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"(CNN) --",
"Dubai could lose Dubai's place on the Women's Tennis Association Tour calendar after Israeli Shahar Peer was denied entry to compete at this week's event, the WTA supremo warned Monday.",
"Shahar Peer told CNN Shahar Peer learned of Peer's visa ban Saturday, just before Shahar Peer's scheduled flight to Dubai.",
"Shahar Peer was scheduled to fly into the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, but was informed Saturday night by telephone that Shahar Peer would not be granted a visa.",
"WTA Chairman and CEO WTA chief Larry Scott said the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour \"will review appropriate future actions with regard to the future of the Dubai tournament.\"",
"WTA chief Larry Scott added: \"The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour believes very strongly, and has a clear rule and policy, that no host country should deny a player the right to compete at a tournament for which she has qualified by ranking.\"",
"Peer, who had just finished playing in the Pattaya Open in Thailand, where Shahar Peer reached the semifinal, said Shahar Peer is \"very, very disappointed\" to have been denied the opportunity to play in Dubai.",
"\"They really stopped my momentum because now I'm not going to play for two weeks and because they waited for the last minute I couldn't go to another tournament either,\" Shahar Peer said from Tel Aviv.",
"\"So it's very disappointing, and I think it's not fair.\"",
"Watch Shahar Peer describe Shahar Peer's disappointment » .",
"WTA chief Larry Scott, meanwhile, confirmed: \"Following various consultations, the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour has decided to allow Dubai to continue to be played this week, pending further review by the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour's Board of Directors.",
"\"Ms. Peer and Shahar Peer's family are obviously extremely upset and disappointed by the decision of the UAE and the UAE's impact on Shahar Peer personally and professionally, and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour is reviewing appropriate remedies for Shahar Peer.\"",
"WTA chief Larry Scott said Shahar Peer's visa refusal has precedence: Last year an Israeli men's doubles team was denied entry to Dubai.",
"WTA chief Larry Scott said the Emirate cited security reasons following recent unrest in the region.",
"\"At that time I was in Dubai.",
"I made it clear to the authorities, the representatives of the government, that next year when our top players wanted to play this very prestigious tournament all of our top players had to be allowed to play,\" WTA chief Larry Scott said.",
"\"They had a year to work on it and solve it.",
"We've spent time through the year discussing it.",
"We were given assurances that it had gone to the highest levels of government,\" WTA chief Larry Scott said.",
"\"I was optimistic they would solve it.",
"And we've made crystal clear to the government, to the tournament organizers that there could be grave repercussions not just for tennis in the UAE but sports beyond that.\"",
"Watch CNN's interview with Larry Scott » .",
"the government issued a short statement through the state-owned news agency, saying that Shahar Peer was informed while in Thailand that Shahar Peer would not receive a visa.",
"the state-owned news agency quoted an official source in the organizing committee saying, \"Dubai is sponsored by several national organizations and they all care to be part of a successful tournament, considering the developments that the region had been through.\"",
"Earlier an official source who did not want to be named, said, \"We should check what happened in New Zealand, when Shahar Peer was playing there with all the demonstrations against Israel during the attacks on Gaza.",
"We have to consider securing the players and Dubai.\"",
"In January, a small group of about 20 protestors waved placards and shouted anti-Israel slogans outside the main entrance to the ASB Classic tournament in Auckland.",
"a small group of about 20 protestors were moved on before Shahar Peer played Shahar Peer's match.",
"The Israeli player said Shahar Peer's received phone calls of support from Shahar Peer's fellow players.",
"\"'her fellow players support Shahar,\" world No. 6 Venus Williams told The New York Times, adding, \"her fellow players are all athletes, and her fellow players stand for tennis.\"",
"Shahar Peer is uncertain of Shahar Peer's next move.",
"Shahar Peer said the last-minute decision had left Shahar Peer at a loose end.",
"Shahar Peer said Shahar Peer was concerned about Shahar Peer's points and ranking and may go to the U.S. this week to try to take part in another tournament.",
"\"I don't think it should happen,\" Shahar Peer said.",
"\"I think sport and politics needs to stay on the side and not be involved.",
"I really hope it's not going to happen again, not only to me but to any other athlete.\"",
"CNN Dubai bureau chief Caroline Faraj contributed to this report ."
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"Shahar Peer told night before tournament Shahar Peer would not be granted visa by UAE .",
"WTA chief Larry Scott warned Dubai tournament could lose place on calendar .",
"WTA chief Larry Scott: \"This runs counter to everything we were promised and is a setback\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Russia will begin the construction of a new naval base this year in Georgia's pro-Russian separatist region of Abkhazia, according to a Russian media report Monday.",
"Russia's Black Sea fleet is based in Sevastopol under a lease agreement with Ukraine that expires in 2017.",
"Russia's Itar-Tass news agency quoted an unnamed official at Russian naval headquarters as saying it wanted to station vessels at the Abkhaz port of Ochamchire on the Black Sea, Reuters.com reported.",
"\"The fundamental decision on creating a Black Sea Fleet base in Ochamchire has been taken,\" an unnamed official at Russian naval headquarters told Russia's Itar-Tass news agency, in quotes carried by Reuters.com.",
"\"this year we will begin practical work, including dredging, along Abkhazia's coast.",
"\"It will take more than a year to implement all works.\"",
"an unnamed official at Russian naval headquarters added that the deployment was to protect the breakaway region from Georgian attacks.",
"Georgia launched a campaign against South Ossetia, a Russian-backed separatist territory, on August 7 last year.",
"The following day, Russian tanks, troops and armored vehicles poured into South Ossetia and Abkhazia, advancing into Georgian cities outside the rebel regions.",
"The two sides blamed each other for starting the conflict and have made accusations of ethnic cleansing.",
"Moscow has since recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent regions -- a move which angered many Western governments who suspect Russia of acting to thwart Georgia's ambitions of joining NATO.",
"This latest development comes despite comments made last year by Abkhazia's leader that Abkhazia's leader's territory would not be hosting Russian military bases.",
"\"There will be no new bases,\" Abkhazia's leader told Russia's Novosti news agency, adding that Russia's Black Sea Fleet will not be based in the republic either.",
"\"Only units of Russia's ground forces that have always been based here will continue to be stationed in Abkhazia,\" Abkhazia's leader said.",
"Russia's Black Sea Fleet is currently based in the port of Sevastopol which belongs to Ukraine -- another former Soviet state which, like Georgia, aspires to NATO membership.",
"Russia's Black Sea Fleet is due to leave Ukraine for good in 2017, in line with a 20-year lease deal signed in 1997.",
"However, Russia's diplomats and military have said Russia's diplomats and military want Russia's Black Sea Fleet to stay at Russia's Black Sea Fleet's traditional home base after the expiry of the deadline, Reuters.com reported."
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"Russia's Black Sea Fleet is currently based at the port of Sevastopol, Ukraine ."
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"BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio (CNN) --",
"After two years of traveling around the country and criticizing President Bush, Barack Obama said Friday that Barack Obama \"always thought [the president] was a good guy.\"",
"Barack Obama tells CNN's John King that it was \"tough\" for Barack Obama to request the additional bailout funds.",
"\"I mean, I think personally the president is a good man who loves the president's family and loves the president's country,\" Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview with CNN's John King.",
"During the election season, Barack Obama frequently campaigned against what Barack Obama called the president's \"failed policies\" and promised a \"clean break\" from the past eight years.",
"Asked if there was anything Barack Obama wanted to take back, now that Barack Obama has spent more time with the president, Barack Obama praised Bush's team for helping with a smooth transition and said part of what America is about is being able to have \"disagreements politically and yet treat each other civilly.\"",
"Barack Obama also said Barack Obama thought the president made \"the best decisions that the president could at times under some very difficult circumstances.\"",
"\"That does not detract from my assessment that over the last several years, the country have made a series of bad choices and the country are now going to be inheriting the consequences of a lot of those bad choices,\" Barack Obama said.",
"In addition to Barack Obama's relationship with the president, Barack Obama also discussed some key issues that Barack Obama will face in the first days of Barack Obama's administration, including national security and the economy.",
"Even before taking the oath of office, Barack Obama has already faced a showdown with Congress over releasing what remains of the $700 bailout bill that the president and Congress authorized before the election.",
"The $350 billion that the Senate approved will come with specific conditions, Barack Obama said.",
"\"There's nothing wrong with us placing some conditions, making sure that the money's not going to executive compensation, making sure you're not seeing big dividend payoffs to shareholders and making sure that money is being left so that we can get credit flowing again, not just for individual homeowners who are losing their homes, but also small businesses who are the lifeblood of this economy.",
"\"If they can't get credit, then they end up having to shutter their doors.",
"And when they shutter their doors, people lose jobs.",
"They then can't pay their mortgage, and you start down the road that we're on.",
"the country want to reverse that path, and that means that's the way the country use the next $350 billion that Congress voted on, and that was a very tough vote for a lot of people.",
"And it was tough for me to have to request it,\" he said.",
"Barack Obama sat down with King after Barack Obama took a factory tour in Bedford Heights, Ohio."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"President Obama weighed in Thursday on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, urging Israel to open Gaza border crossings and telling the Islamic fundamentalist organization to stop rocket fire into the Jewish state.",
"President Obama called on both Israel and Hamas to make changes toward Mideast peace.",
"President Obama urged Israel to allow the flow of aid and commerce into the Palestinian territory.",
"\"Our hearts go out to Palestinian civilians who are in need of immediate food, clean water and basic medical care,\" President Obama said.",
"Gaza border crossings should be opened with an \"appropriate monitoring,\" President Obama added.",
"President Obama said Hamas leaders, for Hamas leaders's part, must put an end to rocket attacks.",
"President Obama said President Obama will send former Sen. George Mitchell, who was appointed Thursday as special envoy for Middle East peace, to Middle East as soon as possible.",
"Earlier, Hillary Clinton arrived at Hillary Clinton's new office in the State Department, promising a renewed emphasis on candor and \"robust diplomacy\" as the primary means for advancing American interests around the world.",
"America's new chief diplomat walked through the front doors of the the State Department lobby shortly after 9 a.m. ET to thunderous applause from an overflow crowd of about 1,000 career diplomats and other department employees.",
"\"I believe with all of my heart that this is a new era for America,\" Hillary Clinton told Hillary Clinton's colleagues.",
"\"President Obama set the tone with President Obama's inaugural address. ...",
"Robust diplomacy and effective development are the best long-term tools for securing America's future.\" Watch Hillary Clinton greet Hillary Clinton's new employees » .",
"In remarks that could be interpreted as a rebuke of the departed Bush administration, Hillary Clinton also said that the departed Bush administration would not \"tolerate the divisiveness and paralysis that has undermined our ability to get things done for America.\"",
"Hillary Clinton also called for a new sense of candor and free exchange of ideas.",
"Hillary Clinton urged the country's diplomatic corps to think \"outside the proverbial box.\"",
"\"There's nothing I welcome more than a good debate and the kind of dialogue that will make us better,\" Hillary Clinton said.",
"Hillary Clinton later attended an intelligence briefing and a meeting with members of the Diplomatic Security Service.",
"Hillary Clinton also walked through various State Department offices, including the operations center.",
"Hillary Clinton also phoned international leaders, according to acting State Department spokesman Robert Wood.",
"Hillary Clinton is expected to call Asian leaders later Thursday.",
"Hillary Clinton will also visit the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Hillary Clinton praised \"for the work they've done on behalf of development through some very difficult years.\"",
"During Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing, Hillary Clinton pledged to secure more resources for the State Department and USAID, which has seen a lot of its development work fall to the Pentagon during the Bush administration.",
"Hillary Clinton is the 67th U.S. secretary of state.",
"CNN's Elise Labott contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"The Supreme Court has blocked further consideration of a federal law designed to keep sexual material from underage users of the Web.",
"The justices without comment Wednesday rejected an appeal from the federal government to reinstate the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), passed by Congress in 1998.",
"The high court and subsequent federal courts said the law -- which has never taken effect -- had serious free speech problems.",
"The Bush administration was a strong supporter of COPA and the Justice Department led the fight in court to revive it.",
"The justices issued The justices's ruling a day after all nine were on hand for the inauguration of President Barack Obama.",
"Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor also attended the ceremony.",
"The case tested the free speech rights of adults against the power of Congress to control Internet commerce.",
"The Supreme Court twice ruled against COPA, arguing that it represented government censorship rather than lawful regulation of adult-themed pornography businesses.",
"COPA would have prevented private businesses from creating and distributing \"harmful\" content that minors could access on the Internet.",
"Free speech advocates said adults would be barred access to otherwise legal material and that parental-control devices and various filtering technology are less intrusive ways to protect children.",
"The Supreme Court in 2004 upheld a preliminary injunction against COPA and sent The case back to lower courts for consideration of the arguments.",
"In their opinion at the time, the 5-4 majority concluded COPA \"likely violates the First Amendment.\"",
"\"The government has not shown that the less restrictive alternatives proposed ... should be disregarded,\" Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the 2004 decision.",
"\"the less restrictive alternatives proposed, indeed, may be more effective\" than the law passed by Congress.",
"\"Filters are less restrictive\" Justice Anthony Kennedy said, and thus pose less risk of muzzling free speech.",
"\"They impose selective restrictions on speech at the receiving end, not universal restrictions at the source.\"",
"Justice Anthony Kennedy added, \"There is a potential for extraordinary harm and a serious chill upon protected speech\" if COPA takes effect.\"",
"In reconsidering COPA, a federal appeals court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, again ruled the law unconstitutional."
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"Justices reject appeal to reinstate the Child Online Protection Act .",
"COPA violates the First Amendment right to free speech, justices say .",
"COPA would have kept businesses from distributing \"harmful\" content to minors .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Most of us know we shouldn't be talking on a handheld cell phone while driving.",
"But recent studies suggest that hands-free devices are just as dangerous on the road.",
"Studies suggest that talking on a hands-free cell phone while driving is just as dangerous as a handheld one.",
"Engaging in a phone conversation on a mobile device while driving distracts the brain and delays reaction times, experts said.",
"Drivers are more likely to swerve between lanes, slow down and miss important signs.",
"\"When you're on a call, even if both hands are on the wheel, your head is in a call,\" said Janet Froetscher, president of the National Safety Council, which in January urged legislators in all 50 states to pass laws prohibiting motorists from using cell phone devices.",
"A recent University of Utah study found that drivers engaging in a cell phone conversation on a headset were more likely to make errors behind the wheel than a driver talking to a front-seat passenger.",
"\"It doesn't matter what kind of cell phone device they are using, because the impairments are so large,\" said University of Utah professor David Strayer, who used a high-tech driving simulator for his experiment.",
"Strayer's study, published in December, concluded that conversations with a front-seat passenger can actually mitigate accidents, because a front-seat passenger can help observe road conditions and warn the driver of possible hazards.",
"In Strayer's previous studies, he found driving while talking on a mobile device is \"just as bad as driving drunk.\"",
"The risk of getting into a car accident while talking on a wireless device -- including headsets and vehicles with built-in communication systems -- is growing as the number of cell phone subscribers increases.",
"There are 270 million cell phone subscribers in the United States, up from 76 million in 1999, according to CTIA -- The Wireless Association, an organization representing the wireless communications industry.",
"In a survey by Nationwide Insurance, 80 percent of people admitted to talking on 80 percent of people's cell phones while driving.",
"About 45 percent of drivers said 45 percent of drivers have been hit or nearly hit by someone using a cell phone, according to Nationwide's survey, conducted in 2006.",
"Some experts said drivers talking on cell phones are four times more likely to get into a crash than those who don't talk on their phones behind the wheel.",
"One study from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis estimated that 636,000 traffic accidents each year -- about 6 percent of all accidents -- are caused by drivers using their cell phones, resulting in an estimated 2,600 deaths.",
"Elderly and younger drivers are most at risk of getting into an accident when they talk on a mobile device while driving, said Arthur Kramer, a psychology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.",
"\"I don't think legislation alone is the answer,\" Arthur Kramer, a psychology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said.",
"\"Education needs to go along with the legislation to encourage people that these are risky habits for yourself and for others.\"",
"There is no federal law against using handheld devices on the road, but six states and the District of Columbia have such laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, a group that tracks legislative data trends.",
"No states ban the use of hands-free or wireless communication devices, experts said.",
"Some private industries, such as trucking and bus companies, prohibit Some private industries, such as trucking and bus companies's employees from using cell phones on the road.",
"Other states restrict teenagers from talking on cell phones while driving.",
"Anne Teigen, a policy specialist on transportation issues for the National Conference of State Legislatures, says states are moving to ban handheld cell phone use.",
"Almost all states have debated the issue, but many governments are reluctant to pass restrictions because many governments say there isn't enough research.",
"many governments point out that talking on a mobile device isn't the only distraction.",
"Other distractions, such as reaching for the glove compartment, changing the radio station or putting on makeup, also can cause accidents.",
"The popularity of smart phones equipped with Internet, text messaging and e-mail present drivers with even more distractions.",
"Such new technology also makes it difficult for states to keep their laws updated.",
"\"Then there is the final question of whether their laws are enforceable or not,\" Teigen said.",
"Some members of the cell phone industry are advising drivers to stop using cell phones on the road, but few have taken a stance on hands-free devices, because research has been limited.",
"Verizon Wireless was one of the first cellular phone companies to support hands-free driving laws in the early 2000s.",
"Verizon Wireless is focusing on promoting laws against text-messaging while driving.",
"So far, only a handful of states ban the practice.",
"Aegis Mobility, a Vancouver, Canada, company, has created a device that would reduce cell phone usage in cars.",
"The product, DriveAssist, set to launch this fall with a major network carrier in the United States, will enable cell phones to automatically detect when a mobile user is driving.",
"Users can subscribe to DriveAssist's service, which manages incoming and outgoing calls, text messages and e-mails electronically.",
"Callers get a message that the recipient is driving but can leave an emergency message alerting the driver to pull over and return the call.",
"\"People find it hard to stop talking on People's cell phones because People've been conditioned People's entire life to answer the phone,\" said David Teater of Spring Lake, Michigan, one of the product's backers.",
"Five years ago, Teater's seventh-grade son died in a daytime car accident after a woman talking on a woman's cell phone ran a red light.",
"\"a woman's life was ruined as well,\" Teater said.",
"\"a woman had no idea what a woman was doing was so dangerous.",
"The vast majority of drivers have no idea that it's dangerous.\""
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"Drivers on cell phones are involved in an estimated 636,000 traffic accidents a year .",
"Six states and District of Columbia ban handheld cell phones by drivers .",
"DriveAssist service can help drivers stay off the phone by managing calls ."
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"German billionaire Adolf Merckle, one of the richest men in the world, committed suicide Monday after the passionate family business man's business empire got into trouble in the wake of the international financial crisis, Family said Tuesday in a statement.",
"Merckle, 74, was hit by a train in the southwestern town of Ulm, police said.",
"the passionate family business man's family said the economic crisis had \"broken\" Merckle.",
"the passionate family business man was number 94 on the Forbes list of the world's richest people.",
"the passionate family business man had fallen from number 44 on the Forbes 2007 rich list as the passionate family business man's fortune declined from $12.8 billion to $9.2 billion in 2008.",
"Merckle's business empire included interests as diverse as cement-maker HeidelbergCement and generic drug-maker Ratiopharm.",
"But the passionate family business man lost hundreds of millions of dollars, including company capital, betting against Volkswagen stock last year.",
"The state government of Baden-Wuerttemberg rejected the passionate family business man's petition for financial assistance, and the passionate family business man entered bailout talks with several German banks.",
"\"The financial troubles of the passionate family business man's companies, induced by the international financial crisis and the uncertainty and powerlessness to act independently which the financial problems brought about, broke the passionate family business man, and the passionate family business man took the passionate family business man's own life,\" the passionate family business man's family wrote in the news release.",
"An employee of Germany's railroad company found the body on the tracks at about 7 p.m. Monday and notified authorities.",
"Merckle's family had already reported the passionate family business man missing earlier in the day after the passionate family business man walked out of the house and did not return.",
"Authorities are currently conducting DNA tests to confirm the passionate family business man's identity.",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen in Germany and Alysen Miller in London, England, contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"It's a frightening scenario, almost a staple of action movies: Someone has fallen onto subway tracks, and a train is rumbling into the station.",
"iReporter Stuart Gordon spotted rescuers after a woman fell onto subway tracks in WASHINGTON.",
"For a heart-stopping moment, a train is certain to strike the fallen person, until rescue comes at the last possible second.",
"But at a Washington Metro station near the National Mall on Tuesday, it was an all-too-real scenario, and all the more frightening.",
"A 68-year-old woman from Nashville, Tennessee, in WASHINGTON for the inauguration of Barack Obama, fell off the platform at the Gallery Place-Chinatown stop.",
"Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson, deputized to assist with the huge crowds for the inauguration of Barack Obama, was aiding another rider when Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson heard shouts that someone was on the track.",
"Watch Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson describe what happened » .",
"\"I turned around and saw a woman standing in the track area,\" Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson said.",
"Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson rushed into action.",
"Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson and another Metro rider tried to pull a woman to safety, but with a train bearing down on the station, He and another Metro rider didn't have the time.",
"iReport.com:",
"See photos of the rescue operation .",
"\"a train was coming down the tunnel there,\" Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson said.",
"\"It was coming in closer.",
"I pushed a woman down and got a woman tucked down under the platform.\"",
"Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson cited training from Metro staff for giving Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson the information Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson used to get a woman out of danger.",
"The woman, who was not identified, huddled beneath the lip of the platform as a train passed.",
"An emergency response crew brought a woman back up onto the platform and took a woman to Washington Hospital Center, where hospital staff said a woman was treated and released.",
"No further details were provided.",
"Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority spokeswoman Taryn McNeil said Tuesday that a woman had sustained cuts and bruises from the fall.",
"The agency said transit officers from 18 locations across the country were in Washington to assist with the inauguration crowds.",
"Ridership records were shattered Tuesday: There were more than 1.5 million trips across all the authority's platforms, including more than 1.1 million on the subway system.",
"The Tennessee woman's accident was the only one reported on the transit line, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said.",
"iReport.com:",
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"As for Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson, Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn said Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson did exactly the right thing.",
"\"Due to Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson's quick response, the woman was not seriously injured,\" Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn said.",
"\"Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson did exactly what was expected, and we are enormously grateful for Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson's actions.\"",
"Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority spokeswoman Taryn McNeil said the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro stop was reopened not long after the accident and trains were moving through the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro stop, although there were delays.",
"CNN's Larry Lazo and Kelly Marshall contributed to this report."
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"Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson, another rider tried to pull a woman up .",
"When they couldn't grab a woman, Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson helped tuck a woman under platform .",
"Woman safely huddled beneath platform lip as train passed ."
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"(CNN) --",
"In Bristol Palin's first interview since giving birth, Bristol Palin said having a child is not \"glamorous,\" and that telling young people to be abstinent is \"not realistic at all.\"",
"Bristol Palin says \"everyone should just wait 10 years\" to have a baby, rather than when you're young.",
"\"It's just, like, I'm not living for Bristol Palin anymore.",
"It's, like, for another person, so it's different,\" Bristol Palin told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren.",
"\"And just you're up all night.",
"And it's not glamorous at all,\" Bristol Palin said.",
"\"Like, your whole priorities change after having a baby.\"",
"The 18-year-old, who gave birth in late December, said Bristol Palin is being helped tremendously by Bristol Palin's mother, grandmother, cousins and other family members.",
"Bristol Palin is engaged to teen father Levi Johnston, who is now working for his father and trying to complete school, but said Bristol Palin wishes that Bristol Palin waited another 10 years to have a baby.",
"It was \"harder than labor\" telling Bristol Palin's parents Bristol Palin was pregnant.",
"\"Well, we were sitting on the couch, my best friend and Levi, and we had her parents come and sit on the couch, too.",
"And we had my sisters go upstairs,\" Bristol Palin said.",
"\"And we just sat them down, and I just -- I couldn't even say it.",
"I was just sick to my stomach.",
"\"And so finally, my best friend just, like, blurted it out.",
"And it was just, like -- I don't even remember it because it was just, like, something I don't want to remember.\"",
"her parents were \"scared just because I have to -- I had to grow up a lot faster than her parents ever would have imagined,\" Bristol Palin said.",
"Bristol Palin's parents insisted that Bristol Palin and Bristol Palin's boyfriend hash out a \"game plan\" immediately.",
"And now Bristol Palin's parents and relatives are all pitching in to help take care of the child, particularly when Bristol Palin is at school during the day.",
"Van Susteren was delicate with Bristol Palin but pointedly asked if \"contraception is an issue here.\"",
"\"Is that something that you were just lazy about or not interested, or do you have philosophical or religious opposition to it,\" Van Susteren asked.",
"Bristol Palin quickly answered that Bristol Palin didn't want to get into specifics.",
"The best option is abstinence, Bristol Palin said, but added that Bristol Palin didn't think that was \"realistic.\"",
"Watch Bristol Palin say that abstinence is \"not realistic at all\" » .",
"While Bristol Palin's mother was running for vice president, Bristol Palin said Bristol Palin's treatment in the media was \"evil.\"",
"Bristol Palin said Bristol Palin read some of the tabloids that wrote about Bristol Palin.",
"People didn't understand, Bristol Palin said, and some media reports perpetuated falsehoods about Bristol Palin's experience.",
"\"People thought that, like, my mom was going to make me have the baby, and it was my choice to have the baby,\" Bristol Palin said.",
"\"And it's just -- that kind of stuff just bothered me.\"",
"Van Susteren asked, \"But this is your issue?",
"This is your decision?\"",
"Bristol Palin answered yes.",
"\"(It) doesn't matter what Bristol Palin's mom's views are on it.",
"It was my decision, and I wish people would realize that, too,\" Bristol Palin said.",
"The network interview was Bristol Palin's idea, Bristol Palin said.",
"And Bristol Palin apparently sprung the news to Bristol Palin's parents that Bristol Palin was going to speak publicly the day before the network taping.",
"Bristol Palin said Bristol Palin wanted to tell Bristol Palin's story so that other young people might think twice about having sex.",
"\"I'd love to [be] an advocate to prevent teen pregnancy because it's not, like, a situation that you would want to strive for, I guess,\" Bristol Palin said.",
"Bristol Palin made an unexpected appearance during the interview in Alaska, and Van Susteren asked Bristol Palin about Bristol Palin's daughter's pregnancy.",
"\"Not the most ideal situation, certainly you make the most of it,\" Bristol Palin said.",
"Bristol Palin is a \"strong and bold woman, and Bristol Palin is an amazing mom,\" Bristol Palin said.",
"\"And the baby is very lucky to have Bristol Palin as a mama.",
"the baby's going to be just fine.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Two children and one adult were killed Friday after a man with a painted face launched a knife attack at a children's daycare center in Belgium.",
"Police look at a hearse parked in front of the childcare centre in Dendermonde where a children's daycare center in Belgium took place.",
"Officials said two adults and 10 children, some of whom were in a critical condition, were being treated in hospital following the attack in Dendermonde, 25 kilometers (16 miles) northwest of Brussels.",
"\"The guy just went crazy,\" local official Theo Janssens said, according to Agence France-Presse news agency.",
"The guy was arrested an hour and a half afterwards, according to Belgian Interior Ministry.",
"Reports said The guy was trying to make The guy's escape on a bicycle.",
"The guy entered the day care center in Dendermonde, about 16 miles northwest of Brussels, around 10 a.m. (4 a.m. ET) and began stabbing children and staff, Belgian Interior Ministry said.",
"Local journalist Bart Bekaert told CNN that The guy's face was painted black and white.",
"Hear Local journalist Bart Bekaert describe the attack » .",
"\"Witnesses say The guy looked calm.",
"There was no security and The guy just walked straight in,\" he added.",
"AFP reported that The guy was not known to staff at the nursery.",
"\"You don't expect such acts happening in a daycare center,\" Dendermonde deputy prosecutor Jan Kerkhofs told CNN.",
"\"It is not like a prison so there are no bars on the doors or security systems.\""
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"2 children, 1 adult killed in knife attack at creche, Belgian Interior Ministry says .",
"Three others reported seriously injured in attack in town of Dendermonde .",
"Attacker \"had painted face,\" local journalist tells CNN ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Guantanamo Bay's legacy of torture will hurt the United States even if President Obama makes good on a pledge to close the prison camp, a former inmate says.",
"Moazzam Begg says that during intense interrogations at Guantanamo Bay's, Moazzam Begg would have confessed to anything.",
"Justice will be impossible to mete out to the alleged terrorists and war criminals held there because any confessions must be tainted by the methods used to obtain them, Moazzam Begg told CNN.",
"Moazzam Begg says Moazzam Begg would have confessed to anything during interrogations while Moazzam Begg was held at Guantanamo Bay's for nearly three years.",
"\"What procedure can you use on people who have been systematically tortured including waterboarding, including being stripped naked and beaten?",
"What sort of evidence can be admitted into a court of law that has been extracted under that process?\" asked Moazzam Begg.",
"Watch what Moazzam Begg thinks of Guantanamo » .",
"The new administration has said that waterboarding, which causes the feeling of drowning, is torture.",
"Begg, who is British, was captured during the war in Afghanistan and accused of aiding the Taliban regime.",
"Moazzam Begg's family has always maintained Moazzam Begg was a victim of mistaken identity.",
"Moazzam Begg was sent back to Moazzam Begg's home in Britain by the Bush administration in 2005 and never prosecuted.",
"President Obama on Wednesday moved closer to making good on President Obama's campaign promise.",
"The administration is drafting executive orders calling for the detention facility's closure, officials said.",
"Earlier in the day, a judge granted Obama's request for a 120-day suspension of prosecutions so a review of all cases of suspected terrorists could take place.",
"During President Obama's inaugural speech, President Obama stressed that ideals of justice did not need to be thrown out to ensure the nation's safety.",
"\"Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations.",
"Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give Those ideals up for expedience's sake,\" President Obama said.",
"Watch what could be next for Guantanamo Bay's » .",
"Legal issues are already complicating the cases of some of the most important terror suspects, like Mohamed al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th hijacker, who has been accused of helping to plan and possibly participate in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.",
"Earlier this month, the retired judge in charge of determining which Guantanamo Bay's detainees should be tried by a U.S. military commission told The Washington Post that al-Qahtani was tortured and therefore could not be put forward for prosecution.",
"\"Guantanamo Bay's is the most notorious prison on earth,\" Begg said.",
"Begg said Begg believes Guantanamo Bay's is a radicalizing force for militants around the world.",
"Looking beyond high-profile suspects, human rights campaigners say there is little evidence to prosecute dozens of Guantanamo Bay's inmates still being held.",
"They argue that keeping those detainees locked up will not help keep al Qaeda at bay.",
"\"I think it's actually one of the most harmful myths about it, that we can't let people go because we've got the tiger by the tail,\" said Cori Crider of the human rights organization Reprieve.",
"Chris Arendt, a former guard at Guantanamo Bay's, says the Obama administration must rethink and reform the way the Obama administration detains and prosecutes future terror suspects -- and do more than just close Guantanamo Bay's.",
"\"We're focused on this one camp that has become the star of the whole show.",
"But there are camps everywhere,\" he said.",
"\"There are camps in Iraq, in Afghanistan -- every country that American or the coalition forces have set their feet.",
"None of those detainees are seeing any justice.\""
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"President Obama suspends prosecutions at Guantanamo Bay's .",
"Ex-inmate says torture at Guantanamo Bay's has made justice unattainable .",
"Former guard says detainees at Guantanamo Bay's, other camps get no justice ."
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"(CNN) -- Lasantha Wickrematunga shot dead last week knew Lasantha Wickrematunga would be killed --",
"Lasantha Wickrematunga said so in a dramatic, posthumously published column touching a raw nerve in Lasantha Wickrematunga's war-torn island nation.",
"A candlelight vigil in the Sri Lankan capital in memory of slain journalist Lasantha Wickrematunga.",
"Lasantha Wickrematunga, editor-in-chief of The Sunday Leader, was gunned down execution-style January 8 but spoke from the grave three days later when the newspaper published \"And Then They Came For Lasantha Wickrematunga.\"",
"Posthumous column anticipated Lasantha Wickrematunga's slaying by government forces and defended the craft of journalism in Lasantha Wickrematunga's country, a profession under fire during its bitter civil war.",
"\"Diplomats, recognizing the risk journalists face in Sri Lanka, have offered me safe passage and the right of residence in their countries.",
"Whatever else I may have been stuck for, I have not been stuck for choice.",
"But there is a calling that is yet above high office, fame, lucre and security.",
"It is the call of conscience,\" Lasantha Wickrematunga wrote.",
"\"People often ask me why I take such risks and tell me it's a matter of time before I am bumped off.\"",
"Lasantha Wickrematunga wrote that Lasantha Wickrematunga was twice assaulted and Lasantha Wickrematunga's house was fired upon.",
"\"Despite the government's sanctimonious assurances, there was never a serious police inquiry into the perpetrators of these attacks, and the attackers were never apprehended.",
"\"In all of these cases, I have reason to believe these attacks were inspired by the government.",
"When finally I am killed, it will be the government that kills me,\" Lasantha Wickrematunga wrote.",
"Sri Lankan President Mahindra Rajapaksa, asked about threats to journalists, voiced assurance that no journalist or media institution had cause to fear any threats or attacks by the government, according to a statement on the government's official Web site.",
"Watch Sri Lanka's foreign minister discuss press freedom » .",
"\"the government had no interest whatever in seeking disgrace through any attacks on the media,\" Sri Lanka's foreign minister said, and Sri Lanka's foreign minister assured media leaders that the culprits would be captured and brought to justice",
", a statement on the government's official Web site said.",
"Hostility against journalists and their institutions has been high as the Sinhalese-dominated government forces work to eradicate the last vestiges of Tamil Tiger separatists in the Jaffna peninsula, the rebel-held northern region.",
"The 25-year-old civil war has left more than 65,000 people dead.",
"Sunanda Deshapriya, spokesman for Sri Lanka's Free Media Movement, said harassment of journalists has been common, and cited these examples from the past year: two journalists killed, another journalist shot at, more than 50 reports of intimidations and threats, 12 media personnel arrested, 16 journalists physically assaulted, one tortured, one assaulted in an abduction attempt, the circulation of a list with 27 journalists targeted for killings, the proposal of a censorship law, and the naming of some journalists as terrorists or terrorist supporters.",
"On January 6, 15 masked gunmen entered Maharajah TV studios outside the capital, Colombo.",
"The journalism watchdog group Committee to Protect Journalists said 15 masked gunmen shot at and destroyed broadcast equipment, held staff members at gunpoint, and attempted to burn down the station's facilities.",
"CNN on Wednesday interviewed the head of Maharajah TV, Chevaan Daniel, about the incident.",
"Afterward, Sri Lanka's's defense secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, called for the arrest of a person who had talked to CNN, Deshapriya said.",
"CPJ said the government-run media has criticized Maharajah TV for Maharajah TV's coverage of a suicide bombing in the capital, Colombo and \"undermining\" a presidential victory speech after government troops took Kilinochchi -- which had been the de facto capital of the Tamil Tigers movement.",
"Government officials have condemned strikes on Colombo and have ordered probes.",
"Bob Dietz, CPJ's Asia program director, said that \"far too often the government or its unofficial allies have been prime suspects behind attacks on journalists and media organizations,\" despite government condemnations and investigations.",
"As the civil warfare first unfolded, Tamil journalists were targeted, Bob Dietz said.",
"But in the past year and a half, mainstream journalists, such as those who raise questions about the government's military activity, have been facing a crackdown -- even if they are from the majority Sinhalese ethnic group or sharply critical of the Tamil Tigers movement.",
"This includes Wickrematunga, who questioned the government's successes and value of the government's military actions.",
"\"That really got under the skin of the government,\" Bob Dietz said.",
"\"It's one thing to insult the president, but another thing to insult the military during wartime.\"",
"\"This killing is the worst,\" said Dietz, who compared This killing to the impact that would be felt if a New York Times or Washington Post columnist were killed in the United States.",
"Wickrematunga's killing spurred a demonstration in Colombo by 4,000 people, which Reporters Without Borders said was the largest since the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa took power three years ago.",
"Another protest was to be held on Thursday in London.",
"The title of Wickrematunga's column was inspired by a poem by a German theologian about how Germans failed to react to Nazism in the past century before it was too late.",
"In his rendition of the poem, Lasantha Wickrematunga wrote: \"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.",
"Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.",
"Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.",
"Then they came for Lasantha Wickrematunga and there was no one left to speak out for Lasantha Wickrematunga.\"",
"Lasantha Wickrematunga pronounces Lasantha Wickrematunga's pride in Lasantha Wickrematunga's profession's attempt to chronicle life in a country at war and Lasantha Wickrematunga's paper's work to bravely represent all people -- \"Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, low-caste, homosexual, dissident or disabled.\"",
"Lasantha Wickrematunga casts the paper as an independent organ that faithfully records events.",
"Lasantha Wickrematunga said the paper lacks a political agenda and wants to see Sri Lanka's as a \"transparent, secular, liberal democracy.\"",
"\"No other profession calls on No other profession's practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka's, journalism,\" Lasantha Wickrematunga wrote, adding that \"countless journalists have been harassed, threatened and killed.",
"It has been my honor to belong to all those categories and now especially the last.\"",
"\"I have the satisfaction of knowing that I walked tall and bowed to no man.",
"And I have not traveled this journey alone.",
"Fellow journalists in other branches of the media walked with me: most of Fellow journalists in other branches of the media are now dead, imprisoned without trial or exiled in far-off lands.\"",
"Lasantha Wickrematunga also castigates the country's president, who had been a long-time friend.",
"\"In the wake of my death I know you will make all the usual sanctimonious noises and call upon the police to hold a swift and thorough inquiry.",
"But like all the inquiries you have ordered in the past, nothing will come of this one too.\""
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Piracy off the coast of Somalia can't be stopped until there is some authority to bring pirates to justice, according to the commander of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain.",
"U.S. Vice Admiral William Gortney: Need to hold pirates off Africa's east coast accountable.",
"Because there is no working government in Somalia and no country is willing to take captured pirates, bring captured pirates to trial and detain captured pirates, there is no deterrent for pirates to stop attacking ships, U.S. Vice Admiral William Gortney said at a Pentagon briefing Thursday.",
"\"The problem is there's not a way to -- until we have a mechanism [to hold them] accountable and try them for their actions, there's no way to -- to finish the problem,\" U.S. Vice Admiral William Gortney said.",
"The United States is making a deal with a country in the eastern Africa region to hold and try pirates captured by the U.S.-led Combined Task Force 151, a new maritime anti-piracy mission started earlier this month.",
"U.S. Vice Admiral William Gortney said an official announcement would be made after the deal with the country is official.",
"In the past three months, piracy attacks have averaged about 12 to 14 a month off the east coast of Africa.",
"As of mid-January, the attack numbers are already at the average of the past three months, according to U.S. Vice Admiral William Gortney.",
"\"That [number] should tell you that we're not -- we're not being 100 percent successful on the deterrence of the attempt.",
"And that's where we have to go after,\" U.S. Vice Admiral William Gortney said.",
"The United States is expecting other nations to join the anti-piracy task force, but at the moment, The United States is the only country in the task force with just three ships off of the waters of Somalia.",
"There are ships from some European and Asian countries patrolling the waters of Somalia independently as well, primarily guarding cargo ships from their own countries.",
"Pirates attacked nearly 100 vessels and hijacked as many as 40 in the waters off the coast of Somalia in 2008, according to the International Maritime Bureau.",
"See how pirate attacks peaked in 2008 » .",
"Pirating off of Somalia has increased during the past four to five years as fishermen from Somalia realize that pirating is more lucrative than fishing.",
"Additionally, pirates are able to get away with the crimes because of the lack of government and overall lawlessness in Somalia.",
"U.S. Vice Admiral William Gortney said statistically the chances of ships being pirated off of Somalia less than one percent, but it won't be stopped until piracy is \"disincentivized.\""
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"LONDON (CNN) -- Iran offered to stop attacking coalition troops in Iraq nearly four years ago in an attempt to get West to accept Tehran's nuclear program, a British diplomat told BBC in an interview aired Saturday.",
"John Sawers, British ambassador to the U.N., told BBC of Iran approaching Western nations with offer.",
"\"Iran wanted to be able to strike a deal whereby Iran stopped killing our forces in Iraq in return for Iran being allowed to carry on with Iran's nuclear program -- 'Iran stop killing you in Iraq, stop undermining the political process there, you allow Iran to carry on with Iran's nuclear program without let or hindrance,\" said John Sawers, now the British ambassador to the United Nations, in the documentary, \"Iran and the West: Nuclear Confrontation.\"",
"The United States and other Western nations believe Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program, but Iran says Iran is developing nuclear capability to produce energy.",
"Iran also has been accused of sponsoring terrorists and supplying weapons to Iraqi insurgents.",
"The latter prompted a warning from The United States that such behavior by Tehran \"would be regarded by us as enemy action,\" Philip Zelikow, a State Department counselor, told BBC.",
"Then, Iran began shopping Iran's offer around Europe, Sawers said.",
"Sawers, Britain's political director at the time, reveals the behind-the-scene talks from 2005 -- when roadside bombing against British and American soldiers in Iraq peaked -- were held with British, French and German diplomats at hotels in London, Paris and Berlin.",
"\"And then we'd compare notes among the three of us,\" Sawers told BBC.",
"The British government dismissed the offer and Iran's nuclear enrichment program restarted once again, BBC reports .",
"Iran has denied offering any such deal and reiterated Iran's position Saturday.",
"\"Iran's high officials have repeatedly stated that Iran has not had any part in attacks against American and British forces, and there is no evidence to support these baseless accusations,\" Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said, according to the semi-official Mehr News Agency.",
"Interviews with top brass from former President Bush's administration and British envoys indicate that Iran and the West had neared agreements several times in the past few years, but never reached success.",
"Nick Burns, who was in charge of the former President Bush administration's State Department policy with Iran, said taking a tough approach with Iran didn't seem effective.",
"\"former President Bush had advocated regime change,\" Nick Burns, who was in charge of the Bush administration's State Department policy with Iran told the BBC.",
"\"former President Bush had a very threatening posture towards Iran for a number of years.",
"It didn't produce any movement whatsoever.\"",
"The documentary aired a day after the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security released a report stating that Iranian scientists have reached \"nuclear weapons breakout capability.\"",
"a report stating that Iranian scientists have reached \"nuclear weapons breakout capability analyzed the finding of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).",
"However, an IAEA official who asked not to be named cautioned against drawing such dramatic conclusions from the data, saying Iran's stock of low-enriched uranium would have to be turned into highly enriched uranium (HEU) in order to be weapons-grade material.",
"That hasn't been done, an IAEA official who asked not to be named said.",
"Meanwhile, Iran's relationship with the West continues to be strained, though both sides have indicated interest in holding direct talks.",
"President Obama, in President Obama's first prime-time news conference held earlier this month, said the United States is looking for opportunities for \"face-to-face\" talks with Iran after an absence of diplomatic ties for nearly three decades.",
"\"There's been a lot of mistrust built up over the years, so it's not going to happen overnight,\" President Obama said.",
"And Iran's powerful parliament speaker and former nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has called the President Obama administration \"an exceptional opportunity for Americans.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Diplomats edged closer to finding a way to end the fighting in Gaza on Friday as the United States and Israel signed an agreement designed to stop arms smuggling into the Palestinian territory.",
"Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says European nations and NATO will be helping with anti-smuggling efforts.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni signed a memorandum of understanding that calls for an international effort to stem the flow of weaponry and explosives.",
"an agreement designed to stop arms smuggling into the Palestinian territory outlines a plan to share information and provide technical assistance to stop the smuggling of arms to the militants.",
"The meeting in Washington was one of several diplomatic moves afoot to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.",
"several diplomatic moves came as Israel's offensive against Hamas militants continued, with Israeli airstrikes pounding the northern and southern sections of Gaza.",
"Watch more on the latest fighting in Gaza » .",
"U.S. and Israeli diplomats said an agreement designed to stop arms smuggling into the Palestinian territory includes intelligence coordination to prevent arms from Iran from entering Gaza, maritime efforts to identify ships carrying weaponry, and the sharing of U.S. and European technologies to discover and prevent the use of weapons-smuggling tunnels.",
"U.S. said the steps spelled out in the memorandum will \"stem the flow of weapons and explosives into Gaza.\"",
"\"The United States is reaching out to The United States's partners as well.",
"Together, the steps that we and other members of the international community can take will contribute to a durable cease-fire,\" said U.S., noting that \"there must be an international consensus that Gaza never be used as a launching pad against Israeli cities.\"",
"Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that ending the fighting in Gaza won't be \"achieved by agreements with terror, but with effective arrangements against it\" -- a unified effort by the international community.",
"Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said a \"durable\" end to hostilities requires a stop to weapons smuggling into Gaza.",
"\"We have agreed on a series of actions with regional and international players in order to complement Egyptian actions and end the flow of weapons to Gaza,\" Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said.",
"Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said European nations and NATO would be helping with the anti-smuggling efforts.",
"The Bush administration has been consulting with the Barack Obama team about the memorandum of understanding and efforts to forge a cease-fire.",
"U.S. has spoken with President-elect Obama, incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and incoming National Security Adviser James Jones.",
"Israel on Thursday dispatched senior Defense Ministry official Amos Gilad to Cairo to discuss a cease-fire proposal, and Gilad was continuing talks in Cairo.",
"A Hamas delegation is also in Cairo, talking with leaders there who are trying to hammer out a temporary truce.",
"Egypt has hosted peace talks with leaders from Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and has acted as an intermediary between Hamas and Israel.",
"Arab and regional diplomats and leaders also have been meeting to deal with the crisis, but there is no unified Arab stand.",
"The state of Qatar held an emergency summit Friday in an attempt to find a unified Arab voice on Gaza.",
"The meeting brought together some regional leaders, including the presidents of Iran and Syria and the leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal.",
"Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Palestinian Authority were not in attendance.",
"Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Palestinian Authority plan to attend the regular annual Arab League summit scheduled for next week in Kuwait devoted to Gaza.",
"Arab League foreign ministers were meeting in Kuwait City on Friday and were planning the groundwork for next week's meeting.",
"Six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council -- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates -- focused on Gaza at Six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council -- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates --'s emergency summit Thursday in Riyadh.",
"Also, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continued U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's trip through the region as part of the diplomatic effort to secure a truce.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate cease-fire between Hamas and Israel and said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is encouraged that the Egyptian government is trying to broker a truce.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Israeli officials Thursday and condemned an Israeli strike that damaged the U.N. Relief and Works Agency's compound in Gaza City, sparked a massive fire and injured three people.",
"Once the fighting stops, the two sides can \"discuss how to make this cease-fire durable and sustainable,\" U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.",
"CNN's Elise Labott and Caroline Faraj contributed to this report ."
