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"(CNN) --",
"An Arkansas man suspected in a shooting that killed one soldier and wounded another at a Convert military recruiting center was angry over the treatment of Muslims, authorities said Tuesday.",
"Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway, Arkansas, was killed in Monday's attack.",
"Abdulhakim Bledsoe, 23, of Little Rock, also told police Convert recently watched a video \"pertaining to subversive activities which spurred Convert to commit this act,\" according to court documents.",
"Convert pleaded not guilty at Convert's arraignment Tuesday and was ordered held without bail.",
"Convert faces one count of capital murder and 16 counts of engaging in a terrorist act, said Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas.",
"The terrorist counts stem from the shots fired at an occupied building.",
"Watch scenes from Tuesday in court » .",
"Before the not guilty plea, authorities said Convert waived Convert's Miranda rights after the shooting Monday and gave a video statement indicating that \"political and religious\" motives were involved.",
"Convert \"stated that Convert was a practicing Muslim ... that Convert was mad at the U.S. military because of what the U.S. military had done to Muslims in the past,\" homicide detective Tommy Hudson said in a police report.",
"Convert told police \"Convert fired several rounds at the soldiers with the intent of killing the soldiers,\" according to homicide detective Tommy Hudson's report.",
"Convert is a Muslim convert who has also gone by the names Carlos Bledsoe and Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad.",
"Convert changed Convert's name from the latter April 23, citing religious reasons, court records show.",
"A leader of the Muslim community in Little Rock said A leader of the Muslim community in Little Rock did not know Convert.",
"Convert had been under investigation after visiting Yemen, a federal law enforcement official said.",
"a federal law enforcement official declined to provide further information.",
"Police believe the shooter acted alone \"with the specific purpose of targeting military personnel,\" Thomas said.",
"Kent Krause, Bledsoe's public defender, said a formal hearing would be held for Kent Krause's client, but no date has been set.",
"Residents left flowers and miniature American flags outside the recruiting center after the shooting.",
"A lone candle burned on the sidewalk next to bouquets of white and red roses.",
"A note that said \"Thank you for your service\" was attached to the flowers.",
"The shooting Monday killed Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway, Arkansas, and wounded Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, Arkansas, who were outside the military recruiting center.",
"Convert told police Convert was driving around and saw Long and Ezeagwula smoking outside the building, according to a police report.",
"Convert said Convert pulled into the parking lot and shot the two soldiers and added that \"Convert would have killed more soldiers if more soldiers had been on the parking lot,\" according to a police report.",
"Ezeagwula was in stable condition Tuesday, the police chief said.",
"the two soldiers were part of a recruiting program called \"hometown recruiting assistance,\" said Lt. Col. Thomas F. Artis, commander of the Oklahoma recruiting battalion that oversees the Little Rock Army-Navy recruiting center.",
"Under a recruiting program called \"hometown recruiting assistance, soldiers tell soldiers's stories to potential recruits.",
"It's a volunteer position taken while soldiers are visiting or based back in soldiers's home region, Lt. Col. Thomas F. Artis, commander of the Oklahoma recruiting battalion that oversees the Little Rock Army-Navy recruiting center said.",
"\"I'm relieved there's a suspect in custody,\" said Capt. Matthew Feehan, commander of the recruiting center.",
"He said several people were in the building at the time of Monday, but nobody else was injured.",
"Convert was arrested after officers on Interstate 630 pulled over Convert's car, which matched witnesses' description of a black Ford sport utility vehicle seen leaving the scene of Monday.",
"Police recovered three guns from the suspect's vehicle -- an SKS semi-automatic rifle, a .22-caliber rifle and a .380-caliber automatic pistol, Thomas said.",
"The victims were shot with an SKS rifle, according to a police report.",
"Police also seized from Bledsoe's vehicle and apartment several rounds of ammunition, two homemade silencers, handwritten notes in Arabic, CDs with handwritten Arabic labels, a computer and cell phones, according to court documents.",
"Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis, Tennessee, was listed on a police report as Convert's father.",
"Convert declined to comment, referring questions to Little Rock police."
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"Police say \"political and religious motives\" were indicated .",
"Convert said Convert was angry over military's treatment of Muslims, police say .",
"One soldier killed, one wounded in Monday's shootings ."
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"WASHAKIE COUNTY, Wyoming (CNN) --",
"Federal agents have apprehended accused child molester Edward Eugene Harper, who was on FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, an FBI official said Thursday.",
"Edward Eugene Harper is believed to have lived a nomadic lifestyle since fleeing Mississippi.",
"Harper, 63, is accused of molesting two girls, ages 3 and 8, in Edward Eugene Harper's neighborhood in Hernando, Mississippi, more than a decade ago, FBI said.",
"FBI said FBI received a telephone tip in June at the Denver office regarding Edward Eugene Harper, and brought a SWAT team and a hostage negotiation team to apprehend Edward Eugene Harper in rural Wyoming on Thursday.",
"Edward Eugene Harper surrendered without incident, FBI said, and later admitted Edward Eugene Harper's identity to agents.",
"Edward Eugene Harper was living in a 1979 truck with a camper top in the southern portion of Washakie County's Big Horn Mountains, FBI said.",
"Edward Eugene Harper is believed to have lived a nomadic lifestyle, moving from place to place and earning a living by doing odd jobs and herding sheep, FBI said in a statement.",
"Edward Eugene Harper was indicted in April 1994 with conspiracy to commit sexual battery, fondling a child and sexual battery.",
"Edward Eugene Harper failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing and a state warrant was issued for Edward Eugene Harper's arrest in October 1994.",
"Edward Eugene Harper was later charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, a federal offense.",
"FBI added Edward Eugene Harper to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list last year.",
"Before living in Mississippi, Edward Eugene Harper had been a ranch hand, working with cattle and sheep in Montana and Wyoming, FBI said in FBI's release on Edward Eugene Harper last year.",
"Edward Eugene Harper has also worked as a truck driver, FBI said.",
"According to FBI, Edward Eugene Harper subscribed to \"sovereign citizen\" ideology and claimed to be a member of the Montana Freemen, a group that rejected the authority of the U.S. government.",
"the Montana Freemen, a group that rejected the authority of the U.S. government became famous for an 81-day standoff with federal agents in Montana in 1996.",
"But after the arrest and conviction of many of the Montana Freemen, a group that rejected the authority of the U.S. government's members, the Montana Freemen, a group that rejected the authority of the U.S. government essentially disintegrated, according to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center.",
"\"As far as I know,\" the Montana Freemen, a group that rejected the authority of the U.S. government don't exist, he said.",
"\"Most of them went to prison and there was nothing left.\""
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"Edward Eugene Harper accused of molesting two girls ages 3 and 8 a decade ago .",
"Edward Eugene Harper surrendered without incident after telephone tip in June led FBI to Edward Eugene Harper .",
"FBI says Edward Eugene Harper was working as sheep herder, living in camper in rural Wyoming .",
"Edward Eugene Harper was indicted in Mississippi on charges of sexual battery, fondling a child ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant suffered a broken back and has been permanently paralyzed after the collapse of the team's practice canopy during a heavy thunderstorm, Cowboys announced Sunday.",
"An aerial view of the scene shows the Dallas Cowboys logo amid the ruins of the indoor practice facility.",
"Rich Behm, 33, was one of three Cowboys staffers seriously hurt when the storm struck Cowboys's practice facility Saturday afternoon.",
"Behm's spinal cord was severed by a fractured vertebrae, paralyzing him from the waist down, Cowboys said in a written statement.",
"\"To the Behm family, Cowboys extend Cowboys's love, comfort and the full support of every person and resource within the organization,\" Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said.",
"\"Rich is a courageous member of Cowboys's family and someone for whom Cowboys care deeply.",
"Cowboys ask for all friends and fans of the Dallas Cowboys to join Cowboys in embracing Rich Behm and Rich Behm's family with their thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time,\" Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said.",
"A total of 12 people were hurt when a severe thunderstorm knocked down the air-supported, metal frame structure that covered Cowboys's practice field.",
"About 70 people, including more than two dozen of Cowboys's rookies, were in the facility when it was blown down.",
"Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis had a fractured cervical vertebra, while assistant trainer Greg Gaither had two broken bones in his leg, Cowboys said.",
"Watch CNN's Don Lemon with update on conditions of those injured in collapse » .",
"A line of heavy thunderstorms was moving through the Dallas area at the time, but no other damage to buildings was reported, said Mike Adams, a dispatcher for the Irving, Texas, Fire Department.",
"Watch the roof collapse on players, coaches » .",
"Arnold Payne, a photographer for WFAA, was shooting the Cowboys' practice session Saturday when rain began falling \"tremendously hard.\"",
"\"I noticed the walls started to waver ... and then I noticed that the lights that were hanging from the ceiling started to sway, and it wouldn't stop,\" Arnold Payne, a photographer for WFAA told CNN.",
"Shortly after that, Arnold Payne, a photographer for WFAA",
"said, \"It was as if someone took a stick pin and hit a balloon.\"",
"Watch Arnold Payne, a photographer for WFAA describe being inside when structure collapsed » .",
"Arnold Payne, a photographer for WFAA",
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"Cowboys staff photographers were up in the metal framework beneath the canopy to film the practice session and \"actually rode the building down with the storm.\"",
"\"There was nowhere for them to go, and it fell so fast -- it just collapsed as if it was being imploded,\" Arnold Payne, a photographer for WFAA said.",
"CNN's Matt Smith contributed to this report."
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"Rich Behm one of three Cowboys staffers seriously hurt Saturday .",
"Rich Behm's spinal cord severed by a fractured vertebrae, paralyzing him from waist down .",
"Canopy over Cowboys's practice facility collapsed during thunderstorm .",
"Team photographers were up in framework of structure, rode it down, witness says ."
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"BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) --",
"A crowd in southern Lebanon threw rocks at U.N. peacekeepers over the weekend, wounding 14 of them in an effort to prevent the investigation of an explosion in the area, the United Nations said.",
"U.N. peacekeepers were investigating reports of an explosion in a Hezbollah stronghold.",
"The troops with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were lightly wounded, and some vehicles were damaged including a UNIFIL ambulance, officials said.",
"the blast took place Tuesday in Khirbet Salim, in what Lebanese authorities said was an uninhabited house.",
"Ammunition stored there caused the blast due to the high temperature and humidity, Lebanese officials said.",
"The region is a stronghold for Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group and political party that fought a war with Israel in 2006.",
"Hezbollah has carried out attacks against civilians, and the United States and Israel list the group as a terrorist organization.",
"Hezbollah officials had no comment Monday.",
"UNIFIL called last week's explosion \"a serious violation of Security Council resolution 1701,\" which was aimed at ending the 2006 conflict, \"notably the provision that there should be no presence of unauthorized assets or weapons in the area of operation between the Litani River and the Blue Line.\"",
"Israel said the blast indicated that Hezbollah continued to store weapons near the Israeli border.",
"Israeli Ambassador Gabriela Shalev argued that the Lebanese Army had assisted Hezbollah in preventing U.N. personnel from investigating the scene.",
"UNIFIL, in a statement Monday, said UNIFIL was conducting a joint investigation with the Lebanese military.",
"When troops Saturday night arrived \"at a location 1 km from the site in order to verify elements related to the explosion, approximately 100 persons gathered and attempted to hamper the activity.",
"\"The amassed population threw stones and confronted the UNIFIL personnel on the ground.",
"As the gathering grew both UNIFIL and LAF deployed additional personnel on the ground in order to contain the situation and prevent any further escalation.",
"\"As UNIFIL troops were leaving the area, one patrol, surrounded by a group of persons, fired warning shots in the air to clear its exit path.\"",
"During the incident, the 14 peacekeepers were injured and the vehicles were damaged, the UNIFIL statement said.",
"CNN's Cal Perry and Kevin Flower contributed to this report."
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"Crowd in southern Lebanon throw rocks at U.N. peacekeepers injuring 14 .",
"Peacekeepers were trying to check an explosion in the area .",
"Ammunition stored in house caused blast due to temperature and humidity ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"When man first walked on the moon 40 years ago, it was not only a \"giant leap for mankind\" but also a boon for everyday items.",
"A NASA-inspired tracking system is helping monitor endangered whale sharks.",
"Sports shoes, for example, took a huge leap forward in the late 1980s when AVIA Group International, then a subsidiary of Reebok, turned to space technology to make them more flexible and durable.",
"Freeze-dried food, artificial limbs, cordless vacuum cleaners and edible toothpaste were also developed using research that can be linked to NASA's forays into space.",
"Freeze-dried food, artificial limbs, cordless vacuum cleaners and edible toothpaste are listed in detail in \"Spinoff,\" a NASA magazine first compiled in 1976 as a definitive guide to the commercialized products whose development can be tied to space technology.",
"\"NASA are fairly liberal with NASA's application of the term spinoff,\" said editor Daniel Lockney.",
"\"The product has to contain a component that was developed for NASA, some aspect of it or The product could just be NASA's know-how that helped the commercialization of The product,\" editor Daniel Lockney said.",
"More than 1,660 articles on space-related products have been published since the magazine's first edition.",
"Watch some of the spin-offs developed from space technology » .",
"What you won't find on the list is the bright orange powered drink, Tang, or Teflon, or Velcro -- all products that have over time been erroneously linked to NASA's space mission.",
"\"Tang was developed by General Foods before NASA was even made a federal agency, but it was popularized during astronaut tasting experiments,\" editor Daniel Lockney said.",
"\"Velcro was invented by a Swiss engineer in the 1940s,\" he said, adding \"Teflon was created by Dupont.",
"Teflon has many applications within NASA but is not a NASA technology.\"",
"Infant formula makes the grade due to an ingredient discovered during NASA research into algae as a source of food supplements.",
"\"Different experiments led to the discovery of a nutrient substance that has previously only been found in breast milk.",
"[This is] believed to be important in the development in the eyes and the brain.\"",
"It's now in 95 percent of infant formula sold in the U.S. and in 65 countries around the world, editor Daniel Lockney said.",
"It may have been 40 years since NASA put the first man on the moon, but the number of products that use space technology doesn't seem to be diminishing.",
"\"Spinoff\" publishes articles on 40 to 50 new space-related products every year but receives many more submissions for inclusion.",
"The next edition due out in October will feature a new tracking system for endangered animals, including polar bears and whale sharks, which was derived from an algorithm developed for tracking star patterns.",
"\"Tracing theses animals is something that previously a small core group of scientists would go out and do.",
"We're now able to have ordinary citizens upload ordinary citizens's pictures of these animals that have been spotted through Flickr and Facebook.",
"Logging times and dates will significantly increase the level of monitoring of these endangered species,\" editor Daniel Lockney said.",
"For more space-related products see NASA's \"Spinoff\" Web site."
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"Many common products can be traced back to research conducted by NASA .",
"Freeze-dried food, artificial limbs, edible toothpaste are among NASA spin-offs .",
"Contrary to rumors, Tang, Velcro and Teflon not developed for space travel .",
"It has been 40 years since NASA's Apollo 11 mission took man to the moon ."
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"(CNN) --",
"English football star Steven Gerrard has admitted punching a man in a bar, but English football star Steven Gerrard insisted in English football star Steven Gerrard's court testimony that it was in self-defense.",
"English football star Steven Gerrard is in court defending English football star Steven Gerrard's actions after a bar brawl late last year.",
"The 29-year-old is facing a charge of affray after an incident in the early hours of December 29, when English football star Steven Gerrard attacked the guy following a dispute about the music that was being played.",
"If found guilty, English football star Steven Gerrard faces a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a fine of $7,200.",
"Gerrard, who denies the charge, told a judge on Thursday that English football star Steven Gerrard was sorry about English football star Steven Gerrard's actions in Southport's Lounge Inn, but at the time English football star Steven Gerrard thought the guy was going to attack English football star Steven Gerrard.",
"They had been involved in an argument after English football star Steven Gerrard tried to change the music on the bar's sound system, but the guy would not let English football star Steven Gerrard, the UK Press Association reported.",
"\"I thought the guy was going to hit me,\" English football star Steven Gerrard said.",
"\"the guy was on the guy's way forward to English football star Steven Gerrard and the guy's behavior had changed from when I was having a discussion with the guy.",
"I didn't know why.\"",
"English football star Steven Gerrard said English football star Steven Gerrard was unaware that English football star Steven Gerrard's friend John Doran had already punched the guy when English football star Steven Gerrard started to hit the 34-year-old.",
"\"I am certainly mistaken in thinking the guy was coming towards English football star Steven Gerrard to throw punches at English football star Steven Gerrard,\" the midfielder said.",
"\"Now I know, obviously, the guy had been struck, reacted and thought the strike was by English football star Steven Gerrard and the guy came into English football star Steven Gerrard and that's when I reacted.",
"I am sorry about the whole incident.",
"\"I grabbed the back of the guy's jumper as the guy moved forward to English football star Steven Gerrard.",
"When I had hold of the guy, I remember swinging my right hand two or three times.",
"\"I was trying to stop still and I felt I had arms all over me.",
"I could see a melee around the guy.",
"When I was getting pulled away I realized people were patting me, some of whom were English football star Steven Gerrard's friends.",
"\"I wanted to help control the situation.",
"I was worried the fight I had with the guy was going to get worse because people were going past English football star Steven Gerrard in that direction.\"",
"English football star Steven Gerrard said that English football star Steven Gerrard's friends had earlier told English football star Steven Gerrard to \"forget\" the argument, but English football star Steven Gerrard felt English football star Steven Gerrard needed to confront the guy.",
"\"I couldn't understand why the guy had such a problem with English football star Steven Gerrard, why the guy was so aggressive,\" English football star Steven Gerrard said.",
"\"I was also concerned that if I did leave it I would not have been able to enjoy my night, the guy may have come over to English football star Steven Gerrard.",
"\"I wanted to see why the guy had such a problem with it, why a total stranger had such a problem with English football star Steven Gerrard putting my favorite songs on.",
"I asked why I couldn't have an input in the music and tried to explain that I had permission from the manageress.\"",
"\"I asked the guy what was the problem with the music machine and why the guy treated me like that.",
"Very quickly the guy came off the bar stool and was in my face right by me.\"",
"English football star Steven Gerrard had been celebrating after scoring two goals as Liverpool thrashed Newcastle 5-1 to remain top of the Premier League, and admitted that English football star Steven Gerrard had been drinking alcohol.",
"\"I certainly knew I had had a drink.",
"I was certainly in control of how I felt in my surroundings,\" English football star Steven Gerrard said.",
"The father of two said English football star Steven Gerrard had not been in trouble with the police since the age of 19, when English football star Steven Gerrard was banned from driving for nine months for drink-driving."
