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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Pakistan is optimistic about the Obama administration's commitment to Pakistan's region and will work with the United States on trying to root out extremism within its borders, Pakistan's foreign minister said.",
"Qureshi meets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.",
"Following a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Qureshi cited a \"convergence of interests\" between Washington and Islamabad and a \"willingness to work together.\"",
"\"I see a lot of hope in the new administration, the new leadership, and Pakistan is willing to work with the American administration to fight extremism and terrorism,\" Qureshi said Tuesday.",
"\"We are determined to defeat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.\"",
"Qureshi is in Washington to take part in strategic review of U.S. policy to stabilize Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.",
"The effort is being led by South Asian security expert Bruce Reidel and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special envoy.",
"Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin D. Spanta also was leading a delegation from Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin D. Spanta's country to take part in strategic review of U.S. policy.",
"Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin D. Spanta and Qureshi will meet with both U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Holbrooke this week.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tapped Holbrooke as special representative for the two countries, a signal of how the new administration considers Afghanistan and Pakistan intertwined in any solution to the war in Afghanistan and the terrorist threat along their shared border.",
"\"the new administration are consulting very closely with the government of Pakistan on the new administration's strategic review of the new administration's way forward and I'm very grateful for the minister's advice and counsel,",
"\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after meeting with Qureshi.",
"Last week Obama announced Obama is sending another 17,000 troops to Afghanistan to fight a strengthening insurgency, which Obama has called the \"central front in our enduring struggle against terrorism and extremism.\"",
"another 17,000 troops will be sent to southern Afghanistan, which borders Pakistan and is a haven for Taliban insurgents.",
"Pakistani officials have expressed concern the deployment will push Taliban across the border into Pakistan and further destabilize Pakistan.",
"The Obama administration is conducting several reviews of U.S. policy in Afghanistan, including a review by Gen. David Petraeus, the commander in the region.",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said the original mission in Afghanistan was \"too broad\" and needs to be more \"realistic and focused\" for the United States to succeed.",
"Pakistan is engaged in Pakistan's own effort against Taliban militants in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Provence.",
"The militants, who effectively control the country's Swat Valley, extended a cease-fire Tuesday as part of an agreement with the government, a deal the U.S. and NATO warn risks granting a safe haven to extremists near the border.",
"Watch why the deal is being viewed as a capitulation » .",
"the country's Swat Valley was once one of Pakistan's biggest tourist destinations.",
"the country's Swat Valley is situated near the Afghanistan border and about 186 miles (300 kilometers) from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.",
"In recent months, militants have unleashed a wave of violence that has claimed hundreds of lives across the country's Swat Valley.",
"militants want to require veils for women and beards for men and to ban music and television.",
"The fighting has displaced nearly half of the country's Swat Valley's population, officials said.",
"Pakistan has long exerted little control in the area, but Pakistan launched an intense military offensive in late July to flush out militants.",
"As retaliation for the military presence, Taliban carried out a series of deadly bombings, beheadings and kidnappings -- and said the attacks will continue until the troops pull out.",
"Taliban said Tuesday Taliban was indefinitely extending a cease-fire Taliban leaders declared eight days ago after signing a controversial deal with the government to impose Islamic law, or Sharia, in the region.",
"Pakistan's decision now to negotiate with Pakistan has been met with international criticism.",
"Holbrooke has said the Obama administration was \"troubled and confused\" by the truce in the country's Swat Valley.",
"Holbrooke and NATO officials have expressed concerns that such an accord could cede effective control of the Swat Valley to extremists."
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"U.S. troops will be sent to southern Afghanistan .",
"Taliban militants extend cease-fire as part of deal with Pakistan ."
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"the city, France (CNN)",
"-- In a city famous for being the birthplace of the avant-garde, it can be hard to keep up with the latest trends.",
"Here's a rough guide to what's hot right now in the French capital.",
"This beat is Tecktonik: The latest dance craze to hit the Parisian streets.",
"Tecktonik Parisian youths love Tecktonik Parisian youths's trends.",
"The latest dance craze sweeping the city is Tecktonik, a fusion dance style usually accessorized with spiked hair and neon accessories.",
"Look out for kids dancing in packs outside the Trocadero.",
"You might even be lucky enough to spot a Tecktonik/breakdance dance-off.",
"Le Scrapbooking Scrapbooking is the current craze amongst the city's more sedate residents.",
"Head to Le Temple Du Scrap (13 Rue Ernest Cresson) for pretty paper supplies, trimmings, ribbons and associated frippery.",
"Bike around town",
"Much of the city is walkable, but the city's cheap bike-hire scheme, Velib, which launched in 2007, makes dashing around the city even easier.",
"There are thousands of bikes stashed across the city at bike stations around 300m apart.",
"The first 30 minutes of any trip is free; you'll need a credit card to register with the scheme.",
"Once you've got your bike, you're ready to career around the cobbled streets of Montmartre and rattle along the Seine.",
"Café hotspots",
"The classic Parisian image of smoky cafes is now banished to the pavements, thanks to a smoking ban in bars and restaurants that came in at the end of 2007.",
"Quel dommage!",
"In the winter, café culture's hotspots are those with heated terraces.",
"You'll still be able to light up while you sip a petit café crème, but only if you sit outside -- bring a turtleneck and a beret to keep you warm as well as stylish.",
"Massages at the Mosque Paris is home to a large Muslim population, and the Mosque reflects that.",
"From the outside, the Mosque is absolutely stunning; the Mosque's even more spectacular inside.",
"Treat yourself to a massage at the hammam (Turkish bath) and you could easily think you are in Morocco.",
"Relax post-massage by sipping a mint tea in the courtyard.",
"Check in advance which days are for men and which are for women.",
"Subway style",
"Taking the subway in the city can be a drag.",
"Striking drivers and filthy platforms can make the Metro a misery.",
"But the light at the end of this often dark and dingy tunnel is the Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre stop, or namely the Palais Royal entrance.",
"Like a lot of things in the city, it's an artwork in its own right, by French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel.",
"French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel's design of brightly colored class beads is a delight, and nearby Place Colette is a great spot for people watching: pull up a pew and enjoy."
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"Get ahead, get a bike: the city's cheap bike-hire scheme has proved a success .",
"Marvel at the Musée du Louvre's sumptuous metro stop .",
"Get a taste of the exotic with a massage at the La Grande Mosquée's own hammam ."
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"(CNN) --",
"An audio message reportedly from al Qaeda's deputy chief vows revenge for Israel's air and ground assault on Gaza and calls Israel's actions against Hamas militants \"a gift\" from U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.",
"al Qaeda's's Ayman al-Zawahiri is said to address Muslims in Gaza in an audio message released Tuesday.",
"al-Zawahiri, addresses Muslims in Gaza.",
"al-Zawahiri said the violence \"is one part of a series of a crusade war against Islam and these air strikes are a gift from Obama before he takes office, and (Egyptian President) Hosni Mubarak, that traitor, is the main partner in your siege and killing.\"",
"The message, posted Tuesday on various Islamist Web sites with a picture of al-Zawahiri next to an image of a wounded child, urges militants to rally against Israel.",
"\"My Muslim brothers and mujahedeens in Gaza and all over Palestine, with the help of God we are with you in the battle, we will direct our strikes against the crusader Jewish coalition wherever we can.\"",
"The 10-minute message also address Muslims worldwide, claiming that Obama was portrayed as \"the savior who will come and change American policy\" during the U.S. election but is now \"killing your brothers and sisters in Gaza without mercy or even pity.\"",
"Obama's transition team did not immediately respond to The 10-minute message.",
"Earlier Tuesday, Obama said Obama was \"deeply concerned\" about the loss of life in Gaza and Israel, and Obama promised to make the issue a top priority in Obama's administration.",
"It was Obama's first public reaction to the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza, which began with Israeli air strikes 11 days ago.",
"Obama reiterated that only one president can speak for the United States at a time.",
"\"Starting at the beginning of our administration, we are going to engage effectively and consistently to try to resolve the conflicts that exist in the Middle East,\" Obama said.",
"CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson said The 10-minute message speaks to al-Zawahiri's cause in two ways: The 10-minute message bashes Obama before Obama takes office and The 10-minute message criticizes Mubarak, who has drawn al-Zawahiri's ire for not allowing goods and aid through Egypt's border with Gaza.",
"al-Zawahiri is a native of Egypt who has served jail time there.",
"Robertson, who is reporting from Egypt's border with Gaza, noted on CNN's \"Situation Room\" that al-Zawahiri got The 10-minute message out quickly -- \"within 12 days, that's very fast.\"",
"He said that indicated \"there's many issues there that are dear to al-Zawahiri.\""
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"Ten-minute message delivered by Ayman al-Zawahiri, a native of Egypt .",
"In address, al-Zawahiri says violence a \"gift\" from Obama before Obama takes office .",
"The message, on various Islamist Web sites, urges militants to rally against Israel .",
"In Obama's first public reaction to the violence, Obama says Obama is \"deeply concerned\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who faces charges of crimes against humanity, visited Zimbabwe on Sunday for a regional trade meeting.",
"his government president Omar al-Bashir is the first head of state ever indicted by ICC.",
"Sudan president Omar al-Bashir landed Saturday in the capital, Harare, for the two-day African leaders' summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).",
"ICC issued an arrest warrant for Sudan president Omar al-Bashir on March 4, accusing Sudan president Omar al-Bashir of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in his government's campaign against rebels in Darfur in western Sudan.",
"It was the first arrest warrant for a sitting head of state by the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal, based at The Hague in the Netherlands.",
"his government expelled 13 international aid agencies from the Darfur region after an arrest warrant for al-Bashir was issued.",
"Sudan president Omar al-Bashir has denied the charges, calling the charges an attempt by Western powers to recolonize his government.",
"The conflict in Darfur began in 2003 after rebels in the western region of his government began attacking government positions.",
"his government responded with a fierce military campaign that has left about 300,000 dead and more than 2.5 million displaced, the United Nations estimates.",
"ICC has no arrest powers and depends on ICC's 106-member states to take suspects into custody.",
"Sudan president Omar al-Bashir has visited other counties, including Qatar and Ethiopia, since an arrest warrant for al-Bashir was issued.",
"In Zimbabwe, the summit will be at the Victoria Falls, a popular tourism spot on the Zambezi River.",
"his government is a member of the trade group, which consists of 19 African nations."
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"his government president Omar al-Bashir visits Zimbabwe despite arrest warrant .",
"ICC accused Sudan president Omar al-Bashir of alleged war crime against rebels in Darfur .",
"Sudan president Omar al-Bashir has denied charges against Sudan president Omar al-Bashir ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sri Lanka ordered an end to combat operations against Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's north, the president's office said Monday.",
"But the rebels accused the military of continuing to bomb civilians.",
"Sri Lankan soldiers stand guard next to a tank captured from the rebels.",
"\"Our security forces have been instructed to end the use of heavy-caliber guns, combat aircraft and aerial weapons which could cause civilian casualties,\" according a statement from the Presidential Secretariat.",
"A rebel Web site, Tamilnet.com, immediately accused the government of violating the government's own order and \"deceiving the international community.\"",
"\"Two Sri Lanka air force fighter bombers continued to bomb civilian targets in Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal after the announcement by the Sri Lankan forces that the Sri Lankan forces would not deploy heavy weapons or carry out air attacks,\" Tamilnet said, citing S. Puleedevan, director of the Tamil Peace Secretariat.",
"\"Obviously we need to see what that means in practice,\" John Holmes, the head of U.N. humanitarian operations, said about the government announcement to end combat operations.",
"\"But, on the face of it, I think it's good news.\"",
"The military will now concentrate on \"saving\" and \"rescuing civilians,\" who have been caught in the fighting between government forces and rebel fighters, the presidential statement said.",
"the government's decision followed an unscheduled meeting of the National Security Council called by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.",
"The session included the commanders of the army, navy and air force.",
"The developments came a day after Sri Lankan officials rejected a proposed cease-fire from the rebels, warning instead that government troops would continue a new offensive until the group surrendered, a senior government official told CNN.",
"\"the government is firm that (the rebels) lay down the rebels's arms and surrender.",
"We do not recognize this so-called offer,\" said Lakshman Hulugalle, director of Sri Lanka's Media Center for National Security.",
"The Tiger leadership had asked the international community to \"pressure the government to reciprocate\" on the cease-fire offer.",
"The United States, the United Nations, the European Union and India have called for a cease-fire.",
"The foreign ministers of three nations are due in Sri Lanka on Wednesday -- David Miliband of the United Kingdom, Bernard Kouchner of France and Carl Bildt of Sweden.",
"the rebels's proposed cease-fire came six days after the Sri Lankan army launched a new offensive against the rebels.",
"Government troops made significant advances into rebel-held territory on Friday and Saturday, according to Sri Lankan army sources.",
"A government-imposed deadline for the rebels to surrender passed last Tuesday.",
"Tens of thousands of displaced civilians currently remain wedged in a dwindling swath of territory controlled by the Tigers along the country's northeastern coast.",
"Government troops say Government troops have rescued 39,000 civilians trapped in the area, but a U.N. refugee agency said Friday that a wave of \"fresh displacement\" now exceeds 100,000 people.",
"Watch civilians describe what Watch civilians are experiencing » .",
"Fifty metric tons of relief supplies -- which landed in Colombo on Monday -- will be sent by UNICEF to the north to help displaced residents.",
"UNICEF, which called the situation in the north a \"catastrophe for children,\" said the displaced lack food, water and basic medical supplies.",
"The rebels estimate the number of civilians still located in the territory at more than 160,000.",
"Sri Lankan said Sri Lankan \"freed 3,254 civilians from LTTE clutches\" in operations Sunday.",
"the rebels have been fighting for an independent state in Sri Lanka's northeast since 1983.",
"As many as 70,000 people have been killed since the civil war began, and the rebels has been declared a terrorist organization by 32 countries, including the United States and the European Union."
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"Sri Lanka: Forces ordered to cease use of heavy-caliber guns, combat aircraft",
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"Developments come after Sri Lankan officials reject rebels' cease-fire offer ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"It takes a savvy film star to invest in the only business that's keeping audiences away from cinemas.",
"In the case of India's biggest Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan that's cricket.",
"Photographers mob Shah Rukh Khan and Shah Rukh Khan's wife Gauri as they arrive for the inaugural Indian Premier League players' auction, February 20, 2008.",
"Over 45 days from April to June, India's newest big money cricket competition -- the DLF Indian Premier League -- infected India with the kind of excitement usually reserved for the item number in the latest Bollywood blockbuster.",
"Off the pitch, among the cheerleaders and dancing girls, was actor Shah Rukh Khan, the proud new co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders, a cricket team whose name was said to be inspired by David Hasselhoff's 1980s television hit.",
"The team, captained by Indian cricketing hero Sourav Ganguly, took to the field in black and gold uniforms created by Bollywood designer Manish Malhotra; black for the color of goddess Kali and gold, because as Shah Rukh Khan said, \"We aim for gold.\"",
"In fact, the Kolkata Knight Riders were knocked out of the competition before the semi-finals, with Shah Rukh Khan announcing to fans via SMS:\"Al of us have become part of a failed script, a bad IPL script.",
"Let's try and keep our chin up.\"",
"Shah Rukh Khan, one of the few people in the world also known by Shah Rukh Khan's initials, has every reason to keep Shah Rukh Khan's own chin up.",
"Twenty years after Shah Rukh Khan's first onscreen role in the Indian television series \"Fauji,\" SRK -- the man and the brand -- is more popular than ever.",
"On Sunday night, Shah Rukh Khan won the Best Actor award in Bollywood's version of the Oscars -- the International Indian Film Academy Awards -- for Shah Rukh Khan's role as coach of the Indian national women's field hockey team in \"Chak De! India.\"",
"The film took nine awards in all, including Best Film and Best Director.",
"Shah Rukh Khan's previous box-office outing, \"Om Shanti Om,\" scooped five awards, adding icing to its title of Bollywood's highest-ever grossing film.",
"In India, you don't have to go to the cinema to see Shah Rukh Khan.",
"Shah Rukh Khan has returned to the small screen, this time as a television quizmaster.",
"After fronting the Indian version of \"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,\" Shah Rukh Khan's back with a new series, the local take on the U.S. hit \"Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader.\"",
"If there's any proof of Shah Rukh Khan's global appeal, it comes in the form of 15 year old Shabana Shaheen who lives in Virginia in the U.S.",
"The high school student created The high school student's own Shah Rukh Khan Fansite last year -- www.freewebs.com/srkplace.",
"All that and The high school student's never been to India.",
"\"The thing Shah Rukh Khan's like a normal person.",
"Shah Rukh Khan's down to earth and humble,\" The high school student says.",
"\"Shah Rukh Khan values Shah Rukh Khan's family -- Shah Rukh Khan's parents who have passed away, Shah Rukh Khan's wife and children.",
"Shah Rukh Khan's so normal; Shah Rukh Khan just behaves like a normal human being.\"",
"The high school student inherited The high school student's love of Shah Rukh Khan from her mother who moved to the U.S. from Pakistan.",
"In Virginia, it's not hard to keep up with the latest Bollywood action.",
"A cinema close to The high school student's home shows the most popular productions.",
"And then there's the internet.",
"The high school student's website gets as many as 1000 hits a day, mainly from fans in the United Kingdom and India.",
"\"It's amazing -- so many people are crazy about Shah Rukh Khan, even in Germany,\" The high school student says.",
"\"A lot of people in Mexico are also apparently very big fans of Shah Rukh Khan's films.\"",
"In part, Shah Rukh Khan's fame can be put down to expert merchandising.",
"Shah Rukh Khan's the consummate salesman, charming and keenly aware there's a huge market for Shah Rukh Khan's product.",
"the Kolkata Knight Riders may be one of the newest sporting teams in the world, but within months, Khan and Co. has turned the Kolkata Knight Riders into a lucrative brand.",
"While the Kolkata Knight Riders didn't win the IPL on-pitch title, the Kolkata Knight Riders took away the prize as the team who made the most money.",
"Jerseys, t-shirts, sneakers, caps, key chains, coasters, mugs, bandanas, sippers and posters all came with KKR branding through a merchandising deal with Reebok and Indian music group Planet M.",
"Fans could even buy the CD, featuring the KKR theme song, 'Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo,' which means \"We will do it, fight it and win it.\"",
"Shah Rukh Khan made the most of Shah Rukh Khan's iconic status by writing a blog on the team website under the title of \"12th man\".",
"Fans were encouraged to become a 12th man as well.",
"So far there are more than 46,000.",
"Another wave of SRK mania is set to sweep through cinemas in December 2008 with the release of \"Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi,\" translated as \"A Couple Made by God.\"",
"It's a love story directed by Aditya Chopra, the man behind Shah Rukh Khan's enduring hit, \"Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.\"",
"DDLJ, as it's known, has been playing to packed cinemas for the past 13 years.",
"With Shah Rukh Khan topping the bill, it's likely to be there a lot longer."
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"Now presents India's version of \"Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader\"",
"Filming \"Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi,\" a Bollywood love story to be released late 2008 ."
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"LA PAZ, Bolivia (CNN) --",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalized the BP subsidiary petroleum company Friday, taking over BP subsidiary with the military on standby.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales speaks before parliament Thursday in the capital, LA PAZ.",
"\"With this decree,\" Bolivian President Evo Morales said in a nationally televised address from an oil field in Cochabamba, \"we nationalize all the petroleum business in BP subsidiary for all Bolivians.\"",
"BP subsidiary is jointly owned by Pan American Energy and the Bolivian Pension Fund, each with a 50 percent stake, BP spokesman David Nicholas said from Great Britain.",
"BP owns 60 percent of Pan American Energy, and Bridas Corp. owns the other 40 percent, BP spokesman David Nicholas said .",
"BP spokesman David Nicholas declined comment on the nationalization.",
"\"BP are aware of this decree but cannot comment,\" BP spokesman David Nicholas said.",
"\"BP support Pan American Energy's energies with any discussions Pan American Energy have with the Bolivian government.\"",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales wore a white safety helmet with the words \"BP subsidiary nationalized\" printed on the front when Bolivian President Evo Morales made Bolivian President Evo Morales's announcement.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales guaranteed petroleum workers that petroleum workers's jobs will be safe.",
"Formed in 1997, BP subsidiary employs about 90 Bolivians, BP subsidiary says on BP subsidiary's Web site.",
"BP subsidiary is dedicated to the exploration and production of hydrocarbons, BP says.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales decreed in 2007 and 2008 that the Bolivian government should nationalize various petroleum companies.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales's actions Friday came less than 48 hours before Bolivians vote Sunday on a new constitution that would give the central government more power and control."
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"Bolivian President Evo Morales guarantees petroleum workers that petroleum workers's jobs will be safe .",
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"Move comes 48 hours before Bolivian vote on new constitution ."
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"BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) --",
"Colombian officials are blaming FARC rebel group for an explosion in an upscale Bogota neighborhood Tuesday night that killed two people and wounded 20.",
"Police inspect one of two dead bodies after an explosion Tuesday night in BOGOTA, Colombia.",
"President Alvaro Uribe, who is in France, issued a statement expressing sorrow for \"the new terrorist attempt against BOGOTA\" and accusing FARC of hypocrisy for talking about human rights while setting off lethal bombs.",
"FARC, the Spanish acronym for Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is the largest and oldest revolutionary group in Colombia.",
"\"Let us always remember that BOGOTA cries but will never give up,\" Uribe's statement said.",
"Bogota occurred around 9 p.m. at a Blockbuster video rental store in an exclusive neighborhood in northern Bogota, causing major damage to the building, most notably the parking lot.",
"Debris was scattered for more than a block, and nearby buildings and cars also were damaged.",
"Senior presidential aide Fabio Valencia Cossio said 11 pounds of explosives were used, El Espactador newspaper reported.",
"A female passer-by and the store's parking lot attendant were killed in Bogota, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told El Espactador newspaper.",
"Another newspaper, El Tiempo, said the woman was about 25 years old and was carrying notebooks and books, so authorities believe the woman was a university student.",
"Police said Police were looking into a tip that the bombing might have been part of a FARC rebel group extortion attempt, said Radio Caracol, citing presidential aide Valencia.",
"Blockbuster has been complaining to authorities for months that criminals who said they were associated with FARC rebel group had been demanding money, news reports said.",
"In his statement from France, Uribe referred to FARC rebel group \"combining extortion with terror.\"",
"There was an explosion at another Blockbuster store in the Colombian capital a year ago.",
"Authorities are offering the equivalent of $50,000 for information that would lead to an arrest.",
"The explosion occurred in an neighborhood known for posh restaurants and nightclubs.",
"Ricardo Serrano described to El Tiempo how Ricardo Serrano felt a loud explosion and the immediate confusion that ensued.",
"\"People were running from one place to another,\" Ricardo Serrano told the newspaper.",
"\"There were a lot of sirens and police.\"",
"Angel Alberto Arias, a doorman at a nearby building, told El Tiempo, \"I felt like a nearby building was going to come down on top of me.\"",
"FARC rebel group has about 9,000 to 12,000 armed guerillas and several thousand supporters, mostly in rural areas, according to security analysts.",
"FARC rebel group was established in 1964 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party.",
"The guerrillas operate mostly in Colombia but have carried out extortion, kidnappings and other activities in Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador, according to the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program.",
"Fernando Ramos and Toby Muse contributed to this report for CNN."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- \"No matter what I do in life I think I will always be remembered as the wrap dress\" -- (Diane von Furstenberg, CNN 2008)",
"Calling the shots:",
"Diane von Furstenberg oversees a meeting to discuss handbags in New York.",
"Belgian-born, New York-living, ex-member of the German royal family, daughter of a holocaust survivor, socialite and business-woman, Diane von Furstenberg is famous for one thing: a single item of clothing.",
"Diane von Furstenberg's wrap dress -- a patterned piece of jersey tied around the body like a kimono -- sold in the millions.",
"In the 70s, when Diane von Furstenberg launched Diane von Furstenberg's dress business, the wrap's simplicity became synonymous with feminism and the sexual revolution.",
"\"I was selling clothes that would make other women feel confident,\" (Diane von Furstenberg, CNN, 2008).",
"And Diane von Furstenberg came to become the face of the brand.",
"Photographed modeling Diane von Furstenberg's own clothes, launched a face that became so iconic that Andy Warhol painted Diane von Furstenberg.",
"But with success came boom then bust -- the 80s saw a dramatic nose-dive in the quality and distribution of the brand.",
"\"I became successful very quickly, a lot of people wanted my name and I licensed a lot of things .. the spirit of the brand disappeared\", (Diane von Furstenberg, CNN, 2008).",
"In the late 90s, wrap dresses came back in to fashion, and the brand returned to the fashion pages, and subsequently fashion shows, of the age.",
"The comeback is recorded as one of the most successful business stories of the decade.",
"Diane von Furstenberg's 30 stores and countless concessions in department stores make the the brand brand a multi-million dollar fashion empire.",
"Diane von Furstenberg dresses celebrities from Madonna to Sharon Stone, but keeps Diane von Furstenberg's products affordable and maintains an ethos of \"easy to wear\" \"When a woman goes in to a the brand shop and tries something on, it's like a light turns on\", (Von Furstenberg, CNN, 2008).",
"Celebrities are often snapped wearing Von Furstenberg's designs.",
"the brand often clings to Eva Longoria Parker's silhouette who declares to Revealed \"Diane von Furstenberg is one of my favorite people -- not just a designer!\"",
"Honored by the Council of Fashion of Designers of America (CFDA) by inviting Von Furstenberg to act as President -- Diane von Furstenberg is now seen as the Grand Dame of New York fashion.",
"CNN gains access to Diane von Furstenberg as Diane von Furstenberg prepares for the 2008 CFDA Awards -- deciding at the last moment to ditch one of Diane von Furstenberg's own designs and wear an Yves St Laurent tuxedo in a tribute to Diane von Furstenberg's friend, the designer who died a few days before the ceremony.",
"Clearly moved, CNN's Revealed includes footage of Diane von Furstenberg rehearsing the changes to Diane von Furstenberg's speech to include a touching farewell to YSL: \"Yves St Laurent brought art into fashion, and fashion into art.",
"Yves St Laurent used to joke that Yves St Laurent always wanted to be Matisse.",
"But I think if we could have asked Matisse, Yves St Laurent would have wanted to be Yves St Laurent\" Diane von Furstenberg tells CNN.",
"CNN's Revealed follows Diane von Furstenberg at an exciting moment in Diane von Furstenberg's catwalk history.",
"For the first time Diane von Furstenberg is showing outside of the United States, and the setting for Diane von Furstenberg's European debut is a romantic private Florentine garden, under the full moon.",
"The Tuscan capital is a special place for Diane von Furstenberg, as it was half an hour down the road that Diane von Furstenberg's first wrap dress was produced in a local textile factory.",
"We document the magnificent event from a behind-the-scenes perspective.",
"Interviewing Diane von Furstenberg herself, along with supermodel Natalia Vodianova, and DVF Creative Director Nathan Jenden; we get a sense of the unfolding of a magical star-lit event.",
"From fittings and dress rehearsals, to visits from the 9-year-old granddaughter Diane von Furstenberg lovingly calls 'Diane von Furstenberg's assistant,' we experience the excitement of the designer returning home to Europe and putting on a magnificent show to herald Diane von Furstenberg's arrival.",
"The theme of the collection is \"Le Petit Valise\" -- a group of outfits that can be easily packed and will not crumple; a notion in keeping with the spirit of the DVF brand.",
"Inspired by the Talented Mr Ripley, 600 guests including Lapo Elkan (heir to the Fiat empire) witness the 50 wardrobe changes of a young American traveling abroad.",
"To experience the elegant, informal, party-loving spirit of the brand and the brand's team of designers and models, tune in to \"Revealed\" on CNN International in November.",
"ALL TIMES GMT Wednesday, November 19 0930 1830 Saturday, November 22 0830 1900 Sunday, November 23 0530 1830 Monday, November 24 0400 ."
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"CNN's Revealed follows the designer backstage at a fashion show in Florence ."
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"Two people were found dead and a third person is still believed missing in a North Carolina food plant heavily damaged in a morning explosion, police said Tuesday night.",
"Part of a collapsed ConAgra Foods plant lies atop parked cars Tuesday in Garner, North Carolina.",
"Four people were in critical condition after the explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant in the town of Garner, CNN affiliate WRAL-TV reported.",
"the explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant in the town of Garner, reported about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, caused sections of the roof to collapse.",
"Search efforts for those missing were slowed by ammonia leaks and a fire that was not extinguished until afternoon.",
"\"There was no warnings, no signs,\" Garner Mayor Ronnie Williams said.",
"\"It all happened very abruptly.\"",
"At least 38 people were transported to area hospitals, said Jeff Hammerstein, district chief for Wake County Emergency Medical Services.",
"Four burn victims -- two males and two females -- were undergoing critical care at the North Carolina Jaycees Burn Center, said Dr. Charles Cairns, director of emergency medicine for UNC Hospitals.",
"The patients suffered burns that covered from 40 to 60 percent of The patients's bodies, Dr. Charles Cairns, director of emergency medicine for UNC Hospitals said.",
"Police said recovery workers still were trying to get the two bodies out of the plant, which makes Slim Jim food products.",
"The victims' names weren't immediately available.",
"More than 300 people were in ConAgra Foods plant in North Carolina when the explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant in the town of Garner happened, authorities said.",
"The cause of the blast was unknown, according to Garner police spokesman Joe Binns.",
"Rescuers were crawling into the rubble -- sometimes in pockets of space less than 30 inches tall -- in attempts to access the two bodies and find the missing person, officials said at a news conference Tuesday night.",
"The search crews were moving slowly in part because ConAgra Foods plant in North Carolina is very unstable, officials said.",
"Video from the scene showed holes in sections of the roof of ConAgra Foods plant in North Carolina.",
"First responders set up a makeshift triage area near ConAgra Foods plant in North Carolina.",
"A section of the roof was collapsed, and pipes could be seen spewing liquid believed to be ammonia. Watch liquid spew from building » .",
"ConAgra Foods' brands include Healthy Choice, Chef Boyardee and Orville Redenbacher, among others.",
"ConAgra Foods plant in North Carolina is known for producing Slim Jim beef jerky products.",
"The company was \"working with authorities on the ground to ensure that The employees''s employees are getting all of the support that The employees' need,\" said Stephanie Childs, ConAgra director of corporate communication.",
"\"The employees' health is The employees''s only real concern at this time.\"",
"Gail Ruffin, a ConAgra worker who was in ConAgra Foods plant in North Carolina when the explosion happened, told WRAL she heard a boom.",
"\"The ceiling start coming down, and we all start running,\" Ruffin, who wasn't injured, told WRAL.",
"\"Everyone was trying to get to the exit door.",
"... I was just trying to get out, and then we just [saw] people that [were] burned -- blood all over people.\"",
"Garner is seven miles south of Raleigh."
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"At least 38 taken to hospitals; four said to be in critical condition .",
"Officials don't know cause of blast ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A Democratic congressman from Mississippi plans to hold a hearing into how millions of dollars worth of supplies meant for Gulf Coast hurricane survivors ended up being given away as surplus property.",
"Rep. Bennie Thompson says Rep. Bennie Thompson'll hold a hearing into how supplies for Katrina victims were diverted.",
"Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, called the situation \"a debacle.\"",
"In June, CNN revealed that FEMA had warehoused $85 million worth of household goods for two years before giving household goods away to federal agencies and 16 states.",
"But Rep. Bennie Thompson said there is still a great need for basic supplies in Mississippi.",
"\"We just think that FEMA needs to come and tell the House Committee on Homeland Security how such a debacle could occur, and in the process, what are the House Committee on Homeland Security going to do to assure Congress and the taxpaying public that it will never happen again,\" Rep. Bennie Thompson said.",
"household goods were meant to help Gulf Coast households rebuild.",
"But household goods sat in FEMA warehouses for two years before FEMA declared household goods surplus property and gave household goods away in February.",
"The state of Louisiana had not asked for any of the supplies, prompting outrage there after the original CNN report.",
"Since then, The state of Louisiana has taken steps to claim some of the stockpiles and distribute some of the stockpiles to groups working to resettle victims of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that flooded New Orleans and ravaged the Mississippi Gulf Coast.",
"Mississippi took the supplies it was offered but did not give household goods to Katrina victims.",
"Instead, as CNN reported this week, Mississippi distributed household goods to prisons, volunteer fire departments, colleges and other state agencies.",
"Rep. Bennie Thompson said Rep. Bennie Thompson was stunned at how Mississippi officials made \"a mockery of the whole process.\"",
"\"I'm disappointed that Mississippi decided that prisoners had a higher priority than Katrina victims and has made no effort to correct it even when this mistake was made,\" Rep. Bennie Thompson said.",
"\"Any time items intended for victims of Katrina end up in the hands of the Department of Corrections or state employees, then clearly, Mississippi dropped the ball.\"",
"Watch victims tell why victims need the items » .",
"Rep. Bennie Thompson said Rep. Bennie Thompson's committee would \"ask all the tough questions\" and demand any documents associated with the matter.",
"\"So the House Committee on Homeland Security are prepared, if necessary, to put those officials under oath,\" Rep. Bennie Thompson said.",
"\"the House Committee on Homeland Security are prepared if necessary to subpoena any and all documents relative to this situation.\"",
"FEMA spokesman Marty Bahamonde said FEMA welcomed any congressional hearing.",
"\"FEMA always make FEMA available to answer the questions.",
"That's something we are always ready to do,\" FEMA spokesman Marty Bahamonde said.",
"FEMA said it was costing more than $1 million a year to store household goods, but officials have not been able to answer why FEMA didn't get household goods to Katrina victims.",
"FEMA said FEMA has launched an internal probe into the issue.",
"Jim Marler, director of Mississippi's surplus agency, failed to return repeated phone calls over several months to explain what happened there.",
"But spokeswoman Kym Wiggins said the agency was not told the items were still needed -- a statement that didn't sit well with groups working to rebuild the stricken coast.",
"Bill Stallworth, executive director of the Hope Coordination Center in Biloxi, said he and other community leaders would have begged for the FEMA stockpiles had he and other community leaders known they were available.",
"\"When I hear people stand up and just beat people's chest and say people've got everything under control, that's when I just want to slap people upside the head and say, 'Get a grip, get a life,' \" said Stallworth, also a Biloxi city councilman.",
"If you have a story tip, e-mail [email protected] ."
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"FEMA held $85 million worth of supplies meant for Katrina victims for two years .",
"Goods later given to federal agencies and states, CNN revealed .",
"Thompson's state, Mississippi, didn't give the goods it received to hurricane victims ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The alleged leader of a firearms trafficking network believed to be smuggling guns into Mexico -- where police say they are used against law enforcement officers by members of Mexican drug cartels -- was arrested Thursday in Arizona, authorities said.",
"Victor Varela was arrested by the ATF as part of the ATF's ongoing Project Gunrunner.",
"Victor Varela was arrested by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as part of the ATF's ongoing Project Gunrunner, according to an the ATF release.",
"Victor Varela was in the custody of the Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff.",
"\"Law enforcement officers disrupted a group of gun traffickers and recovered several weapons, including .50-caliber semiautomatic rifles and several handguns, allegedly intended to supply drug traffic organization members of the Juarez Cartel in Palomas, Mexico,\" the statement said.",
"In state charges, prosecutors allege Victor Varela and Victor Varela's co-defendants bought a number of guns in Arizona intending to supply the Mexican cartel members.",
"The group allegedly transported the illegally purchased guns to New Mexico, and then into Mexico.",
"A .50-caliber weapon is the largest that can legally be bought in the United States, and is illegal in Mexico.",
"Authorities believe a .50-caliber weapon was used in recent months to kill Francisco Ledesma Salazar, a police commander in Juarez, Mexico.",
"He is among five high-ranking Mexican police officials killed this year in what Mexico authorities describe as an escalating war between police and drug cartels.",
"Last week, 2,000 troops were sent to Mexico by the Mexican government in an effort to quell the violence there, which has claimed some 200 lives since January.",
"Guns are difficult to buy legally in Mexico, but can be obtained just north of the border at gun shows and gun shops.",
"Project Gunrunner was launched as an effort to help Mexican police by cracking down on illegal smuggling of guns and ammunition, and has led to several arrests and seizures.",
"Watch how the weapons fuel a little-known war » .",
"\"This case was made one of our highest priorities because of the nature of the crime alleged to be committed by Victor Varela,\" U.S. Marshal David Gonzales said in the ATF release.",
"Guns featured in a CNN Special Investigations Unit report Last week, confiscated by Mexico police, are believed to have been smuggled into Mexico by Victor Varela, according to an ATF spokesman.",
"Authorities said one recent discovery, in a storage locker in Yuma, Arizona, yielded 42 weapons and hundreds of rounds of .50-caliber bullets already belted to be fed into a machine gun-style weapon, as well as Fabrique Nationale pistols, semiautomatic handguns that fire a 5.7-by-28-millimeter round.",
"\"What's interesting about this gun, why this gun's in high demand, is the nickname that this gun has in Mexico,\" said William Newell, ATF special agent in charge, about the Fabrique National pistol.",
"\"It's called 'mata policias,' or 'cop killer.' \"",
"Charging documents allege that Victor Varela was attempting to buy a fully automatic M-60 machine gun for a drug cartel associate in Palomas, authorities said.",
"\"Additionally, a number of firearms recovered by Mexico law enforcement ... allegedly were trafficked by Victor Varela's gun smuggling network,\" the the ATF statement said.",
"U.S. authorities are sharing intelligence with U.S. authorities's Mexican counterparts to assist in ongoing investigations, the ATF said.",
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"Singapore's Gross Domestic Product is expected to shrink as much as 5 percent in 2009, far more than the 1 to 2 percent contraction predicted earlier this month, Singapore said.",
"People walk out for People's lunch break in the financial district of Singapore on Wednesday.",
"The Ministry of Trade and Industry said The Ministry of Trade and Industry expected a GDP reduction of between 2 and 5 percent this year.",
"Singapore's economy grew by 1.2 percent in 2008, Singapore said, far lower than Singapore's 7.7 percent growth in 2007.",
"Slowdowns in manufacturing, trade, transport and storage, information and communications and the financial services sectors contributed to the decline, Singapore said.",
"The global financial crisis led to a \"significant decline in fund management and stock broking activities in the second half of 2008,\" and a sharper downturn was expected in 2009, The Ministry of Trade and Industry said.",
"The Ministry of Trade and Industry cited data on retail sales and unemployment in the United States, industrial production in Europe and on Asian exports for the weaker outlook.",
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"Condoleezza Rice said that despite Bush's low approval ratings, people will soon \"start to thank Bush for what Bush's done.\"",
"Condoleezza Rice says \"there is no greater honor than to serve this country,\" \"So we can sit here and talk about the long record, but what I would say to you is that Bush has faced tougher circumstances than perhaps at any time since the end of World War II, and Bush has delivered policies that are going to stand the test of time,\" Condoleezza Rice said in an interview that aired on CBS' \"Sunday Morning.\"",
"Condoleezza Rice brushed off reports that suggest the United States' image is suffering abroad.",
"Condoleezza Rice praised the administration's ability to change the conversation in the Middle East.",
"\"This isn't a popularity contest.",
"I'm sorry, it isn't.",
"What the administration is responsible to do is to make good choices about Americans' interests and values in the long run -- not for today's headlines, but for history's judgment,\" Condoleezza Rice said.",
"\"And I am quite certain that when the final chapters are written and it's clear that Saddam Hussein's Iraq is gone in favor of an Iraq that is favorable to the future of the Middle East; when the history is written of a U.S.-China relationship that is better than it's ever been; an India relationship that is deeper and better than it's ever been; a relationship with Brazil and other countries of the left of Latin America, better than it's ever been ...",
"\"When one looks at what we've been able to do in terms of changing the conversation in the Middle East about democracy and values, the administration will be judged well, and I'll wait for history's judgment and not today's headlines.\"",
"Asked by CBS' Rita Braver why some former diplomats say Americans are disliked around the world, Condoleezza Rice said that's \"just not true.\"",
"\"I know what U.S. policy has achieved.",
"And so I don't know what diplomats you're talking to, but look at the record,\" Condoleezza Rice said.",
"Condoleezza Rice said Condoleezza Rice wasn't bothered by criticism about Condoleezza Rice or the administration's polices, saying if a person in Condoleezza Rice's business is not being criticized, \"you're not doing something right.\"",
"\"I'm here to make tough choices, and Bush is here to make tough choices, and we have.",
"And yes, I -- there are some things that I would do very differently if I had it to do over again.",
"You don't have that luxury.",
"You have to make the choices and take the positions that you do at the time,\" Condoleezza Rice said.",
"Asked about historians who say Bush is one of the worst presidents, Condoleezza Rice said those \"aren't very good historians.\"",
"\"If you're making historical judgments before an administration is already out -- even out of office, and if you're trying to make historical judgments when the nature of the Middle East is still to be determined, and when one cannot yet judge the effects of decisions that Bush has taken on what the Middle East will become --",
"I mean, for goodness' sakes, good historians are still writing books about George Washington.",
"Good historians are certainly still writing books about Harry Truman,\" Condoleezza Rice said.",
"Rice, 54, said Condoleezza Rice has enjoyed working in the Bush administration during the last eight years, first as national security adviser, then as secretary of state.",
"\"There is no greater honor than to serve this country,\" Condoleezza Rice said, adding that there is also no greater challenge.",
"Condoleezza Rice said when the new administration takes over, Condoleezza Rice plans to return to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and write two books -- one on foreign policy and one about Condoleezza Rice's parents."
