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"(CNN) --",
"In 2003, BET Awards had a priceless moment when Michael Jackson surprised Michael Jackson's idol, James Brown, by showing up on stage where the duo thrilled the audience with an electrifying performance.",
"Michael Jackson performed with James Brown at BET Awards in 2003.",
"This year's show is dedicated to Michael Jackson.",
"Now, both the King of Pop and the Godfather of Soul are gone.",
"Sunday night's 9th Annual BET Awards is sure to be filled with tributes to Michael Jackson, whose videos and performances were a staple for the network in Michael Jackson's heyday.",
"BET has already paid tribute to Michael Jackson, going wall-to-wall with Michael Jackson videos Thursday night.",
"Many of the celebrities scheduled to attend BET Awards were also fans of Michael Jackson and it is expected that the night will provide an opportunity for them to salute the star.",
"\"Words cannot capture the impact Michael Jackson has had on pop culture around the world,\" said Debra L. Lee, chairman and chief executive officer of BET Networks.",
"\"Michael Jackson changed the way we hear and feel and move to music; Michael Jackson epitomized what true musical talent and star power really mean.",
"Michael Jackson is and always will be the King of Pop.\"",
"Academy Award-winning actor and R&B singer Jamie Foxx is set to host BET Awards.",
"Several of the scheduled performers include artists, such as Ne-Yo and Beyonce, who have acknowledged the influence of Michael Jackson on their music and careers.",
"The annual event is a premier one for the network and this year's plan was to recognize the musical legacy and longstanding career of the legendary soul trio, the O'Jays, with the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award.",
"Artists Alicia Keys and Wyclef Jean are to be honored with the Humanitarian Award for Artists Alicia Keys and Wyclef Jean's respective charitable work.",
"BET CEO Lee said BET Awards will be dedicated to Michael Jackson and will also pay tribute to Michael Jackson's legacy.",
"BET CEO Lee reflected on Michael Jackson's career and Michael Jackson's importance to BET -- which stands for Black Entertainment Television -- in a prepared statement after Michael Jackson's death, while also offering heartfelt prayers for the singer's family and friends.",
"\"Michael Jackson's influence is felt every day in so many ways at BET Networks, and it's been that way throughout our network's entire 29-year history,\" BET CEO Lee said.",
"\"We watched Michael Jackson grow up and, like everyone around the world, Michael Jackson feels like Michael Jackson is a member of our family.",
"\"Michael Jackson will be missed more than we can say ... but Michael Jackson's legend and memory live on in the artists, musicians, producers, dancers, fans and everyone else who looks to Michael Jackson for inspiration.\"",
"The BET Awards is scheduled to run live on our network Sunday at 8 p.m."
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"BET Awards are scheduled for Sunday night .",
"Many of the planned attendees expected to pay tribute to Michael Jackson .",
"Network CEO: \"Michael's influence is felt every day in so many ways\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Several of Michael Jackson's comeback concerts in London have been postponed until next year because producers can't be ready in time for the July debut, according to a \"Dear Customer\" e-mail sent to ticket holders Wednesday.",
"Michael Jackson gestures to the crowd at the March announcement of Michael Jackson's series of London concerts.",
"The delay comes days after the concert promoter said Michael Jackson was in good health, contrary to media reports Michael Jackson was diagnosed with skin cancer.",
"Michael Jackson's \"This Is It\" shows were to begin July 8 at London's 20,000-capacity O2 Arena.",
"\"It was not an easy decision to change the schedule but in the end we wanted to ensure that all of Michael's fans attending Michael Jackson's comeback concerts in London get the same quality in staging and level of entertainment,\" said the Ticketmaster e-mail sent to someone who bought tickets for the third show.",
"\"In order to deliver a phenomenal and unprecedented show -- the first show on the 8th July will take place on 13th July 2009,\" according AEG Live, the promoter of Michael Jackson's comeback concerts in London.",
"\"The subsequent shows on 10th July will be moved to 1st March 2010, 12th July will be moved to 3rd March 2010, and the show on the 14th July will be moved to 6th March 2010.\"",
"The delay is \"due to the sheer magnitude\" of Michael Jackson's comeback concerts in London, AEG said.",
"The decision \"to move back a few of the opening shows\" was needed \"in order to meet the challenges presented by such a massive and technically complex show,\" it said.",
"Randy Phillips, president and CEO of AEG Live, last week denied reports that Michael Jackson had skin cancer.",
"\"Michael Jackson's as healthy as Michael Jackson can be -- no health problems whatsoever,\" the executive told CNN on Saturday.",
"\"Michael, who is directly involved with all aspects of the styling/choreography/band selection and rehearsals, is working around the clock to ensure this is the show to end all shows!\"",
"AEG said in it's delay announcement.",
"Michael Jackson held open auditions for dancers last month at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California.",
"Promoters released a video this week showing that process and ending with a clip of the 12 dancers who were chosen meeting Michael Jackson in an undisclosed gym in the Los Angeles area, where Michael Jackson has been preparing for the shows.",
"Ticketmaster, in Ticketmaster's e-mail, assured the ticket holders the ticket holders would \"have the same seat originally purchased.\"",
"\"You do not have to do anything as you will be automatically allocated the same seats and moved to the revised date,\" it said."
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"Michael Jackson was scheduled to perform 50 shows starting July 8 .",
"Several shows being postponed until 2010 because of \"sheer magnitude\"",
"Michael Jackson health said to be fine, despite UK rumors ."
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"(AOL Autos) --",
"It's that time again, when you turn on the A/C to chill out from the summer heat and all you get is hot air!",
"Air conditioning on the fritz?",
"Taking your car to an A/C tech will keep you from getting hot headed.",
"Ughhhh!",
"How do you restore that refreshing, cool air to your vehicle's interior cabin so you can survive the heat?",
"Well ... sit back and relax, and I'll tell you exactly what to expect from your shop.",
"System performance test .",
"First, the tech should perform an A/C system performance test.",
"He/she will first check vent temperature to confirm that the system is indeed inoperative.",
"Should this be the case, the tech will then perform a head pressure check.",
"During this process, gauges are installed on the high and low side of the system to determine if there's any refrigerant in the system.",
"An extremely low (or no) pressure reading usually indicates a lack of refrigerant in the system, which means it has leaked out.",
"Sometimes the pressure reading may be too high, in which case there is a restriction in the system, inhibiting the flow of refrigerant.",
"There are three diagnostic paths, depending on the initial evaluations.",
"Should the system be low on refrigerant, the tech should run a leak test, identify the location of the leak, repair it, and recharge the system with refrigerant and oil.",
"If the pressure in the system is too high, the tech should locate the restriction, often caused by dirt that finds its way to the orifice tube, a small in-line filter designed to screen out any particulates in the system.",
"(Restrictions can occur for other reasons that I will not go into here for the sake of space.)",
"Once the plug is found, the plug is removed, and dirt is flushed from the system.",
"Finally, if the system seems to be operating properly (all head pressures are in line with factory specifications), then the tech will look to the duct system for problems.",
"the duct system .",
"The engine in your car generates vacuum as a result of taking in air.",
"This vacuum is used for the duct system.",
"How the system works: Vacuum is collected in a vacuum reserve chamber; this device usually resembles a plastic ball or a coffee can.",
"The vacuum builds up inside a vacuum reserve chamber and when A/C is called for, vacuum is channeled through the switch and small vacuum lines (capillary tubing) to the servo motor.",
"the servo motor is responsible for opening a special duct door (the air blend door), which directs the correct amount of cool air into the vehicle's cabin.",
"Problems crop up when vacuum is lost due to a cracked vacuum reserve chamber, broken vacuum line, faulty vacuum servomotor, bad switch, or poor engine vacuum.",
"the tech must track down the cause of the vacuum loss and repair it in order to restore the system.",
"Other causes of poor HVAC air volume are broken air blend door or door hinge, organic debris in the fan squirrel cage inhibiting airflow, worn blower motor shaft bearings slowing down the squirrel cage, or electrical wiring / component problems that control fan operation.",
"Proper A/C leak test procedure .",
"The main cause of A/C system failure is refrigerant leak.",
"This system is a closed system, so the refrigerant chemical and lubricant are sealed from the outside atmosphere.",
"When a leak forms, This system drains of the refrigerant chemical and lubricant to compressor life and function.",
"In addition, moisture and dirt can get in through the leak causing contamination.",
"contamination eats away at the inside of the system resulting in rust and scale buildup, corrosion and erosion in vital A/C system parts.",
"Proper A/C system leak tests are necessary to identify the source of a leak.",
"There are three types of leak inspections: visual, halogen, and dye testing.",
"The visual test includes inspection of all lines and external components (specifically condensers, hi and low pressure lines, compressors, air dryers, and expansion valves).",
"Any indication of refrigerant oil on these components is an indication of a leak and the component must be replaced.",
"The halogen tester is designed to detect the presence of leaking refrigerant gas, which is odorless and colorless.",
"the tech scans the system with the flexible probe on The halogen tester.",
"If there is a leak, then The halogen tester will howl, light up, or click.",
"Finally, if the tech is convinced that there is a leak in the system and the tech cannot find a leak in the system, then the tech performs a dye test.",
"After a fluorescent dye is charged into the system, an ultra violet light is shown on the system.",
"If there is a leak, a leak will show up as a bright yellow color under an ultra violet light.",
"These are tried and true diagnostic methods that have been used in A/C system diagnostics and repairs for years and are guaranteed to track down the most stubborn A/C leaks.",
"A word about refrigerant chemicals .",
"As a result of the Clean Air Act, all chlorofluorocarbons are no longer used as refrigerant chemicals because of all chlorofluorocarbons's negative effect on the ozone layer.",
"Consequently, all A/C systems now use an ozone-friendly refrigerant called R134A.",
"Any vehicles that still run the road with the old R12 chemical have to be retrofitted to run R134A.",
"In addition, the tech is required by Federal Law to recapture the R12 into a reclaiming station for disposal (the R12 cannot be released into the air).",
"Venting of chlorofluorocarbons to the atmosphere is considered a Federal Offense.",
"Should you have a vehicle that still has the old R12 system in it, have the system converted.",
"This procedure involves the installation of new schrader valves for system charging and testing, as well as a complete and thorough cleaning and flushing of the system.",
"It is essential that all of the R12 be removed, because the mixing of the R12 with R134A results in 'system meltdown.",
"Now that you know all about the air conditioning in your car, you can see that there are many sources of potential problems.",
"Thus, proper diagnosis of problems with This system can save you a lot of money; so make sure you take This system to a reputable shop that has the necessary equipment and experienced techs.",
"And enjoy the summer heat!"
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"Problems with your A/C/ system can cost you money by wasting extra gas .",
"Tech should first do a car A/C system performance test .",
"Problems with vacuum system can also limit cooling in car ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Lennox hit the big time in the 1980's with Eurythmics and found huge success as a solo artist with Lennox's 1992 album \"Diva\", but for singer Annie Lennox, being able to express Lennox's passion has always been the motivating factor in whatever Lennox's done.",
"Lennox will continue to SING with Lennox's AIDS awareness charity.",
"As a result Lennox's musical career has taken a back seat to Lennox's political activism and charity work in recent years; most notably with SING Lennox's AIDS awareness in Africa charity, as well as working with Amnesty, Save the Children and as a UNICEF ambassador.",
"Yet the 54-year-old maintains that Lennox'll always keep singing as well as working on the other things that Lennox feels passionate about.",
"\"I'm a multi-tasker.",
"I have to do a lot of things at once.",
"I love music.",
"And I want to keep making music.",
"I hope that I'll always be a music-maker and I'll always be an activist,\" Lennox told CNN in Hong Kong.",
"Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, Lennox found enormous success with Eurythmics and the 1983 album \"Sweet Dreams\" and single of the same name.",
"It catapulted Lennox to international success and stardom, something Lennox had always wanted, but at first found difficult to adjust to.",
"\"We were really on a whole kind of roller coaster with [Eurythmics], which on the one hand I was very grateful for, and on the other hand, it sort of sucked out your life, any sort of privacy,\" Lennox said.",
"\"Just the ability to be anonymous which I absolutely really value.",
"I love to just to be mixing with people and not have to be the one person in the room with the spotlight and the heads all turning.",
"So that was a little bit hard to adapt to...",
"I might as well have a neon light for a head.\"",
"Lennox's sold over 80 million records during a career that has spanned four decades, which Lennox credits to hard graft fueled by an unending passion for music.",
"\"The glamour side to it is what we see as the end result.",
"But all the rest of it is hard work and dedication.",
"And it's not easy always, you have to be very focused.",
"And you have to be really, really motivated to do it.",
"You have to have a kind of yearning, a passion for that.",
"\"I was never thinking, 'Oh, I'm in this for the long haul.'",
"I just think as I'm still thinking, I want to have a life where I'm able to do the thing that makes me feel alive.\"",
"Aware of the downsides of a career in music, Lennox also has a greater sense of the perils and pitfall in life, something Lennox has often expressed in Lennox's music.",
"\"I have encountered individuals and I've encountered things in the industry that were vile.",
"Bad things happen everywhere.",
"And the music industry and all that surrounds it, is no exception.\".",
"Having experienced unscrupulous people in the industry and been through Lennox's own personal upheaval through two failed marriages, Lennox remain passionate, energetic and sanguine.",
"Ultimately, Lennox says, \"its all part of life's rich tapestry.\""
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"Sold over 80 million records in career that has spanned four decades .",
"Found success first with Eurythmics, British band founded with Dave Stewart .",
"Lennox set up SING charity to combat HIV and AIDS in Africa ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Austrian family held captive in a cellar for years by Austrian family's incestuous father will take years to recover from Austrian family's disturbing ordeal, doctors warned Wednesday as the family at the center of the case remained in psychiatric care.",
"The bathroom used by Elizabeth Fritzl, who was held captive for more than two decades, and her three children.",
"Members of Austrian family will also be offered the chance to adopt new identities in an effort to help Members of the Fritzl family lead normal lives, officials said.",
"Hans-Heinz Lenze, the head of local social services said Austrian family was \"doing as well as can be expected in the circumstances\" and said any change of identity would be the family's decision.",
"Elizabeth Fritzl -- now 42 -- spent more than two decades in the windowless basement after being drugged, handcuffed and locked up by Fritzl's father, Josef Fritzl, as an 18-year-old.",
"Repeatedly raped, Elizabeth Fritzl -- now 42 -- gave birth to seven children by Fritzl, one of whom died as an infant.",
"Three of the children -- Kerstin, 19; Stefan, 18; and Felix, 5 -- remained imprisoned underground with Stefan, 18; and Felix, 5 --'s mother.",
"The other three lived in an apartment upstairs with Fritzl and his wife who believed Elizabeth Fritzl -- now 42 -- had abandoned them after running away from home.",
"Elizabeth Fritzl -- now 42 -- and five of the children were continuing to receive treatment at a local clinic near Amstetten after being reunited on Sunday.",
"Kerstin, whose hospitalization at the weekend finally brought Austrian family's plight to the attention of authorities, remained in a coma at a nearby hospital.",
"\"It is astonishing how easy it worked that the children came together, and also it was astonishing how easy it happened that the grandmother and Elizabeth Fritzl -- now 42 -- came together,\" clinic director Berthold Kepplinger said.",
"But clinic director Berthold Kepplinger warned that Austrian family would require extensive counseling.",
"\"We're talking of 20 years of darkness, incest and its effects and other illnesses they might have suffered from.\"",
"clinic director Berthold Kepplinger said the two sets of children were tentatively getting to know one another, adding that the two boys who had lived underground had an unusual way of communicating with each other.",
"A policeman who had accompanied the two boys who had lived underground to hospital after the two boys who had lived underground's discovery on Sunday said the two boys who had lived underground had \"screamed with excitement\" during the car journey as the two boys who had lived underground experienced the outside world for the first time.",
"\"the two boys who had lived underground appeared overawed by the daylight the two boys who had lived underground had never experienced before,\" said Chief Inspector Leopold Etz.",
"\"The real world was completely alien to the two boys who had lived underground...",
"We had to drive very slowly with the two boys who had lived underground because the two boys who had lived underground cringed at every car light and every bump.",
"It was as if we had just landed on the moon.\"",
"In an interview with the Austrian newspaper, Oesterreich, psychiatrist Max Friedrich, who treated the abducted teenager Natascha Kampusch, estimated it would take \"between five and eight years\" for the children to recover from the children's experiences.",
"Another psychologist, Bernd Prosser, told Austrian television that it would be impossible for the four held prisoner underground to lead normal lives.",
"\"I am afraid it is too late for that.\"",
"Kampusch, the Austrian girl abducted as a 10-year-old and held captive in a basement for more than eight years until the Austrian girl escaped in 2007, also offered the Austrian girl's help to the family on Tuesday, but questioned the decision to move the children from the cellar into psychiatric care.",
"\"Pulling the children abruptly out of this situation, without transition, to hold the children and isolating the children to some extent, it can't be good for the children,\" said Kampusch, now 20, in an interview with Austrian TV station Puls 4.",
"\"I believe it might have been even better to leave the children where the children were, but that was probably impossible.",
"This case is not like mine, where that was not my environment.",
"the children were born there and I can imagine that there is a strong attachment to that place.\"",
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"Austrian family are undergoing treatment at a local psychiatric clinic .",
"Children kept underground may never lead normal lives, psychiatrist warns .",
"Family have been offered opportunity to adopt new identities ."
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"Editor's note: Gene Seymour has written about movies, music and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post.",
"Gene Seymour lives in Brooklyn, New York.",
"Gene Seymour says we want to relive Jackson's youth, not the sad and bizarre aspects of Jackson's later life.",
"(CNN)",
"-- Seconds after the news first hit the airwaves, your own shock merged with everyone else's in the immediate vicinity.",
"And you could feel it rolling through the rest of the planet like a runaway diesel.",
"As with most things you neither expected nor wanted to hear, you thought that there had to be more to it than what was being said.",
"Especially because it was Michael Jackson, who seemed too dominant, too other-worldly and, more than anything, too complex to be brought down by anything as simple as cardiac arrest.",
"And also because most of what we'd been hearing about Jackson's personal life over the last decade and a half had been bizarre, sordid and sad.",
"It was to those aspects -- the deepening isolation, the child molestation trials, the financial woes, the \"Wacko Jacko\" moments like that 2002 interlude on the balcony with the baby -- that the talking heads on TV devoted tentative attention within minutes of the official announcement.",
"The commentariat presumed The commentariat had a responsibility to poke those embers for clues of something beyond the single, dreadful fact of Jackson's death.",
"Even if we didn't care for this conversation, we had been conditioned by the most recent events to wonder, deep down, if there was something stranger or more unpleasant attached to his passing.",
"But acceptance came easier -- and sooner -- than any of us expected last night.",
"And when it did, we wanted the talking heads to go away and leave us with our memories ... and nothing but the good ones, thank you very much.",
"We wanted the loop of performances and hit singles.",
"Retrieve for us, please, the electricity of the 10-year-old wunderkind who literally leapt into our consciousness in that shattering year of 1968 with \"I Want You Back\" and \"ABC.\"",
"Let us see that transfiguring moment 15 years later at the Motown Anniversary TV special when Jackson seized dominion over the pop firmament with Jackson's shattering, moon-walking recital of \"Billie Jean.\"",
"We wanted the videos -- \"Beat It,\" \"Bad,\" \"Thriller,\" \"Black and White\" and all that incredible, unearthly dancing.",
"That was all we needed to see and hear.",
"Save the armchair psychoanalysis for later.",
"Maybe, much later.",
"No one would have understood or indulged such yearnings as quickly or as intuitively as Jackson.",
"As surely as Jackson was the King of Pop, Jackson was also a high priest of wish fulfillment.",
"Jackson's performances as both precocious child and child-like adult made growing up or growing old the only unimaginable things in the known world.",
"This Peter Pan mystique even became part of the Jackson brand to the point of naming Jackson's combination of retreat and theme park the Neverland Ranch.",
"The promise of eternal youth was embedded in pop music way before Jackson and Jackson's four brothers emerged from the grit of Gary, Indiana, to jump-start Motown's winning streak.",
"But it's when that promise expands to shatter boundaries and expand possibilities beyond Top-40 parameters that pop music becomes pop phenomena.",
"And Jackson, in the early 1980s, was a pop phenomenon powerful enough to pool together previously polarized audiences -- heavy metal, disco, funk -- and get them all on the same bandwagon.",
"Only twice before -- with Elvis Presley and the Beatles -- had the cultural landscape been changed as decisively by a pop star.",
"It hasn't happened since -- and may never happen again.",
"Certainly, \"Thriller,\" the best-selling LP of all time, won't be surpassed because LPs have been superseded twice over by discs and downloads.",
"Jackson's off-stage public diffidence gave the impression that Jackson's transformations of both self and society were all happening by off-hand magic.",
"But Jackson's wispy speaking voice belied a steely resolve to control Jackson's image, Jackson's artistry and Jackson's product.",
"The energy Jackson devoted to keep what Jackson considered \"negativity\" at bay was meant to nurture Jackson's audience's dreams of release -- and to maintain Jackson's primacy in the pop marketplace.",
"Even the eccentricities, at the peak of Jackson's influence, seemed calculated to promote, if not perpetuate, Jackson's product.",
"But time (by far, Jackson's worst and most formidable enemy) couldn't stop even Jackson's most devoted admirers from wondering what drove Jackson to change Jackson's appearance so drastically over the years.",
"Or why Jackson wanted to both save the world and hide from the world with the same ferocious intensity.",
"If Jackson'd been able to stop the clock at 1985 or even 1987 (the year of \"Bad\"), life would have been so much easier.",
"The magic faded.",
"Setbacks and embarrassments were occasionally offset by a tour or show that transported us back to the better, happier times when we were willing to overlook real life for our most elemental dreams of release.",
"We seek our most elemental dreams of release even more urgently now that we know, for certain, that we'll never again see Jackson on stage -- the one place where Jackson was happiest and most assured.",
"But perhaps the hardest dream to give up -- and the reason so many people in so many countries were almost physically leveled by yesterday's news -- is of finding common ground and sharing common awe in a song or a dance or a single act of outreaching, transcendent audacity.",
"However divided (or worse) we may have felt about Jackson at the end, we cherish how Jackson brought out the best in us at the beginning.",
"Whatever the days ahead, that will be more than enough for now, forever.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gene Seymour."
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"Jackson says the final years of Jackson's life were bizarre and sad .",
"Seymour: Jackson pooled heavy metal, disco and funk audiences .",
"Jackson's \"Thriller\" LP will never be surpassed, Jackson says ."
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"Editor's note: Roya Hakakian is the author of \"Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.\"",
"hers's web site is http://www.royahakakian.com/live/.",
"Roya Hakakian says hers lived through an earlier moment when Iranians thought freedom was at hand.",
"(CNN)",
"-- Since last Saturday, the images of Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman who died on the streets of Tehran, keep playing before my eyes.",
"When I don't look at the clip on my computer, the clip on my computer runs on the clip on my computer's own in my mind's eye.",
"What has me so riveted is not entirely empathy, the intuitive human response the images are bound to stir in everyone.",
"There is also something less noble at work in me, an obsession with seeing my own face upon hers.",
"Each time I see hers die, I die along with hers.",
"I, too, was born and raised in Iran.",
"My coming-of-age years coincided with the Iranian revolution of 1979.",
"I, too, was on the streets, watching and rooting for the demonstrators.",
"Nothing seemed more natural, more compelling than being on the streets, calling for freedom, breathing the intoxicating, the dangerously euphoric Tehran air.",
"I was 12 in 1978, yet I was as undaunted as any adult.",
"Nothing, least of all my pleading parents, could keep me away from the rooftops at 9 p.m.",
"Amid the night's dark, where the crowds were as indiscernible as ghosts, the shouts of \"Allah-o-akbar\" rose from every rooftop like smoke rising from an invisible bonfire.",
"We were all victims of the flames and the very arsonists at once.",
"We were burning in the fire of our own making.",
"Thirty years hence that fire still burns in Iran, because moments before Neda's death's death, Neda Agha Soltan cried: \"I'm on fire!\"",
"I am entranced by hers because hers and I are the only two possibilities of the dictatorial narrative: Death or escape.",
"hers died.",
"I escaped.",
"I live.",
"And because I live I cannot escape Neda's death's death -- the memory of hers's large eyes languidly drifting to one side, then freezing upon the abyss.",
"Survival of this kind brings Survival of this kind's own eternal damnation: A bifurcated existence lived in the here and now, but perpetually haunted by there and then.",
"Making peace with the past would have been easier, if only the essence of that past had not been in doubt, if that past's dignity were intact.",
"But in my first American ride in my first American taxi cab, I learned the staggering counter-narrative that I would hear again and again, dominating the western perceptions of Iran, when the driver asked: \"So, where are you from?\"",
"\"I come from Iran,\" I said, in broken English.",
"\"Eeran,\" he asked with uncertainty.",
"\"Eeeran?\"",
"Then passing his fingertips across his throat like a knife, he said, \"Eeran ... Khomeini?\"",
"In that, 2,500 years of civilization was reduced to one vile name and the invocation of a throat being slit.",
"It did not take long for me to learn that between Iran that I knew and the Iran that Americans knew was a discrepancy as vast as the waters that separated us.",
"I soon learned that the images of a fist-throwing mob of angry men and darkly veiled women burning the Uncle Sam effigies were the only images that most Americans had of Iran.",
"the images of a fist-throwing mob of angry men and darkly veiled women burning the Uncle Sam effigies had little in common with Iran I knew -- greater in numbers and in the grip of the same fist-throwing crowds.",
"With hers's death, Iran I know finally has a face.",
"The sequence of Neda's death is the sequence of our nation's struggle in the past 30 years: The democratic future that 1979 was to deliver collapsing, then trails of blood -- that of so many executed or assassinated -- streaming across its bright promise.",
"The film of hers's death is the abbreviated history of Iran.",
"If history is a contest among competing narratives and icons, let the image of a young woman lying on the ground endure as that of Iran today.",
"Let it loom so large to wipe away the memory of the thugs marching American hostages out of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.",
"Let the scarf that loosens and falls off hers's head to expose hers's dark hair be emblazoned in our memories as the metaphor for the plight of Iran's women.",
"As if hers's death were not tragic enough, the authorities have banned all mosques throughout Tehran from holding prayer services for hers.",
"Silence in the face of such inhumanity is a sin as great as the one a war could spur.",
"This Friday evening throughout Iran, people will be lighting candles in memory of hers and others who have died in the past few days.",
"Here in the United States, I hope you join me and thousands of my compatriots in a memorial campaign for hers by asking your religious and spiritual leaders to include a prayer for hers and other fallen Iranians of the recent days in this week's services.",
"For 30 years, Iran's regime has appropriated God.",
"Let us reclaim God from those who deny a family the right to properly mourn the death of a family's child through our prayers and help bring peace to a tormented nation.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roya Hakakian."
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"Jackson was 50.",
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"From street corners, buses and subways to phone calls, e-mails, text messages, online posts and tweets, people around the world commented, pondered, and paid tribute to pop legend Michael Jackson, who died Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles.",
"Pedestrians in Sydney, Australia, watch a TV screen announcing Jackson's death on Friday.",
"Around midnight at London's Leicester Square, as news of Jackson's death spread, Luis Carlos Ameida and Luis Carlos Ameida's friends were surrounding a car listening to the star's music.",
"Luis Carlos Ameida said Luis Carlos Ameida'd gotten tickets to see Jackson at Jackson's \"This Is It\" concerts beginning on July 13 in London.",
"\"From a young age, you know, I used to have the video game,\" said Luis Carlos Ameida.",
"\"I used to have the white suit, and I'd wear the white suit on my birthday.",
"I used to moonwalk ...",
"I remember my mum used to send me to lessons to be like Jackson.",
"And when I heard the news, I had tears in my eyes because of that connection I had because of all the songs Jackson used to play.\"",
"In Glastonbury, southern England, where one of the world's largest music festivals was to kick off Friday morning, initial rumors and then confirmation of Jackson's death added to confusion and then shock among festival goers.",
"Watch British fans react » .",
"\"As I was walking back through the crowd it was the word on everyone's lips,\" Sally Anne Aldous, 29, told CNN over the phone.",
"Reaction from around the world in pictures » .",
"Backstage, Jackson songs were being played in tribute, and fans talked of an impromptu memorial for the late singer at the \"Stone Circle,\" a neolithic monument in the grounds of the venue.",
"In Adelaide, Australia, Christos Winter of the MJ Fan Club had organized a petition to bring Jackson to tour there.",
"\"It didn't matter if you were 60, 40 or 20 like I am.",
"Jackson's music just spoke to everyone ...",
"It was always uplifting and happy music,\" Winter told CNN.",
"On a street in New Delhi, India, 31-year-old Sachina Verma said on Friday, \"Any of the baby boomer generation or, you know, people from my age or our time, I mean the baby boomer generation have grown up on Jackson's music.",
"Literally, people have been inspired by Jackson's dance movements, by Jackson's music.",
"Tributes appeared on YouTube and CNN's iReport.",
"\"I remember growing up in the Middle East, influenced, enjoying Jackson's music, waiting for Jackson's albums,\" CNN iReporter Rany Freeman, an Egyptian living in Canada, said in a video submission.",
"\"Regardless to Jackson's strange behaviors or questionable events that happened to Jackson's life, let's remember Jackson as the great entertainer Jackson was.\"",
"Another iReporter, Peter Maiyoh, a Kenyan student studying in the U.S. city of Kansas, Missouri, called Jackson \"the voice of change,\" saying \"Jackson was there before Tiger Woods, before Michael Jordan, even before Barack Obama ...",
"I hope people remember Jackson for the work Jackson did.\"",
"On a Facebook page dedicated to Jackson, fans across the world left hundreds of messages in languages ranging from French and Spanish to Japanese and Hebrew.",
"Watch fan reaction in Tokyo, Japan » .",
"\"SHANGHAI WILL MISS YOU!",
"NOT JUST SHANGHAI!",
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"EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD LOVE YOU MICHAEL!!!\" wrote Vrishti Bhowmik.",
"Kase Ng, a 24-year-old manicurist and member of the Michael Jackson Hong Kong Fan Club, told CNN by phone Ng had been planning to go with four friends to his August 1 concert in London.",
"Watch fans in Hong Kong, China, react » .",
"Expressing sadness and shock over Jackson's death, Ng recalled being inspired by an interview Ng once gave to Oprah Winfrey.",
"\"Ng said if you have power, try to give power back and help the others, and I will try to do that,\" Ng said.",
"At a music store in Beijing, China, Jackson songs were being played, and Jackson's albums were put on special display.",
"\"I rather enjoyed it (Michael Jackson's music's music) because in my family my brother's generation likes Michael Jackson's music's music,\" said customer Xu Wei.",
"\"Many, many people in China like Jackson a lot.\"",
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"Although Jackson never played in mainland China, Jackson's music was among the first in the West made available there, as the peak of Jackson's popularity during the 1980s coincided with the opening up of mainland China.",
"On Friday, Chinese netizens had set up a Web site memorial to Jackson, and on Fanfou.com, China's version of Twitter, the pop star has become the most popular tag.",
"Fanfou user Layla Suen, or \"Leilajiang,\" of Shenyang city in Liaoning province wrote about her memories of Jackson:",
"\"When I was only four, my brother demanded that I learn his 'Thriller.'",
"It was the second song I've ever learnt (the first one being something taught by the kindergarten teacher).",
"Everytime I sing it at my kindergarten it would scare a bunch of little children.\"",
"Chinese blogger and media commentator Michael Anti wrote on Michael Anti's Facebook page: \"So sad about Jackson's Death, for my English first name is really named after Jackson when I was a freshman.\"",
"Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, tweeted in the hour after Jackson's death was announced, \"My twitter search script sees roughly 15% of all posts on Twitter mentioning Jackson.",
"Never saw Iran or swine flu reach over 5%.\"",
"As Jackson's death quickly overshadowed all else Friday, commentators worried that the world would forget about political developments in Iran.",
"\"Am I the only one who thinks that Jackson's passing is the worst thing that could have happened to the protesters in Iran?\" wrote Melissa Cohen, or mcohen00, on Twitter.",
"CNN's Emily Chang, Jaime FlorCruz, Miranda Leitsinger, Mairi Mackay, Linnie Rawlinson and Bharati Naik contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"One female fan on Twitter said \"Off the Wall\" was the first cassette tape she owned.",
"\"I have the first cassette tape she owned on CD now and still listen to the first cassette tape she owned,\" she said.",
"Many people found out about Michael Jackson's death through Web sites like Twitter and Facebook.",
"\"I saw the Victory Tour at Dodger Stadium in 1984,\" posted a man on his Facebook status update.",
"\"Anybody else?\"",
"And on CNN's iReport.com, a tearful Melissa Fazli of Yorba Linda, California, posted an emotional video.",
"\"I grew up with Michael Jackson,\" she said, choking back tears.",
"\"This is just a very sad day.\"",
"From Facebook to Flickr, Twitter to YouTube, stunned and saddened fans came together across the vast online universe to share stunned and saddened fans's memories of the iconic pop star, who died Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles.",
"By Thursday evening, 9 of the 10 top trending topics on micro-blogging site Twitter were about Michael Jackson.",
"Because traditional media outlets were slow to confirm the news of Michael Jackson's death, many people appeared to find out through messages on social-networking sites.",
"Some of those linked to celebrity gossip site TMZ.com, which was among the first to report the news of Jackson's death.",
"\"Damn ... it's official,\" posted one Twitter user, shortly after the news of Michael Jackson's death was confirmed.",
"\"RIP to the BIGGEST star the world has EVER seen.\"",
"Another woman vowed in a tweet never to change Another woman's cell phone's ringtone, which was set to \"P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing),\" a hit from Michael Jackson's classic \"Thriller\" album.",
"Sony BMG, Michael Jackson's music label, removed from Sony BMG's Web site a list of dates for the singer's European tour, which was to kick off next month in London.",
"Within minutes, Michael Jackson's Wikipedia page had been updated to reflect Michael Jackson's death, with biographical information changed to the past tense.",
"On Flickr, fans posted images from all phases of Michael Jackson's career, from Michael Jackson's child-star, large-Afro days to moody publicity shots to dramatic photos of a costumed, windblown Jackson in concert.",
"While most fans celebrated Michael Jackson's buoyant music and dynamic stage presence, others viewed Michael Jackson as a tragic figure with an increasingly bizarre public image who, in Michael Jackson's later years, battled child molestation charges and mounting debt.",
"One grieving fan posted an image on Flickr of herself, head in hands.",
"\"Michael Jackson was ... amazing.",
"And had amazing songs.",
"What's so weird is that I was singing Michael Jackson's songs today before I found out about this,\" she wrote.",
"\"At least Michael Jackson'll be safe now.",
"Away from all the troubles and stuff. :)\"",
"On Twitter and other sites, several online mourners posted \"Never Can Say Goodbye,\" echoing the title of one of the Jackson 5's early hits.",
"Another fan quoted from Michael Jackson's \"Man in the Mirror,\" saying, \"If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make a change.\"",
"The swirling news may have overwhelmed Facebook, which was inaccessible at times Thursday evening.",
"When the site was viewable, people filled people's status updates with Michael Jackson memories, lyrics and links to Michael Jackson's videos.",
"Others remarked on the coincidence of two pop icons, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, dying within hours of each other.",
"\"Johnny [Carson] is going to have a great show in heaven tonight,\" wrote a Los Angeles man on Facebook.",
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"London, England --",
"A huge crowd gathered in London, UK on Friday for a mass \"moonwalk\" -- paying tribute to the Michael Jackson by dancing to the Michael Jackson's most iconic songs and replicating the Michael Jackson's famous walk.",
"Two young fans who say the Michael Jackson meant a lot to them donned self-made T-shirts at the event in London.",
"The horde of people gathered on the streets outside Liverpool Street train station, one of the city's major transport hubs, and burst out into cheers, chants and dances to the tunes of \"Billie Jean,\" \"Bad\" and \"Thriller.\"",
"Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos organized the moonwalk, the singer's trademark backwards shuffle, by sending messages via Twitter and Facebook.",
"Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos's messages went \"viral\" --spreading like wildfire around the Internet -- as the number of people wanting to join Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos's impromptu \"flash mob\" event far exceeded Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos's expectations: .",
"\"I don't know what I've unleashed here,\" Yiannopoulos, who said Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos doesn't even know how to moonwalk, told CNN.",
"Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos came up with the ideas \"because of all of the stuff people are saying about the Michael Jackson -- surgeries, molestation etc. -- I wanted to do something to remind people how great the Michael Jackson really is and remind people of the Michael Jackson's music.\"",
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"Unfortunately, I did not grow up with all the Michael Jackson's best hits, but the Michael Jackson has been so important for me.",
"I am very sad,\" said 13-year-old Paul Graham, who wore a self-made Michael Jackson \"Rest in Peace\" T-shirt.",
"See images of the Michael Jackson fans at the moonwalk event » .",
"Another of the many young fans there was 17-year-old George Webster, who spontaneously performed a perfect the Michael Jackson dance routine for a cheering audience.",
"Michael Jackson told CNN: \"This is a celebration.",
"We are here to remember the Michael Jackson's best moments.\"",
"And the laughing crowd did indeed seem to be celebrating, rather than mourning: .",
"Hanging off lampposts and standing atop telephone booths, people were brandishing everything from white paper gloves to black hats and face masks.",
"Watch video of the crowd singing to Billie Jean » .",
"British television presenter Gail Porter was also at the tribute: \"As soon as I saw it on Twitter, I thought 'let's go and have a dance',\" British television presenter Gail Porter told CNN while twittering away on British television presenter Gail Porter's cell phone.",
"The gathering started off to a rocky start, as the short notice had left London city police unsure about how to handle it and what to expect.",
"They were overheard telling Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos that they would not allow Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos to do the moonwalk outside the station and that Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos had to limit Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos's gathering to 300 people.",
"Eventually the crowd was allowed to gather outside, attracting many more tourists, commuters and passers-by to join in the event.",
"\"I want to thank the police for being so cool,\" Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos told the audience.",
"\"You guys are great, let's continue dancing.\"",
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"(WIRED) --",
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"With a service called TV Everywhere, Comcast and Time Warner will give cable subscribers access to \"premium\" television content via broadband, and later cellphone connections.",
"To begin with, 5,000 Comcast subscribers will begin testing the system next month, giving 5,000 Comcast subscribers access to Time Warner's TBS and TNT channels on 5,000 Comcast subscribers's computers, and the same channels' video-on-demand catalogs on 5,000 Comcast subscribers's cable boxes.",
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"Already \"at least 92 percent of Americans qualify to watch this for free online,\" according to Jeff Bewkes, chairman and CEO of Time Warner.",
"For these subscribers, TV Everywhere represents a potential win.",
"The only question is whether these subscribers will keep paying for the old cable subscription model as these subscribers's viewing habits shift online.",
"There's nothing to stop television networks from putting television networks's content on both Hulu and TV Everywhere, because TV Everywhere's contract will be non-exclusive, according to Bewkes.",
"However, given the choice between Hulu and TV Everywhere, television programmers have an incentive to go with the latter.",
"Only the TV Everywhere model promises to port yesterday's lucrative business model onto today's platforms.",
"And that, according to some critics, is exactly the problem.",
"\"[TV Everywhere] raises substantial anti-competitive issues by restricting the availability of programming to the favored distribution methods,\" said Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder of the public interest group Public Knowledge.",
"\"Under the TV Everywhere plan, no other program distributors would be able to emerge, and no consumers will be able to 'cut the cord' because they find what they want online.",
"As a result, consumers will be the losers.",
"\"In addition, we are concerned that this program violates the open nature of the internet.",
"By adding this additional toll lane, Comcast and Time Warner want to create Comcast and Time Warner's own 'managed channel' within the internet and turn the internet into Comcast and Time Warner's own private cable channel.\"",
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"\"Consumers vote every single month with Consumers's pocketbook,\" he added.",
"\"Consumers don't have to subscribe to cable.",
"Consumers don't have to pay for these services, yet Consumers do.",
"The number of people paying for subscription television has gone up and up and up every single quarter that we've been in the business.\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"The teenage niece of golf superstar Tiger Woods has failed to make the cut in Cheyenne Woods's first professional tournament.",
"Cheyenne Woods was handed entry into her debut LPGA Tour tournament on a sponsor's invite.",
"Cheyenne Woods was four strokes shy of qualifying for the weekend rounds of the LPGA Tour's Wegmans event at Locust Hill in Rochester, New York.",
"The 18-year-old had to complete Cheyenne Woods's second round on Saturday along with half of the 140-player field due to delays of almost five hours following thunderstorms in the area.",
"Competing on a sponsor's invite, Cheyenne Woods followed up Cheyenne Woods's opening 75 with a two-over-par 74 to be well down the 140-player field.",
"Cheyenne Woods had been two-under for the round after 10 holes on Friday, but fell back again with a triple-bogey at the par-four 12th before finishing strongly with a birdie.",
"Cheyenne Woods is the daughter of world No. 1 Tiger's half-brother, Earl Jnr.",
"Defending champion Eun-Hee Ji also missed the cut after completing a 71 which saw her seven over the card.",
"South Korean Shin Jiyai had led by three strokes overnight after posting a 68 which gave South Korean Shin Jiyai a 36-hole total of 11-under-par 133.",
"However, Morgan Pressel reduced that advantage to just a single stroke when Morgan Pressel picked up two birdies to complete a 66, leaving Morgan Pressel one shot ahead of third-placed fellow American Stacy Lewis."
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"Cheyenne Woods four strokes shy of qualifying for final rounds of Wegmans event .",
"The 18-year-old completed a weather-delayed second round of 74 on Saturday .",
"Cheyenne Woods opened Cheyenne Woods's debut LPGA Tour tournament with a 75 .",
"Playing on sponsor's invite, Cheyenne Woods is daughter of Tiger Woods' half-brother ."