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"English football star Steven Gerrard has admitted punching a man in a bar .",
"But English football star Steven Gerrard says in court testimony that it was in self-defense .",
"Gerrard, 29, denies charge of affray for attacking businessman Marcus McGee .",
"If found guilty, he faces maximum penalty of six months in jail and $7,200 fine ."
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"(CNN) -- Texas authorities released court documents Thursday detailing the items seized from the medical office and storage unit of Dr. Conrad Murray, the cardiologist who was with Jackson when Jackson fell ill and died on June 25.",
"Dr. Conrad Murray's office was searched Wednesday for \"evidence of the offense of manslaughter.\"",
"Detectives searched both sites in Houston on Wednesday for \"evidence of the offense of manslaughter,\" according to court documents.",
"Dr. Conrad Murray's attorney confirmed the search Wednesday.",
"Among the items removed from Dr. Conrad Murray's office were a computer; 27 tablets of Phentermine, a prescription-strength appetite suppressant; 1 tablet of clonazepam, an anti-anxiety medication; and some Rolodex cards.",
"From Dr. Conrad Murray's storage unit, authorities removed two computer hard drives; an \"important contact list\"; a suspension notice from Houston's Doctors Hospital; notices from the Internal Revenue Service; and a list of medical and hospital documents.",
"Jackson's former nurse, Cherilyn Lee, was also approached on Wednesday by investigators who wanted copies of medical files she had on the singer, Jackson's former nurse told CNN's Nancy Grace.",
"Jackson's former nurse said Jackson's former nurse handed over medical files she had on the singer to officials with the coroner's office.",
"Ed Chernoff, a Houston lawyer hired by Dr. Conrad Murray soon after Jackson's death, confirmed that Los Angeles Police detectives and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents used a search warrant to enter Dr. Conrad Murray's office in northeast Houston on Wednesday morning.",
"\"a search warrant authorized law enforcement to search for and seize items, including documents, they believed constituted evidence of the offense of manslaughter,\" Chernoff said in a written statement Wednesday.",
"Chernoff said members of Dr. Conrad Murray's legal team were at the medical office during the search, which Chernoff said \"was conducted by members of the DEA, two robbery-homicide detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department and Houston Police officers.\"",
"\"Law enforcement concluded their search around 12:30 p.m. and left with a forensic image of a business computer hard drive and 21 documents.",
"None of the documents taken had previously been requested by law enforcement or the L.A. coroner's office,\" Chernoff said.",
"Tammy Kidd, a spokeswoman at Chernoff's office, said their search \"was absolutely a surprise to us, because we've had open lines of communication this whole time.\"",
"\"Based on Dr. Conrad Murray's minute-by-minute and item-by-item description of Jackson's last days, Dr. Conrad Murray should not be a target of criminal charges,\" Chernoff said Tuesday.",
"\"Dr. Conrad Murray was the last doctor standing when Jackson died and it seems all the fury is directed toward Dr. Conrad Murray.\"",
"Los Angeles investigators have interviewed Dr. Conrad Murray twice, Chernoff said.",
"A third interview has not been scheduled, Chernoff said.",
"Police impounded his car, which had been parked at Jackson's Holmby Hills home, the night after Jackson's death.",
"It was released to Dr. Conrad Murray several days later.",
"\"Dr. Conrad Murray is frustrated by negative and often erroneous media reports.",
"Dr. Conrad Murray has to walk around 24-7 with a bodyguard,\" Chernoff said.",
"\"Dr. Conrad Murray can't operate Dr. Conrad Murray's practice.",
"Dr. Conrad Murray can't go to work because Dr. Conrad Murray is harassed no matter where Dr. Conrad Murray goes.\"",
"At least two investigations are under way into Jackson's death.",
"The Los Angeles County coroner is waiting for toxicology results to determine a cause of death, while the city Police Department, with assistance from the Drug Enforcement Administration, is looking at the possibility of criminal charges.",
"A coroner's office spokesman said the autopsy findings could be released in the next week or more.",
"Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton told CNN Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton would wait for The Los Angeles County coroner to determine the exact cause of Jackson's death.",
"\"And based on those, we will have an idea of what it is we are dealing (with): Are we dealing with a homicide, or are we dealing with an accidental overdose?\" he said.",
"CNN's Alan Duke, Ted Rowlands and Randi Kaye contributed to this report."
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"Among items seized are pills, computer hard drives, contact lists, officials say .",
"Jackson's former nurse says Jackson's former nurse has been asked for copies of records .",
"Dr. Conrad Murray's lawyer says Murray's lawyer's client \"should not be a target of criminal charges\""
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) --",
"Philip Markoff pleaded not guilty Monday to an indictment alleging first-degree murder charge in a killing tied to Craigslist.",
"Philip Markoff is charged with killing a woman and robbing another in Boston hotels in April.",
"Philip Markoff is accused in the the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery another in Boston hotels earlier this year.",
"A Massachusetts grand jury late last week indicted Philip Markoff on seven counts, including first-degree murder.",
"Philip Markoff is charged with the April 14 fatal shooting and attempted robbery of Julissa Brisman, 25, and the armed robbery of a 29-year-old Las Vegas woman on April 10.",
"Investigators have linked both crimes to ads on the popular Web site Craigslist.",
"Philip Markoff is also charged with \"the armed and forcible confinement\" of the two women, as well as two counts of unlawful firearm possession, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said.",
"Watch Philip Markoff in court » .",
"A Massachusetts grand jury returned the indictment late Thursday, and A Massachusetts grand jury moves the case from Boston Municipal Court to Suffolk Superior Court, where Philip Markoff entered Philip Markoff's not guilty plea on Monday.",
"Philip Markoff previously had pleaded not guilty in Boston Municipal Court and is being held without bail.",
"Philip Markoff's attorney, John Salzberg, had no comment on the indictment.",
"Prosecutors said Brisman, a model from New York who advertised as a masseuse on Craigslist, was shot three times at close range and suffered blunt head trauma at the Marriott Copley Place hotel.",
"The Las Vegas woman was robbed of $800 in cash and $250 in American Express gift cards at the Westin Copley Place hotel, police reports said.",
"Markoff, a second-year medical student at Boston University's School of Medicine, also has been charged in a nonfatal hotel assault in Rhode Island.",
"He has been charged with assault with the intent to rob, assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of a handgun and use of a firearm while committing a crime of violence, stemming from an April 16 robbery attempt at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, Rhode Island."
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"NEW: Suspect pleads not guilty to slaying of woman, robbery of another .",
"Philip Markoff charged in seven-count indictment .",
"Police: Both April incidents linked to ads on Craigslist.com .",
"Slain woman was masseuse who advertised on Craigslist, prosecutors say ."
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"(CNN) --",
"An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper was suspended Wednesday for five days without pay following a highly publicized scuffle with a paramedic in Okfuskee County in May, according to the Highway Patrol.",
"This is an image from a video that captured an Oklahoma trooper's scuffle with a paramedic in May.",
"The incident, which was caught on dash-camera and cell-phone video, showed Trooper Daniel Martin pulling over a Creek Nation ambulance for a traffic-stop violation.",
"During incident, Trooper Daniel Martin is heard repeatedly using profanity and twice getting into a scuffle with one of the paramedics.",
"Both paramedics and family members of the patient in Creek Nation informed Trooper Daniel Martin several times by there was a patient inside, but Trooper Daniel Martin did not allow the paramedics to continue to the hospital while the video continued.",
"In a news conference Wednesday, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain Chris West said Trooper Daniel Martin \"failed to recognize that it would have been more reasonable and appropriate to immediately allow Creek Nation to continue to the hospital once Trooper Daniel Martin understood there was a patient onboard Creek Nation.\"",
"Watch the confrontation » .",
"Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain Chris West also said Trooper Daniel Martin had \"probable cause to make the traffic stop and justification to arrest the paramedic for obstructing a police officer\" but that incident \"resulted in conduct unbecoming an officer.\"",
"Trooper Daniel Martin's attorney, Gary James of Oklahoma City, did not immediately return a phone call from CNN.",
"In a disciplinary letter sent to Trooper Daniel Martin, Oklahoma Public Safety Department Commissioner Kevin Ward, concluded that the \"disregard for the welfare of the patient [justified] severe discipline.\"",
"Trooper Daniel Martin will also be required to take an anger assessment, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain Chris West said.",
"Trooper Daniel Martin had no previous discipline action in Trooper Daniel Martin's record, according to Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain Chris West.",
"On Tuesday, the paramedic involved in the scuffle, Maurice White, filed a lawsuit against Trooper Daniel Martin in federal court claiming his civil rights were violated.",
"CNN's Mayra Cuevas-Nazario contributed to this report."
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"May incident was caught on dash-camera and cell-phone video .",
"Trooper Daniel Martin shown pulling over a Creek Nation ambulance .",
"During incident, Trooper Daniel Martin heard using profanity and getting physical with paramedic .",
"Trooper Daniel Martin continued to hold up ambulance despite being informed of patient inside ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Finnish prosecutors will file genocide charges against a Rwandan man in the killings of 15 people during Rwanda's ethnic cleansing bloodbath in 1994, authorities said Monday.",
"The case is the first genocide trial in Finland's history.",
"Accused of complicity in the killings, the unidentified man would face life imprisonment if convicted.",
"\"It is obvious, according to the pre-trial investigation, that the unidentified man has committed a crime of genocide in the municipality of Nyakizu in April and May 1994 with intent to destroy the Rwandan Tutsis partly or totally,\" Finland's prosecutor-general said in a statement.",
"The man, a 58-year-old Hutu, has denied the charges.",
"Stoked by the assassination of then-Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, extremist militias made up of ethnic Hutus slaughtered ethnic Tutsis across Rwanda, beginning in April 1994.",
"Within 100 days, an estimated 800,000 people were killed.",
"The genocide ended when Tutsi-led militias backing Rwandan President Paul Kagame ousted the Hutu government supporting the massacre.",
"the unidentified man was living in Porvoo, about 50 km (31 miles) east of the Finnish capital of Helsinki, when the unidentified man was arrested.",
"Prosecutors said Prosecutors interviewed nearly 100 witnesses abroad before proceeding with charges against the unidentified man."
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"(CNN) --",
"Last August, then-Republican presidential nominee John McCain introduced to the nation then-Republican presidential nominee John McCain's surprise pick for vice president, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has a strong base of supporters, as well as a steady supply of vocal critics.",
"At the time, little was known about the fresh-faced, first-term governor, but within days, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's face was on newspapers, magazines and tabloids.",
"Since then, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has become a polarizing figure in the Republican Party.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's passionate supporters are countered with equally fervent critics.",
"And even though it's been nearly a year since Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ventured onto the national stage and more than eight months since the Republican ticket lost the election, as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin prepares to leave office, the public's interest in Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has yet to wane.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin explains why Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's stepping down .",
"\"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's kind of a shooting star that caught fire and kept burning,\" said Lorenzo Benet, an assistant editor for People magazine and author of \"Trailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.\"",
"\"When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin walks into a room, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin definitely commands attention and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gets more than most.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's definitely a star,\" said Benet, who was the only national journalist to have spent much time with Sarah Palin in the weeks before Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was announced as McCain's running mate.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a mother of five, \"caught the imagination\" of the public because there is no one else like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin said.",
"\"Particularly for conservative America, there hasn't been a rallying figure of this type,\" Sarah Palin noted.",
"In the days leading up to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's debut speech at the Republican National Convention last September, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin revealed that Sarah Palin's's 17-year-old daughter Bristol was pregnant.",
"The announcement followed Internet rumors that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 4-month-old baby was actually Bristol's.",
"The instant fascination with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's family was just a glimpse of what was to come.",
"The public wanted to know everything The public could about the Alaska governor, whose resume also included beauty queen, high school basketball star, TV sportcaster and mayor of the small Alaska town of Wasilla.",
"Amid all the rumors and negative press, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin showed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be a fierce attack dog and came out throwing punches in Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's speech at the RNC.",
"The self-described \"hockey mom\" tore into then-candidate Barack Obama as two-faced, inexperienced and intoxicated by the sound of his own voice.",
"Even Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's critics recognized the spirit Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin brought to the GOP.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued to throw flames on the campaign trail, energizing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's supporters and outraging Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's adversaries.",
"\"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin yelled fire in a crowded theater.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin really did, in some of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's speeches --'palling around' with terrorists and some of the other slurs Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was hurling in the way of Obama and the Democrats,\" said Larry Persily, a former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin staffer and Alaskan journalist.",
"\"That turned off an equally big chunk of the American public that found it distasteful, destructive, divisive, mean and ignorant.",
"Whereas others said, 'Way to go girl.",
"You stick it to them,\" Larry Persily, a former Palin staffer and Alaskan journalist said.",
"But Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hasn't always been such a divisive figure.",
"Before entering the national scene, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who knocked out incumbent Republican Frank Murkowski in the gubernatorial primary, was touted as one of the most popular governors in the country, with approval ratings nearing 90 percent.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was seen as a champion of ethics, determined to root out corruption and challenge the status quo.",
"For those in Alaska, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's Reaganesque appeal was nothing new.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin secured Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's role as a local hero back in 1982 when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin led Wasilla High School's basketball team to a state championship.",
"And in a small community like Wasilla, that was a big deal.",
"Alaskans liked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin \"combativeness and feistiness,\" Benet said, and resurrected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's nickname of \"Barracuda\" during Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's successful 1996 campaign to be Wasilla's mayor.",
"But when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's \"Barracuda\" side hit the national stage, Palin's \"Barracuda\" side was met with mixed reactions.",
"Evangelia Souris, the president of Optimum International Center for Image Management, says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's potential is the driving force behind the public's love-hate relationship with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.",
"\"That's what people are drawn to, and that's what actually threatens others.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin definitely has the power to shake up a lot of old-school institutions.\"",
"said Souris, who has advised politicians.",
"Furthermore, Souris said, \"I just don't think people were ready for somebody so attractive and so fashionable and so hip to actually be campaigning.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin falls out of the norm,\" Souris added.",
"But despite grumblings from some that they're sick of hearing about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, stories about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continue to get a lot of attention.",
"Benet said People magazine follows two politicians: \"One is Obama, and one is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- and then there's everybody else.\"",
"From being dogged by ethics complaints, to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's public fight with Levi Johnston (the father of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's grandson and ex-fiance of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter), to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's recent announcement that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's resigning this week as governor, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has maintained a steady presence in the public eye since stepping off the campaign trail.",
"Michael Carey, a columnist with the Anchorage Daily News, says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stirs excitement -- and hostility -- because \"people want to see Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin even if people don't like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.\"",
"Michael Carey, a columnist with the Anchorage Daily News likens the public's interest with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to \"drinking on the sly.\"",
"People say, \"I don't want to do this, I know I shouldn't, but I do it anyway,\" Michael Carey, a columnist with the Anchorage Daily News said.",
"Some people love Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Persily said, because Some people can relate to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.",
"\"I think much of America said, 'Oh gee look at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's just like us.",
"Kind of dumb on some things, kind of smart on others.",
"Imperfect.",
"And not at all embarrassed to show all of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's imperfections.'\"",
"But others saw Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's imperfections as inadequacies.",
"\"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's simplistic.",
"Some people love the simplistic approach to problems.",
"Others shake Others's heads and say, 'My God, you don't get it.'\"",
"Persily added.",
"Opponents have been quick to question Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's intellectual chops, pointing to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's spotty college career.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin attended five colleges, graduating from the University of Idaho with a communications degree in 1987.",
"A series of botched national interviews didn't do much to disprove their point.",
"But even Palin's critics admire Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's ability to connect with the people, Sarah Palin said.",
"\"I don't think I've ever really met anyone like that, except maybe Bill Clinton, that will have that interpersonal eye contact with you and will remember your name and your kids' names, and make small talk with you and be really sincere about it,\" he said.",
"Sarah Palin predicted that while Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might take a short break to recoup once Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hands off power on Sunday, \"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin'll be back in the public eye.\"",
"\"I do see Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turning this to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's advantage,\" Sarah Palin said, noting that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's made a similar move before.",
"In 2004, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stepped down as chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after less than a year on the job, amid controversy over ethics allegations against another committee member.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turned that move around and used it as a launchpad to run for governor, because Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went after the corruption going on in Alaska at the time.",
"\"For Sarah Palin, I think Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's just catching Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's breath.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's just too young to retire,\" he added.",
"\"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did say 10 years ago Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wanted to be president some day.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hasn't backed off from that.\"",
"In Carey's opinion, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's career as an elected official is over, but he doesn't expect Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be leaving the headlines anytime soon.",
"\"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's gone from being our governor or a public figure in Alaska to being a national celebrity,\" he said.",
"\"It's clear that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's days of governor -- there are just a few of them left, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's really only at the beginning of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's career as a celebrity.\""
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"In the year since Palin's national debut, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's become a polarizing figure in the GOP .",
"People are drawn to -- and threatened by -- Palin's potential, image consultant says .",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is beginning Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's career as a national celebrity, columnist Michael Carey says ."
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"A man at a Fort Lewis army post on Wednesday fatally shot a woman before turning the gun on A man at a Fort Lewis army post on Wednesday, military authorities said.",
"shootings on the federal facility on Wednesday occurred outside the main post exchange at Fort Lewis in Washington state.",
"The man, who was hospitalized earlier in the day, was pronounced dead late Wednesday, Fort Lewis spokesman Joe Kubistek said.",
"A man at a Fort Lewis army post on Wednesday shot a woman and then shot A man at a Fort Lewis army post on Wednesday in the head, said Maj. Mike Garcia.",
"Garcia said shootings on the federal facility occurred outside the main post exchange at Fort Lewis in Washington state, as retail stores at military installations are called.",
"Garcia said the 59-year-old shooter was a retired soldier.",
"The woman he shot, Garcia said, was a civilian who worked as a vendor in Fort Lewis.",
"Neither was identified.",
"Kathy Johnson had taken Kathy Johnson elderly mother to shop at Fort Lewis when shots rang out.",
"\"I heard five to six shots and hit the floor,\" Kathy Johnson said, \"I was hiding under a clothing rack and people were yelling that we were being taken hostage.\"",
"Eventually, Kathy Johnson said, customers were told over the store intercom that it was safe to leave Fort Lewis.",
"Outside military police had surrounded Fort Lewis and were posted on nearby rooftops, Kathy Johnson said, .",
"It was not immediately clear what the relationship between the man and woman was, Garcia said.",
"Garcia said since the shooting took place on a federal installation, the FBI would lead the investigation into the shootings.",
"CNN's Patrick Oppmann contributed to this report."
