "I mean, we ride them hard.", "Those cars are used on a 24-hour basis.", "That wouldn't work.\"", "But municipalities don't balk at paying large sums for other purpose-built vehicles such as firetrucks and ambulances, countered Latorre, the Pennsylvania officer.", "\"They don't say, 'Oh, here's a box truck; go fight fires with it' or 'Here's an E-250 cargo van; go pick up patients with it,' do they?", ",\" he said.", "\"So I don't see why the municipality wouldn't say, 'You know what? This [police car] is nothing but a plus for us.'\"", "The company, based in Atlanta, Georgia, doesn't yet have a factory, but has named five states where it could locate: Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina and South Carolina.", "Production is scheduled to begin in 2012, company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "Carbon doesn't expect to take over the market quickly, instead counting on a few \"early adopters\" willing to take a risk on a few vehicles and work out the kinks to everyone else's satisfaction, company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "Hundreds of agencies already have made online reservations for thousands of Carbon Motors vehicles, putting Carbon Motors \"very well on Carbon Motors's way to selling out Carbon Motors's first year,\" company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "Wheat praised the Carbon team's entrepreneurship and suggested Carbon Motors market Carbon Motors's car first in smaller towns with less red tape and simpler bidding processes.", "That works for Wooten, the deputy chief in Bismarck.", "\"We'll be more than happy to field test one,\" he offered.", "\"If Car works as advertised, we'll probably have a fleet of Car someday.\"" ]	[ "Carbon Motors' E7 prototype is not your father's Crown Victoria .", "Vehicle designed bumper to bumper by cops, for cops .", "Car features high-performance engine, integrated gadgets, ergonomic cockpit .", "Whether governments will buy it is the big unanswered question ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 0, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 7, 7, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 6, 8, 1, 1, 6, 1, 0, 0, 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 3, 1, 1, 8, 1, 4, 4, 10, 10, 10, 6, 8, 0 ]
47a9e864ed7327d21329f1268695239ee983397e	[ "(CNN) -- Connie and Donald McCracken were watching CNN one evening last week when Connie and Donald McCracken learned of the tragic death of actress Natasha Richardson from a head injury.", "Immediately, Connie and Donald McCracken's minds turned to Connie and Donald McCracken's 7-year-old daughter, Morgan, who was upstairs getting ready for bed.", "An injured Morgan McCracken has benefited from awareness after Richardson's death.", "Two days earlier, Morgan, Morgan's father, and brother had been playing baseball in the yard of Morgan, her father, and brother's Mentor, Ohio, home when Morgan's father hit a line drive that landed just above Morgan's left temple.", "A lump formed, but Connie and Donald McCracken iced it down and the swelling subsided within an hour.", "\"For the next two days, Morgan was perfectly fine,\" Donald McCracken says.", "\"Morgan had no symptoms.", "Morgan went to school both days and got an A on Morgan's spelling test as usual.", "There were no issues whatsoever.\"", "But after hearing about Richardson's death, Connie and Donald McCracken wondered if Morgan was really as OK as Morgan seemed.", "After all, Richardson had been talking and lucid immediately after Richardson's fatal injury.", "When they went upstairs to kiss Morgan good night, Morgan complained of a headache.", "\"Because of Natasha, we called the pediatrician immediately.", "And by the time I got off the phone with the pediatrician, Morgan was sobbing, Morgan's head hurt so much,\" Donald McCracken says.", "Connie and Donald McCracken took Morgan to the emergency room at LakeWest Hospital in neighboring Willoughby, where doctors ordered a CT scan and immediately put Morgan on a helicopter to Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, with Morgan's father by Morgan's side.", "\"I knew it was bad when Morgan had to get there by helicopter in six minutes, instead of the 30 minutes it would have taken to get to Cleveland in an ambulance,\" Donald McCracken said.", "When the helicopter arrived at Rainbow, Connie and Donald McCracken were greeted by Dr. Alan Cohen, the hospital's chief of pediatric neurosurgery.", "He whisked Morgan into the operating room, pausing for a moment to tell Donald McCracken that Morgan's daughter had the same injury as Richardson: an epidural hematoma.", "Donald McCracken remembers standing in the operating room, feeling like the life had just been sucked out of Donald McCracken.", "\"My heart sank,\" Donald McCracken says.", "\"It just sank.\"", "Unlike Richardson's, Morgan's story has a happy ending.", "After surgery and five days in the hospital, Morgan's at home and doing fine.", "\"Dr. Alan Cohen, the hospital's chief of pediatric neurosurgery told Connie and Donald McCracken that if Connie and Donald McCracken hadn't brought Morgan in Thursday night, Morgan never would have woken up,\" Donald McCracken says.", "Now Connie and Donald McCracken sometimes wonder if they waited too long to get Morgan to a doctor.", "After hearing about Richardson's death, many people are asking many people the same question: Do all head injuries need attention, even ones that seem minor?", "\"Sometimes there's a gray zone, and there's no right answer,\" Dr. Alan Cohen, the hospital's chief of pediatric neurosurgery says.", "Watch for tips on when to go to the ER » .", "In most cases, it's pretty clear when someone needs medical attention after a head injury, says Greg Ayotte, a spokesperson for the Brain Injury Association of America and a cognitive rehabilitation therapist.", "\"They're confused, they're agitated, or they might be dizzy or unresponsive,\" he says.", "But then there's what doctors call the \"talk and die\" scenario, where someone seems fine, only to die hours, or sometimes even days later.", "\"Talk and die\" can happen with several different kinds of brain injuries.", "In the case of epidural hematomas, the injury Richardson and Morgan had, blood pools in the area between the lining of the brain and the skull.", "\"Fluid is building up in a contained space, creating pressure.", "Something's got to give, and that something is the brain,\" Ayotte says.", "If you don't get to the hospital to have surgery to drain the fluid, \"the deterioration can happen very quickly.\"", "Here, from Ayotte and other experts, is a list of what to do after someone has suffered a head injury.", "1. Be vigilant .", "Keep an eye on someone who has hit his head, even if the person never lost consciousness.", "\"A lot of folks are still under the assumption that as long as you're not knocked out, you're OK, and that's not true,\" Ayotte says.", "2. Look for dizziness, vomiting, headache and confusion .", "If the injured person has these signs, take the injured person or her to an emergency room, says Dr. Jam Ghajar, clinical professor of neurological surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, and president of the Brain Trauma Foundation.", "3. Look for changes in symptoms and behavior .", "Any sudden change, such as Morgan's headache going from mild to severe in minutes, means the person needs medical attention.", "For example, Ghajar says, if a person gets suddenly sleepy in the first 12 hours after a hit, it may mean the parts of the brain responsible for staying awake are experiencing pressure from a bleed.", "4. Be especially wary if someone a) has been drinking alcohol, b) is on blood thinners, c) is elderly or d) is a young athlete .", "It's tough to distinguish brain-injured behavior from drunken behavior, so when in doubt, take the person to the hospital, Ghajar says.", "Also, blood thinners can turn a mild bleed into a major bleed, so be especially vigilant if the injured person is taking blood thinners such as warfarin.", "He also warns people to be extra vigilant when an elderly person hits an elderly person's or an elderly person's head.", "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has information on traumatic brain injury and senior citizens.", "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has information on concussions in young athletes.", "5. Go to a certified trauma center if you can .", "The American College of Surgeons has a list of certified trauma facilities; a hospital that's not a trauma center may not have a neurosurgeon on call.", "You can also look on this map from the American Trauma Society.", "Find your state, select trauma centers, update this map from the American Trauma Society, and you can find information about trauma centers in your area.", "Connie and Donald McCracken say Connie and Donald McCracken look back and still can't believe Morgan suffered such a severe injury and didn't show any signs for 48 hours.", "\"Morgan didn't black out, Morgan's speech wasn't slurred, Morgan wasn't dizzy, Morgan wasn't any of the things you'd expect,\" McCracken says.", "\"And you don't want to be one of those panicky parents who takes those panicky parents who takes their child to the emergency room all the time's child to the emergency room all the time.\"", "Cohen's advice after a head injury: When in doubt, go.", "\"It's always better to err on the side of being conservative,\" he says.", "CNN Medical Producer Sabriya Rice contributed to this report." ]	[ "Richardson's death raises question: When should you go to ER after head injury?", "Dizziness, vomiting, headache and confusion are all red flags .", "Take special care if person is on blood thinners or is elderly .", "Doc: \"Sometimes there's a gray zone, and there's no right answer.\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 4, 5, 4, 6, 2, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 4, 1, 3, 5, 5, 5, 4, 5, 7, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5, 5, 0, 3, 2, 0, 1, 8, 8, 8, 7, 8, 2, 0, 9, 9, 8, 1, 0, 1, 1, 8, 2, 0, 2, 9, 10, 10, 0, 10, 10, 10, 5, 6, 3, 0, 3, 4 ]
31fb5ca210d456eace45d752517b3241560c4091	[ "(CNN) --", "Brazil legend Pele has been threatened with court action unless Pele retracts a reported allegation that compatriot Robinho, the Manchester City striker, has taken drugs.", "Robinho is \"upset and disappointed\" at comments attributed to Pele regarding the use of drugs.", "Pele had claimed Robinho and Brazil's former world footballer of the year Ronaldo used recreational drugs at a private party in Sao Paolo.", "Robinho's official Web site says the player is \"upset and disappointed\" at Pele whose alleged comments came during a court case involving his son, Edinho, was has admitted cocaine addiction.", "The story hit the headlines in Brazil and Robinho´s Web site says \"that a formal retraction from Pele will be requested, if what Pele said was not misinterpreted by the media that published it.", "And if Pele does not come forward, Pele will have to deal with Pele's very unfortunate comment in court.", "The statement by the player's representatives, added: \"Robinho is upset and disappointed at Pele, who seems to have forgotten the great idol he was and that it appears Pele must be reading sensationlist medias, to come up with such wrongful statement.\"", "Brazilian radio station, Jovem Pan, had quoted Pele as saying that: \"It is unfair to talk about drugs in football just because of one or two cases, like Robinho and (former Brazil striker) Ronaldo, who had that problem.\"" ]	[ "Pele threatened with court action unless Pele retracts reported drug accusations .", "Pele reportedly alleged fellow Brazilians Robinho and Ronaldo had taken drugs .", "Robinho's representatives say a formal retraction will be requested from Pele ." ]	[ 0, 0, 0 ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]
bc943b88ab22d763e1e4a2c4645acd7fc4d9df32	[ "In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share CNN correspondents's experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events.", "CNN's Gary Tuchman accompanied a Border Patrol unit in Nogales, Arizona, and experienced the variety and the danger of law enforcement life firsthand.", "CNN's Gary Tuchman pulls CNN's Gary Tuchman's weight on ride-along with 64 lbs. of marijuana seized by law enforcement.", "NOGALES, Arizona (CNN)", "Nogales, Arizona, is a small city.", "Just more than 20,000 people live here, according to the 2005 census.", "But spend a couple of days here with law enforcement, and your head will spin.", "Almost half of all illegal drugs seized from Mexico last year were seized in the eastern Arizona region, and Arizona is the largest border city in this U.S. border patrol sector.", "In the past six months, the Border Patrol has seized about 500,000 pounds of illegal drugs here, which is 15 percent higher than the previous six months.", "Each day, hundreds of people are arrested, mostly for immigration violations but many for drug and weapons crimes.", "The temporary jail cells in the Border Patrol station in Arizona are often overflowing.", "The Border Patrol boss in this U.S. border patrol sector says The Border Patrol boss in this sector's agents were assaulted 260 times within the past year.", "One night this week, we saw the danger and variety of lawbreaking activity experienced here quite vividly.", "At the immigration checkpoint set up a half-hour north of Arizona on Interstate 19, a semi truck is pulled over when the drug-sniffing dog detects something.", "The back of a semi truck is opened, and inside are thousands of tomatoes, but the drug-sniffing dog is still not happy.", "a semi truck is taken back to the Border Patrol station in Nogales, and agents climb over the tomatoes.", "And that's where they find the stash.", "Bales and bales of dope.", "Forty bales of marijuana.", "Nine hundred eight pounds, to be exact.", "At a street value of $800 a pound, the authorities estimate the authorities kept $720,000 worth of marijuana off the streets.", "I interview the man arrested for driving the shipment.", "The operating theory: that the man arrested for driving the shipment is doing dirty work for one of the Mexican cartels.", "But the man arrested for driving the shipment tells me the man arrested for driving the shipment is not scared, because \"I was just carrying tomatoes.\"", "the man arrested for driving the shipment claims that the man arrested for driving the shipment knew nothing about the nearly half-ton of pot.", "the man arrested for driving the shipment will be telling that to the judge and could face significant time in an American prison.", "Illegal drugs consume the day of all law enforcement people here.", "We drive with the Border Patrol in the late hours of the night and hear a call over the radio that two men have been spotted jumping the border wall with backpacks.", "The chase is on, and another dog is brought to the area.", "two men disappear, but another dog picks up a scent in the heavy, hilly brush.", "another dog the drug-sniffing dog is taught to sit when another dog finds something.", "another dog suddenly sits and then jumps on what looks like bushes.", "It turns out the bushes are actually attached to sacks of marijuana.", "Two 25-pound sacks full of pot.", "Two 25-pound sacks full of pot were abandoned by two men when they ran away after being spotted.", "Street value, at least $40,000.", "Ray Rivera, the agent who works with another dog, told me that over the past two years, another dog has found nearly 7,000 pounds of pot.", "But Rivera also is pretty heroic.", "Just a couple of weeks ago, Rivera was shot in the leg when a man Rivera was chasing committed suicide.", "The bullet passed through the man's face and into Rivera's knee.", "Law enforcement life here is not for the squeamish.", "Before we leave the area, we go to a rural area west of Nogales where we hear illegal immigrants and drug couriers often try to get into the United States.", "When we get there, we see why.", "The tall border fence abruptly ends as The tall border fence gets close to a small mountain, but there is plenty of space for people to squeeze into the United States.", "We wander about 10 feet into Mexico to look at some of the clothes, water bottles and cigarette boxes that people have left behind.", "As we get ready to leave, we see a Border Patrol vehicle zooming towards us.", "They don't know we're with CNN; they think we may be criminals.", "One of the four agents points his rifle at us and demands that we keep our hands in plain sight.", "They search our car, and we tell them who we are and what we're doing.", "They say they spotted us because of their long-range video cameras.", "They tell us to give them a heads up next time we go exploring, and all is well.", "the four agents did the four agents's job well.", "But there are only so many of the four agents and an immense amount of border.", "After spending time with the four agents, it's easy to see how sometimes what the four agents do feels like a thankless task." ]	[ "About half of seizures of illegal drugs from Mexico occurred in eastern Arizona region .", "In past six months, Border Patrol has seized about 500,000 pounds of drugs .", "Bushels of tomatoes conceal 908 lbs. of marijuana in truck seized by patrol .", "CNN's Gary Tuchman: \"Law enforcement life here is not for the squeamish\"" ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 0, 0, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 1, 5, 6, 1, 1, 7, 0, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 4, 5, 9, 9, 9, 9, 1, 1, 1, 7, 1, 10, 10, 10, 4, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 2, 11, 6, 6, 6, 11, 11, 11 ]
11848762a02d3809ded890d3898e415bbe9cf544	[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --", "While automakers lay off staff and shut down plants in response to the economic downturn, one automaker announced Thursday that one automaker will open a manufacturing plant in the United States, potentially creating hundreds of jobs in the area eventually chosen.", "Tesla unveils the Model S sedan's Model S sedan, with a base price of $57,400.", "manufacturing plant will be in California.", "one automaker, says one automaker will build an all-electric sedan in Southern California.", "Thursday's announcement was made in Hawthorne, California, where Tesla unveiled the Model S sedan at a base price of $49,900, after a federal tax credit of $7,500.", "That's less than half the price of its first model, the Roadster.", "Started in 2003 and bankrolled by PayPal millionaire Elon Musk, Tesla has attracted investments from the Silicon Valley elite, among them Google founder Larry Page.", "It is widely believed that the Model S sedan will be built near the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation facility in Hawthorne.", "That aerospace company, more commonly known as SpaceX, was founded by PayPal millionaire Elon Musk in 2002.", "SpaceX recently won a NASA contract to deliver cargo to the international space station when the space shuttle program is retired next year.", "a NASA contract to deliver cargo to the international space station when the space shuttle program is retired next year, worth $1.6 billion, was won over such industry mainstays as Boeing and Lockheed.", "The promise of a high-performance, all-electric vehicle became a reality with the startup's first model, the Tesla Roadster, a car with the look, speed and price tag -- a steep $109,000 and up -- that rivals other high-end, high-performance vehicles.", "Recently though, the economic downturn has forced Tesla to delay production of the Model S sedan's would-be flagship Model S until 2011.", "Tesla've also had to lay off more than 80 workers, which is about 25 percent of Tesla's staff.", "Nonetheless, Tesla predicts Tesla will manufacture 20,000 Model S vehicles a year.", "That would make the Model S sedan more of a mass-market vehicle than the Roadster; only 1,200 of which are produced yearly.", "Tesla faces many challenges, the foremost of which is convincing consumers to pay almost $50,000 for an all-electric sedan when consumers could pay thousands less for another brand of upmarket sedan or a gas-electric hybrid." ]	[ "Tesla says manufacturing plant will be in California; hundreds of jobs possible .", "The all-electric Model S sedan will go for a base price of about $50,000 .", "Tesla's challenge: Will consumers pay that much for a car in recessionary times?", "Tesla hopes to make 20,000 Model S sedans a year ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 1 ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 ]
915a732d219264013357864663ee433c2db76e20	[ "ALPHARETTA, Georgia (CNN) --", "Ben, who's 15 months old, can already do a lot of things.", "Ben, a gangly golden retriever can turn on a light or open a door.", "Ben, a gangly golden retriever can pick up a remote control off the floor.", "Ben, a gangly golden retriever can pull a heavy object with Ben, a gangly golden retriever's teeth.", "Colise Johnson, 42, spent two weeks in September at a canine training camp getting acquainted with Ben.", "But Ben, a gangly golden retriever, is more than a family pet.", "Ben, a gangly golden retriever is a specially trained seizure dog who may one day be able to save the life of Ben, a gangly golden retriever's new owner, Colise Johnson.", "\"Having epilepsy and cerebral palsy is kind of like having a nonstop roller coaster ride,\" said Johnson, 42, of Portland, Oregon.", "\"You never know what's going to happen, but with Ben, a gangly golden retriever, Ben, a gangly golden retriever slows the ride down so it's manageable.\"", "Johnson, who uses a wheelchair and must wear a helmet because of persistent seizures, is among 3 million Americans who live with some form of epilepsy, a brain disorder that causes recurring seizures, violent muscle spasms or, sometimes, a loss of consciousness.", "There are no estimates of how many patients are paired up with assistance dogs, and the benefits of having such an animal have not been studied to any great extent.", "But Dr. Gregory Barkley, a neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and an adviser for the Epilepsy Foundation of America, believes nearly a quarter of the people who suffer from frequent, severe seizures might be helped by a canine companion.", "Dr. Gregory Barkley, a neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and an adviser for the Epilepsy Foundation of America said the dogs have \"an unqualified devotion to the dogs's master\" that may offer important mental health benefits.", "the dogs are sometimes credited with powers the dogs really don't possess, Dr. Gregory Barkley, a neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and an adviser for the Epilepsy Foundation of America said.", "\"The dog does not predict a seizure,\" he said.", "\"The dog may respond to the earlier stages of a seizure.\"", "Johnson owned a seizure dog for 12 years before McKeever died in 2007, ironically, having McKeever's own seizure.", "Watch more on Ben, a gangly golden retriever and Ben, a gangly golden retriever's new owner » .", "Johnson recalled that the dog, named McKeever, \"told me ahead of time when I was going to have a seizure.", "... McKeever helped me get off the floor if I fell, helped me retrieve items, helped me get clothes out of the drawer for a bath, open the fridge on command and took out the recycling.\"", "Johnson said Johnson'd felt lost without McKeever since McKeever's death, but that recently changed.", "Johnson spent two weeks in September at a training camp at Canine Assistants in Alpharetta, Georgia, getting acquainted with Ben, a gangly golden retriever.", "This year, Johnson was one of 1,100 people on the agency's waiting list.", "Jennifer Arnold founded the nonprofit service in 1991 and has placed more than 1,000 dogs with adults and children with physical disabilities or other special needs.", "\"The group work primarily with people who have mobility issues and have conditions like muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and brain injuries,\" Jennifer Arnold said.", "In the past few years, Jennifer Arnold also helped train 100 seizure dogs to assist people with epilepsy.", "\"The group train them to do basically 90 different commands,\" Jennifer Arnold said.", "\"They learn to do things like go for help and press buttons to alert 9-1-1.\"", "Over time, nearly all the dogs eventually develop the ability to identify the onset of a seizure, Jennifer Arnold said.", "\"The group have no understanding of what it is that alerts the dogs that a seizure is oncoming,\" Jennifer Arnold said.", "\"Is it a smell that the body produces?", "The group don't know to what stimuli the dog is responding.\"", "By spending time with epilepsy patients, Jennifer Arnold's dogs are taught what a seizure looks like and not to be frightened.", "Some dogs are able to anticipate a seizure 20 to 40 minutes before it happens.", "\"If the dog feels that the dog's person is going to have a seizure, the dog tend to get very restless and distressed.", "... the dog show signs of stress and agitation,\" Jennifer Arnold said.", "\"Provided the dog's human can read what that means, you have a really good alert system going on there.\"", "Dr. Gregory Barkley, a neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and an adviser for the Epilepsy Foundation of America has heard similar anecdotal information from Dr. Gregory Barkley, a neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and an adviser for the Epilepsy Foundation of America's own epilepsy patients, but many of those dogs were simply family pets and were untrained, Dr. Gregory Barkley, a neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and an adviser for the Epilepsy Foundation of America said.", "Dr. Gregory Barkley, a neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and an adviser for the Epilepsy Foundation of America warned patients to be wary of agencies that charge a lot of money for a dog that may or may not be able to perform certain tasks.", "Canine Assistants offers its dogs free of charge to qualified patients.", "The group not only covers the cost of airfare and lodging during the training sessions, but The group provides a lifetime of food and veterinary care at no cost.", "Jennifer Arnold estimated the total value at $20,000 per dog.", "Jennifer Arnold said that a third of Jennifer Arnold's company's operating costs are underwritten by large corporate grants.", "The rest of the money is raised through private donations.", "Jennifer Arnold helped train some of the 140 dogs currently at the facility.", "Jennifer Arnold said Jennifer Arnold has no trouble letting the animals go to new homes because Jennifer Arnold knows the animals'll serve an important purpose, especially for the epilepsy patients.", "\"the animals become a prisoner,\" Jennifer Arnold said.", "\"the animals don't want to leave the house ...", "the animals're so vulnerable.", "Just having this dog with you means that you're not ever alone.\"", "Johnson, the married mother of a 15-year-old, is looking forward to regaining some independence with a new dog in the house.", "\"this dog's going to be able to give my family a break.", "this dog's going to be able to let my family rest a little bit easier,\" Johnson said.", "Johnson also looked forward to a new reason to get out of bed in the morning.", "\"With this dog, instead of getting all bummed out or getting depressed over the seizures, I'll spend time with this dog and play with this dog and start laughing.\"", "\"These dogs will change your life in such a way you won't know how you've lived without this dog once you've had These dogs.\"" ]	[ "Three million Americans live with epilepsy, which causes recurring seizures .", "Canine camp in Georgia has trained 1,000 dogs since 1991 to help the disabled .", "Cost of training, maintaining dog is $20,000; dogs are free to qualified patients ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 0, 5, 0, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 7, 8, 4, 8, 8, 8, 3, 9, 1, 1, 7, 1, 1, 7, 7, 9, 7, 7, 7, 7, 10, 5, 6, 6, 2, 2, 2, 11, 11, 1, 10, 10, 10, 10, 5, 5, 5, 5, 9, 5, 5 ]
d9ed24554836d5f4cfd13674008332b50bd29c44	[ "PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) --", "Nearly 100 Thai soldiers crossed into Cambodian territory Wednesday near a disputed border temple that was the site of clashes last year, Cambodian officials said.", "Cambodian troops guard the temple late last year amid heightened tensions with Thailand.", "The Thai army denied the claim.", "Thai soldiers crossed into the area of the 11th century Preah Vihear temple about 1:40 p.m., said Phay Siphan, secretary of the Cambodian Council of Ministers.", "The two sides did not fight and Cambodia has asked Thailand to pull back.", "The Thai army Col. Sansern Kaewkumnerd said the troop movement was part of a normal rotation and that The Thai army soldiers had not gone anywhere Thai soldiers were not permitted to be.", "For months last year, Both countries saber-rattled over the temple.", "Both countries differ on whether some territory around the temple forms part of Thailand or Cambodia.", "Both countries posted troops in the area after the United Nations in July approved Cambodia's application to have the temple listed as a World Heritage Site -- a place the United Nations says has outstanding universal value.", "the temple sits atop a cliff on Cambodian soil but has the temple's most accessible entrance on the Thai side.", "The International Court of Justice awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962.", "Thailand claims, however, that the 4.6 sq. km (1.8 square mile) area around it was never fully demarcated.", "Thailand says the dispute arose from the fact that the Cambodian government used a map drawn during the French occupation of Cambodia -- a map that places the temple and surrounding area in Cambodian territory.", "the United Nations's decision re-ignited tensions, with some in Thailand fearing it will make it difficult for some in Thailand's country to lay claim to disputed land around the temple.", "Last year's flare-up began July 15, when Cambodian guards briefly detained three Thais who crossed into the area.", "Once they were let go, the three refused to leave the temple.", "Cambodia claimed Thailand sent troops to retrieve the trio and gradually built up their numbers.", "Thailand denied that, saying Thailand's troops are deployed in the temple.", "-- CNN's Tim Schwarz in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Kocha Olarn in Bangkok, Thailand, contributed to this report." ]	[ "Official: Thai soldiers crossed into area of 11th century Preah Vihear temple .", "The Thai army denied the claim by senior a Cambodian official .", "The Thai army said soldiers did not go anywhere soldiers were not permitted to be .", "Both countries claim territory around the temple belongs to Both countries ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 2, 1, 0, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3 ]
773d78ce596cc56ec2438b192d48e7f0bfc0c800	[ "(CNN) --", "The body of Marshal has been found in the city of Juarez, Mexico, according to the U.S. Marshals Service -- the latest discovery in a wave of violence that has gripped towns along the U.S.-Mexican border in recent months.", "The body of Marshal was found Wednesday in Juarez, Mexico.", "Marshal's body was found in Juarez on Wednesday, said Marshals Service spokesman Jeff Carter.", "Marshal appeared to have been shot in the back of the head, a federal law enforcement source said.", "Chihuahua state police said Marshal's body had multiple wounds to the head -- apparently consistent with an execution-style shooting, according to Edgar Roman, a reporter with XHIJ television in Juarez.", "Watch where Marshal's body was found » .", "Bustamante, 48, was charged with stealing U.S. government property including Glock and Ruger handguns, a shotgun and a pair of binoculars, according to court documents.", "According to the federal source, who was not authorized to speak about details of the case and asked not to be named, a pawnshop owner became suspicious when Marshal attempted to pawn a shotgun and called the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.", "a federal law enforcement source said Marshal would buy back items Marshal had pawned on Marshal's pay days and return them.", "Bustamante's attorney, Mike Torres, said a warrant was issued for Marshal's arrest after Marshal failed to appear at a court hearing last week.", "He said Marshal was a 17-year veteran of the marshals and a former El Paso Police officer who lived in El Paso with Marshal's wife and two children.", "\"Marshal was a familiar face around the federal courthouse here,\" Torres said.", "\"I'm very shocked by this and very saddened.", "\"He had a lot of friends and a lot of people that cared about Marshal.\"", "Carter said Marshal was on administrative leave from the marshals and had been required to turn in Marshal's gun and badge.", "Carter said Marshal had not been in Mexico on marshals business and that all of the weapons Marshal was charged with stealing had been recovered.", "Carter said Marshal was on \"modified status\" with the marshals, meaning Marshal had been required to turn in Marshal's gun and badge outside of Marshal's official work hours.", "\"What I can tell you is that the U.S. Marshals Service is saddened by the death of Deputy Bustamante and our thoughts and prayers are with his family,\" he said.", "Carter said U.S. marshals are working with the FBI and Mexican authorities to investigate the death.", "Carter said an autopsy will be conducted in Mexico, and another may be conducted once Bustamante's body is returned to the United States.", "Juarez, which sits across the border from El Paso, Texas, has become one of the major battlegrounds as drug cartels fight both each other and Mexican authorities.", "The conflict has made violence increasingly common in Juarez, Tijuana and other Mexican border towns.", "More than 400 deaths in the region have been attributed to the fighting this year.", "CNN's Anderson Cooper, Emily Robards and Devon Sayers contributed to this report." ]	[ "Marshal's body found in border town of Juarez, Mexico .", "U.S. Marshals Service has no comment on cause of death .", "Marshal had been accused of theft of public property, service spokesman says ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1 ]	[ 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 4, 4, 4, 2 ]
244075fe2d79d8ff0aeb46b3a9a74d615f1a5311	[ "(CNN) --", "A the cruiser heavy missile cruiser stopped three pirate ships off the coast of Somalia, and detained 10 pirates, according to a statement released Friday by Russian Navy headquarters in Moscow.", "Russian missile cruiser \"Peter the Great\" moored in Cape Town, South Africa, last month.", "The cruiser, Peter the Great, halted two small high-speed motor boats and a mid-size, support vessel on Thursday, the Russians said.", "\"10 pirates have been detained.", "All of 10 pirates are citizens of Somalia,\" the press release obtained by CNN stated.", "\"Officials from the Northern Fleet's military prosecutor's office are currently questioning the detainees aboard the cruiser.", "Their future will be decided in coordination with the Russian Foreign and Justice ministries.\"", "the Russians said a Russian helicopter Ka-27, which took off from the cruiser, had located two small boats, which were moving toward an Iranian fishing vessel at high speed Thursday.", "When those in the boats spotted the helicopter overhead, the boats began slowing down, then veered off toward the boats's support vessel, which was adrift nearby.", "The helicopter crew could see pirates in the two motor boats throwing weapons into the sea, and kept chasing the boats until the cruiser arrived in the area.", "\"The three boats were (captured and) delivered to the cruiser, and 10 pirates were taken aboard.", "\"10 pirates possessed weapons, including a G-3 rifle, an Ak-47, two AKMS machine-guns, two grenade-launchers and two anti-infantry grenades, and also had a GPS receiver, a ladder, 500 grams of drugs, a large amount of money, a bag of sugar and a bag of rice.", "10 pirates were high on drugs,\" the press release said.", "Meanwhile, Somali pirates have released a Panamanian-flagged, Japanese-owned vessel that was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden in November, according to a non-governmental group that monitors piracy.", "The ship, named the MT Chemstar Venus, was released late Thursday, according to Ecoterra International.", "The 18 Filipino and five South Korean crew members were reportedly unharmed.", "The International Maritime Board, a group that also monitors piracy, told CNN that the company had not confirmed the release of the ship, but said shipping companies sometimes wait a few days before going public to ensure the safety of the crew.", "the ship was hijacked on November 15.", "It was unclear whether the pirates were paid a ransom to release the ship.", "This incident comes a week after Somali pirates released a Ukrainian ship carrying tanks, ammunition and crew after receiving a ransom of $3.2 million.", "-- CNN's David McKenzie contributed to this report." ]	[ "the cruiser cruiser halted two small high-speed motor boats and a support vessel .", "Russia:", "10 pirates have been detained -- all of 10 pirates are citizens of Somalia .", "MT Chemstar Venus released late Thursday, Ecoterra International says .", "Follows release of Ukrainian ship carrying tanks after a $3.2M ransom was paid ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ]	[ 5, 4, 0, 0, 2, 2, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 ]
5bb83e7d670618e3f9dcb1b3e5aade00fa4ef5d2	[ "(CNN) --", "Erik Roberts, an Army sergeant who was wounded in Iraq, underwent Roberts's 13th surgery recently to save Roberts's right leg from amputation.", "Imagine Roberts's shock when Roberts got a bill for $3,000 for Roberts's treatment.", "Army Sgt. Erik Roberts was badly wounded in Iraq with two comrades in April 2006.", "\"I just thought it was bull---- that I'm getting billed for being wounded in Iraq doing my job.", "I always put the mission first, and now that I was wounded in Iraq, they're sending me bills,\" Roberts said.", "\"I put my life on the line and I was wounded in combat, and I came back and they're not going to take care of my medical bills?\"", "It's a level of outrage shared by Roberts's mother, as well as the doctor who performed his 13th surgery.", "\"It's hard to understand why we're not taking care of guys like Erik whose injuries are clearly related to their service.", "They deserve the best care of anybody,\" said Dr. William Obremskey, an Air Force veteran and surgeon at Vanderbilt Orthopaedics in Nashville, Tennessee.", "\"For Roberts to be responsible for $3,000, I think, is a little ridiculous or is uncalled for, particularly in this situation.\"", "Roberts's mother, Robin Roberts, put it more succinctly: \"Why should any soldier pay one penny of a medical bill from injuries that occurred while any soldier were fighting in a war?", "That's what really frustrates me.\"", "The Department of Veterans Affairs has now decided to pay his bill, but only after prodding from a U.S. senator who got involved after CNN brought it to his attention.", "Roberts, of Warren, Ohio, is one of more than 31,100 U.S. troops to have been wounded in Iraq.", "An additional 4,262 have died in the war.", "Roberts was wounded April 25, 2006, when roadside bombs tore through Roberts's Humvee in western Baghdad.", "Heat from the flames ignited the Humvee's ammunition, which popped off all around.", "See Roberts describe getting blown up » .", "Roberts and Roberts's buddies, A.J. Jefferson and Luke Murphy, were badly wounded and bleeding on the ground after jumping from the burning vehicle.", "Roberts and his buddies, A.J. Jefferson and Luke Murphy were saved by comrades who rushed to help Roberts and his buddies, A.J. Jefferson and Luke Murphy.", "\"The truck automatically filled with smoke.", "There was fire coming from the middle of The truck.", "And I just feel my whole right side just like kind of explode,\" Roberts said.", "\"I thought at that moment that my life was over, so I started praying.\"", "All three soldiers survived the attack, but Luke Murphy lost Luke Murphy's leg.", "Days later, on Roberts's 23rd birthday, Roberts returned to the States.", "Roberts underwent a series of life-saving surgeries, including 12 different ones to repair Roberts's fractured right leg.", "A metal rod was inserted in Roberts's upper leg to help the fracture heal.", "Roberts retired from the Army in October 2007, because of Roberts's war injuries, and enrolled in college last fall at Youngstown State University, majoring in finance and minoring in economics.", "But in December, Roberts says, a golf ball-sized lump appeared on Roberts's wounded leg.", "Roberts says Roberts went to a Veterans Affairs hospital and was told not to worry about it.", "A few days later, Roberts says, Roberts went to the emergency room after a golf ball-sized lump flared up more.", "A doctor there, Roberts says, told Roberts that his wounded leg was badly infected and that his wounded leg might have to be amputated.", "Desperate for help, Roberts's mother contacted the Army surgeon who had saved his mother's son's life two years earlier.", "That doctor referred him to Obremskey, the Vanderbilt surgeon.", "The Robertses say the VA did not approve of them going outside the system.", "Roberts says Roberts had no choice -- it was have surgery or potentially lose Roberts's leg.", "\"I thought his wounded leg was more important than the usual bureaucratic mess,\" Roberts said.", "Roberts's leg was saved.", "The $3,000 billed to Roberts wasn't for the surgery itself.", "It's a portion of the bill for six weeks of daily antibiotics to prevent the infection from coming back.", "Roberts's private insurance plan picked up the majority of the $90,000 in costs.", "Roberts has been administering the drugs himself -- up to seven IVs a day, with a nurse coming to Roberts's home once a week to check on Roberts.", "At one point, Roberts's mom says, the insurance company suggested the war veteran should be put in a nursing home to receive the round-the-clock antibiotics.", "\"Now why would you want to put an injured soldier who is 25 years old in a nursing home to get IVs?\" his mother said.", "\"Roberts said, 'Send me home and teach me to do it Roberts.' \"", "Roberts has also paid for Roberts's travel expenses from Ohio to Tennessee for treatment.", "Roberts fears how much of the $57,000 surgery bill Roberts will owe and how much Roberts might be billed for Roberts's emergency room visit in December.", "Roberts's schooling has been put on hold because of Roberts's surgery and lengthy recovery.", "\"These soldiers and young men and women fight for our country and our freedom, only to come back to have to fight for These soldiers and young men and women's health and These soldiers and young men and women's life back in the United States,\" his mother said.", "Dr. Obremskey said it's \"frustrating\" to hear about cases like Roberts'.", "Dr. Obremskey says the lesson from Roberts's story is \"pretty obvious.\"", "\"If These soldiers and young men and women're injured in the service to our country, we should continue to take care of These soldiers and young men and women even if These soldiers and young men and women are discharged from active duty because of These soldiers and young men and women's injuries.", "Some mechanism ought to be available for These soldiers and young men and women to obtain whatever care These soldiers and young men and women need,\" Dr. Obremskey said.", "CNN on Wednesday contacted the office of Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Roberts's home state of Ohio who serves on the Senate's VA committee.", "Brown's office had not heard of Roberts's case, but immediately reached out to the soldier and alerted the VA about Roberts's situation.", "In less than 24 hours, the VA got back to CNN.", "\"the VA will be paying the bill,\" said the VA spokesman Sean Nelson.", "the VA did not offer an explanation as to how something like this could happen.", "Brown's office issued a written statement, applauding the decision.", "\"Brown is pleased to hear that Roberts will not have out-of-pocket costs for a service-connected injury.", "However, Brown believes it should not take the intervention of a U.S. senator for our veterans to receive the care our veterans've been promised.\"", "Roberts said Roberts appreciates the help.", "Despite everything Roberts's experienced, Roberts -- who went into the Army just after high school -- said Roberts would never trade in being a member of the 101st Airborne.", "\"I will always be proud I served my country, and proud that I was able to wear that flag on my shoulder,\" Roberts said.", "\"I would defend my country against anyone, and I'm proud to wear that uniform.\"", "CNN's Thom Patterson contributed to this story." ]	[ "Wounded soldier gets billed $3,000 for wounds suffered in Iraq .", "\"I put my life on the line ... and they're not going to take care of my medical bills?\"", "Army Sgt. Erik Roberts was wounded in April 2006; Roberts's had 13 surgeries on Roberts's leg .", "Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio urged the VA to act; the VA agrees to pay bill ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 4, 2, 5, 2, 0, 0, 1, 6, 7, 8, 6, 1, 7, 0, 2, 0, 2, 9, 6, 2, 2, 9, 9, 10, 1, 2, 6, 2, 10, 6, 10, 3, 10, 10, 2, 8, 7, 10, 10, 10, 5, 5, 5, 6, 1, 1, 6, 5, 5, 6, 1, 6, 6, 1, 8, 3, 3, 4, 0, 7, 3, 3, 3, 6, 11, 11, 11, 4 ]
0ac087a38e319cdaf67876cb39bd0062ff1fa598	[ "(CNN) --", "Five days of gunbattles between the the Army army and separatist militants in Kashmir have left at least 25 dead -- eight the Army army troopers, including one officer, and 17 militants, the the Army military said Tuesday.", "An the Army army soldier lays a wreath during the funeral of a slain soldier, northeast of Srinagar on Tuesday.", "Defense Minister A.K. Antony, meeting with India's military chiefs in Delhi, reviewed the situation in the Himalayan region and told the Army to deal with the situation in the Himalayan region with \"utmost firmness.\"", "Kashmir has been in the throes of a violent separatist campaign for nearly two decades during which authorities say 43,000 people have been killed.", "However, various NGOs and rights groups put the number of dead at twice the official count.", "In Srinigar, Kashmir, the Army spokesman Lt. Col. J.S. Brar told CNN the Army was moving against the militants \"based on sound intelligence inputs as well as human intelligence provided by our own sources.\"", "The battles in the Shamsbhari forests of north Kashmir Kupwara district have caused \"minimum collateral damage to property,\" Army spokesman Lt. Col. J.S. Brar said.", "Army spokesman Lt. Col. J.S. Brar denied media reports that helicopter gunships and heavy weapons had been used by the Army during these operations against the militants.", "This month's encounter between the Army and the militants is the second longest in Kashmir this year.", "In January, a fierce encounter raged for seven days in the Poonch district of Jammu region of Indian-administered Kashmir.", "Two soldiers, a policeman and four militants were killed in a fierce encounter.", "Kashmir has been the source of bitter dispute and two wars between India and neighboring Pakistan.", "Both control parts of the region which is predominantly Muslim." ]	[ "NEW: 25 dead in Kashmir gunfights between Indian troops, separatist militants .", "Incident comes after India accuses Pakistani troops of firing on Indian troops .", "Kashmir has been in throes of separatist campaign for 20 years ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2 ]
e66474367f034d570570f1c554a8ee620ddf65fd	[ "(CNN) --", "A 75th minute strike by Former Lecce striker Graziano Pelle gave AZ Alkmaar a 1-0 home win over NEC Nijmegen on Sunday to leave Former Lecce striker Graziano Pelle's side top of the Dutch standings.", "Former Lecce striker Graziano Pelle scored the winner to keep AZ Alkmaar on top heading into the Dutch break.", "The Italian's decisive goal means Louis van Gaal's men will head into 2009 with a three-point lead over Ajax Amsterdam after 17 rounds.", "The Eredivisie is set to resume on January 16 after a three-week break.", "Earlier, Dario Cvitanich scored a hat-trick as Ajax beat ADO Den Haag 3-0 to temporarily draw level on points with the leaders.", "But AZ, who are unbeaten in 15 games, then saw off Nijmegen, who had also been on a fine 14-game unbeaten run.", "AZ Alkmaar have 41 points, with Ajax on 38.", "Steve McClaren's FC Twente are in third place, seven points adrift of AZ Alkmaar, after holding defending champions PSV Eindhoven to a goalless draw on Saturday.", "PSV are fourth with 30 points and looking set to relinquish PSV's league title.", "On Friday, Feyenoord snapped a run of three successive losses by beating NAC Breda 3-1, but the struggling Rotterdam giants are in 12th spot." ]	[ "AZ Alkmaar beat NEC Nijmegen 1-0 in Dutch league game on Sunday .", "Alkmaar on top by three points from Ajax heading into midwinter break .", "Former Lecce striker Graziano Pelle scores crucial winner for AZ Alkmaar ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1 ]	[ 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]
308b71facc59a13a0d031c3b00937cd6a069ba12	[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) --", "China's military is developing longer-range ballistic and anti-ship missiles that are \"shifting the balance of power in the region\" and could help China secure resources or settle territorial disputes, a report released by Pentagon said Wednesday.", "U.S. and Chinese militaries need \"resumption of dialogue,\" Adm. Timothy Keating told Congress.", "China also continues to build up short-range missiles and increase China's \"coercive capabilities\" against Taiwan.", "The report suggests such moves constitute an effort to pressure Taiwan into settling the cross-strait dispute in favor of China, though tensions between the two countries have receded over the past year.", "The report, called the \"Military Power of the People's Republic of China,\" is Pentagon's annual briefing to Congress on the status of China's military might.", "While China continues to proclaim that China's military buildup is for defense purposes to protect China's interests, The report says China's lack of transparency is worrisome and could lead to an unintended conflict.", "\"The limited transparency in China's military and security affairs poses risks to stability by creating uncertainty and increasing the potential for misunderstanding and miscalculation,\" according to The report.", "\"Much uncertainty surrounds China's future course, particularly regarding how China's expanding military power might be used.\"", "The lack of transparency causes Washington \"to speculate to some degree on what their intentions are,\" Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters at a Wednesday briefing.", "According to Adm. Timothy Keating, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command, some of that uncertainty is due to the cessation of talks between the Chinese and U.S. militaries.", "In March of 2008, the United States and China installed a hot line between the two countries' militaries.", "But there have been no military-to-military talks since November 2008, when Washington announced it was selling weapons to Taiwan.", "\"We are looking for the resumption of that dialogue so we can engage in discussion with our colleagues in the People's Republic of China and their Army, Navy and Air Force so we can have a sense of their way ahead,\" Keating told the House Armed Services committee on Tuesday.", "\"We don't have a clear idea of their broad strategic way ahead.\"", "The report comes after a recent incident in which Chinese ships, including a Chinese navy vessel, confronted an unarmed U.S. Navy surveillance ship in the South China Sea in international waters.", "The confrontation prompted the United States to move a destroyer ship to the area to protect the surveillance vessel.", "While The report does not discuss the incident, The report notes the importance China puts on controlling China's waterways and the surrounding territories because \"China's economic and political power is contingent upon access to and use of the South China Sea, and that a strong navy is required to safeguard such access.\"", "The analysis also said that while much of China's capability is more for regional disputes, it did send two destroyers and one supply ship off the coast of Africa to protect Chinese vessels from pirate attacks.", "That move was a sign of Chinese intent to expand its militaries to protect expanding economic and political interests around the world, according to a China analyst.", "\"The Chinese military is being told to develop capabilities to deal with Chinese national interests beyond the pure defense of Chinese territory,\" said David Finklestein, the Director of China Studies for CNA, a nonprofit research group that does analysis for the U.S. military and other clients.", "\"China, with a global economy, now obviously has global political interests and clearly has expanding global security interests.\"", "Though The report concludes that \"China's ability to sustain military power at a distance remains limited,\" China does have a growing space program, nuclear weapon system and cyber warfare capabilities, \"the only aspects of China's armed forces that, today, have the potential to be truly global,\" The report explained.", "In citing China's cyber warfare, The report notes that U.S. government computers were the target of \"intrusions that appear to have originated\" from China, although they were not confirmed to be from the military." ]	[ "Pentagon report: China's missile development \"shifting balance of power in region\"", "China's lack of transparency could lead to unintended conflict, report says .", "Cessation of talks between nations' militaries partly to blame, U.S. admiral says .", "Report: Cyber warfare capability among the few areas of China's \"truly global\" reach ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 0 ]	[ 2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]
8ddc0631a67be8cd314b08e8468759025b207b01	[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --", "Only a few states have laws that adequately equip teen victims of dating violence with tools for protection and safety, according to a new report from a watchdog group.", "Twenty-three states received sub-par grades in a report focusing on state laws focusing on protective orders.", "The report by Los Angeles, California-based Break the Cycle includes state-by-state report cards that measure how each state treats teen victims of dating violence in comparison with the treatment of adult domestic violence victims.", "Only five states -- California, Illinois, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Oklahoma -- received As, while nine states received B's.", "Twenty-three states received sub-par grades, including 11 getting Fs.", "\"I think what the state report cards are telling us is that states have a long way to go before they are protecting minors in abusive relationships,\" Marjorie Gilberg, Break the Cycle's executive director, told CNN Radio.", "The report focuses on how easy it is for a teen to obtain a protective order in the event of abuse, including whether state law allows a minor to take out an order, if adult permission is required and whether an order can be issued against another minor.", "New Hampshire, which got an A, is the only state where the law specifically allows minors to apply for a protection order, according to The report.", "Missouri, which got an F, makes such orders available only to adults.", "See how the different states scored » .", "Nine states allow minors to obtain protective orders without adult approval if they meet certain criteria, such as being a minimum age, often 16, or having a specific relationship with the abuser, such as having a child together.", "\"What we hope to achieve with this is to call out the states that are not doing a good job protecting minors and help people in those states call on people in those states's legislators to make change,\" Gilberg said.", "One in five teens who have been in a \"serious relationship\" report being hit, slapped or pushed by a partner, according to the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline.", "One in three girls who have been in such a relationship say three girls who have been in such a relationship've been concerned about being physically hurt by three girls who have been in such a relationship's partner.", "Gilberg said that since the 2008 report cards came out, several states worked to change several states's laws to address the rights of minor victims in domestic violence statutes, though some were more successful than others.", "This year's report noted that eight states improved eight states's grades.", "Among eight states, Florida jumped from a D to a B for making protective orders \"relatively accessible\" to teen victims without an adult's approval if teen victims are dating the abuser.", "The process was described as \"extremely difficult\" the previous year because state law did not specify whether a minor could petition for one alone.", "\"Even when you have an A grade,\" Gilberg said, \"you still can do things to make the law more protective of minors who are in teen dating violence relationships.\"" ]	[ "Report focuses on ease with which teens can obtain protective orders .", "New Hampshire is only state that allows minors to apply for a protection order .", "Nine states let minors obtain orders without adult approval under certain criteria .", "One in five teens who've been in a \"serious relationship\" report being hit by partner ." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 1 ]	[ 2, 0, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 4, 1, 1, 4, 3, 0, 0, 4 ]