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"(CNN) -- Sharp-witted.",
"Direct.",
"In control.",
"Loyal.",
"Jenny Sanford, here with Jenny Sanford's husband, was a Wall Street executive before Jenny Sanford married Gov. Mark Sanford.",
"That's how friends describe Jenny Sanford, the wife of Gov. Mark Sanford, who confessed to the nation in a rambling news conference that he was having an affair with a woman in Argentina.",
"Jenny Sanford, unlike so many wives of cheating politicians, was not there facing the cameras, standing beside Jenny Sanford's husband.",
"A reporter asked Gov. Mark Sanford if Gov. Mark Sanford and Gov. Mark Sanford's wife of 20 years were separated.",
"\"I'm here, and she's there,\" Gov. Mark Sanford replied.",
"As romantic e-mails between Jenny Sanford's husband and Gov. Mark Sanford's mistress were published by a local newspaper Thursday, the state's first lady, a former Wall Street executive, stayed far away from reporters.",
"Jenny Sanford was at the family's home on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina with Jenny Sanford's four sons and a few friends.",
"\"Don't you know that is what Jenny Sanford is about?",
"That is what is authentic about Jenny Sanford.",
"Jenny Sanford is not going to humiliate Jenny Sanford by standing next to a story,\" said Cyndi Mosteller, a friend of the Sanfords since 1992 and the former first vice chairwoman of the South Carolina GOP.",
"\"Jenny Sanford will stand next to Mark emotionally, but Jenny Sanford cannot stand in the glare of others,\" Mosteller continued.",
"\"Jenny Sanford is out there taking a dignified road, one that is defined by principle, even if Jenny Sanford's heart might have difficulty following that principle.",
"But Jenny Sanford's overriding priority is to protect Jenny Sanford's children.\"",
"Jenny Sanford released a lengthy statement late Wednesday making clear Jenny Sanford had learned of Jenny Sanford's husband's infidelity before Gov. Mark Sanford's recent secret trip to Buenos Aires.",
"Gov. Mark Sanford's whereabouts were a mystery for six days, leaving Gov. Mark Sanford's family in the dark and creating a power vacuum and considerable confusion in the Capitol, with aides telling reporters Gov. Mark Sanford was hiking on the Appalachian Trail.",
"\"When I found out about her husband's infidelity I worked immediately to first seek reconciliation through forgiveness, and then to work diligently to repair our marriage,\" Jenny Sanford wrote.",
"\"We reached a point where I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong.",
"I therefore asked Gov. Mark Sanford to leave two weeks ago.",
"\"This trial separation was agreed to with the goal of ultimately strengthening our marriage.",
"During This trial separation it was agreed that Mark would not contact us.",
"I kept This trial separation quiet out of respect of Gov. Mark Sanford's public office and reputation, and in hopes of keeping our children from just this type of public exposure.\"",
"Mosteller's brother-in-law was with Jenny Sanford on Thursday as the e-mails penned to \"Maria\" became public.",
"The messages from Mark Sanfordcompliment the woman on her \"tan lines\" and \"gentle kisses.\"",
"the e-mails were published by The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina's capital, which said the governor's office confirmed the e-mails are authentic.",
"When contacted by CNN, the governor's office would neither confirm nor deny the e-mails's authenticity.",
"\"[The e-mails] are almost like reading a novel that you would embarrassed to buy,\" Mosteller said.",
"\"To be one of his four children and know that is there for the world to see, it is incredible to all of us.\"",
"Jenny Sanford grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, and earned a degree in finance from Georgetown University.",
"Jenny Sanford met Gov. Mark Sanford when they worked for investment firms in New York, Jenny Sanford at Lazard Freres and he at Goldman Sachs.",
"The two married and moved to Gov. Mark Sanford's native South Carolina, and Jenny Sanford managed Gov. Mark Sanford's campaign for Congress in 1994.",
"\"Gov. Mark Sanford started out with five other opponents, and Gov. Mark Sanford didn't really have a shot.",
"That was the opinion of most people,\" Mosteller said.",
"\"But Jenny Sanford and Gov. Mark Sanford worked together and turned that thing around so that candidate three, four and five ended up throwing their support behind Gov. Mark Sanford, and Gov. Mark Sanford won.\"",
"The two are equals intellectually, according to people who know them.",
"Jenny Sanford went on to manage Gov. Mark Sanford's gubernatorial campaign in 2002, turning Jenny Sanford's home into campaign headquarters.",
"Jenny Sanford was more than a visible first lady of South Carolina; Jenny Sanford was involved in the finances of Jenny Sanford's husband's office to an extent that drew heated criticism from Gov. Mark Sanford's opponents.",
"Jenny Sanford also took a $70,000 deficit from the operations of Gov. Mark Sanford's mansion and put the governor's mansion's finances into the black.",
"\"I pretty much am in Gov. Mark Sanford's office in the mornings most days, and I do pretty much anything Gov. Mark Sanford wants me to do for Gov. Mark Sanford.",
"I help to bridge the gap between things that have been commonplace themes in Gov. Mark Sanford's life and make sure everybody in the governor's office is on pace with Gov. Mark Sanford's agenda,\" Jenny Sanford told Charleston's Post and Courier in June 2005.",
"Gov. Mark Sanford told the newspaper that Gov. Mark Sanford's wife is \"particularly good with financial analysis [and] working with numbers.\"",
"Jenny Sanford took up health as a key issue in Jenny Sanford's role as first lady, advocating nutrition, exercise and cancer prevention, serving on major boards and speaking at various functions to raise funds for disease research.",
"\"This is a classy woman who lacks pretension,\" Mosteller said.",
"\"I took a road trip with his wife's last year, and his wife just automatically got into the back seat.",
"When we were making a lot of appearances, and the schedules were hectic, his wife called and said, 'I've figured out that the key is changing your deodorant.'",
"\"his wife is someone you can talk politics with, you can talk about grand issues with, and you can also discuss deodorant,\" Mosteller said.",
"\"his wife's a remarkable, classy woman with a lot of integrity who is trying to keep it together.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"I was a high school student in 1983, when the video for \"Thriller\" was released, getting plenty of air time on MTV.",
"By then, the network's \"M\" could just as easily have stood for Michael Jackson's.",
"It was an event.",
"At a time when MTV was criticizing for not featuring black artists, Michael Jackson's's success changed all that.",
"I can remember getting together with a group of friends to watch the premiere like it was a new movie release.",
"The video did not disappoint.",
"Once again Michael Jackson's disregarded all conventions of the genre and not just redefined, but completely re-imagined, what a music video could be.",
"But most people don't know that the album broke new ground in a non-musical way, too.",
"Viewers today of MTV, with MTV's steady stream of reality shows like \"Real World 22 - Cancun\" and \"16 and Pregnant,\" might forget that, when MTV started nearly three decades ago, MTV was all music, all day.",
"Actually, MTV wasn't really all music.",
"It was just what MTV considered rock music.",
"By the late 1970s, radio formats had essentially resegregated the music world.",
"When MTV launched in 1981, MTV modeled MTV's playlist on the popular album-oriented rock radio format of the day, which meant that music by black artists was effectively excluded from the network.",
"You might see the occasional Jimi Hendrix clip, but there was no room for funk, disco, R&B or that new emerging form -- rap.",
"It wasn't long before the public took note of the glaring absence of African-American artists.",
"MTV was called to task on the air in 1983 for MTV's lack of black artists by none other than David Bowie.",
"At about the same time, MTV famously refused to air Rick James' \"Superfreak\" video.",
"MTV defended MTV by claiming it wasn't a rock song.",
"Michael Jackson's changed all that.",
"Michael Jackson's opened the door with the video for \"Billie Jean,\" which was simply too good for its time to be overlooked.",
"Michael Jackson's blew that door wide open with \"Beat It,\" which featured a guitar solo by the reigning rock god of the day, Eddie Van Halen.",
"Michael Jackson's succeeded in this not just because Michael Jackson's was a great singer, but because of Michael Jackson's's musical daring.",
"\"Beat It\" was a song that was incapable of being slotted among the genres of the day.",
"Yes, it had all the signatures of a rock song -- overdriven guitars, a driving tempo and a searing solo.",
"But it had more.",
"It had a backbeat.",
"You could dance to it.",
"You wanted to dance to it.",
"And the viewers loved it, regardless of the viewers's race or ethnicity.",
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"Michael Jackson's's effect on MTV was both immediate and permanent.",
"Michael Jackson's's videos became cultural events and Michael Jackson's's success laid waste to the notion that white rock audiences wouldn't tune in for \"black\" music.",
"In the aftermath of Michael Jackson's's breakthrough success, MTV helped usher rap into the mainstream with shows like \"Yo! MTV Raps,\" and black artists like Prince and Chaka Khan became mainstays of MTV.",
"It wasn't long before young people schooled on a diet that ranged from Public Enemy to AC/DC began to experiment with what those genres would sound like if they were combined -- just as Michael Jackson's had done with \"Beat It.\"",
"The outcome was some of the most interesting music of the next decade.",
"Artists like Linkin Park, Rage Against the Machine, P.O.D. and Beck all owe a debt of gratitude to Michael Jackson's for creating a welcoming environment.",
"And we as fans all owe Michael Jackson's the acknowledgment reserved for those individuals whose achievements transcend their chosen field and reshape the world around us.",
"Watch fans in Los Angeles react to Michael Jackson's's death » .",
"I was always mournful about the sad spectacle Michael Jackson's's life became in recent years.",
"But that should not detract from the meteor-like impact Michael Jackson's had on popular culture at Michael Jackson's's peak.",
"Michael Jackson's was the Jackie Robinson of MTV.",
"Michael Jackson's disregarded the conventional categories of the day and created something that was both new and immediately accessible to millions of listeners.",
"In so doing, Michael Jackson's forced an industry still informed by stubborn prejudices to rethink an industry still informed by stubborn prejudices to rethink itself.",
"Most successful entertainers can ride in tandem with the zeitgeist for only so long before Most successful entertainers drift away.",
"Michael Jackson's did more than that.",
"Michael Jackson's inhabited the zeitgeist and bent the zeitgeist to Michael Jackson's's will.",
"No matter where Michael Jackson's's life may have gone after that, it cannot overshadow this transcendent moment."
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"MTV had been criticized for not airing videos by black artists .",
"Many viewers, regardless of race or ethnicity, loved Jackson's videos ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"United States accident investigators are probing two recent failures of airspeed and altitude indications aboard Airbus A330s -- the same type of plane that crashed into the Atlantic nearly a month ago.",
"Investigators are looking into incidents aboard two other Airbus A330s.",
"The planes landed safely and there were no injuries or damage, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.",
"One flight was between the United States and Brazil in May and the other between Hong Kong and Japan in June.",
"The probes were launched in the aftermath of the June 1 crash in the Atlantic Ocean -- when Air France Flight 447 was flying to Paris, France, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.",
"All 228 people on board the plane, an A330, were killed.",
"Investigators are looking at the possible role of airspeed sensors known as pitot tubes, among other factors, as a possible cause of the the plane crash.",
"the plane sent 24 automated error messages in the four minutes before the plane crashed, the head of the French accident investigation board, Paul-Louis Arslanian, has said.",
"The error messages all indicate there were problems with on-board information about the plane's speed, which can cause some of the plane's instruments to stop functioning, Arslanian said.",
"Search teams are looking for the bulk of the plane's wreckage and for its flight data recorders.",
"The first of the two incidents being investigated by the NTSB happened May 21, when a TAM Airlines flight from Miami, Florida, to Sao Paulo, Brazil, experienced a loss of primary speed and altitude information while in flight, the NTSB said.",
"\"Initial reports indicate that the flight crew noted an abrupt drop in indicated outside air temperature, followed by the loss of the Air Data Reference System and disconnections of the autopilot and autothrust, along with the loss of speed and altitude information,\" the NTSB said.",
"the flight crew used backup instruments and the primary data was restored in about five minutes, the NTSB said.",
"Another \"possibly similar\" incident happened June 23 on a Northwest Airlines flight between Hong Kong and Tokyo, Japan, the NTSB said.",
"Investigators from the NTSB are gathering data recorder information, monitoring system messages, crew statements and weather information, the NTSB said."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"A sharply divided House of Representatives narrowly passed a White House-backed climate change bill Friday after hours of cajoling and arm-twisting by Democratic leaders among members worried about the legislation's potential economic and political fallout.",
"A sharply divided House of Representatives passes an energy bill that includes a \"cap-and-trade\" program on emissions.",
"politically dicey bill passed 219-212, with virtually no Republican support.",
"politically dicey bill would reduce nationwide greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 through a so-called \"cap-and-trade\" program under which companies would buy and sell emissions credits.",
"Among other things, politically dicey bill would also require utilities to generate an increasing amount of power from renewable sources.",
"Even before daybreak Friday, consternation over politically dicey bill brewed anew.",
"The Democrats released a 301-page amendment to politically dicey bill at 3:09 a.m. Friday, drawing protest from Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.",
"\"This is the biggest job-killing bill that has ever been on the floor of A sharply divided House of Representatives.",
"Right here.",
"politically dicey bill,\" Boehner said.",
"The leaders of A sharply divided House of Representatives are customarily granted unlimited speaking time, but when the Boehner's speech went more than 2½ hours, Democrats objected.",
"\"Is this an attempt to try to get some people to leave on a close vote?\" asked Rep Henry Waxman, D-California, politically dicey bill's lead sponsor.",
"Also Friday, the A sharply divided House of Representatives phone switchboard went down as conservative radio hosts and congressmen made direct pleas for voters to dial the Capitol to voice voters's opposition to politically dicey bill.",
"\"Phone traffic has increased to a level where some callers are receiving an 'all circuits are busy now, please try back again later' message,\" communications director Jeff Ventura said via e-mail.",
"Congressional sources said Democrats were hoping Democrats's constituents would also attempt to match phone calls opposed to politically dicey bill with phone calls for politically dicey bill.",
"\"Call your congressman, right now!\" urged Rep. Mike Pence, R-Indiana, from the House floor as the chamber seemed near a vote.",
"communications director Jeff Ventura said politically dicey bill was likely behind the phone-line crash.",
"\"The suspected cause ... is believed to be interest and inquiries regarding the expected vote on politically dicey bill,\" he wrote.",
"a vote came one day after President Obama made an urgent plea for congressional approval in what could be an early make-or-break test of President Obama's young administration.",
"\"Now is the time for us to lead,\" President Obama said during an appearance Thursday in the White House Rose Garden.",
"\"We cannot be afraid of the future.",
"We cannot be prisoners to the past.\"",
"President Obama said politically dicey bill will spark a \"clean energy transformation\" of the U.S. economy and \"make possible the creation of millions of new jobs.\"",
"\"Make no mistake,\" he emphasized.",
"\"This is a jobs bill.\"",
"Several moderate and conservative Democrats indicated that Several moderate and conservative Democrats received heavy constituent pressure in the final hours to buck Several moderate and conservative Democrats's party leadership and vote against politically dicey bill.",
"\"I can't begin to tell you how many calls we've received,\" said Rep. Charles Gonzalez, D-Texas.",
"\"And it's disproportionately vote 'no.'\"",
"Gonzalez, who voted \"yes,\" believes special interest groups generated many of the calls on both sides, including the late surge of negative feedback.",
"However, Rep. Charles Gonzalez, D-Texas also said President Obama tried to counter much of that pressure by personally reaching out to swing members since Thursday night.",
"Republicans have argued politically dicey bill would have the unintended consequence of devastating the country's battered industrial base while pushing polluting industries to countries with lower environmental standards.",
"Having cleared the House, politically dicey bill now faces an unclear future in the Senate, where Democratic leaders have held off on introducing Democratic leaders's own version of the legislation.",
"CNN's Evan Glass contributed to this report."
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"politically dicey bill would reduce nationwide greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent by 2020 .",
"GOP says politically dicey bill would drive polluting companies to less-regulated countries .",
"politically dicey bill faces unclear future in Senate, where it has not been introduced ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Refugees are the most vulnerable people on Earth.",
"Refugees are fighting to survive.\"",
"-- Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees goodwill ambassador .",
"Children play in floodwater at a Pakistan refugee camp after floods displaced residents in August 2008.",
"World's population at the end of last year included 42 million displaced people, 80 percent of them in developing nations, according to a report this week by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.",
"Many of these refugees are living in minimal standards for shelter and are exposed daily to the harshest elements of weather, a report this week by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says.",
"For example, in Pakistan, some 300,000 refugees are living outdoors, in tents or similar structures, said Michael Kocher, vice president of international programs for the International Rescue Committee.",
"That part of World has been hit hard by extreme weather over the past couple of months.",
"First, extreme heat plagued Pakistan, with temperatures in May and June soaring past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius).",
"The heat is escalating the discomfort for many.",
"\"People are living in cramped situations, often unsanitary situations, and it's very hot,\" Michael Kocher, vice president of international programs for the International Rescue Committee said.",
"\"In many places, there is not enough clean water or adequate sanitation.",
"Heat exacerbates that problem.\"",
"As World Refugee Day approaches -- it falls on Saturday this year -- the forecast calls for even more dramatic weather changes in the coming weeks.",
"In Southeast Asia, long stretches of scorching temperatures are usually the prelude to the rainy, or monsoon, season.",
"Watch Angelina Jolie talk to CNN's Anderson Cooper about World's refugee problem » .",
"The term \"monsoon\" refers to a seasonal reversal of wind that typically occurs in late June or early July.",
"For countries like Pakistan and India, this change brings daily, nonstop downpours.",
"The change in the weather is essential for local crops, according to John Fasullo, project scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research.",
"\"The Southeast Asian monsoon is the key source for regional agriculture,\" he told CNN.",
"\"It provides the majority of the moisture to support food needs for one-half the world's population. ...",
"It also brings a beneficial cooling of the temperatures.\"",
"The problem is, monsoon rains can also cause devastating floods.",
"John Fasullo says the threat for flooding can be \"continual from late June through early September.\"",
"In Pakistan, for example, where agencies have witnessed a large increase in displaced people over the past year, the monsoon of 2008 was particularly intense.",
"If 2009 brings similar floods to Pakistan, there will be a new threat for refugees exposed to the storms: mud.",
"Watch how the monsoon is affecting refugees » .",
"\"The camps are quite threadbare,\" Kocher said.",
"\"Tents are held to the ground by rope.",
"It's hard to keep people dry.",
"The ground gets muddy, which can lead to dirty water and bad sanitation facilities.\"",
"Vulnerability to nature's dangerous elements is not only a concern for people displaced in Pakistan.",
"Refugees in Afghanistan are subject to brutal winters, while in Iraq, scorching heat and sandstorms are common challenges for those without sufficient shelter.",
"Of World Refugee Day, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie says, \"Please do not forget them, and remember them on this day.\"",
"Here are answers to some commonly asked questions: . • How can I help world refugees that are exposed to the monsoon season and other weather dangers?",
"Go to CNN.com/ImpactYour World.",
"There, you will find links to charities that help refugees and others in need.",
"• Does the monsoon season affect the weather in the United States?",
"Southern Arizona and parts of New Mexico see heavy rain during the North American monsoon season, which runs from June 15 through September 30.",
"This time of year, the wind shifts, tapping into moisture from the Gulf of California and the Gulf of Mexico, and producing strong thunderstorms that bring the majority of the region's annual rainfall."
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"World contains 42 million displaced people -- 80 percent in developing nations .",
"In Pakistan, the 2008 monsoon season brought rains that flooded refugee camps .",
"UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie: \"Please do not forget them\""
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"Editor's note: Fenton is director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"Fenton has written for journals including The Lancet, AIDS, the British Medical Journal and the Journal of Infectious Diseases.",
"After graduating from medical school, Fenton earned Fenton's Masters in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Fenton's Ph.D. in Epidemiology from University College London.",
"Fenton urges Americans to get tested for HIV.",
"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN)",
"-- Every 9½ minutes someone's brother, mother, sister, father, or neighbor becomes infected with HIV in the United States.",
"That's 56,000 people every year.",
"But there's something we can all do to help protect ourselves and our partners from this disease -- get tested for HIV.",
"In the fight against HIV, I can tell you that few things are more important than testing.",
"It's an essential step in reducing the number of new HIV infections and extending the lives of those who are infected.",
"Put simply, HIV testing saves lives.",
"As a CDC official, I've spoken with hundreds of people who have made the decision to get tested.",
"Many described the relief they felt when they found out they were HIV-negative.",
"Thanks to the HIV test, they could take steps to make sure they and their partners stay that way.",
"I've also met people who found out they were HIV-positive.",
"Although initially worried about people who found out they were HIV-positive's diagnosis and people who found out they were HIV-positive's future, people who found out they were HIV-positive were thankful people who found out they were HIV-positive had people who found out they were HIV-positive's infection diagnosed early, and were able to live long, healthy and productive lives with HIV.",
"people who found out they were HIV-positive had the knowledge and will to protect people who found out they were HIV-positive's partners from infection, or to prevent people who found out they were HIV-positive's infants from becoming HIV infected.",
"I recently met one young woman who learned about one young woman who learned about her HIV infection after being diagnosed during routine HIV testing in pregnancy's HIV infection after being diagnosed during routine HIV testing in pregnancy.",
"By getting tested early, and having access to effective treatment, one young woman who learned about her HIV infection after being diagnosed during routine HIV testing in pregnancy's child was born without HIV, and one young woman who learned about her HIV infection after being diagnosed during routine HIV testing in pregnancy now has two healthy children.",
"one young woman who learned about her HIV infection after being diagnosed during routine HIV testing in pregnancy is a living testament that life does not stop with this disease.",
"Instead, knowledge of one young woman who learned about her HIV infection after being diagnosed during routine HIV testing in pregnancy's HIV status along with effective treatment and care has given one young woman who learned about her HIV infection after being diagnosed during routine HIV testing in pregnancy the freedom, resolve and respect to make choices to protect one young woman who learned about her HIV infection after being diagnosed during routine HIV testing in pregnancy's life and the lives of those one young woman who learned about her HIV infection after being diagnosed during routine HIV testing in pregnancy loves.",
"Yet today, not everyone has benefited from knowing everyone's HIV status.",
"Far too many individuals with HIV don't know that Far too many individuals with HIV're infected.",
"CDC estimates that one in five people with HIV in the United States is unaware of being infected.",
"That's more than 200,000 Americans who may be transmitting HIV to others without knowing HIV, and who can't take advantage of HIV treatments that could prolong and improve the quality of their lives.",
"As we mark National HIV Testing Day on Saturday, I strongly encourage all Americans to get tested for HIV.",
"At CDC, our goal is to make HIV testing as routine as a blood pressure check.",
"HIV testing has never been quicker, easier or more accessible.",
"In fact, with rapid HIV tests, results can be available in as little as 20 minutes, and tests can be given in your doctor's office or other locations in your community, such as churches and college campuses.",
"To ensure that all Americans know all Americans's HIV status, CDC recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 get tested for HIV as part of routine medical care -- regardless of everyone between the ages of 13 and 64's perceived risk for infection.",
"CDC also recommends that those at increased risk, such as sexually active gay and bisexual men, get tested at least annually.",
"CDC are also working with CDC's partners to bring HIV testing services directly to communities across the nation.",
"Increased HIV testing will make it possible to significantly reduce the number of new infections.",
"Research indicates the majority of new sexually transmitted HIV infections are transmitted by people who do not know they are HIV-infected.",
"Studies also show that most people who test HIV-positive take steps to protect their partners from infection.",
"Nearly 30 years after the start of the epidemic, far too many people continue to be diagnosed late in the course of far too many people's infection.",
"Too many times, I've heard stories from people who went to the emergency room after a few days of flu-like symptoms.",
"Once there, doctors conduct tests and inform them they have both pneumonia and AIDS.",
"They never knew they were HIV infected, and yet they had HIV for years.",
"In fact, data released today show that nearly 40 percent of people develop AIDS within just a year of being diagnosed with HIV.",
"Many of these people could have stayed healthier if these people were diagnosed with HIV and began drug treatment much earlier.",
"Anti-retroviral treatment can lower the amount of HIV in the blood, slowing progression from HIV to AIDS.",
"We must remember that AIDS still kills in this country -- more than 14,000 people die every year.",
"Yet we have the tools to diagnose an HIV infection early, to begin life-prolonging treatments to prevent progression to AIDS, and to ensure a strong quality of life for HIV-infected people.",
"But without a test, there is no diagnosis -- and no treatment.",
"The fight against HIV here at home is far from over.",
"But too many mistakenly believe that HIV in the United States is no longer a serious problem.",
"In fact, a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found a troubling decline in awareness and concern about the domestic HIV/AIDS crisis, in the general population and among those at greatest risk.",
"To help combat this complacency, the White House recently joined CDC and the rest of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to announce a new communication campaign, \"Act Against AIDS.\"",
"a new communication campaign, \"Act Against AIDS is working on a number of fronts to refocus national attention on the U.S. epidemic, and to increase the number of Americans who get tested for HIV.",
"Although AIDS continues to pose a serious threat to the nation's health, HIV testing is a powerful weapon against the disease.",
"By increasing the number of people who know people who know their HIV status's HIV status, we can decrease the number of new HIV infections, and help save thousands of lives.",
"What you don't know can hurt you.",
"In fact, it can kill you.",
"But a simple test could change your fate and the fate of others.",
"That's why today I urge all Americans to take the test -- and take control.",
"To learn more about AIDS and where you can receive a confidential HIV test, visit hivtest.org, call 800-CDC-INFO, or text your ZIP code to \"Know It\" (566948).",
"For comprehensive information about HIV prevention, visit http://www.cdc.gov/nineandahalfminutes/index.html, the Web site for the first phase of CDC's recently-launched Act Against AIDS campaign."
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"Jackson knew \"exactly how Jackson's fate would be played out\" and feared Jackson's death would echo that of Elvis Presley, Lisa-Marie Presley wrote in an online blog posted Friday morning.",
"Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley in 1994.",
"Lisa-Marie Presley says, \"I loved Jackson very much\" and believes Jackson loved Lisa-Marie Presley.",
"Presley -- the daughter of Elvis, the \"King of Rock,\" and the ex-wife of Jackson, the \"King of Pop\" -- wrote on Lisa-Marie Presley's MySpace page that Lisa-Marie Presley wanted \"to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once.\"",
"Lisa-Marie Presley's publicist confirmed Lisa-Marie Presley wrote an online blog posted Friday morning.",
"Lisa-Marie Presley said Lisa-Marie Presley's short marriage to Jackson -- from May 1994 until January 1996 -- \"was not 'a sham' as is being reported in the press,\" but Lisa-Marie Presley divorced Jackson because Lisa-Marie Presley was \"in over my head in trying\" to save Jackson \"from the inevitable, which is what has just happened.\"",
"Jackson talked with Lisa-Marie Presley about Jackson's death during \"a deep conversation\" 14 years ago about \"the circumstances of my father's death.\"",
"Watch more from Lisa-Marie Presley on Jackson » .",
"\"At some point Jackson paused, Jackson stared at Lisa-Marie Presley very intensely and Jackson stated with an almost calm certainty, 'I am afraid that I am going to end up like Elvis Presley, the way Elvis Presley did,",
"' \" Lisa-Marie Presley wrote.",
"\"I promptly tried to deter Jackson from the idea, at which point Jackson just shrugged Jackson's shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, Jackson knew what Jackson knew and that was kind of that.\"",
"That conversation haunted Lisa-Marie Presley as Lisa-Marie Presley watched television coverage of Jackson's death Thursday, Lisa-Marie Presley said.",
"\"I am sitting here watching on the news [as] an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears,\" Lisa-Marie Presley wrote.",
"\"A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn't predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened.\"",
"Elvis Presley collapsed in the bathroom of Elvis Presley's Memphis, Tennessee, mansion -- Graceland -- on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42.",
"While Elvis Presley's death was ruled the result of an irregular heartbeat, the autopsy report was sealed amid accusations that abuse of prescription drugs caused the problem.",
"\"As I sit here overwhelmed with sadness, reflection and confusion at what was my biggest failure to date, watching on the news almost play by play the exact scenario I saw happen on August 16, 1977, happening again right now with Michael (A sight I never wanted to see again) just as Jackson predicted, I am truly, truly gutted,\" Lisa-Marie Presley wrote.",
"\"I wanted to 'save Jackson',\" Lisa-Marie Presley wrote.",
"\"I wanted to save Jackson from the inevitable, which is what has just happened.\"",
"\"The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let Jackson's fate have Jackson, even though I desperately loved Jackson and tried to stop or reverse it somehow,\" Lisa-Marie Presley wrote.",
"Their marriage, which some suggested was only to help Jackson's image, was real, Lisa-Marie Presley said.",
"\"It was an unusual relationship, yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a 'normal life' found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on Jackson's part,\" Lisa-Marie Presley wrote.",
"\"Nonetheless, I do believe Jackson loved me as much as Jackson could love anyone and I loved Jackson very much.\"",
"Lisa-Marie Presley called Jackson \"an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated.\"",
"\"When Jackson used it for something good, it was the best and when Jackson used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad,\" Lisa-Marie Presley wrote.",
"Lisa-Marie Presley's blog entry ended with a thank you to those who would read Presley's blog entry.",
"\"I really needed to say this right now, thanks for listening.\"",
"Lisa-Marie Presley's blog can be found online at http://bit.ly/5wR7p ."
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"(CNN) --",
"There's a photo of Jackson family on the cover of the September 24, 1971, issue of Life magazine.",
"In it, Joseph and Katherine Jackson stand at the foot of a set of stairs, The Jackson brothers's star children -- known as the Jackson 5 -- arrayed behind Joseph and Katherine Jackson.",
"The Jackson brothers, here in the 1970s, were driven to be great by The Jackson brothers's father, Father Joseph.",
"The Jackson brothers appear to be the all-American clan, gold records arranged behind The Jackson brothers, the boys loose and smiling, the parents more awkward and serious in Joseph and Katherine Jackson's demeanor.",
"Over the years, that façade crumbled.",
"The Jackson brothers bickered; some made accusations of abuse.",
"But the group remained tight-knit through crises, including Thursday's tragedy, when Michael collapsed at Michael's house and later died at UCLA Medical Center.",
"The journey began with music in Gary, Indiana.",
"Joseph Jackson, the patriarch, played in a short-lived band called the Falcons (no relation to the Detroit-based group featuring Wilson Pickett) in the 1950s.",
"His primary job, however, was as a crane operator at U.S. Steel.",
"Katherine Jackson, the musical and devoutly religious woman who he married in 1949, tended to the couple's large family: Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, La Toya, Marlon, Michael and Randy, all born between 1950 and 1961.",
"Daughter Janet arrived in 1966.",
"By that time, the three oldest boys -- Jackie, Tito and Jermaine -- had started the three oldest boys -- Jackie, Tito and Jermaine --'s own group, which Marlon and Michael eventually joined.",
"Father Joseph saw a chance for Father Joseph's sons to have the musical career Father Joseph'd found elusive.",
"Father Joseph admitted being a harsh taskmaster.",
"Father Joseph drove Father Joseph's sons hard, forcing the three oldest boys -- Jackie, Tito and Jermaine -- to rehearse with a James Brown-like intensity.",
"Father Joseph wasn't above emphasizing Father Joseph's feelings to Father Joseph's seventh child, Michael.",
"\"Father Joseph teased me and I just hated it and I cried every day,\" Michael told Oprah Winfrey in 1993.",
"Michael said Michael's father also beat Michael: \"Father Joseph was very strict, very hard, very stern.",
"... There's been times when Father Joseph'd come to see me, I'd get sick, I'd start to regurgitate.\"",
"Michael quickly said, imagining Michael's father's reaction, \"Please don't be mad at Michael.\"",
"Father Joseph disputed the word \"beat,\" but didn't question Michael's account.",
"\"I whipped Father Joseph with a switch and a belt,\" Father Joseph told the BBC in 2003.",
"Father Joseph added, \"I never beat Father Joseph.",
"You beat someone with a stick.\"",
"In a 2005 interview with CNN's Larry King, Jermaine defended Jermaine's father's actions.",
"\"Jackson family grew up like any other black family.",
"You did something, you got your butt tore up, and your butt wasn't tore up, it was just, you got a spanking,\" he said.",
"\"I will say this.",
"Father Joseph kept Jackson family off of the streets.",
"Father Joseph kept Jackson family away from drugs.",
"Father Joseph kept Jackson family away from gangs and ... Jackson family've been able to project a talent out there and have the support of strong people to entertain the world.\"",
"By 1968, when Michael turned 10, the Jackson 5 was a professional musical machine.",
"They'd won an Apollo Theater talent night the previous year and were working the \"chitlin circuit\" of black clubs when producer Bobby Taylor urged Motown to sign The Jackson brothers.",
"Motown founder Berry Gordy was impressed and made them \"the last big stars to come off my assembly line,\" according to a biography on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Web site.",
"The Jackson brothers shot out of the gate with four No. 1 hits and gained a huge fan base, along with an animated TV show.",
"But success took its toll, particularly when it wasn't so easy to come by.",
"In the mid-1970s, The Jackson brothers moved to Epic Records, where The Jackson brothers were produced by the Philadelphia soul-funk team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.",
"The two remember nothing but good times from the sessions, which produced two albums and the Top 10 hit \"Enjoy Yourself.\"",
"\"It was a collaboration,\" Gamble said.",
"\"The Jackson brothers participated in creating.",
"Tito was a great guitarist -- The Jackson brothers were all great musicians.\"",
"Leon Huff said Leon Huff visited the Jackson compound during a trip to California and remembered a warm family setting, complete with a \"fantastic meal\" cooked by Katherine Jackson.",
"\"I've got nothing but respect for Father Joseph,\" added Gamble.",
"\"Father Joseph's a great man.",
"Father Joseph made something out of nothing.\"",
"Even during that era, however, Michael was standing out.",
"Kenny Gamble and Huff recalled Michael taking a keen interest in recording technology and the way Michael sounded.",
"Going solo with Quincy Jones producing, as Michael did in 1979, was the right move, Kenny Gamble and Huff said.",
"The family dynamics kept changing as the siblings grew older.",
"After Michael's \"Thriller\" became the biggest album of all time, the brothers -- including Jermaine -- regrouped for a new album, \"Victory,\" and accompanying tour.",
"But Michael, now the undisputed draw, disagreed with some of the tour plans and ended up donating Michael's earnings to charity.",
"Michael's brightened spotlight boosted the careers of Michael's siblings; even Rebbie had a hit.",
"But it was Janet who broke out with the most success, including the No. 1 singles \"Miss You Much,\" \"Black Cat\" and \"Again\" in the 1980s and '90s.",
"With the increased interest in the Jacksons came tabloid scrutiny of Jackson family's every move.",
"When La Toya appeared nude in Playboy magazine, the story made headlines.",
"La Toya later criticized Michael and was on the outs for several years.",
"Jermaine put out a song called \"Word to the Badd,\" an attack on Michael, in 1991; he later changed the lyrics.",
"Janet's relationships were probed in detail, as were the brothers' marriages.",
"And Michael, of course, was seen as increasingly eccentric, Michael's personality overwhelming Michael's music.",
"But for all their own bickering, Jackson family closed ranks when a member was attacked.",
"In 1992, Jermaine co-produced \"The Jacksons: An American Dream,\" a TV miniseries based on Katherine Jackson's memoir, which chronicled their rise to stardom.",
"When Michael faced molestation allegations in the early '90s and was tried in 2005, Jackson family rallied around.",
"\"Jackson family was groomed to be a team,\" said Linda Johnson Rice, president and CEO of Ebony and Jet magazines' Johnson Publishing and a longtime family friend.",
"\"As you can see through Jackson family's performances, Jackson family were always there for each other.\"",
"In recent years, La Toya has appeared on the reality shows \"Armed and Famous\" and the UK \"Celebrity Big Brother.\"",
"La Toya originally had a scene in the forthcoming Sacha Baron Cohen movie, \"Bruno,\" but CNN confirmed a scene in the forthcoming Sacha Baron Cohen movie has been cut, \"out of respect for Jackson's family,\" the studio told The (UK) Guardian.",
"Jermaine, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Abdul-Aziz, appeared on \"Celebrity Big Brother\" in 2007.",
"Jackie runs a record label, Tito remains involved in the music business, and according to a 2008 article in the New York Post, Marlon and Randy have struggled financially.",
"In the hospital emergency room Thursday, Randy and Jermaine were witnessed hugging and crying over Randy and Jermaine's late brother.",
"\"Jackson family're a family,\" Jermaine told Larry King in the 2005 interview.",
"\"Jackson family're no different than any other family who has feuds and problems",
"... But at the same time, Jackson family're united, and Jackson family have a united front that is very, very strong, and it's supported by God",
"\"My mother and father did a great job in instilling the morals and principles in Jackson family from the very beginning.",
"Jackson family feel that with that, that's all you need to go through life.\"",
"CNN's Alan Duke contributed to this article."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won't push to visit the site of the destroyed World Trade Center during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations next week.",
"Iran's president said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted to \"pay Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's respects\" and lay a wreath at the site of the 2001 al Qaeda attacks.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked to \"pay Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's respects\" and lay a wreath at the site of the 2001 al Qaeda attacks, but New York city officials on Wednesday denied that request, citing safety concerns at what is now a construction site.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would try to visit the site \"if we have the time and the conditions are conducive.\"",
"But if local officials cannot make the proper arrangements, \"I won't insist,\" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview to be aired Sunday on CBS' \"60 Minutes.\"",
"The Bush administration considers Iran a state sponsor of terrorism, and State Department spokesman Tom Casey called that request \"the height of hypocrisy.\"",
"CBS correspondent Scott Pelley told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad \"must have known that visiting the World Trade Center site would infuriate many Americans.\"",
"\"Well, I'm amazed,\" he said, surprised by the question.",
"\"How can you speak for the whole of the American nation?",
"the American nation is made up of 300 million people.",
"There are different points of view over there.\"",
"More than 2,700 people died in the attack on World Trade Center, when al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked passenger jets into the twin towers.",
"A third jet hit the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers resisted passengers's hijackers.",
"Iran is ruled by a Shiite Muslim government hostile to al Qaeda.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's predecessor, Mohammed Khatami, condemned the attacks and cooperated with the U.S.-led campaign to topple al Qaeda's Taliban allies in Afghanistan that followed.",
"But the American nation calls Iran the world's top state sponsor of terrorism because of its support of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah and other militant groups.",
"the American nation and Tehran have not had formal diplomatic relations since 1980 after Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and held Americans hostage for 444 days.",
"The Bush administration has also accused Iran of meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are battling Taliban and al Qaeda remnants more than six years after the September 11, 2001, attacks.",
"The Bush administration accuses Iran of supplying advanced explosives to Shiite Muslim militias, some of which have used the devices against U.S. troops.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also has drawn fire for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hard-line anti-Israel stance and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's insistence that Iran will defy international demands that Iran halt Iran's production of enriched uranium.",
"Iran insists Iran is producing nuclear fuel for civilian power plants, but Washington accuses Tehran of trying to create a nuclear bomb.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made statements suggesting that Israel be politically \"wiped off the map,\" though Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insists that can be accomplished without violence.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned the existence of the Holocaust, the genocidal Nazi campaign against European Jews, and warned Europeans that Europeans may pay a heavy price for its support of Israel.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is also slated to speak on the campus of Columbia University during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit, university President Lee Bollinger said.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presence is likely to spark protests on and off campus.",
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) --",
"A defiant and chaotic protest sprouted in and around a public square Monday despite a warning by Iran's Revolutionary Guard against the kind of street demonstrations that have roiled Iran for more than a week, witnesses said.",
"Security forces patrol the streets of TEHRAN on Monday.",
"Thousands of Iranians congregated and passed through Haft-e Tir Square, but riot police and the pro-government Basij militia confronted Thousands of Iranians and smacked their batons against Thousands of Iranians's shin guards, making loud cracking sounds that seemed like gunshots, witnesses said.",
"As the protests continued, an election official with the Interior Ministry said the \"box-by-box details\" of the ballots -- which were confidential in previous elections -- would be released in response to claims that the election was rigged, Press TV reported.",
"Iran's Guardian Council declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of the election with 62.63 percent of the vote.",
"His closest rival, Mir Hossein Moussavi, received 33.75 percent, surprising many experts who expected him to win.",
"Iranians have continued protesting the results by taking to the streets.",
"Most stores around Haft-e Tir Square were closed as the unrest reverberated, with some guarding against damage by erecting steel fences on their windows.",
"Helicopters hovered overhead as the security forces wielded batons and used a spray to push the crowd out of Haft-e Tir Square.",
"After that, police chased down demonstrators in nearby alleys and streets, with protesters and lawmen playing cat and mouse over several tension-filled hours until the crowd began to thin out around dusk.",
"There were isolated face-offs and quarrels that broke out between demonstrators and the riot police and the Basij militia -- a volunteer paramilitary force that takes orders from the Revolutionary Guard, a military unit under the direct control of Iran's supreme leader.",
"There were no reports of serious injuries, but there were at least eight arrests, witnesses said.",
"\"Thirty years after the revolution, this is what we get,\" one man said dejectedly, watching the noisy and chaotic scene as one man remembered the birth and the promise of Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979.",
"The location was the spot where a vigil was to be held in memory of Neda, a young woman who became a symbol for the opposition after her death was caught on camera.",
"While Internet postings on Twitter, Facebook and an Iranian opposition leader's Web site had mentioned a possible rally, it was unclear whether people who were at Haft-e Tir Square were there for a vigil.",
"Some people were clad in black, a symbol of mourning, but placards and banners about Neda and candles have not been seen.",
"However, security forces and demonstrators appeared at Haft-e Tir Square at the time the vigil was to be held.",
"Watch how women are on front line of protests » .",
"Meanwhile, a message on opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi's Facebook page, which could not be authenticated, called for a peaceful demonstration in Tehran on Thursday to honor the dead.",
"\"We are waiting for the route of the march to be announced as well as the location of the sit-in,\" the message said.",
"\"Presently the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic seems to be the safest place for the sit-in, so that we can mourn for our martyrs in a place that is close to the spirit of that free man.",
"Demonstrators Monday had brushed off a warning from the Revolutionary Guard that people who \"disturb the peace and stand up to security forces\" would be met with a strong response.",
"The state-run Islamic Republic News Agency quoted the Revolutionary Guard as saying \"the guardians of the Islamic revolution and the courageous Basiji together with the security forces following the orders of the supreme leader and following the supreme leader unquestioningly.\"",
"The state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said the authorities \"are determined to act strongly to return peace and tranquility to society ... and to clean the country of these plotters and hooligans.\"",
"Iran's Revolutionary Guard is directly under the control of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and enforces the government's Islamic codes and morality.",
"With more than 200,000 members, the Revolutionary Guard is tasked with overseeing Iran's crucial interests, including guarding its oil fields and missile arsenals.",
"The regime's lawmakers called for a review of ties with Britain amid concerns over so-called Western \"meddling\" in Iran's daily unrest.",
"The government-funded Press TV reported that Iranian lawmakers were calling for a review of Iran's ties with Britain because of its \"interference in Iran's recent post-election unrest.\"",
"Britain's Foreign Office announced Monday Britain's Foreign Office is withdrawing the family members of its embassy staff from Iran until the situation there improves.",
"News coverage in Iran has been limited by government restrictions on international journalists.",
"On Sunday, the BBC said Iran had expelled Jon Leyne, the British network's permanent correspondent in TEHRAN.",
"Al-Arabiya, a Dubai-based Arab satellite network, said Al-Arabiya, a Dubai-based Arab satellite network's TEHRAN bureau was ordered closed.",
"At least 19 people were killed in clashes in TEHRAN on Saturday as Iranians took to the streets to protest the results of the June 12 presidential election, according to hospital sources.",
"Iranian-funded Press TV confirmed 13 fatalities, while unconfirmed reports put the number as high as 150.",
"TEHRAN's prosecutor general's office said Tehran's prosecutor general's office has launched an investigation into the killings.",
"Watch one woman's account of clashes with security forces » .",
"The station also said police arrested 457 people Saturday who vandalized property.",
"See images of the clashes Saturday » .",
"Moussavi has called on Iranians to \"exercise self-control,\" while still supporting Iranians's right to demonstrate, a statement attributed to Moussavi said late Sunday on the candidate's Web site, Ghalam news.",
"CNN has not been able to verify the authenticity of the site.",
"Watch Iran's former crown prince call election a \"fraud\" » .",
"On Monday, the site was intermittently inaccessible, but said at one point that Moussavi had met with a group of clerics in the city of Ghom on Monday morning to discuss current events.",
"A spokesman for the Guardian Council told state television that Wednesday is the last day it can recount the votes disputed by candidates."
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"Basij militia smack batons against shin guards as protesters pass through square .",
"Helicopters hover as thousands play cat and mouse with police, witnesses say .",
"At least 8 reported arrested, but no reports of serious injuries ."
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"Two of the biggest stars in the NBA will be team-mates next season after a blockbuster trade which sees Shaquille O'Neal move from the Phoenix Suns to the Cleveland Cavaliers -- the home of league MVP LeBron James.",
"Shaquille O'Neal is hoping Shaquille O'Neal's arrival will put a smile on the faces of Cleveland fans.",
"Shaquille O'Neal is one of the all-time greats of basketball, winning four the NBA championships, three straight with the Los Angeles Lakers and the other with Miami Heat.",
"league MVP LeBron James is widely recognized as the sport's current superstar, but the 24-year-old has been left frustrated by Cleveland's failure to win the title.",
"league MVP LeBron James stormed off the court after their loss to the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference finals, not even shaking hands with 2008 Olympic teammate Dwight Howard.",
"The trade, which sees Phoenix get center Ben Wallace and guard Sasha Pavlovic, has been talked about since February but finalized on Thursday night.",
"\"I was elated about The trade, which sees Phoenix get center Ben Wallace and guard Sasha Pavlovic because I get to play with one of the greatest players to ever play the game in league MVP LeBron James,\" Shaquille O'Neal was quoted on the NBA's official Web site www.nba.com.",
"Shaquille O'Neal averaged 17.8 points and 8.4 rebounds in 75 games for the Suns last season and believes Shaquille O'Neal still has much to offer the NBA.",
"\"My numbers are not good enough to retire.",
"Three more years left,\" Shaquille O'Neal wrote on Shaquille O'Neal's Twitter blog.",
"Shaquille O'Neal's career averages are 24.7 points, 11.3 rebounds and 2.4 blocked shots, with Shaquille O'Neal's peak seasons coming as Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers to three straight titles from 2000-02.",
"the Lakers traded Shaquille O'Neal to Miami where Shaquille O'Neal spent three seasons, helping the Lakers to the the NBA Championship three years ago.",
"Shaquille O'Neal has played in Phoenix for the past two years, restricted by injuries in Shaquille O'Neal's first season.",
"Cleveland, powered by James, won 66 regular season games and Cleveland's first eight in the playoffs before coming unstuck against the Magic.",
"Cleveland will be hoping that Shaquille O'Neal will be the final piece in the jigsaw to land the first American sports championship for Cleveland in 45 years."