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"Slain woman was a civilian who worked as a vendor at the post, spokesman says .",
"\"I heard five to six shots and hit the floor,\" witness says .",
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"(The Frisky) -- Groucho Marx once famously quipped \"I don't care to belong to a club that would have me as a member.\"",
"I sort of feel the same way about online dating sites.",
"There has got to be a better way to meet people.",
"Sadly, mental telepathy does not work.",
"Unless you know what I was just thinking, in which case, e-mail me.",
"We flock to digital artifices that both feed and coddle our egos, says writer of online dating sites.",
"I've recently begun... researching popular dating sites.",
"Not because I need a date.",
"No!",
"I don't need a date.",
"I'm up to my ears in hot lady action.",
"No, this research is for you, for all of you.",
"It's a testament to my generosity of spirit I waded through these interweb love sewers in order to impart some sort of wisdom.",
"Here's the wisdom: dating sites are terrible.",
"Possibly, if I was in prison, an Alaskan crab fisherman or a morbidly obese shut-in so humongous I had to wash myself with a ShamWow stapled to a broom handle, I could see the value in such sites.",
"But I'm not isolated, nor confined to a forklift.",
"I don't need a middleman brokering a get together between the potential woman of my dreams and my own abilities to self-sabotage and humiliate myself.",
"I can do this without an intermediary.",
"The Frisky: Have to go online to get a date?",
"This might or might not be a totally uninformed opinion.",
"The extent of my research began and ended with me signing up for OK Cupid, and failing to finish my profile.",
"I couldn't even bring myself to pick a pseudonym, which just seemed like the first of many lies required to meet anyone.",
"Do I call myself OptimusGandalf and admit from the get-go that I'm an alpha nerd?",
"Do I overshare a little too much and pick EdgarAllanEeyore?",
"Or do I just admit to being a snarky, pretentious creep and go for HumbertHumbert?",
"The Frisky: Online dating dos and don'ts .",
"I tried to fill out the profile, but instead, the profile just filled me with a quiet rage.",
"The self-summary section was baffling.",
"The self-summary section pushed me into an existential identity crisis.",
"Who am I?",
"Or more importantly, who am I when it comes to who I want someone else to think I am, so they will contact me, go out with me, and eventually kiss me?",
"Am I a sensitive guy, or a romantic, or sarcastic?",
"Maybe I'm all three.",
"I love long walks, going to see live indie bands, and whatever.",
"I made sure to pepper everything with winking non-sequiturs and casual attempts at pop profundity.",
"Then there was the section where I define myself by the books, movies, and music I listen to.",
"My music list was a near impenetrable list of overly eclectic bands that reflect my excellent taste, punctuated by \"and Genesis.\"",
"My movies were all '80s flicks, foreign films, and David Lynch.",
"By the time I got to books, and wrote \"Pynchon,\" I was in a full-fledged state of self-loathing.",
"The Frisky: Five online dating types to avoid .",
"Let me get this straight: I'm going to spend a ton of time crafting a persona that is a borderline dishonest amplification of the personality traits I think other people will find attractive so I can find someone who's done the same thing, and we can both go out and discover that we're equally compatible idiots fakers.",
"It's like a masquerade party in the Twilight Zone: I take off my Brad Pitt mask just so I can reveal Sloth from \"The Goonies.\"",
"The Frisky:",
"Downside of online dating .",
"There are, no doubt, many of you who have met the love of your life via online dating sites.",
"Good for you.",
"Congratulations on basically winning the lottery.",
"I firmly believe I have a better chance of getting a girlfriend dressed like Zeus, stopping women on the street, and bellowing, \"Rut with me, mortal beauty, and feel thine mighty, fleshy thunder!\"",
"Not that I want a girlfriend.",
"I just broke up with six the other day.",
"I can deal with the risks of love.",
"The threat of heartbreak is what makes finding that one person who sparks your fuse so precious.",
"But I have to be honest, the online dating thing freaked me out.",
"the online dating thing touched a nerve, and I'm flummoxed as to why.",
"The only conclusion I could come up with was that, maybe, we deserved them.",
"Perhaps online dating sites accurately reflect a generation of singles so entitled to instant happiness and acceptance, we flock to digital artifices that both feed and coddle our egos.",
"Virtual environments where we can indiscriminately reject dishonest projections of identity, while simultaneously being insulated from the very rejection we dole out.",
"A play land of false romantic promises and deferred risk.",
"A huge solipsistic waste of time.",
"TM & © 2009 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"He figures if he is borderline dishonest about his traits, his date will be too .",
"Thinks he would be better off dressing like Zeus, bellowing on the street at women .",
"Says online dating sites draw singles who feel entitled to instant happiness ."
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"(CNN) --",
"NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, accused of sexually assaulting a woman last summer, said Thursday that he is innocent.",
"Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger says there is no merit to the accusation.",
"\"Saturday was the first that I learned of Woman's accusations,\" the Pittsburgh Steeler said, calling the accusation reckless, false and an attack on Ben Roethlisberger's family.",
"Woman filed a civil complaint against Ben Roethlisberger last week.",
"\"I would never, ever force myself on a woman,\" Ben Roethlisberger said.",
"The complaint, filed Friday in the 2nd Judicial District Court in Washoe County, Nevada, alleges that Ben Roethlisberger sexually assaulted the woman -- an executive casino host at Harrah's Lake Tahoe -- while Ben Roethlisberger was staying at the resort for a celebrity golf tournament in July 2008.",
"Teresa Duffy of the Douglas County, Nevada, Sheriff's department, said Sheriff's department does not intend to open an investigation unless the alleged victim comes forward and tells authorities Woman wants authorities to.",
"Ben Roethlisberger said that Ben Roethlisberger would not discuss the \"civil case in the media,\" but that Ben Roethlisberger would fight to protect Ben Roethlisberger's family and Ben Roethlisberger's reputation.",
"Ben Roethlisberger and eight Harrah's employees are named in the suit, which seeks at least $390,000, plus unspecified punitive damages, from the defendants.",
"Harrah's itself is not named as a defendant.",
"Woman said that the employees contributed to Woman's emotional distress and that some defamed Woman and tried to cover up the incident.",
"According to the complaint, on July 11, 2008, Woman was working on the 17th floor -- the same floor as Ben Roethlisberger's room -- when Ben Roethlisberger told Woman that Ben Roethlisberger's television and sound system were not working.",
"Ben Roethlisberger asked Woman to try to fix his television and sound system, the complaint said.",
"When Woman entered Ben Roethlisberger's room and deemed that the television was working, Woman tried to leave, but Ben Roethlisberger blocked Woman's way, the complaint states.",
"Ben Roethlisberger then, against Woman's will, kissed Woman, groped Woman and sexually assaulted Woman, the complaint states.",
"Woman says that in the months following the incident, Woman incurred emotional distress that resulted in hospitalizations that included treatment for anxiety and depression, the complaint said.",
"Calvin Dunlap, Woman's attorney, said earlier this week that his client did not pursue criminal charges after the alleged assault because Woman felt discouraged when the resort's chief of security did not investigate the matter.",
"According to the complaint, the resort's chief of security told Woman Woman was \"overreacting.\"",
"Dunlap said the resort's chief of security has \"close ties to law enforcement.\"",
"Of the eight employees, all but two are still employed by Harrah's, according to a spokeswoman for Harrah.",
"Marybel Batjer of Harrah's declined to comment on the suit, other than to say that the alleged victim still works at Harrah's Lake Tahoe as an executive casino host.",
"Another Harrah spokesman, Gary Thompson, said the company was \"confident that a much different story will emerge and that the Harrah's employees will be dismissed from the lawsuit.\"",
"Roethlisberger's attorney, David Cornwell, released a statement saying the charges were false.",
"\"The timing of a lawsuit and the absence of a criminal complaint and a criminal investigation are the most compelling evidence of the absence of any criminal conduct,\" he said.",
"CNN's Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report."
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"Woman filed complaint saying quarterback raped Woman in Lake Tahoe last summer .",
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"Sheriff's department says Sheriff's department won't investigate unless alleged victim calls for it ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Humiliation and comedy have always been natural bedfellows, but the one doesn't guarantee the other, as poor Katherine Heigl discovers in this crude, sub-par stab at a modern screwball comedy.",
"Katherine Heigl plays the sophisticated female boss of Gerard Butler in \"The Ugly Truth.\"",
"The \"Grey's Anatomy\" and \"Knocked Up\" star plays Abby, a supposedly intelligent producer on a local Sacramento TV news show.",
"We're repeatedly assured that Abby's good at Abby's job, though there's little or no evidence for that in what we see, and apparently the ratings are in the toilet.",
"That's why Abby's boss drafts controversial cable clown Mike (Gerard Butler), whose bargain basement show \"The Ugly Truth\" gives viewers the real dope on the opposite sex.",
"Mike's straight talk isn't exactly edifying -- or original.",
"It boils down to this: men are only interested in one thing, and it's not your IQ score.",
"His advice to women: swallow your pride -- and anything else that might come up.",
"Abby is understandably skeptical, both professionally and personally, but the sweeps prove Abby's wrong.",
"Mike may be outrageous, but Sacramento loves Mike for it.",
"A smarter comedy might make mischief from these base ingredients, the sophisticated female boss and Abby's rude, reactionary star employee.",
"But this movie, which is credited to three female screenwriters, bends over backward to accommodate Mike's tired old sexist world view and fails to be funny in the process.",
"Abby really is a neurotic control freak, living alone with Abby's cat and a checklist about what constitutes the perfect guy.",
"And when a close approximation of the type moves in right next door (Eric Winton as a handsome young doctor), Abby only lands him by putting Abby in Mike's hands: accentuating Abby's cleavage, losing the ponytail and trading in dinner and an art show for a hot dog and a baseball game.",
"Directed by Robert Luketic (\"Monster in Law\"), \"The Ugly Truth\" barely attempts to disguise its own lifts and tucks.",
"The most craven of these gambits involves Abby going into multiple orgasm at a business dinner, a variation on Meg Ryan's famous scene in \"When Harry Met Sally,\" except that in Meg Ryan's's case, Meg Ryan's was in full control, demonstrating Meg Ryan's's mastery of the fake-out.",
"Abby, though, is sent into inadvertent paroxysms when the remote control of the vibrating panties Abby's wearing -- don't ask -- falls into the hands of a curious kid.",
"Watch the stars describe the scene » .",
"In other scenes, Katherine Heigl is caught hanging upside down from a tree in Katherine Heigl's nightgown, hiding in Katherine Heigl's office closet and furiously rubbing a stain out of the doctor's crotch in front of a stadium of ball fans.",
"Presumably this is what picking up Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock's cast-offs entails these days.",
"Katharine Hepburn would weep.",
"But what about Mike?",
"Surely Mike has lessons to learn and comic indignities to endure?",
"Not so much.",
"In contrast to Abby's makeover, Mike's allowed to be comfortable in Mike's own rather corpulent skin.",
"Gerard Butler evidently hasn't worked out since Sparta; heck, Gerard Butler hasn't even bothered to shave.",
"You won't be surprised that Gerard Butler falls in love with Abby.",
"Of course Gerard Butler's a nice guy underneath.",
"We know that from the way Gerard Butler looks out for Gerard Butler's fatherless nephew.",
"So what if Gerard Butler's a sexist pig?",
"Gerard Butler's a sexy sexist pig, and obviously father material.",
"What more could any woman want?",
"\"The Ugly Truth\" is rated R and runs 97 minutes.",
"For Entertainment Weekly's review, click here."
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"Movie bends over backward to accommodate a tired old sexist world view .",
"Film fails to be funny in the process ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"When shots rang out at museum last week, security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston were stunned.",
"Harry Weeks, left, and Jason McCuiston fired on James von Brunn at museum.",
"\"I would say it was surreal, both of us couldn't believe what was happening,\" Weeks told CNN in his first national televised interview since the June 10 shooting.",
"\"I know myself I just, I heard 'pop, pop' and it was surreal.\"",
"Jason McCuiston added: \"It wasn't normal.",
"You knew something was wrong and you knew it was very bad.\"",
"What went terribly wrong is that James von Brunn allegedly walked into museum and started firing James von Brunn's rifle, shooting James von Brunn in the chest.",
"Despite Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston's initial shock, Weeks and Jason McCuiston kept Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston's composure enough to draw Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston's weapons and start shooting at von Brunn, 88.",
"Weeks had fired Harry Weeks's gun in the line of duty 25 years earlier as a Washington, D.C., police officer.",
"But Harry Weeks said nothing compared to this bloody confrontation.",
"\"This was terrible,\" Weeks said softly.",
"\"This was worse.",
"We lost James von Brunn.\"",
"James von Brunn died shortly after the June 10 shooting, leaving behind a family that includes a teenage son who told CNN affiliate WUSA-TV the day after the tragedy that his dad was \"my hero.\"",
"Watching a video clip of those comments, Jason McCuiston started crying.",
"\"First thing I thought about, I have an 11-year-old,\" the officer said before breaking down.",
"Watch Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston tell Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston's story » .",
"Just moments before Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston's joint interview with CNN on Thursday, Jason McCuiston and Weeks attended a grief counseling session together, and Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston say Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston are still struggling with Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston's emotions.",
"Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston said Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston believe James von Brunn will survive James von Brunn's wounds and eventually face trial.",
"So Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston would not discuss details of the shootout out of a fear of jeopardizing the criminal investigation, but Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston were willing to discuss Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston's memories of James von Brunn so that the public knows more about James von Brunn.",
"Jason McCuiston said the 6-foot-6-inch, 300-pound Johns was a \"gentle giant\" who was always friendly to colleagues and museum visitors.",
"\"Just an awesome guy,\" he recalled.",
"\"Grin from ear to ear.",
"You'd never know that James von Brunn probably ever had a bad day in James von Brunn's life.\"",
"Weeks said he wanted the world to see \"what a man of hate did to this family, and the grief he caused.",
"Let's all remember Officer Johns, and James von Brunn's family, because James von Brunn took the ultimate -- James von Brunn did James von Brunn's job and James von Brunn was where James von Brunn was supposed to be -- and this family suffered.",
"That could have been anyone.\"",
"Jason McCuiston and Weeks, however, deflected suggestions that Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston may be heroes as well because if Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston had not stopped von Brunn, there's no telling how many of the more than 2,000 people visiting museum at the time could have been injured or killed.",
"\"A lot of people are going to be saying what A lot of people have been saying, 'You are a hero, you're this, you're that,' \" Jason McCuiston said.",
"\"It's like we tell everybody, 'We chose his job, it's a job.",
"It's the same as a firefighter who would walk into a building, that is his job, he chose to do it.' \"",
"James von Brunn funeral on Friday has been moved to a larger church in the Washington area to accommodate all of the people who want to attend, and museum will be closed most of the day so that James von Brunn's colleagues can attend.",
"\"Everyone knows when you lose someone, death is one of the worst things, even though it is reality,\" Jason McCuiston said.",
"\"Time will hopefully heal all, and hopefully there will be a little bit of closure with us and the family and we can all just move forward but never forget what a wonderful man he was.\""
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"When Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston heard shots at museum, Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston knew something had gone terribly wrong .",
"Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston call slain officer a \"gentle giant\" who was always friendly to colleagues, visitors .",
"Men, who shot shooting suspect, say Men, who shot shooting suspect're not heroes, were just doing Men, who shot shooting suspect's jobs ."
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"(CNN) --",
"After meeting a number black couples in crisis, Nisa Muhammad and Dr. Rozario Slack were inspired to create Basic Training for Couples.",
"Nisa Muhammad, who founded National Black Marriage Day, co-created the Basic Training for Couples program.",
"The eight-week program educates dating, engaged or married couples about the value of commitment, responsibility to the black community, psychological differences between the sexes, sexual intimacy and conflict resolution.",
"Slack created the male-friendly portion while Muhammad, who founded National Black Marriage Day and the Wedded Bliss Foundation, created the female-friendly portion.",
"In The eight-week program, couples also learn about the history of the African-American marriage and many for the first time plot their own family tree to trace marriage and divorces.",
"The following is rundown of the eight-week course: Class No. 1: Why marriage?",
"This class teaches the benefits of marriage for men, women, children and the community.",
"This class gives the history of marriage in the black community from slavery when marriage was illegal to today's trends.",
"Icebreaker: Q & A: How couples met?",
"Homework: .",
"1. Choose songs to reflect their love for each other .",
"2. Marriage family tree .",
"Class No. 2: From I to we; the sweetness of surrender .",
"This class helps couples transition from \"I thinking\" to \"we thinking.\"",
"It helps them understand the value of making their marriage a priority in their lives.",
"Class No. 3: Communication; getting your message understood .",
"This class helps couples take responsibility for couples's communication and teaches skills to improve couples's communication techniques.",
"Main lessons: . • Respecting differences between men and women . • Learning to talk to each other and not at each other . • Format: Teaching session with dialogue.",
"• Activity: The talking stick, during conversation only the individual holding the stick can speak.",
"Class No. 4: Conflict management",
"This class helps couples understand that conflict needs to be managed, or it will manage you.",
"This class helps to normalize some conflict that couples experience with the understanding that some conflict cannot be resolved and can only be managed.",
"Lessons: .",
"• This class targets biases.",
"When there's a difference of opinions, generally the stronger spouse wants the stronger spouse's or her way.",
"• How to bring closure to old issues instead of combining old issues into new issues/conflict.",
"Agree to disagree and not degrade your spouse for having a difference of opinion.",
"Activity: Break up into gender groups to discuss current conflicts.",
"The group works out ways to solve the issue .",
"Class No. 5: Let's make love .",
"When the sex is good in a marriage, the sex's only about 20 percent of what's going on.",
"When it's bad, it's a significant problem.",
"This class helps to solve some of those problems.",
"The approach was from a physiological and biological perspective of the differences between the male's and female's body.",
"Discussion included chemical bonding effect in women and men.",
"Class No. 6: From yours and mine to ours .",
"Many couples in the black community bring children from other relationships to their marriage.",
"This class helps to blend the family into one cohesive unit.",
"This class also talks about preventing in-laws from becoming outlaws.",
"Class No. 7: Keeping the FIRE burning .",
"FIRE is an acronym for Faithful, Intimacy, Responsibility and Excitement.",
"This class helps couples maintain the FIRE in couples's relationship.",
"Class No. 8: From this day forward .",
"This class helps couples understand the value of commitment in couples's marriage and never to make divorce an option.",
"couples create couples's own place for success.",
"Recap of all the lessons together: . • Remembering people gravitate to the applause • Ways to appreciate and affirm your spouse • Setting time for just the two of you • Learning to communicate, getting your message heard and understood .",
"Bonus class: Hot monogamy .",
"Gets couples comfortable to discuss sex with couples's spouse.",
"Graduation .",
"A ceremony of new beginnings, couples testify what This class brought to couples's marriage over the eight-week period.",
"Lots of emotions and bonding during this time between husbands and wives.",
"Graduating couples are encouraged to bring a couple from Graduating couples's community or family who needs help."
