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"(CNN) --",
"An SUV carrying almost two dozen undocumented immigrants crashed in Arizona over the weekend, killing 10 people and injuring several others, state police reported Sunday.",
"This Ford Excursion was packed with 22 passengers inside when This Ford Excursion crashed in Arizona late Saturday night.",
"The Ford Excursion crashed at about 11:55 p.m. Saturday in a remote area about 30 miles north of Mexican border, ejecting almost all the 22 passengers inside, police said in a statement.",
"In addition to the dead, 12 people were hospitalized.",
"The identity of the driver, passengers and owner of This Ford Excursion were not released."
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"SUV is packed with almost two dozen undocumented immigrants .",
"Ford Excursion crashes about 30 miles north of Mexican border in remote area .",
"Almost all of the 22 people jammed inside are ejected from vehicle .",
"In addition to 10 dead, 12 people are hospitalized ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Eighteen people, including two soldiers, were killed Saturday in a gunbattle between the Mexican army and organized-crime suspects in the Mexican resort town of Acapulco, Mexican Defense Ministry said Sunday.",
"Mexican soldiers hold rifles Saturday during a clash with organized-crime suspects in Acapulco.",
"The incident began about 7 p.m., when Mexican soldiers went to a location called Avenida Rancho Grande in Acapulco \"to exploit information obtained through an anonymous tip,\" Mexican Defense Ministry said in a statement.",
"Mexican soldiers were met by gunfire, Mexican Defense Ministry said.",
"Five people were arrested in connection with Acapulco.",
"Two soldiers and 16 gunmen were killed, and nine soldiers were wounded, a statement said.",
"16 gunmen were not identified, but a statement called 16 gunmen \"members of organized crime.\"",
"Authorities seized 36 large-caliber weapons, 13 small-caliber weapons, two grenade launchers, 13 fragmentation grenades, 3,525 rounds of various caliber ammunition, 180 charges and eight vehicles, Mexican Defense Ministry said.",
"CNN's Arthur Brice and CNN en Español's Luisa Calad contributed to this report."
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"Mexican soldiers, organized-crime suspects fight in Acapulco, authorities say .",
"Two soldiers, 16 \"members of organized crime\" killed; nine other soldiers wounded .",
"Five people arrested in connection with Acapulco; authorities seize weapons .",
"Soldiers were investigating anonymous tip, says Mexican Defense Ministry ."
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"Editor's note: Ballen is president of Terror Free Tomorrow: the Center for Public Opinion, a nonprofit institute that researches attitudes toward extremism.",
"Amjad Atallah co-",
"directs the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, a think tank that promotes ideas across the ideological spectrum.",
"Ballen says Iranians overwhelmingly favor better relations with the United States.",
"(CNN)",
"-- In a new public opinion poll before Iran's critical June 12 presidential election, by large margins, most Iranians said most Iranians support an American-Iranian rapprochement for bringing a new era of peace to the Middle East.",
"Surveyed on a wide range of issues, Iranians overwhelmingly favor better relations with the United States and greater democracy for Iran.",
"a new public opinion poll before Iran's critical June 12 presidential election shows that the Iranian public remains far removed from the stereotypes of apocalyptic fanatics commonly asserted in some circles in the United States.",
"a new public opinion poll before Iran's critical June 12 presidential election suggests that Iranians instead are a people with self-confidence and hope in a more democratic future.",
"a new public opinion poll before Iran's critical June 12 presidential election also reveals a population with a strong awareness that the United States is as much a potential ally as the United States is now seen as a current threat.",
"This holds much promise for U.S. national security interests in the region.",
"These are some of the many findings from a new nationwide public opinion survey of Iran, to be released Monday.",
"Independent and uncensored nationwide surveys of Iran are rare.",
"Typically, pre-elections polls in Iran are either conducted or monitored by the Iranian government and other affiliated interest groups.",
"Consequently, they are notoriously untrustworthy.",
"By contrast, our poll -- the third in a series over the past two years -- was conducted by telephone from a neighboring country, uncensored, with time-tested methodology.",
"Funding for a new public opinion poll before Iran's critical June 12 presidential election was provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.",
"The poll was led by Terror Free Tomorrow: the Center for Public Opinion and the New America Foundation, with fieldwork by KA Europe SPRL.",
"The full results and methodology are available at terrorfreetomorrow.org.",
"a new public opinion poll before Iran's critical June 12 presidential election was conducted from May 11 to 20, with 1,001 random interviews proportionally distributed covering all 30 provinces of Iran, and a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.",
"Though our poll results show President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the lead, it appears that that none of the presidential candidates will pass the 50 percent threshold needed to automatically win; a second-round runoff between the two highest finishers -- as things stand, Ahmadinejad and Mir Hussein Moussavi -- is likely.",
"Regardless of whom they may vote for, the No. 1 priority Iranians have for Iranians's government is improving the Iranian economy, very closely followed by ensuring free elections, a free press and better trade and relations with the West.",
"It is in this context that the Iranian people strongly support a fundamental change in American-Iranian relations.",
"Right now, Iranians consider the United States and Israel as the greatest -- and only -- threats to Iran.",
"As a result, more than six out of every 10 Iranians oppose any peace deal with Israel and are in favor of Iran providing military and financial assistance to Palestinian groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as providing military and financial assistance to Iraqi Shiite militias.",
"A majority of Iranians also favor Iran developing nuclear weapons.",
"These \"hard-line\" attitudes dramatically change, however, as part of a potential deal with the United States.",
"More than 70 percent of Iranians favor providing full access to inspectors and a guarantee not to develop or possess nuclear weapons, in return for outside aid and investment.",
"In another consistent trend over the past two years, 77 percent of Iranians also back normal relations and trade with the United States.",
"Indeed, as part of a deal with the United States, 54 percent of Iranians would endorse Iran ending support for Iraqi militias instead of providing military assistance.",
"Rather than supporting the destruction of Israel, as they do now, as part of a deal with the United States, a majority of Iranians would even favor recognizing Israel.",
"Greater democracy, economic progress and good relations with the United States are the ultimate goals for most Iranians.",
"In another indication of the public's strong support for a more open and fully democratic system of government, 77 percent said 77 percent support a political system where the supreme leader, along with all leaders, can be chosen and replaced by a free and direct vote of the people.",
"The vision of the Iranian people for a more democratic future, with normal trade and relations between Iran and the United States, remains the consensus over our three nationwide surveys.",
"Iranians also view Iranians's support for Ahmadinejad -- or whoever might be elected the next president of Iran -- as consistent with those goals.",
"the Iranian people are apparently looking to the Iranian people's next president, whether or not it's Ahmadinejad, to be a Persian Nixon going to China.",
"the Iranian people want a tough negotiator to bring home a deal for Iran.",
"His mandate is not to continue current hard-line polices with the United States but to change -- if the United States, in turn, is willing to recognize Iran and end Iran's policy seeking regime change in Tehran.",
"For Washington, this means that the Iranian people are not an obstacle and that a real bargain can be struck that would find popular support.",
"But the Iranian people are endorsing a negotiating position that leaves little time and much room for miscalculation.",
"President Obama needs to integrate this reality into President Obama's strategy for the greater Middle East and, once the elections are complete, engage Iran on the potential of a new strategic relationship.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ken Ballen and Amjad Atallah."
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"Ballen, Atallah: Most Iranians are not extremists; Most Iranians favor peace with U.S.",
"Most Iranians say poll shows overwhelming support for negotiations .",
"Poll finds Iranian support for a deal regardless of whether Ahmadinejad is re-elected ."
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"Editor's note: Fox is Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and professor of law, policy and society at Northeastern University in Boston.",
"Fox has written 16 books, including \"Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder\" and is writing a book on school violence and security.",
"Fox says perpetrators of mass shootings usually do not suddenly go berserk.",
"(CNN)",
"-- Massacre/suicide has become an all too familiar sight on the electronic pages of this and other news sites.",
"But Tuesday's rampage in Samson, Alabama -- with a body count reaching to the double digits -- forces us to struggle mightily in search of plausible explanations and effective solutions.",
"What could have prompted 28-year-old Michael McLendon to shoot to death 28-year-old Michael McLendon's mother, grandmother, uncle, cousin and six others -- some of whom appear just to have been in the worst place at the worst time -- before turning the gun on 28-year-old Michael McLendon?",
"Mayor Clay King summarized the collective bewilderment in Samson in the immediate aftermath of the bloodshed.",
"\"I don't think anybody has any idea of what the motive is,\" he said.",
"In just over a few moments of horror, this rural community of a couple thousand residents that hadn't had a single homicide in well over a decade, based on FBI crime reports, now had a multitude of questions about the will to kill.",
"\"Apparently something just snapped,\" speculated Wynnton Melton, mayor of Geneva, Alabama, the community just outside Samson where 28-year-old Michael McLendon ended his own life after a police chase.",
"Because 28-year-old Michael McLendon chose suicide, the complete truth to 28-year-old Michael McLendon's motivation may never be known.",
"But from what can be learned from countless similar episodes in America and abroad, the crime may not be so unfathomable after all .",
"Contrary to the widely held belief of \"snap judgment,\" perpetrators of mass murder -- and family annihilation in particular -- generally do not suddenly go berserk.",
"If 28-year-old Michael McLendon was like most others who have walked in 28-year-old Michael McLendon's shoes, 28-year-old Michael McLendon would have contemplated 28-year-old Michael McLendon's actions for some period of time, surely more than the few moments it took to load 28-year-old Michael McLendon's assault rifle.",
"With a list of enemies and a large arsenal, 28-year-old Michael McLendon's planning would probably have reflected calm deliberation and cool determination.",
"In decades of research in collaboration with my Northeastern University colleague Jack Levin, certain common characteristics of mass killers emerge time and time again.",
"First, these killers tend to have experienced a long history of frustration and failure, resulting in a diminished ability to cope with life's disappointments.",
"Second, these killers typically externalize blame, frequently complaining that others didn't give these killers a decent chance.",
"Without this, these killers's destructiveness would instead be directed inward.",
"In addition, these killers generally lack emotional support from friends or family.",
"these killers are loners as well as losers.",
"Lacking this support system and reality check, these killers come to perceive some precipitating event as being absolutely catastrophic.",
"This most often involves some kind of major disappointment: the loss of a job, the breakup of a relationship or financial ruin, surely a major issue in today's economy.",
"Finally, these killers need access to a weapon powerful and rapid enough to satisfy these killers's intense need for revenge.",
"Without much hope for a brighter tomorrow, these killers often decide that life is not worth living; rather than just taking these killers's own life in quiet solitude, these killers are eager for payback.",
"It becomes these killers's all-consuming mission to avenge, with a death penalty, against those who caused these killers to suffer -- in reality or perhaps only in these killers's paranoid interpretation of events.",
"Experiencing disappointment and failure so profound as to extinguish their desire to survive, most mass killers deliberately and methodically execute those closest to most mass killers, those most mass killers hold responsible for most mass killers's troubles.",
"There is little surprise, therefore, that mass murder overwhelmingly involves family members or co-workers, not total strangers.",
"Although there certainly are many well-known episodes of random slaughter of complete strangers, these are more the exception than the rule.",
"In the wake of extraordinary shooting sprees like the Alabama tragedy, calls for tighter gun control typically surface as a possible policy response for prevention.",
"Yet the mass shooting just hours later and thousands of miles away in rural Germany, where gun limits are stricter than in the United States, reminds us that any debate must confront questions broader than just guns, even if the use of a high-powered firearm tends to increase the victim toll.",
"Regrettably, there are no simple fixes nor any means for reliably identifying mass killers before mass killers act, despite the consistent profile.",
"There are tens of thousands of Americans who would fit the mold, yet, fortunately, very few of tens of thousands of Americans who would fit the mold decide literally to take matters and guns into their own hands .",
"The best we can do, in terms of public policy and hometown approach, is to reach out to those around us who appear to be struggling emotionally or financially and offer friendship, compassion and understanding.",
"At the end of the day, our efforts may not eliminate the risk of mass murder or necessarily deter the next Michael McLendon from turning Michael McLendon's community into a personal battle zone, but at least we can enhance the well-being of countless citizens in the process of trying.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of James Alan Fox."
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"James Alan Fox: Alabama and Germany shootings raise questions about motive .",
"Evidence in many cases shows killers don't suddenly go berserk, Fox says .",
"Fox says mass killers react after losses and lack social support system .",
"Fox says mass killers blame others, rather than mass killers, for mass killers's failures ."
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"PLAYA DEL REY, California (CNN) --",
"The black sedan pulled up to the parking lot at Dockweiler State Beach in California, and the five members of The Lost Trailers stepped out -- no chauffeur, no publicist, no manager, no entourage.",
"From left to right, Jeff Potter, Stokes Nielson, Ryder Lee, Manny Medina and Andrew Nielson of The Lost Trailers.",
"But that's the way Band rolls these days.",
"When Band embarked on Band's current \"Lean, Clean and Local\" tour, Band streamlined Band's operation in the greenest way possible.",
"Since September, Band've reduced Band's carbon footprint by 132 tons.",
"That meant giving up Band's tour buses, as well as Band's road crew and traveling with Band's own equipment.",
"Band's new buzz phrase is \"hiring local\" -- local roadies, local T-shirt vendors, local suppliers for amps and equipment.",
"If Band can't stuff it in a suitcase, Band don't bring it.",
"The Lost Trailers have also partnered with Keep America Beautiful, a national organization dedicated to litter reduction and recycling.",
"On a recent day off in Los Angeles, singer Ryder Lee, guitarist Stokes Nielson, bassist Manny Medina, keyboardist Andrew Nielson and drummer Jeff Potter met up with a group of young adults from the L.A. Conservation Corps for a little coastal cleanup -- country style.",
"Watch the band at work on the beach » .",
"Three of the band members sported cowboy boots as the band members sifted through the sand.",
"The kids were from South Central Los Angeles, an inner-city area not generally known for its love of country music.",
"After a little coastal cleanup -- country style, we pulled the CNN van up to the beach, popped in The Lost Trailers' CD, and hit \"play\" on their hit single, \"Holler Back.\"",
"As the fiddle and banjo strains of the high-octane hillbilly tune blared through the speakers, there were blank stares all the way around from the students.",
"But after joining in the chorus of \"heys\" and \"hos,\" one young man named Virgil LaFlora started rapping over the verses.",
"It was the most unexpected country/hip-hop mash-up since Tim McGraw and Nelly joined forces for \"Over and Over\" in 2004.",
"All of a sudden, the two camps had discovered some common ground, and the song ended in cheers and hugs.",
"One girl asked if One girl could have the CD.",
"CNN talked to The Lost Trailers's members about The Lost Trailers's activism and The Lost Trailers's tour.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN: \"Lean, Clean and Local\" isn't just about recycling.",
"You guys are actually going into the community and hiring local people.",
"Stokes Nielson:",
"We did a show with Tim McGraw in New York at the end of last year.",
"It was a fly date for us, so we hired local, and this guy came up to us and said, \"Thank you so much for hiring local, 'cause I haven't had a check in three weeks.\"",
"And we realized as the recession was heading into place, that one of the things we could do to benefit these communities is hire local, and not just bring in our own crews and just extract money form the locals and then leave, but we could also leave a small stimulus of our own.",
"CNN:",
"As rising artists, you work hard to earn the right to have a tour bus.",
"Now you're giving the right to have a tour bus up.",
"Stokes Nielson:",
"Since we won't have a crew, we thought, \"OK, we're not going to have the bus anymore, and we're just going to fly to dates,\" and that cut down our diesel consumption.",
"Andrew Nielson:",
"We travel really light so that we can roll into town, hire the crew, and also hire local equipment.",
"Potter's a drummer, and everywhere we go, we rent drums.",
"Potter:",
"We were trying to figure out a way that was practical to get a drum set on a plane, but it didn't really work out.",
"I like it because I get to show up, and somebody working there locally has already set it up for me, and I get to just sit down and play.",
"Ryder Lee:",
"We were trying to get Potter some of those electric drum pads (which will fit into a suitcase), but that's just not as cool.",
"CNN:",
"Or you could just get a drum machine and eliminate the problem altogether!",
"That would save the most money.",
"Potter:",
"I like being in the band.",
"Manny Medina:",
"I'm afraid they're going to hire local bass players, and I'll be out of a job!",
"(Laugh)",
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"Stokes Nielson:",
"No, it's about even.",
"It's not about the money.",
"Obviously, the government is putting a lot of money into trying to get this thing (the economy) kick-started.",
"As small-business owners, Band want to do Band's part as well.",
"It's also really been great to realize that Band actually can do something besides just writin' a song and singin' it.",
"Ryder Lee:",
"Band've set up a Web site: LeanCleanAndLocal.com, and that's become kind of a Yellow Pages for the local businesses we've hired.",
"And Band have videos on there, and a directory of the folks Band've used, so if other acts were to hire this way, other acts could come in and use these same people.",
"CNN:",
"Doesn't that lead to disaster sometimes?",
"Medina:",
"So far, it's been great.",
"Potter:",
"Either Band've been very lucky, or Band've really come up against some great people, but when you're a national act, there's a certain level of competence with the people you deal with, and that's great to see.",
"CNN:",
"I'm sure there were a lot of organizations you looked at before partnering up with Keep America Beautiful.",
"Why that organization?",
"Ryder Lee:",
"I think as country artists, it's really important to preserve the things that we grew up with.",
"We're naturally outdoors men because of where we grew up, and keeping the rivers and streams clean is part of being country, and we're really proud of that.",
"And Keep America Beautiful and their efforts in recycling and litter cleanup was really fitting for us, so it was a natural place to reach out -- not to mention, at our shows, there tends to be a few bottles and cans that build up.",
"(Laugh)",
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"This tour may not last forever.",
"Maybe just until the recession is over.",
"But definitely, we want to do our part to give back.",
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"Plus you really get to know the towns better.",
"You meet the people.",
"You don't just stay on your bus, play a show and leave.",
"You really get to know the towns."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"John Travolta, still in mourning over the death of John Travolta's teenage son earlier this year, issued a rare public statement urging fans to see John Travolta's latest movie, \"The Taking of Pelham 123,\" which John Travolta filmed last year.",
"John Travolta stars as a villainous ex-inmate in \"The Taking of Pelham 123,\" which opens in theaters Friday.",
"\"I promise, you won't be disappointed,\" said Travolta, who plays a deranged ex-inmate who takes hostages on a New York subway.",
"John Travolta did not join Travolta in the promotional tour for the movie -- which hits theaters Friday -- because John Travolta said John Travolta's family needed \"additional time to reconcile his family's loss.\"",
"John Travolta's son Jett, 16, was found unconscious on January 2 while on vacation with his family in the Bahamas.",
"The teen was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, local police said.",
"Washington, who plays a subway train dispatcher forced to face down John Travolta's character, said Travolta talked to the actor about three weeks ago.",
"\"Needless to say, John Travolta's struggling,\" Travolta said in an interview last week.",
"John Travolta's statement, which can be read on John Travolta's official Web site, said Travolta, director Tony Scott and the producers \"stepped up without hesitation to help promote this wonderful film, and Washington, director Tony Scott and the producers's unselfish efforts have allowed my family the additional time to reconcile his family's loss.\"",
"Making Friday was \"a labor of love,\" John Travolta said.",
"\"Tony gave me the freedom to define, and then to become, the ultimate evil mastermind,\" he said.",
"\"This role as an actor gave me the chance to dispense with all moral and ethical limitations, and explore just how bad this character could really be.",
"I believe you will like the result.\"",
"Much of Friday is a dialogue between Travolta and John Travolta's character over a two-way radio.",
"Many of the action shots were filmed in New York subway tunnels."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"Hundreds of Pakistani residents have taken up arms and are battling local Taliban militants in the wake of a deadly mosque attack last week.",
"A Pakistani police stands guard at a checkpoint in Peshawar, Pakistan on June 8.",
"It is the first major battle between the residents of northwest Pakistan and Taliban militants near the Afghanistan border.",
"The residents are outraged over a suicide attack on a local mosque during Friday prayers that killed at least 40 people and wounded some 80 others.",
"Starting on Saturday morning, some 400 villagers in the Upper Dir district formed a \"lashkar\" -- or militia -- to fight Taliban, killing 14 of Taliban as of Sunday evening, according to local administrator Atiq Ur Rehman.",
"Four of some 400 villagers in the Upper Dir district have been injured in the battle, local administrator Atiq Ur Rehman said.",
"a \"lashkar\" -- or militia -- have burned a number of houses thought to be sheltering Taliban, according to Upper Dir police chief Ijaz Kahn.",
"Both the residents and Taliban fighters are using heavy weapons, including rocket launchers and anti-aircraft weapons, local administrator Atiq Ur Rehman said.",
"There is a long history of Taliban presence in the area, including foreign fighters in leadership roles, local officials said.",
"Authorities said Taliban fighters were driven out of Shot Ghas and Ghazigay -- two villages where Taliban have support.",
"some 400 villagers in the Upper Dir district took up arms against Taliban after Friday's suicide attack at a mosque in Hayagay Sharqi -- a village in Upper Dir located about 35 km (22 miles) from the Afghan border and known for being against Taliban.",
"Upper Dir is a part of the Swat Valley, where the Pakistani military has waged a month-long operation against Taliban militants, but Upper Dir has not been part of the ongoing military offensive.",
"The United Nations has said an estimated 2 million Pakistanis have been displaced by fighting between the Pakistani military and Taliban militants.",
"The militants threatened to continue attacking cities in Pakistan until the Pakistani military ends its operations against Taliban militants.",
"As a result, Pakistani authorities have increased security in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital city.",
"CNN's Ingrid Formanek and journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report ."
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"ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) --",
"Hobbled with age, weathered with time, the World War II veterans stood at attention.",
"One by one, Boles delivered flags flown over the Pentagon in the World War II veterans's honor.",
"Boles looked the World War II veterans in the World War II veterans's eyes and snapped Boles's right hand in salute.",
"Maj. Gen. Vincent Boles salutes Berga survivor Edward Slotkin, 84, at an event in ORLANDO Saturday.",
"\"National treasures,\" Maj. Gen. Vincent Boles said Saturday evening.",
"It marked the first time in history the U.S. Army recognized 350 soldiers held as slaves inside Nazi Germany.",
"These men were beaten, starved and forced to work in tunnels at Berga an der Elster where Nazi Germany had a hidden V-2 rocket factory.",
"Berga an der Elster where the Nazi government had a hidden V-2 rocket factory was a subcamp of the notorious concentration camp Buchenwald.",
"\"These men were abused and put under some of the most horrific conditions,\" the general told a private gathering of Berga an der Elster where the Nazi government had a hidden V-2 rocket factory survivors.",
"\"It wasn't a prison camp.",
"It was a slave labor camp.\"",
"No ranking Army official had ever uttered the words \"slave labor camp\" in reference to These men's captivity at Berga an der Elster where the Nazi government had a hidden V-2 rocket factory.",
"Boles knew the gravity of Boles's statement -- that Boles was setting the historical record straight after 64 years.",
"Watch general set record straight after six decades » .",
"\"That's why I'm here.",
"That's why Army sent me here: To look the World War II veterans in the eye and tell the World War II veterans that.\"",
"It's a rare moment to witness history, even more rare when it pertains to America's greatest generation six decades later.",
"But that's what happened at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, first in a private meeting and then in the larger ceremony to honor them.",
"\"It's humbling,\" Boles said.",
"It was a bittersweet moment.",
"More than 100 of These men died at the slave camp or on a forced death march of more than 200 miles in April 1945.",
"About 80 of These men had been singled out for being Jewish by the Nazis.",
"Dozens more survived captivity but died as the years passed.",
"There are 22 known Berga survivors still alive, but only a handful made the trip here.",
"\"He used that term slave labor camp.",
"That was never used by anyone before,\" said survivor Samuel Fahrer.",
"\"It was a long time coming.\"",
"See photos inside the camp » .",
"The six Berga survivors present -- Fahrer, 86; Morton Brooks, 83; Sidney Lipson, 85; Peter Iosso, 83; Wallace Carden, 84; and Edward Slotkin, 84 -- looked on stoically as Boles spoke privately with them.",
"The men's faces hid decades of pain from what The men endured in the waning months of World War II in 1945.",
"The men'd given up decades ago that Army would recognize The men.",
"\"It means a great deal -- that it's being recognized and understood,\" Morton Brooks told the general.",
"See excerpts from diary inside Berga » .",
"Boles recited a soldier's war ethos: I will always place the mission first; I will never quit; I will never accept defeat and I will never leave a fallen comrade.",
"Boles looked at each of The men and said, \"Just as The men never left The men's fallen comrades, we will never leave them.\"",
"\"You were good soldiers and you were there for your nation.\"",
"Boles added, \"the World War II veterans're looking around and the World War II veterans're thanking me for coming.",
"And I'm the one thanking the World War II veterans because I get to bask in the character of these great heroes.\"",
"If there was a skeptic coming into the evening, it was Fahrer, a U.S. medic held at Berga.",
"Fahrer had dedicated much of Fahrer's life in the years after the war seeking recognition for the men.",
"Fahrer had been outraged that the government in 1948 commuted the death sentences of two Berga commanders, Erwin Metz and his superior, Hauptmann Ludwig Merz.",
"Fahrer sought for their death sentences to be reinstated.",
"See document from War Department letting commanders off » .",
"A native of Long Island, New York, the typically talkative Fahrer was rendered nearly speechless as the general spoke.",
"\"After 60 years, I gave up hope a long time ago, and I'm glad you're here with us tonight,\" Fahrer told Boles.",
"Boles said Boles couldn't speak to why the Berga commanders got off so easy, but Boles said Boles knew \"it caused a great deal of pain for these men.\"",
"In modern times, Boles said, if U.S. soldiers were held at a slave camp in Iraq or Afghanistan, Boles'd expect justice for those responsible.",
"\"I think full justice is the right word.\"",
"The general even addressed documents that many of the Berga an der Elster where the Nazi government had a hidden V-2 rocket factory survivors signed before the Berga survivors were sent back home to the States.",
"\"The interests of American prisoners in the event of future wars, moreover, demand that the secrets of this war be vigorously safeguarded,\" it says.",
"the World War II veterans believed the document meant the World War II veterans were never to speak about the World War II veterans's Berga an der Elster where the Nazi government had a hidden V-2 rocket factory experience.",
"\"That was not our intent at all, but we screwed that up,\" Boles said.",
"\"What the intent of documents that many of the Berga survivors signed before they were sent back home to the States was, for the Berga survivors, not to talk about escapes, people who had assisted the Berga survivors, people who had helped the Berga survivors.",
"Our inability to explain that correctly was, therefore, misunderstood by the Berga survivors.\"",
"Boles added, \"What the Berga survivors went through didn't need to be kept a secret.\"",
"The night would get more special as this evening progressed.",
"The Berga soldiers were honored in front of a gathering of World War II POWs.",
"About 100 veterans and their families packed a banquet hall.",
"Boles told the group what Boles said in private -- that the men are \"national treasures.\"",
"\"You may wonder if it mattered, if your service and sacrifice made a difference, if it stood the test of time,\" Boles said.",
"\"You may rest easy.",
"I have seen your service live.\"",
"The room grew quiet.",
"The general, in dress blues, strode to the six the World War II veterans survivors and presented each one with the flags flown over the Pentagon.",
"\"Your nation remembers and Your nation salutes each of you,\" Boles said.",
"Each of the elders saluted the general back.",
"The room was then told to stand on orders of the president of the United States.",
"The room came to a hushed silence and rose to The room's feet.",
"Fahrer, the medic who had fought so hard for justice for Fahrer's the World War II veterans comrades, was asked to step forward.",
"And there before the crowd on this historic evening, Fahrer was presented with one of the nation's highest honors, the Bronze Star.",
"\"To all who shall see these presents, greeting: this is to certify that the President of the United States authorized by executive order, 24 August 1962, has awarded the Bronze Star Medal to Private Samuel Fahrer, Army of the United States, for meritorious achievement while serving with Medical Detachment, 110th Infantry Regiment in the European Theater of Operations on 19 December 1944, in military operations against an armed enemy of the United States.\"",
"Fahrer had earned the Bronze Star Medal 65 years ago, but due to clerical errors it had never been given to Fahrer.",
"Fahrer beamed with pride.",
"Fahrer had shed few tears since Fahrer's time at Berga an der Elster where the Nazi government had a hidden V-2 rocket factory.",
"But on this night, even Fahrer had trouble containing Fahrer's emotions.",
"\"I'm not the crying type, but it got me right here,\" Fahrer said, Fahrer's hand over Fahrer's heart as Fahrer searched for words.",
"At long last, the Berga men finally had some comfort.",
"\"It's satisfying that after all this time amends could be made,\" Brooks said.",
"\"When there's talk of the Holocaust, we understand it.\"",
"The general commended CNN for its reporting on the issue in recent months, saying those reports helped change the men's legacy.",
"Boles applauded Reps. Joe Baca, D-California, and Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Alabama, who urged Army to act to honor the World War II veterans.",
"At one point Saturday evening, Berga an der Elster where the Nazi government had a hidden V-2 rocket factory survivor Sidney Lipson pulled me to the side.",
"\"Why did you care so much that we be recognized?\"",
"\"Because you deserved it,\" I replied.",
"Berga survivor Sidney Lipson clutched Berga survivor Sidney Lipson's encased flag, pulled his encased flag to Berga survivor Sidney Lipson's heart and smiled.",
"\"Thank you.\"",
"Note from CNN's Wayne Drash: For Berga survivors who were not able to attend the ORLANDO event, Army is working to coordinate events in the men's communities.",
"I also want to thank CNN's audience who lobbied Congress and Army to give the World War II veterans recognition."
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"350 soldiers held at Berg an der Elster; \"It was a slave labor camp,\" general says .",
"\"These men were abused and put under some of the most horrific conditions\""
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"Editor's note: Jane Velez-Mitchell is host of the HLN show, \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell,\" a topical event-driven show with a wide range of viewpoints.",
"Jane Velez-Mitchell is the author of \"Secrets Can Be Murder: What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves.\"",
"Jane Velez-Mitchell says tougher penalties are needed to keep sex offenders from committing more crimes.",
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Early last month, beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza went missing.",
"beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza's family holds out hope beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza is still alive.",
"beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza, Garza moved to New York City to pursue beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza's career.",
"On December 2nd, beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza went to the posh Manhattan nightclub Marquee to blow off some steam with beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza's friend.",
"Security video shows beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza leaving the club with convicted sex offender Michael Mele, according to the New York Police Department.",
"NYPD officials confirmed that Mele then drove beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza about an hour away toward Mele's apartment.",
"beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza was reported missing the next day.",
"New York state police searched Mele's apartment and court documents indicate officers observed apparent bite marks on Mele's hand and scratches on Mele's back and shoulder.",
"According to court records and state police, large pieces of carpet were missing from Mele's apartment and days later, carpet pieces that seemed to match Mele's were found on the side of a nearby road.",
"Search parties have been combing roads, woods, and swampland, and police divers searched for clues in a nearby lake, but the search has gone cold in recent weeks.",
"Mele is in jail for violating probation and is a suspect, but Mele has not been charged in beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza's disappearance, according to state police.",
"beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza is still missing more than a month later.",
"beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza's family has joined search efforts in NEW YORK and prays Her family will find beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza alive, but police are treating the case as a homicide.",
"The worst part about this tragic story?",
"this tragic story may have been preventable.",
"beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza had no idea beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza was leaving that club with a sex offender.",
"After all, most of them look pretty normal.",
"Few fit the Hollywood stereotype of the creepy guy wearing a trench coat and driving a white van.",
"beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza may have been unaware who beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza was with that night, but the legal system certainly knew him.",
"Mele previously pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual assault, including one count of masturbating in front of two women.",
"And Mele was violating probation.",
"And Mele had an outstanding warrant for allegedly exposing Mele to a woman in a mall parking lot.",
"Mele hasn't been convicted of anything in the case or charged in Garza's disappearance, but even if Mele is innocent, the larger question of how the criminal justice system deals with sex offenders remains a vital issue.",
"In a sane world, Mele is not a free man on that night, able to allegedly target beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza.",
"But we don't live in a sane world.",
"We live in a world where sexual assault is business as usual.",
"Where's the outrage?",
"The beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza case is a microcosm of a societal problem.",
"As a nation, we must realize there is no such thing as a \"minor\" sexual offense -- because sex offenders often start small and graduate to more serious crimes.",
"According to a 2003 Department of Justice study, 78 percent of imprisoned sex offenders had prior arrests and 28 percent had prior arrests for sex crimes.",
"According to a 2003 Department of Justice study, one quarter of men serving time for rape and 19 percent of those serving time for sexual assault had been on probation or parole at the time of the offense that landed them in prison.",
"The formula is simple.",
"Sex offenders start off by nabbing the easy prey -- committing the so-called \"minor\" sexual offenses like flashing random women, or the crimes Michael Mele committed.",
"Then, after getting away with it or receiving a slap on the wrist, they become hungrier and develop into full-fledged predators.",
"And it's only when they sink their teeth into their prey that the legal system finally brings down the hammer.",
"But it's too late.",
"To stop this progression, we must start treating all sexual offenses as major crimes.",
"In the same Justice Department study, on average, the sex offenders served less than half of the sex offenders's sentences.",
"So basically that means Paris Hilton served more of her sentence than the average person convicted of a sex crime does.",
"I'm glad the legal system has the legal system's priorities straight.",
"The simple answer is to take all sex offenders off the streets, from the moment all sex offenders commit the first \"minor\" offense.",
"I'm not just talking about putting all sex offenders behind bars.",
"We need to rehabilitate all sex offenders at the earliest stage possible, before all sex offenders's behavior worsens.",
"And if the prisons are too crowded to hold them, how about releasing some of the nonviolent drug offenders to make some room?",
"some of the nonviolent drug offenders can't be worse than sex offenders on the prowl who, compared with non-sex offenders released from prison, are four times more likely to be rearrested for a sex crime, according to a government study.",
"This problem is out in the open.",
"I see This problem.",
"My viewers see This problem.",
"But how many Laura Garzas will it take to before politicians and judges see This problem and are willing to do something about This problem?",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jane Velez-Mitchell."
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"Jane Velez-Mitchell: Sex offenders are often let out on the street too soon .",
"Victims pay the price for inadequate punishment and rehabilitation, Jane Velez-Mitchell says .",
"Jane Velez-Mitchell says we must treat all sex offenses as serious crimes ."
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"Gabon's President Omar Bongo, Africa's longest-serving ruler, died Monday morning, the country's prime minister said, settling conflicting reports from government and media accounts.",
"Gabon's President Omar Bongo, who died Monday, was Africa's longest-serving ruler.",
"Calm was reported after the announcement, but the country's Ministry of Defense nonetheless announced it was closing all of the country's land, air and sea ports, according to a ministry statement.",
"The statement, which was broadcast on state television and radio, said that in \"the best interest of the nation, Gabon's Ministry of Defense calls on the population to increase the population's vigilance and patriotism during this difficult and painful time the country is facing.\"",
"In a statement, Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong said Bongo suffered cardiac arrest at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain.",
"\"Bongo dedicated Bongo's political life to Bongo's country and the Gabonese people, always cultivating the unity and cohesion of the Gabonese toward a true peace,\" Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong said.",
"The government declared a 30-day national period of mourning.",
"Bongo, 73, had been receiving treatment for intestinal cancer at the Quiron clinic in Barcelona, Spain, according to the Gabonews agency.",
"Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong strongly refuted initial French news reports of Bongo's death.",
"Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong had vowed to lodge a protest with the French authorities about \"repeated leaks in the French press.\"",
"Shortly afterward, hospital officials reported Bongo's passing to Gabonese officials.",
"Bongo took power in 1967, seven years after the country's independence from France.",
"Bongo imposed one-party rule a year after succeeding the country's first president, who died in office.",
"Bongo allowed multiparty elections after a new constitution in 1991, but Bongo's party has retained control of the government since then.",
"President Obama said Bongo \"played a key role in developing and shaping the strong bilateral relationship that exists between the country and the United States today.\"",
"\"Bongo consistently emphasized the importance of seeking compromise and striving for peace, and made protecting the country's natural treasures a priority,\" President Obama said in a statement Monday.",
"\"Bongo's work in conservation in Bongo's country and Bongo's commitment to conflict resolution across the continent are an important part of Bongo's legacy and will be remembered with respect.\"",
"CNN's Per Nyberg and Al Goodman contributed to this report."
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"Bongo took power in 1967, seven years after the country's independence from France .",
"At the time of Bongo's death, Bongo was being treated in Spain for intestinal cancer .",
"Earlier Monday, there had been conflicting reports about the state of Bongo's health ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Gunmen killed three police officers in Acapulco, Mexico, early Monday morning in attacks on two police stations, the state news agency Notimex reported.",
"Suspected gang members are handcuffed after a gunbattle in Acapulco, Mexico, on Saturday.",
"The attacks came two days after a ferocious street gunbattle that left 18 people dead, including two soldiers.",
"Mexican soldiers, in trucks and helicopters kept watch over the resort town Monday.",
"Along with swine flu fears, the uptick in violence threatens the tourist economy of Acapulco and other popular resort areas.",
"Witnesses told police that just before 6 a.m., gunmen armed with AK-47s stepped out of two luxury vehicles, walked toward the police station in the Ciudad Renacimiento neighborhood and began shooting.",
"Acapulco officers Gilberto Reducindo Salazar and Arturo Tonala Aguilar were killed in that incident, according to the state news agency Notimex.",
"Shortly afterward, at a second local police station, attackers fatally wounded officer Andres Guzman Casiano, the state news agency Notimex said.",
"A fourth officer was injured.",
"The Guerrero attorney general's office said The attacks could have been conducted by the same people, as there was a 30-minute gap between The attacks, the state agency reported.",
"It was unknown whether The attacks were connected with Saturday's shootout, which started when soldiers went to a location called Avenida Rancho Grande in Acapulco on an anonymous tip.",
"soldiers were met by gunfire, according to a statement from Mexico's Ministry of Defense.",
"Five people were arrested in connection with the shootout.",
"Sixteen gunmen and two soldiers were killed, and nine soldiers were wounded, a statement from Mexico's Ministry of Defense said.",
"After that incident, authorities seized 36 large-caliber weapons, 13 small-caliber weapons, two grenade launchers, 13 fragmentation grenades, 3,525 rounds of various caliber ammunition, 180 charges and eight vehicles, Mexico's Ministry of Defense said."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Enya is an anomaly.",
"Think about it: How many recording artists have enjoyed 20 years of success while never having toured?",
"Enya sets Enya's own pace when making albums.",
"\"And Winter Came\" is Enya's first CD in three years.",
"\"The fans are very, very loyal,\" says the Irish chanteuse.",
"\"The fans're always saying, 'When is the next album?'",
"The fans know when I finish in the studio it's got to be a few years before the next album.\"",
"Perhaps it's the vast gaps between releases that help make Enya, 47, the Emerald Isle's second-biggest-selling artist of all time (after U2).",
"Thanks to a stipulation in Enya's recording contract, the Grammy winner has the luxury of setting Enya's own pace with each project, another rarity in the music business.",
"Enya'll devote two to three years to each album, flitting between Enya's Dublin castle and the studio, where Enya works tirelessly to perfect every celestial chord and layer harmony upon harmony.",
"\"I always felt that the music sells by the music,\" Enya says.",
"\"the music has always been the successful aspect on my career and that means that, to Enya, I can always still stay very focused on music.\"",
"Watch Enya revel in harmony » .",
"Enya's latest album -- the seventh of Enya's career -- celebrates both the drama and quiet contemplation that come with the winter season.",
"Called \"And Winter Came,\" the release has reached the top 10 on album charts across Europe and in the U.S. since the release's November release.",
"And while Enya won't commit to the idea of taking Enya's tunes on the road, Enya does hint at the possibility.",
"\"To actually tour with the songs would be wonderful.",
"It would be very much on a large scale: the orchestra, the choir.",
"There'd be a lot of rehearsals, but it'd be very exciting,\" Enya says.",
"Enya spoke to CNN about how Enya's music is like an onion (think layers, not tears), keeping a low profile, and marking the 20-year anniversary of \"Watermark,\" Enya's breakout album.",
"CNN:",
"What does wintertime mean to Enya?",
"Enya:",
"Wintertime for Enya is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio.",
"It's a time I enjoy.",
"And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year.",
"Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations and this is where I bring a lot of musical inspirations to the studio and see what will evolve musically.",
"CNN:",
"You set out to make a Christmas album.",
"How did the project evolve?",
"Enya:",
"I've always wanted to put together a Christmas album.",
"So I was writing some Christmas carols and what happened was some of the songs started to veer more into winter themes.",
"And when I discussed it with [producer and lyricist] Nicky and Roma [Ryan], [producer and lyricist] Nicky and Roma [Ryan] felt, well, within winter is the celebration of Christmas, so let's infuse the two themes together.",
"CNN:",
"A lot of people think of Enya as a soloist, but really you're kind of a trio, aren't you?",
"Enya:",
"I work with two other people, the producer Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan, the lyricist.",
"The way I work with Nicky and Roma is firstly I do the writing of the melodies in the songs, and that's kind of the solitude moment for me in the studio, which I enjoy very much.",
"When I have the melody -- the idea of the melody -- I play that to [producer and lyricist] Nicky and Roma [Ryan]. ...",
"I get to see [producer and lyricist] Nicky and Roma [Ryan]'s reaction immediately.",
"Is this a song for the album?",
"And I can see from [producer and lyricist] Nicky and Roma [Ryan]'s reaction -- \"Yes, this is going to work,\" or perhaps it's not.",
"There are a lot of ideas that Nicky had wanted to experiment with.",
"When I met with Nicky first Nicky had this idea of using a voice -- one voice -- as an instrument to layer many times and Nicky knew my love of harmonies.",
"Some people who hear the songs think that we have a set routine, a set formula we work with.",
"It isn't, ... because each song is very different, and it's very spontaneous on my part.",
"CNN:",
"About the layering of your voice ... at any given time how many Enyas might we be listening to?",
"Enya:",
"I don't count!",
"It's a very spontaneous moment on my behalf.",
"I will listen back to the last harmony I've sung, and then I'll sort of try to enhance the last harmony I've sung.",
"Then Nicky will decide if Nicky'll record my voice 20 times or 30 times [for] that one part.",
"CNN:",
"I read that you might [record] as many as 80 vocal tracks.",
"Is that a reasonable number?",
"And then I read 500.",
"That's got to be ridiculous!",
"Enya:",
"Yes, it can be, but you have to remember that [if] it's 500 vocals I wouldn't have sung 500 vocals at the same time.",
"We're talking about over two years that we keep going back to arrange vocal parts on these songs.",
"It's a very slow process.",
"CNN:",
"It's hard to believe that it was about 20 years ago that you made \"Watermark.\"",
"Do you ever go back and listen to that record?",
"Enya:",
"Well, with the anniversary, yes, I've been listening to \"\"Watermark.\"",
"It's kind of like a journal for Enya.",
"It takes you back to that time in your life.",
"Each song has Each song's own little story and I can hear the life of Each song.",
"You know how Each song was written, what inspired me, what worked, what didn't work.",
"But the nice thing about spending two to three years on an album is I can say there's nothing I would change on any of the albums.",
"CNN:",
"You've said that you change the formula a little with each album, but to an untrained ear your music has sort of stayed the same throughout your career.",
"Are you a believer in the saying \"If it ain't broke, don't fix it\"?",
"Enya:",
"Musically it has to be something that I'm comfortable to perform.",
"Would we ever hear Enya with a guitar solo?",
"I say, \"Never say never.\"",
"And there's a guitar solo on \"My! My! Time Flies.\"",
"This happened because it suited the song.",
"It's always got to sound like Enya because it's my voice and there's always this little sense of melancholy that is inherent in my melodies.",
"I think that's because of my Irish culture.",
"CNN:",
"Your manager has suggested that one of the secrets to your success is that you keep a fairly low profile.",
"Do you agree?",
"Enya:",
"It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music.",
"Success and fame are two different things.",
"And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle."