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"7 foot one inch O'Neal has been named in the NBA's All Star team 15 times .",
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"(CNN) --",
"From street corners, buses and subways to phone calls, e-mails, text messages, online posts and tweets, people around the world commented, pondered, and paid tribute to pop legend Michael Jackson, who died Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles.",
"Pedestrians in Sydney, Australia, watch a TV screen announcing Jackson's death on Friday.",
"Around midnight at London's Leicester Square, as news of Jackson's death spread, Luis Carlos Ameida and Luis Carlos Ameida's friends were surrounding a car listening to the star's music.",
"Luis Carlos Ameida said Luis Carlos Ameida'd gotten tickets to see Jackson at Jackson's \"This Is It\" concerts beginning on July 13 in London.",
"\"From a young age, you know, I used to have the video game,\" said Luis Carlos Ameida.",
"\"I used to have the white suit, and I'd wear the white suit on my birthday.",
"I used to moonwalk ...",
"I remember my mum used to send me to lessons to be like Jackson.",
"And when I heard the news, I had tears in my eyes because of that connection I had because of all the songs Jackson used to play.\"",
"In Glastonbury, southern England, where one of the world's largest music festivals was to kick off Friday morning, initial rumors and then confirmation of Jackson's death added to confusion and then shock among festival goers.",
"Watch British fans react » .",
"\"As I was walking back through the crowd it was the word on everyone's lips,\" Sally Anne Aldous, 29, told CNN over the phone.",
"Reaction from around the world in pictures » .",
"Backstage, Jackson songs were being played in tribute, and fans talked of an impromptu memorial for the late singer at the \"Stone Circle,\" a neolithic monument in the grounds of the venue.",
"In Adelaide, Australia, Christos Winter of the MJ Fan Club had organized a petition to bring Jackson to tour there.",
"\"It didn't matter if you were 60, 40 or 20 like I am.",
"Jackson's music just spoke to everyone ...",
"It was always uplifting and happy music,\" Winter told CNN.",
"On a street in New Delhi, India, 31-year-old Sachina Verma said on Friday, \"Any of the baby boomer generation or, you know, people from my age or our time, I mean the baby boomer generation have grown up on Jackson's music.",
"Literally, people have been inspired by Jackson's dance movements, by Jackson's music.",
"Tributes appeared on YouTube and CNN's iReport.",
"\"I remember growing up in the Middle East, influenced, enjoying Jackson's music, waiting for Jackson's albums,\" CNN iReporter Rany Freeman, an Egyptian living in Canada, said in a video submission.",
"\"Regardless to Jackson's strange behaviors or questionable events that happened to Jackson's life, let's remember Jackson as the great entertainer Jackson was.\"",
"Another iReporter, Peter Maiyoh, a Kenyan student studying in the U.S. city of Kansas, Missouri, called Jackson \"the voice of change,\" saying \"Jackson was there before Tiger Woods, before Michael Jordan, even before Barack Obama ...",
"I hope people remember Jackson for the work Jackson did.\"",
"On a Facebook page dedicated to Jackson, fans across the world left hundreds of messages in languages ranging from French and Spanish to Japanese and Hebrew.",
"Watch fan reaction in Tokyo, Japan » .",
"\"SHANGHAI WILL MISS YOU!",
"NOT JUST SHANGHAI!",
"..EVERYONE IN the world WILL MISS YOU!",
"EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD LOVE YOU MICHAEL!!!\" wrote Vrishti Bhowmik.",
"Kase Ng, a 24-year-old manicurist and member of the Michael Jackson Hong Kong Fan Club, told CNN by phone Ng had been planning to go with four friends to his August 1 concert in London.",
"Watch fans in Hong Kong, China, react » .",
"Expressing sadness and shock over Jackson's death, Ng recalled being inspired by an interview Ng once gave to Oprah Winfrey.",
"\"Ng said if you have power, try to give power back and help the others, and I will try to do that,\" Ng said.",
"At a music store in Beijing, China, Jackson songs were being played, and Jackson's albums were put on special display.",
"\"I rather enjoyed it (Michael Jackson's music's music) because in my family my brother's generation likes Michael Jackson's music's music,\" said customer Xu Wei.",
"\"Many, many people in China like Jackson a lot.\"",
"Watch reaction from around the world .",
"Although Jackson never played in mainland China, Jackson's music was among the first in the West made available there, as the peak of Jackson's popularity during the 1980s coincided with the opening up of mainland China.",
"On Friday, Chinese netizens had set up a Web site memorial to Jackson, and on Fanfou.com, China's version of Twitter, the pop star has become the most popular tag.",
"Fanfou user Layla Suen, or \"Leilajiang,\" of Shenyang city in Liaoning province wrote about her memories of Jackson:",
"\"When I was only four, my brother demanded that I learn his 'Thriller.'",
"It was the second song I've ever learnt (the first one being something taught by the kindergarten teacher).",
"Everytime I sing it at my kindergarten it would scare a bunch of little children.\"",
"Chinese blogger and media commentator Michael Anti wrote on Michael Anti's Facebook page: \"So sad about Jackson's Death, for my English first name is really named after Jackson when I was a freshman.\"",
"Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, tweeted in the hour after Jackson's death was announced, \"My twitter search script sees roughly 15% of all posts on Twitter mentioning Jackson.",
"Never saw Iran or swine flu reach over 5%.\"",
"As Jackson's death quickly overshadowed all else Friday, commentators worried that the world would forget about political developments in Iran.",
"\"Am I the only one who thinks that Jackson's passing is the worst thing that could have happened to the protesters in Iran?\" wrote Melissa Cohen, or mcohen00, on Twitter.",
"CNN's Emily Chang, Jaime FlorCruz, Miranda Leitsinger, Mairi Mackay, Linnie Rawlinson and Bharati Naik contributed to this report."
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"Transportation investigators Wednesday discovered \"anomalies\" in an essential control circuit of a track where a fatal crash between two WASHINGTON subway trains killed nine people.",
"Investigators work Tuesday at the site of the Metro train crash in Washington.",
"Each section of the transit system's track contains a circuit that transmits and receives signals that generate speed commands for trains, said Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board.",
"Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said the circuits are \"vital providing information to the operators and the train itself when on automatic.\"",
"Investigators found no problems in five of the six circuits on the stretch of track in the crash area.",
"But Investigators found \"anomalies\" with the sixth circuit, Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said.",
"Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board would not say what those anomalies were but said simulated crash tests would be conducted to try and determine what caused the deadly accident.",
"The findings could mean that the striking train, which was on automatic, did not know to slow down because another train was stopped on the track ahead.",
"Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said investigators walked the tracks Wednesday, finding markings on the track that indicated emergency braking had taken place.",
"Investigators hoped Thursday to interview the operator of the struck train, who was released from a hospital Wednesday.",
"The driver of the striking train was killed.",
"The crash, the worst in the history of Washington's transit system, known as the Metro, occurred along the congested Red Line just before 5 p.m. Monday on an above-ground track section near Takoma Park, Maryland.",
"Both cars were on the same track, traveling in the same direction -- southward from Fort Totten Metrorail station to the Shady Grove station.",
"The struck train had stopped behind another train undergoing service and was awaiting directions to move ahead.",
"the striking train was pulling some of the oldest cars in the fleet of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.",
"On Wednesday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer plans to seek $3 billion for Metro transit capital improvements, some of which would likely be spent to replace some those old Series 1000 cars, purchased between 1974 and 1978.",
"Upon impact, the train pulling those Series 1000 cars jumped on top of the other train.",
"All the fatalities were on the striking train, Train 112, Metro transit spokeswoman Angela Gates told CNN on Wednesday.",
"In the collision, the front car of the striking train was severely damaged, leaving minimal space for survivability, said Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board.",
"According to one report, 50 feet of the 75-foot length of the front car of the striking train were lost to the accident, leaving only one-third of the space after the crushing impact.",
"Watch Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board talk about previous warnings » .",
"The NTSB recommended in 2006 that Metro transit replace or retrofit all of its Series 1000 trains, to bring them up to current safety standards.",
"The transit authority responded that because The transit authority was constrained by tax-advantage leases, The transit authority intended to keep the 1000 Series until the end of 2014.",
"\"Our recommendation was not addressed, so it [the case] has been closed in an unacceptable status,\" Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said.",
"The NTSB has no regulatory powers and can't force implementation.",
"Watch",
"Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board talk about the computer systems",
"\"The safety of our citizens is our highest priority and we must take every precaution that this loss of life does not occur again,\" said Hoyer, a Democratic congressman from Maryland.",
"Hoyer, a Democratic congressman from Maryland said Hoyer, a Democratic congressman from Maryland would soon introduce a final measure to authorize dedicated federal and local funding for Metro.",
"The Series 1000 cars comprise a quarter of Metro transit's 1,126 cars, or nearly 300 cars, Gates said.",
"At $3 million per car, the agency can't afford to replace them all at once, Gates said.",
"Each car has a 40-year life and can last until fiscal year 2015, Gates added.",
"\"So we've taken steps to keep them in good condition.\"",
"Gates said they have been phasing out the outdated cars as new cars are bought, Gates said.",
"That plan hasn't gone as quickly as anticipated, however, because of an increase in ridership, Gates added.",
"The lead train in Washington contained newer 5000-Series and 3000-Series cars.",
"newer 5000-Series and 3000-Series cars have data recorders, which will aid the investigation a great deal if newer 5000-Series and 3000-Series cars aren't damaged, Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said.",
"The recorders provide information on such things as speed, braking and emergency applications.",
"Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said there were no recorders on the rear train.",
"the rear train was being operated in automatic mode, which is the normal operating procedure during rush hour.",
"Washington transit trains are being operated manually until the cause of Washington is determined, Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said.",
"Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said there is no indication that any of the brakes on the rear train failed before the rear train rear-ended the other train.",
"\"Our investigators on scene yesterday did find some evidence of emergency brake application.",
"Our investigators on scene found the emergency mushroom, which is a button that was depressed in the control cab, and Our investigators on scene also examined the wheels and the brakes, and Our investigators on scene found that the rotors showed some bluing,\" Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said.",
"\"some bluing is consistent with an emergency brake application,\" Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board said.",
"Bluing indicates the rotors have been subjected to extremely high temperatures, and this can be caused by hard stops."
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"(CNN) --",
"Smithson wants to make one thing clear: Smithson is not the new lead singer of Evanescence.",
"Smithson is the lead singer of the new band We Are The Fallen.",
"There may be some confusion because the former \"American Idol\" contestant has joined forces with original Evanescence members Ben Moody, Rocky Gray and John LeCompt for the new band We Are The Fallen.",
"The dark-haired Irish rocker made it to the top six during season seven of \"American Idol\" before being eliminated.",
"Smithson said that since then, quite a few opportunities have come Smithson's way that were not a good fit.",
"This new band, which also includes bassist Marty O'Brien, is perfect for Smithson, Smithson said .",
"Guitar player LeCompt agrees.",
"\"I've said many times about Evanescence that Evanescence caught lightning in a bottle ... and I think Evanescence are doing it again,\" he said.",
"\"Carly is a good fit for the band because more than anything Smithson is a brilliant, brilliant vocalist who is very down to earth and a humble person.",
"Smithson wants to do something where everyone is involved rather than being a posturing diva.\"",
"Smithson recently spoke with CNN about why Smithson is thankful to Moody's roommate, why the band gets along so well and how the band want to collaborate with fans.",
"CNN:",
"You must be pretty psyched about the band.",
"Smithson: I am.",
"It's pretty awesome and everything I think we have all ever wanted.",
"We all blend together and it's all about making business.",
"CNN:",
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"Smithson:",
"I had a lot of the wrong opportunities approach me.",
"a lot of the wrong opportunities were very flattering offers, but musically not on the same page with where I envisioned Smithson.",
"As soon as Ben [Moody] came to Smithson, he was actually someone that I had in mind, after coming off the \"Idol\" tour, to go and try and work with.",
"He's worked on some music that I had a lot of respect for and really admired, but he was busy, oddly enough, working on this project.",
"CNN:",
"So how did you two connect?",
"Smithson: He had never watched \"American Idol\" and he didn't know who I was.",
"I am good friends with his roommate who recently moved in and I had met him briefly.",
"My friend came and saw me live and then planted the seed in his head.",
"My friend said, \"You should really consider My friend for this band,\" and he said \"Who is My friend?\"",
"My friend said, \"You know, the girl you met down the basement,\" and an artist he has been working with played him a bunch of YouTube clips of me.",
"We were hanging out at about one in the morning and he called My friend and said, \"I just watched My friend.",
"I should have done this a long time ago.",
"Where is My friend, when can I meet My friend, I need to meet My friend right away.\"",
"My friend said, \"Well, actually we are out right now and we're going to be at the house in about 20 minutes.\"",
"We came back to the house and we had a meeting which lasted until about 4 a.m. ...",
"Obviously it was a decision I needed to make very fast because they were looking for a singer and people don't wait forever.",
"I called my manager and it was a done deal pretty much the next day.",
"CNN:",
"Sounds like it was meant to be.",
"Smithson:",
"Everybody was very excited and thought it was the right direction to go.",
"I'm happy that it happened in such an organic way.",
"It's really weird, but as people we are all very alike.",
"We all like the same jokes, watch the same TV shows and play the same music.",
"It's great.",
"CNN:",
"Do you at all feel pressure because of the success that Evanescence had?",
"Smithson:",
"No, because this is a new band.",
"Evanescence is still out there.",
"the band are not Evanescence and the band's band isn't here to follow.",
"Watch Smithson talk about the new band » .",
"I'm here to make music.",
"Obviously I want to be successful but I think we all are in a contented place to make music.",
"If the band can grab some fans, that's great.",
"If we can grab a bunch of fans, that's awesome.",
"the band are here to compete with the band and put out something epic.",
"CNN:",
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"It's more of a statement rather than a name.",
"the band feel like the band's fans can say \"We Are The Fallen\" as well as the band.",
"It's not just a band name, it's kind of like a movement name.",
"the band are trying to create a group of people that are in to the same thing.",
"It's a collaboration of the band's fans and the band appreciating music that the band are making.",
"CNN:",
"So what do you all stand for, since you want the fans to be a part of it.",
"Smithson: Freedom.",
"Every since we all came into this band, we feel so free to go and be who we are.",
"I embrace that."
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"(CNN) -- Dutch architect revolutionizes city landscapes with distinctive and cutting-edge buildings.",
"Seattle's Central Library is one of Dutch architect's recent builds.",
"Responsible for the iconic CCTV headquarters in Beijing Dutch architect was named one of \"The World's Most Influential People\" by Time magazine.",
"Similar to Dutch architect, Dutch architect's buildings are not afraid to make a statement.",
"\"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make an entity like CCTV's presence felt...",
"To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing,\" Dutch architect told CNN at the opening of Dutch architect's \"Transformer\" building in Seoul, South Korea.",
"Dutch architect admits that the current economic climate is not particularly favorable to big and bold architectural plans, but from adversity comes creativity.",
"\"Definitely there were a number of projects that we worked on put on hold, but on the other hand certain things were also accelerated because the price of construction is getting so cheap.\"",
"Despite these new parameters Dutch architect remains optimistic that Dutch architect's profession will continue to invent and be relevant, \"because it means kind of smaller, but more complex and kind of interesting things, kind of related to, not necessarily with commerce, but more connected to culture and to the social world.\"",
"Dutch architect's buildings have attracted worldwide fame and given Dutch architect a form of semi-celebrity status.",
"Yet Dutch architect still feels a sense of unease being labeled a \"Starchitect.\"",
"\"I think it's a name that is actually degrading to the vast majority of people it is applied to.",
"And it really is a kind of political term that for certain clients is important because certain clients use star architects.",
"My hope is that through the current complexity that title will exit discretely and disappear,\" Dutch architect said.",
"Dutch architect believes that by being able to respond to different demands architecture is evolving into something new.",
"\"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces,\" Dutch architect said.",
"\"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but Each building lasts forever.",
"That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands.",
"So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.\""
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"The five remaining defendants in the racially charged \"Jena Six\" case will appear in court Friday and are expected to enter a plea, a spokesman for the district attorney's office said.",
"Protesters converged on the small Louisiana town in September 2007 after the \"Jena 6\" were charged.",
"Bill Furlow, spokesman for LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters, declined to say whether the defendants will plead guilty.",
"\"It's not a done deal until it's a done deal,\" he said.",
"In December 2006, six African-American teenagers were charged with second-degree attempted murder and conspiracy in the beating of a white classmate.",
"Incident followed months of racial tension in the community of about 3,000 people.",
"Jena, Louisiana, is about 140 miles southeast of Shreveport in the north-central part of the state.",
"the racially charged \"Jena Six\" case drew national attention from civil rights groups, who argued that the charges were excessive.",
"An estimated 15,000-plus demonstrators turned out for a rally on behalf of the teens: Carwin Jones, Jesse Ray Beard, Robert Bailey Jr., Bryant Purvis, Theo Shaw and Mychal Bell.",
"the charges were eventually reduced.",
"Mychal Bell pleaded guilty to battery in a juvenile court and moved to Monroe, Louisiana.",
"In January, Mychal Bell said Mychal Bell had attempted suicide the month before by shooting Mychal Bell in the chest but was recovering.",
"Friday's hearing is set for 1:30 p.m."
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"Alfa Demmellash grew up on less than a dollar a day, and against the backdrop of torture and murder.",
"But these days Alfa Demmellash's living the American dream and helping others do the same.",
"Alfa Demmellash helps low-income entrepreneurs in New Jersey start or grow their businesses.",
"\"Entrepreneurs are at the very heart of what the American dream is all about,\" says Demmellash, a native of Ethiopia.",
"And from Alfa Demmellash's small office in JERSEY CITY, The organization's nonprofit, Rising Tide Capital, is helping small businesses flourish.",
"Robin Munn, who runs a flower shop in JERSEY CITY, says the skills she learned through Alfa Demmellash helped her transform the way she operates her business.",
"\"I was thinking about closing, but once I started taking the classes I found that the fire came back.\"",
"Kim Bratten, a 39-year-old painter and mother of six, says she's seen her yearly income increase by 50 percent since she started working with Alfa Demmellash and Alfa Demmellash's team.",
"\"They put hope back into the community,\" Bratten says.",
"Watch small business owners describe how Alfa Demmellash has helped small business owners » .",
"Alfa Demmellash's own struggle began in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, amid instability and unrest.",
"Thousands of Ethiopians -- including Alfa Demmellash's aunt -- disappeared or were tortured and/or killed under the ruling military regime.",
"When Alfa Demmellash was 2, Alfa Demmellash's mother fled Ethiopia, leaving the toddler in the care of Alfa Demmellash's grandmother and aunt.",
"Alfa Demmellash lived on less than a dollar a day but never considered Alfa Demmellash poor.",
"Watch Alfa Demmellash talk about Alfa Demmellash's childhood » .",
"Nearly a decade later, Alfa Demmellash and her mother's mother reunited in Boston, Massachusetts.",
"But Alfa Demmellash found Alfa Demmellash's mother wasn't living the American dream Alfa Demmellash'd envisioned.",
"\"I [thought] I would find my mom in a beautiful mansion with trees [and] gold everywhere,\" recalls Demmellash, now 29.",
"\"I was shocked when I found her mother in her mother's tiny apartment ... working very, very hard.\"",
"Alfa Demmellash's mother had worked as a waitress during the day and a seamstress at night to earn money to bring her mother's daughter to the United States.",
"Watching Alfa Demmellash's mother sew beautiful gowns for low profits, Alfa Demmellash thought there had to be a way for Alfa Demmellash to increase what Alfa Demmellash was making as a seamstress.",
"\"Even though Alfa Demmellash had the skills, Alfa Demmellash did not necessarily have the business skills,\" Alfa Demmellash says, adding that Alfa Demmellash's mother's pricing \"was completely off.\"",
"Still, Alfa Demmellash's mother worked tirelessly to keep her mother's daughter adequately fed, clothed and in school.",
"Alfa Demmellash was later admitted to Harvard University, which Alfa Demmellash was able to attend with the help of \"wonderful financial aid.\"",
"At Harvard, Alfa Demmellash and classmate Alex Forrester discussed what Demmellash's generation could do to alleviate poverty on a local level.",
"Demmellash set out to learn what resources people needed -- or as Alfa Demmellash says, \"to find people like my mom.\"",
"In 2004, the pair started Rising Tide Capital (RTC) to help those who had ideas and abilities but needed the education and support to launch or grow those who had ideas and abilities's businesses.",
"\"You hear a lot of talk about Main Street and Wall Street, but no one really talks about how exactly you go about helping the Mom-and-Pops,\" says Alfa Demmellash.",
"The group runs the Community Business Academy, an intensive training session coupled with year-round coaching and mentorship to help individuals \"really work on the hands-on management side of individuals's business,\" Alfa Demmellash says.",
"The organization supports underserved populations, including women, the formerly incarcerated, minorities, unemployed and working poor, and immigrants and refugees.",
"Demmellash and Forrester -- now married -- have helped 250 entrepreneurs and small-business owners in New Jersey so far, 70 percent of whom are single mothers.",
"The organization raises money from corporations and works with local governments for funding in order to provide classes and support The organization's participants at affordable costs.",
"Participants pay a small materials and registration fee based on Participants's income range: either $100 or $225 for the course that Alfa Demmellash says would cost thousands of dollars otherwise.",
"The organization has also built partnerships with micro-lenders, so when students are ready, micro-lenders provide financing.",
"\"The ability to become self-reliant, to have economic hope, [that is] the fabric of Ethiopia and we have to fight for it,\" Alfa Demmellash says.",
"Many of The organization's students use the increased earnings from their new business to supplement their wages, allowing them to better provide for their families and transform the face of their communities, according to Alfa Demmellash.",
"\"There are thousands of entrepreneurs, millions across Ethiopia, who do incredible things and make money to put food on the table, to pay their bills, and to save for the future and their children,\" she says.",
"\"If we were to literally bank on them, invest in them [and] support them ... that's the kind of stuff that changes lives and strengthens families.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out Rising Tide Capital's Web site and see how to help."
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"Nominations are open at CNN.com/Heroes ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States is providing weapons and ammunition to Somalia's transitional government as it fights al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Thursday.",
"Somali government soldiers, who are fighting Islamic militants, patrol Mogadishu.",
"\"At the request of Somalia's transitional government State Department has helped to provide weapons and ammunition on an urgent basis,\" Kelly said.",
"\"This is to support Somalia's transitional government's efforts to repel the onslaught of extremist forces which are intent on destroying the Djibouti peace process.\"",
"Kelly said the weapons shipments are in accordance with U.N. Security Council resolutions, which ban some arms shipments to Somalia.",
"There is growing concern that Somalia could be the next base for al Qaeda as U.S. forces pound their positions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"CIA Director Leon Panetta recently said that the intelligence agency is keeping tabs on the region as a possible destination for fleeing al Qaeda operatives.",
"\"Our concern right now is that likely safe havens are areas in the Horn of Africa, like Somalia and Yemen, that are countries that because of Somalia and Yemen's political status can be attractive to al Qaeda in order to operate there,\" CIA Director Leon Panetta said earlier this month.",
"\"We are focusing on those countries as well in order to ensure that there is no safe haven for al Qaeda as we continue to pressure al Qaeda, continue to push al Qaeda, and hopefully continue to make the effort to destroy al Qaeda, not only in Pakistan but throughout the rest of the world.\"",
"Somalia is not new territory for al Qaeda, according to CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen.",
"\"al Qaeda was running training camps in Somalia in the early and mid-1990s,\" he said.",
"\"If this is now coming back, this is something that al Qaeda has already done and it's worrisome for the future. ...",
"\"The fact that we're seeing evidence of this already happening in both Yemen and Somalia suggests that, A, the drone program in the tribal areas of Pakistan has been effective, but, B, you know it's pushing al Qaeda into areas where al Qaeda'll build up larger operations.\"",
"Somalia recently called on Somalia's neighbors to send military forces to help government troops stop hard-line Islamist militants from taking over.",
"The call for help came hours after a third top politician was killed this month in ongoing fighting.",
"The deaths included Mogadishu's police chief and Somalia's internal security minister, who was killed in a suicide car bombing in the central city of Beledweyne.",
"A Pakistani militant who is a high-ranking official in al Qaeda is leading the fighting in Somalia against Somalia's transitional government, said Sheikh Adan Madowe, Somalia's parliament speaker.",
"Sheikh Adan Madowe, Somalia's parliament speaker warned that militants will spread fighting into the rest of the region if militants topple Somalia's transitional government in Somalia.",
"The United States is concerned that Somalia's weak government could fall to the Islamist insurgency, as Somalia's transitional government did in 2006 before Ethiopian forces ousted the militants from power later that year.",
"\"We think Somalia's transitional government ... represents Somalia's best chance for peace, stability and reconciliation,\" Kelly said Thursday.",
"\"Somalia's transitional government is the best chance they've had in the last 18 years.\"",
"Somalia's current President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is a former member of the Islamic Courts Union, which took part in the 2006 coup.",
"Somalia's current President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's decision to renounce the Islamist insurgency and try to establish peace in Somalia has put Somalia's current President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed at odds with Islamist hard-liners who are still battling for control of Somalia.",
"Residents and journalists in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, have reported seeing foreign fighters among Al-Shabaab, the radical Islamic militia that is battling to overthrow Somalia's transitional government.",
"Those foreign fighters recently distributed recorded messages from al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden calling for the overthrow of Somalia's transitional government.",
"Al-Shabaab, also known as the Mujahideen Youth Movement, was officially designated as a terrorist organization by the United States in March 2008.",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"A blossoming of cinematic creativity has swept Argentina in recent years, bringing about a second golden age of film.",
"Pablo Trapero's latest movie \"Lion's Den\" stars Martina Gusman (left) and was in competition at Cannes.",
"In Argentina, the renaissance marks a return to form for a cinematic tradition that was prolific and highly successful until creativity was stifled by a succession of military regimes that began with the ascendancy of Juan Peron in the 1940s.",
"A revival occurred after Argentina returned to democracy in 1983 as filmmakers focused on life under the military dictatorship -- Luiz Puenzo's \"The Official Story\" (1985) won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.",
"But an economic malaise ensued, turning off the taps to film financing.",
"An economic boom in the 1990s quickly turned unstable, resulting in a crippling financial crisis earlier this decade that plunged Argentina into Argentina's worst recession ever.",
"Out of the chaos, a new group of Argentina filmmakers emerged.",
"The leaders of the so-called \"New Argentine Cinema\" have become critical contributors to the wider Latin American film movement that has captivated international critics and audiences alike.",
"What's fueling New Argentine Cinema?",
"Argentina's economy has recovered remarkably since Argentina's economy's collapse in 2001, and the national film institute, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), has been keen to foster the industry's development.",
"The combination of cheap production costs and a flourishing artistic community has made Buenos Aires a hub of creativity.",
"Already one of the most cosmopolitan cities in South America, Buenos Aires is attracting everyone from local bohemians to big Hollywood names.",
"Francis Ford Coppola, the most recent notable to tap into the vibrant scene, opened an Argentine unit of Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope production company last year to film Francis Ford Coppola's Buenos Aires-set family drama \"Tetro,\" which is anticipated to be released next year.",
"What movies are creating buzz?",
"Pablo Trapero's \"Lion's Den\" about a woman who gives birth and raises birth's child in prison was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year.",
"Trapero is best known for Trapero's depiction of ordinary people.",
"Trapero gained acclaim with \"Crane World\" (1999) -- a gritty look at Argentina's working class -- and is widely considered one of Argentina's leading directors.",
"Also in competition at Cannes this year was \"The Headless Woman\" from the ever subtle Lucrecia Martel.",
"The film focuses on a woman's guilt after a hit-and-run accident and like Lucrecia Martel's other works, offers up a dose of social criticism.",
"Lucrecia Martel burst on the scene with Lucrecia Martel's first movie \"The Swamp\" (2001), winner of the Alfred Bauer Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.",
"Lucia Puenzo stirred debate with \"XXY\" (2007), an exploration of adolescent sexuality centered around the life of a teenage hermaphrodite.",
"The daughter of award-winning Luiz Puenzo, Lucia took home the Critic Weeks Grand Prize at Cannes last year.",
"Are you excited about Argentine cinema?",
"What is your favorite movie or director?",
"Enough with the dramas -- who makes Argentines laugh?",
"Daniel Burman has cited Woody Allen as one of the auteurs Daniel Burman most admires, and the influence is quite clear in Daniel Burman's work, in which Daniel Burman's identity as a Jew in Argentina figures prominently.",
"\"Waiting for the Messiah\" (2000), \"Lost Embrace\" (2004) and \"Family Law\" (2006) make up the trilogy of films about fatherhood for which he has gained praise.",
"The young director's latest film \"Empty Nest\" (2008) takes a touching and comedic look at married life.",
"What's this I hear about a Hollywood in Argentina?",
"You're referring to Palermo Hollywood.",
"No, it's not a Las Vegas casino but rather a neighborhood in Buenos Aires where many film and TV studios are based.",
"A bohemian spirit distinguishes the neighborhood from its more polished cousin to the south, Palermo Soho.",
"Once occupied by desolate factories and warehouses, the area is now humming with activity.",
"An abundance of hip lounges, cafes and trendy restaurants keep the buzz going all day and through the night.",
"How does Argentina figure in the Latin American film scene?",
"As the Latin American film renaissance has gained stride, filmmakers across the region have become more interested in collaborating on projects.",
"The end of military dictatorships which ruled Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s \"created really interesting national cinemas that blossomed a little bit everywhere but also created a correlation between directors from different countries,\" Brazilian director Walter Salles told CNN earlier this year.",
"Brazilian director Walter Salles works frequently with Argentine directors.",
"Brazilian director Walter Salles co",
"-produced Trapero's \"Lion's Den\" and Julia Solomonoff's \"Sisters\" (2005).",
"Meanwhile, Eduardo Constantini Jr, of the philanthropic Constantini family in Argentina, recently launched a fund with the Weinstein Co. aimed at backing Latin American movies.",
"He is also behind The Auteurs, an \"online movie theater\" where Web users can watch and discuss film.",
"Is this boom going to run out of steam?",
"The renaissance in Argentina has been building for some time, but The renaissance in Argentina's only just hitting The renaissance in Argentina's stride now.",
"Earlier films were mainly art house successes but now with the spotlight shining on Argentina cinema, Argentine films may start to connect more with international audiences.",
"Argentina continues to attract productions, and there is a vast pool of talent that is being groomed to lead the next generation of auteurs.",
"More than 12,000 undergraduates are currently studying film directing, scriptwriting and technical production, according to the INCAA.",
"Five other must-see Argentine films .",
"1. \"The Night of the Pencils\" (Hector Olivera, 1986) 2. \"Nine Queens\" (Fabian Bielinsky, 2000) 3. \"Son of the Bride\" (Juan Jose Campanella, 2001) 4. \"The Dog\" (Carlos Sorin, 2004) 5. \"The Holy Girl\" (Lucrecia Martel, 2004)"
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"(CNN) --",
"New Zealander has revealed that New Zealander is poised to make a shock playing comeback at the age of 34 with French third-division club Marseille Vitrolles.",
"New Zealander pictured in action for New Zealand's All Blacks during the 1999 World Cup in France.",
"The giant New Zealander, who became a global name after an electrifying series of performances on the wing for the All Blacks at the 1995 World Cup, retired in 2007 after a succession of injuries hampered New Zealander's attempt to return following a kidney transplant.",
"New Zealander played 63 internationals, the last of them in 2002, but was never able to regain New Zealander's previous dominance even after regaining full health.",
"\"Marseille Vitrolles is on the point of finalizing the transfer of the greatest legend in world rugby,\" said statement on the club's Web site.",
"Lomu, who is featuring in a new worldwide advertising campaign for sportswear manufacturer adidas called \"Nothing Is Impossible\", was also quoted as confirming New Zealander's desire to return to the playing field.",
"\"I took a sabbatical year to be at my pregnant partner's side and to fully enjoy this important moment in any man's life,\" New Zealander said on the club's Web site.",
"\"Everyone thought I had ended my playing career, but that was wrong.",
"I still feel the desire to play and it will be me alone who decides when to call it a day.",
"\"My ambition is to help a club like Marseille join the group of top clubs in France.\"",
"New Zealander was first diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome, a rare and serious kidney disorder, at the end of 1996.",
"New Zealander successfully returned to the game after treatment, but in May 2003 New Zealander was put on dialysis three times a week due to deterioration in New Zealander's kidney function, with the treatment's side effects leaving New Zealander with severe nerve damage in New Zealander's feet and legs.",
"New Zealander faced life in a wheelchair if a kidney transplant was not performed, so underwent the operation.",
"New Zealander signed a two-year contract with New Zealand province North Harbour in 2005, and also played for Welsh club Cardiff Blues during the southern hemisphere's off-season.",
"However, New Zealander was unable to achieve New Zealander's goal of being selected in the All Blacks squad for the 2007 World Cup in France, having suffered a shoulder injury.",
"New Zealander agreed to play in a charity match in England last year, but withdrew after injuring New Zealander's ankle in training."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Mother and Mother's daughter have had a hard time forgetting US Airways Flight 1549's emergency landing in New York City's Hudson River in January.",
"Mother holds Mother's infant son, Damian, as Mother's daughter Sophia, 4, plays on the couch.",
"Mother and Sophia, 4, have needed therapy, and the Sosas have had to pay out of their own pockets because US Airways's insurer says only three counseling sessions are covered.",
"The family has private insurance and large deductible.",
"The airline and insurer say compensation to the passengers has already exceeded US Airway's obligation, adding The airline and insurer gave $5,000 to passengers after the incident.",
"But Mother said Mother thinks US Airways is still falling short .",
"\"US Airways have gone to incredible measures to get all of our belongings back, dry all of our belongings out,\" Mother said.",
"\"However, I think in doing so, there was this huge oversight in 'Let's take care of these passengers.'\" Watch Sosa explain Mother's expectations » .",
"Relief over Mother's family's survival can't undo the trauma Mother endured after the January 15 landing, during which Mother had to scramble over seats with Mother's infant son, Damian, in tow.",
"Water rushed into the plane as Mother turned and saw Mother's husband, Martin, sitting at the back of the plane with their then-3-year-old daughter, Sophia.",
"Mother recalled Mother's husband \"in shock with my daughter being held up high, Water coming in, and hoping they'd see me.\"",
"Another passenger \"bear hugged\" Mother and Damian and escorted them to the exit.",
"Today, Sosa still remembers how Mother felt that day: \"the possibility, the imminent death, just waiting to see if the plane was going to plunge any further in the river.\"",
"Following the emergency ditching of Flight 1549, Capt. Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger was quickly crowned a hero for ably landing the Airbus A320 after birds disabled its engines.",
"He made the cover of several magazines, including People, which featured him holding Damian Sosa.",
"See other notable air accidents » .",
"US Airways hired a firm to restore and return thousands of personal items to passengers -- items ranging from boarding tickets to suitcases.",
"US Airways's insurer, American International Underwriters Holdings, a unit of AIG, says US Airways went above and beyond US Airways's obligations because US Airways is not liable in the crash and the insurers' responsibility \"is to pay valid claims on behalf of US Airways as a result of US Airways's legal liability.\"",
"Commenting for AIU, Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, said Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute concurred that The airline and insurer had fulfilled The airline and insurer's obligations.",
"\"We have a flock of birds flying into jet engines for a perfectly well-functioning aircraft and a crew that exhibited extraordinary professionalism in this particular incident.",
"This is very important to recognize, but again, the liability does not exist,\" Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute said.",
"This is little consolation to the Sosas, whose private insurance has a $3,000 deductible.",
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"the family just received another $1,000 bill for therapy sessions.",
"\"I expect the family to be taken care of in the very best way possible, and I don't feel like that's happening when you're balking at my claims to a therapist and you are setting limits on that,\" she said."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"One year before the FIFA World Cup kicks off, 26 teams of gay and lesbian footballers are battling for global supremacy in The Gay World Soccer Championships.",
"Players from the London Stonewall Lions hold the 2008 Gay World Soccer Championship trophy aloft .",
"Co",
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"IGLFA spokesman Michael Pranikoff told CNN that the competition has been running annually since 1992.",
"\"The Gay World Soccer Championships started very small.",
"There were just a few clubs from around the world.",
"But The Gay World Soccer Championships have gone from strength to strength.",
"Last year The Gay World Soccer Championships was in London and sanctioned by the Football Association.\"",
"IGLFA spokesman Michael Pranikoff said there are no professional players involved, but the standard of play is strong and the teams in the top divisions are very competitive.",
"Although The Gay World Soccer Championships involves club sides -- rather than national teams, there is still a strong international feel with players from the U.S., United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Australia, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Argentina, Italy, and Norway all taking part.",
"The London Stonewall Lions are the reigning champions in the men's division and expected to figure in Sunday's final at Trinity Washington University, IGLFA spokesman Michael Pranikoff said.",
"Despite the competitive nature of The Gay World Soccer Championships, IGLFA spokesman Michael Pranikoff said there are also less serious divisions where there is a more important message.",
"\"When you are on the pitch it's all about the game.",
"But it's also about providing an environment where people can be free to be who people are.",
"\"It's a lot about camaraderie too.",
"There are a lot of places in the world where gays and lesbians aren't accepted.\"",
"So, is the competition restricted to only gay and lesbian players?",
"Not at all, said IGLFA spokesman Michael Pranikoff.",
"\"It's very open, we don't discriminate.\"",
"IGLFA spokesman Michael Pranikoff said gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and heterosexual players were all welcome to play.",
"IGLFA spokesman Michael Pranikoff said IGLFA spokesman Michael Pranikoff is happy with how The Gay World Soccer Championships is unfolding, despite numbers being slightly down on what was expected -- due to the effects of the recession, swine flu and the upcoming Out Games in Denmark which has made attending the football tournament unaffordable for some teams.",
"\"This year The Gay World Soccer Championships didn't have as big a global turnout as The Gay World Soccer Championships hoped for but there have been a lot of challenges -- so The Gay World Soccer Championships're pleased to have 26 teams here.\"",
"Outside of organizing the current world championships, the IGLFA has also been involved in helping other organizations at stamping out homophobia, IGLFA spokesman Michael Pranikoff said."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Oprah Winfrey earned 10 times more than Angelina Jolie last year, but Angelina Jolie bumped the talk show host from the top spot on Forbes' 2009 Celebrity 100 list just released by the business magazine.",
"Angelina Jolie has ousted Oprah Winfrey from the No. 1 spot on Forbes''s 2009 Celebrity 100 list.",
"Angelina Jolie's fame, evidenced by magazine covers and TV, radio, newspaper and Web stories, outweighed Oprah Winfrey's, giving her the edge as \"the most powerful celebrity in the world\" based on Forbes''s formula, Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"Winfrey, who was at the top for two years straight, grossed $275 million last year, compared with Angelina Jolie's $27 million, Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"\"Forbes' try and measure a celebrity's power, and Forbes' look at two metrics to do that,\" Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"\"Forbes' look at money, and Forbes' look at fame.\"",
"A world tour, which helped Madonna pull in $110 million, and a bumper crop of tabloid gossip pushed the Material Girl into the third spot, up from the Material Girl's 21st ranking on last year's list.",
"Beyonce Knowles held steady in fourth, same as last year, with $87 million in income from Beyonce Knowles's multiplatform empire, Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"Forbes leveraged the singer-actresses fame by placing Beyonce Knowles on this week's cover.",
"A bad knee kept Tiger Woods off the PGA tour over the past year and lowered him to the fifth spot on the Forbes list.",
"The golfer, still the highest-paid athlete in the world, was second last year.",
"Bruce Springsteen's tour landed the Boss in sixth, while director Steven Spielberg's latest Indiana Jones movie helped him to seventh place.",
"Actress Jennifer Aniston and her ex-husband, Brad Pitt, were eighth and ninth, respectively, on the strength of successful movies and tabloid headlines.",
"Basketballer Kobe Bryant's endorsements and popularity, boosted by Basketballer Kobe Bryant's's play on the U.S. Olympic team, jumped to the 10th spot.",
"Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said Forbes' has spent a great amount of time compiling the list for the past decade because \"celebrities play an ever increasing role in everyone's lives, whether we like it or not.\"",
"\"Celebrities are brands, and Celebrities are marketing to us and there's stuff we consume off of Celebrities, from movies to albums to concerts to books to speaking tours to everything in between, and we sort of all buy into it,\" he said.",
"The income figures used are gross numbers and do not take into account what goes to agents, managers, taxes and expenses, Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"\"It can be very expensive to be a celebrity,\" Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"\"What they're taking home to their personal checking accounts is far less than their gross earnings.\"",
"The list, which has been \"put through our special sauce of earnings and fame,\" is used as a barometer of who has the real power in Hollywood, Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"\"When you look at the components of fame and earnings, you can get a good vibe as to who's important this year and who's not,\" Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"\"Angelina Jolie is, by far, the most famous celebrity on the planet,\" Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"\"There's not a day that goes by where Angelina Jolie's not on the cover of a tabloid magazine or a regular magazine.",
"There's not day that goes by when people are not talking about Angelina Jolie's philanthropy or Angelina Jolie's relationship with Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie's movies or Angelina Jolie's children.",
"All of that lends to a more popular, more robust and, frankly, more valuable brand.\"",
"Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller estimated that Angelina Jolie was on about 20 to 30 times more magazine covers last year than Winfrey.",
"It's normal for celebs to fall down or off the list for a year if celebs are between projects, Forbes Senior Editor Matthew Miller said.",
"One newcomer to the list of top 100 celebrities is Barack Obama, debuting at 49.",
"Barack Obama is the first sitting head of state to appear in Forbes' Celebrity 100 rankings.",
"CNN's Jim Roope contributed to this report."