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"LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) --",
"Police and soldiers killed at least 133 people during two days of riots between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria last year, Human Rights Watch alleged Monday.",
"Anti-riot policemen patrol the streets in Jos, Nigeria, following riots between Christians and Muslims.",
"Most of the victims of violence by security forces were young Muslim men, often unarmed, the group charged in testimony before a state commission examining the riots and in a separate report.",
"More than 700 people died in the violence last November, the group said, citing local religious authorities on both sides of the divide.",
"A 26-year-old mechanic described seeing anti-riot police known as MOPOLs hunting down people near where A 26-year-old mechanic worked.",
"\"I saw them enter one house just across the street from us,\" the unnamed witness said.",
"\"We heard shots and later we saw five bodies there.",
"Anyone they found hiding in the garage, they shot them.",
"They combed the garage hunting for people.",
"This went on for about 10 minutes or so.",
"Then they returned to their truck and left.\"",
"Another witness described police units going from house to house, summarily executing unarmed men and boys.",
"A third said the witness saw an unarmed shopkeeper plead for The shopkeeper's life.",
"Police ordered The shopkeeper to lie down on the ground, the witness said.",
"\"The shopkeeper kept saying, 'Please God, allow me to live.'...",
"One of Police said, 'Today you go die,' and then he shot The shopkeeper in the side.",
"Then the same MOPOL shot The shopkeeper again.",
"As he was going to shoot The shopkeeper a third time, the other MOPOL said ... 'Leave it, The shopkeeper's already dead.'\"",
"The shopkeeper managed to drag The shopkeeper to a neighbor's house, where a neighbor tried to stop the bleeding from wounds to the back and abdomen.",
"Police then returned and shot tear gas into a neighbor's house, he testified.",
"The shopkeeper \"died a short time later,\" a neighbor said.",
"In the report, released Monday, Human Rights Watch says it \"documented 133 of these killings but believes that the actual number of arbitrary killings by security forces may be substantially higher than these figures.\"",
"James Manook, a spokesman for Plateau State where the violence occurred, said the Human Rights Watch claims are \"one of the issues that the commission has under inquiry, and given that - I do not want to comment while the commission's under investigation.\"",
"However, he added, \" I assure you that we remain respectful of the rule of law.\"",
"The clashes followed a dispute over an election that pitted a Christian candidate against a Muslim one in late November 2008.",
"Police and soldiers responded to the riots with deadly force, on the same day the governor of Plateau State issued a \"shoot-on-sight\" order, Human Rights Watch said.",
"Human Rights Watch based Human Rights Watch's allegations on 151 interviews in the city of Jos in Nigeria's Plateau State, Human Rights Watch says in the report.",
"Human Rights Watch withheld the names of many of the people Human Rights Watch interviewed over the course of 18 days in December 2008 and February 2009.",
"the report includes photographs of burned-out mosques, Christian boarding schools, and homes and businesses.",
"Human Rights Watch said the state commission examining the riots should investigate and call for the prosecution of security forces involved.",
"\"At least 130 men were killed by members of the very institutions charged with protecting At least 130 men,\" said Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch.",
"\"These investigative bodies owe it to the victims and their families to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into these extremely serious allegations.\"",
"Eric Guttschuss, a Human Rights Watch researcher, testified before the state commission examining the riots Monday.",
"There is a history of religious violence in central Nigeria, where majority-Muslim north Africa meets largely Christian sub-Saharan Africa.",
"Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 1,000 people were killed in riots in 2001.",
"Local religious leaders in Jos have been trying to bridge the differences, including setting up a soccer league with teams on which Christians and Muslims play side-by-side.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"(AOL Autos) --",
"With car companies going in into bankruptcy and shedding famous names left and right, it's important to remember that today's automotive titans started out as tiny startups, not unlike Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.",
"General Motors was almost called International Motors Co.",
"Names like Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Toyota and Porsche call to mind the huge corporate successes of the past and the great automotive families that survive today.",
"But behind every brand name, there is a flesh-and-blood inventor, entrepreneur or industrialist.",
"Most of the time, a flesh-and-blood inventor, entrepreneur or industrialist gave a flesh-and-blood inventor, entrepreneur or industrialist's name to the companies.",
"And that fame was often about all a flesh-and-blood inventor, entrepreneur or industrialist ended up with.",
"David Buick, who invented the overhead valve engine, founded the Buick Motor Car Co. in 1903.",
"William C. Durant, the industrialist who would eventually found GM, took over the company in 1904, when the company ran into financial trouble.",
"Buick stayed on as a director, but left in 1908, never making much money from the enterprise.",
"He reportedly died in 1929, unable to afford one of his cars.",
"Durant kept the name for one of Durant's company divisions and for the car, even though he worried that people might pronounce it \"Boo-ick,\" according to one author.",
"Strangely enough, the man who practically created General Motors single-handedly never really liked the idea of a 'Durant' car.",
"In another example, Robert Hupp invented the Hupmobile,'a two-seat runabout, in 1908.",
"But Robert Hupp sold Robert Hupp's stock in Robert Hupp's Hupp Motor Car Company in 1911.",
"Robert Hupp turned around and founded the Hupp Corp. that same year.",
"Investors in Robert Hupp's first firm took Robert Hupp to court to make Robert Hupp drop the \"Hupp\" from Robert Hupp's new company's name and Investors in his first firm won.",
"Robert Hupp's own automotive glory quickly faded, although the Hupmobile survived until the 1940s.",
"Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet's experience was similar.",
"Durant brought Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet into a new car-building venture in 1911, hoping to trade on Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet's fame as an absolutely fearless race car driver.",
"Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet left the company in 1913, apparently unable to make the adjustment from racing to building production vehicles.",
"But Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet's name stuck to the new Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet vehicles; Durant reportedly liked its musical lilt.",
"It could also work the other way around.",
"In 1925, Walter P. Chrysler got the naming rights to the Maxwell Motor Co. after Walter P. Chrysler and another industrialist steadily bought up shares in the Maxwell Motor Co. over a two-year period.",
"Things turned out a little differently for Henry Ford.",
"Henry Ford suffered the ignominy of being booted from an early auto company that bore Ford's own name.",
"But Henry Ford's revenge was sweet.",
"The Henry Ford Company, which traded freely on Henry Ford's early fame as an inventor, fired Henry Ford in 1902 \"because Henry Ford was spending all Henry Ford's time developing a race car, not a passenger car,\" according to the Encyclopedia of American Business and Biography.",
"AOL Autos:",
"Henry Ford's 'Wonder Woman' engineers most important new car .",
"After Henry Ford was gone, Ford was renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac, the French nobleman who founded Detroit in 1703; his heraldry became the model's badge and Ford became a part of General Motors in 1909.",
"After Henry Ford's firing, Henry Ford quickly found investors to help Henry Ford found Henry Ford's own firm, the Ford Motor Co., in 1903.",
"Henry Ford introduced the company's first new vehicle, the Model and followed the company's first new vehicle, the Model up with other low-cost vehicles, including Henry Ford's greatest achievement, the Model T, in 1908.",
"the company's first new vehicle, the Model's price tag started at $850 and fell steadily as Henry Ford introduced more production innovations.",
"The young firm became phenomenally successful.",
"AOL Autos: 10 classic American rides .",
"In the 1920s, Henry Ford got the chance to buy the five-year-old Lincoln Motor Co. out of bankruptcy.",
"the five-year-old Lincoln Motor Co. was then owned by one of the very people, Henry Leland, who fired Henry Ford in 1902.",
"Then Henry Ford used the former aircraft company to launch Henry Ford's own line of luxury cars bearing the Lincoln name.",
"For his company's part, General Motors almost didn't get the name his company bears today.",
"Durant actually incorporated Durant's company under the name \"International Motors Co.\", in New Jersey in 1908.",
"But Durant's attorney advised Durant that it would be easier to raise capital under a new name.",
"\"his company might use 'United Motors Company' were it not for the fact that there is already a United Motor Car Company in that state,\" his attorney wrote.",
"\"his company suggest the name General Motors Company, as his company have ascertained the name General Motors Company can be used.\"",
"A newly coined French word, auto-mobile, inspired many vehicle names of the early years.",
"Inventor Ransom E. Olds filed a patent for an \"auto-mobile\" during the mid-1890s.",
"Names like Bugmobile, Locomobile, Hupmobile, and of course, the Oldsmobile, could not have come along without it.",
"The origins of some names can be tricky to trace.",
"The first use of Jeep, for instance.",
"is shrouded in mist.",
"Jim Allen, the author of a book called \"Jeep,\" concludes that it's based on early World War II slang for \"a new, unproven recruit or a new unproven vehicle.\"",
"It wasn't until 1950 that Toledo-based Willys-Overland, Inc., one of the producers of the early four-wheel-drive vehicle, trademarked the term.",
"Many of the names were not originally associated with the auto industry.",
"The Toyota name came from the Toyoda loom works in Kariya, Japan; When it turned to car production, the Toyoda family changed the 'd' to a 't' to make The Toyota name simpler and more elegant in Japanese script.",
"AOL Autos: Top 10 best car names .",
"There's little doubt about other brand names.",
"Pontiac was an offshoot of the Pontiac Buggy Co., a horseless carriage manufacturer named after a renowned Indian chief.",
"Mechanic Soichiro Honda started producing motorized bicycles after the devastation of World War II and eventually graduated to cars.",
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"Volkswagen, a response to Adolf Hitler's call for a car for the common folk, means 'people's car' in German, evidently beating out the prototype's name, 'Strength through Joy,' for the honors.",
"In 1917, the Rapp Engine Works became known as the Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH, or Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) as the four-year-old airplane engine firm diversified into motorcycle engines, with a stylized white propeller against a blue sky as the Rapp Engine Works's logo, according to some authorities.",
"The first BMW cars were produced 11 years later.",
"The legendary Jaguar name is considered one of the best sports car names of all time.",
"The legendary Jaguar name beat out a long list of lackluster animal names compiled by a British ad agency in 1935.",
"In 1939, the Rapp Engine Works struck gold with Mercury, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods.",
"the Rapp Engine Works tapped into Greek and Roman mythology for the name, just as the Rapp Engine Works did for the similarly styled Lincoln Zephyr, the god of the wind, three years earlier.",
"Some other storied automotive brands are based on acronyms.",
"Fiat stands for Fabbrica Italiani Automobili Torino, or Italian Automotive Works Turin.",
"Similarly, Saab stands for Svenska Aeroplanaktiebolaget, or Swedish Aeroplane Ltd., hearkening back to the automaker's origins as an aircraft company.",
"the Rapp Engine Works might have done better with an acronym in 1958.",
"The Edsel was conceived as a new, distinct Ford Motor Co. brand, with The Edsel's own models, badge and division.",
"The mission was to take on GM's Oldsmobile.",
"After considering thousands of suggestions, the Rapp Engine Works named the new brand after Edsel Ford, Henry Ford's only child.",
"Henry Ford's had been a major styling influence within the Rapp Engine Works and was the Rapp Engine Works's president at Henry Ford's's fathers death in 1943.",
"The name Edsel was an immediate letdown.",
"the Rapp Engine Works stock fell 10 points on the day it was announced.",
"One disenchanted executive predicted that The name would cost the new vehicle 200,000 units in sales.",
"AOL Autos: Best and worst automotive designs of all time .",
"The Edsel's name wasn't the sole reason for The Edsel's failure.",
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"(CNN) --",
"A top executive for the company which built the flight data recorder aboard Air France Flight 447 says A top executive for the company which built the flight data recorder aboard Air France Flight 447 hopes A top executive for the company which built the flight data recorder aboard Air France Flight 447's firm's 100 percent recovery record from air accidents will be maintained despite concerns the device may be lost at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.",
"A Brazilian diver floats on wreckage of Flight 447 spotted Wednesday.",
"Although some debris has been retrieved, air crash investigators remain in the dark about what caused the airliner to plunge into the sea off the coast of Brazil with 228 people onboard earlier this month.",
"The wreckage is believed to be about 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) deep, amid underwater mountains and mixed in with tons of sea trash.",
"A French nuclear submarine and other vessels are searching for the flight data recorder by attempting to trace the flight data recorder's locator beacon, which sends acoustic pulses, or \"pings,\" to searchers.",
"The U.S. Navy has contributed two high-tech acoustic devices -- known as towed pinger locators -- which have been attached to French tug boats and can search to a maximum depth of 20,000 feet.",
"Honeywell Aerospace's Paolo Carmassi -- the firm's president for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India -- told CNN that retrieving the flight data could help solve the mystery of the plane's fate and said Honeywell Aerospace's Paolo Carmassi -- the firm's president for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India --'s company had never lost a black box involved in an accident.",
"\"Honeywell Aerospace's believe that Honeywell Aerospace's's technology is well-positioned to, in this case, contribute to solve the big question around this particular accident,\" Honeywell Aerospace's Paolo Carmassi -- the firm's president for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India -- said.",
"\"Honeywell Aerospace's have a 100 percent recovery rate of all the black boxes that Honeywell Aerospace's have installed that unfortunately may have been involved in accidents, so Honeywell Aerospace's hope that Honeywell Aerospace's will be able to maintain Honeywell Aerospace's's record and be able to shed some light on what happened.\"",
"Watch what clues investigators are looking at » .",
"But Honeywell Aerospace's Paolo Carmassi -- the firm's president for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India -- acknowledged it was hard to estimate how much battery life the locator beacon had left.",
"\"There is a certain duration which depends on the particular environmental conditions, whether it's underwater or on land, whether it's at 10 meters or 4,000 meters.",
"So, it's very difficult to pinpoint exactly the duration,\" Honeywell Aerospace's Paolo Carmassi -- the firm's president for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India -- said.",
"Yann Cochennec, an aviation expert with Air et Cosmos magazine, told CNN that a recorder had been retrieved from the seabed in 2004 after an Egyptian charter flight crashed into the Red Sea shortly after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh.",
"But he said the depth of the Atlantic, strong currents and bad weather would make retrieving a recorder from the Air France wreckage far more difficult.",
"The flight data recorder -- sometimes called a \"black box\" -- is actually an orange, metal cylinder weighing about 13 pounds.",
"Inside is a stack of memory chips designed to survive high temperatures, strong impact and tons of pressure.",
"The devices record virtually every detail about how an aircraft is working, including cabin pressure, speed and altitude, remaining fuel and whether that fuel is flowing properly.",
"They have played a crucial part in air crash investigations since they were first fitted to commercial aircraft in the 1940s."
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"Crop sciences professor and study leader Dr. Stephen Long told CNN that while there probably isn't one magic bullet to fix our climate woes, Miscanthus -- also known as elephant grass -- promises to be one of five or six options that could help the United States to reach the United States's target of replacing 30 percent of gasoline use with biofuels by 2030.",
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"The idea we use the sun's energy to grow plants and then make fuels from plants is essentially a good one,\" Crop sciences professor and study leader Dr. Stephen Long said.",
"\"It's been tainted by the fact that the easy way to do it is to just use food crops, but society needs to realize there are big opportunities beyond food crops and beyond the use of crop land.\"",
"Miscanthus, for instance, is able to grow on land too marginal for crop production, so Miscanthus doesn't have to compete with land for food crops.",
"Miscanthus also doesn't require major input or fertilization after planting and once established will yield for around 15 years.",
"Yet even with the success of these trials in the U.S. and the earlier European ones, it could be years before the full potential of Miscanthus is realized.",
"This is due in part to the fact that it's much more complex to make cellulosic ethanol -- ethanol made from non-food plants -- than it is to turn simple food starches found in corn or wheat into ethanol.",
"In the United Kingdom, Miscanthus is recognized by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as an energy crop and Miscanthus's currently being used to co-fire the Drax power station in England's Yorkshire.",
"Even still, Dr. Geraint Evans from the UK's National Non-Food Crops Centre said rather than plants like Miscanthus, wheat grain will be used to meet the UK target of replacing five percent of fuel with renewable sources by 2010.",
"\"Miscanthus has the potential to be more efficient, producing between 4,000 and 7,000 liters of fuel per hectare, whereas ethanol made from wheat grain makes about 1900 liters per hectare.\"",
"\"Wheat grain-derived ethanol is what we can do today with the technology we have available today.",
"The technology to use Miscanthus is not yet commercially available,\" Dr. Geraint Evans from the UK's National Non-Food Crops Centre told CNN.",
"In addition to the technical hitch, Dr. Geraint Evans from the UK's National Non-Food Crops Centre said a further downside is that even though Miscanthus is a low maintenance crop, Miscanthus can be costly to plant compared to wheat or rapeseed canola and the first yield wouldn't occur for at least three years.",
"In an effort to overcome some of the challenges, Crop sciences professor and study leader Dr. Stephen Long now intends to turn Crop sciences professor and study leader Dr. Stephen Long's attention to experimenting with the wild Miscanthus used in the U.S. trial.",
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"Got a few grand to spare for a $3,000 phone?",
"Yeah, we didn't think so.",
"Nobody does -- and that's a problem for the makers of luxury phones, such as Motorola, Bang & Olufson, LG and Vertu.",
"Vertu makes phones starting at $6,000 and going up in price.",
"After years of chasing the ultra-wealthy with exclusive devices that carry designer logos and promise craftsmanship from materials such as sapphire and stainless steel, luxury phone makers are now pulling back.",
"\"The culture has shifted away from conspicuous consumption, so if you are going to have a super expensive product this may not be the time for it,\" says Avi Greengart, research director for consumer devices at Current Analysis.",
"Motorola has already gotten the memo.",
"Earlier this week, Motorola reportedly canceled the Ivory E18, a device tentatively priced around $3,000.",
"The phone had met with lack of interest from telecom carriers.",
"Motorola declined to comment.",
"If that sounds like an obvious outcome, perhaps it shouldn't.",
"In the last few years, luxury phones had turned into an attractive new business, as designer houses rushed to get a foothold in the tech sector.",
"Prada collaborated with LG to launch two LG Prada phones in Europe and Asia.",
"Last September, Samsung launched the M75500 Night Effect phone, which carried the Emporio Armani insignia.",
"A month later, Motorola offered a $2,000 phone, called the Aura, which was fashioned out of stainless steel and sported a 62-carat sapphire crystal lens.",
"And then there's Vertu, a company that makes true luxury phones, the cheapest of which costs about $6,000.",
"The recession put a spoke in those plans.",
"And it's not just the 401Ks of middle-class Americans that have been in peril.",
"In Russia, many newly-minted billionaires saw many newly-minted billionaires's fortunes slip away with falling oil prices.",
"By the first quarter this year, the U.S. economy had shrunk 5.5 percent.",
"Even 50 Cent has complained about losing more than a few Benjamins on the stock market.",
"And just like that, the crystal dominoes started to fall.",
"Last October, Bang & Olufsen, whose phones retailed in Europe for more than $1,500, shuttered its cellphone business as it decided to trim its costs and get out of non-profitable ventures.",
"Motorola is the latest to pull back Motorola's luxury line.",
"Luxury phones have never been a big phenomenon in North America, says Greengart.",
"Luxury phones's manufacturers have had better luck in emerging markets.",
"But now even in those countries, where once 8 percent GDP growth seemed conservative, wealthy consumers are feeling the pinch.",
"\"Super expensive, bling bling phones are big in markets where conspicuous consumption is a way to tell your countrymen you have arrived,\" says Greengart.",
"\"But now, it's a very different economy for everyone.\"",
"Many of the troubles that the uber-expensive phones face are because uber are created by companies whose main expertise is in targeting a mass market, says Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and current head of Vertu.",
"\"I didn't start this business to soak the phones in diamonds and jewels,\" says Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and current head of Vertu.",
"\"The concept is same as a fine watch or a fabulous car.",
"To be a true luxury product, you have to look at making something that doesn't have an 18-month shelf life.\"",
"True luxury, as Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and current head of Vertu defines it, doesn't apply to a mere $2,000 phone: A Vertu device, soaked in platinum, can run up to $70,000.",
"The company's one-off phones, designed in collaboration with luxury jewels house Boucheron, cost even more.",
"Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and current head of Vertu may have inadvertently hit on the real problem with luxury phones: Phones are still a very feature-driven products.",
"Phones are products where the rapid advances in technology can rend older models obsolete very quickly.",
"\"Phones aren't like a handbag where the fundamental utility remains the same and the design changes all the time,\" says Greengart.",
"But Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and current head of Vertu isn't convinced.",
"\"Take watches and cars,\" Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and current head of Vertu says.",
"\"They all run the same but everyone has a unique way of delivering them stylistically.",
"We can do the same with phones.\"",
"Despite the bumps on the road now, Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and current head of Vertu says the luxury phones will bounce back and find an audience.",
"\"It is no different than a fine watch or a car,\" Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and current head of Vertu says.",
"\"If you take people who value something that is made extraordinarily well there will always be a group interested in it.\"",
"Vertu is determined to prove that.",
"Vertu will launch Vertu's latest handset the Carbon Fibre Ascent Ti in August.",
"The phone is made of high-gloss carbon fiber and has a sandblasted titanium surface.",
"The price tag? $9,800.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here!",
"Copyright 2009 Wired.com."