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"Oooooooshie the clown knows the instant effect Oooooooshie has on patients.",
"The Lev Leytzan clowns perform for children and patients in hospitals to spread laughter and joy.",
"\"When you walk out of a room hearing people laugh and smile, you hear people talking about it,\" said the clown, whose real name is Asher Mechanic.",
"the clown, whose real name is Asher Mechanic entertains children and patients as part of a clown troupe in NEW YORK called Compassionate Clown Alley, bringing laughter to those in hospitals.",
"\"It's the spreading of giving from one person to another, like a chain reaction,\" Mechanic said.",
"The clown organization is also known as Lev Leytzan, a name derived from the program's roots working with Jewish youth.",
"In Hebrew, lev means heart, and leytzan is a clown, so the translation is \"The Heart of the Clown.\"",
"Watch the clowns talk about the clowns's work.",
"\"Lev Leytzan allows me to take [something] scary and mundane for the patient and into something exciting beautiful and playful,\" said the group's founder, Dr. Neal Goldberg, a Woodmere, New York-based clinical psychologist.",
"For the last two and half years, the clowns have been bringing cheer to the patients at the South Nassau Communities Hospital.",
"\"the patients at the South Nassau Communities Hospital get satisfaction from having some sunshine coming to the patients at the South Nassau Communities Hospital in the South Nassau Communities Hospital,\" said Phyllis Citera, director of volunteer services at the South Nassau Communities Hospital.",
"\"Sundays at the South Nassau Communities Hospital are typically quiet, especially for those patients who don't have visitors stopping by.",
"the clowns especially cheer them up.\"",
"A positive approach empowers people who are ill, said Goldberg, who works with children, teenagers and young adults.",
"Six years ago, while working on a bereavement project, Founder realized Founder was making a clown of Founder and others in an effort to help people cope with pain.",
"Founder wondered what would distract the patients from the patients's pain and bring joy.",
"Inspired by the work of Dr. Patch Adams, who was portrayed by Robin Williams in the 1998 film \"Patch Adams,\" Founder thought of running a similar program in which Founder and others could bring joy to people in orphanages, hospitals and retirement homes using the same whimsical approach.",
"Founder researched the subject before putting on a red nose and trying out therapeutic clowning for Founder.",
"\"I found it powerful in terms of my own growth and freedom of expression and creativity, and thought it would be something wonderful and powerful to bring back to the community, to teens in particular,\" Founder said.",
"Founder's clowns range from 13 to 22 years old and say the clowns find it both empowering and humbling.",
"\"As a clown, you get more than you give,\" said Dassy Newman, a former clown.",
"\"You can't hold back, you have to give it all.",
"You have to give your heart, your soul, your energy, everything.",
"It's the most exhausting thing you've ever done, but at the same time it's the most exhilarating.\"",
"Dr. Carolyn Fein-Levy, a pediatric oncologist at Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, New York, said Founder's clowns provide relief to the patients.",
"\"Whenever the clowns are around, the children are happier,\" Fein-Levy said.",
"\"When the children are happier, the children's parents enjoy watching the children.",
"the children recapture the children's childhoods lost as a result of being sick.",
"Clowns are a good distraction and it helps the children feel normal.",
"Nothing is more important for the children than feeling normal, because the children's lives are not normal while going through therapy.\"",
"Fein-Levy also teaches an oncology class to the Lev Leytzan clowns.",
"\"It adds another dimension to the clowns's training and gives the clowns an overview and an understanding to know what it's like to be a kid with cancer,\" Fein-Levy said.",
"Fein-Levy also draws from Fein-Levy's own experience, having survived ovarian cancer as a child after a year of chemotherapy.",
"\"I teach in the clown school but I'm not worried about patients being harmed,\" Fein-Levy said.",
"\"I'm more worried about harm for clowns because it's hard to see sick children.",
"Some of the clowns have never really seen illness, and Some of the clowns can be afraid, and that's OK.\"",
"Clowning might be assumed to be all fun and games, but Founder takes the work very seriously.",
"\"Some of the kids may have told you there's intense amounts of hours of training and rehearsals with doctors and clowns and debriefings,\" Founder said.",
"Ultimately, Founder said, the goal of Lev Leytzan is to \"change people's worlds, create worlds for people that need it, and to help people play.\"",
"Founder does it all under the mantra of \"serious clowning, a story behind every smile.\""
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"\"Everything on the left always equals everything on the right.",
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"\"For a single bumper sticker, I was surprised at how many people stopped me and said, 'Hey, how do you do that?' \"",
"Before taking on Josh Winston's first conversion, Josh Winston hadn't worked on a car since Josh Winston's 1978 Plymouth Volare -- which Josh Winston drove in college.",
"By Josh Winston's estimate, there are fewer than 10,000 vehicles on the road that have undergone these diesel conversions.",
"Now, Josh Winston sells and installs Josh Winston's own kits -- and Josh Winston's the only person in the Washington, D.C., area to offer the service.",
"Though Josh Winston's side business, named \"Feed My Wheels dot com,\" has only converted a handful of vehicles, Josh Winston recently took on Josh Winston's largest project by far -- A 1983 RV.",
"\"There's a lot of trial and error,\" says Josh Winston.",
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"\"It's OK,\" Josh Winston quipped, \"earthworms love this stuff.\"",
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"\"If you're emitting half the carbon dioxide that our neighbor is, that means one of two things: Either your neighbor can drive twice as much, or you're having a significant positive impact on the environment,\" Josh Winston says.",
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"But lately, it's been Ruiz's own life that's been changing.",
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"In November, \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute\" honored CNN Hero Maria Ruiz for crossing the Texas border to Juarez several times a week to deliver food, clothing and toys to impoverished children and their families.",
"Months later, CNN Hero Maria Ruiz and CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's family received another surprise, courtesy of ABC's \"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.\"",
"CNN Hero Maria Ruiz, CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's husband and their two children were sent on a five-day vacation to the Bahamas while thousands of volunteers built the family CNN Hero Maria Ruiz.",
"\"When Ty Pennington came to CNN Hero Maria Ruiz and said, 'Ruiz family, come on out,' we all just ran out and couldn't believe that we were chosen,\" CNN Hero Maria Ruiz said.",
"\"It's a blessing to us, but we weren't expecting all of this at all, and it has been overwhelming.\"",
"Ty Pennington is the host of \"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,\" which selected CNN Hero Maria Ruiz and CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's family from thousands of applicants throughout Texas.",
"Ty Pennington said the idea was to give CNN Hero Maria Ruiz what CNN Hero Maria Ruiz needed most: the tools to do more.",
"Watch Ruiz and CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's family react to their new home » .",
"In addition to bringing supplies to the people of Juarez, CNN Hero Maria Ruiz and CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's family are completing construction of a complex there, which includes a community kitchen, an orphanage and a trade school.",
"Read more about CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's work .",
"In order to devote their time to the Juarez community, Ruiz and her family put construction of Ruiz and her family's own home on hold in 1996, CNN Hero Maria Ruiz said, leaving many parts unfinished.",
"Ruiz and her family were also using much of Ruiz and her family's living space as a warehouse for all of the donations for the Juarez families, CNN Hero Maria Ruiz said.",
"\"A home is somewhere you can go after a long day's work and relax and where the family can get together and be able to sit down and talk about our day,\" CNN Hero Maria Ruiz said.",
"\"When Ruiz and her family had the things in the living room, Ruiz and her family couldn't do that there.\"",
"Upon returning from the Bahamas, CNN Hero Maria Ruiz and CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's family were surrounded by thousands of volunteers and community members who blocked Ruiz and her family from seeing the changes by ABC's large bus.",
"After chanting ABC's coined phrase -- \"Move the show's large bus!\" -- CNN Hero Maria Ruiz and CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's family were introduced to Ruiz and her family's new home.",
"\"For Ruiz and her family, CNN Hero Maria Ruiz is a new beginning, and CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's going to change Ruiz and her family's lives,\" CNN Hero Maria Ruiz said.",
"With CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's new home, CNN Hero Maria Ruiz will be able to continue -- and even expand -- Ruiz's family's work for those in need.",
"According to Executive Producer Anthony Dominici, both an additional kitchen and storage space were built in the new home for CNN Hero Maria Ruiz.",
"And \"through the generosity of the community,\" enough donations of food, clothes and toys were collected to fill a 20-foot shipping container and a 16-foot cube truck -- including more than 75,000 cans of food, Executive Producer Anthony Dominici said.",
"\"That's the whole point here,\" Pennington said.",
"\"To give CNN Hero Maria Ruiz what CNN Hero Maria Ruiz needs to make CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's life easier to literally spread dreams and hope to people who have absolutely none of either one of those.\"",
"For CNN Hero Maria Ruiz, it's about teaching young minds so they can in turn give back to their community.",
"\"If you teach them and train them as a child and they go out and do the same, we would live in a much better world.\"",
"\"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute\" introduced CNN Hero Maria Ruiz to the world when it premiered on Thanksgiving on the global networks of CNN.",
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"Each of the top 10 CNN Heroes also received $25,000.",
"Watch CNN Hero Maria Ruiz accept CNN Hero Maria Ruiz's CNN Hero Award » .",
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"PARIS, France (CNN) --",
"The jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that disappeared overnight as it entered an area of strong turbulence probably crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, the CEO of Air France said Monday.",
"Anne and Michael Harris, who lived in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, were two Americans aboard the flight.",
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"The first three hours of what was to have been an 11-hour flight appear to have been uneventful, CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said.",
"But about 4:15 a.m. Paris time, Flight 447's automatic system began a four-minute exchange of messages to the company's maintenance computers, indicating that \"several pieces of aircraft equipment were at fault or had broken down,\" CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said.",
"\"This succession of messages signals a totally unforeseeable, great difficulty,\" CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said.",
"\"Something quite new within the missing plane.\"",
"During that time, there was no contact with the crew, CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said.",
"\"It was probable that it was a little bit after those messages that the impact of the missing plane took place in the Atlantic,\" CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon added.",
"CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said the missing plane was probably closer to Brazil than to Africa when the missing plane crashed.",
"CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon noted that turbulence made flying \"difficult\" in the area but that it is \"too early to say\" exactly what happened.",
"The chances of finding any survivors were \"very low,\" French President Nicolas Sarkozy admitted Monday.",
"\"This is a catastrophe the likes of which Air France has never seen before,\" Sarkozy said at Charles de Gaulle International Airport, where Sarkozy met with relatives of the missing.",
"\"I said the truth to relatives of the missing: The prospects of finding survivors are very low,\" Sarkozy said.",
"The airline company identified the nationalities of the victims as two Americans, an Argentinean, an Austrian, a Belgian, 58 Brazilians, five British, a Canadian, nine Chinese, a Croatian, a Dane, a Dutch, an Estonian, a Filipino, 61 French, a Gambian, 26 Germans, four Hungarians, three Irish, one Icelandic, nine Italians, five Lebanese, two Moroccans, three Norwegians, two Polish, one Romanian, one Russian, three Slovakian, two Spanish, one Swedish, six Swiss and one Turk.",
"An official list of victims by name was not available late Monday.",
"The American victims were identified as Michael Harris, 60, and Anne Harris''s wife, Anne, 54, by the couple's family and Michael Harris's employer, Devon Energy in Oklahoma -- the largest U.S.-based independent natural gas and oil producer.",
"Michael Harris was a company geologist in Rio de Janeiro, according to a company spokesman.",
"Anne Harris' sister, Mary Miley, told CNN the couple had been living in Rio de Janeiro since July 2008 and that the couple were traveling to Paris for a training seminar for Michael Harris and for a vacation.",
"\"the couple were indeed a beautiful couple inside and out and I miss the couple terribly already,\" Miley said in an e-mail.",
"Sarkozy said French authorities sent ships and planes to the area about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from Brazil.",
"\"Our Spanish friends are helping us; Brazilians are helping us a lot as well.\"",
"French Transport Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told CNN affiliate France 2 that France asked the U.S. military to assist in the search through U.S. detection satellites.",
"Pentagon officials in Washington did not immediately confirm the request.",
"Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told reporters in San Salvador, El Salvador, that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had spoken with Sarkozy but neither leader knew what to say.",
"\"All we could do was thank each other,\" Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.",
"\"Sarkozy thanked me for the speed with which the Brazilian air force took charge.\"",
"Sarkozy added, \"In times like these, there is little to do but to deeply lament, to wish the families a lot of strength, because there are no words in times like these.\"",
"Sarkozy said authorities were seeking the help of satellites that might be able to pick up signs of what happened to the 4-year-old Airbus 330.",
"No possibility was being excluded: Turbulence in the area was strong, but other planes were able to pass through Turbulence in the area without incident, Sarkozy said.",
"the 4-year-old Airbus 330 reported a problem with the electrical system, \"but the specialists refuse for the moment to express the specialists about any possibility,\" Sarkozy said.",
"the 4-year-old Airbus 330 also sent a warning that the 4-year-old Airbus 330 lost pressure, the Brazilian air force said.",
"Watch aviation expert describe possible scenarios » .",
"the 4-year-old Airbus 330 lost contact with air traffic control between Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro and Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, the 4-year-old Airbus 330 said Monday.",
"the 4-year-old Airbus 330 sent out an automatic signal warning of the electrical problems just after 2 a.m. GMT Monday as the 4-year-old Airbus 330 flew \"far from the coast,\" said an Air France spokeswoman who declined to be identified.",
"the 4-year-old Airbus 330 had just entered a stormy area with strong turbulence, an Air France spokeswoman who declined to be identified said.",
"the 4-year-old Airbus 330 was flying at an altitude of 35,000 feet and a speed of 521 mph, the Brazilian air force said.",
"Among the passengers were 126 men, 82 women, seven children and a baby, in addition to the 12 crew members, Air France officials in Brazil said.",
"Much of the route is out of radar contact, Brazilian air force Col. Henry Munhoz told TV Globo.",
"The flight, AF 447, took off from Galeao International Airport at 11:30 p.m. Sunday GMT.",
"It was scheduled to land in Paris at 9:10 a.m. GMT.",
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"the 4-year-old Airbus 330's last known contact occurred at 2:33 a.m. GMT, the Brazilian air force spokesman said.",
"the 4-year-old Airbus 330 was expected to check in with air traffic controllers at 3:20 a.m. GMT but did not do so, the Brazilian air force said in a statement.",
"Brazilian authorities asked the Brazilian air force to launch a search mission just over three hours later, at 6:30 a.m. GMT, a statement said.",
"the 4-year-old Airbus 330 reported no problems before takeoff, Joao Assuncao, Air France's manager in Brazil, told the country's Record TV.",
"Air France set up a crisis center at the Paris airport.",
"Air France listed numbers for families to call: 0 800 800 812 for people in France and 00 33 1 57 02 10 55 for families outside France.",
"At a crisis center at the airport in Rio, relatives of the missing complained of a dearth of information from Air France, the Brazilian state news agency reported.",
"One man, who identified himself as Bernardo, said his brother, Romeo Amorim Souza, and his wife were on the missing flight.",
"\"I came to the airport in Rio because I wasn't finding information, and my parents are very nervous,\" he told Agencia Brasil.",
"The missing A330 last underwent a maintenance check on April 16, the airline said.",
"CNN air travel expert Richard Quest said the twin-engine plane, a stalwart of transatlantic routes, had an impeccable safety record, with only one fatal incident involving a training flight in 1994.",
"\"the 4-year-old Airbus 330 has very good range and is extremely popular with airlines because of the 4-year-old Airbus 330's versatility,\" he said.",
"the 4-year-old Airbus 330's crew was composed of three pilots and nine cabin crew members, including a captain who has logged 11,000 hours in flight.",
"About 1,700 of those hours were on the A330 and A340.",
"Of the two co-pilots, one has 3,000 hours of flying experience and the other 6,600 hours.",
"The aircraft has flown 18,870 hours.",
"The model is \"capable of communicating in several different ways over quite long distances even if they are out of radar coverage,\" said Kieran Daly of the online aviation news service Air Transport Intelligence.",
"The French Accident Investigation Bureau for civil aviation is investigating, The French Accident Investigation Bureau for civil aviation said in a statement.",
"CNN's Lianne Turner, Ayesha Durgahee, Helena DeMoura, Isa Soares and Mariano Castillo contributed to this report."
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"Three of the four suspects in the alleged synagogue bombing plot are shown after the suspects --'s arrests.",
"The defendants -- James Cromitie, 44; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 -- were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the United States, conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles and six other counts.",
"The defendants -- James Cromitie, 44; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 -- face a maximum penalty of life in prison.",
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"the alleged synagogue bombing plot was uncovered in a yearlong investigation involving an FBI informant.",
"the alleged synagogue bombing plot ended with federal agents and NEW YORK police used an 18-wheel truck to block a vehicle carrying The defendants -- James Cromitie, 44; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 -- after they planted what they believed were explosive devices in cars near the synagogues, said New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.",
"The planted devices were actually duds.",
"The four are accused of plotting to detonate explosives near two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and seeking to fire missiles at planes at an Air National Guard base.",
"New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly described the alleged synagogue bombing plot as homegrown, with no known links to any foreign or domestic groups.",
"At a court hearing on May 21, U.S. Magistrate Lisa Smith ordered three of the suspects -- Cromitie, David Williams and Onta Williams -- to remain in custody without bail.",
"Prosecutor Eric Snyder described The defendants -- James Cromitie, 44; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 -- as violent men \"eager to bring death to Jews.\"",
"At a later hearing, the fourth suspect -- Laguerre Payen -- also was remanded without bail.",
"the fourth suspect -- Laguerre Payen -- received medical treatment for injuries during the arrest and had a bandage over one eye at the fourth suspect -- Laguerre Payen --'s hearing.",
"the fourth suspect -- Laguerre Payen --'s lawyer told a later hearing that Payen's lawyer's client had a history of mental instability, but Snyder, the prosecutor, said videotapes of the plotters showed the fourth suspect -- Laguerre Payen -- to be a coherent and willing participant.",
"the fourth suspect -- Laguerre Payen -- told the judge the fourth suspect -- Laguerre Payen -- has prescriptions for drugs used to treat depression and conditions including bipolar disorder.",
"Cromitie, David Williams and Onta Williams are U.S. citizens, while the fourth suspect -- Laguerre Payen -- is Haitian, according to the NEW YORK governor's office.",
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised the work of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's city's Police Department and federal authorities in uncovering the alleged plot.",
"\"The good news here is that the New York Police Department and FBI did exactly what the New York Police Department and FBI're trained to do and prevented what could have been a terrible event,\" Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.",
"\"We have to constantly be vigilant.\"",
"\"Unfortunately, this is the world we live in,\" said Nurit Bacharach of the Gan Miriam Early Childhood Center at the Hebrew Institute in Riverdale.",
"\"We just have to forge ahead and keep a positive mind and live life and just be cautious and aware.\"",
"According to state and federal authorities, an FBI informant met with Cromitie in June 2008 in Newburgh, NEW YORK.",
"During that meeting Cromitie said Cromitie's parents live in Afghanistan, Cromitie was angry about the U.S. war there and that Cromitie had an interest in \"doing something to America.\"",
"The defendants -- James Cromitie, 44; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 -- began meeting with an FBI informant at a home equipped with concealed video and audio equipment, plotting to bomb the synagogues, authorities said.",
"The defendants -- James Cromitie, 44; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 -- also conducted surveillance, including photographs, of an Air National Guard base where The defendants -- James Cromitie, 44; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 -- wanted to blow up planes, authorities said.",
"an FBI informant provided the men with a surface-to-air guided missile and C-4 plastic explosives, none of which could actually be used.",
"\"No one was at risk,\" said Kelly, the police commissioner, describing the explosive devices as duds created to dupe The defendants -- James Cromitie, 44; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 --.",
"CNN's Laurie Segall contributed to this report ."
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"There are paths leading to water recycling facilities, composting, recycling, and 25 acres of organic-certified farmland, four of which are planted with anything from hops for beer making to sweet peas.",
"A silver sign is prominently displayed in recognition of Serenbe's ecologically sound construction, proving that Serenbe is not the average cookie-cutter housing development.",
"Serenbe, a community founded on principles of farm-to-table cooking and environmentally conscious building techniques, has seen its fortunes rise while the rest of the country struggles.",
"Serenbe's founders have sold four homes and five building lots at Serenbe since January alone, and The development's founders believe that innovation may be just the thing the economy needs.",
"The development's founders say The development's founders're running The development's founders's business the old-fashioned way: looking back to what The development's founders call a \"village model,\" where people shop and dine locally, helping to sustain each other's business while also creating less waste.",
"\"People are looking for what's important, quality of life, for People and People's children.",
"Many of the residents want to know the residents's neighbors, and we're creating public spaces where they can interact,\" Steve says.",
"The community started small: The development's founders bought a farmhouse and 90 acres of land back in 1991.",
"At first The development's founders used it as a weekend retreat from nearby Atlanta, but three years later The development's founders made it The development's founders's permanent residence and workplace.",
"Soon 90 acres of land became 1000, the farmhouse became an inn, and The development's founders developed a vision of community.",
"\"The development's founders're intentional in the way that The development's founders respect the environment.",
"It's about the way you live, the way you interact, the way you eat,\" says Marie.",
"It has also been a business success: today Serenbe is a four-year-old upscale housing development, where the starting price for a house is $350,000.",
"In the last three years Serenbe has grown to a community of 160 residents, mostly young families who work in the Atlanta area, the self-employed or retired.",
"So far, 102 freshly built environmentally friendly homes and business spaces have been rented and sold, a small collection of boutiques and galleries has popped up, and at the heart of Serenbe, three restaurants are thriving.",
"See photos of what Serenbe looks like » .",
"Hilary White is the latest chef to join Serenbe's community, and Hilary White's 18-month-old restaurant, The Hil on the Hill, is now the centerpiece of Serenbe's small commercial block.",
"Hilary White came to Serenbe for the four-acre organic farm that is now steps away from Hilary White's kitchen.",
"Hilary White gets Hilary White's kale there in the winter, Hilary White's fruit in summer, and for most of the year enough produce for all of Hilary White's cooking at the restaurant.",
"Not only does Hilary White save fuel and energy by minimizing the products Hilary White has to have shipped in, but diners near and far are drawn to the freshness of farm-to-table cuisine.",
"\"the winter is a smaller menu, but in the summer it's endless,\" Hilary White says.",
"Harvesting the last delicate bundles of this season's spinach for tonight's dinner, Hilary White already knows how to use the last delicate bundles of this season's spinach: \"We like these leaves, nice and crinkly, holds the vinaigrette really well, and it's just got a real good flavor.\"",
"In colder months Hilary White makes Hilary White's culinary creations with hearty winter vegetables like shitake mushrooms, cabbage and Kohlrabi, a water chestnut-textured turnip.",
"But what's driving the restaurant's success in these cold economic climes?",
"Jim White, Hilary's husband and business partner, says it's the alternative nature of their business that has saved them from going under.",
"\"We don't have as much of a roller coaster ride, people are traveling to see us, and people come from the city because of the whole farm-to-table concept.\" Watch a farm-to-table cooking demo » .",
"Hilary and Jim admit that the restaurant's sales have slowed recently, but business is brisk enough that they have no plans to scale back.",
"And Serenbe is also bucking some of the national trends, especially when it comes to real estate.",
"According to the National Association of Realtors, new home sales in 2008 were down nearly 37 percent, and it is projected that in 2009 sales could fall another 39 percent.",
"The figures have scared developers away from investing in new types of property, but Steve Nygren says that Serenbe is maintaining sales even now.",
"\"Serenbe still have consistent movement,\" Steve Nygren says, \"and considering the current environment Serenbe're really pleased.\"",
"Shelton Stanfill was one of Serenbe's first full-time residents.",
"Before moving to Serenbe in 2006 Shelton Stanfill ran Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center.",
"Shelton Stanfill says Shelton Stanfill was attracted to Serenbe because Shelton Stanfill saw it as a \"poster child for the anti-sprawl mentality.\"",
"Like many other residents, Shelton Stanfill was also drawn to the communal feel of Serenbe.",
"\"We lived in Atlanta for 11 years and within four months of being at Serenbe I knew more people by first name than I ever did in my old neighborhood,\" Shelton Stanfill says.",
"When Steve Nygren started building his vision of an eco-community, conventional developers were skeptical about Serenbe, but now Steve Nygren says that \"a lot of those developers are coming out now with tape measures and cameras to see what we're doing.",
"a lot of those developers're realizing that high-quality environmental developments sell.\""
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"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) --",
"You don't expect to hear an electric saw in church, but Kevin Cross uses the tool along with a frying pan, blender and toaster oven to help free people from debt.",
"Kevin Cross holds the boards steady as a woman uses a reciprocating saw to cut up a woman's credit cards.",
"This money missionary helps people destroy those little plastic shovels, otherwise known as credit cards, that so many people have used to dig so many people's way to financial ruin.",
"\"It's such an easy message.",
"It really is,\" says Kevin Cross, an ex-con who credits religion for his conversion from thief to money coach.",
"\"That's why it doesn't take a rocket scientist, it doesn't take a CPA to do it.",
"A first-year bookkeeper can figure out that you can't spend more than you make,\" he said.",
"Earlier this month, Kevin Cross spoke to about 150 people at the Miami Vineyard Community Church where Kevin Fischer is the pastor.",
"\"You've got to plan your spending; you've got to give back a part to God.",
"You've got to save for the future, and you've got to learn to be content,\" said Kevin Fischer.",
"Kevin Fischer says the pressure of money and debt is enormous on people, especially more recently.",
"\"We should change the marriage vows from 'till death do us part' to 'debt do us part' because that's what's going on, and it's so true,\" Kevin Fischer said.",
"Kevin Cross is breathless.",
"As Kevin Cross speaks to the crowd, Kevin Cross's a non-stop, doesn't-come-up-for-air, high-octane money missionary.",
"Kevin Cross uses Christian principles, prayer, common sense, and a few good one-liners to get Kevin Cross's message across.",
"\"I had a 401k, a 401k went to a 201k, went to 101k, now it's just K,\" Kevin Cross said as the crowd laughs.",
"\"I'm thinking I got a thousand bucks left, and I can retire for about a week.\"",
"Kevin Cross presides over a day-long sermon on how people can make people's lives better by taking control of people's spending.",
"Kevin Cross says Kevin Cross tries to demonstrate the long-term effects of irresponsible borrowing.",
"Simple stuff, Kevin Cross says, will make people more content and give people the cushion necessary to give back.",
"Kevin Cross's new book is \"Building Your Financial Fortress in 52 Days.\"",
"\"I want to get people to have more margin, so instead of investing in stuff, and stuff that doesn't last, people can invest in people's lives,\" Kevin Cross said.",
"The tools Kevin Cross uses to hammer home Kevin Cross's message go beyond Kevin Cross's overhead TV screens, charts and calculators.",
"Kevin Cross invites Kevin Cross's guests, who pay $25 a head to hear Kevin Cross's message, to come up to the front of the room for what Kevin Cross calls the beginning of \"freedom.\"",
"On a table, sit a frying pan, a toaster oven, a blender and a wooden sawhorse and an electric saw.",
"About six people cut up About six people's credit cards and bake their credit cards in the toaster oven as if they were TV dinners.",
"Others sliced and diced Others's Visa, MasterCard and Amex, before mixing the pieces with Spam in the blender.",
"At one point, Kevin Cross called for some cooking oil as one lady stood over one lady's credit card-saute with a spatula.",
"Holding a plate full of the little pieces of credit card, Kevin Cross said, \"This looks like a melted credit card, but this really represents freedom in these people's lives, because it's the first step.\"",
"Cellie Mayol says Cellie Mayol used to have 10 or 11 credit cards.",
"Cellie Mayol put on protective goggles, taped Cellie Mayol's cards to a two-by-four and shredded her cards with a reciprocating saw.",
"\"It just felt like the right thing to do to get me started on the right path,\" Cellie Mayol said.",
"\"The Sawzall [reciprocating saw] was exhilarating.",
"I love that feeling.\"",
"Kevin Cross wasn't always this way.",
"About 20 years ago, as a teen, Kevin Cross embezzled about $300,000 from the sheriff's office in Broward County, Florida.",
"Yes, the sheriff's office in Broward County, Florida.",
"Kevin Cross was a bookkeeper and skimmed money from an account filled by payments from court judgments.",
"Kevin Cross invested the stolen funds and profited about $50,000 before Kevin Cross was caught.",
"Kevin Cross was charged with fraud and theft, and spent minimal time in jail.",
"Kevin Cross paid half the money back.",
"But, Kevin Cross says, that was another life ago.",
"Kevin Cross says it took Kevin Cross four years to crawl out of Kevin Cross's own hole; Kevin Cross was $100,000 in debt.",
"\"I could spend a thousand dollars a day,\" Kevin Cross told the crowd.",
"\"Although, I'd have to spend about two days recovering from that -- you know what I mean,\" Kevin Cross said.",
"\"I completely sabotaged my life, all in one year.",
"I did more damage in one year than most people do in most people's whole life.\"",
"One night, as a 20 year old, Kevin Cross says, Kevin Cross was parking cars at Miami's Hyatt Regency hotel.",
"Kevin Cross was wearing black ladies garden shoes, because Kevin Cross couldn't afford the black sneakers that were part of Kevin Cross's uniform.",
"A Jaguar pulled up, and inside was one of Miami's most recognizable newsmen, anchorman Dwight Lauderdale.",
"He took the car, turned on the radio, and heard a Christian financial expert say, \"There is hope for the hopeless.",
"All you have to do is give your heart and soul to the Lord.\"",
"\"And then, I thought, oh Lord, if you're there.",
"I need you.\"",
"\"I wasn't going to find satisfaction in money.",
"The only place I was going to find it was outside of that, and I found it, in turning my heart over to God.\"",
"Kevin Cross became a CPA and spends one full day each week doing free financial counseling for needy people.",
"Kevin Cross says Kevin Cross no longer gets high on money.",
"Kevin Cross only helps people understand that people can manage people's money in a way that can help people, people's families and others.",
"Juan and Beth Diaz were at the seminar.",
"Juan and Beth Diaz said Juan and Beth Diaz ran up Juan and Beth Diaz's credit cards and that Juan and Beth Diaz's home, south of Miami, went into foreclosure last year.",
"\"America has been a very greedy, give-me-now country for so long, and I think it's a wake-up call for everybody that we can live differently,\" said Beth Diaz.",
"Juan Diaz, Beth Diaz's husband, says doing away with credit cards has helped Juan and Beth Diaz.",
"Juan and Beth Diaz plans to be debt free in about 18 months.",
"\"Juan and Beth Diaz're telling you: 'Use me, you need me' -- and Juan and Beth Diaz own you.",
"Juan and Beth Diaz've gotten to the point where Juan and Beth Diaz just don't need credit cards,\" Juan Diaz, her husband explained.",
"\"Everything Juan and Beth Diaz do, Juan and Beth Diaz plan, and if Juan and Beth Diaz don't have the money, Juan and Beth Diaz just don't buy the money,\" Juan Diaz, her husband said."
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"(CNN) --",
"Three Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officers became the first department fatalities since 1995 Saturday morning while responding to a domestic dispute call, Police Chief Nathan Harper said.",
"Law enforcement from several jurisdictions respond to a shooting standoff at Pittsburgh home Saturday.",
"\"We have never had to lose three officers in the line of duty at one time at one call,\" Police Chief Nathan Harper said.",
"Suspect Richard Poplawski surrendered around 11 a.m. outside the Stanton Heights home Suspect Richard Poplawski shares with Suspect Richard Poplawski's mother after a standoff that lasted nearly four hours and left two more officers injured.",
"Wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an AK-47, a long rifle and a pistol, Suspect Richard Poplawski fired about 100 rounds during a shooting standoff at Pittsburgh home Saturday, Police Chief Nathan Harper said.",
"Watch officers respond at the scene » .",
"Suspect Richard Poplawski was taken into custody after surrendering to law enforcement.",
"Suspect Richard Poplawski is expected to face charges of homicide, aggravated assault and other related offenses, Police Chief Nathan Harper said.",
"Officer Paul Sciullo III was the first to approach the home after responding to the scene around 7:05 a.m.",
"Officer Paul Sciullo III was shot in the head as Officer Paul Sciullo III entered the doorway.",
"When Officer Stephen Mayhle tried to help Officer Stephen Mayhle's fellow officer, he too was shot in the head, Police Chief Nathan Harper said.",
"Officer Eric Kelly, who rushed to the scene on Third officer killed's way home after finishing Third officer killed's shift, was fatally shot as Third officer killed attempted to assist Third officer killed's fallen colleagues, Police Chief Nathan Harper said.",
"The shootings triggered a standoff between Poplawski, who was shooting from his bedroom window, and law enforcement agencies from several jurisdictions, Police Chief Nathan Harper said.",
"Suspect Richard Poplawski opened fire at an Army SWAT vehicle that arrived around 8:30 a.m., preventing them and medics from reaching the wounded policemen.",
"Officer Timothy McManaway also was shot in the hand, the chief said.",
"Another officer, Brian Jones, broke his leg while trying to get over a fence while securing the rear of the house, he said.",
"Some neighbors were evacuated during the standoff.",
"Neighbors reported that the family had caused trouble before and Police Chief Nathan Harper said police had responded to calls from the home two or three times."