88238d58224511964c9a61d2b529b5d003d6cc25	[ "(CNN) --", "Researchers have raised the alert status at Mount Redoubt, a volcano in southern Alaska, after another increase in seismic activity.", "Seismic activity at Alaska's Mount Redoubt again has scientists watching for an eruption.", "\"Shallow earthquake activity under Mount Redoubt has been as high as 26 events per 10-minute period,\" officials at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Sunday in a statement announcing that the alert level was raised to \"watch\" status.", "Although no eruption has occurred, the scientists said the increase in seismic activity \"likely represents either the upward movement of magma or pressurization of the system.\"", "\"It is possible for unrest at Mount Redoubt to change rapidly, and seismic activity or other signs of unrest could escalate culminating in an eruption within days to weeks,\" a statement announcing that the alert level was raised to \"watch\" status concluded.", "An increase in seismic activity at Mount Redoubt prompted a \"watch\" level last Monday.", "In the U.S. Geological Survey's color-coded alert levels, the orange \"watch\" level means Mount Redoubt \"is exhibiting heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption\" or that \"eruption is underway with no or minor volcanic-ash emissions.\"", "The next level is red, meaning an eruption is imminent or underway.", "Bill Burton, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said since January there have been increases in seismic activity at Mount Redoubt followed by periods of quiet.", "The 10,197-foot peak is about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, the most populous city in Alaska.", "Mount Redoubt last erupted nearly 20 years ago, in December 1989.", "That eruption lasted until April 1990." ]	[ "Increase in seismic activity noted at Mount Redoubt in southern Alaska .", "Alert level raised; \"eruption within days to weeks\" is possible, officials say .", "Mount Redoubt last erupted in December 1989 and last for months .", "Mount Redoubt is about 100 southwest of Anchorage, Alaska ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1 ]
360576c9e5e43e3eb767b490d3014cb9e3d38734	[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --", "Clifford Harris was sentenced in Atlanta federal court Friday to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $100,300 fine on weapons charges related to purchasing machine guns and silencers.", "T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, has mentored at-risk students as part of his community service.", "The rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, reached the terms of the sentence in a plea agreement with prosecutors last year.", "\"I would like to say thank you to some, and apologize to others,\" Clifford Harris said at Clifford Harris's sentencing.", "\"In my life, I have been placed in the worst-case scenario and had to make the best of the worst-case scenario,\" Clifford Harris said.", "\"Most often, things I have learned have been from trial and error.", "I knew no way to protect Clifford Harris than to arm Clifford Harris.\"", "Clifford Harris was dressed in a gray suit and black shirt and tie.", "Clifford Harris, 28, also was sentenced to some property forfeiture, supervised release for three years after Clifford Harris's prison sentence, 365 days of home confinement and 1,500 hours of community service.", "Clifford Harris has already served 305 days of home confinement and 1,030 hours of service.", "Clifford Harris also must undergo DNA testing and drug counseling, cannot own firearms and must submit to reasonable searches and a financial audit.", "Watch the rapper's interview with CNN's T.J. Holmes » .", "\"We are very pleased with the result in this case,\" U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias said.", "\"Clifford Harris has received a significant penalty for the serious firearms offenses Clifford Harris committed.", "... \"Clifford Harris's prison sentence was reduced from what it might have been, but the public got something very significant in exchange: the extensive and unique community service program that Clifford Harris committed to doing when Clifford Harris pleaded guilty.", "\"By all accounts, Clifford Harris's community service has been a remarkable success -- his community service certainly exceeded our expectations -- and there is still more to come when Clifford Harris gets out of prison.\"", "Watch T.I. urge others to learn from Clifford Harris's mistakes » .", "Former Atlanta Mayor and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young spoke on behalf of Clifford Harris, comparing black-on-black violence to the Ku Klux Klan decades ago.", "Young said Young regarded working with Clifford Harris not so much as a chance to help Clifford Harris but more as \"an opportunity for Clifford Harris to help me.\"", "\"We hit it off immediately,\" Young said.", "\"It was a grandfather type of relationship.\"", "Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Baptist Church also spoke in support of Clifford Harris.", "Clifford Harris will be taken into custody no earlier than May 19.", "The plea agreement, which federal authorities called unique, allowed Clifford Harris to remain out of prison for a year while Clifford Harris performed community service.", "In that time, Clifford Harris mentored at-risk students at 58 schools, 12 Boys & Girls Clubs, nine churches and many other nonprofit organizations, according to court documents.", "Young said Young and Clifford Harris went to a hospital for paraplegics in New York.", "\"Young heard the testimonies of guys in their 50s and 60s who talked about being shot back when they were 16,\" Young said.", "\"A perfect example for Young in my ministry, and that wouldn't be possible without the willingness of this court to try new things.\"", "Meanwhile, Clifford Harris has released Clifford Harris's sixth CD, \"Paper Trail,\" which has sold close to 2 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.", "Clifford Harris also has starred in the MTV reality show, \"T.I.'s Road to Redemption: 45 Days to Go,\" which chronicles Clifford Harris's efforts to shave years off Clifford Harris's sentence by completing Clifford Harris's community service.", "The show features Clifford Harris talking to schools and community groups \"about how to avoid the trouble Clifford Harris now finds Clifford Harris in,\" according to the network's Web site.", "Clifford Harris's fall from grace was sudden and dramatic, played out on the streets of Clifford Harris's hometown of Atlanta in 2007.", "That year, Clifford Harris had starred in the film \"ATL\" and could be seen in Chevy commercials with NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.", "Clifford Harris had been named to the Forbes list of top-earning rappers, banking an estimated $16 million in 2006.", "Then Clifford Harris was arrested in October 2007 in an Atlanta parking lot hours before Clifford Harris was to perform at the BET Hip Hop Awards.", "Clifford Harris was caught in a federal sting after Clifford Harris's bodyguard-turned-informant delivered three machine guns and two silencers to Clifford Harris, prosecutors said.", "The rapper had provided the bodyguard with $12,000 to buy the weapons.", "Clifford Harris was not permitted to own any guns, however, because Clifford Harris was convicted in 1998 on felony drug charges -- possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute -- in Cobb County, in suburban Atlanta.", "For Clifford Harris's court hearing Friday, Clifford Harris's attorneys submitted more than 100 letters from officials who thanked Clifford Harris for Clifford Harris's community service since the weapons arrest.", "One of more than 100 letters was from Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, who said Clifford Harris did an \"outstanding job\" talking to a group of teenagers about not breaking the law.", "\"If only one young person in that courtroom listened to Clifford Harris -- and I believe they all did -- we are all better for it,\" Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, who said Harris did an \"outstanding job\" talking to a group of teenagers about not breaking the law wrote.", "\"Clifford Harris was honest, humble and inspirational.\"", "CNN's Aaron Cooper and Lateef Munger contributed to this report." ]	[ "Rapper T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, sentenced on weapons charges .", "Clifford Harris also must forfeit property, have supervised release, do more community service .", "Clifford Harris was arrested in federal sting hours before appearance at BET awards show .", "Clifford Harris has mentored at-risk students as part of community service ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 4, 1, 0, 1, 3, 5, 5, 5, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 6, 1, 1, 1, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 2, 1, 3, 6, 6, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 1, 3, 3, 3, 5, 4 ]
7528ce25dfbca6d6d32186a24530cbcdae9891ac	[ "(CNN) --", "Conjoined Egyptian twin boys Hassan and Mahmoud, who were successfully separated in the kingdom Saturday, are recovering and are expected to lead normal lives, officials said.", "Conjoined twins Hassan, left, and Mahmud rest the day before separation surgery in Riyadh, the kingdom.", "\"Egyptian twin boys's vital signs are good; Egyptian twin boys're doing excellent,\" said Sami Al-Shalan, spokesman for the King Abdulaziz Medical City facility in Riyadh where the surgery took place.", "\"Egyptian twin boys still have about 24 hours before a progress report can be issued.", "The anesthesia consultants are happy with the progress of the children.\"", "Egyptian twin boys are less than a year old and were brought to the kingdom on February 10.", "the surgery took a little more than 15 hours.", "\"Egyptian twin boys's parents have visited them in the [pediatric intensive care unit], but The twins' parents can't stay there long.", "The twins' parents come and go,\" Al-Shalan said.", "Separating Egyptian twin boys's urinary system was a major challenge, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, the Saudi minister of health, told CNN.", "So was separating the siblings' local veins and arteries, he said.", "\"We had to identify the arteries and the blood veins between each baby,\" Al-Rabeeah said.", "Watch Al-Rabeeah explain the operation » .", "the surgery was the 21st of the surgery's kind to be performed in the kingdom.", "The surgeries are performed free as part of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz's philanthropic initiative.", "CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report." ]	[ "Egyptian twin boys are less than a year old .", "21st procedure of this type to be performed in the kingdom .", "15-hour delicate surgery declared successful, surgeon says .", "Surgery free as part of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz's philanthropic initiative ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 1 ]	[ 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2 ]
5c0b84fcebf647a1ea5d23b09b0a6f482d90ea67	[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --", "Imagine the Batmobile busting bad guys in Bismarck, North Dakota, or \"Knight Rider's\" KITT corralling criminals on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.", "Car was on display recently near the U.S. Capitol.", "Car might not be quite up to superhero specs, but some police say Car could be a welcome addition to some police's arsenal.", "\"I don't see any downside to Car,\" said Carl Latorre, a Pennsylvania State Police dispatcher who served 35 years as a Philadelphia police officer.", "\"I am so excited about Car.", "This car rates up there with cops carrying automatic weapons to combat what the criminals carry now.", "It's about time that something like Car came about.\"", "OK, so Car doesn't have a nanotech cloaking capability or rocket boosters, but every feature on Car draws on suggestions from more than 3,000 law enforcement professionals.", "The result is a futuristic prowler with a 300-horsepower clean diesel engine, flashing lights visible from all angles, an ergonomic cockpit, an onboard computer with voice command and instant license plate recognition, integrated shotgun mounts, and more.", "(Weapons of mass destruction detectors are available as an option -- seriously.)", "See how Car stacks up against KITT and the Dark Knight's Tumbler » .", "Car was designed by cops for cops, breaking the tradition of recruiting family sedans into the force, company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "\"The current vehicles that they (police departments) use were designed for driving around, going to the grocery store, taking kids to school -- things like that,\" company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "\"You don't have an engineer sitting at one of the other automakers who says, 'Y'know, I think what we need to do is we need to take this car, and we need to run into a curb at 50 miles an hour and see how many times it takes before the wheels and the suspension fails on it.\"", "The rear passenger compartment alone is enough to make experienced cops get teary-eyed.", "The rear-hinged \"suicide doors\" make it easier for handcuffed passengers to get in and out, and the seat is designed so \"guests\" can ride comfortably with their hands cuffed behind their backs.", "For officer safety, Latorre likes how the seat belts are anchored in the center of the seat and buckle near the door so the officer doesn't have to lean across the prisoner.", "\"When you put a prisoner in the back seat, you're supposed to strap a prisoner in,\" Latorre said.", "\"Nowadays, you have to make sure your gun isn't going close to a prisoner's hands, and how are you going to strap somebody in doing that?\"", "Perhaps most popular among cops is the rear compartment, which is sealed off from the front and made entirely of seamless, washable plastic, with drain plugs in the floor.", "\"Numerous times I've had less than pleasant experience\" with prisoners vomiting or relieving prisoners in the back seat, said Stephens, a former Texas police officer.", "The seat innovations are up front, too, where the seats have recesses to accommodate officers' bulky gun belts.", "\"The front seat -- I couldn't believe the front seat.", "They thought of everything,\" Latorre said.", "\"You don't know how difficult it is to get out of a car.", "The first thing you've got to do is adjust your gun belt.", "your gun belt shouldn't be a problem.\"", "Car can go 0 to 60 mph in 6.5 seconds, has a top speed of 155 mph and can withstand a 75-mph rear impact, according to the company's Web site.", "Car has bullet-resistant panels in the doors and dash and has push bumpers incorporated into the aluminum frame.", "The upper flashing lights are integrated into the roof panel, eliminating the need for a bolted-on light bar that causes aerodynamic drag -- reducing fuel economy -- and can lead to rust.", "Watch police check out the car and hear the engine growl » .", "Despite the technological \"wow\" factor and officer enthusiasm, Car could prove to be a tough sell.", "\"The people are very intelligent and smart that are setting this up,\" said Lt. Michael Arnold, fleet manager of the Bismarck, North Dakota, police department.", "\"What scares me is they don't give you a price.\"", "Company officials say the price -- possibly around $50,000 per unit -- will be \"competitive\" considering the cost of equipping a conventional car for police work and how long each vehicle lasts.", "Car will be built to last 250,000 miles, compared with 75,000 to 120,000 miles for the typical patrol car, Stephens said.", "\"When it's all said and done it's a matter of how much it costs per mile,\" said Bismarck Deputy Chief Fred Wooten.", "Regardless of how good it looks on paper, a state or big-city agency won't be willing to take a chance on a vehicle with no track record, said Detective Mary Wheat, spokesperson for the Portland, Oregon, police department.", "\"If Car do cost $50,000, nobody's going to buy Car,\" Wheat said.", "\"Nobody's going to buy Car.", "No, police agencies can't afford $50,000 cars.", "We have huge fleets of cars.", "We have hundreds of them; hundreds and hundreds of cars.", "And we turn them over.", "I mean, we ride them hard.", "Those cars are used on a 24-hour basis.", "That wouldn't work.\"", "But municipalities don't balk at paying large sums for other purpose-built vehicles such as firetrucks and ambulances, countered Latorre, the Pennsylvania officer.", "\"They don't say, 'Oh, here's a box truck; go fight fires with it' or 'Here's an E-250 cargo van; go pick up patients with it,' do they?", ",\" he said.", "\"So I don't see why the municipality wouldn't say, 'You know what? This [police car] is nothing but a plus for us.'\"", "The company, based in Atlanta, Georgia, doesn't yet have a factory, but has named five states where it could locate: Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina and South Carolina.", "Production is scheduled to begin in 2012, company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "Carbon doesn't expect to take over the market quickly, instead counting on a few \"early adopters\" willing to take a risk on a few vehicles and work out the kinks to everyone else's satisfaction, company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "Hundreds of agencies already have made online reservations for thousands of Carbon Motors vehicles, putting Carbon Motors \"very well on Carbon Motors's way to selling out Carbon Motors's first year,\" company co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens said.", "Wheat praised the Carbon team's entrepreneurship and suggested Carbon Motors market Carbon Motors's car first in smaller towns with less red tape and simpler bidding processes.", "That works for Wooten, the deputy chief in Bismarck.", "\"We'll be more than happy to field test one,\" he offered.", "\"If Car works as advertised, we'll probably have a fleet of Car someday.\"" ]	[ "Carbon Motors' E7 prototype is not your father's Crown Victoria .", "Vehicle designed bumper to bumper by cops, for cops .", "Car features high-performance engine, integrated gadgets, ergonomic cockpit .", "Whether governments will buy it is the big unanswered question ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 0, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 7, 7, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 6, 8, 1, 1, 6, 1, 0, 0, 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 3, 1, 1, 8, 1, 4, 4, 10, 10, 10, 6, 8, 0 ]
a1701fb5046d662c8829fdc3d8990360ace8e931	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Picture this:", "The European champions and current highest-ranked soccer team in the world, Spain, are beaten 3-0...by a team of robots.", "On the way: Robots are developing steadily towards the goal of beating humans at football.", "It may sound ridiculous, but robot developers in Asia, the U.S. and Europe are dreaming of that very goal.", "Working under the umbrella organizations FIRA (Federation of Robot-Soccer Association) and the RoboCup Federation, researchers and developers are aiming to advance robot technology to the point that a team of humanoids can beat the best humans in the sport by 2050.", "Since robot soccer competitions began in the mid-1990s, researchers have already made significant developments towards researchers's goal.", "Phil Culverhouse of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the University of Plymouth told CNN that the first robots in competition were controlled by humans and many were on wheels or four-legged, but that is changing.", "\"Since 2007 the team have progressed to bipedal robots that have cameras on board,\" Phil Culverhouse of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the University of Plymouth said.", "\"Our robots are autonomous --", "Our robots have no control from outside sources.", "The cameras try to work out where the goal is, where the ball is and where the other players are.\"", "Further robotic developments appear to be close.", "Researchers at Carlos III University of Madrid released a study in the March 2009 online edition of 'Expert Systems with Applications,' showing Researchers at Carlos III University of Madrid had refined a technique known as machine-learning.", "Basically, the scientists were able to teach a virtual player simple reactions to visual stimuli -- based upon how real humans react in the same situation.", "Do you think robots will one day be able to beat humans at football?", "Sound Off box below.", "This year robots will go head-to-head at both the RoboCup event in Austria in June/July and the FIRA RoboWorld Cup in Korea in August.", "The most advanced classes at present are the bipedal classes for 'humanoid' robots.", "Co-chair of RoboCup 2009, Gerald Steinbauer, told CNN This year's event was the 13th edition of the cup, and Gerald Steinbauer was impressed by progress by advances since the competitions began.", "\"At the last RoboCup in China 2008 we had games of teams of three humanoid playing attractive soccer.", "teams of three humanoid walk on two feet, fight for the ball and of course score... so we are approaching the goal,\" Gerald Steinbauer said.", "Phil Culverhouse of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the University of Plymouth said interest in both events had steadily grown, especially since the two-legged robots had been introduced.", "This year up to 3,000 competitors from 40 countries are expected at RoboCup.", "\"This has been extremely effective in gaining interest.", "These are much more exciting to watch.", "We have seen a steep level of change in interest from not just young people but everybody.\"", "Despite the increasing profile, Phil Culverhouse of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the University of Plymouth said there are still plenty of major challenges before the humanoids can seriously compete with humans.", "\"This is still a long way from competing against humans.", "The next big challenge to be met is to get robots walking like humans and then running like humans.", "\"One of the most challenging things is getting a robot to walk on uneven terrain without falling over,\" he said, explaining that some fall over after kicking at goal.", "(Although, it's not hard to think of professional footballers who have suffered the same problem.)", "The University of Plymouth team is currently researching how robot's feet can be improved, and hope to release a concept later this year that could usher in a new era of in foot design.", "For Gerald Steinbauer, the critical issues are that of perception and cognitive abilities.", "\"Perception is one of our major problems.", "It is important that a robot is able to understand a scene like a human does.", "If you enter a complete unknown room you are able to recognize the important things like furniture and also relations and functions of objects very fast,\" Gerald Steinbauer said.", "\"Despite huge progress in this area we are far behind the capabilities of animals or humans.", "\"And of course there's cognitive capabilities.", "To reason about new, uncertain or even inconsistent facts is easy for a human but very hard for a robot,\" Gerald Steinbauer said.", "Size and cost are other limiting issues.", "\"In order to make this affordable we are developing robots 50 to 60 centimeters high.", "At that size each robot costs about 10,000 pounds to make.", "At full human size each would cost about 50,000 pounds,\" Culverhouse said.", "Soccer is an ideal testing ground for robotics as it encompasses many different elements including movement, vision and strategy, Gerald Steinbauer said.", "But the applications developed in these robots could serve a greater purpose.", "Gerald Steinbauer said robot technologies could be used for entertainment or performing simple tasks around the home and office.", "They also could be used in rescue scenarios -- where robots could be sent into dangerous situations in place of humans, Gerald Steinbauer said." ]	[ "FIRA and RoboCup organizations promoting development of robots .", "Robots have been competing in regular soccer contests since the mid-'90s .", "Scientists hope to be able to beat world's top team of humans by 2050 .", "Robotics developments tested in robo-soccer have uses in other fields ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 1 ]	[ 2, 1, 1, 3, 0, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 4, 4, 1, 2, 0, 3, 0, 1, 1, 3, 0, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 3, 1, 5, 3, 6, 6, 4, 4, 6, 6, 4, 7, 7, 7, 7, 1, 3, 3, 3 ]
85246595f881711f549945cad2a1f35e9b47f075	[ "(CNN) --", "Manchester United went five points clear at the top of Premier League as goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar set a new English record for minutes in not conceding a goal in the 1-0 victory over Everton.", "Van der Sar was left to celebrate a United win and a new goalkeeping record.", "Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed the winning goal with a 44th minute penalty but once again it was United's rock-solid defense and keeper that made sure of the vital three points.", "Everton's failure to score by the 73rd minute at Old Trafford left van der Van der Sar unbeaten for 1,104 minutes.", "The Dutch international was breaking the previous record set by Reading's Steve Death 30 years ago.", "He had taken Petr Cech's Premier League record in the 5-0 win at West Bromwich Albion last week and has now had 12 straight clean sheets.", "With title rivals Chelsea and Liverpool playing each other on Sunday and Aston Villa being held 0-0 at home by Wigan, the record was the icing on the cake for Alex Ferguson's defending champions.", "World footballer of the year Ronaldo had hit the post in the first half before converting from the spot after Michael Carrick was tripped by Mikel Arteta.", "In truth, Everton, missing three strikers through injury, rarely troubled van der Sar with most of the action at the other end.", "Michael Carrick had appeals for a second penalty turned down after appearing to be brought down by Joleon Lescott, but referee Mark Halsey ignored his pleas.", "Carlos Tevez shot wide from Park ji-Sung's right wing cross and Tim Howard later had to save smartly from a deflected free kick from the Argentine star.", "United manager Alex Ferguson was delighted with yet another clean sheet and the three points.", "\"It's a fantastic performance from the boys.", "I couldn't believe it when I read that the last goal United conceded was against Arsenal in October,\" United manager Alex Ferguson told Setanta Sports.", "\"Van der Sar brings calmness and assurance.", "Over the last 12 games United have changed the back four I don't know how many times so you have to give great credit to them.\"" ]	[ "Record breaker Edwin van der Sar has now kept 12 clean sheets for United .", "1-0 win over sixth-placed Everton sees United go five points clear in Premier League .", "Closest rivals Chelsea and Liverpool play each other in title showdown on Sunday ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1 ]	[ 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2 ]
80acf1c551238d542d5f76baa789d66623078a2a	[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --", "There's the Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls: blending Indigo Girl Amy Ray's voice with singing partner Emily Saliers on songs such as \"Closer to Fine\" and \"Galileo\" and writing songs that tap into the duo's shared folk-oriented touchstones.", "Indigo Girl Amy Ray says playing with some musician friends brought out songs that \"felt very different from the Indigo Girls.\"", "Then there's Indigo Girl Amy Ray, letting out Indigo Girl Amy Ray's inner Joe Strummer and Paul Westerberg.", "The two aren't mutually exclusive, of course.", "\"Emily and I are frustrated sometimes with any kind of box,\" Indigo Girl Amy Ray says during an interview at Indigo Girl Amy Ray's manager's office near downtown Atlanta, \"because we want to experiment musically, and we do a lot of electric stuff.", "... But the reality is that we are a folk band.\"", "However, Indigo Girl Amy Ray adds, Indigo Girl Amy Ray's influences include artists who have come out of a punk mindset such as the Clash, the Replacements, the Pretenders and Patti Smith.", "\"At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies -- a band I ended up playing with a lot -- and it just brought out this thing in Indigo Girl Amy Ray ... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls,\" Indigo Girl Amy Ray says.", "Which explains the appearance of \"Didn't It Feel Kinder\" (Daemon), Indigo Girl Amy Ray's third solo album.", "Watch Indigo Girl Amy Ray perform the song \"She's Got to Be\" » .", "(Disclosure: Indigo Girl Amy Ray and I were contemporaries at ATLANTA's Emory University, but Ray and I didn't know one another.)", "The songs on \"Kinder\" include \"Bus Bus,\" a scorching rocker about the longings felt while on tour; \"Who Sold the Gun,\" which alludes to a mass shooting, counterpointed by rousing major chords; and \"SLC Radio,\" which praises the support of a Salt Lake City radio station in the midst of \"LDS nation.\"", "Indigo Girl Amy Ray gives a great deal of credit to producer Greg Griffith for the album's raw sound and melodic ideas, and Indigo Girl Amy Ray adds that the musicians on the solo album helped guide the way the songs were presented.", "\"Something like 'Bus Bus,' I wanted this lead thing going on with a kind of raucous band, and the harmonies are very important but the harmonies are more of a bed that you're singing over rather than the duo,\" Indigo Girl Amy Ray says.", "\"I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do.", "It's just a different thing. ...", "And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.\"", "A number of the solo songs do share the same activist outlook as Indigo Girl Amy Ray's songs with the Indigo Girls.", "\"SLC Radio,\" for example, is about KRCL-FM, which Indigo Girl Amy Ray describes as \"a really progressive community station.\"", "In the song, Ray, an out lesbian, sings \"Radio radio SLC fighting the good fight for me/ Boys and girls lend a hand, bend an ear in God's land.\"", "\"I was thinking about community radio in general, and I was thinking about Mormonism and the fabric of the country and how much you see when you're traveling ... and the idea that change comes, but it comes slow, and it comes one person at a time", ",\" Indigo Girl Amy Ray explains.", "But, Indigo Girl Amy Ray notes, \"The song is not totally taking Mormonism to task.", "I even say, 'I'm sending love to all the Mormons,' 'Keep the good things throw out the bad.'", "\" Respect flows both ways, Indigo Girl Amy Ray says.", "Ray's activism extends to the artist-centered Daemon Records, the label Indigo Girl Amy Ray founded in 1990.", "Though Daemon is the furthest thing from corporate -- Indigo Girl Amy Ray and the label's staff still stuff envelopes themselves -- Indigo Girl Amy Ray acknowledges that changes in the record business have forced Indigo Girl Amy Ray to adjust as much as any major label.", "Watch Indigo Girl Amy Ray on keeping the business going » .", "\"For indie labels it was a big adjustment because we ended up with a lot of CDs on hand when downloading [happened].", "We knew it was coming, it came, but it happened a little bit faster [than we thought],\" Indigo Girl Amy Ray says.", "\"There were business decisions that were hard. ...", "But I love the freedom that downloading has brought, and I love the way it saves resources.\"", "Besides, Indigo Girl Amy Ray adds, \"The Internet has revolutionized the DIY movement, and it's great to Indigo Girl Amy Ray.", "I don't even know if record labels need to exist.", "I don't even know if I need to exist,\" Indigo Girl Amy Ray laughs.", "But some things about being a musician don't change, such as promotion and performance, which means it's time to hit the road again.", "Indigo Girl Amy Ray will perform with the Indigo Girls in September and then do some solo dates for the rest of the year.", "A new the Indigo Girls album is due out in early 2009.", "Isn't it exhausting, after more than 20 years in the business, to have to get on the bus again?", "Indigo Girl Amy Ray agrees that touring can be draining.", "\"It's like you're doing all this stuff, the traveling and the unpacking and the packing, just to play the show.", "And in that one ... moment during the show, that's the fun.", "That's where all the fun is,\" Indigo Girl Amy Ray says.", "\"It's the blessing and the curse of it.", "\"But it's not like digging a ditch,\" Indigo Girl Amy Ray adds.", "\"You get to see different places, get to go running in a different town every day.", "It's very stimulating, and that can be a very good thing.\"" ]	[ "Indigo Girl Amy Ray has solo album out, \"Didn't It Feel Kinder\"", "Sound on album harder-edged than Indigos; Indigo Girl Amy Ray says songs more apropos .", "Indigo Girl Amy Ray on touring: Can be draining, but \"not like digging a ditch\"" ]	[ 0, 0, 0 ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 3, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 0, 0, 0, 5, 4, 6, 5, 0, 5, 4, 5, 0, 0, 5, 0, 6, 6, 4, 6, 4, 6, 2 ]
9c9f4fc7e71b04d6af69a9ff0d72334936a4551f	[ "NEW YORK (CNN) --", "The agency that owns the space where the World Trade Center towers stood is freeing Agency of the term \"freedom\" to describe the signature skyscraper replacing the buildings destroyed on September 11, 2001.", "The One World Trade Center skyscraper is expected to be completed in late 2013.", "The change from Freedom Tower was revealed Thursday at a news conference where the Port Authority of NEW YORK and New Jersey announced the signing of the first commercial lease in the building to a Chinese company.", "the building is expected to be completed in late 2013.", "\"We've referred to the primary building planned for the site as One World Trade Center -- its legal name and street address -- for almost two years now, as well as using the name Freedom Tower,\" said Stephen Sigmund, a spokesman for Agency, in a statement released to CNN.", "\"Many will always refer to it as Freedom Tower, but as the building moves out of the planning stage and into full construction and leasing, we believe that going forward it is most practical to market the building as One World Trade Center.\"", "Ten of the building's planned 108 above-ground floors have been built.", "\"The fact is, more than $3 billion of public money is invested in the building, and, as a public agency, Agency have the responsibility to make sure the building is completed and that Agency utilize the best strategy to make certain the building is fully occupied,\" Sigmund added.", "Sigmund noted that the agency lost 84 colleagues in the September 11 attacks.", "Mary Fetchet, founding director of Voices of September 11th, a group that commemorates the lives of those killed in the attack, said she was not familiar with the decision made by Agency and was not willing to make a statement.", "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on the John Gambling radio show taped Friday morning, said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was not upset by Agency's decision.", "\"It's up to Agency,\" New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.", "\"I have no idea what the commercial aspects are, and we can say, 'Oh, we shouldn't worry about that,' but of course you have to, particularly now.", "\"I would like to see the building stay the Freedom Tower, but it's their building, and they don't need me dumping on the building.", "If they could rent the whole thing by changing the name, I guess they're going to do that, and they probably, from a responsible point of view, should.", "From a patriotic point of view, is it going to make any difference?\"", "He added, \"one of the things is, we call things what we want to call things.", "So, Avenue of the Americas is a good example, for Avenue of the Americas's Sixth Avenue to most people.", "Very few people use Avenue of the Americas.", "If they name the building, people will still call the building the Freedom Tower.\"", "the building was named the Freedom Tower in the first \"ground zero\" master plan.", "Officials said at the time that the tallest, most symbolic of five planned towers at the site would demonstrate the country's triumph over terrorism.", "Representatives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Vantone Industrial Co. announced Thursday the signing of a lease that will create the China Center, a 190,810-square-foot business and cultural facility, to be on portions of the 64th floor and the entire 65th through 69th floors of the building.", "Hailing it as a great day for Agency and Agency's partners in the China center, Agency Executive Director Chris Ward added, \"this is the first step in a long journey as downtown is finally rebuilt.\"", "The lease is for 20 years and nine months, beginning when the building is completed, with rents starting at $80 per square foot and escalating afterward.", "the China center also will have the right to lease up to two additional contiguous floors under the same terms, an option that expires at the end of 2009.", "Agency also has commitments for more than a million square feet of leased office space in the building from the U.S. General Services Administration and the New York State Office of General Services.", "Leases for these two public agencies are being finalized.", "These commitments, coupled with the the China center lease, represent nearly 50 percent of the office space in the building.", "The China Center at the building is expected to represent the elite of China's business and cultural communities and serve as a hub for Chinese firms developing United States operations, as well as for U.S. companies that wish to conduct business in China or expand operations.", "the building will include 2.6 million gross square feet of office space on 70 office floors, a public lobby with a 50-foot-high ceiling, an observation deck 1,265 feet above ground, a skyline restaurant, a wide array of shopping and parking.", "the building will be 1,368 feet tall, and a spire at the top will bring the total height to 1,776 feet.", "Beijing Vantone Industrial is one of the first private corporations established in China.", "Today, Beijing Vantone Industrial is one of China's largest private real estate investment companies with 13 subsidiaries, including one publicly traded company, Beijing Vantone Real Estate Co." ]	[ "New skyscraper will be known as One World Trade Center .", "Port Authority: \"It is most practical to market the building\" under address name .", "the building was named the Freedom Tower in the first \"ground zero\" master plan.", "Agency says Agency has signed first commercial lease to Chinese company ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 4, 0, 4, 0, 0, 4, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 0, 1, 3, 3, 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 4, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 2 ]
cdf95acaecb9eada01fb36b63a0e222e6b4e27f2	[ "BOULDER, Colorado (CNN) --", "Jones''s business plan for Jones''s company, Namaste Solar Electric, was so unusual, Jones' confounded a lot of business experts.", "Typical home solar systems cost about $12,000 up front, but supporters say they pay off in the long run.", "\"his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado did have a lot of skeptical, raised eyebrows at the beginning,\" Jones' said of Jones''s company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado.", "\"his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado even have had business schools bring teams of MBA students to come to do a case study,\" Jones' said.", "Outsiders were baffled by some of these company plans: . • Environmental concerns would be a driving force in every aspect of his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado.", "• Six weeks of paid time off.", "• A concept called FOH -- frank, open and honest -- to help eliminate gossip and grudges.", "• Employees, no matter what their job description, have the same pay scale.", "• One percent of yearly revenues goes to solar systems donated to community groups.", "• All major decisions would be made by consensus of all company employees.", "Jones' had done a serious turnabout in Jones''s own career that inspired some of the unusual principles of his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado.", "his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado is a Sanskrit greeting meaning \"to bow to you.\"", "The civil engineer spent five years working in the Middle East for Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, in the oil and gas industry.", "\"But something in me realized there is something more.", "I didn't like the overdependence that we have on oil and gas.", "I think oil and gas, even coal are always going to be a very big part of our lives.", "But I think what we need to do, is we need a more balanced portfolio.", "I had a gradual awakening to wanting passionately to work with renewable energy because I thought there was a better way,\" Jones' said.", "Jones' moved from the Middle East to Nepal, where Jones' spent three years installing solar and hydroelectric systems in remote areas.", "Although the clients and the mission are very different in Colorado, solar power is becoming a more popular long-term investment in the state.", "Jones' picked a place where residents are open to doing things a different way.", "Boulder is tree-hugger heaven by anyone's standards.", "Boulder has lots of incentives to encourage the use of renewable energy.", "\"There is more interest in solar in Boulder then anywhere else in Colorado.", "That's one example of how environmentally focused our community is,\" said Sarah Vanpelt, environmental sustainability coordinator for Boulder.", "In 2004, Colorado voters approved state incentives for the use of alternative energy.", "\"And Boulder provides a rebate on a portion of the sales and use tax that property owners pay to purchase and install a system, and Boulder use those funds to provide grants to nonprofits to install solar on affordable housing, low-income housing, and on nonprofit facilities", ",\" Sarah Vanpelt, environmental sustainability coordinator for the city said.", "\"So I think Boulder will continue to see growth in the green industry and in renewable energy, both solar and wind,\" Sarah Vanpelt, environmental sustainability coordinator for the city said.", "his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado is in the process of remodeling a 15,000-square-foot warehouse for his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado's offices.", "Watch more about the unique project » .", "And his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado is doing it to the highest of green building standards, the LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification.", "That involves everything from the use of natural light to the recycling of building materials to the access to the building by public transportation.", "And yes, all the building's electricity will be provided by a solar system his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado installs.", "Most of the panels will be on the roof, but there will also be a solar awning.", "Construction manager Marc Smerekanicz did some of Construction manager Marc Smerekanicz's own head-scratching with some of the requests to meet LEED standards.", "\"Thinking in a different way than what I was brought up to think of as the construction process, that's the way of the future,\" Construction manager Marc Smerekanicz said.", "For some customers, it is rising energy prices as much as concern for the environment that is prompting some customers to consider solar power for some customers's homes and businesses.", "his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado just installed solar panels on the home of Hal Stuber.", "\"It's become more reasonably priced, and on top of that there are the incentives from the utility company, also the federal tax credits.", "So, all in all, the economics really look excellent,\" Hal Stuber said.", "\"For every $3 of cost, from rebates and tax credits I'm getting about $2 back, and yeah, that's a big incentive.", "I doubt that I would have done this had it not been for the rebates and tax incentives,\" Hal Stuber said.", "Hal Stuber plans to use some of Hal Stuber's solar power for a plug-in motorbike.", "And when Hal Stuber's system produces more power than Hal Stuber uses, Hal Stuber's electric meter runs backward.", "At the end of the year, Hal Stuber may get money back from the utility.", "Even with rebates, Jones' said, a typical solar system costs a homeowner about $12,000 up front.", "But Jones' said that as a long-term investment, a typical solar system pays off.", "Jones' said that's why his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado's community involvement comes in the form of solar installations, not cash.", "\"his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado consider a solar system to be a gift that keeps on giving.", "If his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado give them a solar system, then a solar system will save their electricity bills each year for the next 30 years, compared to if his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado just give them money, it will contribute to their budget for that one year only,\" Jones' said.", "So how's that crazy business plan working?", "In the past 3½ years, Namaste has installed more solar systems than any other company in Colorado.", "Three original employees have grown to 45.", "And his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado has been growing by triple-digit percentages every year.", "\"Whatever perspective you look at, his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado're being profitable, and it's exactly what his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado need to do to prove that his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado's business experiment, that his company, which installs solar power systems in Colorado's company model is going to work,\" Jones' said." ]	[ "Businessman Blake Jones seeks to develop renewable energy sources .", "Jones' passion for solar sparked a radical career shift during time in Mideast .", "Home solar system costs $12,000, but Jones' says Home solar system pays off in long run .", "Boulder, Colorado, offers rebates, grants for home solar power systems ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 4, 1, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 5, 2, 5, 4, 7, 5, 6, 8, 8, 6, 0, 0, 2, 0, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 7, 6, 7, 3, 7, 2, 6, 6, 2, 7, 2, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 1, 4, 4, 7, 4, 9, 7, 5, 7, 4 ]
089fd9d3b8e3f84061b8329425e81ef62de7bded	[ "(CNN) --", "Self-confessed BlackBerry addict Barack Obama may not have to kick the thumbing habit after all, despite the concerns of a notoriously technophobic White House.", "Barack Obama was a self-confessed BlackBerry addict during Barack Obama's White House campaign.", "\"Barack Obama has a BlackBerry,\" White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday, clearing up weeks of speculation about whether Barack Obama would be able to hold on to a cherished method of communicating.", "The decision to allow Barack Obama to keep a smartphone is \"a compromise that allows Barack Obama to stay in touch with senior staff and a small group of personal friends,\" Gibbs told the media in Gibbs's first press conference since the inauguration.", "\"Use will be limited and the security is enhanced to ensure his ability to communicate but to do so effectively,\" Gibbs also said.", "\"And to do so in a way that is protected.\"", "Gibbs refused to provide more details about the new president's device, already being called the \"BarackBerry.\"", "Watch", "CNN's Errol Barnett reports on Barack Obama's new phone »", "Barack Obama was often seen hunched over the mobile e-mail cell phone device during Barack Obama's election campaign and even featured at No. 2 on one celebrity Web site's list of obsessive BlackBerry users.", "But, like previous Oval Office incumbents, Barack Obama had been expected to take a vow of technological celibacy following Barack Obama's inaugural oath on Tuesday, despite telling CNBC in an interview that security officials would have to \"pry it out of my hands.\"", "Barack Obama said a mobile device would help Barack Obama stay in touch with the real world.", "Should Barack Obama be allowed to keep the president's BlackBerry?", "Tell us what you think .", "E", "mail has long been treated with suspicion by the Secret Service because of fears it could be hacked into by foreign espionage agencies, or that sensitive information could reach the public domain via a single mistaken strike of the \"send\" key.", "President George W. Bush was forced to give up using e-mail when President George W. Bush took charge, while President Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails during his administration -- one to test that the system worked and the second to veteran astronaut John Glenn before his trip into space in 1998.", "There are also concerns that mobile devices such as the BlackBerry, which contain built-in GPS technology, could be hacked, revealing the president's location within a few feet.", "But according to reports Thursday, Barack Obama may actually have been issued a spy-proof alternative to Barack Obama's favorite toy.", "Writing on his blog for the Atlantic magazine, Marc Ambinder reports that the National Security Agency has approved a $3,350 smartphone -- inevitably dubbed the \"BarackBerry\" -- for Barack Obama's use.", "The exclusive Sectera Edge, made by General Dynamics, is reportedly capable of encrypting top secret voice conversations and handling classified documents.", "But Barack Obama may have pushed Barack Obama's Secret Service handlers' technological patience far enough.", "Marc Ambinder also reports that instant messaging in the White House will still be a definite no-no.", "CNN's Martina Stewart contributed to this report." ]	[ "Report: Security officials approve $3,350 smartphone for Barack Obama .", "Barack Obama was an inveterate BlackBerry user during Barack Obama's campaign .", "Security concerns that e-mail could be hacked, or GPS used to locate president .", "Phone capable of encrypting voice conversations, handling classified documents ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 3 ]
c1208956c5c755a1a5c1948f67c4bafbd0835ebb	[ "SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) --", "A 16-year-old girl was found dead and another girl was found unconscious in an Army barracks at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Washington, during the weekend, a base spokesman said Monday.", "\"Neither of The two teens had any outward signs of trauma on The two teens,\" said Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek.", "Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek said that an Army solider who was \"allegedly an acquaintance\" of the two 16-year-olds was questioned by investigators, but no arrests had been made.", "The spokesman said the name and rank of the soldier who had been questioned was not being released.", "According to an Army news release, the names of The two teens \"are not being released due to The two teens's ages, The two teens's civilian status, and the nature of the ongoing investigation.\"", "The Fort Lewis Criminal Investigation Division is trying to determine why The two teens were in the barracks, where soldiers live, and what led to The two teens's conditions when The two teens were found.", "Emergency personnel from Fort Lewis responded to a 911 call about 3:30 a.m. Sunday and found the two girls in one of the barracks.", "A doctor declared one of the girls dead on the scene, and the second girl was transported to Madigan Army Hospital, where the second girl was in stable condition Monday.", "The Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy, Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek said, and it will be at least a week before results are complete.", "The two teens are from the nearby South Puget Sound area but were not related to anyone living on base, Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek said.", "The two teens's families had been notified, Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek said.", "Although Fort Lewis is not open to civilians, civilians can be escorted in by a soldier living there if civilians have identification and a reason for coming onto the facility.", "The circumstances of how The two teens came unto Fort Lewis are under investigation, Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek said, but there was no evidence that security had been compromised.", "About 30,000 military personnel are based at Fort Lewis.", "Barracks where soldiers live are usually split into rooms for one to three soldiers, Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek said.", "Details about the barracks where the girls where found were not released." ]	[ "Second girl found unconscious in barracks at Fort Lewis, Washington .", "Soldier has been questioned, but no arrests have been made .", "The two teens had no outward signs of trauma on The two teens, spokesman says .", "Fort Lewis not open to civilians but can be escorted onto base by personnel ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 4, 0, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 3, 1 ]