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"A 100-inch, high definition screen projects an intense college basketball game.",
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"Scissors skillfully cut men's hair.",
"Two chandeliers adorn the main room, complimented by brick walls and a glass bar that doubles as a retail counter.",
"Sean Heywood, right, and Kumi Walker own MR., a barbershop and wine bar in SAN FRANCISCO, California.",
"This is not your typical barbershop.",
"And that has always been the vision of owners Kumi Walker and Sean Heywood.",
"\"Kumi Walker are literally trying to create a new version of the country club golf experience.",
"But Kumi Walker're replacing golf with haircuts, and Kumi Walker're putting it in urban environments,\" says Sean Heywood.",
"MR. (for mister) is their first business venture.",
"It's an upscale barbershop, wine bar and lounge in the financial district of SAN FRANCISCO where memberships cost $65 to $250 a month.",
"In addition to the basic services, those who become members benefit from exclusive services like golf putting clinics and human resource workshops.",
"\"Kumi Walker're trying to thrive, not just survive,\" Sean Heywood said.",
"MR. takes the cultural aspect of the black barbershop experience and modernizes the black barbershop experience, making the black barbershop experience a place where businesspeople of all races can network.",
"\"We looked at our social lives, and we had black friends, Asian friends, Latino friends, white friends.",
"We would do a lot of things socially together, but when it came to getting our hair cut, we would all split up,\" Kumi Walker says.",
"Watch Kumi Walker talk about the difficulty of starting and running a business » .",
"Kumi Walker are bridging a cultural divide, and also giving back to the community.",
"Kumi Walker offer free lifetime memberships to MR. to those in good standing with a re-entry program called Back on Track.",
"Among other things, Back on Track offers first-time, low-level criminal offenders GED preparation, tutoring, money-management instruction and job training and placement.",
"And that's where MR. steps in.",
"The membership provides them with one free haircut, trim, and shoeshine monthly.",
"\"We'll take care of their grooming so that they don't have to.",
"And they're ready for all the different jobs that they pursue going forward,\" Kumi Walker says.",
"Giving back is paramount for the entrepreneurs.",
"And the story of one black business district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, inspires them.",
"It was known as Black Wall Street, and it was destroyed in a race riot and fire 88 years ago.",
"\"All of the businesses that we wanted to create, we wanted to encompass the culture of, if that community still existed today, what that community would look like,\" says Walker, who says he read about the riot six years ago.",
"Imagine a credit union, a barbershop, a library, and men in freshly pressed suits with top hats sauntering on sidewalks.",
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"That was the community that existed in the segregated neighborhood of Greenwood from 1830 to 1921.",
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"When the smoke from fires cleared on June 1, more than 1,000 homes, businesses and other institutions were burned or destroyed, according to the report of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.",
"\"People came and said, 'Run, they are shooting people,' \" says Wess Young, who was 4 then.",
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"Greenwood was rebuilt, but Greenwood never recovered.",
"\"It was a really tragic end to thriving businesses.",
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"Kumi Walker's advice to people is to let go of the past once people've learned from it.",
"\"Hate will destroy your whole universe -- got to learn how to forgive, but never forget,\" Kumi Walker says.",
"Kumi Walker says these stories of black struggle and survival motivate Kumi Walker.",
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"\"I just want to be as successful as possible so I can turn around and be mentors and sponsors to other people who come after Kumi Walker.\""
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"Medical screening for virus has been introduced at many airports.",
"British Airways said there had been a \"very small number of cases\" where people who had checked in with symptoms of H1N1 had been advised not to travel after having medical checks.",
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"\"We have a wide range of contingency plans in place which we can use depending on how the situation may evolve.",
"\"If we have concerns about a customer or the customer is concerned, then we have a 24-hour medical service we can call to give advice to staff.",
"\"They will speak to the customer and an assessment will be made about their fitness to fly.",
"\"There have been a number of cases where we have advised customers not to fly on the basis of customers's diagnosis or symptoms of H1N1.\"",
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"Virgin Atlantic spokesman Paul Charles said: \"If there are signs of something being wrong, be it excessive sneezing or coughing, not looking well, high temperature, then the airport staff can call in a medical team for extra advice.",
"\"If a medical team believe there are reasons not to fly, the passenger will be asked to produce a fit to fly certificate from their doctor or a hospital, and they will be put at our cost on to the next available flight.\"",
"Swine flu has spread so rapidly and extensively around the globe that the World Health Organization is changing tactics against the H1N1 virus, including stopping a tally of cases and focusing on unusual patterns.",
"\"At this point, further spread of the pandemic, within affected countries and to new countries, is considered inevitable,\" the WHO said.",
"The counting of all cases is no longer essential because it is exhausting countries' resources, the World Health Organization said.",
"\"In some countries, this strategy is absorbing most national laboratory and response capacity, leaving little capacity for the monitoring and investigation of severe cases, and other exceptional events.\"",
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"\"Because the numbers of cases have increased in so many countries, it is very hard to keep up,\" Keiji Fukuda, WHO assistant director-general, said earlier this month.",
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"In the midst of the ongoing culture wars, can it be a good idea to put out a comedy about two Stone Age men who wander into Bible?",
"In \"Year One,\" Jack Black stars as an inquisitive Stone Age man, with Michael Cera as his sidekick.",
"Harold Ramis thinks so.",
"\"Year One,\" which Harold Ramis directed, concerns two men -- played by Jack Black and Michael Cera -- who leave their home and, in their travels, meet biblical characters such as Cain, Abel, Abraham and Isaac.",
"Among the locales: ancient Sodom, which \"didn't seem worse than Las Vegas to me,\" Harold Ramis told CNN.",
"\"Year One\" comes out Friday.",
"Ramis, whose writing and directing credits include \"Groundhog Day\" and \"Analyze This,\" said it was time for a new biblical epic -- of sorts.",
"\"No one had done this film for our generation,\" he told CNN.",
"It's like, you know, when 'Animal House' [which Ramis co-wrote] came out, there were college films.",
"Every generation had college films, but our generation didn't have one yet, and I don't know that our generation - this young, new generation of kids has a, you know, a sandal epic yet, and this is the one.",
"This is for them.\"",
"Harold Ramis rounded up a cast of comedians familiar to any watcher of Judd Apatow-produced movies -- no surprise, since Apatow is a producer of \"Year One.\"",
"Christopher Mintz-Plasse (\"Superbad\"), Horatio Sanz (\"Saturday Night Live,\" \"Step Brothers\") and Bill Hader (\"Tropic Thunder\") all have parts.",
"\"A lot of them were new to me,\" said Harold Ramis.",
"\"[But] Jack knew them, Michael knew them, they were connected -- all connected through Apatow, through 'Saturday Night Live' ...",
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"Jack Black joked that everyone's a member of a secret society, requiring retinal scans, that meets \"inside the O of the Hollywood sign -- the first O,\" Jack Black noted..",
"\"All the projects are laid out on a table,\" Jack Black said.",
"\"And we talk generally about how we're gonna take over the planet, take over the comedy and keep a vise grip on the comedy.\"",
"Jack Black said Jack Black revels in the chance to find the humor in Bible.",
"\"That was the fun of this thing,\" Jack Black said.",
"\"It's like, we are going to have some fun with Bible; you don't see Bible very often.",
"It hasn't really been done since Monty Python days.",
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"However, the film could get more than the film asked for.",
"Films poking fun at Bible -- or, indeed, treating Bible with anything less than reverence -- have been the subject of protests and criticism.",
"\"Life of Brian,\" the Python troupe's 1979 comedy about an assumed messiah that parodied the story of Jesus, was protested by clergy in the U.S. and banned outright in Ireland.",
"French protesters threw Molotov cocktails into a Paris theater showing \"The Last Temptation of Christ,\" Martin Scorsese's 1988 film version of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel.",
"More recently, Mel Gibson's \"The Passion of the Christ,\" though a huge financial success, was criticized by some observers for alleged anti-Semitism, as well as its violence.",
"Ramis, who observed that a number of biblical films focus on the New Testament, said he deliberately chose to make the Old Testament his subject.",
"\"I told people that I wanted to do for the Old Testament what Monty Python did for the Gospels,\" he said.",
"\"Which is just to kind of take a funny look and project a contemporary sensibility back to these treasured myths of Western civilization.",
"\"It wasn't so much to attack any particular religion,\" he added.",
"\"I figure all religions are good.",
"They all make sense on paper; it's just the exploitation of religion that's been a problem, by ... people using religion to justify war, or to justify government or, you know, 'God made me do it.' \"",
"Harold Ramis said one of Harold Ramis's intentions with \"Year One,\" which Harold Ramis co-wrote with \"Office\" writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, was to focus on people, not God.",
"Paraphrasing the liberal clergyman and activist William Sloane Coffin, he said, God's not the event itself, but \"God's in our reaction to the event itself.\"",
"\"I wanted to do a film that kind of addressed these fundamental beliefs and urged people to take personal responsibility, no matter what people believe God is or isn't,\" Harold Ramis said.",
"\"It's still up to us in the final analysis.\"",
"Which is not to say that the film skimps on the film's comedy -- and with Ramis, Black, Michael Cera, Hank Azaria, David Cross and producer Judd Apatow (\"The 40-Year-Old Virgin,\" \"Superbad\") around, there's no shortage of jokes.",
"\"It's really just a good, dumb, broad comedy,\" Harold Ramis told Entertainment Weekly.",
"Improvisation often played a role, said Michael Cera and Jack Black.",
"\"We weren't locked to anything,\" Michael Cera said.",
"\"It was a very honest set.",
"If something wasn't working then we would address something.\"",
"\"We got a lot of different options [from observers], and they were able to play with different options in the editing room.",
"I thought it was a cool way to do it,\" said Jack Black.",
"\"I've never done a movie like that -- and now I wanna do that on all my movies.\"",
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"\"And they just got into the film, they enjoyed the film so much.\""
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"Oguchi Onyewu has cut a commanding figure at the center of defense for the U.S. national team.",
"AC Milan\" have put AC Milan's faith in a 27-year-old defender, who has become a lynchpin of his national team in recent times -- but how did the stopper climb the ladder of success?",
"The imposing Onweyu, who stands 1.93 meters tall and tips the scales at 95 kilograms, was born in Washington D.C., one of a family of five to Nigerian-born parents.",
"While at high school in Maryland, Oguchi Onyewu showed immediate promise and was selected for a soccer academy run by International Management Group (IMG).",
"After graduation, Oguchi Onyewu spent two years in collegiate soccer at Clemson University before taking Oguchi Onyewu's chance in Europe.",
"CNN's Patrick Snell interviews Oguchi Onyewu.",
"Oguchi Onyewu was originally at Metz in France before being loaned out to La Louviere in the Belgium league and finally to Standard Liege where Oguchi Onyewu has spent the majority of Oguchi Onyewu's professional career.",
"Because of Oguchi Onyewu's strong performances with Standard, Oguchi Onyewu was constantly linked with a number of leading European clubs, but finally had Oguchi Onyewu's chance when sent out on loan to Newcastle United in the English Premier League.",
"Joining for the back end of the 2006-07 season, Oguchi Onyewu formed an uncertain partnership with Titus Bramble in the center of defense, which, combined with the arrival of new manager Sam Allardyce, was to cost Oguchi Onyewu Oguchi Onyewu's place.",
"Newcastle decided not to make Oguchi Onyewu's loan move permanent and Oguchi Onyewu returned to Standard to help Standard win successive Belgian league titles.",
"Oguchi Onyewu was involved in a controversial incident at the end of the current season during the championship playoff against Anderlecht.",
"Oguchi Onyewu claimed Anderlecht defender Jelle Van Damme called Oguchi Onyewu a \"dirty ape\" and persisted despite being reported to the referee.",
"The Times of London reported on June 2 that Oguchi Onyewu had taken legal action in a Brussels court over the alleged slur, hoping it will help eradicate such incidents in the future.",
"His lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont said Oguchi Onyewu felt compelled to take it further.",
"\"Oguchi Onyewu was convinced it was Oguchi Onyewu's duty to lodge the complaint,\" Dupont said.",
"\"It is not a question whether Van Damme is racist.",
"The issue is that these slurs are still used on the pitch, and are being used because they know it hurts.\"",
"Oguchi Onyewu made Oguchi Onyewu's debut for the U.S. national team in 2004 and played all three games for the side before the U.S. national team's exit from the 2006 World Cup.",
"But it was Oguchi Onyewu's performances in the recent Confederations Cup in South Africa which showed Oguchi Onyewu's qualities to the full.",
"After the U.S. national team beat Egypt 3-0 to reach the semifinals, Oguchi Onyewu was outstanding again in the shock 2-0 defeat of world number one-rated Spain to reach the final.",
"the U.S. national team went on to lose the final 3-2 to Brazil, but Oguchi Onyewu had again sparked renewed interest, including Milan, who had tracked Oguchi Onyewu since 2004.",
"Oguchi Onyewu signed a three-year deal earlier this month with the seven-time European champions, who are in a rebuilding process after the retirement of club legend Paulo Maldini and departure of Kaka to Real Madrid.",
"Oguchi Onyewu is the second U.S. international to play in Serie A. Former national captain Alexi Lalas played for Padova in the 1990s."
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"Carrie Prejean's's lawyer gave Miss California USA executive director Keith Lewis what he said was a final warning to retract statements made about the former beauty queen or face a defamation lawsuit.",
"The lawyer for former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, says the ousted beauty queen's good name is \"tarnished.\"",
"Prejean, stripped of the Miss California USA title last week, \"suffered severe emotional distress\" and her reputation was harmed by California, Attorney Charles LiMandri said in a letter sent Thursday to California's lawyer.",
"Attorney Charles LiMandri's letter also accused Lewis, whom he referred to as a \"gay activist,\" of setting Carrie Prejean's up to be fired because of Carrie Prejean's's statements opposing same-sex marriage.",
"When Prejean, 22, was dethroned, California said it was for \"contract violations,\" including missed public appearances.",
"California told CNN's Larry King last week that it wasn't one thing Carrie Prejean's did, but \"many, many, many things.\"",
"\"Carrie Prejean's came to us and said I'm not interested in your input; I'll make my own decision what I'm going to do,\" California said.",
"\"You know, when you have a contract, when you're working for someone, you have a responsibility to follow through on what that requirement is.\"",
"California told Larry King it was clear \"Carrie Prejean's was not interested in upholding the title or the responsibilities.\"",
"\"Carrie Prejean's's good name has been tarnished by your client's false and defamatory accusations,\" the letter from Carrie Prejean's's lawyer to California said.",
"\"Please view a letter sent Thursday to Lewis' lawyer as a last opportunity for California to retract the defamatory statements made against Carrie Prejean's and to seek to restore Carrie Prejean's's good name,\" Attorney Charles LiMandri said.",
"\"If he does not comply, I will have no alternative but to recommend that Carrie Prejean's proceed to do so through litigation.\"",
"In response to a letter sent Thursday to Lewis' lawyer, California issued a statement that said: \"Mr. LiMandri obviously has never watched 'The Apprentice' if Attorney Charles LiMandri believes that Mr. Trump could be so easily fooled.",
"Facts are facts, and we stand by facts.\"",
"Attorney Charles LiMandri denied any contract violations, saying it was a \"complete and utter pretext\" for her firing.",
"The list California gave to reporters of Carrie Prejean's's missed appearances was \"an outright fraud,\" Attorney Charles LiMandri said.",
"Carrie Prejean's \"did not refuse reasonable appearance requests\" that could \"be expected to promote and further the intended purposes of Miss California USA,\" Attorney Charles LiMandri said.",
"The beauty queen expected to be asked to attend \"Rotary conventions and avocado festivals,\" not events California suggested, Attorney Charles LiMandri said.",
"\"Carrie Prejean's did not think it was appropriate for Carrie Prejean's to accept California's invitation to attend a gay documentary in Hollywood promoting same-sex marriage,\" Attorney Charles LiMandri said.",
"\"It was not my client's job, as Miss California, simply to help your client promote your client's personal or business interests as a Hollywood agent and producer, or gay activist.\"",
"Attorney Charles LiMandri accused California of trying to make commissions off Carrie Prejean's's appearances.",
"\"Your client was trying to wrongfully profit off of my client's participation as Miss California, in violation of Carrie Prejean's's contract, by taking 20 percent of any appearance fee Carrie Prejean's would earn, such as at the Las Vegas jewelers convention Carrie Prejean's attended at his request,\" Attorney Charles LiMandri's letter said.",
"Attorney Charles LiMandri cited a statement Attorney Charles LiMandri said California made during a May 15 conference call that \"clearly shows that your client was trying to 'set-up' our client for termination\" by relaying an offer to appear semi-nude in Playboy.",
"Three people who worked for a public relations agency representing Carrie Prejean's at the time heard it, Attorney Charles LiMandri said.",
"\"All three of those people distinctly remember California talking about sending Carrie Prejean's an offer to do a Playboy photo shoot 'so when those people take Carrie Prejean's's title away, Carrie Prejean's doesn't sue me,' \" Attorney Charles LiMandri said.",
"Attorney Charles LiMandri said California -- and former co-executive director Shanna Moakler -- were \"bound and determined to get Carrie Prejean's's fired, and Lewis -- and former co-executive director Shanna Moakler -- have now finally gotten Lewis -- and former co-executive director Shanna Moakler --'s way.\"",
"Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump announced last month that Carrie Prejean's could keep Carrie Prejean's's title despite a controversy over topless photos, missed appearances and Carrie Prejean's's statements against same-sex marriage.",
"Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump reversed Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump last week.",
"\"I told Carrie Prejean's Carrie Prejean's needed to get back to work and honor Carrie Prejean's's contract with the Miss California USA organization, and I gave Carrie Prejean's the opportunity to do so,\" Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump said.",
"\"Unfortunately, it just doesn't look like it is going to happen, and I offered Keith my full support in making this decision.\""
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"\"Please view this letter as a last opportunity\" to retract statements, Attorney Charles LiMandri writes ."