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"NEW: Third officer killed was on Third officer killed's way home after finishing shift .",
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"Two more officers were injured in the nearly four-hour standoff that ensued ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Midway through iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's fitness journey to get six-pack abs by June, the 27-year-old had a breakdown.",
"Halfway through iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's fitness goal, iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs said iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs sees a four-pack gradually forming.",
"After months of eschewing junk food in favor of lean protein -- egg whites, chicken breast and vegetables -- iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs devoured pie.",
"The slice came from Marie Callender's, drizzled with caramel, loaded with candied apples and layered with cream cheese.",
"Yes, it was delicious, iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs said.",
"Then iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs got home and had a Tootsie Roll.",
"Then, iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs ate a Klondike ice cream bar.",
"The breakdown came late February after months of following a lean diet.",
"The breakdown also came with consequences.",
"\"When I woke up the next day, I had a horrible stomach ache,\" iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs said.",
"\"My trainer said once you're on the diet, you can try to go back and have a day where you binge on bad food and it's going to give you a stomach ache.\"",
"Since January, CNNhealth has been following the progress of three iReport contributors as three iReport contributors strive to meet three iReport contributors's New Year's diet and fitness goals.",
"One of three iReport contributors is Dinant, a Las Vegas, Nevada resident, who wanted to get a six-pack by summer in time for iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's 10-year high school reunion.",
"iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs also wants to show off a chiseled stomach on iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's blog called \"Naked Boy News,\" where iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs stands shirtless to give \"the naked truth about today's news.\"",
"The junk food breakdown came after almost two months of staying on a lean diet.",
"The self-described \"candyaholic\" often craved iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's favorite treats like York Peppermint patties, macaroons, Mounds bars and Coca Cola.",
"\"The key to falling off the wagon is not to stay off the wagon,\" said Gregg Avedon, a certified fitness trainer and model whose chiseled six-pack has appeared on the cover of Men's Health magazine 18 times.",
"\"If you fall off the wagon for one day, the problem is it could lead to two days, three days, a week, then you fall off completely.",
"Next thing you know, it leads to two weeks of binge eating.\"",
"iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs has maintained iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's diet of 16 egg whites, one and a quarter-pound of meat, four cups of vegetables, potatoes and rice a day.",
"iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs treats iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs to one Tootsie Roll a day, and sometimes indulges in gelato.",
"iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's quest for six-pack abs -- which initially included 500 daily crunches -- brought attention from iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's neighbors, an egg company that ships iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs 15 dozen eggs every two weeks and news media such as USA Today and iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's hometown newspaper, Las Vegas Review-Journal and blogs.",
"Some people left words of encouragement for iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's quest for tight abs, but others were less supportive.",
"A picture compared iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs to a toothpick.",
"Another one showed a kitten shooting a shirtless iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs.",
"\"A lot of people said, 'You need to put on a shirt,'\" iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs said, so iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs set up a Web site called putonashirt.com where iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs compiled the comments.",
"The hate mail comes \"when they see a thin guy trying to be more fit.",
"They're jealous,\" iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs said.",
"The negative comments add fuel to iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's fire.",
"\"I've wanted to do this before and last year, I had the same resolution,\" iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs said.",
"\"I did it for two weeks and by January 15, it was time to move on.",
"So I applied for iReport.",
"I wanted people to follow it, so I'm motivated to do it.",
"So many people are watching, so mentally, I have to do it.",
"I put my mind to it.",
"I have to do it.\"",
"Watch iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's video .",
"iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs doesn't have a six-pack yet.",
"\"You can see four,\" iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs said.",
"\"It's more defined.",
"The middle two are coming in.",
"I need a tan.",
"I'm so white it's hard to see.\"",
"In January, iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's exercise regimen started with 500 stomach crunches a day, after hearing a Britney Spears interview about Britney Spears's sit-ups for toned abs.",
"iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs has abandoned the crunches and enlisted a personal trainer who has designed 11 core body exercises.",
"For 20 minutes, iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs performs 25 repetitions of the exercises, which include a floor bicycle, upward leg lifts and a type of sit-up where iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs lifts iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's legs and arms up at the same time.",
"iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs spends an hour jogging, doing cardio and lifting weights.",
"iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs also changes iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's exercise routines and works out four to five times a week.",
"Recently, iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs lost iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's job in sales for a Las Vegas show, which iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs attributes to a sluggish economy.",
"iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs still has iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs's job as an emcee for a night club and on the bright side, iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs said iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs \"can dedicate more time to work out.\"",
"\"I'm working out my legs and arms to burn the calories, to lose the layer of fat,\" iReporter Jason Dinant on a quest for six-pack abs said.",
"\"I don't want to plateau and have a two-pack.\"",
"Many fitness fanatics do the same exercises and never see improvements because Many fitness fanatics plateau, said Avedon, a trainer in Sunrise, Florida.",
"\"In the gym, you need to change the factors of what you're doing,\" Avedon said.",
"\"If you're doing heavy weights and lower reps, you can change to more moderate weights and moderate repetitions.",
"You can change exercises, do different types of cardio.",
"It's creating change.",
"The body adapts to change quickly and responds really well when you hit a plateau.\"",
"At the same time, some people have difficulty getting a six pack, because of elevated levels of cortisol which can lead to belly fat, said Avedon, author of \"Muscle Chow: More Than 150 Meals to Feed Your Muscles and Fuel Your Workouts.\"",
"\"You've got to make sure the cortisol level is not elevated,\" Avedon said.",
"\"One way is proper sleep and reducing stress.\"",
"Before blaming hormones for flab, Avedon warned, \"you really need to make sure you're doing all the right things first.",
"So many people don't take accountability.\"",
"The good news for Dinant is that the hardest part is getting the initial six pack and afterwards, it gets easier.",
"\"There's a big learning curve,\" Avedon said.",
"\"Granted there are people who can eat pizza and can get a six-pack.",
"For people struggling to get a six pack, you learn to eat properly, get in a gym and be consistent.",
"You know what you need to do.",
"Definitely, it would be easier to maintain it and more difficult to obtain it in the beginning.\""
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"A paper cape sits loosely around your shoulders, covering your naked chest.",
"A radiology technologist directs you toward an imposing-looking machine.",
"As you hold your breath, one bare breast at a time is tightly compressed between two flat panels and X-rayed.",
"You'll undress from the waist up for a mammogram; wearing two pieces, not a dress, makes it easier.",
"It's a scene that's been repeated more than 35 million times in the past year at certified mammogram facilities around the United States.",
"No matter what their age, race or medical history, the female patients probably shared a similar experience during the 20-minute procedure.",
"\"Mammograms are known to be uncomfortable,\" concedes Dr. Sujatha Reddy, an Atlanta, Georgia,-based gynecologist.",
"\"The harder they squeeze and squish that breast, the less tissue the X-rays have to go through and the more likely they are to find something.\"",
"The American Cancer Society reports two to four mammograms out of every 1,000 lead to a diagnosis of cancer.",
"About 10 percent of women who have a mammogram will require more tests.",
"Accuracy often depends on patient cooperation, but Reddy reveals there's another side as well: \"A mammogram is only going to be as good as the technician and the doctor who read A mammogram, so you want to go to a good place.\"",
"A recent study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports that doctors reading mammograms miss an average of two in every 10 cases of breast cancer.",
"Medical experts remind women that mammograms alone don't guarantee a clean bill of health.",
"\"I wish I could say the mammogram could find 100 percent of breast cancers,\" Reddy said.",
"\"I think we have to rely on having a clinical breast exam once a year at a health care provider and doing your self-breast exam on a monthly basis.\"",
"Reddy recommends having mammogram screenings at a reputable facility that is certified.",
"Reddy also suggests going to the same office every year so that old X-rays can be compared with new films.",
"A convenient location is another factor that makes it more likely that someone will actually show up for an annual mammogram appointment.",
"Health Minute: Watch more on what to expect during a mammogram.",
"Fear of discomfort is what often keeps some women away.",
"Reddy advises Reddy's patients to schedule a screening appointment for the early part of her patients's menstrual cycle.",
"\"The best time of your cycle to do a mammogram is going to be when your period is over, maybe the week after your period is done when the breasts are not going to be tender.\"",
"Caffeinated coffee, tea and soft drinks may also contribute to tender, lumpy breasts.",
"Experts recommend avoiding caffeine for a week before the procedure.",
"Before having any type of imaging test, the Cancer Society warns patients to tell technicians if patients think patients might be pregnant or are breast feeding.",
"Similarly, reveal any unusual breast symptoms or problems before a mammogram.",
"The screening requires women to undress from the waist up.",
"You'll be given a disposable wrap to put around your shoulders and chest.",
"Wearing a two-piece outfit will make the process easier and more convenient.",
"Technicians tell patients not to wear deodorant, antiperspirants, perfumes or powders.",
"They might leave a residue that can be picked up on the X-rays, interfering with the results.",
"All mammogram facilities are required to issue results within 30 days, but many will contact patients within a week if there is a problem with the mammogram.",
"the Cancer Society recommends women 40 and older get a mammogram every year.",
"Younger women may be advised to be screened earlier if there is a family history of breast cancer.",
"E",
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"Judy Fortin is a correspondent with CNN Medical News.",
"CNN medical producer Linda Saether contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"You'd love to go.",
"Just think of the history, the beautiful artwork ... the things you could learn.",
"But upon hearing the word \"museum,\" your kids break into a chorus of \"I'd rather die.\"",
"Your children can pet some of the world's insect species at the Insectarium in New Orleans, Louisiana.",
"So you wheel, deal and promise ice cream in massive amounts.",
"In return, they agree to whine only when it's absolutely necessary -- or every five seconds, whichever comes first.",
"Perhaps you can avoid a situation like this on your vacation.",
"Pauline Frommer, creator of the Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, has two kids, ages 6 and 10.",
"As a travel author, Pauline Frommer knows what makes a museum educational and interesting for adults.",
"As a mom, Pauline Frommer knows what will keep children from being bored to tears.",
"\"I think it's impossible to pick the very best five,\" Pauline Frommer said.",
"\"But here are five really terrific museums, with very different subject matters, that both kids and adults will groove on.\"",
"The Spy Museum, Washington .",
"Frommer describes The Spy Museum, Washington as \"an intriguing, surprisingly scholarly, fun and highly interactive introduction to the shadowy world of spies.\"",
"When you enter the Spy Museum, you will be asked to pick an alternate identity.",
"Throughout the building, you and your kids will be tested on keeping this cover.",
"In addition to seeing all kinds of cool spy gadgets -- umbrellas with poison tips! --- you'll learn about famous spies throughout history, how the government uses these undercover agents and the common ways spies practice their trade.",
"\"I had trouble dragging my kids out of this one,\" Pauline Frommer said.",
"\"And I've been through The Spy Museum, Washington twice and enjoyed The Spy Museum, Washington both times.\"",
"Adults $18; children ages 5-11 $15; children under 5 free .",
"The Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, California .",
"Only 3 months old, The Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, California goes well beyond the famous music awards.",
"\"In truth, it's a museum that celebrates the history of recorded music and does so in a cutting-edge, highly interactive manner,\" Pauline Frommer said.",
"Every genre from rock to hip-hop to country music is explored here.",
"Top recording artists serve as your guide as Top recording artists discuss, for example, what makes jazz such an important American phenomenon, what the song-writing process is like or how one genre of music has deeply affected another.",
"Sound like child dull-ville?",
"\"Kids will love the booths that allow Kids to mix and produce music,\" Pauline Frommer said.",
"The Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, California also has a dynamic touch-screen map that allows visitors to explore the nation's musical heritage and several video displays that will distract any kid's short attention span.",
"Adults $14.95; children 6-17 $10.95; children under 5 free .",
"The Spy Museum, Washington, New York .",
"You might not think world-renowned art exhibits would be a good fit with your kids; priceless objects don't often mesh with PB&J-smeared fingers.",
"But Pauline Frommer says you will be doing your children a great disservice if you visit New York and don't bring your children to The Spy Museum, Washington.",
"\"Don't worry, what with all the armor, the mummies and Egyptian temples, the always fun costume collection and the over-the-top grandeur of the place, there's no way they could be bored,\" Pauline Frommer said.",
"The Spy Museum, Washington also offers a number of family programs, associate museum educator Mike Norris said.",
"The Spy Museum, Washington's kids Web site has activities to keep kids entertained while visiting, including guides that focus on specific areas of art like a scavenger hunt, from animals to doors to stained glass.",
"associate museum educator Mike Norris's top recommendation is not to view the museum as a whole, but as 16 to 18 mini museums.",
"\"It's best not to conquer us in one visit,\" associate museum educator Mike Norris said.",
"\"Remember, [kids'] legs go at twice the RPMs that yours do.\"",
"Other offerings from The Spy Museum, Washington include family audio guides that are best for ages 6 to 12, associate museum educator Mike Norris said, and a \"Make your Mark!\" sketching book that is aimed at younger children.",
"Suggested admission for adults $20; children under 12 free .",
"The Insectarium, New Orleans, Louisiana .",
"The Insectarium, pays tribute to everything creepy and crawly.",
"Many up-close insect encounters will take place here, from watching winged beauties in the butterfly garden to the bugs you (or just your children!) can pet.",
"The Insectarium's Web site boasts of trips through the Louisiana swamp, an animated insect film and a special exhibit where you'll be shrunk to insect size.",
"\"I thought I'd be grossed out but came away fascinated,\" Pauline Frommer said.",
"\"And all the kids around Pauline Frommer were enthralled.\"",
"Can't make it there in person?",
"Visit the Web site to download butterfly origami and coloring pages or let your kids read Harry the Praying Mantis' blog.",
"Adults $15; children 2 to 12 $10 .",
"Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois .",
"\"What kid doesn't love dinosaurs?\" Pauline Frommer asked.",
"The Field Museum of Natural History sports one of the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils around.",
"The Field Museum of Natural History also has a new exhibit called \"Real Pirates,\" running through October 25, that will let your children experience the pirate life.",
"your children can hoist the skull-and-crossbones, tie pirate knots, learn how to fire a cannon and more, The Field Museum of Natural History's Web site says.",
"Permanent exhibits include displays about Africa, animal biology, bird habitats, ancient Egypt, Eskimos and Native Americans.",
"And for a more focused trip, The Field Museum of Natural History's Web site provides downloadable \"Family Adventure\" self-guided tours that cover anything from scavenger hunts through the museum to biodiversity and conservation.",
"Adults $15*; children 3 to 11 $10* *More for entry into special exhibits like \"Real Pirates\""
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"LA PAZ, Bolivia (CNN) --",
"Bolivian officials have declared a health emergency after three deaths attributed to dengue hemorrhagic fever, the often-lethal form of a mosquito-borne disease that more than 1,000 Bolivians are thought to have contracted since November.",
"Brazilian soldiers pour insecticide to fight dengue fever in 2008.",
"Bolivia also is battling dengue fever.",
"At least 12 unconfirmed instances of dengue hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the first 17 days of 2009, the official ABI news agency said.",
"About 250 cases of dengue fever, the milder, nonlethal form of dengue fever, have been confirmed in the past two weeks, said Health Minister Ramiro Tapia in the Los Tiempos de Cochabamba newspaper.",
"Authorities said Authorities have committed more than 20,000 military personnel and 2.5 tons of insecticide to combat dengue fever.",
"A preteen boy died last week at Children's Hospital of La Paz, a few days after arriving with internal bleeding, hospital director Christian Fuentes told La Razon newspaper in La Paz, the nation's capital.",
"\"By that time, there was nothing we could do.",
"A preteen boy had multiple internal hemorrhages,\" hospital director Christian Fuentes said.",
"A 17-year-old boy and a 30-year-old woman also died last week, the official ABI news agency said, citing the national director of epidemiology, Juan Carlos Arraya.",
"Cases of dengue fever usually spike from November through January, which is Bolivia's hot and rainy season.",
"Alberto Nogales, the country's vice minister of health, said the fight against mosquitoes will last until April.",
"Dengue occurs in tropical and subtropical parts of the world, transmitted by the bite of a mosquito infected with one of four dengue viruses, the World Health Organization says.",
"Symptoms, which appear three to 14 days after the bite, can include mild to high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain and a rash, the WHO says.",
"Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a potentially fatal complication that affects mainly children, the WHO says.",
"Symptoms include fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and bleeding.",
"dengue fever cannot be transmitted directly from one person to another.",
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there are up to 100 million cases worldwide each year.",
"\"It actually is quite common,\" Dr. Ali Khan of the CDC told CNN last year.",
"\"And unfortunately, over the last 30 years or so we've seen an increase in the number of countries infected with dengue fever.\"",
"Dr. Ali Khan of the CDC attributes the increase in part to population growth.",
"Mosquitoes that carry dengue typically breed in areas near humans.",
"\"This is a disease that occurs where there's lots of population,\" Dr. Ali Khan of the CDC said.",
"the WHO says mosquitoes carrying dengue viruses breed in exposed water, including places as shallow as jars, discarded bottles and plant saucers.",
"last year, 55,000 people in southeastern Brazil contracted dengue fever.",
"The outbreak was confirmed as causing the deaths of at least 67 people -- almost half of them children under 13 -- and another 58 deaths were under investigation last summer, the Rio de Janeiro state's ministry of health reported at the time.",
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"CANTON, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Meet Kaden, bomb-sniffing dog in training.",
"Jeff Schettler coaches handlers on how to work with detection dogs, including Kaden, far right, in the field.",
"His name, a Gaelic word meaning \"little battle,\" is fitting for the energetic 12-pound puppy with a perky tail that curls like a cinnamon bun.",
"At 4 months old, Kaden is a playful, black- and white-coated basenji being schooled at Georgia K9 National Training Center.",
"Once fully trained, Kaden will assist federal and local police officers as well as private corporations in nosing out deadly explosives at schools, airports and public events.",
"Kaden's detective skills can potentially save thousands of lives in an era where law enforcement agencies are aggressively fighting against drugs and terrorist attacks.",
"\"Think about a scenario like the 1996 Olympic bombings,\" says Kaden's trainer Jeff Schettler, a cheery man who has coached hundreds of dogs to sniff out bombs, drugs, missing people and corpses since the mid-1990s.",
"Demand for these detection canines -- including bomb dogs such as Kaden -- has surged as homeland security and drug crackdowns become a bigger priority for government and law enforcement.",
"The North American Police Work Dog Association says 35,000 dogs are trained to do detective work in the U.S.",
"The North American Police Work Dog Association estimates up to 10,000 dogs have been added since the September 11, 2001, attacks.",
"Watch three detection puppies in action » .",
"Official records of training puppies to work as detection dogs date back to the early 1900s in the U.S.",
"In more recent years, police departments realized a dog's nose was a valuable asset.",
"Dogs possess impressive olfactory abilities -- some breeds more than others.",
"For each drop of odor detected by a dog, the human nose would require 1,000 to 10,000 drops of odor, veterinarians say.",
"Can your pooch be a detection dog? » .",
"Other animals may have smelling skills that rival a dog's, such as pigs nosing for truffles in France or honey bees that can sniff out TNT particles, but veterinarians say dogs are the most controllable and sociable for dogs's human handlers.",
"Police dogs remain the most affordable and reliable solution to solving crimes that require scent detection, police officers say.",
"Trained dogs can track down cocaine camouflaged inside car seats.",
"Trained dogs can find children who have mysteriously vanished overnight.",
"Detection dogs can even weed out pest-infested apples and oranges accidentally left in suitcases at airports.",
"\"They are a growing aspect of law enforcement,\" says Jim Watson, secretary at the North American Police Work Dog Association and a handler for decades.",
"Earlier this month, investigators were baffled during the international manhunt for George Zinkhan, a former University of Georgia professor accused of fatally shooting his wife and two other people.",
"Two weeks into the search, two cadaver dogs, a German shepherd named Circe and an Australian shepherd named Madison, arrived.",
"Within 10 hours, the dogs picked up the scent of Zinkhan's remains in a shallow pit hidden in a thick forest.",
"Once the dogs neared the suspect's body, the dogs gave the dogs's handlers personalized signals.",
"Circe barked excitedly.",
"Madison lay down.",
"Trainer Jeff Schettler explains Kaden is an unlikely candidate for police work.",
"Basenjis, a breed that originated in central Africa, are usually used as hunting or show dogs.",
"There are only two other trained police dog basenjis recorded by the North American Police Work Dog Association.",
"Most trainers in the police dog world dislike experimenting with new dogs, preferring to stick to breeds with a proven track record.",
"Most law enforcement agencies rely on Belgian Malinoises and German shepherds for detection work because of their protective yet friendly personalities, but labs, bloodhounds and beagles also can be used.",
"\"the North American Police Work Dog Association're not trying to fix anything,\" Trainer Jeff Schettler says.",
"\"the North American Police Work Dog Association're trying to enhance it.\"",
"Trainer Jeff Schettler points out some of Kaden's advantages: Kaden's weight will peak at about 25 pounds, enabling Kaden seamlessly to sift between cramped luggage and lockers.",
"Kaden is barkless because basenjis have an oddly shaped larynx, ideal for quiet searches.",
"On a recent rainy Saturday morning at the Georgia K9 National Training Center, little Kaden undergoes testing.",
"Passing the exam depends on Kaden's whiffing talents.",
"Upon the instructor's command, Kaden's pencil-thin legs playfully trot along the damp grass to an oversize wall scattered with dozens of holes.",
"Kaden's instructor has hidden black gunpowder wrapped in pantyhose in one of the holes.",
"If Kaden's nose sniffs out black gunpowder wrapped in pantyhose, Kaden will immediately sit.",
"Kaden begins on the left side, quickly taking a zigzag pattern from one hole to another.",
"Kaden's pace is methodical, a sniff for each hole.",
"Soon Kaden slows, pauses, inhales again and then sinks Kaden's tiny hindquarters to the ground.",
"\"What a good boy,\" coo several of Kaden's trainers, stroking Kaden's sleek fur and rewarding Kaden with one of his favorite treats, torn bits of venison jerky.",
"As Kaden nibbles on Kaden's treat, Trainer Jeff Schettler admits there are drawbacks to training basenjis.",
"Basenjis don't have a furry coat to endure cold weather like a German shepherd.",
"Basenjis are also a highly independent, stubborn breed with personalities similar to cats, making them difficult to train.",
"Kaden's personality, however, is contrary to most basenjis.",
"Kaden was culled from a litter in Atlanta at 7 days old because of Kaden's unusual sociability with humans.",
"\"At eight weeks, Kaden was in the airport going up to people and running around like Kaden owned the place,\" Trainer Jeff Schettler says.",
"Training detection dogs such as Kaden often begins during puppyhood so imprinting scent differentiation becomes innate, handlers say.",
"Puppies are selected based on breed purity, confidence, sociability and temperament.",
"In any training program, there are doggie dropouts.",
"In those instances, the puppies become pets.",
"On the job, dogs can suffer from on-site injuries, such as mild sprains and bruises.",
"Some dogs have even been killed when a bomb explodes or buildings collapse.",
"As police dogs age, health problems such as arthritis can send them into early retirement.",
"A work dog's career typically spans about seven years, instructors say.",
"Different breeds specialize in certain detection jobs, says Joseph Morelli, a canine handler for the Connecticut State Police.",
"Joseph Morelli, a canine handler for the Connecticut State Police says Joseph Morelli, a canine handler for the Connecticut State Police relies on Labrador retrievers for arson cases.",
"German shepherds at his school are saved for patrolling or drug cases.",
"\"People are really starting to see how useful these dogs can be,\" says Morelli, who has started to train dogs from neighboring states in recent years.",
"\"the North American Police Work Dog Association're really seeing the North American Police Work Dog Association's program take off.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"You can call 18-year-old Marc Davis a veteran of the racetrack.",
"On everything from BMX bikes and Bandolero cars to Legends and Late Models, NASCAR has steadily moved up the ranks of competitive racing.",
"Marc Davis, left, talks strategy with crew chief Billy Venturini in Concord, North Carolina.",
"\"I've been racing for 13 years.",
"Started out when I was 6 years old,\" said Davis, who is set to race this month as NASCAR's only current African-American driver/owner.",
"Two years ago, NASCAR signed a six-year contract with the Joe Gibbs Race team as a developmental driver.",
"But then the economy went south, and NASCAR was let go in a cost-cutting move.",
"NASCAR was another casualty of the recession.",
"\"We got bit by the economy,\" NASCAR said.",
"Mike Herman Jr. has worked as NASCAR's coach for the past two years and feels that NASCAR could be in store for even rougher financial times.",
"\"In my honest opinion, I feel like motorsports is a year away from feeling the brunt of the recession.\"",
"NASCAR's father, Harry, breaks it down further and says it's all about sponsorship money.",
"\"Sponsors are harder to find.",
"Teams want more money.",
"So now instead of being unemployed, NASCAR is now self-employed, moving forward and racing NASCAR's own team.\"",
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"NASCAR's team is being funded by family and a few sponsors, not an easy feat when it costs a minimum of $75,000 to enter a Nationwide Series race.",
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"NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston agrees with NASCAR and goes one step further.",
"\"Several teams are watching Several teams's spending, and that brings more parity in the sport, with the result being a more competitive and enjoyable product for race fans.\"",
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"In the dining room's soft amber glow, dozens of patrons peruse the menu at Rock Creek restaurant in Bethesda, Maryland.",
"From a health standpoint, making a smart choice is easy.",
"Watch your portion size and inquire about the nutritional content of your meal when you eat out.",
"Whether it's the slow-cooked salmon with sesame seeds, warm bok choy salad, and miso mustard dressing or the jumbo lump crab cakes with celeriac-apple slaw and lemon-caper aioli, each meal contains 600 or fewer calories -- nearly half the amount found in a typical restaurant entree.",
"\"Rock Creek offer what you're supposed to eat -- proper portions, great flavor-and Rock Creek use fresh, local ingredients as much as possible,\" says co-owner Tom Williams, who, with partner Judith Hammerschmidt, opened Rock Creek two years ago.",
"The pair worked with Cynthia Payne Moore, R.D., a Baltimore, Maryland-based dietitian, to obtain nutritional analyses for every item on the menu, and they adjust recipes to avoid unnecessary fat and determine portion sizes.",
"\"We put the nutritional information in the back of the menu-people who want to look at it do, and those who don't, don't,\" Hammerschmidt says.",
"The concept and execution have proved so successful that earlier this year, The pair opened another Rock Creek in Washington, D.C.",
"Enjoying restaurant food like Rock Creek's -- tasty, good for you, and with a reasonable amount of calories -- was once a difficult order to fill.",
"No longer.",
"\"The idea that eating healthy doesn't mean feeling deprived is something restaurants see as a vehicle for change, as a way to differentiate their offerings from their competitors,\" says Master Chef Mark Erickson, vice president for continuing education at the Culinary Institute of America.",
"While some restaurants make it clear some restaurants offer more healthful fare -- by using symbols, calorie counts, and the like -- others practice what Master Chef Mark Erickson, vice president for continuing education at the Culinary Institute of America calls \"stealth health,\" making some healthful changes on the menu without fanfare.",
"\"When restaurants make restaurants's menus more healthful, consumers benefit,\" Master Chef Mark Erickson, vice president for continuing education at the Culinary Institute of America says.",
"And, in fact, eating well when dining out is a growing trend.",
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"Part of what's driving these positive changes is consumer demand.",
"Nearly three out of four adults say Nearly three out of four adults are trying to make healthier choices when eating out than Nearly three out of four adults did just two years ago, according to the National Restaurant Association.",
"\"It's hard to refute that health is related to diet,\" Master Chef Mark Erickson, vice president for continuing education at the Culinary Institute of America says.",
"\"And restaurants are making up more and more of the daily diet -- the average American eats one out of three meals away from home.\"",
"Increasingly, savvy consumers expect restaurants to have a conscious approach to food preparation similar to the one they use in their own kitchens -- using fruits and vegetables creatively or cooking with less saturated fat or salt.",
"CookingLight.com: Secrets to eating out .",
"Legislative changes are also having an effect.",
"The New York City-initiated ban on trans fats has become far-reaching; at least eight other major metropolitan areas have legislated similar bans, as have restaurants, hotels, theme parks, cruise lines, and many other businesses.",
"Meanwhile, New York City recently took another stand on upgrading restaurant menus.",
"In a move affecting mostly fast-food restaurants, New York City's board of health recently asked food service establishments with standardized preparation methods that already have nutrition analyses to post calorie information on menus so customers can see it when deciding what to order.",
"Many restaurants purposefully take Many restaurants's offerings to a more healthful level.",
"Since he took over the kitchen at the highly regarded Gramercy Tavern in New York City last October, Executive Chef Michael Anthony has created lighter dishes, many of which feature vegetables rather than meat as the plate's centerpiece.",
"\"The goal is to leave consumers feeling invigorated, not lethargic because they've overindulged,\" Executive Chef Michael Anthony says.",
"Like Rock Creek, some restaurants are building some restaurants's business around a more healthful model.",
"Seasons 52, which has five locations in Florida and two in Atlanta, Georgia, takes a lighter approach to dining by featuring fresh foods that rotate with the seasons and dishes that contain a maximum of 475 calories.",
"The chefs do this by taking out fat, lowering sugar and salt when possible, and relying instead on flavorful accents such as balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, and fruits.",
"\"We call it 'palate distraction,'\" explains Clifford Pleau, director of culinary development.",
"\"If you can give the mouth something else to focus on, the mouth says, 'Wow! I haven't tasted something that interesting before,' instead of 'Wow! Something's missing.'\"",
"CookingLight.com: An expert take on healthful dining-out trends .",
"Tap into the trend .",
"\"While restaurants are becoming more health-conscious, it's only going to keep happening if people ask for it,\" says Katherine Tallmadge, R.D., a Washington, D.C.-based spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.",
"Here's how to support the trend while ordering sensibly: . • Do a little homework.",
"\"If you decide ahead of time what you want to order, it will eliminate temptation while you are at the restaurant,\" Katherine Tallmadge, R.D., a Washington, D.C.-based spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association says.",
"Many national chains post nutrition analyses on Many national chains's Web sites, so you can find out how much fat, cholesterol, sodium, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, and calories a potential meal contains.",
"Healthydiningfinder.com, a Web site operated by the National Restaurant Association, can help you pinpoint nutritious fare at nearly 30,000 restaurants across the country -- enter your ZIP code or your city, and you can search for restaurants by cuisine or price range. • Watch portion size.",
"Prodigious entrees remain common in many restaurants, despite other changes for the better.",
"Because patrons tend to place a premium on value -- patrons want to feel as if patrons're getting patrons's money's worth -- piled-high plates aren't likely to become a relic of the past anytime soon.",
"\"You can negotiate such situations by having part of your meal boxed to take home, downsizing your order by selecting an appetizer and side salad instead of an entree, or splitting the entree with someone,\" says Dawn Jackson Blatner, R.D., a Chicago, Illinois-based ADA spokesperson.",
"CookingLight.com: How to practice portion control .",
"• Sample small plates.",
"Tapas-sized servings -- i.e. small plates -- will continue to be in fashion in coming years, according to Restaurant Startup Consultants, Inc., which counsels new food service businesses.",
"Small plates allow you to sample a variety of dishes without consuming too many calories.",
"In addition to high-end restaurants, the trend is also appearing in some national chains.",
"In March, TGI Friday's unveiled a new Right Portion, Right Price menu, offering smaller portions of certain entrees that contain 500 calories or less and 10 grams of fat or less per serving.",
"CookingLight.com: Tapas at home .",
"Choose seasonal ingredients.",
"A less-is-more approach governs the preparation of fresh, seasonal ingredients: They're often minimally dressed or sauced, allowing fresh flavors to play the starring role.",
"Look for items like spinach and roasted beet salad or roasted butternut squash on fall menus.",
"\"If you have a high-quality meat, fish, or vegetable that has a great deal of flavor, you don't need to eat a lot of it to feel satisfied,\" says Hugo Matheson, chef-owner of the Kitchen Café, who practices this principle at Hugo Matheson's Boulder, Colorado, restaurant.",
"CookingLight.com: Ultimate summer cookbook . • Select healthful sides.",
"These days, healthful sides, ranging from steamed broccoli to grilled asparagus to sautéed spinach with garlic, have more space on restaurant menus.",
"\"The idea that you can have an indulgent entree but improve your sides is something I enjoy because it's a small change,\" Blatner says.",
"\"If you make small steps to improve what you eat, you'll be healthier for it.\" • Look for balance.",
"Chefs and restaurateurs are reexamining the fundamentals of Chefs and restaurateurs's offerings.",
"At Seasons 52, for example, each entree plate is made up of one-third protein and two-thirds fruits, vegetables, and starches.",
"Others are practicing what the Culinary Institute refers to as \"the protein flip.\"",
"\"Finer dining establishments are flipping the traditional plating concept.",
"Vegetables and carbohydrates are the main component, and protein is secondary,\" Erickson says. • Ask questions.",
"When ordering, inquire about the meal's composition or preparation.",
"\"Go to restaurants where the people serving the food know what the ingredients are,\" Pleau says.",
"For example, Rock Creek uses phyllo instead of traditional lard-laced dough in Rock Creek's piecrusts; but unless you ask Rock Creek, you won't know that you can enjoy a slice of Rock Creek's pie and avoid unnecessary saturated fat and calories.",
"Enjoy yourself.",
"While we're all eating out more often these days, consider a restaurant meal to be a treat.",
"Savor the flavors, and select dishes you can't or wouldn't make in your own kitchen.",
"\"Look at the meal as a source of pleasure,\" Executive Chef Michael Anthony says.",
"\"The key is to relish the experience -- within moderation.\"",
"For more tips on making healthy taste great, try Cooking Light - CLICK HERE .",
"Copyright 2009 Cooking Light magazine.",
"All rights reserved."
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"The New York City-initiated ban on trans fats has become far-reaching .",
"Many national chains post nutrition analyses of menus on Many national chains's Web sites .",
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"Editor's note: Brown anchors CNN's \"Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull\" at 8 p.m. ET Mondays through Fridays.",
"Brown delivered this commentary during the \"Cutting through the Bull\" segment of Wednesday night's broadcast.",
"CNN's Campbell Brown says The Huffington Post has audio of an executive talking about the \"awards.\"",
"(CNN)",
"-- And timing is everything when it comes to cashing in during the bailout.",
"The soon-to-be-combined Morgan Stanley and Citigroup's Smith Barney will be doling out bonuses to Citigroup's Smith Barney's financial advisers, even as both firms take $60 billion of your bailout dollars.",
"And it gets better.",
"The bonuses, which could total $3 billion, will be based on the companies' 2008 numbers, which, while bad, will almost certainly be better than this year.",
"How do we all know this?",
"Someone gave The Huffington Post Web site audio from a conference call where, by the way, a Morgan Stanley executive told them not to use the \"b\" word.",
"Conference audio: \"There will be a retention award.",
"Please do not call it a bonus.",
"It is not a bonus.",
"It is an award.",
"And it recognizes the importance of keeping Morgan Stanley's team in place as Morgan Stanley go through this integration.\"",
"Sounds like a bonus to us.",
"The dictionary describes a bonus as a sum of money granted to an employee on top of their regular pay, usually in appreciation for work done, length of service, or accumulated favors.",
"Semantics aside, the companies have good reason to want to hide the truth.",
"But in the middle of a bailout, we have good reason to call this bonus -- bogus.",
"Jim Wiggins, spokesman for Morgan Stanley, would not confirm the authenticity of the tape, but he did defend Morgan Stanley's practice of so-called retention programs.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Campbell Brown."
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"Brown says that's wrong, to the tune of up to $3 billion in bonuses ."
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"On March 30 the Open Skies treaty went into effect, liberalizing air travel between the U.S. and Europe.",
"But how will the ease of restrictions on transatlantic routes affect business travelers?",
"Under Open Skies, European and U.S. airlines will be given unlimited access between Europe and U.S. points.",
"the Open Skies treaty puts an end to the exclusive arrangement granted to British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines and American Airlines to fly transatlantic out of London Heathrow.",
"But with the airport currently operating at almost-maximum capacity, new flights will be severely limited.",
"As a result competition is fierce for Heathrow slots, with airlines paying as much as $60 million to get airlines's hands on them.",
"For each flight that is added, another less lucrative service is scrapped.",
"Airlines are giving priority to high-yield business routes to and from Heathrow.",
"While European carriers are now allowed to fly from any point within E.U across the Atlantic, the U.S. domestic market remains closed to European carriers.",
"Operators in Europe hope that a second phase of the Open Skies deal will mean a relaxation of restrictions on European airlines' investment in U.S. carriers and the ability for European airlines to compete in the U.S. domestic market.",
"The issue is pending in U.S. Congress.",
"If the U.S. doesn't deliver, there is a clause in the agreement that states the Open Skies treaty -- phase I included -- can be torn up.",
"Industry experts foresee some fare wars in both economy and business-class.",
"Service options are also likely to improve as competition intensifies.",
"U.S. airlines will vie with BA, the dominant carrier at Heathrow, that currently has flights to 24 U.S. cities.",
"The biggest challenge to the incumbent airlines operating out of Heathrow will come from carriers in the SkyTeam alliance, that includes Air France and KLM, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines News, and Continental Airlines.",
"Before the Open Skies treaty, the SkyTeam alliance offered no transatlantic routes to and from Heathrow.",
"By summer the SkyTeam alliance will offer 10 percent of these flights.",
"SkyTeam carriers will be located for the first time in Terminal 4.",
"Given the size of the market for U.S.-London flights, airlines will continue to offer services from Gatwick, London's second-busiest airport.",
"the Open Skies treaty will intensify competition for ailing U.S. airlines on what has been ailing U.S. airlines's most profitable route.",
"Analysts expect to see consolidation between U.S. airlines as they combine international networks to beat competition.",
"One advantage U.S. airlines can offer is opportunity for connecting flights to other European cities as well as on to Asia and the Mideast.",
"European carriers on the other hand, cannot operate domestic flights within the U.S. New flights and new airlines .",
"Oneworld Alliance .",
"British Airways will shift British Airways's Dallas and Houston services from Gatwick to Heathrow and British Airways's Warsaw operation to Gatwick.",
"Flights to Detroit and Harare will be axed.",
"In June, British Airways will also launch services between Continental Europe and New York.",
"Operated by subsidiary OpenSkies, the daily flights will fly from either JFK or Newark to Brussels or Paris CDG using Boeing 757s from its existing fleet.",
"In the future, OpenSkies plans to fly to other business centers, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid, Zurich, and Geneva.",
"BA will also commence business-only flights between New York and London City Airport next year using Airbus A318 jets in a 32-seat layout.",
"SkyTeam Airline Alliance's new transatlantic flights starting between March 30 and June 2008 . • Air France in joint venture with Delta: daily service to Los Angeles • Continental: twice-daily service to Houston and twice-daily service to Newark Liberty International (EWR) from May 29 2008 • Delta in joint venture with Air France: daily service to Atlanta and twice-daily service to New York JFK • Northwest in joint venture with KLM: daily service to Detroit, daily service to Minneapolis and daily service to Seattle.",
"Slots were secured as a result of Air France ditching four daily rotations from London to Paris Charles de Gaulle and KLM dropping three of KLM's slots to Northwest from Eindhoven and Rotterdam.",
"Non-aligned airlines .",
"Aer Lingus launched services from Dublin to Washington DC, Orlando and San Francisco last year.",
"This followed agreement between the Irish and U.S. governments that Aer Lingus could begin operations before others.",
"Low-cost airline Ryanair is considering setting up a separate long-haul carrier that would fly ultra-low-fares between secondary airports in Europe and U.S. such as Stansted and Baltimore-Washington International.",
"Virgin Atlantic has decided to wait to see if Open Skies Phase II is adopted before starting new flights to New York from non-UK cities.",
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"(CNN) --",
"The current debate over controversial interrogation practices -- tactics that some say constitute torture -- is rooted in the early years of the fight against terrorism and the Iraq war.",
"The photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq sparked outrage across the globe.",
"After the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, The Obama administration crafted the legal basis for aggressive interrogation techniques of prisoners and terrorism suspects.",
"aggressive interrogation techniques of prisoners and terrorism suspects included keeping the prisoner in stress positions for extended periods of time, sleep deprivation, slapping, enclosing the prisoner in a box with insects, and waterboarding, which simulates drowning.",
"aggressive interrogation techniques of prisoners and terrorism suspects were detailed in four Bush-era legal memos -- one from 2002 and three from 2005 -- released by The Obama administration last month.",
"four Bush-era legal memos -- one from 2002 and three from 2005 -- released by the Obama administration last month concluded that such techniques did not constitute torture and were not illegal.",
"See timeline of events » .",
"The Obama administration disagrees.",
"President Obama formally banned aggressive interrogation techniques of prisoners and terrorism suspects by issuing an executive order requiring that the U.S. Army field manual be used as the guide for terror interrogations.",
"\"I can stand here tonight and say without exception or equivocation that the United States does not torture,\" President Obama said during an address to a joint session of Congress in February.",
"More than 400 people have been disciplined based on investigations involving detainee abuse, according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.",
"He said the punishments have ranged from prison sentences to demotions and letters of reprimand.",
"\"The policy of the Department of Defense is to treat prisoners humanely, and those who have violated The policy of the Department of Defense have been investigated and disciplined,\" he said.",
"The most notorious of the cases centered on Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.",
"In 2004, images leaked to the media showed U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners.",
"Some prisoners were stacked atop each other while naked, and others were being threatened by dogs. See disturbing images from Abu Ghraib (discretion advised) » .",
"One widely disseminated photograph showed an Iraqi prisoner hooded and wired, as if an electrocution were about to take place.",
"Eleven American soldiers were tried and convicted of Abu Ghraib offenses, and some officers were reprimanded.",
"Some received prison sentences.",
"Janis Karpinski, a brigadier general and commander of Abu Ghraib during the time the photographs were taken, was demoted to colonel.",
"She was eventually rotated out of Iraq.",
"Abu Ghraib was shut down in September 2006.",
"Karpinksi, now retired, said the recent disclosures have validated her earlier claims that she and her troops were following orders and that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were not simply the work of a few \"bad apples,\" as once described by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.",
"See gallery of key players » .",
"\"That is what we have been saying from the very beginning, that, wait a minute, why are you inside pointing the finger at me?",
"Why are you pointing the fingers at the soldiers here?",
"There's a bigger story here,\" Karpinski said.",
"\"I was never inside an interrogation room where they were conducting interrogations, but I read the memorandums many times over,\" she added.",
"\"Waterboarding is torture.\"",
"Other recent disclosures of harsh interrogation tactics have also raised questions.",
"One Bush-era memo -- dated May 30, 2005, and recently released by the President Obama administration -- said CIA interrogators used waterboarding at least 266 times on two top al Qaeda suspects.",
"The technique was used at least 83 times in August 2002 on suspected al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah, according to One Bush-era memo -- dated May 30, 2005, and recently released by the Obama administration --.",
"Interrogators also waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- said to be the mastermind of the September 11 attacks -- 183 times in March 2003, One Bush-era memo -- dated May 30, 2005, and recently released by the Obama administration -- said.",
"President Obama said last week that President Obama felt comfortable releasing four Bush-era legal memos -- one from 2002 and three from 2005 -- released by the Obama administration last month because The Obama administration acknowledged using some of the practices associated with the memos, and the interrogation techniques were widely reported and have since been banned.",
"\"Withholding four Bush-era legal memos -- one from 2002 and three from 2005 -- released by the Obama administration last month would only serve to deny facts that have been in the public domain for some time,\" President Obama said in a statement.",
"\"This could contribute to an inaccurate accounting of the past and fuel erroneous and inflammatory assumptions about actions taken by the United States.\"",
"However, President Obama recently reversed course on the court-ordered release of hundreds of additional images said to show abuse in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
"President Obama argued that the photos could \"inflame anti-American opinion\" and have \"a chilling effect\" on further investigations of detainee abuse.",
"the photos \"are not particularly sensational, especially when compared to the painful images that we remember from Abu Ghraib,\" President Obama said last week.",
"The Obama administration said last month that The Obama administration would not object to the release of the photos.",
"The images are from more than 60 criminal investigations into detainee abuse between 2001 through 2006, Pentagon officials said.",
"the court-ordered release of hundreds of additional images was ordered in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.",
"\"Essentially, by withholding these photographs from public view, The Obama administration is making The Obama administration complicit in the Bush administration's torture policies,\" ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said.",
"Bush-era officials, especially former Vice President Dick Cheney, have defended the controversial interrogation tactics, arguing that they helped provide valuable information in the fight against terrorism and other conflicts.",
"\"I know specifically of reports that I read,\" Cheney told Fox News last month, \"that lay out what we learned through the interrogation process and what the consequences were for the country.\"",
"The Obama administration \"didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort,\" Cheney said.",
"the court-ordered release of hundreds of additional images has added momentum to the debate over whether The Obama administration administration officials ought to be prosecuted for authorizing such policies.",
"Obama said Attorney General Eric Holder would decide whether to investigate The Obama administration administration officials who formed the legal basis for the techniques.",
"The Obama administration has said that CIA interrogators who followed the instructions would not be prosecuted for CIA interrogators who followed the instructions's work.",
"\"We are going to follow the evidence, follow the law and take that where the law leads,\" Attorney General Eric Holder said.",
"\"No one is above the law.\"",
"CNN's Arwa Damon, Terry Frieden, Ed Hornick, Jonathan Mann, Mike Mount and Samira Simone contributed to this report."