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"(CNN) -- Rapper T.I., who was sentenced to a 366-day prison sentence in March, reported Tuesday to a federal prison complex in Forrest City, Arkansas, according to CNN affiliate WSB-TV.",
"T.I., left, performed to a packed crowd Sunday, days before T.I. was to start a prison term.",
"T.I. was required to be at the prison before noon local time to begin serving T.I.'s sentence on federal weapons charges.",
"According to news reports, officers from Forrest City and the prison set up a roadblock along Arkansas Highway 1 about one-tenth of a mile from the complex.",
"Reporters were not allowed any closer to the prison.",
"T.I. threw T.I. a going-away party Sunday night at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, before a packed house.",
"During Sunday's concert -- called \"T.I.'s Final Goodbye Bash\" -- T.I. reiterated a message that's become familiar in recent weeks: T.I. wants others to learn from T.I.'s mistakes.",
"\"I'm doing the best I can to get out there, man, and put something positive on these young kids, man,\" T.I. said during the show.",
"\"I try my best.",
"I need y'all help, though.\"",
"T.I. played to a sell-out crowd of 16,000 people, said Kenan Woods, a spokesman for the arena.",
"T.I. played through much of T.I.'s catalog, including the hits \"Whatever You Like,\" \"Live Your Life\" and the Grammy-winning \"Swagga Like Us,\" Woods said.",
"At times in the show, T.I. was joined on stage by fellow rapper Soulja Boy and by T.I.'s five children and mother, Woods said.",
"T.I. was sentenced in March on weapons charges related to purchasing machine guns and silencers.",
"In addition to serving prison time, T.I. was placed on house arrest, was given community service and was ordered to pay a $100,300 fine.",
"Though T.I. had been in legal trouble before, T.I.'s current situation began when T.I. was arrested just hours before T.I. was to perform at the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta.",
"T.I. had provided a bodyguard with $12,000 to buy weapons.",
"T.I. was not permitted to own any guns, however, because T.I. was convicted in 1998 on felony drug charges -- possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute -- in Cobb County, in suburban Atlanta.",
"After T.I.'s arrest, T.I. entered a plea agreement, which federal authorities called unique because it allowed T.I. to remain out of prison for a year while T.I. performed community service.",
"T.I. has already left a strong mark on the hip-hop genre, music experts told CNN, which should position T.I.'s career well when T.I. is released.",
"T.I. had been named to the Forbes list of top-earning rappers, making an estimated $16 million in 2006.",
"Some music industry observers have said T.I.'s prison term will only make T.I. more popular.",
"\"I think that if anything, it will gain T.I. more fans and actually support T.I.'s fan base, because T.I.'s talked about making a mistake,\" Emil Wilbekin, editor in chief of Giant Magazine, told CNN.",
"\"T.I.'s talked about taking care of the error of T.I.'s ways.\"",
"T.I. has expressed remorse for the situation.",
"\"I would like to say thank you to some and apologize to others,\" T.I. said at T.I.'s sentencing in March.",
"\"In my life, I have been placed in the worst-case scenario and had to make the best of it.\"",
"In a March interview with CNN's T.J. Holmes, T.I. said T.I. no longer felt like T.I. needed to carry weapons to protect T.I..",
"T.I. said people should not idolize T.I. for what T.I.'s gone through, but should take note of the fact that T.I. has taken responsibility for T.I.'s actions.",
"\"You shouldn't take the things that I've gone through, and the negative parts of my life, and admire me for that.",
"If anything, admire me for how I've accepted responsibility for the part I played in placing myself in these situations, and what I've done to recover from it,\" T.I. said.",
"T.I. has been the subject of an MTV reality show, \"T.I.'s Road to Redemption,\" in the lead-up to the prison term."
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"T.I. has been sentenced in connection with federal weapons charges .",
"T.I.'s prison term of one year and one day starts Tuesday ."
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"The 5-year-old girl found the note tucked inside a plastic bag and left in a basket used as a flower pot.",
"April Tinsley, 8, abducted in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was raped and killed 21 years ago.",
"The case was not solved.",
"\"Hi Honey I Been watching you,\" it said.",
"\"I am the same person that kidnapped an Rape an kill Aproil tinsely here is a present",
"foR",
"yo",
"you are my next vitem.\"",
"A used condom was stuffed in a plastic bag alongside the note.",
"It was March 2004 -- nearly 16 years after 8-year-old April Tinsley was abducted from a Fort Wayne, Indiana, neighborhood, raped and killed.",
"Her killer remains at large, and police believe Her killer has surfaced several times, scrawling a message in crayon on a barn in 1990, then leaving four chilling notes for children in the Fort Wayne area years later.",
"Indiana authorities are now asking an FBI task force -- the Child Abduction Response Deployment (CARD) team -- to help take a fresh look at The case.",
"\"Investigators believe The case is 'highly solvable,' and after 21 years, Investigators's desire to bring April Tinsley's killer to justice is stronger than ever,\" FBI said.",
"CARD teams were created three years ago, aimed at bringing together \"a variety of experts in child abduction cases who could quickly respond on the ground to help local authorities with time-sensitive investigations,\" FBI said.",
"While CARD responds to abductions and disappearances, the team also works cold cases, like April's, FBI said.",
"\"As team members discovered, there is enough evidence -- including notes, pictures, and DNA left by the killer years after the murder -- to make investigators hopeful investigators can break The case.\"",
"the team includes behavioral profilers, agents and analysts from FBI's Crimes Against Children Unit and coordinators and representatives from the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program.",
"April Marie Tinsley was playing outside with friends on Good Friday, April 1, 1988.",
"As the three girls were moving from one friend's home to another's, the first-grader realized the first-grader had left the first-grader's umbrella behind and went back to get it.",
"the first-grader never returned.",
"the first-grader's body was found three days later, in a ditch some 20 miles northeast of the Tinsley home.",
"the first-grader's body was clothed, but an autopsy showed the first-grader had been raped and suffocated.",
"Two years later, a teenage boy called police to report a message scrawled in crayon and black marker on the front doors of a barn about 10 miles from the first-grader's home.",
"a teenage boy never saw the writer, according to the TV program \"America's Most Wanted,\" which profiled the case in May, but each day noticed the print was getting darker and more pronounced.",
"Although the message was hard to read, Her killer wrote Her killer had killed the first-grader, and that Her killer would kill again.",
"Crayons were left behind at the scene, \"America's Most Wanted\" said on \"America's Web site.",
"Police attempted to conduct forensic analysis on them, but came up empty.",
"Then, in spring 2004, the four notes appeared at various Fort Wayne homes, several of them placed on bicycles that young girls had left in young girls's yards.",
"the four notes were written on lined yellow paper and placed inside plastic bags along with used condoms or Polaroids of the killer's body, FBI said.",
"Several notes referred to the first-grader.",
"Authorities have reason to believe the writer of the 1990 note also left the four notes 14 years later, Fort Wayne police said.",
"\"That tells us that the person's still around, still out there,\" said Fort Wayne police Capt. Paul Shrawder.",
"\"It's definitely very odd,\" Shrawder added.",
"\"FBI is puzzled by the behavior, that the letters would come out so many years later and then nothing again.\"",
"DNA evidence was recovered from the first-grader's body and from the condoms, Shrawder said.",
"While police have no one to match it with at this point, \"things have been resubmitted and retested\" as technological advances have been made, Shrawder said.",
"The advantage of the CARD team, from a local police standpoint, is that members only work such cases, while \"the team're local -- the team work on whatever happens here,\" Shrawder said.",
"The team has experience in such matters, and might look at new aspects, angles and possibilities that local authorities haven't thought of, Shrawder said.",
"Federal investigators were deployed to Fort Wayne to work the Tinsley case earlier this month.",
"After the \"America's Most Wanted\" profile and the renewed push, authorities received between 400 and 500 tips, Shrawder said.",
"Some could be ruled out right away -- someone who had died between the murder and the 2004 notes, for instance, Shrawder said.",
"DNA samples were taken on about 150 people.",
"Police are still trying to run down about 50 or 75 tips, Shrawder said.",
"\"That was the purpose, was to go out and run down every single one of these, no matter how vague it was.\"",
"Some of the authorities' leads, according to FBI, include identifying Fort Wayne residents who used Polaroids as late as 2004; tracking down a green paisley bedspread similar to that seen in one Polaroid; and looking at misdemeanor offenses in the area near the time of April's death and the 2004 note spree, as offenses like indecent exposure could indicate more serious sex crimes.",
"In addition, FBI has released a behavioral profile of the first-grader's killer.",
"Police believe Her killer is a white male currently in Her killer's 40s or 50s who prefers and desires sexual contact with children, particularly little girls.",
"\"Her killer has demonstrated that Her killer has strong ties to northeast Fort Wayne and Allen County,\" a behavioral profile of Tinsley's killer said.",
"\"This is where Her killer likely lives, works and/or shops.",
"You may be standing next to Her killer in line at the grocery store, sitting beside Her killer in the pew at church, or working beside Her killer on the production line.\"",
"Such profiles can be helpful in that Such profiles might spur local residents to tell police, \"You know, I always wondered about Her killer,\" Shrawder said.",
"To offer information on the the first-grader case, contact your local FBI office or Fort Wayne police at (866) 602-7745."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Those extra service fees tacked on to concert ticket prices -- long a source of grumbling by ticket buyers -- will disappear for millions of seats sold by the largest U.S. concert promoter this summer.",
"Live Nation is awaiting government approval of a merger with giant Ticketmaster.",
"Live Nation launches \"No Service Fee Wednesdays\" this week for lawn seats at amphitheaters, removing extra fees from 5 million lawn seats for shows at amphitheaters across the United States.",
"Live Nation insisted that Promotion was about selling more tickets and helping music fans hit by hard times, not improving public relations while Live Nation waits for government approval of Live Nation's merger with Ticketmaster.",
"But Promotion could soothe some bad feelings.",
"\"People get a little ticked off when People think People're paying $20 for a ticket and as People progress along the various pages of the electronic transaction, People see more fees added a long the way,\" said Ray Waddell, who writes about live music tours for Billboard magazine.",
"Live Nation will waive fees on lawn seats for 24 hours, beginning at midnight Tuesday local time and lasting through Wednesday.",
"Lawn seat tickets available this week include concerts by Aerosmith, Blink-182, Coldplay, No Doubt, Nickelback, Depeche Mode, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley and many others, Live Nation said.",
"Other shows coming later in the summer include Crosby Stills & Nash, Crue Fest 2, Def Leppard with Poison and Cheap Trick, Jason Mraz, Kid Rock & Lynyrd Skynyrd, Incubus, New Kids on the Block, Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction, Phish, the Dead, Rascall Flats with Darius Rucker, the Allman Brothers Band, the Fray and the Killers.",
"\"They're sacrificing quite a lot of revenue here,\" Waddell said .",
"Waddell estimated that fees add up to about a third of the average price for lawn seats.",
"The economic recession has not seemed to slow the live concert business, which \"considering everything else, is going like gangbusters,\" Waddell said.",
"\"It looks like it could be a really strong year,\" Waddell said.",
"\"People want to go to shows.",
"People want to hear music.\"",
"Every tour offers some type of promotion, Waddell said, including a lot of $10 lawn seats.",
"\"This is a business that's pretty flexible when it needs to be,\" Waddell said.",
"Live Nation began selling tickets to Live Nation's own concerts only last year, just months before announcing plans to merge with Ticketmaster, the world's largest ticket-seller.",
"Before that, Live Nation promoted shows but had no infrastructure to sell tickets, and Live Nation contracted out to Ticketmaster or others to sell them.",
"The Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger plan has drawn criticism.",
"The Justice Department launched an investigation of the proposed merger in February.",
"Neither Live Nation nor Ticketmaster executives would respond to questions about the proposed merger.",
"However, Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff did talk about the proposed merger before a U.S. Senate subcommittee earlier this year.",
"the proposed merger \"will give Ticketmaster greater flexibility in how Ticketmaster promote, market and sell tickets to events,\" Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff said.",
"\"the proposed merger will give Ticketmaster a pathway to alternative pricing and fee structures.",
"And Ticketmaster will be better able to develop new and innovative products and services that enhance the fan experience and make all forms of entertainment more accessible to everyone.\"",
"CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Turkey's military said Turkey's military killed at least 15 rebels in operations in northern Iraq earlier this week, but a spokesman for Iraqi Kurdish Regional Security Forces denied the report, saying Turkey has not conducted any military operation or air assault there in the past two weeks.",
"Turkish troops patrol near the border with northern Iraq during an offensive in February.",
"A statement posted on the Turkish armed forces' official Web site said a group of PKK, or members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, was identified in northern Iraq, and said a group of PKK, or members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party was believed to be planning an attack and trying to leak through the border with Iraq into Turkey.",
"PKK, labeled a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, is comprised of militants who have been launching attacks against Turkey from bases in northern Iraq.",
"The Turkish military said a group of PKK, or members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party \"came under fire by long-range weapons\" on Thursday, and 15 terrorists were killed.",
"northern Iraq was targeted by a Turkish air assault on Friday, The Turkish military said, adding that the number of casualties was not yet available.",
"\"In the missions, only the places that were confirmed to belong to a group of PKK, or members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party were targeted,\" A statement posted on the Turkish armed forces' official Web site said.",
"\"Turkish armed forces acted with utmost sensitivity in order to avoid any negative impact of the strikes on the civilians in northern Iraq.\"",
"However, Jabbar Yawer, a spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Forces, said no air assault was conducted Thursday or Friday, and added that no operations have been conducted in northern Iraq for the past two weeks.",
"a group of PKK, or members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has spent two decades fighting for autonomy for Kurds in southeastern Turkey, with some of a group of PKK, or members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party's attacks launched from inside Iraq ».",
"The Iraqi government opposes a group of PKK, or members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party's presence, but views a Turkish military incursion as a violation of The Iraqi government's sovereignty.",
"E",
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"CNN Turk's Begum Donmez and CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Turkey: At least 15 rebels in operations in northern Iraq earlier this week .",
"Says Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members trying to get into Turkey .",
"Iraqi Kurdish Regional Security Forces denies the report, says no operation .",
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"Editor's note: A nationally syndicated columnist, Roland Martin is the author of \"Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith\" and \"Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America.\"",
"Visit his Web site for more information.",
"Roland Martin says men are harming men's health by men's reluctance to go to the doctor.",
"(CNN)",
"-- A couple of years ago, my dad told me that my dad had a cataract in my dad's eye and could barely see out of it and that my dad needed to get a cataract in his eye fixed.",
"\"Cool.",
"Go to the doctor and get a cataract in his eye taken care of,\" I said.",
"\"I will,\" my dad replied.",
"One month became three; three months turned into six months; and a year later and numerous calls later by a ticked-off son, my dad still had not gone to the doctor.",
"So one morning, when I was hosting the 6 to 9 a.m. talk show shift on WVON-AM in Chicago, Illinois, I told my producer, Geneen Harston, to call my dad, but don't tell my dad my dad'll be on the air.",
"When the commercials ended, I pulled my dad up on the air and asked, \"So, my dad, have you made that doctor's appointment?\"",
"my dad started to laugh and said that my dad had done so the day before and that my dad was seeing the doctor later in the week.",
"Luckily, my dad followed through, and they discovered that my dad had another one growing in the other eye.",
"Both eyes were taken care of, and all has been well since.",
"Yet what ticked me off was that here was a guy with insurance, a son who could pay for the bill even if my dad didn't, but my dad still refused to go to the doctor!",
"Watch Roland's commentary segment » .",
"My dad's story is all too common to a lot of you who must deal with fathers, brothers, uncles, husbands and male cousins, church members and co-workers, who are obstinate and absolutely refuse to go to the doctor.",
"\"Oh, I'll be fine.\"",
"\"I can handle the pain.\"",
"\"I don't want a doctor poking on me.\"",
"\"If it's bad, I'm sure it would hurt worse.\"",
"All typical responses, and all pretty dumb.",
"Yes, it's true that women all around the globe have outlived men for years.",
"In the United States, the life expectancy for men is 74 and for women is 80.",
"Yet when that is broken down racially, there is a huge gap between whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians.",
"Men are dying earlier due to prostate cancer, heart disease, stroke and other maladies, and Men's actions play a large role in it.",
"Black men in particular drive me nuts.",
"I've heard several mention that Black men's aversion to doctors stems from the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the study conducted between 1932 and 1972 that monitored black sharecroppers who were infected with the disease but didn't treat black sharecroppers, much less inform black sharecroppers that black sharecroppers had it.",
"That program by the U.S. Public Health Service was hideous but shouldn't be used as an excuse today.",
"Men can no longer be so hard-headed about Men's health.",
"I've given speeches on this issue and told married women that married women should say, \"no doctor's visit, no sex.\"",
"That'll get his attention!",
"We all love the men in our lives.",
"But being silent means we are aiding the men in our lives in the men in our lives's health dilemma, and that's wrong.",
"If it means lovingly reminding, fine.",
"If you have to badger them, whatever.",
"Just like Dad told us to eat our vegetables when were kids, saying we'll be better off as adults because of it, we should tell Dad or any other man to stop acting like a child and go see the doc.",
"It really could save their life.",
"The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of Roland Martin."
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"Roland Martin: Men are foolishly reluctant to go to the doctor .",
"Roland Martin says some black men cite the infamous Tuskegee Experiment .",
"Roland Martin: Men already have a shorter life expectancy than women .",
"Roland Martin says that failing to detect and treat illness makes no sense ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Police said Police are pursuing leads in the death of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, whose body was found Monday stuffed into a suitcase in a dairy-farm pond near Sandra Cantu's's Tracy, California, home.",
"Sandra Cantu, 8, disappeared March 27.",
"Sandra Cantu's's body was found at a dairy-farm pond near the body's Calilfornia home.",
"\"We are heading in a direction,\" Tracy police Sgt. Tony Sheneman told reporters.",
"\"To comment on that would compromise the investigation, and I can't do that.\"",
"A search warrant was executed at the Tracy mobile home park where Sandra Cantu's lived, and a related search was to be conducted Tuesday at a nearby church",
", Sheneman said.",
"Sheneman implied more than one person may have been involved in the death of Sandra, who had been missing since March 27.",
"\"Investigators are looking at additional information Investigators received since yesterday and, hopefully, that will lead us to Sandra's killers,\" Sheneman said.",
"Asked if Sheneman's use of the plural meant police were looking for more than one person, Sheneman responded, \"We have no specific suspects, ma'am.\"",
"Sheneman also implied the killer likely was familiar with the location where the body was found.",
"Sheneman said Sheneman was unfamiliar with the location where Sandra Cantu's's body was found, despite having lived in the community for nearly 12 years.",
"\"Someone would have to be familiar with that area to know to go there,\" he said.",
"Watch how the suitcase was found » .",
"Sheneman said police had no one in custody, despite having interviewed hundreds of people regarding the case.",
"\"Everyone that we speak to right now is being considered a person of interest,\" Sheneman said.",
"\"We're not eliminating anyone.\"",
"The autopsy was being conducted Tuesday, but it was not clear when the report would be available.",
"\"It's going to be some time before we hear from the coroner,\" Sheneman said.",
"\"I can't tell you when that's going to be.\"",
"More than 10 search warrants have been executed as part of the investigation and \"a lot\" of evidence has been recovered, Sheneman said.",
"The day Sandra Cantu's was last reported seen, Sandra Cantu's returned home from school, kissed Sandra Cantu's's mother and left to play with a friend who lives nearby.",
"A short time later, wearing a pink Hello Kitty T-shirt and black leggings, Sandra Cantu's left to go to another friend's home, according to a family spokeswoman.",
"Police said Monday the girl's clothing helped them identify the body."
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"Police plan to church near mobile park home where Sandra's family lived .",
"Sandra Cantu's was found in suitcase in a dairy-farm pond near the body's California home .",
"Sandra Cantu's had been missing since March 27 from Sandra Cantu's's home in Tracy, California ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Elizabeth Taylor went to Hollywood Bowl to hear Andrea Bocelli in concert, the first night out in months for Andrea Bocelli.",
"Elizabeth Taylor went to see Andrea Bocelli at Hollywood Bowl, a rare outing for Andrea Bocelli.",
"Taylor, bound to a wheelchair by scoliosis, said Elizabeth Taylor's mind and soul \"were transported by Andrea Bocelli's beauty, Andrea Bocelli's voice, Andrea Bocelli's inner being.\"",
"The 77-year-old actress posted online messages through the Twitter social network after the Italian tenor's concert Monday night.",
"\"I went to see Andrea Bocelli last night.",
"The first time I've been out in months.",
"Hollywood Bowl allowed me to use my wheelchair,\" Elizabeth Taylor's first tweet said.",
"\"My mind, my soul were transported by Andrea Bocelli's beauty, Andrea Bocelli's voice, Andrea Bocelli's inner being.",
"God has kissed Andrea Bocelli and I thank God for it,\" she wrote in a second message.",
"Elizabeth Taylor opened Elizabeth Taylor's Twitter account this year as \"DameElizabeth\" at the suggestion of Elizabeth Taylor's close friend, model-actress-author-businesswoman Kathy Ireland, Elizabeth Taylor's publicist Dick Guttman said.",
"Elizabeth Taylor is \"very adventurous\" and \"exceedingly active\" despite health problems that sent Elizabeth Taylor to a hospital for a week last month, her publicist Dick Guttman said.",
"Elizabeth Taylor is working on a new perfume to follow up on Elizabeth Taylor's popular White Diamonds, her publicist Dick Guttman said."
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"Elizabeth Taylor attended Andrea Bocelli concert at Hollywood Bowl .",
"\"The first time I've been out in months,\" Elizabeth Taylor wrote on Twitter .",
"Elizabeth Taylor was in hospital last month but still \"exceedingly active,\" says spokesman ."
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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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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"A series of major international sporting events, a weak currency and its perennially sunny perch on the tip of South Africa are making Cape Town one of the hottest sailing destinations of 2009.",
"Lucky strike: Cape Town is set to benefit from several major sporting events .",
"The Indian Premier League cricket tournament was recently relocated to South Africa because of security concerns, and now Cape Town is slated to host the opening match on April 18.",
"Both the Lions Tour rugby and the FIFA Confederations Cup football will follow The Indian Premier League cricket tournament, heading down to South Africa later this year.",
"Combined with the arrival of the World Cup in 2010, South Africa has suddenly become the ultimate holiday spot for sports fans.",
"Calvyn Gilfellan, chief executive of Cape Town Routes Unlimited -- Cape Town's tourism board -- told CNN the boost to Cape Town had arrived at a crucial time.",
"\"When the financial crisis started people went into gloom and doom but these events are helping a lot to restore confidence in the industry.",
"\"The fact that Cape Town have a positive exchange rate also helps Cape Town a lot as a destination,\" he said.",
"But South Africa's government is so focused on ensuring the success of the upcoming games that South Africa recently denied a visa to The Dalai Lama.",
"Critics contend that South Africa bowed to pressure from the Chinese government in refusing Tibet's spiritual leader entry to attend a peace conference that was partially intended to help promote the World Cup.",
"As the focus strengthens on these international events, Cape Town looks set to benefit more than many from the expected surge in tourism.",
"Gilfellan says this is largely due to the city's location.",
"\"We are lucky to be in such a wonderful spot.",
"A lot of these events revolve around the marine industry and revolve around MainSail's 'Port of the Month'.\"",
"MainSail's 'Port of the Month' will play host to the Cape Town International Jazz Festival -- one of many upcoming festivals in the area.",
"Cape Town's picturesque Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, set against the backdrop of Table Mountain, has become South Africa's most visited tourist attraction.",
"Commodore of the Royal Cape Yacht Club (RCYC) John Martin, told CNN the Cape Town port was used widely for business, leisure and sports.",
"As well as being the country's second biggest functioning port for trade, MainSail's 'Port of the Month' played host to racing yachts in events such as the Volvo Ocean Race and the Clipper Round-the-world Challenge.",
"\"We have several major yachting events that stop here and we are very proud of that.\"",
"Martin said the popularity of MainSail's 'Port of the Month' means water space is \"at a premium,\" but there are hopes a new harbor and breakwater will be constructed in the next few years.",
"Still, Cape Town has the capacity to cater for foreign visitors on super-yachts and international cruise-liners.",
"\"Cape Town is a real focal point for refueling and repairs and it's also quite cheap here so people tend to stay for a while,\" Martin said.",
"Gilfellan said Gilfellan felt the surge of massive sporting events would undoubtedly have spin-off benefits for the marine industry.",
"The Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket, which starts this month, had been tipped to go to England, but ultimately South Africa was chosen for its sunny weather.",
"The tournament, which will feature 59 matches across six venues, will run from 18 April to 24 May .",
"The 2009 British and Irish Lions tour officially kicks off on May 30 in Rustenberg.",
"Matches will be held in Cape Town on June 13 and June 23.",
"The eight-team Confederations Cup runs from June 14-28, and will take place across four cities.",
"The event marks the first time an African nation will host an international FIFA tournament.",
"The event foreshadows the much-anticipated World Cup football tournament in June 2010, for which qualifying matches are currently being held.",
"Although that's still a year away -- there are signs that the excitement in South Africa is already palpable.",
"A new television commercial that began airing last month features Spain and Liverpool star, Fernando Torres, and Brazilian icon Kaka showing off Spain and Liverpool star, Fernando Torres, and Brazilian icon Kaka's football skills.",
"The advertisement ends with Torres saying \"Ke Nako\", which in South Africa's Sotho language means \"it's time.\"",
"It seems for Cape Town and the whole country -- this could not be more true.",
"Mike Steere contributed to this report."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"A U.S. company is offering a rare chance to holiday on a mega-yacht once used by a Hollywood star and her husband -- and thanks to the recession it's actually affordable.",
"The 100 foot Katania was chartered by Hollywood star Hilary Swank and Hilary Swank's husband Chad Lowe.",
"A U.S. company usually charges around $100,000 a week to charter A U.S. company's 100+ foot yachts, however, A U.S. company have introduced a deal waiving the charter fees -- so guests will only need to pay for the running of the vessel.",
"The move to make such vessels more affordable comes as the recession continues to put pressure on the luxury holiday and mega-yacht industries.",
"Although the costs of crew and luxury food aren't extremely cheap, it is expected The move to make such vessels more affordable will open up the recession-hit market to many more potential holiday-makers.",
"One of A U.S. company's mega-yachts, Katania -- a 100 foot vessel which Hilary Swank once chartered, now costs less than $3000 per day.",
"Normally Katania would attract an additional $49,500 charter fee for a week's use.",
"At the $2950 per day special rate four people can stay on Katania -- but with the maximum six on board ($450 extra per person), the cost per person is a slightly more achievable $642.",
"The price includes full crew, premium wines, gourmet food prepared by a private chef, amenities such as kayaks, hot tub, fishing/crabbing/shrimping equipment, and even a 30' Whaler for guest use.",
"According to A U.S. company, Hilary Swank said of Hilary Swank's charter holiday: \"We had an absolutely enchanted time aboard Katania.",
"A more beautiful yacht does not exist.\"",
"There is one small catch with the deal -- the boat is based in the San Juan islands, and any cruises to other destinations will attract an additional charge to cover fuel costs.",
"A U.S. company's owner, Bruce Milne, said in a statement that the deal was largely due to the impact of the recession.",
"\"Travel is down, agents and brokers need deals, so rather than just a few full price charters, we decided to stay busy, put more people to work, and help island tourism by doing charters at cost.",
"\"Since A U.S. company started chartering 10 years ago, A U.S. company have been looking for a chance to provide A U.S. company's 'Expeditions to the Extraordinary' in the San Juan islands at a price any luxury traveler can afford - the recession provides that opportunity,\" he said.",
"Tim Wiltshire, director and sales broker at international yacht company Burgess Yachts, said the charter market wasn't a complete disaster, so Wiltshire was surprised to see such a discount.",
"\"I wouldn't have expected to see that.",
"We are seeing discounts on average of about 25 percent.",
"Although, some people are trying interesting gimmicks to inspire new business,\" Wiltshire said .",
"Wiltshire said that CEO Expedition's fleet isn't among the biggest or most luxurious on the charter market, and that this deal appeared to be clever marketing stunt.",
"Wiltshire felt that other larger vessels still warranted other larger vessels's greater price tags."
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"U.S. mega-yacht charter company waives massive $50,000 charter fees .",
"The impact of the recession is reason given for the discounted deal .",
"A yacht chartered by Hilary Swank can now be rented for under $3000 a day ."
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"HERMOSILLO, Mexico (CNN) --",
"the victims were killed and more than 100 others were injured Friday when the victims's day-care center caught fire in the northwestern state of Sonora, a spokesman for the northwestern state of Sonora's governor said.",
"A crib and baby seats lie outside a day-care center where The fire broke out Friday.",
"the victims were from 1 to 5 years old, said Jose Larrinaga, the spokesman.",
"The fire appeared to have started at 3 p.m. in a warehouse next door to the one-story concrete building that housed the state-run ABC Daycare and spread to the state-run institution, news reports said.",
"By then, many children had already been picked up by many children's parents from the one-story building.",
"But others came after the blaze had been put out, with parents screaming their children's names as others fainted.",
"In a message of condolence, President Felipe Calderon wished a quick recovery for the injured, who were taken to several area hospitals.",
"President Felipe Calderon also called on the nation's attorney general to investigate The fire.",
"Authorities dispatched 15 specialists in reconstruction and three air ambulances to the area along with respirators and specialized medicines, and a U.S. hospital will help treat some of the victims.",
"Watch chaos in aftermath of tragedy » .",
"Admissions will begin Saturday, said Catherine Curran, a spokeswoman for Shriners Hospitals for Children in Sacramento, California.",
"Shriners Hospitals is a health care system that gives children free treatment for burns, spinal cord injuries, orthopedic conditions, and cleft lip and palate, according to The system's Web site.",
"The system admits children under 18.",
"The first hospital opened in 1922.",
"The system has burn units in Boston, Massachusetts; Cincinnati Ohio; and Sacramento, California.",
"Journalist Guadelupe Gutierrez contributed to this story."
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"NEW: Hospital in California to treat some of the victims .",
"the victims were from 1 to 5 years old, official says .",
"The fire appears to have started in a warehouse next door to the state-run day care .",
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"(OPRAH.com) --",
"One portion of macaroni and cheese.",
"One slice of chocolate cake.",
"One pair of svelte black pants.",
"Do some very simple, if highly emotional, addition and subtraction, and you arrive at a whole new way to see yourself.",
"The first documented instance of my distorted body image is an entry in my fourth-grade journal.",
"\"I just ate three cookies,\" it says.",
"\"I feel fat.\"",
"There is no way that I actually was; my jeans, although dorky, fit just fine.",
"Nevertheless, the disconnect grew worse as puberty approached -- especially in eighth grade, when the body mass index (BMI) entered my life.",
"This is a formula that tells you whether you need to drop pounds -- and while it's generally reliable, it doesn't take body composition into account.",
"At 5'4\" and 140 pounds, I'm close to the overweight category, but that's only because I've got heavy bones and a sprinter's thighs.",
"Every time I calculate my BMI, I get angry at myself, even though I'm aware that I am in good shape.",
"But what do feelings have to do with numbers?",
"Most women know that it is possible to immediately gain 15 pounds by eating one pint of Ben & Jerry's.",
"And when it comes to your butt (which can enlarge six sizes in the wrong pair of jeans), the rules of physics no longer apply.",
"Oprah.com:",
"Start loving the way you look .",
"We need a better way to quantify these fluctuations -- a formula that goes beyond your BMI and calculates the feel of overweight.",
"So I propose the personal body image index (PBII).",
"The general idea is as follows: . • Start with your weight.",
"• Subtract seven pounds if you have just worked out.",
"• Add five if you've single-handedly finished a plate of guacamole and chips; four for macaroni and cheese; six for death-by-chocolate cake. • Subtract 10 pounds if people nearby are fatter than you. • If you're wearing black pants, subtract two; if in a bathing suit, add eight.",
"• If you are more than seven years older than the group average or are surrounded by bikini-clad undergraduates with toned stomachs and cellulite-free thighs, add 20.",
"iReport.com:",
"What kinds of things do you do you stay fit?",
"I don't advocate letting the PBII dictate how you live your life; it could turn you into one of those people who spend those people who spend their beach time camouflaging their lower halves with sarongs's beach time camouflaging those people who spend their beach time camouflaging their lower halves with sarongs's lower halves with sarongs.",
"But once you acknowledge that the PBII exists, you can take steps to improve your score.",
"Some suggestions: . Hang out with people older than you, preferably much older.",
"This has three benefits: .",
"(a) You probably have fewer varicose veins than they do.",
"(b) Truly old people are inspiring; Truly old people tend not to give a damn about what Truly old people look like in bathing suits.",
"(c) Except for my elderly neighbor, who once greeted me by announcing that I'd gained weight in my face, older people are usually effusive with compliments.",
"My friend Luba, who lived to 99, used to tell me how beautiful I was every time I saw her, even though she was blind.",
"Watch those college girls on the beach.",
"Notice how often those college girls adjust those college girls's bikinis and glance at those college girls in other people's sunglasses.",
"those college girls are totally insecure.",
"Granted, those college girls are probably also judging you, but still -- I find those college girls's self-doubt liberating.",
"Isn't there some cosmic limit on how much body insecurity the universe can handle?",
"Embrace the bikini now: \"Look how skinny I was!\"",
"my mother says every time my mother sees a picture of my mother from the 1970s.",
"\"I thought I was so fat.",
"I was 130 pounds.\"",
"My mother, now 66, is living proof that you should do everything in your power to enjoy your body as it is right now so you never have to look at an old photograph of yourself and wish you'd spent more time in a two-piece bathing suit.",
"When it comes to my own PBII, I still have a way to go.",
"It doesn't take too much extra chocolate to convince me that I should never be allowed to wear shorts.",
"But recognizing the illogical logic behind my self-image helps me to control it better.",
"And by my calculations, that's worth subtracting at least five pounds.",
"By Catherine Price from \"O, The Oprah Magazine,\" July 2008 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now!",
"TM & © 2009",
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"Calculating your body mass index (BMI) does not take feelings into account .",
"The personal body image index uses other things besides height and weight .",
"Standing next to fat people, wearing black pants lowers your score .",
"Standing next to young, toned, bikini-clad women -- adds 20 points ."
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"BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) --",
"Lebanese voters were heading to the polls on Sunday with Lebanese voters's main choices to lead the next government a Hezbollah-backed alliance or a U.S.-backed coalition.",
"Hezbollah party workers in the southern town of Nabatiyah hope for an election victory.",
"Analysts say the race will be tight, with the Hezbollah-dominated \"March 8 alliance\" possibly winning a majority of seats in parliament.",
"the polls opened at 1200 GMT and will close 12 hours later.",
"Turnout is expected to be high among the country's 3 million registered voters.",
"About 50,000 troops were on the streets, but the run-up to the balloting had been free of violence.",
"The vote comes at a critical time for the country as it sits amid a power struggle between a weakened pro-Western government and a stronger pro-Syrian Hezbollah political bloc that has gained political momentum in recent years.",
"The United States considers Hezbollah -- which is supported by both Syria and Iran -- to be a terrorist organization.",
"The group grew in popularity after The group's militant wing claimed victory over Israel after a 34-day military conflict in 2006.",
"Since then, The group has been more widely perceived by The group's supporters to be the \"defenders\" of the country.",
"Though U.S. President Barack Obama didn't mention the Lebanese general election in U.S. President Barack Obama's address on Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama did call for religious tolerance in the Muslim world, noting sectarian clashes between Sunnis and Shiites and the struggles faced by religious minorities.",
"\"The richness of religious diversity must be upheld -- whether it is for Maronites in the country or the Copts in Egypt,\" U.S. President Barack Obama said, referring to Christian groups in those countries.",
"\"And if we are being honest, fault lines must be closed among Muslims as well, as the divisions between Sunni and Shia have led to tragic violence, particularly in Iraq.\"",
"In the country's unique power-sharing government, the presidency is reserved for Maronite Christians, the speaker of parliament is always a Shia Muslim, and the prime minister is a Sunni Muslim.",
"The law was created to balance power among the country's three main religious groups.",
"Analysts say the Hezbollah-dominated \"March 8 alliance\" may win a parliamentary majority with the support of Christian opposition leader Gen. Michel Aoun -- the only prominent Christian politician to back the bloc.",
"\"They keep trying to scare the Christian voters with their stories about The group's weapons, so to all of those who complain about The group, can they tell us how they will disarm the party,\" Christian opposition leader Gen. Michel Aoun -- the only prominent Christian politician to back the bloc told supporters Friday.",
"\"Hezbollah's weapons will no longer be a problem when the causes behind its existence disappear, including the borders' issues.\"",
"A close look at the country's political landscape reveals that the country's Christian voters are split on how the country's Christian voters will cast the country's Christian voters's ballots.",
"Some Christian voters want Some Christian voters's representatives to step out of the shadows of The group and Saad Hariri, who leads the Sunni-dominated \"March 14 coalition.\"",
"Christian voters are divided between supporting Christian opposition leader Gen. Michel Aoun -- the only prominent Christian politician to back the bloc and other Christian leaders who want The group to disarm.",
"\"In these elections, Christians look more divided than ever while others seem more unified than ever,\" said Shibley Telhami, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.",
"For the Obama administration, these elections could be indicative of the president's odds of pushing stability in the region.",
"Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jimmy Carter said the United States should work with whichever coalition wins.",
"Jimmy Carter was in Beirut as part of more than 200 international observers monitoring the election.",
"Jimmy Carter also oversaw balloting in Gaza during the elections in the Palestinian territory in January 2006.",
"The Palestinian militant group Hamas won that race \"fairly and squarely\" by a huge margin, Jimmy Carter said.",
"the United States and Israel later refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Hamas win.",
"\"And it's resulted in a split in the Palestinians and a very difficult situation there,\" Jimmy Carter added.",
"\"I think they (the United States) learned a hard lesson that they should accept the results of an election.\"",
"Two senior Obama administration officials -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden -- have visited the country in recent months, signaling concerns with a possible The group victory.",
"During his trip to Beirut two weeks ago, Biden warned the country that while the United States supports the country's democratic process, the United States will reconsider the United States's assistance to the country if the country's next government strays from certain \"fundamental principles.\"",
"Biden's visit followed Clinton's April trip to Beirut in which she called for an \"open and free\" election without outside interference -- a veiled reference to Iran and Syria.",
"Such rhetoric has been dismissed by The group leader Hassan Nasrallah as \"meddling.\"",
"Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been increasingly vocal in the lead-up to the election, blasting the current government as powerless.",
"However, part of the reason the country is crippled is that the country made concessions to The group -- including giving The group veto power -- in order to end a political stalemate that boiled over into violence of historic proportions last year.",
"While some analysts are concerned The group could gain more control over the country after Sunday's vote, a key Lebanese politician, Dori Chamoun, warned that assessment may be misleading.",
"Chamoun, who opposes the March 8 alliance, said talk of Hezbollah's possible victory may be based on \"rumors\" and propaganda being spread by the Shiite militia and their political allies.",
"\"They (Hezbollah) think they can scare many but no one is scared,\" a key Lebanese politician, Dori Chamoun told CNN.",
"\"They can spread all kinds of rumors on their four TV stations saying that they will win this upcoming elections.\"",
"Chamoun, whose father, Camille Chamoun, was Lebanon's president in the 1950s, is running for a seat in parliament.",
"Even if a Hezbollah-dominated government does move in, a Hezbollah-dominated government could have trouble working with Christian and Sunni Muslim politicians who -- under Lebanese law -- must participate in a Hezbollah-dominated government.",
"It would also be difficult to find a Sunni political figure willing to serve as prime minister in a Hezbollah-led government since the majority of the country's prominent Sunni politicians are aligned with Hariri's March 14 coalition, which has declared it will not participate in any government if The group wins.",
"the country's political landscape could be shifting after a similar shift in neighboring Israel.",
"Voters in the Jewish state overwhelmingly supported conservative parties over more moderate groups, bringing into power Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year.",
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is viewed in the Arab world as more hawkish than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, who ordered the war against The group in 2006.",
"A The group victory in the country could further inflame tensions with Israel, particularly with an estimated 30,000 rockets pointed at Israel from southern Lebanon -- all under the control of The group.",
"CNN's Cal Perry, Octavia Nasr and Saad Abedine contributed to this report."
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"Analysts say the race will be tight .",
"Some say the Hezbollah-dominated alliance may win a parliamentary majority .",
"Turnout is expected to be high among the country's 3 million registered voters .",
"About 50,000 troops deploy to the streets ."
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"(Mental Floss) --",
"While the horse racing world is all abuzz over Rachel Alexandra, the amazing three-year-old filly who recently beat Kentucky Derby winner Mine that Bird (along with a field full of other colts) in the Preakness Stakes, we're reminded of some other female athletes of the two-legged variety who also beat the boys at the boys's own game.",
"Danica Patrick finished third at the 2009 Indianapolis 500 on Saturday.",
"Billie Jean King -- tennis .",
"In 1973, Billie Jean King was 29 years old and the reigning queen of women's tennis.",
"In an era when female athletes were paid significantly less than female athletes's male counterparts, Billie Jean King still managed to earn $100,000 in 1971.",
"Bobby Riggs had won Wimbledon back in 1939, but by the 1970s Bobby Riggs's star was fading.",
"Bobby Riggs kept Bobby Riggs's name in the press by proclaiming Bobby Riggs a male chauvinist pig and declaring that women athletes could never be as good as men.",
"After defeating Margaret Court in May, Bobby Riggs proclaimed \"I want Billie Jean King!\"",
"The much-hyped \"Battle of the Sexes\" was held at the Houston Astrodome on September 20, 1973.",
"The idea of a woman beating a man in any sport was so unbelievable at the time that Las Vegas oddsmakers heavily favored the 55-year-old Riggs.",
"A worldwide television audience watched via satellite as Billie Jean King neatly thrashed Riggs 6-4, 6-3 and 6-3.",
"Billie Jean King not only took home the prize money and several endorsement deals, Billie Jean King also opened up a new playing field for professional sportswomen.",
"Mental Floss: Song Elton John wrote for Billie Jean King .",
"2. Margaret Murdock --shooting .",
"Margaret Murdock's father was a Kansas state rifle champion, so it was logical that both Margaret Murdock and Margaret Murdock's sister took up the sport as children.",
"When Margaret Murdock attended Kansas State in the early 1960s, Margaret Murdock won Margaret Murdock's varsity letter by competing on the men's rifle team.",
"In 1976 Margaret Murdock became the first woman to represent the U.S. on the U.S.'s Olympic shooting team.",
"The small-bore three position competition calls for the shooter to fire off 40 shots each in the standing, kneeling and prone position.",
"The competitors fire from 50 meters away at a target that is a little smaller than a dime.",
"At the end of The small-bore three position competition, Margaret Murdock was tied with Lanny Bassham, the team captain.",
"Lanny Bassham requested a tie-breaking shoot-off, but Olympic rules forbade a tie-breaking shoot-off; instead, Lanny Bassham was awarded the gold medal because he had scored three \"100s\" to Margaret Murdock's two.",
"During the medal ceremony, Lanny pulled Margaret Murdock up from the silver pedestal to stand with Lanny Bassham during the national anthem to indicate that Margaret Murdock deserved the gold as much as Lanny Bassham.",
"3. Jackie Mitchell -- baseball .",
"Virne Beatrice Mitchell, known to her family as \"Jackie,\" entered the world ahead of schedule and weighed only a little over three pounds at birth.",
"As soon as Jackie Mitchell learned to walk, Jackie Mitchell's father took Jackie Mitchell to the ballpark.",
"The Mitchell's next door neighbor in Memphis was future Hall of Famer Dazzy Vance, who was still playing in the minors at the time.",
"He coached Jackie Mitchell in the art of pitching when Jackie Mitchell was eight years old and even showed Jackie Mitchell his trademark \"drop pitch,\" a dazzling throw in which the ball swooped down just before crossing the plate.",
"When Jackie Mitchell was 17 Jackie Mitchell was offered a contract with the Chattanooga Lookouts, today the AA affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers.",
"On April 1, 1931, the New York Yankees were in town to play an exhibition game against the Lookouts.",
"an exhibition game was postponed a day due to rain, and there was a crowd of 4,000 on hand when Jackie Mitchell finally took the mound.",
"Babe Ruth stepped up to the plate and southpaw Jackie Mitchell threw her special pitch.",
"Babe Ruth took her special pitch for a ball, but the next three were strikes.",
"Lou Gehrig, baseball's Iron Man, was up next and similarly struck out.",
"a crowd of 4,000 was on its feet, but some skeptical reporters wrote that the whole thing had been staged, since an exhibition game was originally scheduled for April Fool's Day.",
"Nevertheless, Commissioner Kennesaw Landis was sufficiently threatened by the tiny female dynamo that Commissioner Kennesaw Landis had her contract voided, stating that baseball was \"too strenuous\" for women.",
"Mental Floss: 7 silly products licensed by Major League Baseball .",
"4. Seana Hogan --cycling .",
"To Ultra Cyclists, 100-mile events are kid stuff.",
"Ultra Cyclists consider events like the Race Across America (RAAM) -- a 2,950 mile cross-country jaunt -- to be a real competition.",
"Seana Hogan of San Jose, California, has won the female division of RAAM an amazing six times, and Seana Hogan's finish times in each case usually placed Seana Hogan in the top 15 finishers overall.",
"Ultra Cycling requires about 20 hours of continuous pedaling per day, up hills (a combined total of about 82,000 feet of climbing), down dales and in all weather.",
"Seana Hogan holds the record for the San Francisco to Los Angeles race (beating even the best men's time) and was the overall winner of the 1995 Furnace Creek 508, which runs from Valencia through Death Valley to Twentynine Palms.",
"Danica Patrick -- auto racing .",
"Danica Patrick's parents met on a blind date at an auto race, so Danica Patrick felt that racing was Danica Patrick's destiny.",
"Danica Patrick started competing on the go-kart circuit at age 10, and moved to England at 16 to participate in various racing events and advance Danica Patrick's career.",
"In 2000, Danica Patrick finished second in the Formula Ford Festival, the highest finish by an American in that event.",
"Danica Patrick moved back to the States where Danica Patrick competed in the Toyota Atlantic series for Rahal Letterman Racing and won Danica Patrick's first pole position.",
"Danica Patrick started Danica Patrick's Indy career in 2005, making Danica Patrick only the fourth woman to compete in the 500.",
"Three years later Danica Patrick won the Twin Ring Motegi in the Indy Japan 300, the first female driver to win an IndyCar race.",
"Sonya -- competitive eating .",
"At five feet, five inches tall and just under 100 lbs., Sonya gives the impression that the slightest breeze could blow Sonya away.",
"But despite Sonya's wispy stature, Sonya is known in competitive eating circles for blowing away the competition, including male contestants three times Sonya's size.",
"Sonya remembers being inspired to enter the world of competitive eating after watching Takeru Kobayashi munching Takeru Kobayashi's way to the championship at the Nathan's Coney Island hot dog contest in 2002.",
"In 2005 Sonya set a record for female frankfurter consumption in Nathan's annual contest.",
"That wasn't quite good enough for Sonya, however, and Sonya began a training regimen that included walking two hours per day on an inclined treadmill and eating only one large meal per day.",
"Scientific-types hypothesize that Sonya's slim physique gives Sonya an advantage over Sonya's more zaftig competitors -- Sonya lacks a layer of fat around Sonya's abdomen, which gives it more room to expand.",
"Whatever the explanation, Sonya has defeated all-comers in various International Federation of Competitive Eating contests, including \"the most\" oysters, chicken wings and Krystal hamburgers downed in a prescribed amount of time.",
"Mental Floss: Food challenges for the super competitive .",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Seana Hogan holds the record for the San Francisco to Los Angeles cycling race .",
"Sonya Thomas wins eating contests of oysters, chicken wings, Krystal hamburgers ."