758c6cca523bf61ac5d36407fae830676e9c6378	[ "(CNN) --", "Five days of gunbattles between the the Army army and separatist militants in Kashmir have left at least 25 dead -- eight the Army army troopers, including one officer, and 17 militants, the the Army military said Tuesday.", "An the Army army soldier lays a wreath during the funeral of a slain soldier, northeast of Srinagar on Tuesday.", "Defense Minister A.K. Antony, meeting with India's military chiefs in Delhi, reviewed the situation in the Himalayan region and told the Army to deal with the situation in the Himalayan region with \"utmost firmness.\"", "Kashmir has been in the throes of a violent separatist campaign for nearly two decades during which authorities say 43,000 people have been killed.", "However, various NGOs and rights groups put the number of dead at twice the official count.", "In Srinigar, Kashmir, the Army spokesman Lt. Col. J.S. Brar told CNN the Army was moving against the militants \"based on sound intelligence inputs as well as human intelligence provided by our own sources.\"", "The battles in the Shamsbhari forests of north Kashmir Kupwara district have caused \"minimum collateral damage to property,\" Army spokesman Lt. Col. J.S. Brar said.", "Army spokesman Lt. Col. J.S. Brar denied media reports that helicopter gunships and heavy weapons had been used by the Army during these operations against the militants.", "This month's encounter between the Army and the militants is the second longest in Kashmir this year.", "In January, a fierce encounter raged for seven days in the Poonch district of Jammu region of Indian-administered Kashmir.", "Two soldiers, a policeman and four militants were killed in a fierce encounter.", "Kashmir has been the source of bitter dispute and two wars between India and neighboring Pakistan.", "Both control parts of the region which is predominantly Muslim." ]	[ "NEW: 25 dead in Kashmir gunfights between Indian troops, separatist militants .", "Incident comes after India accuses Pakistani troops of firing on Indian troops .", "Kashmir has been in throes of separatist campaign for 20 years ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2 ]
cd2fece4084507f172e1c4aeeb4f11973f455abf	[ "BARCELONA, Spain (CNN) --", "Google launched the latest salvo in the cellphone wars Tuesday with the unveiling of the newest handset to carry Google's Android platform.", "Google's Android platform goes head to head with Apple's iPhone.", "Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in BARCELONA, Vodafone's HTC Magic smartphone will make its European bow in the UK, Spain, France and Germany in the coming months.", "In Italy it will be available under a non-exclusive contract.", "The Google-run handsets are regarded as the chief rivals to Apple's iPhones in the battle for the next generation of mobile devices.", "Google's latest foray into the cell phone market is seen by many as the beginnings of the Internet giant's attempts to dominate the industry.", "Some have expressed concerns that cell phone manufacturers, network operators and users will have little control over what data Google will be able to utilise from Google's software.", "Among critics is the LiMo Foundation, representing Linux-based operating system LiMo, which has launched its own cell phone platform, according to Congress organizer Groupe Speciale Mobile Association's daily newsletter.", "\"A lot of operators still harbor some questions over whether A lot of operators will have the control over services and how much of the data that is going out and coming from a Google device goes to Google and how much to you [the operator],\" LiMo's Andrew Shikiar told Mobile Business Briefing.", "Users of both the Apple and Google models can download applications developed by third-parties from open-source software, potentially giving Users of both the Apple and Google models the capability of small handheld computers.", "The first Android-capable handset, the G1, was launched last year.", "The first Android-capable handset, the G1 partnered with T-Mobile for", "The first Android-capable handset, the G1's UK launch, its first foray into the European market.", "The first Android-capable handset, the G1 includes a 3.2-inch QVGA touch screen display, navigational buttons and a trackball.", "The first Android-capable handset, the G1 also comes with several Google applications including Google Mail, Google Maps and Google Search as well as YouTube, which is owned by Google.", "Andy Rubin, Senior Director of Mobile Platforms at Google, said that the launch of The first Android-capable handset, the G1 was an important step for Android.", "\"With The first Android-capable handset, the G1, Vodafone is opening up the mobile web for consumers across Europe and giving more third-party developers a platform on which they can build the next wave of killer applications,\" Rubin said.", "CNN's Adrian Finighan, who is at the congress, said that as an iPhone user he had spent much of his time at this year's event looking for something to rival his device.", "\"The first Android-capable handset, the G1 is, well, magic!", "I think I've found The first Android-capable handset, the G1.", "The first Android-capable handset, the G1 really is the first device that I could consider swapping my beloved Apple device for.\"" ]	[ "Vodafone's HTC Magic handset will launch in western Europe in the next few months .", "The first Android-capable handset, T-Mobile's G1, was launched last year .", "New device includes a 3.2-inch touch screen display, navigational buttons, trackball ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1 ]
aaad53130d0d5e816b8f47db0e05d5ac5a3eb985	[ "LAKE WALES, Florida (CNN) --", "Does jumping out of a plane show love?", "For one family in Florida it does.", "Trevor Muir (left), 23; Darcy Shepard, 18; Harriett Shepard, 94; and Dave Shepard, 74, are ready to jump.", "Last Saturday, four generations of Darcy Shepard's family went skydiving for Darcy Shepard's's 18th birthday.", "The oldest jumper was Shepard's 94-year-old great-grandmother, Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard.", "Skydiving is becoming a Shepard family rite of passage.", "Two members of the family had jumped before -- including family matriarch Harriett.", "Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard jumped three years ago, at age 91, because Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard wanted to know what it felt like.", "Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard is an inspiration to Darcy Shepard's's great-granddaughter.", "\"If Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard can do it at 91, then I could, too,\" Darcy Shepard's says, explaining that Darcy Shepard's wasn't allowed to jump three years ago because Darcy Shepard's hadn't reached age 18.", "As Darcy Shepard's planned the adventure, Darcy Shepard's's brother, cousins, father and grandfather decided to join Darcy Shepard's in skydiving.", "At first, the family invited 94-year-old Harriett to watch everyone skydive in central Florida.", "But Harriett, known to the family as \"Honeynun,\" didn't want to watch.", "Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard wanted to jump.", "Watch Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard and kin soar across the sky » .", "Adventure isn't new to this bunch.", "In the past the family has gone scuba diving and hang gliding together.", "Jumping out of the plane were Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard; Darcy Shepard's; Harriett's 74-year-old son Dave; Dave's 45-year-old son Dallas, who is Darcy's dad; two cousins; a girlfriend; and a future father-in-law.", "As Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard suited up, Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard said Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard found it \"exciting to be doing this with the family.\"", "The eight uncertified skydivers were trained and paired with tandem instructors at Florida Skydiving Center at the Lake Wales Airport.", "The center required Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard to be cleared by a doctor prior to jumping.", "The center says Harriett Shepard is the oldest person to jump at The center.", "As jump time nears, Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard is fearless.", "\"I'm never scared up there,\" Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard says.", "\"My husband and I had a plane.", "I'm never afraid.\"", "See photos of the family's skydiving day » .", "Great-grandson Trevor Muir, another of the jumpers, says he has water-skied, jumped on a trampoline and climbed giant tree forts with his great-grandmother.", "\"So what's skydiving?", "Just another notch in the pole,\" says the 23-year-old Trevor.", "\"We've done a lot of crazy things.\"", "The plane, a DeHavilland Twin Otter, takes the group to an altitude of 14,000 feet.", "The rear door opens.", "Pilot Eric Weaver announces over the radio: \"Attention any traffic in the Lake Wales area.", "There will be skydiving over the Lake Wales Airport.\"", "First to jump is 94-year-old Harriett, with her instructor David \"Pip\" Perry.", "The skydivers free-fall at speeds between 120 and 150 mph before deploying The skydivers's parachute.", "\"Honeynun\" slowly floats to the ground, wearing Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard's cozy buckle-up sandals that Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard feels are more comfortable than closed-toe shoes.", "After landing, Harriett -- who has battled skin cancer -- is more fearful of the sun than jumping from the plane.", "One skydiver after the other lands safely to fanfare from anxious family members on the ground.", "Darcy Shepard's is greeted with a chorus of \"Happy Birthday.\"", "There are lots of high-fives, family photos and exclamations of \"awesome.\"", "Darcy Shepard's hugs her great-grandmom: \"Yay, Honeynun.\"", "Darcy's father, Dallas Shepard, deems it \"an incredible jump that was a lot of fun.\"", "Dallas says that skydiving with Dallas's grandmother was \"kind of neat, just being able to do it with Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard -- but Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard is living life, and that's the best part.\"", "His father, Dave Shepard, calls it an experience he will remember for a long time.", "\"It was something special, where we had four generations.\"", "Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard confesses that Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard's late husband would not be happy.", "\"her late husband would have never let me do this,\" Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard says.", "\"her late husband took care of me -- that's why I'm this old.\"", "Yet Harriett, who has lived a long and full life as an author, photographer and architect, is concerned about the publicity.", "\"Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard's worried,\" Dave Shepard says of his mom, \"that the only thing people will remember Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard for is jumping out of an airplane.\"" ]	[ "Four generations, in age from 18 to 94, jump out of plane at 14,000 feet .", "Great-grandmother Harriett Shepard jumped once before -- at age 91 .", "Jumpers included family members age 94, 74, 45 and 18 .", "\"I'm never scared up there,\" great-grandmother says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0, 2 ]	[ 3, 4, 3, 0, 0, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 6, 1, 1, 4, 4, 0, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 2, 7, 2, 5, 4, 5, 4, 7, 5, 4, 3, 5, 1, 5, 6, 6, 5, 7, 4, 7, 0, 1, 0, 7, 6, 6, 7, 6, 1 ]
b7d4b8380c877052f632ce3d8a3d3b0d712d7215	[ "(CNN) --", "Nicole Nagy had gone back to school hoping that a new career would lead to a better job.", "When Nicole Nagy was turned down for financial aid, Nicole Nagy was told Nicole Nagy could, as a song goes, \"sing for the money.\"", "Nicole Nagy was directed to a contest called Careereoki.", "Nicole Nagy enlisted the help of Nicole Nagy's children and Nicole Nagy's husband to make Nicole Nagy's videotape.", "Anyone brave enough to videotape themselves singing -- and sometimes dancing -- about their dream career karaoke-style was qualified to enter the competition.", "More than 60 videos were submitted, from which five finalists were chosen to compete for online votes that will determine the winner.", "Most contestants were from Central Florida, likely because the grand prize includes tuition for a certificate program at an Orange County technical school.", "Nagy, a mother of three, was laid off in 2007.", "When Nicole Nagy couldn't find a job, Nicole Nagy's husband supported Nicole Nagy's decision to enroll in nursing school.", "But tuition and books are costly, and the Nagys are a month behind on the mortgage payment.", "So risking embarrassment, Nicole Nagy decided a better future might lie in Nicole Nagy's music video.", "\"I can't sing to save my life, but I will go ahead and try this because I am willing to do anything to get school paid for,\" Nicole Nagy said.", "Nicole Nagy's husband, obviously a good sport, appears in her music video along with Nicole Nagy's children.", "Watch the contestants' videos » .", "Dressed in a bathrobe, Nicole Nagy sits on the couch with Nicole Nagy's kids as Nicole Nagy's husband starts her music video with the bad news, \"OK guys, I have to go to work.", "Sorry we can't send you to nursing school, Nicole Nagy.", "We just don't have the money.\"", "Nicole Nagy replies, \"Ahh man.\"", "Addressing Nicole Nagy's children, Nicole Nagy says, \"know what we can do instead, we can sing about it.\"", "Nicole Nagy takes off the robe, revealing a nursing uniform and the stethoscope which acts as Nicole Nagy's microphone.", "Nicole Nagy then dances around Nicole Nagy's living room, belting out Nicole Nagy's tune, \"Doctor, doctor give me the news; I got a bad case of nursing blues.\"", "Nicole Nagy sings Nicole Nagy's original lyrics to Robert Palmer's \"Bad Case of Loving You\" as Nicole Nagy's young, obedient children wait for the song to end.", "Nicole Nagy's video was good enough to gain Nicole Nagy a spot as a Careereoki finalist.", "But winning the contest won't be as easy as making it to the finals.", "The Careereoki competition is stiff.", "American Idol judging it was not for this first-time contest.", "To choose the final five videos, judges considered three categories.", "Points were awarded based 50 percent on the contestant's originality, 25 percent on creativity and 25 percent on the video's humor.", "Whether Nicole Nagy's performance will be good enough to win will depend on how many people vote for her on local radio station WPYO's Web site where the videos are posted.", "Fans of the musical Grease may feel inclined to vote for Julia Langston of Lake Mary, Florida.", "Julia Langston does a nice job singing what is supposed to be a duet, \"Summer Nights.\"", "Julia Langston creatively sings, \"Unemployment happened so fast, never thought this recession would last.\"", "Julia Langston was laid off a few months ago after working for 15 years as an office manager.", "As with Julia Langston's fellow contestants, the grand prize would be a huge help for Julia Langston.", "Julia Langston is living off the money Julia Langston had set aside to remodel Julia Langston's kitchen.", "Finalist Jennifer Faulk of Deltona, Florida, sums up the recurring theme of the five still standing: \"The day does not go by that I don't go online and look for something and there's just nothing out there.\"", "The Careereoki contest was sponsored by the Orange County School Board; Workforce Central Florida, an Orlando-area job placement organization; and a local advertising agency.", "Workforce Vice President Kimberly Cornett said Vice President Kimberly Cornett's organization's participation in the singing contest helped spread the word on their \"no-cost services\" to the community.", "\"It was a way to connect to job seekers, and also for job seekers to take a little break from the stress of unemployment,\" Vice President Kimberly Cornett said.", "Vice President Kimberly Cornett said Vice President Kimberly Cornett sees that stress first hand; the Orlando organization Vice President Kimberly Cornett works for offers job placement.", "Unemployment in Central Florida is the highest Unemployment in Central Florida has been in 16 years, according to Vice President Kimberly Cornett.", "The grand prize is worth $8,000 and includes a career training scholarship, personal and resume makeovers and a $100 gas card.", "Two first-place winners will also get tuition help, resume makeovers and $50 gas cards.", "The finalists are keeping The finalists's fingers crossed that the song in The finalists's heart doesn't end up a song sung blue.", "The winner will be announced on Monday." ]	[ "People invited to sing for job help in \"Careereoki\" contest .", "Best videotape of singing contestant will earn prize worth $8,000 .", "Central Florida contest sponsored by school board, job-placement agency ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1 ]	[ 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 0, 0, 4, 5, 3, 6, 3, 3, 3, 0, 3, 3, 6, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 2, 2, 2, 5, 4, 2, 0, 1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 0, 0 ]
3080b37f9dc56d160c69a0fb24d3bfdd2ac4ad28	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "British TV channels could advertise abortion services for the first time under new advertising rules proposed Thursday by an ad industry group.", "new proposals will also allow condoms to be advertised more widely on television.", "The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice, the industry body responsible for writing and enforcing advertising rules in Britain, said the commercials would be for pregnancy advisory services that give information about a range of options to pregnant women, including abortion.", "If an organization does not offer information about abortion, an organization would have to make that clear in the ad, BCAP spokeswoman Lynsay Taffe said.", "Abortion clinics, which require referrals from doctors or hospitals, would not be allowed to advertise under the proposed rules, BCAP spokeswoman Lynsay Taffe said.", "There would be no restrictions on when such ads could air on British television, BCAP spokeswoman Lynsay Taffe said, but programmers would have to keep the sensitive topic in mind and not schedule the ads around religious programs, for example.", "\"It's a sensitive product, so it would have to be scheduled sensitively,\" BCAP spokeswoman Lynsay Taffe told CNN.", "The proposal is among a number of updates to current advertising standards that the Committee for Advertising Practice and BCAP, its broadcasting arm, published Thursday after an 18-month review.", "\"Each year the British public (sees) millions of advertisements, many of which are memorable,\" the Committee for Advertising Practice said.", "\"The advertising codes aim to make sure that they are memorable for the right reasons.\"", "The public now has until June 19 to comment on new proposals before they come into force, likely in 2010, the Committee for Advertising Practice said.", "new proposals also contain a change on advertising condoms on television.", "Under current rules, condoms generally cannot be advertised on TV before 9 p.m. in order to protect younger viewers, the Committee for Advertising Practice said.", "New rules would relax the restrictions on advertising condoms, with the only requirement that condoms not be shown around programs intended for children younger than 10.", "a change on advertising condoms on television came after Joyce Gould, a member of the House of Lords, requested a change on advertising condoms on television and noted that Britain had the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe along with spiraling rates of sexually transmitted diseases, the Committee for Advertising Practice said.", "Joyce Gould reported a survey that showed young people believed TV was one of the most effective ways of encouraging young people to use condoms.", "\"The presence of condom advertisements on television continues to be a subject of complaint to the (Advertising Standards Authority), but numbers are very low,\" the Committee for Advertising Practice said.", "\"Nevertheless, BCAP has to balance public sensitivities against a public health problem that is clearly urgent.\"" ]	[ "British TV channels could advertise abortion services under new proposals .", "Industry group says commercials would be for pregnancy advisory services .", "They give information about options for pregnant women, including abortion ." ]	[ 0, 0, 0 ]	[ 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3 ]
94b37c8f266c3fe90e30a565ef0e4edf7f28c852	[ "PARIS, France (CNN) --", "France is sending four state police units to France's overseas department of Guadeloupe after a month of sometimes violent demonstrations, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Thursday.", "French gendarmes face-off against Guadeloupe protesters.", "\"The pillaging ... the violence against people, are not tolerable and will not be tolerated,\" Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie told the French radio station RTL.", "\"It's no longer simply a question of containing the protests.", "... This mission of honor will continue to be undertaken, but we also have to fight against the violence.\"", "French President Nicolas Sarkozy planned to meet with elected officials from overseas departments, including Guadeloupe, Thursday afternoon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office announced.", "A general strike over low wages and living conditions in the Caribbean island has included demonstrations and clashes with police.", "At least one civilian has been killed in the riots, officials said.", "Hospitals and emergency services continue to function and the main international airport is open, but petrol stations, schools, and most businesses -- including supermarkets and car rental offices -- are closed, the British Foreign Office said in a travel advisory.", "Hotels are open, but A general strike over low wages and living conditions in the Caribbean island is causing daily cuts to electricity and water supplies, the British Foreign Office said.", "French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Thursday French Prime Minister Francois Fillon is ready to approve a compromise that would give nearly a €200 ($254) monthly supplement to workers in Guadeloupe with low-paying jobs.", "\"This crisis is serious, and profound, but This crisis's not new,\" French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said, adding that This crisis's linked to \"the lifelessness of the economy in the Antilles, aggravated by the global economic crisis.\"", "Sending supplementary police forces is justified, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said, because \"we cannot accept what has happened\" in the department.", "French Prime Minister Francois Fillon was referring to the attacks on businesses, the roadblocks in the streets and above all, the death of the civilian, who French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said was a union leader.", "Agence France-Presse identified the victim as union representative Jacques Bino.", "He was shot dead Tuesday night when he drove past a roadblock manned by armed youths in the city of Pointe-a-Pitre.", "His car was hit three times by shotgun fire, prosecutors told AFP.", "Three police who accompanied emergency services trying to help the dying man were lightly wounded, officials said, according to AFP.", "Speaking with RTL on Wednesday, one demonstrator denied one demonstrator was fanning the flames of unrest.", "\"We have always called for calm,\" Elie Domota, leader of the Coalition against Exploitation, said.", "\"We have told the young people to go to the young people's homes and continue to protest peacefully, but the police yesterday beat protesters and called protesters racist names, so the situation escalated.\"", "CNN's Alanne Orjoux in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report ." ]	[ "French police reinforcements being posted to Guadeloupe .", "Island wracked by a month of sometimes violent protests over living conditions .", "Protest leader denies encouraging violence .", "Guadeloupe is French overseas territory ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 0 ]	[ 3, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, 5, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 3 ]
ab1ebdb812ed9e2721321585340fa25efb6c4e3e	[ "(CNN) -- What Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak lacks in technique, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak makes up for in geeks.", "Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's partner show off Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak and his partner's moves on \"Dancing With the Stars.\"", "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has managed to transform Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's less-than-graceful moves on ABC's \"Dancing With the Stars\" into enough votes to keep hope alive on the competitive ballroom-dance show.", "\"Woz,\" as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is known by friends and fans alike, and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak and his partner have had some of the lowest scores from the trio of judges since the show premiered on March 9.", "But the judges, who are experts in the field of competitive dance, aren't the only deciding factor.", "Viewers can vote online, via phone calls or by text messaging, and those votes comprise 50 percent of each couple's score.", "The dance team with the lowest combined score is then voted off the show -- a fate that may await Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on Tuesday night.", "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and partner Katarina Smirnoff are up against a bevy of entertainers, including an Olympian, an NFL Hall of Famer, the most successful female rapper in hip-hop history and an actor whose claim to fame is appearing naked in the film \"Sex and the City.\"", "But all that star power has so far been matched by the power of computer geeks who are using what they know best to keep the rhythmically challenged Silicon Valley icon in the game.", "Chris Harrington, technology director for the Charlotte, North Carolina-based advertising, public relations and new media firm Luquire George Andrews, set up VoteWoz.com and a similarly named Twitter account, which so far has more than 55,000 followers.", "Harrington -- who began rallying the techie troops almost as soon as ABC announced that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak would be competing -- said Harrington is rooting for the philanthropist because \"he puts more heart and more passion in what he's doing than some of the other dancers.\"", "\"When you have beautiful athletes, movie stars and TV personalities, and then you mix in a geek, there's something a little strange and entertaining,\" Harrington said.", "\"Being a fellow geek myself, I thought now is the time to work with the technologies that we know and start pushing for the vote.\"", "That means lots and lots of social networking to spread the love -- and the word of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.", "Joe Patane is a longtime friend of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's and one of the officers for the official \"Vote for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on ABC's 'Dancing With the Stars' \" Facebook group.", "Joe Patane shares Joe Patane's friend's passion for philanthropy and runs Joe Patane's own foundation and the site joesworld.org.", "Joe Patane also knows a bit about reality television.", "A former cast member of MTV's \"The Real World: Miami,\" Joe Patane was instrumental in convincing Joe Patane's bud to sign on to the Stars and said the lovable (though some might argue lumbering) Wozniak has garnered fans both young and old.", "\"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak loves Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's fans, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's completely flattered by the fan response,\" Joe Patane said.", "\"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's a shy guy, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's doing a crazy, unique and different thing in Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's life that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wants to share with the world.\"", "Patane, who is also executive producer of the documentary \"Camp Woz: The Admirable Lunacy of Philanthropy,\" said Joe Patane enjoys watching Joe Patane's friend dance each week.", "\"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's the most uniquely giving, loving, happy man,\" Joe Patane said.", "\"With so many people watching the Stars, it's a good, infectious way to spread love, joy and hope.\"", "Aaron Petrey of Stanford, Kentucky, is one viewer who has fully embraced the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak mania.", "Petrey won an autographed copy of the book \"iWoz\" for submitting a video of Petrey imitating Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's dance moves to VoteWoz.com.", "Petrey said it's only natural that fans of Woz would turn to the Internet to support Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.", "\"Without [Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak] there probably wouldn't be a YouTube, Twitter or Facebook,\" Petrey said.", "\"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's the reason why we even have a computer.", "I like seeing Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on the Stars.\"", "Unfortunately, the \"Dancing With the Stars\" judges don't seem to feel the same way.", "Despite dancing through injuries -- including a pulled hamstring that sent Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to the hospital in an ambulance last week -- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak failed to impress the experts Monday night.", "While Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak did manage to score a perfect 10, it was a collective 10 out of a possible 30.", "At one point during Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's and Smirnoff's samba, judge Bruno Tonioli put judge Bruno Tonioli's face in judge Bruno Tonioli's hands.", "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak capped their routine by doing Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's version of the break-dance move known as \"the worm,\" but even that failed to save Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's lackluster performance.", "\"At some point the novelty wears off,\" said judge Carrie Ann Inaba, often cited as the kindest of the three.", "Wozniak, who beat out former Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle after a dance-off in an earlier round, kept Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's smile throughout the storm of criticism.", "\"I enjoy it,\" Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said on the show afterward.", "\"I'm going to try to bring my form of entertainment to the world.\"" ]	[ "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak scores this season on \"Dancing With the Stars\"", "Fellow \"geeks\" are supporting Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak via voting and social-networking sites .", "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak friend: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's a shy guy \"doing a crazy, unique and different thing\"", "Despite dancing through injuries, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hasn't been a hit with judges ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 0 ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 4, 1, 3, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 3 ]
fda2d5c87c65093261438a353e123b25e41c7e71	[ "(CNN) --", "Despite the steady drum-beat of economic news, therapists say money is still one of the most taboo subjects for American families.", "Keli Lauric, 30, and her grandmother, Evelyn Gloer, 79, view money based on life experience.", "\"It's easier to talk about sex than it is to talk about money in our societies,\" says Dr. Nancy Molitor, a psychologist in Illinois.", "And that's too bad, because all of us have something to learn from each other, says Dr. Nancy Molitor, a psychologist in Illinois.", "Often, generations seem like generations're speaking different languages when it comes to saving and spending money.", "Older people tend to save, while younger generations wrestle with the fallout from overspending.", "Experts say people's spending habits often reflect the environment in which people's grew up.", "To find out how families view money during the economic recession, CNN.com sat down with two multigenerational families.", "The four-generation Merriweather family worries its younger members may have been spoiled by the economic high tide of the 1990s and early 2000s.", "Marvin Merriweather, 65, says a person's spending habits are derived from life experience.", "If your life was hard, you save; if you've got it made, you tend to spend, he says.", "Watch The four-generation Merriweather family talk about money » .", "\"I think a lot of the fault falls to us as the older generation by not teaching [financial skills], because we try so hard to make it better for our children.\"", "The three-generation Gloer family says families need to remember to lean on each other during the hard times.", "\"Life's what you make it.", "I still say that,\" says Evelyn Gloer, 79.", "\"I mean, you don't have to be rich to have a happy home.\"", "Olivia Mellon, a money coach who organizes multigenerational family retreats to talk about spending, says older generations are more inclined to hoard money because older generations've lived through difficult times.", "Now, \"we have a culture of addictive overspenders,\" she says.", "But, with the recession, there are signs spending habits are trending back toward the Depression era, she says.", "\"Some people are getting much more frugal and much more risk-averse,\" Mellon says.", "Keli Lauric, Gloer's 30-year-old granddaughter, says she spent her money freely in her 20s, living in New York.", "Now in Atlanta, Georgia, she owns two houses because she can't find a way to sell or rent one of two houses.", "Like many people, she's had to cut back.", "the recession has \"made everyone realize you have to live on a budget all the time, even when times are good,\" she said.", "Dr. April Benson, a psychologist and author of books on compulsive spending, said this is a good time for families to bond over experiences instead of purchases.", "Molitor, the family therapist, said many Baby Boomers grew up with a sense of entitlement about money.", "Now, many of them are terrified because they may have to put off retirement because their savings accounts dwindled as markets fell.", "Older generations tend to save more, Molitor said.", "Many avoid credit because they remember hard times after the Great Depression.", "iReport.com:", "What have you learned from past generations?", "Families can use the economic recession as a chance to band together and learn from each other, Molitor says.", "\"This is an opportunity.", "As much as this is very painful, many people are actually using this as a challenge and many people're actually rising above this,\" Molitor says.", "Molitor said children should be involved in financial planning from an early age.", "At about age 8, children should be able to understand if the family is under financial stress, so it's best to see what children can contribute.", "Dr. Barbara Lips, on the other hand, says children should be involved in financial planning, but should not be made aware of family money problems at a young age.", "\"If [children] have a sense that mom and dad are OK then they are OK,\" says Lips, a psychologist in Iowa.", "\"Mom and dad being OK really is Mom and dad's sense of security.\"", "Molitor says Molitor's seen a wave of families come to Molitor to talk about money and the stress it's causing families.", "Often, what families need is to talk to each other, says Molitor.", "The Gloer family agrees.", "Melanie Burns, Evelyn's 53-year-old daughter, says families should band together in hard times.", "\"That's what family's for ...", "We're here to support each other if we need it.\"", "\"Right, when somebody falls down we pick them up,\" Evelyn Gloer responded." ]	[ "Therapists say money is still more taboo in American families than sex .", "Generational differences and life experiences can shade a person's view of money .", "Older generations tend to save more; younger people tend to rely on credit .", "Experts say generations can learn from each other during recession ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 4, 0, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 5, 6, 7, 6, 1, 8, 8, 8, 4, 4, 4, 8, 5, 1, 8, 1, 8, 3, 2, 2, 6, 5, 9, 9, 9, 6, 6, 5, 5, 7, 5, 6, 5, 7 ]
cbe5e901b1e58bc11f4269f644582e029106df3f	[ "(CNN) --", "The moment I saw that guinea pig's corpse, I made up my mind.", "I would not tell my son Checkers was dead ... at least not that night.", "my son had five tests within the next two days.", "I wasn't going to let grief jeopardize my son's grades.", "Checkers, on the left, enjoys a bit of kale with Andrea.", "I realize instantly the challenges of my decision.", "How could I keep this secret in a 10-by-12 room in which the guinea pig chalet was almost as big as the twin bed?", "I'd already goofed by yelping, \"Oh, my!\" when I saw the body.", "my son heard me from my son's bathroom.", "\"What's wrong, Mommy?", "Are you OK?\"", "\"I'm fine,\" I reply.", "But my son recognizes that I haven't answered both questions.", "\"But what's wrong?\"", "\"Nothing.\"", "\"Well, why did you say that?", "Is it the guinea pigs?\"", "I feel panicked.", "No sloshing!", "my son's drying off!", "Pajamas are next!", "I realize I'm holding my breath, and in my head, I'm yelling, \"Move, Christy!", "Move!\"", "I exhale as I lie.", "\"Everything's OK.\"", "In what seemed like one move, I reach in the closet, dump shoes out of a box, grab Checkers, plunk the stiff in a box, run downstairs, stuff the cardboard casket into a plastic bag, dash to the garage trash can, finish rapid hand-washing and make it upstairs as my third-grader steps into the hall.", "\"We're having storytime in my bed tonight!\"", "I say breathlessly.", "my bed is off-limits except for nightmares, illness or Saturday morning.", "Drew's so excited about the treat, my son runs for the king-sized sanctum without asking questions.", "We read and pray, and then I give my son a piggyback ride into my son's dark bedroom.", "It's Wednesday, 7:45 p.m., and for now, I'm in the clear.", "By the time Drew wakes the next morning, I have a plan: darkness and distraction.", "We're always 30 minutes into our commute before the sun rises.", "Between a disabled circuit breaker to prevent lights in his room from working, piggyback rides up and down the stairs, dressing in mom's room (where the lights work) while we review potential bonus words, multiplication drills, Scripture recitation for the Bible test, questions science and reading lessons, there are enough morning distractions to safeguard my secret.", "Thursday evening is a challenge.", "In our house, TV is for weekends only.", "It's cold and drizzly outside; my son has beaten me in chess -- twice.", "I pull out the biggest distraction of all.", "\"I'm going to let you see a video tonight.", "You need to relax a bit from those tests today,\" I say.", "my son's eyebrows make a big V on my son's forehead.", "\"But it's a school night, Mommy.\"", "I assure my son it's OK.", "my son's suspicious, but TV is as awesome as getting in Mom's bed, so no more questions.", "My co-workers split into camps.", "The Grief Gurus ream me for concealing the death.", "my son loves Checkers.", "my son deserves timely notice of death.", "I care more about grades than my son's emotional health.", "Bad things will happen to Drew at inopportune times in my son's life, and my son has to learn to juggle difficulties.", "I'm delaying my son's development.", "Whatever.", "The Practical Posse has opinions, too.", "That guinea pig still will be dead Friday.", "my son will be just as sad after my son's tests with fewer consequences than if my son's sad before the tests.", "Make sure you're honest about why you delayed telling my son.", "After school Friday, I break the news.", "There's a shriek and then loads of tears.", "I'll never forget the long drawn-out wail, \"I loved her like a daughter!\"", "I'm convinced that boy's been reading William Faulkner, because there is way too much drama that follows.", "We must wear black for three days.", "The only song we can listen to on the \"High School Musical 2\" CD is the duet after Gabriella and Troy break up.", "It's the saddest one.", "He cancels Happy Meal Friday, because there is nothing happy about this day.", "I answer the questions.", "She was on her side at the end of the ramp.", "Her mouth was open with her two big teeth protruding.", "No, it didn't look like she suffered.", "Maybe a lung problem killed her.", "I think Andrea (the cage mate) will be fine.", "No, it wasn't your care that killed her.", "And then finally, \"She died Wednesday.\"", "Tears stop.", "Voice strengthens.", "\"Wednesday?!\"", "\"Honey, you had a science test.", "You needed to know your binominal nomenclature.", "You had a math unit test, a reading test.", "You had to do your scripture recitation and a Bible test.", "You see how upset you are now?", "I couldn't let you go to school and take tests feeling like this.\"", "There's a long pause.", "And then my son says the words that make giving piggyback rides on a spine with bad discs and disabling circuit breakers worth it.", "my son stares deeply and says, \"Thank you, Mommy.\"", "Maybe the Grief Gurus are right.", "Maybe Drew deserved to know sooner.", "But my son seems fine.", "I'm certain my son'll develop into a man who can handle more than one problem at a time.", "And Checkers, rest in peace." ]	[ "Mom discovers young boy's guinea pig has died suddenly .", "Mom decides to keep it a secret because he faces several school tests .", "Co-workers divided on whether mom's actions are correct ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 4, 5, 5, 3, 6, 7, 6, 8, 9, 9, 9, 8, 9, 9, 10, 0, 6, 6, 8, 7, 6, 6, 11, 9, 6, 7, 11, 7, 12, 7, 1, 12, 13, 7, 1, 13, 8, 11, 7, 10, 8, 7, 8, 13, 2, 14, 4, 5, 5, 12, 8, 2, 2, 0, 5, 8, 1, 15, 15, 15, 7, 15, 15, 1, 11, 16, 16, 16, 16, 3, 16, 1, 15, 11, 1, 10, 17, 17, 17, 2, 10, 11, 8, 8, 14, 12, 8, 12, 4 ]
5cc061d518fdf50dc9bed09ab24ff8a86a41b544	[ "(CNN) --", "A roadside bomb attack Thursday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, injured Abdukadir Ali Omar and killed one of Abdukadir Ali Omar's secretaries, according to a source close to Abdukadir Ali Omar.", "The Bakaraha market in Somalia's capital is one of the most dangerous areas of the city.", "The mid-day attack on Abdukadir Ali Omar, left Abdukadir Ali Omar with shrapnel wounds to Abdukadir Ali Omar's leg.", "The extent of Abdukadir Ali Omar's injuries was unclear, said the source, who requested anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the media.", "Explosion occurred about noon at the Bakaraha market, in one of the most dangerous areas of the city.", "Abdukadir Ali Omar is a popular moderate who led assaults against Ethiopian forces during Ethiopian forces's invasion of Somalia.", "Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia at its request in December 2006.", "their invasion of Somalia ousted the Islamic Courts Union, an Islamic movement that had claimed control of Mogadishu earlier that year.", "Thursday's attack on Ali Omar fueled concerns that moderate Islamists would strike out against the hardline Al-Shabab, which is suspected in Explosion.", "Al-Shabab -- which the United States has designated a terror organization -- warmly welcomed a recent call for the overthrow of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Somalia's new president.", "The call, delivered via an audio recording, purportedly came from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.", "-- Journalist Mohamed Amin Adow contributed to this report." ]	[ "Attack on Abdukadir Ali Omar left Abdukadir Ali Omar with shrapnel wounds to Abdukadir Ali Omar's leg .", "Explosion occurred about noon at the Bakaraha market in Mogadishu .", "Abdukadir Ali Omar is a popular moderate in Somalia .", "Fueled concerns moderate Islamists would strike against hardline Al-Shabab ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 ]
c5b29e85a4a87cbe084b8f89e1013ea7fcee62c5	[ "JERUSALEM (CNN) --", "The Israeli military's firing of white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas during Gaza offensive \"was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes,\" Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Wednesday.", "Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Israel used white phosphorus shells over populated areas in Gaza.", "\"In Gaza, The Israeli military didn't just use white phosphorus in open areas as a screen for The Israeli military's troops,\" said Fred Abrahams, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) senior emergencies researcher.", "\"The Israeli military fired white phosphorus repeatedly over densely populated areas, even when The Israeli military's troops weren't in the area and safer smoke shells were available.", "As a result, civilians needlessly suffered and died.\"", "Entitled \"Rain of Fire: Israel's Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza,\" the 71-page report provides \"witness accounts\" and \"presents ballistics evidence, photographs, and satellite imagery, as well as documents from the Israeli military and government.\"", "Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an independent international organization dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.", "Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Israel and the United States to investigate the attacks.", "Israel should prosecute those who carried them out and the U.S. government, which supplied Israel, should look into the issue.", "Human Rights Watch (HRW) said white phosphorous was a chemical substance dispersed in artillery shells, bombs and rockets, used primarily to obscure military operations.", "\"(While) WP is not considered a chemical weapon and is not banned per se, WP ignites and burns on contact with oxygen and creates a smokescreen at night or during the day to mask the visual movement of troops.", "\"WP also interferes with infra-red optics and weapon-tracking systems, thus protecting military forces from guided weapons such as anti-tank missiles.", "When WP comes into contact with people or objects, though, WP creates an intense and persistent burn.", "WP can also be used as a weapon against military targets,\" Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.", "In response, The Israeli military said \"smoke shells are not an incendiary weapon\" and defended The Israeli military's actions.", "The Israel Defense Forces said The Israel Defense Forces was close to completing The Israel Defense Forces's probe into \"the use of ammunition containing elements of phosphorous.\"", "\"(The invesitgation) is dealing with the use of ammunition containing elements of phosphorous, including, among others, the 155mm smoke shells which were referred to in the HRW report.", "This type of ammunition disperses in the atmosphere and creates an effective smoke screen.", "This type of ammunition is used by many Western armies.", "\"It is already possible to conclude that the IDF's use of smoke shells was in accordance with international law.", "These shells were used for specific operational needs only and in accord with international humanitarian law.", "The claim that smoke shells were used indiscriminately, or to threaten the civilian population, is baseless,\" the IDF said.", "the IDF said \"that weapons intended for screening are not classed as incendiary weapons.\"", "But Abrahams said past the IDF investigations into allegations of wrongdoing suggest the IDF's inquiry would be neither thorough nor impartial.", "\"That's why an international investigation is required into serious laws of war violations by all parties.", "\"For the needless civilian deaths caused by white phosphorus, senior commanders should be held to account,\" Abrahams said.", "the HRW report said white phosphorus munitions weren't illegal when deployed properly in open areas, but the HRW report determined that the IDF repeatedly used white phosphorus munitions \"unlawfully over populated neighborhoods, killing and wounding civilians and damaging civilian structures, including a school, a market, a humanitarian aid warehouse and a hospital.", "\" \"First, the repeated use of air-burst white phosphorus in populated areas until the last days of the operation reveals a pattern or policy of conduct rather than incidental or accidental usage.", "Second, the IDF was well aware of the effects of white phosphorus and the dangers it poses to civilians.", "Third, the IDF failed to use safer available alternatives for smokescreens,\" the HRW report said.", "A medical report prepared during the recent hostilities by the Israeli Health Ministry said that white phosphorus \"can cause serious injury and death when it comes into contact with the skin, is inhaled or is swallowed.\"", "A medical report prepared during the recent hostilities by the Israeli Health Ministry said that the IDF could have used a non-lethal smoke shells produced by an Israeli company if the IDF wanted to provide a \"smokescreen\" for the IDF's troops.", "Israel launched the offensive in late December to take on militants from Hamas, who had been shelling southern Israeli communities for months from Gaza.", "The offensive, called Operation Cast Lead, was launched December 27 and ended January 17 with a cease-fire.", "Of the 1,453 people estimated killed in the conflict, 1,440 were Palestinian, including 431 children and 114 women, a U.N. report recently said.", "The 13 Israelis killed included three civilians and six soldiers killed by Hamas, and four soldiers killed by friendly fire, a U.N. report said.", "Human Rights Watch (HRW) also said it found no evidence that the Hamas militants Israel was targeting in Gaza were using human shields \"in the vicinity at the time of the attacks.\"", "Israel has said Hamas militants used civilians as human shields and fought from civilian locations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) points out.", "\"In some areas Palestinian fighters appear to have been present, but this does not justify the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus in a populated area.\"" ]	[ "Israel's use of phosphorus shells over during Gaza offensive \"indiscriminate\"", "Human Rights Watch says shelling \"evidence of war crimes\"", "Group says phosphorus shells cause an \"intense and persistent burn\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 0 ]	[ 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 3, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 0 ]
1d96b5b85b13ecd52950af1758945e4e9292cd58	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "Protesters draped Protesters in the colorful flag of Tibet and shouted slogans at the Chinese embassy in London on Saturday at the start of a demonstration to mark the 50th anniversary since the Tibetan uprising against China.", "Protesters have gathered in London to mark the 50th anniversary of the Tibet uprising.", "\"Tibetans in Tibet -- we are with you!\" they shouted.", "\"China, China, China -- out, out, out!\"", "The small but fervent group marched from the Chinese embassy in London through west London to Trafalgar Square, where The small but fervent group were due to hear a speech by Thomas Shao Jiang, a Chinese dissident who was one of the student organizers of the Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing in 1989.", "\"I think it's important that Tibet is kept in the world's eye,\" protester Chris Last told CNN amid placards declaring \"50 years too long\" and \"We are Tibetans, not Chinese.\"", "While Tibet is technically autonomous from the central Chinese government, Tibet's current government is directed from Beijing.", "The Dalai Lama, traditionally the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan Buddhists, lives in exile in India.", "Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against Beijing's rule that sent the Dalai Lama into exile.", "Protest organizers said the march was meant to draw public attention to what Protest organizers say is a deepening crisis a year after China cracked down on protests across Tibet.", "\"(British Prime Minister) Gordon Brown and other world leaders must respond urgently and publicly to the Tibet crisis by taking immediate action,\" said Stephanie Brigden, director of Free Tibet.", "\"They should demand that China calls off China's security stranglehold in Tibet as an essential first step towards backing the Dalai Lama's initiative in finding a long-term and negotiated settlement to China's occupation.\"", "Tibetan Buddhists say Tibetan Buddhists resent the slow erosion of Tibetan Buddhists's culture amid an influx of Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in China.", "That resentment spilled over last March, when Buddhist monks initiated peaceful anti-Chinese protests in the regional capital, Lhasa, on the 49th anniversary of the uprising.", "The protests soon turned violent, with demonstrators burning vehicles and shops.", "Some protesters advocated independence from China, while others demonstrated against the growing influence of the Han Chinese in the area and other regions of China with ethnic Tibetan populations.", "The subsequent crackdown left 18 civilians and one police officer dead, according to the Chinese government.", "Tibet's self-proclaimed government-in-exile put the death toll from The protests at 140.", "China accuses the Dalai Lama of fomenting the discord in the Dalai Lama's homeland -- a charge the Dalai Lama denies.", "\"the Dalai Lama demanded the establishment of the so-called 'Greater Tibetan area' on a quarter of the Chinese territory, to drive away Chinese army stationed there guarding the Chinese territory, and to drive away Chinese people of other ethnic groups who lived there for generations.", "Is such a person a religious figure?\" Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Saturday.", "\"The conflict between him and us is not religious conflict, human rights conflict, ethnic conflict, nor cultural conflict,\" Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said.", "\"The conflict is whether or not to maintain China's unification, and whether or not to permit Tibet to be separated from the Chinese territory.\"", "the Dalai Lama has said the Dalai Lama does not advocate violence or a separate and independent Tibet.", "the Dalai Lama has said the Dalai Lama wants a genuine autonomy that preserves the cultural heritage of the region.", "\"I'm just disgusted with the way China behave towards the Tibetans.", "Even if you accept that Tibet has been swallowed up by China, why can't they give to them autonomy, respect their religion, their culture?\" protester Bob Hunt said Saturday.", "\"These are peaceable people, one of the most peaceable people in the world.\"", "Protester Shobha Trivedi said Protester Shobha Trivedi hoped the protest march would make people more aware of the situation inside Tibet.", "\"I feel as a human being, what (the) China are doing for 50 years, nobody's bothering with it,\" Protester Shobha Trivedi said.", "\"And it's a real shame on everyone.\"" ]	[ "London protesters marking 50th anniversary of Tibetan uprising against China .", "Dalai Lama, traditional spiritual and political leader of Tibetan Buddhists, in exile .", "Protesters claim situation in Tibet is getting worse ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 0, 4, 4, 0, 4, 1, 1, 0, 0, 4, 1, 4, 0, 2, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 3, 0, 4, 3 ]