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"Nearly 1,300 computers in more than 100 countries have been attacked and have become part of a computer espionage network apparently based in China, security experts alleged in two reports Sunday.",
"network was discovered after computers at Dalai Lama's office were hacked, researchers say.",
"Computers -- including machines at NATO, governments and embassies -- are infected with software that lets attackers gain complete control of them, according to two reports.",
"One was issued by the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies in conjunction with the Ottawa, Canada-based think tank The SecDev Group; the second came from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.",
"Researchers have dubbed network GhostNet.",
"network can not only search a computer but see and hear the people using a computer, according to the Canadian report.",
"\"network is capable of taking full control of infected computers, including searching and downloading specific files, and covertly operating attached devices, including microphones and web cameras,\" the Canadian report says.",
"The discovery of network grew out of suspicions that the office of Dalai Lama had been hacked.",
"the Dalai Lama's staff sent a foreign diplomat an e-mail invitation to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader, but before Dalai Lama's people could follow up with a phone call, \"a foreign diplomat's office was contacted by the Chinese government and warned not to go ahead with the meeting,\" according to the Cambridge report.",
"Watch CNN's John Vause report on network » .",
"An investigation resulted in both reports.",
"Both found links to computers in China, but the researchers did not conclude who the researchers thought was behind the \"malware,\" or malicious software.",
"\"Chinese cyber espionage is a major global concern ... [b]ut attributing all Chinese malware to deliberate or targeted intelligence gathering operations by the Chinese state is wrong and misleading,\" according to the Canadian report, \"Tracking network: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network.\"",
"\"The sheer number of young digital natives online can more than account for the increase in Chinese malware,\" it adds.",
"But the Canadian report also points out that China is among a handful of countries, including the United States, Israel and United Kingdom, that are \"assumed\" to have considerable computer espionage capabilities.",
"Attempts by CNN to contact the Chinese government in Beijing and its American embassy and consulate offices were unsuccessful on Sunday, as the offices were closed.",
"However, a spokesman for the Chinese consulate in New York dismissed the idea China was involved when speaking to The New York Times.",
"\"These are old stories and they are nonsense,\" Wenqi Gao told The New York Times.",
"\"The Chinese government is opposed to and strictly forbids any cyber crime.\"",
"Hackers gained access to computers in the Dalai Lama's office by tricking computer users into downloading e-mail attachments that had been carefully engineered to appear safe, according to the authors of the Cambridge report, titled, \"The Snooping Dragon: Social-malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement.\"",
"\"The attackers took the trouble to write e-mails that appeared to come from fellow Tibetans and indeed from co-workers,\" according to the Canadian report, authored by Shishir Nagaraja and Ross Anderson.",
"Once The attackers gained an initial foothold, \"The attackers also stole mail in transit and replaced the attachments with toxic ones,\" the Canadian report adds.",
"The Dalai Lama investigation led to the discovery of hundreds more infected machines in locations from The Associated Press in Britain and Deloitte and Touche in New York, to the ministries of foreign affairs in Indonesia, Iran and the Philippines.",
"The office of the prime minister of Laos was also snared, as was a single non-secure computer at NATO, according to the Canadian report.",
"Infected computers \"checked in\" with control servers as early as May 2007 and as recently as March 12 of this year, the Canadian report adds.",
"Attempts by CNN to verify the reports' allegations with NATO, the Laotian government and the Dalai Lama's organization in India were not immediately successful on Sunday.",
"The attack has broader implications, Nagaraja and Anderson warn, since a single person could carry out a similar one.",
"\"Even a capable motivated individual could have carried out the attacks we describe here,\" they say.",
"The computer systems of businesses are almost certain to be hacked by similar means, if The computer systems of businesses have not been already, the experts claim.",
"\"Social malware will be used for fraud, and the typical company really has no defense against Social malware,\" since it is so expensive and inconvenient, for example, to keep sensitive information or processes on computers with no Internet access.",
"\"We expect that many crooks will get rich before effective countermeasures are widely deployed.\"",
"The Information Warfare Monitor Web site, where the Canadian report was released, was down Sunday afternoon.",
"GhostNet is not affiliated with GhostNet Inc., a business technology company."
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"The e-mail arrived from Uzbekistan on February 26.",
"The e-mail was titled \"Bad News.\"",
"Abdul Dadahanov had intended to study business, but changed Abdul Dadahanov's mind after 9/11, Abdul Dadahanov's academic adviser said.",
"\"Dear Mama Judy,\" a young woman named Aziza Dadahanov wrote in shaky English.",
"\"Very very bad news!!!",
"Abdul Dadahanov is given 8 years of prison.",
"Today was the verdict.",
"Now i feel myself very bad.",
"And i can't write now.",
"I am shocked.\"",
"\"It was like being kicked in the stomach,\" recalled Judy Skartvedt, a retired flight attendant living in Easton, Connecticut.",
"She knew Abdul Dadahanov, as an Uzbek exchange student who had wanted to help heal people after the 9/11 attacks.",
"She thought of Abdul Dadahanov as an open-minded Muslim whom her family had hosted when Abdul Dadahanov came on a scholarship to study at Fairfield University in 2001.",
"\"We were totally shocked that someone like Abdul Dadahanov could be arrested for anything,\" Skartvedt said.",
"\"We haven't stopped worrying about Abdul Dadahanov's safety.\"",
"The 32-year-old faces eight years in a labor camp for participation in what the Uzbekistan government says is an extremist religious organization, according to Forum 18, a religious freedom watchdog organization .",
"Forum 18, a religious freedom watchdog organization says that Uzbek security forces arrested Abdul Dadahanov and four other men -- Bakhrom Ibrahimov, Davron Kabilov, Rovshanbek Favoyev and Botyrbek Eshkuziyev -- last summer after the men had written for an Islamic journal called Irmoq.",
"The National Security Service reportedly claimed the magazine was \"sponsored by a Turkish radical religious movement.\"",
"Officials from the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington have refused to comment on the case.",
"Forum 18 says Dadahanov and the four other Uzbek men were convicted of \"dissemination of information and materials containing ideas of religious extremism, separatism and fundamentalism, calls for pogroms or violent eviction of individuals aimed at creating panic among the population.\"",
"Human rights organizations say the convictions appear to be part of a broader crackdown in the former Soviet republic, targeting members of \"Nurchilar,\" a moderate Muslim movement of Turkish origin, which follows the writing of a 19th-century Sufi Muslim theologian.",
"\"Unfortunately this is not an unusual case,\" said Igor Vorontsov, a researcher with Human Rights Watch in St. Petersburg.",
"\"Uzbekistan has persisted in Uzbekistan's persecution of independent Muslims.\"",
"Thousands of miles from the Republic of Uzbekistan, news of Abdul Dadahanov's jail sentence has stunned academics and Christian community leaders in Connecticut.",
"They fondly describe a committed social activist and observant Muslim, who rode between work and classes on a secondhand bicycle and spent more than a year distributing food to soup kitchens in one of America's poorer cities.",
"\"Abdul Dadahanov had a naive trust in the goodness of human beings,\" said Patty Jenson, an administrator at the Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport.",
"\"I am shocked.",
"I know Abdul Dadahanov is there [in prison] unjustly.",
"What is happening is unjust.\"",
"\"Abdul Dadahanov was a man of Abdul Dadahanov's word, Abdul Dadahanov was gentle and kind,\" said Charlene Chambers, the director of King's Pantry, a nonprofit organization that distributes food to homeless people in Bridgeport.",
"\"Our common bond was feeding people who can't feed themselves and clothing those people who can't clothe themselves.\"",
"Dadahanov's academic adviser, Katherine Kidd, said Abdul Dadahanov originally intended to study business when Abdul Dadahanov arrived at Fairfield University on a scholarship from the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation.",
"That changed September 11, 2001.",
"Kidd choked up as Kidd recalled Abdul Dadahanov's visit to Kidd's office, hours after the terrorist attacks.",
"\"Abdul Dadahanov said, 'Kidd, I have to do something to tell people that this is not what Islam is about.'",
"Abdul Dadahanov said, 'I want to be part of things that are done here to bring healing to people after 9/11.' \"",
"Abdul Dadahanov began working closely with Kidd's husband, Pastor John Kidd, who was a Lutheran minister and the executive director of the Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport.",
"Kidd helped Dadahanov tour churches and work with synagogues, giving lectures on Abdul Dadahanov's interpretation of Islam.",
"Abdul Dadahanov also appeared before audiences dressed in traditional Central Asian attire, in an effort to spread cultural awareness about Uzbekistan.",
"Advisers say Abdul Dadahanov was inspired by Abdul Dadahanov's interaction with church and community groups.",
"Gradually, Abdul Dadahanov shifted Abdul Dadahanov's academic focus from business to grassroots community service and education reform.",
"\"Abdul Dadahanov would regularly say 'Wow, how can I do this in Uzbekistan, and make my country and my community better and stronger?'\" Kidd explained.",
"Abdul Dadahanov helped establish a small prayer room for Muslim students at Fairfield University.",
"Abdul Dadahanov also launched a book drive, shipping secondhand books to Uzbekistan to help teach English in Abdul Dadahanov's home country.",
"And Abdul Dadahanov was eventually hired at the Council of Churches, and tasked with distributing Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to 26 feeding programs across Bridgeport.",
"\"Abdul Dadahanov wanted to be involved in the frontline programs,\" Kidd said.",
"\"Ultimately, it's sad that all these things Abdul Dadahanov came to see in terms of how you build a community, how you take responsibility for the life of a community, is at least in part what put Abdul Dadahanov at odds with the authorities in Uzbekistan.\"",
"When Abdul Dadahanov returned to Uzbekistan in 2004 after two and a half years in Connecticut, Abdul Dadahanov set up an English-language school with friends.",
"an English-language school offered English lessons to young Uzbeks at an affordable price -- a remarkable achievement in a society in which Uzbekistan controls almost all facets of the economy.",
"There is little tolerance for independent grassroots activism in Uzbekistan.",
"Uzbekistan has had the same authoritarian president, Islam Karimov, since Uzbekistan won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.",
"The State Department's recently published 2008 human rights report states \"torture remain systemic in [Uzbekistan's] law enforcement ...",
"human rights activists and journalists who criticized Uzbekistan continued to be subjected to harassment, arbitrary arrest, politically motivated prosecution, forced psychiatric treatment and physical attack.\"",
"Uzbek security forces frequently target religious activists.",
"\"Uzbekistan has almost a paranoia of any independent religious activity, particularly those related to Islam,\" said Sean Roberts, a Central Asia expert at George Washington University.",
"\"Uzbekistan tries to control the religious sector very similar to the way the Soviets did.",
"Uzbekistan have a state Muslim board that oversees what is proper Islam - anything that falls out of that scope is seen as threatening and seditious.\"",
"Uzbekistan says Uzbekistan \"views the ensuring of human rights and freedoms of Uzbekistan's citizens as Uzbekistan's highest priority.\"",
"A statement posted on the Web site of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington cited the passage of more then 120 laws and 60 international treaties aimed at improving the country's human rights record.",
"Uzbekistan says Uzbekistan is making reforms of Uzbekistan's judicial and penitentiary system, aimed at \"prosecuting and punishing for the use of torture and other forms of ill-treatment.\"",
"Abdul Dadahanov's former professors invited Abdul Dadahanov to return on a scholarship to the United States after Abdul Dadahanov's arrest, and two families offered to house Dadahanov, Dadahanov's wife Aziza and young son Abdulrahman.",
"Dr. Orin Grossman, Fairfield University's academic vice president, hoped the graduate school offer would allow Uzbek authorities to release Abdul Dadahanov.",
"\"It obviously didn't work,\" he wrote in an e-mail to CNN.",
"Accounts of appalling conditions in Uzbek prisons have worried Abdul Dadahanov's American friends, who remember how Abdul Dadahanov rode to barbecues on Abdul Dadahanov's bicycle, carrying a giant watermelon in a backpack as a gift.",
"The hardest part has been trying to get information from Abdul Dadahanov's family in Tashkent.",
"\"Uzbekistan is tapping Dadahanov's phone and tracking Dadahanov's e-mail,\" Kidd said.",
"\"We're pretty much sure neither of those is secure from Uzbekistan.\""
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"Watch out! Lock up your loved ones!",
"Another bloated, over-produced, high-concept monstrosity has escaped from the labs at Dreamworks Animation, and it's out to devour your kids.",
"Susan, aka \"Ginormica,\" has to save the world in \"Monsters vs. Aliens.\"",
"But don't be too alarmed.",
"\"Monsters vs. Aliens\" is relatively harmless -- a toothless satire with a knee-jerk feminist theme and a sorry excuse for a plot.",
"That sounds harsh, I know.",
"Who doesn't want to see a 50-foot woman careening through San Francisco on skates that turn out to be automobiles -- the ultimate demolition roller derby?",
"But think about that, just for a second.",
"Roller skates work because Roller skates have fixed wheels.",
"Try it with motorcars and you won't get very far.",
"Is that too picky?",
"Perhaps, but you wouldn't find Pixar playing so fast and loose with the laws of physics, and that kind of inattention to detail is typical of the lackadaisical storytelling here and in other Dreamworks animated features.",
"(The talent pool for this one includes the directors of \"Shrek 2\" and \"Shark Tale\" and the writers of \"Kung Fu Panda\" and \"The Rocker,\" incidentally.)",
"High concepts, top-notch voice talent and scattershot pop cultural references are no compensation for a coherent script.",
"The XXXL lady in question -- dubbed \"Ginormica\" by her U.S. military guards -- starts out plain and petite Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon), until a meteorite hits her just minutes before she's supposed to tie the knot with unctuous chauvinist Derek (Paul Rudd).",
"Her rapid growth spurt saves her from that particular fate worse than death, even if at first glance her new roommates don't look like much of an improvement.",
"There's Dr. Cockroach (Hugh Laurie), a mad scientist who semi-advertently mutated with a bug; B.O.B. (Seth Rogen) an amorphous blue jelly-like blob who gets on just fine without a brain; Missing Link (Will Arnett), a gung-ho amphibian who's all mouth; and a giant dust mite called Insectosaurus who isn't voiced by anyone because he doesn't have anything to say.",
"Sci-fi fans will have fun counting off the references to myriad classics -- \"Close Encounters of the Third Kind,\" \"Invaders from Mars,\" \"The Fly,\" \"The Creature from the Black Lagoon,\" \"The Blob,\" \"Mothra\" and \"Attack of the 50-Foot Woman,\" for starters -- and noting a few clever bits and pieces (Kiefer Sutherland, as General W.R. Monger, riffs on George C. Scott in \"Dr. Strangelove\").",
"The trouble is, once the introductions are over, the filmmakers can only launch the filmmakers's desperately limp plot: The White House turns to these monstrous superheroes to save the planet from evil Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson), a squidlike creature with four eyes and twice as many legs, and a one-eyed tin robot to do his dirty work for him.",
"Ginormica gets a kick-butt finale, and is a much stronger character -- in any number of ways -- than the movie's president.",
"(In a genuinely witty casting touch he's voiced by Stephen Colbert.)",
"That may be good politics or at least a sound marketing decision from the studio's perspective -- it's been awhile since a family animated feature produced a genuinely strong female character (unless you count \"Coraline,\" which was way too scary for my family) -- but Susan's self-esteem is an awfully long time coming.",
"iReport.com:",
"What do you think of 'Monsters vs. Aliens'?",
"(Bizarrely -- and maybe it's just my imagination -- Gallaxhar bears a passing resemblance to President Obama.",
"I wonder ... would that make Susan/Ginormica a surrogate for Sarah Palin or Hillary Clinton?)",
"Visually, too, \"Monsters vs Aliens\" is undistinguished, although its shortcomings may be disguised if you seek out the 3-D version.",
"Funny how 3-D movies tend to produce two-dimensional characters, with \"Coraline\" again the exception to the rule.",
"Jocular and unpretentiously trashy, \"Monsters vs. Aliens\" should be a lot of fun -- and it is, in places.",
"But the truth is it's as hung up on itself as Susan's preening fiance.",
"Hand on heart, I had a better time at \"Space Chimps.\"",
"\"Monsters vs. Aliens\" runs 94 minutes and is rated PG.",
"For Entertainment Weekly's take, click here."
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"(CNN) --",
"The Illinois state Senate on Monday began The Illinois state Senate's impeachment trial against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich without Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich present.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich denies any wrongdoing.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich expects lawmakers to vote to convict Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is facing federal corruption allegations, including trying to trade or sell the Senate seat that became vacant after Barack Obama was elected president.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has denied wrongdoing.",
"Instead of attending the trial, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich hit the media circuit Monday.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared on ABC's \"Good Morning America\" and \"The View,\" and was scheduled to give Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's first live prime-time interview Monday night on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"Speaking on \"Good Morning America,\" Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich restated Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's complaints about what Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich called the \"unconstitutional\" impeachment trial, which Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said \"denies me the right to call witnesses to defend Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and prove my innocence.\"",
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"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is certain The Illinois state Senate will vote to remove Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office and said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich expects The Illinois state Senate will demand Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich step down \"relatively soon.\"",
"Earlier this month, the Illinois House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to impeach Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has said the vote was politically motivated.",
"Under the Illinois Constitution, the Illinois House of Representatives can vote to impeach an executive or judicial officer, but it is The Illinois state Senate that conducts the trial.",
"A two-thirds majority vote in The Illinois state Senate is required to convict an officer of an impeachable offense.",
"According to a federal complaint issued in December, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris -- who also was arrested on federal corruption charges -- were \"conspiring to obtain personal financial benefits\" for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich by leveraging Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's sole authority to appoint a U.S. senator to replace Barack Obama.",
"\"I've got this thing and it's [expletive] golden,\" Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich allegedly said in one recorded phone conversation, referring to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's authority to appoint, according to a federal complaint issued in December.",
"\"I'm just not giving it up for [expletive] nothing.\"",
"When asked about those alleged quotes, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told ABC that federal prosecutors \"took snippets of conversations completely out of context.\"",
"\"When the whole story comes out, you'll see that the effort was to work to have a senator who can best represent Illinois,\" Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's rights are being violated because Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich cannot challenge assertions in the House impeachment report.",
"Watch Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich demand a fair trial » .",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich also is asking for a change in a The Illinois state Senate trial rule that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said is preventing Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich from calling witnesses such as Valerie Jarrett, a confidant of Barack Obama's; Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.; and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.",
"White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, claimed Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, agrees that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel did not break any laws.",
"State Sen. Matt Murphy, part of the nine-member committee that put the The Illinois state Senate trial rules together, called Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's complaints \"the theater of the absurd.\"",
"iReport.com:",
"Do you trust your political leaders?",
"\"What you've seen here ... is a cynical effort on the part of this governor that's perfectly consistent with his actions over the last six years, to try and further undermine the faith in this process that the people already have,\" Murphy said.",
"Murphy said the House prosecution team responsible for presenting the impeachment case to The Illinois state Senate is operating under the same restrictions as Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich with regard to calling witnesses.",
"Murphy said on \"Good Morning America\" that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has asked both sides to \"defer to the criminal prosecution\" of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and \"limit witnesses.\"",
"He noted that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has every right to submit \"positive statements that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says exonerate Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich\" -- such as those from Jarrett, Jackson and Emanuel -- as evidence in the The Illinois state Senate trial.",
"\"We have lowered the standard for the admission of evidence for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to bend over backward to make this fair,\" Murphy said.",
"\"The suggestion that this is somehow unfair to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is the most self-serving, ludicrous statement I have ever heard in my life.",
"It couldn't be fairer for this guy.\"",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich missed deadlines this month for answering the impeachment charge and for filing a motion to dismiss, a spokesman for Illinois Senate President John Cullerton has said."
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"High winds and heavy seas capsized a boat filled with African migrants heading for Europe off the coast of Libya Monday -- with more than 200 feared dead, the International Organization for Migration in Geneva, Switzerland, said Tuesday.",
"A group of 227 migrants sits on a fishing vessel in Malta last month after arriving from Somalia.",
"Jemini Pandya, IOM spokeswoman, said a boat carrying 250 people capsized north of the coast of Libya, with at least 20 confirmed dead and 23 rescued.",
"Another boat with around 350 migrants was rescued.",
"She said around 350 migrants were taken to two centers in the Libyan city of Tripoli.",
"around 350 migrants included Egyptians, Somalis, Ghanians, Nigerians, Tunisians, Eritreans, Algerians, and Moroccans.",
"There were also passengers from Asia -- Bangladeshis, Syrians, Indians, and Pakistanis, she said.",
"She said there may be two other vessels in the Mediterranean carrying migrants.",
"The initial reports that two vessels capsized proved to be incorrect, Pandya said.",
"Watch as migrants are feared drowned » .",
"The vessels departed Sunday and were heading to southern Europe, Egypt's Middle East News Agency reported Monday.",
"The migrants were believed to be headed for the Italian island of Lampedusa, where 37,000 landed last year, according to IOM spokesman Jean-Philippe Chauzy, who said many African migrants converge on Libya en route to Europe.",
"Italian coast guards said an Italian tugboat working for an offshore oil companies in the Libyan seas picked up 350 people on Sunday and carried 350 people to Libya with the help of the Italian military.",
"The U.N. refugee agency, aware of the reports, said they came at the \"beginning of the smuggling season in the Mediterranean.\"",
"The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said details remain sketchy about what happened, but one boat among several vessels leaving Libya for Italy went down and hundreds are reported missing.",
"It said the mishap occurred near the Libyan coast.",
"It said some Egyptian nationals were rescued and bodies were recovered and that those aboard included Africans from the northern and the sub-Saharan regions.",
"High Commissioner Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that the tragedy reflects the desperation of people to escape poverty and persecution.",
"\"This tragic incident illustrates, once again, the dangers faced by people caught in mixed irregular movements of migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean and elsewhere which every year cost thousands of lives,\" the U.N. agency said."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Leading British Cabinet minister British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's political future is in doubt after British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's husband admitted to paying for adult movies with taxpayers' money.",
"British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith surrounded by media outside British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's sister's home, whom British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith lives with in LONDON.",
"The home secretary's husband, Richard Timney, has apologized for the \"embarrassment\" her husband caused her husband's wife, while British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith has promised to repay the money spent, including the £10 ($14) charge for the two films, the British Press Association reported.",
"According to British media reports, British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith had not seen the videos and was \"mortified\" that the videos had \"mistakenly\" been paid for using British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's MP's expense account.",
"Timney, who British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith pays £40,000 ($56,000) a year to be her office manager, submitted an expense claim last June for a £67 ($95) Virgin Media bill for television services in the couple's family home in Redditch, British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's constituency, The Guardian newspaper reported.",
"The Guardian newspaper reported a £67 ($95) Virgin Media bill for television services in the couple's family home in Redditch, Smith's constituency included two adult films, at a cost of £5 ($7) each, as well as two viewings of the heist movie \"Ocean's 13\" and one of \"Surf's Up,\" a children's film about a penguin.",
"The revelations could not come at a worse time for Smith, who is already being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's decision to claim at least £116,000 ($164,000) in second-home allowances for British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's family home since becoming an MP.",
"British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith has claimed the second-home allowance for British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's family home while living with British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's sister in London.",
"British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith designated British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's sister's house as British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's \"main\" residence, allowing British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith to claim the money for British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's family home.",
"Conservative and opposition leader David Cameron described the latest news as \"deeply embarrassing\" for British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith.",
"Conservative and opposition leader David Cameron said British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith had \"questions to answer,\" PA reported.",
"\"I do not think this individual thing is the issue.",
"I think British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith has got some questions to answer about the second home issue.",
"It does seem to me pretty incredible to claim that the home where British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's family is, that is not British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's main home.",
"\"I think this goes to a deeper problem, which is the second home allowance for MPs.",
"The prime minister has ordered a review but The prime minister has sort of kicked a review into the long grass.",
"\"a review doesn't start until September, a review is not going to report until after the next election.",
"That is hopeless.",
"We have got to get on with it.\"",
"The prime minister defended British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith.",
"\"British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith is doing a great job and I do not think the second home issue should be allowed to detract from everything British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith is doing to ensure we protect the public and keep our neighborhoods safe,\" he said.",
"\"British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith has done the right thing by taking steps to rectify the mistake that was made as soon as British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith became aware of it.",
"\"This is very much a personal matter for British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith.",
"British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith has made British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's apology, British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's husband has made clear that her husband has apologized.\"",
"Last week The prime minister ordered a review of the complex and opaque system of MPs' pay and allowances.",
"Do you think British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith should resign?"
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"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."
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"(CNN)",
"-- Academy Award-winning composer Maurice Jarre, who scored movies including \"Doctor Zhivago\" and \"Lawrence of Arabia\" among others, died Sunday from cancer in Los Angeles.",
"He was 84.",
"Maurice Jarre pictured at the Berlin International Film Festival last month.",
"Maurice Jarre enjoyed an illustrious career, working with Hollywood directing legends including John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock and, most notably, David Lean.",
"Fellow French composer Alexandre Desplat, who interviewed Maurice Jarre for The Screening Room at the Berlin International Film Festival last month, told CNN Monday: \"Maurice Jarre was an immense artist, an incredible symphonist, a magician of the melody and a benevolent human being.\"",
"Watch tribute to Maurice Jarre » .",
"Maurice Jarre won Oscars in 1963 and 1966 for Maurice Jarre's collaborations on the Lean movies \"Lawrence of Arabia\" and \"Doctor Zhivago\" respectively.",
"Maurice Jarre then mustered a further six Oscar nominations but Maurice Jarre's third award came once again through a further collaboration with Lean on \" A Passage to India\" in 1984.",
"Maurice Jarre then swapped orchestral composition to become a pioneer of electronic scoring, working on the music for, among others, \"Ghost,\" \"Witness,\" \"Dead Poet's Society\" and \"Fatal Attraction.\"",
"At the same time Maurice Jarre's son Jean-Michel Jarre became one of the world's best known electronic musicians with global hits such as \"Oxygene\" and huge outdoor concerts.",
"Maurice Jarre's final movie composition was for the 2000 film \"I Dreamed of Africa.\"",
"Maurice Jarre's career included symphonies, ballet and theatre but it was for Maurice Jarre's 150 film scores that Maurice Jarre was presented with an honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival last month - almost half a century after producer Sam Spiegel hired Maurice Jarre to work on \"Lawrence of Arabia.\"",
"Festival director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement late last year: \"Film composers often are in the shadows of great directors and acting stars.",
"It's different with Maurice Jarre; the music of 'Doctor Zhivago,' like much of Maurice Jarre's work, is world-famous and remains unforgotten in the history of cinema.\"",
"Speaking in Berlin to double-Oscar nominee Desplat -- who himself scored \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button\" and \"The Queen\" -- Maurice Jarre said: \"I never really had a 'bust-up' with a good director.",
"A good director will always find an intellectual understanding.",
"And that's what was great - I had an opportunity with all these people.",
"I don't think I can say that I ever worked with a bad director.\"",
"But Maurice Jarre also said that directing legends of the rank of Huston and Hitchock had disappeared and no longer existed, adding: \"The only problem is now, there is more and more bad music that goes 'dang dang dang dang dang...'",
"So...it's better to turn off the music, and listen to a concert of Mozart.\"",
"Senior producer Neil Curry and associate producer Lidz-Ama Appiah contributed to this report."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"The latest 3-D animated movie involves the possible extinction of the human race and features a mad scientist with the head of a cockroach, a prehistoric half-ape/half-fish, a 50-foot-tall woman (OK, 49-foot-11), and a blue brainless blob named B.O.B. The Missing Link, Ginormica, the blue blob B.O.B. and Insectosaurus dominate \"Monsters vs. Aliens.\"",
"And they're the good guys.",
"Reese Witherspoon leads the cast of \"Monsters vs. Aliens,\" providing the voice of Susan, who is hit by a glowing meteorite on Reese Witherspoon's wedding day.",
"Before long Reese Witherspoon's grown into the biggest thing around.",
"The short-statured Oscar winner relished the chance to play not only a giant, but also a role model.",
"\"I was walking with my son and my daughter the other day, and I was like 'Who's your favorite superhero?' \" Reese Witherspoon said.",
"\"And my son was like ... 'Batman, Superman, Spiderman,' and my son could name 20 guy superheroes.",
"\"And so I said to my daughter, 'Who's your favorite superhero?'",
"And my daughter goes 'I don't know, Reese Witherspoon?",
"I can't remember Reese Witherspoon's name.' \"",
"So the idea of showcasing a female superhero, Reese Witherspoon said, has the actress \"really excited.\"",
"Kiefer Sutherland, who plays General W.R. Monger, sees the film as helping kids embrace kids's diversity.",
"\"I love the idea that they were gonna make a film that was going to tell young people that it's all right to be different,\" Sutherland said.",
"Sutherland's military veteran character captures Susan, renames Reese Witherspoon \"Ginormica,\" and locks Reese Witherspoon up with the other \"monsters\" he's collected over half a century.",
"\"And not only is it all right to be different, that one thing that may make you feel awkward about being different might be your greatest asset.\"",
"Those assets become apparent when an alien invader (voiced by Rainn Wilson of \"The Office\") decides an alien invader (voiced by Rainn Wilson of \"The Office\") wants Earth, and the monsters -- Ginormica, Dr. Cockroach (\"House\" star Hugh Laurie), The Missing Link (Will Arnett), and the gelatinous B.O.B. (Seth Rogen) -- are called upon to save the planet.",
"The film, which also features the voices of Stephen Colbert and Paul Rudd, opens Friday.",
"Most of the cast had previous experience in animation voiceover -- last year, Rogen was featured in \"Kung Fu Panda,\" and Rogen and Will Arnett were heard in \"Horton Hears A Who!\" -- but it was the first time for Rainn Wilson.",
"\"They called me and they said 'They're interested in you for this, playing an evil alien warlord,' and I was like 'Where do I sign?' \" he said with a chuckle.",
"It was a welcome change of pace for Sutherland, who recorded Sutherland's voice tracks for \"Monsters\" while Sutherland was filming the uber-intense \"24.\"",
"\"So, for five days a week I'm very serious in the '24' world, and then for five hours on the weekend I got to be 5 years old and just play a cartoon character\" -- a character Sutherland says Sutherland saw as a combination of R. Lee Ermey's intense gunnery sergeant in \"Full Metal Jacket\" and that 'toon terror, Yosemite Sam.",
"\"We combined these voices and the producers laughed, which is generally a pretty good sign,\" Sutherland said.",
"Sutherland may have been inspired by the classics, but the 3-D aspect of \"Monsters\" is as modern as movie technology gets.",
"Under the command of DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg (whom Witherspoon and Sutherland respectfully called \"Mr. Katzenberg\"), the film was conceived from the beginning as a 3-D project.",
"One early scene uses the process to bounce a paddleball out at the audience, but for the most part, the effect is used immersively, to bring viewers into the \"Monsters\" world.",
"\"You really feel like you're there, like you're a part of this thing,\" said Arnett, \"not in a way that's gratuitous and to just sort of show off, but really so that the viewer can be an active participant in the movie.\"",
"While film technology continues to advance, some things never change.",
"As Reese Witherspoon is still trying to get used to Reese Witherspoon's new size and powers, Reese Witherspoon finds Reese Witherspoon simultaneously battling an alien robot and trying to save dozens of people trapped in dozens of people's cars on the Golden Gate Bridge while Reese Witherspoon's male cohorts mostly just stand around.",
"One tries to encourage Reese Witherspoon by calling \"You're doing it!\" to which Reese Witherspoon snaps back, \"I'm doing everything!\"",
"\"The quintessential cry!\" Witherspoon said.",
"\"The female war cry!",
"That's one of my favorite lines.\"",
"iReport.com: Does 3-D make you more likely to see a movie?",
"Of course, it's hardly a spoiler to reveal that -- eventually -- Reese Witherspoon not only bonds with the rest of Reese Witherspoon's motley crew, but also gains the self-confidence to see the positives in Reese Witherspoon's accidental enormousness.",
"As Wilson, the film's villain, noted, \"It's a coming-of-age tale -- for the monster inside of each one of us.\"",
"And, perhaps, it will give some little girls a superhero to look up to."