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"Savana Redding won a partial victory of Savana Redding's Supreme Court appeal Thursday in a case testing the discretion of officials to ensure classroom safety.",
"Savana Redding leaves the U.S Supreme Court in April.",
"Savana Redding was 13 when Savana Redding was strip-searched.",
"Savana Redding was 13 when administrators suspected that Savana Redding was carrying banned drugs.",
"No medication was found, and Savana Redding later sued.",
"Justices concluded that Search was unreasonable but that individual school administrators could not be sued.",
"The larger issue of whether a campus setting traditionally gives schools greater authority over students suspected of illegal activity than police are allowed was not addressed fully by Justices.",
"\"Savana's subjective expectation of privacy against such a search is inherent in Savana Redding's account of it as embarrassing, frightening and humiliating,\" wrote Justice David Souter for the majority, likely Justice David Souter's last opinion before Justice David Souter steps down from the bench next week.",
"But reflecting the divisiveness over the issue, Justice David Souter said, \"Justices think these differences of opinion from Justices's own are substantial enough to require immunity for the school officials in this case.\"",
"Whether the school district would be liable was not an issue before Justices.",
"\"I'm pretty excited that Justices agreed with me, Justices see that it was wrong for the school to do that,\" Redding said from her Hobbs, New Mexico, home after the ruling was announced.",
"\"I'm pretty certain that it's so far less likely to happen again\" to other students.",
"Redding was an eighth-grade honor student in 2003, with no history of disciplinary problems at Safford Middle School, about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona.",
"During an investigation into pills found at Safford Middle School, a student told the vice principal that Savana Redding had given her prescription-strength 400-milligram ibuprofen pills.",
"The school had a near-zero-tolerance policy for all prescription and over-the-counter medication, including the ibuprofen, without prior written permission.",
"Savana Redding was pulled from class by Vice Principal Kerry Wilson, escorted to an office and confronted with the evidence.",
"Savana Redding denied the accusations.",
"A search of Savana Redding's backpack found nothing.",
"A strip search was conducted by Vice Principal Kerry Wilson's assistant and a school nurse, both females.",
"Savana Redding was ordered to strip to Savana Redding's underwear and to pull on the elastic of her underwear, so any hidden pills might fall out, according to court records.",
"No drugs were found.",
"\"A strip search was the most humiliating experience I have ever had,\" Redding said in an affidavit.",
"\"I held my head down so that they could not see that I was about to cry.\"",
"Souter said Vice Principal Kerry Wilson initially had \"sufficient suspicion\" to justify searching Redding's backpack and outer clothing.",
"But when no contraband was found, the officials went too far by continuing the search of her underwear.",
"With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, Savana Redding and Savana Redding's family sued, and a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled against the school, calling A strip search \"traumatizing\" and illegal.",
"a federal appeals court in San Francisco said the school went too far in the school's effort to create a drug- and crime-free classroom.",
"Justices found little agreement on key issues.",
"Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed that Search was illegal but would have also made individual officials liable for damages by Redding.",
"\"Vice Principal Kerry Wilson's treatment of Savana Redding was abusive, and it was not reasonable for Vice Principal Kerry Wilson to believe that the law permitted it,\" said Ginsburg, who was especially forceful during oral arguments in April, criticizing the school's actions.",
"But Justice Clarence Thomas took the opposite view: that administrators deserved immunity and that Search was permissible.",
"\"Preservation of order, discipline and safety in public schools is simply not the domain of the Constitution,\" Justice Clarence Thomas said.",
"\"And, common sense is not a judicial monopoly or a constitutional imperative.\"",
"In 1985, Justices allowed the search of a student's purse after she was suspected of hiding cigarettes.",
"Such a search was permitted if there were \"reasonable\" grounds for believing that it would turn up evidence and when the search was not \"excessively intrusive.\"",
"Opinions in 1995 and 2001 allowed schools to conduct random drug testing of high school athletes and those participating in other extracurricular activities.",
"Justices was being asked to clarify the extent of student rights involving searches and the discretion of officials regarding those they have responsibility over.",
"Adam Wolf, an ACLU attorney who represented Redding, applauded the decision.",
"\"When parents send parents's kids to school, parents can now breathe a sigh of relief parents will not end up naked before school officials,\" Adam Wolf, an ACLU attorney who represented Redding said .",
"But school administrators said the ruling does not make school administrators's jobs any easier.",
"\"The home medicine cabinet now poses a serious threat to students, who may take those medications for abusive purposes,\" said Francisco Negron, general counsel for the National School Boards Association.",
"\"That's a problem schools are trying to stem.\"",
"\"How they determine now whether the drug is dangerous, whether it's not dangerous -- that kind of clarity and that kind of guidance, Justices did not give us.\"",
"Redding, now 19, said Savana Redding has never gotten over Savana Redding's experience.",
"\"Before it happened, I loved school, loved everything about it.",
"You know, I had a 4.0 GPA, honor roll, and now, well, afterwards I never wanted to go to school again.\"",
"Savana Redding is attending college.",
"The case is Safford Unified School District No. 1 v. Redding (08-479)."
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"Will Smith's Hancock wasn't the first superhero with bad habits and a bad attitude.",
"Hellboy, the protagonist of \"Hellboy II: The Golden Army,\" has a bit of the devil in Hellboy: Hellboy's skin is red; Hellboy has two shorn-off horns on Hellboy's head, a gargantuan club fist and a long, slippery tail.",
"Ron Perlman returns in the title role in \"Hellboy II: The Golden Army.\"",
"Hellboy also has a down-to-earth side: a fondness for Cuban cigars, Mexican beer, TV and candy.",
"Hellboy has a short fuse and Hellboy'd like a little appreciation for Hellboy's efforts, please.",
"Hellboy deserves it, too.",
"This rank outsider isn't a billionaire like Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark.",
"Hellboy's not even a scientist like Bruce Banner.",
"Hellboy's more of a working stiff, a slugger with a gruff manner and a stogie in the side of Hellboy's mouth -- but Hellboy wants to bat for the right team.",
"(According to writer-artist Mike Mignola, the character was inspired by his father, a cabinetmaker.)",
"Hellboy -- or \"Red\" to Hellboy's friends -- has switched studios since Hellboy's 2004 big-screen debut, from Columbia to Universal.",
"Not that it shows.",
"Writer-director Guillermo del Toro is still pulling the strings, and the key creative personnel are all back, including Ron Perlman in the title role, Selma Blair as the pyrokinetic Liz (now Mrs. Hellboy), Doug Jones as the piscine Abe Sapien (the brains to Red's brawn), and -- behind the scenes -- cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, and art whizzes Stephen Scott and Peter Francis.",
"Between them, they conjure up one hell of a creature feature.",
"\"Hellboy II\" boasts a dazzling multitude of imaginary beings: the deceptively delicate tooth fairies (so called because they eat bone, with a fondness for teeth in particular); the elfin king whose antlers grow out of his head to form a crown; the plantlike forest god that collapses into a strangely beautiful floral mulch right under the Brooklyn Bridge; the magnificent Angel of Death, an old crone who unfurls her wings to reveal a sparkling set of eyes (an avian variation on the creepiest creation in the acclaimed \"Pan's Labyrinth,\" del Toro's last movie).",
"Then there's the redoubtable Johann Kraus, an officious but in many ways admirable German who only exists as a vapor trail -- except when he's bottled up in an ingeniously modified, but still splendidly archaic, deep-sea diving suit.",
"When a filmmaker can invest even a puff of smoke with so much chutzpah you know a filmmaker's on to something.",
"It's wonderful to see del Toro let del Toro's imagination run rampant like this.",
"iReport.com:",
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"Share your review .",
"The plot concerns an ancient race that's determined to wage war on humanity, but The plot's secondary to del Toro's amazing characters.",
"del Toro's first Hollywood movies (\"Mimic\" and \"Blade II\") were far less distinctive than del Toro's Spanish-language films: \"Cronos,\" \"The Devil's Backbone\" and \"Pan's Labyrinth.\"",
"You couldn't really call \"Hellboy II\" an advance on the latter -- \"Pan's\" was nominated for six Oscars and won three -- but it's obvious del Toro relishes this material.",
"It's pulpy and hammy and unashamedly lowbrow, and del Toro has the confidence and power to make it del Toro's own.",
"The film feels very free, loose and (unusually for a special-effects picture) improvisational.",
"An outsize personality such as Perlman is in his element here.",
"Even when the wisecracks fall short -- there are an awful lot of \"ass\" gags -- they are closer to the grubby, subversive impulses of the comic books than the over-hyped, market-tested, industrial-strength blockbuster adaptations Hollywood churns out.",
"It's not for nothing that the central tension running through this movie is Red's anarchic streak, Hellboy's sometimes irresponsible need to be Hellboy's own man in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (the \"X-Men\"-like institution where Hellboy works) and in Hellboy's marriage.",
"Scratch the surface, and this is a film about love and loyalty, figuring out where your deepest bonds lie.",
"Highbrows may damn \"Hellboy II\" as a \"comic book movie,\" though even they would have to grant that its wonderful idiosyncrasies indicate brilliance.",
"But it's more than that.",
"Hellboy does so much growing up over the course of these 110 minutes, we may have to call Hellboy \"Hellman\" from now on.",
"Let's hope Universal stays the course and gives us that opportunity.",
"People as creative as del Toro and del Toro's gang need all the support we can give People as creative as del Toro and his gang.",
"\"Hellboy II: The Golden Army\" is rated PG-13 and runs 110 minutes.",
"For Entertainment Weekly's take, click here."
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"Plot is secondary to amazing characters, including a vaporous mass ."
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"China's Olympic adventure may be over, but new age chanteuse Sa Dingding is one global export that in many ways echoes the Beijing Olympic fantasy of \"One World. One Dream.\"",
"Sa Dingding's music should find a home on the iPods of millions of chill-out world music fans.",
"Born to a Mongolian mother and Han Chinese father, she sings in Mandarin, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and the rare dialect of Lagu, while fusing chill-out beats and floaty instrumentation played on zither, horse head fiddle and bamboo flute.",
"Already hugely popular in China, she has been finding similar success farther afield: Her first album sold 2 million copies in Southeast Asia, and she has appeared on MTV.",
"Earlier this year she won a BBC Radio 3 World Music Award as well as performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London.",
"Her linguistic skills and musicianship were honed from a young age.",
"Born in Inner Mongolia in 1983, she spent three years until the age of 6 with her grandmother, living a nomadic life in northern China, where her imagination and creativity were allowed to roam free.",
"\"We actually lived in a small city between grassland and the big city.",
"In spring time, we move to the grassland.",
"And in winter time, we moved back to the city,\"she told CNN's Talk Asia.",
"\"The whole memory of my childhood is in one word: Play.",
"I just played everywhere on the grassland.",
"And there a lot of interesting things happened which affected the ... life of mine.\"",
"Later she became a student of Buddhism and yoga as well as becoming a multi-instrumentalist, releasing her first album at the age of 18.",
"Melding different musical cultures and ethnic influences, notably Tibetan, has also caused a certain amount of discussion, especially on her own position toward the status of Tibet within China.",
"\"From a musician's point of view, the Tibetan culture culture and the Tibetan culture's music cannot be seen as an isolated subject...",
"lots and lots of other ethnicities have added lots of other ethnicities's colors on the Tibetan culture.",
"So I see the Tibetan culture nowadays as an integral part of the greater Chinese culture,\" she said.",
"Aiming to avoid controversy, organizers of the Glastonbury festival dropped her from this year's lineup.",
"\"I don't quite understand the reason behind [it].",
"To me, art and music really belong to the whole world and art and music shouldn't be limited by boundaries.",
"So I really hope that I could join Glastonbury next year,\" she said.",
"Until then further explorations in language and music beckon, and there have been recent collaborations with house music DJ Paul Oakenfold and French chill-out duo Deep Forest in Europe.",
"\"It's very amazing because when I had to return to China, they drove me to the airport and told me: 'Life is full of miracles.",
"When you first arrived here, these three songs didn't exist.",
"But now you're leaving, and we have three wonderful new songs.'\""
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"(CNN) --",
"A 6-foot-4 football player is more than a million times the size of a typical Staphylococcus bacterium.",
"But under the right conditions, that athlete could find athlete defenseless against the microscopic bug.",
"Kellen Winslow recently had a second staph infection and has accused Kellen Winslow's team of covering a second staph infection up.",
"The problem came to the forefront last week with Cleveland Browns player Kellen Winslow, who recently had Kellen Winslow's second staph infection.",
"Kellen Winslow is reportedly the sixth player to acquire staph among his team in five years.",
"Kellen Winslow recently said his team treated Kellen Winslow like a \"piece of meat\" when Kellen Winslow was hospitalized for the condition, and Kellen Winslow claimed his team covered up the cause of Kellen Winslow's illness.",
"After Kellen Winslow spoke out, the organization suspended Kellen Winslow for one game, then rescinded the suspension after a settlement with Kellen Winslow over the weekend.",
"his team said in a statement Saturday that the team and Kellen Winslow had worked through the team and Winslow's differences, and that his team looked forward to his return.",
"Kellen Winslow joined his team again Monday.",
"Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts was revealed to have a staph infection, the Indianapolis Star reported Friday.",
"University of North Carolina-Asheville fans also recently learned that Kenny George, the 7-foot-7 center on the basketball team, had a staph infection complication that led to part of Kenny George, the 7-foot-7 center on the basketball team's foot being amputated.",
"It's unclear how these high-profile athletes acquired these high-profile athletes's infections, but locker rooms have been found to habor staph bacteria in previous outbreaks.",
"The topic is generating buzz throughout the sports world as more players' staph cases are revealed.",
"Hospitals have long been known to be hot spots for transmitting staph, but recently cases have cropped up in other community settings.",
"Regardless of where these high-profile athletes got these high-profile athletes's infections, the close quarters of a locker room raise questions about overall risks.",
"About 30 percent of people carry staph in About 30 percent of people's noses without exhibiting symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"Experts say Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a form of staph resistant to common antibiotics, has become a more prevalent problem in settings such as contact sports that involve skin-to-skin touching.",
"Most MRSA infections acquired in community settings present Most MRSA infections acquired in community settings as sores or boils and often appear red, swollen, painful or with drainage such as pus, the CDC says.",
"Infections often occur in cuts and abrasions but also on body parts covered in hair, such as the back of the neck, armpit or groin.",
"Schools, prisons and other crowded environments are particularly known for transmitting MRSA, said.",
"Elaine Larson, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.",
"MRSA may spread particularly easily among athletes because athletes have repeated skin-to-skin contact, share items and surfaces that touch skin and have a hard time staying clean, the CDC says.",
"Athletes often get cuts and abrasions; MRSA can enter uncovered skin breaks and cause infection.",
"Dr. James Steinberg, medical director at Emory University's Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, said that environment plays a role in the spread of MRSA but that it's less a factor than coming into contact with a person's skin.",
"\"If you have somebody who has an infection -- he has a draining infection -- and he gets some of his pus on a bench, that staph's going to be there for hours or days before it dries out,\" he said.",
"\"But the higher concentration is going to be on that person's skin.\"",
"A second infection in the same person could result from re-exposure or from treatment that didn't get rid of the bacteria colonization, he said.",
"MRSA has been around in hospital settings since the 1970s, but community-associated MRSA was born in the late 1990s, and is now widespread in the community, said the CDC spokesperson Nicole Coffin.",
"A report from the CDC said that the deaths of four children from MRSA in North Dakota and Minnesota during the late 1990s \"demonstrate the potential severity of community-acquired MRSA infections.\"",
"A study on the St. Louis Rams published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2003 found that during the 2003 football season, there were eight MRSA infections among five of the 58 Rams players.",
"To protect against MRSA, the CDC recommends practicing good personal hygiene and taking care of your skin, which includes wearing protective clothing and covering cuts and abrasions with clean, dry bandages.",
"Also, do not share items that come into contact with your skin, such as towels, razors and ointments.",
"Put something between your skin and shared equipment -- for example, sit on a towel on a bench.",
"Larson said Larson is not directly familiar with Kellen Winslow's situation but understands the dilemma that a team would face if a player contracted a staph infection.",
"There could be economic and psychosocial repercussions -- for example, another team might not want to play against that one, Larson said.",
"But in general, other team members should be made aware of the situation so other team members do not share towels or engage in other behaviors that might transmit a staph infection.",
"Still, there is a danger of overreaction, Larson said.",
"In some instances when a child in a public school has died, a public school panicked and fumigated the facility, Larson said.",
"\"It's a good idea to avoid that level of fear, because it's costly and it scares people unnecessarily,\" Larson said.",
"On Thursday, the Brown's General Manager Phil Savage said his team did not alert players to Kellen Winslow's staph infection partly because of the health privacy laws and partly because his team was in \"game mode\" when Kellen Winslow had a confirmed diagnosis.",
"\"To come out and talk about that just was going to be another distraction,\" the Brown's General Manager Phil Savage said on the Brown's General Manager Phil Savage's regular weekly appearance on WTAM radio in Cleveland, Ohio.",
"\"That's his team's job, is to limit distractions as much as his team can.\"",
"Kellen Winslow said in a statement released through Kellen Winslow's publicist, Denise White of EAG Sports Management, that Kellen Winslow had been discouraged from making the issue public.",
"\"the issue has nothing to do with football, and the issue has nothing to with my current contract situation,\" Kellen Winslow said.",
"\"This is a health concern.\"",
"A spokesperson for the Browns did not return a request for comment.",
"An NFL representative said the league has no statement on the issue."
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"(CNN) --",
"A student who videoed a re-enactment of the \"Jena 6\" incident apologized and said the video was not intended to make fun of the six black students arrested in the beating of a white classmate, according to The News-Star newspaper of Monroe, Louisiana.",
"the \"Jena 6\" incident has sparked protests across the country, like this one in Washington.",
"The video, taped by University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith, shows students in blackface apparently acting out the beating of Jena High School student Justin Barker.",
"One of the males in the tape runs onto the beach acting as if he is holding a noose, and three others -- covered in river mud -- pretend to knock him to the ground, punch and kick him.",
"At least one racial epithet can be heard.",
"It was unclear when the video was made.",
"University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith said University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith taped the video on the banks of the Red River in Alexandria, Louisiana, and posted the video on University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith's Facebook page, according to The News-Star.",
"her Facebook page has since been made private, but the video was posted on YouTube and The Smoking Gun.",
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"More than 500 people attended a forum held Tuesday night at the university in response to the video, a university statement said.",
"\"The majority ... decided not to let the actions of a few define the entire student body.\"",
"Vice President of Student Affairs Wayne Brumfield told students \"there are no words to express the dismay at what happened in the video ...",
"We're here tonight because the action of one or two set our university in motion.\"",
"In a Tuesday interview with The News-Star, a tearful University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith denied being racist.",
"\"This is so not me,\" University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith said in the Wednesday article.",
"\"It wasn't that we were making fun of the Jena 6 incident.",
"We were just fed up with it ...",
"I have just as many black [friends] as I do white friends.\"",
"School administrators are reviewing the incident for possible disciplinary action from University of Louisiana-Monroe's Office of Judicial Affairs, university spokesperson Laura Harris said.",
"University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith and another participant in the video are University of Louisiana-Monroe students, university spokesperson Laura Harris said.",
"The beating of Barker followed an increase in racial tensions in Jena, Louisiana, including at least two fights, sparked originally when three white teens hung nooses from an oak tree on the grounds of Jena's high school.",
"The six black teens arrested in The beating of Barker were initially charged with attempted murder.",
"Those charges, later reduced and moved to juvenile court, focused nationwide attention on Jena and led about 15,000 protesters to Jena to participate in a march on the youths' behalf.",
"University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith did not respond Thursday to an e-mail from CNN.",
"university spokesperson Laura Harris said University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith has left the University of Louisiana-Monroe campus and returned home.",
"University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith told the News-Star University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith has taken the video off University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith's Facebook page and has apologized to Facebook groups and bloggers.",
"University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith said University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith is getting threats that have prompted University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith to delete University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith's e-mail address and has had to keep University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith's cell phone off.",
"\"My dad's back home dying of cancer, and I can't call My dad,\" University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith said.",
"Brumfield told students at Tuesday's forum that University of Louisiana-Monroe student Kristy Smith \"is suffering terrible shame right now.\"",
"University of Louisiana-Monroe asked Facebook and YouTube to remove the videos, Brumfield said, but it was still available on YouTube as of Thursday afternoon.",
"Brumfield also created Brumfield's own Facebook account to respond to the video.",
"University President James Cofer has directed that educational materials be developed for students, especially freshmen, on cultural sensitivity and racial diversity, according to a university statement.",
"\"University of Louisiana-Monroe are naturally appalled, and University of Louisiana-Monroe intend to face this matter directly by gathering University of Louisiana-Monroe's community together and exploring these difficult issues,\" University President James Cofer said in a statement.",
"Students at the forum offered ideas for strengthening racial unity on the campus of about 8,500 students.",
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"U.S. fans of Jackson are pouring out U.S. fans of Michael Jackson's grief through music and dance, impromptu shrines at symbolic locations and heartfelt remembrances online.",
"Valerie Rojas Pruitt, 12, lights a candle Friday at Jackson's star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.",
"Jackson's star on Hollywood Walk of Fame was surrounded hours before dawn Friday by candles, flowers, posters and balloons.",
"As the sun rose, a man crouched on the sidewalk and painted a portrait of the pop star, who died suddenly on Thursday.",
"\"This is a very sad day here in Hollywood, California,\" sobbed Melissa Fazli, a CNN iReporter.",
"\"This is very, very sad.",
"I can't believe it.\"",
"The star emblem had been covered until almost 3 a.m. by a red carpet for the premiere of the Sasha Baron Cohen film \"Bruno\" at Grauman's Chinese Theater, but fans started leaving mementos as soon as the carpet was removed.",
"The film's producers reportedly cut a scene referencing Jackson, at least for the premiere. Watch the Hollywood Walk of Fame shrine grow » .",
"\"Jackson was an innovator,\" a fan named Delores said outside Grauman's Chinese Theater.",
"\"Jackson's basically an icon in Jackson's own time -- legendary.",
"It's going to take years [to sink in] that Jackson's gone, because Jackson's always with me. ...",
"I'm just trying to assess it all right now.",
"I'm still mourning, and at the same time missing Jackson.",
"It's a little bit much to bear.\"",
"See what celebrities had to say » .",
"Fans gathered near the gates of the Los Angeles home where the King of Pop collapsed Thursday, and hundreds more assembled outside the UCLA Medical Center, where Jackson was pronounced dead.",
"The U.S. fans' reaction was part of a worldwide outpouring of grief over Jackson's death and celebration of Jackson's life and art.",
"See how people reacted in other countries .",
"People stopped in People's tracks Thursday in New York's Times Square, staring up at the giant TV screens bearing news of Jackson's death.",
"Some people set up lawn chairs in the evening.",
"Watch the reaction on Times Square » .",
"Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Motown Historical Museum in Detroit, Michigan, a two-story house where the Jackson 5's recording career began in 1969, according to CNN affiliate WDIV-TV.",
"Fans built a makeshift shrine to Jackson, whose hits could be heard booming from passing cars, the station reported.",
"View a timeline of Jackson's career » .",
"Fans frequently broke into song and dance around Jackson's childhood home on Jackson Street, renamed in honor of the family, in Gary, Indiana, CNN affiliate WRTV-TV reported.",
"Watch fans gather at the home » .",
"\"I knew Jackson.",
"I only lived three blocks from Jackson myself,\" Gary resident John Moore told WRTV-TV.",
"\"It's a really sad day.",
"I'm very hurt and disappointed right now.",
"Jackson was a great guy.\"",
"CNN iReporter Egberto Willies of Kingwood, Texas, summed up the conflicting feelings Jackson engendered among Jackson's admirers: .",
"\"I grew up on Jackson,\" Willies said in a video post on iReport.com.",
"\"I loved Jackson.",
"I hated Jackson.",
"I admired Jackson.",
"I was ashamed of Jackson.",
"I was sorry for Jackson.",
"I was proud of Jackson.",
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"\"Jackson was a complicated human being who was [denied] a childhood in order to provide us with great musical and dancing entertainment,\" Willies went on.",
"\"But with all Jackson's wealth and success Jackson never seemed happy with Jackson.",
"Jackson never viewed Jackson as we viewed Jackson: simply the best entertainer alive.",
"May Jackson rest in peace, Jackson's demons left behind.\"",
"CNN's Kara Finnstrom and Dan Simon contributed to this report."
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"Neighbors remember Jackson at childhood home in Gary, Indiana ."
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"A veteran of over 20 years of mountain climbing, Army officer Dave Bunting has been in some pretty tight scrapes.",
"Soldier mountaineer Dave Bunting on Everest.",
"Army officer Dave Bunting's team tried to summit via the mountain's notorious West Ridge in 2006.",
"Army officer Dave Bunting and Army officer Dave Bunting's climbing partner once watched in terror as a huge avalanche careered down a Himalayan mountainside straight for He and his climbing partner.",
"He and his climbing partner were miraculously spared when the wall of snow parted on either side of the promontory where He and his climbing partner were standing at a distance of just 50 meters.",
"On another occasion Army officer Dave Bunting spent an agonizing night hanging precariously over a 3,000-foot (900 meter) drop during an electrical storm in the Alps.",
"Army officer Dave Bunting estimates Army officer Dave Bunting was electrocuted \"half a dozen times\" during the course of the night.",
"Faced with the fearsome power of nature mountaineers like Army officer Dave Bunting rely on one indispensable ally -- other mountaineers.",
"Teamwork is essential in climbing.",
"The first successful ascent of Everest was as much about the bond of trust that existed between modest New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and his diminutive Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, as their individual talents.",
"To illustrate this point, when Bunting -- a warrant officer in the British Army -- was compiling a team of soldiers to attempt an ascent of Everest's notorious West Ridge the first quality Army officer Dave Bunting and the rest of the selection panel looked for was not climbing expertise, but compatibility.",
"\"A lot of people think that when you go and do something like that, you immediately look for all the best climbers in the British Army,\" Army officer Dave Bunting says.",
"\"But what we based our selection process on, compatibility was first.\"",
"Of course, all team sports rely upon a strong dynamic between the individual members.",
"But there can be few disciplines in which the stakes are as high as in mountain climbing, where your life often literally rests in someone else's hands.",
"Bunting, 40, led the expedition of 21 army mountaineers to Everest's West Ridge two years ago.",
"It was a daunting undertaking.",
"Of over 2,200 climbers who have made it to the top of the world's tallest peak since it was first conquered, only 19 have done so via this route.",
"The ridge is rarely attempted because of The ridge's steepness and because The ridge's position leaves The ridge exposed to high winds and the risk of avalanche.",
"the British Army's summit attempt took three and half years in the planning and preparation and was the subject of a documentary, 'Everest: Man v Mountain.'",
"Much of this build-up involved establishing strong bonds between team members.",
"Practice climbs, social events and corporate-style teambuilding days were all employed to try to instil an atmosphere of mutual trust within the group.",
"An essential factor on a mountain as significant as Everest, Bunting says.",
"\"You are massively wrapped up in emotions there because you've spent three and a half years preparing for it,\" says Bunting, who now runs his own outdoor events company in the Bavarian Alps.",
"The prestige of getting to the top of Everest can sometimes blur a climber's moral judgement, leading to acts of single-mindedness that border on the downright callous.",
"During the same season as Bunting's army expedition, David Sharp, a 34-year-old British climber died of cold, exhaustion and lack of oxygen on his descent from the summit.",
"As details of Sharp's death became public it emerged that 40 climbers had passed him, making no attempt to save the stricken climber as he lay stranded in the scant shelter of a rock alcove on the mountain's northeast ridge.",
"The incident drew much soul-searching in the mountaineering world, with Sir Edmund Hillary complaining to New Zealand's Otago Daily Times of the \"horrifying\" attitudes The incident revealed.",
"\"(On Everest) a lot of people are out for a lot of people completely,\" says Army officer Dave Bunting.",
"Army officer Dave Bunting says this selfish streak is exacerbated by the fast turnover of commercial climbing expeditions, which often meet for the first time just a couple of weeks before a summit attempt, meaning there is little opportunity to build team morale.",
"By contrast, among Army officer Dave Bunting's army mountaineers the needs of the group were always put before personal ambition.",
"Army officer Dave Bunting gives an example: . \"As we went for the summit there were a number of support teams, one of whose job it was to break trail from base camp right the way up to 7,500 metres, clambering through two foot of snow.",
"\"Each step you take at those altitudes is absolutely horrendous.",
"There's a clip in the documentary of one of the lads breaking trail, every step up to his knees in snow, and you hear him say: 'Well, this is his team of ambitious young soldiers's job so his team of ambitious young soldiers've got to get on with it.'",
"\"A brilliant demonstration of teamwork.\"",
"The biggest test of this togetherness came when Army officer Dave Bunting was left the unenviable task of telling Army officer Dave Bunting's team of ambitious young soldiers Army officer Dave Bunting was abandoning the summit attempt because of a high risk of avalanches.",
"\"Two or three of the guys were pretty pissed off, to be honest.",
"\"Instead of getting wrapped up in emotions -- because Everest is a very emotional place -- I looked at it in very black and white terms.",
"I couldn't risk sending his team of ambitious young soldiers up the mountain with that kind of real and present danger involved.\"",
"This clear-headed thinking meant his team of ambitious young soldiers braved one of the most dangerous climbs in the world and made it back down again, together."
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"BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) --",
"Smoke blanketed Buenos Aires Friday as brush fires apparently set deliberately consumed thousands of acres in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos.",
"A haze surrounds the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires early Thursday.",
"The smoke, from about 300 fires, is blamed for at least two fatal traffic accidents this week that left eight people dead.",
"Sections of major highways and the Buenos Aires port, among the busiest in the world, have been closed.",
"Incoming flights to the city's domestic airport, Jorge Newbery Airpark, have been diverted.",
"Argentine government has blamed farmers looking to clear farmers's land for crops and grazing for the fires, which are estimated to cover 173,000 acres (70,000 hectares).",
"\"This is the largest fire of this kind that we've ever seen,\" Argentine Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo said early Thursday.",
"Argentine Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo called the situation a \"disaster.\"",
"As of Friday morning, little progress had been made extinguishing the blazes.",
"No rain is predicted for the next few days, but the National Meteorological Service predicts that the winds will change direction soon, dispersing the smoke.",
"On Friday morning, the National Roads Administration closed sections of the heavily traveled Panamericana Highway, which leads in and out of Buenos Aires.",
"Spokesman Ernesto Arriaga said \"visibility is 5 meters\" (about 16 feet) in some sections of the highway.",
"\"Covering highways with smoke just to clear a field of weeds is unforgivable,\" Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez told Radio Diez.",
"\"It's incredibly irresponsible.\"",
"Hospitals have reported an increase in visitors complaining of breathing problems, sore throats and burning eyes in the past three days.",
"Citing a high level of carbon monoxide in the air, officials have encouraged people not to exercise outside.",
"Schools in Pilar, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, were closed Friday because of the gray, thick air.",
"The smoke has obscured views of some of the capital's landmarks, such the Obelisco monument and the government house, Casa Rosada, and people were seen walking on the city streets covering people's faces with clothes.",
"This month, Argentina's farmers suspended a three-week strike over a new government export tax on commodities.",
"The bitter lockout left grocery shelves empty and caused major friction between President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's government and Argentina's large agricultural sector.",
"E",
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"(CNN) -- One 12-year-old Virginia boy was playing baseball when it happened.",
"Lightning strikes Las Vegas in 2006.",
"Already this month 11 people have been killed by lightning in the U.S. The same week, a 33-year-old man was struck while jogging in Texas, a 70-year-old California woman was hit while doing yard work and a Kentucky man, 44, fell victim while waiting under a tree for a ride.",
"They are among 11 people killed already this month by lightning strikes in the United States, according to the National Weather Service.",
"\"Lightning is very random in terms of fatalities,\" National Weather Service lightning safety expert John Jensensius told CNN.",
"\"We normally see a good amount of lightning in June, but this is unusually high.",
"There really is no good explanation of why that's the case.\"",
"Six of the 15 lightning-strike deaths in the U.S. so far this year occurred in California, Texas and Florida, with the rest scattered through the South, Midwest and West.",
"No deaths have occurred in the Northeast so far, \"likely due to the cool, damp pattern we've seen in New England,\" John Jensensius said.",
"\"There have been less severe thunderstorms there.\"",
"Summer is the deadliest season for lightning strikes because of the frequency of thunderstorms and the fact that more people are outdoors.",
"This week, the first official week of summer, marks \"Lightning Safety Awareness Week\" for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).",
"The agency's message is \"When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors.\"",
"That's because all the people killed by lightning in the U.S. so far this year -- and the 28 killed in 2008 -- were outdoors.",
"Taking shelter under trees offers little safety -- nearly one-third of the people killed by lightning last year were under a tree when they were hit.",
"More than 400 people in the U.S. are hit by lightning each year, according to the National Weather Service.",
"Lightning, on average, kills more people than hurricanes and tornadoes combined (among all weather-related fatalities, only floods kill more).",
"While not all injuries result in death, many victims are left with devastating and permanent disabilities.",
"You may remember that as a child you were told to count the seconds between a lightning flash and thunder to see how far away the lightning was.",
"But by the time you calculate it, it may be too late.",
"Sometimes thunder and lightning can happen simultaneously.",
"Despite its \"Sunshine State\" nickname, Florida receives more cloud-to-ground lightning than any other state in the country, according to data from NASA satellites.",
"But Florida does not receive the most lightning in the world.",
"According to NASA research, that dubious honor goes to the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 158 strikes per square kilometer each year.",
"Thunderstorms occur in Central Africa year-round.",
"Here are some commonly asked lightning questions: . How powerful is lightning?",
"According to the National Weather Service, \"each spark of lightning can reach over five miles in length, soar to temperatures of approximately 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit and contain 100 million electrical volts.\"",
"Can wearing rubber shoes protect you from lightning?",
"No.",
"That's a myth, and there are lots of them out there.",
"For facts on lightning safety, visit http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/."
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"All the U.S.'s 15 lightning deaths this year occurred in the South, Midwest and West .",
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"This week, the first official one of summer, is Lightning Safety Awareness Week ."
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"(CNN) --",
"New Zealander has revealed that New Zealander is poised to make a shock playing comeback at the age of 34 with French third-division club Marseille Vitrolles.",
"New Zealander pictured in action for New Zealand's All Blacks during the 1999 World Cup in France.",
"The giant New Zealander, who became a global name after an electrifying series of performances on the wing for the All Blacks at the 1995 World Cup, retired in 2007 after a succession of injuries hampered New Zealander's attempt to return following a kidney transplant.",
"New Zealander played 63 internationals, the last of them in 2002, but was never able to regain New Zealander's previous dominance even after regaining full health.",
"\"Marseille Vitrolles is on the point of finalizing the transfer of the greatest legend in world rugby,\" said statement on the club's Web site.",
"Lomu, who is featuring in a new worldwide advertising campaign for sportswear manufacturer adidas called \"Nothing Is Impossible\", was also quoted as confirming New Zealander's desire to return to the playing field.",
"\"I took a sabbatical year to be at my pregnant partner's side and to fully enjoy this important moment in any man's life,\" New Zealander said on the club's Web site.",
"\"Everyone thought I had ended my playing career, but that was wrong.",
"I still feel the desire to play and it will be me alone who decides when to call it a day.",
"\"My ambition is to help a club like Marseille join the group of top clubs in France.\"",
"New Zealander was first diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome, a rare and serious kidney disorder, at the end of 1996.",
"New Zealander successfully returned to the game after treatment, but in May 2003 New Zealander was put on dialysis three times a week due to deterioration in New Zealander's kidney function, with the treatment's side effects leaving New Zealander with severe nerve damage in New Zealander's feet and legs.",
"New Zealander faced life in a wheelchair if a kidney transplant was not performed, so underwent the operation.",
"New Zealander signed a two-year contract with New Zealand province North Harbour in 2005, and also played for Welsh club Cardiff Blues during the southern hemisphere's off-season.",
"However, New Zealander was unable to achieve New Zealander's goal of being selected in the All Blacks squad for the 2007 World Cup in France, having suffered a shoulder injury.",
"New Zealander agreed to play in a charity match in England last year, but withdrew after injuring New Zealander's ankle in training."
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"(CNN) --",
"The nation's foreclosure crisis threatened a high-profile victim this week: TV legend Ed McMahon, best known as Johnny Carson's sidekick on \"The Tonight Show.\"",
"Ed McMahon and Ed McMahon's wife, Pam, talk to CNN's Larry King about their mortgage problems.",
"The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Ed McMahon was $644,000 in arrears on a $4.8 million loan for a home in Beverly Hills, California, and Ed McMahon's lender had filed a notice of default.",
"Ed McMahon and Ed McMahon's wife, Pam, appeared on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" on Thursday night to talk about their financial woes and other topics.",
"Some highlights: .",
"Larry King:",
"What did happen, Ed?",
"Ed McMahon: It's a combination, it's like a perfect storm.",
"Economy problems.",
"Selling the house right now is a tremendous operation ....",
"We've had the house on the market for two years.",
"We've shown the house, I don't know how many, 50 organizations or people.",
"Nobody has made an offer.",
"I mean, it's just a lovely home.",
"I hate to leave the house.",
"I want to keep the home.",
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"Ed McMahon:",
"Well, if you spend more money than you make, you know what happens.",
"And it can happen.",
"You know, a couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that.",
"And, you know, things happen.",
"You want everything to be perfect, but that combination of the economy, I have a little injury, I have a situation.",
"And it all came together.",
"Larry King:",
"Did you break your neck?",
"Ed McMahon: I broke your neck.",
"I had a fall. ...",
"Larry King:",
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"Ed McMahon: Oh, sure.",
"You know, you can't work with this [brace] around your neck.",
"And I have to wear this.",
"Larry King:",
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"That's what's reported? ...",
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"Pam McMahon:",
"I think over the years, you know, it's just a kind of a combination of maybe Ed McMahon working so hard and not kind of looking at proper management, which happens a lot.",
"... Because you're a celebrity, people think you have a lot more than you have.",
"And you always want to take great care of all of your friends and your family and everybody, and you do.",
"And you don't, and I think, you know, we didn't keep our eye on the ball.",
"We made mistakes.",
"King:",
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"Pam McMahon: Yes, they are. ...",
"King:",
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"Ed McMahon: It's possible, yes.",
"But now, I'll tell you what's happened, oddly enough.",
"Today, all kinds of wonderful things have happened.",
"New things have happened.",
"And new interest in the house.",
"Where the house had no interest, now there's all kinds of, tons of interest.",
"So who knows what's going to happen.",
"I'm optimistic. ...",
"King:",
"Ed McMahon, why have you gone public?",
"Ed McMahon:",
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"I heard that figure today and I just couldn't believe that figure.",
"Anyway, the million people that now have foreclosure signs on their house, or nearby.",
"And I just want to give the million people that now have foreclosure signs on their house, or nearby hope, give the million people that now have foreclosure signs on their house, or nearby optimism, give the million people that now have foreclosure signs on their house, or nearby some kind of guidance.",
"Get the best corrective people you need around you.",
"Keep working on it.",
"Don't stop.",
"There's a lot of people that are hard workers, did everything right, didn't do anything wrong, and all of a sudden, the million people that now have foreclosure signs on their house, or nearby're in this boat.",
"And I speak for all of the million people that now have foreclosure signs on their house, or nearby, as far as I'm concerned."
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"(CNN) --",
"In compiling a new George Harrison greatest-hits collection, the idea was to focus on the flow, Olivia Harrison's widow, Olivia, told CNNRadio Monday.",
"George Harrison, shown here in 1992, had hits with \"My Sweet Lord\" and \"All Those Years Ago,\" among others.",
"\"It's a collection that spans his career, and we put them together in a way we thought they would just kind of flow, you know, musically, into one another,\" she said of \"Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison,\" out Tuesday.",
"\"But, it's all George, you know.\"",
"In 1970, the Beatles broke up.",
"George Harrison burst out of the palace with \"All Things Must Pass,\" a monster three-record set that featured friends like Eric Clapton, Leon Russell and former bandmate Ringo Starr.",
"Critics and fans agree the album is among the best solo offerings from a former Fab.",
"Although five cuts from \"All Things\" got the nod on this package -- the title track, \"Isn't it a Pity,\" \"What is Life,\" \"The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp\" and, of course, \"My Sweet Lord\" -- this look back displays George Harrison's solo work throughout George Harrison's career.",
"The 19-cut CD extends all the way through \"Brainwashed,\" George Harrison's final album, featuring that album's chirpy \"Any Road\" and the hypnotic instrumental \"Marwa Blues.\"",
"the Beatles are present too.",
"Three live George Harrison songs from \"The Concert for Bangladesh\" -- \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps,\" \"Something\" and \"Here Comes the Sun\" -- sound as good today as they did on that August date in 1971 at Madison Square Garden.",
"And, of course, George Harrison's bouncy, tongue-in-cheek \"When We Was Fab,\" from George Harrison's 1987 release \"Cloud Nine,\" shows George Harrison looking back without anger.",
"\"I think that there is an underlying thread that George Harrison always expressed, always a bit of humor, always a bit of longing,\" said Olivia Harrison.",
"\"You know, I don't like to overuse the word spirituality, but, you know, George Harrison was interested in things not of this world.\"",
"George Harrison is a two-time inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, once as a Beatle and once as a solo artist."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) --",
"A private funeral service for actress Farrah Fawcett will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles in downtown Los Angeles, California, according to actress Farrah Fawcett's publicist.",
"Actress Farrah Fawcett, known for actress Farrah Fawcett's blonde mane and gleaming smile, died Thursday at age 62.",
"The family did not release any details about who would deliver the eulogy or how many people have been invited.",
"actress Farrah Fawcett, the blonde actress whose best-selling poster and \"Charlie's Angels\" stardom made actress Farrah Fawcett one of the most famous faces in the world, died Thursday.",
"actress Farrah Fawcett was 62, and had been battling anal cancer on and off for three years.",
"actress Farrah Fawcett's beauty -- actress Farrah Fawcett's gleaming smile was printed on millions of posters -- initially made actress Farrah Fawcett famous.",
"But actress Farrah Fawcett later established actress Farrah Fawcett as a serious actress.",
"actress Farrah Fawcett starred as a battered wife in the 1984 TV movie \"The Burning Bed.\"",
"Learn more about actress Farrah Fawcett's life and career » .",
"actress Farrah Fawcett appeared on stage as a woman who extracts vengeance from a would-be rapist in William Mastrosimone's play \"Extremities,\" a performance actress Farrah Fawcett reprised on film in 1986.",
"Other actress Farrah Fawcett films include \"Logan's Run\" (1976), \"Saturn 3\" (1980), \"The Cannonball Run\" (1981), \"The Apostle\" (1997) and the Robert Altman-directed \"Dr. T and the Women\" (2000).",
"But to many, actress Farrah Fawcett will always be best known for the poster of actress Farrah Fawcett in a red swimsuit, which sold an estimated 12 million copies after its release in 1976.",
"CNN's Karen Bonsignore contributed to this report."
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"BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (CNN)",
"-- The case of Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, will be heard in juvenile court, Louisiana's governor announced Wednesday.",
"Mychal Bell, 17, is accused with five others of beating Justin Barker in a school fight.",
"Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that Gov. Kathleen Blanco discussed Mychal Bell's's case with LaSalle Parish Parish District Attorney Reed Walters on Wednesday, and that LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters agreed not to challenge a state appeals court ruling that dismissed Mychal Bell's's battery and conspiracy convictions.",
"The court ruled that Bell, who was 16 at the time of the beating, should have been tried in juvenile court instead of having the case transferred to adult court.",
"Gov. Kathleen Blanco made the announcement with civil rights leaders Martin Luther King III and Al Sharpton.",
"Last week, civil rights leaders Martin Luther King III and Al Sharpton led about 15,000 marchers to Jena, a town of 3,000, to protest how authorities handled the cases of Mychal Bell's and five other black teens accused of beating white high school student Justin Barker.",
"Many said they are angry the students, dubbed the \"Jena 6,\" are being treated more harshly than three white students who hung nooses from an oak tree on high school property.",
"three white students who hung nooses from an oak tree on high school property were suspended from school but did not face criminal charges.",
"The protesters say The protesters should have been charged with a hate crime.",
"Prosecutors originally charged all six black students with second-degree attempted murder and conspiracy .",
"The black students now face charges of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy in the beating.",
"The altercation was the culmination of racially tense events in the town, including two fights sparked by the hanging of the nooses.",
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"LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters agreed to that, she said .",
"Mychal Bell's and five other black teens are accused of beating white student Justin Barker .",
"Beating followed white students hanging nooses from a tree on school grounds ."