c95ec195d50a16376c71320a3b8d8d360b50b7b0	[ "LAGOS, Niger (CNN) --", "More than 200 people have died of Meningitis in the past week alone in Niger and Nigeria, according to the World Health Organization.", "A health care worker vaccinates a child during an earlier outbreak of Meningitis in Niger.", "Meningitis is an epidemic in 76 areas of the two countries, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.", "A spokesman for W.H.O. in Niger, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, said Saturday that the outbreak is bigger than usual and stretches across the African meningitis belt from east- to west-sub-Saharan Africa.", "the outbreak began around the start of the year, Soyinka told CNN.", "the outbreak usually peaks in the dry season because of dust, winds and cold nights, before dipping around May when the rains come, Soyinka said.", "A shortage of vaccines means officials are relying on \"effective prevention,\" in which officials watch for outbreaks and then vaccinate people in the epicenter and surrounding areas, Soyinka told CNN.", "There have been nearly 25,000 suspected cases and more than 1,500 deaths in the meningitis belt in the first 11 weeks of the year, the World Health Organization reported.", "More than 85 percent of those cases happened in northern Nigeria and Niger.", "Niger's Ministry of Health has reported 17,462 suspected cases of meningococcal disease, including 960 deaths, the world health agency said.", "In the past week, Nigeria's Ministry of Health reported 4,164 suspected cases with 171 deaths.", "Sixty-six local government areas in Niger have crossed the epidemic threshold.", "Epidemic thresholds are a way the World Health Organization confirms the emergence of an epidemic so the World Health Organization can step up vaccinations and other management measures.", "Niger's Ministry of Health has reported 4,513 suspected cases of meningococcal disease, including 169 deaths, since the start of the year.", "In the past week, 1,071 suspected cases and 30 deaths have been reported, the World Health Organization said.", "Ten of Niger's 42 districts have crossed the epidemic threshold.", "By comparison, other countries are reporting fewer than 50 cases a week.", "Meningitis is an infection of the meninges, the thin lining that surrounds the brain and the spinal cord.", "Several different bacteria can cause meningitis but Neisseria meningitidis -- which is to blame for this outbreak -- is one of the most significant because of this outbreak's potential to cause epidemics.", "Health authorities have released 2.3 million doses of vaccine to Nigeria and 1.9 million doses to Niger, the W.H.O. said.", "CNN's Christian Purefoy in Lagos, Nigeria, contributed to this report." ]	[ "W.H.O.: Meningitis killed more than 200 people in the past week in Niger and Nigeria .", "Outbreak stretches across African \"meningitis belt,\" at epidemic levels in 76 areas .", "Vaccine shortage forces an \"effective prevention\" approach .", "25,000 suspected cases, 1,500 deaths in African \"meningitis belt in the first 11 weeks of 2009 ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 0 ]	[ 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 3, 3, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 3, 3, 0, 2, 3, 2, 0, 0, 1, 2 ]
f28d2147673d3cd0117cfa5a5a8cc46e67e2927b	[ "NEW YORK (CNN) --", "The numbers were good for \"Knowing.\"", "In \"Knowing,\" a physics professor (Nicolas Cage) ponders patterns in a list of numbers.", "The film, about a physics professor who sees clues for disastrous events in a time capsule's list of digits, overcame some pretty long odds at the box office -- going against the Paul Rudd-Jason Segel comedy \"I Love You, Man,\" the Julia Roberts-Clive Owen romantic thriller \"Duplicity\" and some fairly scathing reviews -- to emerge as the weekend's No. 1 film.", "Though Nicolas Cage wouldn't have predicted the outcome, in an interview before the film's release, Nicolas Cage did talk about the power of positive thinking.", "\"I'm a huge believer of the human spirit,\" Nicolas Cage told CNN.", "\"I think people are amazing.", "I think what we have accomplished is incredible.", "... If you think positive and you apply the guts and ingenuity that mankind has been doing forever, at least in our existence, I believe we get through anything.\"", "Nicolas Cage's character, John Koestler, is a science professor whom Nicolas Cage describes as \"someone who is reawakening to Cage's faith.\"", "Cage begins the film believing that everything is random, but as the film continues -- and Cage seeks to alert the world of a coming catastrophe -- \"Cage believes there is cause and effect and perhaps even a divine mind,\" Cage said.", "the film begins in 1959, with students burying items in a time capsule at an elementary school.", "One of the children, however, creates an image of seemingly random numbers.", "Fifty years later, when a time capsule is opened, Koestler's son receives the page of numbers, and Koestler's son's father realizes that they correspond to major disasters of the past half-century.", "Koestler determines that three events have yet to occur and sets out to meet the clairvoyant child's now grown daughter.", "The final event threatens life on Earth itself, and the group begins a race against time, with unusual consequences.", "Critics were not impressed.", "the film earned a 25 percent rating on the review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com, with some reviewers in full-on mockery mode.", "Watch Mr. Moviefone review \"Knowing\" and other films » .", "\"It's increasingly hard to believe that Cage won an Oscar in 1996 (for 'Leaving Las Vegas'),\" wrote USA Today's Claudia Puig in a 1½-star review.", "\"In the past decade, Nicolas Cage has made some awful choices, and Nicolas Cage's range has seemed to grow more limited.\"", "\"It's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise,\" wrote Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman, referring to the director whose last two films, \"Lady in the Water\" and \"The Happening,\" were two of the most detested films of recent years.", "But the film's apocalyptic theme obviously strikes a chord, something", "director Alex Proyas (\"Dark City\") saw early on", "director Alex Proyas (\"Dark City\") told CNN in a pre-release interview that \"you can read [the film] as biblical if you choose to,\" but director Alex Proyas (\"Dark City\") prefers to see the film as \"spiritual.\"", "\"I try to leave the film very open-ended,\" director Alex Proyas (\"Dark City\") said.", "\"I try to think of the film as more a spiritual place than a biblical one.\"", "Cage's character, he said, is on a spiritual quest in the midst of what could be global destruction.", "Rose Byrne, who plays the clairvoyant child's daughter, Diana, called the film \"kind of a theological discussion.\"", "\"That's always an exciting topic,\" she said.", "\"It's bridging the gap between science and spirituality.", "That always makes things thought-provoking, and I like that with any piece of art.\"", "Rose Byrne, who plays the clairvoyant child's daughter, Diana said that \"Knowing\" taps into some of the end-times anxiety that's been in the air in recent years, which perhaps could help find an audience.", "(As Rose Byrne, who plays the clairvoyant child's daughter, Diana was talking before the film's release, Rose Byrne, who plays the clairvoyant child's daughter, Diana didn't realize how much of an audience.)", "\"I think it's a common thing in life,\" Rose Byrne, who plays the clairvoyant child's daughter, Diana said of end-of-the-world fears, referencing one of the latest making the rounds -- the Mayan calendar's Long Count end in 2012 -- in making Rose Byrne, who plays the clairvoyant child's daughter, Diana's point.", "director Alex Proyas (\"Dark City\") observes that given such worries, the film can be a wake-up call for such concerns as global climate change.", "\"There is a symbolic aspect to what is happening and what the story is about, and to get people to pay attention to what could happen,\" director Alex Proyas (\"Dark City\") said.", "But, director Alex Proyas (\"Dark City\") adds, it's also just a movie.", "\"I believe in the entertainment value of movies -- very much so,\" director Alex Proyas (\"Dark City\") said.", "\"I ... want to make it good for the audience.", "I really want people to be there and experience something powerful and resident, both in terms of ideas and emotions ... and also with the film trying to do something different.", "the film's a challenging film, and the film takes some unexpected turns.\"" ]	[ "\"Knowing\" was weekend's No. 1 film .", "Apocalyptic thriller stars Nicolas Cage as professor who sees clues in numbers .", "Film taps into themes of religion, spirituality, end-times concerns, say makers ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1 ]	[ 2, 0, 0, 0, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 0, 0, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 0, 3, 3, 5, 1, 6, 1, 6, 1, 3, 7, 8, 1, 8, 7, 7, 7, 1, 1, 6, 6, 8, 8, 0 ]
9c278530609f30ac78251eab2320343b77b0bf1e	[ "JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) --", "Islamic parties in Indonesia will not get enough votes in the coming election to nominate a presidential candidate, according to polls, analysts and an Islamic party official.", "Supporters of Indonesia's Democratic Party of Struggle take part in a campaign event in Jakarta on March 24.", "Nevertheless, the influence of Islam on politics in Indonesia -- the world's most populous Muslim country -- has many nationalist parties changing their strategy.", "The April 9 national elections will determine the makeup of Indonesia's 550-seat parliament, as well as its regional representation council, provincial, county and city assemblies.", "More than 38 parties are vying for these seats, but very few are expected to get the 20 percent of parliamentary seats needed to nominate a presidential candidate in the July election.", "In fact, the only party expected to meet the 20 percent threshold is President Susilo Bambang Yudyohono's Democratic Party.", "Other parties will have to join alliances to nominate a president.", "Yudyohono's \"charming\" personality, and Yudyohono's government's ability to weather the current worldwide financial downturn, have kept Yudyohono on top of the polls, according to James Castle, who analyzes Indonesian politics and economy.", "James Castle, who analyzes Indonesian politics and economy said despite the influence of Islam on Indonesian politics, voters are more concerned about economic issues.", "\"Like everywhere in the world, economics is the key factor,\" he said.", "\"It's quite clear from all these surveys, when inflation was high, the president's popularity is low.", "Now that inflation has come down, Yudyohono's popularity is high, and Yudyohono and Yudyohono's party are doing very well in the polls coming into the July election.\"", "So far, Indonesia has not felt the impact of the global recession, partly because Indonesia's economy is more isolated than other countries'.", "But the government has taken steps to protect the currency and its economy from the downturn, James Castle, who analyzes Indonesian politics and economy said.", "\"This will probably just be a speed bump for Indonesia,\" James Castle, who analyzes Indonesian politics and economy said.", "Although financial issues are the main concern for voters in Indonesia -- where poverty is rampant -- Yudyohono's Democratic Party has recently had to bow to pressure from Islamic groups.", "Andi Mallarangang, a spokesman for Yudyohono, acknowledged that Yudyohono's Democratic Party's support for an anti-pornography bill -- which was passed in October -- was a \"symbolic gesture\" to the Islamic groups that had called for the measure.", "\"During the process of legislation, (the government) made sure we do not support pornography,\" Mallarangang said.", "\"But there should be no limitation on freedom of arts and expression\"", "He noted that the final law was not as strong as an anti-pornography bill -- which was passed in October --.", "Another issue that has made headlines in the Indonesian media is the government's position on Ahmadiyah, a Muslim sect that does not believe Mohammad is the last prophet.", "the government recently restricted the freedoms of the group, but has so far refused to ban the group.", "\"In Indonesia, one group of Islamic radicals would like the government to ban Ahmadiyah ... so the government's using the middle approach in which we will not ban the group because the group have a right,\" Mallarangang said.", "\"But there are certain things that are sensitive to (their) operation that are regulated by government.\"", "One of those groups that has been outspoken in its rejection of Ahmadiyah is Indonesia's Ulama Council.", "The chairman of Indonesia's Ulama Council, Amidhan, disputed media reports that Indonesia's Ulama Council has given Yudyohono's government a deadline to ban the group or it will issue an edict against voting for Yudyohono.", "Amidhan -- who goes by one name -- said Indonesia's Ulama Council's fatwa against Ahmadiyah was first issued in 1980, but Indonesia's Ulama Council had to reissue the edict last year because of complaints that the group was trying to convert other Muslims.", "\"We agree Ahmadiyah must be a new religion, not part of Islam,\" Amidhan -- who goes by one name -- said.", "Indonesia's Ulama Council is an independent organization, but remains very influential.", "In January, Indonesia's Ulama Council issued several new fatwas -- including bans on smoking for children and pregnant women, and chanting during yoga.", "A fatwa is a legal pronouncement for Muslims, but Indonesia's Ulama Council said Indonesia's Ulama Council has no authority to enforce them.", "Indonesia's Islamic parties are also adopting more moderate positions to attract more voters, which has caused internal divisions -- particularly for PKS, translated as the PKS.", "PKS legislator Zulkieflimansyah, known as Bang Zul, said the PKS \"is between a rock and a hard place.\"", "\"We have to behave like a political party and also an Islamic movement,\" he said.", "That has led to a split between the hard-liners and the moderates in the PKS.", "\"the PKS are using the elections as a test,\" Bang Zul said.", "\"Hopefully, if the PKS are able to convince the public, the PKS will continue to be a significant player in politics.\"", "Another Islamic party, the National Awakening Party, or PKB, said the National Awakening Party intends to use the 2009 election to position itself for the next election in five years.", "\"All parties want to reach the 20 percent threshold (to nominate a presidential candidate), the National Awakening Party included,\" said the party's vice secretary-general, Helmy Faishal Zaini.", "\"But realistically almost no party will be able to nominate on almost no party's own.\"", "That does not mean that a small party like PKB cannot succeed, Zaini said.", "Zaini said the National Awakening Party hopes the National Awakening Party can put forward a vice presidential candidate who could possibly run for the top spot in the 2014 election.", "\"We need to build a foundation now,\" Zaini said.", "\"So one way to do this is to join one of the senior people (politicians) with a junior person this time.", "... \"2009 could be the beginning of the new generation\" of politicians." ]	[ "April 9 elections will determine the makeup of Indonesia's 550-seat parliament .", "Few of over 38 parties expected to get enough seats for a candidate in July election .", "Analysts: Islamic parties won't get enough votes to nominate a presidential candidate .", "Influence of Islam on politics has many nationalist parties changing their strategy ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 0 ]	[ 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 4, 0, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 0, 1, 5, 6, 1, 6, 5, 5 ]
320bf9812f71cc4b832f6fb53e0cbdf2fcf758e0	[ "(CNN) --", "As Iraqi officials speak loftily of ethnic and political reconciliation, Abu Wissam seethes.", "In April 2006, two Iraqis mourn a relative slain in sectarian violence in the city of Falluja.", "a relative slain in sectarian violence in the city of Falluja wants cold, hard justice for the killers of a relative slain in sectarian violence in the city of Falluja's son, Raed, a 25-year-old business school graduate, \"cut to pieces\" by Mehdi Army militia members in their Baghdad neighborhood.", "The Wissams are among the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis caught in the maelstrom of the militia violence that rippled across Iraq after the 2006 bombing in Samarra of the Askariya Mosque, a Shiite shrine.", "The kind of trauma and pain endured by the Wissam family is kindling an interest in a social healing process adopted by countries around the world -- truth commissions.", "They are bodies across the globe that have provided a forum for victims and perpetrators to give cathartic public testimony on human rights abuses and come up with policy recommendations to correct the root cause of human rights abuses.", "\"Iraq, like many Arab cultures, is an intensely rich narrative culture,\" said Miranda Sissons, Iraq director of the International Center for Transitional Justice, which helps countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocities and human rights abuses.", "\"The idea of standing up and witnessing is tremendously appealing, the kind of act and mechanism they can understand.\"", "Watch how the \"business of death\" continues to thrive » .", "The U.S. Institute of Peace -- one of the independent agencies behind the all-important Iraq Study Group report in 2006 -- is backing an initiative in Iraq to generate understanding and \"spark public dialogue on the usefulness of the truth commission process.\"", "The U.S. Institute of Peace -- one of the independent agencies behind the all-important Iraq Study Group report in 2006 -- is teaming up with Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights to screen a USIP film across Iraq about the work of four different commissions.", "Called \"Confronting The Truth: Truth Commissions and Societies in Transition,\" the film -- produced by York Zimmerman and Peter Ackerman -- explores the workings of such commissions in South Africa, Peru, Morocco and East Timor.", "the film -- produced by York Zimmerman and Peter Ackerman -- is getting some good reviews among Iraqis.", "\"The truth commission process is one in which you encourage folks to directly confront that past and how to get behind it,\" said Sermid Al-Sarraf, the executive director of the International Institute for the Rule of Law, a group that manages USIP's rule of law programs in Iraq.", "Truth commissions and other conflict-resolution strategies have been on Iraq's radar for years.", "Oral history projects have emerged, one being the Iraq History Project -- which \"gathers and analyzes personal narratives from victims, victims's families, witnesses, perpetrators and others\" about the \"torture, massacres, assassinations, rape, chemical weapons attacks, disappearances, and other acts of systematic repression\" during the Saddam Hussein regime.", "That project is managed by the International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University College of Law in Chicago and is run by an all-Iraqi in-country staff.", "Last year, Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari's Crisis Management Initiative and a conflict-resolution initiative at the University of Massachusetts Boston were behind an effort to forge the so-called Helsinki agreement -- a statement of reconciliation principles among a wide range of Iraqi politicians.", "That process was notable because former antagonists in Northern Ireland and South Africa worked with the Iraqis.", "Padraig O'Malley, a UMass conflict-resolution professor involved in That process, is planning a three-day forum in April for \"divided cities,\" where officials from ethnically tense Kirkuk in Iraq will discuss common problems with officials from Derry/Londonderry and Belfast in Northern Ireland, Nicosia in Cyprus, and Mitrovica in Kosovo.", "The International Center for Transitional Justice says Coalition Provisional Authority officials initially proposed a \"truth-seeking commission\" for Iraq in 2003 but eventually decided to \"delay the process\" in order for Iraqis to rigorously study other truth-telling efforts, as advocated by The International Center for Transitional Justice.", "In 2005, The International Center for Transitional Justice also discussed the establishment of a center for the missing and disappeared.", "As for truth commissions today, some observers say there hasn't been the political will on the part of the national government to pursue one.", "So says Joost Hilterman, International Crisis Group deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa.", "Joost Hilterman, International Crisis Group deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa has argued in the past for the establishment of a truth commission process and believes such a process, for example, would have been the proper way to deal with the challenge of de-Baathification.", "\"I'm not against floating the idea,\" Hilterman said, but there's \"no chance in hell\" it would happen anytime soon.", "Eduardo Gonzalez, the Americas deputy director of the transitional justice center, had been a staffer on the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where Gonzalez was responsible for public hearings and victims and witnesses protection.", "Gonzalez was interviewed in the USIP video, which featured touching testimony from victims of the warfare between government troops and Shining Path guerrillas between 1980 and 2000.", "Gonzalez stressed the need to produce an accurate account of abuses, provide explanations for what happened, provide the proper opportunity for victims to be recognized, and help the society steer a new course for the future.", "Truth commissions don't function as courts, and there are only rare occasions, such as in East Timor, where punishment would be meted out.", "\"Truth commissions, done right, could created a public dialogue,\" Gonzalez said.", "Gonzalez thinks a national Iraqi truth commission would probably be a few years down the road.", "But Gonzalez thinks it's more likely that a particular city, province or region could pursue them.", "One particular truth commission, in Morocco, has been cited as one that Iraq could study.", "That's because it was the first one in the Arab world and it detailed human rights abuses from 1956 to 1999 under King Hassan II.", "Gonzalez said Iraq can benefit from studying all models, but Gonzalez notes they share one thing -- a commitment to objectivity.", "The ICTJ's Sissons notes that the British explored the idea of a truth commission as well, but experts told them Iraqis and not outsiders are the ones who need to pursue such an idea.", "The ICTJ's Sissons also said \"the scale of violence\" in Iraq and the \"nature and complexity\" of it \"is so vast\" that the German war crimes tribunals after World War II and the reparations to Holocaust victims come to mind.", "But if a truth initiative is to be effective, a truth initiative would have to be rigorously designed and properly framed, with a \"distinct focus\" and an \"achievable mandate,\" The ICTJ's Sissons said.", "There must be commitment, goals, dedication and governmental support in areas such as subpoenaing records.", "\"You don't just tell the truth, hold hands and sing 'Kumbaya,' \" The ICTJ's Sissons said.", "But they can be very useful in Iraq, an \"evidence-rich environment.\"", "The ICTJ's Sissons said truth-telling commissions there could lead to many improvements in society, such as better detention registration policies, higher forensic standards, a freedom of information law, and a far-reaching reparations strategy.", "As for the man on the street, people who gather at Abu Wissam's house to talk about the violence people who gather at Abu Wissam's house to talk about the violence they've endured've endured don't talk of forgiveness.", "people who gather at Abu Wissam's house to talk about the violence they've endured want the killers of people who gather at Abu Wissam's house to talk about the violence they've endured's kin to be put to death.", "Al-Sarraf and others all agree justice must be served in cases of heinous crime.", "But Al-Sarraf seized on the concept of forgiveness.", "It's an Islamic virtue, and it could play a powerful role in a truth-telling initiative.", "\"Even though there is the principle of 'eye for an eye,' there is also the higher ideal of mercy,\" Al-Sarraf said.", "CNN's Arwa Damon contributed to this report." ]	[ "Relatives of slain Iraqis struggle with feelings of grief, revenge .", "Truth commissions provide forums for victims to be heard, perpetrators to testify .", "Process lets 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9a617a50983bd43c02d7471ff009b71f4fcb49c6	[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) --", "The one-seater jet crashed Wednesday near Edwards Air Force Base in California, killing the test pilot, the Air Force said.", "An F-22A fighter jet similar to this one crashed Wednesday during a test mission in California.", "The single-seater crashed about 10:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. ET) for unknown reasons, the Air Force officials said.", "Lockheed Martin said the test pilot, David Cooley, 49, of Palmdale, California, joined Lockheed Martin in 2003 and was a 21-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force.", "The one-seater jet was on a test mission when The one-seater jet crashed about 35 miles northeast of Edwards AFB, where The one-seater jet was stationed, the Air Force said in a news release.", "At $150 million apiece, the F-22A is the most expensive Air Force fighter.", "In 2004, an F-22 Raptor crashed on a training mission in the Nevada desert.", "The pilot ejected and was not hurt, though the jet was destroyed.", "The plane was designed in the 1980s to provide a stealthy method to enter Soviet air space and strike Soviet bombers if the USSR attempted a nuclear strike.", "Once the Cold War ended, the Air Force found a new mission for the F-22 as a long-range fighter with a sophisticated stealth design and state-of-the-art equipment that no other plane could rival.", "However, the rising cost of the plane and numerous design and software problems threatened the program, which was almost eliminated by Congress.", "In the end, the aircraft survived, and most of the problems were fixed -- except for the price tag, which forced the Air Force to buy fewer aircraft." ]	[ "NEW:", "Test pilot David Cooley, 49, of Palmdale, California, dies in crash .", "F-22A fighter jet crashes 35 miles northeast of Edwards AFB around 10:30 a.m.", "The one-seater jet was on a test mission when The one-seater jet crashed .", "At $150 million apiece, the F-22A is the most expensive Air Force fighter ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 2, 3 ]	[ 0, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3 ]
52bcb56e49705ccecb6edd0edfdaf5379054bd36	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland died \"peacefully\" after receiving \"wonderful and humbling care\" from An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland's doctors, the couple's family said.", "Peter and Penelope Duff from Bath, England, died in Zurich on February 27, according to a statement released Thursday by An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland's family and reported by Britain's Press Association.", "An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland had terminal cancer, a statement released Thursday by their family and reported by Britain's Press Association said.", "\"Penny had fought a rare cancer, GIST, since 1992 and Peter's colon cancer had spread to his liver,\" a statement released Thursday by their family and reported by Britain's Press Association said.", "\"An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland's decision in no way reflected on the wonderful and humbling care An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland have received from An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland's consultant, doctors and nurses, for which the family, and An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, were so appreciative.\"", "Peter Duff, who was reported to be 80, was the executive chairman of Alcohol in Moderation, a nonprofit group that advocates a \"sensible drinking ethos.\"", "His daughter, Helena Conibear, is executive director of AIM Digest, a monthly publication.", "Conibear and AIM could not be reached for comment Friday.", "Britain's Press Association said Penelope Duff was 70.", "Penelope Duff's condition, GIST, stands for gastrointestinal stromal tumor, a rare type of cancer found in the digestive system.", "Dignity in Dying, a British charity that advocates the choice of assisted death for terminally ill patients, said it was \"extremely sad\" that An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland had to travel abroad to die.", "\"Had An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland had the option of an assisted death in this country An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland may still be alive, as An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland's physical ability to travel would not have been a factor,\" said Sarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying.", "Sarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying called on Parliament to modernize laws on suicide to allow for assisted dying.", "Phyllis Bowman, executive director of Right to Life, which opposes euthanasia, also said An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland's case was sad.", "\"I think it's very sad, particularly as they could have gone together into a hospice.", "A hospice with cancer -- there is not uncontrollable pain,\" Phyllis Bowman, executive director of Right to Life, which opposes euthanasia told CNN.", "\"I think that with the euthanasia lobby, the euthanasia lobby feed on despair and the euthanasia lobby encourage despair rather than hope.\"" ]	[ "Peter and Penelope Duff from Bath, England, died in Zurich on February 27 .", "Penny had fought a rare cancer, GIST, since 1992 and Peter had colon cancer .", "Dignity in Dying charity: \"Extremely sad\" the Duffs had to travel abroad to die .", "They called on UK to modernize laws on suicide to allow for assisted dying ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 2 ]	[ 3, 2, 0, 2, 1, 2, 0, 3, 3, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 ]
a0c77037a3892ad8647b31b23c93d98ffa96f65c	[ "FARGO, North Dakota (CNN) --", "Fifteen helicopters from the U.S. Northern Command along with active-duty military personnel are being sent to Fargo, North Dakota, to assist the state as it prepares for record flooding, a U.S. military official told CNN.", "Valley Water Rescue volunteers patrol the Fargo area in search of people who need help evacuating Friday.", "The military personnel being sent to Fargo are from a \"contingency response force\" made up of active-duty troops, a U.S. military official said.", "Above-freezing temperatures, followed by heavy rains this week, caused river to swell and surpass river's 1897 record of 40.1 feet early Friday morning.", "river threatened to rise further as the city's mayor vowed to \"go down swinging.", "\"Right now, we think river is beginning to crest,\" said Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker.", "\"As long as we stay under 42 feet, I think we got a chance; if we go over 42, there's going to be some more evacuations.\"", "As of 8:15 p.m., river churned at 40.78 feet, nearly 22 feet above flood stage and almost a foot above the previous record of 40.1 feet, set in 1897.", "Watch Fargo's mayor explain why disaster could be averted » .", "Sandbagging operations, which have churned furiously throughout this week, continued Friday, drawing praise from local and state officials, including North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven.", "\"North Dakotans have come together in a big, big way.", "Our volunteers are doing a magnificent job building this flood protection and we want to say thank you to Our volunteers,\" he said.", "\"There's a sense of perseverance and resolve and determination.\"", "Buses and evacuation staging areas have been staged west of Fargo, North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven said, and hundreds of people already have evacuated Fargo neighborhoods, hospitals and a nursing home.", "Watch how volunteers are battling the rising water » .", "Fargo Deputy Mayor Tim Mahoney said authorities were evacuating Fargo's \"vulnerable populations\" and were asking for voluntary evacuations in sites near retaining dikes.", "The National Weather Service predicted river would reach 42 feet Saturday, and forecasts indicated river would remain there into next week.", "But The National Weather Service warned river might reach 43 feet -- the height to which most of Fargo's dikes have been raised -- if warmer temperatures expected in the middle of next week melt the record snowfall.", "Watch Fargo residents fight back » .", "\"What's going on here really is an inspiration for the country,\" said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-North Dakota.", "\"The eyes of America are on Fargo, North Dakota, and The eyes of America're getting a very good impression of what the people of North Dakota are like.\"", "Authorities would not try to raise the city's dikes above 43 feet, Walaker said.", "Sandbags are used to bolster dikes in residential areas around Fargo, while the city dikes are reinforced with clay.", "\"We have most of the south side of Fargo, and along river, good to 43, so we're not going to proceed with trying to get it to 44,\" he said at a news conference Friday morning.", "\"Now is that a gamble?", "We don't think so.\"", "See map of affected area » .", "National Weather Service spokesman Patrick Slattery in Kansas City, Missouri, said river's level means uncertainty for officials and volunteers who are scrambling to mitigate the flooding in the area.", "Emergency responders can extrapolate the effects of river, he said, but Emergency responders cannot know for sure how accurate the predictions are because Emergency responders have never seen river so high.", "\"At some point, especially when you're dealing with record levels, you reach a point when there's nothing else you can do,\" Slattery said.", "\"Start alerting people to be ready to get out of there.\"", "Lt", ". Gen. Russel Honore, who led the military response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2007, warned that sandbags can only buy time.", "\"You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life; you put a sandbag dike up to try to save your property,\" Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who led the military response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2007 said.", "\"Once you put a sandbag dike up, you need to leave, because a sandbag dike could break at any given time.\"", "Sandbags also are less effective against cold water, Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who led the military response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2007 said.", "Read the full interview with Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who led the military response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2007 .", "Water began seeping Friday under a dike that runs across a partially submerged athletic field, prompting officials to ask volunteer sandbaggers to come help.", "About 150 people showed up as the water on the other side of a sandbag dike continued to rise.", "\"We're going to be OK.", "We're going to be fine,\" Melanie Engel Unger said as Melanie Engel Unger passed 40-pound sandbags from Melanie Engel Unger's left to Melanie Engel Unger right.", "Daryl Braham said Daryl Braham was confident the volunteers would be able to maintain a sandbag dike's integrity.", "Daryl Braham was hopeful the cold weather -- temperatures were well below freezing Friday -- remained.", "\"It's kind of a blessing in disguise because it's slowing things down,\" Daryl Braham said.", "Fargo officials early Friday evacuated a neighborhood of about 150 homes after Fargo officials found cracks in a levee, according to a city news release.", "Capt. Tod Dahle said the residents were evacuated because a neighborhood of about 150 homes lies between a primary and contingency levee.", "About 100 people were evacuated Thursday from a nursing home, as were 40 others from a nearby neighborhood.", "No one was in immediate danger, officials said.", "See photos of flooding » .", "\"We were disappointed yesterday and early this morning about the two areas that we had to evacuate,\" Walaker said.", "\"Is that going to be it [for evacuations]?", "We don't know.", "We don't have any real crystal ball to look into.\"", "MeritCare Hospital and MeritCare South University had evacuated 177 patients as of Friday, MeritCare Health System spokeswoman Carrie Haug said.", "Some were taken to hospitals elsewhere in North Dakota; others were taken across river to Minnesota, MeritCare Health System spokeswoman Carrie Haug said.", "Monday, MeritCare Health System canceled elective procedures to reduce MeritCare Health System's patient numbers ahead of the evacuations, MeritCare Health System spokeswoman Carrie Haug said.", "Across river from Fargo, a U.S. senator said some homes had been lost in Moorhead, Minnesota.", "Emphasizing that there are two states dealing with river's rise, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, said, \"This is a time at which the forces of nature, of river, will meet the forces of the human spirit.\"", "Clay County emergency center spokesman Dan Olson said some residents in Moorhead were being asked to evacuate.", "Clay County emergency center spokesman Dan Olson called it a \"directed evacuation,\" rather than a mandatory one.", "It also applied to large parts of nearby Oakport Township, Clay County emergency center spokesman Dan Olson said.", "The emergency center is setting up a call center where evacuees can register to be tracked.", "A spokeswoman at the city's emergency call center said A spokeswoman at the city's emergency call center would put the number of evacuees in the \"high hundreds.\"", "\"We know our highways are pretty congested\" with people leaving, Kasey Cummings said.", "Minnesota State University at Moorhead and Concordia College had voluntarily closed, Kasey Cummings said.", "To the west, about 1,500 people who evacuated North Dakota's capital, Bismarck, on Wednesday were able to return home Thursday, after the Missouri River dropped more than 3 feet, the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services said.", "CNN's Barbara Starr, Chris Welch, Kara Devlin, Nicole Saidi, Greg Morrison, Susan Roesgen and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW:", "Gov. John Hoeven praises volunteers for perseverance, resolve, determination .", "Helicopters, active-duty military sent to help prepare for possible flooding .", "National Weather Service data says river will reach 42 feet on Saturday .", "Fargo neighborhood evacuated after cracks found in levee ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ]	[ 5, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 6, 3, 5, 7, 5, 1, 6, 4, 1, 4, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 8, 7, 8, 6, 9, 10, 3, 3, 6, 6, 0, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 1, 1, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 4, 4, 4, 6, 10, 8, 6, 9, 9, 11, 11, 11, 11, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8, 11, 4, 10 ]
4ff8cc408643c840049195df35f578294f85e4d3	[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Smoking cessation programs make up $75 million of the economic stimulus bill making its way through the Senate, according to Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who sponsored the funding.", "Sen. Tom Harkin's office says smoking causes $110 billion in health costs each year.", "Sen. Tom Harkin said the programs were an attempt to bolster the economy by lowering the soaring health-care costs smoking causes each year.", "The money will be used to bolster existing anti-smoking campaigns run by the Department of Health and Human Services and to buy new equipment at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tests the contents of cigarettes.", "Sen. Tom Harkin's office cited figures that smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths and causes $110 billion in heath costs every year.", "Sen. Tom Harkin believes prevention will go a long way to boosting the health of Americans while boosting health of the economy.", "Watch Sen. Tom Harkin describe how anti-smoking programs help economy » .", "The U.S. House on Wednesday evening passed the $819 billion economic stimulus package on a party-line vote, despite President Barack Obama's efforts to achieve bipartisan support for the bill, CNNMoney.com reports.", "The final vote was 244 to 188.", "No Republicans voted for the bill, while 11 Democrats voted against the bill.", "The Senate is likely to take up the bill next week." ]	[ "$75 million would go toward smoking cessation programs, says Sen. Tom Harkin .", "Programs are effort to bolster economy by lowering soaring health-care costs .", "U.S. House passes $819 billion economic stimulus package ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1 ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1 ]
44778d7de66817cdb5a40a04e35d6431d30408c8	[ "(CNN) --", "With a chance of winning an Oscar on Sunday, the director of \"The Final Inch\" says the director of \"The Final Inch\" hopes the director of \"The Final Inch\"'s documentary will shed light on the often over-looked issue of polio eradication.", "The more doses of the vaccination a child receives, the better protected a child is from contracting polio.", "\"I felt like I was looking at something that no one in the world talks about,\" Irene Taylor Brodsky, who also helped produce the film, said in a recent interview.", "Filming her documentary was an \"eye-opening experience,\" the director of \"The Final Inch\" said, particularly for one of the director of \"The Final Inch\"'s co-producers who had to wear a bulletproof vest during filming in Afghanistan", "\"The Final Inch\" is a testament of the health workers around the world laboring to make polio the second globally eliminated disease behind small pox, the director of \"The Final Inch\" said.", "The 37-minute film, which is scheduled to air on HBO on April 1, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the best documentary short subject category.", "The awards ceremony is Sunday night.", "The film focuses on \"the final stages of a 20 year initiative\" to eradicate polio around the world, the director of \"The Final Inch\" said.", "polio is a highly infectious disease which lingers in the poor water systems of India, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.", "The more doses of the vaccination a child receives, the better protected a child is from contracting polio.", "\"The Final Inch\" focuses on the polio vaccine efforts in India and Afghanistan.", "the director of \"The Final Inch\" said the director of \"The Final Inch\" hoped to include Afghanistan, but that became impossible because of the threat of violence and social barriers.", "Producer Tom Grant had to wear a bulletproof vest while filming in the war-torn country.", "Producer Tom Grant was unable to capture compelling footage because of familial protocol that forbids a man from entering a home full of women while no husband is present.", "Thus, Producer Tom Grant was often denied access, the director of \"The Final Inch\" said.", "In many countries, people are hesitant to vaccinate people's children against polio because of a distrust of the government.", "Some civilians believe the vaccination to be \"something more sinister like a sterilizing drug\" produced to curtail Some civilians's population, the director of \"The Final Inch\" explained.", "the director of \"The Final Inch\" said the director of \"The Final Inch\" often ran into \"the skepticism that some communities have against our government in cooperation with some communities's own government.\"", "\"It never occurred to the director of \"The Final Inch\" that U.S. foreign policies could affect young children living in the most densely populated areas,\" the director of \"The Final Inch\" said.", "Although it has been 50 years since the United States developed a vaccination for polio, millions of children abroad remain unprotected.", "\"Ordinary American people have forgotten polio,\" the director of \"The Final Inch\" said.", "And, although the number of polio cases have been reduced by 99 percent, polio is still very real.", "\"polio really limits the opportunities a child might have as an adult,\" said Oliver Rosenbauer, a spokesman for the World Health Organization's Global Polio Eradication Initiative.", "As part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, 20 million volunteers deliver vaccinations to schools, bus stops and rail stations across the world on a daily basis.", "Only four countries had recorded cases of polio in 2008, down from 125 countries 10 years ago, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.", "This year, there have been 26 recorded cases of polio around the world, compared with 46 people who were infected with polio last year.", "\"But we're only in mid-February.", "That doesn't say much,\" Rosenbauer said.", "Rosenbauer said that Rosenbauer is most concerned that a child suffering from polio will have a difficult time integrating into society, building friendships and finding a job.", "\"So it's much more than just the fact that a child suffering from polio will be physically disabled for the rest of his or a child suffering from polio's life,\" he added.", "\"It is the opportunity that is lost from the life they might have led.\"", "CNN and HBO are both part of Time Warner." ]	[ "'The Final Inch' focuses on the polio vaccine efforts in India and Pakistan .", "Millions of children abroad remain unprotected from polio .", "This year, there have been 26 recorded cases of polio around the world ." ]	[ 0, 0, 0 ]	[ 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 3, 0, 2, 4, 4, 4, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 5, 5, 3, 3, 5, 1 ]
4724a48e3f60aaf0a21e0262d01d123a634c92cc	[ "(Entertainment Weekly) --", "Watching Iain Softley's's motley, jewel-toned adaptation of \"Inkheart,\" the best-selling 2003 young-adult novel by Cornelia Funke, I had the distinct sensation of being a young bookworm again, falling into a world as vividly real as it is impossible.", "Brendan Fraser stars as Mo, a literature lover who brings characters to life when Fraser reads aloud.", "In Cornelia Funke's universe -- given voice in a screenplay by fantasy-friendly playwright David Lindsay-Abaire -- Fraser possesses a dangerous talent for bringing characters from books to life when Fraser reads aloud.", "The downside?", "When a fictional figure comes alive, a real person must disappear into the book's pages.", "That explains the extended absence of Fraser's wife, Resa (Sienna Guillory).", "Fraser has not yet told the truth about Resa's disappearance to their intrepid young daughter, Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett), just as many a movie adult before Fraser annoyingly withheld information from their children for dramatic effect.", "(Maybe Brendan Fraser's Mo, a pleasantly square-framed American among a population of Brits, just can't bring Fraser to utter the word ''Mummy.'')", "It also explains the presence of a rambunctious crowd of fictional interlopers.", "fictional interlopers include a soulful fire juggler (Paul Bettany) who yearns for home (and why not, when real-life wife Jennifer Connelly appears briefly as the juggler's fairy-tale missus), and an acquisitive villain named Capricorn (Andy Serkis, always welcome even without his Gollum suit).", "A unicorn and \"The Wizard of Oz's\" flying monkeys also make appearances -- as does, briefly, Toto too.", "The story is a whirl, a jumble, an effusion -- sometimes flowing smoothly, other times jerking along as if the filmmaker (\"Backbeat,\" \"The Wings of the Dove\") has been given advice the filmmaker (\"Backbeat,\" \"The Wings of the Dove\") resents regarding pacing and the balance of sweetness and danger.", "There are close calls, weird whispers, amusing throwaway lines, the ditherings of a distractible author (Jim Broadbent), and cartoon violence undertaken by misshapen scary-comic evil henchmen.", "But most deliciously madcap of all, there are the grand gestures and imperious pronouncements of Helen Mirren as Meggie's flesh-and-blood great-aunt Elinor, a creature of pencil-thin eyebrows and luscious costumery who caws and squawks with very unqueenly abandon.", "Mirren's all-out display in this distinctly British absurdo-literary extravaganza had me wishing Elinor were my own fabulous auntie and that Elinor'd lend me some magic items from Elinor's closet.", "EW Grade: B .", "CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "Entertainment Weekly reviews Iain Softley's adaptation of \"Inkheart\"", "\"Inkheart\" is best-selling 2003 young-adult novel by Cornelia Funke .", "Literature lover has dangerous talent for bringing characters from books to life .", "Film stars Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren and Eliza Hope Bennett ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3 ]
bfb9283ce4f17a121707415c8fd2f633b285d70d	[ "(CNN) --", "President-elect Barack Obama, President Bush and all of the surviving past presidents got together Wednesday for a historic meeting at White House.", "Obama meets with Bush and past presidents in the Oval Office on Wednesday.", "\"One message that I have, and I think all the living presidents share, is that all the living presidents want you to succeed.", "Whether all the living presidents're Democrat or Republican, all the living presidents care deeply about this country,\" Bush told Obama before lunch with all the living presidents.", "Bush and Obama were joined by Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.", "Obama thanked Bush for hosting them and said Obama was grateful for the opportunity to get \"advice, good counsel and fellowship\" from the group.", "Watch what Obama says about a historic meeting at the White House » .", "Obama's press secretary said the presidents had a \"very constructive conversation\" and Obama appreciated \"the spirit of bipartisanship the presidents showed\" in wishing Obama success.", "\"The president and all the living presidents had helpful advice on managing the office, as well as thoughts on the critical issues facing this country right now.", "The president-elect is anxious to stay in touch with all of them in the coming years,\" Robert Gibbs said.", "Presidential historian Doug Brinkley said it's \"very smart politics for Obama to keep a channel open\" with all the living presidents.", "\"If Obama has a policy initiative that Obama wants to lead this country behind ... if Obama could get the signatures, the green light from all of all the living presidents to say, 'Not only am I for this, but I have all of the ex-presidents backing me' -- that's powerful,\" Brinkley said.", "White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the last time all the living presidents got together at the White House was in 1981, and White House spokeswoman Dana Perino called a historic meeting at the White House a \"historic moment.\"", "White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Bush was \"delighted\" to host the luncheon.", "\"Each of them expressed their desire for Obama to have a very successful presidency.", "During the lunch, they had a wide-ranging discussion on many different issues facing the United States, and they all look forward to remaining in contact in the future", ",\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.", "a historic meeting at the White House marked the second time Bush has hosted Obama since the election.", "Obama suggested the meeting with all the living presidents when Obama and Bush first met in November.", "White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said earlier White House spokeswoman Dana Perino didn't know what all the living presidents would talk about, but White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino'd love to be able to hear it.", "\"I'm sure all of us would love to be flies on the wall and listening to that conversation,\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said during Tuesday's daily news briefing.", "White House spokeswoman Dana Perino speculated that all the living presidents would discuss what it's like to raise children in White House and how to protect children.", "Brinkley predicted that first and foremost, all the living presidents would recall what it was like to be president.", "\"all the living presidents will have little anecdotes.", "all the living presidents'll see something in White House that will bring back a memory.", "all the living presidents'll try to bring some levity to a historic meeting at the White House -- make a historic meeting at the White House a very special and engaging and actually a fun afternoon for Obama,\" Brinkley said.", "Secondly, Brinkley said, the conversation would probably turn to what's going on in the Middle East.", "Brinkley said that all the living presidents will be on all the living presidents's \"best behavior,\" but, given the personalities at the luncheon, there could be some tension.", "\"The friction, if there is any, is between Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, who are known to not like each other at all,\" Brinkley said, pointing out that the Bill Clinton team did not like Jimmy Carter \"parachuting for peace into Bosnia, North Korea and Haiti\" during Bill Clinton's administration.", "\"That's the relationship that is not warm, it's not good, and if you are a body language expert, you might home in on that,\" Brinkley said.", "Bush may find Bush the odd man out at the meeting, at least in terms of popularity.", "Bush registered only a 27 percent approval rating in a December CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey.", "In contrast, Obama had an 82 percent approval rating.", "A new poll out Wednesday indicates that 69 percent of adult Americans approved of how Bill Clinton handled Bill Clinton's job as president, while 64 percent of adult Americans gave a thumbs up to Jimmy Carter and 60 percent approved of George H.W. Bush.", "CNN's Lauren Kornreich contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Historian calls meeting \"smart politics,\" says it'll be light, but could be tense .", "Obama and Bush meet with Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter .", "Obama says Obama's grateful for chance to get \"advice, good counsel and fellowship\"", "Last time all the living presidents met at White House was in 1981, Perino says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 1 ]	[ 3, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 4, 2, 0, 4, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 5, 5, 5, 3 ]