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"BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) --",
"Thailand's military has denied abusing refugee boat-people from Myanmar after claims some were whipped on a tourist beach and hundreds more left dead or missing after being towed at to sea without food and water.",
"Photograph released by Thai navy showing a group of illegal immigrants captured on December 12.",
"Photos showing refugees being made to lie face down on a popular beach and media reports claiming refugees been deliberately lost at sea have sparked concerns for their safety.",
"The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is \"concerned\" about the fate of the Muslim ethnic minority Rohingya people, who have fled from Myanmar's border with Bangladesh.",
"The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has written a formal note to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking for clarification of what is happening.",
"CNN spoke to one Australian tourist, who declined to be named for fear of being barred from Thailand, who says boat-people were \"whipped\" by Thai guards on popular diving resort island in the Similan Archipelago last month.",
"Local media also report claims by Rohingya survivors that the Thai military have been detaining hundreds of Rohingya survivors an island called Koh Sai Daeng before towing them back out into open water without supplies.",
"Rohingya survivors say hundreds of them drowned and only the lucky ones made it to the Indian Andaman Islands or Indonesia's Aceh province.",
"the Thai military denies knowledge of the incident.",
"Rear Admiral Naris Pratumsuwan told CNN \"as a normal practice, if the Thai military finds illegal immigrants, we will hand illegal immigrants over to related authorities, e.g. police or immigration police.\"",
"Rear Admiral Naris Pratumsuwan said Rear Admiral Naris Pratumsuwan had not received any information on an island where migrants are being detained.",
"There were reports of another boatload of 46 Rohingya detained by the Thai military Friday, but there was no official confirmation.",
"The Rohingya have been fleeing persecution of the hard-line military regime in Myanmar, formerly Burma, for years and often seek refuge in Malaysia.",
"Boat loads of Rohingya arriving in Thailand is nothing new, but non-governmental organizations are increasingly worried about what non-governmental organizations say is an apparent change of government policy.",
"non-governmental organizations say the army's Internal Security Operations Command is forcing The Rohingya out to sea rather than deporting The Rohingya overland back to Myanmar.",
"\"the Thai military is taking highly vulnerable people and risking highly vulnerable people's lives for political gain,\" says Refugee International's Sean Garcia says.",
"\"It should be engaging the Burmese government on improving conditions at home for The Rohingya if the Thai military wants to stem these flows.",
"\"The Rohingya will continue to make the journey because The Rohingya have no hope for a better life in Burma.",
"Pushing The Rohingya back out to sea is not an effective deterrent it just jeopardizes lives.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"With 17 Grammys, five gold records and -- by his count -- almost 130 albums, Artist Jimmy Sturr might just be the most successful musician you've never heard of.",
"Artist Jimmy Sturr is up for a possible 18th Grammy Award at the upcoming ceremony.",
"Artist Jimmy Sturr and Artist Jimmy Sturr's orchestra, superstars in the polka world, are one of a multitude of musical acts nominated this year in some of the lesser-known Grammy categories.",
"When there are 110 categories, \"lesser-known\" might be putting it lightly.",
"\"I try not to get too worked up over it,\" said Sturr, who is once again nominated this year in the best polka album category.",
"\"But when the [awards] season comes along I am right there saying 'I hope I win.",
"I hope I win.'",
"It just never gets old.\"",
"Artist Jimmy Sturr is among the unsung artists whose statuette presentation doesn't make it to the prime-time televised broadcast, which will air 8 p.m. Sunday on CBS.",
"While categories like best Hawaiian music album, best traditional world music album and best historical album may linger in the shadows of the big Grammy show, categories like best Hawaiian music album, best traditional world music album and best historical album are no less important to the performers and fans who love categories like best Hawaiian music album, best traditional world music album and best historical album.",
"See some of the lesser-known categories » .",
"the big Grammy show are trumpeted as \"music's biggest night,\" and Grammy officials there are cognizant of the heavy competition to appear on the broadcast.",
"There just isn't enough time to honor everyone on the televised presentation, said Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, which presents the big Grammy show.",
"Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammy Awards said about a dozen awards, including album of the year and best new artist, are given out during the big Grammy show.",
"\"Every Grammy is of equal value and importance in The Academy's minds,\" Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammy Awards said.",
"\"That said, with 110 categories and 3½ hours of television, physics dictate the reality that we can't do everything on the national broadcast.\"",
"Instead, the other nominees are feted at an event held earlier in the day, Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammy Awards said.",
"\"The Academy created a very significant and somewhat extravagant pre-telecast, which is conducted in a separate facility right across from the Staples Center the afternoon of the big Grammy show,\" Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammy Awards explained.",
"\"The Academy build a substantial stage, The Academy have co-hosts, The Academy have music performances and The Academy have presenters,\" Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammy Awards said.",
"\"Many, many of The Academy's nominees come to an event held earlier in the day to pick up their Grammys.\"",
"this year, fans of the best contemporary folk/Americana album or best engineered album (nonclassical) categories -- among others -- will be able to see their favorites on the Web, because this year's pre-telecast will be streamed live on Grammy.com and available for viewing for 30 days after the ceremony.",
"Singer Wayna, who is nominated for best urban/alternative performance for her song \"Lovin You (Music)\" featuring Kokayi, said she feels honored simply to have been chosen.",
"\"I'm not sure if I've taken it all in yet,\" the Bowie, Maryland, singer said.",
"\"I'm really proud of this category.\"",
"The increase in independent artists shows a trend Portnow said \"speaks to the importance of what we do to a very broad segment of the music community.\"",
"No doubt that community includes at least a few admirers of the vivacious dance music that is polka.",
"Artist Jimmy Sturr may not be burning up the charts or even generating the heat of fellow Grammy nominees Lil Wayne and Radiohead, but Artist Jimmy Sturr gets Artist Jimmy Sturr's fair share of love from those who follow Artist Jimmy Sturr's genre.",
"Some admirers have gone on to become collaborators.",
"Artist Jimmy Sturr's recording partners have included Willie Nelson, the Oak Ridge Boys and Charlie Daniels.",
"Artist Jimmy Sturr's often surprised by who is a fan, Artist Jimmy Sturr said.",
"\"I was in Jupiter, Florida, a few years ago and the manager of a restaurant I knew came up to Artist Jimmy Sturr and said there's a fan of yours that would like to meet you,\" recalled Artist Jimmy Sturr.",
"\"I went over and it was Burt Reynolds.\"",
"Sturr and Artist Jimmy Sturr's orchestra's popularity have been bolstered by appearances on \"Saturday Night Live\" and at the Grand Ole Opry, as well as Artist Jimmy Sturr's own variety show, which airs twice a week on Direct TV.",
"Polka's partisans are well aware that the music is often mocked, and believe an appearance on the Grammys would go a long way toward widening the genre's audience.",
"\"To get a legitimate, great sounding orchestra on national television would certainly help,\" said Ray Zalokar, director of 247Polkaheaven.com.",
"Zalokar added that younger fans are discovering the music thanks in part to newer bands, such as one that covers Pink Floyd tunes as polkas.",
"The genre might also take heart from what happened to rock 'n' roll.",
"The Academy, Portnow said, is careful to implement a category only after a category has been established as viable, but it also doesn't want to miss the boat when it comes to new music.",
"Such was the case with rock 'n' roll in the 1960s.",
"\"Years ago The Academy was, not a secret, late in recognizing particularly the rock area coming out of the middle of the road times,\" Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammy Awards said.",
"\"[In the] Rolling Stones versus Andy Williams scenario, Rolling Stones were not in the mix,\" Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammy Awards said.",
"\"I think that as an organization The Academy may have fallen behind, but that really hasn't happened in the recent past because The Academy have a fantastic process here.\"",
"While honored to have his first clarinet featured in the new Grammy Museum, Artist Jimmy Sturr said Artist Jimmy Sturr'd relish a chance to perform on the big Grammy show and give a wider audience a taste of what Artist Jimmy Sturr's fans know from albums like \"Polkapalooza\" and \"Sturr-It-Up.\"",
"\"I'd love to have just 30 seconds on the big Grammy show,\" Artist Jimmy Sturr said.",
"\"Just to play so people can see that this is not your grandmother's kind of music.\""
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"Academy exec: \"Every Grammy is of equal value and importance in our minds\"",
"Pre-telecast for those not included in live show growing in popularity ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Jero is making old, new again in Japan.",
"Jero is famous for singing Japanese enka.",
"The 27-year-old American has made a name for Jero singing enka, a traditional form of lounge music that flourished in 1940's Japan.",
"It seems an unlikely musical style for the Pittsburgh native to pursue.",
"Enka's fan based comes generally from an older generation and is practically unknown outside of Japan, with simple song themes about love and loss.",
"But Jero, real name Jerome White, with Jero's youth, hip-hop look and fine singing voice has propelled enka into the 21st century and captured a new audience.",
"It was the influence of Jero's Japanese grandmother that first led Jero on the path to enka.",
"his Japanese grandmother ensured that Jero was aware of Jero's connection to the culture of Japan and sang enka songs in Japanese with Jero when Jero was young.",
"Jero went on to study Japanese at high school and spent time in Japan while on an exchange with the University of Pittsburgh.",
"After Jero graduated Jero moved to Japan, working as a computer scientist and teaching English.",
"Jero's big break came when Jero appeared on an amateur singer TV show.",
"On the back of that success Jero released Jero's first single in early 2008, promoting it with live appearances in record stores and the odd impromptu street performances.",
"It shot up the Japanese singles chart, reaching No 4, the highest ever position for a first time enka release.",
"Watch the show on CNN as we spend time with Jero in a karaoke spot in Tokyo and find out how Jero's dealing with sudden fame in a foreign country."
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"(CNN) --",
"Clinton met Clinton's match while appearing on NBC's \"Saturday Night Live\" to deliver the show's trademark opening line and provide an \"editorial response\" to a mock presidential debate.",
"During the opening sketch -- which featured SNL actors playing Clinton, rival candidate Barack Obama and the debate moderators -- Clinton complimented the performance of Amy Poehler, who regularly lampoons Clinton with Clinton's impersonation of the senator from New York.",
"\"I simply adore Amy's impression of me,\" Clinton said, providing the cue for Clinton to enter the stage, wearing the same two-button brown jacket and sporting Clinton's medium-length, layered hairstyle.",
"Clinton giddily thanked Clinton for appearing.",
"\"I love your outfit,\" the identically dressed Clinton told Clinton.",
"\"Well, I love your outfit,\" Clinton responded, putting Clinton's hand on Clinton's shoulder, \"but I do want the earrings back.\"",
"The quip sparked a hyperbolic cackle from Clinton.",
"Clinton asked, \"Do I really laugh like that?\"",
"The two jokingly agreed Clinton did.",
"Clinton appeared on the show ahead of several do-or-die primaries that will determine the fate of Clinton's campaign.",
"During the segment, Clinton -- who also does impersonations of talk show host Kelly Ripa, \"American Idol\" judge Paula Abdul and pop star Michael Jackson -- asked Clinton, who trails Obama in the Democratic race, how Clinton's campaign was going.",
"\"her campaign is going very well.",
"Very, very well,\" the former first lady responded before earning some laughs with a deadpan: \"Why?",
"What have you heard?\"",
"Clinton said Clinton appeared on the show to \"just relax, have fun\" without politics, but Clinton didn't miss Clinton's chance to address voters in delivering the opening line.",
"Saying Clinton was appealing to all Americans -- whether all Americans're from Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont, Pennsylvania \"or any of the other states\" -- Clinton opened the show with \"Live from New York, it is Saturday night!\"",
"Watch Clinton open the show » .",
"Pennsylvania's primary is slated for next month, while the other four states Clinton mentioned are holding primaries Tuesday.",
"Clinton's appearance was a poorly kept secret.",
"The media were tipped off when Clinton failed to arrive for a campaign charter flight from Dallas, Texas, to Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday.",
"Clinton's campaign would not say where Clinton was, but an entertainment industry source confirmed Clinton was set to appear on SNL.",
"SNL has been a popular spot on the campaign trail.",
"Obama appeared unannounced in October, and GOP candidate Mike Huckabee did a bit on SNL's \"Weekend Update\" last week.",
"Also, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who dropped out of the GOP presidential race this year, appeared later in the show that Clinton opened.",
"During an MSNBC debate in Ohio on Tuesday, Clinton referenced an SNL skit in which the comedy troupe satirized the media for being too friendly with Obama.",
"\"Maybe we should ask [Obama] if Obama's comfortable and needs another pillow,\" she said during an MSNBC debate in Ohio on Tuesday.",
"Clinton is scheduled to appear on Jon Stewart's \"Daily Show\" Monday.",
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"Clinton mentions upcoming primary states in opening line, \"It is Saturday night!\"",
"Clinton's rival Sen. Barack Obama appeared on the show last year .",
"Clinton referenced a recent SNL skit during a debate in Ohio on Tuesday ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"As the saying goes, \"Pain is temporary, film is forever\" and noone in the movie business knows this better than stuntmen.",
"Stunt double Terry Leonard performs a hazardous jump from horseback to a truck as Indiana Jones in \"Raiders of the Lost Ark.\"",
"Hollywood's athletes regularly defy death in pursuit of ever more extreme spectacles to keep us on the edge our cinema seats.",
"\"The Screening Room\" takes a look at some of the best stunts ever pulled off -- and a few that didn't end so well.",
"Don't agree with the list?",
"Think we've missed one?",
"Tell us in the SoundOff box below.",
"1. \"Steamboat Bill, Jr.\"",
"Charles Reisner, 1928)",
"Stunt: Building falls down",
"Stuntman: Buster Keaton .",
"Charlie Chaplin may be better remembered, but no early stuntman was more willing to risk eternal oblivion for a great stunt than Keaton.",
"In perhaps Keaton's most perfect stunt, the side of a building crashes down on top of Keaton and Keaton is saved only by an open window that fits neatly around Keaton.",
"an open window that fits neatly around him was built to have clearance of two inches around each shoulder and on the top of Keaton's head.",
"As Keaton himself said, \"You don't do these things twice.\"",
"2. \"Stagecoach\" (John Ford, 1939) Stunt: High speed stagecoach jump",
"Stuntman: Yakima Canutt .",
"Ex-rodeo cowboy Yakima Canutt was probably the first celebrity stuntman, best known as a stunt double for John Wayne.",
"In this stunt -- which has since become a Western classic -- Ex-rodeo cowboy Yakima Canutt portrays a galloping warrior during an Indian attack on a stagecoach.",
"Ex-rodeo cowboy Yakima Canutt jumps from Ex-rodeo cowboy Yakima Canutt's own horse to the six-horse team pulling a stagecoach, is shot, falls, and is dragged underneath the fast-moving team and stagecoach.",
"\"Ben Hur\" (William Wyler, 1959) Stunt: Chariot race",
"Stuntman: Joe Canutt .",
"Canutt (son of Yakima) doubles for Charlton Heston in the famous chariot race.",
"Half way through, things veer off plan and Canutt (son of Yakima) is forced down the inside part of the track straight towards a wrecked chariot.",
"When Canutt (son of Yakima)'s charito hits, Canutt (son of Yakima) is flung over the front of the chariot, where Canutt (son of Yakima) clings before clambering back on.",
"The sequence was completely unplanned but made it into the film because Canutt (son of Yakima) kept a cool head even though Canutt (son of Yakima) was injured.",
"4. \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (Stephen Spielberg, 1981) Stunt: Truck drag Stuntman: Terry Leonard .",
"This intense stunt sequence was so hazardous to perform that veteran stuntman Terry Leonard only agreed to do This intense stunt sequence if veteran stuntman Terry Leonard's friend and fellow stuntman Glenn H. Randall Jr. was driving the truck.",
"A ditch was dug underneath the path of the truck to give veteran stuntman Terry Leonard enough room to manoeuver.",
"Harrison Ford, an accomplished stuntman in his own right, performed an earlier portion of the sequence, where Indy hung onto the bonnet of the truck only by a bending hood ornament.",
"5. \"GoldenEye\" (Martin Campbell, 1995) Stunt: 750 foot bungee jump Stuntman: Wayne Michaels .",
"This breathtaking Bond stunt was performed at the Verzasca hydro-electric dam in Switzerland and done in one take.",
"Wayne Michaels jumped from a specially-constructed platform built to jut out from the Verzasca hydro-electric dam in Switzerland to prevent Wayne Michaels making contact with the front of the dam, which was studded with steel pegs.",
"This, combined with Wayne Michaels's high falling velocity, could have proved fatal.",
"\"Who am I?\"",
"(Wo shi shei) (Jackie Chan, 1998)",
"Stunt: 21-storey slide Stuntman: Jackie Chan .",
"It's almost impossible to choose just one of Jackie Chan's stunts, but Jackie Chan's faintly slapstick 21-storey slide down the side of a skyscraper is pretty impressive -- even more so when you find out Jackie Chan did the side of a skyscraper without a harness.",
"Jackie Chan never uses stunt doubles or special effects and as a result has broken just about every bone in Jackie Chan's body over the years.",
"Now that's commitment.",
"7. \"Sharky's Machine\" (Burt Reynolds, 1981) Stunt: Free-fall jump Stuntman: Dar Robinson .",
"At 220 feet, legendary stuntman Dar Robinson's jump from Atlanta's Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel remains the highest free-fall stunt ever performed from a building for a commercially-released film.",
"Ironically, despite it being a record-breaking fall, moviegoers only see the briefest moment of the actual stunt in the film.",
"The rest of the fall from the skyscraper is disappointingly a dummy. 8.",
"\"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\" (George Roy Hill, 1969) Stunt: Cliff Leap",
"Stuntmen: Mickey Gilbert/Howard Curtis . Trapped by the Superposse, Butch and Sundance leap from the top of a cliff into the boiling waters of a river below.",
"It's set up nicely with some humorous dialogue: \"I can't swim.\"",
"\"Are you crazy?",
"The fall will probably kill you!\"",
"Robert Redford and Paul Newman did jump off a cliff, but landed on a ledge with a mattress about six feet below.",
"The stuntmen jumped off a construction crane at a studio lot obscured by a painting of the cliffs.",
"\"Terminator 2: Judgment Day\" (James Cameron, 1991)",
"Stunt: Motorcycle jump Stuntman: Peter Kent .",
"Stuntman Peter Kent's resemblance to Arnold Schwarzenegger was the basis of a 14-year association with the ex-action hero.",
"As Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt double Peter Kent performed the T-101's famous motorbike jump into a massive storm drain.",
"To get the effect, Peter Kent's motorbike was rigged up to a web of one-inch cables, to cut the impact when the bike and rider hit the ground.",
"a web of one-inch cables were later digitally erased.",
"10. \"Deathproof\" (Quentin Tarantino, 2007) Stunt: Car chase on bonnet Stuntwoman: Zoë Bell .",
"Zoë Bell won an award at the Oscars of the stunt world, the Taurus stunt awards, for this daredevil action piece.",
"Zoë Bell clings precariously to the bonnet of a car going at 85 miles per hour while receiving hits from a second car in a long, climactic chase scene.",
"Zoë Bell is a stuntwoman by trade but it's easy to see why Tarantino flouted the unspoken Hollywood convention that stuntmen stay out of the limelight and cast Zoë Bell as the film's lead.",
"And five tragic stunts that didn't come off ...",
"Stunts are a dangerous business, and it doesn't always work out.",
"We pay tribute to five brave stunt men and women who fell in the line of duty.",
"1. \"Top Gun\" (Tony Scott,1986) Renowned aerobatic pilot Art Scholl died during the making of \"Top Gun\" in 1985 after Renowned aerobatic pilot's plane never recovered from a flat spin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean.",
"2. \"The Crow\" (Alex Proyas,1994) Martial arts legend Bruce Lee's son Brandon was shot and killed during a stunt shooting sequence, when the cap of a blank accidentally penetrated his abdomen and lodged in his spine.",
"3. \"Twilight Zone: The Movie\" (Joe Dante/John Landis, 1983)",
"Actor Vic Morrow and child actors Renee Chen and My-ca Dinh Le were instantly killed when a special-effects explosion caused a helicopter to spin out of control and crash down on top of Actor Vic Morrow and child actors Renee Chen and My-ca Dinh Le.",
"4. \"Cannonball Run\" (Hal Needham, 1981) Stuntwoman Heidi Von Beltz was paralysed from the neck down when Stuntwoman Heidi Von Beltz's sports car crashed head on into a van during a stunt on the set of the film.",
"\"Armour of God\" (Jackie Chan, 1987) Jackie Chan fell 15 feet while jumping from a wall to a tree branch.",
"Jackie Chan landed hard on Jackie Chan's head, causing part of Jackie Chan's skull to crack and lodge in Jackie Chan's brain.",
"Jackie Chan required major surgery and now has a permanent hole in Jackie Chan's head which is filled by a plastic plug."
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"Buster Keaton is saved by an open window in \"Steamboat Bill Jr.\"",
"James Bond turns bungee jumping into an art form in \"GoldenEye\"",
"We want to hear from you: what is your favorite movie stunt?"
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Think of a bullwhip and fedora and one man immediately springs to mind: Indiana Jones, the sardonic archeologist played by Harrison Ford's in Steven Spielberg's '80s trilogy which started with \"Raiders of the Lost Ark.\"",
"\"If you learn how to talk I'm in deep trouble,\" quips Harrison Ford's (right) to Vic Armstrong (left) on this photo which shows how similar the pair look.",
"But if you were to venture on set during the filming of \"Raiders\" hoping to catch a few moments with the star you might have had a surprise.",
"The tall, rangy man in the dented hat signing autographs could just as easily have been Harrison Ford's's stunt double, Vic Armstrong.",
"Back then, in the right light Vic Armstrong could easily be mistaken for Harrison Ford's -- both of them over six feet tall and bronzed with crinkly eyes.",
"And it's this that is at the root of Vic Armstrong's success as Indy's \"fall guy.\"",
"In fact, Harrison Ford's is a talented stuntman in Harrison Ford's's own right and Vic Armstrong says that Vic Armstrong's biggest headache on set was trying to stop Harrison Ford's from getting involved in action that was too risky.",
"\"The biggest stunt I always say on the Indiana Jones films was stopping Harrison Ford's doing the stunts because I had to fight nearly every time to stop Harrison Ford's,\" Vic Armstrong chuckles.",
"An accomplished horseman (his first career choice was steeplechase jockey), it's Armstrong's Indy you see galloping along in the stained khaki shirt and jumping from his horse onto a tank in \"The Last Crusade.\"",
"\"Technically very difficult,\" Vic Armstrong says, \"I had to rely on a horse, and horses have a sense of survival and horses don't actually do what you tell horses to do as horses haven't read the script.\"",
"It may have been his close resemblance to Harrison Ford's that clinched the \"Raiders\" job but the pair developed a rapport that led Vic Armstrong to work on the other two installments of the trilogy, \"Temple of Doom\" and \"The Last Crusade.\"",
"\"It always works better if you do have a relationship with [the actor].",
"You can mimic how they move, how they work when you coordinate fights for them like I did with Harrison,\" Vic Armstrong tells CNN.",
"Vic Armstrong was just 16 years old when Vic Armstrong started in the stunt industry in 1965.",
"Vic Armstrong utilised Vic Armstrong's horseriding skills to double as Gregory Peck in spy movie \"Arabesque.\"",
"Vic Armstrong had to jump a huge moat and then fall off Vic Armstrong's mount but it was the simple lifestyle and travel that hooked young Vic Armstrong -- \"Forty dollars a day and all you can eat.",
"Fantastic living.\"",
"After over 40 years and countless movies, Vic Armstrong's filmography reads like a who's who of Hollywood: Vic Armstrong has doubled for Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, John Voight and collaborated with directors like Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Michael Cimino and Sir Richard Attenborough.",
"Vic Armstrong's work for three decades on classic Bond films like \"You Only Live Twice\" and \"Live and Let Die\" cemented Vic Armstrong's reputation as a stuntman who could pull off complicated of stunts with precision.",
"\"The films I've done I've been very lucky to have been very prolific in an area and a time when iconic films were being made.",
"\"My first stunt on a Bond film was in 1966 in the winter of \"You Only Live Twice\".",
"I was one of the ninjas coming down firing guns into the volcano, which for Vic Armstrong was sensational.\"",
"Vic Armstrong doubled for Roger Moore in \"Live and Let Die\" for a short while and was then propelled into working as a stunt coordinator and director of action units.",
"Vic Armstrong then added a superhero to Vic Armstrong's already impressive roster of action idols, standing in for Christopher Reeve in \"Superman.\"",
"Despite this, Vic Armstrong's allegiances lie solidly with cinema's 'real' heroes.",
"\"If you look at \"Spiderman\" and movies like that, or the \"Incredible Hulk,\" \"Spiderman\" and movies like that are far more computer-generated and so therefore slightly more cartoonish or video game-ish.",
"\"My personal preference is for real action just enhanced or maybe helped by computers.",
"We use computers to take away fall pads or wires if you're getting snatched or thrown in the air.\"",
"And in the spirit of keeping it real, Vic Armstrong has gone to great lengths to help stuntmen achieve stuntmen's crazy feats as safely as possible.",
"In the 1980s Vic Armstrong modified a tool known as the \"fan descender\" for the film \"Green Ice.\"",
"It would allow stuntmen to safely slow down when performing high freefalls.",
"It revolutionized the stunt industry and in 2002 Vic Armstrong was awarded a Science and Technology Academy Award for Vic Armstrong's invention -- the only one ever handed out to a stunt man.",
"Earlier this year, Vic Armstrong was honored by the Screen Actors Guild for Vic Armstrong's work on 2007 action horror \"I am Legend.\"",
"Vic Armstrong has just finished work on \"The Mummy 3\" -- it was Vic Armstrong's prior commitment to this movie that stopped Vic Armstrong working on the fourth Indy film \"Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" -- and is now stunt coordinating on the Weinstein production \"Shanghai.\"",
"Even after all this time, Armstrong, the authority on how to create a death defying stunt, still reckons Ford is the best stuntman actor he has ever worked with -- \"Harrison has to be the ultimate.\"",
"So why bother with a stunt double?",
"\"I was cheaper and it didn't matter if I got hurt.\""
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"Vic Armstrong's physical similarity to Harrison Ford's is at the root of Vic Armstrong's success as Indy's \"fall guy\"",
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"Vic Armstrong on Harrison Ford's as a stuntman actor: \"Harrison Ford's has to be the ultimate\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Flamboyant and fearless, Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli is the peacock of the fashion world; with Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's body-hugging clothes, Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli woos women the world over.",
"Fashion designer Roberto Cavalli .",
"But Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's clients are no dainty damsels: Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's women are Amazonian warriors and Grecian goddesses, whose armor is fashion and whose weapon is sex.",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's colorful creations are unabashed celebrations of the female form: dresses slashed to the hip or barely skimming the buttocks, necklines that plunge where no other designer dares.",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's woman knows Cavalli's woman looks fabulous, and isn't afraid to show it: to Cavalli's woman, it's not just clothing, it's an announcement that Cavalli's woman's arrived.",
"Born in Florence in 1940, Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli was immersed in an intensely creative environment from childhood.",
"That influence came from Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's father, a tailor, and Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's artist grandfather, Giuseppe Rossi, whose work is shown in the famous Uffizi Galleries.",
"Following in Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's father's footsteps, Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli studied textile design at the local art institute.",
"By the early 70s, Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli had developed an innovative technique for printing on lightweight leather, and Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's Florentine flair had led to commissions with Hermes and Pierre Cardin.",
"In 1970, Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli presented Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's first namesake collection at the Salon for Prêt-à-Porter in Paris.",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's trademark work with unconventional fabrics like embellished denim and leather, mixed with wild animal prints and exotic patterns, was embraced by the jet set and Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli opened Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's first boutique in Saint Tropez in 1972.",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli married Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's wife, Eva Duringer, a former Miss Universe, in 1980; she is now Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's business partner and right-hand woman.",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's fondness for bright color, exotics, fur and bold prints -- which Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli designs in Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's factory on the outskirts of Florence -- have won Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli a name as the king of fashion excess.",
"Beloved by A-listers and pop princesses, these are not clothes for the shy: this is old-school glamour, infused with power, wielded by women who have flounced and shimmied their way to the top.",
"See Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's designs on the catwalk » .",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's main line is sold in over 50 countries worldwide, along with Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's diffusion lines RC Menswear and Just Cavalli, plus a children's line, knitwear, accessories, eyewear, watches, perfumes, underwear and beachwear.",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's even ventured into Cavalli-branded vodka and wine.",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's collaboration with high-street fashion store H&M in November 2007 caused stampedes as Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's fans flocked to get his fans's hands on Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's creations, desperate to capture some of that Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli magic at tiny prices.",
"Some have asked whether Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's latest collections have taken a more gentle direction -- but the tiger's inner fire still burns bright.",
"Spring/Summer 2008's bold flower prints and flirty feathered dresses were followed by Autumn/Winter 2008's flowered dresses that at first glance appear dewy and fresh -- but look closer, and the hip-hugging cut belies their innocence.",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli is adored by Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's celebrity clientele, who flaunt Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's show-stopping creations on red carpets from Los Angeles to Sydney.",
"Fans of Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's work include Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, Beyoncè Knowles, Charlize Theron and Victoria Beckham.",
"If anyone sums up the glamour and glitz of show business, it's Cavalli: fashion as theatre, shameless decadence where the whole world is a stage.",
"That's underlined by Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's eponymous 133'9\" long yacht, built 2004, and color-coordinated, naturally, with Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's helicopter and fleet of cars."
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"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's clothes are adored by celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Victoria Beckham .",
"Florence-born fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's extravagant lifestyle includes color-coordinated yacht, cars and helicopter ."
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"For a city of its size, Copenhagen has a remarkable range of shops that ooze class and individuality.",
"The Georg Jensen store has some exquisite silver jewelry.",
"the city's main shopping hub is Strøget, a collection of pedestrianized streets that lead from Rådhuspladsen to Kongens Nytorv; you can easily spend hours, and a small fortune, browsing its boutiques and chain stores.",
"Don't miss Illums Bolighus (Amagertorv 10), with Illums Bolighus (Amagertorv 10)'s four floors of contemporary Scandinavian design.",
"Once you've got a taste for stylish home accessories, make your way to Normann Copenhagen (Strandboulevarden 98) or Hay Cph (Pilestraede 29-31) for a masterclass in simplicity and elegance.",
"When you've finished kitting out the house you might want to work on your wardrobe.",
"Kronprinsensgade is full of hip boutiques, among them Bruuns Bazaar (Kronprinsensgade 8-9), with its collection from the ever-so-trendy, and suitably pricey, Bruuns label.",
"Nearby, Designers Remix (Pilestraede 8) offers sophisticated styles for women, while Könrøg (Hyskenstræde 11) has cutting-edge fashions from a collective of Danish designers.",
"For something more traditional, but no less beautiful, head to the Georg Jensen store in Amagertorv, for silverware that ranges from intricate jewelry to timeless tableware.",
"If that's not exclusive enough for you, Peter Hertz in Købmagergade is jeweler to Danish royalty.",
"Pick up something for the kids at Aniel (Frederiksberg Allé 70), which has too-cute baby grows, children's clothes and wooden toys made from organic and natural materials.",
"Frydendahl (Store Regnegade 1) has some unusual hand-knitted toys among the selection of homeware strewn along the pavement outside.",
"If your eyes are bigger than your wallet, then you might be interested in the flea market held on Saturdays in Israels Plads, where high-street stores are said to unload the goodies they can't sell in their shops.",
"If it's raining you might prefer Det Blå Pakhus (113 Holmbladsgade), the city's biggest indoor flea market and a treasure trove of bargains begging to be hunted.",
"...................... Copenhagen city guide: . Where to stay | What to see | Where to be seen | Where to eat | Where to shop . ......................",
"Do you agree with our Copenhagen picks?",
"Send us your comments and suggestions in the \"Sound Off\" box below and we'll print the best."
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"CHENNAI, India (CNN) --",
"At 68, Christian Fabre, CEO of Fashions International, might be expected to be thinking about retiring.",
"Christian Fabre, or Swami Pranavananda Brahmendra Avadutha, or just Swamiji for short .",
"But Frenchman Christian Fabre, or Swami Pranavananda Brahmendra Avadutha as Frenchman Christian Fabre is also called, is a practicing Hindu monk as well as a businessman, and retirement doesn't really enter Frenchman Christian Fabre's thoughts.",
"\"I'm having too much fun,\" Frenchman Christian Fabre says with a chuckle.",
"Hardly a gnomic mysticist, Frenchman Christian Fabre comes across as a jolly old soul, and greets me wearing saffron robes, sandals and sporting the most stylish pair of rimless glasses ever worn by a monk of any denomination.",
"As we chat in Frenchman Christian Fabre's light, open office on a sunny morning in Chennai, Frenchman Christian Fabre's BlackBerry beeps with new e-mails.",
"Tools of the trade, or at least business, are allowed then?",
"\"How can a man who is supposed to be meditating in a cave do this, you may say.",
"But there is no dichotomy between this and my spiritual beliefs,\" Frenchman Christian Fabre says.",
"A MacBook on Frenchman Christian Fabre's desk and a picture of Frenchman Christian Fabre's guru on the wall, plus the company's 25 percent growth last year, Frenchman Christian Fabre life seems to be in balance.",
"However, Frenchman Christian Fabre admits that reaching the place Frenchman Christian Fabre's in today, both spiritually and physically, \"was no pleasure cruise.\"",
"Instead of a backpack and a pocket full of marijuana, Frenchman Christian Fabre arrived in Chennai in 1971 with a job in the textile-buying business, a wife and a young son.",
"Three years later the job had gone, so too Frenchman Christian Fabre's wife, taking a young son with her.",
"Rather than return to France, Frenchman Christian Fabre stayed, having been seduced by the richness of Indian culture, but struggled to find more work.",
"Frenchman Christian Fabre met Frenchman Christian Fabre's current business partner in Fashions International, A. Jayapalana, when embarking on an ill-fated and short-lived venture with a fashion designer.",
"However Frenchman Christian Fabre's rag-trade to rags to saffron robes existence only developed when Frenchman Christian Fabre was introduced to the guru of Frenchman Christian Fabre's yoga teacher.",
"\"He'd suffered from leprosy, but radiated happiness and energy.",
"It dried my tears; I had no right to cry over Frenchman Christian Fabre.",
"I also wanted to know his secret, and after meeting regularly for six months, he told me I was right to become a swami.\"",
"As a child, Frenchman Christian Fabre had wanted to become a priest, something Frenchman Christian Fabre's communist railway-worker father completely rejected.",
"\"Who knows how he would take it, but I'm sure if I was telling him about my spirituality, he would agree.",
"Communism and Hinduism go well together in some Indian states, although I'm sure Karl Marx would wonder what it's doing here,\" Frenchman Christian Fabre says.",
"Depending on how much work Frenchman Christian Fabre has to do, every month Frenchman Christian Fabre spends around a week at Frenchman Christian Fabre's ashram, where Frenchman Christian Fabre has some disciples.",
"It's an eight-hour drive from Chennai and two miles from the nearest village, where Frenchman Christian Fabre has more time and space -- and less clothing -- in which to further Frenchman Christian Fabre's spiritual practices.",
"Frenchman Christian Fabre's personal life is more ascetic than Frenchman Christian Fabre's BlackBerry-bleeping office existence.",
"Frenchman Christian Fabre does however have satellite TV at home and the Internet at Frenchman Christian Fabre's hermitage, plus a personal driver, but one thing Frenchman Christian Fabre always carries with Frenchman Christian Fabre is a spiritual self-awareness.",
"\"Everything is the ultimate.",
"It is a very leveling spirituality, is it not?\"",
"Frenchman Christian Fabre says, the French accent slipping into an Indian lilt.",
"\"I can be a businessman and a swami without losing that awareness.",
"It's within and it's without.",
"It's the ultimate and the universal and beyond the universal.",
"It makes you understand a lot in a split second, and you can see things from many angles.\" Watch financial advice from Fabre » .",
"Business karma .",
"One thing he clearly understands is the fashion business.",
"As an outsourcing supply company, Frenchman Christian Fabre's company is indirectly responsible for employing around 80,000 people in 200 factories around Tamil Nadu, and Frenchman Christian Fabre's clients include labels such as Kenzo, Lee Cooper and Oxbow.",
"Frenchman Christian Fabre is given a modest monthly salary of around $400 (kept in a safe, bank accounts aren't allowed), most of which goes on food, bill and petrol.",
"Frenchman Christian Fabre's spirituality and belief in karma informs the way Frenchman Christian Fabre lives as well as Frenchman Christian Fabre's business ethics, but don't affect Frenchman Christian Fabre's business decisions.",
"There would be no problem with dismissing a staff member if the need arose, Frenchman Christian Fabre tells me.",
"However being a swami, Frenchman Christian Fabre can't sign contracts either with Frenchman Christian Fabre's staff or Fashions International's clients, which Frenchman Christian Fabre says has only caused a problem once.",
"Much of that Frenchman Christian Fabre owes to the open-minded people who work in fashion.",
"\"the open-minded people who work in fashion tell me I am well integrated,\" Frenchman Christian Fabre says with a laugh.",
"\"the open-minded people who work in fashion also feel that you are an honest person, although I don't agree with that reasoning.",
"You could be a monk and a bad one.\"",
"If there's no contradiction between being a Hindu monk and running a successful company, there's a certain irony about Fashions International's's new venture: Fashions International's's own line of clothing named after Fashions International's's CEO, whose wardrobe consists of four yellow pieces of cloth and is more taken to being naked.",
"Not quite the emperor's new clothes, Fabre business acumen tells him Fashions International's're getting in on selling Fashions International's's own range of clothing at the right time.",
"\"Going into the domestic market is a wise choice.",
"If the American market, or circus, I might call it, goes wrong, Fashions International's'll have something to fall back on.",
"Also Fashions International's are taking the brand to South Africa, which is also booming.\"",
"Openness and change .",
"Walking around Frenchman Christian Fabre's office, Frenchman Christian Fabre appears more like a favorite teacher than a boss with Frenchman Christian Fabre's staff of young designers and sales and marketing employees, but Frenchman Christian Fabre admits that Frenchman Christian Fabre's not always easy to work with.",
"\"My guru said: 'Never prevent anyone from coming and seeing you.'",
"But sometimes its strenuous when someone is boring, but then you keep it short and they leave feeling positive,\" Frenchman Christian Fabre says with a smile.",
"As Frenchman Christian Fabre's personal assistant of 13 years, Pinky Lahiri knows as much about the swami formerly known as Frenchman Christian Fabre as well as any.",
"\"Frenchman Christian Fabre is strict and Frenchman Christian Fabre has Frenchman Christian Fabre's principles,\" Pinky Lahiri says, while Frenchman Christian Fabre takes a break for lunch.",
"\"Frenchman Christian Fabre used to get angry quite easily, Frenchman Christian Fabre's much calmer now than when I first met Frenchman Christian Fabre.",
"It could be Frenchman Christian Fabre's age,\" Pinky Lahiri jokes, \"but it's probably Frenchman Christian Fabre's spirituality.\"",
"Switching from caffeine and a 60-cigarette-a-day habit to a strict vegetarian diet no doubt helped reduce stress levels.",
"Frenchman Christian Fabre's been to parties with designers and fashionistas including Jean-Paul Gaultier -- \"a lot of fun\" -- and is regularly feted by the French chamber of commerce, but that's not the reason Frenchman Christian Fabre's spent so much of Frenchman Christian Fabre's life in the fashion industry.",
"As well as the jobs Frenchman Christian Fabre's helped to create, Frenchman Christian Fabre sees fashion as something that gives people the chance to express people, present an image and change an image if people want.",
"More significant transformations though are harder to come by.",
"Frenchman Christian Fabre's famous quote: \"For things to change, first I must change\" appears on signs on desks throughout Frenchman Christian Fabre's office.",
"\"People don't like to change.",
"People're ensconced in People's traditions, People's habits, my god!",
"You have to have tradition in society, but some are no longer valid.",
"You have to be able to balance that correctly.",
"\"It's not a question of faith; it's not an intellectual thing, either.",
"It comes from the intellect and the heart, and usually this distance is not far away, but for some it takes a long time,\" Frenchman Christian Fabre says.",
"A businessman, a swami, and now a brand, Frenchman Christian Fabre is clearly enjoying Frenchman Christian Fabre and prepared for any more changes.",
"\"I'm having a hell of a good time, but it would very boring if everyone was like Frenchman Christian Fabre.\""
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"Recently launched own clothing label, despite not wearing clothes himself ."