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"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) --",
"Prosecutors in Florida are taking a new look at the 2007 death of Anna Nicole Smith to see if recent evidence that California investigators gathered might cause them to open an inquiry.",
"Prosecutors in Florida are reviewing evidence gathered in California for a probe into Anna Nicole Smith's death.",
"Howard K. Stern -- Anna Nicole Smith's longtime partner and attorney -- and two doctors were charged this month in California with conspiring to furnish drugs to Anna Nicole Smith before Anna Nicole Smith's fatal overdose.",
"\"Our prosecutors have met with representatives of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office and the California Department of Justice and discussed the evidence they have turned up in their investigation,\" said Ron Ishoy, a spokesman for Broward County State Attorney Michael Satz.",
"\"We are now examining that evidence to see where it might lead in relation to Anna Nicole Smith's death here in Broward County in 2007.\"",
"The Broward County state attorney's office never opened a probe into Anna Nicole Smith's death but assisted the Seminole police in its investigation in the days afterward.",
"Anna Nicole Smith, 39, was pronounced dead February 8, 2007, after being discovered unconscious in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood, Florida.",
"A coroner said Anna Nicole Smith died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.",
"Officials said both prescription and over-the-counter drugs were found in Anna Nicole Smith's system, including three anti-depressant or anti-anxiety drugs.",
"Human growth hormone and chloral hydrate, a sleep medication, also were found in toxicology tests, officials said.",
"Stern and Drs. Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor were charged in California with several felonies, including conspiring to furnish controlled substances, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and obtaining fraudulent prescriptions from June 2004 through January 2007 -- only weeks before Anna Nicole Smith's death.",
"Sandeep Kapoor and Eroshevich also were charged with obtaining a prescription for opiates by \"fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.\"",
"And each was charged with one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address, prosecutors said.",
"\"Anna was the center of a cruel tabloid feeding frenzy,\" Eroshevich's attorney, Adam Braun, told CNN in a statement after his client was charged.",
"\"In the face of this, Dr. Eroshevich did Dr. Eroshevich best to help the patient while protecting what little privacy Anna had left.",
"Any actions were done with the patient's well-being in mind and were certainly not criminal.\"",
"Watch allegations over photos and the doctor » .",
"California Attorney General Jerry Brown said the doctors and Stern devised a plan to use fake names so Smith could be prescribed \"thousands of pills.\"",
"The former Playboy playmate and reality TV star was drugged \"almost to the point of stupefaction,\" California Attorney General Jerry Brown said.",
"\"The quantity of the drugs, the variety of the drugs, the combination at any given point, and her continuing to use that -- that, to a professional, is clear evidence of addiction,\" California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.",
"\"These cocktails of methadone and anti-depressants and sleeping pills and Xanax, you put all that into a cocktail, it explodes and can cause death, injury and permanent morbidity and disability.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"It's the season of brackets, beer and, of course, basketball.",
"Duke Blue Devils fans cheer on Duke Blue Devils fans's team at the ACC Tournament in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"Come mid-March, the country falls sick with college basketball fever, and the NCAA Tournament is all the talk.",
"As Men's college basketball comes to a close with the last game April 6, fans are anxiously watching to see who will claim victory in this year's national championship game.",
"More than a century after James Naismith invented basketball at a YMCA training school in Massachusetts, the sport continues to captivate millions of fans.",
"Over the years, college basketball has sparked great dedication among college basketball's fans, from those who camp out for three months for a ticket to those who attended games before those who attended games before they could read could read.",
"CNN, with the help of experts at the NCAA, chose a handful of basketball towns filled with great fans, rich traditions and history that make these places worth a visit.",
"1. Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill .",
"College basketball is deeply rooted in North Carolina culture, thanks to the success of the men's teams at the University of North Carolina and Duke University.",
"The epic rivalry between Duke's Blue Devils and North Carolina's Tar Heels draws in so many fans that some sports experts say it is partly responsible for reviving the waning college basketball viewership in the first half of this decade.",
"Visitors will find that Duke basketball fans don't shower Duke basketball fans's support only on game day.",
"At Duke University -- seeded No. 2 in the East -- student fans, dubbed the Cameron Crazies, are so eager to snare one of the 1,200 first-come-first-serve spots in the Cameron Stadium student section that they camp out for up to three months for the infamous North Carolina-Duke matchup.",
"The grassy tenting area outside the basketball arena, known as Krzyzewskiville, is named after Coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has been named National Coach of the Year 12 times.",
"\"It's so easy to become enthralled with the culture of Duke basketball,\" said Joel Burrill, a senior who headed up the tenting efforts this year.",
"Outside the stadium, visitors will discover plenty of Blue Devil spirit off-campus in Durham, a former tobacco town.",
"Satisfaction Restaurant and Charlie's Pub & Grille are among the favorite hot spots where visitors will discover student and local fans watching the games.",
"About a 20-minute drive from Durham is the historic town of Chapel Hill, home to the University of North Carolina, which was seeded No. 1 in the South this year.",
"The school has a strong record of basketball success, appearing in more than 40 NCAA tournaments.",
"The school is also the college team of professional basketball legend Michael Jordan.",
"Adam Lucas, publisher of Tar Heel Monthly, has been decked in baby blue Carolina gear since he was a child.",
"He even skipped school so he could attend the games with his parents, both Tar Heel alums.",
"\"It's not just a sport,\" he explained.",
"\"It's the number one thing talked about during this part of the year.",
"You'll have trouble holding a conversation in Chapel Hill in March if you don't know the basics of Carolina basketball.\"",
"If visitors can't get one of the coveted tickets to watch the game in the Dean E. Smith Center, aka the Dean Dome, there is plenty to do in the quaint city of Chapel Hill.",
"Visitors can walk to Franklin Street, the heart of town, where eateries, shops and sports bars are ready to embrace UNC fans.",
"Visitors can also visit the 8,000-square-foot Carolina Basketball Museum, located on campus, which holds more than 450 interactive displays, memorabilia and photos documenting a basketball program that began more than a century ago.",
"The University of Kansas in Lawrence .",
"To understand the fan devotion for the defending national champions and a Midwest No. 3-seeded team this year, one must make a trip to Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas.",
"The Jayhawks' indoor arena is old-school -- smaller than most college basketball stadiums -- built in the 1950s and named in honor of revered former Coach Forrest C. \"Phog\" Allen.",
"In 1952, \"Phog\" led the men's basketball team to its first NCAA victory.",
"The energy from thousands of fans in Allen Field House is contagious.",
"In addition to the \"Rock Chalk Jayhawk\" chant, KU students are famous for KU students's clever antics against the other teams, particularly KU students's longstanding rivals at the University of Missouri.",
"But if you can't get a ticket during the regular season, check out the Booth Family Hall of Athletics, a 26,000-square-foot museum adjacent to the stadium.",
"The museum, which opened about three years ago, houses artifacts and information about the history of KU athletics, including the men's basketball team.",
"Visitors can head to colorful Massachusetts Street, the main drag in downtown Lawrence.",
"colorful Massachusetts Street, the main drag in downtown Lawrence is lined with plenty of restaurants and bars catering to Jayhawks followers on game day.",
"When Kansas beat Memphis to clinch the national championship last year, more than 100,000 fans poured into colorful Massachusetts Street, the main drag in downtown Lawrence, university officials say.",
"\"People who come [to Lawrence] never want to leave,\" said Jennifer Sanner, a 1981 alumna and editor of Kansas Alumni magazine.",
"\"And if you're a basketball fan, that's all the better.\"",
"3. Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana .",
"Sure, the Hoosiers didn't have a stellar season after going 6-25, and the Hoosiers didn't make it to the NCAA Tournament.",
"After Kelvin Sampson resigned as coach in February over allegations that Kelvin Sampson had violated NCAA recruiting standards, the Hoosiers lost many of its top players.",
"Despite this, college basketball in Bloomington, Indiana, remains sacred, devout Hoosiers fans say, and Hoosiers fans believe that the men's basketball team will be back in full force over the next few years.",
"Indiana University has one of the top basketball programs in the country, winning five NCAA championships.",
"The team was led for many years by hot-tempered but incredibly successful coach Bobby Knight.",
"If you are lucky enough to get a ticket to see the Hoosiers play at the Hoosiers's stadium, Assembly Hall, you will find droves of student fans.",
"Assembly Hall holds one of the country's largest student sections, holding more than 8,000.",
"Officials at Bloomington Indiana Visitors & Convention Bureau say basketball game days flood local restaurants and bars with students and local fans.",
"The games tend to sell out, so be prepared to explore Bloomington.",
"Most fans head to Kirkwood Avenue near campus and drop by Nick's English Hut, where the walls are covered with Hoosiers athletic photographs and gear, or Yogi's Grill and Bar to watch the game.",
"\"Basketball is a religion in this state,\" said Zach Osterman, the men's basketball columnist at the university's student newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student.",
"\"It goes way back before Bobby Knight.",
"It's what people do up here.\"",
"4. Marquette University in the city, Wisconsin .",
"There is no football team at Marquette University in the city, Wisconsin.",
"That means students and alumni are even more dedicated to the men's basketball team, students and alumni say.",
"the university may be a Jesuit university with just over 11,000 students, but the university boasts one of the highest attendance rates at basketball games in the country.",
"Students at the university don't pitch tents like at Duke, but the games are so popular, some will bring their sleeping bags 10 hours before the game to get the best seat in the house .",
"\"It's such a great feeling to know you can walk anywhere in the city when you have a the university shirt on a basketball day and people will talk to you about basketball,\" said Sarah Dembkowski, a sophomore at the university.",
"\"It gives the city a bonding feeling.\"",
"Although the West region No. 6-seeded Golden Eagles lost to the University of Missouri in the NCAA Tournament last week, a trip to the Bradley Center, where the the university men's basketball team plays (and where the NCAA's Milwaukee Bucks play) is well worth the visit.",
"the university students, called the Superfans, are famous for Marquette students, called the Superfans's peculiar behavior, dressing up in costumes to support Marquette students, called the Superfans's team and distracting opponents with oversized cutouts of celebrities' heads.",
"On campus are several bars, including the Union Annex, that tout cheap beer pitchers and food specials for fans.",
"Just several blocks from the university is downtown Milwaukee.",
"On Water Street, where most of the fans crowd on game day, visitors can hang with the locals and enjoy a hub of sports bars, taverns and restaurants.",
"5. Gonzaga University in the city, Washington .",
"Gonzaga University officials call it the \"Gonzaga Effect\": This small private school in the city has qualified for the NCAA tournament for the 11th straight year.",
"the men's basketball team is an obscure team that seems to emerge from thin air each March.",
"This year, the men's basketball team entered the tournament seeded No. 4 in the South region.",
"\"There have been a lot of one-and-done schools, who make a splash and disappear, but we've been able to sustain it,\" said Dale Goodwin, a spokesman for the university.",
"Fans in \"the Kennel Club\" at the university go wild for basketball despite the school's smaller size.",
"For more than 17 years of the Kennel Club's existence, the men's basketball team have won more than 75 percent of the men's basketball team's games, including over 90 percent during the past eight seasons, according to the Gonzaga athletic department.",
"Visitors will be delighted to watch the games in the school's arena, the $25 million McCarthey Athletic Center, which opened in 2004.",
"Before the opening, the men's basketball team was playing in a glorified high school gym, university officials said.",
"On Hamilton Street near the university, visitors will want to head to Jack & Dan's Tavern, which belongs to John Stockton, a former NCAA and the university player.",
"The Bulldog, which claims to have the best burgers in town, is also a popular hangout during the games.",
"Meanwhile, the school is preparing to host the NCAA first- and second-round men's basketball tournament next March.",
"The town of the city, tucked into eastern Washington, is excited to welcome visitors.",
"A single event will probably bring in $2.75 million, according to the Spokane Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau."
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"Some Duke students camp out for three months to get a game ticket .",
"Last year, 100,000 fans poured into downtown Lawrence, Kansas, after KU's victory .",
"Games at these basketball towns are so popular that Games at these basketball towns usually sell out ."
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"Suspected Taliban militants blew up a government-run school Monday in Pakistan's violence-plagued Swat Valley, bringing to 183 the number of schools destroyed since fighting began in the area six months ago, officials said.",
"Students gather outside a destroyed school on January 17 in Kundar in Pakistan's Swat Valley.",
"A day earlier, radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah threatened to kill more than four dozen government officials if more than four dozen government officials did not appear before radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah for opposing the Taliban.",
"Local newspapers on Monday printed the list of 50 government officials and tribal elders whom radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah has threatened with death.",
"a government-run school was located in Mingora, Swat Valley's main city, said Sher Afzal Khan, an education officer for Swat.",
"The attack occurred early Monday and no one was wounded.",
"Swat Valley, was once Pakistan's biggest tourist destination.",
"Swat Valley is situated near the Afghanistan border and about 186 miles (300 km) from the capital city of Islamabad.",
"Swat Valley boasted the country's only ski resort and was a draw for trout-fishing enthusiasts until Swat Valley was overrun by militants, led by radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah.",
"radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah has launched a violent and deadly campaign to enforce Taliban-style fundamentalist Islamic laws throughout the province.",
"militants, led by Fazlullah want to require veils for women and beards for men, and to ban music and television.",
"The central government has long exerted little control in the area, but The central government launched an intense military offensive in late July to flush out militants.",
"As retaliation for the military presence, the Taliban has carried out a series of deadly bombings, and has said the attacks will continue until the troops pull out.",
"Elsewhere in the province, a blast killed five people and wounded 15 others Monday morning, officials said.",
"The bomb, planted on a bicycle, went off in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, said Mohammad Riaz of the province's police force.",
"The bomb, planted on a bicycle killed shopkeepers and pedestrians, added the town of Dera Ismail Khan's police chief, Abdul Rashid.",
"CNN's Zein Basravi contributed to this report."
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"Monday attack marks 183rd school destroyed in past six months of fighting .",
"Hundreds of people killed in wave of violence across North West Frontier Province ."
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"They feature characters such as hat-wearing cats, very hungry caterpillars, nice girls named Madeline and naughty boys named Max.",
"\"The Very Hungry Caterpillar\" by Eric Carle turns 40 this year, and 29 million copies of it have sold since 1969.",
"Parents read them to Parents's children, forming a powerful bond.",
"Years later, their children read these children's picture books to their children's children, and the thread between generations is extended yet again.",
"\"Children's books live a long time because you always have children growing into Children's books,\" says Pat Scales, president of the Association for Library Service to Children and a retired school librarian.",
"\"And parents read [to parents's children] what was read to parents.\"",
"The making of a classic is a strange alchemy of skill -- a good story, strong illustrations -- and luck.",
"It's not easy to appeal to three audiences: publishers, parents and -- oh, yes -- children.",
"Dr. Seuss' first children's book, \"And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,\" was rejected by more than 25 publishers before Vanguard Press put it out in 1937.",
"Maurice Sendak's legendary \"Where the Wild Things Are\" (1963), though recognized with the Caldecott Medal -- the highest honor for a picture book -- was controversial for its drawings of monsters and its mischievous hero, Max.",
"But almost all classics share some characteristics, says Alida Allison, a San Diego State University English professor and member of that California school's National Center for the Study of Children's Literature.",
"\"Every one of them ... has the same reassuring pattern of 'home, away, home,' \" she says.",
"\"The basic plot begins with a happy family situation.",
"Then one extremely curious or transgressive child goes out on his or her own.",
"And, no matter how 'bad' one extremely curious or transgressive child has been, one extremely curious or transgressive child gets to come back home.\"",
"one extremely curious or transgressive child is welcomed back to the family and often gets something to eat, she adds.",
"(One exception: Seuss' \"Mulberry,\" in which the adult condemns the child's sense of wonder -- but then, she adds, \"Dr. Seuss is in a world of Dr. Seuss's own.\")",
"The plot isn't just reassuring to children, she points out, but also reinforces the lessons of good parenting.",
"\"If you think of all those stories, there's a loving parent ... allowing a transgressive kid a leash to investigate the world and come back,\" she says.",
"And through the child's eyes, parents find parents's sense of wonder renewed, she adds.",
"For children, it's all new -- the colors, the wordplay, even the plot -- and the more variety, the better.",
"A child may be attracted by the rudimentary drawings of Eric Carle's \"The Very Hungry Caterpillar,\" the elasticity of Seuss' cats, Grinches and Oobleck, or the rich, almost otherworldly paintings of Chris Van Allsburg's \"The Polar Express.\"",
"And the language: Margaret Wise Brown's \"Goodnight Moon\" may seem to be nothing much, but it's as peaceful as a lullaby, Scales observes.",
"And nothing succeeds like a book that has found its way into a child's heart.",
"\"We know that kids return to kids's favorite books over and over again,\" Scales says.",
"And then, of course, the story starts from the beginning.",
"Allison, a published author herself, read a variety of books to Allison, a published author herself's children when her children were growing up: Dorothy Kunhardt's \"Pat the Bunny,\" Russell Hoban's \"Frances\" books.",
"But at least one title earned at least one title's way into the rotation because of an older fan: Allison's husband.",
"\"One of my husband's favorites growing up was 'The Pokey Little Puppy,' \" Allison, a published author herself says of the 1942 Little Golden Book by Janette Sebring Lowrey and Gustaf Tenggren.",
"\"So he read that to our sons.\""
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"\"Dr. Seuss is in a world of Dr. Seuss's own,\" professor says of story plots ."
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"(OPRAH.com) --",
"For all the majesty of the White House, Michelle Obama has already infused the White House with a palpable ease; Michelle Obama's presence makes the place feel open and approachable.",
"When we sit down to talk, Michelle Obama seems as relaxed as Michelle Obama did when I first interviewed Michelle Obama and Barack Obama's husband in their Chicago apartment in 2004.",
"\"This room has the best light in the house,\" Michelle Obama tells me as we settle in, shoes off, on a comfortable sofa.",
"\"And there's pie here, too.",
"The pie in the White House is dangerously good.\"",
"-- Oprah Winfrey .",
"Michelle Obama is the first person to join Oprah Winfrey on the cover of O magazine .",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"How are you a different woman today than you were when Barack Obama announced Barack Obama's candidacy in 2007?",
"Michelle Obama: I'm more optimistic.",
"More hopeful.",
"It comes from traveling all over America and connecting with so many different people.",
"And this was long before anyone thought Barack had a chance.",
"This was the kindness of strangers.",
"I think we should all have to get to know one another around kitchen tables.",
"It changed me.",
"It's helped me to give other people the benefit of the doubt.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"What did you see that changed you?",
"Michelle Obama: I saw our shared values.",
"We fundamentally want the same things for ourselves and for each other.",
"We want our kids to be safe and to grow up with some resources and aspire to a slightly better life than ours.",
"No one's looking for a handout.",
"People just want fairness and opportunity.",
"Oprah.com:",
"The heart and mind of Michelle Obama .",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"That's so good to hear.",
"Because you know what?",
"We live in an \"American Idol\" culture where it seems like everyone just wants to be in the spotlight.",
"Michelle Obama: That's not the America I saw.",
"People value People's communities.",
"People're rooting for one another.",
"Even in places where I thought people wouldn't accept or relate to me, I always walked out feeling like, \"Wow -- that was fun.\"",
"That changed me.",
"And it helped prepare me for this.",
"Because I think if you're going to be first lady, you have to believe in the possibility of what this country stands for.",
"You have to see it in action and know what you're working toward.",
"Oprah.com:",
"How Michelle gets unstuck .",
"Oprah Winfrey: That's so interesting -- and it all came from sitting around kitchen tables.",
"Speaking of which, did you change your diet during the campaign?",
"Michelle Obama:",
"When we first started running, my big concern was making sure we ate well on the road.",
"So we started looking at our diet, trying to eliminate junk, getting seasonal fruits and vegetables that were grown locally.",
"We walked the kids through reading labels.",
"We talked about why one juice might be better than another.",
"Oprah Winfrey: That's right.",
"In addition to eating well, do you work out?",
"Michelle Obama:",
"Yes.",
"There's a small gym here that has everything we need.",
"I work out about four or five days a week -- and Barack Obama does six.",
"Barack Obama's a workout zealot.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"Well, you look better than ever -- despite the rumors that you've got a baby bump.",
"Michelle Obama:",
"[Laughter.]",
"I know -- I was like, \"Baby bump? As hard as I work on my abs?!\"",
"Oprah Winfrey: Okay, so that's settled.",
"Back to exercise.",
"You do treadmill?",
"Michelle Obama: I do treadmill, I do weights .",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"I think anyone who saw you on the cover of Vogue knows you do weights.",
"Those arms!",
"Michelle Obama:",
"I also do some jump rope, some kickboxing -- and I'd like to take up Pilates, if I could figure out whether there's time.",
"After I had Malia, I began to prioritize exercise because I realized that my happiness is tied to how I feel about myself.",
"I want my girls to see a mother who takes care of herself, even if that means I have to get up at 4:30 so I can do a workout.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"When you first told me that a few years ago, I was like, \"You get up at 4:30 to work out?\"",
"Michelle Obama:",
"Well, I just started thinking, if I had to get up to go to work, I'd get up and go to work.",
"If I had to get up to take care of my kids, I'd get up to do that.",
"But when it comes to yourself, then it's suddenly, \"Oh, I can't get up at 4:30.\"",
"So I had to change that.",
"If I don't exercise, I won't feel good.",
"I'll get depressed.",
"Of course, it's easier to do it here, because I have much more support now.",
"But I always think about women who don't have support.",
"That's why work-family balance isn't just a policy conversation; it's about changing the expectations of who we have to be as women and parents.",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"What you mentioned earlier is key: We have to ask for help.",
"You can't do it all.",
"It's impossible.",
"Michelle Obama: That's a conversation I'd love for us to have as a society.",
"How do we set expectations that are attainable?",
"Oprah Winfrey:",
"So what do you know for sure, Michelle Obama?",
"Michelle Obama:",
"I know that all I can do is be the best me that I can.",
"And live life with some gusto.",
"Giving back is a big part of that.",
"How am I going to share this experience with the American people?",
"I'm always thinking about that.",
"Oprah.com:",
"Read the entire exclusive interview .",
"By Oprah Winfrey from O, The Oprah Magazine, April 2009 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now!",
"TM & © 2009 Harpo Productions, Inc.",
"All Rights Reserved."
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"Michelle Obama talks exercise and diet with Oprah Winfrey .",
"Michelle Obama says Michelle Obama learned about people's shared values while campaigning .",
"Michelle Obama exercises at 4:30 a.m. to feel good about Michelle Obama .",
"Michelle Obama taught Michelle Obama's daughters to read food labels for healthy eating ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"The superstar's planned adoption of a Malawian girl will apparently go forward, despite earlier opposition from a Malawian girl's family, a reporter for the ITN television network told CNN Sunday.",
"The superstar arrived in Malawi on Sunday.",
"The superstar holds the little boy's adopted Malawian son, David Banda, in 2007.",
"\"The child's family, I'm told, were admittedly reluctant to agree to this, but The child's family've softened after learning more about this, the upbringing that a Malawian girl will be given and The child's family think perhaps it is in her best interest",
",\" ITN reporter Martin Geisler told CNN.",
"The girl, who is about 4, is named Mercy James.",
"a Malawian girl's uncle is scheduled to sign adoption agreement papers in a Malawian court on Monday, ITN reporter Martin Geisler said.",
"ITN reporter Martin Geisler said Malawians' public opinion toward The superstar softened after The superstar was interviewed by the Malawi Nation newspaper and released family photographs showing a happy David Banda -- a Malawian boy the little boy adopted more than two years ago.",
"\"The sense, I'm told, in Malawi after that, was, 'Well, the little boy looks well, the little boy looks happy, the little boy looks well looked after.",
"Perhaps we shouldn't be so hard on The superstar,'\" said ITN reporter Martin Geisler.",
"A British children's charity earlier asked The superstar to reconsider The superstar's reported plans to adopt a girl from Malawi.",
"Save the Children spokesman Dominic Nutt said the child would be better off staying in Malawi than being raised by the recently divorced singer, who has three other children, including the adopted Malawian boy.",
"\"The best place for a child is in a child's or her family in their home community,\" he said.",
"\"Most children in orphanages have one parent still living, or have an extended family that can care for Most children in orphanages in the absence of Most children in orphanages's parents.\"",
"Critics of The superstar had argued The superstar should donate money to orphanages in Malawi, rather than adopt another child.",
"A British children's charity argued that foreign adoptions should happen only if a child does not have any relatives, and all other options have been considered.",
"The superstar is a big supporter of Malawi.",
"The superstar made a documentary, \"I Am Because We Are,\" which highlighted poverty and AIDS and other diseases devastating Malawi's children.",
"The superstar also helps run a nonprofit group, Raising Malawi, which implements initiatives to help the needy in Malawi.",
"On Sunday, The superstar toured the village of Chinkhota, assessing plans to build a school there and other possible Raising Malawi investments.",
"CNN's Nesta Distin contributed to this report."
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"The superstar reportedly wants to adopt a young girl named Mercy James .",
"The child's family has reportedly consented to the adoption .",
"Save the Children spokesman says The superstar should reconsider the move ."
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"WHITE OAK, Maryland (CNN) --",
"Seeking to remove unapproved drugs from the marketplace, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday ordered nine companies to stop manufacturing narcotics whose therapeutic claims have not been proved.",
"FDA ordered nine companies to stop selling unapproved drugs marketed for pain relief.",
"FDA's warning letters notified the companies nine companies may be subject to legal action if nine companies do not stop manufacturing and distributing \"prescription unapproved products\" that include high-concentrate morphine sulfate oral solutions and immediate-release tablets containing morphine sulfate, hydromorphone or oxycodone.",
"legal action does not include oxycodone capsules.",
"All of these drugs are used for pain relief and are forms of previously approved medications.",
"The agency says this is not a recall, but is instead a warning to manufacturers.",
"nine companies have 60 days to pull these pain-relief drugs from the market.",
"Distributors have 90 days to stop shipping them.",
"If these drugs are not off the market by those deadlines, a company could face seizure of the narcotics and legal action.",
"\"FDA estimate there are several hundred unapproved drugs out there,\" said Deborah Autor, director of the office of compliance within FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.",
"\"FDA will continue to take aggressive action against those firms that do not have the required FDA approval for those firms that do not have the required FDA approval for their drugs's drugs.",
"Today's warning letters are another demonstration of FDA's commitment to remove illegal, unproved drugs from the market.\"",
"Although FDA does not know whether these drugs are unsafe, it has not approved these drugs so cannot certify that the products are 100 percent safe and effective.",
"\"Consumers have a right to expect that Consumers's drugs meet FDA's safety and effectiveness standards,\" said Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.",
"\"Doctors and patients are often unaware that not all drugs on the market are backed by FDA approval.",
"It is a high priority for FDA to remove these drugs from the market because these drugs may be unsafe, ineffective, inappropriately labeled, or of poor quality.\"",
"FDA believes Americans have access to plenty of legal narcotics for pain relief and removing these unapproved drugs will not create a shortage.",
"Consumers who may be concerned that Consumers are taking any unapproved drug products should refer to FDA's Unapproved Drugs Web page, which includes a list of manufacturers of these products.",
"Those who find they are taking unapproved drugs should see Those who find they are taking unapproved drugs's health care professionals for treatment options.",
"Those companies receiving warning letters are Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Inc., Columbus, Ohio; Cody Laboratories Inc., Cody, Wyoming; Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., Mahwah, New Jersey; Lannett Company Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lehigh Valley Technologies Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania; Mallinckrodt Inc. Pharmaceuticals Group, St. Louis, Missouri; Physicians Total Care Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma; Roxane Laboratories Inc., Columbus, Ohio; and Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals Inc., Newport, Kentucky."
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"(CNN) --",
"Former Italian international Christian Vieri has left Serie A side Atalanta by mutual consent, blaming constant jeering from the club's fans for Former Italian international Christian Vieri's decision to leave.",
"Former Italian international Christian Vieri scored twice in nine appearances for Atalanta this season .",
"The 35-year-old, back at Former Italian international Christian Vieri's third stint with the Bergamo-based side, has failed to make an impression this season, and has become the focus of fans' frustrations after scoring just two goals in nine appearances.",
"\"I want to thank Atalanta for the way they have dealt with me throughout this season and throughout my previous experiences wearing the black and blue shirt,\" said Former Italian international Christian Vieri in a statement on Atalanta's official Web site.",
"Atalanta president Alessandro Ruggeri revealed Atalanta had wanted the former Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan striker to stay but that Former Italian international Christian Vieri's mind was made up.",
"\"I'm disappointed as I'm sure everyone who loves football is.",
"I don't know what Former Italian international Christian Vieri will do now, whether or not Former Italian international Christian Vieri will continue to play after this experience with Atalanta,\" said Atalanta president Alessandro Ruggeri.",
"\"I haven't spoken to Former Italian international Christian Vieri yet but my colleagues have and Former Italian international Christian Vieri was adamant, I don't think there was any way to make Former Italian international Christian Vieri stay.\"",
"Former Italian international Christian Vieri has changed clubs 13 times since beconing a professional in 1991, playing for Italy's three biggest teams as well as Atletico Madrid in Spain and Monaco in France.",
"Former Italian international Christian Vieri's best season was in 2002-03, when Former Italian international Christian Vieri scored 24 goals in 23 league appearances for Inter."
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"Former Italian international Christian Vieri leaves Atalanta will immediate effect .",
"Former Italian international Christian Vieri blames fans' jeering for decision to cancel Former Italian international Christian Vieri's contract .",
"Former Italian international Christian Vieri changed clubs a remarkable 13 times after Former Italian international Christian Vieri's professional debut in 1991 ."
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"Altovise Davis, the widow of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., has died.",
"Altovise Davis was 65.",
"Altovise Davis, in a 2008 photo, married Sammy Davis Jr. in 1970.",
"Altovise Davis died Saturday at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, said Altovise Davis's publicist, Amy Malone.",
"Altovise Davis had been admitted two days earlier after suffering a stroke.",
"Davis, a dancer and actress from Brooklyn, New York, met Sammy Davis Jr. on the set of the musical \"Golden Boy\" in London in 1967.",
"The couple married three years later.",
"It was Sammy Davis Jr.'s third marriage.",
"The couple remained together until Sammy Davis Jr. died of throat cancer in 1990.",
"The couple had an adopted son.",
"Funeral services will be held in Burbank, California, with the date and time to be announced later.",
"Sammy Davis Jr., himself a musician, was famous for being part of the Rat Pack, which included Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.",
"CNN's Janet DiGiacomo contributed to this report."
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"Altovise Davis had been admitted two days earlier after suffering a stroke .",
"Davis, a dancer and actress, married Sammy Davis Jr. in 1970 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"There is an old saying: Out of sight, out of mind.",
"T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, has mentored at-risk students as part of Rapper T.I.'s community service.",
"But when Rapper T.I. disappears from the hip-hop scene to complete Rapper T.I.'s one-year, one-day sentence in federal prison, several music experts say, that won't be the case.",
"Rapper T.I.\" will be sticking around, thanks to the success of Rapper T.I.'s most recent album -- the double-platinum, Grammy-nominated \"Paper Trail,\" released last September -- Rapper T.I.'s community service efforts and a reality show on MTV that has resonated with fans",
", they say.",
"\"I think that if anything, it will gain Rapper T.I. more fans and actually support Rapper T.I.'s fan base, because Rapper T.I.'s talked about making a mistake,\" said Emil Wilbekin, editor in chief of Giant Magazine, which focuses on urban music and lifestyle and featured Rapper T.I. on its November 2008 cover.",
"\"Rapper T.I.'s talked about taking care of the error of Rapper T.I.'s ways.\"",
"T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, was sentenced to prison in federal court in Atlanta, Georgia, last week on weapons charges.",
"Rapper T.I. will be taken into custody no earlier than May 19.",
"In addition to serving prison time, the court asked T.I., 28, to pay a $100,300 fine on weapons charges related to purchasing machine guns and silencers.",
"\"I would like to say thank you to some and apologize to others,\" Rapper T.I. said at Rapper T.I.'s sentencing Friday.",
"\"In my life, I have been placed in the worst-case scenario and had to make the best of the worst-case scenario.\"",
"Though Rapper T.I. had been in legal trouble before, Rapper T.I.'s current situation began when Rapper T.I. was arrested just hours before Rapper T.I. was to perform at the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta.",
"Rapper T.I. had provided a bodyguard with $12,000 to buy weapons.",
"Rapper T.I. was not permitted to own any guns, however, because Rapper T.I. was convicted in 1998 on felony drug charges -- possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute -- in Cobb County, in suburban Atlanta.",
"After Rapper T.I.'s arrest, Rapper T.I. entered a plea agreement, which federal authorities called unique because it allowed Rapper T.I. to remain out of prison for a year while Rapper T.I. performed community service.",
"Rapper T.I. has already left a strong mark on the hip-hop genre, music experts say, which should position Rapper T.I.'s career well when Rapper T.I. is released.",
"Rapper T.I. had been named to the Forbes list of top-earning rappers, making an estimated $16 million in 2006.",
"Rapper T.I.'s fan base has expanded in the last year, with some of the growth due to \"Paper Trail,\" which has sold close to 2 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.",
"This year, Rapper T.I. went on to star in the MTV reality show \"T.I.'s Road to Redemption: 45 Days to Go,\" which chronicles Rapper T.I.'s efforts to shave years off Rapper T.I.'s sentence by completing Rapper T.I.'s community service.",
"The show features Rapper T.I. talking to schools and community groups \"about how to avoid the trouble Rapper T.I. now finds Rapper T.I. in,\" according to the network's Web site.",
"To keep Rapper T.I. in the spotlight, Jason Geter, part owner of Rapper T.I.'s record label Grand Hustle Entertainment, said Harris' record label Grand Hustle Entertainment will release a remixed copy of \"Paper Trail\" with five new songs this summer.",
"He says Rapper T.I. is shooting music videos set to be released when Rapper T.I. is in prison.",
"\"We come from a world if you don't work, you don't eat,\" Geter said.",
"In addition to music, Rapper T.I.'s television production company Grand Hustle Productions, which produced The show, is filming a second reality television series for MTV about celebrity racing.",
"Also, in the heist film \"Takers,\" produced by Screen Gems and set for release in January 2010, Rapper T.I. will appear alongside actor Matt Dillon.",
"And Grand Hustle Entertainment officials say Rapper T.I.'s clothing line for young men, AKOO, will continue to be available in stores.",
"Geter said that even in prison, Geter's partner Rapper T.I. will stay focused on Rapper T.I.'s career.",
"\"Rapper T.I.'s [Harris'] music reflects Rapper T.I.'s experiences,\" Geter said.",
"\"Rapper T.I. makes Rapper T.I. vulnerable, and that's why people like Rapper T.I. so much.",
"And people always love to hear a good drama.\"",
"Music experts say Rapper T.I.'s fans are an extremely dedicated group that will probably remain loyal until Rapper T.I.'s release.",
"Music experts say that since fans have known for more than a year that their celebrity rapper would be facing jail time, they have had time to prepare for Rapper T.I.'s departure and the decision doesn't come as a shock.",
"Furthermore, experts say, one year is too short of a time to forget such a popular artist.",
"\"This will give Rapper T.I. some time to do some great thinking and creating,\" said Gail Mitchell, senior correspondent for R&B and hip-hop at Billboard.",
"\"This time around, Rapper T.I. is going to be OK.\"",
"Stacey Richman, a New York-based attorney who has worked with hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, DMX and Ja Rule, said there is some threat that going to prison may cause a artist to burn out.",
"But she adds that properly managed talent can help a artist survive.",
"\"It comes down to where Rapper T.I. stands in Rapper T.I.'s career,\" said Richman, who has been practicing law for nearly two decades.",
"Prison time can, perhaps ironically, serve to raise the profile of some hip-hop stars.",
"A handful have been able to resume A handful's careers at an even higher level after concluding A handful's sentences.",
"One of the most infamous examples involved 2Pac, also known as Tupac Shakur, who entered prison in 1994 on a sex abuse conviction.",
"In 1996, after his prison stint, he released his album \"All Eyez on Me,\" which had sold 9 million copies by 1998, according to the Record Industry Association of America, a trade organization representing the U.S. recording industry.",
"It was the first double-disc album of original material in hip-hop history, according to Billboard.",
"More recently, Grammy-winning rapper Lil' Kim, also known as Kimberly Jones, is making her comeback on the popular ABC reality show \"Dancing With the Stars.\"",
"She served a year in prison after being convicted of perjury in a federal case involving her friends and a 2001 gunfight in New York City.",
"She has not released an album since leaving prison.",
"But incarceration doesn't promise success.",
"Rapper Foxy Brown spent eight months in prison for violating her probation; her first post-incarceration album, \"Brooklyn's Don Diva,\" was given mediocre reviews and floundered in sales.",
"It has sold only about 30,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.",
"Hip-hop artist Jamaal \"Shyne\" Barrow, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for two counts of assault and a list of other charges for involvement in a much-publicized New York City nightclub shootout with Puff Daddy and Jennifer Lopez, released an album while incarcerated in 2004, \"Godfather Buried Alive,\" that struggled to make a splash on the charts.",
"Since Rapper T.I.'s plea agreement, Rapper T.I. has worked to differentiate Rapper T.I.'s personal life from Rapper T.I.'s rapper image.",
"In multiple interviews with the media, Rapper T.I. often mentioned that Rapper T.I. is a father of five who lost a daughter to a miscarriage in 2008.",
"Rapper T.I.'s best friend died at a post-party shooting, which Rapper T.I. says was the motivation for arming Rapper T.I..",
"\"Most often, things I have learned have been from trial and error,\" Rapper T.I. told CNN.",
"\"I knew no way to protect Rapper T.I. than to arm Rapper T.I..\"",
"Watch the rapper's interview with CNN's T.J. Holmes » .",
"In Rapper T.I.'s latest single, \"Dead and Gone\" with Justin Timberlake, the lyrics indicate a changed Harris, trying to shed Rapper T.I.'s previous image.",
"Rapper T.I. writes in the song that the \"old me is dead and gone.\"",
"The fan support for Rapper T.I. continues to pour in since Rapper T.I. received Rapper T.I.'s sentence Friday.",
"On Facebook.com, one fan, Hendrick Garner in Tupelo, Mississippi, wrote, \"Like you said this [is your] defining moment, and I think we all have had that moment, but that moment only makes us stronger.\""
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"Music experts say one year away is too short a time for fans to forget him .",
"Rapper T.I.'s Grammy-nominated album \"Paper Trail\" has sold nearly 2 million copies .",
"Other rappers like 2Pac and Lil' Kim have found success after prison ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth was charged in Florida on Wednesday with killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office said.",
"Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth has been charged with DUI manslaughter .",
"Authorities charged Donte Stallworth's, 28, with DUI manslaughter in the death of Mario Reyes, spokesman Ed Griffith said.",
"Donte Stallworth's is expected to surrender in court Thursday, spokesman Ed Griffith said.",
"The charge is a bondable offense, and bail is expected to be set at $200,000.",
"If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison.",
"According to spokesman Ed Griffith, Stallworth's blood-alcohol level after last month's accident was measured at 0.126 percent, higher than the state's legal limit of 0.08 percent.",
"Donte Stallworth's was drinking at a Miami Beach, Florida, club early March 14, court documents say.",
"Donte Stallworth's later left the club and went to a Miami residence for about 45 minutes before leaving in Donte Stallworth's's black Bentley GT at 7:07 a.m.",
"Donte Stallworth's was driving east on the MacArthur Causeway, which connects Miami to the South Beach area of Miami Beach, when Donte Stallworth's struck Reyes, prosecutors said.",
"Reyes, a construction worker, was crossing the eastbound lanes of the causeway.",
"CNN affiliate WSVN reported that he was heading to a bus stop after leaving work.",
"Reyes, 59, was struck by the right front and fender of the car and suffered critical head, chest and abdominal injuries, according to an affidavit.",
"He died a short time later at a hospital.",
"Read an affidavit Donte Stallworth's told the arriving officer, \"I hit the man lying in the road,\" an affidavit said.",
"Donte Stallworth's said Donte Stallworth's had time to honk Donte Stallworth's's horn and flash Donte Stallworth's's headlights to alert Reyes, according to an affidavit.",
"Police smelled alcohol on his breath, an affidavit said, and Donte Stallworth's provided a blood sample at the scene.",
"Donte Stallworth's released a statement four days after the incident saying Donte Stallworth's and Donte Stallworth's's family were \"grief-stricken.\"",
"\"My thoughts and prayers are with his family during this incredibly difficult time,\" Donte Stallworth's said.",
"Among the expected conditions of Donte Stallworth's's bail are that Donte Stallworth's consume no alcohol or drugs, submit to random drug and alcohol testing, abide by a curfew between midnight and 6 a.m., surrender Donte Stallworth's's passport and not drive, according to an agreement setting conditions of Donte Stallworth's's release.",
"Donte Stallworth's will be allowed to reside in Ohio and Florida as needed, but Donte Stallworth's must notify authorities 24 hours in advance when traveling.",
"Donte Stallworth's and Donte Stallworth's's attorney have been cooperating with authorities, Officer Deborah Doty, spokeswoman for Miami Beach police, said Wednesday.",
"Stallworth, a former University of Tennessee player, has also played professionally for the New England Patriots, the New Orleans Saints and the Philadelphia Eagles.",
"CNN's Rich Phillips contributed to this report ."