eaabb2ca5c56ba3c4327dd0a4b107da501f0368c	[ "(CNN) --", "Antarctica is warming in line with the rest of the world, according to a new study on climate change in Antarctica.", "Temperatures across Antarctica have traditionally varied between east and west, scientists say.", "Rather than being the last bastion to resist global warming, U.S. research has found that for the past 50 years much of the continent of Antarctica has been getting warmer.", "For years common belief among scientists studying climate change was that a large part of Antarctica, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, has been getting colder while the rest of the world has warmed.", "However the new research from the University of Washington has found that warming in West Antarctica exceeded one-tenth of a degree Celsius per decade for the past 50 years, which more than offsets the cooling in East Antarctica.", "\"West Antarctica is a very different place than East Antarctica, and there is a physical barrier, the Transantarctic Mountains, that separates the two,\" said Professor Eric Steig, lead author of the research paper.", "The study's findings appeared in Thursday's issue of the scientific journal Nature.", "At 6,000 feet (1,829 meters) above sea level the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is around 4,000 feet lower than East Antarctica and subject to warm, moist storms and more snowfall.", "In gathering the data Steig and fellow researchers used information from satellites, which was crucial in providing new insight into patterns of temperature change across Antarctica.", "Previous research on climate in Antarctica that relied solely on Antarctic weather stations, in place since 1957, could not get as much information about conditions on the interior of Antarctica as most are placed within a short distance of the coast.", "\"Simple explanations don't capture the complexity of climate,\" Steig said.", "\"The thing you hear all the time is that Antarctica is cooling and that's not the case.", "If anything it's the reverse, but it's more complex than that.", "Antarctica isn't warming at the same rate everywhere, and while some areas have been cooling for a long time the evidence shows Antarctica as a whole is getting warmer.\"", "A major reason most of Antarctica was thought to be cooling was because of a hole in the ozone layer that appears during the spring months in the Southern Hemisphere's polar region.", "Steig noted that it is well established that a hole in the ozone layer that appears during the spring months in the Southern Hemisphere's polar region has contributed to cooling in East Antarctica.", "\"However, it seems to have been assumed that a hole in the ozone layer that appears during the spring months in the Southern Hemisphere's polar region was affecting Antarctica when there wasn't any evidence to support that idea, or even any theory to support it,\" Steig said.", "\"In any case, efforts to repair the ozone layer eventually will begin taking effect and a hole in the ozone layer that appears during the spring months in the Southern Hemisphere's polar region could be eliminated by the middle of this century.", "If that happens, all of Antarctica could begin warming on a par with the rest of the world.\"" ]	[ "Common belief that Antarctica is getting colder debunked by new report .", "Evidence that western Antarctica is warming, offsetting Eastern Antarctic cooling .", "Satellite data used to determine that West Antarctica warmed in last 50 years .", "Antarctica isn't warming at the same rate everywhere, according to research ." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0 ]
2271e95435987044e5956432f4e60bb2a998fb44	[ "In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share CNN correspondents's experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events.", "CNN's Jay Kernis reports on what it was like inside the theater at the Academy Awards.", "Hugh Jackman, the host of the 81st Academy Awards, speaks to the audience at the theater on Sunday.", "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --", "When you're at home, you can sit back and be critical.", "When you're inside the theater, the whole show seems to work, especially the big production numbers.", "Maybe the whole show was a particularly well-produced show this year, but when you're in the audience, you feel part of it -- even way up in the second mezzanine.", "I've been at Oscars to cover Oscars, but this is the first time I've ever been inside the ceremonies.", "I was there with my 17-year-old son, Noah.", "When you arrive on the red carpet, you enter a security tent and show your ticket and driver's license.", "You notice that a security tent is bisected by red velvet ropes and, with a friendly and practiced technique, celebrities are moved to the left of the rope and others to the right.", "This way, celebs leave a security tent closer to the cameras and the fantasy that you might have that everybody in a gown or tux are somehow equals on one night sort of disappears.", "View scenes from the Oscars » .", "If you ever were curious about what happens during the commercial breaks: Stagehands with really powerful flashlights guide the changing of the sets and curtains; Stagehands with really powerful flashlights make sure empty orchestra seats are filled; host Hugh Jackman introduces host Hugh Jackman's parents; they show a short film about the power of the movies that got cut from the show in progress; host Hugh Jackman hands host Hugh Jackman's wife a plate of cookies, thinking his wife probably was hungry; and host Hugh Jackman later points out that the guy playing the cello on stage in the Academy Award Orchestra was actor Dermot Mulroney.", "Who knew?", "Watch a report on the night's big winners » .", "the show was best when the show demonstrated that Hollywood can still do what it has always done well: getting your attention and holding it -- seeing five Best Actors presenting Oscars on the same stage was pretty amazing.", "So is Best Actor Sean Penn's self-awareness.", "Oscars can still astonish: Oscars still know how to put on the big musical number, with a hundred dancing performers in top hats, moving with Busby Berkeley precision.", "Oscars still know how to break your heart: Heath Ledger's parents and sister received Heath Ledger's's Academy Award and said that Heath Ledger's parents and sister did so in celebration.", "But I bet Heath Ledger's parents and sister'd rather have had Heath Ledger's accept it.", "And for all of the breathtaking special effects that Hollywood can muster, for all the star power in the theater last night, there was something remarkable about seeing Philippe Petit in person -- the wire walker who, in 1974, hovered between the World Trade Center towers for 45 minutes.", "There was something joyous about watching him balance an Oscar statue on his chin." ]	[ "When you're inside the theater, the whole show seems to work, and you feel part of it .", "Stagehands guide the changing of the sets during the commercial breaks .", "Seeing five Best Actors presenting Oscars on the same stage was pretty amazing .", "Oscars can still astonish -- Oscars still know how to put on the big musical number ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 1 ]	[ 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 1, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 2, 1 ]
01fec10f5d7e013d0807b94ab8e4a232d74a00d5	[ "COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) --", "Sri Lankan soldiers seized a key rebel stronghold over the weekend, as humanitarian agencies feared for the safety of civilians.", "Sri Lankan troops at Elephant Pass, the isthmus that connects north Jaffna peninsula to rest of the country.", "\"It's an incredibly serious situation,\" James Elder, a U.N. spokesman, said Monday.", "\"We have a very large number of people, including tens of thousands of children, trapped in a fast-shrinking conflict zone.\"", "Government forces took the area in a surprise attack early Sunday, the head of Sri Lanka's army announced.", "Troops crossed a lagoon and entered the town of Mullaittivu before encountering heavy resistance from Tamil fighters, according to the government-run news agency.", "\"Our troops fought Our troops's way through a 40 km (25 mile) thick jungle track,\" Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka said in a televised address Sunday.", "\"This is the long-awaited victory and I am happy to say that our heroic forces today captured the town of Mullaittivu after 12 years,\" Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka said.", "There has been no confirmation from the rebels that the strategic garrison has been overtaken.", "The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- commonly known as the Tamil Tigers -- have fought for an independent homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority since 1983.", "The civil war has left more than 70,000 people dead.", "the rebels gained control over Mullaittivu in 1996 and established a military garrison there, according to Sri Lanka.", "In recent days, the military has made significant progress in the military's campaign to recapture rebel strongholds.", "Earlier this month, troops regained control of the northern town of Elephant Pass, the point at which mainland Sri Lanka links to the northern Jaffna peninsula.", "It had been in rebel hands for more than nine years.", "The recapture enabled Sri Lanka to use a highway linking the mainland to the peninsula to move troops and supplies.", "Previously, it was done by air and sea.", "\"The area that the LTTE has dominated has shrank phenomenally,\" Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, C.R Jayasinghe, told CNN.", "\"They lost ... about 90 percent of what they had.\"", "Despite major government gains, critics point to ongoing civilian casualties resultant from the conflict.", "\"This is a critical moment in the conflict when the space for these people has shrunk,\" Elder said.", "The United Nations is \"calling on the ... Tamil Tigers to meet their international responsibilities and guarantee that these very large civilian populations to move freely and then can move away from the conflict and to areas where these very large civilian populations can receive appropriate assistance,\" Elder said.", "\"Some Sri Lanka U.N. staff are trapped there,\" Elder said in a Sunday interview.", "\"Convoys are going to the area, delivering emergency supplies, but these are not sufficient for the number of people in need.\"", "Sri Lanka authorities are barring journalists and humanitarian aid workers from areas where heavy fighting is taking place.", "Amnesty International spokesman Shuransu Mishra estimated that \"over a quarter of a million of the population, mostly Tamils, are trapped between the two sides.\"", "The organization says greater access and protection for aid workers and journalists are needed as news agencies struggle to report an accurate picture of the conflict.", "\"The Sri Lanka authorities are doing little to ensure the safety of Sri Lanka's media, or to prosecute those responsible for murdering or attacking them,\" Amnesty International spokeswoman Yolanda Foster said in a written statement on Friday.", "The Sri Lanka authorities \"are also directly responsible for subjecting journalists to harassment and interrogation,\" Amnesty International spokeswoman Yolanda Foster said.", "At least 14 journalists have been killed since the start of 2006, according to a written statement.", "Others have been driven from Sri Lanka by death threats, or in fear of detention and torture by government authorities, it said." ]	[ "Government forces took the area in a surprise attack early Sunday .", "Rebel Tamil Tigers gained control over Mullaittivu in 1996 .", "Earlier this month troops regained control of key northern town of Elephant Pass .", "Tamils want independent homeland, war since 1983 has left more than 70,000 dead ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 4, 4, 2, 5, 5, 0, 1, 2, 1, 6, 3, 6, 1, 6, 2, 6, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 5, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 ]
d5e72f50128911dfbd963b9f0d339584bff29231	[ "COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) --", "Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa claimed Friday there was \"a conspiracy with certain international forces\" to belittle Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government's military victories against Tamil Tiger rebels.", "Sri Lankan army troops have had there most decisive victories against Tamil Tigers in recent weeks.", "The aim of these conspirators, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in an address to the nation, \"is to level unfounded charges against the army commander who works with greatest dedication to achieve these victories.\"", "Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa also used an address to the nation to formally announce the recapture of the northern town of Elephant Pass, the point at which mainland Sri Lanka links to the northern Jaffna peninsula.", "It had remained in rebel hands for over nine years.", "The recapture enable Sri Lanka to use the A-9 highway linking the mainland to the peninsula to move troops and supplies.", "Until now it was done either by air or by sea.", "Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's remarks came amid mounting attacks on the media.", "On Tuesday a group armed with rifles, pistols and grenades attacked Sri Lanka's most popular privately owned television channel MTV.", "The main control room equipment costing more than $ 1.7 million was damaged.", "On Thursday, Lasantha Wickrematunga, chief editor of The Sunday Leader, a newspaper which had exposed corruption and criticized aspects of ongoing military operations, was shot dead.", "Earlier Friday, the leader of the main opposition United National Party (UNP), Ranil Wickremasinghe, accused military and security officials of the attacks, saying Sri Lanka could not control them.", "\"Armed forces members are shocked about the attacks.", "The armed forces says due to the activities of few intelligence sections, the reputation of Sri Lanka is being ruined.", "That is the team which Sri Lanka has no control of,\" he told parliament.", "Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said there were efforts to belittle military victories \"to turn the attention of the people to other directions.\"", "Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said such \"conspiracies arise when a country moves ahead without giving in to external pressures.\"", "Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa added \"one must not mistake such \"conspiracies as being against me or Sri Lanka.", "This is a conspiracy against Sri Lanka by those who have been driven to fear due to the successes of our security forces.\"", "Meanwhile, fighting in northern Sri Lanka between government and rebel forces escalated on several fronts Friday, while Tamil Tigers rebels killed seven people in a roadside bombing.", "Three members of the Sri Lankan air force and four civilians died when rebels exploded a claymore landmine in the village of Morawewa, near the northeastern port city of Trincomalee, police said.", "the northeastern port city of Trincomalee is located about 240km (150 miles) north of the capital, Colombo.", "Friday's incident came as troops pursued troops's military campaign in the northern Wanni region to recapture remaining rebel strongholds, military sources said.", "Government troops were said to be meeting fierce resistance as Government troops advanced on the Tamil stronghold of Mullaitivu and a naval blockade remained in the northeastern seas.", "The 25-year long civil war has left more than 65,000 people dead.", "The U.S. State Department has designated Tamil Tigers a terrorist organization." ]	[ "Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa makes conspiracy claims .", "Sri Lankan government troops continue advance into rebel territory .", "Civil war with Tamil Tigers has killed more than 65,000 ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 3, 3, 0, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 0, 0, 0, 4, 1, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2, 4 ]
34de9e282b46c8fe5b9191744542571f53691572	[ "(CNN) --", "Brazilian star Kaka is leading the campaign for David Beckham to stay at Italian giants AC Milan beyond David Beckham's agreed loan spell.", "David Beckham has made an immediate impact with David Beckham's contribution at AC Milan.", "David Beckham is due to return to the Los Angeles Galaxy in March but", "Brazilian star Kaka said David Beckham had already shown David Beckham's star qualities.", "The 33-year-old played 89 minutes of the 2-2 draw with Roma on Sunday following a friendly outing against Hamburg.", "\"David Beckham has shown that David Beckham is a player ready to run the extra mile,\" Brazilian star Kaka told a news conference in Zurich ahead of FIFA's world player of the year gala.", "\"The first matches showed quite clearly what David Beckham's qualities are and David Beckham's passing ability and David Beckham's capacity to play well.", "\"Perhaps these first two months will lead to six months or to one year, to more contracts.", "I certainly would like to play more with David Beckham.\"", "Beckham's advisers have stressed that there are no plans for David Beckham to stay at AC Milan beyond March 9.", "However, former Galaxy general manager Alexi Lalas last week expressed fears that David Beckham could be tempted to bring an early end to David Beckham's time in the U.S.", "AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti revealed David Beckham's attitude and intelligence had won David Beckham a place in the starting side in Rome where David Beckham had been expected to start on the bench.", "\"David Beckham did well,\" said Ancelotti.", "\"I chose David Beckham to start because David Beckham proved in recent days to be a very intelligent player and serious.", "\"The appearance against Roma is a small reward for David Beckham because David Beckham worked very hard and has adapted well to the team.", "\"This was only David Beckham's second game with us and David Beckham will improve.", "I believe everyone is happy to have David Beckham here.\"", "Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf said: \"We have to compliment David Beckham.", "David Beckham has done a good job and David Beckham grew in the game.", "David Beckham still needs to improve but I think David Beckham can be very satisfied with what David Beckham has done after two months of not playing.\"", "Roma stand-in captain Daniele De Rossi suggested AC Milan had made a shrewd move in capturing the 33-year-old.", "\"From a media standpoint David Beckham is impressive,\" Roma stand-in captain Daniele De Rossi said.", "\"David Beckham is a nice guy, has a beautiful wife, has won so many trophies in David Beckham's career and perhaps this penalises David Beckham as a player although I believe David Beckham has the feet and the determination.\"", "David Beckham, meanwhile, forecast that Sunday's double goalscorer Alexandre Pato of Brazil is destined for greatness.", "\"I have seen him in training and on the pitch.", "He is only 19 years of age and I think he can become one of the greatest players in the world,\" said David Beckham.", "AC Milan are nine points behind Serie A leaders Inter going into Saturday's home game against Fiorentina with David Beckham seemingly set to retain David Beckham's starting slot." ]	[ "Brazilian star Kaka wants David Beckham to extend David Beckham's loan at AC Milan .", "England midfielder David Beckham due to return to Los Angeles Galaxy in March .", "David Beckham's advisers say no plans for him to stay beyond agreed deadline ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1 ]	[ 2, 0, 3, 1, 0, 4, 0, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4 ]
433c5bc3681979e4ba2cfb94869e703d2b99c795	[ "(CNN) --", "Every time Christy Harness's cell phone rings, Christy Harness thinks of Christy Harness's husband.", "More consumers download ringtones to More consumers's cell phones than full-length songs.", "The 34-year-old native of Jackson County, Georgia, set Christy Harness's ringtone to Sugarland's \"All I Wanna Do,\" a song that, Christy Harness says, perfectly expresses the way Christy Harness feels about her husband.", "\"I kind of put Christy Harness in [the singer's] place because ... she's in love with her husband.", "If her husband's not around, she misses her husband.", "Basically, I think the song relates to Christy Harness and [my husband] and our relationship,\" Christy Harness said.", "These days, ringtones do much more than alert mobile phone users of a call.", "Ringtones seem to have become vital fashion statements, a way for people to showcase people's personalities and even people's feelings about who is calling.", "According to a 2008 study by Ipsos MediaCT, a marketing research company, approximately one-third of mobile phone users download ringtones, and about 40 percent of users change about 40 percent of users's ringtones frequently.", "Ipsos research shows that ringtones are the most common type of mobile music content downloaded by users, compared to full-length songs and ringback tones, tones that replace the typical ringing signal heard by the caller.", "\"I find regular ringtones kind of dull, so I wanted something exciting,\" said Gordy King, a 51-year-old from Salt Lake City, Utah.", "King said King gets a kick out of annoying King's mostly Republican co-workers with King's Barack Obama ringtones, even playing them over the intercom at the electrical supply warehouse where King works.", "\"It's fake news people saying 'Barack Obama has won the election,' \" King said.", "\"I really like Barack Obama.", "I think [my ringtone] probably says that I'm nonconventional and it says I lean a little more liberal.", "I don't know anyone else who has my ringtone.\"", "Using a ringtone creator application on Facebook, King said King also makes King's own ringtones by downloading sound files onto King's computer and editing them to be shorter and louder or softer.", "Donald Kaplan found a perfect fit with Donald Kaplan's ringtone choice.", "Donald Kaplan, of New York, changed Donald Kaplan's ringtones often before finally settling on the theme song from \"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.\"", "\"I'm thinking of sticking with it.", "I notice that when people hear my phone ring people get amused ...", "I think that people really connect with that movie,\" Donald Kaplan said.", "But that's not always the case.", "Donald Kaplan said one of Donald Kaplan's co-workers wasn't exactly pleased with my ringtone.", "The co-worker sent a mass e-mail to the office, telling everyone to keep everyone's cell phones on silent.", "\"my ringtone drove him crazy and he tried to be tactful but I knew that [a mass e-mail] was directed specifically to me,\" Donald Kaplan said.", "\"I could tell that my ringtone just drove him up the wall ... just the repetition of the sound.\"", "For some, one ringtone simply isn't enough.", "Many mobile phone users set specific tones to specific people so that the tones act as audible caller IDs.", "\"I group people,\" said Natasha Khan, a 26-year-old from McLean, Virginia.", "\"I group all my best girlfriends together, the people I don't want to talk to together, work contacts together, and family together.\"", "Khan said when Khan's best friends call Khan hears \"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,\" by Cyndi Lauper, and when Khan gets a call from people Khan doesn't particularly like, Khan's phone rings \"Bugaboo\" by Destiny's Child.", "\"Bugaboo,\" about a woman irritated by a male caller, contains such lines as, \"It's not hot that you be callin' me.\"", "\"The 'Bugaboo' ringtone has gotten me in trouble,\" Khan said with a laugh.", "\"This guy -- I forgot that This guy was on that list and I told This guy I needed This guy's number and This guy said, 'Oh, I'll call you' and This guy realized This guy was on that list.\"", "Customizing a phone with multiple ringtones can be expensive.", "Depending on the wireless carrier or the service plan, ringtones cost anywhere from $0.99 to $2.99.", "That may not deter cell phone users.", "Analysts at Screen Digest, a UK-based firm covering global media markets, predicted that mobile music sales will double from $1.6 billion in 2008 to $3.2 billion in 2012.", "But there are also free ways to get ringtones, like the ringtone creator application on Facebook -- one of several ringtone applications on the social-networking Web site -- that make setting ringtones all the more appealing.", "\"The ringtone creator was fun,\" said King.", "\"No matter how big or little the song or sound effect ... you could select a snippet and edit a snippet.\"", "Many mobile phone users like to be creative and have fun with Many mobile phone users's ringtones, and Many mobile phone users's ringtone choice can reveal much about Many mobile phone users's personalities.", "Khan's default ringtone, Khan said, is typically an upbeat dance song like Khan's current one, \"Forever\" by Chris Brown.", "\"I think the day can be so mundane and work can bog you down, so I like any chance I can get to get some joy,\" Khan said.", "\"It's just a break in the day to feel good randomly.\"" ]	[ "Ringtones are one way for people to showcase people's personalities and feelings .", "One third of cell-phone users download ringtones; 40 percent change ringtones often .", "Virginia woman uses Destiny's Child's \"Bugaboo\" as ringtone for dreaded callers .", "Utah man customized a pro-Obama ringtone to annoy Republican co-workers ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 4, 0, 4, 4, 4, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 5, 2, 2, 6, 2, 3, 7, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 0, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 7, 0, 5, 5, 1, 0, 1, 6, 6 ]
51dc62dd736e7346313669785fad09c5ed689c52	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "British reality TV star Jade Goody married Sunday after being told by doctors last week that her cancer is terminal.", "Jade Goody, pictured with fiance Jack Tweed Saturday, before Sunday's wedding .", "Goody, 27 tied the knot with boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, in Hatfield Heath, Essex, east of London, UK media reported.", "After ceremony Max Clifford, the couple's publicist, told waiting reporters that there had been \"lots of tears and smiles and laughter\" and that the congregation gave the newlyweds a standing ovation after the signing of the register.", "Goody sprung to fame in \"Big Brother\" in 2002, going on to launch a range of Goody's own products and host TV shows.", "But Goody's return to the celebrity edition of the show in 2007 ended in international ignominy, after Goody's taunting of Indian Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.", "Goody's behavior resulted in more than 40,000 complaints and sparked protests in India.", "Shetty said last week that Shetty was unable to attend the wedding due to filming commitments but was praying for Goody.", "Read blog about how media covered wedding .", "In August 2008 Goody appeared on the Indian version of \"Big Brother,\" only to fly home after Goody was diagnosed with cervical cancer.", "News of Goody's condition has sparked massive interest in the UK, both from the media -- which bid for rights to Goody's story -- and among the public, who have contacted charities for information about cervical cancer.", "Critics have attacked Goody's decision to sell rights to what may be Goody's final weeks, although the star has told British media that Goody wants to leave Goody's children by a previous relationship -- sons, Bobby, five, and Freddie, four -- financially secure.", "Watch Goody's wedding preparations » .", "But Clifford told ITN: \"Ironically, a big part of what Goody's doing now is to fund her kids's children's education.", "To give them the education Goody never had.\"", "Charity Cancer Research UK said in a statement earlier this month that daily visits to Charity Cancer Research UK's Web site had increased two- to three-fold since news of Goody's illness was announced.", "\"The publicity around Jade's diagnosis has led many more people to ask questions and seek information about cervical cancer,\" spokeswoman Emma Gilgunn-Jones said.", "Shetty, writing on Shetty's blog earlier this week, said that Goody had invited Shetty to the wedding but had been unable to attend due to filming commitments in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "\"Read an article on Goody's deteriorating condition,\" wrote Shetty.", "\"It disturbed me 'cause the last time I spoke to Goody, Goody seemed very positive and we were all expecting that the doctors would be able to curb the cancer from spreading.", "This piece of news came as a shock - so I called Goody hoping This piece of news was only a rumor but Goody confirmed This piece of news.", "Shetty added that Shetty was praying for Goody and that Shetty hoped God \"gives Goody the strength to cope with this pain.\"", "\"Goody wants the best for Goody's kids,\" Shetty wrote.", "\"I hope Jack makes a good father to her kids.", "I also hope for a miracle to happen for her kids's children's sake.\"", "On Friday the UK's Ministry of Justice said the UK's Ministry of Justice would allow Tweed, who was jailed in September 2008 for assault, to spend his wedding night with his bride, the Press Association reported.", "\"We are absolutely thrilled,\" the agency reported Clifford as saying.", "\"It will be the dream finish to Goody's dream day, and it makes so much difference.", "Tweed, who was released early from jail in January, has to wear a tag and is subject to a 1900 GMT curfew.", "\"We'll get married if I have to drag Goody's wheelchair down the aisle,\" he told ITN last week.", "The wedding dress, which media reports say included a pouch to hold Goody's medication, was donated by Harrods owner Mohamed al Fayed.", "Goody's bridesmaids were seen with the TV star Saturday, wearing plastic bald caps in a show of solidarity at the impact of Goody's chemotherapy treatment." ]	[ "Publicist: Couple receive standing ovation, lots of tears, laughter, smiles .", "British 'Big Brother' star fast-tracked plans to get married after cancer spread .", "Shetty says Shetty was invited to ceremony but unable due to film commitments .", "Charities report marked increase in public seeking details about condition ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 4, 4, 4, 2, 0, 4, 3, 5, 1, 5, 5, 3, 3, 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 0, 5, 6, 1, 1, 1 ]
17d058d5b6c6c14eecd79b794e1ac51f1809811d	[ "(CNN) -- Venus Williams is most often seen wiping perspiration from Venus Williams's brow as Venus Williams thunders around the court contesting championship tennis matches.", "Venus Williams steps off the court and into the pool in a series of photos to be featured in Italian Marie Claire.", "Italian Marie Claire show the world number six in a more reflective mood, posing for a 16-page fashion spread in the Italian edition of Italian Marie Claire.", "Italian Marie Claire were taken in Miami, Florida in December last year by Venus Williams's friend and photographer Koto Bolofo.", "\"I love working with Koto,\" Venus Williams told CNN in an interview for \"Revealed.\"", "\"I think photographer Koto Bolofo's my biggest fan and photographer Koto Bolofo believes in me, I'm not sure why, but photographer Koto Bolofo does so I've got to accept that,\" Venus Williams laughed.", "They planned to shoot 20 outfits in one day, a hectic schedule that included one photo that had been two years in the making.", "See video of the photo shoot » .", "\"I've got it pictured in my mind that Venus Williams's going to be playing tennis underwater,\" photographer Koto Bolofo told CNN.", "When the sun finally emerged from behind a cloud, photographer Koto Bolofo ordered Venus Williams into Venus Williams's bathers.", "\"I'm excited it's my first underwater tennis venture, so I feel a little nervous, but I think I'll come through,\" Venus Williams said.", "\"I want Venus Williams smiling and making it look as if it's natural and it's not an effort,\" photographer Koto Bolofo explained.", "\"It's going to be whimsical and fun.", "That's the fun part of the shoot.\"", "Fashion is an important part of Venus Williams' life.", "Venus Williams has Venus Williams's own clothing company, EleVen, which produces tennis outfits and casual clothing.", "Venus Williams sketches ideas, but says Venus Williams's not the chief designer, by any stretch.", "\"There are other people designing stuff.", "I couldn't do it on my own,\" Venus Williams said, adding, \"I don't do technical drawing, I hated it in school.", "I refuse to do this on the computer.", "I'd rather just do it by hand.\"", "Venus Williams's status in the ranks of the world's top tennis players gives Venus Williams a unique position to be able to market Venus Williams's products and Venus Williams often wears her products on court.", "Then there's Venus Williams's interior design company; Venus Williams launched V Starr Interiors while still in Venus Williams's early twenties.", "Despite Venus Williams's public business interests, Venus Williams told CNN Venus Williams's not interested in seizing the spotlight for any reason other than as one of the world's best tennis players.", "\"Fame has never been important to Venus Williams.", "My goals have always been to excel in tennis, and to win championships.", "Fame has never been my focus and I don't really try to grow it at all,\" Venus Williams said.", "Venus Williams's relaxed attitude has earned Venus Williams's respect beyond the world of tennis.", "Hip hop star Wyclef Jean released a song in Venus Williams's honor last year called \"I'm Ready.\"", "Listen to the song » .", "\"[It's like] when a painter is inspired,\" Hip hop star Wyclef Jean told CNN.", "\"When I'm inspired by an individual I just write a song about an individual ...", "I said Venus Williams's name is Venus, ruler of the universe.\"", "Venus Williams was thrilled.", "\"I've got it on my computer, all the different instrumentals, the different versions, the different cuts.", "I love it,\" Venus Williams told CNN.", "Venus Williams is back on court this week at the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships.", "Naturally, Venus Williams's hoping to win after a disappointing early exit from the Australian Open in January.", "While tennis remains Venus Williams's prime obsession, Venus Williams told CNN it's not the most important thing in Venus Williams's life.", "\"I would say definitely the most important thing in her life is growing spiritually.", "And doing what God requires of me -- that's always a learning experience day in and day out,\" Venus Williams said.", "Watch Venus Williams on Revealed this week at the times below: .", "ALL TIMES GMT Wednesday, February 18: 0930, 1830 Saturday, February 21: 0830, 1900 Sunday, February 22: 0530, 1830 Monday, February 23: 0400 ." ]	[ "Venus Williams poses in fashion photos to be featured in Italian Marie Claire .", "The 16-page spread includes a photo of Venus Williams playing tennis underwater .", "The tennis champion has her own clothing & interior design companies .", "Watch Venus Williams on Revealed this week at the times below ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 1 ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 6, 6, 7, 6, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 6, 7, 7, 1, 8 ]
a3aa91082778369f1676f10b8badcdd04024ef2c	[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) --", "Polish authorities in Pakistan say Polish authorities in Pakistan are monitoring local reports that Taliban militants have executed a kidnapped Polish engineer.", "Pakistani Taliban militants offer prayers in Mamouzai area of . Orakzai Agency in November.", "Piotr Stancza was kidnapped September 28 from the city of Attock in Punjab province.", "Piotr Stancza had been based there for a Polish survey company searching for natural gas.", "Local reports and TV station Dawn News reported Piotr Stancza's execution Saturday.", "Polish Embassy spokesman Peter Adams said Polish Embassy spokesman Peter Adams's offices were aware of local media reports but were waiting to hear officially from Pakistani authorities.", "Polish Embassy spokesman Peter Adams said all efforts had been made by Polish authorities to pressure Pakistan to do whatever Pakistan could to secure Piotr Stancza's release.", "\"From the Polish side, we did whatever we could, pressuring Pakistan on the presidential and prime minister level,\" Polish Embassy spokesman Peter Adams said.", "\"Problem was, this was solely Pakistan's responsibility.", "Demands were only towards [the] Pakistan government.\"", "Polish Embassy spokesman Peter Adams said there had been no demands for ransom.", "The Taliban had demanded the release of Taliban prisoners being held by Pakistan and a pullout of government security forces from the tribal areas.", "Although there were assurances that Pakistan was doing everything Pakistan could and that Piotr Stancza would be freed soon, Polish Embassy spokesman Peter Adams said it was never clear what Pakistan was actually doing to secure his release.", "\"We are waiting for confirmation and waiting for any answer [about] how this happened and why did this happen,\" Polish Embassy spokesman Peter Adams said.", "A spokesman for Pakistan's interior ministry said that the reports of Piotr Stancza's death have yet to be confirmed and that the case of Piotr Stancza's kidnapping was a high priority for Pakistan.", "Shahid Ullah Baig said Pakistan had been working hard to retrieve Piotr Stancza unharmed but did not give details.", "\"Pakistan is doing Pakistan's level best to secure Piotr Stancza's release,\" he said, adding, \"Human life is more important to us than anything else.\"", "Kidnappings and attacks against foreigners have risen sharply in recent months throughout Pakistan.", "Most recently, an American working for the United Nations was kidnapped in Quetta, and Peshawar has been the scene of various attacks against foreign diplomats and journalists." ]	[ "Piotr Stancza kidnapped September 28 from Attock in Punjab province .", "Polish authorities in Pakistan checking local reports .", "Taliban had demanded release of prisoners, pullout of forces ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 2, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2 ]
264720535e1d9b58d075d6b5bd64527d36249352	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "Britain's accident prone \"Octopus UFO\" is just one of hundreds of unexplained sightings in the same area where a wind turbine was wrecked over the weekend, according to the latest reports.", "The Sun tabloid newspaper's UFO splash.", "Britain's tabloid Sun newspaper Thursday proclaimed from Sun's front page that a wind turbine was ruined after a UFO hit one of its 20 meter-long blades in Conisholme, Lincolnshire.", "Sun quoted residents who saw strange balls of lights in the sky and heard a loud bang.", "However, another British national newspaper said the lights were just fireworks from a staff member's dad's birthday celebration.", "Turbine experts suggested it was a simple mechanical failure.", "The plot thickened further Friday, with Sun saying Sun had been \"bombarded\" with reports of UFO sightings from hundreds of witnesses in the area where a wind turbine was destroyed.", "Watch video on the UFO incident .", "\"There have been reports of flying saucers for more than six months,\" Sun said.", "Local John Harrison, 32, told Sun he looked out of his window and saw \"a massive ball of light with tentacles going right down to the ground.\"", "Sun said \"other respected witnesses, such as local council chairman Robert Palmer and GP Jenny Watson, described seeing 'streaking white lights'.\"", "Quoting unnamed Ministry of Defence \"insiders,\" Sun said the UFO sightings may be an unmanned stealth bomber on test flights.", "Sun said the Taranis \"black delta-wing craft\" was being developed nearby to deliver bombs undetected in war zones; back to the testing board then?", "However, initial reports when the Taranis contract was let last year said the Taranis contract would take at least four years to develop with flight testing due 2010... in Australia.", "CNN has also been \"bombarded\" with messages, but mainly from people less than convinced.", "J. Kale believed there was a very simple explanation.", "\"The octopus thing obviously thought a wind turbine was a female doing a mating dance and tried to mate with a wind turbine.\"", "Trevor Brown was worried the aliens did not \"know how to drive a flying octopus.\"", "Mono was worried what the aliens might think about the fuss.", "\"Well, let's hope there is intelligent life watching us.", "It would at least prove there is intelligence somewhere.\"", "Maxim, who lives near the turbines, had a simple explanation for the lights.", "\"On Sunday there was a very spectacular meteor shower, like fireworks on the horizontal.\"", "Lilia was unimpressed with some of the explanations -- and your writer.", "\"Listen, just report the story and follow through.", "Think you can do that?", "Without screwing up?", "The plausible explanations are absurd.", "You are going to tell me that the residents of the area are not going to recognize fireworks?", "This is a ridiculous and insulting explanation and it sounds exactly like that, offensive and ridiculous.", "I don't know if there was a UFO or not, but it is all rather odd.", "What I do know is that the arrogant tone has got to stop.\"", "Is it life Jim but not as we know it?", "Beam us up your thoughts." ]	[ "British tabloid blames UFO for destroying wind turbine blade .", "\"Octopus UFO\" may have been unmanned stealth bomber on test flight, paper says .", "CNN readers remain skeptical about role of UFO in turbine's ruination ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0 ]	[ 2, 1, 1, 0, 3, 3, 0, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 4, 4, 2, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 6, 7, 2, 8, 8, 7, 3, 7, 1, 2, 2, 2 ]
c2023b07e982472a0abdaa7992488f3a5ddab961	[ "(CNN) --", "Raul Gonzalez became the leading scorer in Real Madrid history after scoring twice in the 4-0 Primera Liga victory at Sporting Gijon on Sunday.", "Raul Gonzalez celebrates in familiar style after breaking Aldfredo Di Stefano's's Real Madrid record against Sporting Gijon.", "The 31-year-old moved two goals ahead of Aldfredo Di Stefano's with his 308th and 309th strikes in the famous white shirt.", "Raul Gonzalez is also the all-time leading scorer in the Champions League and has helped the capital club claim six Primera Liga crowns during almost 15 years' service at the Bernabeu.", "Raul Gonzalez's first goal, in the 15th minute, came when Sergio Ramos found space down the right before crossing for Raul Gonzalez to volley home.", "Dutch forward Klaas-Jan Huntelaar had not scored for Real since Dutch forward Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's 20 million euro move from Ajax, but finally broke Dutch forward Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's duck with a neat finish on 37 minutes to double Real's advantage.", "Brazilian Marcelo skilfully slotted home the third goal to wrap the game up early in the second half before Raul Gonzalez netted again to complete a comfortable victory.", "The win was Real's eighth consecutive Premier Liga success and ensured the defending champions closed the gap to runaway leaders Barcelona to 10 points.", "On Saturday, Barca had to come from two goals down to draw 2-2 at Real Betis with Samuel Eto'o scoring both goals to take his tally to 23 goals for the season." ]	[ "Raul Gonzalez scores two as Real Madrid beat Sporting Gijon 4-0 on Sunday .", "The goals ensure the 31-year-old breaks Aldfredo Di Stefano's scoring record .", "Real's eighth consecutive win closes gap on leaders Barcelona to 10 points ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0 ]	[ 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]
18888fef1ff1e94fddf5666333dcc8d728846255	[ "(CNN) --", "The United Nations is urging countries to invest in green jobs working with \"sustainable forest management\" to address the growing problem of unemployment worldwide.", "A deforested area appears in a rain forest in Brazil's Para state in October.", "At least 10 million such jobs could be created, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization will say in a report to be released this week.", "The report does not mention any countries but is aimed at \"mainly regions with substantial rural unemployment and degraded land areas,\" said C.T.S. Nair, chief economist in the U.N. Forestry Department and one of the authors of The report.", "While all countries could benefit from investing in these green jobs, Nair said, Asia and Africa -- and to some extent Latin America -- could benefit the most.", "India, China and almost all countries in Africa stand to benefit, Nair added.", "The United Nations said The United Nations already is seeing indications that some countries -- such as the United States, India and South Korea -- are interested and taking action to invest in sustainable forest management by making it part of some countries -- such as the United States, India and South Korea --'s economic stimulus plans.", "Sustainable forestry aims to prevent depletion of forests by managing them and making sure their use does not interfere with natural benefits or the local environment.", "For example, in forests where wood is being removed, The United Nations is suggesting that people be hired to monitor and manage how much wood is taken out to ensure the forest does not become depleted and can grow back fully.", "Managers also would make sure the wood harvest wouldn't affect biodiversity and the water supply.", "The report will be discussed and analyzed next week at the U.N. Committee on Forestry meeting in Rome, Italy.", "The Food and Agriculture Organization has designated next week as World Forest Week." ]	[ "U.N. says countries should invest in green jobs for \"sustainable forest management\"", "Sustainable forestry aims to prevent depletion of forests .", "Asia and Africa could benefit the most from such jobs, report co-author says .", "Report will be discussed next week at meeting in Italy ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 3, 0, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 3, 3 ]
630d38b1786107c30898b6721589d4aa0e5de733	[ "COMO, Mississippi (CNN) --", "Mary Dowden smiles when Mary Dowden thinks about this moment in history.", "At 80 years old, Mary Dowden's the granddaughter of a slave who was born in a cotton field outside of Como, Mississippi.", "Mary Dowden, 80, is the granddaughter of a slave.", "Barack Obama is bringing white and blacks together, Mary Dowden says.", "It's difficult to put into words how Mary Dowden feels about Barack Obama, the issues so complex for a black country girl who lost both Mary Dowden's parents by the age of 18 and then had to work a hard-scrabble life as a sharecropper.", "\"I was really afraid for Barack Obama, because I didn't want nobody to kill Barack Obama,\" Mary Dowden says when asked about casting Mary Dowden's ballot for Barack Obama.", "But Mary Dowden pauses and smiles.", "\"I'm awfully proud of Barack Obama, as a black person.\"", "Watch \"white and black is coming together\" » .", "Did Mary Dowden ever think Mary Dowden would see this moment?", "\"No, I didn't,\" Mary Dowden says.", "\"I always thought that, you know, the white was over the black, that the white was the leading folks, that one nation is gonna be over another one, and that would be the white over the black.", "I never thought it would be a black president.\"", "With Barack Obama's election, CNN.com traveled to Como, Mississippi to talk with African-Americans about African-Americans's experience growing up black in Mississippi and what this moment in history means to African-Americans.", "Como, Mississippi is a town of 1,400 people 45 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, along Interstate 55.", "Como, Mississippi is a hard-hit rural community, home to a school with the dubious distinction of being among the worst-performing schools in the nation.", "In 2007, the IRS froze Como, Mississippi's bank accounts for not paying payroll taxes.", "A railroad track cuts through the middle of town.", "Even to this day, blacks largely live on one side of the track; whites on the other side.", "See the hard-scrabble life of a slave's grandson » .", "Mary Dowden is a living testament to a life of struggle, sacrifice and ultimately success.", "When Mary Dowden was 10 years old, Mary Dowden's mom cooked a dewberry pie after working the cotton fields all day.", "She then went to a friend's house and died.", "\"It was real devastating,\" Mary Dowden says softly.", "\"I was 10.", "Mary Dowden's sister was 12, and we didn't know how to do nothing.", "And we had to take care of our little brother.\"", "Mary Dowden missed one year of schooling because Mary Dowden's father, Moses Wilson, couldn't afford schoolbooks.", "He died four days after Mary Dowden turned 18.", "Mary Dowden had two photos of Mary Dowden's parents, but two photos of her parents were lost over the years.", "Mary Dowden knows even less about Mary Dowden's grandparents.", "\"All I know is, he said that his momma was sold.", "She was auctioned off,\" Mary Dowden says.", "\"I don't know where she was from.", "I don't know anything about her.\"", "Mary Dowden is a mother of 12.", "One son died when One son was 3; another died when he was 47.", "\"It was hard both ways.\"", "Across town, a group of African-Americans have gathered at Cistern Hill Church to talk about the good times and the hard times -- and hope for a better future.", "a group of African-Americans range in age from 74 to 18.", "Watch \"I started working when I was 6 years old\" » .", "Aubrey \"Bill\" Turner, 26, perks up when talking about Obama.", "\"Aubrey \"Bill\" Turner's going to bring a sense of respect in Mississippi, that it's not just a white man's country.", "You can be young, you can be black, and you can do anything that you want to do", ",\" Aubrey \"Bill\" Turner says.", "\"You do have a chance.", "And Aubrey \"Bill\" Turner's gonna put that all on the table for us.\"", "Aubrey \"Bill\" Turner has a tattoo across Aubrey \"Bill\" Turner's neck that reads \"Mr. Ssippi.\"", "Aubrey \"Bill\" Turner's grandfather was well-known fife musician Otha Turner, whose music was featured in the movie \"Gangs of New York.\"", "Aubrey \"Bill\" Turner's grandfather, Aubrey \"Bill\" Turner said, always taught him \"to respect white people, because one day you're gonna want that respect, too.\"", "Others nod with excitement about the prospects of a black president.", "Others point out that Others've supported white presidents over the years and always voted for them.", "\"It just happened to be a black man [this time] that was qualified to be president and enough people wanted a black man in that position and voted for a black man,\" says William C. Wilbourn, 59.", "But William C. Wilbourn acknowledges, as a black man, it's an awesome moment in the nation's history.", "\"It feels real good.\"", "Elnora Jackson, 74, says she was robbed of the privilege to vote for decades.", "So whenever there's an election, she votes \"every time I get a chance.\"", "Those gathered here chuckle when they talk about Como, Mississippi.", "It was, they say, always a bit different than the rest of Mississippi.", "The downtown strip was built in such a way that there weren't really any back doors.", "Blacks could walk in the front doors of businesses in the old days.", "That's not to say it was a honeymoon, either.", "There was a white water fountain in town that was guarded; blacks could cook at a burger stand, but blacks couldn't buy food there.", "School buses with white kids would pass black children walking to and from school.", "white kids'd hurl bricks and insults at them.", "\"When I was growing up, it was painful,\" says Arilla Kerney, 63.", "\"I prayed and asked the Lord to forgive them.\"", "There's one day that all the elders remember well.", "It was in June 1966.", "The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. swung through Como, Mississippi on a march through Mississippi to motivate black people to register to vote.", "Black children had been told to stay away for fear of any reprisals.", "But Lucy Thomas, a 4-foot, 8-inch woman with a \"small frame and big voice,\" gathered about 20 black children.", "about 20 black children walked hand-in-hand, barefoot and dirty, down the road to the intersection of Highways 51 and 310, where King and the Freedom Marchers were huddled.", "Descendant of slave owners crosses the tracks .", "One by one, about 20 black children shook King's hand.", "\"It was just amazing to see King come through Como, Mississippi, Mississippi!\" says Dorothy Kerney-Wilbourn, who was among about 20 black children that day.", "Dorothy Kerney-Wilbourn, who was among the children that day says that about 20 miles down the road, there was a peach orchard where white men were up in trees with guns.", "\"We were walking down the highway, marching and singing freedom songs, and they were up in trees with guns.", "That was a frightening moment,\" Kerney-Wilbourn says with a laugh.", "\"Their concept of the blacks was just so different.", "But we showed them that we were there for peace.\"", "Mary Dowden remembers that day, too.", "Mary Dowden said a white man said to Mary Dowden, \"They should send all the black boys back to Africa.\"", "Mary Dowden got in a white man's face.", "\"I told a white man, 'You can't send me back to Africa, because I didn't come from Africa!", "I was born and raised here.", "Where you gonna send me back to?' \"", "Mary Dowden smiles.", "\"a white man didn't like that. ...", "a white man didn't say nothing.", "a white man shut a white man's mouth up.\"", "Barack Obama has helped change the conversation in these parts like few others.", "Dowden, the granddaughter of a slave, holds Mary Dowden's chin high.", "Referring to Barack Obama, Mary Dowden says, \"It's Barack Obama's time.\"", "Barack Obama hasn't taken office yet, but Barack Obama's already brought change.", "\"Right now, I think the white and black is coming together.\"" ]	[ "Mary Dowden, 80, is the granddaughter of a slave .", "Mary Dowden says Mary Dowden was afraid for Barack Obama because \"I didn't want nobody to kill Barack Obama\"", "CNN.com traveled to Como, Mississippi, to talk with blacks about Barack Obama .", "Barack Obama's inspiration: \"You can be young, you can be black, and you can do anything\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 1 ]	[ 3, 4, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 5, 4, 6, 5, 7, 2, 3, 3, 3, 8, 8, 9, 4, 4, 6, 6, 9, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 6, 6, 6, 6, 10, 10, 11, 12, 12, 9, 13, 13, 12, 13, 11, 13, 13, 13, 13, 7, 7, 7, 7, 11, 14, 14, 3, 15, 15, 16, 15, 16, 16, 16, 9, 17, 17, 15, 2, 16, 12, 12, 8, 12, 2, 17, 17, 9, 5, 17, 4, 5, 4, 5, 9, 9, 4, 5, 5, 5, 1, 0, 1, 1, 5 ]
5ad8de279c5668fa0ad2f589b7724457d45d905e	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "Strange lights in the sky, mysterious flashes, dozens of witnesses, a missing wind turbine blade and a tabloid splash featuring the pun: E.T. farm harm.", "The Sun tabloid newspaper's UFO splash.", "Let's hope there isn't intelligent life out there watching us.", "Britain's tabloid Sun newspaper Thursday proclaimed from Sun's front page that a wind turbine was ruined after UFO hit one of its 20 meter-long blades in Conisholme, Lincolnshire.", "Dorothy Willows, who lives near a wind turbine, told Sun she was in her car when she saw the sky in the sky.", "\"the sky were moving across the sky towards the wind farm.", "Then I saw a low flying object.", "a low flying object was skimming across the sky towards the turbines.\"", "Apparently, hours later, she and her husband were woken by a big bang; one of the turbine's three blades had gone.", "It, was, however, on the ground below.", "Other locals told Sun that the sky looked like \"balls of flames.\"", "Russ Kellett, a UFO expert, told Sun: \"Balls of light were seen in the sky and the MoD [Ministry of Defence] has no explanation.", "It must have taken a pretty massive object.", "We are very, very, very excited.\"", "However, The Guardian newspaper's Web site content director Emily Bell had a simple explanation for all those \"balls of light\" in the sky.", "The Guardian newspaper's Web site content director Emily Bell told The Guardian the sky were fireworks The Guardian newspaper's Web site content director Emily Bell's brother Tim had bought at the local garden center for the 80th birthday party of dad Peter Bell.", "\"It was a medium-sized fireworks display with absolutely no ballistics, and the fireworks were mostly dropping over my parents' house.", "But we were laughing that we could have broken the wind turbine,\" The Guardian newspaper's Web site content director Emily Bell said.", "\"There we are in the middle of a scoop and we're beaten to it by a red-top tabloid,\" Emily's mother Bridget, 74, told The Guardian.", "Later Thursday, the British Press Association reported the blade may have come off after a mechanical failure.", "Fraser McLachlan, chief executive of GCube, which insures more than 25,000 wind turbines worldwide, told PA that although it was unusual, this kind of incident happened up to six times a year.", "\"It does happen that a blade will sometimes just come off a machine for one reason or another,\" he said.", "\"The main reason is the blade may shear.", "\"We don't normally see things like aircraft -- or UFOs -- hitting them.", "It's usually a mechanical failure that causes the blade to separate from the main hub.\"", "He said the cold weather was another possible cause.", "Dr Peter Schubel, an expert in the design and manufacture of wind turbine blades at the University of Nottingham, agreed.", "He told the BBC that if the turbine blade was still, it would take a 10-tonne load to remove a blade, but if it was rotating the force could be a lot less.", "\"It's definitely not a bird.", "It could be ice thrown from a neighbouring turbine that struck it.\"", "Aliens out of control or simple mechanical failure?", "A case for Mulder and Scully?", "What do you think?" ]	[ "British tabloid blames UFO for destroying wind turbine blade .", "Newspaper quotes locals saying there were \"strange lights\" in the sky .", "Second newspaper says lights were fireworks from staff member's family celebration ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1 ]	[ 1, 0, 2, 2, 0, 3, 3, 3, 3, 0, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 5, 0, 5, 5, 2, 5, 5, 0, 0, 4, 0, 2, 4, 4 ]