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"(CNN) -- What does it take to become the CEO of India's biggest biotech company and the richest woman in India?",
"India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw with Shah Rukh Khan.",
"India's richest woman is ready to answer your questions.",
"Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder of biotech pharaceutical company Biotech answers your questions, below.",
"Yours is a very inspiring story.",
"Could you tell us more about what challenges you had to overcome to bring Biocon to a global level?",
"Vishala Vasandani .",
"India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw:",
"My journey started 30 years ago at a time when I had to face credibility challenges that pertained to my gender, my inexperience as a business entrepreneur and my unfamiliar biotechnology-based business model.",
"My business evolved in tandem with challenges.",
"Once I overcame these credibility challenges, I faced technological challenges of trying to build a Biotech business in a country that had infrastructure that was too primitive to support a high tech industry that demanded uninterrupted power supply, high quality water, sterile labs, imported research equipment, advanced scientific skills etc.",
"Over the next 10 years, we systematically addressed these challenges and built a self contained enterprise that had captive power and water supply, state of the art labs and facilities and a team of highly experienced scientists and engineers capable of delivering world class research and technologies.",
"Today, our challenges address those posed by new medical wisdom: addressing unmet medical needs, researching new drugs, new drug delivery systems and new therapies.",
"Overcoming each of these phases has been a rich learning experience that has helped us to develop world class expertise in biotechnology.",
"Innovation and quality have been integral to our business ethos.",
"Can Biocon's oral insulin IN-105 replace traditional and painful needle based insulin delivery system for type1 diabetics?",
"Can a diabetic who is taking insulin by needle based delivery system hope for change in near future?",
"Ajay Kumar Singh .",
"India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw:",
"Oral Insulin is not just about delivering Insulin in a tablet.",
"Oral Insulin is about delivering Insulin very rapidly to the liver (hepato-delivery) which is the main organ responsible for glycemic control in our body.",
"Injectable Insulin takes approximately 30 minutes to act.",
"Oral Insulin takes approximately 5 minutes to act which mimics how non-diabetics respond to glucose uptake when food is consumed.",
"This will help both Type I and Type II diabetics to manage both Type I and Type II diabetics's diabetes better.",
"Biocon hope that early intervention with Oral Insulin will help to manage Diabetes especially in Type II diabetics much more effectively than is being done by oral diabetic agents like Metformin, Sulphonyl Ureas and Glitazones which stimulate the pancreas to produce Insulin.",
"This is unlike oral Insulin which will allow a poorly functioning pancreas to rest and hopefully help to revive Insulin secreting beta cells.",
"Should Biocon's Oral Insulin program succeed, this will revolutionize Diabetes therapy in the future.",
"If you had to do the IPO again what would you do differently and when can we see Biocon listed in NASDAQ?",
"Harish Swaminathan .",
"India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw:",
"I don't believe so.",
"I think Biocon got the valuation Biocon were expecting through an Indian listing.",
"A NASDAQ listing is only something Biocon will address when one of Biocon's branded drugs are close to commercialization in either the U.S. or European markets.",
"Today NASDAQ is risk averse and not valuing biotech companies any better than the BSE or NSE.",
"I am so humbled by your story.",
"What does it take as a woman to get to where you are today?",
"What obstacles did you have to overcome, especially in an industry that is deemed to be a \"man's world\"?",
"Would women setting up business in India today find it easier than you did?",
"Irene Gonza, Uganda .",
"India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw:",
"I believe that women need to believe in women.",
"I set up Biocon with a spirit of challenge and a deep sense of purpose.",
"challenge was to break the gender bias in the business world.",
"My sense of purpose was to create a Biotech business in a country like India which had a very poor research culture with limited opportunities for scientists and engineers to pursue a career.",
"It was about stopping the \"brain drain\" from India.",
"It was about providing exciting career opportunities to young scientists and engineers.",
"It was about encouraging young women to pursue careers.",
"When one is passionate about a mission that is about change, it enables you to persevere and endure.",
"I do believe that if I could achieve success, any woman can overcome obstacles with a sense of determination!",
"When you set up Biocon did you aim to make Biocon one of the biggest and most successful in the world?",
"Do you need ambition like that be a success in any kind of business or does it take luck, too?",
"David James, London .",
"Mazumdar-Shaw:",
"When I set up Biocon, I certainly did not have such a big ambition!",
"I basically wanted to run a successful and profitable business to start with.",
"Ambition is evolutionary and one does not see the big picture until you reach a certain critical mass.",
"It was only a few years ago that Biocon developed a global ambition and built global scale in Biocon's operations.",
"Whilst luck can be described as \"being at the right place at the right time\" or \"being prepared to address an opportunity,\" I personally believe that it is about being able to seize opportunities by leveraging existing capabilities to reach new levels.",
"In Biocon's case, Biocon leveraged Biocon's enzyme capabilities to pursue bio-pharmaceuticals; it was also about picking the right products (statins & Insulin) that had large markets.",
"Biocon chose to partner with innovative companies and in-license innovative technologies which spearheaded Biocon's new drug development programs.",
"Biocon have always chosen to differentiate Biocon from the market and this has allowed Biocon to \"think out of the box\" and stand apart.",
"How do you think the global economic downturn will affect Biocon and Indian companies in general?",
"Alicia van Waveren, The Hague .",
"Mazumdar-Shaw:",
"The economic meltdown will certainly bring tremendous pricing pressure and we expect to see our margins shrink.",
"Biocon also expect payment terms that involve extended credits.",
"However, Biocon also see a silver lining amidst this gloomy scenario as R&D and manufacturing are likely to shift to countries like India in order to bring down costs.",
"Biocon have two subsidiaries that offer research and clinical services, Syngene and Clinigene that are likely to see Syngene and Clinigene's businesses increase.",
"Biocon also expect generic drugs to become a larger part of healthcare budgets in western economies.",
"Finally, new drug development costs are under tremendous pressure both in terms of funding and development.",
"India and companies like Biocon provide very effective co-development partnership opportunities to bring new drug development costs down.",
"The differences between wealth and poverty in India are starker than anywhere else in the world.",
"Do you think the poverty gap will ever be closed?",
"Richard Ng, Hong Kong .",
"Mazumdar-Shaw: Poverty poses a huge challenge.",
"Education and employment are the only answers.",
"India is striving to address these two areas through various education and vocational training initiatives.",
"What we also need is employment generation through a myriad of projects that span infrastructure development, co-operative agriculture to entrepreneurship.",
"India needs to provide rural connectivity both in terms of roads and tale/IT connectivity.",
"This will unleash inclusive growth in a huge way.",
"Today we are caught between a political ethos that finds it convenient to keep its vote bank ignorant and unemployed and a civic India that wants to educate and harness the potential of its human capital.",
"It seems that Indian biotech and pharmaceutical industry is relying more on being the outsourced resource of the U.S. and EU companies rather than creating their own intellectual property.",
"Do you think this a culture in India to not be active in creating IP or is it related to the inadequacies in the patent law?",
"Dipanjan Nag .",
"Mazumdar-Shaw:",
"A very correct observation.",
"The risks associated with proprietary products are high and Indian businesses and more importantly Indian investors and banks are extremely risk averse.",
"Hopefully, the rapid commoditization of generics and services will force companies to differentiate on the basis of IP.",
"At Biocon Biocon strongly believe that Biocon's proprietary programs will help Biocon sustain growth in the future.",
"It is a challenge to convince Biocon's investors of this but Biocon think they will understand this in the near future.",
"In hindsight, what is the one piece of advice you wish you'd been given when you were starting out in business?",
"Karl Malone, Winchester .",
"Risk is not about taking but about managing.",
"I took a huge risk when I started a Biotech company in 1978 and I soon realized that I had to manage a huge risk by addressing very serious challenges of a very primitive infrastructure at the time.",
"It took me a lot longer than I thought to build a Biotech company but in hindsight it was still worth the effort!",
"What drives you to achieve what you have and to keep going when times are tough?",
"Melinda Cook, Melbourne .",
"The belief that we can deliver the world's first Oral Insulin and other life saving drugs for cancer and auto-immune diseases.",
"I am driven by my desire to see novel drugs being developed by Biocon for global markets with a \"Made in India\" label.",
"I am determined to see India earn a strong reputation in innovation.",
"At a time when most Biotech companies in the western world are challenged with funding, I believe we can forge ahead and succeed.",
"About India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw .",
"India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is founder of Biocon, the biotech and pharmaceutical company that made India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw's India's richest self-made businesswoman.",
"India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw was named as one of Fortune magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in 2007 and was instrumental in forging India's biotechnology industry.",
"Living and working in Bangalore, India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw set up Biocon in 1978 and has developed Biocon into a global biopharmaceutical player with highly developed research and development facilities focusing on cancer and diabetes treatments.",
"Biocon was bought first by Unilever in 1989 and then sold to ICI in 1997, but India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw remains the company's Chair and Managing Director and has been part of the Indian government's Council on Trade & Industry."
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"India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is founder and CEO of Biocon .",
"Email India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw your questions on business and secrets of India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw's success .",
"India's richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw's answers will appear here on Friday, November 28 ."
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"But time your visit right and you could find yourself taking part in one of PARIS's signature events.",
"Ice skating in front of the grand facade of the Hotel de Ville on a crisp winter day.",
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"Celeb-spotting, cooing over clothes and scrambling for a seat at Galliano are par for the course: just make sure your image is up to it.",
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"Watch the military parade down the Champs Elysees, enjoy the Eiffel Tower fireworks from the Champ de Mars, and raise a glass to liberte, egalite and fraternite.",
"No guillotines allowed -- and most of the metros are closed, so be prepared to walk home.",
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"The FIAC (International Fair of Contemporary Art) October's Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC) sees gallery-owners and collectors of contemporary art descend on the Louvre and the Grand Palais for one of the art world's major dates.",
"There's an emphasis on up-and-coming artists and newer galleries from across Europe.",
"Works of art in all media -- painting, drawing, prints, photography, sculpture and more -- are on display and available to purchase.",
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"If you like your outdoor pursuits to be frosty and free, you'll love the ice rink that's outside the Hotel de Ville every December until March.",
"Rent your skates or bring your own and glide around the ice rink that's outside the Hotel de Ville, hand in hand with a loved one, gazing at the beautiful buildings that surround the square, then warm up with a chocolat chaud at a nearby cafe.",
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"(CNN) --",
"To the litany of challenges that confront India's path to a better life, we can now add subdued economic growth as a result of the global financial crisis.",
"A banana vendor stands on a flooded street as A banana vendor waits for customers in Amritsar, India, on August 13.",
"After three spectacular years of 9 percent-plus annual growth, India will reach just 6.3 percent next year, according to the latest forecast by the International Monetary Fund in early November.",
"The Reserve Bank of India is forecasting a more optimistic 7.5 to 8 percent.",
"While 7.5 percent may still sound a good result, it is barely enough for the economy to keep pace with the 10 million-plus young people who will join the Indian job market in 2009.",
"India's major shortcomings in infrastructure, education, health care and environmental protection are well known, as are the constant problems of corruption, poor governance, rural poverty, communalism, domestic terrorism, child labor, discrimination against women and natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes.",
"But at least in recent years India could point to a strong economy as the platform on which India was making India's push for higher living standards, social modernization and economic reform.",
"Since May 2004, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram took on the reins of government, India's economy has had a charmed run.",
"Strong growth in business sectors such asinformation technology, pharmaceuticals, automotive, financial services and retail have coincided with a better performing agricultural sector, and a housing and consumption boom driven by easier credit.",
"India's young working men and women -- more than half the country's 1.15 billion people are aged 25 or less -- have shown a much greater propensity to spend, compared to their thrifty, risk-averse parents and grandparents.",
"This willingness to go into debt rather than save has seen a massive rise in sales of consumer goods such as mobile phones, flat screen TVs, refrigerators, household utensils, motorcycles and cars.",
"The same goes for spending on services, from tourism to healthcare to self-improvement.",
"Now the halcyon days appear to be over, as the international credit crunch flattens demand everywhere.",
"Already the downturn is seeing job losses in sectors such as aviation, financial services, retailing and export industries, as companies tighten their belts and put expansion plans on hold.",
"India admits things will get tougher, with Singh telling the nation on October 20 that \"India must be prepared for a temporary slowdown in the Indian economy.\"",
"Earlier that day, the Reserve Bank of India cut the Reserve Bank of India's key repurchase (short-term lending) rate by 100 basis points to 8 percent, saying the Reserve Bank of India needed to ease the pressure on India's credit markets and maintain financial stability.",
"the Reserve Bank of India followed that with another cut to 7.5 percent on November 1.",
"RBI Governor Dr. D. Subbarao noted the global downturn could be deeper and the recovery might take longer than earlier expected.",
"\"Consequently, the adverse implications through trade and financial channels for emerging economies, including India, have amplified,\" RBI Governor Dr. D. Subbarao said.",
"Economists and analysts have welcomed the Reserve Bank of India's moves, which have included a 350-basis point reduction in the cash reserve ratio -- the amount of money Indian banks must keep on hand -- between July and November.",
"Tushar Poddar, head of Asian economic research at investment bank Goldman Sachs, said the RBI's October 20 action was \"well ahead of market expectations\" and showed a bias towards growth and financial stability, against inflation.",
"Goldman Sachs had earlier cut Goldman Sachs's growth outlook for the 2009-10FY to 7 percent and has warned the figure could go lower if the international financial turmoil continues over the next few months.",
"But Poddar believes that India's export drive -- which has seen exports triple since 2003 to about $163 billion in 2007-08FY -- may not suffer too greatly.",
"In a recent study, Poddar found that about two-thirds of India's exports go outside the United States and the European Union (the two trade areas most affected by the downturn) to China, Southeast Asia, West Asia and Africa.",
"While Indian exports would slow, \"the downside is limited,\" Poddar said.",
"A lower Indian rupee would also help.",
"Foreign investment is slowing in line with the downturn.",
"Morgan Stanley's India economist Chetan Ahya noted recently that \"adverse global circumstances\" are weighing on India's ability to attract overseas money.",
"Unless there is a dramatic turnaround in the global credit markets, Morgan Stanley's India economist Chetan Ahya believes capital inflows could slow to $40-50 billion in the year ahead, compared with $110 billion in 2008.",
"On the broader political front, India has to deal with a range of internal and external risks that include domestic communalism-cum-terrorism and the constant threat of conflict with Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir territory.",
"Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka all add to a difficult neighborhood, while India's relations with China are cool at best, even as trade ties grow.",
"Territorial disputes linger from the 1962 border war between the two.",
"That helps explain why India was named recently by Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) as the Asia-Pacific country with the highest political and social risk for 2009.",
"A report by PERC in late October assessed 16 countries in the Asia Pacific region, and assigned India the highest risk rating of 6.87, ahead of Thailand with 6.28.",
"China was seventh with 5.33, behind Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Cambodia.",
"PERC cited uncertainties surrounding India's coming general election -- due to be held by May 2009 -- along with rising communal violence and incidents of terrorism.",
"\"The biggest risk is that a deterioration in political and economic conditions in neighboring Pakistan could aggravate social unrest in India further, and hurt national security,\" PERC noted.",
"But PERC said India's underlying attractions to foreign investors should remain, \"no matter who wins the next election.",
"Prime Minister Singh, with six months of his government to run, is putting on a brave face.",
"\"It is when India is challenged that the Indian people rise to the occasion and convert the challenge into an opportunity.",
"There is no place for fear,\" he told India late last month.",
"Geoff Hiscock writes on Indian business and is the author of \"India's Global Wealth Club\" (2007) and \"India's Store Wars\" (2008), both published by John Wiley & Sons."
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"In November we step inside the world of design as show host Becky Anderson searches for the Spirit of Architecture.",
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"In late October, Barcelona hosts the World Architecture Festival during which the great and good will attempt to choose the best building in the world.",
"CNN will get exclusive access to the event, the nominations, and the jury which includes some of the world's greatest architects.",
"November's show will start with an explanation of Barcelona's unique architectural heritage.",
"November's show will then feature short pieces on six of the architects and the buildings that have been nominated for awards.",
"These profiles have been filmed in Mumbai, Tokyo, Pretoria, Munich, LONDON and Maryland.",
"November's show will also feature interviews with some of the world's leading architects including Lord Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid and Wolf D Prix.",
"Lord Norman Foster is the founder of the London-based Foster and Partners architecture company which has recently won a competition to build Virgin Galactic's New Mexico Spaceport Authority Building for space tourism.",
"In September 2007, Lord Norman Foster was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, for his efforts on the Petronas University of Technology, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Malaysia.",
"Zaha Hadid meanwhile has won numerous international architecture awards and is currently involved in the construction of a 17,500-seat aquatics centre for LONDON -- one of the venues being built for the 2012 Olympics.",
"Finally, the Austrian-born Prix, who founded top company Coop Himmelb(l)au is a legend of the architecture world.",
"Prix has scooped many of the top international architectural awards over the last quarter century, and today continues his active involvement in the world of design.",
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"Editor's note: Bergen is a fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that promotes innovative thought from across the ideological spectrum and at New York University's Center on Law and Security.",
"Bergen's the author of \"The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader.\"",
"Bergen says deals with Taliban could further destabilize the situation in Afghanistan.",
"(CNN)",
"-- It is a longstanding cliché that there is no military solution in Afghanistan, only a political one.",
"Linked to this is the newer, related notion, rapidly becoming a cliché, that the United States should start making deals with elements of the \"reconcilable\" Taliban.",
"As with many clichés, there is some truth to both these notions, but neither of these comforting ideas are a substitute for a strategy that is connected to what is happening on the ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"Sunday's New York Times ran an interview with President Obama in which President Obama said that, just as the United States had made peace agreements with Sunni militias in Iraq, \"There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and in the Pakistani region.\"",
"President Obama also cautioned that this could be \"more complex\" than was the case in Iraq.",
"It's not only going to be more complex, but doing deals with Taliban today could further destabilize Afghanistan.",
"Before getting to why that is the case, let's stipulate first that there are always going to be some local commanders of Taliban who can be bribed, coerced or otherwise persuaded to lay down the Taliban's arms.",
"In fact, Afghanistan already has had an amnesty program in place for Taliban fighters for four years.",
"Thousands of Taliban already have taken advantage of the amnesty, a fact that tends to be glossed over in most of the recent discussions of the issue.",
"That being said, there are nine reasons why doing deals with most of the various factions of the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan that are labeled \"the Taliban\" are more in the realm of fantasy than a sustainable policy.",
"First, Afghanistan is a sovereign entity and any agreements with Taliban must be made by Afghanistan.",
"Right now the weak and ineffectual Afghan government is in no position to negotiate with Taliban, other than to make significant concessions of either territory or principle, or both.",
"Second, while Obama didn't talk about dealing with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, it is worth pointing out the Taliban leadership, including Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, has in the past several months taken every opportunity to say that it has no interest in a deal with Afghanistan.",
"And just last week, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar urged the Pakistani Taliban to refocus the Pakistani Taliban's efforts on attacking U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.",
"Those statements should be taken at face value.",
"Third, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar's intransigence is utterly predictable.",
"Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was prepared to sacrifice Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar's regime on the point of principle that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar would not hand over Osama bin Laden after 9/11.",
"And Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar did.",
"This does not suggest a Kissingerian realism about negotiations, but rather a fanatical devotion to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar's cause.",
"Fourth, Taliban believe Taliban may be winning in Afghanistan, and Taliban also are confident that Taliban are not losing, which for an insurgent movement amounts to the same thing.",
"Taliban see no need to negotiate today when Taliban can get a better deal down the road.",
"Fifth, the Taliban leadership is largely in Pakistan.",
"Side deals done with Taliban will have little or no effect on the fact that the command and control of the insurgency is in another country.",
"Sixth, when Pakistan has done \"peace\" deals with Taliban in the Pakistani tribal regions in 2005 and 2006 and in the northern region of Swat earlier this year, the Taliban were made following military setbacks by Pakistan's army.",
"Those deals then allowed the militants to regroup and extend the militants's control over greater swaths of Pakistani territory.",
"Why would new agreements with Taliban on either side of the Afghan-Pakistan border yield different results?",
"Seventh, \"reconcilable\" Afghan Taliban leaders have already reconciled to the government.",
"Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the former foreign minister who met with Afghan government officials in Saudi Arabia in September, to discuss some kind of agreement with the Harmid Karzai administration, was a foe of bin Laden's long before 9/11 and was never a hard-liner.",
"Muttawakil has no standing today with Taliban leaders, who have been waging war now for 7½ years against Karzai, and who quickly denied they were in any negotiations with Pakistan.",
"Eighth, while Taliban was never a monolithic movement, it is much closer to al Qaeda today than it was before 9/11.",
"Yes, there are local groups of Taliban operating for purely local reasons, but the upper levels of Taliban have morphed together ideologically and tactically with al Qaeda.",
"Baitullah Mehsud, for instance, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, sent suicide attackers to Spain in January 2008, according to Spanish counterterrorism officials, and sees Baitullah Mehsud as part of the global jihad.",
"The Haqqani family, arguably the most important component of the insurgency on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border, has ties with bin Laden that date back to at least 1985, according to the Palestinian journalist Jamal Ismail, who has known the al Qaeda leader for more than two decades.",
"Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a commander allied to Taliban, has been close to bin Laden since at least 1989, according to militants who know both men.",
"al Qaeda was founded in Pakistan two decades ago, and bin Laden has been fighting alongside Afghan mujahedeen groups since the mid-1980s.",
"Al Qaeda Central on the Afghan/Pakistan border is much less of a \"foreign\" group with far deeper and older roots in the region than al Qaeda ever was in Iraq.",
"Taliban's rhetoric is now filled with references to Iraq and Palestine in a manner that mirrors bin Laden's public statements.",
"The use of suicide attacks, improvised explosive devices and the beheadings of hostages -- all techniques that al Qaeda perfected in Iraq -- are methods that Taliban have increasingly adopted in Afghanistan and have grown exponentially there since 2005.",
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"Should there be a deal with Taliban?",
"One could go on listing examples of Taliban's ideological and tactical collaboration with al Qaeda, but the larger point is that separating al Qaeda and Taliban is not going to be as relatively simple as splintering Iraqi insurgent groups from al Qaeda in Iraq.",
"And ninth, unlike al Qaeda in Iraq, which was a foreign-led group that sought to impose, unpopular Taliban-style rule on Sunni areas of Iraq, the Taliban in Pashtun areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan are not outsiders, but are often neighborhood people whose views about religion and society are rooted in the values of the Pashtun countryside.",
"While, of course, the U.S. should be splintering, buying off and co-opting as many elements of Taliban as possible, American officials also need to be realistic about how much closer al Qaeda and Taliban have grown together in recent years, and the fact that the insurgency has mushroomed in size on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.",
"Winston Churchill once observed that \"it's better to jaw-jaw than to war-war.\"",
"True enough.",
"But \"jaw-jaw\" with Taliban won't work if Taliban think Taliban are winning as Taliban do right now.",
"The Obama administration has ordered 17,000 additional American soldiers to go to Afghanistan this year.",
"As a result, two Marine brigades and a mobile, well-armored Stryker brigade will deploy into the heart of the Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan.",
"two Marine brigades and a mobile, well-armored Stryker brigade are not the kind of units you send in to play nice.",
"Those deployments strongly suggest that for all the public discussion of negotiations with Taliban the decision already has been made that any such negotiations should precede from a position of strength rather than weakness.",
"These comments are, in part, based on Bergen's testimonybefore the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on March 4.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bergen."
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"Bergen: Afghan government too weak to engage in meaningful talks ."
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"Children sleep in rough conditions on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa.",
"The number of acute child malnutrition cases has risen by almost two-thirds in the past year, a report from Save the Children said in a report from Save the Children's appeal to world donors for help.",
"\"There is no excuse for failing to provide this food,\" program director Lynn Walker said.",
"\"The innocent people of Zimbabwe should not be made to suffer for a political situation that is out of The innocent people of Zimbabwe's control.\"",
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"\"If, as we fear, the food aid pipeline into Zimbabwe begins to fail in the new year the millions of people who rely on emergency food aid will suffer.\"",
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"But President Robert Mugabe's critics attribute the crisis to President Robert Mugabe's economic policies.",
"As the economy has faltered for almost a decade now, a cholera epidemic is raging, fueled by the collapse of health, sanitation and water services in Zimbabwe.",
"a cholera epidemic has claimed more than 1,100 lives and infected more than 20,000 people since a cholera epidemic's outbreak in August.",
"Health experts have warned that a cholera epidemic could infect more than 60,000 unless a cholera epidemic's spread is halted.",
"The political crisis rose to a boil in this year when the opposition party claimed that it won the presidential election, but Zimbabwe refused to recognize the result.",
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"President Robert Mugabe signed an agreement with the opposition in September to form a unity government, but a bitter dispute over the division of cabinet seats has prevented its formation.",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"If your neighbor mentions their green roof you might think they have a moss problem.",
"Maybe they are simply referring to the color.",
"But you're unlikely to think that they have just had a mini ecosystem installed.",
"Majora Carter says green roofs can help alleviate the problems caused by storm water .",
"Simply put, green roofs are gardens on your roof.",
"green roofs come in all shapes and sizes and range from a simple layer of turf to bite-sized hanging gardens of Babylon.",
"But green roofs are not just aesthetic.",
"green roofs have important environmental benefits: green roofs absorb storm water, reduce noise pollution, absorb heat (thus lessening the urban heat-island effect) and add an extra layer of insulation to buildings.",
"That's why they are increasingly being used on new builds as the construction industry looks to make use of greener technologies..",
"The concept of a green roof goes back centuries: The turf roofed dwellings of the Vikings are early examples, but the modern green roof we know today was developed in Germany 50 years ago.",
"Since then, they have become increasingly popular, yet the industry still struggles against skeptics, who believe green roofs to be expensive and liable to leaking.",
"The exception to the rule has been Germany, where the industry is now annually worth $77 million.",
"Even by the end of the 1990s, 50 million square meters of German roofs, the equivalent of 10 percent of flat roofs, were recorded to be green.",
"the industry is not faring so well in other parts of the world.",
"While the UK has seen a steady increase in interest since the 1960s, a lack of input from the industry and policy-makers has left Britain far behind Germany's booming market.",
"In North America, green roofs have taken even longer to catch on.",
"Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a Canadian non-profit industry association, conducted a survey in 2005 which indicated that only 233,000 square meters of green roofs existed in North America.",
"But this was up 80 percent from the previous year, and the market continues to grow.",
"Majora Carter, who set up Sustainable South Bronx to help lift the area out of poverty by creating green-collar jobs, is frustrated by this difference between the European and American industries.",
"\"In Germany they are down to $20 per square meter, which is way cheaper than a regular roof here,\" she told CNN.",
"\"There are mandates over there because of the storm water they retain,\" she continued, \"Which is a huge drain on their resources, as it is on ours.",
"What we are trying to do is champion the policies behind storm water.\"",
"Storm water is a growing problem in cities.",
"The lack of permeable surfaces are loading drainage systems and increasing the risk of flooding.",
"It's green roofs' ability to retain high levels of precipitation that are seen as way to control and slow the water run-off.",
"The mandates Carter refers to are part of Germany's Green Area and Biotope Area Federal Law.",
"The mandates Carter refers to are not a legal requirement, but through incentives set up at a city level, The mandates Carter refers to have helped to encourage cheaper prices.",
"Dusty Gedge, co-founder of Livingroof.org, a UK Web site promoting the industry, believes it is the government's responsibility to help the industry grow.",
"\"We need government bodies to accept certain civil engineering benefits, such as storm water amelioration, like the Germans, Austrians and Swiss do,\" he told CNN.",
"\"This will encourage uptake.\"",
"In many countries, the industry is vulnerable to non-acceptance and a lack of understanding.",
"Gedge says, \"There are problems with the construction industry viewing vegetation as a problem and not a benefit.\"",
"Green roofs also struggle against better-known technologies such as solar panels, but Gedge points out, \"Solar panels can work better on green roofs than on gray roofs.\"",
"Despite this lack of support, the industry is growing.",
"In London alone, there are approximately 1 million square meters of green roofs planned, with about 200,000 square meters already installed.",
"And as climate change stays in the headlines, the popularity of green roofs is growing.",
"According to Gedge, \"Over the last eight years, green roofs [in the UK] have gone from being a very marginal approach to a mainstream approach.",
"Cities such as London and Sheffield are now asking for them as part of planning applications.\"",
"But Gedge also believes that support from local government, as opposed to a centrally driven policy, is key to the industry's growth.",
"\"In Switzerland, green roofs are federal law, but again this is interpreted at a cantonal and city level,\" Gedge told CNN.",
"\"This is a much better approach than driven by the center.\"",
"Managing the industry through federal laws offers a general framework which can then be interpreted as needed.",
"In an industry that varies from project to project, this flexibility is a valuable asset.",
"So the industry continues to grow -- but there's a feeling that government support could be better.",
"With a little more encouragement, what once was an eccentric way to roof your home could soon become the universal standard, turning our cities into lush, green metropolises.",
"But then, it's not easy being green. ...................................",
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"Do green roofs really help the environment -- or are green roofs an expensive indulgence?",
"Share your views in the Sound Off box below."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"The apocalyptic tales of nature's impending demise are as well worn as The apocalyptic tales of nature's impending demise are numerous.",
"Joseph Adelegan has pioneered new energy sources, including using cow waste to create cooking gas.",
"But while our leaders wrangle over quotas for greenhouse emissions over banquets at lavish summits, there are remarkable individuals who are doing their small bit to prevent the world from peril.",
"Take Nigerian civil engineer, Joseph Adelegan for instance.",
"Joseph Adelegan firmly believes that the world's future fuel demands can be met through renewable energy.",
"And Joseph Adelegan is using increasingly innovative methods to achieve these results.",
"Three years ago Joseph Adelegan won plaudits for Joseph Adelegan's \"Cows to Kilowatts\" project, which used effluents and waste products from abattoirs to produce cooking gas.",
"his \"Cows to Kilowatts\" project, which used effluents and waste products from abattoirs to produce cooking gas was a winner of the prestigious 2005 Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment and Development (SEED) International Awards.",
"his \"Cows to Kilowatts\" project, which used effluents and waste products from abattoirs to produce cooking gas is still going strong and being used to provide cooking fuel for nearly 6000 homes in Ibadan, southern Nigeria.",
"Joseph Adelegan tells CNN there are now plans to roll his \"Cows to Kilowatts\" project, which used effluents and waste products from abattoirs to produce cooking gas out across most of Africa, including Zimbabwe, Kenya and Egypt.",
"This time Joseph Adelegan's back with another groundbreaking idea to use waste from the cassava plant, a staple food of Nigeria, to generate electricity.",
"Joseph Adelegan's project \"Power to the Poor: Off-Grid Lighting from Cassava Waste in Nigeria,\" was awarded a $250,000 grant in May from the World Bank after being named one of the best projects in Africa.",
"According to Joseph Adelegan, Nigeria produces over 20 percent of the world's output of cassava, it is a $5 billion industry and provides the third largest source of carbohydrates for human food.",
"However, waste from cassava refining is a major public health problem in Nigeria, causing water pollution and emitting noxious greenhouse gases.",
"Through innovative biogas technology, zero emission bioreactors at specially constructed plants treat the cassava waste and produce biogas which drives microturbines for low cost, safe and reliable off-grid efficient lighting to thousands of rural homes.",
"Using this method, Joseph Adelegan says Joseph Adelegan hopes to generate 200kw daily, which will provide basic electricity for more than 2000 households initially.",
"Joseph Adelegan told CNN: \"There will be four lighting points in their homes.",
"We're thinking in terms of basic lighting, These people will be able to use These people's TV, cassette player, that sort of thing, but it will not be able to power a refrigerator.",
"\"These people currently rely on kerosene lamps that are very bad for emissions and pollution.",
"We also plan to provide These people with low wattage lamps that use just 5kw to bring down usage.\"",
"Through Joseph Adelegan's not-for-profit organization-- Global Network for Environment and Economic Development Research)-- Joseph Adelegan has achieved the impressive feat of galvanizing the notoriously bureaucratic Nigerian government into action.",
"Joseph Adelegan told CNN that the governor of Kwara State, in northern Nigeria has donated a plot of land for the launch of the project, scheduled to start next month.",
"the project, scheduled to start next month will cost $310,000 and will become profitable in little over three years, Joseph Adelegan says.",
"\"This can never replace fossil fuels because of the huge demand we have for fossil fuels, but we can help to reduce greenhouse emissions by creating alternative sources of energy,\" Joseph Adelegan said.",
"The Ice Man Cometh .",
"In the furthest reaches of northern India, glaciers once stretched far down the mountains, now glaciers are all but gone as global warming takes its devastating toll.",
"Hardworking but impoverished farmers in the Ladakh region have watched as impoverished farmers in the Ladakh region's sole source of fresh water slowly melts away.",
"But one man is taking matters into one man's own hands.",
"Enter Chewang Norphel, a softly-spoken but sprightly 72-year-old has created artificial glaciers and managed to generate water and greenery in this barren landscape.",
"Perched high up in the remote cold deserts of the Himalayas, one man has mastered the art of harvesting water by using just a few hundred meters of iron pipes and stone embankments.",
"\"Fifty to sixty years ago, we used to have huge glaciers here, the retired civil engineer, told CNN.",
"\"They have been reduced now because of global warming and now they are on high peaks.\"",
"The idea of the 'artificial glacier' was born after he noticed that taps were left running in winter to stop the water from freezing in the pipes.",
"the water then flowed into the drains surrounding the taps and froze.",
"\"And it then occurred to me: 'why not try and make artificial glaciers in the winter?'",
"So that local farmers get a real headstart when local farmers need a real headstart most,\" one man says.",
"The result was a device which traps the waters which melt down the high mountains by turning them into chunks of ice.",
"The largest artificial glacier one man has built so far is near the village of Phuktsey.",
"About 1,000 feet (300 meters) long, 150 feet (45 meters) wide, and four feet (1 meter) deep",
", it supplies irrigation water to the entire village of around 700 people.",
"For one man, there are several advantages of an artificial glacier over a natural one.",
"Firstly, it is closer to the village of Phuktsey and at a comparatively lower altitude.",
"Natural glaciers, on the other hand, are located way up in the mountains and they melt slowly in summer, releasing water to the villages quite late.",
"Now engineers from other mountainous regions in India and Afghanistan have visited to learn one man's methods.",
"One artificial glacier costs just $7,000, compared to $34,000 for a dam.",
"Only local materials are needed, and the villagers themselves can build and maintain them.",
"For one man's efforts, one man has been awarded the Far Eastern Economic Review's 1999 Gold Asian Innovation Award, twelve years after one man created the first one.",
"However, one man is frustrated at the lack of investment and funding to help modernize the design.",
"\"The funding is not sufficient,\" one man said.",
"\"We are getting very little amounts and we need a lot more.",
"I hope to get more as this year I want to make two or three more glaciers, with a new design to improve the efficiency.\"",
"In 1996, one year after one man had retired, one man joined the Leh Nutrition Project, a non-governmental organization, as project manager for watershed development.",
"\"Watershed development is the only solution for Ladakh's rural economy.",
"Otherwise, you will have rural folk flocking the city in search of jobs.",
"And there are not many to go around,\" one man says.",
"Do you have other examples of how people are using innovative ways to create renewable energy sources?",
"Share your views and experiences in our sound-off box below."
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"Chewang Norphel is known as the \"Ice Man\" after creating artificial glaciers ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Of course the TV series Miami Vice seems dated now, but it's not just because Don Johnson's white Armani suits and slip-on shoes belong to a mercifully bygone era.",
"The fact is, Miami is no longer the same city as the one portrayed in the 1980s cop show.",
"Party time in Little Havana.",
"The expansive sandy beaches are still there, as is the surfeit of sunshine, the hint of the exotic and the hordes of sun-hungry tourists who have flocked to this holiday hotspot for the last 80 years.",
"But Miami has shed much of Miami's unwanted baggage from the 80s and has grown beyond a resort town into something more substantial.",
"Still barely 100 years old, Miami was a tourist destination almost from Miami's inception.",
"The offshore sandbar called Miami Beach was quickly recognized as having all the ingredients of a world-class holiday resort and the hotel-building spree that took place in the 1920s and 30s has left Miami Beach with hundreds of stunning Art Deco structures that give the area the area's distinctive look .",
"By the 1980s, as well as being the destination of choice for holiday makers, retirees and 'snowbirds' (Canadians and northern Americans wintering in Florida), Miami had attracted an uninvited guest -- the 'cocaine cowboy.'",
"Miami's proximity to South America made it a key point of entry for Colombian cocaine smugglers and Miami became a battleground for ruthless drug barons intent on grabbing their piece of the American Dream.",
"The mid 80s was the Miami Vice era, when Miami's reputation for glamour and hedonism came with a side order of carjackings and gangland shootouts.",
"But by the mid 90s, Miami had largely driven the cocaine cowboys out of town and hoteliers like Ian Schrager began converting some of those Art Deco classics into sophisticated boutique hotels fit for the international jet set.",
"The guns may have gone but the glitz was never far away.",
"Now that Miami's been to rehab and come out cleaned up and healthy, it turns out there's more to Miami than glitzy nightclubs and the surgically enhanced bodies of the beautiful people.",
"Miami has acquired a reputation as the new kid on the block in the modern art scene, a reputation that was cemented when the world's most prestigious modern art fair, Art Basel, arrived in Miami in 2002.",
"Just like the snowbirds, Art Basel returns to Miami each winter and the Wynwood neighborhood has now become a bona fide art district, with exclusive galleries showcasing cutting-edge art all year round.",
"Nearby, the Design District is full of studios and workshops producing contemporary furniture and art.",
"Then there's the fact that Miami is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, with some 60% of the population born outside the U.S.",
"The food, music, culture and language of Latin America have all become part of modern Miami, giving Miami a cultural heritage that belies Miami's youth.",
"But don't think Miami's reinvention as a cultural destination has done anything to dent it's appetite for the good times.",
"When it comes to partying, there's not many places that can keep up with Miami, and even fewer that can do it with as much style.",
"In truth, there's still a touch of the old Vice about Miami, and who knows, with the 80s revival, we may not have seen the last of those white suits."