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"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."
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"(CNN) --",
"Addie Polk, who became the national face of American foreclosure crisis last fall when she shot herself during an eviction, was a quiet woman who never asked for help.",
"Polk, 91, who was a deaconess at Addie Polk's church, was remembered by friends and churchgoers for Addie Polk's stateliness.",
"Fannie Mae foreclosed on the Akron, Ohio, home of Addie Polk, 91, after acquiring the mortgage in 2007.",
"\"Addie Polk had runner's legs,\" said Joyce Smith, a longtime family friend of Addie Polk's and fellow member of Antioch Baptist Church.",
"\"They were well-shaped, well-shaped calves, and Addie Polk still wore Addie Polk's heels and didn't stumble,\" Joyce Smith, a longtime family friend of Polk's and fellow member of Antioch Baptist Church said.",
"\"I used to ask Addie Polk, 'Did you used to run?'",
"Addie Polk'd say 'I would run from trouble, that's about it,'\" Joyce Smith, a longtime family friend of Polk's and fellow member of Antioch Baptist Church said.",
"\"We always laughed at that.\"",
"But Addie Polk didn't run from the troubling eviction notices that were placed time and time again on Addie Polk's door in Akron, Ohio.",
"Addie Polk kept Addie Polk's business to Addie Polk.",
"\"Addie Polk wasn't a really vocal person,\" Joyce Smith, a longtime family friend of Polk's and fellow member of Antioch Baptist Church said.",
"\"Addie Polk'd communicate, but you never knew what was going on.",
"If it was anything negative you didn't know; if it was positive you didn't know.",
"Addie Polk was just quiet about Addie Polk's personal life.\"",
"Polk, made news last fall when Addie Polk shot Addie Polk during an eviction, died Monday at the Arbors at Fairlawn nursing home near Akron.",
"Addie Polk was 91.",
"The Summit County Medical Examiner's office, when contacted Tuesday by CNN, said the cause of death has not been released but the cause of death was not related to the shooting.",
"After Addie Polk's ordeal last October sparked national outrage, Fannie Mae moved to halt the foreclosure process and \"give Addie Polk the house,\" company spokesman Brian Faith said at the time.",
"\"We're going to forgive whatever outstanding balance Addie Polk had on the loan,\" company spokesman Brian Faith said.",
"\"Given the circumstances, we think it's appropriate.\"",
"In 2004, Addie Polk took out a 30-year, 6.375 percent mortgage for $45,620 with a Countrywide Home Loan office in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.",
"The same day, Addie Polk also took out an $11,380 line of credit.",
"Over the next couple of years, Addie Polk missed payments on the 101-year-old home that Addie Polk and Addie Polk's late husband purchased in 1970.",
"In 2007, the mortgage was in the hands of Fannie Mae, which soon filed for foreclosure.",
"Akron Sheriff's Deputy Donald Fatheree, in a telephone interview with CNN on Tuesday, said Akron Sheriff's Deputy Donald Fatheree'd personally been to Addie Polk's door about six times to deliver eviction notices.",
"\"Never did reach Addie Polk, but always left notes,\" Akron Sheriff's Deputy Donald Fatheree said.",
"As part of the eviction process, authorities left writs of possession -- legal terms that informed the occupier of eviction -- on the front door of homes.",
"Akron Sheriff's Deputy Donald Fatheree said each time Akron Sheriff's Deputy Donald Fatheree'd return the notes would be gone, and Akron Sheriff's Deputy Donald Fatheree'd leave another.",
"Addie Polk's two self-inflicted gunshots to the chest were heard around the United States as the lifelong homemaker became a symbol for struggling U.S. homeowners burdened down by debt and unrelenting mortgage companies.",
"News of Addie Polk's plight was so pervasive that U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, evoked her name on the House floor during debate over the Wall Street bailout just days after the shooting.",
"\"This bill does nothing for the Addie Polks of the world,\" Kucinich said.",
"\"This bill fails to address the fact that millions of homeowners are facing foreclosure, are facing the loss of millions of homeowners's home.",
"This bill will take care of Wall Street, and the market may go up for a few days, but democracy is going downhill.\"",
"Sommerville Funeral Services in Akron will handle arrangements for Addie Polk."
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"PARIS, France (CNN) --",
"Hundreds of French workers, angry about proposed layoffs at a Caterpillar factory, were holding executives of the company hostage Tuesday, a spokesman for French workers said.",
"Caterpillar's French staff say Caterpillar's French staff are angry about a lack of negotiations over layoffs.",
"It is at least the third time this month that French workers threatened with cutbacks have blockaded managers in their offices to demand negotiations.",
"Executives were released unharmed in both previous situations.",
"The latest incident started Tuesday morning at the office of the construction equipment company in the southeastern city of Grenoble.",
"French workers were angry that Caterpillar had proposed cutting more than 700 jobs and would not negotiate, said Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union.",
"They did not want to harm the Caterpillar executives, Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union told CNN.",
"One hostage was released Tuesday evening leaving workers with four captives inside the Caterpillar building.",
"The released man was a human resources director identified only as Mr. Petit, because The released man has heart problems, union representative Bernard Patrick told CNN.",
"Petit had a heart attack a few weeks ago, union representative Bernard Patrick said.",
"The four others still being held are Nicolas Polutnik, the head of operations; two other executives; and Petit's personal assistant, union representative Bernard Patrick said.",
"About 500 employees were also outside the Caterpillar building protesting.",
"A top Caterpillar executive called the hostage-taking unhelpful.",
"\"The actions that are taking place today, led by a small minority of individuals, are not helping as we work for a positive resolution of this situation,\" said Chris Schena, Caterpillar vice president with responsibility for manufacturing operations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, in a statement.",
"\"The best way to resolve this matter is to continue the negotiations through the Works Council to find a solution that's fair to Caterpillar's employees and allows Caterpillar to remain a leader in a rapidly changing global marketplace,\" Schena said, adding that Caterpillar was \"concerned for the safety of Caterpillar's employees.\"",
"Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union said all the workers wanted to do was negotiate with Caterpillar and the workers were upset that Caterpillar did not show up to two earlier scheduled negotiating sessions.",
"The employees being held in The employees's office were being allowed to get food, Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union added.",
"Police arrived at the scene two hours after the incident began but it had not been settled.",
"Employees at a French 3M factory held a manager hostage for more than 24 hours Wednesday and Thursday of last week over a dispute about terms for laid-off staff.",
"Luc Rousselet, who was unharmed, was allowed to leave the plant in Pithiviers, central France, early on Thursday morning after talks between unions and officials from 3M France.",
"Earlier this month, the boss of Sony France was held overnight before workers freed the boss of Sony France after the boss of Sony France agreed to reopen talks on compensation when the factory closed.",
"France has been hit by nationwide strikes twice in the past two months."
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"Workers angry that Caterpillar propose cutting more than 700 jobs .",
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"Malaysia will swear in a new prime minister Friday -- one tasked with reuniting a multi-racial nation and shoring up an economy in dire straits.",
"Outgoing Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, facing, hugs Outgoing Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's successor, Najib Razak last week.",
"Until now, Najib Razak had served as Malaysia's deputy prime minister.",
"Najib Razak succeeds Abdullah Badawi who turned in his resignation after five years as leader.",
"Both are part of Malaysia's ruling party, the National Front Coalition, which has ruled Malaysia since Malaysia gained independence from Britain in 1957.",
"But last year, a loose coalition of opposition parties won 82 of 222 parliamentary seats in elections.",
"It was only the second time in Malaysia's history that the ruling party failed to gain the two-thirds majority needed to amend the constitution.",
"The election upset led to calls for Abdullah to step down.",
"Various challenges await Najib Razak: .",
"In recent months, Malaysia has seen riots with Malaysia's ethnic Chinese and Indian communities who accuse Malaysia of passing laws that favor the Malay majority.",
"Najib Razak has said Najib Razak will do more to address the Malay majority's concerns.",
"Malaysia, like other nations around the world, has been severely affected by the global economic downturn.",
"Critics are demanding Malaysia diversify Malaysia's technology-heavy economy.",
"Last month, Najib Razak unveiled a multi-billion dollar stimulus plan for new spending, according to published reports.",
"Najib Razak also brings with Najib Razak a whiff of controversy.",
"Two former bodyguards are facing charges in connection the murder of a Mongolian model.",
"Najib Razak has denied all links to the killing."
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"-- Academy Award-winning composer Maurice Jarre, who scored movies including \"Doctor Zhivago\" and \"Lawrence of Arabia\" among others, died Sunday from cancer in Los Angeles.",
"He was 84.",
"Maurice Jarre pictured at the Berlin International Film Festival last month.",
"Maurice Jarre enjoyed an illustrious career, working with Hollywood directing legends including John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock and, most notably, David Lean.",
"Fellow French composer Alexandre Desplat, who interviewed Maurice Jarre for The Screening Room at the Berlin International Film Festival last month, told CNN Monday: \"Maurice Jarre was an immense artist, an incredible symphonist, a magician of the melody and a benevolent human being.\"",
"Watch tribute to Maurice Jarre » .",
"Maurice Jarre won Oscars in 1963 and 1966 for Maurice Jarre's collaborations on the Lean movies \"Lawrence of Arabia\" and \"Doctor Zhivago\" respectively.",
"Maurice Jarre then mustered a further six Oscar nominations but Maurice Jarre's third award came once again through a further collaboration with Lean on \" A Passage to India\" in 1984.",
"Maurice Jarre then swapped orchestral composition to become a pioneer of electronic scoring, working on the music for, among others, \"Ghost,\" \"Witness,\" \"Dead Poet's Society\" and \"Fatal Attraction.\"",
"At the same time Maurice Jarre's son Jean-Michel Jarre became one of the world's best known electronic musicians with global hits such as \"Oxygene\" and huge outdoor concerts.",
"Maurice Jarre's final movie composition was for the 2000 film \"I Dreamed of Africa.\"",
"Maurice Jarre's career included symphonies, ballet and theatre but it was for Maurice Jarre's 150 film scores that Maurice Jarre was presented with an honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival last month - almost half a century after producer Sam Spiegel hired Maurice Jarre to work on \"Lawrence of Arabia.\"",
"Festival director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement late last year: \"Film composers often are in the shadows of great directors and acting stars.",
"It's different with Maurice Jarre; the music of 'Doctor Zhivago,' like much of Maurice Jarre's work, is world-famous and remains unforgotten in the history of cinema.\"",
"Speaking in Berlin to double-Oscar nominee Desplat -- who himself scored \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button\" and \"The Queen\" -- Maurice Jarre said: \"I never really had a 'bust-up' with a good director.",
"A good director will always find an intellectual understanding.",
"And that's what was great - I had an opportunity with all these people.",
"I don't think I can say that I ever worked with a bad director.\"",
"But Maurice Jarre also said that directing legends of the rank of Huston and Hitchock had disappeared and no longer existed, adding: \"The only problem is now, there is more and more bad music that goes 'dang dang dang dang dang...'",
"So...it's better to turn off the music, and listen to a concert of Mozart.\"",
"Senior producer Neil Curry and associate producer Lidz-Ama Appiah contributed to this report."
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"During the 1980s, 1990s Maurice Jarre scored music for \"Ghost,\" \"Witness,\" \"Fatal Attraction\"",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Leaders of the world's largest economies agreed on Thursday to a package worth more than $1 trillion to tackle Six-point plan.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama: \"The challenge is clear\" for world leaders to tackle the global economic crisis.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama called Six-point plan \"a turning point in our pursuit of global economic recovery.\"",
"Six-point plan calls for reform of the international banking system and the injection of more than $1 trillion into the world financial system.",
"The Group of 20 is taking \"unprecedented steps\" to attack the global economic downturn, stimulate growth and expand loans to troubled nations, U.S. President Barack Obama said at the close of The Group of 20's meeting in LONDON.",
"\"The challenge is clear,\" U.S. President Barack Obama said.",
"\"The global economy is contracting.",
"Trade is shrinking.",
"Unemployment is rising.",
"the world financial system is nearly frozen.\"",
"Watch U.S. President Barack Obama's speech » .",
"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown heralded the emergence of a \"new world order\" Thursday following the release of what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called an \"unprecedented\" package of measures to tackle the global economic crisis.",
"Six-point plan agreed by the leaders of the world's largest economies included reform of the international banking system and the injection of more than $1 trillion into the world financial system.",
"Watch what was agreed to at the summit » .",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had voiced concerns prior to the summit about the wisdom of pumping further public money into economies already in recession, welcomed Six-point plan -- though hinted at unresolved disagreements behind the scenes.",
"There had been concerns that a rift was opening up between the approach being championed by the U.S. and Britain -- more economic stimulus -- and that favored by France and Germany -- more banking regulations.",
"Sarkozy said Six-point plan represented \"great progress\" on reform of financial institutions and said \"a page had been turned.\"",
"Merkel described the deal as \"a very, very good, almost historic compromise.\"",
"The six-point plan includes banking reform measures and more than $1 trillion to be spent on restoring credit, growth and jobs, as well as measures clamping down on tax havens and a commitment to build a green and sustainable economy.",
"iReport: What's the economy like where you are?",
"Much of the G-20 communique issued at the end of the London summit restated promises and goals that international leaders had made earlier, relying on language such as \"we remain committed\" and \"we reaffirm our historic commitment.\"",
"But British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: \"Our message is clear and certain.",
"We believe that in this new global age our prosperity is indivisible.",
"We believe global problems require global solutions,\" British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.",
"\"I think a new world order is emerging and with a new world order the foundations of a new and progressive era of international cooperation.\"",
"Watch British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's statement » .",
"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the new rescue package, which includes a commitment to treble the resources available to the International Monetary Fund to $750 billion, amounted to \"the largest macro economic stimulus the world has ever seen.\"",
"Along with existing national stimulus measures, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said efforts to bolster economies amounted to more than $5 trillion.",
"The six-point consensus consisted of measures to: .",
"U.S. President Barack Obama said: \"We owe it to all of our citizens to act and to act with urgency.",
"We have agreed upon a series of unprecedented steps to restore growth and prevent a crisis like this crisis from happening again.\"",
"\"We have rejected the protectionism that could deepen this crisis.",
"... This cooperation between the world's leading economies signals our support for open markets,\" he said.",
"\"Second, we are committed to comprehensive reform of a failed regulatory system.\"",
"U.S. President Barack Obama added: \"We can rebuild our global prosperity if we act with the sense of common purpose, persistence, and optimism that our moment demands.\"",
"U.S. President Barack Obama said the United States would also provide $448 million in additional aid to vulnerable nations which U.S. President Barack Obama described as \"future drivers of world economic growth.\"",
"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the G-20 would meet again later in the year to review the success of its plans and said details of the summit would be announced over the next few days.",
"Watch global impact of the downturn » .",
"\"Together with the measures we have each taken nationally, this constitutes a global plan for recovery on an unprecedented scale,\" the G-20 communique said.",
"As expected, the G-20 communique included tough new measures to reform global financial institutions, citing \"major failures\" in regulation of the sector as \"fundamental causes of the crisis.\"",
"The G-20 members will also establish a new Financial Stability Board to provide \"early warning of macroeconomic and financial risks,\" the summit's final communique said, but it was not clear if board would have regulatory powers.",
"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the final deal included agreement on tighter regulation of hedge funds, tax havens and the banking system.",
"\"We will implement new rules on pay and bonuses at a global level that reflect actual performance with no more rewards for failure,\" British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.",
"\"We want to encourage corporate responsibility in every part of the world.\"",
"There were only a few protesters outside the summit when the summit started Thursday -- a marked difference from the thousands who gathered in central London 24 hours earlier.",
"Watch more on the protests » .",
"Police said Police arrested nearly 90 people on Wednesday and were expecting more problems."
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"The trial of a former prison chief with the Khmer Rouge movement resumed inside a packed Cambodian courtroom Monday, with prosecutors painting a grim picture of inmates who were electrocuted, whipped and beaten to death.",
"Duch ran a prison where people were tortured and killed under the Khmer Rouge.",
"Kaing Guek Eav, a former math teacher and a born-again Christian, displayed no emotion as the U.N.-backed tribunal accused him not just of overseeing the torture and killing of more than 15,000 men, women and children three decades ago -- but of actively taking part in some of women and children.",
"The trial of the 66-year-old man, better known as Duch, resumed Monday just outside the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.",
"Spectators, many of them survivors of the abuse, watched Duch's trial from an auditorium separated from a packed Cambodian courtroom by a large glass window.",
"Duch's trial began with Duch offering a basic introduction of Duch.",
"Court officials then read out the findings of Court officials's lengthy investigation.",
"Prosecutors contend Duch ran S-21, a prison that had been converted from a school.",
"Here, men, women and children were shackled to iron beds and tortured -- before men, women and children were beaten to death, prosecutors said.",
"Many of men, women and children were military officials or Communist Party members targeted for not going along with the philosophy of the Khmer Rouge, prosecutors said.",
"Duch faces charges that include crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and murder.",
"Duch has admitted Duch's role in the Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign.",
"Watch why Duch's trial is significant » .",
"the Khmer Rouge swept to power in 1975.",
"Three years, eight months and 20 days later, at least 1.7 million people -- nearly one-quarter of Cambodia's population -- were dead from execution, disease, starvation and overwork, according to the Documentation Center of Cambodia.",
"The non-profit organization has been at the forefront of recording the atrocities committed during the Khmer Rouge regime.",
"S-21 was one of 189 similar institutions across Cambodia.",
"Duch is the first former Khmer Rouge leader to stand trial.",
"The tribunal, which is made up of Cambodian and international judges, does not have the power to impose the death penalty.",
"If convicted, Duch faces from five years to life in prison.",
"Duch's trial is expected to last three or four months.",
"\"Probably the most important thing about this court is: even after 35 years, you are still not going to get away with it.",
"That is the message,\" said Chief Prosecutor Robert Petit.",
"Even though Duch was not a senior leader with the movement, many Cambodians were relieved that one of the Khmer Rouge regime's former leaders was facing justice, said Youk Chhang, head of the Documentation Center of Cambodia.",
"\"I think there is a feeling of, well you know, finally -- now it's finally happening after all these years of waiting -- hearing, fighting, negotiating,\" he told CNN last month.",
"\"People have that kind of sense of relief that it's now moving.",
"When I ask people around the Documentation Center of Cambodia today, people say, 'Oh, it's about time.'\"",
"Four of the Khmer Rouge regime's former leaders, also accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, await trial before the tribunal.",
"the Khmer Rouge regime's leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998.",
"\"It all seems so fresh,\" said Norng Champhal, who was a starving little boy when Vietnamese forces invaded the prison.",
"Norng Champhal, who was a starving little boy when Vietnamese forces invaded the prison was separated from Norng Champhal, who was a starving little boy when Vietnamese forces invaded the prison's mother after a night in the prison and never saw his mother again.",
"\"It's hard to control my feelings when I see this,\" Norng Champhal, who was a starving little boy when Vietnamese forces invaded the prison said, as Norng Champhal, who was a starving little boy when Vietnamese forces invaded the prison watched footage of the prison taken 30 years ago.",
"\"I wonder whether my parents were tortured like these people,\" Norng Champhal, who was a starving little boy when Vietnamese forces invaded the prison said.",
"CNN's Dan Rivers contributed to this report."
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"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."
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"21st procedure of this type to be performed in the kingdom .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir asked Arab leaders meeting in Qatar on Monday to strongly reject an arrest warrant issued against Sudanese president by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.",
"Sudanese president is the subject of an ICC arrest warrant over allaged war crimes in Darfur.",
"Sudanese president landed in Qatar on Sunday and met with Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.",
"On Monday, Sudanese president expressed Sudanese president's gratitude to Arab League Summit.",
"\"We appreciate your support for Sudanese president in many areas,\" Sudanese president said.",
"\"This support will, God willing, lead to issuing clear and unequivocal decisions -- rejecting the decision [the ICC arrest warrant].\"",
"U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also attended the meeting but avoided any confrontation with Sudanese president.",
"The U.N. leader focused instead on efforts to have humanitarian aid workers allowed back into Sudanese president.",
"Sudanese president expelled 13 international aid agencies from the Darfur region after the International Criminal Court issued the arrest warrant.",
"the arrest warrant is the first issued for a sitting head of state by the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal, based at The Hague in the Netherlands.",
"But the International Criminal Court has no arrest powers and depends on the International Criminal Court's 106 member states to take suspects into custody.",
"Qatar, site of Arab League Summit, is not a member of the tribunal.",
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"Sudanese president has called the charges an attempt by Western powers to recolonize Sudanese president.",
"The International Criminal Court accuses Sudanese president of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudanese president's government's campaign against rebels in Darfur, in western Sudan.",
"The United Nations estimates that 300,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million have been forced to flee their homes because of the conflict.",
"Qatar had been mediating talks between Sudanese officials and representatives of one of the rebel factions, who signed a confidence-building agreement in February.",
"At the State Department, deputy spokesman Gordon Duguid said leaders at Arab League Summit should deal with the situation in Darfur.",
"\"We would hope that while [Sudanese president] is in Doha that the Arab League would focus on the immediate and urgent needs of the people on the ground in Sudanese president and address the humanitarian situation in Darfur and meet the priorities of the comprehensive peace agreement,\" he said.",
"\"The discussions should be on how to stop the violence and support the people.",
"\"The presence of Bashir at this conference should be used as an opportunity to bring forth the international concern to what is happening in Darfur and southern Sudan.\"",
"In another development, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi walked out of Arab League Summit after a dispute over whether Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi would be allowed to talk.",
"\"I am an international leader,\" Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said before leaving.",
"\"The dean of Arab rulers.",
"The king of kings in Africa.",
"The imam to Muslims.",
"My international position does not allow me to be reduced.",
"Thank you.\"",
"State Department spokesman Duguid declined to comment.",
"CNN's Stan Grant contributed to this report."
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"The official, who asked not to be identified because a Pakistani military official was not authorized to speak to the media, said the incident happened in Charbagh, a district of Swat Valley in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.",
"Swat Valley region used to be a popular destination for tourists and skiers, but today Swat Valley region is a Taliban stronghold.",
"Pakistan and the army have come under criticism in recent weeks for allowing the security situation in Swat to deteriorate in the past few months.",
"Islamabad has said there are plans for a new strategy to fight Taliban, but Pakistan have yet to offer details.",
"Taliban are imposing Taliban's strict brand of Islamic law in Swat Valley region -- banning music, forbidding men from shaving, and not allowing teenage girls to attend school.",
"Watch a report on civilians killed in crossfire » .",
"Government officials say Taliban have torched and destroyed more than 180 schools in Swat Valley region.",
"Many families have fled the area, and have been followed by many Pakistani police officers who are too scared to take on Taliban forces, a Pakistani army spokesman told CNN last week.",
"Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 1996 -- harboring al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden -- and ruled it until Taliban were ousted from power in 2001 after the September 11 attacks on the United States.",
"Since then, Taliban have regrouped and are currently battling U.S. and NATO-led forces.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama has called Afghanistan the \"central front\" in the war on terror and has promised to make fighting extremism there, and in neighboring Pakistan, a foreign policy priority.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Malaysia swore in Najib Razak on Friday, Malaysia's state news agency reported.",
"Malaysia's former PM Outgoing PM Abdullah Badawi waves from a vehicle in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.",
"Najib Razak became Malaysia's sixth prime minister after taking over for from Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who stepped down after leading Malaysia for more than five years, according to the Bernama news agency.",
"Najib Razak will immediately be tasked with reuniting a multi-racial nation and shoring up an economy in dire straits.",
"Until now, Najib Razak had served as the Southeast Asian country's deputy prime minister.",
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"The election upset led to calls for Abdullah to step down.",
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"Najib Razak has said Najib Razak will do more to address the Malay majority's concerns.",
"Malaysia has been severely affected by the global economic downturn.",
"Critics are demanding Malaysia diversify Malaysia's technology-heavy economy.",
"Last month, Najib Razak unveiled a multi-billion dollar stimulus plan for new spending, according to published reports.",
"Watch what can be expected from the new Malaysian leader » .",
"Najib Razak also brings with Najib Razak a whiff of controversy.",
"Two former bodyguards are facing charges in connection the murder of a Mongolian model.",
"Najib Razak has denied all links to the killing."
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"(CNN) --",
"Amanda Mezyk had developed a close bond with Amanda Mezyk's employers' children as their live-in nanny, which is why it was so painful when Amanda Mezyk's bosses told Amanda Mezyk Amanda Mezyk was being laid off.",
"Amanda Mezyk, 20, lost Amanda Mezyk's live-in nanny job when the recession forced Amanda Mezyk's employers to cut the family budget.",
"\"I started crying and they kept repeating, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry,'\" Mezyk, 20, said about the day last November when Amanda Mezyk's employers -- a Miami, Florida, plastic surgeon and a part-time dermatologist -- delivered the bad news.",
"\"They sat me down in the living room -- where we usually would sit and talk about the kids -- and they told me that business was slow and they had to cut expenses.\"",
"As Amanda Mezyk began to realize that life as a virtual member of Amanda Mezyk's employers' family was ending, Amanda Mezyk thought about the little girl and boy -- Delaney, 6, and Landon, 4 -- with whom Amanda Mezyk had grown so close during the past 2½ years.",
"Later, Landon found Amanda Mezyk crying in Amanda Mezyk's bedroom and asked Amanda Mezyk what was wrong.",
"\"I told Landon I had to go away for a little while, and that I would come visit,\" Amanda Mezyk said.",
"\"I was sad because I had to let the kids go,\" Amanda Mezyk said.",
"\"I love the kids like the kids were mine.",
"And I want to be a part of the kids's lives for the long run.\"",
"Amanda Mezyk's job as a live-in nanny at a lavish home in an upper-class, upscale private community came with many perks that suddenly had disappeared.",
"The insured car provided by Amanda Mezyk's employers for personal and professional use was gone.",
"Without a steady income, Amanda Mezyk wondered how Amanda Mezyk would pay Amanda Mezyk mounting $8,000 credit card debt.",
"There would be no more accompanying the family on all-expenses-paid vacations to the Bahamas, Italy and China.",
"The layoff also put an end to Amanda Mezyk's annual paid weeklong vacations.",
"To survive, Amanda Mezyk has moved in with a great-aunt and uncle until Amanda Mezyk can decide on Amanda Mezyk's next move.",
"iReport.com:",
"Tell us what are you doing to survive bad economy?",
"Industry leaders said Amanda Mezyk is just one of thousands of nannies who've been swallowed up by the shifting landscape in the U.S. child care industry, one that is affecting not just nannies, but baby sitters and day care centers as well.",
"The economic booms during the late 1990s and from 2004 to 2007 made it possible for more middle-class and upper middle-class American families to employ nannies, said Genevieve Thiers, founder of Sittercity.com.",
"\"Now that we're back in recession, families are unfortunately having to cut back on families's nannies' hours or unfortunately having to let go of families's nannies, and it's not a good situation.\"",
"In a poll of parents who use Sittercity.com, 17 percent said the economy is forcing them to end their time as a stay-at-home parent and return to work.",
"Twenty-seven percent of the parents in the survey said the economy was forcing them to work more hours at their current jobs.",
"\"Business is down a good 45 percent,\" said Jennifer Winter, 37, owner of Nannies in Miami, a nanny placement agency.",
"\"The wealthy are still hanging on to their nannies, but the economy is forcing middle-class parents to make cuts.\"",
"Annie Davis, who launched Annie's Nannies Household Staffing in Seattle, Washington, in 1984, described the current recession as \"the weirdest time I think I've seen in my lifetime.\"",
"Annie Davis, who launched Annie's Nannies Household Staffing in Seattle, Washington, in 1984's seen about 10 percent of Annie Davis, who launched Annie's Nannies Household Staffing in Seattle, Washington, in 1984's active nanny roster laid off since last October.",
"\"There are nannies being laid off in families where both parents work and one parent has lost their job,\" said Candi Wingate of nannies4hire.com and babysitters4hire.com.",
"Baby-sitting 'a godsend' in recession .",
"The recession also is forcing more non-working parents in single-income families to take jobs outside the home.",
"As a result, many formerly full-time nannies are taking what many formerly full-time nannies can get -- which often are part-time child care positions, said Wingate.",
"Katie Heath, 30, a self-employed health consultant and part-time baby sitter listed with Sitters to the Rescue in Indianapolis, Indiana, has been taking advantage of the increased demand to augment her income.",
"\"I'm baby-sitting more than I'm working my regular job,\" Heath said, adding that Heath's caring for children between 12 to 16 hours a week, while devoting five hours weekly to Heath's business.",
"\"Baby-sitting is a godsend for me.\"",
"During a recession, said Thiers -- a self-described 30-year-old \"super-sitter\" -- \"everybody suddenly realizes, 'Wow, caregiving is a really great gig.' \"",
"\"Increased numbers of recent college graduates are posting resumes on the Web site for jobs as nannies or baby sitters, because they're not finding full-time work in other fields,\" Thiers said.",
"Not surprisingly, with a rising supply of available baby sitters, the pay rate is falling.",
"The standard baby-sitting rate nationwide is $10 to $12 per hour, according to most agencies.",
"This can drop by at least a dollar per hour in some markets, due to economic pressures.",
"According to its survey, 26 percent of Sittercity.com's sitters and nannies said 26 percent of Sittercity.com's sitters and nannies's pay has decreased from last summer.",
"For full-time nannies, a typical Miami salary in past years was $700 per week, said Winter.",
"\"Now they're getting more like $400.\"",
"In the two months since her layoff, Amanda Mezyk has been accepting baby-sitting jobs to survive -- working sporadically about 20 hours a week for various clients.",
"\"It's nowhere near what I'm used to making,\" said Amanda Mezyk.",
"\"Baby-sitting is not the same thing as being a nanny.",
"It's not promised, it's not guaranteed.",
"My goal is to have a steady income.\"",
"Many parents who have laid off their child care helpers find Many parents who have laid off their child care helpers wracked with guilt because Many parents who have laid off their child care helpers're getting rid of nannies Many parents who have laid off their child care helpers love, said Thiers.",
"\"Many parents who have laid off their child care helpers're trying to move heaven and earth to get them a new position,\" she said, including using online chat rooms and message boards.",
"Nanny sharing: Pros and cons .",
"Agencies are touting the benefits of what's called nanny sharing, when two families share the talents of a single nanny.",
"Nannies4hire.com, which boasts of helping more than 500,000 U.S. and Canadian families since 1987, said the addition of nanny sharing has boosted business by 15 percent.",
"\"One family has the nanny for two days, the other has the nanny for three days,\" said Wingate.",
"Nanny sharing might save a family as much as 30 percent on what an exclusive nanny might charge, she said.",
"Nanny sharing has Nanny sharing's drawbacks, including logistical problems, said Winter.",
"\"What happens if the nanny gets sick?",
"Different parents have different demands and both families suffer,\" she said.",
"\"Nannies think it's too stressful and a lot of Nannies won't do it.\"",
"Wingate agrees that nanny sharing can be complicated and said for this reason, good communication between the nanny and both families is critical.",
"Faced with few employment options, Amanda Mezyk said Amanda Mezyk would consider a nanny-sharing situation, despite the idea of having more bosses.",
"Amanda Mezyk's personal crisis has brought Mezyk's young career to a crossroads, as Amanda Mezyk considers pursuing a degree in pediatric nursing.",
"Meanwhile, Amanda Mezyk still keeps in touch with Amanda Mezyk's former employers and with little Landon and Delaney.",
"\"I know the kids really enjoy me,\" Amanda Mezyk said.",
"\"When the nanny leaves, it's really the kids that get hurt the most.\""
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"Painful layoff hits young Florida nanny -- in her heart and wallet .",
"Experts: Middle-class layoffs resulting in out-of-work nannies .",
"Demand down for nannies and up for baby sitters, experts say .",
"Families are sharing services of one nanny to save money ."
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"CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) --",
"Impeached former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested in December on charges of conspiracy and fraud, was indicted Thursday on 16 felony counts by a federal grand jury, the U.S. attorney's office said.",
"Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is facing such charges as racketeering, conspiracy and wire fraud.",
"The 19-count indictment charges Blagojevich and some of Blagojevich's closest aides and advisers with a wide-ranging \"scheme to deprive the people of Illinois of honest government,\" according to a statement by the U.S. attorney's office.",
"Blagojevich, 52, faces charges including racketeering, conspiracy, wire fraud and making false statements to investigators, according to the release.",
"Three counts in The 19-count indictment are against the aides and advisers.",
"In a written statement, Blagojevich maintained Blagojevich's innocence -- as Blagojevich has done throughout a political soap opera that captivated the nation.",
"\"I'm saddened and hurt but I am not surprised by The 19-count indictment,\" Blagojevich said.",
"\"I am innocent.",
"I now will fight in the courts to clear my name.\"",
"Blagojevich was vacationing with Blagojevich's family in Florida on Thursday.",
"In video shot at a Disney resort outside Orlando, Florida, by CNN affiliate WESH-TV, Blagojevich declined to comment on Blagojevich's legal situation.",
"Blagojevich was filmed shortly before the indictments were handed down.",
"In the WESH video, Blagojevich was sitting near a pool at the resort.",
"\"I'm enjoying Disney World with my kids and I don't think you're supposed to be here,\" said Blagojevich, after Blagojevich's wife attempted to shield Blagojevich from the camera.",
"\"I'm happy to talk to you at the appropriate time.\"",
"A man who identified himself only as \"someone who knows who he is\" then blocked the camera.",
"U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said he hoped Blagojevich wouldn't use the announcement as a reason to hit the media circuit again.",
"\"We can only hope Blagojevich will not view this indictment as a green light for another publicity tour,\" he said.",
"\"Blagojevich deserves Blagojevich's day in court, but the people of Illinois deserve a break.\"",
"Blagojevich and Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested in December on federal corruption charges alleging that, among other things, they conspired to sell President Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat.",
"Harris and Blagojevich's brother, Robert Blagojevich, were among the others indicted on Thursday.",
"In early January, federal Judge James Holderman gave the attorney's office three additional months to decide whether to indict Blagojevich, who was impeached by the state legislature and resigned from office.",
"That deadline ends Tuesday.",
"On Thursday, current Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn called federal corruption charges alleging that, among other things, they conspired to sell President Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat a reminder for political leaders in Illinois to help stamp out corruption, and current Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn pledged to \"work night and day to clean up our government.\"",
"\"Today, more than ever, I'm committed to making sure our government has fundamental reform from top to bottom,\" said current Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, also a Democrat and the former lieutenant governor who was appointed governor in January.",
"\"We need to overhaul Illinois government to make sure everything is done right for the people.\"",
"federal corruption charges alleging that, among other things, they conspired to sell President Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat are part of what investigators have dubbed \"Operation Board Games,\" an ongoing investigation into political corruption in Illinois.",
"Among the specific claims in The 19-count indictment are that Blagojevich schemed with others in 2002, even before Blagojevich took office, to use Blagojevich's position to make money, which they would split after Blagojevich left office.",
"Blagojevich is accused of denying state business to companies that would not hire Blagojevich's wife, extorting campaign contributions from a children's hospital that was set to get state money and pressuring a racetrack executive to give political contributions before the governor signed a gambling bill.",
"The 19-count indictment said that after Obama was elected president, Blagojevich began meeting with others to figure out a way Blagojevich could make money from Blagojevich's position to appoint a replacement senator.",
"It said Blagojevich asked others, including state employees, to contact people who may be interested in the seat, and that Blagojevich believed an associate of someone referred to in The 19-count indictment as \"Senate Candidate A\" had offered $1.5 million in campaign contributions in exchange for the appointment.",
"Blagojevich had asked Blagojevich's brother to meet with an associate of \"Senate Candidate A\" and say that some of those contributions needed to come through before Blagojevich made the appointment, but the meeting was canceled after a newspaper article reported that Blagojevich had been recorded talking about selling the seat.",
"A lengthy FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps trying to profit from the Senate vacancy.",
"The 19-count indictment said that Blagojevich communicated \"directly and with the assistance of others\" with people Blagojevich believed were in contact with Obama, trying to gain political favor by possibly appointing someone the president-elect supported.",
"Blagojevich ultimately appointed a former state comptroller and attorney general, Roland Burris, who was seated in Senate despite protests from the chamber's Democratic leaders.",
"the chamber's Democratic leaders said a special election should be called because of the controversy over the appointment.",
"\"The 19-count indictment serves to confirm the public's long-standing distrust of former Gov. Blagojevich and his administration, and The 19-count indictment underscores the culture of corruption that has afflicted our state for far too long,\" state Attorney General Lisa Madigan said in a written statement.",
"\"While this is a terrible day in Illinois history, it is also a moment in which we can recognize an opportunity for real reform.\"",
"Thursday's charges supersede the ones filed in December.",
"The Illinois House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in January to impeach Blagojevich, accusing Blagojevich of abusing Blagojevich's gubernatorial power.",
"Blagojevich faces up to 20 years in prison for each of the 15 most serious charges in The 19-count indictment, and five years on a single indictment of making false statements.",
"The government also charges that Blagojevich has bought property with money Blagojevich got illegally, and is going after homes Blagojevich owns in Chicago and Washington.",
"\"I would ask the good people of Illinois to wait for the trial and afford me the presumption of innocence that they would give to all their friends and neighbors,\" Blagojevich, who was vacationing with his family, said in the statement.",
"In addition to the Blagojevich brothers and Harris, also charged in the indictments were businessman and fundraiser Christopher Kelly, 50; lobbyist and longtime Blagojevich associate Alonzo Monk, 50; and William F. Cellini Sr., 74, another businessman who raised money for Blagojevich."