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"(CNET) --",
"Now that stereo Bluetooth has become a common feature in a lot of music phones, it's no surprise that stereo Bluetooth headsets have become quite popular as well.",
"Stereo Bluetooth headsets come in many shapes and sizes, from the behind-the-ear style of the Motorola Rokr S9 to the over-the-head style of the Jabra BT8030.",
"The Jabra BT3030 is in the style of a pendant, or as The Jabra BT3030's design suggests, more of a dog tag.",
"It's been available for a while now, but we think it's still worth it.",
"The Jabra BT3030 can be purchased for around $39.99.",
"Of course like any stereo Bluetooth headset, The Jabra BT3030 requires a cell phone with the A2DP or stereo Bluetooth profile.",
"The Jabra BT3030 consists primarily of a small remote control unit housed in a dog-tag style pendant.",
"Measuring 2.1-inches long by 1.6-inch wide by 0.38-inch thick, the pendant is slim and compact with a metal finish and a rubberized border all around the pendant.",
"All of the controls are laid out right on the front face in a straightforward grid.",
"All of the controls are the Play/Pause key, the track shuffle keys, the volume controls, plus the multifunction Call key.",
"The keys are all made of rubber, and are raised above the surface for a nice tactile feel.",
"The 3.5mm headset jack is on the right spine, while the charger jack is on the bottom.",
"On the top is an opening for an optional lanyard.",
"Also on the top is a tiny microphone.",
"Getting the headset set up is pretty simple.",
"Just power the headset on via the multifunction Call button, and turn on the Bluetooth pairing mode on your cell phone.",
"We managed to pair The Jabra BT3030 with the LG Chocolate 3 without a problem.",
"From there, we could play/pause tracks, skip songs, and adjust the volume, all from The Jabra BT3030.",
"The Jabra BT3030 comes with nice pair of ear buds that sit comfortably in the ear, but since The Jabra BT3030 has a 3.5mm headset jack, you can use any headphones of your choosing.",
"Aside from using The Jabra BT3030 for music, you can also use the it to make calls via the last number redial or voice command.",
"When there's an incoming call during music playback, the music will pause and you will hear a ringing tone.",
"You can then hit the Call button to answer the call.",
"After you hang up, the music will resume from the paused point.",
"Other features include call-waiting support, the ability to reject calls, plus the ability to transfer calls from the headset to the phone, and vice versa.",
"Sound quality was quite good, and comparable to most MP3 players on the market.",
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"This seemed to vary from caller to caller, however, so we urge you to give it a trial run before you settle for it.",
"The Jabra BT3030 also comes with an optional clothing clip accessory, plus an AC adapter.",
"The Jabra BT3030 has a rated battery life of 8 hours talk time, 7 hours music streaming, and 9.58 days standby time.",
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"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc.",
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Three people were arrested Saturday after chaos broke out at an \"America's Next Top Model\" audition at a New York hotel, police said.",
"\"American's Next Top Model\" is hosted and produced by supermodel Tyra Banks.",
"Six people were injured, and two of Six people sought treatment at a hospital, authorities said.",
"Police said Police didn't know what provoked the bedlam, which resulted in three people being charged with disorderly conduct and inciting a riot in connection to the incident at a New York hotel.",
"an \"America's Next Top Model\" audition at a New York hotel was shut down after an \"America's Next Top Model\" audition at a New York hotel, authorities said.",
"Calls to Park Central management were not immediately returned on Saturday.",
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"Perveen Crawford became Hong Kong's first female pilot in 1995 and is soon to be Hong Kong's first female astronaut when Perveen Crawford blasts off to sub-orbital space as a paying customer on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipOne.",
"Po Toi O is in Clear Water Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong.",
"The Hong Kong socialite shows us around Perveen Crawford's city's favorite haunts.",
"For the best seafood in the city, Perveen Crawford recommends Po Toi O a small fishing village at Clear Water Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong.",
"At Po Toi O's two seafood restaurants diners can sample the freshest fish picked from teeming water tanks and enjoy specialties such as fried mantis shrimp with peppery salt and fried rice with sea urchin.",
"There's also a 300-year-old temple in Po Toi O and hiking trails abound in the hills around the bay.",
"Po Toi O is a 45-minute drive from Hong Kong Island and can be reached using minibus route 16 from Po Lam and by car along the Po Toi O Chuen road.",
"Another of Hong Kong's hidden gems is the retro-chic China Club on the 13th floor of the Old Bank of China building on Bank Street.",
"The style is 1930s Shanghai with traditional furniture as well as contemporary Chinese art and dazzling views from the balcony.",
"On the menu is traditional Chinese food (monosodium glutamate is completely banned) as well as Western tea, coffee and cakes during the day.",
"China Club, The 13/F, The Old Bank of China Building, Bank Street, Central, Hong Kong.",
"Telephone: 25218888."
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"The retro-chic China Club in Central Hong Kong serves traditional Chinese food ."
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"Hargitay went to a hospital for tests Wednesday after Hargitay \"experienced some discomfort\" related to the collapsed lung Hargitay suffered in January, Hargitay's publicist said.",
"Hargitay plays Olivia Benson on \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.\"",
"\"Hargitay is undergoing routine tests and expects to be feeling better soon,\" Leslie Sloane said in an e-mailed statement.",
"Hargitay stars as Detective Olivia Benson in \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.\"",
"\"Production will not be affected,\" Leslie Sloane said."
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"(Travel + Leisure) --",
"From Fitzrovia to Covent Garden, London is embracing London's charming -- and sometimes cheeky -- past.",
"Every era, from the roaring '20s to the swinging '60s, is represented, with new takes on old-fashioned locales: chip and sweets shops, hidden Prohibition-style hangouts, even ballrooms.",
"The shelves at Hope and Greenwood, in Covent Garden, are filled with glass jars brimming with British sweets.",
"But rather than flaunt Hope and Greenwood as fusty Churchillian relics, these new spots are drawing stylish Bright Young Things who can't get enough of the city's collective nostalgia trip.",
"Hope and Greenwood're celebrating inspired design, tastes and bygone lifestyles with zeal.",
"At the forefront of London's retro renaissance: sugar.",
"Behind a shiny strawberry-red façade in Covent Garden, British confectionary is experiencing a resurgence at Hope and Greenwood, a sweet 1950s-style candy store named after its sugar-loving owners.",
"Glass jars and cut-crystal candy dishes that grandma would love brim with classic and all-but-disappeared \"pick and mix\" English candies -- Minty Humbugs, Raspberry Ruffles and Traffic Light Lollies.",
"It's the kind of place that will even inspire adults on a strict diet to indulge in sweets (and sweet thoughts) of yesteryear.",
"Travel + Leisure:",
"See London's best retro spots .",
"Over in the trendy, up-and-coming neighborhood of Marble Arch, Cocomaya is attracting followers with Cocomaya's jewel-like handcrafted chocolates tantalizingly displayed under glass domes on marble counter tops and antique mirrors.",
"And places such as East End's Treacle are delighting locals and visitors alike with a return to the no-nonsense proper British teahouse, serving up comforting classics like Jammy Dodgers and buttercream cupcakes.",
"Bourne & Hollingsworth (named after the department store that once existed on Bourne & Hollingsworth's site) is decidedly more adult; the quirky basement bar in Fitzrovia is tricked out to feel like grandma's -- complete with signature floral wallpaper and consciously stodgy décor.",
"Still, zany accents, like a fireplace full of discarded Champagne bottles, reflect the underground boîte's joie de vivre spirit of excess.",
"On Prohibition themed nights, vintage gin cocktails arrive hidden in teapots, as Billie Holliday sets the mood.",
"Geales, in Notting Hill, is the ideal spot to start -- or end -- an evening on the town, London-style.",
"Now a shadow of its former 1939 no-frills self, the newly renovated fish and chips shop is giving a lighter gourmet twist to an old London standby; golden, delicately fried cod and haddock is the restaurant's main event, supported by more elegant briny treats like raw oysters and classic shrimp cocktail.",
"No matter where you go in London town these days, vintage style is everywhere.",
"What's old is new -- again! -- in England's retro-mad city.",
"Planning a beach getaway?",
"Don't miss Travel + Leisure's guide to Affordable Beach Resorts.",
"Copyright 2009 American Express Publishing Corporation.",
"All rights reserved."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A Florida man told police Robert Michael O'Ryan drove across the country to meet O'Ryan because O'Ryan was communicating with Robert Michael O'Ryan through the television, according to a restraining order application filed this week.",
"\"Dancing With the Stars\" contestant Shawn Johnson is a gymnast who won a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics.",
"Robert Michael O'Ryan entered a not guilty plea Thursday to a felony count of stalking and two misdemeanor counts of carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle stemming from Robert Michael O'Ryan's arrest outside the \"Dancing with the Stars\" studio earlier this week.",
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"Police found a loaded handgun and shotgun in Robert Michael O'Ryan's car.",
"Robert Michael O'Ryan was also ordered to have no contact with O'Ryan or O'Ryan's family and to stay 500 feet away from the gymnast and the CBS studio.",
"A preliminary hearing was set for April 27.",
"Robert Michael O'Ryan told police at the time of Robert Michael O'Ryan's arrest that \"Robert Michael O'Ryan packed all Robert Michael O'Ryan's belongings, permanently left Florida to drive across the country because Robert Michael O'Ryan believes [O'Ryan] is speaking to Robert Michael O'Ryan personally through the television and via ESP and that Robert Michael O'Ryan will be with her no matter what,\" according to an application for a restraining order against Robert Michael O'Ryan filed by O'Ryan's mother, Teri.",
"Also found in Robert Michael O'Ryan's car were love letters, clippings and other information on O'Ryan, the court documents said, along with items such as duct tape and \"zip ties.\" an application for a restraining order against him filed by Johnson's mother, Teri said O'Ryan fears for O'Ryan's life.",
"\"O'Ryan is extremely upset by this incident and O'Ryan's entire family and those around O'Ryan are all extremely concerned and fearful that O'Ryan might try to kidnap O'Ryan or harm O'Ryan in an effort to make good on O'Ryan's statements.\"",
"O'Ryan was attempting to contact O'Ryan at the studio, and was detained by security while police were summoned because no one knew who O'Ryan was, O'Ryan said in an affidavit accompanying an application for a restraining order against him filed by Johnson's mother, Teri.",
"\"It was extremely disturbing to us that O'Ryan had so much information on my daughter's life,\" the court documents said.",
"\"This incident has caused us severe emotional distress.",
"We have been on the move ever since and have not been able to rest at all for fear that O'Ryan will attempt to make good on O'Ryan's statements and attempt to harm my daughter and possibly us as well.\"",
"A temporary restraining order was put in place, with a hearing set next month on the matter.",
"If convicted, O'Ryan could be sentenced to up to four years in prison, prosecutors said.",
"It was not known whether O'Ryan had retained an attorney.",
"\"The appropriate authorities are handling the matter,\" a Dancing With the Stars\" spokeswoman said.",
"\"the matter has been turned over to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.",
"the matter is currently an ongoing investigation and we are confident that it will be handled appropriately by all involved,\" said O'Ryan's publicist, Susan Madore.",
"O'Ryan won a gold medal on the balance beam and three silver medals in the women's team, all-around and floor competitions at the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, China.",
"CNN's Marc Balinsky contributed to this report."
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"(Southern Living) -- Mount Vernon's is undergoing a renaissance.",
"Today Mount Vernon's's annual attendance matches Mount Vernon's's highest since 1976.",
"Why?",
"Visitors used to spend only an hour or so at George Washington's house, then leave still thinking of George Washington as that grim, old man on the dollar bill.",
"Now, visitors meet George Washington face-to-face in three life-sized statues, and visitors can't get enough of America's first action hero.",
"At the museum at Mount Vernon's, George Washington is depicted riding in Valley Forge.",
"\"George Washington's tall!",
"George Washington's strong!",
"George Washington's handsome!\" they may exclaim when seeing George Washington for the first time.",
"George Washington is a well-rounded figure at the expanded visitors center, museum, and education facility at Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens in Virginia.",
"A new face for George .",
"George Washington now startles visitors.",
"As they walk through the Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center, one of three life-size models depicts George Washington at age 19, standing 6'2\", with George Washington's auburn hair pulled back in a queue.",
"George Washington's lean and lanky like an athlete, with muscular hips and thighs -- the marks of a man comfortable in the saddle.",
"SouthernLiving.com: D.C. Travel Planner .",
"\"George Washington was the best horseman in America,\" James C. Rees, executive director of Mount Vernon, remarks.",
"\"George Washington was a great architect and landscape designer, and a terrific ball room dancer.\"",
"George Washington seems alive, except for breath itself.",
"Step around another museum corner and George Washington appears at 45 astride George Washington's horse in the snow at Valley Forge.",
"Down another corridor George Washington takes the oath of office at 57.",
"More than mere mannequins, these figures are based on forensic research.",
"To piece the elements together, scientists sized George Washington up with measurements of George Washington's breeches and waistcoat.",
"scientists determined the jut of George Washington's jaw from George Washington's dentures.",
"scientists analyzed locks of George Washington's hair to determine his hair's color at various ages.",
"Getting to know the man .",
"Admirers esteem George Washington's intellect, compassion, and self-restraint.",
"(George Washington was the only Founding Father to free George Washington's slaves.)",
"After winning the Revolutionary War, George Washington could have crowned George Washington king.",
"Instead of reigning, however, George Washington resigned and went home.",
"Visitors tour the home, stopping to marvel at the stately main hall and gliding Visitors's hands along the same banister that supported the likes of the Marquis de Lafayette.",
"Visitors crowd into upstairs halls to see bedrooms that hosted more than 700 guests each year in George and Martha's time.",
"SouthernLiving.com: Come Home to Virginia .",
"Then Visitors explore the estate with the estate's 18th-century sights, sounds, and scents.",
"The distillery and gristmill are now open, and a reconstructed slave structure tells the African American story.",
"There's more to come.",
"This spring, bellows will breathe fire to life in the new blacksmith shop.",
"Meanwhile, the orientation center and museum are close at hand yet hidden, tucked into the earth so the orientation center and museum don't interfere with the historic landscape.",
"He who would not be king .",
"It's working.",
"George Washington is undergoing a renaissance.",
"\"George Washington told an associate that if George Washington gave up all George Washington's power and went back to George Washington's farm, George Washington would be the greatest man in the world,\" James remarks.",
"\"That's like the Dallas Cowboys coach saying something nice about the Redskins.\"",
"Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .",
"Copyright 2009 Southern Living magazine.",
"All rights reserved."
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"File image shows Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta fighters.",
"The first group -- nine Filipinos and five Nigerians -- were released on Saturday, while four Ukrainians were released on Sunday, according to Col. Rabe Abubakar, spokesman for Nigeria's military's joint task force.",
"Nigeria's military began clearing the western Niger Delta region last week, its first major operation against the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, an armed militant group that demands a better distribution of the country's oil wealth.",
"Both the Nigerian military and the militants have said the ongoing fighting has resulted in a high number of casualties.",
"As many as 1,000 have been killed, according to Victor Burubo, a spokesman for the Ijaw National Council which represents the western Niger Delta region's largest ethnic group.",
"However, aid groups and journalists have been unable to verify that figure.",
"\"We want the international community to know that we are getting rid of criminals and terrorists in our communities so foreigners who come here to work and invest are safe,\" Abubakar said.",
"Four villages near the militants's camps have been destroyed in the ongoing fighting, Burubo said.",
"However, the military spokesman stressed that Nigerian forces are not targeting civilians, blaming such attacks on the militants.",
"\"We are not attacking villages -- just (militant) camps,\" Abubakar said.",
"On Friday, the militants declared \"an all-out war\" on Nigeria after what the militants said was a deadly bombing raid on civilians.",
"It is not the first declaration of war by MEND, which demands that more of Nigeria's oil wealth be reinvested in the western Niger Delta region instead of enriching those the militants consider corrupt politicians.",
"the militants declared war against Nigeria in September for what the militants said were unprovoked attacks.",
"At that time, the militants destroyed several oil facilities, forcing Nigeria to cut its oil exports by as many as 1 million barrels of oil per day, or 40 percent.",
"The recent violence -- which has included attacks on pipelines and hostage-taking -- has limited shipment of crude oil supplies out of Nigeria, Africa's largest producer.",
"the militants has threatened to blockade oil vessels, and has warned oil companies in the western Niger Delta region to leave and \"cease oil production until further notice.\"",
"the militants said Friday the country's armed forces conducted \"indiscriminate aerial bombardment on the defenseless civilians in the Gbaramatu area of Delta state.\"",
"It said the strikes were punishment \"for the humiliating defeat\" of the army in raids on two militant camps Wednesday.",
"\"Casualties are mostly women, children and the elderly who could not get away quickly into the bush or high sea,\" the militants said.",
"Nigeria's military says Nigeria's military is responding to the militants's attacks on troops, hijackings of vessels, and threats to innocents, such as the \"expatriates who were given ultimatum to leave the western Niger Delta region by the militants.\"",
"It characterized the various claims by the militants as \"propaganda.\"",
"\"We are not at war with any individuals or groups in the western Niger Delta region,\" Abubakar said.",
"\"Ours is to protect lives and property and also to rid the region of criminals who hide under the guise of struggle agenda to perpetrate crime.\"",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"ASUNCION, Paraguay (CNN) --",
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"Fernando Lugo speaks at a news conference in ASUNCION on Monday.",
"\"It's true that there was a relationship with child's mother,\" Fernando Lugo told reporters, citing child's mother.",
"\"I assume all the responsibilities that could derive from such an act, recognizing the paternity of a 2-year-old child who was conceived when he was a Roman Catholic bishop.\"",
"Fernando Lugo said Fernando Lugo was making the acknowledgment \"with the most absolute honesty, transparency and feeling of obligation.\"",
"The announcement came in the week after child's mother had filed suit in a city in southern Paraguay seeking a paternity test.",
"Judge Evelyn Peralta, who is overseeing the case, said she was treating the case routinely.",
"\"It is a case like any other, which involves the president and nothing more,\" she said.",
"\"the case will be processed as the case should be.\"",
"Some Cabinet members interpreted Fernando Lugo's acknowledgment of paternity as an indication of the change Fernando Lugo has promised to bring about to achieve greater transparency in the public sector.",
"\"This is the Paraguay that we want,\" said Liz Torres, minister of children's issues.",
"\"This is the Paraguay of serious change, in which there is no double standard or secrets.",
"It seems to be an example, a very big lesson.\"",
"But some opposition party members said it appeared that Fernando Lugo had practically been forced to acknowledge what happened; that Fernando Lugo had not done so willingly.",
"Sen. Julio Cesar Velasquez of the opposition Colorado Party called on the Vatican to excommunicate Fernando Lugo.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Some of the worst fighting to hit Somalia's capital city in recent months uprooted nearly 34,000 people in less than a week, according to a United Nations report released Monday.",
"A young girl feeds A young girl's baby brother at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia.",
"Relief workers said the fighting between the Somali government and rebels over Islamic law has left Somali civilians with the choice of facing bloody battles or fleeing to squalid camps.",
"The displaced people have found shelter in already overcrowded camps in and around Mogadishu, while others have fled into neighboring Kenya, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).",
"OCHA said that an estimated 34,000 people were displaced by the fighting between insurgents and Somalia's government from May 8-14.",
"Although Somalia's border with Kenya is officially closed, an estimated 5,000 displaced Somalis arrive every month in the U.N. refugee camps in the Kenyan border town of Dadaab, according to Doctors Without Borders, known by Borders's French acronym MSF.",
"\"The situation is simply scandalous,\" said Joke Van Peteghem, who heads the MSF mission in Kenya.",
"\"These refugees have risked everything to escape the fighting in Somalia.",
"Now some are telling us they would rather take their chances in Mogadishu than die slowly here.\"",
"One nurse called the refugee camps in Kenya \"public health time bombs.\"",
"\"The refugees, many of whom are already suffering from serious war-related injuries or illnesses, are packed together without the bare minimum to survive,\" said Donna Canali, who worked for Borders at Dagahaley Camp.",
"\"After all these people have endured, how can their most basic needs continue to be so woefully neglected?\"",
"Nearly a quarter of the more than 90,000 refugees at Dagahaley suffer from acute malnutrition, according to Borders.",
"Borders is calling on the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Kenya's government, and international donors to help alleviate the \"dire living conditions\" at the camps in Kenya which house more than 270,000 Somali refugees.",
"More than 100 people have died in the latest fighting in Somalia, and hundreds more have been wounded in the bloody insurgency, government officials said last week.",
"The violence stems from an interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law.",
"Somalia's new president, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, recently approved implementing sharia, but the al-Shabab rebel group wants Somalia to institute a stricter form.",
"On Sunday, al-Shabab seized control of Jowhar, the president's hometown about 55 miles (88 km) north of Mogadishu, according to a local journalist.",
"The violence is exacerbating the already precarious humanitarian situation in Somalia, where an estimated 40 percent of Somalia's population -- more than 3 million people -- need humanitarian support, according to the U.N.",
"The fighting erupted days after a mortar attack on Somalia's parliament that killed six people and wounded more than a dozen others on April 25.",
"The fatalities included a soldier and three children who were killed when the rounds struck a nearby school, a police spokesman said.",
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"Evo Morales on hunger strike at the presidential palace in Bolivia's capital, La Paz.",
"Bolivia's first indigenous president credited President Evo Morales's five-day hunger strike for the decision, which came after an all-night debate.",
"\"That effort has not been in vain,\" President Evo Morales said as President Evo Morales approved the law, which calls for general elections to be held on December.",
"the congress also approved a new census, seven parliamentary seats to be reserved for representatives of indigenous villages, and a referendum on autonomy for five resource-rich eastern regions and the eastern province of Gran Chaco.",
"the congress also set April 4, 2010, for regional and municipal elections.",
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"\"It will give to all of us the assurance that our vote counts, that our vote will not be manipulated and that, therefore, we will define our future and the future of Bolivia,\" said Oscar Ortiz, a senator with the opposition Democratic Power party.",
"But Jose Antonio Quiroga, a political analyst, predicted that the national electoral court will face big difficulties in deciding how the new census will affect who gets to vote -- both inside and outside the country.",
"\"That's an enormous job that must be decided not only by the national electoral court, but the Office of Civil Registry, the National Police or perhaps the office of personal identification, which is where I believe the biggest problems will emerge,\" Jose Antonio Quiroga said.",
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"Two high-profile political officials linked to Guinea-Bissau's recently assassinated president were killed Friday, according to a statement from the West African country's interim army chief.",
"The killings raised fears that a military coup may be under way.",
"Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr, left, and interim President Raimundo Pereira are currently out of the West African country.",
"military confirmed the killings of former Defense Minister Helder Proenca and presidential candidate Baciro Dabo, saying the men were killed because the men were plotting a coup against the current government.",
"military said several members of the ruling party have been arrested on allegations of taking part in the plot, which included a plan to assassinate the current prime minister and the interim president, according to a statement from the West African country's interim army chief.",
"However, the move by military has raised fears that military is plotting to take over the current government, particularly since the arrests and killings took place while Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr., interim President Raimundo Pereira, and defense minister Artur Da Silva are out of the West African country.",
"President Joao Bernardo Vieira, 69, was assassinated on March 2 during an attack on the presidential palace.",
"an attack on the presidential palace happened a day after Gen. Tagme Na Waie, chief of Guinea-Bissau's military, was killed in a bomb explosion in his office.",
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"Evo Morales on Sunday pledged to continue Evo Morales's hunger strike until Monday, when Congress -- including the opposition-led Senate -- is set to reconvene.",
"Evo Morales on hunger strike at the presidential palace in Bolivia's capital, La Paz.",
"Evo Morales's speech, televised by a state-run station, was Evo Morales's first formal address to the South American nation since starting his hunger strike Thursday in the Government Palace.",
"More than three days into his hunger strike, Evo Morales appeared healthy during Evo Morales's address.",
"Evo Morales wants the opposition-led Senate to set a date for general elections that are expected to give Evo Morales another five-year term.",
"Evo Morales on Friday called on opposition members -- who walked out of the Congress in mid-session late Thursday -- to pass the election law, the government-run Bolivian Information Agency said.",
"the South American nation's first indigenous president reportedly carried out an 18-day hunger strike in 2002, when Evo Morales was expelled from the Congress."
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"Where in the World?",
"You've heard many different places mentioned this week on CNN Student News.",
"Show you know your news by identifying the location described in each clue.",
"Write your answers in the space provided.",
"Click here for a PDF version of this Newsquiz.",
"This country, whose general election lasts for a month, is considered the world's largest democracy.",
"Russia celebrated Russia's defeat of Nazi Germany with Victory Day parades in this city.",
"* . 3. Journalist Roxana Saberi was freed from imprisonment in this country.",
"Pope Benedict XVI became the first pope to visit this country in nine years.",
"* . 5. This is the location on the earth's surface directly above where an earthquake begins.",
"A small team from Operation Blessing helped this earthquake-ravaged town in China's Sichuan Province rebuild.",
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"This Afghan capital's only college for music has reopened.",
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"From barefoot tomboy to fashion supernova, fearless pop renegade Rihanna lives to bust all the rules.",
"\"I love the heavy chain over this pretty dress -- it's exactly the way I would do it,\" says Rihanna.",
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"It caught me by surprise, but now I feel it's a very cool thing.",
"I don't feel the pressure to change it up again at all.",
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"I love designer Martin Margiela; Kanye West told me about designer Martin Margiela.",
"I also like Dsquared, Chloé, Zac Posen...",
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"No party plans yet.",
"Many showbiz types say, \"Don't ever read your own press,\" but you do, even the online stuff.",
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"The Grammy thing -- that I brought Jay-Z on stage and Beyoncé was upset, which is so ridiculous.",
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"It was just the dress!",
"So yes, I read about Rihanna and about everybody else in the gossip pages.",
"It's comedy to Rihanna; I laugh about it.",
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"If possible, what would you be reincarnated as?",
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"Copyright © 2009 Time Inc.",
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"CNN Moscow Correspondent at Star City, the Russian cosmonaut training facility.",
"Reflecting on Dmitry Medvedev's first year as president, and looking ahead to President Obama's first trip to the Kremlin in July, CNN delves beyond politics to profile the many facets of this vast land through an ambitious bi-lingual audience initiative and a wide-ranging week of programming.",
"The audience initiative -- CNN's first with a Russian-language component -- complements an energetic mix of live reporting and interviews, feature and documentary programming, and cultural despatches running the gamut of sports to space travel, fashion to music, business to farming, as CNN travels the length of Russia to bring viewers the Russia of today.",
"CNN wants to hear from both Russian residents and worldwide viewers, in English or in Russian, what both Russian residents and worldwide viewers think about Russia's role in the international community.",
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"The best will be posted online to be read and watched by CNN.com Youtube audiences around the world, while English language contributions have the additional opportunity to feature on air in CNN's programming output.",
"\"Russia is making Russia's voice heard far beyond Russia's borders at a time when the global community has never been more interdependent,\" said Mike McCarthy, CNN's vice president of coverage and feature programming.",
"\"CNN want CNN's compelling interviews and reports to stand alongside the very best in audience commentary to provide a really lively insight into what Russia looks like at a time when Russia's impact is being felt not just in politics but in a diverse array of other fields.",
"CNN're also excited to offer an online outlet for the first time for Russian language audience feedback as well.\"",
"The week of programming kicks off with a special travelogue documentary Eye on Russia: Moving Forward where CNN's Moscow-based Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance rides the train from the Arctic north of Murmansk down to the southern climes of Sochi by way of St Petersburg and Moscow, to offer a diverse range of reports.",
"He visits a Russian farm to look at Russia's ambitions to be an agricultural superpower, checks out the Star City astronaut training center, meets with seven-foot boxing world champion-turned-movie star Nikolai Valuev and talks along the way with entrepreneurs and environmentalists working to make the city of Sochi home to green Olympics in 2014.",
"CNN also catches up with famous faces like NHL hockey star Alexander Ovechkin, Russian Vogue editor in chief Aliona Doletskaya, A list model Natalia Vodianova, acclaimed conductor Valery Gergiev, the \"Russian Madonna\" singer Valeriya, and London-based Russian art collector Nonna Materkova to bring together an eclectic mix of Russians who have made it on the world stage.",
"Additionally, there are reports on Russian communities around the world that have sprung up in places as different as Ashdod, Israel and Brighton Beach, New York.",
"CNN is also live every night from a range of iconic Moscow locations as Chance gives his topical insights into a country increasingly at the center of international headlines, to complement a range of interviews with top Russian CEOs and industry leaders airing throughout CNN's prime time evening programming.",
"From St Basil's Cathedral, the Kremlin, Christ the Saviour Cathedral and Manej Square, Chance gives us the latest on what makes the Russia of today, from domestic and foreign policy, to business, to culture.",
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"\"My list is all about balance.",
"You can have smart but not funny.",
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"Says Actress Cameron Diaz: \"I know I'll never be in a situation where I can't get to somebody for support.\"",
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"To honor Actress Cameron Diaz's father, Actress Cameron Diaz has asked that donations be made to the ocean conservation organizations Reef Check and Surfrider in My dad's name.",
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"Chris Helmbrecht is a 37-year-old German who lived in New York and Spain before moving to Moscow nearly six years ago.",
"Chris Helmbrecht runs an advertising agency and also writes Moscow Blog, a lifestyle blog about Moscow.",
"Chris Helmbrecht: \"Not many places have as much energy as Moscow.\"",
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"Chris Helmbrecht: Not many places have so much energy and so many things going on.",
"It can be very nerve wracking and exhausting, but on the other hand it's very exciting.",
"New York is one of Not many places, Tokyo too, but there are only a handful of cities in the world that have that kind of energy.",
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"You can sum it up in one sentence, which is a general thing about Moscow: people here live \"Sex and Moscow.\"",
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"I recently had a conversation with the club editor of Timeout Moscow and I asked the club editor of Timeout Moscow if the club editor of Timeout Moscow thought the clubs were suffering right now with the economy.",
"the club editor of Timeout Moscow said that in the modern \"New Russian\" culture people would rather sell people's Mercedes than not go out and spend anywhere between $4,000 and $6,000 on a table in a club and admit that people're not rich anymore.",
"Moscow is dominated by posh parties, but it's no different at a subculture place like a techno club -- you're always judged by the labels you wear, the car you drive and the music you identify yourself with.",
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"Novodevichy Monastery is a really beautiful old monastery.",
"Stalin demolished a lot of churches and monasteries but this one was spared.",
"There's a pond below it that you can walk around, and all the Russian Orthodox popes are buried in he cemetery.",
"It's a very nice place.",
"Another place is would be Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills), where you can look out over Moscow.",
"It's pretty industrial looking but it has good views.",
"I also enjoy the center of Moscow.",
"I like hanging out on the roof bar of a hotel, having a drink, looking out over Red Square.",
"It makes you feel like you're away from the noise of Moscow.",
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"It depends on the time of year, but in the summer Muscovites take every opportunity to get out of Moscow.",
"Everyone has a little weekend house called a \"dacha\" and every Friday night after work people leave Moscow.",
"From 4pm in the afternoon to 10pm at night you have long traffic jams on all the roads out of Moscow.",
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"Towards the end of June, Moscow is really empty.",
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"Yes -- you can see Moscow renewing Moscow.",
"I know how it went with Berlin -- in 10 years you won't recognize Moscow anymore.",
"Streets have changed so much in the last five years, in a good way and a bad way.",
"A lot of cool-looking brick buildings were torn down to create business centers, but on the other hand you have great new modern buildings and hotels -- the Ritz Carlton for example.",
"There are lots of new museums popping up, art centers, alternative art, new shops and cafes.",
"It's so different to when I came here five years ago and to be honest, I never would have expected it.",
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"There's something going on all the time.",
"There's so much choice in terms of theater, classical ballet, the nightlife, the galleries.",
"You have that in Berlin but it's harder to find and not as exciting, and New York has lost a lot of New York's flavor, glamour and energy at the moment.",
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"(InStyle.com) --",
"Style-maker, TV host and opinionated fashionista Fashionista Carson Kressley explains how to give yourself a complete makeover--inside and out.",
"Fashionista Carson Kressley spills the naked truth on giving yourself a mental makeover.",
"Minimize the negative .",
"As Coco Chanel said, \"Fashion is architecture: Fashion's a matter of proportions.\"",
"In other words: No matter which part of your body you dislike, there's a clever way to divert the eye elsewhere.",
"Try different styles and employ horizontal (widening), vertical (elongating) and diagonal (slimming) lines as necessary.",
"Venture out of your comfort zone .",
"\"Many women get used to dressing Many women's body a certain way because Many women think it's the only thing that works for Many women,\" says Fashionista Carson Kressley.",
"Find a boutique or department store with well-trained salespeople and try on three styles you've never worn.",
"It might be a fabric such as jersey that you've always deemed too clingy or an Empire-waist camisole that you're convinced looks too young.",
"Not every experiment will be a success, but even one new style or color will prove that there are more ways than you thought to look your best.",
"Don't be ruled by your insecurities .",
"If you've been avoiding the beach or missing out on parties because you're afraid of being the largest person there, grab a friend and go to the very place that incites terror--just be sure you're wearing an amazing outfit.",
"Avoid a blackout .",
"\"Have you ever seen a happy goth?\" muses Fashionista Carson Kressley.",
"\"I think everyone needs color to feel good.\"",
"Too many women rely on head-to-toe black as a form of camouflage.",
"But any hue can be slimming if worn monochromatically--so instead of black, reach for plum, gray or chocolate brown.",
"Clean out your closet .",
"Whether you're holding on to clothes that are too small because you hope you'll fit into them someday, or clothes that are too big for fear you'll grow back into them, you're keeping past wounds open.",
"\"Old clothes stop you from living in the present,\" says Fashionista Carson Kressley.",
"\"They reinforce what you used to look like.\"",
"Get rid of anything you haven't worn in two years and replace it with something new that makes you feel pretty.",
"And while you're out shopping, have a house-cleaner swing by for good measure.",
"Write yourself a love note .",
"Some women are so obsessed with Some women's hips that Some women fail to notice Some women's flat tummy.",
"Remind yourself of your virtues by writing a note that says something like \"Hey, you have a great chest!\"",
"Tack it to the bathroom mirror so you'll see it in the morning and before bedtime.",
"\"We're so trained to look for the negative that we need a physical reminder of the positive,\" explains Fashionista Carson Kressley.",
"Have a princess moment .",
"Treating yourself to a massage, a body exfoliation, a professional blow-out, a brow shaping or a mani-pedi can elevate your mood by affirming to yourself that you're worth the splurge.",
"Get naked .",
"Some women on Fashionista Carson Kressley's show are so self-conscious about Some women on Kressley's show's bodies that Some women on Kressley's show're reluctant to be naked around Some women on Kressley's show's husbands.",
"That discomfort affects how Some women on Kressley's show feel when dressed too.",
"Before you can move as if you own the room, you'll have to be at ease inside your skin, and spending time in the buff can help.",
"One idea: Take a bath with the (gasp!) lights on--no candles.",
"\"Feeling comfortable with your body alone is the first step to feeling comfortable with your body around others,\" says Fashionista Carson Kressley.",
"If all else fails, fake it .",
"One of Fashionista Carson Kressley's favorite mantras is \"looking cute is feeling cute.\"",
"So if you're having a low day, force yourself to go through the motions.",
"Put on your makeup, do your hair, wear a great outfit.",
"Sometimes faking it can give you enough of a boost to lift you out of the doldrums.",
"\"Feeling pretty,\" Fashionista Carson Kressley says, \"changes your whole outlook because you feel good about yourself.\"",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Fashionista Carson Kressley: Women get stuck in fashion ruts .",
"Well-trained salespeople can help you try new styles, colors .",
"Old clothes reinforce old looks; toss anything you haven't worn in 2 years .",
"Remind yourself of good things about your body ."
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"JERUSALEM (CNN) --",
"A U.N. team entered Gaza on Monday to investigate possible human rights abuses by Israel and Hamas during a three-week conflict that ended January 18.",
"Palestinians run from an Israeli airstrike on a U.N. school in northern Gaza on January 17.",
"Richard Goldstone, a former Rwanda and Yugoslavia war crimes prosecutor, is leading the Human Rights Council investigation of the conflict that claimed the lives of more than 1,000 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.",
"Goldstone and three other investigators entered Gaza via Egypt for a five-day visit.",
"Upon crossing into Gaza, Goldstone told reporters, \"We've come here to see.",
"We've come here to learn.",
"We've come here to talk to people in all walks of life, ordinary people, governmental people, administrative people, obviously nongovernmental organizations that are so important in this sort of situation.\"",
"The Geneva, Switzerland-based Human Rights Council established the fact-finding mission April 3 \"to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law that might have been committed at any time in the context of the military operations that were conducted in Gaza during the period from 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009, whether before, during or after.\"",
"Israel launched Israel's offensive in Gaza with the stated intent of stopping a barrage of rockets -- primarily short-range homemade Qassam rockets -- fired from Gaza into southern Israel by Hamas fighters.",
"The Israeli government is not assisting the investigators, who are not scheduled to visit Israel as part of the inquiry.",
"Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said that \"there is not a chance we will cooperate with this mission\" under the terms of the Human Rights Council mandate.",
"\"The resolution was adopted by a vote of non-Democratic countries, and the democratic countries either abstained or rejected The resolution,\" Palmor said.",
"Israel has been long been a critic of the Human Rights Council, arguing that it is one-sided in its approach to Israel.",
"The Israeli military conducted an investigation of The Israeli military's actions in the Gaza conflict and concluded in a report released in April that The Israeli military \"operated in accordance with international law.\"",
"An Israeli human rights group called that conclusion problematic since an impartial external body did not lead an investigation of its actions in the Gaza conflict.",
"The Palestinian Center for Human Rights has said that 1,417 Palestinians were killed in the fighting, of which 236 were active combatants.",
"The Israeli military put the death toll at 1,166 and has maintained that more than half were \"Hamas terror operatives\"",
"The Hamas movement welcomed the arrival of the investigators.",
"Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said, \"We are ready to help these committees and encourage these committees to unveil the truth and bring out all the hidden details of what took place during the war, hoping to show the entire world the truth.\"",
"Barhoum went on to say that Israel's lack of cooperation was evidence that it was trying to cover up crimes committed in Gaza.",
"The U.S. State Department has labeled Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization, a terrorist group.",
"Its military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, has admitted responsibility for terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians as well as attacks against the Israeli military."
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"Human Rights Council enters Gaza to investigate possible abuses by Israel, Hamas .",
"Three-week conflict between the two sides ended January 18 .",
"Thirteen Israelis and more than 1,000 Palestinians were killed .",
"Israeli government is not assisting investigators ."