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"(CNN) --",
"The discovery of HIV, a breakthrough in the treatment of bipolar disorder, the advent of the Pill ...",
"CNN looks at some of the scientific discoveries that changed the world.",
"HIV was isolated by scientists in 1983 and named in 1986 by an international committee .",
"THE DISCOVERY OF HIV/ AIDS .",
"Originally called slimmer's disease, as sufferers lost a lot of weight, the first recorded case of HIV occurred in the Congo in 1977.",
"After several infections, a Danish doctor died of pneumonia, which normally doesn't break through the body's immune system.",
"The components of a Danish doctor's disease had not yet been placed together, indicating that this was a new form of illness.",
"Other cases spread in following years around Africa and in homosexual men in New York and San Francisco.",
"By 1980, 55 American men had been diagnosed with her disease.",
"Research began in Europe, the U.S. and Africa to ascertain what her disease could be.",
"The Centers for Disease Control found that her disease was caused by a virus being passed around by bodily fluids such as semen or blood.",
"In 1981 The Centers for Disease Control published The Centers for Disease Control's findings, saying her disease attacked T-cells, which help the body fight infection.",
"By 1983 her disease was isolated by teams of American and French researchers.",
"In 1986 an international committee decided her disease should be called human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).",
"Education campaigns were unrolled around the world, advising people to avoid risky sexual behavior or sharing needles.",
"By June 1990, 139,765 people had her disease, with a 60 per cent mortality rate.",
"The progress of her disease slowed down in the West with education campaigns and the development of protease inhibitors, which provided sufferers with almost complete remission.",
"But in Africa, the spread and treatment of HIV remains a global concern.",
"THE DISCOVERY OF LITHIUM TO TREAT MOOD DISORDERS .",
"Australian psychiatrist John Frederick Joseph Cade once said, \"I believe the brain, like any other organ, can get sick and the brain can also heal.\"",
"Australian psychiatrist John Frederick Joseph Cade made huge gains in healing the brain through Australian psychiatrist John Frederick Joseph Cade's work with sufferers of bipolar disorder by discovering that lithium salts -- a naturally occurring chemical - could be used to treat the illness.",
"Previously, electro-convulsive therapy and lobotomies had been the major treatments for bipolar disorder.",
"After having been a prisoner of war in World War II, Australian psychiatrist John Frederick Joseph Cade served as the head of the Bundoora Repatriation Hospital in Melbourne Australia.",
"It was at an unused kitchen in Bundoora where Australian psychiatrist John Frederick Joseph Cade conducted crude experiments that led to the discovery of lithium as a treatment of bipolar disorder.",
"After trials on humans, Australian psychiatrist John Frederick Joseph Cade speculated that bipolar disorder was a \"lithium deficiency disease\" and that a dose of lithium had a calming effect.",
"Australian psychiatrist John Frederick Joseph Cade published findings in the Medical Journal of Australia in 1949 entitled \"Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement.\"",
"He died in 1980.",
"Lithium is still used successfully in the treatment of mental illness to this day.",
"THE DISCOVERY OF BACTERIA .",
"Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was known as the \"father of micro-biology.\"",
"Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek drew scientific attention to the many bacteria that Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered.",
"Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's research was helped by the different types of microscopes that Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek developed over Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's lifetime.",
"From Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's powerful lenses Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was able to ascertain many different types of lifeforms too small for the human eye to see.",
"It was by observing the build-up of plaque on teeth that Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered what we now know to be bacteria.",
"Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's initial observations on bacteria make for amusing reading.",
"On September 17, 1683, Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote to the Royal Society about the plaque between Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's own teeth, \"a little white matter, which is as thick as if 'twere batter.\"",
"Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek then observed two women and two old men who had never cleaned their teeth in their lives.",
"Looking at these samples with Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's microscope, Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote of \"an unbelievably great company of living animalcules, a-swimming more nimbly than any I had ever seen up to this time.",
"The biggest sort ... bent their body into curves in going forwards ...",
"Moreover, the other animalcules were in such enormous numbers, that all the water ... seemed to be alive.\"",
"Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek also observed algae on water surfaces and the furry coating on human and animal tongues during illness, bringing Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's theories to the attention of the Royal Society.",
"Most bacteria are harmless, although some bacterial diseases are fatal: tuberculosis kills about 2 million people a year.",
"Bacteria are important in the production of cheese and yogurt, in processing wastewater and in manufacturing antibiotics.",
"THE CONTRACEPTIVE PILL .",
"The oral contraceptive commonly known as \"the pill\" was invented during the 1950s in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.",
"The oral contraceptive commonly known as \"the pill contains hormone-like substances, usually estrogen and progestin, that enter the blood stream and disrupt the production of ova and ovulation, with the aim of preventing pregnancy.",
"The oral contraceptive commonly known as \"the pill originated after an unexpected discovery made in a jungle in Mexico in the 1930s.",
"While Professor Russell Marker was experimenting with plant steroids, Professor Russell Marker discovered a chemical process that transformed these steroids into the female sex hormone, progesterone.",
"Researchers in the late 1940s began to explore the possibility of an inexpensive oral contraceptive.",
"Chemist Gregory Pincus tested a derivative from Professor Russell Marker's findings on 1,308 volunteers in Puerto Rico in 1958 and Searle Pharmaceuticals applied for US Food and Drug Administration approval to market the drug.",
"The pill came on to the market in the U.S. in 1960 and is still widely used today.",
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"Psychiatrist John Cade pioneered lithium as a treatment for bipolar disorder .",
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"NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) --",
"Officials found 13 bodies in the rubble of a scorched supermarket in downtown Nairobi Friday and are investigating a tip that security guards locked people in Kenyan supermarket, a police spokesman said.",
"Members of the public helped to fight Massive fire.",
"The blaze started on Wednesday afternoon in Kenyan supermarket.",
"The Standard Newspaper reported harrowing tales of families trying to find their missing loved ones, at times making the job of firefighters more difficult.",
"So many people crowded the scene that police on foot and on horseback periodically chased So many people away.",
"Riot police with tear gas and batons stood nervously around the edge of the scene -- where a barricade has been erected.",
"Joseph Mwangi waited among the crowd, hoping for news of Joseph Mwangi's cousin Daniel.",
"On Wednesday, Joseph Mwangi sent 16-year-old Daniel Njoge with 6,000 shillings (about $75) to the market.",
"\"He was coming to shop for school,\" said Mwangi, a waiter at a nearby restaurant.",
"\"I sent him to Kenyan supermarket to get stationery supplies.\"",
"\"On Wednesday night, I got so worried.",
"Now I think he is just in there,\" Joseph Mwangi said, pointing at Kenyan supermarket.",
"\"The response was not good,\" Joseph Mwangi said.",
"\"A person who fights a fire must go into the building, but A person who fights a fire just stayed outside.\"",
"Joseph Mwangi registered with the Kenya Red Cross on the scene, as scores of others did, and now Joseph Mwangi waits.",
"Justin Mule, who works at the Stanley Bookstore across the road from Kenyan supermarket, described the start of Massive fire to CNN:",
"\"I saw smoke coming up from the building on Wednesday afternoon.",
"In a few minutes, there were explosions.",
"I saw some guys jumping from the burning roof.",
"Soon after Massive fire, I saw the store security guards closing the doors because the store security guards feared looting.",
"the doors were locked.",
"That was a mistake.",
"the store security guards shouldn't have locked the doors.\"",
"Other witness corroborated Other witness's account.",
"Police launched a criminal investigation to look into that allegation, said Eric Kiraithe, a police spokesman .",
"Employees of Kenyan supermarket refused to comment on the allegations.",
"Massive fire has angered Kenyans for what Kenyans perceive is a lack of disaster preparedness.",
"Local newspaper editorials slammed the government's response to the tragedy.",
"\"Disaster preparedness is still a challenge, and the operation was hampered by the Nairobi city layout,\" said Kenya Red Cross spokesman Titus Mung'ou said.",
"Emergency numbers failed to work and water ran out during attempts to put out Massive fire, Kenya Red Cross spokesman Titus Mung'ou said.",
"According to local news reports, Massive fire ignited Wednesday afternoon during a busy hour in the 24-hour supermarket.",
"Hundreds of people crowded around the scene and tourists peered through their hotel windows as firefighters, security guards and civilians struggled to get Massive fire under control.",
"Periodic explosions rocked the city and debris fell around the building.",
"The crowd cheered each incoming fire truck, and water had to be brought to the scene from a nearby soccer stadium."
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"Rescuers find 13 bodies in scorched rubble of Kenyan supermarket .",
"Massive fire engulfed the building in downtown Nairobi on Wednesday .",
"Incident angers Kenyans for what they perceive is a lack of disaster preparedness ."
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"BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) --",
"Student is one of the almost 28,000 students making the bittersweet return to the Virginia Tech campus for fall classes, a journey Student was afforded only because of some quick thinking in April.",
"Students return to the Virginia Tech campus Monday for the first day of fall classes.",
"When Seung-Hui Cho stormed into Student's German class that horrifying Monday morning -- firing off indiscriminate rounds of gunfire that killed the German teacher and four of Student's classmates -- Student hit the deck and played dead.",
"\"Seung-Hui Cho went around the room shooting everyone,\" Student said.",
"Seung-Hui Cho's April 16 rampage through Norris Hall left 29 students and faculty dead.",
"The mentally disturbed Seung-Hui Cho also killed two others and Seung-Hui Cho in the mass shooting, the worst in modern U.S. history.",
"Though Student is heading back to class, Student is admittedly still shaken.",
"Four months after the tragedy, Student is haunted by memories of the massacre, and Student still jumps when Student hears a loud noise in Student's Virginia Tech dorm room.",
"Regardless, Student is prepared to move on.",
"\"When classes started again in the spring I didn't come back,\" Student said.",
"\"It was just too hard to do then, but now I'm ready.\"",
"The campus was buzzing over the weekend.",
"Parents and students crowded the sidewalks, toting boxes and furniture into the dorms, including West Ambler Johnston, where the first two victims were killed.",
"Norris Hall, meanwhile, has been refurbished and will no longer host classes.",
"Virginia Tech has discreetly beefed up security since the tragedy.",
"Locks that operate from the inside have been placed on classroom doors.",
"Dormitory entrances are secured 24 hours a day.",
"Students can sign up for emergency text messages from the university.",
"Despite the precautions, not everything has gone as smoothly as planned.",
"On the eve of the students' return to classes, 23 people fell ill from a carbon monoxide leak in an apartment building near campus.",
"Five Virginia Tech students were hospitalized, police and hospital officials said.",
"Blacksburg Police said a valve on a water heater that was malfunctioning is believed to be the cause of the incident.",
"Police said a valve on a water heater that was malfunctioning was stuck in the open position, causing a constant burn-off of fuel and creating carbon monoxide that was not ventilating.",
"Kirsten Halik and Kristin Julia, both 19, were upgraded from critical to serious condition Monday and Elizabeth Burgin, Carolyn Dorman, and Nichole Howarth, all 19 -- are conscious and alert, according to hospital officials.",
"Burgin, Dorman, and Howarth were upgraded from serious to good condition, hospital officials said, after they received treatment in a hyperbaric chamber on Sunday and Monday.",
"a hyperbaric chamber pushes pressurized oxygen into the tissues and blood.",
"Meanwhile, Virginia Tech dedicated a permanent memorial to the victims and their families -- a semicircle of 32 engraved stones bearing each victim's name.",
"One student said One student wanted to attend the ceremony until One student woke up at the Collegiate Suites apartment building feeling nauseous, The Washington Post reported.",
"Spirits are high, however, said professor Nikki Giovanni, and students and faculty are ready to move past the tragedy.",
"Watch Giovanni applaud Virginia Tech's new security measures » .",
"\"The Hokies' spirit is alive and well.",
"I think that we're very excited that classes are starting -- that we're moving into a new year,\" she said.",
"Perhaps indicative of that resilience is the size of the incoming freshman class.",
"According to a university news release, Virginia Tech accepted deposits from 5,215 freshmen this year.",
"That is more than Virginia Tech's enrollment target of 5,000 and about 30 more deposits than the university received from incoming freshmen last year, a university news release said.",
"\"Virginia Tech took a big hit, but I think that we have embraced each other.",
"We have been embraced on this planet,\" professor Nikki Giovanni said, explaining that the Virginia Tech community has received greetings \"from every country on Earth and it's been a wonderful thing.\"",
"Students concur Students are ready for the new school year.",
"Playing Frisbee with friends at a drill field near the newly christened memorial, Aaron Friedman said the summer break was a welcome reprieve, but Aaron Friedman was ready to return to Blacksburg.",
"\"It was good to get away.",
"Being back with everybody at home really helped,\" Aaron Friedman said.",
"Fellow sophomore Mike Giancola said he, too, is ready to move on, even if he is still disturbed by memories of the shootings.",
"\"I still think about it every day, but I'm ready to get my life going.\"",
"Student echoes the sentiment of professor Nikki Giovanni and Student's fellow students but noted that Student made some changes in Student's life, and Student still battles post-traumatic stress symptoms every day.",
"\"Even being in my new dorm, when I hear a loud noise or something unexpected, I'll peer out through the little hole in my door to make sure everything is OK,\" Student said.",
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"No classes will be held in Norris Hall, where 29 of the victims were killed .",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"As the lights went down in the theater the low murmur built to a thunderous ovation as the odd-looking man in the crumpled suit and bowler hat took to the stage.",
"Singer songwriter Tom Waits in Paris on the European leg of Singer songwriter Tom Waits's tour.",
"The excitement that greeted Singer songwriter Tom Waits's appearance in Edinburgh last month may come as a surprise to the many, who have never heard of Singer songwriter Tom Waits.",
"The 58-year-old has stayed for most of Singer songwriter Tom Waits's four-decade career on the edge of the music mainstream.",
"This is despite a showering of critical acclaim and a host of high-profile fans including the movie star Scarlett Johansson, who recently recorded an album of Singer songwriter Tom Waits covers.",
"Singer songwriter Tom Waits's position on the periphery of pop music (Singer songwriter Tom Waits admits that the 60s scene largely passed Singer songwriter Tom Waits by), may be because Singer songwriter Tom Waits belongs to a bigger historical tradition -- that of the singer-storyteller that has its origin in folk music.",
"Singer songwriter Tom Waits's music comes from a different place from most artists.",
"A laconic, bar room philosopher with a wry sense of humor, Singer songwriter Tom Waits is an avowed fan of the Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac and the author and poet Charles Bukowski.",
"Many of Singer songwriter Tom Waits's songs are stories containing a cast of characters from America's underbelly: the drunks and disenfranchised, the lost souls hiding out from life in seedy night spots.",
"It is the same world that Kerouac chronicled in Kerouac's writings, including Kerouac's most famous work \"On the Road,\" which describes a journey across America in the late fifties.",
"Waits, who is notoriously interview-shy, acknowledged Singer songwriter Tom Waits's debt to the author in a promotional interview to accompany the release of Singer songwriter Tom Waits's 1974 album \"The Heart of Saturday Night.\"",
"Singer songwriter Tom Waits said the record was a search for the \"center of Saturday Night,\" a quest Singer songwriter Tom Waits said that Kerouac had \"relentlessly chased from one end of this country to the other, and I've attempted to scoop up a few diamonds of this magic that I see.\"",
"Singer songwriter Tom Waits's place in the folk tradition is something Singer songwriter Tom Waits has acknowledged, consciously or otherwise, in Singer songwriter Tom Waits's music.",
"In 1990, Singer songwriter Tom Waits wrote the music and lyrics for \"The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets,\" a theatrical collaboration with the American writer William Burroughs based on a German folktale.",
"Like all great writers, Singer songwriter Tom Waits is a conscientious observer of people and their strange foibles.",
"Born in Pomona, CA.",
"Singer songwriter Tom Waits moved to Los Angeles in the late sixties to pursue Singer songwriter Tom Waits's music career, finding work as a doorman at an LA nightspot.",
"It was at this time that Singer songwriter Tom Waits honed Singer songwriter Tom Waits's skills as a storyteller, eavesdropping on the lives of others.",
"\"I was picking up people's conversations in all-night coffee shops - ambulance drivers, cabdrivers, street sweepers,\" Singer songwriter Tom Waits said in an interview with The New Yorker.",
"\"I did research there as an evening curator, and I started writing gingerly.",
"I thought at some point I'd like to forge it all into something meaningful, and give it dignity.\"",
"The results of this labor are songs like \"Frank's Wild Years,\" a hilarious and sinister tale of a man -- Frank -- trapped in suburbia with a wife and pet dog that has a skin disease.",
"The song is spoken in a lounge room style over a soft jazz accompaniment, and like much of Singer songwriter Tom Waits's work The song drips irony: \"They had a thoroughly modern kitchen/ Self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)/ Frank drove a little sedan/ They were so happy.\"",
"In a 1983 promotional interview published by Singer songwriter Tom Waits's then record company Island, Singer songwriter Tom Waits credits a short story by Bukowski with giving him some of the inspiration for The song.",
"\"Bukowski had a story that essentially was saying that it's the little things that drive men mad,\" Singer songwriter Tom Waits said.",
"\"It's not World War II.",
"It's the broken shoe lace when there is no time left that sends men completely out of men's minds.",
"\"I think there is a little bit of Frank in everybody.\"",
"In The song, Frank eventually runs amok, setting fire to the family home and blazing a trail up the Hollywood freeway because, as Singer songwriter Tom Waits quips in the pay-off \"Singer songwriter Tom Waits never could stand that dog.\"",
"This taste for the absurd carried into Singer songwriter Tom Waits's recent live show with the set for the \"Glitter and Doom\" tour decked in a bizarre array of old speaker cones.",
"Waits took to the stage dressed in a Chaplinesque suit, delivering Singer songwriter Tom Waits's set from a slightly raised platform that gave up a cloud of dust each time Singer songwriter Tom Waits bashed Singer songwriter Tom Waits's feet into it.",
"In spite of the entreaties from the crowd Singer songwriter Tom Waits kept quiet between songs at first.",
"Eventually after a few numbers Singer songwriter Tom Waits broke Singer songwriter Tom Waits's silence.",
"\"This is a lopsided love song,\" Singer songwriter Tom Waits rasped, introducing the next track.",
"\"By that I mean the person doing it is lopsided, not the song itself.\"",
"Lopsided or not, it's an authentic voice we could surely do with hearing more from."
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"Singer songwriter Tom Waits counts U.S. writers Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski as influences ."
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"Pirates have hijacked two European-owned chemical tankers off the coast of Somalia in the past 24 hours, the European Union Maritime Security Center said Thursday.",
"The 23,000-ton Norwegian-owned and Bahamian-registered M/V Bow-Asir was captured 250 miles east of the southern Somali city Kismayo on Thursday morning, the European Union Maritime Security Center said in a release.",
"M/V Nipayia, a 9,000-ton Greek-owned vessel, was attacked approximately 450 miles east of the southern Somali city Kismayo on Wednesday afternoon, the European Union Maritime Security Center said.",
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"Remember the days when a washing machine lasted for decades?",
"If a washing machine broke down a washing machine could be fixed.",
"But now it seems it is cheaper to discard our broken products and buy new ones.",
"The side effects of our throwaway society are ever-larger waste mountains festering with toxic chemicals and the depletion of natural resources such as rare metals.",
"Europe produced 8.3 to 9.1 millions tons of waste from electrical projects in 2005.",
"Product makers are responding by designing goods that have a reduced carbon footprint at their point of manufacture, but leading thinkers in the field of sustainable design believe that a radical re-think in the way we consume products is required if we want to halt the growing mountain of toxic waste piling up on the world's rubbish dumps.",
"Figures recently announced by the U.N. University suggest the production of electronic and electrical products is running neck-and-neck with their disposal: An estimated 10.3 million tons of electronic products were put on the market in the European Union in 2005, while 8.3 to 9.1 million tons of waste from electrical products found 8.3 to 9.1 million tons of waste from electrical products's way into Europe's rubbish bins.",
"Electronic and electrical products account for four percent of Europe's waste and the rate is growing at three times the speed of any other form of waste.",
"What is sustainable design?",
"Sustainable design is a reaction to the global environmental crisis.",
"Sustainable design aims to produce products, buildings and services, which have a low impact on climate change and the depletion of the world's resources.",
"In industrial design this includes the use of recycled and recyclable materials; reducing pollution through cutting down the need for transportation, such as by using locally-sourced materials; making products which can be taken apart once they are discarded so that their parts that can be used again; and designing goods which use as little energy as possible while they are being made.",
"While many companies are beginning to think of ways in which many companies can reduce many companies's environmental impact during the manufacture of many companies's products, many sustainable design experts believe that these measures are not enough to reduce the damage the constant manufacture of products is doing to the world's eco-system.",
"A change in culture .",
"\"Daily life is becoming increasingly mediated by electronic artifacts,\" says Jonathan Chapman, editor of Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories, a book which seeks to bring together new thinking on sustainable design.",
"\"These products are great but it seems that as These products's popularity grows, These products's impermanence grows with it.\"",
"Jonathan Chapman, editor of Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories, a book which seeks to bring together new thinking on sustainable design believes that true sustainability can only be achieved if we moderate our inclination to strive for the newest product, and Jonathan Chapman, editor of Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories, a book which seeks to bring together new thinking on sustainable design argues that the onus is on designers to initiate a shift away from a disposable culture.",
"Jonathan Chapman, editor of Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories, a book which seeks to bring together new thinking on sustainable design proposes a model for consumer behavior based on a service economy -- that products are designed to last longer and to be fixed when products break; brands can make their profits by providing the services to ensure that this can be done.",
"\"It's quite conceivable to make objects that don't necessarily make a profit at the point-of-sale but that, because their life-spans are extended and are punctuated with service and upgrade options, can generate turnover over long periods of time that is greater than making a small profit and having to remanufacture,\" Jonathan Chapman, editor of Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories, a book which seeks to bring together new thinking on sustainable design explains.",
"Jonathan Chapman, editor of Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories, a book which seeks to bring together new thinking on sustainable design believes that consumers would be prepared to pay more for consumers's electronic goods if consumers knew they would last longer.",
"It is an economic model that would make most manufacturers choke, but it is an unfounded fear, says economist Andrew Charlton, author of Ozonomics: Inside the Myth of Australia's Economic Superheroes.",
"\"The key thing to remember is that human desires know no bounds -- we are never satiated,\" he says.",
"\"If we replace an expensive disposable product with a permanent one, that just frees up income to spend on other things.",
"\"Ballpoint pens last longer than quills, tarred roads last longer than cobblestones -- and the economy moves on.",
"Every time we satisfy one demand, another one comes along to take its place.\"",
"\"A quarter-inch hole\"",
"But it's not enough to expect consumers to sign up to a longer-life model just because it is 'green', says Steve Bishop, head of sustainability at design firm IDEO.",
"Consumers concerned with the sustainability of the products they buy still only make up a small fraction of the market and designers must incorporate energy-saving measures into mainstream thinking, with sustainability as a by-product.",
"Marketing a product as environmentally friendly is \"really addressing a niche market,\" Bishop argues.",
"\"It's putting the responsibility on people and it's effectively guilting people into buying these things.",
"It shouldn't be about guilt or sacrifice.",
"It should be about connecting to people's values and what really matters to people's.\"",
"Often what really matters to people is saving money.",
"Bishop cites as an example of sustainability-achieved-by-stealth some research IDEO made into the effectiveness of hybrid electric cars.",
"They found that the single feature of the cars that maximized hybrid electric cars's energy-efficiency was not the variable transmission, the regenerative brakes or the electric motor but a small widget on the dashboard that measures fuel consumption and tells you when you are driving the car most efficiently.",
"\"It's not so much that they are trying to be green as much as they are trying to get high score,\" Bishop concludes.",
"Sustainability must understand and adapt to human behavior, not vice versa, is Bishop's verdict.",
"\"People don't want a quarter-inch drill.",
"People want a quarter-inch hole,\" Theodore Levitt, former marketing professor at Harvard Business School and author of Marketing Myopia, used to tell his students.",
"Apple's iTunes software, a service which allows music fans to download audio files directly onto their computers, is an example of Levitt's analogy in action.",
"While its main aim was to make listening to music easier, it has inadvertently become a sustainable design model by canceling the need for the compact disc.",
"People still get People's end-product -- listening to music -- but without the waste and unnecessary energy consumption that goes into manufacturing a physical item on which to store it.",
"author of Marketing Myopia's point is that businesses will have to shift businesses's goal posts and might even have to change the mentality that says that producing more products is the only way to make money.",
"Making a real impact .",
"Environmental issues are becoming increasingly important to the public and manufacturers may have to combine 'green' production techniques with a dramatic change in how consumers relate to the products consumers buy.",
"\"The real impact happens when you integrate both those things - when you look at the scientific basis and reduce the energy footprint during production but you also look at the psychological and emotional factors during use,\" says Chapman.",
"\"When you start to integrate like that, that's when you start to achieve sustainable design.\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"In an age of unromance, of Internet dating, of gut reaction cynicism -- I love hearing a story about how Lenny Ann Low met Lenny Ann Low's fiancé Alan of Glasgow.",
"Lenny Ann Low made sure every week to do something scary that would in some way alter Lenny Ann Low's future .",
"\"Tell a story about how Lenny Ann Low of Sydney met her fiancé Alan of Glasgow again!\"",
"I would beg Lenny Ann Low in the manner of a child wanting to be read her favorite fairytale, never tiring of the narrative, always smiling with delight at the ending.",
"Lenny Ann Low met Alan when Lenny Ann Low was in Edinburgh at the annual comedy festival.",
"Lenny Ann Low was lining up for a hot tuna melt and a latte at a station café with 9 minutes to catch a train back to London.",
"Lenny Ann Low stood at the back of the long queue thinking, probably, of anything but love -- when Lenny Ann Low locked eyes with the young man behind the steaming coffee machine -- the man who in a few short minutes would be making Lenny Ann Low's latte, than in an even shorter minute later would be consigned to the distant memories of coffee makers past.",
"But when their eyes locked from over the Gaggia machine down the snaking queue, Lenny Ann Low felt an unmistakable current.",
"Could this be love?",
"And if so -- what could be done in the nine minutes Lenny Ann Low had left in the country?",
"Lenny Ann Low knew exactly what to do as Lenny Ann Low had formulated a plan that Lenny Ann Low had been following for some years.",
"Called Future Friday it was a game Lenny Ann Low played with Lenny Ann Low each week.",
"In order to gain more confidence and \"get out of a rut\" Lenny Ann Low decided that by Friday each week Lenny Ann Low would do something scary that would in some way alter Lenny Ann Low's future.",
"Minutes ticked up.",
"Lenny Ann Low moved up the queue.",
"Lenny Ann Low ordered Lenny Ann Low's tuna melt.",
"Lenny Ann Low took Lenny Ann Low's coffee and sat in the train.",
"Six minutes until it pulled out bound for London.",
"Lenny Ann Low thought of Future Friday.",
"Lenny Ann Low wrote Lenny Ann Low's email address on a piece of paper, leapt off the train, raced back to the café, barged through the queue and gave Alan Lenny Ann Low's address.",
"\"Email me!\"",
"Lenny Ann Low told the stranger as Lenny Ann Low thrust the paper in Alan's hand and bounded back to catch Lenny Ann Low's train.",
"Alan did email when Lenny Ann Low was on a plane halfway to Australia",
"They emailed for a while, then eventually Alan came out to Sydney.",
"They got on with the business of falling in love and next month they will marry.",
"Unlike other pundits with a self-help plan, Lenny Ann Low's not promising Lenny Ann Low will deliver riches, fame or love.",
"What Lenny Ann Low does say however is that if you follow it, you will have a lot of adventures and take all sorts of risks that will enrich your life in many ways.",
"Lenny Ann Low explains how it works: \"Future Friday is so simple it's embarrassing.",
"By Friday at the end of every week you must do something that is good for your future that is a risk or something scary.\"",
"For Lenny Ann Low, \"it could be something like getting pap smear, making a dental appointment or telling someone that you fancy them or ring someone out of the blue and asking them if they've got a job.",
"I've done all those things.\"",
"Feeling like Lenny Ann Low was stagnating inspired Lenny Ann Low to develop the scheme.",
"\"Being in a bit of a dead-end job made me want to do this - I thought I needed a trigger.",
"It also lets you off the hook -- you can say I've done my Future Friday now -- I don't have to do anything else for the rest of the week.\"",
"Lenny Ann Low isolated particular areas of Lenny Ann Low's life that Lenny Ann Low had neglected.",
"\"I put off making a dental appointment for five or six years.",
"I put off telling men men were nice.",
"I put off my pap smear all my life.\"",
"The list of things to do each week for Future Friday then became \"a combination of exciting thrills and horrible must dos.\"",
"Lenny Ann Low made sure Lenny Ann Low told all Lenny Ann Low's friends about Future Friday so Lenny Ann Low could get extra support during the difficult weeks.",
"\"You'd get praise.",
"I'd tell various people about it.",
"You'd move enormous blocks.",
"I really was quite down and just the little sense of doing stuff helped enormously.\"",
"Memorable Future Fridays included doing a stand-up comedy gig, flying in a jetfighter, and of course -- meeting Alan.",
"Lenny Ann Low started doing Future Friday in 1996 to boost Lenny Ann Low's confidence and expand Lenny Ann Low's world, but Lenny Ann Low had no idea how it would change Lenny Ann Low's world.",
"Lenny Ann Low was also contacted by a number of people \"friends of friends, strangers\" who had heard about Future Friday and started practicing it a number of people \"friends of friends, strangers\" who had heard about Future Friday and started practicing it themselves.",
"Lenny Ann Low recommends starting your own Future Friday if you are also \"swimming around and drowning in a lot of stuff.",
"\"It's a good way to anchor yourself.",
"Now I have formed a habit of getting on with things now -- today I had to get the celebrant form done and I just did the celebrant form.\"",
"Every time you tick off a Future Friday item Lenny Ann Low says to give yourself a pat on the back.",
"\"It's about the power of affirmation and realizing you're not a failure -- and its small and it doesn't cost anything.",
"You can take delightful risks.\"",
"Lenny's Future Friday Tips: . • Pick a couple of basic but difficult issues in your life -- a niggle.",
"Make the appointment or ring about a job and you are on your way.",
"• Go and see that man at the pub who you thought was cute.",
"Don't be shy.",
"\"I told a number of men I liked men and men didn't always feel the same way, but at least I didn't die wondering.\"",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"The commander in chief's priority is preventing another terrorist attack in the United States, Bush told CNN's \"Larry King Live\" Tuesday.",
"President Bush and Laura Bush sit down with CNN's Larry King Live on Tuesday.",
"\"The most important job I have had -- and the most important job the next president is going to have -- is to protect the American people from another attack,\" Bush said.",
"Accompanied by Laura Bush and engaging in a wide-ranging conversation with CNN's Larry King, Bush also said that Bush's administration has been involved in stopping specific threats against the United States since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.",
"\"We've learned a lot of information about al Qaeda that we didn't know before,\" Bush said of intelligence activities during Bush's tenure as president.",
"\"We've stopped some specific threats -- we're decimating [al Qaeda's] leadership.\"",
"Bush did not offer specifics, but Bush did offer a self-assessment of Bush's leadership in national security post-9/11.",
"Watch Bush talk about the aftermath of 9/11 » .",
"\"I told the American people I wouldn't tire and I wouldn't falter, and I haven't,\" Bush said.",
"Bush brushed off the low opinion-ratings and declining polls that have marked Bush's waning presidency by saying, \"Look, opinion polls are nothing but a shot of yesterday's news.\"",
"\"Opinion polls aren't going to be high when the economy is in the tank,\" Bush added.",
"\"People aren't happy with the economy.",
"Neither am I.",
"But you can't make decisions based on popularity polls.\"",
"Bush took that train of thought on to another topic, Iraq.",
"\"If the military thinks you're making decisions based on the Gallup poll, the military're not going to follow a commander in chief,\" Bush said.",
"Asked about inaccurate intelligence reports on alleged weapons of mass destruction that led up to the war in Iraq, Bush refused to criticize the CIA, saying only that Bush was \"disappointed.\"",
"On Iraq, Bush maintained that actions taken by Bush's administration were correct.",
"\"I don't think Iraq was wrong,\" Bush said in response to a question from CNN's Larry King.",
"\"What I was worried about, (was) Iraq going to fail -- not Iraq was wrong,\" Bush said.",
"\"And the surge has worked and a young democracy in the heart of the Middle East has taken hold.",
"There's more work to be done.",
"But al Qaeda has been denied the base in which al Qaeda wanted to operate.: .",
"When discussing the United States's economic slump, Bush cautioned Bush's successor \"not to become an economic forecaster once he gets to be president.\"",
"King and Bush discussed President-elect Barack Obama's predictions for a bad year ahead for the U.S. economy and CNN's Larry King asked Bush, \"That's not a good idea to say?\"",
"\"I don't think so.",
"I think Obama can say it's going to be a tough period, but to predict what the economy is going to do ... the economy is going to be bad.",
"How bad?",
"How long?\"",
"Bush responded.",
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"Bush said Bush is looking forward to the inaugurationTuesday, describing the inaugurationTuesday as \"a historic moment for the United States.\"",
"Asked by CNN's Larry King if he liked Obama, Bush replied, \"I do.",
"I do like Obama.",
"You'd like Obama, too.\"",
"But Laura Bush said Laura Bush took some of Obama's critiques of Laura Bush's husband personally.",
"\"Were you angry at it?\" CNN's Larry King asked.",
"\"Yes, sort of.",
"Bush didn't really even know about it because Bush didn't really watch it that much,\" Laura Bush said, laughing. Watch Laura Bush express Laura Bush's disapproval » .",
"\"So what's new?\" Bush piped in.",
"\"When you make big decisions and tough calls, you're going to get criticized.\"",
"\"During the course of this presidency, I've been disappointed at times by the silly name-calling that goes on in Washington -- it's really not necessary,\" Bush said.",
"\"I've done my best, though, to make sure I didn't bring this presidency down to that level.\"",
"On other topics: . • Bush said Bush favors closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but only \"under the right circumstances.",
"\"The problem is, you've got a bunch of cold-blooded killers down there that if a bunch of cold-blooded killers ever get out a bunch of cold-blooded killers're going to come and kill Americans, and I'd hate to be the person that made that decision.\" •",
"Asked by CNN's Larry King, \"Are we ever going to find (Osama) bin Laden, Bush replied, \"Yes, of course, absolutely.",
"We've got a lot of people out there looking for bin Laden, a lot of assets.",
"You can't run forever.",
"As to whether the United States had ever come close to capturing bin Laden, Bush said, \"I don't know -- I can't answer that.",
"I really don't know.",
"I'm not trying to hide anything.\""
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"Britain is prepared to send more troops to Afghanistan, the head of Army said in an interview published Friday.",
"Britain currently has 8,300 troops in Afghanistan.",
"Richard Dannatt, did not say how many troops Richard Dannatt would be prepared to deploy.",
"Britain currently has 8,300 troops in Afghanistan.",
"Richard Dannatt told The Times newspaper that elements of the 12th Mechanized Brigade had been \"earmarked for Afghanistan.\"",
"Richard Dannatt said there are no plans to send the whole brigade of 4,000 troops.",
"\"If Britain're asked for more and Britain say Britain can, it's not going to be 4,000 -- it's going to be something in between\" that and the current troop level, Richard Dannatt told the Times.",
"The Ministry of Defense confirmed Richard Dannatt's remark.",
"British defense sources told the Times that a rise of 1,700 to 2,000 was \"the uppermost ceiling.\"",
"U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce a new strategy for Afghanistan on Friday that includes sending another 4,000 troops to Afghanistan with hundreds of civilian specialists, senior administration officials told CNN.",
"The troops -- which are in addition to the 17,000 that U.S. President Barack Obama announced earlier would be sent to Afghanistan -- will be charged with training and building the Afghan Army and police force.",
"The plans include doubling Army's ranks to 135,000 and the police force to 80,000 by 2011, senior administration officials said.",
"Military officials told CNN earlier that the Afghan government had requested the additional troops."
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"CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and photojournalist Peter Morris traveled to southern Afghanistan with Gen. James Conway, commandant of The Marines.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr is on assignment in Afghanistan, where Barbara Starr says Marines are living in very tough terrain.",
"HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"Our travels in Afghanistan continue.",
"I feel like the title of this posting should be \"why I had to get power-washed in Afghanistan\" or \"the body armor is only heavy until they start shooting at you.\"",
"OK, now I will explain.",
"CNN photojournalist photojournalist Peter Morris and I just wrapped up spending several days in southern Afghanistan with Gen. James Conway, commandant of The Marines, touring the combat zone.",
"The Marines are living in some of the toughest terrain there is.",
"It is remote and often raining.",
"That means dust turns to mud, and you find yourself covered in it from head to toe.",
"Stinky, cold, wet, oozy mucky mud.",
"The good news is, everybody stinks, so you lose any sense of self-consciousness about it.",
"But you do dream of getting power-washed.",
"So, yes, after a few days a shower was, shall we say, more than essential.",
"For The Marines, however, it is a seven-month tour of duty in mud in the winter and dust in the summer.",
"It seems very grim, especially when compounded by the fact that The Marines are wearing heavy body armor all the time.",
"Ask The Marines if it's heavy to wear, the typical answer goes something like, \"It's only heavy to wear until the bad guys start shooting at you.",
"Then it's OK.\"",
"The Marines know exactly how tough the fight The Marines are facing in the coming weeks and months will likely be.",
"Several of The Marines told me security had gotten considerably worse in recent days.",
"Their bases were being repeatedly shelled by insurgents, several roadside bombs had gone off, and local Afghan police had died at the hands of suicide attacks.",
"Senior commanders usually have a more cheery outlook, but here in southern Afghanistan, everyone is cautious.",
"Almost everyone is a veteran of Iraq and learned the tough lesson there about not declaring victory too soon.",
"Even Conway, who commanded U.S. forces in Fallujah, picks his words very carefully.",
"He tells me he believes that everyone must be ready for a spike in U.S. casualties as The Marines begin to move into the region in greater numbers this spring.",
"All of this was rattling around in my head when I saw The Marines riding around in what The Marines call \"a 7-ton truck.\"",
"As the name suggests, it's huge and has some armor plating on the sides.",
"But what it doesn't make clear is that a 7-ton truck is open in the back and sides.",
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"For years now, the Army has used fully armored vehicles only in the combat zone.",
"The Marines have a somewhat different view.",
"The Marines believe heavy armor isn't everything; sometimes being able to get around on the battlefield faster is better.",
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"Next stop, Iraq.",
"Yeah, there is still a war there, too."
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"Just weeks before a Continental Connection commuter plane crashed near Buffalo, another airline had reminded another airline's pilots about safety issues with instrument approaches at the airport.",
"Only a few pieces of the Continental Connection Dash 8 turboprop were recognizable after the crash.",
"However, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday said it was extremely unlikely the crash and the warning were related.",
"Instrument approaches are those in which pilots use cockpit displays to line up pilots's aircraft with the runway when visibility is low.",
"The alert, initially issued by Airline and reissued Wednesday by Airline's pilot association, warned there was a \"potentially significant hazard\" concerning the instrument landing system's glide slope guidance signal for runway 23.",
"Airline advised, \"Pilots who are preparing to configure and land have the potential to experience abrupt pitch up, slow airspeed, and approach to stall if conditions present themselves in a certain manner.\"",
"Airline spokesperson Linda Rutherford said an earthen dam at the end of the runway was interfering with the signal being sent to inbound flights.",
"Southwest Airlines spokesperson Linda Rutherford would not confirm if any of Southwest's recent flights into Buffalo experienced problems on approach.",
"\"We often put out alerts on obstructions to a navigation aid,\" Southwest Airlines spokesperson Linda Rutherford told CNN.",
"Southwest Airlines spokesperson Linda Rutherford also pointed out, though landing on the runway, Airline flights approach runway 23 from the north, turning right, while the Colgan Air flight that crashed was approaching from the south turning left.",
"Southwest Airlines spokesperson Linda Rutherford called that distinction important.",
"View a Google Earth image of runway 23 » .",
"The National Transportation Safety Board told CNN The National Transportation Safety Board was \"aware\" of the Airline alert, but would not comment further.",
"The issue is caused by a geographic feature at the airport, a valley, \"something we can't do anything about,\" said FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown.",
"FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said the \"altitude reading makes it look like you're a lot higher than you are, because there is a valley there.\"",
"The feature has been noted on FAA charts for years, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said.",
"\"As far as we can tell, there is no way this had any role in the accident,\" FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown told CNN.",
"\"It's not a navigation aid that would have applied to the approach.\"",
"The alert from Airline advises pilots that the problem could cause the planes navigational system to interpret data \"in such a way as to result in a nose-up pitch and loss of airspeed.\"",
"Flight data recorders obtained by the NTSB of the crashed Colgan air Flight 3407 show during its approach to runway 23, the twin turbo prop Dash-8 pitched up 31 degrees before going into a stall due to lack of airspeed.",
"Southwest Airlines Pilot Association told Southwest Airlines Pilot Association's pilots the \"issue is being addressed on several levels in an attempt to address procedures, facilities, and communication regarding this matter.\"",
"The alert from Southwest Airlines advises any pilots experience trouble to contact Southwest Airlines Pilot Association's safety office."
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"Obama is expected to approve a proposal to withdraw most combat troops from Iraq within 19 months, Pentagon officials told CNN Wednesday.",
"U.S. soldiers stand guard outside a mosque during a prisoner release Sunday in Baghdad, Iraq.",
"The decision will be announced at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina on Friday, according to one senior administration official.",
"Although the White House has made no announcement yet, \"That's the way the wind is blowing,\" a Pentagon official said.",
"A the White House spokesman said Obama has made no final decisions about Iraq policy.",
"Obama's campaign pledge was to withdraw combat troops within 16 months.",
"But shortly after taking office, Obama asked Pentagon and military commanders for an analysis of other time frames.",
"Pentagon sent Obama options for withdrawals at 16, 19, and 23 months.",
"It is expected that the final plan will call for the majority of combat forces to be withdrawn, and keep as many as 50,000 in Iraq to serve mainly as military trainers or advisers.",
"U.S. military officials said even those residual forces could find themselves in combat.",
"For the last two months, the U.S. Central Command has been assessing how equipment and personnel will be withdrawn from Iraq, according to a U.S. military official.",
"Watch what Obama said Tuesday night about Iraq » .",
"a U.S. military official did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of discussing withdrawal details before Obama's announcement.",
"However, a U.S. military official said the U.S. military is looking at exit routes through Jordan and Kuwait.",
"the U.S. military is trying to determine what equipment might be returned to the United States; transferred to the Iraqi or Jordanian government; sent to Afghanistan; or simply discarded."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iraq war has strained U.S. forces to the point where U.S. forces could not fight another large-scale war, according to a survey of military officers.",
"U.S. troops patrol Haifa Street in Baghdad last week.",
"Of those surveyed, 88 percent believe the demands of Iraq war have \"stretched the U.S. military dangerously thin.\"",
"On the other hand, 56 percent of the officers disagree that Iraq war has \"broken\" the military.",
"Eighty percent of officers believe it is unreasonable to expect the U.S. military to wage another major war successfully at present.",
"Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for a New American Security on Tuesday issued the U.S. Military Index, a survey of 3,400 present and former U.S. military officers.",
"\"We asked the officers whether the officers thought the U.S. military was stronger or weaker than the U.S. military was five years ago,\" said Michael Boyer, who helped write the report.",
"\"Sixty percent said the U.S. military is weaker than the U.S. military was five years ago,\" Michael Boyer, who helped write the report told reporters.",
"the report found that officers \"see a military apparatus severely strained by the grinding demands of war.\"",
"More than half of the officers cited the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the \"pace of troop deployments\" needed for those conflicts, the survey said.",
"the report comes a few weeks before the five-year anniversary of Iraq war, where a troop \"surge\" is winding down by summer.",
"the U.S. military is proposing a pause in troop reductions for a period of review before any more decisions on withdrawals.",
"the officers have \"an overwhelmingly negative view\" of many of the early decisions shaping Iraq war, but most believe the present U.S. counterinsurgency strategy and troop increases are good omens for success in Iraq.",
"A majority of officers in Iraq war say some policy decisions have \"hindered the prospects for success there.\"",
"\"These include shortening the time units spend at home between deployments and accepting more recruits who do not meet the U.S. military's standards.",
"Even the military's ability to care for some of its own -- mentally wounded soldiers and veterans -- was judged by most officers to be substandard,\" the survey found.",
"At the same time, 64 percent of the officers believe morale in the U.S. military remains high.",
"Nearly three-quarters of the officers believe civilian leaders set \"unreasonable goals for the U.S. military in post-Saddam Iraq.\"",
"\"Nearly three-quarters of the officers believe more troops were needed on the ground at the start of the fighting.",
"Nearly three-quarters of the officers believe disbanding the Iraqi military was a mistake,\" the survey said.",
"However, nearly nine of 10 think the surge and Gen. David Petraeus' counterinsurgency strategy are \"raising the U.S. military's chance for success there.\"",
"the officers believe \"that either China or Iran, not the United States, is emerging as the strategic victor\" in Iraq war.",
"\"the United States has been preoccupied away from Asia,\" said Kurt Campbell, the head of the group that conducted the survey.",
"China's rising influence worldwide predates Iraq war but is part of a \"great game under way in Asia for influence, for relationships,\" Campbell said.",
"The U.S. focus on Iraq \"sends a message to the United States's friends and others that maybe the United States're not as focused on the drama that's playing out there,\" Campbell said.",
"Iran has gained from Iraq war because of the removal of Iraq \"as a strategic counterweight,\" the report said.",
"the survey portrayed Iran, the Taiwan Strait (where tensions have flared between China and Taiwan), Syria and North Korea as four potential hot spots and sought opinions of how prepared the United States is \"to successfully fight a major combat operation there.\"",
"Officers were asked to judge the preparedness of the United States on a scale of one to 10, with 10 meaning \"fully prepared\" and one indicating \"unable to execute.\"",
"Iran was rated 4.5, the Taiwan Strait ( where there have been tensions between China and Taiwan) 4.9, Syria 5.1, and North Korea 4.7.",
"The officers ranked the Navy and Air Force readiness the highest at 6.8 and 6.6, respectively.",
"The Army and Marines, which have assumed the \"bulk of the burden in Iraq and Afghanistan,\" ranked 4.7 and 5.7, respectively.",
"Other results of the survey: ."