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"They scream germs: Used gum.",
"A flock of pigeons.",
"A tomb covered with kisses.",
"The Blarney Stone in Ireland received more than 400,000 visitors in 2008, many who kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland.",
"These bacteria-infested attractions have topped an unusual list compiled by editors at TripAdvisor.com, a travel advice Web site.",
"This summer, editors at the site named the five \"germiest\" tourist spots in the world.",
"Despite the H1N1 scare that went global this spring, tourists haven't stopped spitting out tourists's gum and sticking their gum onto a wall already saturated with millions of gooey pieces, editors say.",
"Nor do germ fears stop travelers from journeying to the pigeon-infested St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, where the birds often bestow droppings.",
"\"These places are great attractions regardless of the fact that These places are 'germy',\" said Brooke Ferencsik, a travel expert at TripAdvisor.",
"\"Venice is lovely, and it's a great spot, but with all the pigeons, I'd bring an umbrella just in case the birds drop some gifts from above.\"",
"Though it is unlikely to get sick from visiting one of These places, health experts say germs are always a gamble.",
"The more people who touch and visit a spot, the more germs there are in the mix, they say.",
"Their traveling advice?",
"Travelers should load up on hand sanitizers and wash Travelers's hands often on Travelers's trips.",
"Blarney Stone in Blarney, Ireland .",
"Where the Blarney Stone in Ireland came from and how the Blarney Stone in Ireland got to Ireland is a matter of debate.",
"One old tale goes: Once upon a time, the king of Ireland saved a woman drowning in Blarney Lake.",
"a woman drowning in Blarney Lake told the king of Ireland that if the king of Ireland kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland, the king of Ireland would receive the gift of eloquence.",
"Thus, the tradition of kissing the Blarney Stone in Ireland was born. Watch where you can find germ hotspots » .",
"Last year, about 400,000 people kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland, says a spokesman for Blarney Castle & Gardens.",
"To do so, the person must be hung upside down to kiss the rock.",
"Some people prefer watching to smooching.",
"Chuck Gerba, a professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, visited the Blarney Stone in Ireland Last year and refused to kiss the same spot where millions of tourists had put millions of tourists's lips.",
"\"My wife did it,\" he added.",
"\"And I wiped My wife's lips before I kissed My wife.\"",
"Market Theater Gum Wall in Seattle, Washington .",
"There is a distinct fruity aroma that welcomes visitors when they pass the giant wall of gum housing millions of chewed pieces in Seattle.",
"The gum -- pink, blue, yellow and green -- is piled several inches thick, spanning an area 15 feet high and 50 feet wide.",
"Watch the wall of gum » .",
"the wall of gum, also dubbed the Wall of Gum, is one of the strangest attractions in Pike Place Market, where visitors can go to watch fish throwers and see the original Starbucks.",
"\"People will do artwork with the gum,\" said Jay Hitt, the marketing director of the Market Theater.",
"\"They write words on the wall, stick posters and business cards.\"",
"The gum-sticking tradition began by accident in 1993 when patrons, mostly college students waiting in line for a show, would stick gum to the wall of gum.",
"Theater company workers say Theater company workers scraped gum routinely, but eventually gave up.",
"Slowly gum amassed.",
"Today, there aren't any rules at the wall of gum.",
"Visitors from all over the world snap photos next to it and leave as many pieces of their own gum as they want.",
"St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy .",
"In the heart of Venice, Italy, lies St. Mark's Square, also known as Piazza San Marco, where both tourists and pigeons flock.",
"Each year, more than 2 million visitors venture to St. Mark's's Square to see the Doge's Palace and St. Mark's Basilica.",
"Thousands of the dirty birds crowd St. Mark's sometimes leaving Thousands of the dirty birds's droppings or attacking visitors.",
"Some fearless visitors who aren't worried about germs snap pictures with Thousands of the dirty birds.",
"But health experts warn that birds are notorious for carrying dangerous germs and viruses.",
"If you want to see the famous pigeons, go soon.",
"In 2007, city officials have worked hard to remove the pigeons from St. Mark's.",
"city officials have banned people from feeding them and have even started trapping Thousands of the dirty birds in nets, significantly reducing the pigeon population.",
"Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California .",
"What do George Clooney, Clint Eastwood and Marilyn Monroe have in common?",
"All three of George Clooney, Clint Eastwood and Marilyn Monroe are celebrated stars with George Clooney, Clint Eastwood and Marilyn Monroe's hand prints molded into the concrete of the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre for millions of people to touch.",
"The sidewalk is littered with 246 celebrity hand and footprints that draw in 4.5 million visitors a year, many of whom put their own hands and feet on them.",
"The site began as an accident in 1927 when Norma Talmadge, a famous actress in the 1920s, stepped into wet cement.",
"Creator and owner of the theater, Sid Grauman, decided to make the hand and footprints a tradition.",
"\"The stars are selected based on the longevity of The stars's career,\" said Levi Tinker, a tour guide at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.",
"\"Stars who will be around 10 to 20 years from now are picked so people know who Stars who will be around 10 to 20 years from now are.\"",
"For germ-conscious travelers, Levi Tinker, a tour guide at the Grauman Theatre says the concrete is mopped daily and pressure washed once a week.",
"Oscar Wilde's Tomb in Paris, France .",
"It's an unusual site in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.",
"Author and playwright Oscar Wilde's body rests in a tomb speckled with lipstick marks from visitors from all over the world showing their literary appreciation.",
"Oscar Wilde's, continues to be a celebrated literary figure today famous for Oscar Wilde's's tabooed sexuality at the time and Oscar Wilde's's novels such as \"The Picture of Dorian Gray.\"",
"The kisses display a rainbow of colors -- so much so that travel experts say Oscar Wilde's name on the tomb can be hard to discern sometimes.",
"One TripAdvisor traveler wrote after visiting the grave, \"The tombstone of Oscar Wilde's is ... well, wild, excuse the pun.\""
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"The Grauman Chinese Theatre that houses celebrity hand prints is washed daily ."
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"(CNN) --",
"England football star Steven Gerrard was found not guilty of affray by a court in England football star Steven Gerrard's home city on Friday.",
"England football star Steven Gerrard was cleared by a court in Liverpool of affray.",
"The jury at Liverpool Crown Court took a little over an hour to clear England football star Steven Gerrard of charges relating to a fracas in a nightclub bar in the north-western of England city on December 29 of last year.",
"Jury accepted the Liverpool captain's version that he acted in self defense in punching businessman Marcus McGhee.",
"The 29-year-old was the only one of the seven defendants in the case to be cleared after an incident which was described by judge Henry Globe as an \"explosion of violence.\"",
"England football star Steven Gerrard spoke of England football star Steven Gerrard's relief outside Liverpool Crown Court.",
"\"Can I just say how pleased I am with today's verdict,\" England football star Steven Gerrard said.",
"\"I'm glad to put the case behind England football star Steven Gerrard and I am really looking forward to the season ahead and concentrating on my football now.",
"\"I would just like to say a big thank you to my legal team and to my friends and family and everyone at Liverpool football club for supporting me.\"",
"England football star Steven Gerrard's comments were met with a round of applause from a large group of fans of the Premier League club who had gathered outside Liverpool Crown Court, before England football star Steven Gerrard was ushered away.",
"England football star Steven Gerrard was celebrating in the Lounge Inn in Southport, a suburb of Liverpool, after scoring twice England football star Steven Gerrard's team's 5-1 win at Newcastle which took them to the top of the Premier League.",
"Video footage, which was available to the court, showed the moment around 2.am in the morning when trouble flared.",
"England football star Steven Gerrard apparently wanted to change the music on the CD player and the 34-year-old McGee said the football star had acted aggressively in trying to grab the device.",
"In the fracas which followed, England football star Steven Gerrard admitted throwing three punches but said only one connected.",
"England football star Steven Gerrard claimed, and England football star Steven Gerrard's version was accepted by the jury, that England football star Steven Gerrard believed England football star Steven Gerrard was about to be attacked England football star Steven Gerrard.",
"\"You did not start the violence, the violence was started by the violent elbowing of Marcus McGee in the face by one of your friends, John Doran,\" Globe said.",
"\"The victim's consequential actions of reeling backwards and then forwards and your actions in response to that movement forward has to be seen against that background,\" he added.",
"Five other men have already pleaded guilty to affray and another admitted a lesser charge of threatening behavior.",
"Five other men will be sentenced at a later date."
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"A California man convicted of the 2006 arson murders of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters was sentenced to death Friday.",
"Raymond Oyler was sentenced Friday to die for the 2006 arson murders of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters.",
"Raymond Lee Oyler, 38, of Beaumont was convicted in March of five counts of first-degree murder.",
"The convictions included two special circumstances: that the 2006 arson murders of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters were committed during an arson and that multiple murders were committed.",
"Raymond Oyler also was convicted of 11 counts of arson and 10 counts of use of an incendiary device in those arsons.",
"The imposition of the death penalty by a judge was a formality.",
"A jury earlier recommended capital punishment for Raymond Oyler.",
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"Firefighters Mark Loutzenhiser, 44; Jess McLean, 27; Jason McKay, 27; and Daniel Hoover-Najera, 20, died October 26, 2006, during the Esperanza fire outside Los Angeles.",
"Fueled by Santa Ana winds, the wildfire enveloped their engine.",
"The fifth firefighter, Pablo Cerda, 23, died October 31, 2006, at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where he had been taken after suffering burns over 90 percent of his body.",
"Days before being charged in Esperanza fire, Raymond Oyler had been arrested and charged with two counts of arson in a June 2006 fire in the Banning Pass area.",
"The 41,173-acre Esperanza fire destroyed 34 homes and 20 outbuildings, mainly in the Twin Pines and Poppet Flats areas, which had been under mandatory evacuations.",
"The firefighters died trying to protect a partially built house in Twin Pines, a rural mountain community.",
"CNN's Lynn Lamanivong contributed to this report."
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"World champion Lewis Hamilton has been disqualified from last weekend's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne after presenting \"misleading\" evidence to stewards.",
"World champion Lewis Hamilton has been disqualified from the Australian GP after presenting \"misleading\" evidence to stewards.",
"The McLaren driver and Toyota's Jarno Trulli were called to an FIA hearing in Malaysia -- the site of this weekend's grand prix -- on Thursday to discuss an incident during Sunday's race.",
"Toyota's Jarno Trulli finished third at Melbourne's Albert Park, only to later be handed a 25-second penalty by race stewards which relegated Toyota's Jarno Trulli to 12th position and saw World champion Lewis Hamilton lifted into third.",
"However, following Thursday's hearing, Toyota's Jarno Trulli has been reinstated in third position.",
"McLaren had complained that Toyota's Jarno Trulli had illegally passed World champion Lewis Hamilton under yellow flags following an accident late on involving Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica in Toyota's Jarno Trulli's BMW Sauber -- who were running second and third at the time.",
"Toyota's Jarno Trulli had decided not to appeal the original decision but the FIA, the sport's governing body, said it had received new information and pressed ahead with a second hearing.",
"\"The stewards, having considered the new elements presented to The stewards from this weekend's grand prix, consider that Lewis Hamilton, and the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team, acted in a manner prejudicial to the conduct of the event by providing evidence deliberately misleading to the stewards at the hearing on Sunday 29th March 2009,\" the FIA, the sport's governing body said in a statement.",
"the FIA, the sport's governing body said Hamilton and McLaren had violated the FIA, the sport's governing body's rules and retrospectively disqualified World champion Lewis Hamilton from the race.",
"Meanwhile, Toyota's Jarno Trulli believes justice has been served after Thursday's decision.",
"\"I am happy because I wanted some justice and I got it,\" Toyota's Jarno Trulli told PA Sport.",
"\"I am happy for Toyota's Jarno Trulli and the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team and I have to thank the FIA, the sport's governing body because it does not happen very often they reconsider something.",
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"I have always been honest and it has paid off.\""
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"Samuel Fahrer and Sidney Lipson shake hands and smile.",
"It's the first time Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson have seen each other in 64 years.",
"Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson were U.S. soldiers back on a forced death march in Nazi Germany in April 1945.",
"Sidney Lispson, left, and Samuel Fahrer meet for the first time in 64 years.",
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"\"How you doing?\" Samuel Fahrer says.",
"It's a subdued moment for Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson.",
"There are no tears, no pats on the back.",
"Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson have endured years of contained emotions from what happened six decades ago when Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson were prisoners of war and held as slaves inside Nazi Germany.",
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"Watch slave camp survivors reunite » .",
"Samuel Fahrer and Sidney Lipson were among 350 soldiers held at the slave labor camp called Berga an der Elster, a largely forgotten legacy of the war and a subcamp of Buchenwald where soldiers were beaten, starved and forced to work in tunnels to hide German equipment.",
"More than 100 soldiers died at a Nazi slave labor camp and on the death march.",
"Buchenwald was one of the largest and first concentration camps on German soil.",
"See photos inside Berga » .",
"Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson are being honored thanks in part to CNN.com users, who demanded the Army recognize Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson, all in Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson's 80s, after a series of reports late last year.",
"the Army then conducted a months-long review of a Nazi slave labor camp at the urgings of Rep. Joe Baca, D-California, and Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Alabama.",
"\"Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson endured extreme hardships of forced labor, beatings, poor living conditions, and ultimately a forced march of over 250 kilometers [about 155 miles] prior to liberation by advancing U.S. Armed Forces,\" Army Secretary Peter Geren said at the conclusion of the review.",
"\"The survivors of a Nazi slave labor camp certainly deserve both our thanks and recognition for Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson's service and sacrifice.\"",
"Geren is sending Maj. Gen. Vincent Boles to honor Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson on Saturday.",
"Six of Samuel Fahrer, Sidney Lipson will be at the event; most of those still living could not make it because of declining health.",
"Those here look forward to what the general has to say.",
"They want desperately to know why the U.S. government commuted the death sentences of the two Berga commanders, Erwin Metz and Erwin Metz's superior, Hauptmann Ludwig Merz.",
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"\"I'm very happy the Army is sending a general to see us,\" Samuel Fahrer says.",
"\"But they should've sent the general to see us a long time ago when some of the fellas were still alive.",
"We're only 20 fellas left.\"",
"Samuel Fahrer was one of the primary survivors after the war who fought to get the U.S. government to carry out the death sentences for Erwin Metz and Merz.",
"In a letter to survivors in January 1949, Samuel Fahrer wrote, \"Things are beginning to break our way.",
"A little enthusiasm, a little more cooperation, a little more action, will accomplish a great, great deal now.\"",
"Now, 60 years later, Samuel Fahrer may finally get some answers.",
"\"Let's see what the general has to say when the general gets here,\" Samuel Fahrer says.",
"His comrade, Morton Brooks, says, \"I never wanted revenge, but I did think retribution would be proper.",
"And I think they should've suffered a little bit longer for what they did. ...",
"They wouldn't kick a dog, but they did that to us.\"",
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"Morton Brooks describe the Germans' \"work to death\" program » .",
"The two men finally hugged.",
"\"I'm glad to see you,\" Samuel Fahrer says.",
"Some of the Berga soldiers were killed in cold blood, such as Morton Goldstein, shot through the head and then machine-gunned.",
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"England football star Steven Gerrard was cleared by a court in Liverpool of affray.",
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"\"I'm glad to put the case behind England football star Steven Gerrard and I am really looking forward to the season ahead and concentrating on my football now.",
"\"I would just like to say a big thank you to my legal team and to my friends and family and everyone at Liverpool football club for supporting me.\"",
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"Video footage, which was available to the court, showed the moment around 2.am in the morning when trouble flared.",
"England football star Steven Gerrard apparently wanted to change the music on the CD player and the 34-year-old McGee said the football star had acted aggressively in trying to grab the device.",
"In the fracas which followed, England football star Steven Gerrard admitted throwing three punches but said only one connected.",