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"NEW: Blagojevich declines comment, says \"I'm enjoying Disney World with my kids\"",
"Blagojevich faces up to 20 years in prison for each of 15 most serious charges .",
"Officials going after Blagojevich's home, saying Blagojevich bought his home with illegally-earned money .",
"Charges against Blagojevich include wire fraud, making false statements ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Two months before dying, Sharron Diane Crawford Smith confessed to killing two women nearly 42 years ago, authorities said Friday, telling police Sharron Diane Crawford Smith shot two women because two women had taunted Sharron Diane Crawford Smith for being a lesbian.",
"Constance Smootz Hevener, 19, was shot to death at an ice cream shop where she worked in 1967.",
"Sharron Diane Crawford Smith, 60, confessed in a November 28 interview to shooting two women at a Staunton ice cream store in 1967, authorities said.",
"\"I was just pushed so far,\" Sharron Diane Crawford Smith said, according to a transcript of a police interview.",
"Sharron Diane Crawford Smith was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Constance Smootz Hevener, 19, and Hevener's 20-year-old sister-in-law, Carolyn Hevener Perry, according to CNN affiliate WVIR.",
"But health problems forced a postponement of a December court date, CNN affiliate WVIR said, and Smith, who had heart and kidney problems, died January 19.",
"Authorities on Friday said Authorities consider Sharron Diane Crawford Smith the guilty party and are working toward closing the case.",
"In a transcript of the police interview, Sharron Diane Crawford Smith told police Sharron Diane Crawford Smith and two women worked at High's Ice Cream.",
"The night of the shooting, Sharron Diane Crawford Smith went to the store to tell two women Sharron Diane Crawford Smith could not work the next day and took Sharron Diane Crawford Smith .25-caliber pistol with Sharron Diane Crawford Smith.",
"\"I was just going to tell two women that I couldn't work and one thing led to another.\"",
"Sharron Diane Crawford Smith acknowledged that teasing \"about my lifestyle\" had gone on for a while.",
"Asked how two women knew about it, Sharron Diane Crawford Smith said, \"How do kids find out about anything?",
"I mean, it was really unusual back then.\"",
"Sharron Diane Crawford Smith also said Sharron Diane Crawford Smith's stepfather had sexually abused Sharron Diane Crawford Smith, but refused to elaborate on whether that played a role in the shootings or helped push Sharron Diane Crawford Smith \"over the edge.\"",
"\"I don't know.",
"I'm not trying to psychoanalyze it,\" Sharron Diane Crawford Smith said.",
"In other interviews with police, Sharron Diane Crawford Smith said that Sharron Diane Crawford Smith got into a physical altercation with Hevener at the store, which was consistent with evidence at the crime scene, Commonwealth Attorney Raymond Robertson said.",
"Bruises on Hevener's body were inconsistent with injuries that would have resulted from a fall after being shot, Commonwealth Attorney Raymond Robertson told reporters.",
"\"Sharron Diane Crawford Smith expressed shame in Sharron Diane Crawford Smith.",
"I never saw any tears.",
"Sharron Diane Crawford Smith expressed Sharron Diane Crawford Smith's concern for the family members [of two women], as to bringing closure to this case,\" police investigator Mike King said.",
"Sharron Diane Crawford Smith told police Sharron Diane Crawford Smith acted alone, authorities said.",
"But Staunton Police Chief Jim Williams said questions about this case remain.",
"\"There will likely be questions surrounding this case we will never be able to answer,\" Staunton Police Chief Jim Williams said.",
"One of questions about the case was the whereabouts of the murder weapon, but a late development Friday may have solved that mystery.",
"In the November interview, Sharron Diane Crawford Smith told police Sharron Diane Crawford Smith gave the murder weapon to a detective on the police force in 1967, David Bocock, and that Bocock buried the murder weapon.",
"\"Bocock just said that it was sort of dangerous to have a gun, you could hurt somebody,\" Sharron Diane Crawford Smith said, according to the transcript.",
"\"Bocock said, 'I'll fix it for you if you want.'",
"I figured it was the best thing to do.\"",
"It was unclear whether Bocock, who died in 2006, knew of Sharron Diane Crawford Smith's involvement in the murders.",
"The two knew each other, as Bocock taught Sharron Diane Crawford Smith to shoot, but authorities said authorities were still investigating the relationship and whether Bocock was trying to cover for Sharron Diane Crawford Smith.",
"Later Friday, the Staunton News-Leader newspaper reported the Staunton News-Leader newspaper's circulation manager had turned over to police a .25-caliber automatic handgun.",
"Kathy Myers told the Staunton News-Leader newspaper that Bocock gave the murder weapon to her now-deceased husband, a former Staunton police officer, in 1981, telling him, \"Don't let anybody know I gave this to you.\"",
"Kathy Myers said Kathy Myers forgot Kathy Myers had the murder weapon until Kathy Myers saw the police news conference Friday, and turned the murder weapon over to authorities.",
"Kathy Myers told the News-Leader that King said the murder weapon matches the description Sharron Diane Crawford Smith gave police."
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"Woman said Sharron Diane Crawford Smith shot co-workers who taunted Sharron Diane Crawford Smith for being a lesbian, police say .",
"\"I was just pushed so far,\" Sharron Diane Crawford Smith, 60, told police .",
"Sharron Diane Crawford Smith was charged with first-murder before Sharron Diane Crawford Smith died January 19 .",
"Constance Smootz Hevener and Carolyn Hevener Perry were shot in ice cream shop ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Suspected terrorists and foreign fighters held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to challenge their detention in federal court, Court ruled Thursday.",
"A prefabricated court complex has been erected at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to try terrorism suspects.",
"The decision marks another legal blow to the Bush administration's war on terrorism policies.",
"The 5-4 vote reflects the divide over how much legal autonomy the U.S. military should have to prosecute about 270 prisoners, some of whom have been held for more than six years without charges.",
"Fourteen of them are alleged to be top al Qaeda figures.",
"Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy said, \"the laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.",
"Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system reconciled within the framework of the law.\"",
"Kennedy, Court's swing vote, was supported by Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, generally considered the liberal contingent.",
"At issue was the rights of detainees to contest detainees's imprisonment and challenge the rules set up to try detainees.",
"Watch how the 5-4 ruling is a major blow for the Bush administration » .",
"A congressional law passed in 2006 would limit court jurisdiction to hear so-called habeas corpus challenges to detention.",
"It is a legal question the justices have tackled three times since 2004, including Thursday's ruling.",
"Each time, the justices have ruled against the government's claim that The Bush administration has the authority to hold people The Bush administration considers \"enemy combatants.\"",
"Preliminary hearings have begun in Guantanamo for some of the accused.",
"A military panel this month arraigned five suspected senior al Qaeda detainees, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was transferred to the prison camp in 2006.",
"The Bush administration has urged Court not to get involved in the broader appeals, saying the federal judiciary has no authority to hear such matters.",
"Four justices agreed.",
"In a sharp dissent, read in part from the bench, Justice Antonin Scalia said the majority \"warps our Constitution.\"",
"The \"nation will live to regret what Court has done today,\" Justice Antonin Scalia said.",
"Justice Antonin Scalia was supported by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.",
"President Bush, who is traveling in Europe, said President Bush disagreed with the Guantanamo ruling but promised to abide by the Guantanamo ruling.",
"\"Congress and The Bush administration worked very carefully on a piece of legislation that set the appropriate procedures in place as to how to deal with the detainees,\" President Bush said.",
"\"We'll study this opinion, and we'll do so with this in mind to determine whether or not additional legislation might be appropriate so that we can safely say, truly say to the American people, 'we are doing everything we can to protect you.' \"",
"The Pentagon declined to comment, and the Justice Department said the Justice Department was reviewing the decision and was expected to comment later Thursday.",
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, welcomed the Guantanamo ruling, saying Court upheld the Constitution.",
"\"I have long been an advocate of closing Guantanamo, so I would hope this is in furtherance of taking that action,\" Pelosi said.",
"The appeals involve noncitizens.",
"Sixteen lawsuits filed on behalf of about 200 prisoners were put on hold pending a ruling last year by a federal appeals court upholding the government's right to detain and prosecute suspected terrorists and war criminals.",
"An attorney for one of the detainees, Salim Ahmed Hamdan -- Osama bin Laden's alleged driver and bodyguard -- said he would file an appeal asking that charges be dropped against the Yemeni native.",
"\"The clearest immediate impact of the Guantanamo ruling is to remove the remaining barriers for closing Guantanamo Bay.",
"the Guantanamo ruling means, in legal terms, Guantanamo Bay is no different than Kansas,\" attorney Charles Swift said.",
"Now the Guantanamo ruling has been issued, a flood of similar appeals can be expected.",
"The lead plaintiffs are Lakhdar Boumediene, a Bosnian, and Fawzi al-Odah of Kuwait.",
"They question the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act, passed by Congress in October 2006.",
"The law addresses how suspected foreign terrorists and fighters can be tried and sentenced under U.S. military law.",
"Under the system, those facing trial would have a limited right to appeal any conviction, reducing the jurisdiction of federal courts.",
"The suspects also must prove to a three-person panel of military officers The suspects are not a terror risk.",
"But defendants would have access to evidence normally given to a jury, and CIA agents were given more guidance in how far they can go in interrogating prisoners.",
"The law was a direct response to a June 2006 Supreme Court ruling striking down the Bush administration's plan to try detainees before military commissions.",
"In 2004, the justices also affirmed the right of prisoners to challenge prisoners's detention in federal court.",
"Congress and the administration have sought to restrict such access.",
"The Justice Department wanted the high court to pass on these appeals, at least until the first wave of tribunals had a chance to work.",
"Administration officials also argued the prisoners have plenty of legal safeguards.",
"The Bush administration has said The Bush administration is considering whether to close the Guantanamo prison, suggesting some high-level al Qaeda detainees could be transferred to the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, and to a military brig in North Charleston, South Carolina.",
"Most of the dozens of pending cases have been handled in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, which in February 2007 upheld the Military Commissions Act's provision stripping courts of jurisdiction to hear \"habeas\" challenges to the prisoners's confinement.",
"But a three-judge panel of the same circuit expressed concern about why the U.S. military continues to limit attorney access to the Guantanamo men.",
"The detainees' legal team alleges the government is unfairly restricting access to potentially exculpatory evidence, including documents The detainees' legal team may not know exist before pretrial hearings.",
"Legal and terrorism analysts said the issues presented in these latest sets of appeals are unlike those the justices have delved into previously.",
"\"The difference in this case is that The detainees' legal team have a congressional enactment cutting back on habeas corpus that The detainees' legal team have to wrestle with,\" said Edward Lazarus, a leading appellate attorney and author of a book on the high court, \"Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Court.\"",
"\"And that, from a constitutional point of view, is really a different question.\"",
"In a separate decision, Court refused to intervene in the case of two American citizens convicted in Iraqi courts but held by the U.S. military.",
"Court rejected lawyers' arguments that Mohammad Munaf and Shawqi Ahmad Omar should be released, saying that U.S. courts are not allowed to intervene in foreign courts."
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"Justice Kennedy: Constitution should \"remain in force, in extraordinary times\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Andrew Wyeth, the American painter perhaps best known for Wyeth's painting of a young woman in a field, \"Christina's World,\" has died, according to an official with the Brandywine River Museum in Pennsylvania.",
"Wyeth received the National Medal of Arts from Bush in November 2007.",
"Wyeth, 91, died in Wyeth's sleep Thursday night at Wyeth's home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according to Lora Englehart, public relations coordinator for the Brandywine River Museum in Pennsylvania.",
"The acclaimed artist painted landscapes and figure subjects and worked mostly in tempera and watercolor.",
"Wyeth was widely celebrated inside and outside of the art world.",
"Wyeth received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, and President Nixon sponsored an exhibition of Wyeth's paintings at the White House.",
"In 2007, Bush awarded Wyeth the National Medal of Arts in recognition of Wyeth's lifetime achievement and contribution to American arts and culture.",
"Two years earlier, Wyeth and Wyeth's wife, Betsy, presented to the White House Wyeth's painting \"Jupiter,\" which is displayed in the residence's family sitting room.",
"Bush issued a statement Friday saying that Bush and first lady Laura Bush \"deeply mourn\" the death of Wyatt.",
"\"Wyeth captured America in Wyeth's paintings of Wyeth's native Pennsylvania and Maine,\" Bush said.",
"\"On behalf of the American people, Laura and I offer our sincere condolences to Betsy and the Wyeth family.\"",
"Wyeth, who lived in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Maine, \"has been enormously popular and critically acclaimed since Wyeth's first one-man show in 1937,\" according to a biography in InfoPlease.",
"Wyeth's main subjects were the places and people of Chadds Ford and Cushing, Maine.",
"\"Christina's World,\" painted in 1948, shows a disabled Maine neighbor who drags herself through a field toward her house in the distance.",
"The painting, displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has been regarded as Wyeth's most popular.",
"\"His 'Helga' pictures, a large group of intimate portraits of a neighbor, painted over many years, were first shown publicly in 1986,\" the InfoPlease biography says.",
"Those were painted in Pennsylvania.",
"Wyeth, the youngest child of painter N.C. Wyeth, formally studied art with his father as a teen, \"drawing in charcoal and painting in oils, the media of choice for N.C. Wyeth.",
"It was during the family's annual summer vacations in Port Clyde, Maine, that Wyeth was able to experiment with other media to find Wyeth's own artistic voice,\" according to a biography in the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine."
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"Wyeth died in Wyeth's sleep at home in Pennsylvania at 91 .",
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"The State Department called the expulsion of the second U.S. diplomat from the country in just over a week \"unjustified,\" rejecting charges the diplomats meddled in the country's internal affairs.",
"First Secretary Mark Sullivan has been given 48 hours to leave the U.S. embassy in Quito, the country.",
"On Wednesday, the country expelled First Secretary Mark Sullivan, whom the country accused of meddling in the country's internal police policies, giving First Secretary Mark Sullivan 48 hours to leave the country.",
"On February 7, the country expelled Armando Astorga, an attaché with the Department of Homeland Security working in the U.S. Embassy.",
"Acting Deputy Spokesman Gordon Duguid said the expulsions stem from the fact that certain Ecuadorian police were banned from taking part in U.S. counternarcotics training programs, but rejected \"any suggestion of wrongdoing by embassy staff.\"",
"\"Despite the government of the country's unjustified actions, we remain committed to working collaboratively with the country to confront narcotics trafficking,\" Acting Deputy Spokesman Gordon Duguid said.",
"Asked whether The State Department would reciprocate the expulsions by kicking out Ecuadorian diplomats from the United States, Acting Deputy Spokesman Gordon Duguid would say only, \"We will respond as appropriate.\"",
"A senior The State Department official suggested the police in the country police did not meet the criteria to take part in the training, noting, \"the United States does have procedures that require the United States to vet candidates for U.S.-funded training.\"",
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"White House spokeswoman Dana Perino on Friday said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino would do the job again -- but only if White House spokeswoman Dana Perino could work for White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's current boss.",
"White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said goodbye to the White House press corps at White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's last briefing as White House spokeswoman Friday.",
"\"I wouldn't do it for anybody but President Bush,\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said as White House spokeswoman Dana Perino briefed reporters for the last time Friday.",
"\"If given the chance to do it over again, would I?",
"Yes,\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.",
"\"But would I ever come back and do this?",
"No. ...",
"I think it's good to get off the stage.\"",
"White House spokeswoman Dana Perino also thanked the White House press corps.",
"\"We all have difficult jobs, we all work long and tough hours, and it's been an exciting challenge,\" said Perino, 36.",
"\"I know I had some big shoes to fill when I got here -- and I still only wear a size six.\"",
"Watch President Bush's farewell address » .",
"And White House spokeswoman Dana Perino wished President-elect Barack Obama's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, \"all the very best.\"",
"\"Please go easy on him -- for a week,\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino joked with reporters.",
"In the 80-year history of official White House press secretaries, only two women have been named to the job: Dee Dee Myers, who served former President Bill Clinton, and White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.",
"It's been 15 months since President Bush named Perino to succeed Tony Snow, who later died of colon cancer, as White House press secretary.",
"View key moments in the President Bush presidency » .",
"\"It was about two weeks into the job when I realized that I am never going to be like Tony Snow,\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.",
"White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's first goal was to make briefings less heated.",
"White House spokeswoman Dana Perino still pushed back, but chose White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's confrontations carefully.",
"\"If I was testy all the time as a woman in the job, I can only imagine what people would have said about me, so there is a delicate balance, I think, in the job.\"",
"During White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's time behind the White House podium, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino sparred almost daily with the media on a number of contentious issues, including President Bush's decision to \"surge\" troops into Iraq.",
"White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said there are some things that White House spokeswoman Dana Perino would have done differently.",
"\"I'm sure that I'll have lots,\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Friday when asked if White House spokeswoman Dana Perino had any regrets.",
"\"I'm going to go on a six-week trip with my husband, and I'm sure there will be long-enough flights for me to think about all the things we could have done better.",
"View iconic images from Bush's time in White House » .",
"\"Any press secretary always wants to be more proactive, but news happens all over the world,\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.",
"\"And now with the 24/7 news cycle, in many ways, sometimes, you feel like you're just trying to keep up with that.\"",
"\"That's not a regret or a disappointment.",
"It's just a fact of life,\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino added.",
"As White House spokeswoman Dana Perino begins to look beyond White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's years in the West Wing, Perino, a native of Wyoming who was raised in Colorado, says White House spokeswoman Dana Perino is looking forward to spending more time in White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's own neighborhood in Washington with White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's husband, Peter McMahon, and their dog, a Hungarian Vizsla named Henry.",
"Watch White House spokeswoman Dana Perino prepare for life after White House » .",
"White House spokeswoman Dana Perino is also looking forward to sleeping in.",
"When asked what White House spokeswoman Dana Perino will miss the least from White House spokeswoman Dana Perino's time in the White House, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, \"Absolutely has to be getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning.",
"\"I don't mind working long hours, I don't mind working hard, but getting up when the four is still on the clock is something I hope I never have to do again unless I'm catching a flight to some exotic location,\" White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.",
"After January 20, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino does plan to take a vacation -- which White House spokeswoman Dana Perino says will include volunteer work for President Bush's HIV/AIDS relief program in Africa.",
"CNN's Elaine Quijano and Scott J. Anderson contributed to this report."
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"Pop star Madonna and Madonna's adopted son met with David Banda's biological father in Malawi as the singer awaited a court decision on whether Madonna could adopt a girl from the same country, Madonna's publicist said Tuesday.",
"Madonna holds her adopted Malawian son, David Banda, in 2007.",
"her publicist said in a statement that Madonna and her son David met Monday with David's birth father, Yohanne Banda, for the first time since David Banda was adopted in 2006.",
"\"Madonna is committed to maintaining an ongoing relationship with David's Malawian roots,\" her publicist said.",
"her publicist also confirmed, in the first public acknowledgment of what has been reported for weeks, that Madonna has filed an application \"to adopt Mercy James, a 3-year-old girl Madonna met two years ago in an orphanage that she visited.\"",
"A spokeswoman for Malawi's attorney general told CNN that Madonna appeared Monday in court in Malawi, one of the poorest nations in the world, for a hearing on whether Madonna would be allowed to adopt the girl.",
"Madonna is to return to court Friday to hear the judge's decision in the matter, A spokeswoman for Malawi's attorney general said.",
"The child's family will have to give The child's family's permission for the adoption to proceed, according to Martin Geissler, a reporter for the ITN television network who is in Malawi.",
"Madonna has been involved with Malawi for several years.",
"Madonna made a documentary, \"I Am Because We Are,\" which highlighted poverty, AIDS and other diseases devastating that country's children.",
"Madonna also helps run a nonprofit, Raising Malawi, which implements initiatives to help the needy in Malawi."
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"Fifteen employees were fired for improperly accessing medical records of Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets, a Kaiser Permanente spokesman said Monday.",
"Nadya Suleman has been the subject of much curiosity since Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets.",
"\"Kaiser Permanente always provide training on the importance of patient privacy and confidentiality,\" said Jim Anderson, the hospital spokesman.",
"\"Kaiser Permanente knew from the time she (Nadya Suleman) was admitted to the hospital in December, this case would attract attention.",
"\"Numerous training sessions were held to remind people of the need to keep the information confidential.\"",
"Eight other employees of the Bellflower, California hospital were disciplined for accessing Nadya Suleman's files, Jim Anderson, the hospital spokesman said.",
"Jim Anderson, the hospital spokesman said there's no indication that any of the information was distributed outside the hospital to the media.",
"Suleman, a resident La Habra, California, and already a single mother with six young children, gave birth to the octuplets through in-vitro fertilization, fueling controversy.",
"News of Nadya Suleman's collecting public assistance for some of Nadya Suleman's children also outraged many taxpayers."
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"A mass grave unearthed Tuesday in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, is believed to contain bodies from an epidemic of yellow fever that swept the city in the 1870s, police said.",
"Two buildings from the 1940s were torn down at the remains, and maintenance workers grading the land in preparation for the construction of a new building uncovered the remains, said Montgomery police spokesman Maj. Huey Thornton.",
"the remains is adjacent to a cemetery, Thornton said, and \"based on the information we have from historical documents kept by a cemetery ... it does appear that it may be remains from a yellow fever epidemic in the 1870s.\"",
"Officials from the Alabama Archaeological Society and the Alabama Historical Association were at the remains and are expected to be able to confirm that, Thornton said.",
"It was not immediately known how many bodies might be buried at the remains, Thornton said, but authorities are reassuring the public there is no cause for concern.",
"the remains are clearly too old to suggest any recent activity, Thornton said.",
"According to an article posted online by the Mississippi Project of the American Local History Network, an extensive outbreak of yellow fever occurred in 1878, spreading across eight states but particularly affecting Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.",
"Some 16,000 people died from the disease that year alone, according to an article posted online by the Mississippi Project of the American Local History Network."
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"Key members of Congress from both parties want NASA's internal watchdog fired, arguing NASA can't be trusted to oversee the $1 billion in additional money NASA is getting under the Obama administration's economic stimulus package.",
"Lawmakers say NASA's inspector general cannot be trusted and must go.",
"Government reports dating back to 2006 have accused NASA Inspector General Robert \"Moose\" Cobb of ineffectiveness, of profanely berating employees and being too close to NASA's leadership.",
"Calls for NASA's ouster have intensified in the past month, since NASA is getting additional stimulus money for space exploration, research, and aeronautics.",
"\"Apparently, NASA thought NASA was supposed to be the lap dog, rather than the watchdog, of NASA,\" Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tennessee, told CNN.",
"Gordon, chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology, has asked Obama to remove NASA.",
"In a letter co-authored by Rep. Brad Miller, D-North Carolina, who leads the House Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, the lawmakers argue that \"NASA cannot afford another four years with NASA.\"",
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"\"It's incredibly ironic for members of Congress who have scolded the inspector general for lousy oversight to dump a billion dollars into the agency,\" said Pete Sepp, vice president of the National Taxpayers Union, a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog group that monitors government spending.",
"\"The first thing you do when you're digging a hole is to stop digging.",
"Congress doesn't seem to get that message.\"",
"NASA declined two requests from CNN to respond to the complaints.",
"In December 2008, the Government Accountability Office released a report that criticized how NASA was running NASA's office.",
"The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, \"found that NASA is one of the least productive IGs in the federal government,\" Gordon and Miller wrote.",
"\"NASA's monetary accomplishments reflect a return of just 36 cents for every dollar budgeted for NASA's office.",
"This compares with an average of $9.49 returned for every dollar spent on other IGs' offices.",
"The main reason for this failure is that NASA's audit operation is not working.\"",
"Gordon told CNN that NASA's \"own peers said NASA wasn't doing NASA's job, that NASA didn't understand the audit process and that NASA was not carrying out the investigation process.",
"As a matter of fact, NASA was slowing it down, or even stopping it.\"",
"And Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, agreed that NASA must be replaced.",
"\"Inspectors general are the first line of defense against the waste of taxpayers' money,\" Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee told CNN.",
"\"And, if NASA's not doing NASA's job, and you stick another billion dollars into it, then you just know there's another billion dollars that there could be a lot of waste of it.\"",
"A 2006 investigation by a presidential integrity council found NASA \"engaged in abuse of authority\" and had a \"close relationship\" with former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe that \"compromised\" his independence.",
"The two played golf together and took official trips together on NASA aircraft.",
"Read investigative integrity report (Warning: Report contains explicit language)",
"The committee also found that NASA \"engaged in an abuse of authority\" through his \"habitual use of profanity,\" and recommended disciplinary action \"up to and including removal,\" Gordon and Miller wrote.",
"NASA defended NASA at a 2007 congressional hearing, arguing that NASA had upheld NASA's oath of office.",
"\"At NASA, I have taken the responsibilities of office under the Inspector General Act seriously and without compromise to root out and prevent fraud, waste and abuse, and to promote the economy and efficiency of the agency,\" NASA said.",
"\"I've worked with NASA management in the manner contemplated by the Inspector General Act.\"",
"But former staffers told The committee that NASA created a disturbing work environment.",
"\"One of my early experiences with NASA was so disturbing that I considered leaving the OIG almost immediately afterwards,\" said Debra Herzog, former deputy assistant inspector-general for investigations.",
"\"At a scheduled weekly meeting, NASA, in front of NASA's deputy and my supervisor, berated me concerning a word in a letter.",
"In an ensuing monologue, loudly peppered with profanities, NASA insulted and ridiculed me,\" Herzog recounted.",
"Lance Carrington, the former assistant inspector general for investigations, told the panel that \"in many investigative cases, NASA appeared to have a lack of independence when NASA officials were subjects, or if arrest/search warrants were obtained for NASA facilities.",
"NASA would question every aspect of the cases and gave the appearance NASA wanted to derail them before agents were given adequate time to investigate the allegations.\"",
"Gordon told CNN it's time for NASA to go.",
"\"President Obama needs to replace NASA as quickly as possible with someone who can do the job,\" he said."
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"Former Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has been \"cleared\" by Justice Department's request to dismiss Stevens's federal corruption convictions and drop all charges against Stevens, Stevens's lawyer said Wednesday.",
"Former Sen. Ted Stevens, 85, of Alaska lost Stevens's re-election bid in November.",
"Prosecutors accused Stevens of failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars of \"freebies\" from an oilfield services company on Senate ethics forms.",
"But in December, an unnamed FBI whistle-blower accused prosecutors of withholding evidence from the defense, and Justice Department asked a judge to dismiss the charges against Stevens on Wednesday.",
"\"Stevens's name is cleared,\" Stevens's lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, told reporters.",
"\"Stevens is innocent of the charges against Stevens, as if they'd never been brought.\"",
"Stevens, 85, lost Stevens's bid for a seventh full term in November after Stevens's conviction on seven counts of lying on Senate ethics forms.",
"Sullivan said Justice Department was forced to request the dismissal because of \"extraordinary evidence of government corruption.\"",
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"\"Not only did the government fail to provide evidence to the defense that the law requires Justice Department to provide, but Justice Department created false testimony that Justice Department gave us and actually presented false testimony in the courtroom,\" he said.",
"And one of Stevens's longtime friends, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, said Wednesday that Stevens was \"screwed by our own Justice Department.\"",
"In a statement issued Wednesday morning, Stevens thanked Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder for requesting that the charges be dropped.",
"\"I always knew that there would be a day when the cloud that surrounded me would be removed,\" Stevens said.",
"\"That day has finally come.\"",
"U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has set a Tuesday hearing on Justice Department's request to dismiss the case.",
"Sullivan, who is not related to Stevens''s lawyer, excoriated prosecutors during the trial and held the prosecution in contempt at one point.",
"In December, two months after the guilty verdicts, the FBI whistle-blower accused prosecutors of withholding evidence from the defense and reported that someone with Justice Department had had an inappropriate relationship with Bill Allen, an oil industry executive who was Justice Department's key witness.",
"In the motion it filed Wednesday, Justice Department acknowledged that Stevens was not given access to notes taken by prosecutors during an April 2008 interview with Allen, the former chairman of an oilfield services company at the center of a corruption probe in Alaska.",
"notes taken by prosecutors during an April 2008 interview with Allen, the former chairman of an oilfield services company at the center of a corruption probe in Alaska show that responses by Allen, the prosecution's star witness, were inconsistent with testimony he gave against Stevens, and that information from an April 2008 interview with Allen, the former chairman of an oilfield services company at the center of a corruption probe in Alaska could have benefited Stevens at trial, the motion it filed Wednesday says.",
"\"In light of this conclusion, and in consideration of the totality of the circumstances of this particular case, I have determined that it is in the interest of justice to dismiss the indictment and not proceed with a new trial,\" Holder said in a written statement.",
"Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he called Stevens in Alaska on Wednesday and the former senator sounded \"elated, as anyone would.\"",
"\"Here's a guy who gave better than 60 years' service to the country and was screwed -- screwed by our own Justice Department,\" Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said.",
"But Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee praised Holder for \"standing up and fixing this foul situation.\"",
"\"I think Stevens's more than shown integrity and decency in this matter, and it's not an easy thing for Stevens to do that,\" Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said.",
"\"Stevens has, in looking at it, realized now what people like Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee have been saying is 100 percent right.\"",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, also commented on the Justice Department's request, saying, \"Stevens is 85 years old.",
"Stevens's already been punished enough.",
"I'm satisfied.\"",
"And in a statement Wednesday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said that Stevens \"deserves to be very happy today.",
"What a horrible thing Stevens has endured.",
"The blatant attempts by adversaries to destroy one's reputation, career and finances are an abuse of our well-guarded process and violate our God-given rights afforded in the Constitution.",
"\"It is a frightening thing to contemplate what we may be witnessing here -- the undermining of the political process through unscrupulous ploys and professional misconduct.",
"Stevens ... never gave up hope.",
"It is unfortunate that, as a result of the questionable proceedings which led to Stevens's conviction days before the election, Alaskans lost an esteemed statesman on Capitol Hill.",
"Stevens's presence is missed.\"",
"The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility will review the prosecution team's conduct in Stevens's case, Holder said.",
"Asked whether the prosecutors should be charged the prosecutors, Sullivan told reporters, \"That is not my job.",
"I'm a defense lawyer.\"",
"During the trial, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich said Stevens hid \"hundreds of thousands of dollars of freebies\" he received from Allen's company, VECO, and from Allen.",
"Many of the allegedly free services were given as part of the renovation of Stevens's Alaska home, prosecutors said.",
"CNN's Terry Frieden, Paul Courson, Ted Barrett and Deb Krajnak contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"If you happen to browse upon a news story that's too odd to be true Wednesday, hold your outrage and check the calendar.",
"A Lebanese newspaper ran a caricature last year of two opposition leaders hugging in light of April Fools' Day.",
"It's April Fools' Day -- when media outlets around the world take a break from the serious business of delivering news and play fast and furious with the facts.",
"No one quite knows when the practice began, but any journalist will point to what is undoubtedly the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled: A 1957 BBC report that said, thanks to a mild winter and the elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop.",
"The segment was accompanied by pictures of farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees -- and prompted hundreds of viewers to call in, wanting to know how hundreds of viewers could grow hundreds of viewers's own spaghetti trees.",
"While not as elaborate, the pranks that media outlets harvested this year have been quite rich: .",
"The Guardian in London ran a story Wednesday announcing that, after 188 years as a print publication, The Guardian in London will become the first newspaper to deliver news exclusively via Twitter.",
"Twitter, a micro-blogging site, allows users to post updates that are 140 characters long.",
"In keeping with the limitation, The Guardian in London said The Guardian in London had undertaken a mammoth project to retool The Guardian in London's entire archive.",
"For example, Charles Lindbergh's 1927 flight from New York to Paris, France, was condensed to: \"OMG first successful transatlantic air flight wow, pretty cool!",
"Boring day otherwise ... sigh.\"",
"The news isn't always black and white.",
"The Taipei Times, one of three English-language dailies in Taiwan, fooled many readers with a report that two pandas donated by China to the Taipei Zoo were, in fact, brown forest bears dyed black and white.",
"To render a whiff of authenticity to the story, editors made a reference to China's tainted-milk scandal that sickened 300,000 people last year.",
"But the story contained enough outrageous lines to clue in readers.",
"Among enough outrageous lines, a quote from a souvenir stand operator who worried the panda deception would affect sales of her \"stuffed panda toys, panda T-shirts, panda pens and notepads, remote-controlled pandas on wheels, caps with panda ears on top, panda fans, panda flashlights, panda mugs, panda eyeglass cases, panda face masks, panda slippers, panda wallet and panda purses.\"",
"Sometimes, of course, the pranks backfire.",
"In Australia, the Herald Sun newspaper drew hundreds of angry comments Wednesday after a story on the Herald Sun newspaper's Web site said a Chinese construction firm wanted to buy naming rights to the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground.",
"Many readers did not realize the story was a hoax -- despite a quote from a spokeswoman named April Fulton.",
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"Geoffrey Davies, the head of the journalism department at London's University of Westminster, said such pranks do not particularly affect the credibility of a news organization.",
"\"such pranks are done in a way that you know it's a joke,\" he said.",
"\"In the story, for example, the clue is in the name of the journalist [Rio Palof] -- which is an anagram for April Fool.",
"People look out for them really, and therefore, you kind of open the paper trying to spot the story.\"",
"Of course, news outlets aren't the only ones who hoodwink readers on April 1.",
"The town of Rotorua, a popular tourist stop in New Zealand, said a rotten egg smell that permeates the town is such an aphrodisiac that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner wants to build a mansion there.",
"Microsoft Corp. said Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new Xbox 360 video game, \"Alpine Legend,\" which will do for fans of yodeling what \"Guitar Hero\" did for rock music.",
"And car manufacturer BMW announced in ads in British newspapers that it had developed \"Magnetic Tow Technology.\"",
"\"BMW Magnetic Tow Technology is an ingenious new system that locks on to the car in front via an enhanced magnetic beam,\" the ad said.",
"\"Once your BMW is attached you are free to release your foot from the accelerator and turn off your engine.\"",
"Steve Price, features editor of the Taipei Times, said such hoaxes are not only good for a laugh but serve a purpose.",
"\"It highlights an important aspect of media that readers and viewers should keep a critical mind when readers and viewers read stories or watch TV,\" he said.",
"\"I think that is especially true with the advent of the Internet and the proliferation of blogging.\"",
"The origins of pulling pranks on April Fools' Day is unclear.",
"Some believe it dates back to the time when the Gregorian calendar was first adopted, changing the beginning of the year to January 1 from April 1.",
"Those who still held on to the Julian calendar were referred to as \"April Fools.\"",
"Traditionally, the pranks are pulled before noon on April Fools' Day.",
"But a wildly successful prank this year was conceived and executed much earlier.",
"Millions of Web users fell for a video that claimed to be the first flying five-star hotel in a converted Soviet-era helicopter.",
"The 37-second clip, which was posted online Thursday, was an elaborate computer-generated hoax by the airport hotel chain Yotel.",
"If you were one of the many who fell for a wildly successful prank, hold your disappointment.",
"You can still reserve rooms on the moon through Hotels.com or book flights to Mars through Expedia.com for $99.",
"But hurry.",
"The offers end Wednesday."
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"There is one holiday destination that should shake the faith of even the most vehement climate change skeptic: the Carteret Islands, part of Papua New Guinea, located northeast of Bougainville.",
"The Carteret Islands are just one of a number of places already feeling the effects of climate change.",
"The palm trees sway gently under a balmy sun, the beaches are perfect, and stretched out as far as the eye can see is the wide blue of the Pacific Ocean.",
"The only problem with this idyllic scene is that the water is getting closer; slowly but surely, as global warming bites and sea levels rise, The Carteret Islands are being swallowed up, leaving the few hundred inhabitants pondering an uncertain future.",
"\"King tides and sea surges are floodling The Carteret Islands to a knee high and it is difficult for the salt water to dry up,\" says Ursula Rakova, a Carteret islander and campaigner.",
"\"Fruit trees and nut trees have lost Fruit trees and nut trees's leaves and only skeleton branches are left standing.",
"The only greenery is from coconut and sago palms...",
"People have no garden food to feed on...",
"We have lost more than 60 percent of our land already.\"",
"The problem is that on The Carteret Islands, a horseshoe shaped scatter of small islands around a central lagoon, nowhere is more than 1.2 meters above sea level.",
"If anywhere was the canary in the mine forewarning us of the disaster predicted in low lying areas of the world if runaway climate change takes hold, it's right here.",
"Ursula Rakova, a Carteret islander and campaigner says there is a growing dependency culture on The Carteret Islands as people rely on international aid for food, which is destroying the social and cultural fabric of the Carterets.",
"\"This is a state of emergency,\" she says.",
"\"Why are the rich nations ignoring the fate of the Carterets Islanders?",
"Are the rich nations waiting for the Carterets Islanders to float before they can act and put money where their mouths are in terms of human rights?\"",
"It's a cruel irony that the people with some of the lowest carbon footprints are already paying the price for the emissions of far richer countries, and are forced to leave people with some of the lowest carbon footprints's homes for an uncertain future.",
"But the Carterets Islanders aren't alone.",
"Environmentalists point to Inuit communities threatened by melting ice in Greenland, and those living around the fast-shrinking Lake Chad in Africa, as among many already feeling the effects.",
"Watch the effects of warming temperatures on Arctic ice » .",
"\"The issue of environmental refugees promises to rank as one of the foremost human crises or our time,\" says British environmentalist and Oxford University professor Norman Myers, who has published extensively on the subject.",
"A report by Friends of the Earth in 2007 identified communities all over the world, from Brazil and Honduras, to Malaysia, Mali, Peru and even the UK, that were directly under threat from a mix of drought, rising sea levels, other extreme weather and disease.",
"Climate refugees: Causing controversy .",
"As much of the primary research on our future climate looks increasingly gloomy -- and privately some scientists will make far blacker predictions than some scientists publish - the world seems faced with a growing challenge.",
"Experts at the climate change conference in Copenhagen in March issued a stark warning when Experts at the climate change conference in Copenhagen in March revised up the scale of projected sea level rises, saying many coastal areas around the world could be completely inundated by 2100.",
"\"It is now clear that there are going to be massive flooding disasters around the globe,\" said Dr David Vaughan, of the British Antarctic Survey, in Copenhagen.",
"As well as low-lying areas of Bangladesh and the Maldives, the scientists warned that the Netherlands could face catastrophic floods, and large areas of Florida and the UK, including the Thames Estuary, may disappear under the waves.",
"But despite the threat of widespread future problems -- and the reality of life for the Carterets Islanders now - the term \"environmental refugees\" remains controversial.",
"Some NGOs, such as Greenpeace, have spoken in terms of 150 million displaced people being driven from their homes by 2050 as climate change makes their lives impossible.",
"Some NGOs, such as Greenpeace's figures are backed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.",
"Other groups, notably the Norwegian Refugee Council, have urged caution and said such quantities are impossible to verify, even suggesting that they could play into the hands of right wing groups keen to create a fear of a tide of immigration.",
"\"Because one cannot completely isolate climate change as a cause however, it is difficult, if not impossible to stipulate any numbers,\" the NRC writes in the 2008 report, Future Flood of Refugees.",
"But while the controversy rages, some experts warn the needs of people such as the Carterets Islanders are being ignored.",
"As the numbers of similar soon-to-be refugees looks likely to grow exponentially, the world needs to wake up to the problem and decide fast how to deal with the problem.",
"\"There is no legal recognition of people displaced by environmental causes and no international treaty protecting them,\" says Stephanie Long, Climate Coordinator at Friends of the Earth International.",
"Meanwhile back on the Carteret Islanders time is running out and an entire cultural group needs relocating because of rising seas.",
"By 2015 Friends of the Earth International estimate the islands will be largely uninhabitable.",
"Islanders have tried to fight the sea by planting mangroves and building walls, but storm surges and high tides continue to destroy homes and crops, and contaminate fresh water.",
"Since 2007 the slow process of evacuation has been ongoing.",
"Not for the first time, a quiet, remote group of people seem to be slipping through the fingers of the global community.",
"It is unlikely a quiet, remote group of people will be the last.",
"\"I wish that the people causing the melting of the icecaps would do something to help us stay in our homes,\" says John Sailik from Han Island, Carterets.",
"\"Because we love living on our little island.\""
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"North Korea accused the United States and South Korea of sending spy planes on about 200 missions near the isolated communist nation ahead of a North Korea's rocket launch scheduled for early April.",
"North Korea claims reconnaissance aircraft, including the high-altitude U-2 spy plane, have flown spy missions.",
"\"The U.S. imperialists and the South Korean puppet military warmongers perpetrated intensive aerial espionage against the DPRK (North Korea) in March by massively mobilizing strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes with various missions,\" a military source said, according to a report from North Korea's state-run news service, KCNA, on Tuesday.",
"North Korea said the United States committed 110 cases of \"aerial espionage and the South Korean puppet forces at least 80 cases,\" during March, KCNA reported.",
"a military source said the missions utilized six types of reconnaissance aircraft, including the high-altitude U-2 spy plane.",
"\"The U.S. imperialist warmongers had better bear in mind that ... spy planes perpetrating espionage against North Korea are within the range of North Korea's strikes.\"",
"The Pentagon was not immediately available to comment on the story.",
"North Korea says North Korea will launch a commercial satellite atop a rocket sometime between April 4 and April 8.",
"Satellite imagery taken on Sunday appears to show a rocket at the Musudan-ri launch site in northeastern North Korea.",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday there is little doubt that North Korea's is designed to bolster North Korea's military capability.",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates also indicated that the U.S. military could be prepared to shoot down a North Korean missile if the rogue regime develops the capability to reach Hawaii or the western continental United States in a future launch.",
"Watch analysis of Pyongyang's planned rocket launch » .",
"Both the United States and North Korea have mobilized missile defense systems ahead of North Korea's.",
"North Korea has threatened to start a war if North Korea were to shoot down North Korea's rocket.",
"Tokyo said the move is aimed at shooting down any debris from North Korea's that might fall into Japanese territory.",
"U.S. Navy ships capable of shooting down ballistic missiles have been moved to the Sea of Japan, a U.S. Navy spokesman said.",
"the United States generally has a number of ships equipped with powerful Aegis radar in the Sea of Japan because of North Korean threats to launch rockets.",
"The ships are designed to track and, if needed, shoot down ballistic missiles.",
"the United States has no plans to shoot down the North Korean rocket, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week, but will raise the issue with the U.N. Security Council if Pyongyang carries out a launch."