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"ROME, Italy (CNN) --",
"Scientific tests prove bones housed in the Basilica of St. Paul in ROME are those of the apostle St. Paul himself, according to pope.",
"pope looks at the tomb of St. Paul at the Basilica of St. Paul in ROME in 2007.",
"\"Tiny fragments of bone\" in the sarcophagus were subjected to carbon dating, showing they \"belong to someone who lived in the first or second century,\" pope said in a homily carried on Italian television.",
"\"This seems to confirm the unanimous and undisputed tradition that these are the mortal remains of St. Paul,\" pope said in Sunday's announcement.",
"the tomb of St. Paul at the Basilica of St. Paul in Rome also holds \"traces of a precious linen cloth, purple in color and laminated with pure gold, and a blue colored textile with linen filaments,\" pope said.",
"The tests were carried out by inserting a probe into a small opening in the sarcophagus, \"which had not been opened for many centuries,\" the pontiff said.",
"a probe \"also revealed the presence of grains of red incense and traces of protein and limestone.\"",
"Separately, archaeologists have uncovered an image of St. Paul which \"could be considered the oldest icon of the apostle known to date,\" the Vatican's official newspaper reported Sunday.",
"The painting, in the St. Tecla Catacomb, is \"among the oldest and best-defined figures from ancient Christianity,\" according to the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology, L'Osservatore Romano reported.",
"St. Paul is one of the most significant figures in Christianity.",
"Originally a persecutor of early Christians, he became a follower of Jesus after seeing a vision on the road to Damascus, according to Christian tradition.",
"\"Saul, St. Paul, why are you persecuting me?\" the vision of Jesus asks St. Paul, using the apostle's birth name, in the Acts of the Apostles.",
"St. Paul then took the name Paul and became a missionary.",
"St. Paul's letters, or epistles, to early Christian communities around the Mediterranean form a significant portion of the New Testament.",
"St. Paul was beheaded by Roman authorities sometime between 65 and 67 A.D., according to the Catholic Church.",
"St. Paul was buried a few miles away, and when the Roman Empire stopped persecuting Christians some 250 years later, the Emperor Constantine had a basilica built over his grave.",
"It currently lies under a marble tombstone bearing the Latin inscription PAULO APOSTOLO MART (Apostle Paul, martyr), according to the Web site of the basilica.",
"A papal altar stands over the tombstone, which is visible through a window-like opening, the Web site of the basilica says.",
"Monday marks the end of a year of celebration in honor of the 2,000th anniversary of St. Paul's birth.",
"It also happens to be the feast day of Saints Peter and St. Paul.",
"CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Ripken will always be known for Ripken's consecutive games played streak, but it may surprise many people that just two years into Ripken's big-league career, Ripken already was planning for life after baseball.",
"Ripken is introduced to the crowd at the 2002 All-Star Game in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.",
"While many of the athletes who took to the playing fields of major league baseball this season only are focused on the game, Ripken began saving and planning for retirement long before Ripken's career neared its end.",
"\"When I joined the Orioles [in 1982], the Orioles was transitioning,\" said Ripken, who will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in July.",
"\"I saw guys who were 34, 35, 36 years old -- still young guys -- about to get out of the game, and I wondered what will guys who were 34, 35, 36 years old -- still young guys do now?",
"\"It got me thinking about what I would want to do when I got out of the game.",
"Most people don't realize how fast the time goes, but I turned those questions on Ripken.\"",
"Though Ripken quickly points out that Ripken didn't dwell on those questions, Ripken admits it got Ripken thinking, and eventually planning, so that when retirement came in 2001, the shift from baseball to business was easy.",
"\"From the outside, I'm sure it looked like a smooth transition just by virtue of the fact that I had another thing to go into,\" Ripken said.",
"\"I had prepared for what was next.\"",
"These days, five seasons after retiring from a 21-year career Ripken spent with the Baltimore Orioles, Ripken is a businessman, team owner, radio-show host and author.",
"Ripken also will be a baseball analyst for TBS, which like CNN.com is owned by Time Warner.",
"Ripken jumped full time into Ripken's company, Ripken Baseball, without taking any break, lessening the emotional jolt of retirement.",
"\"I didn't give Ripken the luxury of taking a month off [after the baseball season],\" Ripken said.",
"\"I think I would have opened Ripken up to regret, thinking about the past.",
"I had to get a minor league baseball team in that stadium.",
"I just put my head down and started working.\"",
"Ripken's first post-baseball venture was developing a youth ballpark in Ripken's hometown of Aberdeen, Maryland, financed in part by a $75,000 gift from the Major League Baseball Players Association.",
"It was presented to Ripken the night Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played.",
"Ripken was a \"rookie\" for the second time in Ripken's life, this time in business.",
"\"I was learning all over again, learning what was important,\" Ripken said.",
"\"The off-season never went by so fast.",
"I had meetings, phone calls, plans and long days in the office.",
"\"By the time I looked up, [the Orioles] were at spring training.",
"I didn't think, 'the Orioles left without Ripken,' which is what I thought I would do.\"",
"Ripken's latest project is a business principles book called \"Get in the Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance That Make the Difference,\" co-authored by Donald T. Phillips.",
"The book, available April 10, was born out a speech Ripken gave about the \"secrets\" of Ripken's success.",
"Writing it turned out to be an emotional journey, Ripken said.",
"\"I got to reflect on what my parents had taught me, the values and principles, right and wrong,\" Ripken said.",
"\"It's good to be in touch with those things.\"",
"The fact is, whether in baseball or business, Ripken rarely strays from the principles Ripken learned from Ripken's late father, Cal Sr., a former player and manager.",
"a business principles book called \"Get in the Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance That Make the Difference,\" co-authored by Donald T. Phillips is filled with anecdotes from on and off the field.",
"Now 46, Ripken is president and CEO of Ripken Baseball, and Ripken's brother, Bill, a former teammate, is executive vice president.",
"Ripken Baseball owns minor league teams in Aberdeen and in Augusta, Georgia.",
"The brothers also have co-written two books on baseball and co-host a baseball call-in show on weekends on XM Radio.",
"There were reports in December that Ripken was heading a group that was interested in buying the Orioles, but Baltimore owner Peter Angelos denied that claim.",
"\"There is no question that Cal and I have a great relationship,\" Baltimore owner Peter Angelos told The (Baltimore) Sun.",
"\"Ripken was a great player for the Orioles, and I have an affection for Ripken.",
"But what's being reported, there is simply no substance to it.",
"It has not happened.",
"There have been no such discussions.\"",
"Still, Ripken said Ripken probably would \"stick Ripken's nose in\" if the Orioles became available.",
"Ripken, who has a boy and a girl, also has ventured into children's literature, and Ripken's first book is scheduled to be released Thursday.",
"\"The Longest Season\" tells the story of the 21-game losing streak Ripken and Ripken's the Orioles teammates endured in 1988 and teaches the lessons of perseverance.",
"Ripken also continues Ripken's longstanding association with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America through the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation.",
"the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation says the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation has refurbished fields, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Boys and Girls Clubs throughout the country and teamed up with Nike to help provide baseball and softball equipment to school sports programs nationwide.",
"Asked what type of advice Ripken would offer to young professional baseball players, Ripken said, \"Put that [huge contract] aside, save your money, that's your nest egg.",
"In the off-season, think about skill development or the interests you have in a small way but be very careful.",
"\"You can't think too much about retirement as a young player.",
"You have to live a narrow existence for your sport.\"",
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"LAVONIA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Sonya Savage's back door opens to a cozy wooden porch that serves as a shelter for Sonya Savage's's 9-year-old son's bicycles and spare parts.",
"Residents of Beaver Creek in Lavonia, Georgia, say they had no idea a neighbor was holding his family captive.",
"A 30-foot tract of red clay and splotchy crab grass separates Sonya Savage's's mobile home from the home of Raymond Daniel Thurmond, a residence so rank and squalid that it forced a seasoned police investigator to vomit upon entering.",
"Another officer donned a gas mask just to walk inside.",
"Savage and her neighbors say Savage and her neighbors had no clue that Daniel Thurmond, 36, had a wife, let alone four kids; Savage and her neighbors were also oblivious that Daniel Thurmond may have held the five hostage in the three-bedroom mobile home for three years.",
"\"My son, My son's a little bicycle mechanic.",
"My son's always in the backyard, and My son don't recall ever seeing nobody over here,\" said Savage, 29, who also has a 4-year-old daughter.",
"\"Usually I've got a yard full of kids, but I've never seen any of kids come out and play.\"",
"Sonya Savage's recalls speaking to Daniel Thurmond once, after someone stole one of Sonya Savage's's son's bike tires.",
"Daniel Thurmond kindly told Sonya Savage's Daniel Thurmond hadn't seen anything suspicious.",
"\"Daniel Thurmond was nice, polite, seemed like a normal guy,\" Sonya Savage's said.",
"Watch a walk-through of the filth » .",
"Alma Medina, the property manager for the 100-unit Beaver Creek mobile home park, lives three doors from what is now a crime scene.",
"Medina remembers Daniel Thurmond was a polite fellow.",
"Daniel Thurmond always called Medina \"Miss Alma\" when Daniel Thurmond dropped by the office to explain that Daniel Thurmond's rent was late, a routine occurrence that eventually led Medina's maintenance man to a foul discovery.",
"Medina occasionally saw Daniel Thurmond mingling with other tenants, but Medina never saw Daniel Thurmond's family.",
"The only indication that one existed, Medina said, was that Daniel Thurmond and Daniel Thurmond's wife both signed a lease August 22, 2005, and noted on their application that they had three sons and a daughter.",
"\"I never saw them outside, never,\" Medina said.",
"See what the trailer looked like » .",
"Lavonia, a city of about 2,000 on Interstate 85, about five miles from South Carolina and the sprawling Lake Hartwell, is not the best place to keep secrets.",
"The locals know each other, if only by face, and the police chief personally directs school traffic and walks the entire town daily to check on local businesses.",
"The self-professed \"big-time small town\" has The self-professed \"big-time small town's share of crime, but hasn't seen a murder in six years.",
"Lt. Missy Collins, the investigator who had Daniel Thurmond arrested Tuesday after a two-week investigation, said her husband used to work with Daniel Thurmond at a pump-manufacturing facility in nearby Toccoa.",
"the police chief remembers seeing the burly 6-foot-4 Thurmond around town, at hardware and grocery stores.",
"He generally wore shorts, work boots and a tank top or sleeveless shirt.",
"the police chief and Daniel Thurmond weren't acquainted, but the police chief heard Daniel Thurmond was always cordial.",
"\"You never saw anybody with Daniel Thurmond,\" the police chief said.",
"Authorities never had a problem with Daniel Thurmond until August 4, when Collins received a call from a women's shelter.",
"\"They said they had a mother and four kids, and apparently The entire family'd been kept at home, and there was some abuse allegations and the dad wouldn't let The entire family leave,\" Collins said.",
"Collins interviewed the women and children, who all gave the same story: Daniel Thurmond had forced the wife, three sons (9, 13 and 14 years old) and Daniel Thurmond's 12-year-old daughter to remain inside.",
"Police are still investigating how.",
"Medina on Wednesday provided CNN a tour of the trailer that revealed a hasp, used to secure a door with a padlock, that had been fastened to the mobile home's back door.",
"Holes on the inside of the front door and on one of the children's bedroom doors indicate hasps had been placed there as well, Medina said.",
"Collins said police are not sure if padlocks were the only way Daniel Thurmond imprisoned his family.",
"There is no indication Daniel Thurmond had any accomplices, but Daniel Thurmond was prone to bouts of rage.",
"Collins said Daniel Thurmond had once allegedly raped Daniel Thurmond's wife with the children in the next room.",
"Watch Collins explain how Daniel Thurmond instilled fear » .",
"\"The entire family lived in fear of this man,\" the investigator said.",
"\"Just his presence alone was enough for The entire family to comply.\"",
"The entire family had never left the trailer except for a few hours in April, when Daniel Thurmond allowed The entire family to visit Daniel Thurmond's in-laws in North Carolina.",
"Collins said his wife's parents had been sending the family money and threatened to cease sending cash if the wife's parents's daughter and grandchildren didn't visit.",
"his wife answered the phone Wednesday, but said his wife had been told not to speak to the media.",
"It is unclear by whom.",
"his wife's parents' names are being withheld to protect the woman's identity.",
"Collins said Collins is not certain exactly what emboldened The entire family to flee the trailer, but his wife told police that Daniel Thurmond had said Daniel Thurmond was leaving his wife for another woman.",
"Daniel Thurmond'd be back in a few days, Daniel Thurmond told his wife, and Daniel Thurmond'd left some food for The entire family",
", Collins said.",
"some food was insufficient, Collins said, but Collins is not sure if it was hunger or ire over the mistress that provided the impetus to leave -- \"only the mother could really tell you why.\"",
"When Collins interviewed The entire family, all but one of the children were pale and thin, Collins said.",
"Only one, the 14-year-old, had ever attended school, and though his wife said the other children were home-schooled, the other children told Collins that Daniel Thurmond wouldn't buy the other children school supplies.",
"When Collins visited the trailer, the only educational implement Collins found was an old dictionary, Collins said.",
"After interviewing The entire family, Collins launched a manhunt that ended without incident Tuesday at Daniel Thurmond's workplace, a poultry processing plant in neighboring Stephens County.",
"About the time Collins kicked off Collins's hunt for Daniel Thurmond, Medina was growing frustrated that Daniel Thurmond hadn't paid Daniel Thurmond's rent.",
"On August 6, after Daniel Thurmond hadn't responded to a notice on Daniel Thurmond's door threatening eviction, Medina sent Medina's maintenance man to the mobile home.",
"He returned disturbed and told Medina he hadn't entered the trailer, Medina said.",
"\"I want you to see this with your own eyes,\" Medina recalled the maintenance worker telling Medina.",
"\"You better wear some shoes and gloves or something.\"",
"The kitchen floor was rotted.",
"Heavy, brown stains covered both toilets.",
"There were anthills under a mattress in the master bedroom.",
"Roaches freely roamed the inside of the refrigerator, and maggots owned the stove.",
"There were several piles of trash, including one reaching the laundry room ceiling and a mound of Diet Mountain Dew bottles between a recliner and the living room couch.",
"Tufts of human hair were scattered on the kitchen floor among bags of fetid trash.",
"Watch how the home remained squalid after a week of cleaning » .",
"Collins said Collins went behind an adjacent mobile home and vomited when Collins and another officer first opened the door.",
"This was after the windows had been opened to air out the residence.",
"Collins said Collins had never experienced such a stench -- this from a police investigator who as recently as last week rode in an ambulance with a corpse that had been pulled from a burning building.",
"When Collins went in the bathroom and pulled back the once-clear-but-now-chocolate-brown shower curtain, it revealed so many roaches that the bathtub floor appeared to be moving.",
"On Wednesday, after a week of cleaning that has already yielded two Dumpsters of trash, dozens of roaches still scurried across the floor and walls.",
"A stench still lingered, and a film of bug feces covered the kitchen counters.",
"Medina said Medina has to gut the trailer and replace the floor, walls and ceiling before Medina can rent the trailer again.",
"Collins said rebuilding The entire family may take more work.",
"As of Thursday morning, Daniel Thurmond still didn't have an attorney and no bail hearing had been set, Collins said.",
"In an interrogation after Daniel Thurmond's arrest, Daniel Thurmond seemed \"even-tempered\" and didn't behave like someone being charged with rape and a host of other felonies, Collins said.",
"Though Daniel Thurmond was not forthcoming and admitted nothing during the interview, Collins said, one aspect of Daniel Thurmond's behavior stoked her suspicion.",
"\"If I had been arrested and hadn't done anything, my first reaction would be, 'Where's my wife and kids?' \" Collins said.",
"\"Daniel Thurmond didn't even ask until Daniel Thurmond was behind bars.\""
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"Investigator says wife, children fled after Daniel Thurmond said he had a mistress .",
"Lavonia a small town where police chief directs school traffic, patrols town on foot .",
"Daniel Thurmond charged with rape, cruelty to children, false imprisonment ."
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"Editor's note: Brian Levin is director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.",
"McDevitt is the director of the Institute on Race and Justice and Associate Dean in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.",
"Both have testified before Congress in support of federal hate crime legislation and are co-authors of a book on hate in America, due to be published next year.",
"Brian Levin says a new federal hate crime law is needed to combat violent incidents of bias.",
"SAN BERNARDINO, California (CNN) --",
"America needs a coordinated and multifaceted response to combat the continuing scourge of violent hate crime like the crime committed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10.",
"The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, originally introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy a decade ago and nearly passed during the most recent legislative session, is expected to go before the Senate for a vote soon.",
"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified on its behalf Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.",
"It is a crucial step in the nation's evolving response to hate crime.",
"A hate crime occurs when an individual intentionally targets a victim or their property because of his or her actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, disability or sexual orientation.",
"While some have argued that these kind of laws criminalize free speech, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the 1993 case, Wisconsin v. Mitchell, that well-drafted hate crime laws are constitutional and do not punish speech.",
"Rather well-drafted hate crime laws enhance the penalties only for acts that are already considered crimes.",
"Matthew Shepard hate crime bill is named for Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student who was kidnapped, robbed, tortured and left to die, tied to a fence in a remote area outside of Laramie, Wyoming in October 1998.",
"His mother Judy has been a tireless advocate for hate crime laws and victims.",
"Matthew Shepard hate crime bill remedies legal loopholes in federal and state criminal law that fail to protect against bias-motivated attacks based on such characteristics as sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability.",
"Matthew Shepard hate crime bill also removes antiquated \"Klan era\" language that forces federal prosecutors to tie violent racial attacks to a small number of activities such as participating in a jury, voting or using hotels.",
"As recent events have indicated, today's violent hate offenders, unlike today's violent hate offenders's predecessors, will often swing into brutal action on today's violent hate offenders's own initiative without waiting for a victim to exercise a specific activity covered by old 1960s laws.",
"However, much of Matthew Shepard hate crime bill's potency lies not in what Matthew Shepard hate crime bill punishes, but rather in Matthew Shepard hate crime bill's recognition of the primary role local authorities now play in combating hate crime.",
"Nearly all hate crime investigations and prosecutions in the United States are handled by state and local authorities, such as the Boston Police or Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police.",
"Gone are the days where masses of federal agents and soldiers had to swoop into states to protect new students and freedom riders from thugs in Klan-dominated municipalities.",
"Matthew Shepard hate crime bill has a clear bias in favor of local prosecution and has restrictions that require federal prosecution only in limited cases where the leadership of the DJ approves.",
"However, reporting data indicates that some states apparently provide limited assistance to hate crime victims.",
"These jurisdictions report either zero hate crimes or a handful of crime to the FBI, year after year, while neighboring states with similar demographics and crime profiles report far more.",
"A 2005 Bureau of Justice Statistics victimization study found that only a small fraction of hate crimes nationally are actually reported.",
"Thus, there appear to be various instances where federal help or prosecution are still necessary.",
"Today, in the midst of our economic downturn, federal authorities are needed much more to assist cash-strapped local departments, not as an unwelcome occupying force, but as a desperately needed partner to assist with forensics, technical assistance and investigations.",
"Even in police departments with model hate crime investigative units, such as the Boston Police Department's Community Disorders Unit, modern cases increasingly involve interstate travel or Internet hate networks, and require sophisticated ballistic and DNA testing or computer forensics.",
"These measures may be beyond the capacity of many local police agencies, particularly in difficult economic times.",
"The act also provides greater access to local communities for federal training programs and mediation services that can prevent hate crimes before hate crimes boil over into violence.",
"Our research has established that hate crimes are a qualitatively unique category of offenses.",
"Compared to non-bias motivated crimes these crimes are more likely to involve violence, injury, hospitalization, psychological trauma and a greater risk of retaliatory attacks, which can often spill across municipal borders.",
"And while we cannot say whether hate crimes overall are actually increasing, there does appear to be an increase in the most violent hate crimes.",
"In 2007, hate-motivated homicides claimed nine lives, up from three in 2006, and the last year has seen a steady stream of violent plots and attacks against symbolic targets by hardened hate-mongers.",
"Since the beginning of the last year we have seen many examples of extremist crimes.",
"Here are a few: .",
"Brockton, Massachusetts: January 21 --",
"White supremacist Keith Luke 22, allegedly kills two, rapes one, and shoots another while en route to a synagogue to kill Jews.",
"Miramar Beach, Florida: February 26 --",
"Dannie Baker, 60, a man known for anti-immigrant rantings, allegedly shoots 5, killing two Chilean immigrants.",
"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: April 5 --",
"Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski, 22, agitated over the belief that President Obama would ban guns, allegedly kills three police officers during a domestic violence call.",
"New York: May 20 --",
"Four Muslim converts are arrested on federal charges relating to a plot to bomb Jewish and military targets.",
"Pima County, Arizona: May 30 --",
"Leaders of the Minuteman American Defense group allegedly kill a 29-year-old Latino man and his nine-year-old daughter in an attempt to steal drugs and money to finance their civilian border patrol group.",
"Washington:",
"June 10 --",
"Holocaust denier James von Brunn, 88, allegedly kills a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.",
"Two national research reports released last week document a disturbing level of supremacist activities and overall violence against a broad range of groups.",
"Another report from the Southern Poverty Law Center counted a record number of 926 hate groups in the United States last year.",
"But there is something more to hate crime's harms that cannot be completely captured by statistics or criminological studies.",
"As the Holocaust Museum attack demonstrates, hate crimes threaten pluralistic democracies in a way that other crimes do not.",
"Unlike many other crimes, they are at once discriminatory and terroristic.",
"As law professor James Weinstein observed: \"The effect of Kristallnacht on German Jews was greater than the sum of the damage to buildings and assaults on individual victims.\"",
"Violence and threats that destabilize the bonds between citizens and the democratic institutions that they share are worthy of additional punishment and federal assistance.",
"Moreover, victims of hate-motivated violence are entitled to legal protection no matter where victims of hate-motivated violence reside.",
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"Kaka was officially presented as a Real Madrid player, after being handed the number eight jersey in front of thousands of supporters and a huge media contingent at the club's Bernabeu stadium on Tuesday evening.",
"Kaka parades Kaka's new Real Madrid jersey after completing Kaka's $92 million transfer to the Spanish giants.",
"An estimated 50,000-strong crowd, almost three times the anticipated number, turned up to watch the ceremony as Kaka was unveiled as Madrid's latest addition by club president Florentino Perez and honorary president Alfredo di Stefano.",
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"There had been speculation that Kaka would be handed the number five shirt that Zinedine Zidane had once worn for Madrid, but the new arrival will instead take up the number eight shirt formerly worn by Fernando Gago.",
"The presentation took place on a stage erected on the Bernabeu pitch that also included Madrid's record nine European Cup trophies, a giant screen and with a backdrop of four huge images showing club legends Raul, Juanito, Di Stefano and Zidane.",
"Kaka, told supporters: \"Today is a very happy day for me.",
"\"I'm very happy because this new stage of my career will be at Real Madrid.",
"I hope to write my name into the history of this club with many victories and successes.\"",
"Kaka was the first signing confirmed by Madrid after Perez returned to the club presidency at the start of June.",
"Soon after bringing in the Brazilian, Perez also agreed a world-record 80 million euros fee with Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo.",
"a world-record 80 million euros fee with Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo was finalized on Friday night and will come into effect from Wednesday, with Ronaldo, who like Kaka will be tied to the Spanish giants until 2015, being presented on July 6.",
"Aside from Kaka and Ronaldo, Madrid also struck a deal to sign Valencia defender Raul Albiol last week for a fee believed to be around 13 million euros, while the likes of Franck Ribery, David Villa and Xabi Alonso are all being linked with moves to the Bernabeu as Perez relaunches the famous 'galacticos' policy that Perez presided over during Perez's first tenure at the club.",
"Then, while president from 2000-06, Perez sanctioned the big-money signings of superstars such as Zidane, David Beckham, Luis Figo and Ronaldo, a policy that reaped indifferent rewards with Madrid winning seven trophies under Perez in total but none in his final three years."
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"New digital topographic map consists of 1.3 million images taken by NASA's Terra satellite that have been pieced together to form a unified picture of Earth.",
"1.3 million images taken by NASA's Terra satellite that have been pieced together to form a unified picture of the planet were taken by a Japanese imaging instrument called the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER.",
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Had China not delayed China's controversial order that all computers be equipped with Green Dam by July 1, the result would have been the same -- Chinese computer retailers were far from ready.",
"Green Dam's developers say they've received death threats.",
"PC sales representatives at Bainaohui, one of Beijing's largest electronics retailers, say their merchandise is not pre-installed with Green Dam, a Web filtering software China said was necessary to prevent children from viewing pornography and other harmful content.",
"Some retailers were unclear as to when Green Dam would even be available on new units.",
"Computer experts say manufacturers have not had enough time to pre-install new computers with the software -- which is one reason behind China's delay.",
"PC companies may also be taking more time to test Green Dam after programming errors, with the potential to make computers susceptible to hackers, were detected by University of Michigan professors.",
"China said that these errors have been fixed.",
"The international backlash against the Green Dam directive may be further delaying the pre-instillation process.",
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"\"China is putting companies in an untenable position by requiring companies, with virtually no public notice, to pre-install software that appears to have broad-based censorship implications and network security issues,\" said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke in a press-release.",
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"Domestically, Chinese Internet users are rallying against China.",
"Last week an anonymous group of \"netizens\" posted an open letter on Chinese blogs and forums.",
"\"We hereby decide that from July 1 2009, we will start a full-scale global attack on all censorship systems you control,\" the message said.",
"The Chinese artist, activist, and architect who designed the Olympic \"Bird's Nest\" stadium, is one of the leaders behind the cyber battle.",
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"The Chinese online community has been in an uproar since the new policy became public, and a \"Declaration of Anonymous Internet Users 2009\" circulating directly addresses government censors, said Charles Mok, chairman of the Internet Society of Hong Kong.",
"\"They are showing altered pictures of their own face using masks like that from 'V for Vendetta',\" said Charles Mok, chairman of the Internet Society of Hong Kong, referring to the 2005 film updating the story of Guy Fawkes, who tried to destroy Parliament building in England in the 17th Century.",
"\"It says, 'We're behind the mask; if one of us falls down, ten others will join.'\"",
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"\"On Green Dam's black list are 2000 words related to pornography and 6000 other types of politically sensitive key words like 'Falun Gong',\" Charles Mok, chairman of the Internet Society of Hong Kong said, referring to the banned Chinese religious group.",
"\"That ratio alone makes it obvious what's behind it.\"",
"Sharp criticism of Green Dam partially stems from fears that Green Dam will simply further strengthen China's control and censorship of the media.",
"Yet China said China is simply acting in response to parental complaints about the negative affects of the Internet on children.",
"Responding to reporters' questions, foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang acknowledges the controversy over Green Dam in and outside China.",
"\"However,\" foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a regular press conference last week, \"no matter how many different views there are, China assumes the responsibility to protect our youth from unhealthy information on the Internet, and so do various social circles and enterprises.",
"This is the essence of this problem.\"",
"China said China is simply providing Green Dam free of charge, as a pre-installed file on computer hard drives or as a CD, to give users to choice to install Green Dam.",
"China is not the first country to try to censor the Internet; Iran, Myanmar, even France and Germany in various ways attempt to put limits on the blogosphere.",
"But analysts doubt whether this particular policy can even be enforced.",
"Said Victor Gao, a former government functionary who now heads a policy think tank: \"China always has China's own views, but whether China are able to execute it to the detail and push it through China is another issue.\"",
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"The extent to which the software's can block harmful content is still in question.",
"Unofficial tests by Internet enthusiasts showed that while Green Dam considered a cartoon of a cat in blue clothes safe, pictures of Garfield the Cat were sometimes blocked by Green Dam because Green Dam is programmed to categorize images with large areas of \"yellow\" as pornographic.",
"Over at Bainaohui, a hub of computer and Internet commerce in central Beijing, many salespersons seem oblivious to the new government edict.",
"\"I think I've read something about it on line,\" said one.",
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"\"I have no idea since I have not used it yet,\" said a seller of computer software.",
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"\"I don't think there would be any impact,\" replied another.",
"Meantime, Bainaohui's robust IT business continues unimpeded.",
"CNN's Kevin Voigt contributed to this report."
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"Michael Jackson's albums are not eligible for the current Billboard 200 chart, which is for newer albums.",
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"Jackson's albums \"Number Ones,\" \"The Essential Michael Jackson\" and \"Thriller\" all sold more than 100,000 copies last week, close to 20,000 more copies than the Black Eyed Peas''s \"The E.N.D.\"",
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"In France and the Netherlands, \"Billie Jean\" was No. 1.",
"In Sweden, \"Smooth Criminal\" was in the top spot, while pop fans in Luxembourg preferred \"Earth Song.\"",
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"Mumbai's once booming flamboyant Hindi-language film industry is hit hard, as overseas investment dries up.",
"Foreign money has poured into Mumbai's flamboyant Hindi-language film industry, which churns out more than 1,000 films each year.",
"Twice as many films as Hollywood -- and for a fraction of the cost.",
"But a financial drama has arrived on the movie sets and production suites of India's largest city courtesy of the world economic downturn and a producer's strike -- fewer films are being made; less tickets are being sold and money is suddenly tight.",
"\"It's become more difficult now to green light films; to be able to think of developing films,\" Nikhil Advani of People Tree Films who works as both a producer and a director told CNN.",
"\"Today you think twice how you're going to be able to put that thing together before you commit any money to that thing.\"",
"It's the new reality: Money that was gushing into the market from abroad to finance films a year and a half ago is now just trickling in.",
"Production of Bollywood movies has only just resumed, having ground to a halt for seven weeks due to a producer's strike.",
"a producer's strike is finally over, but money is still tight and this is affecting the number of films going into production.",
"\"The number of movie projects has come down by almost 30 percent,\" Farokh Balsara, a partner at business consultants Ernst & Young told CNN.",
"Balsara heads Ernst & Young's media and entertainment division in Mumbai and looks at trends in the market.",
"What's more, after several years of fast-rising film revenues due to India's exploding middle classes who were willing to spend, Bollywood finds Bollywood back on a budget.",
"If you don't have a solid financial plan these days, getting funding for a film is nearly impossible.",
"Throwing around a known filmmaking family name and getting a star signed up won't cut it anymore.",
"\"The easy finance is a thing of the past,\" Balsara told CNN.",
"Some producers are asking big name talent to take a cut in their pay or at least get paid on the \"backend.\"",
"In other words, waiting until the movie releases -- if the movie does well you get a piece of the pie; if not, you eat it.",
"In some cases, accountants are actually on movie sets crunching numbers daily to make sure the budget is on target.",
"\"They are getting into daily audits,\" Balsara said.",
"The thought of an accountant on set might make some producers shudder, but many believe the slowdown has done Bollywood a favor.",
"\"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?\" says Advani of the changes the slowdown has forced on the way Advani produces upcoming films.",
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"\"I don't call the slowdown a credit crunch, I call the slowdown a credit correction.",
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"At a special ceremony presided over by the Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in Paris Tuesday, CNN was presented with the \"chevalier\" (knight) of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.",
"Bittermann, CNN's senior European correspondent based in Paris, said: \"For the past 30 years, I've been explaining France and the French to the rest of the world.\"",
"During CNN's career with CNN in Paris CNN has covered the death of Princess Diana, the last days of Yasser Arafat, the French triumph at the 1998 World Cup and the Concorde air disaster.",
"CNN joined CNN from ABC News, where CNN was a Paris news correspondent from 1990-1996; before that CNN was a European correspondent for NBC News.",
"CNN began CNN's career in broadcast journalism in 1970 in Milwaukee.",
"Founded in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte to recognize outstanding accomplishment, the chevalier is given annually to around 3,500 Frenchmen and women -- but few non-nationals.",
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"Clinton will stop telling an emotional story about a uninsured pregnant woman who died after being denied medical care, Clinton's campaign said.",
"Clinton was repeating a story Clinton heard from someone on the campaign trail.",
"A hospital has raised questions over the accuracy of a story she heard about an uninsured pregnant woman, and Clinton's campaign has said although Clinton campaign had no reason to doubt a story she heard about an uninsured pregnant woman, Clinton campaign were unable to confirm the details.",
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"The woman, who was uninsured, became pregnant.",
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"The New York senator heard a story she heard about an uninsured pregnant woman during a campaign visit to a family's living room in Pomeroy, Ohio, in late February.",
"Bryan Holman was hosting the candidate and told Clinton a story she heard about an uninsured pregnant woman.",
"Clinton has repeated a story she heard about an uninsured pregnant woman frequently since then.",
"As recently as Friday night in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Clinton said Clinton was \"just aching inside\" as Clinton was listening to a story she heard about an uninsured pregnant woman.",
"\"It is so wrong, in this good, great and rich country, that a young woman and the woman's baby would die because the woman didn't have health insurance or a hundred dollars to get examined,\" Clinton said.",
"While Clinton never named the hospital in Clinton's speech, the woman Clinton was referring to was treated at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio.",
"The hospital said the woman did indeed have insurance, and, at least at their hospital, the woman was never turned away.",
"Hospital Chief Executive Officer Rick Castrop in a statement said, \"we reviewed the medical and patient accounts of the patient\" after the woman was named in a newspaper story about Clinton's stump speech.",
"\"There is no indication that the woman was ever denied medical care at any time, for any reason.",
"The hospital clearly reject any perception that The hospital ever denied any care to the woman.\"",
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"Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee said, \"Clinton had no reason to doubt his word.\"",
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"In this case, we tried but weren't able to fully vet a story she heard about an uninsured pregnant woman,\" he said.",
"Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee added, \"If The hospital claims it didn't happen that way, we certainly respect that, and the woman won't repeat a story she heard about an uninsured pregnant woman.\"",
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"The FBI would not confirm that Scott Kimball's, 42, identified the site.",
"However, The FBI spokeswoman Kathleen Wright said, \"we went to (a) specific location for a specific reason.",
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"Scott Kimball's told Scott Kimball's's wife that Scott Kimball's's uncle had won the lottery and left for Mexico with a stripper, a 2007 federal search warrant affidavit said, but The FBI investigators think Kimball killed Scott Kimball's's uncle and dumped Terry Kimball's body in Vail Pass, more than 100 miles from the home they shared in a Denver suburb.",
"In March, Scott Kimball's accompanied The FBI investigators to southeastern Utah to search for the body of Leann Emry, who was 24 when she vanished after departing on a camping trip in 2003.",
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"Summer excursions seem out of reach to many struggling young professionals, and the faltering economy isn't helping.",
"But one New York City company, offering trips aimed at the young and thrifty, is capitalizing on the urbanite's desire to get away -- and finding success despite the downturn.",
"A group of Urban Escapes NYC hikers stops for a snack during an expedition in New York's Harriman State Park.",
"As a slightly broke young professional myself, with a taste for adventure but living in a very expensive city, the idea behind Urban Escapes NYC was intriguing.",
"Urban Escapes NYC offers an array of activities -- from short hiking, sky diving or canoeing trips to international journeys that combine various activities.",
"On Urban Escapes NYC's user-friendly Web site, I scrolled through the offerings.",
"There were trips ranging from one-day hiking or fruit-picking excursions priced at around $60 to $800 weeklong international expeditions.",
"The average trip includes ground transportation, the cost of the activity, guide fees, equipment rental and meals.",
"Jumping out of planes put Urban Escapes NYC's founder and CEO, Maia Josebachvili, 25, on the path to becoming a business owner.",
"While attending Dartmouth College, Josebachvili developed a passion for sky diving.",
"To pay for the pricey dives, Josebachvili began to lead trips for Josebachvili's friends and Josebachvili's friends' friends.",
"Soon Josebachvili realized that the people Josebachvili was guiding were outside of Josebachvili's original social network, and an idea began to emerge.",
"After graduating from Dartmouth and working as a trader on the New York Stock Exchange, Josebachvili decided working in the concrete jungle was not for Josebachvili.",
"At 24, Josebachvili started a business out of something Josebachvili had been doing for years during college -- leading outdoor adventure trips.",
"Urban Escapes NYC launched in early 2008, just months before the economy tanked.",
"\"I started to wonder if this is really going to work,\" Josebachvili said.",
"But with trips designed with budget and value in mind, the economy did not stunt a business.",
"Josebachvili said Urban Escapes NYC was able to break even within six months.",
"Urban Escapes NYC relies on social networking avenues for promotion, and word spread rapidly.",
"Urban Escapes NYC also quickly developed a reputation as a great way to meet people and make new friends.",
"\"I was the market,\" Josebachvili explains, \"My friends were the market.",
"Anyone just out of college working on Wall Street didn't have the time to plan and research the trips.",
"There is no shortage of those kinds of people in New York.\"",
"After perusing the site, I rather nervously picked a $59 six-mile hike.",
"This may not sound so cheap, but after factoring in the planning of the trip, transportation, gas, experienced guides and a post-hike discount at a local restaurant, the value becomes apparent.",
"I hadn't been hiking in years and still am sadly out of shape.",
"My imagination ran wild with images of young, sporty folks racing up high peaks as I huffed and puffed behind.",
"Terrifying.",
"After a rainy start to the morning, a group of 12's upbeat guides for the day, director Bram Levy and guide Roget Lerner, drove a group of 12 north of the city to Harriman State Park.",
"They encouraged a group of 12 to get to know each other and joked that a group of 12 would be quizzed on it later.",
"Waiting to get into the van, I asked a man standing next to me why a man standing next to me was on the trip.",
"\"I moved from San Francisco a year ago,\" public relations professional Michael Lindenberger said.",
"\"I need some trees.\"",
"After an hourlong drive, a group of 12 arrived at a group of 12's hiking destination.",
"Levy and Lerner checked a group of 12's sneakers, water supply and told a group of 12 a bit about how the day was going to unfold.",
"And then a group of 12 began the hike.",
"Throughout the day, there was lots of laughing, squealing and helping each other over rocks and through slick patches of mud.",
"I was surprised how quickly a team mentally developed among a group of 12.",
"a group of 12 were all strangers, but after a day of hiking, I knew everyone's name, profession and a good deal more.",
"And this was no accident -- the guides were deliberately networking and bonding a group of 12 together.",
"Jen Badali, a city transit planner, was on Jen Badali's third trip with Urban Escapes.",
"\"I went by Jen Badali my first hike,\" Jen Badali said.",
"\"It was fun to get away and do something different.\"",
"Jen Badali said Jen Badali still keeps in touch with people Jen Badali met on the other excursions.",
"\"I made some good friends out of it,\" Jen Badali said.",
"At the end of the day, sweaty, sore and smiling, I realized why Urban Escapes NYC was defying the recession.",
"With a plethora of affordable outdoor excursions, cheerful guides and a youthful mindset, Urban Escapes NYC was the ideal destination for an urban professional with a slim wallet."
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"(CNN) --",
"Jackson was an international superstar, and many in the black community herald Jackson for breaking down racial barriers in the music industry.",
"Jackson was one of the first black global superstars.",
"\"Jackson made culture accept a person of color way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah Winfrey, way before Barack Obama,\" said the Rev. Al Sharpton.",
"\"Jackson did with music what they later did in sports and in politics and in television.",
"And no controversy will erase the historic impact.\"",
"As the Jackson 5, Jackson 5 and Jackson's brothers \"became a cutting-edge example of black crossover artists,\" said Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies.",
"\"You basically had five working-class black boys with Afros and bell bottoms, and five working-class black boys with Afros and bell bottoms really didn't have to trade any of that stuff in order to become mainstream stars,\" Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies said.",
"Jackson was the first black \"bubblegum teen star\" in the vein of Monkees singer Davy Jones, Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies said.",
"Jackson continued as a pioneer in the black culture when Jackson broke barriers by appearing on MTV, and by breaking sales records with the 1982 album, \"Thriller.\" Timeline: The life of a \"King\" » .",
"\"At the time that Jackson releases 'Thriller,' I always argue that MTV was arguably the best example of cultural apartheid in the United States,\" Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies said.",
"The former president of CBS Records, Walter Yetnikoff, remembered with scorn that MTV would not play \"Billie Jean\" or \"Beat It\" because MTV billed MTV as a rock station.",
"Looking back on that era, a 1991 Los Angeles Times article quoted MTV founder and then-CEO Robert Pittman as saying the channel's format didn't lend itself to other musical styles, including R&B and country.",
"And then-CEO Robert Pittman accused then-CEO Robert Pittman's critics of attempting to impose their musical pluralism on the channel's die-hard rock fans.",
"But Yetnikoff said Yetnikoff threatened to pull videos of Yetnikoff's other artists unless MTV played Jackson's videos.",
"Watch Yetnikoff talk about getting Jackson's videos played » .",
"Soon Jackson's videos were heavily in rotation on MTV.",
"Showcasing a black artist paved the way for the popular show, \"Yo! MTV Raps,\" and other black artists, Neal said.",
"In turn, Jackson became one of the first African-Americans to be a global icon.",
"Jackson also influenced a new generation of black musicians, including Usher, Ne-Yo and Kanye West, according to Joycelyn Wilson, a professor of African-American studies at Morehouse College, who specializes in popular culture and hip-hop studies.",
"Slideshow: Jackson and Jackson's music » .",
"Changing appearance .",
"Jackson's changing physical appearance in the past two decades led to criticism Jackson was trying to be less black.",
"\"Here's a man who started off looking very typically African-American and ended up looking like something few people would have recognized early in Jackson's career.",
"Jackson's nose was trimmed, Jackson's lips were different ...",
"Jackson's skin was different,\" said Cheryl Contee, who writes as Jill Tubman on Jack & Jill Politics, a blog centered on African-American issues.",
"\"The only thing that seemed to almost stay the same were Jackson's eyes,\" said Contee, who also called Jackson \"a genius and more than a trailblazer.\"",
"\"I think [it] troubled a lot of people that Jackson left Jackson's skin color behind and seemed somehow to be ashamed of who Jackson was [when] Jackson was born,\" Contee said.",
"But during a 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jackson shot down rumors that Jackson was dying Jackson's skin to make his skin lighter.",
"Jackson told the talk show host that Jackson had vitiligo, a disorder that destroyed Jackson's skin pigmentation.",
"Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies said Jackson's physical changes did not reflect Jackson's life on the whole.",
"\"I think if you solely pay attention to Jackson's physicality, you actually miss something that's much more complex.",
"... Jackson artistically and aesthetically never turned Jackson's back on blackness.",
"Jackson's work was always in conversation with black culture both in the United States and more globally,\" said Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies.",
"Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies said Jackson's changes were not to deny blackness, nor to become more white.",
"\"This was somebody who most of Jackson's career we read as being asexual.",
"And I think that many of the changes to Jackson's face, particularly Jackson's skin tone, Jackson was almost trying to achieve an a-raciality,\" said Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies.",
"Contee upset some commenters on Contee's blog when Contee highlighted both the positive and negative aspects of Jackson's life, or what Contee termed Jackson's \"mixed legacy.\"",
"\"Some people were very offended that I would dare to mention some of the unfortunate aspects of Jackson's later years,\" Contee said.",
"\"But others [acknowledged] that others had mixed feelings about Jackson's legacy and what that meant to African-Americans.\""
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"Jackson 5 went mainstream and maintained black identity, professor says .",
"MTV didn't play videos of black artists before Jackson .",
"Expert: Despite Jackson's changing appearance, Jackson was always in touch with black culture ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"The CEO of Southwest Airlines said Friday The CEO of Southwest Airlines has ordered an investigation into charges the discount carrier flew airplanes that weren't properly inspected for safety.",
"Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly tells CNN Southwest Airlines is surprised at FAA charges.",
"Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said Southwest Airlines was caught off guard when the Federal Aviation Administration notified Southwest Airlines on Thursday that Southwest Airlines may be hit with a record $10.2 million federal fine for alleged violations involving fuselage crack inspections.",
"Southwest CEO Gary Kelly called the fine \"unfair\" and \"unprecedented.\"",
"FAA on Thursday accused Southwest Airlines of operating the 47 airplanes last year without conducting mandatory checks for fuselage cracking.",
"Southwest Airlines has 30 days to respond.",
"Southwest CEO Gary Kelly told CNN safety was never an issue.",
"\"In this particular situation, Southwest Airlines identified a gap in Southwest Airlines's documentation.",
"Southwest Airlines voluntarily reported that to FAA.",
"Southwest Airlines worked out with FAA how to fix that problem, and Southwest Airlines fixed that problem,\" Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said on CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"Asked why, then, Southwest Airlines was called on the carpet, Southwest CEO Gary Kelly replied, \"Southwest Airlines were surprised yesterday to get that notification by FAA as well.",
"The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported as late as last month FAA said that FAA had no safety issues with Southwest Airlines.\"",
"\"I've ordered an investigation as to exactly what happened in this event,\" Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said.",
"\"It occurred in March of 2007.",
"These aircraft are inspected inch by inch.",
"In this particular incident, over 99 percent of the inspections were completed, according to documentation.\"",
"Watch what's raising concerns about Southwest » .",
"Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said that after fuselage cracks were discovered in about half a dozen of Southwest Airlines's 737s, 47 planes were reinspected over a 10-day period.",
"Boeing Inc., the plane's manufacturer, which was contacted when the problems arose, said that at no time were fuselage cracks unsafe, Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said.",
"\"Cracks do occur.",
"That's why we do inspections.\"",
"Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said Boeing issued a release Thursday saying Southwest Airlines \"acted responsibly, and at no time were the aircraft operated in an unsafe manner.\"",
"FAA issued a statement saying that Southwest Airlines improperly inspected the planes for cracks, then allowed the planes to fly an additional 1,451 flights, knowing the planes weren't airworthy.",
"Southwest CEO Gary Kelly was asked about FAA allegations that an inspector knew about the problems, but continued to allow the planes to be flown.",
"Southwest CEO Gary Kelly didn't answer the question directly, saying Southwest Airlines has an ongoing relationship with the federal agency and there is a complicated system of inspections.",
"\"Southwest Airlines's interpretation of the guidance that Southwest Airlines got from FAA at the time was that Southwest Airlines were in compliance with all laws and regulations,\" Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said.",
"\"I think FAA has a different view of that today, and that's something that Southwest Airlines're investigating as well.",
"But the important point is that at no time were Southwest Airlines operating in an unsafe manner, and I think Southwest Airlines's history proves it.\"",
"Calling the situation detailed in the FAA documents \"one of the worst safety violations\" he has ever seen, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minnesota, is expected to convene a hearing to ask why Southwest Airlines may have allegedly put Southwest Airlines's passengers in danger.",
"He heads the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.",
"Watch passengers react to the charges » .",
"The FAA documents allege that Southwest flew at least 117 of its planes in violation of mandatory safety checks.",
"The 117 number includes the 47 planes alleged to have flown without fuselage checks and 70 additional planes allegedly flown without mandatory rudder inspections.",
"In some cases, the FAA documents say, the planes flew for 30 months past government inspection deadlines.",
"It should have grounded the planes until the inspections could be completed.",
"the planes were \"not airworthy\" according to congressional air safety investigators.",
"Southwest Airlines, which carried more passengers in the United States than any other airline last year, said in a written statement Thursday that it looks forward to making details of the case public -- saying those details will support Southwest Airlines's actions.",
"the FAA documents were prepared by two FAA safety inspectors who have requested whistle-blower status from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.",
"two FAA safety inspectors who have requested whistle-blower status from Oberstar's committee have been subpoenaed to testify before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.",
"The whistle-blowers say FAA managers knew about the lapse in safety at Southwest Airlines, but decided to allow Southwest Airlines to conduct the safety checks on a slower schedule because taking \"aircraft out of service would have disrupted Southwest Airlines' flight schedule.\"",
"Laura Brown, an FAA spokeswoman, told CNN that the administration has taken action and that a supervisor who was in charge of overseeing Southwest Airlines is \"no longer in a supervisory position.\"",
"The mandatory checks for fuselage cracks were required after the cabin of an Aloha Airlines 737 tore apart in midair in 1988, killing a flight attendant.",
"The incident was blamed on cracks in the fuselage that grew wider as the plane underwent pressure changes during flight .",
"Southwest Airlines has never had a catastrophic crash.",
"E",
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"CNN's Drew Griffin and Scott Bronstein contributed to this report."