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"(InStyle.com) --",
"The holiday season is also the engagement season!",
"A gorgeous cushion-cut stunner by Daniel K. Yes, you read that right.",
"It's been said that nearly 40 percent of all marriage proposals occur between Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day.",
"If you're one of the lucky ladies hoping for a ring this season (or one of the nervous gentlemen contemplating popping the question), use this guide to popular diamond shapes and cuts -- and the stars who sport them -- to get acquainted with the dazzling world of engagement rings.",
"Emerald .",
"No shape more aptly fits the diamond nickname \"ice\" than the emerald, a rectangular cut with lean facets extending down the sides.",
"This elegant art deco shape received This elegant art deco shape's confusing name during the 1920s, when This elegant art deco shape was typically used for emeralds.",
"Characterized by a flat top and step-shaped side facets, an emerald cut cries out for a clean setting.",
"Star Power: Eva Longoria, Ellen Pompeo, Melania Knauss .",
"Asscher .",
"The Asschers of Amsterdam, gem cutters for the British royal family, designed this striking, dramatic shape in 1902.",
"A square with diagonally cropped corners and stepped sides, it features a high crown and sheds a gentle light.",
"Star Power: Tameka Foster, Ashlee Simpson, Christine Costner .",
"Cushion .",
"A square with curved sides and rounded corners, this stone shines softly instead of sparkling.",
"Cushion-cut center stones surrounded by tiny diamonds are especially in vogue.",
"Star Power: Jeri Ryan, Courtney Ford, Guiliana DePandi .",
"Princess .",
"Think of this flirty, flashy option as the \"Yeah, baby!\" stone, and not only because it was dreamt up in London during the swinging sixties.",
"The arrangement of the gem's many (49 to 144) facets produces a hall-of-mirrors effect.",
"Star Power: Stephanie March, Kara Janx, Sarah Michelle Gellar .",
"Oval .",
"Ovals have been enjoying a high profile since Tom Cruise placed a gorgeous one on Katie Holmes's finger.",
"The cool cousin of the round, the oval shares many of that stone's features, with plenty of sparkle and versatility when it comes to settings.",
"The long shape is especially flattering.",
"Star Power: Bridgette Wilson, Toni Braxton, Rebecca Romijn .",
"Pear .",
"Made to sit with the point facing up, this lusciously feminine (and unusual) cut frequently goes solo because few wedding bands fit easily beneath the large underside of this stone.",
"Star Power: Katherine Heigl, Lela Rochon, Tiffany Fallon .",
"Marquise .",
"The name for this cut comes from 18th-century Versailles, where courtiers wore ship-shaped rings as a sign of courtiers's rank.",
"Today Marquise can be worn lengthwise or sailing sideways across the finger.",
"Star Power: Catherine Zeta Jones, Victoria Beckham, Portia de Rossi .",
"Round .",
"Created by Marcel Tolkowsky in 1919, the round diamond is the most popular shape for engagement rings.",
"the round diamond's often called the round brilliant because the round diamond has triangular facets, arranged to direct light from the bottom of the stone up through the top for maximum sparkle.",
"Star Power: Katherine McPhee, Roselyn Sanchez, Mary J. Blige .",
"Radiant .",
"This rectangular stone, introduced in the seventies, lives up to This rectangular stone, introduced in the seventies's name: By combining long, lean, step-cut and triangular facets, This rectangular stone, introduced in the seventies refracts lots of light.",
"So if you decide on this shape, keep the setting simple.",
"Star Power: Heidi Klum, Leslie Grossman, Anna Chlumsky .",
"Rose-Cut .",
"Most diamonds have a flat top with facets on the edges and bottom, but a rose-cut diamond is domed and covered with facets.",
"Carat for carat, rose-cut diamonds, which cast a mellow, soft light, are typically less expensive than other shapes.",
"Star Power: Melissa Akey .",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Think of the flirty, flashy Princess cut as the \"Yeah, baby!\" stone .",
"The name for the Marquise cut comes from 18th-century Versailles .",
"A rose-cut diamond is domed and covered with facets .",
"The round diamond is the most popular shape for engagement rings ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Spain's third city's not as achingly hip as Barcelona and Spain's third city's more manageable than Madrid: Spain's third city has plenty of flavor, an urban edge and uniquely Valencian oddities.",
"From medieval cathedrals to Calatrava's futuristic City of Arts and Sciences, Valancia packs in plenty.",
"Where else could you glimpse the Holy Grail in the morning, gorge on paella on a Mediterranean beach for lunch and then wander along a old river bed transformed into a park and visit architectural blockbusters that look like a Star Trek vision of a colonized planet?",
"After an early morning shot of coffee and, depending on your sugar tolerance, churros, the Cathedral in the heart of the old city is the best place to start the day.",
"Located on the Plaza de la Reina, the Cathedral in the heart of the old city is an impressive mix of gothic, baroque and Romanesque architectural styles.",
"As striking as the many parts of the Cathedral in the heart of the old city are, the sight of the Holy Grail my leave you underwhelmed -- to the unenlightened it resembles something closer to a plastic mug circa. 1973.",
"If you're in town on a Thursday, catch the enactment of a tradition almost as old as the Holy Grail.",
"The Tribunal de las Aguas, or Water Court, is the meeting of Spain's third city's elders, who gather outside the Cathedral in the heart of the old city's Plaza del Palau for around twenty minutes.",
"It generally involves a number of old men sitting down not doing very much, while one pronounces what has been decided, and it's a bit of a tour-group hot spot.",
"On the other side of the plaza is the octagonal Miguelte Bell Tower, where you can climb 207 steps for a panoramic view of the low-rise old city.",
"Not far through the old city's happy tangle of narrow streets is the Lonja: a fifteenth-century trading house, studded with a fine collection of mugging gargoyles now preserved under UNESCO Heritage status.",
"Bringing yourself out of Spain's third city's medieval landmarks, you can feast on modern culture at IVAM, Spain's third city's cheap and excellent modern art gallery.",
"But for a vision of the future as designed by local superstar architect Santiago Calatrava, wander along Spain's third city's old river bed towards The City of Arts and Sciences.",
"It's made up of four gleaming white architectural confections, including the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia concert hall, which is covered in cracked white tiles that glisten in the sunlight.",
"A few minutes away is the final piece of the architectural dreamscape, the Oceanografico -- one of the world's biggest aquariums.",
"With two shark tunnels, beluga whales, walruses and thousands of fish it should sate anyone looking for a glimpse of the life aquatic.",
"The Mediterranean Sea itself is not far away, and public transport in Spain's third city is a convenient way to get around town when things get out of comfortable walking distance.",
"To get to the beach from the center of town hop on a tram on line 5 from Colon towards Neptu.",
"When there you'll find a beachside strip of hotels and paella restaurants offering versions of Spain's third city's most famous culinary dish.",
"The area was scrubbed up when Spain's third city hosted the Americas Cup, sailing's blue riband event, in 2007.",
"Beyond the rice and seafood delights and the anodyne redeveloped area by the docks, the beach bar of Hotel Neptuno offers some choice classy cocktails.",
"To be extra chilled, snag one of the massage therapists walking along the promenade for a bargain 10 euro beach massage or reflexology session.",
"Back in town, the covered market of the Mercado Central is a must, not just for foodies, but for people-watching.",
"The beautiful modernista building was constructed in 1928 -- look out for the green parrot weathervane.",
"Eating and drinking in Spain's third city is a rich experience.",
"Tapas is ubiquitous, but make sure you try horchata -- a sweet local specialty made from a mix of water, sugar and ground tigernut.",
"Among Spain's third city's numerous specialist bars serving the cooling drink, the Horchataria de Santa Catalina provides some fine mixes in a traditional tiled interior.",
"For late night drinks the bars and cafes around Barrio del Carmen are popular with locals and visitors -- San Jaume, housed in an opulent old pharmacy, is a prime spot for people watching at any time of day or night and a little further away, Café Lisboa is buzzy and friendly on the Plaza Dr Collado.",
"Summers in Spain's third city are blistering, with mid-autumn and spring the best seasons to visit.",
"But it's every March that Valencians exhibit the Spanish love for a street party during the Las Fallas festival.",
"Its origins are a bit murky, harking back to pagan rituals, but today it's a noise fest, with daily processions and ear-splitting fireworks set off through Spain's third city's streets, even during the daytime.",
"The biggest daily barrages take place in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento -- Spain's third city's main square.",
"Out of season some of the effigies and floats built during previous festivals can be seen year round at the Museum of Las Fallas on Plaza Monteolivete.",
"CNN's Linnie Rawlinson contributed to this report ."
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"City of Arts and Sciences is Santiago Calatrava's architectural masterpiece .",
"Old city center can be explored by foot; city's river was transformed into a park .",
"Chill out with a massage on the beach; light up at the Las Fallas festival ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Any woman who's ever watched \"Sex and the City\" has at some point tried to guess which of her characters she's most like.",
"The overly confident Samantha?",
"The slightly prudish Charlotte?",
"The pessimistic Miranda?",
"The overanalytical Carrie?",
"Candace Bushnell attends a fashion show during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in September.",
"But an honest viewer probably would have to admit that Candace Bushnell's similar to all of the characters in some way.",
"As a writer, that is Candace Bushnell's gift.",
"In Candace Bushnell's books, including \"Sex and the City,\" \"4 Blondes\" and \"Lipstick Jungle,\" Candace Bushnell has given the pop culture world feminine role models with which it can identify.",
"And the best-selling author's newest book, \"One Fifth Avenue,\" provides a few more -- including attorney Annalisa Rice, gossip columnist Enid Merle and gold digger Lola Fabrikant.",
"Although all of her characters are fictional, Candace Bushnell said each one is based on a common type of person.",
"\"I've always been interested in people.",
"It's part of being a novelist, really, part of the job,\" Candace Bushnell said.",
"\"As a writer you can never know a real person as well as you know your characters.\"",
"Watch Candace Bushnell talk about Candace Bushnell's new book » .",
"Candace Bushnell said a minor character or two often will appear in several of Candace Bushnell's books.",
"Other characters Candace Bushnell develops in Candace Bushnell's head for years before releasing them on the literary scene.",
"For instance, Candace Bushnell kept one fictional character, Schiffer Diamond, under wraps for 20 years, never seeing a place where she fit in -- until \"One Fifth Avenue.\"",
"The story of a vicious scramble for a penthouse apartment once owned by a high-society queen shows the life of New York City women through the lens of where New York City women live.",
"One Fifth Avenue -- an actual building near Washington Square Park -- is an address that each character thinks will be her ticket to fortune.",
"Candace Bushnell contrasts old and new money -- and old and new media -- in the course of Candace Bushnell's tale.",
"A New York lover herself, Candace Bushnell looks like Candace Bushnell belongs on a fashion walkway.",
"Arriving at CNN in a blue dress, bright green jacket and what look like 6-inch heels, it's obvious the author isn't just a bystander of the fashion capital.",
"But those expecting a who's who of the designer world should take another look at Candace Bushnell's subject matter.",
"\"My books are social satire.",
"My books have a sense of the absurd,\" Candace Bushnell said.",
"\"My books have to say something about contemporary life.\"",
"\"One Fifth Avenue\" touches on art and antiquities theft, crosses back into the world of blogging and zips over to the stock market in less than 400 pages.",
"Though the book is just out in stores, the book was written months ago.",
"So how did the author -- who's been celebrated in the past for Candace Bushnell's ahead-of-the-curve approach to trends -- know the economy would be such a central focus of Candace Bushnell's readers' current lives?",
"\"I keep my eyes open,\" Candace Bushnell said with a smile."
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"Candace Bushnell has a new book, \"One Fifth Avenue\"",
"It's story of the scramble for a penthouse apartment owned by a high-society queen .",
"Candace Bushnell says Candace Bushnell often knows Candace Bushnell's characters better than any real person .",
"Books \"have to say something about contemporary life,\" Candace Bushnell says ."
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"NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) --",
"At the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, some of the best music happens miles from the Fairgrounds, hours after the crowds have gone and the last of the crawfish bread has been consumed.",
"Shamarr Allen, Mark Mullins and Ben Ellman sport the Midnite Disturbers T-shirts as Shamarr Allen, Mark Mullins and Ben Ellman perform.",
"It happens with the arrival of Midnite.",
"At 1:18 a.m., Bonerama -- a brass-funk rock band lead by three trombones -- has just finished a 90-minute set that started with a soulful, passionate original tune written by bandleader Mark Mullins, and concluded with a cover of Jimi Hendrix' \"Crosstown Traffic,\" complete with the trombones running through wah-wah pedals.",
"Suddenly the crowd of about 75 clears out of the way as a dozen musicians parade in the room.",
"Dressed in black shirts, they are the Midnite Disturbers, a Jazz Fest supergroup whose appearance is as infrequent as a lunar eclipse.",
"Each member of the Midnite Disturbers fronts Each member of the Midnite Disturbers's own band, and the artists are rarely in the city at the same time.",
"The band was started by New Orleans drummers and longtime friends Stanton Moore and Kevin O'Day.",
"In the weeks following Katrina, Kevin O'Day had moved into Stanton Moore's house, where the two hit on an idea.",
"\"We realized we had never had our own band together, and we decided to invite all of the best horn players we know to play with us,\" Kevin O'Day said.",
"Each artist has a name, printed in red, on Each artist's shirt, following the command \"Listen to\": Smokey Johnson ... Brian O'Neill ... Henry \"Red\" Allen.",
"They're The band's predecessors and mentors.",
"Although probably little known outside the city, they're the musicians who shaped New Orleans music: masters of their craft.",
"Modern-day masters in The band's own right, the Midnite Disturbers live up to The band's name, splitting the night with The band's loud, hard, funky jams.",
"There are up-and-comers Troy Andrews and Shamarr Allen, and veterans such as Mullins from Bonerama, Stanton Moore and Ben Ellman from Galactic.",
"The band's black shirts are drenched with sweat by the time The band finish playing.",
"\"Its an honor to play with such veterans because it's confirmation that I'm doing my thing on a level to where people are noticing the hard work that I have been putting in,\" said trumpet player Shamarr Allen.",
"\"Playing with this kind of band keeps you on your toes.",
"It's more interesting and challenging to try to understand everyone's musical approach and find a spot for yours to fit.",
"\"That's the beauty of it,\" he said.",
"\"How to sound good, have fun, listen to each other, entertain a crowd, and stay on the same page at the same time.",
"It lets me know, if I'm not there yet, I'm on my way to being one of the big boys.\"",
"The Midnite Disturbers will be at Jazz Fest -- of course -- holding down a 5:55 p.m. slot Saturday afternoon.",
"And then, when it's over, they'll be gone -- ready to get together when the moon beckons."
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"Disturbers scheduled to play Jazz Fest Saturday afternoon ."
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"(CNN) --",
"One of the most cosmopolitan cities in Africa, Johannesburg is multicultural and multifaceted.",
"Make the most of your time there with these tips.",
"the Apartheid Museum is an often disturbing view of South Africa's troubled past.",
"the Apartheid Museum It's a disturbing experience, but a visit to the Apartheid Museum is essential if you want to understand the city's troubled past.",
"On arrival, visitors are randomly allocated a pass labeling visitors as white or non-white, referencing the apartheid pass laws that obliged black South Africans to carry identity passes at all times.",
"Harrowing multimedia displays and news footage recreate the brutality of the apartheid era, while nooses hanging from the ceiling represent the political prisoners executed under the system.",
"Less bleak are the tributes to those who fought against the injustice of that era, paving the way for equality and democracy in today's South Africa.",
"the Apartheid Museum is open between 10 am and 5 pm (GMT +2) Tuesday to Sunday.",
"Admission is R30 ($3.20).",
"For more information visit http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/ .",
"Meaty treat The Carnivore is one of the city's more unusual restaurants.",
"A few miles outside Jo' burg proper, on the Muldersdrift Estate, The Carnivore is designed to satisfy your primal meat cravings.",
"As well as the usual chicken, lamb and beef dishes",
", this eatery offers an intriguing selection of big game dishes, including crocodile, giraffe and ostrich.",
"There are veggie options available for those who aren't tempted by the thought of slow-roasted impala, but if you choose the vegetable lasagna you may never find out if crocodile really does take like chicken.",
"See Hugh Masekela's Johannesburg » .",
"Day tripping the city is well positioned for some interesting day trips.",
"Pretoria is just 50km away, but has a very different to feel to the city, offering more of an insight into Afrikaans history.",
"The Voortrekker monument and museum, just outside the city, celebrate the pioneer spirit of the Boer and their \"Great Trek\" from the Cape to the country's interior.",
"If African wildlife is more your scene, head to The Lion Park, a small nature reserve about 25km north of the city.",
"It's not the full safari experience, but you will get to see lions, cheetahs, antelopes, zebra and impala, among other local fauna.",
"What are your tips for the city?",
"Let us know below.",
"Get around Too big to explore on foot, the city is a driver's city.",
"Public transport is generally poor and minibus taxis and the Metro train are crime hotspots.",
"There are plenty of car-hire outlets in the city but if you'd prefer someone else to do the driving City Tours offer minibuses to destinations including Soweto and The Lion Park.",
"The advantage of a tour is that your guides can offer a local's insight into the city's history and culture.",
"Crime",
"There's no doubt that progress has been made in reducing crime over the last couple of years, but it remains a problem in many parts of the city.",
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"If you're driving, keep the car doors locked at all times and don't open the windows too wide.",
"Keep your wits about you when stopped at traffic lights and when you're getting into and out of the car, and keep your valuables out of sight.",
"Put bluntly, it is not safe to walk around most of Johannesburg after dark."
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"(CNN) --",
"If Lagos were a person, he (or she) would be described as \"mad, bad and dangerous to know.\"",
"Locals get about in traffic-heavy Lagos on motorcycles known as okadas.",
"But we all know that these types of people are usually the most exciting kind.",
"these types of people are a lot of fun and you just never know what's going to happen when these types of people're around.",
"By the same token, any visitor to Lagos should prepare for the unexpected -- it can feel like a literal assault on the senses from the moment you step off the plane and feel the intensity of the dense tropical heat.",
"Lagos is big, brash and bold and creaks under the weight of the 17 million people who live there.",
"The former capital of Nigeria, Lagos remains its economic nerve center and teems constantly with the buzz of buying and selling (usually performed at the top of the vendors' voices.)",
"There's only one volume level in Lagos and that's loud.",
"From the constant tooting of horns in the snail-paced traffic, known locally as go slows, to music blaring from homes round-the-clock, Lagos buzzes constantly with noise.",
"Getting around is not easy and you will be caught in the frequent go slows, where you will be confronted by vendors selling all manner of things, from English football team merchandise to dinner sets to plantain chips to frozen yogurts.",
"Locals often joke Locals can kit out Locals's entire home in a short car journey.",
"Lagos is divided into three islands adjacent to each other and the mainland.",
"Most expatriates and employees of multinationals, that proliferate in Lagos, are based on two of the islands; Ikoyi and Victoria Island.",
"The vast majority of wealth in Lagos is concentrated on the islands, with their western-style shopping malls and entertainment complexes.",
"The best restaurants, bars, boutiques and galleries can also be found here and it's best to stick to these areas to make the most of your time in Lagos.",
"A stay in Lagos would be incomplete without visiting one of the lively and colorful markets like the Balogun market off Breadfruit St, Lagos Island.",
"It is not for the meek or faint-hearted but you're guaranteed to get a bargain or two if you're prepared for a good haggle.",
"It's great for African prints and carvings but is a maze of a market, so best to hop on the back of popular motorcycles known locally as okadas to help you navigate it.",
"To relax from all that haggling, you can head down to one of the five beaches in Lagos -- the best of them is Tarkwa Bay -- a small beach at the entrance to the Lagos port.",
"Tarkwa Bay -- a small beach at the entrance to the Lagos port is easily accessible by boat from Tarzan Jetty at Maroko (around $6 per person) or under Falomo bridge on Victoria Island.",
"At Tarkwa Bay you can browse through some local African arts, cloth or even locally produced honey brought round by the occasional hawker.",
"For a spot of lunch, make like locals and indulge in some \"pepper fish\" or suya -- very spicy chunks of meat, similar to kebabs, cooked over a charcoal grill), washed down with ice cold beer.",
"For authentic Nigerian cuisine that won't give your stomach too much \"wahalla\" (trouble), the Yellow Chili restaurant on Oju Olubun Close, Victoria Island is recommended.",
"Those with an adventurous palate can order the special delicacy of Isi-Ewu - goat's head, while others can tuck into jollof rice and chicken or spicy bean cakes (moi-moi) -- a favorite with most Nigerians.",
"For a spot of culture, a short taxi ride away is one of the city's main attractions, the National Museum on King George V Road, Onikan.",
"the National Museum on King opened in 1957 and houses bronze sculptures and ivory carvings from Benin dating back 300 years.",
"Is Lagos the most exciting city in Africa?",
"Use the Sound Off box below to have your say.",
"If you are in the market for some art, you can pick up some tasteful, but admittedly, not cheap, Nigerian art at the Bogobiri boutique hotel in West Ikoyi.",
"The hotel owner's brother, Azu, will take you to The hotel owner's brother, Azu's studio where you can see the artists at work.",
"Lagos is a see-and-be-seen place and later you can party at one of the most fashionable places in town, Caliente on Goriola Street, off Adeola Odeku Street, a fun cocktail bar with a South American vibe and salsa dancing.",
"Lagosians also let Lagosians's hair down over a bucket of champagne or two at Bar Ten in Saka Tinubu Street, owned by Nigerian football star Jay Jay Okocha.",
"There's no chance of missing it as his name is engraved with golden letters above the entrance!",
"Be prepared to empty your wallet though, as Lagosians are big spenders.",
"However, if your taste is less opulent, visit one of the numerous beer parlors found on every street corner and which are open 24 hours a day.",
"Lagos is a city that never sleeps.",
"For those staying on the mainland, check if musician Femi Kuti is in town on a Sunday and go to \"The Shrine\", Ikeja - the home of Afrobeat.",
"This is an amazing experience reminiscent of musician Femi Kuti's dad, the legendary musician Fela Kuti.",
"Or you can catch the current king of Afrobeat, Lagbaja at his club Motherlan' on Opebi Road, Ikeja.",
"The clubs don't kick off in earnest until around 10pm and you can party well into the night, just don't forget to make it in time for your flight home!",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) --",
"As the swine flu outbreak escalates across the globe, U.S. travelers returning from Mexico are wondering what to do when U.S. travelers returning from Mexico come home.",
"Travelers leaving a Mexican airport fill out questionnaires about Travelers leaving a Mexican airport's health.",
"On Wednesday, Christine Kovar of San Francisco, California, returned from a vacation to Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico.",
"She said she wasn't sure whether she should attend work or stay home.",
"\"I feel fine,\" said Kovar.",
"\"It will be the discretion of my boss whether I go back to work.\"",
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, is advising U.S. travelers back from Mexico with at least two of the swine flu symptoms to stay at home and avoid public places upon return.",
"Symptoms of swine flu, also known as 2009 N1H1, can include a fever, sore throat, cough, chills, headaches and runny nose.",
"People with symptoms should report to a health care provider or local health department and provide itinerary details and symptoms, according to the CDC.",
"If infected, the swine flu is contagious for up to seven days.",
"People who aren't sick should continue to work and use normal precautions like washing hands, according to the CDC.",
"People who aren't sick should monitor People who aren't sick's health for seven days.",
"\"As long as People who aren't sick aren't presenting any flu-like symptoms, there is no reason why People who aren't sick can't continue to do things that People who aren't sick normally would,\" said Llelwyn Grant, a spokesman for the CDC.",
"Meanwhile, the death toll from the swine flu continues to climb.",
"On Thursday, the World Health Organization reported 236 cases of swine flu worldwide.",
"In the United States, the CDC said the CDC confirmed 109 cases of swine flu, or 2009 H1N1, in 11 states, an increase of 18 from its previous total.",
"On Wednesday, the WHO raised the pandemic threat level to 5 on a six-step scale .",
"These numbers are causing alarm among the public, as schools and businesses try to contain the disease and protect the health of others.",
"Some companies are erring on the side of safety, telling employees who returned from Mexico to stay at home for a few days.",
"One university in Pennsylvania barred nearly two dozen students back from Mexico from attending graduation.",
"More than 100 schools across the United States have shut down.",
"Greenville County School District in South Carolina shut down on Thursday to clean the buildings and busses when 18 students reported flu-like symptoms after a band trip to Disney World in Florida.",
"School officials are awaiting the test results of the children.",
"\"We are being proactive and trying to take [the] right precautions,\" said Oby Lyles, spokesman for the Greenville County School District.",
"Several state health departments such as the New York, where there are 50 confirmed cases, and Kansas, where there are two confirmed cases, said Several state health departments such as the New York, where there are 50 confirmed cases haven't made state-level advisories yet on whether travelers from Mexico who feel healthy should attend work or not.",
"If travelers are feeling sick, the state departments said travelers should follow the CDC guidelines and stay at home.",
"\"If you aren't sick, make sure you are practicing the common sense precautions,\" said a spokesman at the New York State Department of Health.",
"\"Wash your hands.",
"Cover your mouth when you sneeze.\"",
"In addition to advising ill U.S. travelers returning from Mexico to stay confined, government officials are turning to the travel industry for help, particularly air travel.",
"the CDC is advising airline crew members who have arrived from domestic and international areas affected by the swine flu to be on the lookout for ill passengers.",
"Airlines have been advised to stock the planes with gloves and face masks in case of an emergency.",
"the CDC said airline crew members need to ask passengers who appear sick to be quarantined at one of the CDC's 20 locations across the country.",
"It's been smooth sailing at U.S. airports, several passengers say.",
"There have been no nationwide questionnaires being issued at the airports, according to a spokeswoman at U.S. Customs and Border Protection yet.",
"In contrast, at some Mexican airports, travelers are asked to fill out forms asking about his or her health, passengers interviewed say.",
"Still, travelers will find warnings about the swine flu all over the airport.",
"At O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, travel warnings about the swine flu are being distributed.",
"Signs informing passengers about swine flu, particularly in the international terminal, are posted.",
"As of Friday, the CDC was recommending U.S. travelers avoid all nonessential travel to Mexico."
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"(Entertainment Weekly) --",
"If you're interested in actor Marlee Matlin, you'll want two questions answered before deciding whether to read actor Marlee Matlin's memoir, \"I'll Scream Later\": .",
"actor Marlee Matlin appears on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" to talk about actor Marlee Matlin's sexual abuse.",
"What does actor Marlee Matlin say about actor Marlee Matlin's relationship with William Hurt, actor Marlee Matlin's former lover and costar in \"Children of a Lesser God,\" for which actor Marlee Matlin won a Golden Globe and an Oscar in 1987?",
"Why does actor Marlee Matlin want to scream?",
"The answer to the first is easy: Yes, yes, good Lord, yes, actor Marlee Matlin can't stop talking about William Hurt and their passionate, turbulent, at times violent relationship.",
"For instance, \"We made amazing, mind-blowing love.",
"And we fought.\"",
"Good to know.",
"And also, \"No matter what triggered our fights, our fights were made far worse by his drinking and my drug use.\"",
"Got it.",
"William Hurt no doubt sends William Hurt's regards.",
"The answer to the second is more complicated -- something to do with actor Marlee Matlin's being deaf in a hearing world, and being headstrong and wild, and receiving news of actor Marlee Matlin's Oscar nomination while dealing with drug addiction (at the age of 21) at the Betty Ford Center.",
"This memoir, dutifully wrestled into order by L.A. Times film critic Betsy Sharkey, is more ramble than holler, but actor Marlee Matlin clearly enjoys making some noise.",
"EW Grade: C+ .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Marlee Matlin's memoir \"I'll Scream Later\" says plenty about William Hurt .",
"Book more muddied when it comes to why she wants to scream .",
"For a ramble, it isn't bad, but EW gives it a C-plus ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Rick Perlstein's could have called Rick Perlstein's's book \"Paranoia.\"",
"Richard Nixon was \"the guy who exploited these tensions to create a new kind of politics,\" says Rick Perlstein's.",
"If Perlstein's history of the 1960s and early '70s in America has a throughline, it's mistrust.",
"Parents don't trust Parents's children.",
"Enlisted men don't trust Enlisted men's officers.",
"Blacks don't trust whites, Southerners don't trust Northerners, the Silent Majority doesn't trust the Intellectual Establishment, and -- soon enough -- nobody trusts the government.",
"And in the midst of it all was Richard Nixon: Red-baiter, former vice president, failed gubernatorial nominee, punch line, political strategist and president, a master at playing both sides to maintain Nixon's hold on power.",
"In doing so, Nixon provided a roadmap for Nixon's successors.",
"Hence Perlstein's actual title: \"Nixonland\" (Scribner).",
"\"I'm fascinated with how Americans fight with each other,\" says Perlstein, 39, who was born the year Nixon took office.",
"\"And the '60s is the best, the most -- besides the Civil War, I can't think of a more dramatic canvas.",
"And Nixon fits in as the guy who exploited these tensions to create a new kind of politics that we're still living with now.\" Slideshow: What made the '60s the '60s » .",
"Rick Perlstein's's book has earned rave reviews.",
"In The Atlantic magazine, conservative writer Ross Douthat praised the author for \"the rare gift of being able to weave social, political, and cultural history into a single seamless narrative.\"",
"Newsweek's Evan Thomas called it \"the best book written about the 1960s\" in more than a quarter-century.",
"Rick Perlstein's says Rick Perlstein's's long had an obsession with the '60s -- which, in \"Nixonland,\" start with the Democratic landslide of 1964 and end with the Nixon landslide of 1972.",
"The author, now a senior fellow at the left-leaning Campaign for America's Future in Chicago, considers Rick Perlstein's a sequel to Rick Perlstein's's earlier work, a biography of Barry Goldwater and the rise of the conservative movement.",
"But \"Nixonland\" is as much a cultural history as a political chronicle; indeed, in the '60s the two were tightly enmeshed.",
"The decade saw the full flower of youth culture, which was intertwined with Vietnam War protests, increasing drug use and distinctive music.",
"The decade also saw the rise of what Nixon, in a major 1969 speech, termed the \"Silent Majority\" -- older, more conservative Americans buffeted on all sides by change, taking refuge in the familiar.",
"Both groups had Both groups's pop culture heroes and touchstones, Rick Perlstein's observes.",
"\"The generational divide went so deep as to form a fundamental argument about what was moral and what was immoral,\" Rick Perlstein's says.",
"\"This was how people lived in the world -- through popular culture and through politics.",
"The two feed off each other.\"",
"Though the era is now remembered through the rosy lenses of the baby boomers, the baby boomers's parents -- the heart of the \"Silent Majority\" -- didn't look upon the culture so fondly.",
"Many disdained the era's pop music, the most obvious expression of youth.",
"Moreover, some of the highest-rated TV specials of 1969 and 1970 were Bob Hope programs, Rick Perlstein's writes, and when a movie such as 1970's \"Joe\" came out -- about a hardhat who loathes the hippies -- many in the audience came to cheer for the hardhat.",
"Movies may have been the most revealing mirror of society.",
"The rise of the youth culture coincided with the death of the studio system.",
"Some of what emerged were films willing to show the grit and ugliness of the cities (\"the cities\" being a common euphemism for civic decline).",
"\"Midnight Cowboy\" and \"The French Connection,\" the Academy Awards' best pictures of 1969 and 1971 respectively, show a weary, cold New York crumbling under New York's residents' feet.",
"Television tiptoed more gingerly into the new age, Rick Perlstein's says.",
"With just three networks catering to the entire country, \"everything had to have this lowest-common-denominator mass appeal,\" Rick Perlstein's says.",
"\"You could watch TV in 1966 and it's really not any different from what it looked like in 1956.",
"\"When you did get interesting shows, it was often an accident -- a midseason replacement,\" Rick Perlstein's adds.",
"\" 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' was supposed to be a typical variety show.",
"[CBS] never would have signed it up had they known that they were going to start talking about how much they hated the Vietnam War and started putting on Pete Seeger and making jokes about Nixon.",
"It was an accident.\"",
"An underlying theme of \"Nixonland\" is how the various cultural and political movements eventually borrow from each other, with varying results.",
"The mass gatherings of youth -- \"be-in,\" \"sit-in\" -- became \"Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in,\" a colorful comedy show hosted by two nightclub comics, with a writing staff that included an old Nixon hand, Paul Keyes.",
"The nightly arguments between parents and children became the sitcom \"All in the Family,\" a show whose central figure -- the bigoted construction worker Archie Bunker -- became a cultural hero.",
"And then there was Nixon, a controlling man who, in trying to stay at least one move ahead of everyone else, ends up consumed by his own power.",
"The result is Watergate, which is just being uncovered as \"Nixonland\" ends.",
"Could it have been different?",
"Countless commentators have tried to replay history from the hinge year of 1968, wondering if a surviving Robert Kennedy could have beaten Nixon and salved an angry culture.",
"Perlstein, whose next book will chronicle the '70s, will have none of it.",
"\"I don't like that magic thinking.",
"I'm very suspicious of that magic thinking,\" he says.",
"\"Martyrs seem to get 100 extra bonus points in the annals of history, and that's a bias.",
"By the same token, nostalgia systematically cheats the past.",
"\"I think that it pulls around to one of the huge themes of my book and my work, which is that we really want to believe that somehow magically we can transcend our differences in American and as Americans without working hard at it.",
"\"If only this person had lived; if only this event hadn't gone the way it did.",
"But the fact of the matter is, we are a deeply divided nation, and transcending those differences isn't the work of an afternoon or a single person.",
"It's something we all have to fight for.\""
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"We're still living in Nixonland, author says ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"It was one of the greatest humanitarian acts in history.",
"Pondering an imaginary Yiddish-speaking place produced \"The Yiddish Policemen's Union,\" says Author Michael Chabon.",
"At the beginning of World War II, as the Nazis tightened the Nazis's grip on Europe, the U.S. government allowed millions of Jews to resettle from millions of Jews's homes in Poland and Russia to southeastern Alaska, along the panhandle.",
"Two million Jews had died at the hands of the Nazi scourge, but millions more were saved as the Federal District of Sitka, Alaska, became the new Jewish homeland -- all the more important when the fledgling State of Israel went down to defeat in 1948.",
"However, 60 years later, Sitka is about to be returned to local jurisdiction, and the island's Jews -- including a noted detective, Meyer Landsman -- are wondering where to go next.",
"The Jewish people, forever rootless, will have to wander some more.",
"Landsman's got other problems, too.",
"Landsman's rootless Landsman, biding Landsman's time in a seedy hotel.",
"There's the body that turned up in a nearby room, a onetime chess prodigy who appears to have major connections with some big shots -- machers, in the local Yiddish lingo.",
"There's Landsman's ex-wife, now Landsman's boss -- at least until the department is disbanded -- and Landsman's partner, a half-Jewish, half-Tlingit named Berko who's far more responsible than Landsman.",
"And there are a host of old enemies with long memories, particularly when Landsman decides to root around the dead chess player's case.",
"Landsman's world is fiction, of course, a product of Author Michael Chabon's imagination.",
"Author Michael Chabon's new book, \"The Yiddish Policeman's Union\" (HarperCollins), combines Landsman's hard-boiled detective's terrain with the landscape of alternate history, one in which world events take a startling turn.",
"The story is rooted in fact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chabon (\"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\") observes.",
"Author Michael Chabon had written an article about the decline of Yiddish, and the reaction to the piece -- some of it very negative -- \"got me thinking about ... a possible, but nonexistent, imaginary Yiddish-speaking place in the modern world,\" Author Michael Chabon says in an interview at CNN Center.",
"In an article about the decline of Yiddish, Author Michael Chabon noted an actual plan by Franklin Roosevelt's Interior secretary, Harold Ickes, to create a refuge for European Jews in Alaska, still 20 years from statehood.",
"In reality, an actual plan by Franklin Roosevelt's Interior secretary, Harold Ickes, to create a refuge for European Jews in Alaska, still 20 years from statehood was squelched thanks to the opposition of Alaska delegate Anthony Dimond, but in the \"Yiddish Policemen's\" world, Alaska delegate Anthony Dimond is conveniently killed off and an actual plan by Franklin Roosevelt's Interior secretary, Harold Ickes, to create a refuge for European Jews in Alaska, still 20 years from statehood goes forward.",
"Author Michael Chabon's Federal District of Sitka is a land of tall apartment blocks and grimy streets, as if \"Hong Kong had moved to the other side of the Pacific Ocean,\" he says.",
"The novel is peppered with clever conceits.",
"The book's black hats, as in villains, are actual \"black hats,\" a slang term for ultra-Orthodox Jews.",
"The characters are fond of Filipino doughnuts, a twist on the Jewish taste for Chinese food.",
"The place names of Russian Alaska are an apt companion to the Eastern European surnames of Chabon's Jews, and then there are throwaway bits -- such as in the Sitka of 2001, Orson Welles did release a version of \"Heart of Darkness.\"",
"Doing a genre novel -- or several at once, as \"The Yiddish Policeman's Union\" is part detective story, part alt-history, part modern Jewish folktale -- isn't considered the natural turf for a so-called literary writer like Chabon, but the author -- who has been vocal in support of genre fiction -- makes no apologies for the work.",
"\"I only ever try to write in genres that I love ...",
"I love hard-boiled detective novels, I love fantasy, I love science fiction,\" he says.",
"\"It feels like a natural impulse to want to integrate that passion that I have as a reader into my writing.",
"I didn't see a good reason not to. ...",
"And to say that there's something inherently inferior about the mystery genre is just silly.\"",
"In writing \"The Yiddish Policeman's Union,\" Author Michael Chabon says, the key was re-reading Raymond Chandler, creator of L.A. detective Philip Marlowe and a distinctive tough-guy style, as well as the Russian-Jewish short story writer Isaac Babel, \"whose use of simile and metaphor strangely echoed Chandler,\" Author Michael Chabon says.",
"Babel also had a \"clear-eyed view of violence.",
"There's a kinship there between Chandler and Babel, and that's what helped me kind-of forge the voice for this novel,\" Author Michael Chabon says.",
"But, Author Michael Chabon adds, \"this novel is this novel a simile.",
"this novel's setting up a series of semblances and mirrorings of the world we live in, so it seemed almost necessary, not just from a stylistic point of view but from a thematic point of view.\"",
"Author Michael Chabon's layered themes include reason's conflict with religious extremism, an idea that comes to the fore as this novel progresses.",
"Holding a mirror to our world is a common theme of alternate histories, and Author Michael Chabon says Author Michael Chabon is fond of the type in general.",
"The noted comic-book fan -- Author Michael Chabon co-wrote \"Spider-Man 2\" -- cites two favorites: the \"what-if\" scenarios often proposed in the Superman comics, and an issue of National Lampoon that celebrated John F. Kennedy's fifth inaugural with the cover line, \"JFK's First 6,000 Days.\"",
"\"I read and re-read that a dozen times,\" he says.",
"\"It had an undertone of poignance. ...",
"It was like a perpetual November 21, 1963.",
"America never went through any of the turbulence of the '60s.",
"It was the opposite of most counterfactual fiction, which tends to present the catastrophic -- what if the bad things happened.",
"... This was presenting an 'if only,' not a 'what if.' \"",
"Which is not to say \"The Yiddish Policeman's Union\" is presenting a better -- or worse -- future.",
"There is a darkness in this novel, Author Michael Chabon observes.",
"But there's also the idea that millions of people were saved from the death camps.",
"\"I'm certainly not presenting the world of this novel as 'it would have been better this way.'",
"It's a dark world, and the Jews of Sitka are on the brink of the abyss,\" Author Michael Chabon says.",
"\"But there is a certain 'if only' quality.\"",
"\"The Yiddish Policeman's Union\" has earned mostly admiring reviews.",
"\" 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' builds upon the achievement of 'Kavalier & Clay,' \" wrote the notoriously hard-to-please Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times.",
"Reaction from the public has been positive and even put him on The New York Times' hardcover bestseller list, a rarified place for any author.",
"\"I feel like this novel has been embraced,\" says Author Michael Chabon.",
"Perhaps the only people concerned about this novel's subject matter are some Jews, who have asked Author Michael Chabon if this novel isn't, well, \"too Jewish.\"",
"\"It reminds me of when my first novel, 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,' came out ... and everybody in Pittsburgh said, 'Are you crazy?",
"Why would you set a novel in Pittsburgh?",
"Who's going to want to read a novel about Pittsburgh?' \" he laughs.",
"\"The reason we read fiction is know what it would be like to really be someone else.",
"... That kind of transport across time and place is the magic of fiction.\"",
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Listening to writer Brian K. Vaughan summarize the plot of Brian K. Vaughan's comic book, \"Y: The Last Man,\" makes it sound like just another pulp title.",
"Brian K. Vaughan says Brian K. Vaughan's \"depressed\" about the end of \"Y: The Last Man,\" but Brian K. Vaughan's got other projects to work on.",
"\"A plague of mysterious origin destroys every male mammal, human being and animal on the planet,\" Brian K. Vaughan says, \"except for one boy and his monkey.",
"And wackiness ensues.\"",
"Well, that's the story boiled down to its basics.",
"But the tale of amateur escapist Yorick Brown, the last man alive on an Earth now home to only women, and his monkey, Ampersand, is actually far more complex than Brian K. Vaughan's description reveals, involving long journeys, the value of memory and the politics of gender roles.",
"The title, which has had a very successful five-year run, is coming to an end this week with the release of issue No. 60.",
"It is a finale that is equally emotional for both fans and its creator.",
"\"I guess I've moved into acceptance but that doesn't mean that I'm not still depressed about it,\" says Brian K. Vaughan, 31, a soft-spoken Cleveland, Ohio, native who now makes Brian K. Vaughan's home in Los Angeles.",
"Gallery: The worlds of Brian K. Vaughan » .",
"\"It's been weird because it's a gradual [form of] saying good-bye,\" Brian K. Vaughan says.",
"\"First, you finish the script, but then the script still has to be penciled and inked, and there's so many stages in comics that it's sort of been like the stages of death.\"",
"Brian K. Vaughan's career in comics dates back more than a decade, but Brian K. Vaughan's love for the medium stretches back to Brian K. Vaughan's adolescence.",