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"(CNN) --",
"Pope Benedict XVI refused Wednesday to soften the Vatican's ban on condom use as Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Africa for Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to Africa as pope.",
"Cameroonian President Paul Biya, left, walks with Pope Benedict XVI at the airport in Yaounde, Tuesday.",
"Pope Benedict XVI landed in Cameroon, the first stop on a trip that will also take Pope Benedict XVI to Angola.",
"Sub-Saharan Africa has been hit harder by AIDS and HIV than any other region of the world, according to the United Nations and World Health Organization.",
"There has been fierce debate between those who advocate the use of condoms to help stop the spread of the epidemic and those who oppose it.",
"The pontiff reiterated the Vatican's policy on condom use as he flew from Rome to Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, CNN Vatican analyst John Allen said.",
"Pope Benedict XVI has always made it clear Pope Benedict XVI intends to uphold the traditional Catholic teaching on artificial contraception -- a \"clear moral prohibition\" -- CNN Vatican analyst John Allen said.",
"But Pope Benedict XVI's remarks Tuesday were among the first times Pope Benedict XVI stated the Vatican's ban on condom use explicitly since Pope Benedict XVI became pope nearly four years ago.",
"Pope Benedict XVI has, however, assembled a panel of scientists and theologians to consider the narrow question of whether to allow condoms for married couples, one of whom has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.",
"It is still not clear how the pope will rule on the matter, said Allen, who is also a senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter.",
"The Catholic Church has long been on the front line of HIV care, he said, adding that The Catholic Church is probably the largest private provider of HIV care in the world.",
"More than 22 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV, according to a 2008 UNAIDS/WHO report.",
"Nine out of 10 children with HIV in the world live in the region, which has 11.4 million orphans because of AIDS, a 2008 UNAIDS/WHO report said, and 1.5 million people there died of the disease in 2007."
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"Pope Benedict XVI made comments as Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Africa for Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to Africa as pope .",
"Pope Benedict XVI is visiting Cameroon, the first stop on a trip that will also take Pope Benedict XVI to Angola .",
"Sub-Saharan Africa has been hit harder by AIDS and HIV than any other region ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A baby ape born in UK is settling into a new life in a German zoo after flying from Birmingham to Frankfurt -- monkey business class.",
"Bili the bonobo is to be fostered by an ape at Frankfurt.",
"The three-month old male bonobo -- who is to be fostered by a family of German apes after being rejected by his natural mother -- was considered too young and too fragile to travel cargo class, a spokeswoman for UK's Twycross Zoo told CNN.",
"Instead, the tiny ape named Bili checked in for the Lufthansa flight with special travel documents -- including a fake passport in the name of \"Bili the Bonobo\" -- before taking a seat in the cabin alongside a handler from Frankfurt Zoo, who had flown over to accompany Bili on Bili's unusual journey.",
"\"Bili was with Bili's keeper all the way to make Bili feel more comfortable and relaxed, rather than being in a crate,\" said spokeswoman Kim Riley.",
"\"I just wish I'd been there to see the other passengers' faces.\"",
"Bonobos, which originate from the Democratic Republic of Congo, are considered particularly intelligent primates.",
"Bonobos, which originate from the Democratic Republic of Congo are the human species' closest relation in the animal world, sharing 99.6 percent of our DNA.",
"Bili was rejected by Bili's mother after falling ill shortly after Bili's birth and has required extensive nursing and medical care.",
"Zookeepers in Frankfurt hope Bili can bond with an adult female bonobo which has been trained to assist with hand rearing babies.",
"Frankfurt's bonobo community will also play and interact with Bili, helping Bili to acquire social skills.",
"Bili will spend 30 days in quarantine at Frankfurt before being introduced to Bili's new family, spokeswoman Kim Riley said."
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"North Korea, formally called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is also known as the Hermit Kingdom for a good reason.",
"Chinese border guards patrol in Jilin province across from the North Korean border on March 21, 2009.",
"For decades, it has been shrouded by a veil of secrecy that has prevented us from better understanding North Korea.",
"As journalists we seek out the realities of life there, beyond the myths and hype, but that is difficult because the DPRK is generally inaccessible to journalists.",
"The gap between reality and illusion remains profound.",
"Journalists, such as the two Americans being detained in North Korea, do travel to the border between China and North Korea to get a sense of what life is like in the isolated nation of 22 million people.",
"The circumstances surrounding the journalists' arrest are still unclear.",
"\"North Korea is such a difficult country to enter for a foreign reporter that the temptation to slip across the frozen river border is considerable,\" said former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy, author of \"Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis.\"",
"\"If that's what they did, however, it was extremely foolhardy and really pushing their luck.\"",
"China and North Korea share a 1,415-kilometer (880-mile) border that mainly follows two rivers.",
"The Yalu River defines a 1,415-kilometer (880-mile) border that mainly follows two rivers on the northwest, the Tumen River on the northeast.",
"By land, China and North Korea are linked by seven road crossings and four railway points.",
"Over the years, I have visited three towns on the Chinese side of a 1,415-kilometer (880-mile) border that mainly follows two rivers.",
"From a narrow river crossing at the border town of Tumen, Koreans cross on foot and in trucks.",
"Those going back into North Korea carry bags full of food and household wares, even bicycles.",
"Some of those coming into China ferry logs and minerals.",
"From across The Yalu River in China's Dandong City in October of 2006, I had a glimpse of Sinuiju, a North Korean border town of some 350,000 people.",
"Using a long camera lens, I saw school children learn to roller skate, and residents celebrating what looked like a wedding.",
"Still the city's decrepit appearance hinted at stagnation and isolation.",
"the city's decrepit appearance was a stark contrast from the Chinese city, which was ablaze in neon lights and a bustling commerce and trade.",
"North Korea's public face is one of smiling children, clean streets, manicured gardens, spectacular scenery and a stoic people united under the aegis of Kim Jong Il, known among Koreans as the \"Dear Leader.\"",
"I saw it up close twice, in 1996 and 2002, when I had the chance to visit the most reclusive nation on earth.",
"We were typically greeted by polite officials and smiling children and invited to watch spectacular performances with a cast of thousands.",
"North Korea, however, remains isolated, diplomatically and economically, led by an erratic leadership that behaves out of fear and insecurity.",
"Diplomatic sources in Beijing suggest that China is getting fed up with North Korea's inability to preserve social stability and with North Korea's erratic behavior in the multi-national efforts to deal with North Korea's nuclear program.",
"Publicly, however, China sticks to the official line, often calling the two nations' ties as close as \"lips and teeth\" -- one cannot function without the other.",
"In my two visits to North Korea, I have detected conflicting signs -- one, of social instability and another of a tentative desire to experiment with reforms.",
"In 2002, North Korea tolerated some quasi-private businesses, raised civil servants' salaries and deregulated prices of some commodities.",
"But much of these tentative efforts to change seem to have been aborted and North Korea remains isolated and poor.",
"What emerges is a nation, now considered a nuclear threat, desperately seeking respect and economic aid.",
"That picture is now intertwined with the two detained U.S. journalists, Chinoy said.",
"\"It will be interesting to see how the case is handled.",
"North Korea has been in a generally more bellicose mood lately,\" said Chinoy, who is currently a senior fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy.",
"\"The concern is that this incident could get caught up in the bigger picture of heightened tension between the north and the U.S. and the north and south.",
"If it is not swiftly resolved, it will add to the complexity of the situation facing [U.S. President Barack] Obama, where he is under pressure from Seoul, Tokyo and some in Washington to get tough, while trying to find a way to get diplomacy with the North going again.\"",
"In recent years, waves of North Korean refugees have fled into China seeking food, jobs and freedom.",
"In the border cities of Tumen, Yanji and Dandong, North Korean refugees tell of misery and persecution.",
"North Korean refugees live under the protection of relatives, friends and human rights activists.",
"Here, people speak of a Korean \"underground railways\" -- a network that smuggles desperate people across the border and eventually out of China.",
"China is struggling to keep out the hundreds of North Korean immigrants and refugees, but stopping the exodus remains a tall order.",
"A fundamental solution, analysts suggest, lies not in China but in North Korea, where many people are running away from humanitarian disasters and political persecution."
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"By land, China and North Korea are linked by 7 road crossings and 4 railway points .",
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"Venice has suffered Venice's worst flooding in 22 years, leaving some parts of Venice neck-deep in water, reports said Monday.",
"A woman wades through high waters in Venice's Piazza San Marco.",
"Water burst the banks of Venice's famed canals, leaving the landmark Piazza San Marco -- St Mark's Square -- under almost a meter of water at one point, news agency ANSA reported.",
"Strong winds pushed waters to a high of 1.56 meters (5 feet 2 inches) at 10:45 a.m. local time, prompting the city government to issue warnings to the public, news agency ANSA said.",
"The flood level began to drop soon afterwards, prompted by a change in the direction of the wind.",
"Previous highs include 1.58 meters in 1986 and 1.66 meters in 1979, news agency ANSA said.",
"Watch more about the flooding » .",
"Photographs showed people wading through inundated piazzas and waves lapping over waterside cafe tables.",
"Venice, built around a network of canals and small islands, has for years been trying to tackle the problem of floods that have regularly blighted Venice.",
"In 2007, the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO warned Venice -- a designated World Heritage Site -- is under threat from rising sea levels caused by climate change.",
"See pictures of Venetians wading through flood waters.",
"It said that unless the problem of floods that have regularly blighted the city is tackled, Venice could be flooded daily and water levels would permanently rise by 54 centimeters in Venice by the year 2100."
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"(CNN) --",
"Donna Zovko will have to wait to travel to Falluja to see where Jerry Zovko's son died in one of the Iraq war's most infamous attacks.",
"Clockwise from upper left: Wesley Batalona, Mike Teague, Scott Helvenston, Jerry Zovko .",
"\"My dream was to go for the fifth anniversary, and that didn't come true,\" Donna Zovko said this week while visiting friends in Boston, Massachusetts.",
"\"It's not that I'm afraid for Donna Zovko.",
"But people with Donna Zovko on the trip would be in more danger.\"",
"Tuesday marks five years since her son Jerry Zovko and three other civilian employees of the Blackwater private security firm were ambushed in Falluja on March 31, 2004.",
"Gunmen attacked vehicles holding Zovko, Mike Teague, Wesley Batalona and Scott Helvenston and set vehicles holding Zovko, Mike Teague, Wesley Batalona and Scott Helvenston on fire.",
"Shocking images beamed around the world showed Iraqis celebrating in front of charred bodies strung up on a bridge over the Euphrates River.",
"The remains were dragged through the streets.",
"Donna Zovko honors Jerry Zovko's son » .",
"\"I didn't realize until way after the incident that Jerry Zovko had been decapitated,\" said Helvenston's mother, Katy Helvenston-Wettengel, from Helvenston-Wettengel's Florida home.",
"\"They cut Jerry Zovko's heart out.",
"How can anybody be that hateful?\"",
"To identify Jerry Zovko's body, Helvenston-Wettengel said, investigators had to gather DNA samples from Helvenston-Wettengel's son's children.",
"A half-decade after the notorious attack, memories of the gruesome images have faded somewhat from the public eye, as the United States plans to reduce troop numbers in Iraq and a wrongful death suit brought by the four families heads to court-ordered arbitration.",
"The families accuse Blackwater of failing to prepare the men for their mission that day.",
"A 2007 House oversight committee report concluded that Blackwater \"ignored multiple warnings about the dangers\" and failed to supply armored vehicles, machine guns, sufficient intelligence or even a map.",
"Blackwater responded by saying the experienced military veterans on the team \"had all of the resources they needed\" and were victims of a \"well-planned ambush.\"",
"In the days after the notorious attack, Blackwater was largely silent beyond a statement that said, \"Blackwater grieve today for the loss of Blackwater's colleagues and Blackwater pray for our colleagues's families.\"",
"But the families said the families ran into a stone wall trying to get details of what happened in Falluja.",
"\"For the next three months, Blackwater never returned my calls,\" Helvenston's mother said.",
"\"the families's families were destroyed.",
"the families will never be the same.\"",
"For Donna Zovko, the suit is not about money or punishment.",
"\"I want to hear the truth,\" Donna Zovko said.",
"\"I want to know what Jerry Zovko was doing before the mission.",
"Why Blackwater didn't Blackwater have the maps?",
"I want to know who Jerry Zovko spoke to last.\"",
"What makes this anniversary different from past years, Donna Zovko said, was an encounter this month in Boston with an Iraqi who claimed that he was at the scene of the notorious attack shortly after the massacre.",
"He offered Donna Zovko new alleged details of the attack, which Donna Zovko says brought Donna Zovko's comfort.",
"The Iraqi man, whom Donna Zovko wouldn't identify, told Donna Zovko that the attackers did not appear to be targeting the motorcade containing Donna Zovko's son and his three comrades.",
"\"We used to think maybe the notorious attack was done on purpose,\" Donna Zovko said.",
"The news made Donna Zovko feel like \"I was lifted into the air,\" Donna Zovko said.",
"\"For Donna Zovko, it was good.",
"I miss Jerry Zovko more today than yesterday.\"",
"the notorious attack put the little-known North Carolina-based security company into the American lexicon and on the world stage.",
"the notorious attack also changed the course of the war.",
"The House report called it a \"turning point in public opinion about the war,\" which led to the first major U.S. offensive in Falluja.",
"The fighting lasted three weeks, killing 36 U.S. service members, about 200 insurgents and an estimated 600 Iraqi civilians, according to The House report.",
"In the ensuing years, Blackwater and other private security firms in Iraq received hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. government contracts.",
"Tactics used by the private security firms sometimes created ill will among Iraqis and Blackwater in particular was criticized, even by some in the U.S. military, for its allegedly reckless use of deadly force.",
"Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO, dismissed such allegations as \"baseless\" after Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO's company was criticized by the Iraqi government for an incident in which Blackwater's guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded others while protecting a U.S. State Department convoy in Baghdad on September 16, 2007.",
"\"To the extent there was the loss of innocent life, let me be clear that I consider that tragic,\" Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO said, adding that the Blackwater team \"acted appropriately while operating in a very complex war zone\" that day.",
"Five ex-Blackwater security guards pleaded not guilty in January to charges of voluntary manslaughter stemming from Five ex-Blackwater security guards's involvement in the shootings.",
"A sixth pleaded guilty to voluntary and attempted manslaughter.",
"That same month, the Iraqi government refused to grant the firm an operating license, and the U.S. State Department announced that it will not renew Blackwater's contract.",
"In the two months since the exit of the Bush administration, Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO has stepped down as CEO and brought in a new leadership team.",
"Blackwater has changed Blackwater's name to Xe, but Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO is still chairman.",
"\"I think Blackwater's been punished enough,\" Zovko said, \"but Blackwater will be punished more.",
"It's time the Iraqi government makes some rules and regulations about what civilian contractors can do in civilian contractors's wars.\"",
"This week, Xe released a brief statement to CNN about the Falluja killings, saying the \"sacrifices of our colleagues have not been forgotten.",
"On the five-year anniversary of our colleagues's death, the company continues to mourn our colleagues's loss.",
"Our thoughts remain with our colleagues's families and loved ones.\"",
"Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO's promise .",
"Both mothers seem to be making a conscious effort to control Both mothers's anger five years on.",
"\"I refuse to hate, but if I were gonna hate anybody, it would be Blackwater and Erik Prince,\" Helvenston-Wettengel said.",
"\"I want Blackwater exposed for who Blackwater are, and I want Blackwater out of business.\"",
"Zovko said Donna Zovko relies on Donna Zovko's Catholic faith to control Donna Zovko's anger.",
"In 2007, Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO told CNN Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO would be willing to meet with Donna Zovko, but 16 months later, no such meeting has taken place.",
"\"Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO hasn't honored Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO's promise, but I believe Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO will,\" Donna Zovko said.",
"\"Sometimes I think Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO doesn't have a heart, but Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO really does.\"",
"Zovko said Donna Zovko wants to ask Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO, \"Where are my Jerry's three suitcases with personal things that I have never received?\"",
"Also, Donna Zovko said Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO promised to invite Donna Zovko to Blackwater's headquarters in North Carolina to see memorial stones and trees that were planted honoring the victims.",
"\"That hasn't happened,\" Donna Zovko said.",
"Helvenston-Wettengel also said she'd like to meet with Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO.",
"\"I'd like to look Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO in the eye, yeah.",
"I'd say, 'How can you live with yourself?' \"",
"CNN sought a response from Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO about Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO's promised meeting with Donna Zovko.",
"Company spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former CEO had tried to meet with Donna Zovko in early 2008 but was unable to \"due to scheduling conflicts.\"",
"Both mothers' sons went to Iraq after careers in the U.S. military.",
"Jerry Zovko, a former Army Ranger, had gone as a security contractor to train Iraqi soldiers.",
"When that contract ended in late 2003, Jerry Zovko signed on with a different company, Blackwater, according to Jerry Zovko's mother.",
"For Scott Helvenston, Iraq was just the final chapter of a colorful career for the former Navy SEAL, a life that included a job as a stuntman and consultant for Hollywood films.",
"On the set of 1997's \"G.I. Jane,\" shot in Jacksonville, Florida, Scott Helvenston put Demi Moore through a rigorous training program, Scott Helvenston's mother said, even managing to grab a small role as an extra.",
"A divorced father of two, Scott Helvenston told Scott Helvenston's mother Scott Helvenston would return from Iraq in two months, Helvenston-Wettengel said.",
"\"Scott Helvenston was going to go over there and make a bunch of money and come back and give a bunch of money to Scott Helvenston's ex-wife,\" Helvenston-Wettengel said.",
"Zovko and Helvenston-Wettengel have become close friends in the years since the tragedy, but on this anniversary, Both mothers will not be together to share Both mothers's support and grief with each other.",
"\"Traveling is getting to be troublesome for us both,\" said Zovko, who plans to remain near Helvenston-Wettengel's home in Bratenahl, Ohio, to attend morning and evening masses at Cleveland's St. Paul Croatian Church.",
"Helvenston-Wettengel also said Helvenston-Wettengel plans to attend church Tuesday in Helvenston-Wettengel's hometown of Leesburg, Florida.",
"Legal setbacks .",
"As for the families' wrongful death lawsuit against Blackwater, a federal judge in 2007 ordered that the case be taken out of the courts to be decided by a three-member arbitration panel.",
"Senior U.S. District Judge James Fox sent the case to arbitration based on Blackwater's argument that the four victims had signed an agreement not to sue the company.",
"A hearing is set for June 23.",
"In court, Blackwater had argued that it was immune to such a lawsuit because, as an extension of the military, it cannot be held responsible for deaths in a war zone.",
"At this point, Donna Zovko said, both sides are losers.",
"\"I lost my son, and Blackwater lost the dignity of the company Blackwater thought Blackwater were.\"",
"Helvenston-Wettengel said Helvenston-Wettengel wants the whole thing to just end, but events keep dragging the whole thing out.",
"\"They won't let me let the whole thing go.\"",
"CNN's Wayne Drash contributed to The House report."
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"Blackwater, renamed Xe, says it \"continues to mourn\" the loss of the four men .",
"Another mom: Both sides are losers in Blackwater suit ."
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"U.S. Supreme Court has given a girl's parents the go-ahead to sue a Massachusetts school district over alleged sexual harassment by another student.",
"A U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows a couple two avenues to pursue claims against their daughter's school district.",
"The justices, in a unanimous ruling, allowed the plaintiffs two avenues to make Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald's claims -- a 1972 law banning gender bias in education and a separate civil rights law enacted 138 years ago.",
"Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald said Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald's then-kindergartner daughter was forced by an older male student to lift their then-kindergartner daughter's skirt or pull down their then-kindergartner daughter's underwear.",
"Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald alleged school officials ignored Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald's concerns and refused to discipline older boy.",
"Federal courts had been split over whether the newer law -- known as Title IX -- displaced any claims made under part of the 1871 civil rights law, called \"Section 1983.\"",
"Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald lost Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald's initial Title IX claims and an appeals court blocked Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald from pursuing the other legal strategy.",
"The ruling from The justices now gives Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald the right to continue Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald's lawsuit against school officials.",
"\"We hold that Section 1983 suits based on the Equal Protection Clause remain available to plaintiffs alleging unconstitutional gender discrimination in schools,\" Justice Samuel Alito wrote.",
"The plaintiffs allege the incidents happened on a school bus in Barnstable, Massachusetts, in the 2000-01 academic year.",
"their then-kindergartner daughter had told their then-kindergartner daughter's parents that whenever their then-kindergartner daughter wore a dress, a third-grader would make their then-kindergartner daughter do things their then-kindergartner daughter did not want to do.",
"After the mother complained to school officials, older boy denied the allegations.",
"The principal, after interviewing other students and the bus driver, concluded she could not corroborate their then-kindergartner daughter's version of events.",
"The principal suggested their then-kindergartner daughter be transferred to another bus as a possible solution.",
"Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald said that amounted to punishing Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald's daughter and said older boy was the one who should be transferred.",
"The local police department also looked into the case but concluded there was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against older boy.",
"Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald began driving their then-kindergartner daughter to school and filed a lawsuit, claiming the schools system's response was inadequate.",
"School officials denied wrongdoing and tried to limit the case to Title IX, which applies to public or private schools receiving federal aid.",
"The law is credited, among other things, with helping bring equality in sports participation and funding for college women.",
"\"Our concern was that the school district just didn't take things as seriously as they should,\" said Charles Rothfeld, attorney for Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald.",
"\"Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald were frustrated by what Lisa and Robert Fitzgerald perceived as indifference by the school.\"",
"Rothfeld said the school's behavior was \"pretty egregious.\"",
"Barnstable school officials did not respond to a request for comment.",
"the case is Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Cmte. (07-1125)."
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"(CNN) --",
"Wang Leehom performed to a watching audience of millions at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, but conducting the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra has been the most nerve-wracking thing the American-Chinese pop star Wang Leehom has undertaken for some time.",
"From the Olympics to holding the baton himself, Wang Leehom has tackled a variety of projects.",
"\"I think I always throw myself in these impossible situations and then see if I can scramble out of these impossible situations and gain something from these experiences,\" Wang Leehom told CNN during rehearsals for the December performances.",
"\"Standing in front of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra was intimidating at times, but I think we got through it, and I think we made some exciting waves in town.",
"We definitely got the crowd excited about it.\"",
"Wang Leehom has certainly made waves with Wang Leehom's Mandarin-language pop music, having sold around 15 million records, but as Wang Leehom's recent foray in classical music confirms, Wang Leehom's more than just another voice with an interesting haircut.",
"Growing up in the U.S. to a family of doctors, Wang Leehom excelled at school but decided to take a different path to Wang Leehom's parents.",
"After shunning the opportunity to study at an Ivy League university, Wang Leehom spent some time at Williams College of liberal arts before getting Wang Leehom's big break in pop in Taiwan in 1995.",
"At that time Wang Leehom admits Wang Leehom knew nothing about Chinese music and didn't speak Mandarin.",
"Learning Mandarin was just another challenge Wang Leehom rose to meet and Wang Leehom believes that having Chinese as a second language has been to Wang Leehom's advantage, and Wang Leehom's interest in the linguistics of the language has led to some of Wang Leehom's more innovative work.",
"\"I always think for artists to take artists's shortcomings and turn them around and make them into what define artists as an artist is a real trick,\" Wang Leehom told CNN.",
"\"I think it's a wonderful thing for people to understand how language can be transformed and mutilated for musical reasons and actually bring out something special orally,\" Wang Leehom said.",
"Musically Wang Leehom's often been put in the same box as Mando-pop sensation Jay Chou, and has similarly has been the subject of rumor about ever aspect of Wang Leehom's life, from Wang Leehom's school grades to Wang Leehom's sexuality.",
"Watch Wang Leehom talk about Wang Leehom's rivalry with Jay Chou ».",
"Adding Wang Leehom's face to a number of endorsements, the pressures of being in the public eye have made Wang Leehom become increasingly protective of Wang Leehom's privacy.",
"\"It's definitely changed me.",
"It's like some defense mechanism I guess, to just be private, to keep things to Wang Leehom, to protect Wang Leehom or my loved ones.",
"I am the same person, but just a different way of life,\" Wang Leehom said.",
"However it hasn't stopped Wang Leehom from branching out and taking on an acting career.",
"Wang Leehom made Wang Leehom's big screen debut in 2000 in the Hong Kong action flick \"China Strike\", but it was Wang Leehom's role in Ang Lee's international success \"Lust, Caution\" that brought Wang Leehom wider international attention.",
"As for taking on new projects in the future, be they film, singing or even holding the baton once again, Leehom will stay true to Wang Leehom's policy of challenging Wang Leehom with different ventures.",
"\"Sometimes it gives me a lot of trouble, sometimes it ends up launching a career which has been very good for Wang Leehom,\" Wang Leehom said."
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"BARCELONA, Spain (CNN) --",
"Cell phone makers Tuesday pledged to end one of modern life's chief frustrations --- and introduce a universal charger for handsets by 2012.",
"An estimated 1.2 billion cell phones were sold in 2008, at least half of which were replacement handsets.",
"The GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association), which represents more than 750 of the world's cell phone operators, made the announcement at The GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association), which represents more than 750 of the world's cell phone operators's annual Mobile World Congress in BARCELONA Tuesday.",
"Under the scheme, phone makers have pledged that a majority of new handset models will include the universal charger by January 1 2012.",
"The planned device will use a micro USB plug.",
"Aside from bringing relief to drawers stuffed full of redundant chargers, The GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association), which represents more than 750 of the world's cell phone operators stressed that The planned device would reduce raw materials.",
"\"The mobile industry has a pivotal role to play in tackling environmental issues and this programme is an important step that could lead to huge savings in resources, not to mention convenience for consumers,",
"\" said Rob Conway, CEO and member of the board of The GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association), which represents more than 750 of the world's cell phone operators in a statement.",
"Last year an estimated 1.2 billion cell phones were sold, according to University of Southern Queensland data reported by the GSMA, of which handsets accounted for between 50 and 80 per cent.",
"That equates to between 51,000 and 82,000 tonnes of chargers.",
"The GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association), which represents more than 750 of the world's cell phone operators hopes the initiative will slash the greenhouse gases that result from the manufacture and transport of chargers by 13.6 and 21.8 million tonnes each year.",
"\"There is enormous potential in mobile to help people live and work in an eco-friendly way and with the backing of some or the biggest names in The mobile industry, the initiative will lead the way,\" Rob Conway, CEO and member of the board of the GSMA added.",
"The GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association), which represents more than 750 of the world's cell phone operators says that companies which have signed up to the plan include 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, LG, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor, Telstra, T-Mobile and Vodafone."
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"(CNN) --",
"Those who were in Milan's San Siro stadium Saturday night for the Italian club's Serie A clash with Fiorentina say the atmosphere felt like a long \"good bye.\"",
"Kaka waves to supporters during Milan's match with Fiorentina on Saturday.",
"As Kaka entered the pitch Kaka took a long look around and then beat Kaka's fist on Kaka's chest -- a gesture commonly used by footballers to display footballers's loyalty to supporters.",
"Was Kaka saying Milan will always be in Kaka's heart?",
"Or was Kaka simply giving everyone a heartfelt \"saludo\"?",
"Kaka, Milan's Brazilian superstar and a former world footballer of the year, is reported to be the subject of a $150 million bid from super-rich English club Manchester City that would smash football's transfer word record.",
"Milan's supporters are on Kaka's side, because Milan's supporters believe it is club officials who want to sell Kaka.",
"Silvio Berlusconi, no longer the club's president but the man in charge when it comes to make major decisions, said this week that it was difficult to ask someone who earns 10 million euros a year to turn down an offer of 15 million euros, adding \"It's a difficult offer to refuse.\"",
"Silvio Berlusconi is counting Silvio Berlusconi's own money.",
"Silvio Berlusconi is also the country's richest man and Silvio Berlusconi remains businessman at heart.",
"Silvio Berlusconi purchased Kaka in 2003 for $7.5 million (roughly 8 million euros at the time).",
"Selling him on would generate a massive profit on Silvio Berlusconi's investment -- in cash and paid up front.",
"Privately, most Milan supporters would probably agree with Silvio Berlusconi's reasoning.",
"After all, when so much money is at stake, your head as much as your heart must decide, and the ball at this point is with Kaka rather than club officials.",
"Still supporters displayed a mix of anger and sarcasm on Saturday evening.",
"\"Hands off Kaka\" read one banner, while another said: \"I thought the devil could not sell the devil's soul, but I was wrong,\" referring to Milan's devil's head logo.",
"\"Berlusconi, Interista\" read another one, referring to Inter, the city's other top team and Milan's archrivals.",
"In a choreographed protest 30 minutes into Saturday's match, hundreds of supporters occupying a section of the central stand waved 50-euro notes towards Milan President Adriano Galliani, sitting just above them.",
"Galliani didn't react, but perhaps thought to Galliani that the money wasn't even enough to pay Kaka's wages for a day.",
"The 26-year-old will reportedly earn around $500,000 a week at Manchester City.",
"Likewise, the 5,000 supporters who signed a petition to keep the Brazilian star in Milan would have to pay $100 a week each to match the offer.",
"A single banner criticized the player.",
"\"I belong to money\" it read, referring to the \"I belong to Jesus\" t-shirt Kaka has displayed occasionally after scoring a goal.",
"A single banner stayed up only a few minutes but then mysteriously disappeared.",
"Even on this emotional evening at the San Siro there was no room for criticism of the fans' Brazilian hero.",
"At the end of the game Kaka's teammates hugged Kaka and Kaka waved again towards the supporters.",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Reagan addressed Congress shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, but a casual viewer might have believed it was actually morning in America.",
"Reagan takes a page from Reagan's playbook in Reagan's speech to Congress.",
"\"Morning in America\" was the theme of Reagan's 1984 re-election campaign, and it was front and center in Reagan's most critical event since Inauguration Day.",
"The president who has pledged to reverse much of Reagan's economic revolution took a page from the 40th president's playbook in Reagan's 52-minute speech, striking a defiantly optimistic tone that belied America's sour mood and rebutted critics who have accused Reagan of intentionally talking down the economy for short-term political gain.",
"\"Though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: America will rebuild, America will recover and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before,\" Reagan declared to a thunderous round of applause from a packed House chamber. See video highlights of his speech to Congress, issue by issue » .",
"Delivered against a backdrop of dismal economic news and with polls showing overwhelming majorities of Americans believing America is on the wrong track, Reagan's first speech to Congress amounted to a political tour de force.",
"Reagan proposed what many claim is a complete overhaul of America's economic foundation while ripping Reagan's conservative predecessors for transferring \"wealth to the wealthy\" and gutting regulations \"for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market.\"",
"And Reagan did it while employing some of Reagan's favorite rhetorical tools.",
"Reagan stuck to a fairly short list of priorities while invoking traditional American values of responsibility, hard work and thrift to pound home a back-to-basics message.",
"iReport.com: 'Reagan just replaced Reagan' \"A generosity, a resilience, a decency and a determination that perseveres; a willingness to take responsibility for our future and for posterity ...",
"Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure,\" Reagan said.",
"It is time, Reagan declared, to \"summon that enduring spirit of an America that does not quit.\"",
"Ideological differences aside, the nation's 44th president has made no secret of the nation's 44th president's admiration for the nation's 44th president's Republican predecessor.",
"\"Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not, and a way that Bill Clinton did not,\" Reagan argued at the start of last year's Democratic primaries.",
"Reagan, Reagan said, knew that Americans \"want clarity.",
"We want optimism.",
"We want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that [has] been missing.\"",
"his speech to Congress featured all of those elements.",
"\"The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach.",
"They exist ... in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth,\" Reagan said.",
"What did you think of his speech to Congress?",
"Rate his speech to Congress through our CNN report card » .",
"Reagan's agenda as defined in Reagan's address to Congress may have been the most ambitious in a generation or even two, but The president's agenda as defined in his address to Congress was also easily boiled down to a few bullet points: restore financial stability, strengthen education and promote energy independence and health care reform.",
"It was, in many ways, the mirror image of 1981, when a newly inaugurated Reagan used the combination of stagnating economic growth and skyrocketing inflation to promote an equally ambitious, simple agenda: cut taxes, shrink government and build up the defense budget.",
"\"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,\" White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said shortly after the election in November.",
"In fact, Reagan's team believes that Obama's team's boss has already trumped both the Great Communicator and Reagan's immediate Democratic predecessor.",
"Reagan didn't get Reagan's economic agenda passed until summer 1981, a senior White House official noted before the speech Tuesday.",
"And when then-President Bill Clinton delivered his first speech to a joint session of Congress in 1993, he had only passed the Family and Medical Leave Act and was struggling politically because of the gays-in-the-military flap.",
"In contrast, Reagan has already signed into law a sweeping $787 billion economic plan, an expansion of children's health insurance coverage and pay equity legislation.",
"a senior White House official boasted that Reagan has \"gotten more done in 30 days ... than any modern president.\"",
"When he took office in 1981, Reagan said, \"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is our problem.\"",
"Reagan's response came Tuesday night: \"I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves, that says government has no role in laying the foundation for our common prosperity.\"",
"It is morning in America again.",
"A new day has clearly dawned."