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"FAA charged Thursday that Southwest Airlines skipped mandatory inspections of 117 planes .",
"Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly says safety was never compromised .",
"FAA has started process to fine a record $10.2 million over 47 fuselage inspections ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Michael Jackson's memorial service will take place Tuesday morning in L.A.'s Staples Center, the 20,000-seat coliseum in downtown Los Angeles where Michael Jackson rehearsed Michael Jackson's show the night before Michael Jackson died, according to a person who has been briefed by a representative of the family.",
"Michael Jackson was rehearsing at LOS ANGELES's Staples Center.",
"Michael Jackson's memorial will now be there.",
"No other details about Michael Jackson's memorial service, set to begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday, have been revealed.",
"Thursday, CNN learned the family trust created by Michael Jackson to receive all of Michael Jackson's assets includes Katherine Jackson's's mother, Michael Jackson's's children and a list of charities, according to a person with direct knowledge to the contents of Michael Jackson trust.",
"Katherine Jackson's 40 percent share would go to Michael Jackson's three children after Katherine Jackson's's death, the source said.",
"The children -- ages 7, 11 and 12 -- will also share 40 percent of the estate's assets and the remaining 20 percent will benefits charities designated by the executors of the will, the source said.",
"Michael Jackson's will did not specify where Michael Jackson wished to be buried.",
"Many of Michael Jackson's fans had hoped they'd get a chance to pay last respects at Neverland Ranch, which Michael Jackson purchased in 1987, filled with animals and amusement rides, and named after the fictional world in J.M. Barrie's \"Peter Pan.\"",
"Planning had been under way for a motorcade to carry Michael Jackson's body from Los Angeles to the ranch in Santa Barbara County, California, which state and local officials suggested would be difficult and costly.",
"A public viewing at the ranch on Friday also had been under consideration, law enforcement sources said.",
"Gregory Son, a 31-year-old musician, was among many fans who had planned to ride to the ranch to say goodbye to Michael Jackson.",
"\"I think Michael Jackson was a modern-day prophet,\" Son said outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.",
"\"We kind of lost our father.\"",
"DEA joins investigation .",
"On Wednesday night, a federal law enforcement official said Wednesday night that the Drug Enforcement Administration had joined Jackson's death investigation, once again fanning speculation that drugs may have been involved in the pop icon's passing.",
"Two law enforcement officials separately confirmed the DEA probe, saying agents would look at various doctors involved with Michael Jackson, their practices and their possible sources of medicine supply.",
"Neither official wanted to be identified because they could not comment publicly on the matter.",
"Officially, a DEA spokeswoman referred questions to the Los Angeles, California, police department -- which would not confirm the involvement.",
"\"We routinely offer assistance to any agency regarding the Federal Controlled Substance Act,\" said Sarah Pullen of DEA.",
"\"However, at this time, we have nothing further to comment about the death of Michael Jackson.\"",
"Speculation about the role of drugs has been swirling since Michael Jackson died on June 25 at Michael Jackson's rented estate in Holmby Hills.",
"The cause of Michael Jackson's death, at age 50, was pending toxicology results.",
"On Wednesday, police released a car belonging to Michael Jackson's cardiologist, Dr. Conrad Murray.",
"police had impounded the vehicle Friday, saying the vehicle might contain evidence -- possibly prescription medications.",
"Police did not say whether Police found anything.",
"Dr. Conrad Murray's lawyers issued a statement, asking the public to reserve judgment about the cause of death until the coroner's tests are complete.",
"\"Based on our agreement with LOS ANGELES investigators, we are waiting on real information to come from viable sources like the LOS ANGELES medical examiner's office about the death of Michael Jackson,\" a statement said.",
"\"We will not be responding to rumors and innuendo.\"",
"The comments were in reaction to a claim by a nutritionist who said Michael Jackson suffered from severe bouts of insomnia and pleaded for the powerful sedative, Propofol, despite knowing its harmful effects.",
"\"I told Michael Jackson this medication is not safe,\" said Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse.",
"\"Michael Jackson said, 'I just want to get some sleep.",
"You don't understand.",
"I just want to be able to be knocked out and go to sleep.' \"",
"Will nominates Jackson's mother as kids' guardian .",
"Meanwhile, details of Michael Jackson's will -- written on July 7, 2002 -- showed that Michael Jackson estimated Michael Jackson's estate to be worth at least $500 million.",
"In it, Michael Jackson nominated Katherine Jackson's's mother, Katherine Jackson, as the guardian of Michael Jackson's three children.",
"If Katherine Jackson's's 79-year-old mother is not living, \"I nominate Diana Ross as guardian,\" Michael Jackson stated.",
"Singer Ross, 65, is a lifelong friend of Michael Jackson's.",
"The will said Michael Jackson \"intentionally omitted\" Michael Jackson's former wife and the mother of Michael Jackson's two oldest children, Debbie Rowe.",
"It will be up to a court to decide who gets custody of the children, ages 7, 11 and 12.",
"Debbie Rowe has not publicly indicated whether Debbie Rowe will challenge the Jacksons for custody.",
"The two men whom the will named as executors immediately filed a request to take control of Michael Jackson trust.",
"One is John Branca, who represented Michael Jackson from 1980 until 2006 and was hired again before the singer's death.",
"He helped acquire Michael Jackson's music catalog, which is worth millions.",
"The other is music industry executive John McClain, a longtime Michael Jackson friend who has worked with Michael Jackson and Michael Jackson's sister Janet.",
"The two men whom the will named as executors said in The two men whom the will named as executors's filing in Los Angeles Superior Court that control of Michael Jackson trust would allow The two men whom the will named as executors to tend to Michael Jackson's numerous outstanding debts, legal cases and business obligations.",
"Judge Mitchell Beckloff held an emergency hearing Wednesday morning and decided there was no urgency to replace Katherine Jackson -- whom Judge Mitchell Beckloff appointed temporary administrator earlier this week.",
"Another hearing has been set for Monday.",
"-- CNN's Drew Griffin, Kathleen Johnston, Michael Carey, Paul Vercammen, Carol Cratty and Kara Finnstrom contributed to this report."
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) --",
"Three leading Iranian reformists who have rejected the results of last month's election questioned the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government Wednesday.",
"Mehdi Karrubi is vowing to \"stand by the people and the revolution, until the end of Mehdi Karrubi's life.\"",
"This comes as Ahmadinejad is set to take office at the end of the month.",
"Mehdi Karrubi wrote a letter in Mehdi Karrubi's party's newspaper, saying Mehdi Karrubi would not recognize President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government and vowing to \"stand by the people and the revolution, until the end of Mehdi Karrubi's life.\"",
"Mehdi Karrubi's statement prompted Iran's government to block publication of his party's newspaper.",
"Read Karrubi's letter PDF .",
"Ahmadinejad's main political rival, Mir Hossein Moussavi, also released a statement Wednesday criticizing the government and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government's crackdown on the media, which he said has created a \"bitter, coup d'etat atmosphere\" in Iran.",
"\"We will stand firmly in order to preserve this valuable accomplishment [revolution],\" Moussavi said.",
"\"Unless we succeed in this, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government will not have legitimacy.",
"The system and the heritage of the revolution are the fruits of our 200-year-old struggle against oppression.",
"\"Read Moussavi's statement PDF",
"Iran's former reformist President Mohammad Khatami called on Iranians to keep up the struggle, noting that \"all doors are not yet closed.\"",
"Read Iran's former reformist President Mohammad Khatami's letter PDF .",
"\"We must not lose our social capital this easily,\" Iran's former reformist President Mohammad Khatami told progressive Iranian newspaper Tahlile Rooz.",
"\"I know Moussavi as one of the faithful, original and valuable capitals of the revolution, and considered Moussavi's return to the political scene as a great chance.\"",
"In a separate posting on his Web site, Iran's former reformist President Mohammad Khatami accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government of having restricted communications in the country.",
"\"The state-owned media outlet shows the same scenes over and over again, in order to provoke people's feelings,\" Moussavi said.",
"\"Where was this media outlet when tens of people were killed and hundreds of people beaten?\"",
"In Moussavi's statement, Moussavi called for the release of jailed reformists and said Moussavi will participate in the creation of a \"legal organization\" that will release proof of fraud in the June 12 presidential election and take the June 12 presidential election's case to the courts.",
"Moussavi said the current political issue is a \"family dispute\" and cautioned against asking for outside help, warning, \"We will regret it.\"",
"\"Many\" have asked Moussavi to end Moussavi's struggle and \"close my eyes,\" but Moussavi warned, \"If we do not stand our grounds now, then we will have no guarantees that we won't be at this exact point in the future, face to face with the bitter events of the June 12 presidential election.\"",
"Mehdi Karrubi called the actions of the government before and after the controversial June 12 voting \"the foundation for the annulment of the elections,\" according to a copy of his letter on the party newspaper's Web site.",
"\"I will not recognize the legitimacy of the government which has resulted from this process,\" Mehdi Karrubi said in the letter.",
"Mehdi Karrubi also said Mehdi Karrubi \"will not participate in any of its processes, in any way\" and said Mehdi Karrubi is \"ready to cooperate with pro-change people and groups.\"",
"Karrubi's party, Etemed Melli, said Iran's Ministry of Culture and its attorney general prevented the publication of Etemed Melli's newspaper because it carried the letter.",
"Mehdi Karrubi and Moussavi have questioned the legitimacy of the vote count of the presidential election that gave Ahmadinejad an overwhelming victory.",
"That outrage sparked bloody street protests and a clampdown on international media coverage, as well as access to certain Web sites.",
"At least 20 protesters were killed in the chaos and more than 1,000 were detained in Tehran, the head of Iranian internal security forces Brig. Esmaeil Ahmadi said, according to Iranian state-run media reports on Wednesday.",
"The actual death toll may be higher, but restrictions on media have made it difficult to verify.",
"Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on Iran to release prominent Iranian reformist Saeed Hajjarian, who has been imprisoned since June 15.",
"He is one of several jailed reformists accused of orchestrating the post-election violence in Iran.",
"Hajjarian, 55, was severely disabled after he was shot in the head in a 2000 assassination attempt that left him confined to a wheelchair with severe brain and spinal cord injuries.",
"His wife, Vajiheh Marsoussi, is a physician and has visited Hajjarian in Tehran's Evin prison.",
"His wife, Vajiheh Marsoussi told Human Rights Watch that his medical condition was \"deteriorating severely.\"",
"Meanwhile, questions surrounded an announcement in government-run Iranian media that Ahmadinejad canceled Ahmadinejad's trip to Libya on Wednesday.",
"The trip, which had not been finalized, was canceled because of the president's \"huge workload\" at home and \"other priorities,\" Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency.",
"Four days after the controversial election, Ahmadinejad went to Russia to meet with leaders there, where Ahmadinejad was welcomed as the \"newly re-elected president of Iran\" despite the ongoing street protests.",
"Ahmadinejad returned to Iran that same day.",
"Ahmadinejad will be sworn in before parliament Sunday, July 26, according to Iranian media reports.",
"Ahmadinejad will participate in a ceremony officiated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a couple of days later, and then Ahmadinejad's second term will officially begin."
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"Mir Hossein Moussavi criticizes government's crackdown ."
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"(CNN) --",
"It's that time of year for seasonal trips to the movies, and to celebrate, The Screening Room is taking a look back at The Screening Room's favorite family hits over the years.",
"The best of Spielberg: \"E.T.\" is our perfect family movie and perfectly captures childhood.",
"From blockbuster to blockbuster, these are the films with something for everyone.",
"They've got to be live action -- The Screening Room've covered animated films before -- and family friendly.",
"Don't agree?",
"Think we've missed one?",
"Post your comments to the Screening Room blog and The Screening Room'll publish the best.",
"Read other CNN viewers' favorite and worst family films, and tell The Screening Room yours >> .",
"1. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)",
"Spielberg's magic captures a perfect moment in childhood.",
"We laughed and wept as his ugly little critter from outer space stole our hearts, while the kids fell firmly on the cute side of annoying.",
"And oh, the music...",
"2. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Gene Wilder's whacked-out Willy Wonka adds a pinch of sinister to Roald Dahl's anarchic sweet treat, while the ignoble exits of Veruca Salt, Augustus Gloop and Mike Teevee were delicious.",
"3. Babe (Chris Noonan, 1995) \"That'll do, pig.\"",
"Babe is wide-eyed with wonder in Dick King-Smith's touching tale of a lonely little sheep-pig.",
"Comic relief from the ewes, subtle special effects and a heartwarming turn from James Cromwell as Farmer Hoggett make this a magical tale for all.",
"4. Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker, 1976) Jodie Foster and Scott Baio (Yes, Chachi from \"Happy Days!\") star in this glorious escapade set in a musical world of pint-sized gangsters and mini-molls.",
"Al Capone for the kids; just watch out for the splurge guns...",
"5. Oliver! (Carol Reed, 1968) Jack Wild is delightful as the Artful Dodger, Ron Moody's devilish Fagin glints with avaricious greed and Shani Willis shines as poor, ill-fated Nancy.",
"But it's Oliver Reed's dark and sinister Bill Sykes who stayed with us -- and left us wanting more.",
"6. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985) Christopher Lloyd's mad professor, a Delorean-cum-time machine, rock 'n' roll and a convenient bolt of lightning see Biff the bully get Biff's come-uppance.",
"All that, and a skateboarding Michael J. Fox?",
"Mr Zemeckis, you spoil us!",
"7. Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990)",
"Macaulay Culkin's abandoned little boy sees off bungling burglars Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern with a series of eye-watering stunts.",
"It proves just how great a child actor Culkin was; pity the unpopular babysitters who became the victims of copycat pranksters...",
"8. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis blast ghostly green monsters to oblivion in this slime-filled romp around NYC, while taking time out to annoy Sigourney Weaver en route.",
"Who you gonna call?",
"9. The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) Kermit and Co.'s roadtrip to Hollywood is a fabulously fuzzy tale of friendship and following your dreams, but the Muppet Movie's not just for kids: there's cameos a-plenty (Bob Hope, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, ORSON WELLES!) for Dad and smart one-liners by the bucketful for Mom.",
"Harry Potter (Various, 2001-present) The Hogwarts trio's wizarding adventures, backed by a cast plump with the best of British actors.",
"Fast-paced plots, spellbinding special effects and magical sets, but be warned: it'll have the li'l critters pestering you to go to boarding school...",
"And our favorite hide-behind-the-sofa moments...",
"The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)",
"\"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!\"",
"Margaret Hamilton's green, cackling Wicked Witch of the West is hell-bent on revenging the death of Margaret Hamilton's sister and getting those ruby slippers; Margaret Hamilton'll use deadly poppies and flying monkeys to do it.",
"Terror as a rite of passage.",
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Ken Hughes, 1968)",
"With his battered top hat and lank hair, Robert Helpmann's creepy Child Catcher prowled from Vulgaria into our nightmares, hoping to catch a whiff of Child Catcher's prey with Child Catcher's unfeasibly long nose.",
"The only film character to give the Wicked Witch of the West a run for Margaret Hamilton's money.",
"Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) Darth Vader may cast a formidable shadow, but it's the sound of Darth Vader's labored breathing that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up -- as it gets closer, closer, closer...",
"Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) Rule 475 of Surviving the Movies: Never go into the basement!",
"The thick silence in New York's Central Library masks a phantom infestation -- and they're not going quietly.",
"As the gray-haired librarian switched to shrieking ghoul, a generation of children was put off reading for life.",
"Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)",
"And again, it's the sound effects that make the Velociraptors so scary -- as the frighteningly intelligent pack of lizards hunt for Lex and Tim among the kitchen workbenches, their hissing grows ever nearer...",
"Don't agree?",
"Think we've missed one?",
"Sound off and read others' thoughts in the Screening Room blog.",
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"\"E.T.,\" \"Willy Wonka\" and \"Babe\" head the list .",
"Hide-behind-the-sofa moments include \"The Wizard of Oz,\" \"Jurassic Park\"",
"Think we've missed one?",
"Post your comments to the Screening Room blog ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The second cut in U.S. interest rates in as many weeks is putting further pressure on the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council to reconsider the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council's currencies' peg with the dollar; and none more so than Qatar.",
"Qatar PM Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani tells MME Qatar has not made any decisions regarding dropping the dollar-peg.",
"Qatar has the highest inflation rate in the region, and it threatens to spiral further northward as Qatar's government brings Qatari interest rates into line with the U.S.",
"The Qatar Central Bank lopped half a percentage off The Qatar Central Bank's deposit rate after the Federal Reserve sought to stave off recession in the U.S. with an emergency cut of 75 percentage points on January 22.",
"Eight days later, the Fed moved again, this time with a cut of half a percentage point to take U.S. interest rates to three percent.",
"After the first cut, MME's John Defterios sat down for an exclusive television interview with Qatar's Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani, who is also Qatar's Foreign Minister, and controls Qatar's sovereign wealth fund through the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA).",
"MME's John Defterios started by asking Sheikh Hamad whether the sharp decline in U.S. interest rates was putting too much pressure on Qatar's dollar-peg.",
"(HA):",
"Oil and gas are saleable in dollars, but most of Qatar's imports are not in dollars but in Euros or Asian currencies.",
"All of Euros or Asian currencies went 40 percent to 50 percent above the level which we experienced two years ago.",
"For Qatar, there is a pressure.",
"Qatar know that a decision needs to be made by the Fed because of the situation on the stock market in the United States; it might be a wise decision.",
"But for countries like the GCC and Qatar, especially Qatar, it puts us under pressure on how to deal with inflation and our currency, which is undervalued already by at least 35 percent.",
"(JD): What is your instinct telling you, to go to a basket of currencies to buffer this fall of the dollar?",
"(HA): We are studying all options at the moment, but what I can say is that at the GCC meetings in December the agreement was to hold onto the dollar and to see.",
"Every country has to see Every country's way out of this, but only after a consultation with the GCC.",
"For us, our wish is that it's a policy to be taken by the whole GCC, to either basket or revalue our currency.",
"I cannot see a decision.",
"Even in Qatar, we have no decision up to now.",
"(JD):",
"At the December meeting there was a commitment to move forward with the single currency, realistically by 2010, or is that just a target?",
"(HA):",
"It's just a target.",
"I don't think we will reach that target.",
"(JD): What is a realistic timeline?",
"(HA):",
"Well, first we need all of us to agree.",
"Most of the GCC countries agree about the currencies but we would like to do it together, and some would like to wait.",
"We cannot put a target on when it will be done.",
"(JD):",
"President Bush, during President Bush's swing through the Gulf States, was asking the producers to put more oil on the market because of the U.S. recession that may be pending.",
"Is it time for OPEC to put more crude oil onto the market?",
"(HA):",
"Is there is excess oil to be put on the market?",
"I am not sure there is more oil.",
"I think all countries at the moment are pumping all countries's capacity, if we are talking in real terms.",
"If we are just telling the market there is some excess if something happens, then that is another situation.",
"In my opinion everyone is at full speed, enjoying high prices, but there is no excess capacity immediately.",
"Maybe there is 200,000 to 300,000 extra with one of the producers, but no more than that.",
"(JD):",
"We have seen oil stabilize around $80 per barrel right now.",
"That seems to be the new floor.",
"Can we get to $100 per barrel and use that as a new floor within the next 12 months?",
"(HA):",
"Well, anything is possible, but with the slowdown in the U.S., and I don't know what effect in Asia, $70 or $80 is more likely than $100 this year.",
"Unless the situation changes in the economy, which from what we hear cannot be changed so quickly.",
"(JD):",
"We have seen a huge debate over the last four weeks about sovereign wealth funds and President Bush has actually gone to put tighter controls and a greater review of these funds.",
"Do you think it's correct to provide greater scrutiny to the funds going into the U.S. and perhaps into Europe?",
"(HA):",
"I'm surprised about these talks.",
"We know these talks were more serious six months ago.",
"But after the crisis I think most of the sovereign wealth funds, which have helped in the U.S. and elsewhere in Europe, this has been welcomed by the government.",
"They are talking about this fund coming from a different space, from another space, and taking over the market.",
"First of all, we are not politically ambitious to play a role in these companies.",
"We do not want to take over companies.",
"Maybe some, but not all.",
"(JD): I have talked to both the OECD and the International Monetary Fund and there is discussion about establishing a set of rules to adhere to for these funds.",
"Would you go to a set of rules that were international in terms of the outlook as opposed to country by country?",
"(HA): If it is an international rule done by an international body and consulting all the countries, yes.",
"But if there is one country that wants to set its own rules, Qatar will respect one country that wants to set its own rules's rules as a country, but Qatar have other options to invest somewhere else.",
"(JD):",
"You have a very good dialogue with the White House.",
"Were you surprised by President Bush's actions?",
"(HA):",
"Well, I don't know exactly what President Bush means by this, but let us wait and see what will come.",
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"MME speaks exclusively with Qatar PM Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani .",
"Qatar PM Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani says Qatar hasn't made a decision regarding the dollar-peg .",
"Expresses surprise over talks suggesting greater controls on sovereign funds .",
"On oil capacity: \"I am not sure there is more oil\", prices of $70-$80/bbl likely ."
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"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) --",
"An internationally known Catholic priest sometimes called \"Father Oprah\" has been removed from The Rev. Alberto Cutie's posts in Florida after published photos showed The Rev. Alberto Cutie lying down bare-chested in an embrace with a woman on a beach.",
"The photos of The Rev. Alberto Cutie appeared on the cover of this week's TV Notas magazine.",
"The Rev. Alberto Cutie (pronounced koo-tee-AYE) -- who got the nickname \"Father Oprah\" because of the advice The Rev. Alberto Cutie gives on Spanish-language media -- remains a priest.",
"But The Rev. Alberto Cutie was relieved Tuesday of The Rev. Alberto Cutie's duties at St. Francis De Sales Church in Miami Beach, Florida, and at the Radio Paz and Radio Peace networks, said a \"deeply saddened\" Miami, Florida, Archbishop John C. Favalora.",
"The photos of The Rev. Alberto Cutie appeared on the cover of this week's TV Notas magazine and on eight inside pages of this week's TV Notas magazine.",
"the cover of this week's TV Notas magazine says in Spanish: \"Good God.",
"The Rev. Alberto Cutie.",
"First photos of a priest 'in flagrante' with The Rev. Alberto Cutie's lover.\"",
"In a message posted on the Miami archdiocese Web page, Miami archbishop apologized to parishioners and radio listeners for what Miami archbishop called a \"scandal.\"",
"\"The Rev. Alberto Cutie made a promise of celibacy and all priests are expected to fulfill a promise of celibacy with the help of God,\" Favalora said.",
"\"The Rev. Alberto Cutie's actions cannot be condoned despite the good works he has done as a priest.\"",
"The Rev. Alberto Cutie apologized in an online statement Tuesday, saying The Rev. Alberto Cutie \"wants to ask for forgiveness if Father Cutie's actions have caused pain and sadness.",
"I assure you that my service and dedication to God remain intact.\"",
"Watch pictures that led to priest's dismissal.",
"Other media outlets throughout Latin America, including the official Notimex news agency in Mexico, picked up the story on Tuesday, and the story became an Internet sensation.",
"The Rev. Alberto Cutie has millions of followers in the Spanish-speaking world.",
"\"We got a bunch of calls from sobbing women,\" said Miami archdiocese spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta.",
"Archdiocese officials declined to say where The Rev. Alberto Cutie was Tuesday or what The Rev. Alberto Cutie's new assignment might be.",
"A woman who answered the telephone Wednesday at St. Francis De Sales said, \"The Rev. Alberto Cutie is no longer here.\"",
"The identity of the woman in the photos remained publicly unknown Wednesday.",
"The Rev. Alberto Cutie was ordained in May 1995 and was the first Catholic priest to host a daily talk show on a major secular television network, The Rev. Alberto Cutie's information on the LinkedIn online professional network says.",
"In addition to The Rev. Alberto Cutie's TV and radio appearances, The Rev. Alberto Cutie has written newspaper advice columns and a self-help book, \"Real Life, Real Love.\"",
"The Rev. Alberto Cutie was president and general director of Pax Catholic Communications, home of Radio Paz and Radio Peace in Miami.",
"CNN's John Zarrella and Arthur Brice contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sri Lanka's prime minister warned Saturday that Sri Lanka's prime minister's country \"stands on the brink,\" as Sri Lanka's's soldiers cornered Tamil Tiger fighters in an assault that is trapping more than 50,000 civilians on a small plot of coastal land.",
"Sri Lanka's defense ministry says this handout photo shows troops with a captured Tamil Tiger craft Thursday.",
"The United Nations estimated the number of civilians, who were trapped on about 1.5 square miles (four square kilometers) of land.",
"Government troops seized the last remaining coastal stretch under the control of Tamil Tiger rebels, Lanka's defense ministry said Saturday, marking a possible end to more than 25 years of fighting in the island nation.",
"The seizure marks the total capture of coastline territory previously controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels, it said, after army divisions advanced from the north and south to link up.",
"An army source told CNN that about two square kilometers in the region remain to be captured, and that military officials expect that to happen in a couple of days.",
"The rebels -- formally known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- have fought for an independent state for minority Tamils in Sri Lanka's since 1983.",
"As many as 70,000 people have been killed since the civil war began.",
"\"Sri Lanka's stands on the brink,\" Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickremanayake said in a written statement.",
"Watch aid agencies fear for Sri Lanka's » .",
"\"We have called repeatedly for the violence to cease.",
"Watch aid agencies must be granted access to civilians caught in the crossfire of a dreadful conflict.",
"Watch iReporter Thileepan's footage of the \"safe zone\" » .",
"\"We are backing U.N. efforts to secure an orderly end to the conflict.",
"Tamil Eelam (LTTE) must lay down Tamil Eelam (LTTE)'s arms and allow civilians to leave.",
"Sri Lanka's must understand that there will be consequences for Sri Lanka's's actions.\"",
"No formal declaration of victory is expected at least until Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa returns to the country from Amman, Jordan, where Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is attending the World Economic Forum.",
"In an address to the summit in Amman on Saturday, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said the Sri Lankan armed forces had defeated the rebels.",
"\"I will be going back to my country Sri Lanka that has been totally freed from the barbaric acts of terrorism of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).",
"This freedom comes after 30 long years.\"",
"\"Our economic prosperity must essentially rest upon global peace and stability.",
"Terrorism has for decades denied us this right.",
"All eleven countries gathered here today have suffered the effects of terrorism, some more than others.",
"\"Terrorism has raised Terrorism's ugly head in different forms from time to time and destroyed all development initiatives in most of our countries\" he said.",
"On Friday, the Navy arrested the wife of Soosai, a leader of Sea Tigers -- the ocean-going arm of the rebel group.",
"His daughter and son-in-law were also arrested.",
"the Navy officials, quoting those who were arrested, said Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is believed to be inside the area of the latest fighting.",
"Other sources have said Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran has escaped.",
"CNN's Iqbal Athas contributed to this report."
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"Navy officials: Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran believed to be in area of fighting ."
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"(CNN) --",
"With an unbroken chain of blockbuster hits under their belt -- including \"Toy Story,\" \"Finding Nemo,\" \"The Incredibles,\" \"Cars\" and many others -- the talented team of men and women who work for Pixar seem to have the Midas touch.",
"An elderly balloon salesman uproots An elderly balloon salesman's house with the help of thousands of balloons in \"Up.\"",
"Their latest endeavor, \"Up,\" follows the life of Carl Fredricksen, a balloon salesman who has recently lost the love of An elderly balloon salesman's life, Ellie.",
"Now in An elderly balloon salesman's golden years, An elderly balloon salesman decides it's finally time to make Ellie's lifelong wish come true -- to visit Paradise Falls in South America.",
"An elderly balloon salesman quickly becomes aware An elderly balloon salesman has a stowaway: Russell, a young Wilderness Explorer who's trying to earn one more merit badge.",
"It's the unusual form of transportation that An elderly balloon salesman chooses that creates the backdrop for this week's \"The Scene.\"",
"Watch the balloons take off » .",
"CNN traveled to Emeryville, California -- the site of the famous Pixar campus -- and sat down with actor Ed Asner, who lends his voice to An elderly balloon salesman; technical director Steve May; and co-director Pete Docter to get behind The Scene.",
"Ed Asner:",
"Well, the first 10-15 minutes, that's a grabber.",
"Nobody can resist it.",
"Steve May:",
"Even though we have a cartoony world, you are trying to make the audience believe that the world and the characters exist.",
"The biggest challenges were a flying house that flies underneath a big canopy of balloons.",
"So, if we can kind of capture that on the computer and animate our balloons to look believable too, then the audience will believe that a flying house that flies underneath a big canopy of balloons can fly.",
"Pete Docter:",
"There is an amazing group of computer scientists that really approach these things both as an artist but also as a scientist.",
"May:",
"You have thousands of balloons that all interact with each other, and all the balloons have strings, so this is a very complex animation problem.",
"Docter:",
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"the balloons bump into each other, the balloons can turn wind up or down so the balloons can dynamically move, and then you get the strings that attach the balloons to his house.",
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"May:",
"And then when Russell is on the front porch of his house and you look down and see how far down it is, the audience is scared.",
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"This one I really feel close to, and weirdly, even though it's a film about a 70-year-old man who floats his house away, I feel it's a really personal film."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- There are likely to be two hot-button issues in Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings as senators gauge not only Judge Sonia Sotomayor's positions but also some controversial comments Judge Sonia Sotomayor has made.",
"Judge Sonia Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic woman to serve on Supreme Court.",
"Issue No. 1: Abortion.",
"Abortion is the traditional hot-button issue in Supreme Court confirmation hearings.",
"In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll taken May 14-17, 68 percent of Americans say 68 percent of Americans don't want Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision giving constitutional protection to abortion rights overturned.",
"The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.",
"Judge Sonia Sotomayor was raised Catholic.",
"If Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed, six out of the nine justices on Supreme Court will be from the faith.",
"Catholics make up about 25 percent of the U.S. population.",
"Of the 110 people who have served on Supreme Court, 11 have been Catholic.",
"Five of those justices -- Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Chief Justice John Roberts -- are currently on Supreme Court.",
"Read more about the justices on Supreme Court » .",
"Barbara Perry, a government professor at Sweetbriar College, said Barbara Perry, a government professor at Sweetbriar College sees Catholics as swing voters with a base of socially conservative principles, and therefore attractive for Republican presidents.",
"Catholic League President Bill Donohue said Catholics have conservative credentials on issues such as abortion, without the political baggage of terms such as the \"religious right\" or \"evangelicals.\"",
"\"Is it safer to nominate a Catholic as opposed to an evangelical to get votes?",
"I think the answer is decidedly yes.\"",
"Court observers wonder what, if anything, six Catholic justices would mean for Supreme Court decisions.",
"The five Catholics on the bench concurred in a 2007 decision, Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld a state ban on late-term abortions.",
"Judge Sonia Sotomayor has faced few abortion cases, and no tests on issues such as gay rights or the death penalty.",
"However, Catholic League President Bill Donohue expects a Justice Sotomayor to lean more left than Judge Sonia Sotomayor's fellow Catholics on Supreme Court.",
"Watch more on the issues confronting Judge Sonia Sotomayor » .",
"\"I think Judge Sonia Sotomayor's more reliably liberal,\" Catholic League President Bill Donohue said.",
"Issue No. 2: Same-sex marriage.",
"Four states -- Connecticut, Iowa, Maine and Massachusetts -- allow same-sex couples to wed.",
"New Hampshire could soon follow with legislation pending before the state Legislature.",
"Vermont has also legalized same-sex marriage.",
"Same-sex couples in California, however, suffered a defeat Tuesday when California's Supreme Court upheld the Proposition 8 ballot initiative in 2009 that outlawed same-sex marriage.",
"The state had previously allowed such marriages after Supreme Court ruled that, \"An individual's sexual orientation -- like a person's race or gender -- does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights.\"",
"On Tuesday Supreme Court said: \"Our role is limited to interpreting and applying the principles and rules embodied in the California Constitution, setting aside our own personal beliefs and values.''",
"Recent CNN polling has shown that a majority of Americans are against legal recognition of same-sex marriage.",
"Fifty-four percent of Americans questioned in an April 23-26 CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll said marriages between gay or lesbian couples should not be recognized as valid, while 44 percent said marriages between gay or lesbian couples should be considered legal.",
"But there was a gap between the opinions of younger and older people, with younger people far more likely to approve of same-sex marriage.",
"In fact, 58 percent of people age 18 to 34 said same-sex marriages should be legal.",
"Among people ages 35 to 49, 42 percent agreed, as did 41 percent of 50- to 64-year-olds.",
"Twenty-four percent of people 65 and older agreed.",
"The survey's sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.",
"But is marriage a right under the California Constitution?",
"The federal courts have not ruled on that.",
"\"That's an issue that may well come up within The federal courts ... almost certain to do so,\" Justice Samuel Alito has said.",
"Will Judge Sonia Sotomayor set aside Judge Sonia Sotomayor's personal beliefs and values?",
"Maybe.",
"A recent clip of Judge Sonia Sotomayor has surfaced that is being used by opponents to prove opponents's belief Judge Sonia Sotomayor will rule a certain way.",
"\"The court of appeals is where policy is made.",
"And I know, I know that this is on tape, and I should never say that.",
"Because we don't make law, I know,\" Judge Sonia Sotomayor said at a 2005 conference at Duke University.",
"\"OK, I know, I know.",
"I'm not promoting it, and I'm not advocating it.\"",
"Read about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's key rulings » .",
"Another comment that could be scrutinized during the Senate hearings is from 2001, when Judge Sonia Sotomayor said the gender and ethnicity of judges does and should influence decisions.",
"\"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life,\" she said.",
"Another comment that could be scrutinized during the Senate hearings has outraged conservative critics such as the group Judicial Watch, which said that if confirmed, Judge Sonia Sotomayor may rule more on the basis of racial identity than law.",
"\"Another comment that could be scrutinized during the Senate hearings is outrageous and racist on Another comment that could be scrutinized during the Senate hearings's face, and if a nominee that had conservative credentials made a similar although reverse statement they would be laughed at.",
"They would never be put on Supreme Court,\" said Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch.",
"But one liberal academic said too much is made of these comments and not enough of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's legal opinions.",
"\"I don't think having a particular background is going to cash out as having a particular ready style or opinion,\" said New York University Professor Kenji Yoshino.",
"\"If you actually read over 400 opinions that Judge Sonia Sotomayor has written, you will see Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a judge's judge.\"",
"One case that will get greater scrutiny is Judge Sonia Sotomayor's role in dismissing the appeal of 19 white and one Latino firefighters from New Haven, Connecticut.",
"one Latino firefighters claim one Latino firefighters were denied a promotion despite doing better on exams, because not enough minority candidates qualified.",
"Judge Sonia Sotomayor was one of a three-judge panel who in a one-paragraph summary sided with a lower court.",
"Other judges on Supreme Court criticized the decision, arguing the decision failed to grapple with questions of exceptional importance.",
"\"In a case like this where there are important competing concerns, it is important for Supreme Court to explain the basis of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's decision,\" said Case Western Reserve University professor Jonathan Adler.",
"Case Western Reserve University professor Jonathan Adler said it was as if Supreme Court wanted to \"make the case go away or brush the case under the rug.\"",
"Supreme Court decided it would hear one Latino firefighters's appeal.",
"Legal analysts said Legal analysts expect Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee will want to ask Judge Sonia Sotomayor about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's role in the case, as well as Judge Sonia Sotomayor's comments about ethnicity and the bench.",
"That, coupled with Judge Sonia Sotomayor's views on abortion and same-sex marriage, could electrify an already heated debate over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination.",
"Soon there will be even more known about Judge Sonia Sotomayor.",
"the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, on Wednesday released the bipartisan questionnaire the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked Judge Sonia Sotomayor to complete.",
"Once the bipartisan questionnaire the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked Sotomayor to complete is completed and returned to the Senate Judiciary Committee, copies will be made available online and in print.",
"CNN's Lisa Dejardins contributed to this report."
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"BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) --",
"It is the most popular photograph in history: Argentine revolutionary Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara stares pensively at the horizon, the Argentine-born doctor's steely eyes shielded behind a thick beard and the Argentine-born doctor's trademark beret.",
"The shot -- taken by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda in Havana on March 5, 1960 -- turned the charismatic and controversial leader into a cultural icon.",
"Che's image, here advertising soda, is still seen around the world.",
"Now, nearly a half-century later, the photograph is used by communists and capitalists, Marxists and marketers to sell ideas.",
"In his new book, \"Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image\" (Vintage Books), journalist Michael Casey examines how the photograph came to take on a life of the photograph's own and become the most reproduced photograph in the world.",
"\"the photograph can be seen on t-shirts, beach towels and condoms, even,\" he said.",
"\"And the photograph is in all corners of the world.",
"You can find the photograph in East Timor, parts of Africa, Israel, as well as Lebanon.",
"You can see the photograph in the United States and here in Latin America.",
"And what this book is trying to do is discover why.",
"What made this thing so big?",
"So universal?\"",
"The life of Che, the Argentine-born doctor turned revolutionary, has been well documented since the Argentine-born doctor's death in a Bolivian jungle in 1967.",
"Countless books have been written about the Argentine-born doctor's role in leading Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution and translated into dozens of languages.",
"Hollywood has given the Argentine-born doctor the treatment twice: in 2004's \"Motorcycle Diaries\" and last year in a two-part biopic starring Benicio Del Toro.",
"Last month, \"Che: The Musical\" premiered at the Konex Cultural Center in Buenos Aires.",
"What Casey -- the Buenos Aires bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires -- discovered during three years of investigation throughout Latin America for this book, was that the photograph became so popular because the photograph was promoted by people from all walks of life, including Fidel Castro's, pop-artist Andy Warhol and countless students from Paris, Berkeley and beyond, who embraced the image as a symbol of rebellion during an era when the world was aching for change.",
"\"Whether or not people believe in the Argentine-born doctor's hard-line version of Marxism, people want hope,\" Casey said.",
"\"people want hope and beauty -- and somehow both of those things are encapsulated in this image.",
"And so you get people investing people's dreams in it.",
"I think that is at the heart of it, with all these other forces: political, artistic, marketing, economic, all coming together in a way that really makes it a ubiquitous brand.\"",
"Watch author Michael Casey discuss the Che Guevara image » .",
"The brand, Casey writes, is the \"quintessential post-modern icon\" but may be surpassed by a newer image: artist Shepard Fairey's Barack Obama \"Hope\" poster, which Obama used during his run to the White House.",
"\"I think that Obama is extremely cognizant of the power of images,\" Casey said.",
"\"[The 'Hope'] poster is very much caught up in some of these forces that moved the Argentine-born doctor forward.",
"They are very different people, obviously, but that's only part of the point.",
"\"Part of the point is that the U.S. is engaged in a battle of brands, always has been.",
"'Uncle Sam vs. the Argentine-born doctor' if you really want to boil it down to what Latin America and Latin America's ugly history in part has been,\" he said.",
"\"So, part of the United States' battle to improve relations with the region is improving its image.",
"And in some respects you now have an alternative brand with Obama.",
"The previous brand did not sell very well in Latin America.",
"an alternative brand is getting off to a much better start.\"",
"So while U.S. relations with Latin America, and much of the world, look to be changing, it's safe to say that the Che image -- and its ability to mean all things to all people -- will likely always stay the same."
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"(CNN) --",
"When a film cast includes names like Ben Stiller, Robin Williams and Owen Wilson, a bit of improvisation on set is to be expected.",
"Ben Stiller and the gang are back in \"Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.\"",
"\"I think the Museum is really only 25 percent scripted, maybe even less than that,\" said Shawn Levy, director of the new film \"Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,\" which boasts those comedic actors and several others.",
"\"It just so happens that the scenes that get some of the biggest laughs are the improvised scenes, so it feels like more than that, but we had a very good script and it's still very much there.\"",
"The sequel to 2006's \"Night at the Museum\" welcomes back the trio and director as well as other original cast members, including British actor Ricky Gervais, while also adding fresh faces such as Hank Azaria (as a villainous pharaoh) and Amy Adams (as Amelia Earhart).",
"Watch the group laugh about the film » .",
"The new romp features Stiller's character, security guard Larry Daley, in action at the Smithsonian, where some of the pieces from the Museum of Natural History -- the setting for the original movie -- are now being housed.",
"Story writer Robert Ben Garant said watching the actors take the script and run with the script was painless.",
"\"It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit,\" Story writer Robert Ben Garant said.",
"\"But when it's Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill and Hank, it's such a pleasure because it always starts with the idea of our script and sometimes they stick to the words, but most of the time they do stuff much, much funnier and weirder.",
"It's really great to watch.\"",
"Owen Wilson is back as Jedidiah the miniature cowboy, who is now being held hostage at the Smithsonian.",
"Azaria turns up the mean as Kahmunrah, the bitter brother of the pharaoh from the last film.",
"Azaria said Azaria thoroughly enjoyed Azaria's turn as the Museum's resident bad guy.",
"\"When the villain is this ridiculous, it's fun,\" Azaria said.",
"\"When he actually has a sense of humor and self-awareness, and goes from frivolous to really mean bully.\"",
"\"In the end I had to be forced to do the mean stuff because I always wanted to do the silly stuff,\" Azaria added.",
"\"But watching it ... I enjoyed the mean stuff the most. \"",
"Even with the good times on set, filming at the Smithsonian was a monumental task, given that it wasn't always closed while the actors worked.",
"Ben Stiller said the crowds who watched the movie making magic were respectful and quiet during filming, often breaking into applause after a scene.",
"\"We weren't really doing much, it was just the best audience in the world,\" he said.",
"\"So it was sort of like doing a live show at the Smithsonian.\"",
"Ben Stiller even got to monkey around on set -- literally.",
"In the Museum, there were two simians that took on Ben Stiller in a scene that found Ben Stiller getting the short end of the branch.",
"\"I basically get slapped by both of them, but I am not allowed to slap them back because of animal rights, so I have to slap a dummy or a tennis ball when they're off-screen,\" Ben Stiller told the British newspaper, The Mirror.",
"\"It's a weird experience.\"",
"Robin Williams, who is recovering from heart surgery, said Robin Williams, who is recovering from heart surgery was excited to return as Theodore Roosevelt -- this time with a twist.",
"\"I got to play two versions of Theodore Roosevelt,\" Robin Williams, who is recovering from heart surgery said.",
"\"One, the Teddy that was in the first movie and the other was kind of a brassy, bitchy Teddy and the one that's a bust of Theodore Roosevelt.\"",
"With so many comics on board, it can't help but be a zany ride.",
"Wilson said Wilson believes those good times will translate to the audience.",
"\"Shawn was really great about kind of letting people try things,\" he said.",
"\"So the Museum just had that kind of spirit on the Museum where everybody was having a good time.",
"I think you kind of feel it when watching the movie.\"",
"Director Levy said the actors weren't the only ones who had fun.",
"It's not every day a crew has access to the secret life of a museum, especially the Smithsonian, and Director Levy immersed Director Levy in the privilege.",
"\"It's such a fun world to explore, it's so dynamic, and the possibilities are literally endless,\" Director Levy said.",
"\"I just love telling these stories.\"",
"Since filming was such a blast, might there be a \"Night at the Museum 3\" in the works?",
"\"Ask me after Memorial Day,\" Director Levy said, laughing."