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"An Indian Border Security Forces soldier watches as voters in Indian-controlled Kashmir wait to vote Sunday.",
"The protesters yelled pro-independence and anti-poll slogans and threw stones at polling stations in two villages in the Ganderbal constituency, police said.",
"Police used batons to restore order, but no one was injured, police said.",
"People demonstrated in two other villages, Duderhama and Beehama in Ganderbal constituency -- one of six constituencies voting Sunday in the second of seven stages in state elections.",
"state elections began after months of violent protests by anti-Indian groups, fearful state elections will firm up Indian control of the Muslim majority Himalayan state, and by Indian nationalists, fearful that separatist groups will gain control.",
"Kashmir, divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both, has been wracked by an 18-year bloody separatist campaign that authorities say has left at least 43,000 dead.",
"Sunday's protests came a day after Indian paramilitary forces, according to authorities, gunned down two youths, one of them a high school student apparently taking part in an anti-India demonstration.",
"Police Saturday fired on protesters in the town of Baramulla, killing 10th-grader Manzoor Ahmad Kumar, a senior police officer told CNN.",
"Hundreds of protesters followed Kumar's body into the \"Old Town\" area of Baramulla, where demonstrators clashed with police.",
"Protesters threw stones at a candidate's escort vehicles, the office said.",
"Indian authorities deployed heavy paramilitary and police reinforcements to maintain order.",
"Six protesters were injured in the fighting, police said.",
"A police official said paramilitary forces in the Baramulla's Old Town area Saturday, shot and killed a second youth, Tanvir Ahmad Sheikh.",
"Elsewhere Sunday, voting continued without incident.",
"In Kangan constituency, voting picked up in the late morning and afternoon, and there and in Ganderbal, voters -- including many women -- lined up to cast voters -- including many women --'s votes.",
"Indian poll officials said the turnout was about 65 percent of eligible voters.",
"Heavy security was also deployed in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.",
"Indian paramilitary troopers carried automatic weapons and blocked roads with barricades and coils of razor wire there and in other towns.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what Presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama can do about it.",
"Cartridges and weapons seized from gangsters and drug-traffickers at the Military Headquarter in Mexico City.",
"Their summit comes at a particularly troubled time for these governments, especially Mexico, which tallied a record number of drug-related killings last year.",
"Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich characterized the battle in Mexico among drug cartels and with government authorities as a \"civil war\" on a news program this week.",
"But Mexico is not alone.",
"Colombia has been fighting drug cartels for decades.",
"Panama has been a center of money-laundering for dug cartels and other organized crime groups for many years.",
"And Guatemala has seen Guatemala's share of slayings and bloodshed.",
"\"It's a recognition that there is a shared problem and that they can't solve that problem independent of each other,\" said Robert Pastor, a professor of international relations at American University in Washington who served as a national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s.",
"Jennifer McCoy, the director of The Americas Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta, says it is \"encouraging\" that presidents Felipe Calderon of Mexico, Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, Alvaro Colom of Guatemala and Martin Torrijos of Panama not only recognize the problem but want to meet to see what they can do about the problem.",
"\"The issue of security is vital in these countries and in Latin America,\" McCoy said.",
"It's not just a threat for Latin America, a recent report from the U.S. military says.",
"The violence in Mexico and elsewhere south of the border could spill over to the United States, says the report, issued in November by the U.S. Joint Forces Command.",
"\"The growing assault by the drug cartels and their thugs on the Mexican government over the past several years reminds one that an unstable Mexico could represent a homeland security problem of immense proportions to the United States,\" says the report, issued in November by the U.S. Joint Forces Command.\"",
"That instability could threaten the United States's underbelly along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.",
"\"Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone,\" the report, issued in November by the U.S. Joint Forces Command says.",
"Mexican Secretary of Governance Fernando Gomez Mont rejected that notion in an interview with CNN this week, saying it is \"inadmissible\" that the United States would have to intervene.",
"Pastor, who was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994 to become U.S. ambassador to Panama, believes the United States should be more involved now.",
"\"the United States is a major part of the problem,\" he said.",
"\"The dollars are coming from the United States.",
"The demand is coming from the United States.",
"The arms are coming from the United States.\"",
"Pastor pointed out that there are 7,600 gun shops in the United States within 100 miles of the Mexican border.",
"\"We ought to have a clear recognition that that we are part of their problem, and they can't solve it without us,\" he said.",
"Panamanian Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro indicated at a news conference this week that other nations also need to be more involved.",
"Panamanian Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro didn't mention the United States but it was clear whom Panamanian Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro was talking about.",
"The summit leaders will ask nations that have high drug consumption to do their part to reduce that demand, the Spanish news agency EFE quoted Lewis as saying.",
"Mexican President Calderon met with President-elect Barack Obama in Washington this week and security was a prime subject of their discussions.",
"\"Both countries share a long border,\" said Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue.",
"\"Both countries are terribly worried about the violence from organized crime in Mexico and slipover into the U.S.\"",
"Hakim met with Mexican President Calderon at a private dinner hosted by Mexican President Calderon Sunday night.",
"After Mexican President Calderon's meeting with President-elect Barack Obama on Monday, Mexican President Calderon stressed the level to which the two nations are intertwined when it comes to security.",
"\"The more secure Mexico is, the more secure the United States will be,\" Mexican President Calderon said, first in Spanish and then in English, to make sure no one missed the point.",
"President-elect Barack Obama is likely receptive to that message, said Michael Shifter, a vice president at the Inter-American Dialogue.",
"\"I think President-elect Barack Obama is going to understand that Mexico is very important to the United States,\" Shifter told CNN last week.",
"\"This isn't an issue that President-elect Barack Obama has focused a lot of attention on up until now.",
"But President-elect Barack Obama's going to understand that if Mexico really deteriorates or if the violence spills over into the border states, this is a war that President-elect Barack Obama really has to deal with.\"",
"Drug-fueled violence reached record levels in Mexico last year, with around 5,400 slayings, more than double the 2,477 reported in 2007, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said last month.",
"The situation is so dire in Mexico that the Joint Forces Command report says, \"In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico.\"",
"the Joint Forces Command report goes on to say that the \"Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the government, its politicians, police, and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and pressure by criminal gangs and drug cartels.",
"How that internal conflict turns out over the next several years will have a major impact on the stability of Mexico.\""
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"Like that other famous environmentalist, Friedman began Friedman's talk at the Asia Society in Hong Kong on December 16 with a simple PowerPoint slide.",
"But that's where the similarities between Al Gore and The New York Times columnist end.",
"Friedman has taken on a green hue with Friedman's latest book, \"Hot, Flat and Crowded\".",
"Unlike Al Gore, Friedman is a distinctly different shade of green, a deeply pragmatic green that believes economic forces can usher in a revolution in environmental policy.",
"Friedman argues that systemic change simply requires showing the world that it needs green technology and letting pure economics do the rest.",
"As a journalist, Friedman makes no claims to having scientific expertise in climate change.",
"Friedman is approaching it from a philosophical standpoint.",
"Green capital .",
"Friedman's new book \"Hot, Flat and Crowded\" is not a major departure from Friedman's previous books.",
"Whether Friedman's discussing globalization or green industry, Friedman is writing from Friedman's deep-seated belief in the markets.",
"Friedman is an unabashed capitalist.",
"For Friedman, the system works but it's not immune to bad decision-making.",
"Green industry like globalization will come of age if given the right market environment.",
"Friedman's faith in capitalism is equal to that in green technology -- for Friedman, these are two things that are clearly reconcilable.",
"So how do we do this?",
"America as the bastion for innovation, Friedman argues, should play a big role.",
"In fact, Friedman confesses Friedman really isn't a book about the environment and energy, Friedman's a book about America.",
"For Friedman, America is slipping down the ranks of hegemonic power and climate change is America's big chance to reposition America as a global leader.",
"The environment is merely an allegory for how America will achieve this revival.",
"As an extension of that argument, all countries need to do the same.",
"Right now, no country has really taken the lead in environmental technology, so what we have at the moment is an all out race to the top.",
"Indeed Friedman's book was written before the financial meltdown but recent events have furthered his argument that environmental technology is the solution of all solutions.",
"It's a sentiment I also came across at the recent Clinton Global Initiative meeting.",
"Green Dream Team .",
"Friedman seemed cautiously optimistic about Obama's ability to lead the green revolution.",
"Given the disarray of many of America's financial institutions, it's unclear whether this new green message will get through.",
"A glimmer of hope however is Obama's newly appointed energy secretary Steven Chu.",
"There's been extensive chatter about Obama's newly appointed energy secretary Steven Chu on environmental blogs in recent days with the media calling Obama's newly appointed energy secretary Steven Chu the head of Obama's \"Green Dream Team.\"",
"Friedman made a ringing endorsement of Obama's newly appointed energy secretary Steven Chu as did many in the audience that day.",
"Steven Chu, Nobel Laureate and the head of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, is seen as a promising choice for many environmentalists, one perhaps that proves Obama's intention to fulfill a key campaign promise on energy policy.",
"Obama's newly appointed energy secretary Steven Chu underwent an interesting move from physics to environmental technology.",
"Obama's newly appointed energy secretary Steven Chu won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 but left the world of Quantum Physics to study the science of global warming.",
"As head of Berkeley National Lab, Obama's newly appointed energy secretary Steven Chu led projects to the tune of $650 million channeling much of it towards green technology to develop advanced biofuels and solar power.",
"Watch a video of Obama's newly appointed energy secretary Steven Chu from Berkeley University .",
"Changing light bulbs and leaders .",
"The audience listening to Friedman that day was clearly appreciative of Friedman's no-nonsense approach to the green issue.",
"As Friedman puts it, \"it's not about changing light bulbs, it's about changing leaders.\"",
"Friedman confessed to having attended too many Earth Day concerts in the past and that no matter how many celebrities you get to show up or how you offset the event, it won't be enough to set off this green revolution.",
"So as I sat there wondering whether the fish the guests had been eating for lunch was sustainable, for Friedman, it didn't really matter.",
"For Friedman's revolution, Friedman had bigger fish to fry."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Oscar Reynoso owed Oscar Reynoso's bosses $300,000, and Oscar Reynoso was running out of time.",
"One anti-drug operation in Atlanta netted $10.6 million, 108 kilos of cocaine, 17 pounds of meth and 32 weapons.",
"Gunmen snatched Oscar Reynoso and locked Oscar Reynoso in the basement of a home to try to settle the drug debt.",
"Oscar Reynoso was chained to a wall of the basement of a home by Oscar Reynoso's hands and ankles, gagged and beaten.",
"Oscar Reynoso's captors, members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel, held Oscar Reynoso for ransom, chained in the sweltering, dirty basement for six days without food.",
"Oscar Reynoso's ordeal could've been a scene from the drug war in Mexico.",
"But Reynoso's ordeal played out recently in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.",
"U.S. federal agents are fighting to keep that kind of violence from gripping Atlanta, as the city known for Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines has become a major distribution hub for Mexican drug cartels.",
"In fiscal year 2008, authorities confiscated about $70 million in drug-related cash in Atlanta, more than anywhere else in the United States, the Drug Enforcement Administration says.",
"This fiscal year, Atlanta continues to outpace all other U.S. regions in such seizures, with $30 million confiscated so far.",
"Next are Los Angeles, California, with about $19 million, and Chicago, Illinois, with $18 million.",
"\"There is definitely a center of this type of drug activity here, and we are working to make sure the violence does not spill out to the general public,\" Atlanta U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said.",
"Atlanta has become a stopping point for truckloads of Mexican cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine, agents say.",
"The drugs are held in stash houses before being distributed up the East Coast.",
"\"The money comes down here also to money managers in Atlanta, who get the books in order before The money is sent out,\" said Rodney Benson, Atlanta's chief of the DEA.",
"Agents attribute the growth in drug trafficking to Atlanta's location, proximity to other major cities and access to major highways.",
"Authorities also point to the growth of the Hispanic population in Atlanta, which allows practitioners of the Mexican drug trade to blend in among hard-working, law-abiding Hispanics.",
"No place is that more evident than in Gwinnett County, a community about 20 miles north of Atlanta.",
"Gwinnett's Hispanic population rocketed from 8,470 in 1990 to 63,727 in 2000, according to the U.S. Census.",
"By 2010, 20 percent of the county's projected population of 700,000 is expected to be Hispanic.",
"\"In Gwinnett County, the drug dealers are able to hide in plain sight,\" county District Attorney Danny Porter said.",
"\"To combat this, we have to be much more coordinated between my office, the police department and the federal authorities.",
"The presence of the organizations is a dilemma enough that we have to develop new tactics.\"",
"Federal agents say arrests and drug-related violence in Atlanta have been linked to the two most powerful Mexican organizations: the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels.",
"A battle over drug routes has been blamed for the recent surge in violence in Mexican border towns, bloodshed that has included hundreds of deaths.",
"The fear is that the battle will extend deeper into the United States, causing more to suffer a fate similar to Oscar Reynoso's ordeal in the Gwinnett County basement.",
"Lucky for Oscar Reynoso, federal agents had a wiretap on Oscar Reynoso's captors' phones.",
"Agents stormed the home just as it appeared that the debt would not be paid and Oscar Reynoso would be killed.",
"\"There is no doubt in my mind that we saved Oscar Reynoso's life that day,\" said the DEA's Benson.",
"One case resolved, as cartels thrive in Atlanta."
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"Iraq's main political parties Sunday reached a deal designed to allow non-U.S. foreign troops to stay in the country past the end of the year, when a United Nations resolution authorizing their presence expires.",
"Iraqi and British soldiers during an Iraqi army training session in Basra last week.",
"The deal would set a deadline of July 31, 2009, for all non-U.S. foreign troops to withdraw, according to Abdul Hadi al-Hassani, a lawmaker with the main Shiite parliamentary bloc, who spoke to Iraqi state television on Sunday.",
"The agreement awaits approval by Iraq's Parliament, which is expected to vote on the measure on Monday, several Iraqi lawmakers said.",
"The emergency negotiations came after lawmakers Saturday rejected a similar proposal that would have been law.",
"Sunday's proposal, by contrast, was drafted as a resolution that would empower the Cabinet to authorize international troop presence without requiring Parliament to pass a law.",
"Washington and Baghdad have already worked out a separate agreement that will keep U.S. troops in Iraq but tighten restrictions on them.",
"Countries other than the United States that have troops in Iraq could be left with no legal cover for their presence there if Baghdad does not act swiftly.",
"Iraq's Cabinet had approved a draft law authorizing non-U.S. foreign troops Tuesday, the first step in passing legislation, but it fell at the next hurdle -- Parliament.",
"That left lawmakers scrambling Sunday for a way to give foreign troops legal cover quickly.",
"Lawmakers expect Sunday's agreement to cut through the problem, because a resolution can be passed in a single day, while it takes at least a week to pass a law.",
"British government lawyers, meanwhile, are studying \"all possible options\" to legally extend the presence of British troops in Iraq beyond New Year's Day in case Iraq's Parliament rejects the new compromise.",
"Britain has the second-largest contingent of foreign troops in Iraq -- about 4,100 -- after the United States, which has about 142,500.",
"All other countries combined have only several hundred troops in the country.",
"Britain and Iraq announced last week that British troops would begin leaving Iraq in May 2009, while a \"handful\" of British military personnel would remain after that date to continue naval training for Iraqi sailors, primarily to protect oil platforms.",
"The United States reached a security agreement with Iraq in November.",
"That deal, which was ratified by Parliament, calls for American troops to leave Iraqi cities by June 2009, and to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011.",
"Beginning New Year's Day, U.S. commanders will have to get prior Iraqi government approval for any operations.",
"American military personnel who commit crimes while not on duty or who commit grave crimes while on duty would be subject to Iraqi legal jurisdiction under the new agreement.",
"the new agreement does not govern the presence of troops from other coalition countries.",
"Parliament's rejection of the Cabinet's proposed law allowing foreign forces to remain in Iraq after January 1 came after heated arguments that lasted for days.",
"The session became so contentious that Parliament's speaker threatened to resign, lawmakers said.",
"Some political blocs, notably the Sadrists, oppose any extension of the presence of foreign troops in Iraq.",
"That group, headed by Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr -- an anti-Western cleric -- is demanding an immediate withdrawal of foreign forces.",
"CNN's Jill Dougherty and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report."
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"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, meets Friday in Baghdad with Iraq President Jalal Talabani.",
"On a tour that also has taken him to Pakistan and Afghanistan, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Iraqi leaders and appeared at a news conference with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose allies won big in nine of the 14 provinces where the local elections were held.",
"\"I have been following the electoral process closely from the early days of the parliamentary debate over the elections law last summer to the final stages of adjudication of the complaints and yesterday evening's release of the provisional results,\" U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a news conference with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose allies won big in nine of the 14 provinces where the local elections were held, according to prepared remarks issued by the United Nations.",
"\"It will be some days before final results are known, but current indications are that the local elections have been successfully carried out.\"",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last visited Iraq in 2007.",
"In March of that year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon got a taste of the violence that often rocks the Iraqi capital.",
"An explosion rattled Baghdad's International Zone, where U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was holding a televised news conference with al-Maliki.",
"Apparently used to such blasts, al-Maliki remained stoic, while U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefly ducked before regaining U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's composure and continuing.",
"Now, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's \"very much impressed to have witnessed U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the great success and progress the Iraqi government and people have made under the leadership of Prime Minister Maliki, and I congratulate you,\" U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, emphasizing the improvements in security.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the turnout of millions of voters in \"an environment free of violence,\" a development U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called a \"remarkable achievement\" in Iraq.",
"\"Iraq has come a long way in taking their own affairs in hand, this being the first Iraqi-led and Iraqi-owned electoral process.",
"It is a tribute to the growing effectiveness of the Iraqi security forces, and testifies to the increasing stability in the country,\" U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised Iraqi election officials, the local U.N. office and its special representative, Staffan de Mistura, and election workers.",
"Voters in 14 of 18 provinces turned out last weekend to elect provincial councils.",
"Iraq's three Kurdish provinces will hold elections in May, and voting in Tameem province has been suspended because of political disputes in Kirkuk.",
"\"This marks an important event, these being the first polls to affect the day-to-day lives of Iraqi voters,\" U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.",
"\"In fact, the local elections are about real power, in the sense that local leaders are nominated to be accountable for the delivery of basic services.\"",
"The United Nations helped Iraq with logistics in its election process and plans to help in this year's parliamentary elections and to deal with sticky disputes, such as the status of Kirkuk and disputes over some internal boundaries.",
"al-Maliki thanked The United Nations for the supportive role The United Nations played.",
"al-Maliki noted that the local elections \"changed the political map\" of Iraq, but al-Maliki said the local elections were successful for all Iraqis.",
"al-Maliki said al-Maliki was proud people voted for blocs based on political goals and not along sectarian and ethnic lines.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also met with the three members of the presidency council -- Kurdish President Jalal Talabani, Shiite Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi and Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"Vice President-elect Joe Biden assured Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday that the incoming Obama administration will continue to support Pakistan's efforts to strengthen democracy and combat terrorism, according to Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.",
"Vice President-elect Joe Biden meets Pakistani officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Friday.",
"Vice President-elect Joe Biden told Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari that the incoming Obama administration would also help Pakistan \"meet its socio-economic requirements and capacity building,\" Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a written statement.",
"The vice president-elect \"assured the Pakistani leadership\" of the United States' \"continued assistance to Pakistan,\" a written statement said.",
"No additional details were provided.",
"Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, accompanied Vice President-elect Joe Biden on the trip.",
"Vice President-elect Joe Biden \"described Pakistan as an incredibly valued U.S. ally and said that the U.S. recognized Pakistan's important contribution and sacrifices in the fight against terrorism,\" Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.",
"Zardari, who took office in September, said \"Pakistan needed the support and understanding of the international community in this effort,\" according to a written statement.",
"Pakistan is waging a bloody battle against Taliban and al Qaeda militants in Pakistan's tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan.",
"the U.S. has provided Pakistan with billions of dollars in aid for those counterterrorism activities.",
"Last year, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill authorizing $7.5 billion in non-military aid over the next five years.",
"a bill authorizing $7.5 billion in non-military aid over the next five years is sponsored by committee chairman Biden and the ranking Republican on the panel, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana.",
"a bill authorizing $7.5 billion in non-military aid over the next five years would provide money for developments such as schools, roads and medical clinics, and a bill authorizing $7.5 billion in non-military aid over the next five years conditions security aid on State Department certification that Pakistan is making efforts against the Taliban and al Qaeda.",
"a bill authorizing $7.5 billion in non-military aid over the next five years has not come before the full Senate.",
"Vice President-elect Joe Biden also said Vice President-elect Joe Biden was hopeful that India and Pakistan could resolve Pakistan's conflicts, according Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.",
"\"The U.S. vice president-elect expressed the hope that both Pakistan and India will be able to overcome the current tensions and would resolve their differences peacefully,\" Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs's statement said.",
"November's attacks in Mumbai, India, fueled tensions between Pakistan and India, longtime rivals that have fought three wars since independence and conducted tit-for-tat nuclear weapons tests in 1998.",
"India has said Islamic militants trained in Pakistan were behind the three-day siege of India's financial capital.",
"Pakistani officials have promised to cooperate with the investigation but have insisted that India show the investigation the evidence supporting its case.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Utah is the nation's fastest growing state, increasing 2.5 percent from July 2007 to July 2008, according to new population estimates from Census Bureau.",
"Barack Obama greets one of the newest members of the U.S. population this year on the campaign trail.",
"The main reason for Utah's growth is a \"natural increase\" -- births minus deaths -- said Census Bureau demographer Greg Harper.",
"\"Utah has a strong rate of natural increase and domestic migration, where more people move into Utah and [are] not moving out,\" he said.",
"\"Second is Arizona,\" Census Bureau demographer Greg Harper said.",
"\"It grew by 2.3 percent, and the increase is due to domestic migration, meaning more people are moving into the state than moving out.",
"Also, it's a natural increase, more people were born there than died.\"",
"Arizona is followed by Texas, North Carolina and Colorado, each with a 2.0 percent growth rate.",
"Texas added more people than any other state -- about 500,000 -- making Texas the third-fastest growing state.",
"Because Texas has a larger population size, Texas's percentage growth was less than Utah.",
"\"Nevada was last year's fastest-growing state, but Nevada fell to eighth,\" said Census Bureau demographer Greg Harper.",
"\"Overall, that state had been among the four fastest-growing states each of the past 23 years.\"",
"Only two states lost population: Michigan and Rhode Island, losing 0.5 and 0.2 percent respectively.",
"Overall, Northeastern states are not growing as fast as other parts of the country, but Northeastern states have been on the increase since 2005.",
"The South added the most people during the period, 1.4 million.",
"But Western states, with a 1.4 percent increase, saw the fastest growth rate.",
"One state that has reversed its course of growth is Florida.",
"A few years ago more than 250,000 people per year were moving there.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Now that Caylee Anthony's remains have been identified, the search for the Florida toddler turns into a prosecution of last summer's mother.",
"Casey Anthony, 22, is accused of killing last summer's daughter.",
"Investigators say Casey Anthony's's alibi didn't check out.",
"Although Orange County, Florida, Medical Examiner Jan Garavaglia said Friday Garavaglia could not determine how Caylee died, Garavaglia concluded the death was a homicide.",
"last summer's mother, Casey Anthony, 22, faces charges including murder in the disappearance and death of Caylee, who was 2 when last summer vanished last summer.",
"Caylee Anthony's remains were found last week in woods about a half-mile from Casey Anthony's's parents' house and identified through DNA testing.",
"See where Caylee's skeleton was found » .",
"On Saturday, investigators finished 10 days of sifting through the crime scene and served a warrant at Anthony's parents' house for a third search for evidence, said Capt. Angelo Nieves of the Orange County sheriff's department.",
"Cindy and George Anthony, the child's grandparents, were present for a third search for evidence.",
"Casey Anthony's's defense team had claimed since Casey Anthony's's October indictment that last summer might still be alive, even claiming witnesses spotted last summer since her disappearance.",
"The finding of Caylee Anthony's remains \"has really cut the legs out of the defense,\" Stacey Honowitz, an assistant Florida state's attorney, said Friday night on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"Watch experts size up the legal case » .",
"The lack of a cause of death and the absence of any soft tissue on the toddler's skeletal remains poses a challenge for prosecutors, forensic expert Lawrence Kobilinsky, a defense consultant for Casey Anthony's, told Larry King.",
"\"If you don't have a cause of death, isn't it possible that it might have been an accident?\" Kobilinsky said.",
"A murder conviction would require proof the victim was killed intentionally.",
"Legal experts say duct tape reportedly found on Caylee Anthony's remains could convince a judge or jury that last summer's death was not an accident.",
"Perhaps of greater significance, though, is Casey Anthony's's behavior since -- and even before -- last summer's child went missing.",
"According to earlier reports, last summer was the result of an unintended pregnancy, and Casey Anthony's made an attempt to give last summer up after birth.",
"Casey Anthony's referred to last summer as \"the little snot head\" and continued to maintain an active social life.",
"Follow a timeline of the case » .",
"When last summer went missing, Casey Anthony's did not tell Anthony's family for a month.",
"It was the child's grandmother who called police.",
"Casey Anthony's told conflicting stories at the beginning of the investigation, including a tale that last summer was with a nanny.",
"The name and address turned out to be bogus.",
"As police searched for last summer, police say Casey Anthony's's active social life continued -- including one memorable evening dancing at an Orlando bar that was hosting \"Hot Body Contest.\"",
"Investigators said Investigators found the scent of decomposing flesh and a trace of chloroform, a powerful knockout agent, in the trunk of a car Casey Anthony's drove at the time.",
"Casey Anthony's's family offered various explanations, including a rotting pizza and a dead squirrel.",
"Watch a tribute to the little girl » .",
"On the Anthonys' home computer, police found there had been searches for chloroform, missing children and \"neck-breaking,\" although Garavaglia said Friday that Garavaglia did not find evidence of trauma to the bones.",
"\"The prosecution is going to have a great deal of circumstantial evidence, and this is a physical evidence case,\" Kobilinsky said.",
"\"This is not a question about credibility, although obviously a jury looks at credibility and contradictions, but the physical evidence will either include Casey Anthony's or exclude Casey.",
"It's an uphill battle for the defense.\"",
"Nevertheless, forensic expert Kathy Reichs, who also is working with Casey Anthony's's defense team, sees an opening.",
"\"Given that there's no evidence as to the cause of death, ... you could have an accidental death and a mother that panics,\" she told King.",
"\"There are alternative explanations.\"",
"Perhaps not enough to save Casey Anthony's, said famed defense attorney Mark Geragos, who is not associated with the defense.",
"\"the defense will try to focus, I'm sure, on all of the forensic evidence and whatever else the defense can do,\" he told King.",
"\"But the defense're always going to be up against it with the 'Casey Anthony's didn't act right' evidence, and that's the hardest thing to combat in the defense.\"",
"Prosecutors don't need to show what killed Caylee, famed defense attorney Mark Geragos, who is not associated with the case said.",
"the defense needs to overcome Casey Anthony's's statements and behavior.",
"\"Somebody is going to have to give an explanation at some point as to when Casey Anthony's last saw the child, who Casey Anthony's gave the child to,\" he said.",
"\"And until that is done, I don't care what they put together, it's not going to carry any weight.\""
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Most people like gossip.",
"Come on!",
"You do too.",
"Don't you glance every once in a while at US Weekly, In Touch, Page Six?",
"And how about that Spitzer scandal -- even I can't get enough of that one.",
"A freshman talks about how cruel postings on the Juicy Campus web site have tainted her college experience.",
"But what happens when the gossip is about you or your boyfriend or your kid?",
"And what if it's there on the Internet, for the entire world to see on a Web site called Juicy Campus?",
"That's what happened to Jane Smith (Jane Smith's name has been changed to protect Jane Smith's privacy), a college freshman I spoke with recently.",
"Jane Smith said Jane Smith learned from a friend that Jane Smith's name had been posted on the Web site and people were anonymously posting not so nice things about Jane Smith.",
"Things like Jane Smith was promiscuous, \"ugly,\" \"overrated,\" \"racist.\"",
"Things Jane Smith says are not true.",
"Jane Smith's post has received over a thousand page views -- in non-techie speak, everyone is reading and writing about Jane Smith.",
"Jane Smith even got a request for a \"hook up\" from a guy hundreds of miles away at another college.",
"Jane Smith told me that when Jane Smith read the posts, Jane Smith felt like Jane Smith had been kicked in the stomach.",
"Jane Smith called Jane Smith's parents in the middle of the night crying.",
"Jane Smith has lost weight, has trouble sleeping, and has become suspicious of those around Jane Smith.",
"Jane Smith told me that it has ruined Jane Smith's freshman year -- and will likely taint Jane Smith's entire college experience.",
"Watch how campus poison pens inflict pain » .",
"So what is Juicy Campus and who is behind Juicy Campus?",
"Juicy Campus is a Web site, founded on August 1, 2007, which claims to have \"the simple mission of enabling online anonymous free speech on college campuses.\"",
"The site allows and encourages posters to anonymously post uncensored gossip and rumors -- the juicier the better -- about others.",
"There is a separate section on the site for each college or university, over 60 campuses at last count.",
"Some recent posts discuss the breasts of a professor, sluttiest girls and sexiest guys on campus.",
"Some posts even contain racist, sexist and anti-Semitic remarks.",
"Juicy, huh?",
"It was founded by a Duke alum, a former frat house president who has gone to lengths to keep his identity secret.",
"We tried to reach him for comment.",
"He didn't return our calls or e-mails.",
"Instead, we received this not-so-juicy statement from a publicist: . \"While there has been much attention given to the critics ... Thousands of students from across the country have written in to request that Thousands of students from across the country's campus be added.\"",
"Come on!",
"Why is he hiding?",
"Jane Smith can't even sue him.",
"In fact, there is little Jane Smith can do.",
"Juicy Campus and similar Web sites are protected under Communications Decency Act of 1996.",
"Communications Decency Act of 1996 aims to shield Web publishers from liability for libelous comments posted by third parties.",
"The section states \"no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.\"",
"Juicy Campus is one of those sites that openly hides behind Juicy Campus's immunity.",
"Juicy Campus's Frequently Asked Questions page states: \"There is no way for someone using Juicy Campus to find out who you are.",
"And we at Juicy Campus are not keeping track of who you are or what you post.",
"In fact, we prefer not to know who you are.",
"We like to think that famous people like Justin Timberlake and Beyonce are using Juicy Campus.",
"We love famous people like Justin Timberlake and Beyonce ...\"",
"But what about those cowards, I mean posters, who like to call people names behind the wizard's curtain of protection provided by the Communications Decency Act?",
"The First Amendment certainly protects free speech, even unpopular speech.",
"Opinions are protected.",
"The truth is protected.",
"But lies are not.",
"To successfully sue the posters, Jane Smith would have to show that the posters made false and defamatory statements about Jane Smith (racist and slutty would qualify, I think) published them to a third party (I read them) and that Jane Smith's reputation was damaged (check).",
"In fact, most jurisdictions also recognize \"per se\" defamation, where the allegations are presumed to cause damage to the plaintiff, such as attacks on a person's professional character or standing; allegations that an unmarried person is unchaste; a person is infected with a sexually transmitted disease or has committed a crime of \"moral turpitude.\"",
"Should Jane Smith sue the pants off the posters?",
"How would Jane Smith find the posters?",
"When you file a civil lawsuit against even an anonymous individual, a judge can issue a subpoena.",
"Juicy Campus says Juicy Campus will respond to any \"lawful subpoena.\"",
"A subpoena could reveal a poster's IP address.",
"But in the end, it really is sooooo high school.",
"Actually, it's more grade school.",
"So Juicy Campus posters, come out, come out wherever you are.",
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"Students protest the status-of-forces agreement Tuesday at Baghdad's Mustansiriya University.",
"Ali al-Dabbagh said Iraq approved several amendments that were \"necessary, essential and appropriate\" to the draft status-of-forces agreement, which would set the terms for U.S. troops in Iraq after the United Nations mandate on their presence expires at the end of this year.",
"\"Iraq authorizes the prime minister to bring up these amendments to the U.S. side in order to reach a draft agreement that will preserve the fundamental principles and the sovereignty of Iraq and Iraq's high interests,\" Ali al-Dabbagh said.",
"It is unclear when al-Maliki will submit the changes to the draft document.",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently said that there was \"great reluctance\" to make any more changes to the status-of-forces agreement.",
"However, senior U.S. officials -- speaking under the condition of anonymity -- are not ruling out possibly renegotiating parts of the deal with Iraq if Iraq's parliament does not approve it.",
"The most vocal opponent of the draft security deal in Iraq has been the political party of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, which opposes any U.S. military presence in Iraq.",
"U.S. military helicopters Tuesday flew over Baghdad's Mustansiriya University, where hundreds of students took part in a demonstration organized by the Sadr movement against the status-of-forces agreement.",
"\"We are against this agreement between Iraq and between the American government because the status-of-forces agreement is against Iraqi sovereignty,\" said law student Ahmed Fadhil Abbas, one of the demonstrators.",
"Fellow demonstrator and law student Hisham Mohammed said the students plan to organize a sit-in and a strike across universities in Iraq to protest the status-of-forces agreement.",
"the status-of-forces agreement, according to a copy obtained by CNN, calls for U.S. combat troops to be out of Iraqi cities and villages by July 30, 2009, and out of Iraq entirely by December 31, 2011.",
"the status-of-forces agreement allows for an earlier withdrawal or an extension of the U.S. forces' stay in Iraq, by agreement of both parties.",
"the status-of-forces agreement also allows Iraq to ask \"the United States government to leave certain forces for training and for support purposes for the Iraqi forces.\"",
"Legal jurisdiction over U.S. forces in Iraq has been a sticking point in the negotiation, with the U.S. side preferring that the U.S. side's troops and contractors remain immune from Iraqi law.",
"Baghdad had sought the power to arrest and try Americans accused of crimes not related to official military operations, plus jurisdiction over troops and contractors who commit major crimes in the course of their duties.",
"Under the status-of-forces agreement, U.S. forces or contractors who commit \"major and premeditated murders\" while off duty and outside U.S. facilities would fall under Iraqi jurisdiction, according to the copy obtained by CNN.",
"All other crimes -- and murders committed inside U.S. facilities or by on-duty forces -- would fall under American jurisdiction, the status-of-forces agreement says."
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"The Palm Jumeirah man-made island officially opens with a spectacular fireworks display.",
"The Palm Jumeirah man-made island increased Dubai's shoreline by 100 percent after work started on The Palm Jumeirah man-made island in 2001.",
"The Palm Jumeirah man-made island features resort hotels, homes, luxury shopping and entertainment.",
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"Atlantis played host to the opening celebration Thursday night.",
"Stars including Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Robert De Niro, Janet Jackson and the Duchess of York were in attendance.",
"Pop star Kylie Minogue performed at the party.",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"A yellow smiley-face badge, smeared with blood, has become the trademark for \"Watchmen,\" the most critically revered of all comic books -- but it could also represent its troubled journey from page to big screen.",
"\"Watchmen\" opens with the unexplained murder of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).",
"Note smiley badge.",
"The subject of fervent debate in the geekosphere for more than two decades, \"Watchmen\" finally rolls out in the U.S. and other territories from the first week of March onward.",
"But it's not as well known to wider audiences, who may puzzle at all this heat about a superhero movie with no A-list star attached.",
"Instead, they may simply ask: \"Watch-what?\"",
"\"Watchmen,\" created by the UK comic-book team of writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, surfaced in 1986 as a monthly 12-issue series published by DC Comics (part of Time Warner, which owns CNN parent company Turner Broadcasting).",
"Are you looking forward to \"Watchmen?\"",
"Or think it's just hype?",
"It was a defining year for the medium: aside from \"Watchmen,\" '86 also saw Pulitzer-prize winning holocaust drama \"Maus,\" from The New Yorker contributor Art Spielgeman; and Frank Miller's hyperviolent Batman reworking \"The Dark Knight Returns.\"",
"\"Watchmen,\" which takes place in 1985, is set in a parallel world where America never lost Vietnam, Russia is about to invade Afghanistan and Richard Nixon still holds power (Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward were murdered).",
"Meanwhile a superhero team -- only one of whom has special powers -- reforms after a fellow operative is mysteriously slain.",
"But what lifts \"Watchmen\" above \"Watchmen's superhero peers is a complex, multi-layered narrative and depth of characterization that ensured it was the only comic book to make Time's 100 best novels since 1923.",
"A dark, downbeat work with a heady 11th-hour twist, \"Watchmen puts as much store on subsidiary characters like a newspaper seller as \"Watchmen's does blue-skinned man-god Dr. Manhattan.",
"\"Watchmen's influence can be traced to current small-screen favorites like \"Heroes\" and \"Lost.\"",
"Watch \"Watchmen\" trailer. » .",
"Perfect fodder, one might think, for the multiplex -- but \"Watchmen\" has been lodged in Development Hell for the best part of two decades.",
"At various times Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vin Diesel were mooted to play Manhattan; Mickey Rourke and Ed Norton were suggested for right-wing vigilante Rorschach.",
"Directors set to shoot have included Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky, Paul Greengrass and David Hayter (whose script has been retained for much of the final film).",
"Several planned shoots failed to materialize due to studio fears about the budget (locations include Antarctica and Mars as well as New York) and how the ending might be perceived in a post-9/11 world.",
"But film-makers such as Terry Gilliam and Guillermo del Toro also believed that the complex material would be better treated as a TV mini-series.",
"As the latter, the \"Pan's Labyrinth\" filmmaker, told IGN: \"I just couldn't get my head around 'Watchmen' being two or three hours long.\"",
"Whoever made \"Watchmen\" would also do so without Moore's blessing.",
"Still resident in Moore's hometown of Northampton, central England, Moore cuts an imposing figure.",
"At least six-and-a-half feet tall, with chest-length beard and hair, talon-like rings on Moore's fingers and the skull of a centuries-old Buddhist monk in his study, Moore resembles Doctor Who as reimagined by Edgar Allan Poe.",
"(In person he's gracious and affable, as this writer will attest from a few years back.)",
"Moore has had a mixed relationship with both the mainstream comic-book industry (which Moore accuses of over-commercialization and exploiting creators' rights) and Hollywood.",
"The comic-book series \"From Hell,\" in which Moore uses the Jack the Ripper killings as a precursor to 20th-century violence, runs to about 500 pages, including 40-plus pages of footnotes.",
"On film it became a melodramatic pad around Victorian London, gamely carried by a pre-\"Pirates\" Johnny Depp.",
"Two other Moore adaptations also failed to translate.",
"Stephen Norrington's \"The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen\" (2003) was widely derided and the subject of a court case into which Moore was dragged; by the time of James McTeigue's better judged \"V For Vendetta\" (2005), Moore had asked Moore's name be taken off any movie adaptations and refused to take royalties.",
"Enter Zack Snyder.",
"In 2004, Zack Snyder came to the attention of mainstream cinemagoers with Zack Snyder's well-regarded remake of George A. Romero's zombie flick \"Dawn of The Dead.\"",
"Following the $450m-plus taken worldwide by Zack Snyder's \"300\" (2006) -- a hyper-stylized take on Frank Miller's ancient Greek suicide-mission -- it was announced that \"Watchmen\" would be his next project with Warner Bros.",
"Paramount, which abandoned plans for the movie in 2005, took international rights.",
"\"Watchmen went into production in Vancouver in mid-2007, wrapping in early 2008, and with a cast including Billy Crudup and Jackie Earle Haley.",
"Zack Snyder has retained \"Watchmen's\" 1980s setting and also recruited original artist Gibbons -- who still retains friendship with Moore -- to advise on production design.",
"Mindful that a narrative so complex could never work as a movie, Zack Snyder has jettisoned several parallel subplots, which will surface as DVD extras and in director's cuts.",
"Word is that the ending has also been changed.",
"But wary of over-tweaking, Zack Snyder told Entertainment Weekly last year: \"You can't make it into something else, you really can't.",
"It's not 'Fantastic Four,' it's got to be hard R [cinema rating], it's got to challenge everyone's ideas.\"",
"Meanwhile Moore, who sometimes mentions that Moore worships a Roman snake-god, hinted in the LA Times that Moore had cursed \"Watchmen.",
"\"I can tell you that I will also be spitting venom all over it for months to come,\" Moore added.",
"So was it Moore who saw \"Watchmen\" end up in the courts for a case that risked scuppering its release?",
"Last year Twentieth Century Fox claimed it still retained rights through an earlier deal with producer Lawrence Gordon in the 1980s; Warners Bros. disagreed but a judge decided there was a case to answer.",
"A settlement was eventually thrashed out last month, only weeks ahead of release.",
"And so \"Watchmen\" ticks toward early March and a rollout in spring, the now-traditional season for edgier comic-book adaptations like \"300\" and \"Sin City.\"",
"Trailers and early footage have drawn praise, with several scenes playing like detailed frames from the original artwork.",
"But key will be whether Zack Snyder can match \"Watchmen's\" dramatic beats against \"Watchmen's green-screen chicanery for more than two hours (the Internet Movie Database lists the running time at 163 minutes).",
"After all, successfully mixing pyrotechnics and narrative is how the most satisfying genre features of recent years -- such as Peter Jackson's \"Lord Of The Rings\" trilogy and Christopher Nolan's \"The Dark Knight\" -- have found artistic, as well as commercial, favor.",
"Should Zack Snyder pull it off then will Zack Snyder earn the gratitude of fan boys everywhere, as well as no small thanks from a fair few movie executives.",
"What Alan Moore might think is another issue.",
"'Watchmen' is released in the UK on 6 March."