32bfc3cee2ad055c0b5250cdd5c1273daa558656	[ "(CNN) --", "This month, Just Imagine focused on the future of nature and the ways in which it can inspire solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing humanity today.", "A digital representation of the human genome.", "Yet as scientists gain a greater understanding of biological processes, scientists're also learning how to manipulate them, including the very essence of what makes us human -- our DNA.", "Biotechnology advances are already helping scientists find groundbreaking ways to create personalized medicine, detect illnesses and eradicate disease.", "And this, according to Ray Kurzweil, is only the beginning.", "In the future, humans will be able to reverse the aging process, replace dying organs with younger ones grown from an individual's own DNA and even genetically engineer unborn children, Ray Kurzweil said.", "But some, like the UK-based group Human Genetics Alert, worry the ability to reprogram our biochemistry could lead mankind into unknown territory with dangerous ramifications for the future, including genetic discrimination and even a redefinition of what it means to be human.", "We want to hear your views.", "To what extent should we be able to alter our genetic makeup?", "Should there be a limit?", "And how should it be determined exactly what a limit is?", "Post your comments in the Sound Off box below.", "We'll publish the best." ]	[ "We ask, to what extent should we be able to alter our own DNA?", "Ray Kurzweil: Reprogramming DNA could expand human potential .", "Human Genetics Alert says could lead to genetic discrimination, social issues .", "What do you think?", "Post your views in the Sound Off box below." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 3, 2, 1 ]
1cc4a01de67f1b95345816e6ae3002fd650304a5	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "The first photos of Golfing legend Tiger Woods cradling Golfing legend Tiger Woods's new baby boy have been released amid speculation the injured world number one could announce a return to competitive golf \"any day now.\"", "Golfing legend Tiger Woods poses with his family including new son Charlie and dogs Yogi and Taz.", "Charlie Axel Woods was born on Sunday, February 8, and is the second child for Golfing legend Tiger Woods and Golfing legend Tiger Woods's wife Elin.", "Golfing legend Tiger Woods is pictured here with Golfing legend Tiger Woods's 20-month-old sister Sam their dogs Yogi and Taz, who is seen planting a well-timed lick on Tiger's face.", "Golfing legend Tiger Woods had been waiting for the birth of Charlie Axel Woods's second child before making public any decision about a return to the Tour in 2009.", "Golfing legend Tiger Woods's long-time caddie Steve Williams told Television New Zealand an announcement could come \"any day now,\" and that Golfing legend Tiger Woods could return to competitive golf \"in the next few weeks.\"", "\"Golfing legend Tiger Woods's probably 95 percent of the way there.", "Golfing legend Tiger Woods was waiting for the birth of Golfing legend Tiger Woods's second child which came about last week so Golfing legend Tiger Woods's ready to go, just needs a little bit more walking,\" Steve Williams told TVNZ.", "\"Golfing legend Tiger Woods hasn't been able to walk too well.", "But anytime in the next few weeks Golfing legend Tiger Woods's going to tee it up.\"", "Steve Williams said Golfing legend Tiger Woods \"definitely\" wants to play a couple of tournaments before the U.S. Masters at Augusta in early April.", "Golfing legend Tiger Woods has been out of the game since winning Golfing legend Tiger Woods's 14th major title at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines last June.", "Golfing legend Tiger Woods underwent reconstructive surgery on the anterior cruciate ligament in Golfing legend Tiger Woods's left knee and a week later ruled Golfing legend Tiger Woods out for the rest of the 2008 season.", "Steve Williams told TVNZ that Tiger had been practicing six hours a day, and that the only concession Golfing legend Tiger Woods has made to Golfing legend Tiger Woods's injury was to adjust Golfing legend Tiger Woods's swing.", "\"Golfing legend Tiger Woods's had to modify Golfing legend Tiger Woods's swing a little bit to accommodate Golfing legend Tiger Woods's knee but the guy always finds a way,\" Steve Williams said.", "Steve Williams added: \"Nine months out of the game after a major operation is a long time.", "But Golfing legend Tiger Woods's a hell of a competitor and one of the best we've ever seen in this game so I would suspect that Golfing legend Tiger Woods'll carry right on, but time will tell that.\"", "Last month, Woods issued a statement saying that Golfing legend Tiger Woods was practicing and making progress towards at a return to the PGA tour.", "Golfing legend Tiger Woods said after January 1, Golfing legend Tiger Woods started hitting longer irons and Golfing legend Tiger Woods's driver, although was not swinging as hard as Golfing legend Tiger Woods could, adding \"I'm working towards that goal.\"", "Earlier this month Golfing legend Tiger Woods predicted the new addition to the family would make it a \"hectic Spring\" and said that Golfing legend Tiger Woods'd be taking it \"tournament-to-tournament.\"" ]	[ "Golfing legend Tiger Woods poses with Golfing legend Tiger Woods's family, including new son Charlie .", "Charlie Axel Woods was born on February 8, a brother to 20-month-old Sam .", "Golfing legend Tiger Woods had been waiting for Golfing legend Tiger Woods's son's birth before announcing a return to golf .", "World No.1 has been sidelined since June 2008 after undergoing knee surgery ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4 ]
47b691352c8d6d7b51284dd00315e2a33798fc3d	[ "(CNN) --", "At least 23 people died Saturday when a protest rally turned violent outside Madagascar's Presidential Palace, a fire official at the main hospital said.", "People duck to avoid gunfire Saturday in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.", "a fire official at the main hospital said 83 people were injured during the demonstration in the capital city of Antananarivo, according to journalist Dregoire Pourtier, who passed the information to CNN.", "The International Committee of the Red Cross helped at least 18 injured people, press officer Mbola Ramamanana said.", "Brittany Martin, an American who is a Harvard Fellow and lives near the palace, said Martin could hear the crowd cheering amid intermittent gunshots and noises that may have been tear gas canisters.", "iReport.com:", "Are you there?", "\"From the window I can see military cars and ambulances driving by,\" Martin said.", "\"Nothing is up in smoke.", "We know there have been people killed from French and Malagasy news reports.", "\"We can see the back of the president's palace.", "This morning was totally peaceful.", "We knew that Andry [Rajoelina] was unveiling his new government at the May 13th Plaza, which was peaceful,\" Martin said, citing a friend who was there.", "Madagascar's government is in flux.", "President Marc Ravalomanana fired Rajoelina as mayor of Antananarivo and put someone else in the job, but Rajoelina is still technically mayor and claims to head a transitional national government.", "Martin said Martin heard gunshots starting about 2 p.m., after the protesters marched from the plaza to the president's palace.", "Martin said it was unclear where the shots were coming from.", "Some media reports blamed foreign mercenaries for the shootings; others said army guards were responsible or that the army was firing at the mercenaries to protect the crowd.", "Violence in Madagascar began January 26, when protesters stormed state-run television and radio stations in Antananarivo.", "Hours earlier, Madagascar had shut down a radio station owned by Rajoelina and, weeks before, had similarly shut down Rajoelina's television station after Rajoelina's television station aired an interview with ex-President Didier Ratsiraka.", "Rajoelina took power in 2001 after ousting Ratsiraka in a tense, hotly contested election.", "Ratsiraka fled to France afterward.", "Loyalists blame Ratsiraka's family members for inciting the recent trouble.", "There is also anger in Madagascar -- where the World Bank says the average person earns about $320 a year -- over reports that Rajoelina recently bought a $60 million airplane.", "Last Saturday, Rajoelina took to the streets, declaring Rajoelina Madagascar's leader after a week of violence and looting that killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 300.", "Rajoelina urged supporters to demand the resignation of Rajoelina and said Rajoelina planned to take charge until a transition government can be established in Madagascar off Africa's southeastern coast.", "Map » .", "\"What we've been pushing for is dialogue the whole time,\" said Rodney Ford, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy.", "Rodney Ford, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy said Rodney Ford, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy received reports that palace guards used tear gas and shot into the air to try to disperse the crowd.", "\"I don't think anyone wanted violence.\"", "According to the U.S. State Department, Madagascar has about 20 million people with ethnic origins in Africa and Asia.", "Madagascar was administered by the British Empire during much of the 19th century until Madagascar came under the control of France, from which Madagascar gained independence in 1960." ]	[ "Gunfire heard near presidential palace, site of anti-government rally .", "President and fired mayor of capital city are locked in a power struggle .", "Rally started peacefully, American in capital says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 0, 3, 3, 6, 6, 5, 0, 2, 2, 7, 1, 0, 6, 5, 7, 7, 1, 5, 5, 7, 1, 1, 3, 6, 0, 6, 7, 7 ]
ee1ae386430811722a053e3e241f98867b5f9a44	[ "(CNN) --", "An Indiana judge Monday froze the assets of Marcus Schrenker, a suburban Indianapolis financial manager who authorities say tried to fake pilot by crashing his private plane into a Florida swamp.", "pilot exited pilot's small plane before his private plane crashed, and investigators are looking for pilot, police say.", "Investigators looking into pilot's business dealings for possible securities violations requested the temporary restraining order in Hamilton County Superior Court, said Jim Gavin, spokesman for the Indiana Secretary of State.", "Jim Gavin, spokesman for the Indiana Secretary of State said the order, which also applies to pilot's wife, Michelle, and to pilot's three companies, is aimed at protecting investors, and is related to a receivership filing.", "Jim Gavin, spokesman for the Indiana Secretary of State didn't elaborate.", "Heritage Wealth Management, Heritage Insurance Services and Icon Wealth Management are \"the subjects of an active investigation by the Indiana Securities Division,\" Jim Gavin, spokesman for the Indiana Secretary of State said.", "Public documents list pilot as president of Heritage Wealth Management in Fishers, Indiana.", "A search warrant related to the inquiry was served December 31, Jim Gavin, spokesman for the Indiana Secretary of State said.", "According to The Herald Bulletin in Anderson, Indiana, Michelle Schrenker filed for divorce in Hamilton Superior Court on December 30.", "A hearing was set for February 5.", "Schrenker, 38, took off alone Sunday night in a corporate plane, a Piper PA-46, from Anderson, Indiana, en route to Destin, Florida.", "Authorities said the Fisher, Indiana, businessman parachuted to the ground before letting his private plane crash in the Florida panhandle.", "his private plane came down near the Blackwater River, only 50 to 75 yards from homes, said Sgt. Scott Haines of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.", "Watch more about the mysterious flight » .", "\"It is a neighborhood -- some very nice waterfront property,\" he said.", "Military aircraft from Whiting Field, which were dispatched to intercept his private plane after pilot reported an emergency, witnessed the crash about 9:15 p.m. CT.", "The crews fired flares and noticed his private plane's door was open and the cockpit was dark, Haines said in a news release.", "The crews got no response.", "Haines said his private plane appeared to have been put on autopilot at around 2,000 feet, over the Birmingham, Alabama, area, before pilot parachuted to the ground.", "pilot had contacted air traffic controllers, saying that the windshield imploded.", "\"pilot stated that pilot was bleeding profusely,\" a news release said.", "\"Radio contact with his private plane was not able to be established after that point.", "When deputies located his private plane at the crash site, no blood was present and the door to his private plane was open.\"", "The Childersburg, Alabama, Police Department reported that pilot approached one of its officers shortly before 2:30 a.m., \"and said that he had been in a canoeing accident with some friends,\" a news release said.", "Childersburg is about 35 miles southeast of Birmingham.", "Childersburg officers, unaware of the plane crash, took pilot to a hotel in nearby Harpersville.", "After hearing about the plane crash, they went back to the hotel, where they found that pilot had checked into a hotel in nearby Harpersville under a fictitious name.", "\"When authorities entered pilot's room, he was not there,\" the release said.", "Authorities said pilot checked in under a fake name, put on a black cap and fled into a wooded area.", "Hotel manager Yogi Patel, who identified pilot on surveillance video, told CNN that pilot was the only guest overnight.", "He signed in as Jason Galouzs of Bolingbrook, Illinois, Patel said.", "A hotel employee said pilot went up to Schrenker's room, but didn't enter before leaving the building.", "iReport.com:", "Are you near the crash site?", "Tell us about the crash site .", "Steve Darlington, manager of Anderson Municipal Airport, told CNN his private plane was in fine condition at takeoff, and said pilot is \"an accomplished pilot\" who owns \"a couple of airplanes\" and flies regularly.", "No agency has come forward to lead the probe.", "\"The FBI is looking into the matter, along with other agencies,\" said Paul Draymond, of the Birmingham FBI office.", "Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said several factors indicated pilot likely left his private plane before the crash: a \"detailed review of radar data,\" the fact that his private plane was switched to autopilot before his private plane crashed, the sighting by military jet crews and the fact that the cockpit was found mostly intact with no one inside.", "After pilot alerted air traffic controllers about the alleged problems with pilot's plane, authorities tried to persuade pilot to land in Pell City, Alabama, east of Birmingham, Haines said.", "pilot also flew an acrobatic plane, and made a video featured on a YouTube site.", "A message preceding a video featured on a YouTube site warns, \"No pilot should attempt this stunt.", "You will get yourself killed.", "Pilot specially trained to fly unlimited acrobatics and shows.\"", "CNN's Josh Levs contributed to this report." ]	[ "Authorities say pilot tried to fake pilot's own death by crashing pilot's private plane .", "Officials searching for Marcus Schrenker, who Officials say parachuted out of plane .", "Investigators looking into possible securities violations request the restraining order .", "Manager in Alabama says pilot was Manager in Alabama's only guest at hotel overnight ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 4, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 6, 0, 7, 7, 3, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 3, 0, 3, 8, 3, 2, 7, 7, 0, 6, 2, 0, 0, 8, 7, 7, 8, 4 ]
6bd3bdb8737fd3c5a4b0a932c863b5cc7bd1a610	[ "(CNN) --", "Lights went off across the world Saturday as millions of homes and businesses went dark for one hour in a symbolic gesture highlighting concerns over climate change.", "The lights go off Saturday at the Houses of Parliament and the Big Ben clock tower in central London.", "More than 2,800 cities and towns worldwide dimmed More than 2,800 cities and towns worldwide's lights at 8:30 p.m. local time for the third annual Earth Hour -- a day-long energy-saving marathon spanning 83 countries and 24 time zones.", "In New York, the Empire State Building, Central Park and the George Washington Bridge went dark at 8:30 p.m. ET.", "The Philippines topped this year's participation for Asia, with more than 650 communities taking part in the event, according to Earth Hour's Web site.", "The light illuminating the face of the landmark Big Ben clock tower in London, England, went out at 8:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET).", "In Dubai, iReporter Sharad Agarwal turned out the lights and sat down to a candlelit dinner with iReporter Sharad Agarwal's family.", "\"I personally believe in going green and everything that goes with it,\" iReporter Sharad Agarwal told CNN.", "In Australia, floodlights of the Sydney Opera House were extinguished as the city's iconic harbor kicked off events for Earth Hour.", "the event's Web site reported that hundreds of people lined the city's iconic harbor for a glimpse of the dimming skyline at 8:30 pm.", "Sydney became the birthplace of the Earth Hour campaign in 2007 when 2.2 million turned off their lights, igniting a grass-roots movement that has become a global phenomenon.", "In China, illuminations at major buildings including the \"Bird's Nest\" Olympic Stadium and the Water Cube were extinguished as 20 cities joined in, according to the official Xinhua news agency.", "Other landmarks around the world expected to join the event were the Egyptian pyramids, Vatican, Niagara Falls, the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, the Acropolis in Athens and the Las Vegas casino strip.", "CNN iReporter Marie Sager of Los Angeles, California, said Sager planned to hike up to the Griffith Observatory to experience the event.", "\"A good portion of the city is participating.", "We'll see the Capital Records sign go out.", "A lot of these places haven't turned out A lot of these places's lights in awhile,\" Sager said.", "Event sponsors hoped participating U.S. cities would set an example for the rest of the world.", "Watch actor Edward Norton and Carter Roberts of the World Wildlife Fund discuss the event » .", "\"the World Wildlife Fund think the World Wildlife Fund are going to have 100 million people around the world sending a message that climate change is real, and the World Wildlife Fund need to take action now,\" the World Wildlife Fund CEO Carter Roberts told CNN.", "\"the world is watching to see what America is going to do,\" World Wildlife Fund CEO Carter Roberts said, \"because if America acts on climate change, the world will follow.\"", "Earth Hour events got off to an unofficial start in the remote Chatham Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean where locals switched off locals's diesel generators, organizers said.", "Shortly afterward, 44 New Zealand cities and town joined in the event.", "Organizers say Organizers hope the event will send a message to world leaders meeting Copenhagen, Denmark, in December for a major summit on climate change.", "\"We are asking one billion people to take part in what is essentially the first global vote for action on climate change by turning off one billion people's lights for one hour and casting a vote for earth,\" said executive director Andy Ridley." ]	[ "Lights go out over Sydney Harbor as city launches Earth Hour .", "650 communities in Philippines flip the switch .", "Millions of homes and businesses were expected to join event .", "Organizers hope event will send message on climate change to world leaders ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 2 ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 2 ]
c15231a64b8de48ee45653b6554703c3dcef2880	[ "(CNN) --", "Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted four times on Friday, shooting ash as high as 51,000 feet, scientists said.", "A series of eruptions has been rattling Alaska's Mount Redoubt since Sunday.", "The latest eruption took place at 8:30 p.m. (12:30 a.m. Saturday ET), according to the National Weather Service.", "The latest eruption followed three other ones earlier Friday.", "The eruptions are the latest in a series that began Sunday.", "The Alaska Volcano Observatory said the alert level remains at its highest possible designation -- red -- indicating that an eruption is under way or imminent and that the eruption will produce a \"significant emission of volcanic ash into the atmosphere.\"", "the National Weather Service said the ash is drifting north and northeast.", "However, only \"very light\" amounts are expected to fall Friday in the Anchorage area, about 100 miles east-northeast of Alaska's Mount Redoubt.", "Alaska Airlines limited flights to and from Anchorage on Friday, according to Alaska Airlines's Web site.", "Alaska Airlines canceled all Alaska Airlines's Thursday flights to and from Anchorage after an eruption earlier in the day sent an ash cloud 65,000 feet high." ]	[ "NEW: Four eruptions jolt Alaska's Mount Redoubt on Friday .", "Alert level remains at highest possible designation .", "Alaska's Mount Redoubt has been erupting since Sunday .", "Alaska Airlines limits Friday flights to and from Anchorage ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 0, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2 ]
aafa72a022f766ddf7c9d40716d106c44ca0d64b	[ "(CNN) --", "Mother Nature provided a little bit of everything in several parts of the country on Saturday.", "Vehicles jam a buckled road in Mobile, Alabama, on Saturday after heavy rains.", "Heavy winds wreaked havoc on a shopping center in central Tennessee, blowing out windows and damaging the roof, Murfreesboro police spokesman Kyle Evans told CNN Radio.", "Glass storefronts at a shopping center in central Tennessee were blown out 100 to 150 yards into the parking lot, Murfreesboro police spokesman Kyle Evans said.", "Murfreesboro police spokesman Kyle Evans said three people were treated for minor injuries from flying glass and metal.", "Residents in northwest Murfreesboro lost power Saturday night and police warned residents to stay indoors until traffic caused by the incident cleared up.", "Elsewhere, a blizzard dumped more than 2 feet of snow in parts of the Plains on Saturday.", "a blizzard cut power, stranding drivers and prompting governors in Kansas and Oklahoma to issue disaster declarations.", "The heaviest snow and ice accumulated in south central and southwest Kansas.", "In Pratt County, 28 inches of snow fell, with snowdrifts reported up to 6 feet deep.", "At least nine other counties reported 2 feet of snow, the Kansas Adjutant General's office said.", "About 17,000 customers in Kansas lost electricity, more than half of those in Sedgwick County.", "The storm left some travelers stranded and in need of last-minute hotel accommodations, according to the front desk manager at the Econolodge in McPherson.", "\"We have two honeymoon suites open, but other than that we're fully booked.", "We normally have 84 rooms,\" iReporter Sally Kelley said.", "The housekeepers who made it to work were all outside shoveling, but The housekeepers who made it to work struggled to keep up with the snow as it continued falling Saturday afternoon.", "\"We haven't had people getting mad at us.", "The people have been great but I think The people're really frustrated.\"", "the Kansas Adjutant General's office said whiteout conditions and blowing snow made driving hazardous.", "The Kansas Department of Transportation shut down several roads in the western and south central part of the state.", "National Guard Humvees were used to move medical personnel and patients to a hospital in Seward County.", "In Oklahoma, where more than a foot of snow fell, Gov. Brad Henry declared a state of emergency in 50 counties.", "The Kansas Department of Transportation had several roads blocked in the state and others remained impassable.", "\"The only people who can get out of their driveways have 4-wheel drive,\" said iReporter Mark Rennie of Alva, Oklahoma.", "Meanwhile, rain along the Gulf Coast battered areas around Mobile, Alabama, and Biloxi, Mississippi.", "Watch how the rain is blocking roads in Mobile, Alabama » .", "Mobile County Emergency Management Director Walter Dickerson said 4 to 6 inches of rain fell on already saturated ground.", "Fifteen to 20 roads around Mobile were closed, and several people had to be rescued after flash flooding trapped several people's cars.", "In Mobile, heavy rains caused a section of roadway to collapse.", "Three cars ended up in a large sinkhole, including one vehicle that landed on top of another.", "No serious injuries were reported.", "Mobile County Emergency Management Director Walter Dickerson said a temporary shelter may be opened for residents displaced by the high waters.", "In nearby Baldwin County, Alabama, an apartment complex was evacuated and some main roads were closed.", "The main roadway leading into Biloxi, the Interstate 10 loop, was closed for several hours early Saturday before waters receded and allowed traffic to resume.", "But more than a dozen other roads around Harrison County remained blocked.", "Roads were also impassable in some parts of the Florida Panhandle.", "Officials in the Atlanta, Georgia, metro area, which was under flood watches and warnings, were keeping an eye on surging rivers and creeks." ]	[ "Strong winds damage Tennessee shopping center .", "Blizzard drops more than 2 feet of snow, strands travelers in Kansas, Oklahoma .", "Mobile, Alabama, and Biloxi, Mississippi, regions hardest hit by rain ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 3, 2, 0, 0, 4, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 6, 6, 6, 3, 7, 7, 1, 8, 6, 1, 8, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 6, 5, 8, 8, 8, 2 ]
abe27f9d3cd635e432e0129b2bdae168f6c22aa9	[ "MALMO, Sweden (CNN) --", "The breathy vocals of Cardigans' singer helped launch The Cardigans onto the music scene in the 1990s.", "The band developed The band's dreamy pop sound in the Southern Swedish town of MALMO.", "Cardigans' singer finds musical inspiration in love and relationships.", "The band were catapulted to international success in 1997, when the single \"Lovefool\" appeared on the soundtrack for \"Romeo and Juliet,\" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.", "The song's chorus (\"Love me, love me, say that you love me\") became a pop anthem.", "In addition to fronting The Cardigans, Cardigans' singer, 34, has worked on solo projects under the name A Camp.", "Now, after a near decade long hiatus, Cardigans' singer's second A Camp album, \"Colonia,\" is due out later this month.", "Persson, who splits Cardigans' singer's time between New York and MALMO, talks to CNN's \"My City, My Life\" about music, inspiration and life after \"Lovefool.\"", "CNN:", "How did The band start?", "Cardigans' singer:", "The band formed The band in this town where The band are all originally from -- Jonkoping -- and that was in 1992.", "Magnus and Peter were the two guys who actually met and wanted to form The band.", "And then Magnus and Peter recruited people and I was one of the first to be recruited, along with a friend of mine who played guitar in the first version of The band.", "I had not sung before that really.", "I was sort of hired because Magnus and Peter knew Magnus and Peter wanted a girl singing.", "And I was like 'I'm a girl' and I guess we got along well and I was willing to learn to sing.", "So that's how it started really.", "Watch Cardigans' singer take CNN on a tour of Cardigans' singer's favorite Malmo spots » .", "CNN:", "How big was music in your life before you joined The band?", "Cardigans' singer:", "I've loved music my whole life.", "But I never really listened to a record and thought that was something that I wanted to do.", "I was interested in becoming a painter, an architect, a designer.", "Those are the things I was interested in.", "But music, I never took instrument classes -- it was a random thing to start doing.", "CNN:", "Sometime a career finds you?", "Cardigans' singer:", "Yeah and I was a person who was really helped by it.", "I was looking for something but I didn't know what it was and it proved to fulfill what I needed at the time.", "CNN:", "How is A Camp different from The band?", "Cardigans' singer:", "It's hard to say what makes it different because I'm still doing the same thing -- I'm still writing songs and singing songs -- but it feels like it's a bigger freedom because I am in charge in A Camp.", "I like both.", "Both serve good purposes.", "I like to be in the collective, being part of the machinery, but I also really enjoy being dictator.", "CNN:", "How do you define yourself as a musician now?", "Cardigans' singer:", "Well I'm not.", "I'm not one of these people who live and breathe music.", "In the beginning I was a reluctant musician -- I still haven't bothered to learn an instrument.", "I'm still only a singer and that's how I write my songs.", "I'm always superstitious that if I do learn an instrument I would pop the bubble a bit.", "CNN:", "Is there anything else you would have liked to have done if you hadn't done singing?", "Cardigans' singer:", "At the time when I was found, picked up by The band, I was into art.", "I was really good at drawing, really creative.", "I made stuff, I built stuff, I sewed stuff.", "I thought I would end up in that world somewhere.", "Photography was a big thing for Cardigans' singer.", "In retrospect, I'm sure that could have been a good career for Cardigans' singer.", "But recently I've started to wish that I could start over and dedicate my life to medicine.", "I would have loved to go to med school.", "I don't think I will because I don't want to spend seven or eight years in training, but I dream about working in a hospital.", "CNN:", "What were your inspirations over the years?", "Cardigans' singer:", "That's an incredibly difficult question to answer, but I think I'm a sucker for constantly going back to the subject of love and relationships.", "It also varies very much from project to project and month to month.", "I'm very emotional when it comes to the music.", "I want to make people cry.", "CNN:", "Tell us the story of how The band ended up in MALMO.", "See photos of Nina in Malmo » .", "Cardigans' singer:", "The band moved here because The band started to record in Tambourine Studios which was here.", "Most studios are in Stockholm so sort of all roads wanted to drag The band to Stockholm but The band did persist and came here.", "CNN:", "When you came to MALMO, what was it like starting out in the early days?", "Cardigans' singer:", "The band's parents helped The band move down here which was really sweet.", "Our parents sort of dropped The band off and waved goodbye and The band moved in.", "The band really did hang out, the five of The band, quite exclusively in the beginning.", "CNN:", "What was the area like back then?", "Has the area changed?", "Cardigans' singer:", "Well actually the area where I now live hasn't changed that much.", "A lot of MALMO has moved away from the blue collar past MALMO has, but not the area.", "the area has strangely remained the same, and I like the area.", "CNN:", "Do you think the gritty atmosphere of MALMO has helped you stay grounded?", "Cardigans' singer:", "Well it's hard to say how much has to do with the people The band are or how much to do with MALMO.", "But there certainly is something here that does not encourage big headedness.", "CNN:", "The musical heritage of MALMO is quite rocky.", "How did you guys fit in?", "Cardigans' singer:", "People thought The band were really ridiculous when The band came to this totally rock place and played pop music.", "So The band didn't fit in at all --", "The band were never part of the scene here.", "CNN:", "You were happy to be outsiders of The musical heritage of Malmo?", "Cardigans' singer: I think The band felt sort of cool about doing The band's own thing.", "The band thought The band knew something that the others didn't understand.", "CNN:", "Is there something about MALMO that helps shape your music or influence you?", "Cardigans' singer: I think MALMO did have a big influence on The band.", "Obviously The band came here for the sound, and The band got the sound The band wanted.", "The band were away from the industry -- that was great for The band.", "I really did appreciate being in a place where there is not a lot whole of press and industry.", "Nina takes .", "CNN:", "So you also live in New York.", "What brings you back to MALMO?", "Cardigans' singer:", "For Cardigans' singer, I love MALMO very much because of my friendships.", "In MALMO I get the intimacy and get to run into my friends in the street once in a while which is a lovely feeling and I get to have a great grocery store just around the corner.", "CNN:", "If MALMO was a person, what kind of person would it be?", "Cardigans' singer: It would be somebody who has been around for a while and survived a lot of hardships -- somebody you don't mess with, somebody really intelligent, stubborn, with a lot of beauty on the inside." ]	[ "Cardigans' singer discusses Malmo, the group's adopted hometown .", "The band moved to the Southern Swedish city for a particular sound, Cardigans' singer says .", "Cardigans' singer talks about the \"bigger freedom\" that comes with Cardigans' singer's solo projects .", "Inspired by love and relationships, Cardigans' singer wants Cardigans' singer's music \"to make people cry\"" ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 1 ]	[ 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 0, 4, 5, 6, 5, 7, 7, 8, 7, 8, 9, 0, 4, 10, 6, 10, 8, 11, 12, 10, 4, 12, 6, 12, 12, 4, 13, 6, 13, 14, 14, 14, 4, 10, 6, 9, 10, 10, 8, 10, 4, 8, 6, 10, 15, 15, 12, 1, 1, 11, 11, 11, 4, 15, 6, 15, 9, 10, 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7fd6d5bf3dd9afb2816b0eb7891b2ece01132d42	[ "(CNN) --", "A fishing boat carrying two NFL players and two other men capsized last month because it was improperly anchored, a Florida agency reported Friday.", "Nick Schuyler clings to an overturned boat in this Coast Guard photo.", "One man survived; the other three are still missing.", "Raiders' linebacker Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith and former University of South Florida players William Bleakley and Nick Schuyler went overboard February 28 during a fishing trip.", "Nick Schuyler survived the accident, which happened 35 miles west of St. Petersburg, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico.", "The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said the men were unable to pull up the anchor of the men's boat to head back to port.", "Cooper tried to rev their boat forward to free the anchor of their boat, but the 21-foot single engine craft then capsized.", "The report said that the \"improper anchoring\" to a portside bracket, the attempt to throttle their boat forward to release the anchor of their boat,and the \"failure to leave enough slack anchor line to compensate for top-water Gulf conditions\" caused the accident.", "Nick Schuyler told Nick Schuyler's rescuers that their boat was anchored in the evening when their boat was overturned by waves during a storm.", "Nick Schuyler told them that the men were clinging to their boat for a time, but became separated.", "the men embarked in a 21-foot single-engine boat from the Seminole Boat Ramp near Clearwater Pass about 6:30 a.m. February 28, the Coast Guard said." ]	[ "Florida agency rules bad anchoring, revving engine made boat capsize .", "Raiders' Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith, William Bleakley missing .", "Nick Schuyler survived the February 28 accident in Gulf of Mexico ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0 ]
ee3b71da1cf9ff9516460eca5d5d997bb560c4fa	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "Kaka is at the subject of negotiations about a salary that could see Kaka earn nearly 95 times more than what Barack Obama will be paid when Kaka enters the White House.", "Pay rise:", "Kaka could soon be earning $726,000 per week .", "Reports circulated Wednesday that the AC Milan midfielder is being offered a £500,000 ($726,000) per WEEK salary by English Premier League club Manchester City.", "A statement on Italy's Mediaset Web site appeared to suggest Kaka will turn down the offer, however Manchester City officials insist the talks are ongoing.", "Even if Kaka declines the move, the offer is far beyond the pay for many other high-profile jobs.", "For example, the U.S. President receives about $7690 per week, while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown receives around $5233.", "What do you think of these salaries?", "Should footballers be paid more than world leaders?", "Tell us in the Sound Off box below.", "A comparison of a variety of salaries shows just how highly footballers, and professional sportsmen and women are paid in relation to other jobs.", "Even current football salaries dwarf the pay for most executive positions and public offices.", "WEEKLY INCOME (approximate) U.S. President: $7690 .", "British PM Gordon Brown: $5233 .", "Band 5 nurse in Britain: $567 .", "Director", "-General of BBC: $22,800 .", "Average U.S. teacher: $915 .", "Cristiano Ronaldo: $177,345 .", "Lewis Hamilton: $391,593 .", "Kaka's reported offer: $726,881 .", "If Kaka's deal does proceed, Kaka will earn more than triple the Premier League's current highest-paid player, Robinho.", "The Brazilian, also with Manchester City, earns approximately $232,580 per week.", "Manchester City is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, a man believed to be worth about $22 billion -- so funding the salary shouldn't be a problem.", "Kaka's current salary at AC Milan was believed to be about $208,000 per week." ]	[ "European media reports suggest Kaka is being offered a $726,000 weekly pay .", "The U.S. President earns about $7690 per week (plus other benefits)", "World Footballer of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo is paid $177,000 a week ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 4, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 4, 5, 3, 5, 5, 1, 1, 4, 3, 1, 4, 2, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0 ]
b17122a9fba69c19dfeb4b7b5aea8f27e691e495	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "BBC is refusing to broadcast a plea from leading British charities for aid to Gaza, saying Gaza would compromise BBC's appearance of impartiality.", "Demonstrators protest at BBC's central London offices Saturday against BBC's decision.", "BBC prompted weekend protests in England and Scotland, with one group saying Sunday that 100 people had occupied the foyer of the BBC building in Glasgow, Scotland and would not leave until BBC runs Gaza.", "The Disasters Emergency Committee, which includes the British Red Cross, Oxfam, Save the Children and 10 other charities, plans to launch Gaza on Monday.", "British broadcasters, led by BBC, originally declined to air the appeal -- but in the face of criticism from government ministers and others, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 changed their minds.", "CNN was not approached to broadcast Gaza, a DEC spokesman said.", "About 5,000 people demonstrated in front of BBC's Broadcasting House in central London on Saturday over the broadcaster's stance.", "Seven people were arrested.", "Watch protest against BBC decision » .", "In Glasgow, the London-based Stop the War Coalition said Sunday the London-based Stop the War Coalition's supporters had moved into the foyer of the BBC building in what the London-based Stop the War Coalition described as a peaceful protest.", "the London-based Stop the War Coalition did not plan to move beyond the foyer of the BBC building but intended to stay there until BBC changes BBC's decision, said Keith Boyd, a coalition member who called CNN on Sunday.", "\"Primarily we are asking that Gaza be shown,\" Keith Boyd, a coalition member who called CNN on Sunday said.", "The BBC press office would not confirm whether its Glasgow office was being occupied or if protesters were even there.", "\"We don't comment on individual demonstrations,\" a statement from The BBC press office said.", "BBC is standing by BBC's decision to not air Gaza, director general Mark Thompson wrote in a blog post on the corporation's Web site.", "\"BBC concluded that BBC could not broadcast a free-standing appeal, no matter how carefully constructed, without running the risk of reducing public confidence in BBC's impartiality in BBC's wider coverage of Gaza,\" director general Mark Thompson wrote Saturday.", "\"Inevitably an appeal would use pictures which are the same or similar to those BBC would be using in BBC's news programs but would do so with the objective of encouraging public donations.", "The danger for BBC is that this could be interpreted as taking a political stance on an ongoing story,\" director general Mark Thompson said.", "\"Gaza remains a major ongoing news story, in which humanitarian issues -- the suffering and distress of civilians and combatants on both sides of the conflict, the debate about who is responsible for causing it and what should be done about it -- are both at the heart of Gaza and contentious,\" he added.", "The BBC, which is funded by an obligatory license fee paid by every BBC household with a television, is required by BBC's charter to be impartial.", "BBC does not carry commercial advertising but does broadcast charity appeals.", "The DEC is \"disappointed that BBC declined to support the Gaza appeal,\" the spokesman told CNN.", "\"It might limit the reach of DEC's key message to the general public.\"", "The spokesman, who asked not to be named, said BBC had to make BBC's own decision about impartiality.", "\"That is a decision they must make.", "DEC have no view on that subject,\" he said.", "Many readers of director general Mark Thompson's blog post did have a view, however.", "The statement got hundreds of comments, most of hundreds of comments critical of BBC.", "A commenter who signed in as \"bully--baiter\" said BBC was taking a side, no matter what BBC did.", "\"Sorry director general Mark Thompson but you cannot have it both ways.", "If deciding to accede to the DEC request would be seen as political then deciding not to accede to the DEC request is also political.", "Don't insult me with your disingenuous attempts to suggest it is otherwise,\" the commenter wrote.", "Other commenters simply rejected director general Mark Thompson's position out of hand.", "\"I think the reasons for blocking help for a grave humanitarian disaster are simply astounding,\" \"brit--proud\" wrote.", "\"How can simply bringing food, medicines and homes to hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians be seen as political impartiality?", "How stupid do BBC think the British public are?\"", "But BBC had BBC's defenders as well.", "\"The last thing I want to do, is fund BBC to broadcast propaganda,\" \"SternG\" wrote: \"There's no way I will pay BBC to air the DEC's politically-motivated 'appeal' for Gaza.", "Gaza is run by a government which is internationally recognized as a terrorist group, including by the EU.", "There is no doubt that some aid/fund will be 'procured' by Hamas.", "... Good decision BBC.\"", "British broadcasters have refused to air some previous DEC appeals, the umbrella organization's spokesman said.", "A planned 2006 appeal for aid to victims of the war in Lebanon was scrapped because \"there were genuine concerns, shared by the aid agencies, about the deliverability of aid.\"", "Thompson cited doubts about whether DEC members could get aid to Gaza as a secondary reason for declining to take the ad." ]	[ "NEW: Protesters occupy part of BBC building in Scotland, group says .", "U.K. charity group Disasters Emergency Committee to launch appeal for Gaza aid .", "BBC refuses to broadcast Gaza, says would compromise appearance of impartiality .", "BBC, funded by obligatory license fee, is required by charter to be impartial ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 2 ]	[ 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 3, 4, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 5, 3, 2, 2, 2, 5, 2, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 5, 5, 3, 5, 3, 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 3, 5 ]
f8a9d2d9f3abd4973d8bd55db37db91766d6c318	[ "Men who are circumcised are less likely to get sexually transmitted infections such as genital herpes and human papillomavirus (HPV), but not syphilis, according to a study of adult African men published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.", "Circumcision rates have traditionally been higher in the U.S. than in Europe, but Circumcision rates've been on the decline.", "The finding adds to the evidence that there are health benefits to circumcision.", "It was already known that circumcision can reduce the risk of penile cancer, a relatively rare disease.", "In a previous study, the same research team found that adult circumcision could reduce the risk of HIV infection.", "Efforts to increase the practice of male circumcision in areas with high rates of sexually transmitted infections, including Africa, could have a tremendous benefit, say the study's authors.", "Genital herpes has been associated with an increased risk of HIV, and HPV can cause genital warts as well as a higher risk of anal, cervical (in women), and penile cancers.", "Health.com:", "Is your partner cheating?", "How to protect yourself .", "In the U.S., infant circumcision is declining.", "About 64 percent of American male infants were circumcised in 1995, down from more than 90 percent in the 1970s.", "Rates tend to be higher in whites (81percent) than in blacks (65 percent) or Hispanics (54 percent).", "Some opponents say the removal of the foreskin is an unnecessary surgical procedure that may reduce sexual sensitivity in adulthood.", "In Jewish and Muslim cultures, young or infant boys are routinely circumcised for religious reasons.", "Circumcision rates have traditionally been higher in the U.S. than in Europe, but the American Academy of Pediatrics currently says that the medical benefits are insufficient to recommend circumcision for all baby boys.", "In the new study, a research team at the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Uganda -- in collaboration with researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and Makerere University in Uganda -- conducted two clinical trials involving 3,393 uncircumcised men ages 15 to 49.", "3,393 uncircumcised men were negative for HIV and genital herpes (also known as herpes simplex virus type 2); a subgroup of men also tested negative for HPV.", "Roughly half of 3,393 uncircumcised men underwent medically supervised circumcision at the start of the trial, while the other half were circumcised two years later.", "Overall, circumcision reduced the men's risk of genital herpes by 28 percent (10.3 percent of uncircumcised men developed genital herpes compared with 7.8 percent of circumcised men) and HPV infection by 35 percent (27.8 percent of uncircumcised men were infected with HPV compared with 18 percent of circumcised men).", "Circumcision did not, however, protect against syphilis.", "(About 2 percent of men in both groups contracted syphilis.)", "Health.com:", "A sexual risk taker comes to terms with drinking, depression, and STDs .", "Study coauthor Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., professor of global health at Johns Hopkins University, says that choosing circumcision, whether it's the parents of an infant or an adult male for himself, is and should remain an individual decision.", "\"But the critics need to really look at the benefits versus the risks,\" he adds.", "\"By now a large body of evidence has shown that the health benefits clearly outweigh the minor risk associated with the surgery.", "In our study, we didn't see any adverse effects or mutilation.", "We're recommending supervised, safe, sterile environments -- not circumcision out in an open field with rusty instruments.\"", "Increasing circumcision rates in Africa may not only help men, but would likely protect women too, possibly lowering the rates of female cervical cancer, the authors say.", "Ronald H. Gray, M.D., professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University and study coauthor, says that the researchers plan to look at whether male circumcision reduces the transmission of HPV to female sexual partners.", "Health.com: 10 questions to ask a new partner before having sex .", "Even in the United States, our study has relevance, says Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (which funded one of the trials).", "\"In this country, circumcision for infant boys remains a personal decision for the parents,\" Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (which funded one of the trials) says.", "\"This makes us rethink whether doctors should be more aggressive in recommending that it at least be considered.", "If parents say no just because generations before parents have said no, parents should learn more about the significant health benefits before making that choice.\"", "Roughly three-quarters of U.S. adults have had at least one HPV infection, according to an editorial by Matthew R. Golden, M.D., and Judith N. Wasserheit, M.D., both of the University of Washington.", "Although vaccines against some of the most dangerous HPV strains have been approved for girls ages 13 to 26, vaccines against some of the most dangerous HPV strains are expensive and routine Pap tests are still necessary to pick up cervical cancers.", "Health.com: How to tell your ex you have an STD .", "Golden and Wasserheit note that \"rates of circumcision are declining and are lowest among black and Hispanic patients, groups in whom rates of HIV, herpes, and cervical cancer are disproportionately high.\"", "Medicaid, which insures many low-income patients in these populations, does not pay for routine infant circumcision in 16 states.", "The study authors hope that this growing evidence in favor of circumcision will persuade policy-making bodies, both in the United States and in other countries, to officially recommend the procedure -- which could make patient education and insurance coverage more likely.", "It's not clear why circumcision may affect infection rates.", "But The study authors suggest that penile foreskin may provide a moist, favorable environment for herpes and HPV to survive and enter cells on the skin's surface.", "Once penile foreskin is surgically removed, the risk of infection may be reduced.", "Health.com:", "Men can lose Men's sex drives too .", "Men also note, however, that male circumcision is not completely effective in preventing sexually transmitted infections.", "Safe sex practices, including consistent condom use, are still necessary to provide the best protection.", "Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .", "Copyright Health Magazine 2009 ." ]	[ "Study: Circumcision reduces risk of HPV infection and herpes, but not syphilis .", "Circumcision known to reduce risk of HIV infection and penile cancer .", "64 percent of American baby boys circumcised in '95, down from 90 percent in 70s ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 0, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 3, 4, 5, 2, 2, 4, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 3, 4, 2, 6, 6, 6, 1, 1, 0, 5, 6, 2, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 3, 4, 1, 5, 4, 6 ]