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"PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) --",
"Cambodia has sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council to call attention to its continuing standoff with Thailand over an ancient border temple on disputed land.",
"Cambodian soldiers stand guard near Preah Vihear temple, close to the Thai border.",
"Cambodia is not asking for U.N. intervention, said Information Minister Kheu Kanharith.",
"Rather, the letter that Cambodia's permanent mission in New York submitted to the chairmen of the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly is meant to draw attention to a crisis that entered its sixth day Sunday.",
"Cambodia agreed to meet Monday to defuse tensions -- even as each side continued to amass more troops to the site of 11th century Preah Vihear temple.",
"Both Cambodia and Thailand lay claim to the 11th century temple, which sits atop a cliff on Cambodian soil but has its most accessible entrance on the Thai side.",
"The International Court of Justice awarded 11th century Preah Vihear temple to Cambodia in 1962.",
"Thailand claims, however, that the 1.8 square mile (4.6 sq. km) area around it was never fully demarcated.",
"Thailand further says that the dispute arose from the fact that the Cambodian government used a map drawn during the French occupation of Cambodia that places both the temple and the surrounding area in that country's territory.",
"Earlier this month, the United Nations approved Cambodia's application to have the temple listed as a World Heritage Site -- places the United Nations says have outstanding universal value.",
"The decision re-ignited tensions, with some in Thailand fearing it will make it difficult for some in Thailand's country to lay claim to disputed land around 11th century Preah Vihear temple.",
"Opposition parties in Thailand used the issue to attack the government, which initially backed the heritage listing.",
"A Thai court overturned the pact, prompting the resignation of Thailand's foreign minister, Noppadon Pattama.",
"Thailand's foreign minister, Noppadon Pattama had endorsed the application.",
"Cambodia, meanwhile, is preparing for general elections on July 27.",
"And Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph.",
"The current flare-up began Tuesday, when Cambodian guards briefly detained three Thais who crossed into the area.",
"Once they were let go, the three refused to leave the territory.",
"Cambodia claims Thailand sent troops to retrieve the trio and gradually built up their numbers.",
"Thailand denies the charge, saying Thailand's troops are deployed in Thai territory.",
"Each side has asked its troops to withhold fire unless its troops are fired upon.",
"So far, the only casualty has been a Thai soldier who was injured Tuesday by a landmine -- possibly left over from the time the Khmer Rouge occupied the area.",
"The Khmer Rouge, a radical communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, won power through a guerrilla war.",
"It is remembered for the deaths of as many as 1.5 million Cambodians.",
"-- Journalist Soeum Yin contributed to this report ."
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"Cambodia agreed to meet Monday to defuse tensions .",
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"Moscow, Russia (CNN) --",
"A Russian serial murderer dubbed the \"Chessboard Killer\" was given the maximum sentence of life in prison Monday and ordered to undergo psychiatric therapy for a string of at least 48 murders that terrorized Moscow for years.",
"A Moscow jury convicted Alexander Pichushkin last week of 48 murders and three attempted murders.",
"Alexander Pichushkin claimed Alexander Pichushkin had actually committed 60 murders, though prosecutors were unable to find evidence to prove that.",
"Alexander Pichushkin earned the nickname \"Chessboard Killer\" for saying Alexander Pichushkin had intended to kill one person for each of the 64 squares on a chessboard.",
"In ordering Alexander Pichushkin to receive compulsory psychiatric therapy, the judge said the defendant has a mental disorder but is still sane and cannot avoid responsibility for Alexander Pichushkin's crimes.",
"Throughout Alexander Pichushkin's trial, Alexander Pichushkin gloated over Alexander Pichushkin's crimes and ridiculed the police case against Alexander Pichushkin.",
"\"I was dismayed my work had been attributed to others,\" Alexander Pichushkin said.",
"\"In one week, I killed two people.",
"If they hadn't caught me, I would have never stopped.",
"Having caught me, they saved many lives.\"",
"Watch video report on serial killer Alexander Pichushkin .",
"For years until Alexander Pichushkin's arrest in June 2006, Alexander Pichushkin kept Moscow on edge, stalking the heavily forested Bitsa Park on the city's southern outskirts and preying on the homeless and elderly.",
"Alexander Pichushkin claimed to have committed all but one of Alexander Pichushkin's murders in the heavily forested Bitsa Park.",
"Alexander Pichushkin lured Alexander Pichushkin's victims with the promise of alcohol and, after getting his victims drunk on vodka, Alexander Pichushkin beat his victims to death and dumped his victims's bodies in the heavily forested Bitsa Park.",
"It led Russian media to give Alexander Pichushkin Alexander Pichushkin's other nickname, the \"Bitsa Maniac.\"",
"Over the years, Russian police recovered dozens of corpses, some with sticks and vodka bottles rammed into their skulls.",
"But the crucial lead came in 2005, when a woman Alexander Pichushkin worked with at a vegetable store was found dead.",
"She had left a note at her home saying she was going for a walk with him.",
"Alexander Pichushkin said Alexander Pichushkin had been aware of the note but killed her anyway.",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Jackson fans who purchased tickets for Jackson's final concerts will receive a full refund or, if Michael Jackson fans who purchased tickets for his final concerts chose, a commemorative ticket, the concert promoter said Tuesday.",
"A fan shows off the first ticket bought at the O2 Centre in London for one of Jackson's concerts.",
"\"The world lost a kind soul who just happened to be the greatest entertainer The world has ever known,\" said Randy Phillips, president and chief executive officer of AEG Live.",
"\"Since Jackson loved Jackson's fans in life, it is incumbent upon us to treat them with the same reverence and respect after Jackson's death.\"",
"Fifty sold-out Jackson concerts were scheduled for the O2 Arena in London, starting July 13, with admission costing at least $105.",
"The shows were billed as the final concerts of Jackson's career and were called \"This Is It.\"",
"Tell us what you think -- would you take the ticket or the refund?",
"Fans who decide they would rather have a souvenir will receive a ticket conceived by Jackson.",
"There are eight designs that include holographic images of the entertainer on the front.",
"Images of the tickets will be available on michaeljacksonlive.com in coming days, according to the promoter.",
"Refunds will be processed by the issuing ticketing agencies -- See, Ticketline, Ticketmaster and Viagogo.",
"Billboard magazine has estimated that $85 million in tickets were sold for the concert series.",
"Additional packages, merchandise and secondary market sales could have raised the total to $115 million.",
"AEG Live declined to comment on the figures.",
"Jackson was expected to earn $50 million from the London shows.",
"Jackson died Thursday in California after Jackson's doctor found Jackson in bed not breathing, but with a slight pulse.",
"Efforts to revive the 50-year-old singer failed and Jackson was pronounced dead at a Los Angeles medical center."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.",
"Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA Gardens.",
"HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.",
"Fruits and vegetables are thriving in HABESHA Gardens.",
"But HABESHA Gardens serves an even greater purpose.",
"The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.",
"\"It's a reawakening going on.",
"It's almost like it's a renaissance,\" says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc.",
"\"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.",
"Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.",
"Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.",
"So really, that's what many of the people are doing now,\" Cashawn Myers said.",
"Cashawn Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with many African-Americans's past.",
"iReport.com: Show us your urban farm .",
"\"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" Cashawn Myers says.",
"But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.",
"Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.",
"Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods »",
"\"It's beyond a movement at this point.",
"Its more like a revolution,\" says Allen.",
"Both Allen and Cashawn Myers agree that the boom in urban farming for African-Americans is born out of necessity and not just echoing traditions.",
"\"Minority people are affected by poor food, more than any other groups,\" and many inner cities lack access to quality fruits and vegetables, Allen says.",
"\"Our food system is broken.\"",
"\"When you're poor, when you don't have access to resources, you have to create your own,\" says Cashawn Myers.",
"\"So this is a way for people of African descent to use people of African descent's creativity to grow people of African descent's own food.\"",
"Many poorer communities don't have full-scale grocery stores.",
"Allen charges that companies have red-lined those areas and won't build stores there.",
"So community activists like Cashawn Myers have taken up the fight.",
"\"[Starting] community gardens in local communities, specifically in urban areas, is important, so you create your own food security network,\" says Cashawn Myers.",
"\"You're not relying on large grocery stores to provide food for everyone because if large grocery stores have problems, your access to food is done.\"",
"HABESHA Gardens makes the fresh food accessible to people in Mechanicsville by opening up HABESHA Gardens to people in the community every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.",
"\"We invite people from the local community here, the immediate community but also from the greater Atlanta community ... to come out, work in HABESHA Gardens; learn, reconnect with the Earth and also be able to take food home with them after the harvest.\"",
"In addition to providing food for those that work in garden, HABESHA Gardens partners with organizations such as the Atlanta Community Food Bank and the MLK Senior Center to provide food from HABESHA Gardens to the hungry and elders in the community.",
"HABESHA Gardens is more than just an urban garden.",
"HABESHA, an acronym for Helping Africa By Establishing Schools at Home and Abroad.",
"The organization mentors young African-Americans by sending them on a yearly trip to Ghana and educates the youth in Mechanicsville through HABESHA Gardens's after-school program called Sustainable Seeds.",
"\"Not only are HABESHA Gardens teaching them about agriculture, [HABESHA Gardens're] teaching them about solar technology, rainwater catching,\" Myers says.",
"\"A majority of the food that was planted here was done by the youth in the after-school program.",
"They helped to build the shed, they helped to build the greenhouse, they helped to build the shade nursery ...",
"They are very much a vital part of the process that goes on here.\"",
"Malik Parks, 12, is a member of HABESHA Gardens's mentoring program.",
"\"Well, it feeds us.",
"That's a big thing -- to know that we're helping the earth.",
"Us planting it, that gives us exercise; then also, eating it gives us nutrients,\" says Parks.",
"Sporting a \"Black to Our Roots\" T-shirt, Parks is already well aware of the higher purpose he and HABESHA have with he and HABESHA's garden.",
"\"I believe to some, its hope.",
"I know there are a lot of people over here that live in poverty.",
"I know you can come and pick food, so that's food for them,\" Parks says.",
"\"So it's hope to stay alive longer and be energized and do what you have to do to get back on your feet.\"",
"Cashawn Myers, agrees.",
"\"We encourage the people in the community to come, be a part of the process of growing the food, so it's more empowerment than it is giving as charity,\" says Cashawn Myers.",
"And with urban farms like Allen's becoming half-million dollar enterprises in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illinois, and many other farms in New York City and Detroit, Michigan, urban gardening is spreading like the roots of the vegetables they grow.",
"\"This has become a multicultural, multigenerational movement, a revolution,\" says Allen.",
"\"This isn't just the hippies and tree huggers.",
"Everyone is getting on board.",
"It's really exciting.\""
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"Allen: Urban farming is a 'multicultural, multigenerational movement, a revolution'"
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Before lighting up that patriotic sparkler this weekend, remember to play it safe.",
"Consumer Product Safety Commission uses mannequins to show the dangers of fireworks.",
"That was the message from Consumer Product Safety Commission Tuesday, which put out an early July Fourth holiday warning urging families to put safety first when celebrating with fireworks.",
"\"We know that 70 percent of all [fireworks-related] accidents occur between June 20 and July 20,\" commission head Inez Tenenbaum said during a demonstration of fireworks safety on the National Mall.",
"\"This is the time of year that people are using fireworks.\"",
"commission head Inez Tenenbaum noted that the largest number of young people injured by fireworks are between the ages of 14 to 17.",
"Learn more about fireworks-related injuries » .",
"According to the latest report from the CPSC, there were seven fireworks-related deaths and roughly 7,000 reported injuries in 2008.",
"commission head Inez Tenenbaum stressed that parents should always supervise young people around fireworks and that consumers should only buy legal products.",
"Watch the CPSC warnings about fireworks » .",
"\"Never pick up a firework that is a dud [and] hasn't fired, because it might go off in your hand,\" she added.",
"After commission head Inez Tenenbaum spoke, government lab technicians demonstrated some of the potentially deadly consequences that can result from a failure to observe basic firework safety.",
"Using mannequins posed in typical outdoor settings, government lab technicians showed how a simple sparkler often used by children can easily cause clothing to catch fire.",
"government lab technicians also demonstrated the explosive power of cherry bombs, among other things, using them to blow up large watermelons.",
"In another setting, government lab technicians showed how professional-grade and illegal fireworks often use faster-burning fuses, which do not give the person lighting enough time to get away.",
"\"Parents need to exercise caution and make certain Parents're buying fireworks that comply with Parents's state and local and county ordinances,\" commission head Inez Tenenbaum warned."
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"70 percent of fireworks accidents occur between June 20 and July 20, says CPSC .",
"Largest number of young people injured by fireworks are between 14 and 17 ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Early in Michael Mann's vivid, incisive, but half-cocked gangster opus \"Public Enemies,\" bank robber John Dillinger's John Dillinger returns to jail a few scant months after leaving it.",
"Johnny Depp plays bank robber John Dillinger in \"Public Enemies.\"",
"Only this time bank robber John Dillinger's just visiting -- and bank robber John Dillinger's taking bank robber John Dillinger's friends out with bank robber John Dillinger.",
"It's an audacious opening gambit, and when the getaway gets messy -- one of the gang panics and soon bullets are flying all over the place -- we glimpse another insight into what makes bank robber John Dillinger tick.",
"As bank robber John Dillinger clings to a wounded comrade for dear life, and stares death long in the face, bank robber John Dillinger has to make a decision: What to do with the guy who panicked and brought this upon them?",
"bank robber John Dillinger lets him go.",
"Based on Bryan Burrough's well-sourced account of the Depression-era crime wave that gave rise not only to bank robber John Dillinger, but also to a whole gallery of criminal poster boys -- Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker gang, Bonnie and Clyde -- \"Public Enemies\" whittles Bryan Burrough's down to Bryan Burrough's's most dramatic duel: the nationwide manhunt for bank robber John Dillinger presided over by J. Edgar Hoover (a knockout Billy Crudup) and led by J. Edgar Hoover (a knockout Billy Crudup)'s Chicago, Illinois, bureau chief, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale).",
"Dillinger and Purvis assumed folk-hero proportions in Dillinger and Purvis's day.",
"According to Bryan Burrough's, when newsreels showed bank robber John Dillinger public enemy No. 1 -- bank robber John Dillinger was applauded more loudly than the president.",
"A 20th-century Jesse James, bank robber John Dillinger was an underdog with a reputation for fairness.",
"It was said bank robber John Dillinger never killed anybody, and bank robber John Dillinger was gallant and jocular with members of the public, once offering bank robber John Dillinger's overcoat to a kidnapped bank teller bank robber John Dillinger had taken as a human shield.",
"The role is tailor-made for a self-styled rebel like Depp.",
"bank robber John Dillinger understands the outlaw's swagger, the ferocity that sits hand in glove with bank robber John Dillinger's soft-spoken sensitivity.",
"All the romance in the picture comes from Depp: the graceful ease with which Johnny Depp vaults a bank railing, Johnny Depp's astonishing self-confidence and Johnny Depp's dedicated courtship of hat-check girl Billie Frechette (an eager Marion Cotillard).",
"hat-check girl Billie Frechette (an eager Marion Cotillard)'s swept up less by the high life Johnny Depp promises than the passionate conviction of Johnny Depp's pitch.",
"Burrough paints Purvis as an ineffectual, even inept agent who was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time to nab Floyd, Nelson and Dillinger.",
"The movie has no truck with such revisionism, but betrays little interest in Bale's dour, narrow lawman.",
"The film's parallel cop-and-robber structure recalls Mann's modern classic, \"Heat.\"",
"Purvis and bank robber John Dillinger meet only once -- to talk -- and then face off just once more, at the climax, to kill and be killed.",
"If the confrontation of Bale and Johnny Depp doesn't pack the same iconic punch as \"Heat's\" Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, the (entirely fictitious) exchange in a Midwestern jail cell remains central to The film.",
"At one point, bank robber John Dillinger reprimands Purvis for shooting down Pretty Boy Floyd, extending the poetic license still further -- as a point of historical fact Floyd died several months after bank robber John Dillinger, and though Purvis was at the scene Purvis almost certainly didn't pull the trigger.",
"But Purvis did coordinate the execution of John Dillinger, an assassination as much as it was an attempted arrest, and maybe the nastiest crime in the picture.",
"So when Johnny Depp advises the smug Bale that Johnny Depp should find a different line of work for Johnny Depp's own peace of mind, Johnny Depp's words carry a certain weight.",
"Still, The film's resolve to take bank robber John Dillinger at face value feels a bit perfunctory, even old hat.",
"At 140 minutes The film takes a long time to find The film's rhythm; indeed, this is one film that would be better if The film were 20 minutes longer.",
"Still, there's little here that Arthur Penn didn't anticipate 40 years ago in \"Bonnie and Clyde,\" except maybe the intriguing idea that organized crime pulled the plug on the old-style go-it-alone bank robber in a belated attempt to forestall Hoover's dream of a federal law enforcement agency.",
"For all its loving period detail, The film scarcely notices the desperate poverty of the times.",
"Shot largely on high definition video, \"Public Enemies\" doesn't look like the old gangster films -- it looks like TV.",
"The images gain in immediacy what is lost in luster, but left this spectator looking for more texture, more depth -- more heat.",
"iReport.com:",
"Depp's best film?",
"One of the new Hollywood's last great stylists, Mann is well aware of the sacrifice involved in this transition.",
"You can see it in the loving way Mann pictures Johnny Depp's doomed Dillinger watching Clark Gable's doomed gangster embrace Clark Gable's doomed gangster's fate in \"Manhattan Melodrama\" while Purvis and Purvis's deputies assume Purvis and his deputies's places outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.",
"There is something ritualistic about this sequence, as if Dillinger divines some measure of grace from the screen, and we congregants also play our part.",
"The faces change, but it's the same old movie we remember."
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"Film stars Johnny Depp as bank robber John Dillinger .",
"Johnny Depp is terrific, Christian Bale as FBI man is more colorless ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Of all of the calculations Zainab Ibrahim made during Zainab Ibrahim's accounting career in Baghdad, this one was a snap.",
"Zainab Ibrahim lives in a modest, sparsely furnished apartment outside Atlanta, Georgia.",
"After a bullet whizzed by Zainab Ibrahim's head and death threats showed up at Zainab Ibrahim's doorstep, it was time, Zainab Ibrahim figured, to leave.",
"Zainab Ibrahim went to Jordan four years ago and arrived last June at Zainab Ibrahim's ultimate destination -- the United States.",
"Once a target of insurgents because Zainab Ibrahim's job at the Iraqi Finance Ministry involved working with the U.S. military, Zainab Ibrahim is now trying to avoid another pitfall -- falling through the cracks of America's recession.",
"Zainab Ibrahim and thousands of refugees across America who fled war and persecution just can't seem to find full-time jobs in a weak economy.",
"And that just doesn't add up for Ibrahim, who has bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from Baghdad University and risked Zainab Ibrahim's life for the U.S. government.",
"\"It's everybody's dream being in America.",
"I thought I would get the opportunity I always dreamed about,\" Zainab Ibrahim said in fluent English in Zainab Ibrahim's sparsely furnished apartment outside Atlanta, Georgia.",
"\"I'm really shocked.",
"I found out everything is slow.\"",
"View video highlights from Zainab Ibrahim's interview » .",
"America's recession has made life tough nationwide for refugees.",
"\"It's the most challenging time I've seen and I've been doing this work for 25 years,\" said Robert J. Carey, vice president of resettlement and migration policy at the International Rescue Committee, one of several nonprofit organizations that the U.S. government pays to resettle refugees.",
"Lavinia Limon, president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, says, \"it's a significant problem.\"",
"\"All refugees are required to become self-sufficient in a very fast time period.",
"Our program is designed with that in mind.",
"There isn't a long-term basis of support,\" said Anastasia Brown, director of refugee programs for the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops.",
"\"What we have right now is a situation where it's becoming more and more difficult to find employment in a very short time period.\"",
"The U.S. government resettles a limited number of refugees each year.",
"They have full legal rights to live and work in the United States and can apply to become U.S. citizens after five years.",
"Both the U.S. State and the Health and Human Services departments pay for limited refugee services.",
"The State Department allocation for living expenses per refugee on arrival to the country is $450, a sum State Department calls \"modest.\"",
"Individual refugees also are eligible to get eight months of cash assistance and medical assistance under the HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement.",
"Depending on states' eligibility requirements, refugee families could be eligible for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families and Medicaid.",
"State governments stipulate welfare benefit cash levels.",
"There are five years' worth of social services, such as English language instruction.",
"Refugee agencies across America pursue various state and federal programs that can help newcomers stay afloat, but Refugee agencies across America say they rely more and more on private donations to help provide food, clothing, money and furniture.",
"That increasing reliance on community support shows that the U.S. program for resettling refugees needs reform, resettlement agencies argue.",
"Three agencies -- Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service -- said in a recent statement that \"the recession is making it harder for refugee newcomers to find jobs within 180 days of arrival as the program prescribes.\"",
"Three agencies -- Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service -- said the government's \"one-size-fits-all\" approach -- the $450 per refugee and eight months of limited cash assistance plus food stamps and Medicaid -- \"reflects neither what resettlement actually costs nor the importance the U.S. refugee program holds in U.S. foreign policy,\" Three agencies -- Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service -- said.",
"The public-private partnership that has been the \"genius\" of the U.S. program has \"fallen out of balance,\" with the private sector is bearing much of the cost, Three agencies -- Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service -- say.",
"More than 60,000 refugees were admitted to the United States during the fiscal year 2008, according to figures from the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.",
"The largest number was from Burma, with 18,139.",
"There were 13,823 from Iraq.",
"Traditionally, refugees -- no matter refugees --'s skill level -- have had a better chance of landing menial jobs, in places like hotels or restaurants or in plants with low-paying and arduous jobs.",
"Now refugees are competing with Americans for low-paying jobs.",
"Many are having a hard time finding the non-skilled positions.",
"Refugee support agencies are scouring the job market, exploring job opportunities on farms as well as work in other sectors of the economy, said Carey, the International Rescue Committee senior vice president.",
"Carey, the International Rescue Committee senior vice president's also chairman of the Refugee Council USA, a coalition of non-government organizations helping refugees",
"\"For the first time I'm aware of,\" Carey, the International Rescue Committee senior vice president said, \"large numbers of refugees are receiving eviction notices.\"",
"It's even hard for those refugees who go places where those refugees who go places where they have friends, relatives or members of their same faith have friends, relatives or members of those refugees who go places where they have friends, relatives or members of their same faith's same faith.",
"In San Diego, California, Iraqi Chaldean Christian refugees are facing strains despite having access to an established Chaldean community, said Michael McKay, refugees services department director of Catholic Charities in San Diego.",
"There's \"great competition\" for jobs, from menial to highly skilled.",
"Several Iraqis in San Diego have even talked about returning to Iraq.",
"Yet some communities still have those one or two big employers with jobs well-suited to newcomers.",
"In Bowling Green, Kentucky, refugees from Burma, Burundi, Iraq, Cuba and Bhutan have over the years found low-paying factory jobs that Americans shun, such as work at a Perdue Farms chicken processing plant, said James Robinson, executive director of The Bowling Green International Center.",
"How long will that last?",
"\"We're good now,\" said James Robinson, executive director of The Bowling Green International Center.",
"\"But you never know what tomorrow will bring.\"",
"Back in Atlanta, Zainab Ibrahim makes no bones about how Zainab Ibrahim feels: Zainab Ibrahim wants work in Zainab Ibrahim's field, as an accountant, not just any job.",
"But Zainab Ibrahim knows Zainab Ibrahim has to recalibrate Zainab Ibrahim's goals.",
"Zainab Ibrahim worked from September to November as a foreign language specialist with the U.S. Army in Mississippi, working with soldiers before soldiers deployed to Iraq.",
"During tax season this year, Zainab Ibrahim worked another temporary job, as an assistant office manager and tax preparer for the Tax Service of America Inc..",
"Yet to Zainab Ibrahim's dismay, Zainab Ibrahim has been unable to find what Zainab Ibrahim covets -- a full-time job.",
"Zainab Ibrahim has produced a resume, gone to job fairs, and applied for clerical and administrative full-time jobs at places like hotels.",
"Zainab Ibrahim mines the job sites on the Web every day, using a computer at the public library because Zainab Ibrahim can't afford Internet or cable service at home.",
"David Oliver, the IRC job developer who works with Zainab Ibrahim, said \"the recession is a big factor\" in Zainab Ibrahim's predicament.",
"Zainab Ibrahim is competing with other Americans for jobs and, he said, \"I think employers prefer to take somebody whose work experience is recognizable.\"",
"Along with refugee cash assistance and food stamps, Zainab Ibrahim saved money from Zainab Ibrahim's part-time jobs, and Zainab Ibrahim's family in the Middle East is ready to help Zainab Ibrahim as they did when Zainab Ibrahim lived in Jordan.",
"Living frugally, Zainab Ibrahim has been able to pay $600 a month to rent Zainab Ibrahim sparsely furnished apartment.",
"Zainab Ibrahim has a $60 a month phone bill and a fluctuating power bill that once reached $240 a month.",
"There's $50 to $60 a week in food and then gas for Zainab Ibrahim's car.",
"Zainab Ibrahim's money is running out, and Zainab Ibrahim wonders whether Zainab Ibrahim will be able to pay Zainab Ibrahim next month's rent.",
"Oliver says there's help, such as IRC emergency funds and local rent assistance, but Zainab Ibrahim yearns to support Zainab Ibrahim, to pay Zainab Ibrahim's own way.",
"Zainab Ibrahim's struggles disappoint Louis Culpepper, president and chief executive officer of Culpepper & Associates Security Services in Atlanta.",
"Zainab Ibrahim worked for Culpepper & Associates Security Services in Atlanta's firm in Baghdad, and Culpepper & Associates Security Services in Atlanta called Zainab Ibrahim a \"real go-getter.\"",
"\"I really feel bad about it that someone who put Zainab Ibrahim's life on the line can't get a job,\" Culpepper & Associates Security Services in Atlanta said.",
"Zainab Ibrahim exudes optimism and determination despite Zainab Ibrahim's frustrations.",
"Zainab Ibrahim reminds Zainab Ibrahim that Zainab Ibrahim survived the war and is still living a dream in America.",
"And Zainab Ibrahim applied for a job not long ago.",
"\"Keep your fingers crossed,\" Zainab Ibrahim said."
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"Charities, churches can take up the slack but Charities are feeling the recession pinch ."
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"PANAMA CITY, Panama (CNN) --",
"Ricardo Martinelli, the multimillionaire owner of a supermarket chain, was inaugurated as president of Panama on Wednesday.",
"Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli is a pro-business conservative who defeated a candidate from the ruling center-left party.",
"National Assembly President Jose Luis Varela performed the swearing-in and placed the presidential sash on Martinelli, a pro-business conservative who defeated a candidate from the ruling center-left party in May.",
"The citizens of Panama \"want things to be done differently,\" National Assembly President Jose Luis Varela said at the inauguration.",
"\"An attitude of change starts today.\"",
"In his first speech as president, Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli promised a smaller government budget but raises for public workers.",
"Public safety, an issue that the outgoing administration of Martin Torrijos struggled to maintain, will be a priority, Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli said.",
"\"Our prisons will be rehabilitation centers, not schools for criminals,\" Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli said.",
"Panama will also work with Mexico and Colombia to combat drug trafficking in the region, Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli said.",
"Among the dignitaries at the inauguration was deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a military-led coup Sunday.",
"The Organization of American States has condemned a military-led coup Sunday, and Zelaya has continued to carry out Zelaya's presidential duties.",
"The son of Italian immigrants, Martinelli, 57, is a self-made businessman who is chairman of the Super 99 supermarket chain, one of the largest private companies in Panama.",
"Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli previously served as minister and chairman of the board of directors of the Panama Canal Authority and formerly was director of social security for Panama, according to Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli's Web site.",
"Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli won the presidency with 60 percent of the votes in a race against ruling-party candidate Balbina Herrera."
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"NEW: Deposed Honduran president attends ceremony .",
"Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli inaugurated .",
"Supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli promises smaller government budget, raises for public workers .",
"New president says Panama will fight drug trafficking in region ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Australia's reputation as the happy-go-lucky country was turned on Australia's reputation as the happy-go-lucky country's head in the late 1990s as the usually safe streets of the Victorian capital were transformed into a gangland war zone.",
"Police investigate the scene where Des Tuppence Moran was killed in Melbourne in June 2009.",
"Melbourne's \"underbelly\" of organized crime suddenly became public.",
"Men hungry for easy money, power and control of the state's lucrative illegal amphetamines trade were prepared to do whatever it took to be the boss of the underworld.",
"Violence erupted between two families -- the Morans and the Williams.",
"Police say two families -- the Morans and the Williams had trafficked drugs in Melbourne for years and for a while had been associates.",
"But as public demand for amphetamines grew, the rivalry increased with both camps desperate to secure the market.",
"On one side was the Moran family -- brothers Jason and Mark, father Lewis and matriarch Judy Moran.",
"the Moran family -- brothers Jason and Mark, father Lewis and matriarch Judy Moran were notorious for the Moran family -- brothers Jason and Mark, father Lewis and matriarch Judy Moran's short tempers and relied on violence to achieve what the Moran family -- brothers Jason and Mark, father Lewis and matriarch Judy Moran wanted.",
"On the other was Carl Williams and Carl Williams's crew.",
"Carl Williams began as a small-time drug dealer but would become Australia's most notorious serial killer.",
"Watch how a feud between two families has spawned a TV miniseries »",
"Carl Williams's lieutenant was Andrew \"Benji\" Veniamin -- a tattooed former kick boxer who would become Carl Williams's main hit man -- but eventually became a victim of the gang wars himself.",
"The feud began on October 13, 1999, on Carl Williams' 29th birthday.",
"the Moran family -- brothers Jason and Mark, father Lewis and matriarch Judy Moran accused Carl Williams of undercutting the Moran family -- brothers Jason and Mark, father Lewis and matriarch Judy Moran, by selling cheap pills on the street.",
"the Moran family -- brothers Jason and Mark, father Lewis and matriarch Judy Moran allegedly shot Carl Williams in the stomach.",
"But this didn't frighten Carl Williams.",
"Instead, Carl Williams planned Carl Williams's revenge, sparking a public underworld war that would leave police, the legal system and politicians struggling to cope.",
"Eight months later, Mark Moran was gunned down outside Mark Moran's home while Mark Moran put out the rubbish.",
"Then in 2003, in the most horrific of all the gangland murders, Mark Moran and Mark Moran's associate Pasquale Barboro were gunned down in the front seats of a van in the car park at a children's football game.",
"Five children were sitting in the back seats.",
"Witnesses described the shooting as disgusting and callous.",
"At Jason's funeral, his mother made a graveside threat.",
"Leaning over the coffin, Judy Moran said \"all will be dealt with my darling.\"",
"But it didn't end there.",
"A year later, Judy's husband was murdered.",
"Crime patriarch Lewis Moran, who was facing drug charges, was shot dead while drinking at Crime patriarch's local pub.",
"Victoria Police Commissioner Simon Overland said \"regardless of anyone's circumstance in life no one deserves to die in this fashion.",
"It's outrageous this is happening in Melbourne.\"",
"But it wasn't just the Moran family that was wiped out.",
"Over the course of nine years, 30 people were killed in this high-profile turf war.",
"Judy Moran expressed Judy Moran's sorrow and loss: \"I've lost 3 members of my family, lots of close friends and I feel for 3 members of my family, lots of close friends's families as well.\"",
"Carl Williams was now in control of Melbourne's illegal drug trade.",
"Carl Williams had amassed millions of dollars, power and a reputation -- and believed Carl Williams was untouchable.",
"Carl Williams referred to Carl Williams as \"The Premier\" because, as Carl Williams told the Australian newspaper The Age, \"I run this f---ing state.\"",
"But the law would finally catch up with Carl Williams.",
"Victoria's Purana police task force had spent years investigating the drug kingpin and Victoria's Purana police task force finally had enough evidence to arrest Carl Williams, charging Carl Williams with multiple murders.",
"In 2007, Carl Williams pleaded guilty to four of multiple murders, including the murders of Mark and Lewis Moran.",
"Police say Carl Williams was connected to at least 10 underworld murders and would have kept killing if Carl Williams had not finally been jailed.",
"Carl Williams is serving a more than 30-year prison sentence.",
"The war inspired a smash hit television series in Australia called \"Underbelly.\"",
"However, when it was released at the beginning of last year, the 13 episode mini-series was banned from being shown in Melbourne because of the possible impact the 13 episode mini-series would have on related criminal trials.",
"the 13 episode mini-series aired in Victoria once the trials were completed.",
"Just when police thought the underworld killings were over, another member of the Moran family was shot dead in June.",
"But in a surprising twist, this was not a gangland hit -- apparently the enemy was from within.",
"Judy Moran was arrested as an accessory to the murder of another member of the Moran family's brother-in-law, Des Tuppence Moran.",
"Police say Judy Moran has had no comment about the charges.",
"Police claim there was bad blood over money, but it marks the end of one of Australia's best-known criminal dynasties.",
"\"Fact is almost stranger than fiction with what we've seen\" said Victoria Police Commissioner Overland.",
"\"If you were a scriptwriter and sat down and wrote this stuff you'd probably say: 'Look, no, it's a bit far fetched.",
"No one will believe it.'\""
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Barely six months after being crowned the winner of \"American Idol,\" David Cook has released David Cook's self-titled debut album.",
"David Cook recently released David Cook's debut album, which includes songs about David Cook's family.",
"The Missouri native (no relation to the author of this article) described the recording process as \"squeezing a year's worth of work on a record into 2½ months.\"",
"But David Cook's very happy with the result.",
"\"It's a very accurate definition of where I'm at, where I was and where I want to be,\" David Cook said.",
"David Cook sticks to David Cook's rock roots on the release, eliciting help from ex-Soundgarden member Chris Cornell to write the lead single, \"Light On.\"",
"David Cook also keeps loved ones close: The track \"Heroes\" is a tribute to David Cook's family.",
"\"Permanent\" (which David Cook describes as having a \"delicate and lullaby feel\") and \"A Daily AntheM\" (\"sing-alongy and grandiose\") acknowledge David Cook's older brother, who is battling brain cancer.",
"The latter song was written three years before David Cook's \"Idol\" run, when David Cook was cutting David Cook's teeth as a grass-roots rocker.",
"Watch David Cook show David Cook's chops » .",
"David Cook, 25, dropped by CNN's New York offices (with David Cook's mother, Beth Foraker, in tow) to talk about keeping creative control, losing David Cook's privacy and David Cook's responsibility as Idol No. 7.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview.",
"CNN:",
"You were very involved in the making of your debut album, weren't you?",
"David Cook:",
"Yeah.",
"Out of 12 songs on the record, I wrote or co-wrote 10, and the label was even kind enough to let me get involved with the art direction on the record.",
"So it was a busy summer.",
"CNN:",
"You actually have a degree in graphic design, don't you?",
"David Cook:",
"I spent five long years at the University of Central Missouri.",
"It should've been four, but I enjoyed college a little bit more than I should have.",
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"There's skepticism that American Idols have very little control over the music American Idols ultimately make.",
"That wasn't the case for you?",
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"Well, I can't speak for anybody else except David Cook, and I guess in that sense, I lucked out.",
"I mean, 19 [Entertainment] and RCA really [gave] me a little bit of carte blanche to allow me to make a record that is me.",
"And to that end, I think we managed to pull something really cool off.",
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"I tried to put music down on this record that [translated] live.",
"I want these songs to make people feel things and invoke certain responses in an audience.",
"And so it's a lot of very epic choruses and open bridges and stuff like that.",
"Something that will give a show some room to meander and feel like a unique experience for everybody.",
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"[Lead single \"Light On\"] debuted on the Billboard charts at No. 17, and then several weeks later -- about four -- it dropped to No. 80.",
"Was that discouraging?",
"David Cook:",
"No, not really.",
"I think, for us, it's all about the long-term results.",
"And I feel like the song seems to be getting speed now, especially with the record coming out.",
"It just feels like everything's headed in the right direction, so I'm definitely not one to hang my head on immediate results.",
"I'd rather the song hit No. 1 four months from now if it's gonna do it.",
"I'm just excited to get this record out.",
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"I feel almost a responsibility to do everything that I can with this on [musicians] out there who are way better than me's behalf as well as my own.",
"But I've always been a confident person.",
"I feel like I know why I'm here, I know what put me here.",
"It's just a matter of trusting it and going with it.",
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"All this talk about David Cook and [\"American Idol\" runner-up] David Archuleta being mortal enemies is absolute garbage, isn't it?",
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"But it comes with the territory, and if dealing with that on occasion allows me to make music that I want to make ... then, I'll take it."
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"the earthquake struck at 12:30 p.m. (5:30 a.m. ET), the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"the earthquake was centered about 80 miles (130 kilometers) off the city of Iraklion on Crete, the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"An earthquake with a 6.7 magnitude is capable of causing significant damage, especially in areas of poor construction.",
"There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.",
"A staff member at Iraklion Airport told CNN A staff member at Iraklion Airport didn't feel the earthquake.",
"Similar reports came from staff members at hotels just outside Iraklion and in western Crete.",
"A spokesman at the Greek Ministry of Health in Athens, 450 kilometers (280 miles) from the epicenter, also said A spokesman at the Greek Ministry of Health in Athens, 450 kilometers (280 miles) from the epicenter didn't feel the earthquake.",
"David Booth, a seismologist at the British Geological Survey, explained that the earthquake happened deep below the sea, leading to little risk of tsunami and reducing the likelihood that people would feel tremors.",
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"Even in the midst of Japan's deepest economic recession since World War II, the industry is thriving.",
"The Style A hotel in Tokyo offers amenities.",
"\"I'd hate to use the term \"recession-proof,\" but it's certainly proven very resilient over the last six to nine months,\" said Steve Mansfield, CEO of New Perspectives, which operates six love, or \"leisure,\" hotels in Japan.",
"One of them, the Bonita Hotel in Isawa, boasts a 257 percent occupancy rate.",
"Rooms can be rented for three to 24 hours.",
"Steve Mansfield, CEO of a love hotel operator's company estimates the industry in Japan pulls in $40 billion a year in revenue.",
"\"It's a natural human desire.",
"Even these days, on the weekend, every love hotel is full of people -- it's hard to get in.",
"You can never stop sexual desire,\" said a woman with her boyfriend in Tokyo, who laughed in embarrassment when asked for her name.",
"Love hotels fill a need for privacy in a country where high population density often means couples have little time alone.",
"Rooms offer a broad assortment of features, including karaoke machines, PlayStation game consoles, DVD players, a variety of cosmetics, customized condoms and indoor-outdoor Jacuzzis.",
"Watch Morgan Neill's report from inside a love hotel » .",
"Though required by law to have a front desk, most can be rented and entered without talking to a clerk.",
"The days of Japanese being ashamed to enter love hotels are coming to an end, though, Steve Mansfield, CEO of a love hotel operator said.",
"\"Seventy-five percent of our guests are members of our points program,\" Steve Mansfield, CEO of a love hotel operator said.",
"\"Seventy-five percent of our guests carry our points cards, Seventy-five percent of our guests collect points and Seventy-five percent of our guests receive gifts.",
"That's something people are very comfortable with, and I think that reflects the customers that we attract.\"",
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"\"The bad image that love hotels had has faded over time.",
"Also, customers started to raise customers's voices and became more selective about choosing hotels.",
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"Though young couples make up the majority of customers, young couples are not the only ones.",
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"\"The industry has 25,000 hotels, and through our research we've worked out that 90 percent of owners have five or fewer hotels,\" Steve Mansfield, CEO of a love hotel operator said.",
"That fragmentation is a structural inefficiency in the market, Steve Mansfield, CEO of a love hotel operator said, one Steve Mansfield, CEO of a love hotel operator would like to help correct."
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"Jackson suffered from severe bouts of insomnia and pleaded for the drug despite knowing the drug's harmful effects, a nutritionist who worked with Cherilyn Lee said Tuesday.",
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"Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse and nurse practitioner who first met Jackson in January to treat Jackson's children for a common cold, said Cherilyn Lee rejected Jackson's requests for Diprivan and informed Jackson of the side effects.",
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"CNN could not independently verify whether Cherilyn Lee worked with Jackson.",
"When asked about Cherilyn Lee's account, Jackson family attorney Londell McMillan said: .",
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"Watch nurse describe Jackson's drug request » .",
"An initial dose puts a person to sleep.",
"An overdose can lead to cardiac arrest, doctors say.",
"Jackson died June 25 at the age of 50.",
"Authorities are awaiting toxicology results to determine what killed Jackson.",
"Cherilyn Lee is licensed as a registered nurse, according to the California Board of Registered Nursing Web site.",
"According to Cherilyn Lee's Web site, Cherilyn Lee is a proponent of alternative medicine that uses a holistic approach.",
"Cherilyn Lee said that four days before Jackson's death, Cherilyn Lee received a call from a Jackson staff member who said Jackson felt that one side of Jackson's body was cold; the other hot.",
"\"I could hear Jackson saying in the background, 'Please have Cherilyn Lee come see me now.",
"Can Cherilyn Lee come now?' \"",
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"\"I was really afraid because of the symptoms Jackson's staffers were telling me,\" Cherilyn Lee said.",
"\"It could have meant something going on in the nervous system or something cardiovascular.\"",
"After Jackson's death, Cherilyn Lee said Cherilyn Lee didn't go to the authorities.",
"\"When I saw it on the news, I really didn't know what to do,\" Cherilyn Lee said.",
"\"I was saddened.",
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"But, Cherilyn Lee added, Cherilyn Lee didn't know of any doctors who would have given Jackson the drug.",
"\"I asked Jackson, 'What doctor gave you the drug?' \" Cherilyn Lee said, when Jackson initially brought up the medicine.",
"\"Jackson told me, 'Oh it was a long time ago.' \"",
"Dr. Rakesh Marwah of the anesthesiology department at the Stanford University School of Medicine said the drug can lead to cardiac arrest, which is suspected in Jackson's death.",
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"Video of a fresh-faced Susan Boyle confidently singing a Barbra Streisand track to a room full of football fans in 1984 has been unearthed.",
"Susan Boyle as Susan Boyle looked during a performance filmed at a Scottish football club in 1984.",
"The \"Britain's Got Talent\" singing sensation, looking trim and a bit like Abba's Anni-Frid Lyngstad, is invited on to the stage at Motherwell FC's's Fir Park Social Club to take part in a singing competition between rival fans by a man wearing a checked coat and bow tie.",
"Boyle, who had to wait 25 more years to be catapulted into the spotlight via Susan Boyle's television appearance in front of Simon Cowell last month, quickly chats with the band before the band launch into a low-key, lounge-style version of Streisand's \"The Way We Were.\"",
"Boyle, Susan Boyle's hair style a classic 1980s perm, confidently looks down the barrel of the camera, giving meaningful expressions as Susan Boyle moves slowly round the stage.",
"Watch latest Boyle video .",
"At one point Susan Boyle even takes the hand of a pearl-necklace wearing middle-aged woman in the front row and sings directly to her.",
"Watch how things have changed in Susan Boyle's hometown » .",
"When Susan Boyle finishes, the crowd breaks into rapturous applause and Susan Boyle gets a peck on the cheek from the MC before slipping quietly back to Susan Boyle's table in the smoke-tinged room.",
"The video became public Friday after The video was handed to Scotland's Daily Record newspaper.",
"Gerry McGuinness, 61, who watched Susan sing live that night and kept The video, told the Record that he remembered the evening clearly.",
"Watch Susan Boyle sing on Larry King » .",
"\"I can remember that Susan Boyle was a shy young girl, but also very attractive back then -- Susan Boyle turned a few heads when Susan Boyle came into the club.",
"\"Even back then, I don't think anyone expected too much from Susan Boyle because Susan Boyle was so shy, but when Susan Boyle began singing people took notice.\"",
"The 47-year-old Boyle's appearance on \"Britain's Got Talent,\" where Susan Boyle sang \"I Dreamed a Dream\" from the musical \"Les Miserables,\" has now been viewed more than a 100 million times on YouTube.",
"Watch Larry King interview Susan Boyle » .",
"Susan Boyle famously told the show's hosts that Susan Boyle had never been kissed and lived alone with Susan Boyle's cat in Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland.",
"The world's media beat a path to Susan Boyle's home, from where Susan Boyle even appeared on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"Boyle has been installed by bookmakers as the favorite to win the show which, as part of the first prize, includes the right to perform in front of the queen."