"England football star Steven Gerrard claimed, and England football star Steven Gerrard's version was accepted by the jury, that England football star Steven Gerrard believed England football star Steven Gerrard was about to be attacked England football star Steven Gerrard.",
"\"You did not start the violence, the violence was started by the violent elbowing of Marcus McGee in the face by one of your friends, John Doran,\" Globe said.",
"\"The victim's consequential actions of reeling backwards and then forwards and your actions in response to that movement forward has to be seen against that background,\" he added.",
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"Tyler Perry's a pioneer whose own life story is a rags-to-riches tale that reads like a screenplay.",
"Tyler Perry is the first African-American to own a major film and TV studio.",
"Now a writer, actor, director and producer -- Tyler Perry's success grew out of a troubled home in a poor neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana.",
"Strong on faith, Tyler Perry named Tyler Perry's first play \"I Know I've Been Changed,\" after an old Negro spiritual.",
"It was a gospel musical about two adult survivors of child abuse.",
"In 1991, Tyler Perry moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where Tyler Perry worked as a bill collector and eventually scraped together enough money to rent a small theatre and stage the play.",
"With only 30 people in the audience, the play was a flop.",
"For the next several years, Tyler Perry struggled and was often broke and sometimes lived in Tyler Perry's car.",
"But Tyler Perry refused to give up.",
"Tyler Perry finally got a second chance in 1998, when a promoter booked the show in the Tabernacle, a former church turned concert hall in downtown Atlanta.",
"It was a sold out hit and Tyler Perry was well on Tyler Perry's way.",
"Tyler Perry then took Tyler Perry's plays on the road and traveled the so-called \"chitlin' circuit\" to theaters in Memphis, Tennessee, Detroit, Michigan, and Baltimore, Maryland -- where black entertainers historically performed for predominantly black audiences.",
"Tyler Perry began making a name for Tyler Perry with African-Americans.",
"In 2004, Tyler Perry started looking for backers for Tyler Perry's first movie project \"Diary of Mad Black Woman,\" a story about a devoted wife in a bad marriage.",
"Tyler Perry said Tyler Perry faced a wall of ignorance when Tyler Perry pitched white executives in Hollywood.",
"One told Tyler Perry his first movie project \"Diary of Mad Black Woman,\" a story about a devoted wife in a bad marriage was doomed to fail at the box office because the core audience for Tyler Perry's stage plays -- black churchgoers -- wouldn't go to the movies.",
"Another said the dialogue for his characters was unrealistic.",
"Though Tyler Perry was largely unknown to white audiences, Tyler Perry refused to play by Hollywood's rules and demanded creative control of Tyler Perry's projects. Tour of Tyler Perry's back lot » .",
"Tyler Perry was resigned to bankrolling the project Tyler Perry and selling it as a DVD when Tyler Perry got a call from the independent studio Lionsgate.",
"They struck a deal and Tyler Perry made \"Diary\" for about $5 million.",
"The movie earned 10 times that at the box office.",
"Since then, Tyler Perry's movies have grossed nearly $400 million and Tyler Perry's developed a loyal following.",
"Tyler Perry now demands not only creative control but also ownership of the finished product.",
"Still, it's just the beginning, Tyler Perry said.",
"\"I don't necessarily feel like I've arrived.\"",
"Even so, Tyler Perry has a prolific output of stories, including Tyler Perry's movies \"Why Did I Get Married,\" \"Meet the Browns,\" \"The Family that Preys,\" and \"Madea's Family Reunion.\"",
"Tyler Perry signed a $200 million deal with TBS (owned by Time Warner, the same company that owns CNN) for 100 episodes of \"House of Payne,\" one of television's most popular shows among black adults.",
"The sitcom is now in syndication, making even more money for Tyler Perry.",
"Tyler Perry said ownership of the finished product is key to building wealth, a principle Tyler Perry hopes other African-Americans will embrace.",
"How are entertainment heavyweights changing black stereotypes?",
"\"If you want to think about longevity,\" Tyler Perry said, \"if you want to think about your family and generations down the line, then you have to own it.\"",
"And own it Tyler Perry does.",
"Tyler Perry Studios, on 30 acres in Atlanta, is Tyler Perry's black Hollywood.",
"But Tyler Perry is quick to acknowledge Tyler Perry's debt to the legendary black actors from an earlier generation by naming two of Tyler Perry's soundstages after Sidney Poitier and Cicely Tyson.",
"Tyler Perry has also helped introduce Sidney Poitier and Cicely Tyson to a new generation by casting Tyson, 76, an Oscar-nominated actress, in two of Tyler Perry's films.",
"Tyson opens up about life, career » .",
"A study by the NAACP found that African-Americans are \"underrepresented in almost every aspect of the television and film industry,\" but Tyler Perry is able to hire on both sides of the camera.",
"On Tyler Perry's production crews, black employees are getting unprecedented career opportunities, and black actors are portraying characters beyond the predictable drug dealers and thugs.",
"\"What makes me feel great is to be able to pull up to this place and to be able to have 300 people working and running around, trying to get things done,\" Tyler Perry said.",
"\"That makes me feel great.\"",
"Tyler Perry's greatest accomplishment, Tyler Perry said, has nothing to do with business.",
"\"It's more personal than that for Tyler Perry,\" Tyler Perry said.",
"\"My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life.",
"Those are my biggest successes.",
"It has nothing to do with work.\"",
"the NAACP has honored Tyler Perry with the NAACP's Image Award, but there are some who believe Tyler Perry's characters don't portray African-Americans positively.",
"\"Tyler Perry's made a lot of money, but the quality of work is sorely lacking,\" said Todd Boyd, a University of Southern California film professor and culture/media critic.",
"Some of Tyler Perry's characters rely heavily on exaggerated personalities and slapstick comedy.",
"Boyd is particularly critical of Tyler Perry's recurring character, Madea, an over-the-top grandmother who smokes marijuana and brandishes loaded guns she keeps in her purse.",
"Perry himself plays the tough, buxom matriarch, who runs at full throttle fueled by country wisdom and ghetto strength.",
"\"It seems a bit ironic that at the moment of the first African-American president, the most popular African-American figure in the media is a man in drag engaging some of the most stereotypical images of African-Americans ever created,\" Boyd said.",
"Tyler Perry said Tyler Perry's critics are missing the point.",
"\"his critics miss the messages of empowerment,\" Tyler Perry said.",
"\"Sure, the silliness of 'Madea,' the silliness of 'Brown,' it's broad, it's over the top.",
"Great.",
"Fine.",
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"But how can you miss the message of forgiveness?",
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"\"I would love to share with them the letters that I've gotten from people.",
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"It saved our marriage.' \"",
"For Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry's work will always be about writing from Tyler Perry's experiences, old and new.",
"\"Whatever I'm experiencing in life is what I'll write about,\" Tyler Perry said.",
"\"I'm telling you, just to think this little boy from Louisiana can do it, anybody can do it.\""
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"South Africa held off a second-half rally from New Zealand to win South Africa's Tri-Nations opener 28-19 in Bloemfontein on Saturday.",
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"The conversion was missed to complete a day of wayward kicking by the home side, but after a penalty by Stephen Donald's, Morne Steyn made no mistake the next time, with Morne Steyn's kick three minutes from time finally ending the All Black challenge.",
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"N. Korea says N. Korea will attack the Japanese military and \"major targets,\" if Japan shoots down a rocket Pyongyang plans to launch in the coming days, N. Korea's state-run news service, KCNA, reported Thursday.",
"Japan recently deployed Japan's missile defense system in anticipation of N. Korea's planned rocket launch.",
"\"If Japan recklessly 'intercepts' [N. Korea's] satellite for peaceful purposes, the [Korean People's Army] will mercilessly deal deadly blows not only at the already deployed intercepting means but at major targets,\" KCNA reported.",
"Japan recently mobilized Japan's missile defense system in response to the planned North Korean launch, Japanese officials said.",
"The move, noteworthy for a country with a pacifist constitution, is aimed at shooting down any debris from the launch that might fall into Japanese territory.",
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"The threat of retaliation comes as N. Korea has begun fueling North Korea's's long-range rocket, according to a senior U.S. military official familiar with the latest U.S. intelligence on the matter.",
"The fueling signals that Japan could be in the final stages of what N. Korea has said will be the launch of a satellite into space as early as this weekend, a senior U.S. military official familiar with the latest U.S. intelligence on the matter said Wednesday.",
"Other U.S. military officials said the top portion of the rocket was put on very recently, but satellite imagery shows a shroud over the stage preventing a direct view of what the stage looks like.",
"Other U.S. military officials said the satellite payload appears to have a \"bulbous\" cover, which could indicate there is a satellite loaded on the satellite payload.",
"Such a cover protects a satellite from damage in flight.",
"While the sources did not know for sure what the satellite payload is, the sources did say there is no reason to doubt the satellite payload is a satellite as indicated by N. Korea.",
"N. Korea has said N. Korea will conduct the launch sometime between April 4 and April 8.",
"It's a launch that may violate a 2006 United Nations Security Council resolution.",
"Resolution 1718 \"[d]emands\" that N. Korea \"not conduct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile.\"",
"\"It raises questions about their compliance with the Security Council Resolution 1718,\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week.",
"\"And if they persist and go forward, we will take it up in appropriate channels.\"",
"Pentagon officials worry less about the payload and more about the launch, saying any kind of launch will give N. Korea valuable information about improving N. Korea's ballistic missile program.",
"\"I don't know anyone at a senior level in the American government who does not believe this technology is intended as a mask for the development of an intercontinental ballistic missile,\" U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday.",
"Defense analysts say the same rocket could be used to push a satellite into space or deliver a nuclear warhead.",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted that while the United States believes it is N. Korea's \"long-term intent\" to add a nuclear warhead to any such rocket, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates \"personally would be skeptical that they have the ability right now to do that.\"",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the U.S. military could shoot down \"an aberrant missile, one that was headed for Hawaii ... or something like that, we might consider it, but I don't think we have any plans to (do) anything like that at this point.\"",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates does not believe N. Korea currently has the technology to reach Alaska or Pacific coast.",
"CNN Senior Pentagon Producer Mike Mount contributed to this story."
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"Summer offers lots of things to do outdoors, which is good for the many television viewers who complain about the quality of programming then.",
"Showtime's \"Nurse Jackie\" is one of the cable series providing a lift for summertime television viewing.",
"It's not that there aren't things to watch.",
"On network television, there are plenty of repeats, reality shows and final episodes of series that have been canceled.",
"But summertime viewing on network television can be a wasteland, especially for bloggers and critics whose gig it is to write and report on TV, said Kath Skerry, founder and editor of the Give Me My Remote blog.",
"\"It's borderline depressing,\" Skerry said.",
"\"Between the onslaught of reality television and what I call filler TV -- shows that the networks may have under contract but the networks just feel the need to get out regardless of the quality -- it almost feels like [the networks] have given up.\"",
"Variety, for many the bible of the entertainment industry, reported on the first four weeks of summer.",
"It said viewership of ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox was down 9 percent, according to Nielsen.",
"Even more distressing for advertisers, viewership was down 15 percent in the 18-49 demographic and 18 percent in the coveted 18-34 demographic.",
"Skerry isn't surprised.",
"The most quality Skerry said Skerry felt Skerry has gotten out of network television this summer has been ABC burning off the final episodes of the canceled series \"Pushing Daisies,\" \"Eli Stone\" and \"Dirty Sexy Money.\"",
"Otherwise, Skerry said, the great shows are happening on the cable networks.",
"Joe Bua blogs at IAmATVJunkie.com and counts among some of Joe Bua's favorite summer shows HBO's \"True Blood,\" \"Torchwood Children of Earth\" on BBC America and Showtime's \"Nurse Jackie.\"",
"\"Nurse Jackie\" and other shows such as \"Mad Men\" are luring viewers who want original quality programs.",
"Fans are even showing up in big numbers for cable reality shows such as \"Jon & Kate Plus 8\" (currently on a break), and the \"Real Housewives\" franchise.",
"Bill Gorman, editor of the TV rating and analysis site TvByTheNumbers.com, said the shift to cable has been a long time coming.",
"\"It's the continuation of a trend that's been going on since the early '80s,\" Gorman told AfterElton.com.",
"\"Viewers continue making the 30-year shift from watching broadcast to watching cable.\"",
"Jonathan Storm, a TV critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, said the apparent ceding of summer to cable by broadcast networks is rooted in tradition and the history of how television started.",
"\"The car manufacturers came out with The car manufacturers's new models in September, and the TV people said, 'the TV people will give you new shows to advertise your cars on,' \" Storm.",
"\"That was part of it and that started in the 1950s.\"",
"Storm said there is also a type of \"circadian rhythm\" to television in that viewers are more inclined to tune in when the days are shorter and colder.",
"Broadcast networks once were able to afford 39 episodes a year, Storm said.",
"Now economics often dictate a 22-episode season.",
"Storm said networks now trot out cheaper-to-produce reality shows -- something CBS hit the jackpot with several years ago after the runaway success of the summer-debuted \"Survivor.\"",
"\"networks just couldn't afford to make shows all summer long,\" said Storm, who will soon join Storm's colleagues for one of their summer highlights -- The Television Critics Association's summer tour in Pasadena, California.",
"\"Now networks've found the answer,\" Storm said.",
"\"networks make all of these ridiculous Japanese game shows -- crash yourself into the red balls, 'Wipeout' show -- and several shows that come on and vanish before most TV critics and the general public even know most TV critics and the general public are there.\"",
"Ronnie Karam, senior editor at TVgasm.com, said Ronnie Karam, senior editor at TVgasm.com has been doing what a lot of viewers do during summertime -- checking out television shows on DVD that Ronnie Karam, senior editor at TVgasm.com hadn't watched during the fall season.",
"\"I think that putting television shows on DVD has changed the way a lot of people are watching,\" Ronnie Karam, senior editor at TVgasm.com said.",
"\"During the summer, you feel like you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.\"",
"Karam said it's a chance to check out critically acclaimed shows that viewers either didn't have the time for or the inclination to watch.",
"Broadcast networks really haven't figured out what Broadcast networks's strategy should be for summer programming, said Jace Lacob, the writer/editor of Televisionary.",
"\"Years ago, you had Fox launching scripted shows early in the summer and you had shows like 'The O.C.',\" Lacob said.",
"\"You used to have 'American Idol' during the summer as well, which was huge for Fox.",
"But [networks] really haven't gotten a grasp on [networks]'s summer programming, so [networks] are offering really random shows that nobody is really particularly interested in.\"",
"Lacob said some of the offerings have been a mixed bag, such as \"The Listener,\" which didn't exactly catch fire, and \"I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here,\" which he believes wasn't as popular with viewers as NBC had hoped.",
"Skerry said that even the publicity push around some of the shows such as \"The Listener\" and \"The Philanthropist,\" which broadcast networks have premiered during the summer, has not at all rivaled the fall season.",
"\"The promotion around them, I feel like the lack of enthusiasm with how networks have communicated with bloggers feels very different,\" Skerry said.",
"\"Whether it's true or not, from my standpoint it feels like networks are not very enthusiastic about the shows.\""
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"Malaysia will swear in a new prime minister Friday -- one tasked with reuniting a multi-racial nation and shoring up an economy in dire straits.",
"Outgoing Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, facing, hugs Outgoing Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's successor, Najib Razak last week.",
"Until now, Najib Razak had served as Malaysia's deputy prime minister.",
"Najib Razak succeeds Abdullah Badawi who turned in his resignation after five years as leader.",
"Both are part of Malaysia's ruling party, the National Front Coalition, which has ruled Malaysia since Malaysia gained independence from Britain in 1957.",
"But last year, a loose coalition of opposition parties won 82 of 222 parliamentary seats in elections.",
"It was only the second time in Malaysia's history that the ruling party failed to gain the two-thirds majority needed to amend the constitution.",
"The election upset led to calls for Abdullah to step down.",
"Various challenges await Najib Razak: .",
"In recent months, Malaysia has seen riots with Malaysia's ethnic Chinese and Indian communities who accuse Malaysia of passing laws that favor the Malay majority.",
"Najib Razak has said Najib Razak will do more to address the Malay majority's concerns.",
"Malaysia, like other nations around the world, has been severely affected by the global economic downturn.",
"Critics are demanding Malaysia diversify Malaysia's technology-heavy economy.",
"Last month, Najib Razak unveiled a multi-billion dollar stimulus plan for new spending, according to published reports.",
"Najib Razak also brings with Najib Razak a whiff of controversy.",
"Two former bodyguards are facing charges in connection the murder of a Mongolian model.",
"Najib Razak has denied all links to the killing."