01e9f168bef2efb6ed4200a8eaf1c89df48042c5	[ "(CNN) --", "Two leading Jewish watchdog groups are denouncing a prominent cartoonist's illustration about Israel's offensive in Gaza, saying The cartoon uses anti-Semitic imagery.", "The cartoon was published Wednesday in newspapers and on the Internet.", "The Anti-Defamation League, which has been fighting Anti- since Anti- was founded in 1913, called the syndicated cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning Pat Oliphant \"hideously anti-Semitic.\"", "The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which, among other things, fights anti-Semitism and educates people about the Holocaust, said \"the cartoon mimics the venomous anti-Semitic propaganda of the Nazi and Soviet eras.\"", "Published Wednesday in newspapers and on the Internet, The cartoon shows the small figure of a woman, labeled Gaza, carrying a child.", "a child is being pursued by a headless, jackbooted figure wielding a sword, marching in an apparent goose-step and pushing a fanged Jewish star on a wheel.", "The Anti-Defamation League said The cartoon used \"Nazi-like imagery\" and a \"hateful evocation of the Star of David.\"", "Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director, said The cartoon's \"outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic.\"", "\"It employs Nazi imagery by portraying Israel as a jack-booted, goose-stepping headless apparition,\" Foxman said.", "\"The implication is of an Israeli policy without a head or a heart.", "Israel's defensive military operation to protect the lives of Israel's men, women and children who are being continuously bombarded by Hamas rocket attacks has been turned on its head to show the victims as heartless, headless aggressors.\"", "The Wiesenthal Center, which also issued The Wiesenthal Center's statement Wednesday, said The Wiesenthal Center urged The New York Times Web site and other Web sites to remove The cartoon.", "\"There is nothing about Oliphant's cartoon not meant to denigrate and demonize Israel, from the headless goose-stepping soldier to the horrific depiction of the Star of David about to devour a cowering innocent Gazan woman holding a baby,\" Rabbi Marvin Hier, the group's dean, and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the group's associate dean, said in a joint statement.", "\"The imagery in this cartoon mimics the venomous anti-Semitic propaganda of the Nazi and Soviet eras.", "It is cartoons like this that inspired millions of people to hate in the 1930's and help set the stage for the Nazi genocide,\" a joint statement said.", "A spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Oliphant's work, issued a statement defending Oliphant, saying Oliphant, \"like all editorial cartoonists, uses Oliphant's art to comment on important issues of the day widely reported in the worldwide media -- in this case, the conflict over Gaza.", "That Oliphant's cartoons sometimes spark intense debate is a testament to Oliphant's talent.\"", "Universal said no media outlet had informed the syndicate that Universal removed The cartoon, but \"Oliphant's clients are not contractually bound to inform us.\"", "A New York Times spokeswoman said, \"We did not run The cartoon in the newspaper, nor do we plan to do so.\"", "A New York Times spokeswoman said NYTimes.com has, by contract with uclick.com, an \"Oliphant\" button on the cartoons page.", "\"Yesterday, those who clicked on it saw the cartoon you mentioned, which is now relegated to the Oliphant archive,\" A New York Times spokeswoman said.", "Imagery and rhetoric comparing Israel to Nazis have been deployed by Israel's persistent critics, who decry the Jewish state's treatment of Palestinians as oppressive and brutal.", "Israel and Israel's supporters defend Israel as humane and say Israel has properly defended Israel against attacks.", "There has been sharp criticism of Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza who launched rockets into southern Israeli towns.", "Human Rights Watch said Wednesday the Israeli military's firing of white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas during Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza who launched rockets into southern Israeli towns \"was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes,\" a claim denied by Israel.", "Israel has said that Hamas militants situated Hamas militants among civilians during Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza who launched rockets into southern Israeli towns.", "Oliphant, who won the Pulitzer in 1967, has been a dominant figure in the editorial cartoon world.", "Oliphant's work has been distributed since 1980 by Universal Press Syndicate, which calls the Australian native one of the \"sharpest, most daring practitioners\" among editorial cartoonists.", "Oliphant has received many honors, and Oliphant's cartoons have been exhibited across the world.", "\"In 1998, the Library of Congress commemorated the acquisition of 60 of Oliphant's works with a special exhibition at the Library's Great Hall,\" according to an Oliphant biography on the Universal Web site.", "This isn't the first time Oliphant's cartoons have drawn criticism.", "The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in 2005 \"wrote to the San Francisco Chronicle and Universal Press Syndicate to communicate concern over racist depictions of Arabs,\" according to the group's Web site, and the Asian American Journalists Association criticized offensive stereotypes in cartoons in 1999, 2001 and 2007.", "Debates over offensive editorial cartoons are not uncommon.", "Keith Woods, dean of faculty at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school in St. Petersburg, Florida, was asked to comment on the reaction to The cartoon, whether The cartoon was improper, and at what point in the editorial process an editor can say a product has gone too far.", "He said he understands the positions the Jewish groups and Israeli policy critics bring to the table.", "He said he believes Oliphant is saying that \"Israel is behaving toward the Palestinians the way the Nazis behaved toward the Jews\" and that Oliphant is stating an opinion shared by many in the Middle East and the world.", "\"I believe that like the caricatures they are, editorial cartoons by their nature exaggerate their messages, so I don't think Oliphant is suggesting a one-to-one comparison.", "So I get the message, instead, that Israel is acting brutally toward the Palestinians.\"", "He also believes the ADL and the Wiesenthal Center \"are saying that The cartoon is at least doing unintentional harm (if not more calculated harm).\"", "\"I see their point.", "There are symbols -- and the Nazi extermination of the Jews is surely one of them -- that can only truly be analogized to their equals.", "Unadulterated evil compared with unadulterated evil.", "Israel's ongoing battles with Israel's Arab neighbors may be many things, but it is not The Final Solution.\"", "As for the question of how news organizations should handle and discuss such a cartoon, Woods said that \"Oliphant clearly has the right to provoke or offend.", "The question for Oliphant is: Do you truly wish to conflate a complex, historic conflict with one of the most evil acts in history?", "And for the newspapers that carry The cartoon -- and their behavior here is equally open to critique -- do you wish to perpetuate such a comparison?\"" ]	[ "NEW:", "Cartoon's distributor defends cartoonist, cites his talent to stir debate .", "Work by Pulitzer-winning cartoonist shows jack-booted figure, Jewish star with fangs .", "Anti-Defamation League, Simon Wiesenthal Center say it uses anti-Semitic imagery .", "Critics compare Israeli actions to Nazi aggression; Israel says Israel must defended Israel ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0, 2, 3 ]	[ 0, 2, 4, 2, 2, 4, 0, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1, 2, 1, 1, 6, 6, 1, 3, 2, 6, 2, 6, 3, 1, 6, 1 ]
b29cc3ceee57628db7273c4055c1f8bcaeed5181	[ "(CNN) --", "Faith Hill will sing \"America the Beautiful\" during the pregame show at Super Bowl next month, according to the National Football League.", "Faith Hill is a Grammy Award-winning artist and the voice of \"Sunday Night Football's\" theme song.", "The NFL announced Wednesday that Jennifer Hudson will deliver national anthem before the start of Super Bowl XLIII on February 1.", "The NFL already had announced that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band would perform at halftime at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.", "Hill, a Grammy Award-winning artist and the voice of the theme song for NBC's \"Sunday Night Football,\" delivered national anthem before Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2000.", "The only other artists who have sung \"America the Beautiful\" before a Super Bowl are Vikki Carr (Super Bowl XI), Ray Charles (Super Bowl XXXV) and Alicia Keys (Super Bowl XXXIX).", "The 2009 Super Bowl will be broadcast in 230 countries and territories, The NFL said.", "More than 148 million American viewers watched the 2008 game, The NFL said." ]	[ "Faith Hill is the voice of theme song of NBC's \"Sunday Night Football\"", "Jennifer Hudson will deliver national anthem before the start of Super Bowl .", "Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band also will perform at halftime .", "Super Bowl will be broadcast February 1 ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2 ]
4671c88cec3719d2ca604d320326ff6203e34484	[ "(CNN) --", "Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Friday Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich intends to resign as attorney for embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the criminal case against Illinois.", "Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment trial is scheduled to start on Monday.", "\"I never require a client to do what I say but I do require a client to at least listen to what I say.", "... I wish Illinois good luck and godspeed,\" Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said in brief remarks to reporters.", "Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich would not elaborate on Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's reasons for withdrawing from the case or any conversations Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich had with Illinois about Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's leaving the criminal case against the governor.", "Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich had headed Illinois's defense team since soon after Illinois was arrested on December 9 on federal corruption charges.", "Among other allegations, federal prosecutors said Illinois tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Obama.", "Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich represented Illinois during proceedings in the Illinois state House in which legislators voted to impeach Illinois.", "But on January 16, the U.S. attorney's office in the Northern District of Illinois said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich would not represent Illinois in his state Senate impeachment trial.", "No explanation was given.", "Illinois has denied any wrongdoing and said the House impeachment vote was politically motivated. Watch Illinois ask for fair trial » .", "On Thursday, Illinois called Blagojevich's impeachment trial \"a sham\" and said Senate is not allowing Illinois to call witnesses in the trial, which is scheduled to begin Monday.", "The Chicago Tribune reported that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's inability to call witnesses or to know the identities of some parties in alleged schemes made it impossible to defend Illinois in Blagojevich's impeachment trial.", "After Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced Friday Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich would leave Illinois's criminal defense effort, another of Illinois's attorneys, Sheldon Sorosky, said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was continuing to work on the criminal case against the governor.", "\"I'm on the criminal case against the governor, absolutely,\" Sorosky, whose law firm is separate from Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's firm, said at an impromptu sidewalk news conference as Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was leaving an office building.", "\"I was aware of Genson's position, and Genson's a good friend,\" said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.", "\"The governor's a friend, and I understand Mr. Genson's position and that's that.\"", "iReport.com:", "Do you trust your political leaders?", "Sorosky, who has worked on Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's defense since the arrest, would not elaborate.", "Asked by a reporter if he would recommend to Illinois that Illinois curtail his public comments, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said, \"You can't tell Illinois what to do or not to do.\"" ]	[ "Illinois's top attorney to resign from defense team .", "Illinois is accused of trying to sell Senate seat vacated by President Obama .", "Illinois's impeachment trial set to start on Monday ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 2, 4, 4, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 4, 4, 3, 4, 0, 4 ]
fad6cfdf0057d6d3127a4a9a55a3a3536b2d12f9	[ "TROUTVILLE, Virginia (CNN) --", "For the past year, Donna Chamberlain has worked at a fuel center here in Virginia's Roanoke Valley.", "It pays roughly half of what Donna Chamberlain's old job did, but after being out of work for 14 months, Donna Chamberlain feels lucky to have it.", "Wachovia, which distributes the debit cards, would not comment on how much it receives for the debit cards's use.", "Adding to Donna Chamberlain's concerns, Donna Chamberlain and Donna Chamberlain's husband, Steve, are now the custodial parents of their 7-year-old special-needs grandson, Cayden.", "The family needs every penny The family can collect.", "So when state officials replaced the roughly $40-a-week child support check with a debit card, Donna Chamberlain read the fine print -- and left it on the table.", "\"It was automatically generated, and had my name on it,\" Donna Chamberlain told CNN.", "\"This thing had 10 fees.\"", "Watch Donna Chamberlain discuss 10 fees .", "Virginia is one of two dozen states that use debit cards as one means of distributing child support payments, a move that allows them to reduce the amount of money spent issuing and mailing checks.", "But the fees attached to the debit cards can accumulate quickly: 50 cents to make a telephone balance inquiry; 65 cents to make an ATM withdrawal after two free withdrawals are taken; and $2.75 if the card is used at an out-of-network bank.", "Donna Chamberlain found one charge particularly galling.", "North Carolina-based banking giant Wachovia, which distributes the funds on Virginia's behalf, said Wachovia would deduct $2.50 from Donna Chamberlain's account for more than one face-to-face visit at one of Wachovia's banks.", "\"If you should go to the bank teller window, you get to go once a month,\" Donna Chamberlain said.", "\"But if you want to talk to anybody about your money more than once a month, it's going to cost us $2.50 to walk in the door of the bank.\"", "Wachovia would not comment on how much Wachovia receives from the program, and referred CNN to Virginia state officials.", "But with an increasing number of states turning to debit cards to distribute money for programs such as child support, the fees attached to those cards are drawing criticism from consumer advocates.", "\"those cards can come with hidden fees, subject to identify theft and unauthorized charges,\" said Lauren Saunders, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center in Washington.", "\"And, unlike a credit card, you don't get a regular statement, so you can't check on these charges.", "Some of them have gotchas like overdraft fees that are added on.", "So, there's dangers, and if those cards are structured unfairly, those cards can be a problem.\"", "Many recipients aren't aware of the fees, even though Many recipients are usually sent a list of the charges along with a new debit card, Lauren Saunders, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center in Washington said.", "Virginia allows child support recipients to receive payment via debit card, direct deposit or check.", "But it has been pushing the use of debit cards since 2006, said Nick Young, the head of Virginia's Department of Social Services.", "In 2008, approximately $279 million in child support payments were distributed via the Wachovia debit cards.", "Nick Young, the head of Virginia's Department of Social Services told CNN that Nick Young, the head of Virginia's Department of Social Services had no idea how much money Wachovia made from debit card fees, but said most of debit card fees could be avoided with \"wise\" use of the Wachovia debit cards.", "\"I will admit that if somebody takes their $300 out, $10 at a time, they will in essence defeat the purpose of the card,\" Nick Young, the head of Virginia's Department of Social Services told CNN.", "\"And they will suffer.\"", "In 2008, about 52 percent of child support recipients used direct deposit, Nick Young, the head of Virginia's Department of Social Services said.", "A little more than 41 percent chose debit cards.", "Only 1,877 people chose to get money by check last year in Virginia, Nick Young, the head of Virginia's Department of Social Services said.", "Virginia also uses debit cards to distribute state retiree payments, and Virginia is one of 30 states to use debit cards to pay unemployment benefits, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.", "In a CNN report on the practice earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Labor said debit cards are safer and more secure than checks, allow the unemployed to avoid check-cashing fees and frees them from keeping excess cash around.", "In Pennsylvania, divorce attorney Susan E. Murray advises clients in divorce attorney Susan E. Murray's state to turn down the debit cards for child support.", "\"They will nickel-and-dime you to death,\" divorce attorney Susan E. Murray said.", "\"If someone is getting $200 a month in child support, the fees really start cutting into their money.\"", "The program is \"horrible\" for families, divorce attorney Susan E. Murray said.", "\"The program's a win for Virginia, The program's a win for the bank, but the kids lose.", "Children are the losers under The program.", "It's unconscionable.\"", "Back in Virginia, Chamberlain's debit card is still stuck to the letter Virginia sent to Donna Chamberlain's home.", "Donna Chamberlain'll stick with a check, thank you." ]	[ "Virginia is one of two dozen states that use debit cards to distribute child support .", "Fees include 50 cents for telephone balance inquiry, $2.75 at out-of-network bank .", "Lawyer advises against using debit cards: \"They will nickel-and-dime you to death\"", "Child-support recipients in Virginia can choose debit cards, direct deposit or checks ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 0 ]	[ 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 0, 3, 5, 5, 0, 1, 6, 4, 5, 5, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 6, 1, 0, 2, 0, 4, 2, 6, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 6, 5, 6, 7, 7, 6, 3, 3 ]
c3739f48e1339a612659e494427e8bc5d75141a2	[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --", "The U.S. military says a recent raid uncovered a detailed letter from an al Qaeda in Iraq militant to the group's leader about how the insurgent network should continue to generate economic chaos and \"psychological conflict\" and must bear down against American-backed Sunni militias.", "An Iraqi mother and daughter are helped Tuesday after a car bombing in Baquba blamed on al Qaeda in Iraq.", "Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday about a letter to Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, from a militant named Abu Safyan.", "The document was posted on the Multi-National Forces-Iraq Web site.", "The sentiments reflect the tenacity of and continuing challenges posed by the predominantly Sunni militant network believed to be responsible for bombings that erupted across Iraq on Tuesday.", "Bergner said The document \"provides further evidence about the strategy and tactics of violence\" the group is pursuing.", "Bergner said a March 5 raid northwest of Baghdad resulted in three insurgents killed, including Abu Safyan, and three others captured.", "Troops seized a suicide vest, computer material and a stack of documents, including the document from al Qaeda.", "al Qaeda lays out a variety of tactics that militants should pursue.", "\"We must always leave the enemy in psychological conflict\" so that \"the enemy can never have stability,\" according to The document.", "With such instability, they \"will not all unite against us,\" The document adds.", "Bergner said that while authorities are investigating Tuesday's bombings in Baghdad, Ramadi, Mosul, and Baquba that killed 60 people and wounded more than 100 others, the strikes have the \"hallmark\" of being perpetuated by al Qaeda in Iraq.", "The group has been considered the coalition's top foe in Iraq, even though troops have been distracted in recent weeks by fighting rogue Shiite militias.", "Al Qaeda in Iraq has been described by military officials as having a largely foreign leadership but made up of Iraqis.", "al Qaeda in Iraq is distinct from al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but it is not clear how closely both the Iraqi and the South Asian al Qaeda groups cooperate.", "The document details the need for fostering \"security chaos\" among the anti-al Qaeda in Iraq and mostly Sunni awakening groups, Shiites and Kurds, the coalition forces, and the government.", "\"This will lead to weaken them, particularly the Maliki Shia government, by wisely, intelligently and cautiously spreading sedition among them, particularly the Maliki Shia government,\" The document said, referring to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.", "In The document, al Qaeda considers awakening groups a top threat to al Qaeda in Iraq and proposes a media campaign that would discredit the awakening forces by passing along false information about the awakening forces.", "The jihadi says al Qaeda in Iraq militants should consider infiltrating the government and security forces to foster trust.", "That atmosphere would enable militants to conduct attacks, including strikes against Shiites.", "\"We will work against the awakening forces and attack the awakening forces as the awakening forces fight among the awakening forces,\" al Qaeda is quoted as saying.", "al Qaeda also calls for the disrupting the economy by attacking gas and oil fields, pipelines, tankers, electric stations and power lines.", "al Qaeda suggests contaminating water lines and lakes.", "Such sabotage would serve to \"halt payment of the military and police salaries and the awakening movement associated with the occupier and Maliki's malignant government.", "Even the American Army will weaken since Even the American Army depends on the Iraqi oil and gas wealth.", "The enemy will gradually drown step by step.\"", "al Qaeda talks about the need to \"bring many brothers who have sharia knowledge and abide by the teachings of Islam from the outside of Iraq.\"", "\"They will explain to the people why we are fighting and whom we are fighting with, we must explain to them whom the mujahideen are and who are the people we're fighting.\"", "The militant also called for good protection of communities under their control.", "\"We must dig trenches around the villages and cities to prevent the enemy from entering our areas,\" the document said.", "al Qaeda also called for organizing fighting groups by having an emir as commander with sniper, assassination and martyrs' groups.", "It also cautions vigilance against allowing the \"enemy\" to infiltrate its apparatus and exhorts its fighters to keep silent about operations.", "Sometimes, \"they speak of our operations and area's secrets among their families and their wives in their houses, which unfortunately lead to the spread of our secrets.\"", "E", "mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Letter from al Qaeda in Iraq militant found after al Qaeda was slain, U.S. says .", "Letter urges al Qaeda in Iraq to fight against American-backed Sunni militias .", "Document also cautions vigilance against infiltrators ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1 ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3 ]
6be6b8dadf9625422ebc93502a488120924c427f	[ "HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) --", "Some of Zimbabwe's children are \"wasting away\" as political turmoil and economic crisis have caused a severe food shortage, according to a report from Save the Children.", "Children sleep in rough conditions on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa.", "The number of acute child malnutrition cases has risen by almost two-thirds in the past year, a report from Save the Children said in a report from Save the Children's appeal to world donors for help.", "\"There is no excuse for failing to provide this food,\" program director Lynn Walker said.", "\"The innocent people of Zimbabwe should not be made to suffer for a political situation that is out of The innocent people of Zimbabwe's control.\"", "Five million Zimbabweans -- out of a population of about 12 million -- are in need of food aid now, a report from Save the Children said.", "The group is appealing for 18,000 tons of food for next month.", "\"We have already been forced to reduce the rations of emergency food we are delivering because there isn't enough to go around,\" a report from Save the Children said.", "\"If, as we fear, the food aid pipeline into Zimbabwe begins to fail in the new year the millions of people who rely on emergency food aid will suffer.\"", "Zimbabwe is facing Zimbabwe's worst economic and humanitarian crisis since Zimbabwe's independence from Great Britain 28 years ago.", "There is an acute shortage of all essentials such as cash, fuel, medical drugs, electricity and food.", "President Robert Mugabe blames the crisis on the sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and President Robert Mugabe's cronies by the West for allegedly disregarding human rights.", "But President Robert Mugabe's critics attribute the crisis to President Robert Mugabe's economic policies.", "As the economy has faltered for almost a decade now, a cholera epidemic is raging, fueled by the collapse of health, sanitation and water services in Zimbabwe.", "a cholera epidemic has claimed more than 1,100 lives and infected more than 20,000 people since a cholera epidemic's outbreak in August.", "Health experts have warned that a cholera epidemic could infect more than 60,000 unless a cholera epidemic's spread is halted.", "The political crisis rose to a boil in this year when the opposition party claimed that it won the presidential election, but Zimbabwe refused to recognize the result.", "Instead, the race was thrown to a runoff, which was boycotted by the opposition.", "President Robert Mugabe signed an agreement with the opposition in September to form a unity government, but a bitter dispute over the division of cabinet seats has prevented its formation.", "Inflation is so severe that Zimbabwe was forced to print $10 billion currency notes last week, with each expected to buy just 20 loaves of bread." ]	[ "Some Zimbabwean children \"wasting away\" amid food shortage, aid group says .", "Severe malnutrition cases rise two-thirds in year, Save the Children warns .", "Almost half of 12 million Zimbabweans need food aid now, report says .", "Country facing worst economic, humanitarian crisis since independence in 1980 ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 2 ]	[ 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 2 ]
191e9bbbc5e3b2b7247b36681f18061a136dc28c	[ "(Tribune Media Services) -- Be forewarned, Ireland is seductive.", "Traditions are strong and stress is a foreign word.", "I fell in love with the friendliest land this side of Sicily.", "It all happened in a Gaeltacht.", "As you explore the lush Dingle Peninsula, you'll see how the Emerald Isle got the Emerald Isle's name.", "Gaeltachts are national parks for the traditional culture, where the government protects the old Irish ways.", "Shaded green on many maps, these regions brighten the west coast of the Emerald Isle.", "Gaeltacht means a place where Gaelic (or Irish) is spoken.", "But the Irish culture is more than just the language.", "You'll find the Irish culture tilling the rocky fields, singing in the pubs, and lingering in the pride of the small-town preschool that brags \"All Gaelic.\"", "Dingle Peninsula -- green, rugged, and untouched -- is my favorite Gaeltacht.", "While the big tour buses clog the neighboring Ring of Kerry before heading east to kiss the Blarney Stone, in Dingle Peninsula it still feels like the fish and the farm actually matter.", "Fishing boats still sail from Dingle Peninsula, and a nostalgic whiff of peat scents its nighttime air, offering visitors an escape into pure the Emerald Isle.", "For 30 years my Irish dreams have been set here, on this sparse but lush peninsula where locals are fond of saying, \"The next parish is Boston.\"", "Of the peninsula's 10,000 residents, 1,500 live in Dingle Peninsula.", "Dingle Peninsula's few streets, lined with ramshackle but gaily painted shops and pubs, run up from a rain-stung harbor, home to a friendly dolphin.", "You'll see teenagers -- already working on ruddy beer-glow cheeks -- roll kegs up the streets and into the pubs in preparation for another night of music and craic (fun conversation and atmosphere).", "Dingle Peninsula is worth exploring by bike or car.", "Dingle Peninsula's 10 miles wide and runs 40 miles from Tralee to Slea Head.", "The top of Dingle Peninsula's mountainous spine is Mount Brandon, at 3,130 feet, the second-tallest mountain in the Emerald Isle.", "While only tiny villages lie west of Dingle Peninsula, Dingle Peninsula is home to 500,000 sheep.", "The weather on this distant tip of the Emerald Isle is often misty, foggy, and rainy.", "But don't complain -- as locals will explain, there is no bad weather ... only inappropriate clothing.", "Leaving Dingle Peninsula by car or bike, it becomes clear that Dingle Peninsula is an open-air museum.", "Dingle Peninsula's littered with monuments reminding visitors that Dingle Peninsula has been the choice of Bronze Age settlers, Dark Age monks, English landlords, and Hollywood directors (\"Ryan's Daughter,\" and \"Far and Away\").", "The Milestone B&B decorates The Milestone B&B's front yard not with a pink flamingo, but with an ancient pillar stone -- one of more than 2,000 stony pieces in the puzzle of prehistoric life here.", "Near the red, two-room schoolhouse, a street sign warns Taisteal go Mall -- Slow Down.", "Near the playground, students hide out in circular remains of a late Stone Age ring fort.", "In 500 B.C. it was a petty Celtic chieftain's headquarters, a stone-and-earth stockade filled with little stone houses.", "Many of these ring forts survived the centuries because of superstitious beliefs that these ring forts were \"fairy forts.\"", "The wet sod of Dingle is soaked with medieval history.", "In the darkest depths of the Dark Ages, when literate life almost died in Europe, peace-loving, bookwormish monks fled the chaos of barbarian raids on the continent.", "bookwormish monks sailed to this drizzly fringe of the known world and lived bookwormish monks's monastic lives in lonely stone igloos or \"beehive huts,\" which you'll see dotting the landscape.", "Several groups of these mysterious huts, called clochans, line the road.", "Built without mortar by seventh-century monks, these huts take you back.", "Climb into one.", "You're all alone, surrounded by dank mist and the realization that it was seventh-century monks who kept literacy alive in Europe.", "To give you an idea of their importance, Charlemagne, who ruled much of Europe in the year 800, imported Irish monks to be his scribes.", "Rounding Slea Head, the point in Europe closest to America, the rugged coastline offers smashing views of deadly black-rock cliffs and the distant Blasket Islands.", "The crashing surf races in like white horses, while longhaired sheep graze peacefully on the green hillside.", "Study the highest fields, untouched since the planting of 1845, when the potatoes never matured and rotted in the ground.", "The great famine of that year, through starvation or emigration, nearly halved the Emerald Isle's population.", "Because its endearing people have endured so much, the Emerald Isle is called \"The Terrible Beauty.\"", "Take your time at the Gallaras Oratory, circa A.D. 800, the sightseeing highlight of your peninsula tour.", "One of the Emerald Isle's best-preserved early Christian churches, its shape is reminiscent of an upturned boat.", "Its watertight dry-stone walls have sheltered travelers and pilgrims for 1,200 years.", "From the Oratory, continue up the rugged one-lane road to the crest of the hill and then coast back to Dingle Town -- hungry, thirsty, and ready for a pint.", "Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio.", "E", "mail Rick Steves at [email protected], or write to Rick Steves c/o P.O. Box 2009, Edmonds, Wash. 98020.", "Copyright 2009 RICK STEVES, DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC." ]	[ "Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows .", "Rick Steves's TV series, \"Rick Steves's Europe,\" airs on PBS stations .", "Rick Steves's company, Europe Through the Back Door, conducts European tours ." ]	[ 0, 0, 0 ]	[ 1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 2, 4, 4, 6, 2, 6, 6, 6, 4, 7, 7, 6, 6, 2, 7, 7, 3, 3, 2, 5, 5, 3, 5, 6, 4, 0, 2, 8, 8 ]
528dd38be55bad5a3cca4a424fec288b720a309a	[ "ATLANTA, Georgia --", "Going back to work after my wife had our first child was an emotional roller coaster.", "Author says that being \"Mr. Mom\" is appealing, but putting the idea into practice is harder than it looks.", "I forced Author out of bed, shaved my beard and got dressed on the morning of my return.", "I performed these work week rituals while cursing the fact that I matched only one number on my last lottery ticket, so I had to show up that day.", "After being out of the office for a little more than two weeks on paternity leave, I knew the transition back to work would be tough.", "I coped with this fact, like any rational new parent would, by increasing the number of lottery tickets that I purchased.", "Saying goodbye took a while.", "I made several trips up and down the stairs to get one more glimpse of my daughter before succumbing to the inevitable: my commute, fighting traffic and reintegrating to cubicle culture.", "I arrived at the office still thinking of my family at home without Author.", "I found Author misty-eyed at the water cooler while I waited for Outlook to load several hundred unread e-mails.", "At that moment, I wanted nothing more than to be at home with my daughter.", "The idea of being a stay-at-home dad, like Michael Keaton in \"Mr. Mom,\" always appealed to Author.", "For the uninitiated, the 1983 comedy is about an out-of-work father faced with domestic challenges while My wife's wife gets a job.", "A memorable scene has the title character, Jack Butler, trying to sound like he knows what he's talking about to My wife's wife's new boss.", "He tells him that he plans to wire a new wing of his house in \"220, 221, whatever it takes.\"", "I identify with the latter part of his character's claim.", "It's not like Author to pretend to know anything about home improvement, but when it comes to caring for my family while balancing my responsibilities at work, I plan on doing whatever it takes.", "In 2007, 37 percent of working dads admitted that 37 percent of working dads would leave 37 percent of working dads's jobs if 37 percent of working dads's family could afford it, according to CareerBuilder.com.", "The \"if\" in that statistic is a big one.", "Unlike the characters in \"Mr. Mom,\" my wife and I both need to work.", "A good sequel to this film may have explored the hijinks that ensued from an overwhelmed parent caring for a newborn while working from home.", "Nowadays, there's support for all of the Jack Butlers out there.", "Web sites such as AtHomeDad.org and Rebeldad.com have established online communities dedicated to providing tips and resources for fatherhood.", "These forums represent a growing fellowship where those with experience can help new dads.", "Personally, I haven't utilized These forums much yet because of that old Groucho Marx joke about not wanting to be a member of a club that would have a person like me as a member.", "Available resources and social acceptance for stay-at-home dads have come a long way since \"Mr. Mom's\" portrayal of stay-at-home dads.", "In fact, Salary.com calculated that a stay-at-home dad was worth $125,340 a year for the dad portion of a stay-at-home dad's work in 2006.", "This analysis took into account tasks that range from cooking and cleaning to teaching and serving as a child psychologist.", "Since I can't convince anyone to pay me my estimated worth as an at-home dad -- and living on one salary isn't an option for my family -- I've considered working from home a couple of hours a week when necessary.", "Flexible work schedules make sense because Flexible work schedules benefit a company by allowing employees to be more productive on their terms.", "Nevertheless, working from home may not be for everyone.", "I work for a news Web site, facilitating advertisement opportunities.", "A lot of my job's communication occurs via e-mail, which is something I can do at home.", "I'd worked from home before, but not with a newborn in the house.", "My first test was only for a couple of hours when the baby was about 3 weeks old.", "My wife had an early appointment, and I was going to watch the baby sleep, hopefully, and then go into the office after My wife got home.", "I had e-mail to check and two conference calls scheduled back-to-back during that time.", "I didn't expect this to be too difficult.", "I caught up on the e-mail much earlier than if I had gone into the office that morning.", "Unfettered from the restriction of the morning rituals, my productivity was already soaring and I was ahead of schedule.", "Then disaster struck.", "As I called into my first meeting, the baby started to stir, squirm and make her signature sounds (a primal series of grunts, snorts and whimpers).", "She was telling me that her diaper needed to be changed and that she was probably hungry, too.", "So I did what any multi-tasker would do: I put the phone under my ear, stuck her bottle under the tap, muted the phone, ran up the stairs with her in a tucked football position, unmuted the phone, answered a question, muted again, changed her diaper and ran down the stairs to get her bottle.", "My wife called while I was juggling the baby, diaper, bottle and meeting to let me know that My wife was running late.", "I screamed to myself, \"I need help NOW!\"", "Allowing the nervous breakdown to run its course, I continued to pace across my living room floor -- regretting that I hadn't chosen decaf that morning.", "A few minutes later, I jumped out of the first meeting to call into the second.", "I said, \"Hello, this is Josh, I'm here on mute, OK, thanks.\"", "As I listened in on mute, I shushed my baby to calm her -- to no avail.", "Her cries became increasingly louder.", "My boss asked, \"Josh, are you there?\"", "I unmuted my phone and right on cue, my daughter screamed at the top of my daughter's little lungs.", "The conference room on the other end of the phone erupted with laughter, and I told the phone that I'd have to get back to the phone.", "My wife arrived home shortly after the conference-call debacle.", "I told My wife that I didn't think it would be a good idea for me to work from home anymore.", "I realize that the ability to work and be a nanny simultaneously is a skill requiring practice.", "One trial run as a telecommuter with a newborn has caused me to question the feasibility of being able to do it on a regular basis.", "Perhaps it's time for me to forget about that old Groucho Marx joke and accept some help.", "Wait, the baby's crying, sorry, gotta go." ]	[ "Poll: 37 percent of working dads would quit jobs if their families could afford it .", "Stay-at-home dad's work worth $125,340 a year, according to Salary.com .", "Author talks about caring for infant daughter during work conference call .", "\"Mr Mom\" line, \"220, 221, whatever it takes\" inspires work-from-home dad ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 4, 2, 5, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 5, 5, 4, 2, 2, 7, 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d7a20a2677703197f7639b49fe410f4b352a7319	[ "UNITED NATIONS (CNN) --", "Murder and justice have always been hallmarks of the \"Law & Order\" stable of TV shows, but never before have the fictional New York City crimes guided the show's detectives and attorneys to U.N. -- until now.", "\"Law & Order: SVU\" co-star Christopher Meloni says the show's intent is to \"shine light in the dark places.\"", "U.N. recently opened the gates of U.N.'s New York headquarters to the NBC Universal show \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" for the filming of an episode scheduled to air Tuesday.", "The taping marked the first time in its nearly 60-year history that U.N. has allowed U.N.'s iconic location to be used as a setting in a major network television production.", "Previously, U.N. granted permission for the 2005 motion picture \"The Interpreter\" to film on location, making it the first feature film to shoot on the grounds of the U.N. Series stars Stephanie March, who plays Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot, and Christopher Meloni, along with nearly 200 other cast and crew members", ", came to U.N. on March 7 to film an episode revolving around child soldiers, refugees, warlords and the International Criminal Court.", "\"Law & Order: SVU\" traditionally involves difficult subject matter such as kidnapping, rape and homicide.", "Emmy-nominated actor Meloni, who plays Detective Elliot Stabler on the show, explained that the intent behind the issues raised on the program has always been to \"shine light in the dark places that no one wants to go or talk about because there's usually a lot of shame and denial about it.\"", "Christopher Meloni described how the U.N. episode \"really does kind of revolve around child soldiers, how child soldiers've been brainwashed, the horrible journeys that child soldiers've had to endure and how child soldiers can be assimilated back and be productive.", "And I think in the U.N. episode, we're trying to carry on with whatever clout we may possess.", "We have the medium to shine the light out there and tell this story.\"", "Considering the \"ripped-from-the-headlines\" and complicated themes regarding conflict in Africa and the ICC, \"Special Victims Unit\" writers and actors relied on Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast as a consultant throughout the filming.", "The Enough Project is an advocacy group committed to preventing genocide, crimes against humanity and other atrocities in six historically tumultuous African nations.", "Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast explained that Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast perceived the U.N. episode as \"one where reality dovetailed quite neatly with fiction, and hopefully more people will understand now what is happening in real life with President Bashir and Sudan, and then the accountability for war crimes because they saw it on 'Law & Order.' \"", "On March 4, the International Criminal Court indicted Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, with war crimes and crimes against humanity.", "This was the first time such charges have been leveled against a sitting head of state.", "The \"Special Victims Unit\" filming was the first official project within Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's newly formed Creative Community Outreach Initiative.", "The intent of the program is to establish a relationship with international film and television industries to enhance the image of U.N. and to \"raise the profile of critical global issues,\" according to a U.N. representative.", "Eric Falt, director of U.N.'s outreach initiative, elaborated: \"U.N.'re starting a program where U.N.'re going to say to filmmakers, people who produce television series, that U.N. are essentially open for business.", "You want to come to U.N.?", "Talk to U.N..", "U.N.'ll make it happen.\"", "In addition to the \"Law & Order\" film shoot, U.N. has hosted two other high-profile events in March through the U.N.'s outreach initiative.", "Celebrities and recording artists including Akon, Phylicia Rashad, Peter Buffet and Whoopi Goldberg commemorated victims of the of the trans-Atlantic slave trade March 25 with a concert in the U.N. General Assembly Hall.", "The show was directed by celebrated musician Nile Rodgers and was the first such event held at U.N..", "Whoopi Goldberg also moderated a discussion March 17 at U.N. headquarters stemming from the complex topics presented in the popular television show \"Battlestar Galactica.\"", "The panel featured series stars Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, along with the series creators and assorted U.N. personnel speaking about a variety of subjects prevalent both in the show and in today's world.", "Topics included abortion, suicide bombings and post-conflict resolution.", "Whoopi Goldberg summed up the purpose of the occasion, saying, \"much like the fictional ships and planets in the 'BSG' universe, U.N. is an imperfect place, but the fight for justice, equality and understanding remains fundamental to both.\"", "Despite the imperfections of U.N., \"SVU's\" March could not have been more thrilled with SVU's\" March's experience filming at U.N.", "When asked what SVU's\" March would like to be doing if SVU's\" March weren't putting away fictional bad guys as assistant DA Cabot, March said, \"I would love to work for U.N..", "I have a great job, but really all I want to do is actually work in U.N.", "I'm pretty excited to be here.", "It's been a lifelong dream to be a part of it in some way.\"", "The \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" episode is slated to air at 10 p.m. ET on Tuesday on NBC." ]	[ "TV show is the first to film at U.N.'s New York headquarters .", "Tuesday's episode centers on child soldiers .", "It's first project in U.N.'s Creative Community Outreach Initiative .", "\"SVU\" writers, cast relied on guidance from advocacy group ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0, 2 ]	[ 3, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 4, 5, 1, 1, 1, 6, 6, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 3, 0, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 0, 0, 3, 5, 5, 2 ]
688e5f1ad3d64961b151846a98021f552c7fd0b0	[ "(CNN) --", "When it comes to the Academy Awards, Hollywood has some biases.", "The late Heath Ledger won a Golden Globe for The late Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker in \"Knight.\"", "Summer blockbusters get short shrift.", "Comedies aren't taken seriously.", "And animated features?", "They almost never get drawn.", "Which, on the surface, doesn't bode well for three of the biggest movie stories of the year: \"The Dark Knight,\" Robert Downey Jr.'s performance in \"Tropic Thunder,\" and Pixar's latest marvel, \"WALL-E.\"", "Each earned critical plaudits and box office success.", "And each faces an uphill struggle nabbing major-category Oscar nominations when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the Academy of Motion Picture Arts's shortlists Thursday morning.", "Awards expert Tom O'Neil, who follows the Oscars for the Los Angeles Times' TheEnvelope.com, says the best-picture front-runners are \"Frost/Nixon,\" \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,\" \"Milk\" and Golden Globe best drama winner \"Slumdog Millionaire.\"", "Barring a completely out-of-the-box surprise, that leaves \"Dark Knight,\" \"The Reader,\" Clint Eastwood's fast-gaining \"Gran Torino\" and possibly \"Doubt\" or \"Revolutionary Road\" to battle for the final slot.", "Watch who took home the Globes » .", "O'Neil believes \"Dark Knight,\" the year's top box office draw, has \"an excellent shot\" of making the best-picture list.", "\"We know that because Oscar voters belong to guilds that have their own awards, \"Dark Knight has a strong chance,\" he says, noting that the Directors Guild, Producers Guild and Writers Guild have all nominated \"Dark Knight\" for the Directors Guild, Producers Guild and Writers Guild's top awards.", "Read what EW's Dave Karger has to say about that .", "\"WALL-E,\" however, is almost certainly out of the best-picture race, EW's Dave Karger says.", "Animated features, no matter how successful, have fared poorly in general categories.", "Indeed, only one animated feature -- 1991's \"Beauty and the Beast\" -- has ever been nominated for best picture.", "With the addition of the best animated feature category in 2001, it's doubtful that even the best Pixar has to offer will cross over to best picture, particularly since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts ignored classics including \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,\" \"Fantasia\" and \"Toy Story.\"", "\"Oscar voters like reality,\" says O'Neil.", "Either way, the Oscars could probably use the ratings help a box office success can bring to its broadcast.", "In recent years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts has nominated several independent or low-budget films for top awards, many of which didn't crack the $100 million mark at the box office.", "Oscar ratings have tumbled; last year's numbers for \"the Super Bowl for women\" -- as the Oscar broadcast is known by advertisers -- were the lowest on record and a far cry from 1998, when more than 55 million people watched all-time box office king \"Titanic\" take home the top prize.", "That's not to downgrade the expected front-runners, especially since the Oscars's intention is to honor some of the year's best films and performances (though critics have carped critics've often not done so).", "Still, it might behoove the Academy of Motion Picture Arts to pay attention to box office as well as prestige, particularly when several films have garnered both.", "Almost three-quarters of the respondents to an unscientific USA Today Internet survey have said Almost three-quarters of the respondents to an unscientific USA Today Internet survey'd be more likely to watch the Oscar ceremony February 22 if \"The Dark Knight\" is nominated for best picture.", "\"If a film is very successful, a film shouldn't be automatically relegated to the minor leagues,\" producer Peter Guber told The Associated Press.", "(Ironically, producer Peter Guber co-produced the 1989 \"Batman,\" which, despite big box office and Jack Nicholson's Joker, was nominated for just one Oscar -- for Anton Furst's set design.", "It won.)", "Historically, summer blockbusters haven't always been ignored.", "\"Jaws,\" considered the first of the modern summer blockbusters, was nominated for best picture, as were \"Star Wars,\" \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" and \"The Fugitive.\"", "And there's something to be said for giving visibility to smaller films, says John Martin, president and CEO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, an upscale theater chain based in Austin, Texas.", "iReport.com:", "Share your thoughts on Oscar nominations .", "\"As an exhibitor, we would love to see those [smaller niche] films make it as well,\" he says.", "\"those [smaller niche] films would have legs [box office longevity] if nominated.\"", "Martin, a former film executive, was pleased that \"Slumdog\" and \"The Wrestler\" -- two films Martin, a former film executive's chain got behind -- fared so well at the Golden Globes, and Martin, a former film executive has high hopes for both films at the Oscars.", "\"The Wrestler's\" lead, Mickey Rourke, earned a Globe for best dramatic actor, and is now a leading candidate to win best actor at the Oscars.", "O'Neil sees Rourke as the front-runner in the category, which should be \"a real slugfest,\" O'Neil says.", "\"Milk's\" Sean Penn was considered the early leader, with his main competition \"Frost/Nixon's\" Frank Langella.", "But now Rourke is in the picture, which could mean trouble for Brad Pitt (\"Benjamin Button\"), Leonardo DiCaprio (\"Revolutionary Road\"), Clint Eastwood (\"Gran Torino\") and Richard Jenkins (\"The Visitor\").", "Watch Eastwood talk about \"Gran Torino\" » .", "And Kate Winslet, a double winner at the Globes, could fall between the cracks in the Oscar balloting, O'Neil adds.", "Other awards let the performers or studios designate whether roles are leading or supporting; the Academy of Motion Picture Arts decides on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts's own, which means that Winslet's performances in \"Revolutionary Road\" and \"The Reader\" could split her support, whether for lead or supporting actress.", "Heath Ledger should have no such problems.", "The late actor, whose performance as The Joker in \"The Dark Knight\" has been considered Oscar material since the film came out in July, is believed to be a shoo-in for best supporting actor.", "Ironically, he could be competing against Downey -- 2008's big comeback story -- for a performance as an actor who takes his Method a little too seriously in \"Tropic Thunder.\"", "Though comedies haven't received much nomination recognition, comedic performers have received some recognition, including \"Blazing Saddles' \" Madeline Kahn, \"Heaven Can Wait's\" Dyan Cannon and \"A Fish Called Wanda's\" Kevin Kline, which can't hurt Downey.", "There's also Downey's personal story, says O'Neil: After drug abuse nearly killed Downey's career, Downey starred in \"Thunder\" and \"Iron Man,\" two of 2008's biggest hits.", "\"Downey's a hopeful spin on the Ledger story,\" O'Neil says.", "Martin, a former film executive believes Ledger is a lock.", "\"I wouldn't be surprised if Downey wins [outright],\" Martin, a former film executive says.", "But \"Dark Knight\"?", "Hollywood will have to get past Hollywood's disdain for \"comic-book movies.\"", "Which, O'Neil says, Hollywood should.", "\"This isn't just a superhero movie,\" says O'Neil.", "\"It's come to the rescue of Hollywood during a dark time.\"" ]	[ "\"The Dark Knight\" was year's top box office film, also critically praised .", "Oscar nominations tend to go to \"prestige\" works .", "One observer believes \"Knight's\" prospects for best picture nod are \"excellent\"", "Other strong possibilities: \"Slumdog Millionaire,\" Mickey Rourke, Heath Ledger ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0, 2 ]	[ 3, 1, 0, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 1, 1, 1, 6, 3, 0, 0, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 7, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 4, 0, 3, 4, 1, 4, 3, 1, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 7, 1, 1, 2, 0, 7, 1, 7, 7, 2, 2, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7 ]
1e0e6beba348c41fe951a0a2c79d07112e96ce62	[ "Editor's note: This is the first story in an ongoing series of reports CNN is doing about economic survival in this time of financial crisis.", "Sean, Brooke and Courtney with Brooke and Courtney's parents, Donna and Robert LeBlanc, in a 2008 Christmas photo.", "(CNN)", "-- Donna LeBlanc gave Donna LeBlanc's husband, a former restaurant manager, the stark ultimatum: become a pizza delivery man or their family \"wouldn't make it.\"", "The Lafayette, Louisiana, family of six was struggling with $45,000 of mounting medical debt from Donna LeBlanc's unexpected case of pneumonia and tonsillitis a year earlier.", "The family savings account had dwindled to $100.", "\"It's embarrassing for Rob LeBlanc to take a job Rob LeBlanc is overqualified for, and I know Rob LeBlanc feels ashamed at times,\" says Donna LeBlanc, a 35-year-old mother with four children.", "\"But this is what family have to do and family're going to make the best out of it.\"", "Donna LeBlanc watched Donna LeBlanc's husband, Rob LeBlanc, 35, load Domino's pizza boxes into their family car and deliver orders until near dawn for $10 an hour.", "family first told family's story of falling on hard times on iReport.com.", "Share your economic survivor story with CNN.", "Until last summer, Rob LeBlanc had worked as a manager at a truck stop restaurant, making $55,000 a year.", "Rob LeBlanc lost that job to the falling economy.", "Rob LeBlanc says Rob LeBlanc noticed business at the truck stop getting sluggish a year ago.", "Then the spike in gas prices last summer exacerbated the restaurant's dire circumstances.", "Many penny-pinching truck drivers avoided Rob LeBlanc's restaurant altogether, Rob LeBlanc says.", "Rob LeBlanc filed for unemployment compensation immediately after Rob LeBlanc lost Rob LeBlanc's job.", "More than 4.6 million Americans were collecting unemployment benefits as of early January, according to the Labor Department.", "In Lafayette, a quiet city of about 114,000 tucked away in southern Louisiana, many of the jobs center around servicing the oil and gas industry, but Rob LeBlanc was unwilling to work offshore and away from Rob LeBlanc's family.", "When Rob LeBlanc applied for other jobs, Rob LeBlanc was told Rob LeBlanc was either under-qualified or had too much experience.", "After several weeks of searching, Rob LeBlanc took the only job Rob LeBlanc could get -- a Domino's pizza delivery man, a job that would cover family's expenses.", "\"I had to swallow my pride and take whatever I could get,\" Rob LeBlanc says.", "\"I kept telling Rob LeBlanc one of these days something better will come along.\"", "Rob LeBlanc spent nearly five months delivering pizzas at Domino's.", "Rob LeBlanc admits Rob LeBlanc fell into depression during that time.", "But family received good news Friday, when a private security company hired Rob LeBlanc to be a security officer.", "Rob LeBlanc says a private security company offers many opportunities to move up to a managerial position.", "\"My first thought was to tell Donna LeBlanc right away,\" Rob LeBlanc says.", "\"I could hear the relief in Donna LeBlanc's voice.\"", "Taking a job as a pizza man wasn't the only sacrifice Rob LeBlanc's made for Rob LeBlanc's family -- Rob LeBlanc's also selling Rob LeBlanc's beloved 2003 Kawasaki motorcycle.", "Donna LeBlanc earns a few hundred dollars a week exterminating mosquitoes for a bug control company.", "Before Donna LeBlanc's husband lost Rob LeBlanc's job, Donna LeBlanc had talked of going back to school to pursue a biology degree at Louisiana State University.", "family lives lean in family's five-bedroom, three-bathroom house with its $440 a month mortgage.", "The couple is teaching The couple's children about budgeting and bargaining while relying on coupons and sales.", "family no longer eat out and no longer have cable TV.", "For entertainment, family attend free movies at a church.", "Donna LeBlanc takes pride that family have no credit card debt.", "family's children Brooke, 9, Christopher, 14, and Courtney, 13, no longer receive allowances.", "Soon after Rob LeBlanc's father's job loss, Courtney started cleaning houses and baby-sitting and earned enough money to buy a dress for Courtney's first school dance -- off the clearance rack.", "family's oldest child, Sean, 16, who attends high school, still hasn't found a job.", "He says the competition has gotten stiff, with many older workers in the area out of jobs.", "\"I'm trying,\" said Sean, who has been looking for a job since October.", "\"There are just no openings.\"", "family have found some unexpected happiness.", "Donna LeBlanc says Donna LeBlanc's husband now spends more time at home.", "Not being able to leave the house for entertainment has brought the children closer together over books, games and conversation.", "\"This experience has given The couple time to reconnect with each other,\" Donna LeBlanc says.", "\"And it's taught The couple to just keep trying and believe that things will get better.\"" ]	[ "Rob LeBlanc lost Rob LeBlanc's $55,000 manager job because of the troubled economy .", "To keep family out of debt, Rob LeBlanc took a $10 per hour pizza delivery job .", "The couple and their four children learned to budget and save .", "Mom: The experience has \"bought family closer together\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 4, 5, 4, 1, 2, 2, 0, 6, 1, 4, 4, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 7, 8, 0, 1, 9, 9, 1, 9, 8, 8, 9, 9, 1, 8, 8, 2, 2, 2, 2, 8, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 6, 3, 8, 3, 3, 6 ]