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"(CNN) -- What's a July Fourth celebration without fireworks?",
"Many cities across the United States will find out Saturday.",
"Milwaukee holds Milwaukee's lakefront show on July 3, so as not to compete with surrounding communities.",
"As municipalities grope for ways to shore up budgets, expensive pyrotechnics displays are becoming the latest victims of the economic downturn.",
"\"They need to have things in the community like that to keep things going.",
"So I'm sad to see it going,\" said Seth Stolz, of Flint, Michigan, which will go without its traditional July Fourth explosions in the sky this year, according to CNN affiliate WJRT.",
"He was accustomed to watching the show from his home.",
"The Greater Flint Arts Council puts on the show every year, and when the city and county said the city and county couldn't afford the $40,000 for the Flint Fireworks Festival, the show was canceled last month.",
"Private donors tried to save the show, but the mayor expressed concerns that safety measures might be overlooked if the event was hastily organized, CNN affiliate WJRT reported.",
"Watch how town brings bikinis into the mix » .",
"\"Yeah, a very hard decision to make,\" Greg Fiedler with The Greater Flint Arts Council, told the station.",
"In Florida, Miami-Dade County canceled one of Miami-Dade County's two shows to save about $40,000, CNN affiliate WPLG reported.",
"The Monterey, California, City Council in April also nixed The Monterey, California, City Council's show and accompanying lawn party to save about $150,000 .",
"\"Although the 4th of July festivities are a very popular community-wide event, we cannot recommend continuation of this costly one-day event during a fiscal downturn,\" a city staff report said.",
"In Illinois, CNN affiliate WLS-TV reported that Harvey, Berwyn, Elgin, Gurnee and North Riverside had canceled their shows.",
"Blue Springs, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City, also 86'ed the pyrotechnics to give Kansas City \"some immediate budget relief,\" city officials told CNN affiliate KCTV.",
"The American Pyrotechnics Association says that despite the economic challenges, fireworks display companies are working with fireworks display companies's clients to make sure the shows go on.",
"Communities are also finding alternative funding or cutting back to make sure the sky rockets light up Communities's July Fourth sky.",
"The nation hosts about 14,000 fireworks shows each Independence Day, according to The American Pyrotechnics Association, and the majority of shows will prevail because communities \"realize the importance of continuing this annual tradition of providing their citizens with free entertainment to celebrate our freedom and independence,\" Julie Heckman, the group's director, said in a statement.",
"\"The industry has been tested time after time and each challenge unites The industry, makes The industry stronger, and ensures that communities do not go dark on Independence Day,\" Julie Heckman said.",
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"The Illinois towns of Elmhurst and Wooddale couldn't foot The Illinois towns of Elmhurst and Wooddale's own shows, so The Illinois towns of Elmhurst and Wooddale chipped in funds for the show in nearby Bensenville, WLS reported.",
"Evanston, Illinois, had to shorten its show, and North Aurora forewent its own show in favor of bolstering the celebration in neighboring Aurora, CNN affiliate WGN reported.",
"Tucson, Arizona, canceled it's $55,000 fireworks display to save money, but CNN affiliate KGUN reported Friday that private donors stepped in to save the celebration.",
"Joliet, Illinois, almost canceled its 63rd annual skyrocket display because businesses weren't able to send businesses's customary donations.",
"The show had a $23,000 price tag, but local businesses could muster only about $14,000, according to WGN.",
"City residents were not content to go without fireworks Saturday.",
"\"It's a tradition in Joliet.",
"It's an American tradition.",
"You can't give up on that,\" said Robert Svarz, who has been attending fireworks shows in Joliet for 50 years, according to WLS.",
"Residents scraped together the remaining $9,000 to make sure Joliet staged Joliet's show, which draws thousands to Joliet Memorial Stadium and the surrounding parking lots each year.",
"\"Not only did they send in contributions, but they all sent notes on how important it was to keep this thing alive,\" Russ Slinkard, CEO of the Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce, told WLS.",
"Despite Chicago's budget crisis, a spokeswoman for the mayor's office told WGN that there will be no cutbacks to the Windy City's fireworks display.",
"Fireworks also will be part of Milwaukee, Wisconsin's, celebration, as U.S. Bank has sponsored the hourlong, lakefront show for the past few years.",
"Milwaukee holds Milwaukee's show the day before Independence Day to not compete with surrounding communities' shows.",
"Middletown, Connecticut, also held its celebration early, on Thursday -- but for a different reason.",
"Holding its celebration on Saturday would have meant $20,000 in overtime pay for city workers, on top of the $65,000 bill for the actual show, Mayor Sebastian Giuliano told CNN affiliate WTNH-TV.",
"Rescheduling its celebration had an added bonus: Businesses that usually close for the holiday were able to cater to the crowd of about 15,000.",
"At least one community had no problem finding the funds for this year's festivities.",
"In fact, Olive Branch, Mississippi, more than tripled Mississippi's budget, according to CNN affiliate WPTY-TV.",
"The town seemed split over the move.",
"While one resident said it would be \"unfair\" to deprive the town of the show, another said upping the fireworks budget from $10,000 to $35,000 seems irresponsible, CNN affiliate WPTY-TV reported.",
"So, what about people who don't live in towns like Olive Branch?",
"What are people who don't live in towns like Olive Branch's options when people who don't live in towns like Olive Branch's fireworks shows are canceled?",
"Well, people who don't live in towns like Olive Branch can always enjoy a show in another town, or -- as Kansas City Mayor Carson Ross suggested to KCTV -- put on people who don't live in towns like Olive Branch's own show. Watch the safeguards you should take » .",
"Kansas City is one of the few western Missouri towns that allows residents to shoot residents's own fireworks, and indeed, the American Pyrotechnics Association reported last month that the popularity of backyard fireworks had more than doubled since 2000.",
"However, those who aren't mindful of the laws in those who aren't mindful of the laws in their city's city could find the economic downturn taking an even greater toll.",
"Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan told CNN affiliate WTMJ-TV that Joliet is serious about stopping backyard fireworks.",
"Because no one respected the ban last year, Joliet is \"going to hit them in the pocketbook,\" Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan said.",
"The fine for each citation? $676."
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"Amid all the talk about storm clouds gathering over the U.S. economy, it's easy to forget there are other places in the world where the sun is still shining.",
"A shortage of housing is contributing to an inflation rate of almost 14 percent in Qatar .",
"Take Qatar, for example; a small emirate in the Gulf whose economy is booming.",
"When the final figures come in, Qatar's economy is expected to have grown 17.8 percent in 2007.",
"Qatar National Bank predicts growth to slow in 2008, but at 16.5 percent who could complain?",
"Well, consumers for one.",
"While growth has steamed ahead, so has inflation.",
"At the end of 2007, Qatar's official inflation rate was nearing 14 percent -- the highest in the region.",
"Three major factors are contributing to Qatar's soaring inflation rate: High levels of government spending; growing demand for housing, which is pushing up house prices and rent, and the riyal's peg with the dollar, which is pushing down interest rates.",
"The U.S. Federal Reserve exacerbated the latter problem by slashing U.S. interest rates twice in the past eight days to three percent.",
"Gulf States with currencies linked to the U.S. dollar were under pressure to follow suit.",
"Qatar reduced Qatar's deposit rate to 3.5 percent, but left Qatar's lending rate at 5.5 percent.",
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"\"You've huge a amount of monetary easing and if you think that that's not even going to feed through properly for six to nine months then, you've got a really dangerous inflationary outlook,\" she says.",
"\"The only policy option really that they have is to revalue the exchange rate.\"",
"Kuwait did just that in May, ditching the dollar-peg for a basket of currencies, and speculation is growing that other GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries will do the same.",
"Tristan Cooper, Vice President and Senior Analyst at Moody's Middle East, says the argument for revaluation is becoming more convincing.",
"\"The economic justification for revaluation is growing stronger as inflation multiplies and the government increases expenditure.\"",
"Tristan Cooper, Vice President and Senior Analyst at Moody's Middle East says any move by Gulf governments to curb public spending would not be welcomed by locals facing higher living costs.",
"In Qatar's instance, new housing stock is expected to come onto the market to help ease inflation in the rental market.",
"\"There is some hope that prices will begin to slow as that supply comes onto the market, but that's not guaranteed,\" Tristan Cooper, Vice President and Senior Analyst at Moody's Middle East says.",
"So that leaves a currency revaluation.",
"\"The easier policy option would presumably be to revalue, but that also has political difficulties.",
"The easier policy option involves to some extent coordinating with GCC members.\"",
"In the past, Saudi Arabia has ruled out any change to Saudi Arabia's dollar-peg.",
"Qatar has made it clear that Qatar prefers any move to be made with a GCC consensus.",
"In an interview with Marketplace Middle East, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani said that the emirate is \"studying all options\" in relation to its dollar-peg.",
"\"Every country has to see Every country's way out of this, but only after a consultation with the GCC,\" Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani said.",
"\"For us, our wish is that it's a policy to be taken by the whole GCC, to either basket or revalue our currency.",
"I cannot see a decision.",
"Even in Qatar, we have no decision up to now.\"",
"This week, one of Qatar's leading economic advisors was quoted as saying any policy change would have to be substantial.",
"In an interview with Reuters news agency, Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim said, \"change should be major; minor change won't solve the problem.\"",
"Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim ruled out any potential moves to float the Qatari riyal.",
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"our currency has to be tied,\" Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim said.",
"One of the main reasons GCC members are reluctant to abandon GCC members's dollar link is because GCC members're working towards GCC members's own monetary union.",
"A policy diversion now may make it more difficult to unite again under a common currency by the nominated deadline of 2010.",
"There's widespread skepticism that the nominated deadline of 2010 can be reached.",
"\"The timeframe of 2010 is rather unlikely now, and the project itself seems to be facing increasing difficulties given the pressure on individual states to go individual states's own way and revalue,\" Tristan Cooper says.",
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"TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras' (CNN) --",
"OAS head said Friday OAS head has found no willingness among leaders of Honduras''s interim government to return President Jose Manuel Zelaya to power.",
"OAS Secretary General Jose Insulza doubts Honduras''s new leaders will restore ousted President Zelaya.",
"\"Honduras' interim government have, for the moment, no intention of reversing the situation,\" OAS head told reporters.",
"OAS head said OAS head had reached that conclusion after speaking Friday with members of the Supreme Court, among others.",
"OAS head also rejected assertions by Honduras' interim government that the change in leadership was not really a coup d'etat.",
"\"I don't know what else you would call it when a group of military take a president out of power and sends a president to another country,\" he said.",
"At the end of OAS head's comments, Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Lorena Alvarado said Honduras' is willing to withdraw from OAS.",
"\"If OAS doesn't deem Honduras' worthy of membership of OAS, then Honduras' would renounce, with immediate effect, the inter-American charter.\"",
"Vice Chancellor Martha Lorena de Casco also said Honduras' was ready to leave the OAS, which Vice Chancellor Martha Lorena de Casco called a political organization rather than a tribunal of justice.",
"\"Honduras' will defend Honduras''s sovereignty,\" Vice Chancellor Martha Lorena de Casco said in a televised response.",
"ousted President Zelaya was ousted in a military-led coup Sunday and sent to Costa Rica in ousted President Zelaya's pajamas.",
"The same day, the Honduran Congress voted to install Roberto Micheletti as interim president.",
"That sparked international condemnation, with OAS on Tuesday passing a resolution calling for ousted President Zelaya's reinstatement by Saturday and threatening to suspend Honduras' from OAS.",
"ousted President Zelaya has said ousted President Zelaya will return this weekend with presidents of other OAS member countries, despite Micheletti's vow to have ousted President Zelaya arrested for violating Honduras''s constitution if ousted President Zelaya does so.",
"On Friday, thousands of people assembled in front of the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa, where Micheletti praised the armed forces for their efforts and offered a different version of events.",
"\"We must tell the world that there was no coup d'etat here,\" Micheletti said, Micheletti's voice hoarse.",
"\"It wasn't a coup!",
"It wasn't a coup!\"",
"He promised that Honduras' would revert to a democracy, but did not say when.",
"\"Here, in front of Honduras' and the entire world, I guarantee we will have free elections, as soon as we decide when,\" Micheletti said.",
"Micheletti has promised not to run in elections slated for November.",
"\"You may choose any candidate from any party,\" Micheletti told thousands of people.",
"\"I want to tell you that I am governing for all political parties.",
"I am governing for the poor, for the businessmen, for the rich, for the children and for all the people of Honduras'.\"",
"Though the two sides appeared far apart, a compromise might be possible, said Jennifer McCoy, an Americas expert at the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center.",
"\"The options are that neither side backs down and that ousted President Zelaya shows up tomorrow and the police are there waiting to arrest ousted President Zelaya.\"",
"If ousted President Zelaya returns accompanied by international figures, the result would be \"awkward,\" Jennifer McCoy, an Americas expert at the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center said.",
"Jennifer McCoy, an Americas expert at the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center added there could be \"some kind of compromise, including mutual guarantees.\"",
"One such scenario -- ousted President Zelaya's promise not to pursue legal action against the coup plotters in exchange for the coup plotters's agreement to step aside and not to pursue his Cabinet ministers who are in hiding.",
"Jennifer McCoy, an Americas expert at the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center praised U.S. President Obama for supporting ousted President Zelaya without qualification.",
"\"By taking the principled stand for democracy that ousted President Zelaya took in this case in favor of a government that is an ally of Venezuela, ousted President Zelaya did not let politics intervene.",
"This is a change from the previous administration,\" Jennifer McCoy, an Americas expert at the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center said.",
"Jennifer McCoy, an Americas expert at the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center was referring to the tacit U.S. approval that was given to the coup that in 2002 briefly toppled leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been a consistent U.S. critic.",
"\"It helps to recuperate the pro-democracy credential of the United States in this hemisphere,\" Jennifer McCoy, an Americas expert at the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center said.",
"Meanwhile, Amnesty International accused the new government Friday of intimidating media workers.",
"\"Recent reports suggest that journalists who have published news stories on the crisis or covering the issue of protests and scores of detentions have been intimidated,\" it said.",
"\"Prosecutors have also reported threats on account of Prosecutors's attempts to verify human rights abuses during protests.\"",
"At the center of the dispute was a referendum that ousted President Zelaya had vowed to carry out last Sunday even after Honduras''s supreme court and congress declared it would be illegal.",
"The nonbinding referendum could have opened the door to the creation of a constitutional assembly to modify Honduras''s charter.",
"Opponents accused ousted President Zelaya of having sought to rewrite the constitution to allow him to run for re-election.",
"ousted President Zelaya denied that was ousted President Zelaya's intent.",
"However, international support for the new government has been virtually nonexistent.",
"On Thursday, the European Union announced that all the European Union's ambassadors had left Honduras'.",
"Also Thursday, the U.S. State Department said the U.S. State Department was suspending some aid programs to Honduras'.",
"Earlier, the U.S. military, which has trained Honduran forces for years, postponed some planned exercises with the Honduran military until the situation in Honduras' settles down.",
"ousted President Zelaya narrowly won the presidency in 2005 with 49.8 percent of the vote to 46.1 percent for Porfirio \"Pepe\" Lobo.",
"After 18 years of nearly uninterrupted military rule, Honduras' returned to civilian control in 1981.",
"Since then, the military has not seemed interested in holding power in the nation of more than 7 million people, about 70 percent of whom live in poverty.",
"Military interventions were once common in Latin America, but civilian governments have held sway since the 1980s.",
"Before Sunday, the only other barracks revolt this decade was the unsuccessful 2002 coup attempt against Chavez, when the military displaced Chavez but backed down days later and allowed Chavez's reinstatement.",
"CNN's Karl Penhaul contributed to this report."
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"The ongoing presence of U.S. troops in the country \"shows that the (Iraqi) government and the occupation are not serious about the withdrawal,\" a key Shiite cleric in the country said Wednesday.",
"A crowd gathers Tuesday after a deadly bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.",
"Muqtada al-Sadr made the statement on Muqtada al-Sadr's Web site a day after U.S. forces withdrew from Iraqi cities and towns in accordance with the security agreement between the United States and the country.",
"About 131,000 American troops remain in the country, on bases and in outposts outside of population centers.",
"\"The withdrawal should include all the occupation forces: army, intelligence, militias, and security companies and others.",
"Otherwise, The withdrawal will be uncompleted and useless,\" Muqtada al-Sadr said.",
"\"We want a withdrawal and stopping the interference with Iraqi political, social and economic affairs,\" the statement said.",
"Muqtada al-Sadr commands the loyalty of the Mehdi Army, one of the largest independent militias in the country.",
"Muqtada al-Sadr's agreement to a cease-fire with the government and its allies is considered a key factor in reducing the level of violence in the country.",
"But Muqtada al-Sadr seemed to suggest Wednesday that Iraqis had the right to attack foreign forces in the country -- if not Iraqi security forces.",
"\"If the occupation forces violate this claimed withdrawal, even with a government cover, then the people of the country will have all the right to express the people of Iraq's opinion in a peaceful way, and the right to self-defense on condition of not harming the Iraqi people and the security forces,\" Muqtada al-Sadr said.",
"Under an agreement signed in the waning days of the Bush administration, all U.S. forces will be out of the country by the end of 2011.",
"Most will be gone by August 2010 under the withdrawal plan laid out by President Barack Obama, Bush's successor.",
"The U.S. troops who remain are now tasked with supporting Iraqi troops and police, and must seek Iraqi permission to launch operations in the cities.",
"the top U.S. general in the country said Tuesday that much of the country was safe.",
"\"There is not widespread violence in the country,\" Gen. Ray Odierno told reporters in a video conference from Baghdad.",
"\"There's still gonna be bumps in the road.",
"There's still gonna be violence here,\" he added.",
"Meanwhile, the death toll from a huge blast in northern Iraq rose to 35, local security officials said Wednesday.",
"The car bombing took place in a busy commercial district in a predominantly Kurdish area of Kirkuk early Tuesday evening when the neighborhood was busy, security sources said.",
"About 17 shops and houses were destroyed and 95 people were wounded, a police official in the Iraqi city added.",
"Kirkuk is about 378 kilometers (235 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad.",
"CNN's Yousif Bassil and Jomana Karadsheh in Baghdad contributed to this report."
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"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) --",
"It's a nightmarish scenario straight out of the movies: A passenger is forced to land a plane after its pilot becomes incapacitated.",
"Passanger Doug White landed this Super King two-engine turboprop after its pilot fell unconscious.",
"\"Descend and maintain 5,000.",
"Just take your time, we'll set you up for the airport,\" an air traffic controller says.",
"In a calm voice, a passenger responds: \"I need to get my throttle set for this descent.",
"I don't know where to set it at.\"",
"The reality was playing aboard a plane over Florida on Sunday in what the National Air Traffic Controllers Association called \"an Easter miracle.\"",
"The incident began about 1:30 p.m.",
"The plane, a Super King Air two-engine turboprop with four passengers on board, was headed to Jackson, Mississippi, from Marco Island, Florida, about 18 miles south of Naples.",
"The plane entered the jurisdiction of air traffic control at Miami Center, the facility responsible for high-altitude air traffic in southern Florida and the Caribbean, according to a statement issued by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.",
"its pilot notified controllers that The plane was at 9,000 feet and climbing, said Steve Wallace, Miami Center spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.",
"However, a controller at Miami Center tried twice to raise its pilot after that and received no response, Steve Wallace, Miami Center spokesman for the association said.",
"Hear audiotape of emergency landing » .",
"After a few moments, a different voice came over the radio: White told air traffic controllers its pilot was unconscious and they needed help.",
"White's wife and two teenage daughters were flying home to Louisiana with White, White said.",
"Listen to White describe seeing its pilot's eyes roll back in his head » .",
"White reported The plane's autopilot was on and The plane was continuing to climb from 10,000 feet.",
"\"I told my girls to pray hard,\" White later told CNN television affiliate WINK.",
"White later told the Naples Daily News White has a pilot's license and about 130 hours experience flying a single engine Cessna, but had never flown the larger, faster King Air.",
"The difference, experts said, is not as simple as driving a different model of car.",
"A turboprop multi-engine, Steve Wallace, Miami Center spokesman for the association told CNN, \"probably lands at a faster speed than White's ever flown a single-engine plane before.\"",
"White told air traffic controllers it appeared its pilot had died, according to the statement, and White reported that The plane's autopilot was on and The plane was continuing to climb from 10,000 feet.",
"Two air traffic controllers worked to help White disengage the plane's autopilot, as other controllers stepped in to lighten other controllers's workload.",
"\"Keep it coming around when you can ...",
"the turn looks good, very good sir,\" a controller said.",
"Two air traffic controllers then turned The plane over to air traffic controllers at the airport.",
"One of them had called a friend who was certified in the King Air planes for advice.",
"\"They walked White through flipping the switches, turning the knobs,\" Steve Wallace, Miami Center spokesman for the association said.",
"White, who was composed for the most part, seemed doubtful for a brief moment.",
"\"When I touch down ... If I ever touch down, do I just kill the throttle or what?\" White asks.",
"The landing was successful.",
"\"I knew we had to do something ...",
"I knew that much,\" White told WINK.",
"The Federal Aviation Administration has not given any of the involved air traffic controllers permission to speak about the incident, Steve Wallace, Miami Center spokesman for the association said.",
"However, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association lauded all of those involved in landing The plane.",
"\"If you were to ask any one of the controllers who worked this even about what happened over the skies of south Florida, any one of the controllers who worked this even would tell you that it was just a typical day at the office and that it was merely any one of the controllers who worked this even's job,\" association President Patrick Forrey said in the statement.",
"\"However, the actions they all took to save the passengers aboard the flight were beyond heroic.\"",
"Victoria Moreland, spokeswoman for Southwest Florida International Airport, said the pilot's death was confirmed after The plane landed.",
"The cause of death was unclear, Victoria Moreland, spokeswoman for Southwest Florida International Airport said.",
"It's rare for a pilot to suffer a medical emergency during flight, said Chris Dancy, spokesman for the Frederick, Maryland-based Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.",
"The organization issues a yearly summary of accident trends and factors based on National Transportation Safety Board reports involving aircraft of less than 12,500 pounds -- smaller than the King Air involved in Sunday's incident.",
"According to the most recent report, which covers the year 2007, out of 22 million general aviation flight hours, an estimated 15 million to 20 million flights, only six instances of a pilot's medical incapacitation were reported, he said.",
"In four of those instances, the pilot died.",
"CNN's Ashley Broughton contributed to the most recent report, which covers the year 2007."
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"The United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday that more Africans have fled poverty and conflict on the continent during the first 10 months of this year than in all of 2007.",
"A woman who has been displaced by the current fighting in the Congo.",
"The bulk of the more than 96,000 African refugees headed to Yemen and Italy, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees office.",
"The rest sought refuge in Malta, Greece, Spain and the Canary Islands, The United Nations' refugee agency said.",
"Last weekend, at least 60 refugees died en route to Yemen, a frequent destination for Somali and Ethiopian refugees, according to Doctors Without The United Nations' refugee agency, known by The United Nations' refugee agency's French acronym MSF.",
"The United Nations' refugee agency said most of those who died were forced overboard in deep water off Yemen's coast by smugglers who demanded more money than the $100 they paid for the journey.",
"\"Those who did not or could not pay extra were severely beaten by the smugglers,\" The United Nations' refugee agency said in a news release Tuesday.",
"\"Up to 40 -- mainly Ethiopians -- [were] thrown overboard despite 40 -- mainly Ethiopians's pleas for mercy.\"",
"Andreas Koutepas, MSF's field coordinator in southern Yemen, said such a high number of refugee deaths in a short period of time \"is not usual at all.\"",
"\"For the whole of September until now, The United Nations' refugee agency've had 27 dead and now suddenly The United Nations' refugee agency reach this number,\" Koutepas told CNN from MSF's base in Ahwar, Yemen.",
"\"The United Nations' refugee agency are quite shocked here.\"",
"About 30,000 African refugees arrived on boats on Italy's shores during the first 10 months of this year compared with 19,900 refugees last year, according to The United Nations' refugee agency.",
"In Malta, an estimated 2,600 boat people arrived in the first nine months of this year from North Africa, compared with 1,800 last year, The United Nations' refugee agency said..",
"The United Nations' refugee agency said that from January to October this year, 509 of those attempting to make the journey to Italy and Malta died, compared with last year's death toll of 471.",
"More than 38,000 people have made the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen during the first 10 months of this year, a \"considerable increase from the 29,500 who made the same journey during the whole of last year,\" The United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday.",
"However, the death toll on that route has remained lower so far this year: more than 600 have died or disappeared en route to Yemen compared to 1,400 killed last year.",
"In late September, at least 52 Somalis died when the boat smuggling least 52 Somalis across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen broke down, and least 52 Somalis were left adrift with no food or water for 18 days, according to the U.N.",
"Many are fleeing the war in Somalia, but Koutepas of MSF told CNN on Monday that Koutepas of MSF has noticed a recent increase in the number of refugees from Ethiopia.",
"\"It used to be 10 percent of total arrival, and now it's around 50-50,\" Koutepas of MSF said.",
"Yemen is a common destination for Somalis fleeing economic hardship and war because of Yemen's proximity.",
"Yemen is also an attractive location because Somalis receive automatic refugee status in Yemen.",
"New smuggling routes, including some based out of Djibouti -- which lies north of Somalia and is much closer to Yemen -- have also led to the increase in refugees, according to The United Nations' refugee agency.",
"But according to the Yemen Post, Yemen is just a stopping point for most of the refugees, who then travel on to the wealthier Persian Gulf states or Europe and the United States.",
"Earlier this year, Yemen's coast guard stepped up patrols of Yemen's coastline in an attempt to deter the smugglers.",
"Some of the smuggling boats seized by Yemen's coast guard are given to Somali fishermen who suffered losses in the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.",
"As part of a $19 million operation, The United Nations' refugee agency operates shelters and reception centers for the refugees in Yemen and has increased The United Nations' refugee agency's efforts to discourage people from making the illegal crossing to Yemen.",
"The United Nations' refugee agency has also sponsored training programs for coast guard personnel and other officials.",
"MSF said the plight of the refugees in Yemen has been overshadowed by the dozens of pirate attacks off Somalia's coast that have grabbed international headlines in recent months.",
"\"A lot of attention has been paid lately to tackling the issue of piracy in the waters off the Horn of Africa,\" said MSF Yemen mission leader Francis Coteur.",
"\"Unfortunately, little attention is paid to the drama of the refugees in Yemen crossing the same waters in horrific conditions.",
"Much more needs to be done to address the issue of piracy.\""
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Reigning hot dog-guzzling champ Joey Chestnut and nemesis Takeru Kobayashi of Japan attempted to psych each other out Thursday at the weigh-in for the 94th annual Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest.",
"Competitive eaters Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi take part in an official \"staredown.\"",
"Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi glared long and menacingly into each other's eyes in an official \"staredown.\"",
"At last year's contest, 25-year-old Chestnut, a civil engineering student at San Jose State University, eked out a win over Takeru Kobayashi, 31, in a tiebreaker after both initially consumed 59 dogs apiece.",
"It was Chestnut's second slim victory over Takeru Kobayashi in as many years.",
"Takeru Kobayashi vowed Takeru Kobayashi will avenge those two defeats on Saturday.",
"Takeru Kobayashi also said Takeru Kobayashi no longer suffers from the \"jawthritis\" that some cited as the culprit for Takeru Kobayashi's 2007 defeat, which snapped Takeru Kobayashi's six-year winning streak at Coney Island.",
"Chestnut, for Chestnut's part, said Chestnut had no intention of ceding the coveted mustard yellow belt -- competitive eating's answer to golf's green jacket.",
"Chestnut is setting Chestnut's sights this year on 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes.",
"Saturday's competition will be partially about redemption for Chestnut, too.",
"In May, Chestnut suffered a stinging defeat to Takeru Kobayashi in a loss Chestnut said \"really set a fire underneath Chestnut\" and \"made me hungry for this contest.\"",
"Chestnut revealed the extreme dietary regimen Chestnut is following in the days leading up to this contest.",
"Chestnut said Chestnut is sticking to water to make sure Chestnut is \"empty\" when the mountain of hot dogs is placed in front of Chestnut.",
"In addition to Chestnut, Takeru Kobayashi admitted to keeping a watchful eye on 32-year-old Tim \"Eater X\" Janus, whose signature painted face was described by Major League Eating impresario Richard Shea as an attempt to mask Chestnut's \"inner torment.\"",
"In a recent trial round, Janus downed a personal-best 55 hot dogs -- a weiner's throw from the 59 that Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi wolfed down last year.",
"As a lead-in to the main event, Major League Eating on Friday will hold a first-of-its-kind \"cross-species\" eating contest between three competitive eaters and three Asian elephants.",
"MLE's Shea described it as the realization of one of MLE's Shea's two lifelong dreams, the other being a scenario in which a dozen competitive eaters eat the entire contents of a convenience store.",
"Twenty finalists will compete in the championship on Saturday.",
"Twenty finalists were culled from 18 preliminary contests and comprise a Who's Who of the world of competitive eating.",
"For people who stuff their faces with record-breaking quantities of food, many of the contestants at the weigh-in boasted surprisingly svelte physiques.",
"Juliet Lee, a 44-year-old Maryland salon owner fresh off the feat of downing 13.23 pounds of cranberry sauce in 8 minutes, clocked in at a mere 105 pounds.",
"Takeru Kobayashi, at 123 pounds, lifted Takeru Kobayashi's T-shirt to reveal the sort of chiseled abdomen one would expect at a bodybuilding competition.",
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"Festival attendees enjoy the music Saturday, Day Two of the Coachella music festival in Indio, California.",
"Day One was leisurely and pleasant -- the weather was mild, the acts were fairly mellow and the big headliner was Paul McCartney.",
"On Day Two, someone took the dial and turned it up a notch, as the desert sun beat down a little harder, the music pumped a little louder and the crowds who packed the VIP tent threw a little more attitude.",
"There were the usual celebrity sightings.",
"Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon snuck in the back just as rapper M.I.A. hit the stage, Paris Hilton took in Travis Barker and DJ AM's set in the Sahara tent and David Hasselhoff was spotted making out with a mystery lady near the restrooms.",
"Forty-six acts performed on five stages scattered about the grassy field of the Empire Polo Club near Palm Springs, California.",
"Massive eco-friendly art installations fashioned from scrap metal and reclaimed wood doubled as shelter from the heat, as well as mini-stages for dancers and performance artists.",
"There was good buzz for thenewno2, an indie-pop band fronted by Oli Hecks and Dhani Harrison, whose vocals are reminiscent of his late father, George, but warmer, and less haunting.",
"\"It's the first festival we've ever played, and our 12th gig overall,\" said Harrison.",
"\"Normally with festivals, people come to check you out, stand in the back, and then move on pretty quickly, even if people like you -- but people stayed!",
"It's the best performance we've ever had.\"",
"Unfortunately Fleet Foxes was not so lucky.",
"The Seattle,Washington, group's delicate baroque harmonies were drowned out by the world music beats of Thievery Corporation's percussion section bleeding over from the neighboring main stage, as one of their female vocalists crowd-surfed.",
"As usual, the day's line-up was a mix of up-and-coming indie artists sprinkled with tried-and-true veteran acts.",
"The Killers have played Coachella in both capacities.",
"The Las Vegas, Nevada, The Killers received The Killers's first invitation from festival organizers in 2004, the same year The Killers's debut album, \"Hot Fuss,\" was released.",
"\"We played at 11:30 a.m. in a tent.",
"It was 150 degrees out, and backstage, it smelled like horse droppings,\" said drummer Ronnie Vannucci, referencing the fact that there are certain consequences to holding an event on a polo field in the desert.",
"This time, as the marquee act, The Killers enjoyed The Killers's own backstage compound decked out with a white picket fence, tablecloths and festive party lights in the shape of daisies.",
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"You could hear the crowd going crazy for a feisty M.I.A. slotted on the main stage before The Killers.",
"drummer Ronnie Vannucci and drummer Ronnie Vannucci's three bandmates had just rolled in on Vannucci and his three bandmates's tour bus from Vegas.",
"drummer Ronnie Vannucci spoke with CNN while warming up drummer Ronnie Vannucci's hands and wrists with drumming exercises.",
"\"With festivals, you have to realize the audience is not necessarily there to see YOU.",
"So The Killers'll play some stuff off The Killers's new album, 'Day and Age,' and work in some songs that everybody knows, like 'Mr. Brightside' from The Killers's first album.\"",
"Half an hour later, The Killers took the stage, opening The Killers's set with The Killers's latest hit, \"Human.\"",
"Frontman Brandon Flowers soon had the crowd singing the along to the perplexing lyrics, \"Are the crowd human, or are the crowd dancer?\"",
"At Coachella, it doesn't matter if you're human or if you're dancer.",
"But if you're dancer, you'll probably be relegated to one of the mini-stages inside an art installation.",
"\"The first time I heard about Coachella 10 years ago, I thought, 'That could be the cool festival here in America,\" said Vannucci.",
"\"It's since become a successful festival with good bands, swarms of people coming in from all over the world -- even art elements.",
"It's strange to think we're headlining one night.\""
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"Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has crowd singing the along to new hit, \"Human\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Bringing a growing health concern to Congress, scientists squared off Thursday over whether cell phones contribute to brain cancer.",
"Rep. Denis Kucinich of Ohio holds a model of a 5-year-old child's brain absorbing cell phone radiation.",
"Studies have indicated that long-term cell phone use may be associated with brain cancer, according to Dr. Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and Dr. David Carpenter, director of Institute for Health and the Environment at University of Albany.",
"Dr. Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and Dr. David Carpenter, director of Institute for Health and the Environment at University of Albany testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Policy.",
"\"I cannot tell this committee that cell phones are definitely dangerous.",
"But, I certainly cannot tell you that cell phones are safe,\" Herberman said.",
"Herberman and Carpenter cited the results from a study recently presented by Dr. Lennart Hardell of Örebro University in Sweden.",
"The results indicated that people who use cell phones have double the chance of developing malignant brain tumors and acoustic neuromas, which are tumors on the hearing nerve.",
"a study recently presented by Dr. Lennart Hardell of Örebro University in Sweden also said people under age 20 were more than five times as likely to develop brain cancer.",
"But Dr. Robert Hoover, director or Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the National Cancer Institute, said a study recently presented by Dr. Lennart Hardell of Örebro University in Sweden has not yet appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, so has not come under sufficient scrutiny.",
"The evidence for the connection between cell phones and cancer is inconclusive and more research is needed, Dr. Robert Hoover, director or Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the National Cancer Institute said.",
"\"Larger studies are needed to sort out chance and bias,\" Dr. Robert Hoover, director or Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the National Cancer Institute testified.",
"Interphone, a series of multinational studies on the risk of cancer from cell phones, has not found an increase in tumors associated with the first 10 years of mobile phone use, Dr. Robert Hoover, director or Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the National Cancer Institute said.",
"Some findings show an increased risk of tumors diagnosed on the side of the head that the cell phone is pressed against, but this pattern has not been seen consistently, Dr. Robert Hoover, director or Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the National Cancer Institute said.",
"CTIA, the International Association for Wireless Telecommunications, declined the invitation to testify, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential candidate from Ohio, who led the hearing, said.",
"Steve Largent, CEO of CTIA, issued a statement Wednesday saying the industry has supported scientific research on these issues and supports the Federal Communications Commision's safety guidelines.",
"\"The available scientific evidence and expert reviews from leading global health organizations such as the American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, United States Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization reflect a consensus based on published scientific research showing that there is no reason for concern,\" Largent's statement said.",
"The overall evidence for the cancer-phone link has not been statistically significant at a 95 percent confidence level, a standard in science, Carpenter said.",
"But Carpenter also noted that U.S.-funded research is very scarce.",
"\"Are we at the same place we were with smoking and lung cancer 30 years ago?\" Carpenter asked.",
"Carpenter and Herberman testified that the risk of brain cancer for children is far greater than for adults.",
"Herberman demonstrated a model showing that the radiation from cell phones would penetrate far deeper into a 5-year-old's brain than an adult's.",
"See models from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh » .",
"But the incidence of brain cancer in children has not increased significantly from the late 1980s to 2005, Dr. Robert Hoover, director or Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the National Cancer Institute said.",
"The Federal Communications Commission limits cell phone radio frequency energy emissions, called the specific absorption rate (SAR), at 1.6 watts per kilogram, as measured over one gram of tissue.",
"The standard was developed in 1997 in consultation with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a professional association open to everyone, including manufacturers and health specialists.",
"But The standard reflects a biological response to cell phone radio frequency energy heating tissue, Kucinich said.",
"Many experiments show that radio frequency energy does cause \"biological effects\" without heating tissue, although not all of those effects are harmful, Carpenter said.",
"Dr. Robert Hoover, director or Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the National Cancer Institute agreed that there could be such effects related to cancer risk, but such effects related to cancer risk have not been properly vetted in a laboratory.",
"The FCC itself does not have the expertise to evaluate whether The standard is appropriate protection for possible heath risks, Julius Knapp, director of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology, testified.",
"The hearing took place just a week after the Cleveland Clinic reported a study showing that keeping a cell phone on talk mode in a pocket can decrease sperm quality.",
"Herberman had issued a warning to physicians, scientists, and staff at the University of Pittsburgh in July advising them to limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.",
"The Israeli Health Ministry endorsed this recommendation within a week, he said.",
"Ellen Marks of Lafayette, California, whose husband found out he had a brain tumor on his right frontal lobe in May, attended The hearing.",
"a brain tumor is on the same side of his head where he held his cell phone, which he used about 30 hours per month.",
"She believes a brain tumor is the result of cell phone use.",
"\"I often threatened to throw it in the garbage, and how I wish I had,\" she said.",
"\"This horror could have been avoided with a simple warning.\""
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"Studies conflict; do not consistently show cell phones cause cancer, expert says .",
"Expert says Expert cannot say they are definitely dangerous or definitely safe .",
"Children are at higher risk for cancer-causing radiation from phone, scientist says .",
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"(Mental Floss) --",
"Have you ever wondered about the origins and namesakes of our favorite spreads, sauces, and dressings?",
"Here are a few stories that you can use to regale your friends the next time you chow down.",
"Peppers were imported from the Mexican state of Tabasco to make spicy Tabasco sauce, giving the condiment the condiment's name.",
"1. Thousand Island dressing .",
"Is the delicious dressing that gives a Reuben a Reuben's tanginess named after an actual chain of islands?",
"You bet it is.",
"islands are an archipelago that sits in the Saint Lawrence River on the U.S.-Canada border, and there are actually 1,793 of islands, some of which are so small that they contain nothing more than a single home.",
"So why is the dressing named after an archipelago?",
"No one's quite sure.",
"Some people claim that early film star and vaudevillian May Irwin, who summered on islands, named it, while others contend that George Boldt, the famed proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria, gave the dressing its name because of his own summer place in the region.",
"No matter who named it, it's tough to beat on a sandwich.",
"2. Ranch Dressing .",
"Yep, Ranch Dressing sauce actually got Ranch Dressing's start on a real ranch.",
"When Steve and Gayle Henson opened a dude ranch in California in 1954, Steve and Gayle Henson had an ace up Steve and Gayle Henson's sleeves: a delicious dressing that Steve had concocted while Steve and Gayle Henson was living in Alaska.",
"Steve and Gayle Henson did a nice business at Steve and Gayle Henson's Hidden Valley Ranch, but guests were always flipping out over just how tasty Steve's dressing was.",
"Eventually, the Hensons started bottling the stuff, and the popularity grew so quickly that Steve and Gayle Henson had to hire a twelve-man crew just to help mix up each batch.",
"Steve's culinary creativity turned out to be lucrative; in 1972 Clorox forked over $8 million for the recipe.",
"Mental Floss: Foods named after people .",
"3. A1 Steak Sauce .",
"According to the brand's Web site, A1 has been around for quite a while.",
"Henderson William Brand worked as the personal chef for King George IV from 1824 to 1831, and at some point during this employment mixed up a new sauce for King George IV to use on King George IV's beef.",
"King George IV allegedly took one bite of Henderson William Brand's creation and declared that it was \"A1.\"",
"Henderson William Brand then left King George IV's employ in order to go peddle his new sauce.",
"4. Tabasco Sauce .",
"Tabasco Sauce is perhaps the most famous of all hot sauces, but where did Tabasco Sauce get Tabasco Sauce's name?",
"When Edmund McIlhenny, a former banker, invented Tabasco Sauce in Louisiana in 1868, Edmund McIlhenny, a former banker didn't have a huge supply of chili peppers at Edmund McIlhenny, a former banker's disposal.",
"To keep cooking, Edmund McIlhenny, a former banker imported peppers from the Mexican state of Tabasco and slapped the region's name on Edmund McIlhenny, a former banker's bottles.",
"Mental Floss: The origins of salt, pepper and other popular spices .",
"Heinz 57 .",
"Legend has it that Heinz 57 takes its name from H.J. Heinz's company formerly marketing 57 products at once, and except for Heinz 57, the story holds up.",
"Heinz's Web site tells a story that Heinz was riding a train when Heinz saw a billboard advertising 21 varieties of shoes.",
"Heinz so liked the idea Heinz wanted to try it with Heinz's own condiment company.",
"Thus, Heinz started touting Heinz's 57 varieties.",
"There was only one catch: Heinz marketed well over 60 products at the time.",
"So where did the 57 come from?",
"Heinz thought Heinz 57 was lucky.",
"Five was Heinz's lucky number, and seven was Heinz's wife's.",
"Heinz mashed the charmed digits together, got 57, and never looked back.",
"6. Tartar Sauce .",
"Fish's best friend is named after an alternate spelling of the word \"Tatar,\" which was how Western Europeans once referred to almost anyone of Mongolian or Turkic descent.",
"Many of these Tatars/Tartars ran roughshod over Europe in the time of Genghis Khan, but these Tatars/Tartars knew how to cook.",
"One of the dishes these Tatars/Tartars left behind, beef tartare, came back into fashion in 19th-century France.",
"These helpings of steak tartare came with a number of garnishes, including the creamy white stuff that eventually became generically known as tartar sauce.",
"Mental Floss: The history of utensils (spork included) 7.",
"Hollandaise Sauce .",
"Hollandaise, the lemon-butter-and-egg yumminess that Eggs Benedict can't live without, isn't actually the Dutch.",
"Instead, it's one of the most well known French sauces.",
"Hollandaise Sauce first appeared in French cooking in the 17th century, and is apparently named both because Hollandaise Sauce somewhat resembles an old Dutch sauce and because the Dutch had such thriving butter and egg industries that provided two of Hollandaise Sauce's main ingredients.",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Tabasco's founder imported peppers from the Mexican state of Tabasco .",
"Hollandaise isn't actually Dutch; Hollandaise's one of the most well known French sauces ."
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