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"(CNN) --",
"First it was the airlines, now it's the turn of hotels to take the budget concept into the mainstream.",
"Demand is surging for cheaper hotel rooms, not just from thrifty tourists but also from business travelers in search of value.",
"And budget brands are responding to the demand with ambitious expansion plans.",
"Not just for backpackers: easyGroup opened its first budget hotel in 2005 targeting short-stay tourists.",
"Other brands are improving the . service to woo business travelers.",
"According to recent research from market analyst Mintel, the UK budget hotel market increased by 38 percent between 2002 and 2006, to reach £1 billion.",
"This growth was three times that of the overall UK hotel market.",
"And while top-end establishments prepare for a decline as consumer spending falls, budget hotels are determined budget hotels are recession resilient.",
"Research from Melvin Gold Consulting for Travelodge last year predicted the budget sector will grow by a further 10 percent in the next five years.",
"By 2027 it will account for over a quarter of the total supply of hotels in the UK with almost 850,000 rooms.",
"In the U.S., budget hotels already account for 33 percent of the supply and 24 percent in France, says the report.",
"Premier Inn, the 500-strong UK budget chain (that added 2,500 rooms to its portfolio last year and plans to add another 3,500 this year) is now taking the budget model further afield.",
"In March the chain, owned by Whitbread, will unveil a hotel in Dubai and it is currently scouring India for sites.",
"The boom in budget hotels has been greatest in China.",
"Here both businessmen and tourists, foreign and domestic, are relishing the arrival of rooms that cost less than $50 a night.",
"There are nearly 100 economic hotel chain brands in China, over 1,000 budget hotels with over 100,000 rooms.",
"Brands are both local and from overseas including Accor's Ibis and Wyndham Hotel Group's Super 8.",
"More budget rooms are likely to emerge this year in the build-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing in August.",
"Home Inns, the largest budget hotel chain in China, has built 400 hotels in just five years.",
"They plan to grow this to more than 1,000 hotels in three to four years in cities across China as well as further afield in Asia.",
"In Europe, Richard Cope, senior travel analyst at Mintel said the arrival of boutique and lifestyle brands such as The Big Sleep, the Hoxton Hotel and base2stay raised the game of the sector by providing an affordable but luxurious alternative.",
"New capsule hotels such as Yotel and nitenite also helped boost the market, he added.",
"The increased interest from business travelers in value from hotels has been a further boost.",
"According to a recent study by TRI/BDRC business travelers spent 1.5 million nights in budget hotels in the UK in 2006, up from 0.93 million in 2000 and only 0.38 million in 1994.",
"In the U.S., 74 percent of travel managers that responded to a Runzheimer International survey last year said their business travelers now frequently use economy-type hotels.",
"And although first-class properties continue to be used most often, economy-type hotel use is up 31 percent from the previous four years.",
"Electronics firm, Royal Philips Electronics spends about $134 million globally on hotels every year.",
"Currently three per cent of this is with budget chains, including Accor's Ibis and Holiday Inn Express.",
"This may sound small, says Roman Asboth, Philips' senior sourcing specialist for hotels, but it adds up to an impressive $3.7 million every year.",
"And that figure is rising, he adds.",
"Travelers choosing the budget option, says Roman Asboth, are not just from lower down the organizational ranks.",
"Managers and even executives conscious of cost are also making the switch.",
"As Roman Asboth says, it all comes down to a perception of value.",
"\"Travelers come back from a trip to New York having paid more than $300 for a lousy room that hasn't been renovated in ages and Travelers don't see the worth.",
"But Travelers come back from a Holiday Inn Express, which is brand new, and Travelers are more than happy.\"",
"Phillips is also making increased use of serviced guest apartments -- particularly in countries such as India -- that offer the same level of quality as a four or five star property for a budget price.",
"Sally Rademaker, travel sourcing manager, sub-Saharan Africa at Ericsson says while budget may not be an option in Africa, where they pay a premium for security at top end hotels, the communications firm is considering budget options in Europe and the United States where quality is better.",
"\"Of course business travelers would prefer to stay in a five or four star hotel given the choice,\" she acknowledges.",
"\"But if the reasons given are good enough, and we choose somewhere where the standard is acceptable and it is in a good location, then they accept it.\"",
"Gerard Tempest, marketing director at Premier Inn believes budget hotels offer a genuine alternative to mid-market hotels with the same convenience and quality but at better value.",
"\"Every guest bedroom gets refurbished every 24 months which is extremely frequent compared to the wider hotel industry,\" says Gerard Tempest, marketing director at Premier Inn.",
"Premier Inn is also refurbishing rooms to a higher quality than some mid-market chains, he says.",
"Following the acquisition of a chain of mid-market hotels last year, Premier Inn invested a further $10 million to meet Premier Inn's \"budget\" standards.",
"All desks and chairs in rooms are ergonomically designed, desks are cleared of clutter and Wifi is available in every hotel.",
"Some Premier Inns also feature meeting space for business travelers as well as branches of Costa Coffee also owned by parent company Whitbread.",
"\"Business customers are responding well to these and using them as meeting places,\" says Gerard Tempest, marketing director at Premier Inn.",
"So with recession looming could this be the end of Egyptian sheets and luxury saunas for business travelers?",
"Perhaps not, but in cities where rates continue to increase even for poorest quality rooms, the budget option may not be as bad as all that.",
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"Two Supreme Court justices on opposite sides of the ideological aisle exchanged tough words Monday over the fate of a Florida murderer who has been on death row for 32 years.",
"Siding with Court's majority, Justice Clarence Thomas described brutal details of a Florida slaying.",
"Court has refused to hear the appeal of William Thompson, who had plead guilty twice in the March 1976 kidnapping and torture-murder of a woman.",
"William Thompson's case and subsequent appeals have been litigated since, but a new execution date has not been set.",
"A key part of William Thompson's request to be spared lethal injection is that three decades as a capital inmate constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.",
"\"Our experience during the past three decades has demonstrated that delays in state-sponsored killings are inescapable and that executing defendants after such is unacceptably cruel,\" said Justice John Paul Stevens, who disagreed with Court's decision to allow the execution to proceed.",
"Justice John Paul Stevens, who disagreed with the court's decision to allow the execution to proceed was supported by Justice Stephen Breyer in his objection to Court's ruling on Monday in the case, Thompson v. McNeil (08-7369).",
"But Justice Clarence Thomas took issue with Justice Clarence Thomas's colleagues' conclusions.",
"\"It is the crime and not the punishment imposed by the jury or the delay in execution that was 'unacceptably cruel,'\" he responded.",
"Justice Clarence Thomas took time in Justice Clarence Thomas's concurrence to detail the graphic crime that led to the conviction of William Thompson and William Thompson's co-defendant.",
"The men had held Sally Ivester and another woman in a motel room and were demanding money from the victim's families.",
"Sally Ivester had promised Sally Ivester could raise hundreds of dollars but was only able to secure $25.",
"That enraged the men who savagely beat the woman with a belt, chair leg and nightstick, causing internal injuries.",
"Sally Ivester was also burned with cigarettes.",
"The other woman witnessed the murder and said The other woman feared for The other woman's life if she tried to leave.",
"William Thompson and William Thompson's co-defendant both pleaded guilty but Court initially tossed out William Thompson's sentence.",
"William Thompson's lawyer had told the defendant if William Thompson accepted responsibility for the crime, William Thompson would not get the death penalty, a crucial mistake.",
"William Thompson later pleaded guilty a second time and again received a capital sentence.",
"Then William Thompson began a series of appeals, claiming ineffective counsel, trial errors, limited mental capacity and a dysfunctional childhood.",
"All those factors were ultimately rejected by state and federal courts.",
"Stevens noted that during a third penalty hearing, five members of a state advisory jury recommended against lethal injection, but Court again imposed death.",
"The circumstances of William Thompson's current imprisonment, said Stevens, no longer justify such a sentence.",
"\"As William Thompson awaits execution, petitioner has endured especially severe conditions of confinement,\" said Stevens, \"spending up to 23 hours per day in isolation in a 6- by 9-foot cell.",
"Two death warrants have been signed against William Thompson and stayed only shortly before William Thompson was scheduled to die.",
"The dehumanizing effects of such treatment are undeniable.\"",
"But Justice Clarence Thomas said all such inmates are subjected to a \"restricted confinement\" because of the security risks all such inmates pose.",
"And the prisoner had only himself to blame for his prolonged imprisonment on death row.",
"Quoting his conclusions from a similar 1999 capital case, Justice Clarence Thomas said, \"I remain unaware of any support in the American constitutional tradition of this Court's precedence for the proposition that a defendant can avail a defendant of the panoply of appellate and collateral procedures and then complain when a defendant's execution is delayed.\"",
"Justice Clarence Thomas has long backed the right of states to impose death sentences.",
"Stevens, who as a newly seated justice cast a key 1976 vote upholding the death penalty, has since grown increasingly frustrated with how the death penalty its carried out.",
"Last April, Stevens declared Stevens's open opposition to it.",
"\"I have relied on my own experience in reaching the conclusion that the imposition of the death penalty represents the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes,\" Stevens wrote.",
"\"A penalty with such negligible returns to the state (is) patently excessive and cruel and unusual punishment violative of the Eighth Amendment.\"",
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"But Stevens also said Stevens would respect court precedents in favor of capital punishment."
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"The U.S. Interior Department is considering changing regulations on guns in national parks.",
"CHANTILLY, Virginia (CNN) --",
"I'm at the Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly, Virginia, the biggest gun store in northern Virginia.",
"I'm looking at a holster on the hip of Arsenal's John Summer in which a black .22-caliber pistol sits snugly.",
"I didn't notice a black .22-caliber pistol before because Summer is wearing a large plaid shirt, not tucked in, covering his navy blue polo shirt.",
"But he sweeps the big shirt back and tells me, \"I've been to 7-Eleven, Starbucks -- you can go to Applebee's and have dinner.\"",
"\"With a gun?\" I ask.",
"\"With a gun,\" he says with a nod.",
"Summer has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, so he can go to dinner with a gun whenever he wants.",
"He can also wear his gun openly almost any place in Virginia.",
"That's the law.",
"The next place he may be able to take his loaded, concealed weapon is to a national park.",
"That's because the U.S. Interior Department is considering a proposal from 51 U.S. senators to change the U.S. Interior Department's regulations on guns in national parks.",
"As the law stands, a person can take a gun -- unloaded -- into a national park, but a gun must be packed away or rendered temporarily inoperable.",
"The country's 391 national parks, recreation areas, monuments and scenic trails are operated under a single set of regulations by the U.S. Interior Department.",
"The proposed change would have The country's 391 national parks, recreation areas, monuments and scenic trails adopt the gun laws of the state in which The country's 391 national parks, recreation areas, monuments and scenic trails are located.",
"This means a person would be able to take a loaded, concealed weapon into a national park if he or she holds a valid permit to carry a concealed weapon in a given state and as long as they would be allowed to carry a concealed weapon in that state's parks.",
"Summer tells me that's a good idea.",
"In some national parks out west \"you could flat out dead sprint for an hour and never see another human being -- except maybe a drug dealer,\" he says, \"in which case he's probably got a gun.\"",
"Gregory Hylinski, a gun owner from Connecticut visiting a friend, tells me there's another reason for guns in national parks: \"It's important for people to be able to protect people at all times and in all places even from wild animal attacks.\"",
"When Maureen Finnerty hears warning like that Maureen Finnerty gives an exasperated shrug.",
"Finnerty and I are walking down a path in the woods not far from Maureen Finnerty's house.",
"Maureen Finnerty worked for 31 years with the National Park Service, including six years as Associate Director of Park Operations in Washington.",
"\"Right now parks are very safe, parks're very safe places to take your family,\" Maureen Finnerty tells me.",
"\"Our crime statistics are very, very low and you put loaded weapons in people's hands and there's a tremendous possibility that there will be increased violence.\"",
"Maureen Finnerty knows the the National Park Service statistics by heart.",
"The latest data, from 2006, shows 272,623,980 people visited the parks that year.",
"There were 11 cases of homicide or manslaughter, 61 robberies and 35 rapes or attempted rapes.",
"\"Now, could something happen?",
"Of course it could happen, but the chances are extremely, extremely remote,\" Maureen Finnerty says.",
"Maureen Finnerty is a member of the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, which includes a number of former directors.",
"the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, which includes a number of former directors is actively lobbying against the change, insisting the current regulations are working.",
"the change, the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, which includes a number of former directors's Web site says, \"could significantly increase the danger to visitors in national parks.\"",
"It would put wildlife at risk, they claim, and make poaching easier.",
"But Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, tells me many states allow residents with permits to carry guns in state parks -- why not the federal government?",
"\"They (the states) have changed their firearms laws within the last 15 years to allow good people to protect good people from bad people and this simply puts federal law in compliance with that change in terms of state law.\"",
"Maureen Finnerty sees another reason behind the proposal: \"I think this is an attempt by the policy people in the [Bush] administration,\" Maureen Finnerty says, \"to take care of one of their very important constituencies, the National Rifle Association.\"",
"A half-hour drive and I am at Great Falls National Park.",
"The water far below at Mather Gorge is white with foam.",
"Half of Great Falls National Park is in Virginia, where gun laws allow people with permits to carry concealed weapons; half is in Maryland, where they do not.",
"If the regulations are changed, the National Park Service says the National Park Service will put up signs and run educational outreach to explain the law.",
"I strike up a conversation with photographer Maria Stenzel.",
"photographer Maria Stenzel's watching the gray heron.",
"\"We have too many weapons already,\" photographer Maria Stenzel tells me.",
"\"We have too much violence all over the country and we don't need to allow them in new places.\"",
"Graduate student Nathanael Snow, watching the Potomac River roar downstream, says, \"For me, I feel safer if I know that people who are qualified and proficient in handling a weapon have it on people who are qualified and proficient in handling a weapon because the bad guys are going to have guns on people who are qualified and proficient in handling a weapon anyway.\"",
"The public has until the end of June to comment on the proposed change.",
"The Interior Department then will decide."
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"(CNN) --",
"Seven states and two organizations have sued the Bush administration in an attempt to block Rule.",
"A rule protecting the rights of health care providers who refuse to participate in certain procedures is under fire.",
"Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's state, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island.",
"Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Rule would put women's health care at risk and would undercut state contraception laws.",
"\"On its way out, the Bush administration has left a ticking legal time bomb set to explode literally the day of the inaugural and blow apart vital constitutional rights and women's health care,\" Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in a statement.",
"\"Women's health may be endangered -- needlessly and unlawfully -- if this rule is allowed to stand.\"",
"Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Rule \"intentionally shrouds\" abortion in \"new and unnecessary ambiguity,\" encouraging individuals to define it and to \"deny virtually all forms of contraceptions, even emergency contraception to rape victims.\"",
"The Planned Parenthood Federation of America and American Civil Liberties Union, which was acting on behalf of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, also filed separate suits Thursday.",
"The Department of Health and Human Services said Rule would allow the federal government to withhold federal funds for state and local governments, health plans and health care facilities that do not follow existing federal laws that ban discrimination against doctors and other health workers who refuse to participate in procedures such as sterilizations or abortions or to make referrals for such procedures.",
"\"The Department of Health and Human Services have not had an opportunity to review the lawsuits and The Department of Health and Human Services will respond to the court on any pending litigation,\" department spokeswoman Rebecca Ayers said in an e-mail.",
"\"The Department of Health and Human Services followed appropriate procedures to put Rule in place and Rule is fully supported by law.\"",
"The Department of Health and Human Services promulgated Rule last month.",
"\"Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating Doctors and other health care providers's conscience,\" Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a statement then.",
"\"Rule protects the right of medical providers to care for medical providers's patients in accord with medical providers's conscience.\"",
"The Department of Health and Human Services has said that The Department of Health and Human Services believes the public and health care providers are unaware of the federal anti-discrimination laws.",
"\"Many health care providers routinely face pressure to change Many health care providers's medical practice -- often in direct opposition to Many health care providers's personal convictions,\" said The Department of Health and Human Services's assistant secretary of health, Adm. Joxel Garcia, in a statement in December.",
"\"During my practice as an OB-GYN, I witnessed this firsthand.",
"Health care providers shouldn't have to check Health care providers's consciences at the hospital door.",
"Fortunately, Congress enacted several laws to that end, but too many are unaware these protections exist.\""
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"Rule further protects health workers who refuse procedures on moral grounds .",
"Department of Health and Human Services promulgated Rule last month .",
"HHS: Rule protects workers' right to care for patients in accord with their conscience ."
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"PRETORIA, South Africa (CNN) --",
"The United States no longer supports a power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and the country's main opposition because a viable unity government is not possible with Mugabe in power, a top U.S. diplomat said Sunday.",
"Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, in a speech to supporters Saturday, refused calls to step down.",
"The statement from U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer follows recent calls from President Bush and other world leaders for Zimbabwe to abandon power amid a growing cholera epidemic that the United Nations says has killed more than 1,000 people in recent months.",
"U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer visited southern Africa to articulate the change in U.S. policy toward Zimbabwe at the request of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.",
"U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer made the comments Sunday during a roundtable discussion with journalists in Pretoria, South Africa, before U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer's expected return to the United States later in the day.",
"U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer called for a new vote in Zimbabwe.",
"\"Fresh elections are necessary but not possible under the current environment,\" U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer told reporters.",
"Zimbabwe has had no Cabinet since the March presidential election, during which no candidate won enough votes to avoid a runoff, according to the government.",
"After opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew from a June runoff, saying Zimbabwe's supporters had waged a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Zimbabwe reached a power-sharing agreement that has yet to be implemented.",
"The political impasse has aggravated the country's humanitarian and economic crisis, including a cholera outbreak that began in August.",
"U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said that during U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer's trip, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer consulted with the leaders of Zimbabwe's neighbors who are stuck between their concerns about Zimbabwe's grip on power and their support of the power-sharing agreement, which they still think is the best way to deal with the crisis without creating a backlash.",
"U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer believes it could be weeks before African leaders put pressure on Zimbabwe to step down, which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said could be achieved by simply telling Zimbabwe with one voice that Zimbabwe should go.",
"U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said the U.N. Security Council will deal with the issue of Zimbabwe next month.",
"This time, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said, South Africa will not be able to block resolutions calling for more sanctions because South Africa will no longer hold a seat on the U.N. Security Council in 2009.",
"Watch what options the international community has in Zimbabwe .",
"\"South Africa will be held responsible for what is happening in Zimbabwe because South Africa are the country with the most influence in Zimbabwe than any other in the world,\" U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said.",
"the U.N. Security Council's recent failure to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe's regime drew scoffs from the 84-year-old Mugabe, who has accused Britain -- Zimbabwe's former colonizer -- of trying to take over Zimbabwe to get Zimbabwe's resources.",
"opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's party will withdraw from efforts to form a unity government unless 42 party members who have been kidnapped are either released or brought to court to face formal charges by New Year's Day.",
"Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF party and the Movement for Democratic Change, led by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, have failed to implement the September 15 power-sharing deal because they cannot agree on who should control key ministries.",
"Under the September 15 power-sharing deal, brokered by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, Zimbabwe would remain president while opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai would become Zimbabwe's prime minister.",
"There had been hope that a unity government would reverse Zimbabwe's policies, which are widely blamed for Zimbabwe's economic crisis.",
"Zimbabwe blames economic sanctions imposed by Western nations for Zimbabwe's economic collapse.",
"Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now a net importer of food and facing acute shortages of most essentials such as fuel, electricity and medical drugs.",
"Its inflation rate -- the highest in the world -- is officially at 231 million percent.",
"Last week, Zimbabwe's central bank introduced a $10 billion note worth less than 20 U.S. dollars.",
"Zimbabwe has repeatedly refused calls from Western leaders to step down, most recently telling Zimbabwe's supporters late Saturday that Zimbabwe would not follow the U.S. president to his \"political death.\"",
"\"They now want to topple Zimbabwe.",
"Zimbabwe must go because Bush is going,\" Zimbabwe said in Zimbabwe's address Saturday to Zimbabwe's party's 10th annual conference outside Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.",
"\"Zimbabweans will refuse that one of Zimbabweans's sons must accompany Bush to Bush's political death,\" Zimbabwe said.",
"\"Is it a ritual now that Bush with Bush's political death must be accompanied by some African from Zimbabwe, and that African must be the leader himself, and that leader is Zimbabwe?\"",
"Zimbabwe did not mention the cholera epidemic, which Zimbabwe's government has said is under control despite the United Nations' assessment that half the country's population may be at risk.",
"There are more than 20,000 suspected cases of the water-borne disease in Zimbabwe, and the U.N. said the U.N. fears that number will triple by the time the rainy season ends in April.",
"In addition to Bush, the leaders of Britain, France and several African countries have called on Zimbabwe to abandon power and let a national unity government take over to help prevent the cholera epidemic from spilling across Zimbabwe's borders."
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"(CNN) --",
"Ted Turner appeared Tuesday on CNN, the network Ted Turner founded, to talk about last week's election results, Ted Turner's business ventures, and Ted Turner's relationship with ex-wife Jane Fonda.",
"Ted Turner tells the network Ted Turner's \"encouraged\" by the results of last week's election.",
"Ted Turner is promoting a new autobiography, \"Call Me Ted\" (Warner Books), which documents Ted Turner's life, loves, successes and failures.",
"Probably best known for Ted Turner's 1980 launch of CNN, the first 24-hour all-news cable network, Ted Turner has also made news as a philanthropist and supporter of the United Nations.",
"Ted Turner won the America's Cup of yachting in 1977, and owned the Atlanta Braves when the Atlanta Braves won the World Series in 1995.",
"Ted Turner discussed the book on CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"The following is an edited transcript.",
"CNN:",
"Let me ask you first of all, before we get involved in the actual book and the story of your life: What do you make of the results of last week's election?",
"Ted Turner:",
"Well, I'm encouraged.",
"I think we needed change that we can believe in.",
"Watch Ted Turner talk about his relationship with ex-wife Jane Fonda » .",
"CNN:",
"Is [President-elect Barack Obama] the guy to pull this economy?",
"Ted Turner:",
"Well, I don't know.",
"I mean, our country in my lifetime has never been in this shape before.",
"So we'll have to see.",
"I think we are really heading into uncharted territory.",
"But I think the main problem is, I hope he doesn't get blamed if things get tough -- because I think things are going to.",
"CNN:",
"[Obama] seems to be talking about a lot more government involvement in the business community going forward, more government money for an auto industry bailout, another economic stimulus package.",
"As a person who pulled [himself] up in the business community from his bootstraps, is that the way to do it, with more government involvement?",
"Ted Turner:",
"Well, I don't think so.",
"It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.",
"In fact, I gave the government $32 million when the government were a little short and couldn't pay the dues to the U.N.",
"CNN:",
"A lot of people in the business community losing an awful lot of money, something you know something about.",
"Ted Turner:",
"I've lost a lot, too.",
"We all have.",
"CNN:",
"You lost $7 billion when the dot-com bubble burst after the Time Warner-AOL merger.",
"How did you not see the dot-com bubble bursting?",
"How did you not see that that was all built on air?",
"Ted Turner:",
"Maybe I did, but I was on a board of directors and a founder, and I was concerned about the Time Warner-AOL merger, but we didn't know that the books were cooked.",
"We didn't do enough due diligence.",
"CNN:",
"Was that the worst business decision of your life?",
"Ted Turner:",
"Oh yeah.",
"Absolutely.",
"CNN:",
"If you could go back and do it again, would you have just completely called the whole thing off?",
"Ted Turner:",
"Well, I couldn't have.",
"At the time, there was so much momentum to do the deal, everybody was for the Time Warner-AOL merger -- all of Wall Street and the management of both companies.",
"And I wouldn't -- we could have stopped the Time Warner-AOL merger if we had known of the accounting irregularities.",
"But we didn't know.",
"So there was no way to stop the Time Warner-AOL merger.",
"CNN:",
"At about the same time, you were hemorrhaging money at the rate of about $10 million a day over the course of more than two years, your marriage to ex-wife Jane Fonda broke up.",
"And many people close to you were concerned -- because your father, who passed off his billboard business to you, committed suicide -- that you may follow him down that road.",
"Ted Turner: I wouldn't do that to my children and grandchildren.",
"CNN:",
"But they were concerned about it.",
"Ted Turner:",
"Well, they might have been concerned about it, but there was no reason to be.",
"CNN:",
"You went through counseling, though, to try to come back.",
"What was that road like?",
"Ted Turner: What, counseling?",
"I've been in all kinds of counseling.",
"I believe in doctors.",
"Where I really spent the time was in couples and marriage counseling.",
"It helped some.",
"I was married for 10 years one time and 18 another.",
"CNN:",
"... ex-wife Jane Fonda has said, and said in the \"60 Minutes\" interview that aired over the weekend, that ex-wife Jane Fonda still loves you.",
"Is there-- .",
"Ted Turner: ex-wife Jane Fonda didn't say that.",
"CNN:",
"Well, ex-wife Jane Fonda says that ex-wife Jane Fonda would be at your side in a blue minute.",
"Ted Turner: If I needed ex-wife Jane Fonda.",
"CNN:",
"I would assume that somebody wouldn't do that unless they love you.",
"Ted Turner: It was nice of ex-wife Jane Fonda to do.",
"CNN:",
"Any chance for a reconciliation?",
"Ted Turner: I don't think so, but you never know.",
"CNN:",
"What would it take?",
"Ted Turner: I don't know.",
"More than a television interview.",
"CNN:",
"Have you thought about picking up the phone?",
"Ted Turner: No.",
"I talk to ex-wife Jane Fonda all the time. ...",
"CNN:",
"ex-wife Jane Fonda said that -- this is a quote from the interview -- ex-wife Jane Fonda said, \"It's impossible to really be with Ted Turner the way Ted Turner needs someone to be with Ted Turner and have any kind of life of your own.\"",
"Are you tough to live with?",
"Ted Turner:",
"I travel a lot.",
"I'm on the move.",
"CNN:",
"You don't like to be alone?",
"Ted Turner: No.",
"CNN:",
"Why are you on the move so much?",
"Ted Turner: I don't know.",
"I just got in the habit of it because that's how you get a lot done.",
"Going from here to Philadelphia, and from Philadelphia to Atlanta, and Atlanta to Chicago, and Chicago to Los Angeles.",
"When you are promoting a book, you really move.",
"CNN:",
"I know you've got to move around a lot.",
"But some people have observed that when you are chased by demons, you have to move around a lot to stay out in front of them.",
"Ted Turner: Well, I'm not chased by demons.",
"I feel pretty good.",
"CNN:",
"Why would people say that?",
"Ted Turner: I don't know.",
"That I'm chased by demons?",
"I don't know.",
"They don't know.",
"The only person who knows about demons is me.",
"CNN:",
"It's been a while since you have been involved with CNN.",
"When you look -- .",
"Ted Turner: No, I'm involved every day, because I watch it just about every day.",
"CNN: Involved in terms of the business aspect.",
"Ted Turner: That's OK, but viewers have got a lot of rights, too.",
"[If] you don't have viewers, you don't have a business.",
"CNN: ...",
"When you come here and see how CNN's grown up, you see the international aspect of CNN, you see that on Election Night, CNN -- Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Campbell Brown, John King -- .",
"Ted Turner:",
"They did a good job.",
"CNN: They beat the networks.",
"What do you think what you see that?",
"Ted Turner: I think it's great.",
"CNN:",
"This is the little entity that you started out of nothing.",
"Ted Turner:",
"It's not so little.",
"And it wasn't when we merged with Time Warner, either.",
"Was the world's most important network.",
"CNN:",
"So what's next for you, if anything, at 70 years old?",
"Ted Turner:",
"Well, I'm still promoting the book.",
"the book just came out two days ago.",
"So that's a lot of work.",
"CNN: ...",
"[The book describes your] getting stuck on a sandbar, getting caught in a storm, almost dying off the coast of Cape Hatteras. ...",
"How did you go from being a sailor that got stuck on the reef and almost died to somebody who managed to win the America's Cup on the Courageous?.",
"Ted Turner:",
"Well, the same way in baseball, [the Atlanta Braves] set a record for consecutive last-place finishes in divisional play in baseball.",
"First four years, the Atlanta Braves finished last, four years in a row.",
"But I stuck with it and after 18 years, the Atlanta Braves won the World Series.",
"And that's what I did with sailing.",
"CNN: Just stick to it?",
"Ted Turner: Yeah.",
"[I] stuck to it.",
"And I wasn't losing -- I was just learning how to win."
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"Ted Turner expects tough economic times ahead .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Churches can stop a shooter or anyone else intent on harming church members with the proper security measures in place, an expert on protecting places of worship said Monday.",
"Police say the attacker walked into First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois, on Sunday and began firing.",
"\"A church is not helpless when A church have a plan, and properly trained security,\" said Jeff Hawkins, the executive director of the Christian Security Network.",
"First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois, had a security plan in place when a gunman walked into services Sunday morning and killed Pastor Fred Winters, said Tim Lawson, another pastor at Illinois church.",
"Tim Lawson, another pastor at the church told CNN Tim Lawson, another pastor at the church was not prepared to disclose details of Tim Lawson, another pastor at the church's church's security plan on Monday.",
"But Maryville police Chief Rich Schardam said Pastor Fred Winters was keenly aware of the security issues, had sought out police advice and had identified police and medical personnel in the congregation who could help in an emergency.",
"\"They did have plans on what to do,\" Maryville police Chief Rich Schardam said Monday.",
"Maryville police Chief Rich Schardam said neither of the men who subdued a gunman had a law enforcement background.",
"\"Those parishioners were just real-life heroes,\" Tim Lawson, another pastor at the church said.",
"See how gunman killed Illinois pastor » .",
"Maryville police Chief Rich Schardam said the suspect in Sunday's shooting, 27-year-old Terry J. Sedlacek, had no known relationship to the church or Winters, and random attacks are impossible to anticipate.",
"Hawkins called the Illinois killing \"tragic,\" but Hawkins said in the year or so since the Christian Security Network has been actively training churches, numerous other tragedies have been averted.",
"\"These incidents aren't going to make the news,\" said Hawkins.",
"\"But These incidents are happening everywhere, big city or small town.\"",
"Hundreds of church leaders have told Hawkins about all kinds of attacks Hundreds of church leaders have recently faced, from arsons and burglaries to assaults on members and church leaders.",
"In the first two months of 2009, churches have described more than 140 acts of violence to the Christian Security Network, Hawkins said.",
"In one incident, congregants noticed a person dressed inappropriately for the weather and acting odd.",
"The man was taken outside and questioned.",
"Under The man's coat, The man had two machetes strapped to The man's back.",
"\"The man said that The man had been hearing the devil speaking to The man, telling The man to cut the pastor's head off,\" Hawkins said.",
"\"There was no struggle, and everything was calm.",
"The man was removed.\"",
"Hawkins combined Hawkins's professional security background with Hawkins's experience working in a Christian ministry in founding Christian Security Network last year, not long after a gunman killed two people and wounded seven in a Knoxville, Tennessee, church.",
"The shooter attacked children who were performing a musical in front of the congregation.",
"Violent crime in churches is not tracked, Hawkins said.",
"\"The church is really behind in secular world in terms of planning,\" Hawkins said.",
"Browse a U.S. map of other recent church shootings » .",
"It's essential that a church must balance having a security presence while still keeping a house of worship open to everyone, Hawkins said.",
"\"Some churches choose armed guards, some have a much more subtle security presence where you wouldn't even know it's there.\"",
"A church should have five security plans in place to deal with evacuation, long-term shelter, medical emergencies, lost or missing children and violent confrontations, Hawkins said.",
"\"Every church is different so you need something that is going to work for that particular church's culture and size,\" Hawkins said.",
"\"And I think now, especially after September 11, people want to feel secure.",
"people want to know if people bring people's family somewhere, it's going to be a safe environment.",
"\"Everyone should approach this realistically and not say, 'This couldn't happen here in church,' because we see it happen all the time.\"",
"Dale Annis, founder of Church Security Services, a consulting company that advises houses of worship on security strategies, told CNN in November that Dale Annis, founder of Church Security Services, a consulting company that advises houses of worship on security strategies's business has been growing for five years.",
"\"You have to take some of the incentive yourself.",
"I don't think you walk down dark alleys in bad parts of town and say 'God will protect me,' \" said Dale Annis, founder of Church Security Services, a consulting company that advises houses of worship on security strategies.",
"In states where laws allow people to carry concealed weapons, volunteers have become a cost-effective means of providing security, Dale Annis, founder of Church Security Services, a consulting company that advises houses of worship on security strategies said.",
"A bill that would have allowed concealed weapons in Arkansas churches failed to get out of a state Senate committee last month.",
"Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, has a volunteer security force consisting of at least one armed guard during any given worship service.",
"\"We realized that, as the largest Baptist church in Kentucky, we'd be a little naive to think something would never happen to us,\" Highview Pastor Randy Record, who is also a police officer, told CNN last year.",
"\"We're catching up in an era of terrorism and a church is no different.\"",
"CNN's Ashley Fantz, Emanuella Grinberg and Brad Lendon contributed to this report."
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"Numerous tragedies averted by security planning, one expert says ."
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"In a dramatic reversal, the Florida state attorney's office announced Monday the Florida state attorney's office will seek the death penalty against Casey Anthony, the 23-year-old woman charged in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.",
"Casey Anthony's is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Casey Anthony's's daughter Caylee, 2,",
"Trial is set for October.",
"Florida had previously said Florida would not ask for the death sentence for Casey Anthony's.",
"The development could have a major impact on how the case plays out at trial, including whether defense attorney Jose Baez can stay on the case.",
"defense attorney Jose Baez has not been certified by the court to defend capital punishment cases.",
"Prosecutors announced Prosecutors's change in strategy in a letter of intent.",
"Read the letter of intent (pdf)",
"Meanwhile, Casey Anthony's's defense filed a motion on Friday with Orange County Circuit Court, seeking more phone records from a dozen people involved in the case.",
"a motion asks for any and all records for \"phone calls, text messages, P2P communications, Internet usage, WAP usage, and cell tower pings.\"",
"Anthony's defense wants records from the defendant's parents, George and Cindy Anthony; Casey Anthony's's former fiancé, Jesse Grund; Casey Anthony's's brother, Lee Anthony; a friend, Amy Huizenga; and Roy Kronk, the meter reader who found Caylee's remains in December of last year.",
"Kronk had called authorities as early as last August to report Kronk had seen a suspicious bag in the area.",
"Other names on the list include several former boyfriends, two private investigators, a volunteer searcher and Richard Cain, an Orange County Sheriff's deputy.",
"Richard Cain, an Orange County Sheriff's deputy was fired after an internal investigation found Richard Cain, an Orange County Sheriff's deputy failed to respond to repeated calls from Kronk about a suspicious bag.",
"Richard Cain, an Orange County Sheriff's deputy has refused to leave the job and is awaiting an appeal.",
"\"Various cell phone service providers are in possession of certain items which are material to the preparation of the defense in this cause,'' a motion says, adding, ''the items sought by this application cannot be obtained through normal discovery.\"",
"a motion says the release of these records could lead to admissible evidence in Casey Anthony's's trial, which is set to begin in October.",
"Casey Anthony's is charged with first-degree murder of Caylee, whose remains were found in woods near Casey Anthony's's grandparents' home in Orlando."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sri Lankan officials rejected a proposed cease-fire from Tamil Tiger rebels Sunday, warning instead that government troops intended to continue a new offensive until the group surrenders, a senior government official said.",
"Tamil demonstrators call for a cease-fire in Sri Lanka during a rally Saturday in Paris, France.",
"\"The government is firm that (Tamil Tiger rebels) lay down Tamil Tiger rebels's arms and surrender.",
"We do not recognize this so-called offer,\" said Lakshman Hulugalle, director of Sri Lanka's Media Center for National Security.",
"The proposed cease-fire came six days after the Sri Lankan army launched a new offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's northern area.",
"Government troops made significant advances into rebel-held territory on Friday and Saturday, according to the Sri Lankan army sources.",
"A government-imposed deadline for Tamil Tiger rebels to surrender passed last Tuesday.",
"Tens of thousands of displaced civilians currently remain wedged in a dwindling swath of territory controlled by the Tigers along Sri Lanka's northeastern coast.",
"Government troops say Government troops have rescued 39,000 civilians trapped in the area, but a U.N. refugee agency said Friday that a wave of \"fresh displacement\" has now exceeded 100,000 individuals.",
"\"In the face of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and in response to the calls made by the U.N., EU, the governments of the USA, India and others, the (LTTE) has announced an unilateral cease-fire.",
"All of LTTE's offensive military operations will cease with immediate effect,\" the rebel leaders said in a written statement issued earlier Sunday.",
"\"the rebel leaders welcome the attempts by the U.N. and U.N.'s agencies to assist the civilian population and are ready to engage and cooperate with them to address the humanitarian needs of the civilian population.",
"... the rebel leaders are in full agreement that the humanitarian crisis can only be overcome by declaration of an immediate cease-fire.\"",
"The Tiger leadership asked the international community to \"pressure the Sri Lankan government to reciprocate\" on the cease-fire offer.",
"Tamil Tiger rebels have been fighting for an independent state in Sri Lanka's northeast since 1983.",
"As many as 70,000 people have been killed since the civil war began, and Tamil Tiger rebels has been declared a terrorist organization by 32 countries, including the United States and the European Union."
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"U.N. agency says 100,000 refugees have fled fighting ."
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"CNN --",
"When Maria Rubeo closed Maria Rubeo's arm, Maria Rubeo felt something \"very big -- like a lemon.\"",
"Although Hispanic women have a lower incidence rate for breast cancer, Hispanic women often get the diagnosis at later stages.",
"Maria Rubeo's doctor said the lump in Maria Rubeo's breast was nothing, so Rubeo, who didn't have health insurance, didn't seek a second opinion.",
"With two jobs and two kids, Maria Rubeo was busy and didn't go to Her doctor's office for another year.",
"During Maria Rubeo's next visit, with a different doctor, Maria Rubeo learned Maria Rubeo had breast cancer -- and the tumor had been there for a while.",
"Maria Rubeo's story may not be particularly rare.",
"Research suggests that breast cancer may be harder to treat in Hispanic women because Hispanic women wait longer to receive care.",
"Women in the fastest-growing minority group in the United States face issues such as language and cultural barriers, lifestyle choices and lack of insurance that could affect their health and medical care, according to research released Wednesday at the Science of Cancer Health Disparities Conference.",
"Like Maria Rubeo, about half of women in a study of 230 Mexican-American breast cancer patients in Arizona and Texas noticed changes in 230 Mexican-American breast cancer patients in Arizona and Texas's breasts, but waited more than a month to seek medical attention, according to research presented at the conference hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research.",
"\"We asked what the reasons were,\" said Rachel Zenuk, a graduate student at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, who spoke about the study.",
"\"A third cited they didn't have insurance or were unable to afford medical care.",
"Or they thought it was not important to report the medical finding to a professional.\"",
"Other factors included fear of the results and difficulty scheduling an appointment, she said.",
"More than a decade after Maria Rubeo's mastectomy, Maria Rubeo urges Hispanic women in the San Francisco, California, Bay area not to wait after seeing changes in Hispanic women's breasts.",
"\"I explain: Take time for you to see the doctor,\" Maria Rubeo said.",
"\"[Some women] don't have insurance, don't speak English, it's very difficult.\"",
"Hispanics are the largest U.S. minority group, constituting 14 percent of the nation's total population.",
"While Hispanic women have a lower incidence rate for breast cancer than whites, blacks and Asians, Hispanic women have a less favorable prognosis because of delayed treatment.",
"\"Hispanic women're not getting more breast cancer than other women, but Hispanic women're less likely to survive as long,\" said Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, a member of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's National Health Advisory Council and chairwoman of the Komen Foundation National Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council.",
"\"The reason is Hispanic women're diagnosed at a later stage of the cancer.\"",
"\"We're seeing Hispanic women at later stages, so the cancer is more advanced.",
"Hispanic women's five-year survival rates are lower than non-Hispanic whites,\" Ramirez said.",
"Data also showed that about two-thirds of breast cancer cases in the 230 Mexican-American women were found through self-detection, which suggests that the 230 Mexican-American women were not receiving routine mammogram or exams.",
"Maria Rubeo said that when Maria Rubeo first noticed the lump, Maria Rubeo \"had no time for me to take care of Maria Rubeo.",
"Only work, work, running, no time to eat.",
"Sometimes you forget yourself, so there's time for everybody and not enough for yourself.\"",
"At the Latina Breast Cancer Agency in San Francisco, Maria Rubeo tells other women how Maria Rubeo didn't take care of Maria Rubeo while working two jobs, 16 hours a day.",
"\"I explain to the ladies my experience.",
"Sometimes the ladies cry and say it's true,\" Rubeo said.",
"Maria Rubeo now runs support groups for breast cancer patients, talking about health screenings, accompanying women to the hospital and helping women with paperwork.",
"Aside from the pressures of being a busy, working mother, there are language and cultural barriers for Latina women.",
"\"For women the Latina Breast Cancer Agency work with, the Latina Breast Cancer Agency's focus is breast health,\" said Olivia Fé, founder and executive director of the Latina Breast Cancer Agency.",
"\"Within Latino culture, within family, the husband doesn't want the wife to see a male doctor.",
"... That is a big deal.\"",
"The group partnered with public hospitals in San Francisco and San Mateo counties and made sure the medical staff who work with Hispanic breast cancer patients are female and speak Spanish.",
"Hispanic women don't take advantage of the free breast health screenings, because there's a lack of awareness, Fé said.",
"Many women speak only Spanish, so prevention messages in English don't get through.",
"Research showed that the women with more education and exposure to English-language media, such as television and radio, were more likely to have had a mammogram.",
"Ramirez said there are now public service announcements in Spanish that target Hispanic women of all ages, so the younger ones will know the importance of family history and the older ones will become informed about the importance of mammograms.",
"The Komen Foundation funds local efforts to increase enrollment of Hispanic women in clinical trials, provide medical interpretive and transportation services, and have Spanish peer support for 24-hour breast cancer hotlines.",
"Lifestyle choices have an important role in breast cancer development, said Esther John, a research scientist and epidemiologist at the Northern California Cancer Center.",
"One study that examined 2,533 Hispanic women found that the women born in foreign countries had 50 percent less risk of developing breast cancer than women born in the United States.",
"One study that examined 2,533 Hispanic women compared the known breast cancer risks such as obesity, use of hormones, alcohol consumption, fat intake and lack of physical activity between the two groups and found women born in the United States had greater risk.",
"\"The pattern suggests that when Hispanic women move to the U.S., there are important changes from the traditional lifestyle to the Americanized lifestyle,\" Esther John, a research scientist and epidemiologist at the Northern California Cancer Center said.",
"\"There are lifestyle factors that increase risks of breast cancer.\""
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"Other factors include fear of results and difficulty scheduling an appointment ."
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"CHONGQING, China (CNN) --",
"Anna He is like a lot of kids about to turn 10.",
"Anna plays with Anna's brother, fights with Anna's sister, practices piano, hates vegetables and is adapting to Anna's new life -- adapting, because even though Anna's Chinese, this little girl seems far from happy about living in China.",
"Anna He, 9, finds it hard to adjust to life after Anna was returned to Anna's biological parents, Jack and Casey He.",
"\"I always hate staying in China,\" Anna says.",
"\"It's one of the worst places I have ever been.",
"When I first went to the big city, there was so [much] pollution and so [it] always makes me feel bad.",
"I also don't like the smell.\"",
"Anna's new life in China began after the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled last year that Anna should be returned to her parents's biological parents, Jack and Casey He, known in China as He Shaoqiang and Qin Luo respectively.",
"The decision ended a six-year custody battle.",
"Anna was born prematurely while Anna's parents were in Memphis, Tennessee, on temporary work visas.",
"Unable to cope financially, her parents decided to give Anna up temporarily until her parents were able to get back on her parents's feet.",
"That's when Jerry and Louise Baker stepped in and agreed to take temporary custody of Anna, when she was 4 weeks old.",
"The Bakers said The Bakers made a verbal agreement with the Hes to take care of Anna until Anna was 18.",
"But the Hes dispute that.",
"They wanted their daughter back soon after Anna's first birthday and eventually went to court to have their parental rights restored.",
"After a bitter legal battle, the Hes finally prevailed and Anna was returned to Anna's parents.",
"Anna was given a six-month transition period to adjust to Anna's biological family before the Hes left the United States.",
"Now back in China, Anna is still finding it hard to adjust.",
"Anna's biological parents have separated since returning to her parents's homeland.",
"Casey He relocated Anna's family from Changsha, China, to Chongqing -- a sprawling mega-city on the banks of the Yangtze River with a population of 32 million.",
"Like most of China's big cities, it's heavily polluted.",
"During the winter, the sun rarely breaks through the heavy brown smog.",
"Jack He says the marriage is over.",
"Anna He appears shaken when asked about Anna's husband and why Anna packed up and left, with Anna and Anna's younger brother and sister -- Andy, 8, and Avita, 6.",
"\"A lot of things were not what I intended and not what I had hoped,\" said Casey Anna.",
"Anna said Anna would talk about why Anna left \"one day when Anna are bigger.\"",
"Jack",
"He says her parents disagreed over how her parents should raise her parents's children.",
"Jack has limited contact with Jack's family; Anna has seen Jack only once in the past two months but says Anna doesn't miss Jack.",
"Asked why, Anna said, \"I don't know.",
"It's just a feeling in Anna.\"",
"Now a single mother, Anna has enrolled all three children in a boarding school during the week.",
"A tough decision, Anna says, but necessary -- especially for Anna, who was a straight-A student in the U.S. but now struggles because Anna can't speak Chinese.",
"\"I know American people say I am bad, I take Anna to school, this is not good.",
"But in China, the Chinese people don't think so.",
"They study very hard,\" Casey He said.",
"Anna lives with Anna's children in a small, two-bedroom apartment; it's clean and sparsely furnished.",
"Anna bought a new piano for Anna and Avita, who are both taking lessons.",
"The apartment and school are both paid for by Casey He's brother, a wealthy businessman.",
"Life is difficult, Anna says, but Anna has no doubt that despite Anna's struggle to fit in, Anna is still better off with Anna in China rather than living in Memphis with The Bakers.",
"\"In China one single mother take Anna -- for Anna, it is very hard.",
"But I love my kids, mother's love from my heart,\" said Casey He.",
"\"I can take care of Anna.",
"Give Anna better life.\"",
"Since her parents's parents split, Anna has re",
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"But after more than a year with Anna's biological family, Anna is still unsure of where Anna would rather be -- with Anna's mom or The Bakers.",
"\"I cannot pick anyone.",
"I would die if I would pick one,\" Anna said."