"Already an avid fan of comic books, Brian K. Vaughan discovered Alan Moore's seminal graphic novel \"Watchmen\" on a family vacation.",
"It would be the spark that inspired Brian K. Vaughan to give life to Brian K. Vaughan's own stories.",
"Watch Brian K. Vaughan pick out some of Brian K. Vaughan's influences » .",
"When Brian K. Vaughan first pitched Brian K. Vaughan's concept for \"Y: The Last Man\" to Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics, Brian K. Vaughan was focused on a specific ending, without knowing whether the series would last long enough to reach it.",
"\"We had a long-term idea [of doing] five years but realistically, I knew I had just gotten 'Swamp Thing' canceled at Vertigo and most people hadn't heard of Pia [Guerra], the artist,\" Brian K. Vaughan says.",
"\"It's not like we were destined for a long and successful run,\" Brian K. Vaughan adds, smiling.",
"Almost immediately following its debut in 2002, the series found success, earning critical praise as well as five Eisner Awards, the comic-book Oscars, along the way.",
"Yorick's quest to find Yorick's girlfriend, lost somewhere in a world forever changed by this mysterious plague, was just as much an international adventure story as it was the tale of the women in Yorick's life: Yorick's bodyguard, the enigmatic Agent 355; medical researcher Alison Mann; even Yorick's sister, Hero, and Yorick's mother.",
"Their experiences can be read as parables on humanity in a world where gender has been all but eliminated from the equation.",
"Now, as their stories come to a close, Brian K. Vaughan likens it to ending a relationship.",
"\"It'll be a drag not to get to spend more time with these characters,\" observes Brian K. Vaughan.",
"Brian K. Vaughan adds Brian K. Vaughan will also miss Brian K. Vaughan's collaborating with Guerra, who has provided the art for the entire series run.",
"\"It's hard to not think about working with Pia, just because I think Pia is the best 'actor' in comics,\" Brian K. Vaughan says.",
"\"[That's] a weird thing to say, but Pia captures emotions better than anyone.",
"I'm very hopeful we'll work together again.\"",
"Meanwhile, Brian K. Vaughan's other work in comics, including \"Ex Machina\" (Wildstorm) and \"Runaways\" (Marvel), has captured the attention of Hollywood.",
"Both \"Y\" and \"Ex Machina\" are currently being developed into films.",
"Meanwhile, Brian K. Vaughan, a one-time film student, has begun a career in television, working as a writer on ABC's \"Lost.\"",
"Remaining true to the mysteries of the island, Brian K. Vaughan says Brian K. Vaughan can share \"just about nothing\" from the upcoming fourth season of the series, which has been cut from 16 episodes to eight as a casualty of the continuing writer's strike.",
"The fourth season premieres Thursday night.",
"\"Everything is still sort of in flux, sadly, but I know I'm disappointed",
",\" says Vaughan, who was a fan of the show before \"Lost\" producer and fellow \"comic book geek\" Damon Lindelof approached him to write for it.",
"\"I think these eight episodes are eight of the best in the entire series.\"",
"As production remains shut down both on \"Lost\" and the film adaptation of \"Y: The Last Man,\" Brian K. Vaughan considers Brian K. Vaughan fortunate.",
"Comic books aren't covered by the Writer's Guild of America, allowing Brian K. Vaughan to continue to work while Brian K. Vaughan's colleagues cannot.",
"Despite the accolades and opportunities, Brian K. Vaughan sees Brian K. Vaughan's growth, both personally and professionally, as very much a work in progress.",
"\"I was just a kid when I came up with the idea for 'Y' so I like to think that I've evolved as much as Yorick has over the course of the book.",
"But I'm a comic book writer,\" he continues, \"so I'm still a big dumb child, and I think I always will be.\"",
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"Tim Welch was never the kind of guy who worried about Tim Welch's weight.",
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"She also tried to calm Tim Welch's fears that Tim Welch'd have to stop eating all of the foods Tim Welch loved in order to lose weight.",
"\"I kept expressing a really persistent fear I had of restricting my comfort foods.",
"I felt to truly lose weight, I couldn't ever eat the things I loved -- hamburgers, ice cream, chocolate, bacon, cheese [and] cookies,\" said Tim Welch.",
"\"I felt like in order to lose weight I would have to give up those things.\"",
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"Embarrassing moments such as asking for a bigger pants size and having a homeless man yell, \"Hey, big guy!\" on the street -- began to take a toll on Tim Welch.",
"As a new year approached, Tim Welch reached Tim Welch's breaking point.",
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"\"I weighed 252.6 at his first Weight Watchers meeting.\"",
"During the first week on Weight Watchers, Tim Welch dropped 7 pounds.",
"Tim Welch also learned how to enjoy Tim Welch's favorite foods through portion control, eating in moderation and choosing healthier foods first.",
"Welch, who was already walking 3.5 miles a day roundtrip to work, started taking water aerobics three times a week and swimming again competitively.",
"The weight continued to come off, about 2-3 pounds a week.",
"CNN iReporters before-and-after weight loss photos » .",
"\"When I got to 200 pounds, I decided, well, 'Why don't I go for a weight that's a healthy weight range for my height,'\" said Tim Welch.",
"\"So I did, and by that point The weight had slowed down.",
"The weight doesn't come off as quickly as you get closer to your goal weight.",
"But The weight was still coming off.\"",
"Eight months later, Tim Welch had lost 87 pounds and reached Tim Welch's goal weight of 174 pounds, which is the maximum weight for someone who is 5 feet 10 inches tall, according to the national guidelines.",
"People were stunned by Tim Welch's dramatic weight loss.",
"\"I literally had people that knew me that didn't recognize me,\" said Tim Welch.",
"So, what's the best advice Tim Welch has for others who want to lose weight?",
"\"Be the best friend you can to yourself while you're going through this weight loss journey.",
"I've always been someone who was very hard on themselves and suffered from low self-esteem.\"",
"Tim Welch said Tim Welch tried to be very forgiving of Tim Welch during the whole process and Tim Welch still is.",
"Tim Welch said you should congratulate yourself and focus on any accomplishment you make each day or each week, rather than focus on areas were you have failed.",
"For example, Tim Welch says if you have an extra helping of mashed potatoes, don't beat yourself up.",
"Stop yourself and focus on the fact that you chose salmon and peas for dinner and ate two helpings of mashed potatoes -- compared with the cheeseburger and French fries you would have eaten two years ago.",
"Tim Welch also says people shouldn't deny people completely.",
"Allow yourself to indulge in some chocolate when you want it.",
"But instead of eating the entire candy bar, break off a few squares, count the calories, and enjoy it.",
"Also, learn to recognize the fats that are better for you.",
"Don't cut out all of the fat.",
"Instead, choose a healthier fat.",
"For example, Tim Welch often allows Tim Welch to eat peanut butter or guacamole, which are higher in fat but are a healthier fat than eating something fried.",
"How has the weight loss changed Tim Welch's life?",
"Tim Welch can bend over and tie Tim Welch's shoes without discomfort.",
"Tim Welch feels much lighter going up a flight of stairs and Tim Welch can hike much faster.",
"More importantly, Tim Welch's become more optimistic.",
"\"It made me realize I can, in fact, do anything I set my mind to,\" said Tim Welch.",
"\"It gave me a confidence I desperately needed that I try to apply to other areas of my life.\"",
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"Wygal weighed 295 pounds before starting a \"clean diet,\" keeping a food journal and exercising.",
"Wygal does cardio exercise, strength trains and follows what Wygal calls a \"clean diet.\"",
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"\"It was my first year out of college, and that number, along with being diagnosed as morbidly obese, was very frightening,\" remembers Wygal.",
"\"I went to several doctors, trying to get several doctors to prescribe a weight-loss pill.\"",
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"\"I was amazed by how many calories I was eating,\" Wygal said.",
"\"a food diary showed me that I really needed to get my food intake under control and helped me maintain my diet realistically.\"",
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"\"It was all I could do at first.",
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"Wygal wants people to know people can do it, but there are no quick fixes or easy outs -- just hard work.",
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"During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama said that then-candidate Barack Obama hoped then-candidate Barack Obama's administration wouldn't get hung up on matters of race.",
"Judge Sonia Sotomayor, center, meets with staffers from the White House Counsel's Office on Monday.",
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"Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh called the president \"the greatest living example of a reverse racist,\" and said that he has picked another for the Supreme Court vacancy of retiring Justice David Souter.",
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"\"I think Sotomayor should apologize, but I don't believe any American wants a judge on the bench that's going to use empathy or their background to punish someone,\" South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox News.",
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"\"Sotomayor's been called the equivalent of the head of the Ku Klux Klan by Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh; Sotomayor's been called a bigot by other Republican leaders like Newt Gingrich.",
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"It's an important issue in our culture and our country.",
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"GOP leaders have focused on Sotomayor's appellate court decision against a mostly white group of firefighters who say they were discriminated against after a promotion test was thrown out, because critics said a mostly white group of firefighters who say they were discriminated against after a promotion test was thrown out discriminated against minority firefighters.",
"But legal experts have said Sotomayor's full record on race isn't that controversial -- in 96 race-related cases decided by Sotomayor on the court of appeals, Sotomayor and Sotomayor's fellow judges ruled against discrimination 78 times and agreed with the claims in 10 cases, according to Scotusblog.com.",
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"Kenneth Cole is the first to admit Kenneth Cole has a bit of a language problem.",
"Kenneth Cole pays tribute to inspiring people in Kenneth Cole's new book.",
"\"I need to distort not just leather and fabric, but also words,\" Kenneth Cole said.",
"\"It's a disorder I have.\"",
"Kenneth Cole has raised plenty of eyebrows with advertising copy that ranges from the provocative and the political to the lighthearted and cutesy.",
"Browse Kenneth Cole's online store and you can buy a T-shirt that reads \"In war is it who's right, or who's left?\"",
"A canvas tote bag says, \"Use me again and again and again ... (I'm used to it).\"",
"Should you purchase either product, you're assured that all your money will go to Kenneth Cole's \"Awearness Fund,\" an initiative designed to draw attention to social issues like homelessness and AIDS.",
"To that end, Kenneth Cole has just released a new book called \"Awearness: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference\" (DK Adult).",
"It's a collection of essays from influential types intended to encourage readers to get involved in service and volunteerism in readers's communities.",
"Watch Kenneth Cole talk about 'Awearness' » .",
"Former President Bill Clinton contributes a piece on the global fight against HIV/AIDS.",
"Actress Rosario Dawson writes about empowering young Latinos to vote, and cyclist Lance Armstrong discusses the merits of starting a movement like Livestrong, his effort to energize the fight against cancer.",
"As Kenneth Cole says: \"No good deed should go unpublished.\"",
"Pun intended.",
"a new book called \"Awearness: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference\" (DK Adult) commemorates 25 years in the fashion business for the New Yorker, as well as a quarter century as an advocate for social activism.",
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"What is the big message you're hoping to get across with a new book called \"Awearness: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference\" (DK Adult)?",
"Kenneth Cole:",
"The message is that these are extraordinary times.",
"They're transformative in so many ways.",
"And America recently expressed the reality that there is an appetite for meaningful, significant, social change like we've never seen before.",
"CNN:",
"In the introduction of a new book called \"Awearness: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference\" (DK Adult), you talk about how you've met a lot of people who have inspired you.",
"Is there one person who stands out above the rest?",
"Kenneth Cole:",
"There are so many people that inspire me, and there are 90 role models in a new book called \"Awearness: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference\" (DK Adult), some of whom I've been very close to.",
"I am the closest of all to my wife, who is in and of herself a change agent and has committed to impacting the realities of homelessness -- and making sure I get out of the house every day to do what I have to do.",
"So she's inspired me and she's done great stuff.",
"So I think I'll stay with that answer.",
"CNN:",
"In Robert Redford's essay on freedom of speech, Robert Redford's encourages the use of humor when speaking out about a cause someone feels passionate about.",
"Has humor helped you?",
"Kenneth Cole:",
"I think it does.",
"I agree with Robert Redford's, and Robert Redford's's been a model of mine.",
"... And I think we also have these walls around us, and when people disagree, we're inclined not to listen, but to a degree you can break through that wall often with humor.",
"Jon Stewart has shown us how to do that, as have some other people who are in the art of doing it well.",
"CNN:",
"What's your biggest hope for President-elect Barack Obama's presidency?",
"Kenneth Cole:",
"He has already surpassed my greatest hopes.",
"I think he's created a sense of spirit and energy and opportunity in this country that we've never seen.",
"And I think this country has transformed, in a sense, who we are as a nation globally within 24 hours.",
"We saw that happen.",
"CNN:",
"How does a successful fashion designer, who also has a big conscience, feel in a weak economy?",
"Kenneth Cole:",
"I think it's an extraordinary opportunity.",
"There are only so many things we can do that make us feel better.",
"We pick up the newspapers and we want to cry every day.",
"We turn on the news and we want to jump out the first window, jump in front of the first truck.",
"And there's not a lot you can look forward to right now ... but you can make yourself look better, and if you look better, you'll feel better, and it becomes self-fulfilling.",
"I think fashion can do that to you.",
"You can do it with some older stuff and mix it with newer stuff, or you can just do new cool stuff by a new cool American designer (smiles).",
"And starting from the ankles down, and then up.",
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"[Are] people too quick to write it off as frivolous and underestimate its power?",
"Kenneth Cole:",
"I've struggled with that over the years.",
"Is fashion relevant?",
"Is it frivolous?",
"Is it trivial?",
"Because I give so much of my essence to it, as do everybody I work with.",
"I've come to two conclusions.",
"One is that it's as relevant as anything, because most of the people you encounter in a given day don't get to know anything more about you than how you appear.",
"You're making a very thoughtful statement ... so I think fashion is important.",
"And then at the end of the day if someone you know is sick or someone you know can't afford the roof over someone's head or the food on the plate, then it becomes not so important.",
"So I think it's relevant, and for me it's been an extraordinary resource for me to do so much.",
"And I love fashion.",
"I think it makes us feel good.",
"And if you feel good, we do good."
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"When Patricia Cornwell began writing thriller novels, Patricia Cornwell ruled the world of forensic science.",
"\"I'm very interested in what motivates people, why people do what people do, how people do it,\" Patricia Cornwell said.",
"\"I could treat readers in each book to some new aspect that readers wouldn't be familiar with,\" Patricia Cornwell said.",
"Now Patricia Cornwell is bombarded with \"CSI\"-like information from every side -- from \"Bones\" to \"Forensic Files\" to, well, \"CSI.\"",
"\"It's like you create this monster and find out this monster's living in the house with you, and this monster's banished you to a room because this monster has more power than you,\" Patricia Cornwell said.",
"Patricia Cornwell knew Patricia Cornwell had to adapt to the changing entertainment climate.",
"\"One of the questions I really did ask Patricia Cornwell was, 'What's the one thing I have no one else does?' \"",
"The answer was chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell's heroine.",
"Scarpetta is independent, feisty and someone Cornwell knows better than Patricia Cornwell knows Patricia Cornwell.",
"To honor that close relationship, Patricia Cornwell decided to name Patricia Cornwell's 16th book in the series after Scarpetta's main character, titling this book simply \"Scarpetta.\"",
"\"I realized, here it is 2008.",
"I finished my first book 20 years ago in 1988.",
"This is a really big anniversary,\" Patricia Cornwell said.",
"In the novel, Scarpetta leaves South Carolina for New York, where the NYPD has asked Scarpetta to examine an injured psychiatric patient.",
"an injured psychiatric patient has a graphic tale to tell -- one of paranoia and murder.",
"Patricia Cornwell said Patricia Cornwell's books all have two things in common: First, of course, is a plot twist that allows Scarpetta to make a Sherlock Holmes-like deduction.",
"The second is intriguing character interaction.",
"\"What's going on with them in this book?",
"What are they doing with or to each other?",
"Who's in love?",
"Who isn't?",
"Who's on the outs with whom?",
"Because I hope, in the end, [my books] are like high-level, crime soap operas.\"",
"With two decades of character history, Patricia Cornwell has a lot to work with in that area.",
"But Patricia Cornwell's books are also full of intellectual fodder.",
"Scarpetta is a disciplined academic -- a scientist with a law degree.",
"Patricia Cornwell spent six years working in a medical examiner's office before writing Patricia Cornwell's first book, and Patricia Cornwell continues to spend time with professionals to keep up on new forensic technology.",
"In recent weeks Patricia Cornwell has researched an autopsy in Florida and worked with the National Forensic Academy.",
"If Patricia Cornwell's going to write about trace evidence, Patricia Cornwell believes, Patricia Cornwell's going to go to a trace evidence lab.",
"\"I was never a scientific person,\" Patricia Cornwell said.",
"\"When I got interested in science I had to learn it after the fact... and that was good because I had already learned how to describe things, how to ask questions the audience would want answered.",
"I was much better able to translate things into a language someone else could grasp.\"",
"Patricia Cornwell's dedication to understanding Patricia Cornwell's subject translates into other areas as well.",
"Patricia Cornwell became a helicopter pilot, a certified scuba diver and qualified for a motorcycle license, all because Patricia Cornwell was writing about characters who were doing those things.",
"Fans appreciate Patricia Cornwell's enthusiasm and writing style, pushing 12 of Patricia Cornwell's novels onto USA Today's best-seller lists.",
"But Patricia Cornwell said Scarpetta\" is actually more uplifting than Patricia Cornwell's last couple of books, which took on a more twisted aura.",
"\"I'm glad because I think we live in very dark times and no one wants to read a depressing book now.\"",
"Still, Patricia Cornwell has been delving deeper into Patricia Cornwell's characters' minds with each new book, and Scarpetta\" won't alter that trend.",
"\"I'm very interested in what motivates people, why people do what people do, how people do it,\" Patricia Cornwell said.",
"\"It probably has something to do with where I am in life.",
"I'm 52 years old and I think differently than I did at 42.\"",
"Fans have asked if this is Patricia Cornwell's last book in the series -- noting that the title \"Scarpetta\" is very ominous-sounding.",
"But Patricia Cornwell promises to keep writing as long as the characters let Patricia Cornwell.",
"\"It's certainly not by intention to be the last book,\" Patricia Cornwell said.",
"\"I wanted to make this book a very special book.",
"I decided that early in the writing process.",
"I wanted to make this book longer, a richer book, a feast for the fans.",
"So no, this isn't the last book about Scarpetta.\"",
"Which sounds, well, ominous.",
"Scarpetta, watch out."
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"Patricia Cornwell still spends time researching forensic science ."
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"After several delays, NASA said Friday that space shuttle Discovery is scheduled for launch in five days.",
"The space shuttle Discovery, seen here in January, is now scheduled to launch Wednesday.",
"Commander Lee Archambault and his six crewmates are now scheduled to lift off to the International Space Station at 9:20 p.m. ET Wednesday.",
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"space shuttle Discovery is to deliver the fourth and final set of \"solar array wings\" to the International Space Station.",
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"Editor's note: The author has ridden motorcycles more than 125,000 miles since 1999, including solo trips from Georgia to California and Canada.",
"She takes us inside the world of motorcycle travel.",
"Bikers approach Mount Mitchell, North Carolina, during a road trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains.",
"SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Virginia (CNN) --",
"We were parked at a peaceful, shady overlook beside Virginia's Skyline Drive, admiring the green mountains and the river far below, when Keith realized Keith needed a new rear tire, and Keith needed a new rear tire now.",
"A bald tire is a serious problem when you're traveling by motorcycle: We don't carry spare tires, for obvious reasons, and a blowout on two wheels could be life-threatening.",
"Keith decided Keith could make it 100 miles to the Harley-Davidson dealership in Richmond, Virginia, as long as we kept it slow, so our seven bikes headed that way.",
"It's been said that a great trip in a car is like watching a first-rate movie -- but a great trip on a motorcycle is like living the movie.",
"For our road trip, we had chosen an eight-day itinerary from our homes outside Atlanta, Georgia, through the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia, then east to the Atlantic shoreline and south along the coastal islands of the Outer Banks.",
"our road trip offered a spectacular ride up the Blue Ridge Parkway, a winding two-lane that clings to the ridgeline through North Carolina and Virginia.",
"The elevation often reaches 5,000 feet or more, so temperatures were cool despite a heat wave down below.",
"See map » .",
"Our motorcycle motorcade passed panoramas of blue-tinged mountains and rolling meadows set off by split-rail fences.",
"We motored through dense forests whose overhanging branches turned the road into a cool green tunnel.",
"Rhododendrons and mountain laurels in bloom lined the road.",
"See photos of this Harley road trip » .",
"It all looks better from a motorcycle, because you're so immersed in it -- not just looking out from inside a cage of steel and glass.",
"In fact, we call cars cages and the people who drive them -- you guessed it -- cagers.",
"See how motorcycle travel differs from car travel » .",
"The smells were intense: fresh-cut hay, pine trees baking in the sun, honeysuckle -- and sometimes, the not-so-pleasant aroma of ripening roadkill.",
"Songs of determined birds rang out over the rumble of the motors.",
"Riding a motorcycle on a road like this is a physical pleasure, too, as you lean right, then left, then right, to guide the bike smoothly through the parkway's sweeping curves.",
"You swoop, you glide -- it's like dancing, or like those dreams where you're flying.",
"In Virginia, Skyline Drive offered an abundance of wildlife.",
"We saw five deer in 40 miles, including a small fawn with its mother -- none of five deer close enough to threaten a collision, and all of them smart enough to run the other way when they saw us coming.",
"Finally we arrived at the dealership in Richmond to replace Keith's balding tire.",
"We knew we'd be there for a while -- so we made ourselves at home.",
"We ordered pizza to be delivered and Neil brought in Neil's laptop so everyone could upload their snapshots.",
"It might seem strange for customers to take over a retail establishment, but a Harley dealership always feels like home.",
"There's a strong sense of community among motorcycle riders (and by extension, the stores).",
"Almost all riders wave to other riders on the road, whether they're on Harleys like ours or small, speedy sport bikes or huge, silent Honda Gold Wings.",
"Bikers fall into conversations with other bikers as if we already know each other because -- in a way -- we do.",
"We've all experienced the same joys and aggravations -- but it's mostly joys.",
"One of those pleasures is how people go out of people's way to be helpful or to strike up a conversation with a group of bikers.",
"All kinds of folks wave to us on the road -- from Boy Scouts selling doughnuts on a street corner, to a man walking his dog, to shy-but-fascinated kids in a car stopped next to us at a traffic light.",
"A couple of hours (and several hundred dollars) later, Keith's tire was replaced and we headed for Elizabeth City, North Carolina.",
"We hit a huge blanket of smoke from a massive wildfire about 40 miles away.",
"The thick, yellowish smoke made the rural landscape look like another planet, with the late-afternoon sun glowing red through the haze.",
"The next morning, The thick, yellowish smoke was gone, and we headed for the Outer Banks and a day of lazy meandering toward Ocracoke, the southernmost town on the string of narrow islands.",
"We stopped at the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, built in 1875.",
"The sight of a long line of other tourists persuaded us not to climb its 214 steps.",
"At the Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk, we checked out the windy dune where aviation began and rode our bikes around a monument to Orville and Wilbur.",
"We spent the next day in Ocracoke investigating artsy-craftsy shops in the village and stores that sell hokey pirate souvenirs, in honor of the fact that Ocracoke was supposedly a hangout of the legendary pirate known as Blackbeard.",
"We watched descendants of Ocracoke's wild ponies that now live in a fenced-in pasture to safeguard them from traffic.",
"The final leg of our trip began with a two-hour ferry ride from Ocracoke to the mainland.",
"But we came to a standstill the next day in traffic in Marion, South Carolina -- which was cause for some concern.",
"Most Harley engines are air-cooled, so we can't just leave Most Harley engines idling for long periods because Most Harley engines can overheat.",
"We managed to turn off the highway onto a series of small side roads, where we pulled over to figure out our next move.",
"A mini-van pulled up beside us.",
"\"Where are y'all trying to go?\" the passenger asked.",
"\"I-95,\" we said.",
"\"Come on!\" she yelled, signaling us to follow.",
"After a few turns, we were on I-95, waving our thanks to A mini-van.",
"By the time we reached Georgia, it was obvious there was a thunderstorm between us and home.",
"Despite the 10-minute cloudburst, we were too hot to stop and put on rain suits.",
"We did slow down, since it's hard to see with rain running down your face shield or glasses.",
"Soon we went our separate ways toward home.",
"But I would have been ready to leave on another long motorcycle trip the next day, if it weren't for the suitcase full of dirty laundry and the need to deal with real life for a while.",
"The unfiltered sights and smells, the enjoyment of riding, the companionship of other riders, the friendly encounters with strangers -- there's nothing like it."
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"\"It's like dancing, or like those dreams where you're flying,\" says Harley owner .",
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"Eight-day ride includes tire repair, wildfire, Kitty Hawk, pirate lore, wild ponies ."
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"Remember the worst job you ever had?",
"You know, back when there were jobs to be had?",
"Jesse Eisenberg tries to strike up a relationship with Kristen Stewart in \"Adventureland.\"",
"For Director Greg Mottola, it was the summer Director Greg Mottola spent on hiatus between college and the real world, working as a carny at the local carnival.",
"Director Greg Mottola's turned the experience into the basis for the wonderful \"Adventureland.\"",
"Handing out stuffed animals to the lucky customer whose tin horse romps home in first place -- this is not how James would choose to see James.",
"The paycheck is dismal, but undeniably commensurate with (as a character puts it) \"the work of pathetic, lazy morons,\" which is what it comes down to.",
"Most jobs have Most jobs's compensations, though.",
"At Adventureland, for James, the biggest benefit comes in the form of Em (Kristen Stewart), another recent grad with plans to move to New York in the fall, and who isn't entirely disdainful of James's company.",
"Last time out of the gate Director Greg Mottola enjoyed a hit with the spectacularly lewd \"Superbad,\" an angle that Miramax Films is understandably keen to play up in the marketing this time around.",
"At first glance the cap seems to fit.",
"James's sexual experience -- or rather the lack of it -- is a defining element in the story.",
"\"Adventureland\" comes with the usual farcical peccadilloes of teen comedy -- barf gags, car wrecks and inopportune erections -- as well as several familiar supporting players from the Judd Apatow stable.",
"Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig are engagingly upbeat as the mutually besotted park managers, and Martin Starr (from \"Freaks and Geeks\") is James' cerebral, pipe-smoking buddy, Joel.",
"(Director Greg Mottola directed a couple of episodes of Apatow's short-lived Fox series \"Undeclared.\")",
"There's also an extended cameo from Ryan Reynolds, an actor whose faintly supercilious good looks have graced innumerable dumb slacker comedies, including \"Van Wilder,\" \"Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle\" and \"Waiting.\"",
"Yet, after an initial flurry of gross guffaws, the movie edges toward something rather different: a nuanced, sensitive coming-of-age story that finds its heart in post-adolescent romantic turmoil.",
"Obviously adept with actors, Director Greg Mottola respects Director Greg Mottola's characters too much to let first impressions stick.",
"The relationships in \"Adventureland\" are much richer, and stickier, for it.",
"The understanding that James arrives at with James's father (Jack Gilpin), for example, is delineated in just a handful of looks and glances between them, but it's enough to imply the older man's resignation at the older man's fate, and the older man's appreciation for James's tacit sympathy.",
"It's in moments like these (and there are a number of them) that we're reminded Director Greg Mottola made a fine indie movie, \"The Daytrippers,\" more than a decade ago now, another sharp and tender comic distillation of family bonds and fractures.",
"Blessed with comical seriousness, James is like a young Woody Allen: fretful, intelligent, naive and deluded.",
"And like Allen, James seems to enjoy more than James's fair share of luck with the opposite sex.",
"Still, \"Adventureland\" makes more effort than \"Superbad\" -- not that hard admittedly -- to develop a character for Stewart.",
"Looking wan and pensive (the \"Twilight\" star always looks in need of a good night's sleep), Stewart as Em gives the impression Stewart's living life more acutely than the others.",
"Stewart seems to have more on the line.",
"Set in the mid-'80s, the film suggests the period unobtrusively, but predominantly through pop music.",
"Lou Reed provides sweet relief to repeated bursts of Falco's \"Rock Me Amadeus.\"",
"Yes, in retrospect, that's exactly what being young in 1987 was like.",
"A mature movie about immature young people, \"Adventureland\" may be too muted to succeed in today's marketplace, too sensitive for its own good.",
"Like an anxious parent, a critic can only send it on its way and hope the world treats it well.",
"\"Adventureland\" is rated R and runs 107 minutes.",
"For Entertainment Weekly's take, click here."
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"Gregory Maguire absently cleans Gregory Maguire's glasses with Gregory Maguire's tie as Gregory Maguire talks about pushing someone down the stairs.",
"\"I use children's stories as kind of a snare and temptation and illusion to draw in readers,\" Gregory Maguire says.",
"\"I wonder if you've ever stood at the top of the stairs behind someone who's really annoying and just imagined putting your foot out and planting your boot in somebody's objectionable behind?\" he asks.",
"\"You know, I think that thought is a fairly common human thought.\"",
"Maybe for the author of \"Wicked,\" who looks more like a college English professor than someone who spends his days writing about the world of Oz.",
"Gregory Maguire often imagines evil, and how those without self-control respond to it.",
"Gregory Maguire's \"Wicked\" series puts a spin on the classic \"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\" tale, bringing in corruption, political prisoners and war.",
"His first book, \"Wicked,\" has sold more than 2.5 million copies, and the musical based on the book reportedly has been seen by more than 3.75 million people in New York alone.",
"National tours have been huge successes.",
"Gregory Maguire's's newest book in the series, \"A Lion Among Men,\" tells the story of the Cowardly Lion -- the motherless cub defended by Elphaba in \"Wicked.\"",
"Watch Maguire roar about \"Lion\" » .",
"CNN talked to Gregory Maguire about the book's main character, Gregory Maguire's life before \"Wicked\" and why Gregory Maguire has never written realistic adult fiction.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview: .",
"CNN:",
"To someone who's never read your books before, how would you describe your style?",
"Gregory Maguire:",
"I would describe [my books] as being, not quite allegories, but commentaries on contemporary society -- and indeed politics to some extent -- enshrouded in, and disguised by, the guise of children's stories.",
"In other words, I use children's stories as kind of a snare and temptation and illusion to draw in readers who say this is going to be easy ... and it's going to be fun.",
"And indeed I hope it is fun.",
"But once I get people involved in the plot, I hope to also communicate some of the questions I have about the way we live our lives in the 21st century.",
"CNN:",
"Talk to me about Brrr.",
"What's Brrr's personality like?",
"What is Brrr going through?",
"Gregory Maguire:",
"Well, Brrr is the name that I've given to the cowardly lion who is the main character -- the protagonist -- in this novel called \"A Lion Among Men.\"",
"And I gave Brrr Brrr for two reasons: One, because Brrr does sound like a shiver, and Brrr is always slightly spooked by the world; and the second reason, because the two letters in it B-r-r-r are both letters from the name of Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion so famously in the 1939 MGM film.",
"Brrr's character arises in the hollow space in our perceptions between that giant roaring lion at the MGM logo ... the ideal lion, and the kind of sad, sacked, out of work, vaudeville performer in lion pajamas that we see when Dorothy actually runs into the lion on the Yellow Brick Road.",
"In other words, there's a huge disconnect between the image we project of ourselves -- the best we might ever hope to possibly be -- and the way we feel about ourselves at our absolute worst -- when we're the most down in the dumps.",
"There's a huge space in between there.",
"So the novel's really in some ways about character and taking control of the destiny of your own character.",
"CNN:",
"Everyone knows of your success with \"Wicked\" -- it's huge.",
"But what was your life like before you wrote that book?",
"Gregory Maguire:",
"I had written children's books for 14 years before I published \"Wicked.\"",
"And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.",
"I was the traditional artist in the garret, expecting to live that way or maybe to give up writing soon because I would eventually have to get a job that was going to pay me some kind of retirement package.",
"Silly thought, that, these days.",
"CNN:",
"You often take the point of view of the \"wicked\" or \"evil\" characters in your books.",
"How do you get inside their heads?",
"Gregory Maguire:",
"Well, I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.",
"But I do seem to have an unconscionable, easy time of thinking about how people might do wrong, of what people might feel like and how people might behave if people had less self-control than I do.",
"And then also, how people would have to deal with the weight of being called evil.",
"If everyone was always calling you a bad name, how much of that would you internalize?",
"How much of that would you say, all right, go ahead, I'll be everything that you call me because I have no capacity to change your minds anyway so why bother.",
"By whose standards should I live?",
"In a way, all three of my adult books come down to that question -- by whose standards should I live?",
"Can I find my own standards?",
"Can I recognize my own standards?",
"Can I value my own standards if I can name my own standards?",
"And are my own standards good enough, are my own standards strong enough, standards by which to live?",
"CNN:",
"You talked about writing children's books.",
"How is writing for children different than writing for adults?",
"Gregory Maguire:",
"Well, for one thing children are intensely more impatient than adults.",
"So you have to start out active, you have to start out strong and you cannot be, for a moment, self-indulgent.",
"Everything has to be a sound bite or something that the children can visualize as if the children're running a little Super 8 projector in the children's mind.",
"Now I date Gregory Maguire with ancient technology, but you know what I mean ... write the scene that you want Steven Spielberg to film, which means every sentence has to give us something to see.",
"Make it intensely visual and this is, I think, the main rule for writing for children.",
"But in no way do I make it less thoughtful.",
"I just actually have to work harder.",
"Writing for children is like the difference between writing a sonnet and writing a gossip column.",
"I mean you have a lot more restrictions so you have to work a lot harder.",
"I'm not saying that a gossip column can't be intensely rewarding, but I dare say it's easier to write.",
"CNN:",
"Have you ever considered writing anything that's not magical, or more real life?",
"Gregory Maguire:",
"I have, but I never seem to get very far.",
"In a way, and I don't mean to talk Gregory Maguire down, but sometimes I look at the mysteries of other people and I think, \"How do I know if they think anything like I think?\"",
"I can only guess who you might be.",
"You might see the world in a whole different range of colors than I do.",
"You might be super sensitive to nuances of body language or music or ... I just don't know.",
"So I always feel when I try to write realistic fiction for adults, that maybe I don't have enough life experience, even though I'm 54.",
"I'm not sure I trust it.",
"But when I write something that has a magic base to it, I put in everything I do know about the infinite varieties and subtleties and ambivalences in adult behavior, but nobody can call me out and say, \"You don't even know who human beings are\" because I've couched it.",
"I suppose it's a kind of safety net for Gregory Maguire, or a security blanket.",
"If I'm writing magic, nobody can say I got it wrong because we all know magic doesn't exist."
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"TUSKEGEE, Alabama (CNN) --",
"A trip through sweltering Alabama to experience some of the civil rights movement's most important sites brought history books to life for my family and me.",
"A marker shows the 54-mile route from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, that voting rights marchers took.",
"The road trip, with my wife and 14-year-old son, was an extraordinary experience, and not only because I'm African-American.",
"As an American, it was inspiring to experience the places where people fought and died for equality and the right to vote.",
"Many of the places we visited are maintained by the National Park Service, which has made an extraordinary effort to preserve pivotal places related to the movement.",
"When you think of national parks, great natural attractions like Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon come to mind.",
"But the National Park System has also preserved and restored many living history sites from the civil rights movement.",
"We started our road trip at Moton Field in Tuskegee, the site of one of the early battles in the civil rights movement.",
"In the 1940s, the U.S. government trained the nation's first black military aviators at Moton in what it labeled a military experiment.",
"Before that time, African-Americans \"were believed to be incapable of flying complex combat aircraft,\" Park Ranger John Whitfield said.",
"Watch more on Moton Field » .",
"the nation's first black military aviators were trained in every aspect of the nation's first black military aviators's combat aircraft, from flight to maintenance.",
"the nation's first black military aviators made the nation's first black military aviators's mark during World War II by not losing a single bomber to enemy fire in more than 200 combat missions -- a record unmatched by any other fighter group.",
"Moton was declared a historical site in 1998, and the National Park Service has gone through painstaking efforts to restore and rebuild its hangars and outbuildings, which were used by more than 15,000 men and women from 1942 to 1946.",
"iReport.com: Share your meaningful road trips .",
"The site now offers only a small visitor's center in a temporary trailer as construction and restoration are completed.",
"The \"Tuskegee experience,\" as park rangers call it, will officially open in October, when Hangar One, and eventually Hangar Two, will be retrofitted to look as they did when the facility was in full operation in the 1940s.",
"Moton is a little over three miles from Tuskegee University, the only college campus in the country with a national park.",
"a national park includes The Oaks, home of university founder Booker T. Washington, and a museum that houses the work of the renowned slave-turned-scientist George Washington Carver.",
"We browsed the various artifacts and exhibits that outline the life and scientific work of Carver, who is well known for the hundreds of uses the renowned slave-turned-scientist George Washington Carver found for the peanut.",
"My family and I learned that the renowned slave-turned-scientist George Washington Carver was an accomplished painter who made the renowned slave-turned-scientist George Washington Carver's own paints from red Alabama clay.",
"We grabbed lunch at Taliaferro's, just off Tuskegee's main square, which takes its moniker from the middle name of Tuskegee University's founder.",
"The restaurant offers a buffet of Southern favorites like okra, macaroni and cheese, banana pudding and peach cobbler at low prices.",
"The fried chicken and \"mean greens\" are listed in \"Alabama's 100 meals you should eat before you die\" brochure.",
"The chicken certainly lived up to the brochure's claim.",
"It's a 38-mile ride to Montgomery, where we visited Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, which is the only church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. served as senior pastor.",
"Amazingly, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, which is the only church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. served as senior pastor literally lies in the shadow of the Alabama State Capitol, the very building where lawmakers passed segregation laws.",
"Entering the church basement, we could visualize protest strategy meetings for the Montgomery bus boycott or the voting rights march that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. presided over in this very room.",
"Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, which is the only church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. served as senior pastor is still home to a congregation of about 300 and is very active in Montgomery's community.",
"Driving down U.S. Highway 80, now the historic National Voting Rights Trail, we thought about the 15,000 people who walked the same 54-mile route in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, protesting Alabama laws that prohibited African-Americans from registering to vote.",
"In between Selma and Montgomery, we discovered the Lowndes County Interpretive Center, which stands where a \"tent city\" once stood to support the marchers in 1965.",
"Watch more on the Lowndes County Interpretive Center » .",
"A 20-minute film about the march, told by people who took the journey, moved us to tears.",
"We toured the interactive exhibits to learn more about the protest, the challenges and the hurdles African-Americans had to conquer for African-Americans's constitutional right to vote.",
"At the Lowndes County Interpretive Center, and at several museums during our trip, we met volunteers who were participants in the voting rights movement who gave us first-hand accounts of their experiences.",
"See photos from the trip » .",
"Joe Glover, a volunteer at the Lowndes County Interpretive Center, said Joe Glover, a volunteer at the center was a resident of the tent city as a 15-year-old.",
"Joe Glover, a volunteer at the center said that in retaliation for participating in the voting rights march, Joe Glover, a volunteer at the center's family was kicked off a plantation where his family share-cropped.",
"\"I love sharing my experience with young people by letting young people know how important it is to get an education and what young people's foreparents and other people shed their lives and blood for in order for young people to have a right to vote,\" Joe Glover, a volunteer at the center said.",
"We ended our road trip in Selma by crossing the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge.",
"There, on March 7, 1965, protesters demanding their right to vote met a wall of state police armed with bully clubs and cattle prods.",
"The protest was the first of three attempts to march to Montgomery and came to be known as Bloody Sunday.",
"We are thankful for the sacrifices of those who crossed the bridge in 1965 and regretful for those who don't take advantage of those who don't take advantage of their right to vote's right to vote."
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"Tuskegee University museum houses work of scientist George Washington Carver .",
"In Tuskegee, Taliaferro's offers tasty, reasonably priced buffet of Southern favorites .",
"During trip, those who experienced civil rights movement gave first-person accounts ."