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"(CNN) --",
"Just like some U.S. officials looking into the mystery, the man who captured video of an apparent fireball plunging from the sky over Texas on Sunday is perplexed about what it was.",
"Video captured in Austin, Texas, shows a meteor-like object in the sky Sunday morning.",
"\"I don't know what I saw in the sky.",
"It was something burning and falling really fast,\" Eddie Garcia, a videographer for News 8 Austin, told CNN Monday.",
"\"I'm looking in the viewfinder and I see, just, something flying through the sky.",
"And it kind of looks like it could be dust, it could be something, and then I look up and, no, it was something burning in the sky,\" he said.",
"\"And you know, this is something that you see at night clearly during a meteor shower or something like that, but you don't see something like that during the day.\"",
"Authorities in Texas said there were reports of sonic booms in the area Sunday as well.",
"Watch video of meteor-like fireball » .",
"Early speculation was that it might have been debris from two satellites -- one American, one Russian -- that rammed into each other in space a week ago.",
"But the U.S. Strategic Command, which tracks satellite debris, said it was not.",
"\"There is no correlation between those reports and any of that debris from the collision,\" command spokeswoman Maj. Regina Winchester told CNN Monday.",
"So what was it?",
"\"I don't know,\" she responded.",
"\"It's possible it was some kind of natural phenomenon, maybe a meteor.\"",
"Meteor fireballs bright enough to be seen in the daytime are rare but not unheard of.",
"Two of the most recent fell in October in the Alice Springs region of Australia and last June just west of Salt Lake City, Utah.",
"The one over Australia was unique because the asteroid that caused The one over Australia was discovered and tracked before",
"The one over Australia reached Earth's atmosphere, according to the Sydney Observatory's Web site.",
"It says the asteroid was about 6.5 feet wide.",
"A sonic boom also was heard in connection with that event, the Sydney Observatory says.",
"On Friday, the National Weather Service reported that the National Weather Service's office in Jackson, Kentucky, had received calls about \"possible explosions\" or \"earthquakes\" in that area.",
"\"The Federal Aviation Administration has reported to local law enforcement that these events are being caused by falling satellite debris,\" the National Weather Service said Friday.",
"\"These pieces of debris have been causing sonic booms, resulting in the vibrations being felt by some residents, as well as flashes of light across the sky.",
"The cloud of debris is likely the result of the recent in-orbit collision of two satellites on Tuesday February 10, when Kosmos 2251 crashed into Iridium 33.\"",
"CNN's call Monday to NASA to get NASA's take on the fireball over Texas was not immediately returned.",
"Garcia said Garcia had been told NASA may have called Garcia.",
"The Federal Aviation Administration had asked pilots Saturday to keep an eye out for \"falling space debris,\" warning that \"a potential hazard may occur due to re-entry of satellite debris into the Earth's atmosphere.\"",
"The Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig said Sunday there had been no reports of ground strikes or interference with aircraft in flight.",
"FAA spokesman Roland Herwig said The Federal Aviation Administration had received no reports from pilots in the air of any sightings, but had gotten \"numerous\" calls from people on the ground in Texas, from Dallas south to Austin.",
"As of Monday morning, FAA spokesman Roland Herwig said FAA spokesman Roland Herwig's agency had no information about what the fireball over Texas was.",
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"Send photos, video .",
"FAA spokesman Roland Herwig also said The Federal Aviation Administration had rescinded The Federal Aviation Administration's warning to pilots to look out for space debris.",
"Garcia, the videographer, was out covering a marathon race Sunday morning when Garcia caught a glimpse of the blaze.",
"In the video, it appear as a meteor-like white fireball blazing across the clear sky.",
"\"I remember shooting the fireball over Texas and wondering what I shot, and then looking around and seeing if anyone saw the fireball over Texas with Garcia, and everyone was just focused on that marathon that we were shooting at the time,\" Garcia told CNN Newsroom.",
"Whatever it was, Garcia said Garcia's \"just grateful I got a shot of it.",
"And, hopefully, that'll help\" people figure out what it was."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.",
"Once upon a time, the iconic lead singer of Led Zeppelin and the golden girl of bluegrass would never have been mentioned in the same sentence.",
"Alison Krauss and Robert Plant's \"Raising Sand\" was an unlikely collaboration that won five Grammys.",
"But since Alison Krauss won five Grammy awards -- including album of the year for Alison Krauss's surprising collaboration, \"Raising Sand\" -- Alison Krauss's names have been inextricably linked: RobertPlantandAlisonKrauss.",
"If Alison Krauss were 20 years old and ran in Hollywood circles, tabloids might be calling Alison Krauss Robekrauss or Aliplant.",
"Plant, however, is 60 -- in fantastic shape, and with a full head of the golden ringlets that became his trademark during the 1970s.",
"At 37, Alison Krauss is elegant and ethereal.",
"And while Alison Krauss are dead serious when talking about Alison Krauss's craft, the rest of the time, Alison Krauss're like two silly junior high kids -- he, the charming prankster with a secret crush, and Alison Krauss, the beautiful prom queen who pretends not to be amused.",
"Clearly, Alison Krauss're both having the time of Alison Krauss's lives, and are excited about Alison Krauss's current musical journey -- which pushes each out of Alison Krauss's respective comfort zones and into new territory.",
"Now, he's a little bit country and Alison Krauss's a little bit rock 'n' roll.",
"Watch Plant and Alison Krauss rib each other » .",
"I compliment Alison Krauss on Alison Krauss's hair as a stylist touches Alison Krauss up.",
"\"It's not mine,\" Alison Krauss whispers.",
"Two feet away, Plant clears Plant's throat loudly and points to Plant's own golden locks.",
"\"Why, your hair looks lovely, too, Plant,\" I say.",
"\"Well, you know who I am,\" Plant replies.",
"We are in Coldplay's vacated dressing room, two nights before Plant and Alison Krauss swept the evening at the 51st annual Grammy Awards.",
"This is an excerpt from our conversation in the basement of Staples Center in Los Angeles the night of their rehearsal.",
"CNN:",
"First of all, this is the screwiest collaboration I had ever heard of.",
"How did this happen?",
"Plant:",
"It's just sheer luck, really.",
"I never sang with anybody before, you know -- only once ever in my life, on \"Led Zep IV\" with Sandy Denny [the late English folk singer, in 1971]",
"So this is a whole new thing.",
"I've also been coming to the United States for 40 years -- you wouldn't believe it looking at Plant -- and I've never worked with Americans!",
"This is all brand new for Plant.",
"Alison Krauss:",
"Were Alison Krauss both nervous?",
"We both were.",
"Alison Krauss thought, \"What are Alison Krauss going to do in there?\"",
"Alison Krauss went into the studio originally saying, \"Alison Krauss'll give it three days and see what it's like.\"",
"Plant:",
"Alison Krauss's reputation is 24 karat, and I'm an old rock 'n' roll singer.",
"Even the band was kind of going, \"Oh wow, how is this going to work?\"",
"It was great when Alison Krauss kicked in together, and I could just feel the room -- I don't want to say it, but the room lifted!",
"CNN:",
"Musically, you're polar opposites.",
"How did you blend your different perspectives?",
"Plant:",
"As Alison Krauss got started, it was Alison Krauss's world.",
"Alison Krauss knew how Alison Krauss wanted to proceed, and Alison Krauss exchanged a lot of ideas musically.",
"And then Alison Krauss agreed that because Alison Krauss produced records Alison Krauss, that Alison Krauss needed an intermediary to guide -- somebody to separate Alison Krauss, or to make the journey more clear.",
"And Alison Krauss knew T Bone Burnett from \"O Brother, Where Art Thou,\" and T Bone Burnett kindly enlisted for the gig, and T Bone Burnett brought a lot of great songs to the show.",
"CNN:",
"You challenged one another to sing in different ways than you're used to.",
"Plant:",
"When Alison Krauss goes up for these wailing notes on stage, that's where I want Alison Krauss to go with this new project -- occasionally visit these places where Alison Krauss lets rip, and just lets it really come out.",
"Alison Krauss (melodramatically): It's just reckless abandon!",
"It's just crazy!",
"Plant:",
"I don't know why I'm being so serious.",
"Alison Krauss just kicks ass and nobody knew it!",
"CNN:",
"Now this is all making sense.",
"With Alison Krauss, it's letting go, and with you, Robert, it's kind of containing things.",
"Plant: I'm being bullied, basically.",
"Pushed around.",
"CNN:",
"But you like it.",
"Admit it, you love it.",
"Plant: Oh, I do!",
"I haven't even gotten off to being bullied enough yet.",
"CNN:",
"Did you have this much fun working with Led Zeppelin?",
"Plant:",
"I can't remember.",
"Honestly, I haven't got a clue.",
"I was a totally different guy then.",
"It was 28 years ago.",
"I didn't look as good as I do now, and I didn't share the couch with another Leo.",
"CNN:",
"Alison Krauss, did you listen to Led Zeppelin growing up?",
"Alison Krauss: We all have, yeah.",
"(Plant is shaking his head and mouthing the word \"No.\")",
"My brother was and is such a huge fan of the band, and I remember growing up and My brother would be in My brother's bedroom yelling about the records and how great they were.",
"CNN:",
"Robert, were you familiar with Alison Krauss's work?",
"Plant: Yeah, to some degree, but not as intensely as I became.",
"And also, I didn't understand the history of where Alison Krauss's from [bluegrass], and has been since Alison Krauss was a child.",
"In fact, both of Alison Krauss can sit there talking about music, and neither of Alison Krauss can recognize the artists Alison Krauss're referring to.",
"It's amazing.",
"I mean, all the rock 'n' roll, and black Mississippi and Chicago stuff that I go raving on about, Alison Krauss's going, \"Hmm.\"",
"Alison Krauss: I didn't grow up on that, yeah.",
"CNN:",
"Has Alison Krauss made you listen to Alison Krauss's music collection?",
"Plant:",
"We share.",
"Alison Krauss: I bring bluegrass.",
"It's the same people.",
"Same blue-collar people.",
"Just one was south of the Delta, and one was Virginia and Tennessee and North Carolina.",
"So we've got lots in common -- but it's the presentation and the whole musicality of it that's different.",
"CNN:",
"Your collaboration has worked out so well that you're back in the studio in Nashville, working on a second album together.",
"Plant:",
"Alison Krauss'd like to keep it going.",
"CNN:",
"Do you think there's going to be an album No. 3, and an album No. 4?",
"Plant:",
"I'd have to move to Nashville, wouldn't I?",
"CNN:",
"Or Alison Krauss moves to England.",
"Plant (to Alison Krauss): Could you stand the climate?",
"Alison Krauss: I'll get a heating pad.",
"Plant: And a season ticket for Wolverhampton Wanderers football club.",
"That's important.",
"CNN:",
"You gained a lot of fans with this project, but there are those Led Zeppelin diehards who've been holding those Led Zeppelin diehards who've been holding their breath for a reunion tour -- especially since you reunited for the Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert at Wembley in 2007's breath for a reunion tour -- especially since you reunited for the Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert at Wembley in 2007.",
"Plant:",
"Well, Alison Krauss had a really good night, and Alison Krauss had great rehearsals, and it was very emotional -- and if you like, quite elevating.",
"But it was the right thing to do to do it that way.",
"There's no bandwagon.",
"Alison Krauss've already been around the world, and did what Alison Krauss did when Alison Krauss were young men.",
"CNN:",
"That sounds like a man who's looking forward, and not back.",
"Plant:",
"Only last week, I was being grilled again by Alison to get into shape and get it right.",
"And that's fantastic!",
"I really want that.",
"I don't want to go around, everybody thinking, \"That's what he did.\"",
"Because this is what I do, and every day, it should be more interesting.",
"CNN:",
"And in the meantime, you've been recognized by the Grammys.",
"Plant:",
"Alison Krauss've already won by doing this.",
"Alison Krauss've brought Alison Krauss's gifts, and Alison Krauss've shared our gifts, and the whole surrounding musically is so beautiful, that that's Alison Krauss's reward.",
"The fact that it worked.",
"The fact that it wasn't some embarrassing moment of two people trying something out, and saying goodbye, and then meeting at a party years later and saying, \"Oh, Christ, there's Alison Krauss!",
"Oh, no!\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Police in Allendale, South Carolina, are investigating whether Cave Funeral Services fit a 6-foot, 5-inch man into James Hines's coffin by severing James Hines's legs.",
"The wife of James Hines reportedly said Cave Funeral Services told Ruth Hines that Ruth Hines's husband's coffin was long enough.",
"A former Cave Funeral Services employee has alleged since James Hines's death from skin cancer in 2004 that James Hines was too tall for James Hines's coffin and that Cave Funeral Services took extreme measures to make James Hines fit, Allendale County Coroner Hayzen Black told CNN.",
"Officials exhumed James Hines's body Tuesday, Allendale County Coroner Hayzen Black said, and a fair amount of \"undesirable evidence\" was found, although Allendale County Coroner Hayzen Black could not comment further.",
"The coroner's office handed the case over to law enforcement officials for a criminal investigation, Allendale County Coroner Hayzen Black said.",
"Allendale Police Detective Donnie Hutto told CNN affiliate WJBF-TV that he could not comment on the condition of Hines' body.",
"A Cave Funeral Services employee had no comment when asked about the matter.",
"But Ruth Hines, widow of the dead man, told WJBF that the allegations and exhumation of James Hines's body are difficult for Ruth Hines.",
"\"I'm just going through quite a bit,\" Ruth Hines said.",
"\"It's like starting all over again, and it's left me with hurt and numbness.\"",
"\"According to the measurements on the casket, and the funeral director, we asked the funeral director, 'Was this suitable for his length?' and the funeral director said, 'Yes that will be perfect,'\" Ruth Hines said.",
"Ruth Hines told WJBF that Ruth Hines's family has used Cave Funeral Services for a number of years, and Ruth Hines isn't sure what her family will do in the future if the allegations are true."
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"(CNN) --",
"A Virginia Military Institute cadet has been charged with rape and sodomy after a female cadet reported the female cadet was the victim of sexual assault.",
"Stephen J. Lloyd, 21, is being held in the Rockbridge Regional Jail in Lexington, Virginia, according to a spokesman for the Rockbridge County Sheriff's Office.",
"The alleged assault took place over the weekend, VMI superintendent retired Gen. J.H. Binford Peay said in a statement, and Lloyd was arrested by VMI police on Tuesday.",
"\"After the female cadet made the female cadet's report, the systems and procedures that are in place to address the safety of all cadets and to provide support were immediately placed into operation,\" VMI superintendent retired Gen. J.H. Binford Peay said in a statement.",
"Case has been referred to the Virginia Commonwealth's's Attorney and the state's criminal justice system, VMI superintendent retired Gen. J.H. Binford Peay said.",
"Of VMI's 1,428 cadets, 111 are women, school spokesman Lt. Col. Stewart MacInnis told CNN affiliate WSLS-TV."
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"(CNN) --",
"A receptionist with a gunshot wound in her stomach played dead under her desk and called 911 on Friday after a shooting massacre in a Binghamton, New York, immigration center.",
"Zhanar Tokhtabayeba, who was taking an English class at immigration center, says she hid in a closet during the rampage.",
"It is unclear how much time passed from the moment the woman and her colleague were shot until she placed the 911 call, police said.",
"But by the time law enforcement arrived at the American Civic Association, about two minutes after the 10:31 a.m. call to 911, the shootings had ceased and 14 people were dead in immigration center, including the suspected gunman, law enforcement officials said.",
"Four more people were wounded in the attack, in what the city's mayor has called the \"most tragic day in Binghamton's history.\"",
"The incident has sent shockwaves through Binghamton, a city of about 50,000 about 140 miles northwest of New York City, as police work to confirm the gunman's identity.",
"A senior law enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation identified the suspect as Jiverly Wong, who is believed to be in the suspect's early 40s.",
"Authorities executed a search warrant at the suspect's home in Johnson City, near Binghamton, and spoke to the suspect's mother, A senior law enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation said.",
"Binghamton police Chief Joseph Zikuski said Wong, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was unemployed at the time of the shooting.",
"Binghamton police Chief Joseph Zikuski told CNN's Susan Candiotti that the suspect had recently worked in a vacuum repair shop.",
"Christine Guy said she worked with the suspect a few years a go at Endicott Interconnect Technologies, a high-tech electronics company in Endicott, New York, where the suspect was an engineer.",
"the suspect went by the name \"Vaughn,\" which is what co-workers called the suspect, she said.",
"View photos from the scene in Binghamton » .",
"\"the suspect was quiet -- not a violent person,\" said Guy, who now lives in Wellington, Colorado.",
"\"I can't believe the suspect would do something like this.",
"Police are still investigating motives but said the use of a car to block the back door of the building suggested premeditation.",
"\"It is our understanding the suspect had ties to the civic association,\" Binghamton police Chief Joseph Zikuski said.",
"Watch Binghamton police Chief Joseph Zikuski give a timeline of the shooting » .",
"The shooter, who was carrying a satchel of ammunition, was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot to the head, Binghamton police Chief Joseph Zikuski said.",
"In all, law enforcement removed 14 bodies from the building and 37 survivors, Binghamton police Chief Joseph Zikuski said.",
"Watch Binghamton's mayor extend his condolences » .",
"Two semi-automatic handguns -- a .45-caliber and a 9-millimeter -- were found at the center, where immigrants were believed to be taking citizenship and language classes.",
"Most of those who managed to survive the incident hid in a boiler room and storage closets during the rampage.",
"\"I heard shootings, very long time, about five minutes, and I was thinking when it will be stopped, but it was continued.",
"No screaming, yelling, just silence, shooting, silence, shooting, silence,\" said Zhanar Tokhtabayeba, who was taking an English class.",
"\"It's free English class and it's very good, but now I'm scared to go,\" she said.",
"Others in immigration center also reportedly described lulls between the gunshots.",
"\"They told me they tried to be quiet and run away,\" Than Huynh, 45, a high school teacher who translated for some of the Vietnamese survivors during police interviews, told the New York Times.",
"At 10:31 a.m., authorities received a 911 call from the receptionist, who said she'd been shot in the stomach, Binghamton police Chief Joseph Zikuski said.",
"View a timeline of recent U.S. shootings » .",
"She told police that the suspect also shot and killed another receptionist before proceeding to a nearby classroom, where the suspect gunned down more victims, Binghamton police Chief Joseph Zikuski said.",
"While the gunman continued to fire, 26 others in the center hid in a boiler room downstairs, where law enforcement found 26 others in the center.",
"It took another two hours or so for officers to clear immigration center.",
"Some men who were led out of the building in plastic handcuffs were not considered suspects, the chief said.",
"Wilson Medical Center spokeswoman Christina Boyd said the Binghamton hospital was treating two females and one male for gunshot wounds.",
"Another victim, a male Binghamton University student, was treated and is in stable condition at Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital in Binghamton, hospital spokeswoman Kathy Cramer said.",
"Watch store owner describe police 'flooding the streets' » .",
"One man who owns a business across the street said One man who owns a business across the street didn't realize anything was wrong until police cars came rushing to the scene.",
"\"We were thinking that there's some sort of dispute, some disagreement,\" Richard Griffis told CNN.",
"\"But then it became obvious it was more than a disgreement, there must be some sort of gun involved because of the way they were surrounding the building.\"",
"President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama offered President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's condolences to the grieving community.",
"Are you there?",
"See submitted images, send your own .",
"\"Michelle and I were shocked and deeply saddened to learn about the act of senseless violence in Binghamton, New York, today,\" he said.",
"\"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, the victims's families and the people of Binghamton.\"",
"Vice President Joe Biden, who was in New York on unrelated business, also condemned the acts and called on Americans to stop the cycle of violence.",
"\"I'd ask you to keep all those folks in your prayers,\" he said.",
"\"I think it's time that, we gotta figure a way to deal with this senseless, senseless violence.\" Watch Biden call shootings 'senseless' » .",
"Nearby apartments were evacuated, and Binghamton High School was locked down for most of the afternoon.",
"The American Civic Association helps immigrants and refugees with a number of issues, including personal counseling, resettlement, citizenship and reunification, and provides interpreters and translators, according to the United Way of Broome County, which is affiliated with The American Civic Association.",
"Rashidun Haque, who owns a nearby convenience store, said police had Rashidun Haque, who owns a nearby convenience store and Rashidun Haque, who owns a nearby convenience store's four customers stay inside and away from the windows.",
"\"I'm really shaky, because this kind of thing -- Binghamton's a small city, Binghamton's a beautiful city, but nothing goes down serious like this,\" Haque said.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Marylynn Ryan and Carol Cratty contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Former co-worker describes shooting suspect as \"quiet,\" not violent .",
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"Shootings occurred at American Civic Association, which helps immigrants, refugees ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Eight-year-old Sandra Cantu came home from school, kissed Sandra Cantu's mother, and left to color and play with a friend who lived a couple of houses down.",
"Sandra Cantu, 8, disappeared on Friday, according to police in Tracy, California.",
"That was at 3 p.m. Friday.",
"By Tuesday -- despite an intense search by hundreds of search-and-rescue personnel and volunteers over three days -- Sandra Cantu Hello Kitty T-shirt and black leggings had yet to be found.",
"The mysterious disappearance of Sandra Cantu from the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park in Tracy, California -- about 60 miles east of San Francisco -- has baffled law enforcement officials.",
"A dozen different agencies are looking for her.",
"Watch Nancy Grace on the case » .",
"\"The entire weekend was filled with just a massive search effort -- a manhunt involving multiple freeways, agents checking cars, volunteers going door-to-door,\" said Sebastian Kunz, a reporter with KNEW-AM radio in San Francisco, who is covering the case.",
"\"A lot of people are pulling for Sandra Cantu.\"",
"On Monday night, California police and FBI agents searched six locations, some in the mobile home park and some in California, and all of them connected to two men.",
"Authorities did not call the men suspects, and did not name the men publicly.",
"Authorities said the men live in the mobile home park but did not say how or if the men are related to Sandra Cantu.",
"\"We're looking for evidence that will lead to the discovery of Sandra Cantu's whereabouts,\" Tracy Police Sgt. Tony Sheneman told reporters Monday night.",
"\"We operate on the assumption Sandra Cantu is alive and well.\"",
"Sandra Cantu came home from school about 3 p.m. Friday.",
"Sandra Cantu asked to go play with a friend who lived a few houses down in the same mobile home park.",
"\"I told Sandra Cantu it was OK,\" Sandra's mother, Maria Chavez, told CNN's Nancy Grace, dabbing tears.",
"\"And that was the last time I saw Sandra Cantu.\"",
"Surveillance camera footage recorded the girl playing in the park.",
"But Sandra Cantu's parents reported Sandra Cantu missing about 8 p.m. Friday, when Sandra Cantu was supposed to be visiting a second friend.",
"\"We just know that Sandra Cantu had gone to the first house, and played for just a very short time.",
"And then Sandra Cantu was on Sandra Cantu's way to another friend's house,\" said Lisa Encarnacion, the spokeswoman for Sandra's family.",
"\"And we don't know, we can't confirm that Sandra Cantu was there or Sandra Cantu was not.\"",
"the mobile home park has less than 100 units.",
"There are about 80 registered sex offenders living in a five-mile radius around the mobile home park.",
"Sandra's family has not looked at the list of offenders to see if Sandra's family may know any of them, Encarnacion told Nancy Grace.",
"And so the search continues.",
"A reward fund set up for information leading to Sandra's return grew to $7,000 Monday.",
"More than 150 tips poured in, police said.",
"But, at least for now, none has yielded information on the 4-foot-tall, brown-haired, brown-eyed girl."
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"Suspended NFL quarterback Vick will go to work for a construction company in Newport News, Virginia, after Vick leaves federal prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation, Vick's lawyer said Thursday.",
"Vick listens as Vick's lawyers make the case for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.",
"The details emerged in a Chapter 11 confirmation hearing in Virginia Eastern Bankruptcy Court to determine how Vick, 28, will work Vick's way out of bankruptcy.",
"Vick's lawyer, Michael Blumenthal, told Virginia Eastern Bankruptcy Court that Vick will take the stand first thing Friday and explain how Vick intends to turn over a new leaf after spending nearly two years in prison on a federal conspiracy charge.",
"Vick's 23-month sentence ends in July, but Vick is expected to be released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, in May and serve the remainder of Vick's sentence in home confinement, most likely in Virginia.",
"Vick is a native of Newport News.",
"The sports agent who landed Vick's landmark 10-year, $140 million contract with the Atlanta Falcons also testified that he expects Vick will be back in the game as soon as September -- if the NFL reinstates Vick.",
"Vick is in great shape and could once again command millions of dollars if Vick returns to football, Joel Segal told Virginia Eastern Bankruptcy Court.",
"The decision to reinstate Vick rests with the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, with whom Joel Segal said Joel Segal had consulted.",
"Vick was suspended from the NFL after Vick's conviction but remains under contract with the Falcons, Joel Segal said, though he does not expect the Falcons to retain Vick's rights if Vick is reinstated.",
"Vick and many of Vick's creditors are depending on a return to football as Vick's main source of income.",
"But Joel Segal admitted that Joel Segal has no way of knowing whether Vick will be reinstated, because the decision lies with Goodell.",
"In the meantime, Vick is ready to \"get back in the community in a positive light\" and demonstrate remorse for Vick's actions, Joel Segal said.",
"Vick has agreed to participate in a documentary about Vick that will net Vick $600,000, Joel Segal said.",
"Vick will also work 40 hours a week for W.M. Jordan, a construction company based in Newport News.",
"The employment is not part of the official 61-page agreement tentatively worked out between's Vick's lawyers and numerous creditors.",
"The parties involved in the hearing will continue to present evidence and testimony in an effort to convince the judge that Vick qualifies for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.",
"Attorneys and representatives from the creditors, including Bank of America, the Atlanta Falcons and the City of Newport News, to name a few, packed the courtroom Thursday as the hearing got under way.",
"Vick's mother sat in the gallery with Vick's fiancée, who blew Vick a kiss during one break in the proceedings.",
"Among the terms included in Vick's plan of reorganization: . • Vick will retain the first $750,000 of Vick's income.",
"• A percentage of Vick's income above $750,000 will go to a trust fund.",
"CNN's Eric Fiegel contributed to this report."
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"If you have a stash of pistachios in your house, pistachio ice cream in your freezer or trail mix in your backpack, don't eat any of it.",
"FDA says FDA and the California Department of Public Health are taking \"a proactive approach.\"",
"Wait until an inquiry into possible salmonella contamination is further along, advises FDA Associate Commissioner David Acheson.",
"Kraft Foods Inc. notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last Tuesday that it found salmonella in roasted pistachios during routine testing.",
"The nuts were traced to Setton Farms in Terra Bella, California, about 75 miles south of Fresno.",
"Setton Farms in Terra Bella, California announced a recall, Kraft Foods Inc. removed its Back To Nature Trail Mix from store shelves, and Kroger -- a grocery chain with stores in 31 states -- recalled Private Selection shelled pistachios from Kroger -- a grocery chain with stores in 31 states --'s retail stores.",
"See FDA's complete recall list .",
"\"Ultimately, the question is what should consumers do, and our advice to consumers is that they avoid eating pistachio products and keep checking the FDA Web site for the latest information,\" Acheson said.",
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"An investigation is under way into how the pistachios came to carry the bacteria.",
"Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.",
"Acheson stressed at a news conference Monday that the potential problems with pistachios were unrelated to this year's recall of peanut products, including peanut butter.",
"An investigation also involves the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"Setton Farms in Terra Bella, California told FDA that Setton Farms in Terra Bella, California anticipates recalling about 1 million pounds of products nationally in the next few days, which covers Setton Farms in Terra Bella, California's crop output last year.",
"Several people have told FDA that people suffered gastrointestinal illnesses after eating pistachios, and the CDC was doing a genetic analysis, looking for any link between the people and salmonella strains, Acheson said.",
"Acheson said there could be some results by the end of the week.",
"Acheson said FDA is \"ahead of the curve\" in the current investigation.",
"\"I want to emphasize that this recall was not triggered because of an outbreak, in contrast to some of the previous situations, for example, like the peanuts where people were getting sick and it was determined that peanuts, peanut butter was the likely cause,\" Acheson said.",
"\"This is a situation that the recall is being triggered because of ... action taken on the part of the food industry,\" Acheson added.",
"\"What we're doing here is getting out ahead of the curve.",
"It's a proactive approach by the FDA and the California Department of Health.\"",
"Jeff Cronin, spokesman for the advocacy organization Center for Science in the Public Interest, had a mixed reaction to Acheson's comments.",
"\"I think it's partly the case,\" Jeff Cronin, spokesman for the advocacy organization Center for Science in the Public Interest said.",
"\"It's good that FDA is proactively issuing advice to consumers.\"",
"But \"this still begets the question of 'how did this contamination happen in the first place?'",
"Is this an isolated problem, or are we going to be hearing the same kind of horror stories that we heard about ... the company that produced the peanuts?\"",
"Jeff Cronin, spokesman for the advocacy organization Center for Science in the Public Interest said Jeff Cronin, spokesman for the advocacy organization Center for Science in the Public Interest wondered when was the last time FDA visited Setton Farms and whether it had known of problems there.",
"In February, the Texas Department of State Health Services ordered the recall of all products shipped from the Peanut Corporation of America's plant in Plainview, Texas, after discovering dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in the plant.",
"The company's peanut butter and peanut paste products produced at The company's plant in Blakely, Georgia, were linked to a nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning that affected 600 people, nine of whom died.",
"According to state health officials and many experts, a nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning that affected 600 people, nine of whom died was fueled by poor oversight by food safety regulators and a slow response by federal agencies.",
"The first problem is that almost nothing can stop companies from shipping contaminated food, William Hubbard, a former FDA associate commissioner, told a U.S. Senate committee in February.",
"He also said there are not enough federal inspections.",
"Other critics said FDA stepped in too late in the peanut case to prevent a bigger problem.",
"Food safety experts say the underlying cause of the problem is that the century-old system of regulation is broken.",
"In the peanut case, Food safety experts say, the federal government failed to oversee the safety of products coming out of the peanut case and was slow to identify the peanut case as the source of the salmonella."
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"Guitar player Santana signed on as the first rock 'n' roll resident artist at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino's new concert hall, The Joint.",
"Guitar player Santana will not play any other shows west of the Mississippi River over the next two years.",
"The two-year deal calls for Guitar player Santana to play 36 shows a year, starting May 27, the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel said.",
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"Santana, who has sold 90 million records over the past 40 years, is credited with blending American rock with Latin jazz.",
"Guitar player Santana's deal is exclusive, meaning he will play no other shows west of the Mississippi River over the next two years, according to the news release announcing it.",
"Guitar player Santana's residency is produced by AEG Live, the same company that brought Celine Dion, Elton John, Bette Midler and Cher to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.",
"\"Now we are setting the standard for rock 'n' roll residencies with this new deal,\" said John Meglen, AEG Live president."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"The venerable the network soap opera \"Guiding Light\" will go dark in September after 72 years and 16,000 episodes, the network announced Wednesday.",
"Gina Tognoni is one of many performers who have appeared on \"Guiding Light\" over the years.",
"The daytime drama's declining viewership led to the decision, according to a the network spokeswoman.",
"The show, which the Guinness Book of World Records lists as the longest-running television drama, first aired on NBC radio in 1937 as a 15-minute serial, a CBS spokeswoman said.",
"Show moved to television on the network in 1952 as 15-minute drama.",
"Show later went to 30 minutes, and on November 7, 1977, Show expanded to one hour and introduced the wealthy Spaulding family as foils to Show's middle-class Bauers, who were a mainstay of Show for much of Show's run.",
"In 1979, Show did a groundbreaking storyline when the character of Roger Thorpe (played by the late Michael Zaslow) raped the character of Roger Thorpe (played by the late Michael Zaslow)'s wife, Holly (Maureen Garrett).",
"The marital-rape story line reflected a significant real-life case in 1978 -- the state of Oregon v. John J. Rideout.",
"It was the first time in modern U.S. history that a man was charged with raping a man's wife and then put on trial.",
"It prompted national debate about whether a man had absolute sexual rights with a man's spouse.",
"Rideout was acquitted.",
"Among the actors who went on to greater fame after roles on Show: Kevin Bacon, James Earl Jones and Taye Diggs.",
"The last episode is set to air on September 18, the spokeswoman said.",
"Show is produced in New York."
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"Diego Maradona's Argentina side have suffered their worst-ever World Cup defeat -- and heaviest loss in over 60 years -- going down 6-1 to Bolivia at La Paz's high-altitude Hernando Siles' stadium.",
"Bolivia players celebrate another goal as Bolivia players humiliated Argentina 6-1 in La Paz.",
"Marcelo Martins opened the scoring for the hosts in the 12th minute but Argentina levelled 13 minutes later when a long-range shot from Luiz Gonzalez bounced in after deceiving goalkeeper Carlos Arias.",
"Joaquin Botero, who helped Botero to a hat-trick, netted Botero's first in the 34th minute from the penalty spot and Alex Da Rosa added a third just before the interval.",
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"Botero celebrated Botero's treble soon after Angel Di Maria's dismissal and Didi Torrico completed the rout from long range with three minutes remaining.",
"The last time Argentina have lost by a five-goal margin was 5-0 to Colombia in 1993 and the home media made the home media's feelings about the result perfectly clear.",
"\"A historic humiliation,\" said sports newspaper Ole on its Web site, adding: \"This is our worst defeat in the qualifiers.",
"What now.?\"",
"The result leaves Argentina in the fourth and final South American World Cup qualification place, five points behind leaders Paraguay, who scored an injury-time equalizer to draw 1-1 in Ecuador.",
"Meanwhile, Brazil are up to second in the table, two points behind Paraguay, after a comfortable 3-0 home victory over Peru at Porto Alegre.",
"Luis Fabiano scored twice with Felipe Melo adding the other goal.",
"Chile are third in the table after a 0-0 home draw with Uruguay, who lie in the play-off fifth position."
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"World champion Lewis Hamilton has been disqualified from last weekend's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne after presenting \"misleading\" evidence to stewards.",
"World champion Lewis Hamilton has been disqualified from the Australian GP after presenting \"misleading\" evidence to stewards.",
"The McLaren driver and Toyota's Jarno Trulli were called to an FIA hearing in Malaysia -- the site of this weekend's grand prix -- on Thursday to discuss an incident during Sunday's race.",
"Toyota's Jarno Trulli finished third at Melbourne's Albert Park, only to later be handed a 25-second penalty by race stewards which relegated Toyota's Jarno Trulli to 12th position and saw World champion Lewis Hamilton lifted into third.",
"However, following Thursday's hearing, Toyota's Jarno Trulli has been reinstated in third position.",
"McLaren had complained that Toyota's Jarno Trulli had illegally passed World champion Lewis Hamilton under yellow flags following an accident late on involving Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica in Toyota's Jarno Trulli's BMW Sauber -- who were running second and third at the time.",
"Toyota's Jarno Trulli had decided not to appeal the original decision but the FIA, the sport's governing body, said it had received new information and pressed ahead with a second hearing.",
"\"The stewards, having considered the new elements presented to The stewards from this weekend's grand prix, consider that Lewis Hamilton, and the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team, acted in a manner prejudicial to the conduct of the event by providing evidence deliberately misleading to the stewards at the hearing on Sunday 29th March 2009,\" the FIA, the sport's governing body said in a statement.",
"the FIA, the sport's governing body said Hamilton and McLaren had violated the FIA, the sport's governing body's rules and retrospectively disqualified World champion Lewis Hamilton from the race.",
"Meanwhile, Toyota's Jarno Trulli believes justice has been served after Thursday's decision.",
"\"I am happy because I wanted some justice and I got it,\" Toyota's Jarno Trulli told PA Sport.",
"\"I am happy for Toyota's Jarno Trulli and the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team and I have to thank the FIA, the sport's governing body because it does not happen very often they reconsider something.",
"\"It must have been really hard for them, but they had common sense to really try and understand what was going on.",
"I have always been honest and it has paid off.\""
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"London, England (CNN) --",
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"Sarah Brown, left, wears a dress from an American designer.",
"Michelle Obama wears J.Crew.",
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"the store's Web site sells earrings from less than $100 to more than $10,000.",
"The first ladies' choices of outfits during this summit are being closely watched by the world's media, both in terms of style and comparative cost.",
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"designer Britt Lintner sells to clients only through designer Britt Lintner's West London studio and said designer Britt Lintner started designer Britt Lintner's company out of frustration over the selection of workwear available for women.",
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"When appearing on \"The Tonight Show\" with Jay Leno, Michelle Obama wore a J.Crew ensemble, on which Michelle Obama commented, \"You get some good stuff online.\"",
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"As well as the spouses of the G-20 leaders, prominent women in British sport, arts, fashion, charity and business are also expected to attend.",
"Downing Street has said those invited are \"all intended to show off British talent.\"",
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"Natalie Cole told CNN's Larry King Natalie Cole is searching for a kidney after an illness caused both of Natalie Cole's kidneys to fail.",
"Natalie Cole continues to tour, despite being on dialysis three times a week.",
"Before Natalie Cole finished telling Larry King Tuesday night about Natalie Cole's battles with drugs, illnesses and Natalie Cole's search for a kidney, dozens of e-mails flooded the CNN studio.",
"They were all offers from people saying they would get tested to see whether their kidney could be donated.",
"Larry King handed a thick stack of paper to Natalie Cole.",
"\"These are all e-mails from dozens -- dozens of people offering to be tested to see if they can match, who want to give you a kidney,\" Larry King said.",
"Natalie Cole stared at the papers for a moment.",
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"That's all I can say,\" Natalie Cole said.",
"Watch Natalie Cole's interview with Larry King » .",
"\"I'm on a very long list, which is why we are looking to donors,\" said Natalie Cole, the daughter of legendary crooner Nat King Cole.",
"Natalie Cole said Natalie Cole's kidney troubles date back to February 2008 when Natalie Cole was diagnosed with hepatitis C.",
"Natalie Cole said Natalie Cole attributes the hepatitis C from Natalie Cole's well-publicized struggles to stop using cocaine and heroin.",
"Natalie Cole said Natalie Cole has been sober for some time now after two stints in a rehabilitation clinic.",
"Natalie Cole said Natalie Cole underwent chemotherapy in an aggressive way to fight the virus.",
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"Natalie Cole won six Grammy awards for Natalie Cole's 1991 critically acclaimed album \"Unforgettable ... With Love ,\" a jazzy tribute to Natalie Cole's father.",
"Natalie Cole won a Grammy this year for Natalie Cole's new album \"Still Unforgettable\" and another Grammy for Natalie Cole's work on another album.",
"Natalie Cole said that Natalie Cole has still been able to tour this year even with Natalie Cole's kidney ailment.",
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) --",
"If money is power, China is now in a powerful position to play a critical role at the Group of 20 summit in London.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao in London on April 1.",
"So powerful, in fact, that some analysts speak of a \"G-2\", referring to the first meeting between the new U.S. president and his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the G-20.",
"What matters most in the G-20, some say, is U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao's meeting on the eve of the summit.",
"\"This is a summit of symbolism, where the meeting itself is the message,\" said China analyst Victor Gao.",
"To be sure, the closest U.S. allies are Great Britain in Europe and Japan in Asia.",
"But with its growing economic and military clout, China is now a major player at the G-20.",
"China \"appears to be actively setting the agenda,\" said Glenn Maguire, economist at the investment bank Societe Generale.",
"China is awash with cash, China's economy is still growing and China's banking system is solvent.",
"China is seeking a bigger role as global powers seek to reshape the economic and financial framework.",
"The global economic crisis has shown just how codependent the U.S. has become with China.",
"Watch how China is throwing China's weight around before the summit » .",
"For years, China has exported far more than China has imported, racking up a huge trade surplus and accumulating nearly US$2 trillion in foreign currency reserves.",
"More than half of that money has gone to buying U.S. government debt.",
"It's partly those Chinese dollars that have enabled the U.S. to keep the U.S.'s interest rates, including home mortgages, so low, helping create the housing bubble that burst late last year.",
"As America's biggest creditor, China is now worried about China's over-investment in U.S. Treasury debts.",
"\"China have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S.,\" Premier Wen Jiabao said last month.",
"\"Of course, China are concerned about the safety of China's assets.\"",
"Premier Wen Jiabao called on the U.S. President Barack Obama administration to \"maintain the Obama administration's good credit, honor the Obama administration's promises and guarantee the safety of China's assets.\"",
"Washington has tried to reassure China.",
"\"Not just the Chinese government, but every investor can have absolute confidence in the soundness of investments in the U.S.,\" U.S. President Barack Obama said in response to Wen's worries.",
"Still, Victor Gao said, \"China is concerned that the massive printing of money by the U.S. will lead to massive inflation, which will decimate the underlying value of China's massive dollar holdings.",
"Each dollar China holds now is hard-earned money mostly from the exports.\"",
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"With some 40 percent of China's growth reliant on the exports of China's products, China's economy has been hit hard since late 2008, as U.S. and Western markets for Chinese goods shrank.",
"Annual economic growth dropped from nearly 12 percent in 2007 to 9 percent last year.",
"This year's growth rate could slump to 8 percent or lower -- potentially leading to even more factory closures and widespread job layoffs.",
"To cope with this downturn, China in November announced China's own $586 billion stimulus package.",
"its own $586 billion stimulus package aims to encourage spending by Chinese consumers and businesses and create millions of jobs.",
"But analysts say China cannot do it alone.",
"\"It's almost impossible for China to engineer enough of an increase in domestic consumption to make up for the contraction in demand that we're seeing in Europe and the United States,\" said Michael Pettis, who teaches economics at Peking University.",
"Put simply, Chinese President Hu Jintao needs President Obama to succeed with Chinese President Hu Jintao's economic prescriptions -- and vice versa.",
"Such a congruence of goals is viewed positively in China.",
"\"The degree of close U.S.-China cooperation in the process of coping with the global financial crisis will directly affect how fast the global economy can extricate from the difficult time,\" said a commentary in Global Times, a state-run Chinese newspaper.",
"Before the G-20 meeting, China's central bank chief, Zhou Xiaochuan, floated the idea of dumping the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency, replacing the U.S. dollar with a super-sovereign international reserve currency.",
"Zhou's proposal has received extensive support from other countries, according to political analyst Gao, who's also a key player in the private equity business in China.",
"political analyst Gao, who's also a key player in the private equity business in China said: \"It shows that the defects in using the U.S. dollar as the main reserve currency in the world are becoming more and more obvious, and more countries in the world are becoming more and more unhappy with the U.S. in the U.S.'s irresponsible way of handling the U.S.'s financial and budgetary matters, often at the expense of other countries.\"",
"But Peking University professor Zha Daojiong cautions against \"over-interpreting\" what Zhou seems to be saying.",
"Instead of reducing the role of the U.S. dollar, Zhou may be asking for a greater role of the Chinese currency in \"special drawing rights\" (SDRs), an international type of reserve currency established in 1969 by the International Monetary Fund.",
"SDRs operate as supplements to the existing reserves of IMF member nations.",
"\"Rather than alluding to a goodbye to the U.S. dollar, Zhou may as well be making a case -- implicitly -- for including the (Chinese) renminbi into the list of currencies when the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank work on the SDR in the future,\" Zha explained.",
"Meanwhile, China hopes the G-20 meeting will reach a consensus on how to deal with the global crisis.",
"Said Victor Gao: \"It is equally important to identify the root causes, and make fundamental changes to the international financial system, including cross-border financial regulation, increasing transparency, bringing the hedge funds into the regulatory framework, enhancing risk management, and preventing countries from excessive and irresponsible financial and budgetary activities,\" Victor Gao said.",
"Pointing the finger squarely at the U.S., Victor Gao said China hopes the U.S. will learn from its mistakes to avoid a repeat of the crisis.",
"Before leaving Beijing for London, Chinese President Hu Jintao remained circumspect.",
"\"China will continue China's contribution to international economic development,\" Chinese President Hu Jintao said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency.",
"Chinese President Hu Jintao called for efforts to resist trade protectionism while also calling for a revamp of the international financial system."