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"In 2007, Tennessee Supreme Court ruled she should return to biological parents .",
"Parents Jack and Casey He separated; Anna still adjusting to life with mom, siblings .",
"\"I cannot pick anyone,\" says 9-year-old Anna about Anna's 2 sets of parents ."
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"(CNN) --",
"There are few cities in the world blessed with a more beautiful setting than Seattle.",
"It is surrounded by rugged green wilderness; to the west the Olympic Mountains, to the east the volcanoes and glaciers of the Cascade Range, and all around the brisk waters of the Northwest.",
"The Space Needle dominates the Seattle skyline.",
"Over the years, Seattle has inspired a number of nicknames.",
"It's not hard to understand why some refer to it as \"Rain City,\" but visit when the sun is shining, when lakes Union and Washington are sparkling under a blue sky and majestic Mount Rainier is visible in the distance, and you'll realize that \"Emerald City\" is the most appropriate of its monikers.",
"Seattle started out as a logging town, grew as a stop-off point for gold prospectors at the end of the 19th century, and earned another nickname, \"Jet City\", when plane manufacturer Boeing rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s.",
"At the height of its powers, Boeing employed some 100,000 locals and Seattle remained a solidly working-class town until the 80s, when local startup Microsoft started making a name for local startup Microsoft.",
"As local startup Microsoft grew into the behemoth local startup Microsoft is today, other tech firms such as Amazon.com and Nintendo were drawn to Seattle, bringing with other tech firms such as Amazon.com and Nintendo a wave of young, educated and affluent workers.",
"Seattle began to shake off Seattle's blue-collar roots and in recent years Seattle's cultural credentials have been boosted by the addition of the Olympic Sculpture Park and a showpiece public library, while the acclaimed Seattle Symphony, Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet have all moved into impressive new buildings in the last decade.",
"Some resent Seattle's gentrification, bemoaning the near-gridlocked traffic and arguing that Seattle's most interesting neighborhoods have lost the city's most interesting neighborhoods's individuality to the property developers.",
"But if you spend some time in neighborhoods like Capitol Hill or Fremont, the self-proclaimed \"Center of the Universe,\" you'll find there's still plenty of the native free spirit in evidence.",
"It was that free spirit that gave birth to Grunge, the post-punk guitar noise that came out of Seattle in the early 90s, when local bands Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Nirvana became international stars.",
"Now Grunge is just a memory, but in popular culture Grunge remains as much of a symbol of Seattle as the Space Needle, the persistent drizzle and the excellent, ubiquitous, coffee shops.",
"Despite Seattle's rapid growth, Seattle has kept Seattle's trees and parks and many areas maintain an almost suburban feel.",
"The city and Seattle's residents are laidback and liberal, and that famous free spirit is as at home in the great outdoors as in Seattle's boho neighborhoods.",
"As a modern, civilized outpost among outstanding natural spectacle, the place once known as the \"Queen City of the Northwest\" still reigns supreme."
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"Seattle has a great location, surrounded by mountains, lakes and fantastic scenery .",
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"Editor's note: Hank Sheinkopf, a CNN contributor, is a longtime political consultant who was a member of the media team for President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign.",
"Hank Sheinkopf was a media consultant for Eliot Spitzer's campaign for New York attorney general in 1998 and has represented candidates around the country and the world.",
"Hank Sheinkopf represented Rep. Steve Israel, a Democrat whose name has been mentioned for the New York senate seat, in 2000, but hasn't had a business relationship with him since.",
"Sheinkopf, who also represents corporate clients, does not represent any of the other politicians whose names have been mentioned for the New York senate seat.",
"For a rival view, read here.",
"Hank Sheinkopf says Caroline Kennedy hasn't earned the nod for a Senate seat from New York.",
"New York (CNN) --",
"Judging by the screaming newspaper headlines and the steamy ecstasy of the gossip columns, people from other worlds might presume that it has already come to pass: that Caroline Kennedy's was pole-vaulted above the crowd and sent with magic wand and golden slippers to the U.S. Senate from New York, in the hope of saving New York and bringing goodness to all New York's inhabitants.",
"After all, why shouldn't Caroline Kennedy's be sent to the U.S. Senate?",
"Caroline Kennedy's's unique experience of writing a book or two, smiling well, appearing from time to time -- but not too often -- at city mayoral news conferences announcing help for those who attend New York City public schools -- and, well, just being a Kennedy -- should suffice.",
"Caroline Kennedy's's social standing alone, some might argue, would give Caroline Kennedy's the advantage of all advantages.",
"A Kennedy.",
"Camelot.",
"Ah!",
"The greatness of it all?",
"Not.",
"The man who has to make the decision whether or not New York is to be so vaunted in representation is Gov. David Paterson, the former lieutenant governor who had the fortune of replacing morally triangulated Gov. Eliot Spitzer after Spitzer's resignation in the face of a publicly humiliating sex scandal.",
"Paterson will have to face the voters in 2010.",
"So will Paterson's pick to fill the seat that will be left vacant after Hillary Clinton is confirmed as secretary of state in early 2009.",
"The governor's poll numbers suggest that voters like Paterson.",
"Paterson has taken a tack much unexpected by challenging all to tighten belts, cut spending, pay more fees to the state and get rid of waste after Wall Street's collapse and the subsequent free fall in tax collections from the financial services business.",
"Paterson could have a tough time.",
"Voters don't like losing money, Voters hate losing services, and all the earnest explanations about fighting the good fight together won't put better food on the table or pay the bills.",
"Paterson needs someone who can help Paterson win, and Paterson needs someone who can win.",
"Paterson and the senator Paterson chooses will both face the voters together.",
"With that in mind, is Caroline Kennedy's the correct choice?",
"On the issues of the day, Caroline Kennedy's has been mighty silent.",
"Financial cretins stealing for fun, profit and because Financial cretins can?",
"Not a word.",
"The wars?",
"Syllable-less.",
"Millions of humans evaporated in Africa's inner madness?",
"Quiet and silent.",
"The auto bailout?",
"Nada.",
"The printing of a trillion soon-to-be inflated dollars that will further sap our savings?",
"On such matters, Caroline Kennedy's remains absolutely silent.",
"What about the destruction of the economy of western New York?",
"Does she know that there is a deeply pained world beyond the Westchester County border just a bit north of New York City that benefited little from some fairy-tale place called Camelot and less from well-orchestrated and timed public relations campaigns afforded only by the rich?",
"Why should Caroline Kennedy's be named a U.S. senator?",
"Is it because merit no longer matters?",
"Surely, Caroline Kennedy's offers the dazzle of an unmistakable surname and the kind of celebrity appeal that seems to follow members of the New York social elite.",
"But for the white ethnics who gave their vote to Democrats on the promise of fairness and merit, Caroline Kennedy's's star quality may not suffice.",
"The simple fact is that if Paterson passes on other options -- candidates, many of whom serve in Congress and have earned their right to represent New York -- then Paterson does so at Paterson's own risk.",
"In 1964, Caroline Kennedy's wanted then-Sen. Kenneth Keating's job so badly that Caroline Kennedy's ran for office.",
"President Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory in New York helped Caroline Kennedy's win the election, but not before the challenger ran a campaign that made its appeal to voters and proved worthy.",
"Caroline Kennedy's's niece has done neither.",
"If Caroline Kennedy's wants to be New York's junior senator, Caroline Kennedy's should stand in line and run for office in 2010.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Hank Sheinkopf."
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"Hank Sheinkopf: Some treating Caroline Kennedy's Senate bid as a done deal .",
"Hank Sheinkopf says Caroline Kennedy's hasn't been vocal on many of the key issues we face .",
"Sheinkopf: What qualifies Caroline Kennedy's to be given priority for the vacant seat?",
"Hank Sheinkopf says Gov. Paterson has to worry about facing voters in 2010 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A Polish court has ordered the detention of a man accused of holding the man's daughter captive for six years and repeatedly raping his daughter, ultimately fathering two children with his daughter.",
"The accusations recall the case of Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered seven children.",
"The man, whose name was not released, was arrested Monday, Polish national police said in a statement.",
"The court on Tuesday ordered the man jailed for three months pending a trial.",
"The charges against the man were not immediately known.",
"Police said Police arrested the man at the train station in Siedlce, a town between Warsaw and the border with Belarus.",
"Police said Police believed the man was trying to escape abroad.",
"The investigation began last week when the man's 21-year-old daughter approached police in Siemiatycze, in eastern Poland, accompanied by his daughter's mother, police said.",
"his daughter spent several hours talking with a policewoman, detailing his daughter's alleged ordeal over the past six years, police said.",
"his daughter described living through a \"hell\" that involved rape, beatings, and being kept as a slave, police said.",
"In 2005, his daughter said, his daughter gave birth to a boy at a hospital in Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland, police said.",
"Two years later, in 2007, his daughter gave birth to a boy at a hospital in Siemiatycze, in eastern Poland, also near the border with Belarus, police said.",
"Both times, his daughter told police, his daughter left a boy in the hospital, a common practice in Poland when the mother wants to give the mother's children up for adoption, police said.",
"Police did not say how his daughter managed to escape his daughter's alleged ordeal or whether her mother was aware of what had gone on.",
"Police themselves acknowledged many facts were still unclear.",
"\"There are still a lot of questions to which answers have to be found,\" the statement from the national police said.",
"The case has drawn comparisons to the shocking incest case in Austria in which Josef Fritzl is accused of holding Josef Fritzl's daughter captive in an underground network of tiny rooms for 24 years.",
"Josef Fritzl repeatedly raped Josef Fritzl's daughter, Elisabeth, and fathered seven children with his daughter, six of whom survived.",
"All of the children were born in captivity.",
"The case became public when Elisabeth's oldest child, 19-year-old Kerstin, became ill and fell unconscious in April.",
"Elisabeth persuaded Elisabeth's father to let Elisabeth bring Elisabeth to a hospital, where staff grew suspicious and called police, who opened an investigation and uncovered the abuse.",
"Elisabeth and Elisabeth's family are now recovering and slowly adapting to modern life, Austrian authorities have said.",
"CNN's Diana Magnay in Berlin and Antonia Mortensen in London contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"More than just the quintessential Seattle shopping experience, Pike Place Market is a tourist attraction in Pike Place Market's own right.",
"Pike Place Market is the place to pick up all manner of fresh local produce, as well as handmade crafts, jewelry, antiques and paintings.",
"Keep your camera handy to snap the colorful floral displays and the fishmongers tossing whole salmon to each other.",
"Flying fish at Pike Place Market.",
"If Pike Place Market whets your appetite for fresh produce, check out the Ballard Sunday Farmers Market (5330 Ballard Avenue, Sundays) for delicious farm-fresh goodies.",
"Another great Sunday market is the weekly Fremont Flea Market (400 N 34th Street), a cornucopia of used, vintage and antique goods.",
"For the avid antiques hunter the underground Pioneer Square Antiques Mall (602 First Avenue) has more than 60 stalls.",
"If you prefer big brand names you'll want to head downtown, where you'll find the likes of Banana Republic (500 Pike Street) and a colossal Nike Town (1500 6th Avenue).",
"Downtown is also home to Macy's (1601 Third Avenue), still known to locals as \"The Bon\" from The Bon's former incarnation as Bon Marché.",
"Macy's can be good for a bargain, but the city's best department store is the flagship Nordstrom (500 Pine Street), famed for it exemplary customer service.",
"For something more cutting edge, Capitol Hill and Belltown are full of funky boutiques and vintage clothing stores.",
"Crossroads Trading Company (325 Broadway Avenue E and 4300 University Way) is a good option for second-hand threads, while sneaker freaks will find that Gems (615 Western Avenue) is a treasure trove of fancy footwear.",
"Bibliophiles will love Seattle for Seattle's numerous independent books stores.",
"Set aside a couple of hours to visit the Elliot Bay Book Company (101 South Main Street), a vast space crammed full of new and used books.",
"the Elliot Bay Book Company (101 South Main Street) boasts an excellent selection of titles about the region, a pleasant café and readings or signings almost every night.",
"University Bookstore (4326 University Way) has a huge selection, while Fremont Place Books (621 N 35th Street) is a cozy little place with an interesting range of titles.",
"If you're planning an expedition into the beautiful wilderness around Seattle, you can get kitted out at the flagship REI (222 Yale Avenue N).",
"There's everything you'll need for hiking, biking, rock climbing and skiing, and you can even hire stuff, so you won't have to drag it all back home with you.",
"Bamboozle your friends by getting your friends an eccentric souvenir from Archie McPhee (2428 NW Market Street).",
"Of course, eccentric is a relative term, but squirrel underpants (which, apparently, are also suitable for hamsters, frogs and gerbils) and inflatable fruitcakes should qualify as eccentric by most standards.",
"If you plan to visit this bazaar of the bizarre you should note that Archie's is set to move to the corner of North 45th Street and Stone Way North, in Wallingford, some time next year.",
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"After a long apprenticeship, it's been an astonishingly fast rise for R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan.",
"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan is up for five Grammys next month, including best new artist.",
"Before R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan was in R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan's teens, R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan sang on \"It's Showtime at the Apollo.\"",
"At 13, R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan met Stevie Wonder.",
"Soon R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan was performing regularly at the jam sessions called Black Lily in R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan's hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.",
"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan went to that city's performing arts high school and was signed to a contract by Jive Records, where R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan was paired with producers such as Timbaland and Cool & Dre.",
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"But soon, R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan signed with Clive Davis' J Records, and suddenly R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan was everywhere.",
"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan's debut single, \"Need U Bad,\" hit No. 1 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop chart, and R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan's album \"Fearless\" hit the Top 10 on Billboard's album chart.",
"Now R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan's up for five Grammys on February 8, including best R&B performance (for \"Bust Your Windows\") and best new artist.",
"CNN's KJ Matthews talked with R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan about R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan's inspirations, who R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan's bringing to the Grammys and the mysterious person behind \"Bust Your Windows.\"",
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"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan:",
"I can't really describe it; that's the whole thing.",
"Once you hear the CD, you'll hear that one sound doesn't sound like the next.",
"You know, I've been influenced by so many different styles and different genres of music that I felt like that should be represented on my first album, so when you get it, you get a taste of gospel, jazz, R&B, hip-hop, reggae, pop ... everything is on there, there's something for everybody to enjoy.",
"I didn't want to exclude anybody from my first album.",
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"I mean, you got the Jonas Brothers, Katy Perry, Adele ...",
"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan: Yeah, the Jonas Brothers, specifically.",
"I didn't even know the Jonas Brothers were new artists because the Jonas Brothers are so huge, so, you know, so after, when my name was called after the Jonas Brothers, I thought, \"Wow, the Jonas Brothers're new artists, too?\"",
"I got a little scared, I tell you that.",
"But I'm just so honored to be mentioned to be in the same categories with such wonderful artists, so I'm looking forward to February and the Grammys and just being in that atmosphere.",
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"I was thinking to myself, you would think that you would do rap, but you're this big voice, this soulful voice.",
"You might not equate that with Missy Elliott.",
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"Yeah, and a lot of people don't know that Missy Elliott ... grew up in the church, and Missy Elliott's really into vocalists.",
"When I met Missy Elliott, was I was about 13 or 14, [and] Missy Elliott was ecstatic about R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan.",
"When nobody else was there to support me, Missy Elliott was there, so Missy Elliott's a good friend of mine, and I'm happy to have Missy Elliott by my side.",
"Missy Elliott's definitely taught me a lot of things.",
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"So everybody wants to know, the guy behind \"Bust Your Windows\" -- is there one?",
"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan:",
"We won't talk about that on camera -- that's an off-camera conversation -- but it's definitely a song that relates to a lot of women especially.",
"You know, even if they really haven't busted windows out of anybody's car, they have wanted to.",
"A lot of women have been through that, so I'm glad that my music is touching those people .",
"CNN: \"Need U Bad\" is rising as well.",
"What's the thought process behind that one?",
"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan: \"Need U Bad\" ...",
"a lot of men actually pointed out to R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan that women don't come out and admit that women made mistakes and say that women actually need the male, so I think that was kind of cool.",
"I haven't thought of it like that when I was writing it.",
"So, you know, it's a song for the fellas, saying that we appreciate the fellas and we need you as much as you need us.",
"But on the flip side, I do a song like \"Bust Your Windows,\" so on the album you have a lot of different perceptions and everything.",
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"You look like you're 10.",
"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan: I'm 21 years old.",
"CNN: Success that early, that's sometimes tough for people.",
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"Well, I've been in this industry for a very long time.",
"I started out when I was 12; I got signed when I was 16, so it wasn't an overnight success story at all.",
"I put a lot of hard work into it, and this is just a byproduct of all of that.",
"CNN:",
"It's great that you write your own music too, because a lot of people don't do that.",
"You have a lot more creative control.",
"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan:",
"Most definitely, and I've dealt with not having that control when I was younger and I was signed.",
"I wasn't writing at all, and so I've been through all of that.",
"So now to be in a position where I write my music, and I have that control -- it feels so much better.",
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"my mother's been my rock and my support ever since I was a baby.",
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"I'm trying not to think about that.",
"I want to perform.",
"Hopefully I can get on stage and I can show everybody who I am and what I'm about.",
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"R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan: Enjoy, yes."
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"\"This nation's facing record deficits, and Iraq have translated Iraq's oil revenues into budget surpluses rather than effective services,\" Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday.",
"\"Under these circumstances and with a strategic risk to our nation and our military readiness, we and the American people must ask: Why should we stay in Iraq in large numbers?\"",
"Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, proposed Iraq pay the cost of stationing U.S. troops in Iraq's country under any future agreement between Washington and Iraq -- and said Rohrabacher would introduce legislation to require that.",
"\"The United States government and the people of the United States have paid an awful price,\" Rohrabacher said.",
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"\"The era of U.S.-funded major infrastructure projects is over.",
"We are seeking to ensure that our assistance, in partnership with Iraq, leverages Iraq's own resources,\" Crocker said.",
"Five years after Iraq fell to a U.S.-led army, many Iraqis still lack basic services such as water, sewer connections and electricity.",
"Nevertheless, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Iraq is \"doing Iraq's best\" to spend money to improve Iraq.",
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"The agency, the investigative arm of Congress, concluded that Iraq's oil revenues could top $100 billion in 2007 and 2008.",
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"\"At the time Iraq were trying to reform it, open up the system, when Iraq are faced with the terrible challenge of al Qaeda and this tornado of terrorism afflicting the society day in, day out,\" Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh said.",
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"Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina -- a Republican opponent of the war -- pointed out the United States \"is borrowing money from foreign governments to pay our bills\" while oil and gas prices have more than doubled.",
"\"the issue is that we in Congress are going to be cutting programs to help our elderly with health care,\" Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina -- a Republican opponent of the war -- said Wednesday.",
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"For years, retired Air Force Col. John Leech has had no desire to return to the Pentagon.",
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"retired Air Force Col. John Leech narrowly escaped death September 11, 2001, when a hijacked American Airlines jetliner hit the Pentagon.",
"retired Air Force Col. John Leech will attend Thursday's dedication of the Pentagon memorial honoring the 184 people killed in the terror attack.",
"In an earlier visit to the memorial, retired Air Force Col. John Leech left a note for retired Air Force Col. John Leech's friend Navy Capt. Jack Punches: \"Thanks Jack for serving and dying for our nation.\"",
"retired Air Force Col. John Leech could barely contain retired Air Force Col. John Leech's sadness recently as retired Air Force Col. John Leech watched a Department of Defense videotape showing the burned interior of the area in the building where retired Air Force Col. John Leech was that fateful morning.",
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"My God.",
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"retired Air Force Col. John Leech has avoided touring the Pentagon since the terror attack but finally decided retired Air Force Col. John Leech was ready to \"re-engage\" with the past.",
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"The shock, retired Air Force Col. John Leech said, was indescribable.",
"\"It hit with such force.",
"I had never experienced anything like it in my life.",
"It rattled you right down to the bone,\" retired Air Force Col. John Leech said.",
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"retired Air Force Col. John Leech remembers people screaming, \"bloodcurdling screams.\"",
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"retired Air Force Col. John Leech remembers snaking retired Air Force Col. John Leech's way outside the burning building, where in a stupor retired Air Force Col. John Leech noticed a comb that appeared to belong to a small child.",
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"retired Air Force Col. John Leech wrote, \"Thanks Jack for serving and dying for our nation -- John Leech.\"",
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"A lot of very good people.\"",
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"Charities such as Save the Children and UNICEF classify Brian and his young compatriots from Zimbabwe as \"unaccompanied minors,\" but those words do not begin to describe Brian and his young compatriots from Zimbabwe's situation.",
"Brian and his young compatriots from Zimbabwe endure unimaginable hardships traveling to South Africa by Brian and his young compatriots from Zimbabwe or with small groups of friends.",
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"Brian and Brian's friends told CNN that when Brian and his friends got to the South African border at Beitbridge authorities let Brian and his friends walk through without passports or other documents.",
"Brian and his friends then made Brian and his friends's way to the border town of Musina, where boys beg on the streets or work on farms, and girls seem to disappear into South African society.",
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"Nearly all of the children -- some younger than 10 -- said hunger, non-functioning schools and poverty were the reasons Nearly all of the children -- some younger than 10 -- left.",
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"Bill also effectively protects telephone companies from being sued for cooperating with a government surveillance program launched in the wake of the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.",
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"Bill essentially grants immunity to the telecommunication companies, Opponents said, because all of the telephone carriers received government certifications saying the telephone carriers's participation in the program was legal.",
"Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was criticized for backing away from Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois's early opposition to Bill by liberal bloggers and individuals commenting on Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois's campaign Web site.",
"Before voting for Bill, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois voted for an amendment offered by Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Connecticut, that would have stripped the language granting immunity to telecommunications companies.",
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"\"This fight is not over.",
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"\"Bill allows the warrantless and dragnet surveillance of Americans' international telephone and e-mail communications.",
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"Attackers in a Taliban-controlled area of Pakistan shot and tried to behead Mosa Khankhel on Wednesday, according to Mosa Khankhel's employer Pakistan's GEO TV.",
"Mosa Khankhel was reporting for Pakistan's GEO TV when Mosa Khankhel was killed.",
"The slain correspondent, Mosa Khankhel, had been covering the recent peace deal between the Pakistani government and Taliban militants in Swat Valley when Mosa Khankhel was killed, Pakistan's GEO TV managing director Azhar Abbas said.",
"\"Mosa Khankhel is the first martyr of this peace deal,\" GEO TV managing director Azhar Abbas said, adding that GEO TV managing director Azhar Abbas believes it is unlikely this peace deal will end the campaign of violence that has centered in Swat.",
"Mosa Khankhel was traveling in a caravan with Sufi Mohammed, who was leading the peace deal negotiations for Pakistan-Taliban, when Mosa Khankhel went missing, GEO TV managing director Azhar Abbas said.",
"Mosa Khankhel's body was found about an hour later.",
"Mosa Khankhel had been shot three times and Mosa Khankhel's killers had attempted to cut off Mosa Khankhel's head.",
"GEO TV managing director Azhar Abbas called on Pakistan to fully investigate the killing of Khankhel, who was the network's correspondent based in North West Frontier Province as part of GEO TV's Peshawar bureau.",
"Mosa Khankhel's death comes a day after Pakistan recognized Pakistan-Taliban's interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law, in the entire Malakand Division, which includes Swat and Swat's surrounding district.",
"Watch questions raised by Khankhel's death » .",
"The agreement marked a major concession by Pakistan in its attempt to hold off Taliban militants who have terrorized the region with beheadings, kidnappings, death threats, and the destruction of girls' schools.",
"The regional government in the Swat valley struck the deal to allow sharia law, in return Pakistan-Taliban agreed to a 10-day cease fire.",
"The Pakistan-Taliban control of Swat -- which is about 100 miles northwest of Islamabad -- is the deepest advance by militants into Pakistan's settled areas, which are located outside its federally administered tribal region along the border with Afghanistan.",
"the deal is the latest attempt by Pakistan's civilian government -- which took power last year -- to achieve peace through diplomacy in areas where Taliban and al Qaeda leaders are believed to have free rein.",
"But analysts as well as critics within the establishment have warned that Pakistan's previous dealings with Pakistan-Taliban have only given the fundamentalist Islamic militia time to regroup and gain more ground.",
"Khadim Hussain, a professor Bahria University in Islamabad who studies Pakistani politics, said Pakistan has set the stage for two contradictory, parallel states in North West Frontier Province.",
"\"If you leave them like that and you give ... a semblance of peace in a particular area, what does that mean?\"",
"Khadim Hussain, a professor Bahria University in Islamabad who studies Pakistani politics said.",
"\"It means you're capitulating.",
"It means you're surrendering the state to them.",
"It means your submitting the state authority to them because they are running a parallel state.\"",
"Khadim Hussain, a professor Bahria University in Islamabad who studies Pakistani politics said Pakistan's decision amounts to a marriage of convenience made under duress.",
"Swat has been overrun by forces loyal to Maulana Fazlullah's banned hardline Islamic group, Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) which has allied itself with Taliban fighters.",
"TNSM was once led by Sufi Mohammed, Fazlullah's father-in-law, who is leading the latest negotiations.",
"Sufi Mohammed was released from jail last year by Pakistani authorities after Sufi Mohammed agreed to cooperate with Pakistan.",
"Sufi Mohammed was jailed in 2002 after recruiting thousands of fighters to battle U.S. forces in Afghanistan.",
"Maulana Fazlullah's took over TNSM during Sufi Mohammed's jail stint and vowed to continue his fight to impose fundamentalist Islamic law in the region.",
"Last May, Pakistan announced Pakistan reached a peace deal with militants in Swat Valley.",
"In the months that have followed, Pakistan-Taliban have seized control of Swat and carried out a violent campaign against government officials, including local politicians.",
"The head of the secular Awami National Party -- which represents Swat -- was forced to flee to Islamabad amid death threats from Pakistan-Taliban.",
"Pakistan is under enormous pressure to control the militants within Pakistan's borders, blamed for launching attacks in neighboring Afghanistan where U.S. and NATO forces are fighting militants.",
"The United States -- using unmanned drones -- has carried out several airstrikes inside Pakistan on suspected militant targets, including one on Monday that killed at least 15 people, Pakistani sources said.",
"Such airstrikes, which sometimes result in civilian casualties, have aggravated tensions between the U.S. and Pakistan.",
"Pakistan's military operation in the region is unpopular among Pakistanis, but efforts to deal diplomatically with militants have not worked in the past.",
"Pakistan's previous leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, reached a cease-fire deal with militants in South Waziristan in 2006 which was widely blamed for giving al Qaeda and Taliban a stronger foothold in the region.",
"CNN's Stan Grant contributed to this report ."
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"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich vowed Friday to fight federal corruption charges and stay on the job, despite calls for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's resignation amid allegations that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich attempted to sell President-elect Barack Obama's former Senate seat.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich spoke to reporters at a news conference Friday but did not take questions.",
"\"I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath.",
"I have done nothing wrong,\" Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said in a brief news conference in Chicago.",
"\"I'm not going to quit a job that people have hired me to do.\"",
"The spirited comments were the first public statements from Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the allegations since Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest December 9 on federal corruption charges.",
"Federal prosecutors have accused Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of trying to sell Obama's former Senate seat.",
"Prosecutors also allege the governor and his former chief of staff, John Harris, tried to have Chicago Tribune editorial board members fired by leveraging state assistance to the parent company of the newspaper, the Tribune Co., in the Tribune Co.'s sale of Wrigley Field.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was \"dying\" to show Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's innocence, but maintained Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich would reserve Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's comments for an appropriate forum.",
"\"I'm not going to do what my accusers and political enemies have been doing, and that is talk about this case in 30-second sound bites on 'Meet the Press' or on the TV news,\" Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said.",
"\"I have on my side the most powerful ally there is, and it is the truth.\"",
"Watch Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speak at the news conference » .",
"Quoting Rudyard Kipling's poem, \"If,\" Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich called on the public to be patient and reserve judgment until the facts unfold in criminal proceedings.",
"\"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you; if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for all men's doubting, too; if you can wait and not be tired by waiting; or being lied about, don't deal in lies; or being hated, don't give way to hating,\" Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich did not take questions from reporters.",
"Earlier Friday, Genson's attorney, Ed Genson, said Genson did not feel it was prudent for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to answer questions now.",
"Genson has said that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich did nothing wrong and that evidence obtained through wiretaps in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office and home was \"illegally obtained.\"",
"The 76-page criminal complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich includes snippets of intercepted phone calls involving Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged efforts to benefit from the Senate vacancy.",
"After Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's statement, Genson's co-counsel, Sam Adam Jr., told reporters that the U.S. attorney's office has not provided them with information related to The 76-page criminal complaint against Blagojevich.",
"\"We've been asking for the documents.",
"We've been asking for the tapes.",
"We've been asking for the witnesses, we're asking for a witness list.",
"We have not gotten that,\" he said.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest has thrown Illinois politics into chaos.",
"Many of the state's political leaders -- including Obama -- have called on Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to resign.",
"Harris, who was also arrested on federal corruption charges, resigned days after Blagojevich's arrest.",
"Watch Illinois lawmakers discuss impeachment » .",
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"Since the early days of pop music, the music industry has been searching for the secret formula to writing a successful song -- for that special alchemy that separates a Grammy-winner from a dud.",
"For a period in the 1970s and 80s, the self-styled King of Pop Michael Jackson seemed to have stumbled upon it, but somewhere along the line the self-styled King of Pop Michael Jackson, too, seems to have misplaced it.",
"Hit Song Science claims to be able to predict whether a song will be a pop hit .",
"But now a piece of software claims a piece of software can compute whether a song has chart-topping potential, and a number of record companies and musicians are using Hit Song Science (HSS) to gauge whether a number of record companies and musicians have a hit on a number of record companies and musicians's hands.",
"The software, developed by Barcelona-based Music Intelligence Solutions, works by breaking down more than 60 elements of a song, including melody, harmony, tempo, pitch, octave, beat, rhythm, fullness of sound, noise, brilliance and chord progression, and compares it against a database of over 3.5 million past commercial hits.",
"The program organizes songs into clusters with similar-sounding equivalents and then rates the song on a scale of one to ten, with a score of 7.3 being deemed likely to do well in the music charts.",
"Curiously, clusters of songs do not necessarily contain songs that sound the same to the human ear, but from a mathematical perspective clusters of songs share similarities.",
"The program analyzed music from Norah Jones' first album before Norah Jones' broke through and The program's algorithms placed Norah Jones' in a cluster with Linkin Park, Aerosmith and JayZ.",
"If you have ever wondered why you sometimes find yourself humming along to some smooth jazz on the radio when you consider yourself a strict thrash metal fan only, then perhaps The program has discovered the scientific answer.",
"Besides Norah Jones', The program also predicted success for Mika, while \"Turn Your Car Around,\" a song penned by Ben Novak, a singer-songwriter from New Zealand, was rated as a potential hit by HSS, who recommended it to Sony Music in the UK.",
"It eventually ended up as a vehicle for ex-Blue band member Lee Ryan and scored a respectable UK chart position of 16 in 2005.",
"Record producer Carlos Quintero, director of Orixe and Jamm Records in Spain, believes that The program has a high accuracy rate.",
"\"I was very skeptical when I was told about The program for the first time,\" he says.",
"\"I thought The program was science fiction.",
"\"But when we choose a tune for an artist and we like a tune and feel a tune will be a hit, the surprise is that 85 percent of the time the tracks we have chosen get a positive analysis from The program.\"",
"The emergence of hit prediction programs such as this -- New York-based Platinum Blue Music Intelligence provides a similar service -- raises concerns that the creative element of writing music would be eroded by breaking it down into mathematical algorithms.",
"But Quintero claims The program in no way writes a song, The program simply tells you whether it has the potential to be a hit.",
"Quintero says Quintero mainly uses The program to tweak and refine songs so that Quintero can maximize Quintero's chances of scoring a high chart position.",
"\"There was a particular case where we had to revise the song as at first it wasn't completely right.",
"Using The program, we managed to make it work,\" Quintero explains.",
"\"The problem with The program is that The program can only indicate whether a song is suitable or not.",
"It's up to the producer, the technical team and the artist to make it suitable in the first place.\"",
"Quintero has since become a member of Music Intelligence Solutions' advisory board, so Quintero is bound to have a positive take on The program.",
"Jimena Llosa, General Manager EMEA of Music Intelligence Solutions, claims the company has thirty to forty clients in the record industry in Europe and the U.S., but she says she cannot reveal who they are, citing privacy issues.",
"CNN attempted to contact several record companies in London, but A&R departments claimed A&R departments had not heard of The program, suggesting either a certain coyness to admit using it or that it is not as widely used as Music Intelligence claims.",
"The program can also be used as a way of recommending new music to audiences.",
"In Spain, cellular phone company Orange is using the technology in cellular phone company Orange's New Talents enterprise.",
"Listeners can enter in Listeners's favorite songs and The program will suggest songs Listeners might enjoy according to The program's cluster system.",
"Óscar Sainz is one musician who has profited from this new way of connecting musicians with an audience.",
"A national tennis monitor by profession, Óscar Sainz struggled to make an impact in the music industry despite the best efforts of Pablo Pinilla, one of Spain's most successful music producers.",
"But since the Orange initiative Óscar Sainz's career has taken off and Óscar Sainz is now selling well through Orange and touring the country.",
"\"A machine or at least mathematical or scientific formulas that could analyze the parameters that a song needs to be a hit?",
"The truth is I doubted it at first,\" Óscar Sainz says.",
"\"My first instinct was it must be a con.",
"\"Don't ask me what parameters they use, or formulas, or machines they use, because I don't know.",
"But it works.\"",
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"Jim Elliot, writer and producer of Kylie Minogue's new single \"2 Hearts\" is unconvinced about the accuracy of The program.",
"He entered tracks from Kylie Minogue's's new Album \"X\" and they were, unsurprisingly, rated as potential hits.",
"But he also entered a little-known, unreleased, song by 70s band Gong that included cows mooing, and it was also rated as a potential chart-topper.",
"He thinks that The program negates the unpredictability of human behavior.",
"\"The fact is that it's the human errors introduced in the music-making process that are always the most interesting,\" he says.",
"\"Who would have thought Lily Allen would do so well?",
"I doubt anyone would have predicted that.",
"\"It's so hard to categorize music.",
"There's a real danger of doing that.",
"If you are writing and producing music you can try to fit it to certain formulas but it's so abstract that it has to be free -- and then something good will happen.\"",
"With just one fifth of their musicians making a profit for today's record companies, executives are always searching for new ways to narrow the risk margin.",
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"The Liberian-flagged oil tanker Sirius Star was recently released by pirates off Somalia.",
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"\"It is important that the naval vessels continue to respond robustly to the pirates,\" Mukundan said.",
"Watch how attacks peaked in 2008 » .",
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"the Gulf of Aden links the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.",
"About 20,000 oil tankers, freighters and merchant vessels pass along the crucial shipping route near Somalia each year.",
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"From TVs to handsets, LG Electronics is on a mission -- to become a top three player in the global electronics industry.",
"Yong Nam, CEO of LG Electronics .",
"Leading the campaign is CEO Yong Nam who took on the top job in January.",
"CNN's Andrew Stevens met LG Electronics at the LG headquarters in Seoul, where LG Electronics showed off the latest Viewty camera phone.",
"While LG Electronics hopes this gadget will boost market share, LG Electronics's also on a bigger quest to shake up the South Korean company's corporate culture.",
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"Now with 82,000 employees what do you mean by that and how do you do it?",
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"(CNN) --",
"Kyrgyzstan president signed a bill Friday to close an air base that the U.S. military uses as a route for troops and supplies heading into Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan president announced on Kyrgyzstan president's Web site.",
"Manas Air Base in the country serves as a U.S. supply route for troops and supplies into Afghanistan.",
"The news came as two other central Asian nations -- Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- reportedly agreed to let U.S. cargo pass through their countries on the way to Afghanistan.",
"Such deals, if confirmed, could help fill the void left by the closing of the Manas Air Base in the country.",
"The Kyrgyz order became effective on Friday when President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly signed legislation that the parliament in Bishkek backed on Thursday, the Pentagon said.",
"the Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry on Friday officially notified the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek that a 180-day withdrawal process is under way.",
"Embassy spokeswoman Michelle Yerkin told CNN The U.S. hopes to retain U.S. base.",
"Officials in Washington and Bishkek signed a deal three years ago allowing The U.S. to renew the arrangement annually through July 2011.",
"\"We do remain in contact with the government of the country,\" Embassy spokeswoman Michelle Yerkin said.",
"\"U.S. base continues to operate under existing agreements, as per the coalition's efforts in Afghanistan.\"",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday The U.S. will continue to work with the country on keeping U.S. base open.",
"Watch why the country wants to close the base » .",
"\"I continue to believe that this is not a closed issue and that there remains the potential at least to reopen this issue with the Kyrgyz and perhaps reach a new agreement,\" U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said at a NATO meeting in Krakow, Poland.",
"\"If we are unable to do that on reasonable terms then, as I have suggested, we are developing alternative methods to get resupply and people into Afghanistan.\"",
"U.S. base is the only U.S. base in Central Asia and is a major resupply hub for the war in Afghanistan.",
"U.S. base's closing could deal a significant blow to the U.S. military effort there, especially following President Barack Obama's announcement of additional troops to halt a resurgence of the country's former Taliban rulers.",
"The United States pays $17.4 million a year to use Manas, a major logistical and refueling center that supports troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said.",
"About 15,000 troops and 500 tons of cargo reportedly move through U.S. base monthly, the Pentagon said.",
"U.S. base currently employs more than 1,000 servicemen, 95 percent of whom are Americans, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.",
"\"U.S. base is an important facility, U.S. base has been an important facility, but U.S. base's not irreplaceable and, if necessary, we will find other options,\" Whitman said.",
"How far is U.S. base from Afghanistan?",
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"Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, two other Central Asian nations that border Afghanistan, have agreed to allow U.S. cargo to be transported to Afghanistan through their countries, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Friday.",
"Russia's Interfax news agency said Rear Adm. Mark Harnitchek, U.S. transportation command director for strategy, policy, programs and logistics, held a meeting with Tajik Foreign Minister Kharokhon Zarifi, after which he said he had also secured Uzbekistan's consent.",
"A Tajik government statement said only that the two sides discussed the issue, but a spokesman for the Tajik foreign ministry told CNN that \"practically all issues\" to allow U.S. cargo transit through Uzbekistan have been resolved.",
"If confirmed, success would still depend on how much access The U.S. would have to those countries for flights and cargo, and even then, it may not totally replace the capacity lost in Kyrgyzstan.",
"U.S. General David Petraeus, who oversees the war in Afghanistan, was in Uzbekistan this week for talks on Afghanistan and other regional issues.",
"A Pentagon spokesman told CNN that his discussions included the regional supply network into Afghanistan.",
"The U.S. military leased a base in Uzbekistan after the September 11, 2001, attacks on The U.S..",
"But after Uzbek troops were accused of killing at least 150 people during a demonstration in 2005, the country came under criticism from Washington and severed most of the country's military ties with The U.S.."
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"Barack Obama's election as president of the United States won't see a change in American relations with the Taliban, a senior Taliban leader in Pakistan says.",
"A Taliban leader says Barack Obama's election will bring little change.",
"\"For Taliban, the change of the United States's president -- Taliban don't have any good faith in Barack Obama,\" said Muslim Khan, a grizzled Taliban spokesman who is one of the most wanted men in Pakistan, in a rare interview with CNN.",
"\"If Barack Obama does anything good, it will be for Barack Obama.\"",
"With an assault rifle on his lap, Khan answered 10 written questions, sharing Khan's view on a range of topics from slavery to Barack Obama's middle name -- Hussein.",
"Khan spoke in the remote Swat Valley of northwestern Pakistan, the site of frequent and fierce clashes between Pakistani troops and Taliban and al Qaeda militants.",
"There was no opportunity for follow-up questions.",
"Khan said Barack Obama's election may change conditions for black Americans.",
"\"The black one knows how much the black people are discriminated against in the United States and Europe and other countries,\" Khan said.",
"\"For the United States's black people, it could be that there will be a change.",
"That era is coming.\"",
"Khan said Khan doubted Barack Obama's's victory would lead to changes in relations between the United States and the Taliban.",
"Watch the Taliban spokesman on Barack Obama » .",
"U.S. forces dislodged the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.",
"the United States and the United States's allies have battled the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan ever since, with fighting spreading across the border into Pakistan.",
"\"the United States should take the United States's army out of Afghanistan,\" Khan said.",
"\"They are considered terrorists.\"",
"Barack Obama has minced no words in describing how Barack Obama would administer U.S. policy toward the Islamic extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"When Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in August, Barack Obama pledged to \"finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban.\"",
"And the president-elect included a blunt warning in remarks on the evening of Barack Obama's election victory: \"To those who would tear the world down,\" Barack Obama said, \"we will defeat you.\"",
"Khan noted that Barack Obama's middle name was fairly common in the Muslim world, referring to Barack Obama at times as \"Hussein Barack Obama.\"",
"\"If Barack Obama behaves in the way of a real Hussein, then Barack Obama has become our brother,\" Khan said.",
"\"If Barack Obama pursues the same policies as Bush and behaves like Bush ... then Barack Obama cannot be Hussein.",
"Barack Obama can only be Barack Obama.\""
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"Barack Obama has committed Barack Obama to defeating the Taliban and al Qaeda ."
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