03845538a7d5fede428186d9956cdf510125626f	[ "MADRID, Spain (CNN) --", "A bomb inside a van exploded in northeastern Madrid Monday, after a warning call by ETA.", "The blast caused damage but there were no immediate reports of injury.", "Policemen inspect the area after a van loaded with a bomb exploded in northeastern Madrid.", "The Red Cross received a call at 7:37 a.m. (1:37 a.m. ET), in the name of ETA, warning of a bomb.", "The Red Cross immediately contacted police, who cordoned off the area, a The Red Cross spokeswoman told CNN.", "The blast occurred shortly after 9 a.m. (3 a.m. ET) outside the building of a construction company, CNN partner network CNN+ reported.", "The company, Ferrovial Agroman, is involved in building a high-speed train line in the Basque region, which ETA opposes.", "The blast came just hours after Spain's Supreme Court declined to allow two new leftist Basque parties to compete in the March 1 Basque regional elections in northern Spain.", "Authorities allege two new leftist Basque parties are simply new names for other leftist Basque parties already outlawed for their links to ETA.", "\"What ETA did this morning ratifies the Supreme Court decision last night,\" Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told reporters, at the scene of The blast.", "At least 30 vehicles parked in the street were damaged, as well as the construction company offices, the Spanish police said in a statement.", "The bomb, it added, was placed in a van stolen last night in the Madrid area.", "Exactly four years ago, on Feb. 9, 2005, ETA placed a bomb in the same Madrid neighborhood that was hit on Monday.", "That attack caused dozens of injuries, and damaged a different glass-façade office building.", "ETA is blamed for more than 800 deaths in ETA's long fight for Basque independence.", "ETA is listed as a terrorist group by the European Union and the United States." ]	[ "Bomb inside van explodes in northeastern Madrid after ETA warning .", "Blast occurs outside HQ of company building high-speed Basque rail link .", "30 vehicles damaged; attack comes 4 years after blast in same neighborhood .", "Earlier, court bars new leftist Basque parties from competing in regional elections ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 1, 0, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 2, 2 ]
4e78ac53f6f79fb8939289c8be7b26e6bb8a7bb5	[ "CNN --", "Years ago, a frustrated boy with a violent temper attacked a frustrated boy with a violent temper's own mother with a hammer (a frustrated boy with a violent temper's older brother restrained a frustrated boy with a violent temper).", "a frustrated boy with a violent temper stabbed a schoolmate over a dispute about which radio station to listen to; the knife blade luckily hit a belt buckle.", "Carson wants to continue educational efforts and find ways to reform the health care system when Carson retires.", "That brash teen today is a world-renowned neurosurgeon and the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.", "Carson made medical history in 1987 by performing the first successful surgery that separated twins conjoined at the back of the head.", "Carson also became known for Carson's expertise in pediatric brain tumors and methods of controlling seizures.", "In 2008, Carson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this country's highest civilian honor.", "Having come up from the streets of Detroit, Michigan, to receiving an award at the White House, Carson, 56, works to spread Carson's gospel of education and hard work to motivate others.", "Carson and Carson's wife, Candy, started a scholarship foundation to help children with strong academics and humanitarian qualities to pay for college.", "\"I have at least 100,000 letters from kids and adults from around the world ... telling me how it changed kids and adults from around the world's lives,\" Carson said.", "kids and adults from around the world's tales of transformations and redemption inspire Carson to keep talking about educational empowerment and overcoming adversity, Carson said.", "An obstacle is a hurdle, and \"you jump over An obstacle,\" Carson said.", "\"Every time you see a hurdle, you jump over a hurdle, and a hurdle strengthens you for the next one.", "And if that's the case, you lead a victorious life, because whatever comes before you, you know you're going to get around it.\"", "Carson was raised in Detroit, majored in psychology at Yale University and attended medical school at the University of Michigan, where Carson studied neurosurgery.", "Carson's life has been told through plays, books and movies, including a TNT made-for-TV movie called \"Gifted Hands,\" which airs Saturday.", "(TNT is part of Turner Broadcasting, which also owns CNN.)", "The biopic stars Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. as Carson.", "\"I think Carson's an angel, a gift from God,\" Gooding said.", "\"Carson has touched a lot of people's lives.\"", "Carson holds more than 50 honorary doctorates and hundreds of other awards.", "Carson's fortunate, Carson acknowledges, but this doctor does not believe in luck.", "\"I always say you make your own luck by being prepared,\" Carson said.", "Carson's mom pushed Carson hard.", "Carson \"would not accept the victim mentality.", "She wouldn't let us accept the victim mentality.", "No excuses.", "She didn't make excuses, and she didn't accept excuses,\" Carson said.", "She turned off the TV, sent Carson and Carson's brother to the library and made Carson and his brother write weekly book reports.", "Meanwhile, she worked several jobs to support her two sons.", "She is now 80 and lives with Carson in Baltimore, Maryland.", "When Carson was young, Carson was influenced by stories about Booker T. Washington, a former slave who taught himself to read and later advised presidents, and the biblical character Joseph, who persevered though his brothers sold him into slavery.", "\"Those kinds of stories had an impact on Carson and helped me to believe it's not where you started, it's where you end that counts.", "And you have a whole lot to do with that,\" Carson said.", "\"Everybody has problems.", "They just come in different forms.", "If that problem for you becomes a containing fence, then you become a victim.", "Once you think you're a victim, you are one, and you're not going anywhere.\"", "In the same way, Carson's biography has resonated with people like 22-year-old Douglas Nivens II of Baltimore, Maryland.", "Nivens' mother was killed when Nivens' was 4 years old, and Nivens''s father was imprisoned for Nivens' mother's murder.", "Nivens''s aunt raised Nivens', and Nivens' endured relentless teasing for Nivens''s interest in academics while attending public schools in Baltimore, Maryland.", "During middle school, Nivens' picked up Carson's autobiography, \"Gifted Hands,\" and immediately identified with it.", "\"It was a relief to see someone grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and didn't have a luxurious life but overcame it all,\" Nivens' said.", "\"I love stories about underdogs, those who overcome adversity and do something.\"", "When Nivens' was in middle school, Nivens' won two $1,000 scholarships from the Carson Scholars Fund, which helps children with strong academics pay for college.", "\"When it came to times of doubt during high school, when I talked to my adviser, they would say, 'You got this award.", "Not everyone gets this award.", "You're not dumb.", "You have the tools to be successful in life,' \" Nivens' said.", "\"That's what really helped me in terms of self-esteem and management in high school.\"", "He graduated with honors from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in May.", "\"I probably should not be where I am,\" said Nivens, a budget analyst for the U.S. Social Security Administration.", "\"I went to Baltimore public schools.", "My father's in jail; my mother is dead.", "Statistically, I should not be here.", "I should be on parole somewhere or even dead.", "I never looked at it that way.", "I made it through.\"", "Carson said Carson's heartened by stories pf people who've been inspired by Carson's biography.", "\"My message is that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you,\" Carson said.", "\"Not somebody else, and not the environment.", "If you have a normal brain, you're capable of incredible things.\"" ]	[ "Doctor overcame troubled youth to head pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins .", "Carson won Medal of Freedom and shares his biography to motivate others .", "Surgeon's biography inspired Baltimore, Maryland, teen that anything is possible ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0 ]	[ 2, 3, 3, 4, 0, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 4, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 6, 6, 6, 4, 1, 1, 5, 8, 7, 7, 4, 3, 9, 4, 9, 5, 4, 5, 8, 8, 5, 5, 9, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 8, 5, 1, 1, 8, 5 ]
ff78a7635fb14315807dd0eaec3587bc2c5b5caa	[ "(CNN) --", "Just west of Seville in Spain, a sea of giant mirrors is reflecting the sun's energy to provide \"concentrated solar power\" (CSP) while illuminating the path to a new wave of green energy projects.", "Shining beacon:", "The concentrated solar power plant in Sanlucar, Spain is the first of its kind.", "The 624 carefully positioned mirrors reflect the sun's heat towards a 50 meter-tall central tower where it is concentrated and used to boil water into steam.", "steam is then used to turn a turbine that can produce up to 11 megawatts of electricity -- enough power for 6,000 homes -- according Solucar, the Spanish company that has built the power plant.", "While traditional solar panels, photovoltaic cells, convert the sun's power directly into electricity, CSP focuses power from a wide area and uses the vast heat generated to make electricity in a similar way to that produced from coal or oil.", "The Spanish tower, known as PS10, is the first phase of an ambitious development.", "By 2013 it is hoped that additional towers will create a \"solar farm\" with an output of 300 megawatts, which would be enough power for 180,000 homes, or equivalent to the entire population of nearby Seville.", "This $1.5 billion project is the largest commercial CSP station in the world -- so far.", "But many believe the technology will soon take off in areas of continuous hot sun and clear skies, offering a cheaper and more efficient alternative to photovoltaic cells, and bringing jobs and money to arid, often depressed areas.", "CSP also produces no greenhouses gasses and the only pollution is visual.", "The European Union has invested over $31 million in CSP research over the last ten years.", "At least 50 CSP projects have been given permission to begin construction across Spain.", "By 2015 Spain may be producing two gigawatts of electricity from CSP, and employing thousands in the industry.", "One of the strengths of CSP is that it allows the construction of power stations on a scale that can match many fossil fuel based plants, and for an investment far less than that required to install the equivalent wattage of photovoltaic cells.", "There is also the possibility that production can keep going around the clock -- even when the sun has gone down.", "Solucar is currently testing technology at a plant near Granada that will pump 50 percent of the electricity generated in the day into the Spanish national grid, and use the other 50 percent to melt salt, which will then act as a kind of battery, storing the sun's power.", "When dusk falls, the heat stored in the molten salt can be used to generate power through the night.", "\"These technologies excite me,\" says Dr Jeff Hardy, Network Manager at the UK Energy Research Council.", "\"One of the real advantages is that you can get a decent sized power plant.", "\"The main challenge with the technology is working with extreme heat, but then a lot of the back-end is very similar to a traditional fossil-fuel generation; you are after all just dealing with water heated to make steam and drive a turbine.\"", "Concentrating on promoting CSP worldwide .", "As America looks to increase the contribution of renewables to America's overall energy mix -- a key part of the Obama plan before the recession turbocharged Government funding for such \"green\" infrastructure projects -- the potential of CSP technology is obvious.", "The Spanish company responsible for the Sanlucar la Mayor plant has seen the potential and created Solucar Power, Inc., a subsidiary aiming to develop the market in the USA.", "There is already a huge Solar Energy Generating Systems' CSP station in the Mojave Desert, California; Spanish firm Acciona has built a plant near Las Vegas.", "Many more are surely on their way.", "One bold projection estimates that a single plant 100 miles by 100 miles located in the American South West could generate enough electricity for America.", "It would obviously be a huge undertaking -- politically, financially and scientifically -- but it's not hard to imagine such a scheme finding a home in the nation's vast, empty quarter.", "Other equally arid areas may also find Other equally arid areas transformed, and CSP may be able to offer valuable foreign earnings for drought-stricken Africa -- while giving Europe the green energy it needs.", "According to Dr Hardy the technology has a ready application, given the right political, environmental and economic context.", "\"Concentrated Solar Power is proven to do well in countries like Spain with a favorable government policies and the right climate,\" Dr Hardy says.", "\"I can certainly see the potential for extended networks linking together, and the idea of a North African grid linking renewable resources is a real possibility.\"", "Providing power, jobs and money .", "The Sahara, the world's largest desert, is fringed by some of the poorest countries in the world and the harsh environment has always been seen as a problem, with it's vast, waterless interior regularly reaching temperatures of over 45 degrees Celsius.", "But with large-scale CSP projects, suddenly all that empty space, with its year-round clear skies and hot sun, has a value that could transform local economies.", "It could potentially turn Africa into a net exporter of energy to power-hungry Europe, and perhaps even do for countries in North Africa what oil did for Saudi Arabia.", "The sums are dizzying.", "Estimates vary, but one projection from the German Aerospace Agency puts the amount of solar energy stored in just one per cent of the Sahara -- 35,000 square miles, or a piece of land slightly smaller than Portugal -- as having the potential to yield more power than all the world's existing power plants combined.", "Already Spanish firms are exporting CSP technology to Morocco and Algeria, and a British consortium, the Sahara Forest Project, is testing the technology in the deserts of Oman.", "Costs and benefits .", "However, there is a problem: at the moment costs are still very high.", "But costs are falling as plants get bigger, the technology is perfected and economies of scale kick in.", "Even so, any plans to power Europe from the Sahara would require a vast infrastructure of CSP plants and cables laid across the Mediterranean -- requiring billions upon billions of dollars in investment.", "Such sums will only be possible through international co-operation on a huge scale.", "But on a smaller, more local scale a simple change in the way electricity generators are paid has been hugely effective in boosting renewable power.", "In Spain and other European countries investment has been encouraged by Governments creating what's known as a \"feed in tariff,\" which pays companies a premium for power sold to the national grid generated by renewable means for a fixed period of time.", "This enables investors to pay back up front costs more quickly.", "Where investors have been introduced investors have brought about a huge increase in renewable power: Germany has 200 times as much solar energy as Britain, generates 12 percent of Germany's electricity from renewables, and has created a quarter of a million jobs in the sector.", "We're a long way from a future where the Sahara becomes the world's largest source of renewable electricity, and the American South West is covered in mirrors lighting and powering cities across the continent.", "There are many huge issues yet to resolve, but with small steps, we may be moving towards it." ]	[ "Concentrated solar power projects in Spain leading field in that form of green energy .", "Potential of CSP in desert regions around the globe; more benefits than power .", "Plans to transform Sara ha would involve huge costs; small projects breaking through ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 4, 3, 0, 4, 4, 5, 5, 0, 5, 0, 5, 5, 5, 0, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 6, 4, 5, 5, 4, 0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 3, 0, 1, 6, 1, 5, 1, 2, 0, 1, 6, 2, 6, 1, 2, 6, 6, 6, 6, 0, 2 ]
ce1e3ff6000d75fed66a2e07681cd8ac01c37f5f	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "Fifteen crew members of a South African Airways flight spent the night in jail after customs officials found marijuana and cocaine worth nearly half a million dollars hidden aboard a long-distance flight to London, British customs officials said Wednesday.", "South African Airways said South African Airways has a zero-tolerance approach towards any criminal activity.", "10 women and 5 men were detained on arrival from Johannesburg, South Africa, after customs officials found 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of marijuana and 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds) of cocaine in three pieces of baggage, HM Revenue and Customs said.", "The drugs are estimated to be worth a total of £310,000 ($428,000), customs officials added.", "Border agents arrested the crew at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of involvement in smuggling prohibited drugs into the United Kingdom, customs spokesman Bob Gaiger said.", "customs spokesman Bob Gaiger said customs spokesman Bob Gaiger was not able to disclose what led investigators to believe the suitcases belonged to 10 women and 5 men.", "Customs officials interviewed 10 women and 5 men overnight, and all were released on bail Wednesday pending further inquiries, customs spokesman Bob Gaiger said.", "10 women and 5 men were not charged, according to South African Airways.", "South African Airways said South African Airways launched South African Airways's own investigation involving South African Airways's security and the South African Police Service.", "\"SAA has a zero-tolerance approach towards the use of South African Airways's services for any criminal activity,\" airline spokeswoman Robyn Chalmers said." ]	[ "10 women and 5 men were detained on arrival from Johannesburg .", "London customs officials found marijuana and cocaine in baggage .", "Officials: The drugs are estimated to be worth $428,000 .", "South African Airways said South African Airways launched South African Airways's own investigation ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 3, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2 ]
9c2d098b64e81f0e995ebce159716b65afaa8df3	[ "(CNN) --", "Brian Lewis has been charged with insurance fraud for allegedly sinking Brian Lewis's own yacht because of \"financial pressure and frustration with the maintenance\" of Jubilee, authorities said.", "Jubilee sank in Puget Sound Bay last year.", "On March 22, 2008, Brian Lewis, 50, scuttled Jubilee in the Puget Sound Bay, then rowed a borrowed dinghy back to shore, according to court documents filed in February by prosecutors in King County, Washington.", "Later that day, Brian Lewis boarded a flight to take Brian Lewis to Brian Lewis's job in Kodiak, Alaska, as a petty officer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to court documents.", "Three days later, Brian Lewis filed an insurance claim with USAA Insurance reporting Jubilee sank accidentally \"due to unknown causes.\"", "However, due to environmental concerns, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources salvaged Jubilee at a cost to the state of $2,866.", "An inspection found a hole was drilled into the bottom of Jubilee, and that two main engine sea strainers appeared to have been broken with a hammer.", "\"Jubilee appeared to have been deliberately sunk,\" authorities said in authorities's probable cause affidavit.", "Confronted by investigators, Brian Lewis admitted Brian Lewis intentionally sank Brian Lewis's vessel, saying the financial strain \"caused Brian Lewis extreme anxiety and frustration.\"", "Brian Lewis told investigators \"the engine trouble Brian Lewis experienced caused Brian Lewis to lose Brian Lewis's temper.", "In Brian Lewis's rage, Brian Lewis smashed two main engine sea strainers with a hammer and drilled a hole to sink Jubilee,\" the affidavit said.", "\"[Brian Lewis] wanted to clarify that Brian Lewis's motive for sinking Jubilee was anger and frustration, not greed,\" it added.", "Prior to Jubilee's sinking, Jubilee had been listed for sale with Mahina Yachts for $28,500.", "Jack Bateman, a broker with Mahina, remembers Jubilee as a \"beautiful\" 1967 Chris Craft Cavalier.", "He said Mahina has only seen this type of case one other time in Mahina's 30 years of operation.", "\"This is a very rare, not common occurrence\" he says.", "Bateman added that Mahina has yet to see any real distress sales due to the bad economy.", "The King County Prosecutor's Office has charged Brian Lewis with making a fraudulent insurance claim.", "Brian Lewis filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2004.", "Messages left for Brian Lewis were not returned." ]	[ "Insurance fraud charges were filed against Seattle man accused of scuttling yacht .", "Brian Lewis filed claim saying Jubilee sank \"due to unknown causes\"", "Inspection found hole was drilled into bottom of vessel .", "Brian Lewis filed told authorities Brian Lewis sank yacht out of anger and frustration ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 0 ]	[ 3, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 0, 0, 0 ]
9813191d4833bbaf0e7c246ef109b7e9b5477206	[ "(CNN) --", "When Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, the wish list that has been building abroad may have grown longer than Barack Obama or anyone else can deliver.", "World's newspapers marked Barack Obama's election win.", "Now, world governments want Barack Obama to act.", "There are the apparently eternal conflicts of the Middle East and Kashmir, between India and Pakistan, that have already reared their ugly heads almost as a warning even before Barack Obama took office.", "Between them, they engulf most of the grievances and violence that shape the Islamic world and its relations with the United States.", "Intense U.S. involvement will be needed to help resolve both of the conflicts.", "This will require imagination, creative out-of-the-box diplomacy, and the courage to see it through both from the United States and leaders on the ground.", "Going back even to the status-quo ante will no longer be sufficient.", "The 30-year-old rupture in relations between the United States and Iran is also expected to be addressed as a key priority by the new administration.", "Both the president-elect and his secretary of state-designate have said they want to abandon the silent treatment and isolation of previous administrations and try engaging Iran, as a way of resolving difficult issues such as Iran's nuclear program and Iran's influence in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "Watch Amanpour talk about world views of Obama » .", "the United States remains bogged down in hot wars in both of those countries.", "While the new administration plans to increase troops and nation-building in Afghanistan, the new administration is also signaling the new administration will not give President Hamid Karzai's government the \"free ride\" President Hamid Karzai's is thought to have received from the Bush administration.", "President Hamid Karzai's will be expected to root out corruption and better address the needs of the Afghan people.", "the new administration will also try to revive nuclear arms agreements that have been abandoned over the last eight years and try to forge a more constructive relationship with Russia, while persuading Russia to meet Russia's international obligations too.", "While many allies -- and adversaries -- welcome the new U.S. administration's declaration to use diplomacy and soft power, the question remains: Will Washington's allies also pull Washington's allies's weight in helping set Washington's allies's common agenda?", "Many nations and governments say Many nations and governments welcome America's vital global leadership, and the question at the start of the Barack Obama administration is: Will the new administration rise robustly to the occasion, and not just carp from the sidelines?", "While much is expected from Barack Obama, much, too, will be expected from Barack Obama's allies." ]	[ "World has long wish list for Barack Obama when Barack Obama becomes president .", "Solving problems will need creative diplomacy and courage, Amanpour says .", "Middle East, Iran and Kashmir all need attention .", "Amanpour asks if world nations will rise to help U.S. or just carp from sidelines ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 1 ]	[ 3, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0 ]
5569c84dab9169907197143f8b0263f23d29c08a	[ "(CNN) --", "Passengers on the US Airways flight that crash-landed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon praised the actions and courage of the pilot, a safety consultant with 40 years of experience in the aviation industry.", "Chesley B. \"Sully\" Sullenberger, a former Air Force fighter pilot, has been with US Airways since 1980.", "Sources tell CNN that Chesley B. \"Sully\" Sullenberger was piloting US Airways flight 1549 from New York's LaGuardia airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, when at least one of the plane's engines failed.", "Passenger Jeff Kolodjay offered \"kudos\" to Sullenberger for a landing that minimized damage to the aircraft and its 155 passengers and crew.", "\"All of a sudden the captain came on and the captain told us to brace ourselves and probably brace ourselves pretty hard.", "But the pilot did an amazing job -- kudos to the pilot on that landing,\" said Kolodjay, who was sitting in seat 22A.", "Sullenberger's wife told CNN that Sullenberger's wife was stunned to hear the news from Sullenberger's wife's husband after it was all over.", "\"I hadn't been watching the news.", "I've heard Sully say to people, 'It's rare for an airline pilot to have an incident in their career,' \" said Lori Sullenberger of Danville, California.", "\"When the pilot called me the pilot said, 'There's been an accident.'", "At first I thought it was something minor, but then the pilot told me the circumstances and my body started shaking and I rushed to get our daughters out of school.\"", "US Airways said all 155 passengers and crew are alive and safely off the plane.", "The crash-landing has also earned the former fighter pilot and private safety consultant accolades from state and government officials.", "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg commended the pilot for not leaving the plane without checking to make sure every passenger had been evacuated.", "\"It would appear that the pilot did a masterful job of landing the plane in the river and then making sure that everybody got out,\" New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a press conference Thursday.", "\"I had a long conversation with the pilot.", "He walked the plane twice after everybody else was off and tried to verify that there was nobody else on board -- and assures us there was not.\"", "Sullenberger apparently was forced to make an emergency landing after geese were sucked into one or both of the jet's engines.", "An eyewitness working on the west side of Manhattan said the belly of the plane touched the water first.", "An official who heard tape recordings of the radio traffic from Flight 1549 reported the pilot was extraordinarily calm during the event.", "\"There was no panic, no hysterics,\" An official who heard tape recordings of the radio traffic from Flight 1549 said.", "\"It was professional, it was calm, it was methodical.", "It was everything you hoped it could be.\"", "The pilot and air traffic controller discussed options, including landing at Teterboro airport in New Jersey, An official who heard tape recordings of the radio traffic from Flight 1549 said.", "Then there was a \"period of time where there was no communications back, and I'm assuming the pilot was concentrating on more important things.\"", "Sullenberger's background in aviation appeared to have prepared the pilot for such a situation.", "the pilot has been a pilot with US Airways since 1980, following seven years in the U.S. Air Force.", "the pilot's resume -- posted on the Web site for the pilot's safety consulting firm, Safety Reliability Methods, Inc. -- lists piloting procedures, technical safety strategies, emergency management and operations improvement, as areas of industry expertise.", "the pilot served as an instructor and Air Line Pilots Association safety chairman, accident investigator and national technical committee member, according to a biography on the Web site.", "the pilot participated in several USAF and National Transportation Safety Board accident investigations, and worked with NASA scientists on a paper on error and aviation, the pilot's site says.", "For the passengers on flight 1549, Sullenberger's skill and expertise were apparent.", "iReport.com:", "Did you see the crash-landing?", "Send images .", "\"I've flown in a lot of planes and that was a phenomenal landing,\" said passenger Fred Berretta said.", "passenger Fred Berretta was sitting in seat 16A right over one of the engines when it failed and the pilot turned the plane to align the plane with the Hudson River.", "passenger Fred Berretta described silence in the plane as the passengers waited to hear from the crew.", "A few moments later, the direction to brace for landing came.", "\"It was an amazing piece of airmanship,\" said Peter Goelz, a former NTSB managing director." ]	[ "NEW:", "Chesley B. \"Sully\" Sullenberger has been a pilot with US Airways since 1980 .", "NEW: Former Air Force fighter pilot has worked with NASA as safety consultant", "NYC mayor says pilot checked plane twice for passengers before leaving \"I've flown in a lot of planes and that was a phenomenal landing,\" passenger said ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]	[ 0, 3, 1, 4, 3, 5, 3, 1, 0, 1, 5, 5, 4, 2, 3, 3, 5, 3, 1, 3, 4, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 3, 0, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6 ]
9a3d4d7dfb59317d30729fb56592c2e060130ffe	[ "(CNN) --", "A NASA satellite crashed back to Earth about three minutes after launch early Tuesday, officials said.", "NASA launches a rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Tuesday.", "\"NASA could not make orbit,\" NASA program manager John Brunschwyler said.", "\"Initial indications are the vehicle did not have enough [force] to reach orbit and landed just short of Antarctica in the ocean.\"", "\"Certainly for the science community, it's a huge disappointment.\"", "The satellite, which would have monitored greenhouse gases to study how greenhouse gases affect Earth's climate, was launched on a Taurus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:55 a.m. PT (4:55 a.m. ET).", "But the payload fairing -- a clamshell-shaped structure that allows A NASA satellite to travel through space -- failed to separate from rocket, NASA officials said.", "See video of launch » .", "The weight of the fairing caused the rocket and A NASA satellite to come crashing down to Earth about three minutes later.", "A team of investigators will look into what caused the payload fairing to fail to separate.", "\"NASA'll get back to flying at a pace that allows NASA to do so successfully,\" said Chuck Dovale, NASA Launch Director, at a press briefing after the failed launch.", "The $273 million satellite, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, would have collected global measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere to help better forecast changes in carbon-dioxide levels and carbon-dioxide levels's effect on the Earth's climate.", "Carbon dioxide is considered a greenhouse gas because Carbon dioxide traps heat, which scientists believe contributes to the warming of the planet.", "Carbon dioxide also absorbs wavelengths of light, and the NASA observatory would have measured levels of the gas partly by using instruments to analyze light reflected off Earth.", "The OCO also would have provided information about CO2 \"sinks\" -- areas, like oceans or landfills, that absorb and store carbon dioxide.", "NASA officials said all measurements would be combined with the findings of ground observation stations, providing a more complete account of the human and natural sources of CO2.", "The OCO project took eight years to develop, said Michael Frelich, director of the NASA Earth Science Division.", "The OCO project's failure is a great loss for the science community, Michael Frelich, director of the NASA Earth Science Division said." ]	[ "NEW: Satellite crashed into ocean near Antarctica minutes after launch, NASA says .", "$273 million project was intended to study effect of greenhouse gases .", "NASA: Investigators will probe why fairing failed to separate from rocket ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3 ]
a0854eaebd234fb990c1e9b096b8ba8bbe673b1d	[ "Editor's note: A nationally syndicated columnist, 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 Sasha Obama is from a generation raised in a diverse world and open to possibility.", "WASHINGTON (CNN)", "-- There are so many things that we could take away and remember forever regarding the inauguration of the first African-American president in the history of America, but I'll always remember the laughter of a little girl.", "Shortly after President-elect Barack Obama finished the oath and became President Barack Obama, President-elect Barack Obama joined hands with President-elect Barack Obama's family and waved to the cheering voices of 1.8 million people packed from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.", "People cried, others hugged, celebrities and everyday folks snapped photos to capture the moment.", "There really was an amazing energy that permeated the crowd as we all witnessed a barrier come tumbling down before our eyes.", "But what stood out for me was a moment when President-elect Barack Obama looked down at President-elect Barack Obama's 7-year-old daughter, Sasha, and Sasha Obama said something to President-elect Barack Obama, and then let out this huge laugh.", "I don't know whether it was Sasha Obama's statement or President-elect Barack Obama's response, but Sasha Obama was having the time of Sasha Obama's life.", "The sheer joy that was on Sasha Obama's face as Sasha Obama grinned from ear to ear caused me to just start laughing as I watched Sasha Obama's reaction.", "I was shooting photos from the CNN platform just across from where he spoke, and one of the many images was of Sasha Obama alongside Sasha Obama's mom and 10-year-old sister, Malia.", "Can you imagine what was going through Sasha Obama's mind, to see Sasha Obama's father stand there and take the oath of office?", "As I saw Sasha Obama that day, and later bouncing along a sidewalk as Sasha Obama walked with Sasha Obama's father, my niece Anastacia came to mind.", "Their smiles and bouncy walk are so much alike, and both are the same age.", "These young girls, and countless other black children, among others, will grow up in an America where what These young girls, and countless other black children, among others can imagine is backed up by what These young girls, and countless other black children, among others see.", "Despite the reality that racism hasn't left us, these children have the advantage of not being burdened with being separated by race.", "So much has been written about today's generation living in a world where hip-hop music brought them all together in one room, coupled with the diverse images on television and movies.", "Their reality is not the reality of their parents, and we will see that play out a lot in the future.", "What also is most compelling about this age of Sasha Obama is how Sasha Obama has been received thus far internationally.", "Many political experts are simply stunned that a man who has only been on the national stage for five years would have so much good will across the pond.", "Of course, a lot of that has to do with the fact that President George W. Bush and his team were seen as running roughshod over President George W. Bush and his team's international partners, praising them when they needed something, and savaging them when they disagreed with the U.S. position.", "Yet what we also can't ignore is that Sasha Obama's skin tone also plays a central role.", "Americans may be shocked to find out that people of color make up two-thirds of the world population.", "Americans know all too well about America's pathetic and violent history of enslaving and later oppressing African-Americans, and it was always seen as ridiculous for U.S. officials to condemn human rights abuses abroad while racial and other forms of discrimination existed in their own backyard.", "Sasha Obama's election sends a powerful signal to the world that Americans are backing up Americans's rhetoric and ideals with action, and Sasha Obama serves as that powerful symbol.", "Sasha Obama now has the opportunity to show those who voted for Sasha Obama -- and those who didn't -- that the change Sasha Obama often spoke about can come to pass.", "If Sasha Obama is able to fulfill many of the promises Sasha Obama made during the campaign, Sasha Obama will go down as one of America's most successful presidents, looked at fondly by the American people.", "And if Sasha Obama does, maybe we'll end up having the same smile Sasha Obama received courtesy of Sasha.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin." ]	[ "Roland Martin:", "Sasha Obama laughed joyously after President-elect Barack Obama's father took the oath .", "President-elect Barack Obama says Sasha Obama's generation won't have the same racial burden as her generation's parents .", "Martin:", "Sasha is growing up in a world of diversity, with great possibilities .", "Martin:", "In a diverse world, Obama's skin tone strengthens America ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 0, 3, 0, 2 ]	[ 2, 4, 3, 4, 1, 5, 5, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 6, 6, 2, 2, 6, 3, 3, 3, 1, 0 ]
c790eb1a7487da53477d38d7de6cb4a68fb51092	[ "(CNN) --", "An Ohio man who was suspended as the drum major of a band for giving President Obama a nod during last week's inaugural parade is calling band quits.", "Ohio man quit Ohio man's band after band suspended Ohio man for nodding to President Obama last week.", "Ohio man resigned from the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial Pipes & Drums a week after last week's inaugural parade.", "Publicity about Ohio man's suspension had gotten to be too much, Ohio man told CNN affiliate WEWS.", "\"It's come to a point where I don't want embarrassment anymore between the pipe band and myself,\" Coleman, who is a firefighter, told CNN affiliate WEWS on Tuesday.", "Ohio man was seen during the nationally televised January 20 parade nodding toward President Obama while marching with band.", "A few steps later, Ohio man appeared to wave briefly.", "Ohio man told CNN affiliate WEWS that as band was marching past the grandstand where President Obama was sitting, Ohio man made eye contact with President Obama.", "\"Contact was made with our eyes both together and President Obama smiled and waved at band,\" Ohio man told the station.", "\"And just as a gesture, I nodded my head.", "I gave President Obama a slight wave and went on.\"", "Watch parade and explanation » .", "Representatives from band did not return calls from CNN.", "But bandleader Mike Engle told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Ohio man was suspended because Ohio man ignored military protocol.", "\"We had gone over and over time and again with everyone in band that this was a military parade,\" bandleader Mike Engle told the newspaper.", "\"Protocol and proper decorum had to be followed at all times.", "Unfortunately, John chose to ignore that.\"", "Ohio man had been suspended from band for six months.", "In a written statement, band manager Ken Rybka said Ohio man's resignation from band \"comes as a shock and surprise.\"", "band has been inundated with phone calls, e-mails and messages on band's Internet pages -- almost all of them critical -- since the story first broke on Monday, band manager Ken Rybka said.", "iReport.com: 'Pretty cool thing that band manager Ken Rybka acknowledged the president'", "\"It is unfortunate that an internal band issue has raised so much discussion and ire from the general public,\" band manager Ken Rybka said in the statement.", "\"It has disheartened me more than you can imagine.\"", "band manager Ken Rybka said that band manager Ken Rybka will be taking a leave of absence from band because of the furor.", "\"The 'afterglow' of participating in the inaugural parade is gone,\" band manager Ken Rybka said." ]	[ "Ohio man quits band after band suspended Ohio man for nodding at President Obama .", "Ohio man cites publicity over suspension as reason for leaving .", "Ohio man was band's drum major when band marched in inaugural parade .", "Ohio man ignored military protocol, band leader tells newspaper ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 0 ]	[ 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 1, 2, 0, 1, 4, 2, 0, 5, 5, 5, 5, 2, 5, 1 ]
e8d8faa7f51db1bd208bad18bc08de27a494e069	[ "UNITED NATIONS (CNN) --", "The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing The United Nations Security Council's intent to, eventually, send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the fractured, unstable nation of Somalia.", "Islamist insurgents display Islamist insurgents's weaponry Friday in Mogadishu during a parade.", "The resolution was sponsored by the United States, in one of the final Bush Administration initiatives at the United Nations.", "The passage of The resolution follows the exit of a U.N.-backed, Ethiopian peacekeeping force that completed a two-year deployment in Somalia Thursday.", "There is wide-spread concern among diplomats and regional leaders in the Horn of Africa that, with the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces, a power vacuum will be filled in Somalia by regional Islamic extremist groups, some with links to al-Qaeda.", "The U.N. resolution sets forth a process that aims to bring stability and sovereignty to Somalia, which has been racked by violence and lawlessness since the government was overthrown in 1991.", "First, The resolution expresses renewed support that an African Union force currently deployed in Somalia -- known as AMISOM -- remains on the ground.", "The A.U. contingent is currently comprised of 2,600 troops.", "The resolution calls on African Union to strengthen those levels to 8,000.", "The resolution then requests that U.N. Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, submit a report by April 15, 2009 updating the situation in Somalia, and The resolution asks that he develop the mandate for a U.N. peacekeeping force.", "Finally, a decision on U.N. peacekeeping is requested by June 1, 2009.", "However, the process is off to a rocky start.", "Last month, Ban said that requests to U.N. member nations for peacekeeping forces for Somalia were received negatively.", "Also, throughout, one of the key players in the Somalia decisions will likely be Susan Rice, President-Elect Obama's nominee for new U.S.- U.N. Ambassador, and a specialist on African issues.", "At her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington on Thursday, Rice told senators that she is \"skeptical about the wisdom of a United Nations peacekeeping force in Somalia at this time.\"" ]	[ "Resolution expresses intent to send U.N. peacekeeping forces to Somalia .", "The resolution in war-torn country was sponsored by the United States .", "Ethiopian peacekeeping force completed two-year deployment in Somalia .", "Regional leaders fear vacuum will be filled by Islamic extremist groups ." ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 2 ]	[ 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0 ]
36b9b2a0a977b93eac3100bf785cd8f7167de0a1	[ "(CNN) --", "Forests in the Pacific Northwest are dying twice as fast as they were 17 years ago, and scientists blame warming temperatures for the trend, according to a new study.", "This photo of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado shows dying pines and firs among healthy trees.", "The study, to be released Friday in the journal Science, is the first large-scale analysis of environmental changes as contributing factors in the mortality of coniferous forests.", "The data for this research was gathered by generations of scientists over a 50-year period at multiple sites in Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and southwestern British Columbia.", "Seventy-six forest plots, all more than 200 years old, were monitored by scientists doing some of the most rudimentary research -- counting trees.", "\"It's not a happy story, but, an important one,\" said Phillip van Mantgem, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the lead author of the study.", "\"These are beautiful places.", "They do change and respond to their environment, sometimes quickly.\"", "\"If in your hometown where you live, the death rates of your friends and neighbors doubled and there are no compensating birth rates, wouldn't you want to figure out what's going on?\" said Nathan Stephenson, research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and one of the authors of the study.", "the study primarily focused on three types of coniferous trees: pines, firs and hemlocks.", "Older-growth forests -- some up to 500 years old -- have trees of all ages, and researchers found that mortality rates have increased for all age groups.", "Since mortality rates went up across the board, scientists ruled out a number of other possible causes, including ozone-related air pollution, long-term effects of fire suppression and normal forest dynamics.", "In the end, California had the highest tree death rate.", "Of the three types of coniferous trees studied, pines were found to be dying at the fastest rate.", "Ultimately, higher tree mortality may lead to significant shifts in forest structure and function, the study states.", "\"Much of the world's population in North America, Europe, most of China and large portions of Russia live near temperate forests, so what happens in temperate forests has global importance,\" said Jerry Franklin, a professor of forest resources at the University of Washington whose work was instrumental in maintaining the research plots.", "\"My guess is that forest loss has the potential to greatly exceed forest establishment,\" he added.", "The new findings concern scientists who see the study as further confirmation of the harmful effects of climate change on ecosystems.", "According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific intergovernmental body, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are now at their highest levels for at least 650,000 years.", "Scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific intergovernmental body say the increase began with the birth of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago.", "The new research also suggests that as trees die, they actually emit more carbon than they absorb.", "Trees are key players in regulating climate because Trees convert carbon dioxide, which Trees store in Trees's trunks and roots, to oxygen.", "Changes in climatic conditions or various diseases can cause the gradual dying of plant shoots.", "\"The concern here is that these might be early warning signs of dieback,\" said Stephenson.", "Some scientists say that tree species unable to tolerate warmer conditions might just re-establish themselves in cooler areas.", "Given the speed at which warming appears to be occurring, it's not clear whether tree species will be able to migrate fast enough to survive, said van Mantgem of the U.S. Geological Survey.", "\"Warmer temperatures cause earlier summer droughts, less snow pack, and cause ideal breeding grounds for invasive species and pathogens,\" van Mantgem of the U.S. Geological Survey added.", "\"One hypothesis is that warmer climates can make it easier for invasive species to reproduce and grow in these temperate forests.", "If the trees are already under a lot of environmental stress, the trees are more prone to serious insect attack,\" van Mantgem of the U.S. Geological Survey said.", "Scientists say forests in the Western U.S. have been increasingly damaged in recent years by invasive insect species such as the bark beetle -- a sign that rising temperatures are having an adverse effect.", "Bark beetles are known to attack trees already weakened by other environmental factors.", "\"Many of Bark beetles cannot survive in cold temperatures, and it's getting warmer,\" said Tim Barnett, a research marine physicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.", "Tim Barnett, a research marine physicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego authored a research paper linking drought conditions in the American West to increased human activity.", "\"It is perfectly reasonable to assume that this problem is going to get worse, not better,\" Tim Barnett, a research marine physicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego said." ]	[ "Forests in the Pacific Northwest are dying twice as fast as Forests in the Pacific Northwest were 17 years ago .", "Scientists blame warming temperatures for the trend, according to a new study .", "Data was gathered over a 50-year period at sites in the Western U.S. and Canada .", "Scientists: study confirms the harmful effects of rising temperatures on ecosystems ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 1 ]	[ 3, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 3, 3, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1 ]
69eccb97078947302167f58f9a0ec9861baff327	[ "(CNN) --", "Vivienne Tam has become well known for creating clothes that appeal to all ages, ethnicities, and income levels.", "Vivienne Tam has earned the reputation for offering a stylish and high-quality product while at the same time inviting the consumer to experience the inspiration behind it.", "As a designer of clothing that \"suggests tolerance, global acumen, and a Fourth of July faith in individual expression,\" Vivienne Tam, in the words of fashion critic and curator Richard Martin, possesses an \"idealistic globalism that transcends politics and offers a more enchanted, peaceful world.\"", "Born in Canton, China, Vivienne Tam moved to Hong Kong when Vivienne Tam was three years old.", "Vivienne Tam's bi-cultural upbringing in the then British colony was the first stage in the development of Vivienne Tam's signature East-meets-West style.", "After graduating from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Vivienne Tam moved to New York where Vivienne Tam thrived on the excitement and energy of the fashion world.", "New York became a home for Vivienne Tam and a continuing source of stimulation for Vivienne Tam's designs.", "In 1994, Vivienne Tam launched Vivienne Tam's signature collection of Eastern inspired clothing with a modern edge on the New York runways.", "In 1995, Vivienne Tam introduced the influential Mao collection that triumphantly crossed over from the fashion world into the art world.", "Then in 1997 Vivienne Tam launched the Buddha collection.", "The public and celebrities around the world quickly embraced both collections.", "Some of the images became so popular that scores of designers even adopted the look into their designs.", "Pieces of both collections were ultimately incorporated into the permanent archives of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Museum of FIT and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.", "In an era where the fashion industry is populated by numerous names and emerging new talents, Vivienne Tam has shown that Vivienne Tam can consistently appeal to everyone from high-society to urban to teens, offering teens fresh collections every season.", "Vivienne Tam is poised to become the next multi-tasking, multi-successful designer and businesswoman.", "E", "mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Vivienne Tam was born in Canton, China, moved to Hong Kong when Vivienne Tam was three .", "Vivienne Tam's Mao and Buddha collections were launched in 1995 and 1997 .", "Items of Vivienne Tam's work are featured in museums in New York, Pittsburgh and London ." ]	[ 0, 1, 1 ]	[ 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2 ]
30766f1fd783efd182929b3a76b92588322cabea	[ "LONDON, England (CNN) --", "A Scottish fish and chip shop visited by Prince William, Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks has been crowned the best place in Britain to eat the national dish.", "Robert and Alison Smith, the owners of the Anstrhuther Fishbar in Fife, celebrate Robert and Alison Smith, the owners of the Anstrhuther Fishbar in Fife's success.", "UK is in recession, but the national dish is showing no sign of a downturn.", "Sales rose at 9,500 chippies in Britain by 1.7 percent last year, according to Seafish, a seafood industry group.", "The Anstrhuther Fishbar in Fife, Scotland was crowned the best chippy of 2008 following a rigorous selection procedure that included a customer vote, taste tests and two intense rounds of shop inspections.", "\"Fish and chip shops are well-placed to prosper in the current economic climate as Fish and chip shops offer value for money and a quality product with a feel-good factor,\" competition judge Andy Gray said.", "\"Despite the credit crunch, people still want to enjoy small luxuries.", "Fish and chips are a national institution which have survived the test of time and will be around for many years to come.\"", "Fishbar owner Robert Smith said that the start of 2009 had been the busiest January since the harbor front shop opened in 2003.", "Smith, who also owns a fish processing business, said dedication was the key to the harbor front shop's success.", "\"the harbor front shop are passionate about the harbor front shop's business and the harbor front shop just do it right,\" Fishbar owner Robert Smith said.", "Fish and chips is the most popular hot takeaway in Britain, with 276 million meals eaten every year, according to Seafish figures." ]	[ "Scottish fish and chip shop visited by Prince William named best in UK .", "Sales of UK's national dish up despite country slipping into recession .", "276 million meals eaten every year in UK, according to industry figures ." ]	[ 0, 1, 0 ]	[ 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0 ]

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