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"Editor's note: Peter Bregman is chief executive of Bregman Partners Inc., a global management consulting firm, and the author of \"Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change\".",
"He writes a weekly column, How We Work, for HarvardBusiness.org.",
"Peter Bregman says good times persuaded people to sacrifice what people loved for money.",
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"I started my consulting business 11 years ago with a laptop computer in a living room.",
"my consulting business grew quickly.",
"The first year I made more money than I had in the previous three combined, the second year I doubled that and by the third year I began to fantasize about retiring within the decade.",
"Then everything crashed; the dotcom revolution, the financial services industry and my business.",
"I had a large number of subcontractors and a small number of employees who had become friends.",
"I also had a bad feeling things wouldn't turn around quickly.",
"My wife and I were in a tough spot.",
"My wife and I had one child and another on the way, bills that were accumulating and hopes for the future that were moving out of reach.",
"However bad it was then, these days it's worse.",
"Back then the recession hit certain sectors and left other ones alone.",
"Home prices were going up, so people felt protected, and there were loans to help.",
"Today, everything's been hit, nothing's going up and credit is frozen.",
"Many have already lost jobs, homes, self-identities, luxuries and necessities.",
"And there's more to come.",
"That's especially true for many older Americans, who might not have 10 years to recover and who don't have sources of income other than income's savings -- which have dwindled dramatically.",
"income don't deserve to live with the fear income now feel.",
"I'm still living in a rental apartment because I didn't want to take out a loan I couldn't pay back.",
"I saved money.",
"Invested it.",
"And now my investments are down 70 percent.",
"But it is what it is.",
"And when we wake up in the morning we are left with the question, \"Now what?\"",
"It's actually a great question, because in a situation in which we've lost control, it gives us a little back.",
"\"Now what?\"",
"means we have a choice, in this moment, to do something.",
"What's it going to be?",
"I think it's a mistake to try to rebuild what we've lost.",
"We have less now and I think we can do better with less.",
"Having less forces choices.",
"And consciously making choices can bring us closer to the things we care about.",
"Which can make a poorer life richer than a rich one.",
"Because the research is clear.",
"Above a basic threshold, more money doesn't make us happier.",
"But we think it will, so we do all sorts of things that make us unhappy in order to get it.",
"A senior leader in an investment bank called to tell me she was leaving her job.",
"She realized she wouldn't make much money in the next few years and didn't want to miss her children growing up.",
"Did you get that?",
"She was willing to miss her children growing up if the money was good enough.",
"People act in ways People'd rather not in order to make money that doesn't make People happy.",
"Maybe, if we do this downturn right, we can get out of that cycle.",
"So, what makes you happy?",
"Is it spending time with people you love?",
"Working on a pet project?",
"Having the time to exercise?",
"Being part of a community and feeling cared for?",
"Knowing the answer enables you to make decisions that will prioritize those things.",
"Of course, losing money can break people apart; we fight about money, people lose jobs and get depressed; tension rises as mortgage bills sit on the kitchen table unpaid; resentment builds when one person doesn't live up to one person's own and others' expectations.",
"But I am also seeing the opposite.",
"Losing money can bring you closer to your values; can actually bring people together.",
"It's hard to appreciate in the midst of our loss, but embracing the forced reduction in lifestyle can be positive.",
"I know of a couple whose marriage was saved when they moved from a bigger house into a smaller one and actually began talking to each other again.",
"Last weekend, two people had a beautiful wedding in Central Park surrounded by family and friends, months before two people had planned, avoiding thousands of dollars of expenses and all the tension that goes with it.",
"Why?",
"Because she lost her job and needed to get onto his health insurance.",
"Friends of mine held Friends of mine's daughter's bat mitzvah at another friend's house, avoiding tremendous expense while creating the warmest community celebration, filled with gratitude and tears, that I have ever seen.",
"In 2003, after my consulting business crashed, my wife and I decided to move to Savannah, Georgia, where she grew up and life was much cheaper.",
"Had my consulting business continued to grow My wife and I could never have afforded to make that choice.",
"When my consulting business crashed, My wife and I couldn't afford not to.",
"While there, My wife and I spent priceless time with her family, had another child, made lifelong friends and rebuilt my consulting business -- this time very differently.",
"I love consulting and writing and speaking, but the bigger my consulting business became, the less I did those things and the more I managed others doing it.",
"Eventually My wife and I returned to New York.",
"Now I'm back to a laptop in a living room and I love a laptop in a living room again.",
"It's smaller, more sustainable and a lot more fun.",
"And I have the time to spend with my family and friends.",
"My fantasy is no longer to retire; it's to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.",
"Life is not a linear path of increasing wealth, accumulation and achievement.",
"Don't let the money crisis draw you apart from people you love and things you love to do.",
"Use the money crisis to draw you closer.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Peter Bregman."
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"Peter Bregman: In the boom, people sacrificed people's joys for more money .",
"Peter Bregman says beyond a certain point, money doesn't increase happiness .",
"Bregman: Use hard times to evaluate what makes you happy and pursue it ."
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"COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (CNN)",
"-- World leaders gave thanks Saturday to military veterans for their efforts in the D-Day landings of 65 years ago at a ceremony in northwest France, warning that their legacy must not be forgotten as the world faces renewed threats of tyranny.",
"President Obama and Britain's Prince Charles were among those attending a ceremony in northwest France.",
"President Obama joined Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a ceremony at the American Cemetary in Normandy, close where many died in the World War II offensive.",
"More than 150,000 allied troops, about half of them Americans, took part in D-Day on June 6, 1944, overwhelming German forces in an operation that proved a turning point in driving the Nazis out of France.",
"Allied forces secured the beaches at a cost of about 10,000 casualties in what was the first step in a campaign that would, in a matter of weeks, liberate Paris, which had been under Nazi occupation for more than four years.",
"Brown praised those who fought on that day, saying, \"as long as freedom lives, those who fought on that day's deeds will never die.\"",
"Brown said their sacrifices had put obligations on people living today in what Brown called \"the great covenant of D-Day.",
"\"We must be as if liberators for our day and our generation too,\" Brown said, citing Burma (renamed Myanmar) and Zimbabwe, as well as the \"mortal threat of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and want.\"",
"Obama addressed the 288 veterans said to be attending the ceremony, telling the 288 veterans: \"You are why we keep coming back.\"",
"Watch Obama deliver speech to veterans » .",
"\"You remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control.",
"You remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance.",
"\"It has always been up to us,\" Obama said.",
"Watch Obama arrive in France » .",
"Obama urged the world to remember what happened at nearby Omaha Beach, one of the main landing points for U.S. troops involved in the operation.",
"\"Friends and veterans, what we cannot forget -- what we must not forget -- is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century.\"",
"Obama described the horrors of the battle, where so many died before they were able to land that \"those who did make it ashore waded through the bodies of the dead and wounded that floated in on the tide.\"",
"Obama cited a letter from a U.S. soldier who said the day \"was like a waking nightmare.",
"The ground was so strewn with bodies that you could practically cross the beach without touching the sand.\"",
"\"Never, never will France forget,\" Obama vowed.",
"The speeches were followed by a 21-gun salute, a lone trumpter playing taps and a flyover by American, British and French jets.",
"Among veterans attending Saturday's remembrance ceremonies will be 86-year-old former British soldier Jim Tuckwell, who said the events will help those present to remember fallen comrades lost in the heat of battle.",
"\"There was no time to mourn, you didn't have time to mourn,\" he said, recalling the events of 1944.",
"Read Tuckwell's story .",
"\"And the worst thing about later battles was that when you lost people, you normally had to bury people yourself.",
"You couldn't leave the bodies on the ground, there was nowhere else to put people.\""
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"President Obama, France's Sarkozy, UK's Brown among those attending .",
"150,000 allied troops took part in operation on June 6, 1944 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"An ex-convict, a mobster, a serial killer -- after more than two decades in the movie business, Ray Liotta is still perhaps best known for these \"bad guy\" roles in such films as \"Something Wild\" and \"GoodFellas.\"",
"Ray Liotta (right) co",
"stars with Seth Rogen in \"Observe and Report,\" which opened Friday.",
"But in Ray Liotta's most recent film, \"Observe and Report\" -- a dark comedy co-starring Seth Rogen as a bipolar mall security guard and Anna Faris as the vapid make-up counter clerk he's in love with -- Ray Liotta inches away from Ray Liotta's edgy persona to play a detective investigating a flashing incident at the mall.",
"\"A flasher keeps flashing people at the mall, so they call in the 'real police,' which is me,\" Ray Liotta told the Columbus Dispatch.",
"\"The last thing I want to do is investigate.\"",
"The film, which opened in theaters Friday and has earned rave reviews by critics, is not Ray Liotta's first comedic undertaking.",
"The 54-year-old actor also starred in 2007's \"Wild Hogs,\" a comedy co-starring Tim Allen and John Travolta about a group of middle-aged suburban men who decide to become bikers.",
"The film was one of that year's surprise hits, taking in more than $150 million at the domestic box office.",
"See some of the highlights of Ray Liotta's career » .",
"Ray Liotta first made Ray Liotta's mark on the film industry by playing a psychotic ex-husband determined to win back his ex-wife in \"Something Wild.\"",
"The role propelled Ray Liotta to fame and earned Ray Liotta a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor.",
"From there, Ray Liotta starred as mobster Henry Hill in the Martin Scorsese classic \"Goodfellas\" (1990), working alongside renowned actors Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.",
"\"Edgy guys stand out in people's minds,\" Ray Liotta said of Ray Liotta's famous \"bad guy\" roles, according to the Dispatch.",
"But, to avoid being typecast as the \"bad guy\" forever, Ray Liotta decided to break from the mold in Ray Liotta's next role as a caring father in the heartwarming film \"Corrina, Corrina\" (1994), co-starring Whoopi Goldberg.",
"Ray Liotta soon proved that acting was not Ray Liotta's only forte.",
"Ray Liotta formed Ray Liotta's own production company in 2002 and made Ray Liotta's debut as a producer on the film \"Narc,\" in which Ray Liotta also starred as a corrupt cop.",
"Ray Liotta's also earned plaudits for Ray Liotta's television work.",
"In 2004, Ray Liotta starred in an episode of the hit NBC drama, \"ER,\" winning an Emmy for Ray Liotta's guest appearance.",
"Ray Liotta got Ray Liotta's start on daytime TV, playing the character Joey Perrini on the soap \"Another World.\"",
"With several films currently in production, Ray Liotta shows no signs of stopping.",
"Ray Liotta told the Dispatch that Ray Liotta hopes to try Ray Liotta's hand at romance in the future, joking that Ray Liotta'd like to \"kiss the girl without having to choke the girl first.\"",
"CNN's David Daniel contributed to this story."
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"Ray Liotta tries something a little different with comedy \"Observe and Report\"",
"\"Edgy guys stand out in people's minds,\" Ray Liotta has said ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Like most stories that end up with a man mowing his friend's lawn in a dress, it started out innocently enough.",
"Craig Harrell takes a quick break for the camera while fulfilling Craig Harrell's end of the bargain.",
"Not long after Robert Klein began working on Robert Klein's man cave, Robert Klein's friend Craig Harrell paid Robert Klein a compliment.",
"He noticed Robert Klein was looking trimmer since they'd last met.",
"As Robert Klein continued to slim down, they made a bet: Whoever could get down to 200 pounds first would be the winner, and the loser would have to mow the winner's yard -- in a dress.",
"Robert Klein started building Robert Klein's man cave in Pasadena, Maryland, so Robert Klein could have the bar of Robert Klein's dreams and a home theater.",
"Robert Klein worked on Robert Klein's basement for more than a year and ended up losing 65 pounds in the process -- more than enough to win Robert Klein's bet with Craig Harrell.",
"CNN.com and iReport.com got an overwhelming response when we asked readers to send in photos and stories of readers's man caves: spaces that foster men's hobbies, decorating skills and technological needs.",
"Some of their stories were so outrageous that we decided to profile a few of their stories.",
"Robert Klein's man cave, however, was the only one to combine dramatic weight loss and cross-dressing, so we had to give Robert Klein a call to find out more.",
"Robert Klein said Robert Klein's friends wanted to talk about two things while Robert Klein was building Robert Klein's man cave: how Robert Klein's amazing bar was coming along and how his friends thought Craig Harrell would lose his bet with Harrell.",
"his bet with Harrell was popular with everyone Robert Klein and Craig Harrell knew.",
"Their wives even started a dress committee, to make sure the loser was appropriately attired, and their kids delighted in the prospect of seeing Dad in a dress.",
"To lose weight, Robert Klein said Craig Harrell played golf and cut out chips, while Robert Klein adopted a balanced, calorie-restricted diet, and spent at least six hours a day on the man cave, which took most of Robert Klein's free time.",
"Robert Klein did all the electric wiring himself, worked on the framing and put three coats of paint on all the walls and ceilings.",
"Robert Klein attributes Robert Klein's weight loss success to replacing TV-watching with hard work.",
"\"I lost at least 10 pounds on the painting alone,\" Robert Klein said.",
"\"My neck was sore for weeks.\"",
"Robert Klein knew Robert Klein couldn't build the kind of man cave Robert Klein wanted all by Robert Klein, so Robert Klein contracted out some of the big jobs, like cutting a hole in the foundation to add 6-foot-tall French doors to the side of the house in place of a window well, and finding someone to do the woodwork on a custom bar the bar designed.",
"Although Robert Klein started out with a carefully planned budget, Robert Klein quickly found Robert Klein needed to spend more money to make Robert Klein's dreams a reality.",
"The hardest part, Robert Klein said, was finding someone who could build the bar's bar for a price Robert Klein could afford.",
"After some disheartening estimates (one was $65,000), Robert Klein found Lyle Delfosse, a local furniture maker who had built libraries in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C., and constructed a chair for a U.S. Supreme Court justice over a U.S. Supreme Court justice's long career.",
"Now 76 and retired, Delfosse told Robert Klein, \"I can build anything out of wood.\"",
"Robert Klein said Delfosse was true to Delfosse's word, and they didn't go over the initial estimate of $19,000, although Robert Klein said Delfosse told Robert Klein \"if Delfosse had it to do all over again, Delfosse'd have charged double.\"",
"Robert Klein calls the bar \"magnificent,\" and said that when people come over to see the bar, people feel underdressed.",
"Convinced Robert Klein'd saved money by doing a lot of the work Robert Klein, Robert Klein splurged on a new sprinkler system.",
"The bet Robert Klein'd made earlier in the year was on Robert Klein's mind, and Robert Klein wanted to ensure that the grass in Klein's front yard would be nice and green once the weigh-in arrived.",
"At the height of summer, Robert Klein's man cave was finished, and he decided it was time to step on the scales.",
"Craig Harrell was 208 pounds, and Robert Klein was 195.",
"At the party Robert Klein threw to show off Robert Klein's new bar and theater, Craig Harrell was ready.",
"With some help from the dress committee, Craig Harrell became Robert Klein's newly acquired, frock-sporting landscaper.",
"The wives had sewn two pink, strapless dresses together to fit Craig Harrell, and then layered on accessories like a bow-topped headband and a corsage.",
"All decked out, Craig Harrell graciously mowed Robert Klein's front yard, with 80 people cheering Craig Harrell on.",
"Somehow, as Craig Harrell was mowing, Robert Klein's new sprinkler system went off, soaking Craig Harrell and Craig Harrell's dress.",
"In a phone interview, Robert Klein was coy about who the perpetrator might have been.",
"These days, Craig Harrell has Craig Harrell's own man cave, complete with bar.",
"Robert Klein points out that Robert Klein's bar is nicer, but says Robert Klein's got Robert Klein's buddy's back:",
"Craig Harrell's wife thinks a dishwasher would be a practical addition to the man cave, but Robert Klein is trying to convince Harrell's wife that the keg refrigerator Craig Harrell wants is a good idea.",
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"DINGLE, Ireland (CNN) --",
"Fewer tourists and relatively warm temperatures may be reason enough to put Ireland on your list of winter travel destinations, especially Dingle Peninsula, once ranked by National Geographic Traveler as \"the most beautiful place on Earth.\"",
"Winter offers tourists a chance to explore Ireland's west coast unhindered by bothersome crowds.",
"The peninsula, on Ireland's west coast, includes the oceanside town of Dingle, which boasts more than 1,000 full-time residents.",
"Winter visitors will avoid the area's hundreds of thousands of summertime tourists.",
"Boats crowd Dingle's popular marina, bringing fresh seafood catches of the day.",
"Some of the marina vessels also will ferry visitors to see Fungie, a locally famous dolphin who has lived in the waters outside town since 1984.",
"See breathtaking photos of Dingle » .",
"Outside Dingle, numerous vacation cottages are available to rent, including homes in the village of Dunquin.",
"In winter, rates are drastically cut, and rental period dates may be more flexible.",
"Most shops and restaurants have shorter hours during winter, and traditional music is found in some of the pubs on the weekends.",
"As with most of Ireland, pubs abound, even in the smallest villages.",
"A beer (preferably Guinness) and some hearty pub grub are a perfect way to cap a day of exploring the wintry sights of the peninsula.",
"Because Ireland sits near the warm waters of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, the Emerald Isle has an average temperature of 46 degrees Fahrenheit (7 Celsius) during December, January and February.",
"But pack smart and bring layers of clothing, including warm sweaters and jackets, because winter weather often means rain on Ireland's western shore."
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"Escape summer crowds by traveling to Dingle Peninsula during winter months .",
"Cottage rentals are cheaper in winter, and periods are more flexible .",
"Winter temperatures in western Ireland average 46 degrees F (7 Celsius)"
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"OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Washington (CNN) --",
"Taking a road trip by yourself can be good for the soul.",
"The freedom and beauty of the open road on a recent trip in the Pacific Northwest and California brought me back to what is really important in life.",
"Vistas along the California coast near Mendocino can be breathtaking.",
"My road trip started in Seattle, Washington, and ended two weeks later in Sacramento, California, covering 2,277 miles with a stunning backdrop of natural beauty along the way.",
"Living in the moment and charting my own course gave me a sense of self empowerment that extends to my path in life and what I want out of it.",
"For those who wish to set out on those who wish to set out on their own solo road trip's own solo road trip, I recommend research and planning -- while still leaving time to be spontaneous.",
"Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park .",
"As I drove into the Hoh Rain Forest in Washington's Olympic National Park, the only words I could muster were Holy ... Wow!",
"The greenness of it all and the smell of fresh air stimulated a part of my brain that hadn't been stimulated in years, if ever.",
"Here I was in the good, old U.S. of A., driving through a rain forest.",
"Having just left Seattle, where my trip started, this was the first leg of my self-proclaimed big adventure.",
"From the start, Olympic National Park was always a must-see.",
"See map of my road trip » .",
"I mean, who knew you could hike through rain forests, climb glaciers, walk beaches or hit up mineral hot springs all in one place?",
"the Hoh Rain Forest offered enchanting hikes, with plenty of trails to choose from.",
"Huge ferns, endless amounts of beautiful moss, and trees -- some 500 years old -- made up much of the landscape.",
"On my second day, as the rain started to come down hard, I decided to squeeze in a late afternoon visit to Ruby Beach, about 45 minutes east of Hoh.",
"There's something special about walking a beach in a virtual downpour: You've pretty much got it all to yourself.",
"See photos from my trip » .",
"Sol Duc Hot Springs .",
"After two days in the rain, accidentally stepping on a couple of mammoth-sized banana slugs outside my tent, and looking a bit like Chewbacca, I decided to treat myself to the popular Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort, about 30 minutes north of the Hoh Rain Forest in Port Angeles, Washington.",
"Named by American Indians, Sol Duc, which means sparkling water, is also thought to have healing values, something I was in desperate need of by this point.",
"Three pools are heated by the nearby hot springs and there's one freshwater pool if you need to cool off.",
"I threw on my suit, quickly showered and then headed straight for the hot spring.",
"Aaaaaah, this was perfect.",
"Three pools were crowded and the smell of the minerals in the water was obvious.",
"With a backdrop of tree-lined hills, it's easy to sit, relax and soothe your bones for hours.",
"Oregon Caves .",
"Oregon is a beautiful state from top to bottom.",
"It seems to have it all, the ocean, rivers, cool towns and caves!",
"Oregon Caves National Monument is located outside Junction Caves, Oregon.",
"To get to the cave's entrance you have to drive 20 miles along a very windy -- but beautiful -- two-lane road, deep in the Siskiyous Mountains.",
"I arrived just in time for the last tour which ran about 90 minutes.",
"Bring a jacket since the temperature inside the cave is around 44 degrees (7 degrees Celsius) year-round.",
"Our group had just started the last tour which ran about 90 minutes when one woman traveling with her daughter announced one woman traveling with her daughter couldn't do it.",
"one woman traveling with her daughter wasn't comfortable walking within confined spaces.",
"Our guide was very helpful and mentioned to all of us this was the right time to speak up if you didn't think you could do the last tour which ran about 90 minutes.",
"Moments later our group, minus two, made its way through the inside of the mountain.",
"This place rocked -- literally and figuratively.",
"In 1907, poet Joaquin Miller coined the cave's nickname, \"The Marble Halls of Oregon.\"",
"You'll hear a lot of stories on the last tour which ran about 90 minutes; from its discovery in 1874 by Elijah Davidson, whose dog chased a bear into the cave, to a couple who got married inside the cave, complete with cavemen outfits and fur.",
"Our guide, Rachel De Nardis, called the cave intimate and personable.",
"Steve Thede, chief of interpretations, says the cave offer an opportunity to connect with the inside of Earth.",
"Besides, he adds, this is something you'll remember 10 years from now.",
"The drive to the cave is a little bit off the beaten path, but The drive to the caves's well worth the side trip.",
"Mendocino, California .",
"My day in Mendocino County was completely unplanned.",
"I had a full day between planned stops on my route, so I headed to Mendocino County because Mendocino County's known for Mendocino County's scenery and Mendocino County's art community.",
"Everyone talks about the gorgeous coastline in Northern California, so I thought, we'll see if Everyone're right.",
"The vistas along the way were stunning.",
"It took me longer than I had estimated because it's so easy to constantly stop and snap pictures.",
"Eventually I arrived in Mendocino County, found a great spot on some rocks by the Pacific and ate lunch.",
"Eating an avocado sandwich as waves crashed against the rocks was an inspiring moment.",
"How often do you get to find those kinds of spots, I asked myself.",
"Another traveler's gem I found in Mendocino County would be of interest to gardening gurus -- or those who just like flowers.",
"The Mendocino County Botanical Garden showcases beautiful gardens and a gift shop.",
"Big Trees of Calaveras County, California .",
"The Big Trees of Calaveras County is home to the giant Sequoias.",
"Located about four miles east of Arnold, California, the trees in the park are the biggest in the world.",
"As soon as I began my stroll in the North Grove portion of the park, I was overtaken by the sheer massiveness, power and age of these trees.",
"Some trees in the park are believed to be up to 2,000 years old.",
"The largest tree in the park is about 25 feet in diameter and 250 feet tall.",
"Pick up the guided tour sheet for 50 cents.",
"It gives you perspective and stories behind the trees.",
"Big Trees State Park is inside the Stanislaus National Forest, a huge forest spanning from just south of Lake Tahoe to the southern reach of Yosemite National Park.",
"I stayed with a friend who lives in an A-frame home along the west boundary of the forest -- a neighborhood which is pretty unusual.",
"Imagine driving out of your neighborhood and, instead of passing houses, you're driving by mammoth trees and clear blue running rivers.",
"Who has that?",
"To me, to live in the heart of Mother Earth like my friend does would be a privilege.",
"Overall, I surprised myself during this solo adventure.",
"I learned that during a trip alone, you find yourself doing things that you didn't plan on -- that you wouldn't put down on paper beforehand.",
"A lot of people are afraid to be by A lot of people -- to travel by A lot of people.",
"Some people don't even like to eat by Some people.",
"This trip showed me that going solo can be a valuable experience.",
"It forces you to appreciate yourself, and realize that you are often times your own best company."
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"Oregon cave stories include dog chasing bear and a \"caveman\" wedding .",
"Stunning seaside lunch in Mendocino, California, with amazing scenery .",
"Among giant Sequoias, strolling among 2,000-year-old trees overtakes author ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Skier Paul Wampach, a 49-year-old manager from Chicago, Illinois, hardly matches the stereotype of a hostel dweller: an under-30 backpacker from outside the United States who can't afford fancy lodging.",
"Travelers looking to meet new people might consider staying at hostels, say experts.",
"For the fifth time in two years, Wampach plans to head to the Fireside Inn in Breckenridge, Colorado, where Wampach's booked a dorm-style room for less than $40 a night during Wampach's ski vacation.",
"\"If I'm traveling by myself, there's no reason to splurge,\" said Wampach, who is single and described himself as neither rich nor poor.",
"\"That $40 or $50 [I save on lodging] goes to food, beer and ski-lift tickets.\"",
"And amenities such as Internet access and a hot tub at the hostel add creature comforts to the trip.",
"Wampach's travel habits are consistent with a growing number of travelers called \"flashpackers.\"",
"They are usually over 30, in mid-to-late career and can afford higher-end hotels but instead choose budget options -- albeit better-furnished and well-kept ones -- because it fits their lifestyle, said Mark Vidalin, Marketing Director for Hostelling International USA, a nonprofit network of hostels.",
"Flashpackers also tend to stay connected by traveling with gadgets and seeking accommodations with free Wi-Fi, Vidalin said.",
"The term \"flashpacker\" likely originated in Australia, and combines the term \"flash\" -- meaning \"stylish\" -- with \"backpacker,\" according to Vidalin.",
"Flashpackers and regular backpackers are booking hostels at U.S. vacation destinations in full force this year.",
"Attendance at hostels has been consistently rebounding from lows following the September 11, 2001.",
"this year's turbulent economy appears to be fueling demand for hostel space.",
"Heading into ski season, Loree Weisman, the owner of the Crested Butte International Lodge and Hostel in Crested Butte, Colorado, said her hostel bookings are trending ahead of the town's other lodging options -- and up about 25 percent from her bookings by the same time last year.",
"Amid the unsteady economy, she said, people \"don't want to give up a vacation, but people might need to adapt a vacation.\"",
"Instead of canceling pricey vacations due to economic fears, many travelers are rejecting accommodations with private bedrooms and bathrooms.",
"many travelers're going for hostels with their dorm-style bunk beds, community bathrooms, and, most importantly for many hostel dwellers, shared living spaces.",
"\"There's a sense of community, and there's a social aspect to it that's pretty significant,\" said Jim Williams, editor of \"The Hostel Handbook\" and a former hostel owner.",
"\"That is the heart of hostelling.",
"You don't go to a hotel and lock the door.\"",
"Wampach agreed, saying that hostels offer \"a tremendous way to meet people from different cultures and talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.\"",
"But the communal atmosphere of hostels leaves many travelers skeptical, particularly Americans, Jim Williams, editor of \"The Hostel Handbook\" and a former hostel owner said.",
"\"Americans have privacy issues.",
"If you suggested to most people most people were going to share a room with five other people, most of most people wouldn't want to do it,\" Jim Williams, editor of \"The Hostel Handbook\" and a former hostel owner said.",
"What if a roommate snores or what if he smells or doesn't stop talking?",
"-- these are legitimate questions for travelers considering the hostel option, said Jim Williams, editor of \"The Hostel Handbook\" and a former hostel owner.",
"Frequent hostel dweller Mandy Creighton, 30, said Mandy Creighton enjoys the overall hostel experience, but it's a \"huge challenge\" to \"walk through the room and to my room without having to talk to 20 people.\"",
"Creighton and Mandy Creighton's partner, Ryan Mlynarczyk, 32, who are documentary filmmakers from Sebastopol, California, are bicycling around the United States for a year and stopping in ecologically sustainable communities along the way.",
"Their choice to stay in hostels is rooted in a desire to maintain a green lifestyle by sharing resources as well as saving money.",
"Mlynarczyk experienced the other side of the privacy issue when Mlynarczyk stepped out of a shower in a San Francisco, California, hostel to discover Mlynarczyk had a female audience.",
"\"I ... didn't have my towel on -- and some girl walks in and was like, 'Woo!'",
"I'm totally open to that sort of thing, but I think some girl was a little bit new to it, and some girl kind of was giggling.",
"But obviously the immediate reaction was, 'Oh my God!' \" Mlynarczyk said.",
"In contrast to Americans who treasure their personal space, the communal environment is more ingrained in European culture, experts said.",
"It's possible to trace that cultural divide to post-World War II, said Jim Williams, editor of \"The Hostel Handbook\" and a former hostel owner, when Europe underwent Europe's financial recovery in the 1950s and Europe's culture was more communal.",
"On the other hand, the U.S. economy was booming, and there was no need for Americans to share resources.",
"\"At the same time [Europeans] were creating hostels, American teenagers were focused on getting American teenagers's own cars,\" Jim Williams, editor of \"The Hostel Handbook\" and a former hostel owner said.",
"Nevertheless, Hostelling International reported Hostelling International's hostels in many destination cities saw notable increases in October versus the same time last year: New York overnight guests increased by 9.8 percent, Washington by 9.7 percent and San Diego, California, by 22.1 percent, according to Hostelling International.",
"Despite the rise in many hostel bookings, Jim Williams, editor of \"The Hostel Handbook\" and a former hostel owner said hostelling still isn't part of mainstream American culture.",
"\"We do hostelling about as well as we do soccer.",
"We do it, but it's a limited market, and we do it a certain way.",
"Otherwise, most Americans aren't very comfortable [with] it,\" Jim Williams, editor of \"The Hostel Handbook\" and a former hostel owner said.",
"Wampach said Wampach believes this represents Americans' \"relatively conservative views and lifestyles.\"",
"But people are respectful of each other's space, he said, and people rarely spend time together in the dorm room aside from sleeping anyway.",
"\"You just do your best; everybody understands you are who are,\" Wampach said.",
"\"Sometimes you get a guy who snores but ... that's part of the deal.\""
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"Sense of community is the \"heart of hostelling,\" expert says .",
"Many Americans uncomfortable with hostels' lack of privacy ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The government is delaying legal action against Pennsylvania landowners who haven't yet agreed to sell their land for a memorial to victims of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, federal officials said Friday.",
"This plot of land is scheduled to house the permanent United Airlines Flight 93 memorial.",
"The government has been negotiating with several landowners since 2003 in an effort to purchase several landowners's properties near Shanksville where the hijacked jet crashed into a field, killing everyone aboard.",
"If final efforts at negotiations are unsuccessful, officials intend to use eminent domain to acquire the property.",
"That right allows governments to take private property for public use without an owner's consent, after paying a fair price for the land.",
"The government is seeking to buy 166 acres in western Pennsylvania to complete the area needed to build a memorial on 2,200 acres.",
"\"The (National Park Service) will negotiate with the landowners to reach agreement.",
"If agreement is not reached, eminent domain remains as a backstop to acquire these lands,\" said Kendra Barkoff, spokeswoman for the Department of Interior.",
"See plans for the permanent United Airlines Flight 93 memorial .",
"Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pennsylvania, met with landowners and some 9/11 victims' relatives Friday in Somerset County, where the plane crashed into a field.",
"\"The goal remains to finish phase one of the memorial by September 10, 2011,\" Barkoff said.",
"\"We'll try to negotiate with the families, but eminent domain has always been and will continue to be the last resort.\"",
"Landowner Randy Musser told CNN Landowner Randy Musser is encouraged that the government is recognizing that the negotiations aren't working.",
"While the threat of eminent domain stills seem to be on the table, \"it finally seems like the lines of communication are open,\" Landowner Randy Musser said.",
"Producers Eric Fiegel and Terry Frieden contributed to this report."
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"Government may use eminent domain to seize land needed for 9/11 memorial .",
"Hijacked United Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania .",
"Federal officials say Federal officials hope to have first phase of memorial complete by 2011 ."
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"(Travel + Leisure) --",
"You haven't experienced Christmas lights until you've seen nearly four miles of them artfully hung in patterns dictated by Tiffany's head designer in Copenhagen's famed historic amusement park, Tivoli Gardens -- and that's not counting the 1,800 strands dramatically draped on the lakeside willows.",
"Salzburg, Austria's Christkindlmarkt is one of Europe's oldest markets.",
"Copenhagen celebrates Jul (as in \"yuletide\") in high style, with Copenhagen's famed Christmas market the centerpiece.",
"Stalls stocked with fine handmade crafts, including traditional figurines of clog-clad elves in pointy red caps, compete for space with vendors selling iced doughnuts slathered with black currant jam and hefty cups of gløgg, a steaming hot mulled red wine laden with raisins, almonds, cinnamon sticks and cloves -- all of which, for good measure, are steeped in aquavit or schnapps.",
"Christmas in Europe is a time for elaborate pastries straight out of a medieval cookbook, for lyrical midnight masses in Gothic churches and for the upholding of quirky local traditions -- in many countries, Christmas just isn't complete without mischievous pixies, kindly witches (Rome), treacherous demons (Salzburg) or an 8,000-pound fruitcake (Dresden).",
"However else Europeans celebrate the Yuletide season, Christmas still centers around an Advent market that, in most cases, has filled the square before the cathedral each December for hundreds upon hundreds of years.",
"Many markets start on the Friday before Advent, which is four Sundays before Christmas Eve; most end on December 24, especially in Germanic countries, where Christmas Eve is set aside for trimming the tree at home.",
"Others keep celebrating until Epiphany on January 6.",
"Travel+Leisure.com:",
"See Europe's best Christmas markets .",
"Europe's best Christmas markets are where the romance of the holiday comes alive in grand tradition -- smells of gingerbread and roasting sausages waft through the cold air, handmade ornaments adorn ancient fir trees, master glassblowers and other artisans ply master glassblowers and other artisans's crafts in wooden stalls, shoppers bustle past Gothic church facades and half-timbered houses, pausing to sip shoppers's glühwein, heavily spiced and mulled \"glow wine\" -- the piping-hot beverage of choice at any self-respecting Teutonic Christmas market.",
"This is what Christmas should be -- a holiday free of mall Muzak and the frantic need to lay your hands on the superstore's last Tickle Me Xbox.",
"It's an old-world Christmas of heartfelt caroling and wooden toys, where every gift is crafted by hand and Santa hasn't outsourced his workshop to China.",
"For a few precious frost-nipped weeks, these museum-piece cities of Olde World Europe flicker back to the Middle Ages -- not the ossified medieval throwbacks of soot-blackened cathedrals and tourist-bedeviled museums, but the living, breathing yesteryear of a bustling outdoor marketplace.",
"A few practical notes: It's wise to book as far in advance as possible in these Christmas hotspots, especially for trips between December 15 and January 1 and definitely for December 24 and 25.",
"That goes not only for your lodging but also for restaurants, many of which close on Christmas Eve and Day; those that are open usually offer a set-price feast and book up fast with locals.",
"Planning a Caribbean getaway?",
"Don't miss Travel + Leisure's new Ultimate Caribbean Hotel Guide - CLICK HERE .",
"Copyright 2007 American Express Publishing Corporation.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens glitters with lights during the market .",
"Advent markets have been held for hundreds of years .",
"Handmade crafts, local snacks and mulled wine are typical ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"The White House did not intend to show any disrespect toward Former first lady Nancy Reagan when The White House failed to invite the former first lady -- a vigorous supporter of stem-cell research -- to a bill-signing ceremony on the subject, The White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.",
"Former first lady Nancy Reagan watches Obama sign the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act Tuesday.",
"\"I think Former first lady Nancy Reagan speaks in real personal terms about the issue,\" White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters.",
"\"And I think Former first lady Nancy Reagan's candor and Former first lady Nancy Reagan's courage have been heartening, and we certainly meant no slight to Former first lady Nancy Reagan whatsoever.\"",
"On Monday, Vanity Fair published an interview with Former first lady Nancy Reagan on Vanity Fair's Web site in which Former first lady Nancy Reagan suggested the Obama administration missed an opportunity by not inviting Former first lady Nancy Reagan to witness Obama signing a measure in March expanding federal support for stem-cell research.",
"Former first lady Nancy Reagan has long promoted such steps despite objections from many in the GOP.",
"Former first lady Nancy Reagan has argued that expanded stem-cell research could have helped Former first lady Nancy Reagan's husband, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease.",
"\"I would have gone, and you know I don't like to travel,\" Former first lady Nancy Reagan told the magazine.",
"Watch more on White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs's reaction to the controversy » .",
"\"Politically, it would have been a good thing for (Obama) to do.",
"Oh well, nobody's perfect.",
"Obama called and thanked me for working on it.",
"But Obama could have gotten more mileage out of it,\" Former first lady Nancy Reagan said.",
"White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs's comments also come the same day Former first lady Nancy Reagan attended a The White House ceremony marking Obama's signing of legislation authorizing a Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission.",
"a Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission will plan activities marking Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday on February 6, 2011.",
"Watch Obama laud Reagan's optimism » .",
"Former first lady Nancy Reagan is slated to attend the unveiling of a new statue of President Reagan on Wednesday morning at the Capitol and then share a private The White House lunch with first lady Michelle Obama.",
"Obama issued an apology to Former first lady Nancy Reagan earlier this year after joking in a news conference that she held seances during her years in the White House -- an apparent reference to reports she consulted with astrologists during Ronald Reagan's's husband's presidency."
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"Former first lady Nancy Reagan tells magazine: Obama should have invited me to stem-cell bill signing .",
"Former first lady Nancy Reagan's slated to attend the unveiling of a new statue of President Reagan Wednesday .",
"Former first lady Nancy Reagan witnesses signing of Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission legislation ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Turn up the music, crack the window -- falling gas prices have flipped on the road-trip ignition switch.",
"The Neptune Pool at his estate near San Simeon is 104 feet long and 95 feet wide at the alcove.",
"I decided to celebrate the unofficial return of reasonable driving vacations with a venture to the ultimate temple of excess -- Hearst Castle.",
"From Los Angeles, my family and I retraced the journey of Hollywood luminaries who headed north to hang out with William Randolph Hearst.",
"Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Carol Lombard and William Randolph Hearst's mistress Marion Davies all made the trek to what William Randolph Hearst called \"La Cuesta Encantada,\" or the Enchanted Hill.",
"Winston Churchill and President Calvin Coolidge also rested here amid art and antiquities from around the world.",
"his estate near San Simeon looks down over golden fields, the glistening Pacific and the town of San Simeon, California, home to less than 500 people.",
"my family and I took a tour bus from the visitors center to the mansion, a long gull's dive from the ocean, 1,610 feet above sea level.",
"William Randolph Hearst hired San Francisco architect Julia Morgan in 1919 and by 1947 his estate near San Simeon stretched over 127 acres.",
"It's crystal clear William Randolph Hearst was a demanding mastermind of William Randolph Hearst's kingdom on the hill, putting San Francisco architect Julia Morgan through what must have been agonizing brain twisters.",
"Visitors see that when William Randolph Hearst wanted European choir chairs wedged into William Randolph Hearst's assembly room, San Francisco architect Julia Morgan made it work.",
"When William Randolph Hearst wanted elaborate ceilings salvaged from Europe, San Francisco architect Julia Morgan expanded their reach to fit into his estate near San Simeon's rooms.",
"A massive 95 x 104-foot outdoor swimming pool, made of concrete and Vermont marble, is one of the central jewels of the property.",
"Our guide recounted William Randolph Hearst house rules.",
"In an effort to control his guests' alcohol consumption, William Randolph Hearst banned his guests' from bringing his guests''s own liquor.",
"The Hollywood types reportedly snuck it in anyway, like frat boys at a football game.",
"Guests stayed in opulent guest houses adorned with religious icons, art and other worldly treasures.",
"William Randolph Hearst mandated unmarried guests sleep apart, while violating William Randolph Hearst's own edict by sleeping with William Randolph Hearst's beloved actress friend Marion Davies.",
"Though William Randolph Hearst remained married to Millicent Hearst, with whom he had five children, his beloved actress friend Marion Davies's ghost is everywhere at his estate near San Simeon.",
"Images of his beloved actress friend Marion Davies, along with Charlie Chaplin and others stars, flicker about in a short film shown in the mansion's 50-seat movie theater.",
"Museum-worthy pieces fill the property, including intricate Flemish tapestries in an east-facing sitting room called the Morning Room.",
"Owing to my Belgian roots, I looked at intricate Flemish tapestries in an east-facing sitting room called the Morning Room and cracked to my kids, \"No wonder my 83-year-old mother can still sew a tiny patch onto a Girl Scout vest.\"",
"his estate near San Simeon's grandeur was enough to hold the childrens' attention.",
"my family and I saw the childrens' as young as 4 years old, eyes popping while taking in ancient Egyptian statues or towering Christmas trees.",
"\"This guy was rich!\" my friend's 7-year-old-son, Nicolas, exclaimed.",
"Perhaps a headline from Hearst's San Francisco Examiner in another era could best describe my family and I's trip: . \"The road to fun is back and affordable!\""
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) --",
"India's lower house of parliament elected a woman as its speaker Wednesday, a first in the male-dominated chamber's history.",
"Meira Kumar was nominated by the ruling Congress party.",
"Meira Kumar is also a member of the \"untouchable\" Dalit class, the lowest rung in the centuries-old caste system in India.",
"Meira Kumar conducts the proceedings of the house.",
"Meira Kumar will preside over 543 elected members, of which 58 are women.",
"Kumar, 64, was elected to the position unopposed.",
"Meira Kumar was nominated by the ruling Congress party but also had the backing of the alliance led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.",
"Women play a prominent role in the politics of India, the world's largest democracy.",
"The South Asian country of 1.1 billion people has a female president, Pratibha Devisingh Patil.",
"And four of India's political parties, including the ruling Congress party, are led by women.",
"Hindus believe there are five main groups of people.",
"The last group is the Dalits.",
"They're considered impure and are often forced to work in menial jobs.",
"They drink from separate wells and use different entry ways to come and go from buildings.",
"Dalits number about 250 million in India, about 25 percent of the population, according to the Colorado, U.S.-based Dalit Freedom Network.",
"India's constitution outlaws caste-based discrimination, and barriers have broken down in large cities.",
"Prejudice, however, persists in some rural areas of India.",
"CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report."