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"(CNN) -- Arctic reindeer herders in northern Scandinavia are getting a view from space to help Arctic reindeer herders in northern Scandinavia look after Arctic reindeer herders in northern Scandinavia's herds as the region copes with climate change.",
"Snow worries: Satellite maps of snow coverage and melt can help reindeer herders.",
"Using satellite-based snow melt maps supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA) backed program Polar View, herders are able to view the depth of snow and judge where the best foraging spots are to take herders's reindeer.",
"\"Snow is of paramount importance for reindeer herding, because Snow's quality determines whether reindeer are able to access the pastures that lie beneath it for much of the year,\" Anders Oskal, the Director of the International Center for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR) told European Space Agency (.",
"\"Detailed circumpolar snow information is, thus, becoming increasingly important following the recent changes in the Arctic climate.\"",
"Anders Oskal, the Director of the International Center for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR) is working with Sámi reindeer herders in Finnmark, Norway, to help them maintain and develop sustainable reindeer husbandry.",
"According to Anders Oskal, the Director of the International Center for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR), Finnmark is the area of Norway that is predicted to experience the largest temperature increases, raising concerns about whether ice layers will form over pastures preventing reindeer from foraging.",
"Under the Polar View initiative, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) have been providing snow melt maps for Norway and Sweden, as well as snow cover maps for Eurasia, for the last 18 months.",
"The ICR partnered with Polar View in a trial of the maps to examine how satellite observations could help by gathering information on snow change in a timely manner for such vast circumpolar regions.",
"\"The experience so far has definitely been positive, and the reindeer herders are extremely interested in the future utilization of Polar View products that can relate important information about local snow conditions,\" said Anders Oskal, the Director of the International Center for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR).",
"\"These products could have important consequences for herders' decisions regarding winter pasture quality and potential migration routes.\"",
"In addition to climate change, reindeer herders also have to face a loss of pastures because of infrastructure development, such as roads, hydroelectric power dams and cabin resorts.",
"The same technology would help The ICR to monitor the different forms of land-use change over time."
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"Kennedy saw a proposed ban on above-ground nuclear tests as a way to thaw U.S.-Soviet relations after the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to recordings released Thursday.",
"Kennedy expresses a desire to thaw U.S.-Soviet relatations, on newly released recordings.",
"\"If it does represent a possibility of avoiding the kind of collision that we had last fall in Cuba, which was quite close, and Berlin in 1961, we should seize the chance,\" Kennedy said in a July 1963 meeting with top government scientists.",
"Kennedy signed a treaty with the Soviets and the British the following month that banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater or in space.",
"Kennedy's presidential library in Boston, Massachusetts, released the four-minute recording of a July 1963 meeting with top government scientists, held just four months before Kennedy's assassination.",
"The scientists taking part included John Foster and Norris Bradbury, the directors of two of the top U.S. nuclear laboratories; Glenn Seaborg, then-head of the Atomic Energy Commission; and a member of the commission, John Palfrey.",
"Kennedy expressed hope that a treaty with the Soviets and the British the following month that banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater or in space could produce \"the possibility of a detente\" between Washington and Moscow, \"which may not come to anything but which quite possibly could come to something.\"",
"a July 1963 meeting with top government scientists took place just nine months after the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba brought the world's major nuclear powers to the brink of war.",
"Kennedy said the Soviets were having \"domestic, internal economic problems\" and Kennedy was worried about the rise of China after a major diplomatic split in 1960.",
"\"I don't think anybody can say with any precision, but there isn't any doubt that the dispute with China is certainly a factor,\" Kennedy said, adding, \"They want to avoid a nuclear struggle or ... they want to lessen the chances of conflict with us.\"",
"But Kennedy said the rising nuclear ambitions of China, which would conduct its first tests the following year, could force the United States to resume its own tests.",
"\"It may be that the Chinese test in the next year, 18 months, 2 years, and we would then make the judgment to see if we should go back to testing,\" Kennedy said."
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"Meeting held just four months before Kennedy's assassination .",
"Kennedy on recording: \"We should seize the chance\"",
"Kennedy hoped for \"possibility of a detente\" between Washington and Moscow ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Wearing a plaid green A-line spring skirt from The actress's new fashion line, paired with a black patent leather belt and black leather gladiator sandal stilettos, \"Sex and the City\" actress The actress is the perfect combination of sweet and fierce when we meet up after The actress's fashion show at the Belk department store in ATLANTA, Georgia.",
"The actress surrounded by models and Belk store official Arlene Goldstein.",
"It's a look that totally says The actress's character, Charlotte, with a little bit of screen pal Carrie.",
"The actress is so much like The actress's character, adorable and upbeat, I expect screen pal Carrie or Samantha to drop in on our conversation and say something to shock The actress.",
"As any true fan knows ... OK ... as every woman knows, watching \"Sex and the City\" was like being front row at a fashion show with a plot.",
"TV show and movie costume designer Patricia Field dressed the characters in haute couture as they skipped down the streets of New York City in $600 stilettos.",
"But is this reality?",
"Most sane women wouldn't choose to walk even one city block in high heels.",
"And most women certainly can't spend a month's rent on a belt or bag, even if most women have a truly fabulous party to wear it to.",
"So, what about us, the fashionistas on a budget?",
"Are we to be ignored, forced to wear boring clothing and practical shoes?",
"Luckily, no; designers are catching on.",
"Target features affordable lines from high-end designers like Alexander McQueen and Isaac Mizrahi.",
"All of the pieces in Sarah Jessica Parker's clothing line Bitten cost less than $20 before the clothing store that carried All of the pieces in Sarah Jessica Parker's clothing line Bitten went under.",
"The actress is the latest celebrity to jump on the clothing label bandwagon, designing a line for Belk department stores.",
"Will The actress meet the same fate as Sarah Jessica Parker's?",
"The actress has the following to be successful.",
"Although The actress's character was by far the most conservatively dressed (Carrie strolling through town in just a bra top, anyone?), she had the most wearable wardrobe, and The actress became a fashion icon along with the rest of the ladies.",
"The actress's favorite piece from The actress's line?",
"\"I can't decide, impossible to choose!\" The actress says.",
"So I choose for her: definitely the gladiator heels.",
"\"It's important for women to have a strong shoe,\" The actress says.",
"\"Then you can wear anything on top.",
"With a strong shoe on, you're good to go.\"",
"The actress admits The actress didn't have a defined style before meeting Field, who bluntly told The actress that \"Sexy Secretary\" was going to be The actress's look.",
"The actress's philosophy is a good one: Stick with what works.",
"The actress takes the look that Field defined for The actress's \"Sex and the City\" character.",
"Original it's not, but everything coming down the runway is something the stylish Charlotte York would definitely wear.",
"The actress is in touch with all of us real women out there, saying, \"I don't want to make clothing that only skinny actresses could wear.\"",
"The actress's solution?",
"Dresses, shoes and swimsuits worthy of a \"Sex and the City\" episode that you don't need Park Avenue pockets to afford.",
"It's versatile enough to look good on every body type.",
"\"Everyone has body issues.",
"I really wanted to create pieces that looked good on different kinds of bodies.",
"I had all of my family members trying on the outfits!\"",
"The actress says with a laugh.",
"The actress won't spill any secrets from the scripts of the \"Sex and the City\" movie sequel, which comes out in May 2010, but The actress admits it's a \"happy\" movie.",
"The actress does hint that our famous foursome might have to cut back a little on our famous foursome's clothing expenses as art imitates life.",
"And The actress's willing to share some fashion tips: How to look like you stepped out of the wardrobe room on the set of the next \"Sex and the City\" movie?",
"Green.",
"\"It's THE color\" The actress says.",
"And hey, who doesn't need to save some green?",
"It all works out perfectly.",
"I left the meeting with The actress to check out The actress's displays.",
"Then I skipped out into the streets of Atlanta, in a pair of The actress's new gladiator stiletto sandals.",
"That I got on sale, of course."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- PES 2009 has a tough task on PES 2009's hands.",
"Not only does FIFA look good, it plays well too -- and gameplay was always the area where PES had the edge.",
"Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is the cover star of Pro Evolution Soccer 2009.",
"If you've played a PES 2009 game before you'll know what to expect, which is both a plus and a minus, depending on your point of view.",
"The ball pings around nicely, the weight of pass remains just about right and long passes are much improved.",
"It mostly feels like a game of computer football should.",
"PES 2009 plays fast and given shots from distance almost never fly in, scoring is still a challenge and goals still get you punching the air.",
"For a series that's always short on official team and league licenses -- leading to silly-sounding approximations of players' names (Ryan Gills anyone?) and daft team titles -- PES 2009 gains the UEFA Champions League, which is a small coup.",
"Read our FIFA 09 review here.",
"Game modes are much the same as before, including the venerable Master League, but the new addition of Be A Legend, where you try to take one player to the top, does not feel finished.",
"The graphics are serviceable, with some player likenesses uncanny and others way off.",
"The sound is no better than average and the commentary remains hit and miss.",
"And it's not unfair to say the game menus and their annoying and repetitive music are badly in need of a revamp.",
"Online play is not great and given the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are built for broadband multiplayer, PES 2009 is lagging -- literally.",
"You might say PES 2009 needs revolution rather than evolution and for next season's release publishers Konami must up PES 2009.",
"Nevertheless, PES 2009's reputation is built on a fun offline two-player experience and nothing has changed there.",
"PES 2009 might not be cutting-edge in PES 2009's presentation and options, but you still can't beat a 10-minute match with a mate beside on you on the sofa."
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"PES 2009 is little changed from previous incarnations in the series .",
"Reviewer: While flawed, PES 2009 is still good fun in offline two-player mode ."
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"PAU, France (CNN) --",
"Take a pen, start with the nib at the bottom left corner of the page.",
"Gently drag a pen diagonally from bottom left to top right and you have a quick and easy graphic representation of the price differential between the standard BMW 3-series and its habañero cousin the M3 coupe over the last four generations (and 20 years).",
"Quad exhaust pipes and M-badging distinguish the M3 from standard 3-series coupes .",
"The car in my hands is, supposedly, a 3-series.",
"You know the 3-series.",
"You may well own one.",
"You almost certainly know someone who owns one.",
"It is the ubiquity of the 3-series that has seen BMW become a more mainstream player (without making an obvious lurch down-market) while the mainstream has made an obvious lurch up-market to plug the gap.",
"Ford's new Mondeo couldn't be clearer in Ford's new Mondeo's 3-series aspiration.",
"But the M3 has substantially less in common with the vanilla 3-series than I have with a gorilla (98.4 per cent shared DNA).",
"Eighty per cent of the M3's body panels are brand new, from the aluminum hood to the composite fenders and carbon-fiber reinforced plastic roof.",
"And let's get back to that graph.",
"This UK-specification car costs £50,000 (€74,000).",
"With the options as tested (including the gorgeous 19\" alloy wheels, one of which I pranged on a curb while rectifying a going-the-wrong-way-down-a-one-way-street maneuver -- I'm blaming the co-driver for this navigational error, and so should you) we're talking close to £55,000 (€81,000).",
"the M3 looks good.",
"the M3 looks purposeful and aggressive and more -- what's the word -- obvious than the M3's M3 predecessors, with the engorged dome on the hood to accommodate the 4-liter V8 and the Aston-like side air-intakes with integrated side-light repeaters and M3 badging.",
"But the M3 still looks like a pumped-up family car rather than a purpose-built sports car (though the M3 sits between Porsche's Cayman S and 911 Carrera in price).",
"It may just be possible to buy one and pretend to one's spouse that it's a sensible family car -- providing, that is, that the 22.8 mpg (12.4 liters per 100 km) combined fuel economy (and the regularity of trips to the gas station this necessitates) doesn't give the game away.",
"Inside it's typical BMW -- leather seats that adjust to accommodate any driver (including those such as me who are short of body but long of leg) and a chunky leather steering wheel stitched with the cyan, blue and scarlet colors of BMW's M division.",
"On the road the M3 is -- simply -- lovely.",
"Over 20 years BMW's M cars have evolved from homologation specials (road car versions of track racers) to sedate luxury saloons that can transfer themselves into sporting monsters.",
"Some earlier enthusiastic driving from my co-driver made it necessary to drive slowly, in sixth gear, behind the slipstream of a motor home to conserve fuel while on a desperate hunt for a gas station.",
"In some sports cars this would require skill and dedication.",
"Not so in the M3, the M3 drives however you want to drive.",
"the M3 can pootle as competently as the M3 can hustle.",
"And boy can the M3 hustle.",
"When questioned later that day, a BMW spokesman denied any knowledge of the cars having had the cars's limiters disabled.",
"But I can state that I was passenger in a car that supposedly tops out at 155 mph (200 km/h) at a staggering 176 mph (283 km/h).",
"The question of whether this delimited limiter is an \"undocumented feature\" or a manufacturer's attempt to woo motoring journalists with a set-up that isn't representative of the sale car, will only be resolved once the first customers take delivery of the first customers's new M3s.",
"There is, of course, more to the M3 than flat-out speed on the straight.",
"It's a car that allows drivers a turn of speed on twisty roads with confidence and sure-footedness.",
"You can take corners faster, without fear of picking gorse from your teeth.",
"Take a corner a little over enthusiastically and there's a comforting orange light on the dash to tell you that the DSC (dynamic stability control) has kicked in.",
"When the DSC (dynamic stability control) is engaged flatters the abilities of average drivers.",
"Disengaged the DSC (dynamic stability control) allows skillful drivers an awful lot of wheel-spinning sideways action, as I discovered while given a few hectic laps of the Pau-Arnos circuit in the hands of a pro.",
"What's wrong with it?",
"In common with the M5 and M6 there's the frustrating short indicator stalk that ALWAYS clicks three times, even if you try and cancel it (and in an effort of trying to switch the right indicator off you inevitably find yourself signaling left and vice versa).",
"There seems to be no substantial difference between fifth and six gears.",
"You engage the clutch, throw the lever and -- well, nothing much.",
"But then you really start struggling to find fault.",
"The cup holders don't have an elegant glide and the driver's one isn't as accessible as it could be.",
"While the electric thingum that extends telescopically to hand you the seat belt looks cheap.",
"Harsh criticism.",
"Cup holder aficionados and those who demand milled-aluminum electric hand-me-my-belt thingums may have to look elsewhere.",
"Incidentally, BMW do have a name for the electric thingums.",
"I prefer my own.",
"Just as I prefer the term \"paddle shifts\" to \"SMG\" -- another minor grumble -- paddles shifts would be a welcome option, and one that BMW assured the assembled press would be added as an option in the future.",
"BMW estimates that M3 buyers will be predominantly male and aged 31-50.",
"M3 buyers will own a number of high performance cars but use the M3 as M3 buyers's everyday conveyance.",
"In the light of this market research, the most obvious criticism of the M3 -- the M3's price -- is something of an irrelevance.",
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"Actress Keira Knightley's public service spot was directed by Joe Wright of \"Atonement.\"",
"The commercial, made for the charity Women's Aid, was launched online.",
"It will be shown on television and in movie theaters, the group said.",
"The film, called \"CUT,\" was directed by Joe Wright, who directed Actress Keira Knightley in \"Atonement.\"",
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"According to the Web site for Women's Aid, two women are killed by a current or former partner in the United Kingdom in an average week.",
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"Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet, pictured aboard HMS Belfast, on Wednesday",
"Twenty years since their acrimonious split",
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"The Tony Hadley-fronted band, who enjoyed worldwide success with hits such as \"True\" and \"Gold,\" will launch their comeback in Dublin, Ireland, on October 13 before playing seven dates across the UK.",
"Wednesday's announcement took place onboard HMS Belfast, a retired Royal Navy moored in the Thames that was the scene of a key early gig by Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet in 1980 that launched Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet on the road to global stardom.",
"\"It is impossible to stress too highly how achingly fashionable Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet were in the winter of 1979 and the summer of 1980,\" GQ magazine editor Dylan Jones writes in a biography of Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet.",
"Formed at a London school in 1979, Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet went on to sell 25 million records worldwide, emerging out of the post-punk \"New Romantic\" music scene.",
"Along with fellow British band Duran Duran, their sound, style and attitude came to define an era dominated by ostentatious glamour, gold lame suits and big hair.",
"\"Not only did Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet's albums sell by the millions, but Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet's look and style impacted on the fashion world and beyond,\" said a press release, summing up Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet's influence on the decade.",
"\"Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet created Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet's own style, combining creativity with entrepreneurship and the 'can do' spirit of early 80s youth at a time of crisis and upheaval eerily reminiscent of 2009.",
"Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet are both commercially and culturally enormous.\"",
"Following Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet's split in 1989, several members including Hadley unsuccessfully sued main songwriter Gary Kemp for a larger share of songwriting royalties.",
"Since then, Hadley has appeared in the London production of the hit musical \"Chicago\" and also won an 80s revivalist reality TV show \"Reborn in the USA.\"",
"Several other members of Iconic 1980s glam pop band Spandau Ballet have carved out moderately successful acting careers."
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"Insurance giant AIG will have to return to the Treasury Department the $165 million it just paid out in executive bonuses, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday in a letter to congressional leaders.",
"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said AIG will have to return $165 million in bonuses for executives.",
"\"AIG will impose on AIG a contractual commitment to pay the treasury from the operations of AIG the amount of the retention awards just paid,\" Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote.",
"\"In addition, AIG will deduct from the $30 billion in assistance an amount equal to the amount of those payments.\"",
"That would be a double payment, essentially a $165 million penalty on AIG for issuing the bonuses.",
"The move comes after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo confirmed in a letter to Congress that this year, after receiving federal bailout money, AIG paid 73 employees bonuses of more than $1 million each.",
"Watch congressional reaction to AIG bonuses » .",
"New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo also wrote that 11 of the employees no longer work for AIG.",
"The largest bonus paid was $6.4 million; seven other people also received more than $4 million each.",
"AIG is under fire for awarding the bonuses while being kept afloat by more than $170 billion from the U.S. government's financial bailout.",
"On Tuesday, two key senators also announced a plan to impose a hefty tax on retention bonuses paid to executives of companies that received federal bailout money or in which the United States has an equity interest.",
"Sens. Max Baucus, D-Montana, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are the chairman and top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, respectively.",
"They said companies would not be allowed to restructure the payments to those executives through deferred compensation to avoid the tax.",
"Chuck Grassley and Baucus said all retention bonuses would be subject to a 35 percent excise tax for excessive compensation to be paid by the company and an additional 35 percent tax to be paid by the individual.",
"\"Millions of Americans are losing Millions of Americans's jobs -- millions.",
"And to some degree, Millions of Americans're losing Millions of Americans's jobs because of actions taken by some of these firms,\" Baucus said.",
"\"At the same time, Millions of Americans're giving Millions of Americans bonuses.",
"I mean, give me a break.",
"What are Millions of Americans thinking?",
"That's part of the problem.",
"Millions of Americans're not thinking.\"",
"All other nonretention bonuses of more than $50,000 would be subject to the tax, Grassley and Baucus said.",
"\"We're trying to address what I think taxpayers would say is salt in taxpayers's wounds,\" Grassley said.",
"\"taxpayers are bearing a great deal to get this economy going, help get these corporations turned around, and I think taxpayers are willing to help.",
"\"But when they see the lack of sensitivity on the part of corporate directors -- by giving these bonuses and doing other outrageous things -- there's just so much that the taxpayers of this country are going to stand for.\"",
"The provisions would apply to bonuses paid out after January 1, 2009, so The provisions would affect the AIG bonuses in question.",
"\"Grassley and Baucus should not be here.",
"Grassley and Baucus should not be in this position,\" Baucus said.",
"\"AIG should not have promised those payments to retain those employees, and the Treasury should have blocked the issuance of the checks.",
"It did not.",
"And employees themselves should not have cashed them in.",
"Grassley and Baucus should not be here, but unfortunately Grassley and Baucus are.\"",
"Senior Finance Committee aides said Grassley and Baucus had not yet worked out whether individuals would pay income tax on the bonuses as well as the proposed excise tax, or if a combination of the two would be used.",
"Watch why Americans are angry » .",
"\"You'll have to wait to see when Grassley and Baucus introduce the legislation,\" one of Senior Finance Committee aides said.",
"\"If our bosses had made a decision, we'd tell you what a decision was,\" said another.",
"See a snapshot of facts, attitudes and analysis on the recession » .",
"On Monday, President Obama said President Obama planned to attempt to block bonuses to executives at ailing insurance giant AIG, payments President Obama described as an \"outrage.\"",
"President Obama said President Obama asked Geithner to \"pursue every single legal avenue to block these bonuses and make the American taxpayers whole.\"",
"President Obama said President Obama would work with Congress to change the laws so that such a situation cannot happen again.",
"Watch President Obama say President Obama's outraged by bonuses » .",
"President Obama spared AIG CEO Edward Liddy from criticism, saying AIG CEO Edward Liddy got the job \"after the contracts that led to these bonuses were agreed to last year.\"",
"But AIG CEO Edward Liddy said the impropriety of these bonuses goes beyond economics.",
"\"It's about our fundamental values,\" AIG CEO Edward Liddy said.",
"iReport.com:",
"Sound off on AIG .",
"Under pressure from the Treasury, AIG scaled back the bonus plans and pledged to reduce 2009 bonuses -- or \"retention payments\" -- by at least 30 percent.",
"That has done little to temper outrage over the initial plan, however.",
"Who's insured by AIG? » .",
"AIG CEO Edward Liddy will face intense questioning about these bonuses when AIG CEO Edward Liddy testifies Wednesday before the House Financial Services subcommittee on capital markets.",
"CNN's Ted Barrett, Dana Bash and Elaine Quijano contributed to this report."
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"NEW: AIG will have to return bonuses given to executives, Treasury secretary says .",
"AIG paid 73 people bonuses of $1 million or more each, New York AG reports .",
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"A series of major international sporting events, a weak currency and its perennially sunny perch on the tip of South Africa are making Cape Town one of the hottest sailing destinations of 2009.",
"Lucky strike: Cape Town is set to benefit from several major sporting events .",
"The Indian Premier League cricket tournament was recently relocated to South Africa because of security concerns, and now Cape Town is slated to host the opening match on April 18.",
"Both the Lions Tour rugby and the FIFA Confederations Cup football will follow The Indian Premier League cricket tournament, heading down to South Africa later this year.",
"Combined with the arrival of the World Cup in 2010, South Africa has suddenly become the ultimate holiday spot for sports fans.",
"Calvyn Gilfellan, chief executive of Cape Town Routes Unlimited -- Cape Town's tourism board -- told CNN the boost to Cape Town had arrived at a crucial time.",
"\"When the financial crisis started people went into gloom and doom but these events are helping a lot to restore confidence in the industry.",
"\"The fact that Cape Town have a positive exchange rate also helps Cape Town a lot as a destination,\" he said.",
"But South Africa's government is so focused on ensuring the success of the upcoming games that South Africa recently denied a visa to The Dalai Lama.",
"Critics contend that South Africa bowed to pressure from the Chinese government in refusing Tibet's spiritual leader entry to attend a peace conference that was partially intended to help promote the World Cup.",
"As the focus strengthens on these international events, Cape Town looks set to benefit more than many from the expected surge in tourism.",
"Gilfellan says this is largely due to the city's location.",
"\"We are lucky to be in such a wonderful spot.",
"A lot of these events revolve around the marine industry and revolve around MainSail's 'Port of the Month'.\"",
"MainSail's 'Port of the Month' will play host to the Cape Town International Jazz Festival -- one of many upcoming festivals in the area.",
"Cape Town's picturesque Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, set against the backdrop of Table Mountain, has become South Africa's most visited tourist attraction.",
"Commodore of the Royal Cape Yacht Club (RCYC) John Martin, told CNN the Cape Town port was used widely for business, leisure and sports.",
"As well as being the country's second biggest functioning port for trade, MainSail's 'Port of the Month' played host to racing yachts in events such as the Volvo Ocean Race and the Clipper Round-the-world Challenge.",
"\"We have several major yachting events that stop here and we are very proud of that.\"",
"Martin said the popularity of MainSail's 'Port of the Month' means water space is \"at a premium,\" but there are hopes a new harbor and breakwater will be constructed in the next few years.",
"Still, Cape Town has the capacity to cater for foreign visitors on super-yachts and international cruise-liners.",
"\"Cape Town is a real focal point for refueling and repairs and it's also quite cheap here so people tend to stay for a while,\" Martin said.",
"Gilfellan said Gilfellan felt the surge of massive sporting events would undoubtedly have spin-off benefits for the marine industry.",
"The Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket, which starts this month, had been tipped to go to England, but ultimately South Africa was chosen for its sunny weather.",
"The tournament, which will feature 59 matches across six venues, will run from 18 April to 24 May .",
"The 2009 British and Irish Lions tour officially kicks off on May 30 in Rustenberg.",
"Matches will be held in Cape Town on June 13 and June 23.",
"The eight-team Confederations Cup runs from June 14-28, and will take place across four cities.",
"The event marks the first time an African nation will host an international FIFA tournament.",
"The event foreshadows the much-anticipated World Cup football tournament in June 2010, for which qualifying matches are currently being held.",
"Although that's still a year away -- there are signs that the excitement in South Africa is already palpable.",
"A new television commercial that began airing last month features Spain and Liverpool star, Fernando Torres, and Brazilian icon Kaka showing off Spain and Liverpool star, Fernando Torres, and Brazilian icon Kaka's football skills.",
"The advertisement ends with Torres saying \"Ke Nako\", which in South Africa's Sotho language means \"it's time.\"",
"It seems for Cape Town and the whole country -- this could not be more true.",
"Mike Steere contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Asia's economic growth will tumble to the slowest pace since the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report released Tuesday.",
"Customers buy vegetables at a market in Quezon City in suburban Manila, Philippines, on September 16.",
"\"The short term outlook for Asia is bleak as the full impact of the severe recession in industrialized economies is transmitted to emerging markets,\" said Jong-Wha Lee, acting chief economist for the Asian Development Bank (ADB).",
"The Asian Development Outlook 2009 forecasts that economic growth in developing Asia will slip to 3.4 percent in 2009, down from 6.3 percent last year and 9.5 percent in 2007.",
"Growth could improve to 6 percent in 2010, if the global economy experiences a mild recovery next year, a report released Tuesday says.",
"\"The concern for Asia, and especially for Asia's poor, is that it is not yet clear that the [United States], European Union and Japan will recover as soon as next year,\" Jong-Wha Lee, acting chief economist for the ADB said.",
"The slowdown should prompt Asian countries to expand Asian countries's economic base and not be as dependent on exports, according to a report released Tuesday.",
"Despite the downturn, a report released Tuesday says Asia is in a much better position to cope with the current crisis than Asia was in the late 1990s.",
"\"Large foreign currency reserves and steadily declining inflation rates will provide policymakers with the necessary tools to nurse their economies through the hard times ahead,\" a report released Tuesday said.",
"A number of Asian governments, including China, Japan and South Korea, have already responded quickly to the global financial crisis with stimulus packages and changes in monetary policy, helping to stem some of the downturn.",
"In November, China announced plans to inject $586 billion (4 trillion yuan) into China's economy to offset declines in industrial and export growth.",
"That economic stimulus plan included the loosening of credit restrictions, tax cuts and massive infrastructure spending."
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"(CNN) --",
"President Obama met with President Obama's NATO allies in Strasbourg, France on Friday to talk about President Obama's plans for the war in Afghanistan, President Obama's \"front line in the war on terror.\"",
"Protesters outside the White House in February have a simple idea for the controversial prison.",
"But the war on terror has some dark secrets and President Obama hasn't really wanted to talk about some dark secrets.",
"In Spain, a crusading judge named Baltasar Garzon is reviewing the case of several men who say they were tortured at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.",
"In Washington, Senator Patrick Leahy has been asking similar questions that people around the world want answered: . Did the U.S. really torture prisoners, did the U.S. secretly transfer some to other countries specifically to be tortured and did senior officials authorize it?",
"Senator Patrick Leahy says: \"We can't turn the page unless we first read the page.\"",
"There are ample grounds to believe crimes were committed.",
"Individual prisoners have described being tortured in U.S. custody or being dispatched to other nations with the same terrible result.",
"An investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross also reported evidence of it.",
"While he was in office, George W. Bush said flatly \"the U.S. does not torture.\"",
"But the George W. Bush administration defined 'torture' so narrowly that the Bush administration's use of the word has been contested as well.",
"The effort to find out just what happened has been moving slowly, both inside and outside the U.S..",
"The President Obama administration hasn't encouraged it.",
"President Obama said recently that \"generally speaking, I'm more interested in looking forward than looking backwards.\"",
"That's easy to understand.",
"Millions of Americans are grateful to the U.S.'s ex-president and his aides, as well as U.S. soldiers and spies, for keeping the U.S. safe after 9/11.",
"Any investigations or potential prosecutions could set off a national debate complicating everything else President Obama wants to accomplish.",
"But the U.S. has signed international treaties on torture and war crimes, suggesting it's legally obligated to prosecute any cases that come to light.",
"Countries in Europe, Africa and the Americas have found a way to face Countries in Europe, Africa and the Americas's secret crimes.",
"the U.S. has to decide if the U.S. wants to take the U.S.'s own turn."
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"Leading figures in U.S., Europe want the U.S. to answer torture allegations .",
"Claims come from prisoners and the Red Cross .",
"So far, President Obama has not encouraged inquiries .",
"Other countries faced up to secret crimes, now the U.S. needs to decide what to do ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Suits were swapped for jeans and sneakers throughout London's financial district today, as bankers heeded warnings to dress down to avoid the potential wrath of G-20 protestors.",
"Bankers in London head to work in casual attire.",
"Many city workers have been urged to dress down to avoid attention from protesters.",
"\"Only about 20 percent of people probably just refused to dress down.",
"Everybody else is in jeans,\" said Jesse Feldman, a banker at French investment bank, Société Générale.",
"All week banks and investment firms located in London's City neighborhood have been advising employees to not dress in regular business attire.",
"\"Staff are permitted to wear casual clothing -- jeans/trainers -- commencing March 30.",
"Avoid briefcases/branded bags/computer cases: Put materials in rucksacks or carrier bags where possible,\" U.S. bank, J.P. Morgan told employees in an email statement last week quoted on City news Web site Hereisthecity.com.",
"Employees at Rothschild investment bank in London were told simply not to bother coming into work at all today.",
"Among those who did commute to the office, bystanders said that the bankers are still easy to spot, conspicuously reading UK newspaper The Financial Times or dressing in a uniform business casual look.",
"\"On the tube this morning I thought it was ridiculous because the bankers couldn't have looked more like bankers trying to dress down,\" Feldman told CNN.",
"Instead of jackets, ties and Oxford shoes, polo shirts, khakis and loafers now fill the streets around London and much of central London.",
"\"I saw two bankers wearing matching baby blue sweaters, tight jeans and Church's -- ridiculous,\" Feldman added, referring to the up-scale brand of traditional English shoes.",
"One Web site that covers news and gossip in London has been tracking the banker backlash to the warnings.",
"\"It's a mixture: people are falling into two types.",
"The banks and the funds are certainly encouraging the staff to wear casual dress, but some are determined they won't cower to protestors and are still showing up in suits,\" said Vic Daniels, publisher of HereistheCity.com.",
"On Monday, Bloomberg quoted one City professional, Graham Williams, 66, who said: \"We're not pansies ... most of us have played rugby or boxed.",
"\"If any of those guys do get violent against us individually because we are wearing a suit, we will take action.\"",
"One Web site that covers news and gossip in the City also offers humorous advice for bankers to respond to protestors by dumping \"large blocks of ice\" to \"render protestors harmless,\" and encouraging bankers to \"find your inner G20 [sic] spot.\"",
"Despite the jokes, precautions proved valuable Wednesday as thousands of angry anti-capitalist protestors converged on the City for demonstrations to coincide with the G-20 summit.",
"By midday protestors had started smashing windows at a branch The Royal Bank of Scotland.",
"Earlier in the day 11 people were arrested after being stopped in an armored personnel carrier.",
"Thousands of police are continuing to patrol the streets in anti-riot gear."
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"Some said bankers remained conspicuous despite attempts to dress casually .",
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"ESTERO, Florida (CNN)",
"-- Alana and Joe Consolo should have had the excitement of a young couple enjoying their first house, but the South Florida pair was walking through it recently with a healthy dose of fear.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo tour Alana and Joe Consolo's Florida house after their Florida house was gutted because of concerns about Chinese drywall.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo've been caught in a maelstrom of headline news events that would make your head spin.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo were laid off as the economy soured.",
"The nation's housing crisis cut their Florida house's value in half.",
"And now Alana and Joe Consolo's home's interior is being rebuilt because it contained Chinese-made drywall that Alana and Joe Consolo say has made Alana and Joe Consolo sick.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo are among homeowners in several states who allege Chinese drywall has emitted corrosive gases they believe have given them headaches and upper respiratory problems and caused household systems such as air-conditioning units to fail.",
"\"I'm holding back tears,\" Homeowner said as Homeowner walked through the house, which is in the middle of the reconstruction project.",
"\"I have chills and I'm angry -- really, really angry -- and really sad, too.\"",
"Alana and Joe Consolo moved into the home in Estero, near Fort Myers, less than three years ago.",
"But Alana and Joe Consolo moved out six weeks ago, and even though it's being rebuilt, Alana and Joe Consolo doubt Alana and Joe Consolo'll return there to live because Alana and Joe Consolo've yet to be convinced Alana and Joe Consolo'd be healthy.",
"\"The last time that Alana and Joe Consolo saw the house in this condition,\" Homeowner said, looking at the gutted interior, \"Alana and Joe Consolo came in excited, holding Alana and Joe Consolo's hands, planning on where Alana and Joe Consolo were going to put Alana and Joe Consolo's [baby] room for Alana and Joe Consolo's new family.\" Watch Alana and Joe Consolo tour the gutted home » .",
"Concerns about Chinese-made drywall emerged in Florida last year but by now have spread to other states.",
"The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's investigating complaints in Florida, Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, Washington and North Carolina.",
"And class-action lawsuits are lining up against Chinese manufacturers as well as suppliers and builders.",
"The Florida Department of Health said complaints The Florida Department of Health received -- more than 180 as of Thursday -- generally involve homes built between 2004 and 2007, around the time that a building boom and post-hurricane reconstruction caused a U.S. drywall shortage and spurred imports from China.",
"A study done for The Florida Department of Health by private laboratory Unified Engineering Inc. found that samples of certain Chinese drywall gave off a sulfurous odor from \"volatile sulfur compounds\" when exposed to extreme heat and moisture.",
"A study done for the Florida department by private laboratory Unified Engineering Inc. also found that vapors \"in the residential atmosphere created a corrosive environment in the presence of moisture,\" according to Unified's report.",
"But state and federal officials said state and federal officials're still testing to determine whether the drywall poses health risks.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo, said Alana and Joe Consolo first noticed a problem in December when Alana and Joe Consolo's smoke detectors kept going off inexplicably.",
"An inspection revealed that copper wiring inside their Florida house had turned black.",
"And Alana and Joe Consolo said Alana and Joe Consolo suffered from headaches and upper respiratory problems while living in their Florida house.",
"So Alana and Joe Consolo moved out.",
"Now the house, which had Chinese-made drywall, has been stripped.",
"The builder, Lennar Homes, is footing the bill for the reconstruction and a nearby rental house for Alana and Joe Consolo.",
"Moving out came at a trying time for Alana and Joe Consolo.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo were laid off about a year ago by Countrywide Bank, where Alana and Joe Consolo were mortgage loan originators.",
"Joe Consolo is now a restaurant manager.",
"Also, the nation's housing crisis hit their home.",
"Purchased for $528,000, it has recently been appraised for $280,000.",
"Trying to get out from under a bad investment, Alana and Joe Consolo went to Alana and Joe Consolo's bank to do a short sale.",
"\"The value had decreased so much, we were throwing money out the window,\" Homeowner said.",
"Two offers for $250,000 and $255,000 were rejected.",
"So, Alana and Joe Consolo made a business decision: Alana and Joe Consolo stopped paying Alana and Joe Consolo's mortgage and declared bankruptcy.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo are now three months behind in Alana and Joe Consolo's payments.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo're not sure yet if foreclosure is in Alana and Joe Consolo's future, but Alana and Joe Consolo don't think it will be easy to sell a house that's had drywall issues.",
"The Gypsum Association said that enough drywall was imported from China since 2006 to build 30,000 complete homes.",
"Most of the Chinese drywall, The Gypsum Association said, ended up in southwest Florida during the housing boom.",
"As for Alana and Joe Consolo's health problems, Homeowner said Homeowner's headaches stopped after they moved out of the house.",
"Joe said Joe's been hospitalized twice for pneumonia, and Joe's been diagnosed with lupus, an autoimmune disease of the blood.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo said Alana and Joe Consolo believe drywall was the cause.",
"Lennar Homes, Alana and Joe Consolo's builder, said the Consolos' has identified at least 80 homes the Consolos' built with Chinese drywall.",
"the Consolos' is offering to gut and rebuild at least 80 homes it built with Chinese drywall for free.",
"\"the Consolos''re doing what's responsible, the Consolos' believe,\" Homeowner said.",
"\"the Consolos''re repairing at least 80 homes it built with Chinese drywall by removing every piece of drywall from the home and replacing all affected copper,\" said Chris Marlin, a vice president for Lennar Homes.",
"the Consolos' also is suing Chinese manufacturers and their U.S. suppliers.",
"But while their Florida house's home is being rebuilt, Alana and Joe Consolo's lives still are filled with stress and unanswered questions.",
"Alana and Joe Consolo said Alana and Joe Consolo think foreclosure may be the best way to get away from a house that their Florida house think has made Alana and Joe Consolo sick and that Alana and Joe Consolo don't believe Alana and Joe Consolo could sell because of the housing crisis and drywall issues.",
"\"There's the fear, 'Are they taking everything out?' \" Homeowner said.",
"\"Alana and Joe Consolo want to have more children, and Joe has an autoimmune disorder.",
"[Going back is] just a risk I'm not willing to take.\"",
"Homeowner added, \"The economy started it.",
"The Chinese drywall cemented it for Alana and Joe Consolo.\""
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