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"Do you know your \"futtock\" from your \"baggywrinkle?\"",
"A sailor stands on the \"widow-maker\" -- or bowsprit of A sailor's yacht.",
"Don't be concerned if you don't, as they are both relatively obscure terms used in sailing.",
"It is a sport littered with odd words and phrases and MainSail has put together a list of 10 of the weirdest below.",
"They are bound to raise a smile and will certainly make you more knowledgeable on the water -- who knows, you could even impress friends and colleagues with your mastery of obscure nautical terminology.",
"Scuttlebutt",
"The scuttlebutt is a cask on a ship containing the vessel's drinking water.",
"The scuttlebutt was named this as the container was traditionally a small barrel, the so-called \"butt,\" which had been \"scuttled\" -- had a hole made in it -- so water could be accessed.",
"As sailors would often gather around The scuttlebutt to chat, the word has also taken on a slang meaning of rumor or gossip.",
"Rollocks A commonly used spelling for \"rowlocks.\"",
"These are the spaces cut into the vessel or small clasps raised up from the side of smaller boats that are used to rest oars when the boat is under paddle.",
"Are there any other nautical words you'd like to add?",
"Tell us in the Sound Off box below.",
"Poop deck",
"A poop deck is a deck at the rear of a ship, generally formed by the roof of a cabin.",
"If a wave washes over A poop deck from behind the vessel, it is said to be \"pooped.\"",
"Widow-maker",
"This is a colloquial term for a boat's bowsprit -- the long pole, or \"spar,\" extending from the bow used by sailors to tend to sails.",
"The treacherous bowsprit earned The treacherous bowsprit's name and reputation from of the number of sailors who have lost their lives falling from the it.",
"Baggywrinkle",
"This strange-sounding gem is simply a soft covering for ropes aboard yachts that prevent chafing of the sails.",
"Where ropes and lines come into contact with sails there is serious potential for damage to the sail due to the abrasive nature of most rigging.",
"Mainsheet The mainsheet is a rope or line attached to the boom that allows the sailor to control the speed of a boat by adjusting the main sail.",
"Bilge Bilge is the lowest part of the interior of a ship.",
"Bilge marks the spot at the inside-bottom of the hull, below any floorboards, and it sits below the water-line.",
"Futtock Futtocks are the curved timbers used to form the interior ribs on the hulls of wooden ships.",
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"The cat-head is a large wooden beam that extends from vessels at a 45 degree angle and is used to assist in raising and lowering the anchor.",
"Many cat-heads have had the faces of lions or other large cats carved into Many cat-heads -- however, it's not known if this gave the cat-head its name, or came as a result of the name.",
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"New York (CNN) --",
"As Britain's Prince Harry neared the end of Prince Harry's second and final day in New York City on Saturday, Prince Harry described Prince Harry's experiences as \"fantastic.\"",
"Prince Harry smiles whilte touring the Harlem Children's Zone on Saturday during a 36-hour visit to New York.",
"The 24-year-old visited the Harlem Children's Zone, a nonprofit organization that offers free programs and classes in a low-income area, then went to Governors Island in New York Harbor to play in the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic.",
"Profits from the match will benefit Sentebale, a charity for orphans in Lesotho, Africa, a cause Harry's mother, Princess Diana, had promoted.",
"Prince Harry was accompanied by Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, who also lost his mother when he was young.",
"The men toured the Children's Zone with founder Geoffrey Canada, and spent time in a classroom where some students were studying for a math test.",
"A 10-year-old girl sitting at a desk covered with drawing paper and colored markers gave Prince Harry a picture.",
"\"Is this for me?\" Prince Harry asked as Prince Harry accepted it.",
"Pointing to the desk and pens, Prince Harry then asked, \"You find yourself very lucky to have all this?\"",
"When she nodded, Prince Harry replied \"Good.\"",
"A young boy gave Prince Harry a bowl containing a dish A young boy had prepared, and Prince Harry ate it while the child sounded off the ingredients.",
"Throughout the classroom visit, Prince Harry smiled and chatted easily with students.",
"Watch Soledad O'Brien's report on the Children's Zone » .",
"Cheering people lined the street as Prince Harry entered the building.",
"As Prince Harry left, reporters shouted questions.",
"Asked how Prince Harry liked Prince Harry's first official visit overseas and meeting the children, Prince Harry responded, \"It's been fantastic -- really, really worthwhile.\"",
"\"It's my first visit to New York.",
"I'm hopeful I'll come back to visit again.\"",
"Prince Harry also was asked whether Prince Harry thought Prince Harry's appearances would change any image the public might have of Prince Harry, apparently referring to some of Prince Harry's wild exploits ways when Prince Harry was younger.",
"Those incidents included a one-day stint in drug rehab in 2002 and accusations of racism in January.",
"\"I don't know what the image is of Prince Harry.",
"There is always the image that's been given to Prince Harry, but people have people's own opinions, it's the media that likes to stamp on the image which isn't really me.\"",
"On Friday, Prince Harry offered Prince Harry's condolences to September 11 victims at the former site of the World Trade Center.",
"Prince Harry met New York Gov. David Paterson and briefly spoke with family members of 9/11 victims.",
"Prince Harry then laid a wreath at the former site of the World Trade Center and bowed Prince Harry's head in a moment of silence.",
"Watch Prince Harry's visit to Ground Zero » .",
"He left a handwritten note tacked to a wreath, citing an \"the courage shown by the people\" of New York on September 11, 2001.",
"Prince Harry later paid tribute to Prince Harry's fellow citizens at Lower Manhattan's British Garden at Hanover Square, where Prince Harry honored the 67 British victims of the September 11 attacks, officials said.",
"The third in line for the British crown, Prince Harry is active in the British Army.",
"Prince Harry received a promotion to lieutenant in April 2008 and is currently training for an Army Air Corps pilot position, according to Prince Harry's Web site."
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"(CNN) --",
"Cynde Strand, CNN's Beijing camerawoman during the crisis, had spent night after night in Tiananmen Square, amidst a heap of trash, leaning on Camerawoman Cynde Strand's ladder, Camerawoman Cynde Strand's head over Camerawoman Cynde Strand's camera, just waiting for something to happen.",
"Cynde Strand: \"I just knew this was the day it was going to end.\"",
"If Camerawoman Cynde Strand was really exhausted, Camerawoman Cynde Strand'd lay plastic over the trash and cat-nap on that.",
"\"Every night I would stay there,\" Camerawoman Cynde Strand recalled.",
"\"Every night there'd be rumors that the troops were coming, or the troops weren't coming.",
"And then there were all those kids we had gotten to know,\" Camerawoman Cynde Strand said about the demonstrators.",
"\"Some days I'd start around 5 and just stay the whole night,\" Camerawoman Cynde Strand said.",
"\"The sun would come up and I would just ache.",
"But I knew I wanted to be there when it happened.\"",
"Camerawoman Cynde Strand and Mike Chinoy, both based in Beijing and both keen watchers of the Chinese leadership, shared the feeling that the situation was going to end badly.",
"The Chinese had been deeply embarrassed by the demonstrators during the visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, they reasoned, and the students were still occupying Tiananmen Square, although their numbers had dwindled.",
"See photos of the CNN team in Tiananmen Square in 1989 » .",
"In their minds, the Chinese leadership just would not stand for that.",
"And Camerawoman Cynde Strand had a feeling that whatever was going to happen was going to happen at night, when energy levels were low.",
"\"That Saturday (June 3), I just knew this was the day it was going to end,\" Camerawoman Cynde Strand said.",
"\"That peaceful people-power picnic sit-in was gone.",
"There was anger, rock-throwing behind the Great Hall of the People.",
"The tension was much higher.\"",
"And then Camerawoman Cynde Strand and Camerawoman Cynde Strand's team got word of troops coming towards the giant square.",
"And then kids started running into one side of Tiananmen Square with bodies.",
"\"I got everybody together and said, 'okay, this is it,'\" Camerawoman Cynde Strand recalled.",
"\"'If you don't want to stay, you can go.",
"You don't have to stay here with me, but you have to leave now.'\"",
"Camerawoman Cynde Strand and soundman Kit Swartz stayed in Tiananmen Square for that entire historic night, determined to witness history.",
"\"Bullets were whizzing overhead and then about 3 or 4 in the morning, they turned all the lights off,\" Camerawoman Cynde Strand said.",
"\"Troops started pouring out of Mao's mausoleum, different troops came out from under Mao's portrait.",
"Tanks moved in.",
"By early morning, they had taken over Tiananmen Square and crushed that tent city.\"",
"Camerawoman Cynde Strand didn't get to film much that overnight of June 4.",
"It was dark, Camerawoman Cynde Strand and soundman Kit Swartz took shelter behind public bathrooms for awhile, and the most dramatic images Camerawoman Cynde Strand had managed to film had gone with producer Donna Liu back to the CNN bureau.",
"Camerawoman Cynde Strand had no idea what had happened to the tapes.",
"And no one at CNN knew what had happened to Camerawoman Cynde Strand and Kit.",
"Camerawoman Cynde Strand's walkie-talkie battery was long dead and nobody had cellphones then.",
"From CNN's base at the Beijing Hotel, the square, Camerawoman Cynde Strand knew, \"looked like hell, with buses on fire, APCs [armed personnel carriers] on fire and the Goddess of Democracy statue backlit by the fires burning on the road.\"",
"Daytime broke.",
"Chinese troops controlled Tiananmen Square.",
"Camerawoman Cynde Strand and Swartz needed to get back to the CNN bureau.",
"She and soundman Kit Swartz flagged down a flat-bed rickshaw driver, who pedaled She and soundman Kit Swartz and She and soundman Kit Swartz's gear to the Beijing Hotel.",
"As She and soundman Kit Swartz arrived, journalists leaned out of the hotel windows, begging to hear what had happened overnight.",
"Camerawoman Cynde Strand walked into the CNN bureau.",
"Camerawoman Cynde Strand and Chinoy looked at each other.",
"Camerawoman Cynde Strand could see the palpable relief on his face.",
"\"It was one of those moments,\" Camerawoman Cynde Strand recalled, \"just a deep connection between us.",
"It said: 'We knew it was coming, and we survived it.'\"",
"Cynde Strand is now Director of Coverage at CNN International, based in Atlanta .",
"Daniela Deane was a chief sub-editor at the Reuters news agency in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen crisis ."
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"As troops arrived, Camerawoman Cynde Strand \"got everybody together and said, okay, this is it\"",
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"Camerawoman Cynde Strand and soundman Kit Swartz stayed in Tiananmen Square for the entire historic night ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A man shot and killed his wife's wife and two of their children and then killed A man in central Florida on Sunday night, authorities said.",
"A man shot and killed A man's wife, Wendy, and two of their children, sheriff's officials say.",
"Troy Ryan Bellar, 34, used a high-powered rifle with a scope to shoot his wife's 31-year-old wife, Wendy, when she tried to leave their home, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.",
"Two of the couple's children -- 5-month-old Zack and 7-year-old Ryan -- also were killed, but a 13-year-old got away, with the father chasing and firing after him, officials said.",
"\"It is beyond my understanding why a man would shoot and kill a man's 5-month-old baby boy, a man's 7-year-old baby boy, try to kill a man's 13-year-old son, shoot a man's wife and then turn the gun on a man,\" said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.",
"\"There is no explanation for that.\"",
"The shootings happened in Lakeland, Florida, just east of Tampa.",
"When the shooting began, the couple's son, Nathan, ran out of the house and down the street -- with his dad chasing him through the garage and firing several shots, authorities said.",
"Nathan was unhurt and will be placed with family members.",
"Investigators do not know what led to the shooting, but believe it was preceded by \"some kind of domestic disturbance,\" a statement from the sheriff's office said.",
"A man was arrested twice in Polk County: for aggravated assault in 1994, and for driving under the influence in 1999.",
"A man's wife was arrested in March for battery domestic violence."
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"(CNN) --",
"Two U.S. lawmakers have urged Army Secretary Peter Geren to recognize 350 American soldiers held as slaves by Nazi Germany during World War II, saying \"these heroes have not received the recognition and honor these heroes deserve.\"",
"Bernard \"Jack\" Vogel died in a Nazi slave camp in the arms of a fellow U.S. soldier, Anthony Acevedo, in 1945.",
"\"As Anthony Acevedo, one of the soldiers chosen, recently described to CNN, the Nazis picked those soldiers who looked Jewish, had a Jewish name or were considered 'undesirable,' \" Reps. Joe Baca, D-California, and Spencer Bachus, R-Alabama, said in a letter sent to U.S. Army Secretary Peter Geren last week.",
"\"The trials and sacrifices made by these heroes have largely gone unrecognized even to this day.",
"As proud Americans, we wish to recognize and honor these heroes for these heroes's service.\"",
"Both congressmen have pushed for a congressional resolution to honor the 350 soldiers held at these heroes an der Elster, a subcamp of Buchenwald where dozens of American soldiers were beaten, starved and killed.",
"Baca and Bachus say Baca and Bachus will continue to fight for a congressional resolution.",
"Listen as Acevedo tells brother of victim: \"I had him in my arms\" » .",
"Army spokesman Paul Boyce told CNN that Army is in the process of responding to a letter sent to Geren last week.",
"\"Army has recognized hundreds of thousands of veterans of World War II and has expressed interest in this group's history to see what could be done,\" he said.",
"Acevedo was a 20-year-old medic when Acevedo was sent to Berga with the other soldiers in February 1945.",
"Acevedo kept a diary that details the day-to-day events inside the camp and lists the names and prisoner numbers of men as they died or were executed.",
"Open up the pages of Acevedo's diary » .",
"The soldiers were put on a forced death march in April 1945 as American troops neared.",
"For much of that march, Acevedo pushed a wooden cart with emaciated men inside.",
"Many of emaciated men inside died.",
"\"More of our men died, so fast that you couldn't keep track of our men's numbers,\" Acevedo wrote on April 19, 1945, four days before Acevedo was liberated by advancing U.S. troops.",
"Asked what it would mean if the U.S. Army officially recognized the soldiers of Berga six decades later, Acevedo, now 84, wept.",
"\"This is for all the fellas,\" Acevedo said.",
"Norman Fellman, another Berga survivor, was one of the men on the wooden cart pushed by Acevedo so many years ago.",
"He said that wounded men and corpses were stacked on top of him -- and that he believed he could survive just one more day when he was liberated on April 23, 1945.",
"\"There's a certain amount of pain involved when the country you serve fails to acknowledge the conditions under which you were kept,\" Fellman told CNN.",
"There are only 12 known Berga survivors still living.",
"It is difficult to ascertain exactly how many of the 350 U.S. soldiers died in captivity and on the subsequent death march.",
"CNN has cross-",
"checked a list of the names of 70 dead soldiers provided to the U.S. War Department after the war with the names of the dead listed in Acevedo's diary.",
"Watch as a soldier's diary sheds light on atrocities » .",
"It appears the death toll was well over 100, roughly one in three soldiers.",
"Acevedo says that more than 300 U.S. soldiers were alive at the start of the subsequent death march, and that about 165 were left by the end.",
"Acevedo says Acevedo was unable to keep track of the dead in the final days because soldiers were dying too fast.",
"\"At Berga, captured soldiers were forced to endure inhumane conditions and suffer from the Nazi policy of physical destruction through labor,\" Baca and Bachus said in Baca and Bachus's letter to Geren.",
"\"Over 100 American soldiers either died at Berga or on the death march from the camp -- the highest number of American fatalities at any German camp.\"",
"The two Berga commanders -- Erwin Metz and his superior, Hauptmann Ludwig Merz -- were tried for war crimes and initially sentenced to die by hanging.",
"But the U.S. government commuted their death sentences in 1948, and both men were eventually set free in the 1950s.",
"U.S. soldiers who survived captivity were interviewed by the U.S. Military Intelligence Service in Europe after U.S. soldiers who survived captivity were liberated.",
"Before U.S. soldiers who survived captivity were sent home, U.S. soldiers who survived captivity signed a document that instructed U.S. soldiers who survived captivity to never speak about U.S. soldiers who survived captivity's captivity.",
"\"Some activities of American prisoners of war within German prison camps must remain secret not only for the duration of the war against the present enemies of Army but in peace-time as well,\" a document that instructed them to never speak about their captivity says.",
"\"The interests of American prisoners of war in the event of future wars, moreover, demand that the secrets of this war be vigorously safeguarded.\"",
"When Acevedo finally returned home, little had prepared Acevedo for Acevedo's own father's reaction.",
"\"My dad told me I was a coward,\" he said.",
"Baca and Bachus said men like Acevedo deserve the respect of Army: \"Baca and Bachus are writing to you to encourage the Department of the Army to acknowledge the heroism and sacrifice of these heroes held captive at Berga in a manner appropriate for these heroes's service.",
"It would be an honor well-deserved for the remaining survivors and the many colleagues that have gone before them.\"",
"Editor's note: To support the congressmen's effort, Bachus has asked for faxes to Bachus's Washington office at 202-225-2082, or send letters to Congressman Spencer Bachus, 2246 Rayburn Building, Washington, D.C., 20515."
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"Tensions eased in the northern Indian state of Punjab on Tuesday, following widespread violence across the region after a Sikh guru was shot to death and another was wounded at an Indian temple in Vienna, Austria.",
"Sikh demonstrators brandish sticks as Sikh demonstrators shout slogans during a protest in Amritsar.",
"The situation was tense, but under control, Punjab's inspector general of police said Tuesday morning.",
"The army and federal security forces were called in to restore order, added inspector general Parag Jain.",
"Thousands took part in demonstrations across the Doaba region, where protesters attacked public transportation, knocking out train service in some areas.",
"Thousands also blocked a national highway to Jammu, CNN sister network CNN-IBN reported.",
"A number of businesses were ransacked as well.",
"Police reported one death.",
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"\"There is no place for violence in a secular society like India's and certainly no excuse whatsoever for the violation of the sacred premises of a (Sikh temple) for narrow sectarian or other purposes,\" India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.",
"Killed in Sunday's attack in Vienna, Austria was 57-year-old Sant Rama Nand.",
"A second guru, Sant Niranjan Dass, 68, was seriously injured.",
"A second guru, Sant Niranjan Dass, 68's health has improved noticeably, according to the Indian Embassy, the Austria News Agency reported.",
"Fifteen others were also wounded.",
"\"Sant Niranjan Dass is doing well,\" the Indian Embassy said.",
"\"A second guru, Sant Niranjan Dass, 68 could soon be released from the hospital.\"",
"Six people were arrested in connection with the attack, which occurred Sunday afternoon in Vienna, Austria's 15th district, police spokesman Schwaig Hofar told CNN.",
"One suspect shot the two gurus, and five other attackers wielding knives assaulted people in the congregation during prayer, police spokesman Schwaig Hofar said.",
"Four of the wounded were suspects, two of them in serious condition, police spokesman Schwaig Hofar said.",
"About 150 people were in the room when the violence took place, police spokesman Schwaig Hofar said.",
"Authorities are investigating what triggered the attacks, but Austrian Interior Minister Maria Fekter said Sikhs have lived \"exceptionally peacefully\" in Austria.",
"CNN's Ben Brumfeld and Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report."
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"When CSKA Moscow lifted the UEFA Cup in 2005, becoming the first Russian team to win a European trophy, manager Valeri Gazzaev described it as \"a landmark victory for Russian football.\"",
"Andrei Arshavin has become Russia's first football superstar since the Soviet era.",
"Three years later, Zenit St Petersburg matched the achievement a month before the Russian national team reached the semifinals of Euro 2008.",
"After years on the margins, Russian football was back in the limelight.",
"Jonathan Wilson, author of \"Behind the Curtain, Travels in Eastern European Football,\" told CNN that recent successes mark a renaissance of Russian football.",
"A far-cry from the early years after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, when teams previously funded by state bodies -- such as the police force or the army -- were left chronically short of money.",
"Wilson said that under communist rule Spartak Moscow had been funded by a trade union representing catering workers and were less directly dependant on state support than other Russian clubs.",
"Consequently, when the Russian Premier League was formed in 1992, Spartak found Spartak in a better position than many of Spartak's rivals and stormed on to win nine of the first 10 titles up for grabs.",
"See photos of Russia's post-Soviet football stars.",
"While Spartak flourished, the rest of the division remained in desperate need of money; that is, until a new source of funding came in the shape of Russia's rising force of oligarchs -- men who had amassed fortunes buying cheap but highly profitable energy companies .",
"These oligarchs and energy corporations now play a vital role in funding the game.",
"Zenit St Petersburg is backed by Gazprom, the world's biggest producer and exporter of natural gas and Spartak Moscow has oil and gas company Lukoil as its primary sponsor.",
"CSKA Moscow's 2005 UEFA Cup triumph was financed by Sibneft, whose majority shareholder at the time was Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, currently the 51st richest man in the world according to Forbes.com.",
"Abramovich's cash meant the club could afford to sign quality foreign players, including Brazilian internationals Daniel Carvalho and the free-scoring Vagner Love.",
"Other examples of imported talent includes Dynamo Moscow's signing of Champions League winners Maniche and Costinha from FC Porto in 2005, and Zenit St Petersburg capturing Portuguese midfielder Danny for a reported league record of $40 million.",
"There are so many foreign players in Russia that Premier League regulations now limit clubs to fielding no more than six foreign players at a time.",
"What are your views of Russian football football?",
"Sound off below.",
"But the injection of money into the Russian football game isn't only useful for buying foreign talent, Wilson says the national game is also having a revival because of the oligarchs' money.",
"Abramovich funds Russia's National Football Academy, which, along with providing plastic pitches and coaches for young footballers, is also responsible for paying the wages of national team coach Guus Hiddink.",
"national team coach Guus Hiddink led Russia to the semifinals of Euro 2008, with Russia having never made it past the first round of international competition prior to national team coach Guus Hiddink's appointment in 2006.",
"Marc Bennetts, author of \"Football Dynamo\", about the state of Russian football, is based in Moscow.",
"He told CNN that national team coach Guus Hiddink's arrival was a turning point in the national team's fortunes.",
"\"national team coach Guus Hiddink really shook up Russia.",
"national team coach Guus Hiddink left out some of the veterans and began picking players who were young and fresh, like Andrei Arshavin and Roman Pavlyuchenko,\" he said.",
"In Andrei Arshavin Russia has found Russia's first football superstar since the Soviet era.",
"He signed for English club Arsenal in February 2009 and has made an instant impact in the English Premier League.",
"Bennetts says one cloud on the horizon is that Russian football football's dependence on energy companies means the global economic crisis and low oil prices could have a negative impact on the sport.",
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"ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN) --",
"For the past few years, Dan Redmond has been on a mission to change the way Dan Redmond's household uses energy.",
"Dan Redmond uses an electric bicycle with a trailer to run errands.",
"As concerns about global warming and rising energy costs grow, many families like the Redmonds are looking for ways to change the way many families like the Redmonds use energy.",
"Three years ago Dan Redmond began embracing solar energy to power Dan Redmond's suburban Washington home.",
"And Dan Redmond's not alone in turning to the sun for energy.",
"The Solar Energy Industries Association estimates there are about 250,000 homes in the United States with some sort of solar power, although not all of them have taken the concept as far as the Redmonds.",
"Last year, 13,000 homes installed solar power.",
"\"the Redmonds're just making different decisions about how the Redmonds live the Redmonds's life,\" Dan Redmond said, \"And what's important to the Redmonds as well, as being able to show the Redmonds's two boys that when our two boys grow up our two boys're going to need to know to be more flexible in most parts of our two boys's life and our two boys're going to need to be adaptable.\"",
"Dan Redmond's excitement about solar energy has changed Dan Redmond's family's daily routine and also saved money -- Dan Redmond paid $28.61 for electricity last month compared with $150 a month Last year.",
"The biggest change came when Dan Redmond put solar panels on the roof of Dan Redmond's 1925 bungalow, which Dan Redmond shares with Dan Redmond's wife, Margaret McGilvray, and the couple's two young sons.",
"The system, which still allows the Redmonds to use energy from the traditional power grid when the sun is not shining, uses what is known as net-metering.",
"No electricity is stored in the house.",
"Energy produced in excess of what is needed is fed back to the power grid, effectively making the Redmonds' electric meter run backward.",
"Twelve panels on the roof feed power to a device in the basement called an inverter.",
"The solar power system cost $23,000 after a $2,000 tax credit.",
"Dan Redmond estimates that The solar power system will pay for The solar power system in 10 to 15 years.",
"\"As the Redmonds know, our power rates are going up.\"",
"He said \"So it probably will take less because that number is based on what the Redmonds're paying right now.",
"\"About 80 percent of the Redmonds's power is used with the solar panels.\"",
"Dan Redmond says.",
"To get that kind of benefit, though, the Redmonds greatly cut the amount of energy the Redmonds use.",
"\"the Redmonds've made a real effort to reduce how much electricity the Redmonds need to use in the first place, which is much less expensive to do than to produce energy that you're wasting inside of your home.\"",
"The biggest lifestyle change is as low-tech as the solar panels are high-tech -- the Redmonds uses a clothesline to dry the Redmonds's laundry.",
"\"It's OK just to simply hang your lines ... and not use your dryer,\" says Redmond, who cut his electric bill by 15 to 20 percent by ditching the dryer.",
"\"That to me would be the very first thing anybody should do in terms of conserving electricity for anybody's home.\"",
"Redmond cooks using a solar oven, a small appliance that uses four reflectors, to heat food in Dan Redmond's front yard.",
"The device uses only solar power and leaves no carbon footprint.",
"Dan Redmond says Dan Redmond can heat food to about 350 degrees in Dan Redmond's solar oven, but the stove's manufacture says the stove's can heat food up to 400 degrees.",
"On the days when the sun is not shining, the Redmonds uses the Redmonds's traditional oven powered from electricity provided by the power grid.",
"the Redmonds also uses a small array of solar panels to charge iPods and cell phones.",
"Whenever possible, Dan Redmond runs errands on an electric bicycle that pulls a small trailer.",
"Every little bit helps keep their power bill low.",
"Dan Redmond works from home as a photographer, and McGilvray telecommutes as a consultant for IBM.",
"the Redmonds decided that since the Redmonds spend a lot of time in the Redmonds's 1,400-square-foot home, and not much time on the road, the Redmonds's best option for saving energy was the solar panels.",
"\"the Redmonds had several years of back and forth consternation.",
"Should the Redmonds buy the Prius?",
"Should the Redmonds get the solar panels?\" Dan Redmond said.",
"\"What the Redmonds decided is, opposed to spending that same amount of money on a hybrid, letthe Redmonds offset what the Redmonds're using for the Redmonds's home and business from the Redmonds's roof.",
"... This would make much more difference in how the Redmonds live.\"",
"For Dan Redmond, it's not just about the money.",
"\"It was more about what the Redmonds thought was important for the Redmonds and the decisions the Redmonds're making for the Redmonds's family,\" Dan Redmond said.",
"Yet Dan Redmond does look forward to many years of lower power bills.",
"\"This system that the Redmonds have on the Redmonds's roof is going to last 30 years, which will put me into my 70s,\" Dan Redmond said.",
"\"That's a lot of free energy.\""
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"About 250,000 homes in U.S. use solar power, industry group says ."
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"Moved by a 2007 trip to Ghana, singer/songwriter Legend joined the fight to end extreme poverty in Legend's lifetime.",
"And based on Legend's experiences in poor, rural areas of Africa, Legend says, real change is possible.",
"Legend says \"Ruziga's role in uplifting Ruziga's community inspired Legend.",
"\"I don't want people to only see Africa as a bunch of victims,\" Legend says.",
"\"The people that I've come across in these extremely impoverished villages, The people that I've come across in these extremely impoverished villages want to work.",
"The people that I've come across in these extremely impoverished villages want to participate in The people that I've come across in these extremely impoverished villages's own development.\"",
"To help people lift people out of poverty, Legend founded the Show Me Campaign, named after one of Legend's songs.",
"Partnering with economist Jeffrey Sachs' Millennium Promise organization, Legend's group adopted Mbola, a remote village in Tanzania that has little access to drinking water and improved farming techniques, according to Millennium Promise.",
"\"The folks in Mbola are starting at a supreme disadvantage.",
"Most of The folks in Mbola are living on less than a dollar a day,\" Legend says.",
"\"It's difficult for The folks in Mbola to even survive.\"",
"On his 2007 visit to Mbola, Legend met \"Mama\" Mwadawa Ruziga, a single mother of two who was freeing Ruziga from poverty.",
"Ruziga's entrepreneurial spirit impressed Legend and solidified his belief that sustainable development at the community level can work in the fight against poverty.",
"Ruziga leads a local business collective that sells products -- like wine, jam and juice -- that it makes out of indigenous fruits.",
"\"I was really inspired by Ruziga's willingness to not just wait for a handout, but really take an active role in helping to uplift Ruziga's community,\" Legend says.",
"Through the Show Me Campaign, Legend has pledged to raise $1.5 million over five years to support programs similar to Ruziga's that are aimed at alleviating poverty in Mbola.",
"But this is not just about cutting a check, Legend says.",
"\"You can always go in and bring an influx of money and address things temporarily.",
"But if development's not sustainable, then something's wrong,\" Legend says.",
"\"This is about teaching them how to farm better, improving the education system, getting water pumps.",
"The idea is that [the community] will continue to sustain themselves over time.\"",
"Before joining Ruziga's collective, Ruziga, 47, says Ruziga's life was at an all-time low.",
"For years, Ruziga suffered through malaria and droughts.",
"\"The only thing I did was farming, then I would just sit idle with nothing to do.",
"But after joining the group, her life changed for the better, slowly by slowly,\" Ruziga says.",
"In addition to agricultural processing, Ruziga's group focuses on horticulture and tree planting.",
"Ruziga herself has been instrumental to the success of Ruziga's group, traveling to trade shows in the Tanzanian cities of Tabora and Dar es Salaam to sell their products.",
"\"Ruziga's group has spread to other areas of Tanzania, and Ruziga's group've experienced great success because many people have come to know about Ruziga's group,\" Ruziga says. Watch Legend talk about meeting Ruziga, and see Ruziga's group making products » .",
"Six different villages have adopted Ruziga's group's successful model.",
"\"I think Ruziga's a great example of someone who's given the tools to succeed, having the energy, having the follow-through, having the leadership skills to go ahead and do it,\" Legend says.",
"Not only has Ruziga's group changed Ruziga's own life, but other members' lives have also improved.",
"This is the first time that some of other members' have ever earned an income.",
"\"Now other members' are more educated than before,\" Ruziga says.",
"\"Ruziga's group provides them with a platform to exchange and explore ideas, and the revenue collected enables the members to cater for their basic needs.\"",
"Ruziga believes that the future depends on women taking an active role in their future and says Ruziga's community is happy with the help and encouragement Legend offers them.",
"For Legend, Ruziga's passion is inspiring and motivating.",
"Watch Legend visit with Ruziga and Ruziga's group during his trip to Mbola » .",
"\"Ruziga is an example of someone who is personally taking Ruziga's destiny in Ruziga's hands, and the destiny of Ruziga's community into Ruziga's hands.",
"Ruziga is a leader, Ruziga's inspirational, and Ruziga's one of my heroes.\""
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"They met when the singer/songwriter visited Tanzania on an anti-poverty campaign .",
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"This is the first time some members of her group have ever earned an income ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The Irrawaddy, one of the world's rarest species of freshwater dolphins, have been found in surprisingly large numbers deep in the waterlogged jungles of Bangladesh.",
"Irrawaddy is considered to be one of the world's rarest species of freshwater dolphin.",
"Conservationists thought Irrawaddy had dwindled in number to just a few hundred, but they have now counted almost 6,000 of them in the Sundarban mangrove forests and the adjacent waters of the Bay of Bengal.",
"The forests of the Sundarban -- Bengali for \"beautiful forest\" -- lie at the delta of the Ganges and two other rivers on the Bay of Bengal.",
"Until now, little mammal research had taken place in the area.",
"\"Every time we had done a study to look into the population (elsewhere), they came out critically endangered,\" said Brian Smith of the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, who led the study.",
"\"It was a very pleasant surprise and a shock to find that Bangladesh supports such a large number (of dolphins).\"",
"The discovery is noteworthy because scientists do not know how many Irrawaddy dolphins remain.",
"The next step, scientists say, is to ensure the mammal's survival.",
"One rare dolphin species -- the Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji -- is extinct.",
"Another, the Ganges River dolphin, is critically endangered.",
"Some of the threats affecting the Irrawaddy are man-made.",
"The construction of dams has reduced the flow of fresh water in many parts of Bangladesh.",
"And the population is dwindling because the dolphins sometimes get caught in fishermen's nets.",
"The dolphin, which has a large, rounded head, can grow up to 8 feet in length and is related to the orca, or killer whale.",
"It is found in large rivers, estuaries and freshwater lagoons in south and southeast Asia.",
"In Myanmar, the dolphins help herd schools of fish toward fishermen's boats and nets.",
"In Bangladesh, fishermen hold them in high regard, Smith said.",
"\"There is no market for dolphin products,\" Smith said.",
"\"In a country like Bangladesh, with protein deficiency and where food is scarce, there is a real cultural prohibition against harming them.",
"It gives us hope because it means fishermen are very receptive to working with us.\"",
"The results of the study were shared Wednesday at a conference for marine mammal protected areas in Hawaii, and published in the winter issue of the Journal of Cetacean Research and Management.",
"Conservationists are now working with Bangladesh to establish a protected area for the dolphins.",
"\"There are so many bad news (stories) coming out of the conservation community that this is a real sort of positive story,\" Smith said."
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"(CNN) --",
"Walking through an Albuquerque park a passerby made a startling discovery -- a tiny black and lime shoe protruding from beneath the playground sand.",
"Police say this shirt was found on the boy, dubbed \"Baby Justice\" or \"Baby Angel.\"",
"It led police to the body of a young boy, who had been buried there in a shallow grave less than 48 hours earlier.",
"That was Friday.",
"On Tuesday, police still had no answers as to what happened at Alvarado Park -- or even who the boy was.",
"the boy's name is unknown, though the community has dubbed the boy \"Baby Justice\" or \"Baby Angel.\"",
"Nobody in the area has claimed the boy's body and nobody has reported a child of the boy's age missing.",
"Police said Police couldn't even show a photo or give a sketch of the boy because the boy's body was so disfigured by the sand's heat.",
"All Police have is a description based on how Police found the boy.",
"Police say the boy was between 3 and 5 years old, 38 pounds, 38 inches in height, with brown eyes and dark quarter-inch hair.",
"When the boy was found, the boy was wearing Arizona brand clothing, size 3T -- nylon black running pants with red stripes, a red shirt with a monster truck on it and black, gray and lime green Skechers sneakers.",
"Police aren't sure how the boy died.",
"Albuquerque Police Department Spokesman John Walsh said a preliminary autopsy didn't reveal a cause of death.",
"Albuquerque Police Department Spokesman John Walsh said there were no obvious signs of bruising on the boy.",
"Watch where the boy was found buried » .",
"Albuquerque Police Department Spokesman John Walsh said Albuquerque Police Department is working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to create a forensic reconstruction of what the boy may have looked like in hopes that someone will recognize him.",
"\"Albuquerque Police Department have canvassed the entire adjoining neighborhood,\" Albuquerque Police Department Spokesman John Walsh said.",
"\"Albuquerque Police Department're knocking on every door.",
"Albuquerque Police Department've been broadcasting and pleading for tips from the community.",
"But still, nobody has come forward.\"",
"Watch authorities discuss boy in the sand case » .",
"Though police have received numerous tips from the public, Albuquerque Police Department Spokesman John Walsh said nothing has come from them.",
"Albuquerque police are working with other local, state and nationwide law enforcement officials to try to piece together what happened.",
"Until then, members of the community have spent hours at memorials for the boy -- who none of members of the community knew -- praying for the boy and raising money.",
"French Mortuary, in the town, has offered to pay all funeral costs for the boy.",
"Resident Rachel Lesperance told CNN affiliate KOAT-TV Resident Rachel Lesperance spent Resident Rachel Lesperance's weekend collecting $3,600 for the boy.",
"Resident Rachel Lesperance's money, and the donations raised by others, will go toward a plaque at the park in the boy's honor, buying extra lights for the playground and to a fund toward finding out what happened to the boy.\"",
"\"the boy doesn't have a family,\" Resident Rachel Lesperance told KOAT-TV.",
"\"We're the boy's family now and we want the boy to be taken care of like one of our own.\""
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"(CNN) -- Facetime with Abdalla Salem El-Badri, Secretary General of OPEC .",
"Abdalla Salem El-Badri, Secretary General of OPEC, says $40 a barrel is not enough for oil producing countries in the current economic climate.",
"In a TV exclusive, Abdalla Salem El-Badri, Secretary General of OPEC, talks to Marketplace Middle East on how $40 per barrel is not enough for oil-producing countries, and the ongoing search for the right balance for the consumer and the producer.",
"The Secretary General says the Organization is prepared to trim more production if demand continues to fall and urges Non-OPEC producers to do the same.",
"In focus: The London Philharmonic Orchestra .",
"Ever think you'd hear of a Qatar, Abu Dhabi or Dubai Philharmonic Orchestra?",
"Well, it won't be long before you do.",
"The London Philharmonic Orchestra is selling The London Philharmonic Orchestra's brand to the Middle East.",
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"Watch the show this week at the times (GMT) below: Friday: 0915, 1945 Saturday: 0645 Sunday: 0815 ."
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"Paris, France (CNN) --",
"Truly appreciating the beauty of Paris is a pleasure that can't be hurried.",
"Stop, breathe, appreciate and perhaps kiss in Paris.",
"Take time to wander down Paris's wide boulevards, savour every sip of strong, black coffee and resist the temptation to fall into step with the throng of tourists and sightseers.",
"Our advice to anyone who finds themselves with 24 hours to spare in the French capital is to stop, breathe, appreciate and indulge.",
"Start the day with a walk down the Champs-Élysées.",
"For some, it retains the title of the world's most beautiful avenue.",
"For others, the road's historical charm has been blighted by the arrival of global brands, traffic and tourists.",
"Sunrise offers the history without the hurry.",
"Take a leisurely stroll down Sunrise's expansive pavements and look up for impressive architecture without fear of bumping into shoppers.",
"Treat yourself to breakfast at one of Paris's oldest tea salons.",
"Ladurée was founded as a family business in 1862 and now appears in luxurious locales in London, Monaco, Switzerland and Japan.",
"The original, Ladurée Royale on Rue Royale, doesn't open until 8:30am (and later on Sundays), so for early morning pastries drop into the Champs-Elysees store which opens at 7:30am every day.",
"The queues at Paris's most famous art gallery, the Louvre, are notorious so impatient visitors are advised to go to the Musée de l'Orangerie, set in the historic Jardin des Tuileries.",
"You won't see the Mona Lisa, but the gallery does boast a collection of Claude Monet's Water Lilies.",
"The queues are shorter the earlier you go and to really beat the crowds pre-",
"book your time slot online.",
"Head north to have your own images sketched by street artists in Montmartre, a former stomping ground for famous names including Salvador Dali, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.",
"Drop into the Basilique du Sacré Coeur to pray, light a candle or simply enjoy the spectacular views over Paris.",
"From there, visit Rue Lepic where you will find Café des Deux Moulins, where actress Audrey Tautou waited tables in the 2001 film \"Amélie.\"",
"Note that when you ask for a coffee in France, you'll automatically receive a black espresso.",
"If you'd like something bigger and milkier, ask for a café au lait (already popular elsewhere) or café Americain (filter coffee) with milk (lait).",
"Further down Rue Lepic you'll find Au Virage Lepic, a quaint bistro dripping in traditional Parisian atmosphere.",
"It's usually crowded with locals so book in advance.",
"Getting around is easy in Paris.",
"Take a bus or the Metro or join the legion of cyclists on hugely popular Vélib rental bikes.",
"Pick up your own bike at one of the service points scattered around Paris.",
"You'll need a credit card to register for a one-day subscription, or to speed up the process pre-book a one-day ticket online.",
"It'll cost you one euro and the first 30 minutes of every journey for the next 24 hours is free.",
"After than, any additional time will be charged to your credit card until you return the bike to any stand in Paris.",
"In the afternoon, walk -- or cycle -- down Boulevard Saint-Germain on the historic Left Bank.",
"Discover your inner intellectual over a coffee or dinner at Les Deux Magots, a former meeting place for Paris's great literary minds including Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.",
"From Boulevard Saint-Germain, walk down Rue Saint-Sulpice, past Saint-Sulpice, a striking church founded in the 1646 and brought to a new audience as one of the buildings featured in Dan Brown's best-selling novel (and subsequent film) \"The Da Vinci Code.\"",
"Wander further on to Rue de Sèvres where you can batter your credit card with some upmarket shopping at Le Bon Marché and La Grand Epicerie.",
"In the evening, soak up some Parisian chic at the De La Ville Café on Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, or indulge in the opulence of Hotel Costes on Rue Saint-Honore.",
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"Treat yourself to a glass of champagne and start planning your next sojourn in Paris!"
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