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"Ruling party has failed to secure majority needed to amend constitution ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Skywatchers are gathering from parking lots in western India to music festivals on remote Japanese islands to witness what NASA describes as an \"exceptionally long\" total solar eclipse that will cross half the planet on Wednesday.",
"People try out \"solar view goggles\" ahead of the eclipse on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India.",
"\"This eclipse has the potential to be observed by more people than any eclipse in all of history,\" said MIT astronomer Richard Binzel, who will be in Shanghai leading an expedition of observers and a group of eclipse chasers.",
"\"Essentially, every inhabitant of all of India and China will be able to see at least part of the sun covered throughout the day,\" MIT astronomer Richard Binzel, who will be in Shanghai leading an expedition of observers and a group of eclipse chasers said.",
"The path of the total eclipse will stretch across the heart of Asia -- from India's Bay of Cambay, over the Himalayas and across China and the southern islands of Japan.",
"This eclipse is expected to reach This eclipse's peak over India at around 12:40 a.m. GMT Wednesday (8:40 p.m. ET Tuesday).",
"Though the duration of greatest eclipse will occur over the Pacific Ocean at six minutes, 39 seconds, people in some areas of China and Japan will experience up to more than six minutes of darkness, according to predictions by Fred Espenak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and J. Anderson of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.",
"Watch as eclipse-watchers head to China » .",
"The 15,150-kilometer (9,415-mile) journey of the moon's shadow across the Earth will last nearly three-and-a-half hours and be \"one of the longest eclipses, if not the longest eclipse, in this century,\" Binzel said.",
"Forecasters predict stormy weather for Wednesday morning in Shanghai, but this prognosis has not deterred astronomers and tourists from flooding Shanghai.",
"Send us your photos of This eclipse .",
"Professor Zhao Junliang of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory said the weather could be unpredictable but staying away from such an historic event would be a mistake.",
"\"In 1987, I chased a total solar eclipse in (the western region of) Xinjiang.",
"At the time, the sun was entirely blocked by stormy clouds.",
"Two minutes before This eclipse began, stormy clouds suddenly cleared,\" Professor Zhao Junliang of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory said.",
"\"You just never know, so you have to go.\"",
"Read blog on how eclipse-chasers are gambling on weather .",
"Rick Gille and Rick Gille's wife flew in from Atlanta, Georgia, to catch This eclipse in Shanghai.",
"Rick Gille and his wife were heading to what is known as the \"centerline\" -- where This eclipse will last nearly six minutes.",
"Rick Gille and his wife are armed with high resolution digital cameras and telescopes.",
"\"You'll know Rick Gille and his wife when you see Rick Gille and his wife,\" said Gille, who travels the world chasing solar eclipses.",
"\"Rick Gille and his wife're all wearing beige t-shirts which read 'Eclipse 2009.'\"",
"Total eclipses happen about once a year or a little less often somewhere on the Earth's surface and are visible in a narrow band, Benzil said.",
"\"a narrow band starts at sunrise in India and ends at sunset over the Pacific, just east of Hawaii about four hours later.",
"The shadow path of the moon is sweeping across the surface of the Earth at about 3,000 kilometers per hour,\" Benzil said.",
"\"The partial eclipse is also visible throughout Thailand and Vietnam, as far south at the top tip of Australia and as far north as Siberia.\"",
"In some cultures, legends and folklore surrounds eclipses.",
"In India, an eclipse is considered inauspicious.",
"Women forbid pregnant daughters-in-law from going outside out of the belief that their children could be born with marks.",
"Some temples won't offer any prayers on the day of an eclipse -- such as the one next to the planetarium in Mumbai, which said it won't even light a stick of incense.",
"In Chinese tradition, there is a story about a heavenly dog eating the sun.",
"As a story about a heavenly dog eating the sun goes, people would make noise to scare off a heavenly dog and rescue the sun, said Bill Yeung, president of the Hong Kong Astronomical Society.",
"\"In ancient China, we shared the same impression with our Indian friends that a solar eclipse was not a good thing,\" he told CNN.",
"Some of the more unusual ways to see This eclipse include a cruise ship that will travel along the centerline off Japan and from aboard a 737-700 chartered plane in India.",
"\"The aircraft will be intercepting the middle of the eclipse shadow at 0626 IST (Indian Standard Time) at a height of 41,000 feet,\" travel company Cox and Kings India Ltd, which is organizing the flight in association with Space technology and education Ltd, said in a statement.",
"\"Eclipse chasers sitting along the Sun Side seats of The aircraft will be able to photograph This eclipse; while the chasers sitting along the Earth Side seats will be able to photograph the Lunar Shadow moving over the Earth cloud top,\" travel company Cox and Kings India Ltd, which is organizing the flight in association with Space technology and education Ltd said.",
"More conventional viewing parties in Shanghai have been planned along the beach, in a park and in skyscrapers.",
"A music festival has been organized in Japan's Amami island, with more than 6,000 people expected, and Japanese television has shown rows of tents set up on Akusekijima island.",
"The witnesses of This eclipse will range \"from the farmer who only knows legends of eclipses and may not know this is happening at all to the world's experts who have come specifically to the Shanghai region to make the most detailed scientific analysis possible,\" added Binzel, the MIT astronomer.",
"For James and Kathy Scheffler of Kokomo, Indiana, solar eclipses are not to be missed.",
"James and Kathy Scheffler of Kokomo, Indiana have seen six eclipses, including in Aruba, the Black Sea, Madagascar and the Egyptian-Libyan border, and are now making James and Kathy Scheffler of Kokomo, Indiana's way to Shanghai.",
"\"When it happens, there is this dissonance that is set up between what your body knows is supposed to be light and what your eyes are seeing -- it's suddenly gotten dark.",
"It's a very, very strange feeling that some people have likened to a religious experience, and you get kind of addicted to that,\" said James Scheffler, a cardiologist.",
"\"It's a very interesting emotional experience as well as the beauty of the event.\"",
"Kathy Scheffler added: \"It's an experience that, first of all very few people in the world will see it, and second of all, it's a once in a lifetime -- ever -- experience that you can't ever duplicate because they are all so different.\"",
"CNN's John Vause, Nishi Kumar, Yoko Wakatsuki, Stephanie Akiko Haschke and Mallika Kapur contributed to this report."
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"MIT astronomer says it could be seen by more people than any other eclipse .",
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"CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) --",
"U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced key members of Obama's energy team on Monday, naming physicist Steven Chu as secretary of energy, and former EPA administrator Carol Browner to a new post in the White House to coordinate energy and climate policy.",
"former EPA administrator Carol Browner was one of four key environmental nominees named by Obama.",
"Obama also named Lisa Jackson, former head of New Jersey's environmental agency, to serve as Obama's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, and Nancy Sutley, the Los Angeles deputy mayor for energy and environment, to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.",
"Sutley, a prominent supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, is the first high-ranking gay appointee to the Obama administration.",
"\"In the 21st century, we know that the future of our economy and national security is inextricably linked with one challenge: energy,\" Obama said at a news conference to introduce Obama's energy team.",
"\"We've seen Washington launch policy after policy, yet our dependence on foreign oil has only grown, even as the world's resources are disappearing,\" Obama said.",
"\"This time has to be different.",
"This time we cannot fail, nor can we be lulled into complacency simply because the price at the pump has for now gone down from $4 a gallon.\"",
"Obama called Chu \"uniquely suited to be our next secretary of energy\" for Chu's work on new and cleaner forms of energy.",
"Chu, who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, won the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics and is highly respected in energy circles.",
"Browner, who was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Clinton administration, was named to be the nation's first \"climate czar,\" working inside the White House on policy issues.",
"\"Carol understands that our efforts to create jobs, achieve energy security, and combat climate change demand integration among different agencies, cooperation between federal, state, and local governments and partnership with the private sector,\" Obama said.",
"He said that Jackson, as commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, helped make New Jersey's a leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and developing new sources of energy.",
"\"Lisa also shares my commitment to restoring the EPA's robust role in protecting our air, our water, and abundant natural resources so that our environment is cleaner and our communities are safer,\" Obama said.",
"Sutley has been \"at the cutting edge\" of environmental work on the municipal and regional level, Obama said.",
"She will be \"a key player in helping to make our government more efficient in coordinating our efforts to protect our environment at home and around the globe,\" Obama added.",
"Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa praised the appointment of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's deputy mayor to a national post.",
"\"With Nancy on my team, we have made tremendous progress -- from quadrupling our renewable energy portfolio to exceeding the targets set out by the Kyoto Protocol four years ahead of schedule,\" Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in a written statement.",
"Energy is one aspect of the president-elect's goal to create 2.5 million jobs by 2011.",
"The plan aims to put Americans to work updating the country's infrastructure, making public buildings more energy-efficient and implementing environmentally friendly technologies, including alternative energy sources.",
"During Obama's campaign, Obama said Obama would invest $150 billion over 10 years in clean energy.",
"Obama proposed increasing fuel economy standards and requiring that 10 percent of electricity in the United States comes from renewable sources by 2012."
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"(CNN) --",
"Actor has been at the center of Asia's biggest sex scandal, but now Actor has broken Actor's silence on the public episode that has ended careers and caused Actor to face at least one reported death threat.",
"Internet sex photos of Edison Chen and starlets caused a huge media storm and fall from grace for many.",
"Talking exclusively to CNN on Actor's return to Hong Kong, where Actor had been forging a career in the movies, Actor reveals Actor's side of the scandal that broke in early last year when hundreds of sexually explicit photos of Actor with other celebrities turned up on the Internet.",
"\"There's been a lot of talk through the past year and a half about this or that and a lot of rumors, a lot of hearsay, and I feel, you know, I've kept quiet just to kind of respect everyone and respect the law,\" Actor told CNN.",
"A Hong Kong computer technician was sentenced to more than eight-and-a-half months in jail for dishonestly obtaining access to the intimate photos when Actor sent Actor's computer in for repairs.",
"But it is still unclear exactly how the images made the images's way to the web.",
"Watch the full exclusive TV interview with Actor online » .",
"The photographs caused shock in Hong Kong and across Asia, with around 1,300 salacious images fueling front page news for tabloids for weeks.",
"There was also a huge public backlash against the 28-year-old who has been one of the rising young stars of Asia cinema.",
"After the scandal broke, Chen, who admitted taking the images, announced Actor's retirement from Hong Kong's entertainment business and fled to Actor's native Canada.",
"Added to the media attention, Actor says Actor faced death threats.",
"A bullet was sent to a TV station in Hong Kong earlier this year warning the entertainer to stay out of the limelight.",
"While Actor issued Actor's own apology for any hurt or embarrassment caused soon after the images surfaced, Actor maintains Actor suffered as well.",
"\"I believed I was a victim.",
"I believed that I was hurt by this a lot.",
"I believed that...",
"I knew that I had nothing to do with the spreading of these photos,\" Actor told CNN in the exclusive interview.",
"\"I can't say I didn't do anything wrong.",
"I've admitted that I was wrong, and I wouldn't say sorry if I wasn't wrong.",
"But I also believe that at the same time that I wasn't the perpetrator, and I had suffered a lot from this as well.\"",
"Actor has suffered a spectacular fall from grace and some of the starlets in the images have endured public disgrace in this culturally conservative region.",
"For some, careers have been left in ruins.",
"Actor says Actor has not spoken to any of the women identified in the images since the scandal broke.",
"\"Initially it was because I couldn't find them.",
"Secondly, it was because I didn't really know how to approach and really what to say to be honest with you,\" Actor told CNN.",
"Cecilia Cheung was one of the actresses identified in the photos and in a recent interview, Cecilia Cheung had strong criticism for Actor.",
"\"I wasn't allowed to talk to Cecilia Cheung in the initial because of the police request and they were investigating me...",
"I had so much things on my mind,\" said Actor.",
"\"I'm not trying to say that that justifies any wrongdoing that Cecilia Cheung thinks I've done to Cecilia Cheung.",
"But I hope that Cecilia Cheung can understand, and I hope that Cecilia Cheung can forgive me either today or one day, and Cecilia Cheung'll understand that I had my difficulties, and I really, really never wished this to happen upon anyone, and I still respect Cecilia Cheung.\"",
"Watch the full exclusive TV interview with Actor online.",
"» Actor talks at length to CNN's Anjali Rao about the women involved in the photographs, why Actor took the images, the effect the scandal had on Actor's health, Actor's family and others."
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"MATURA, Trinidad (CNN) --",
"With its white sand and clear, blue water, Trinidad's Matura Beach looks like a postcard.",
"the beach's a far cry from the beach's recent past, when leatherback sea turtle carcasses littered the ground and kept tourists away.",
"Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's efforts have turned a beach from a leatherback turtle graveyard to a nesting colony.",
"\"Twenty years ago, this was a graveyard,\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said of the six-mile stretch of beach near Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's home.",
"\"The stench was horrendous.",
"You could smell The stench for miles,\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said.",
"Saddened and frustrated, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste launched a crusade to help end the slaughter of the gentle giants.",
"Today, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste and her group's group are succeeding: What was once a turtle graveyard is now a maternity ward -- one of the largest leatherback nesting colonies in the world.",
"It hasn't been an easy fight for Suzan Lakhan Baptiste or the turtles.",
"For 100 million years, the creatures have traveled the world's oceans, outliving the dinosaurs.",
"Over the last 30 years, the creatures have become critically endangered worldwide because of fishing, pollution and hunting.",
"For centuries, the creatures've been hunted throughout the Caribbean for the creatures's meat and fins, and also for the creatures's eggs, which some people prize as aphrodisiacs.",
"\"Turtles are in serious trouble,\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said.",
"Every year, female leatherbacks make female leatherbacks's way onto the beach, laying female leatherbacks's eggs deep in the sand.",
"It is a long, complicated ritual during which the enormous, slow-moving animals are easy prey for poachers.",
"\"Leatherbacks [are] very vulnerable,\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said.",
"\"They cannot pull their head and flippers back into the shell.",
"They have no sense of defense to actually protect themselves.\"",
"By the 1980s, nearly one in three turtles that nested on the beach were killed.",
"When the government asked for volunteers to help protect the endangered creatures, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste and several others answered the call.",
"In 1990, they started Nature Seekers, one of Trinidad's first environmental groups.",
"'Crazy Turtle Woman'",
"For years, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste and Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's group patrolled the beaches every night of turtle nesting season.",
"Suzan Lakhan Baptiste often walked alone until sunrise.",
"Locals mocked Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's efforts, calling Suzan Lakhan Baptiste the \"Turtle Police\" or \"Crazy Turtle Woman,\" yet Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's dedication to the unpaid work was fierce; when it conflicted with Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's day job, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste quit and found a new job.",
"Leatherbacks were a vital source of income for some members of her village, and the poachers who prowled the beaches with machetes could be threatening.",
"When Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's then-husband was injured during a patrol, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste became more determined to stand Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's ground.",
"\"I was very vigilant,\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said, adding that at times, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste even got into physical fights.",
"But Suzan Lakhan Baptiste persisted, and a prestigious award from the United Nations Environment Program helped validate Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's efforts.",
"Suzan Lakhan Baptiste and Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's group also worked hard to convince the villagers that using the turtles for eco-tourism could create a more sustainable income.",
"\"I wanted to show that a turtle is [worth] so much more to us alive than dead,\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said.",
"Gradually, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's message of conservation turned the tide of public opinion, and after nearly two decades under Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's leadership, her group has largely won her group's battle.",
"Today, the leatherbacks' survival rate on the beach is virtually 100 percent.",
"\"Here, turtle slaughter is a thing of the past,\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste proclaimed.",
"Even \"Papa George,\" a village elder who used to hunt leatherbacks with his father, can attest to the cultural shift.",
"\"Suzan brought around the change,\" he said.",
"\"They don't kill the turtles anymore ... because of the visitors.\"",
"Nearly 10,000 tourists a year, most of whom are Trinidadian, now visit the beach, and many locals make a living by providing them with accommodations, food and souvenirs.",
"Since the beach is a prohibited area during the nesting season, Nature Seekers' members act as guides, explaining the turtles' ancient rituals to visitors.",
"In addition, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste and Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's colleagues gather data on the enormous creatures, tagging and weighing as many leatherbacks as Baptiste and her colleagues can.",
"Watch Baptiste and Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's group weigh a leatherback turtle at night » .",
"During peak season, they might see between 250 or 300 turtles a night.",
"More than 5,000 leatherbacks nest in the area each year.",
"The group's work is often cited as one of the most successful eco-tourism efforts in the Caribbean.",
"Still, turtle slaughter persists throughout the region, and Suzan Lakhan Baptiste is working to help other groups learn from Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's success, most recently on the island of Dominica.",
"Suzan Lakhan Baptiste finds joy in sharing Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's hard-earned knowledge.",
"\"The passion that I feel, it burns me up,\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said.",
"\"I have seen the fruits of our labor, and it can happen in every community.\"",
"Watch how Suzan Lakhan Baptiste helped end the slaughter of turtles in Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's community » .",
"Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's efforts -- and those of many others around the region -- are making a difference.",
"While leatherbacks are still critically endangered worldwide, the Caribbean population has begun to rebound.",
"\"When I got started, a lot of people thought I was crazy,\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said, and Suzan Lakhan Baptiste admits that Suzan Lakhan Baptiste sometimes wondered if a lot of people were right.",
"Reflecting on what Suzan Lakhan Baptiste and her group's team have accomplished, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste now believes it was worth it.",
"\"I love being crazy, you know?\" Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said, laughing.",
"\"Crazy with a passion, crazy with a dream -- totally environmentally crazy.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out Nature Seekers and see how to help."
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"her group's nonprofit Nature Seekers promotes turtle conservation throughout the Caribbean .",
"The group's efforts contribute to eco-tourism in the area .",
"Do you know a hero?",
"Nominations are open at CNN.com/Heroes ."
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"A single-engine plane crashed Saturday outside a bank in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, seriously injuring the five people on board, authorities said.",
"A damaged airplane lies on the ground Saturday next to a busy road in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.",
"The pilot reported engine problems shortly after leaving Oklahoma City, Oklahoma's Wiley Post Airport, about a mile away from the crash site, at midmorning, said Lynn Lunsford, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.",
"A single-engine plane hit two trees as A single-engine plane came down, and video showed the damaged Beechcraft Bonanza resting on the grass near a busy thoroughfare in the northwest section of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.",
"Fire Department Deputy Chief Cecil Clay said the two men and three women on A single-engine plane were taken to hospitals.",
"Lynn Lunsford, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said the two men and three women on the plane suffered multiple injuries.",
"Watch footage of A single-engine plane at the crash site » .",
"A single-engine plane was headed to Enid, Oklahoma, about 100 miles north of Oklahoma City.",
"The pilot tried to return to Wiley Post Airport after The pilot recognized the engine trouble, Lynn Lunsford, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.",
"\"I heard what I thought was a Dumpster being unloaded in the complex,\" said Shaddy Ahmad, who manages the U-Haul business across the street from the bank.",
"Ahmad said emergency responders used special equipment to extricate the people from A single-engine plane, the top of which was peeled back.",
"\"They were very lucky because this is a high-traffic area,\" Ahmad said.",
"\"You have the expressway, the bank and stores in the area.",
"They were blessed to land how they did.\""
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"(OPRAH.com) --",
"If there's anything Oprah Winfrey knows for sure, it's what the love of a dog can do for your life.",
"\"There is nothing in the world like puppy love,\" Oprah says.",
"Inmates at the Fishkill Correctional Facility work with the dogs to prepare the dogs to help wounded troops.",
"Still, dogs are more than just companions.",
"dogs can be the eyes for those who can't see, lead those who can't walk and calm people suffering from conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder.",
"Where do the dogs get the dogs's start?",
"For some, it all begins behind prison walls...",
"At the Fishkill Correctional Facility in upstate New York, more than 1,600 men convicted of abuse, robbery and murder are serving more than 1,600 men convicted of abuse, robbery and murder's time.",
"\"I've been incarcerated for robbery in the first degree,\" an inmate named Michael says.",
"\"I really had no regards for other people.",
"It was always me, me, me, me.\"",
"Now, a groundbreaking program called Puppies Behind Bars is transforming these offenders.",
"Inmates are given 8-week-old puppies and taught to train them to become service dogs for the disabled, including wounded soldiers.",
"The puppies and prisoners are together 24 hours a day.",
"the dogs sleep in crates in the inmates' cells.",
"In return, the dogs give the prisoners something many of the prisoners have never experienced before -- unconditional love.",
"\"I'm going to make my family and those around me proud of me again.",
"Joining a groundbreaking program called Puppies Behind Bars, a groundbreaking program called Puppies Behind Bars helped me to give myself a sense of pride again.",
"To know that by nurturing and raising the dogs to the dogs's fullest potential, that I could give back.\"",
"Oprah.com:",
"Amazing animal friendships you have to see .",
"Animal lover and five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close first learned about Puppies Behind Bars when Animal lover and five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close volunteered to help inmates at the women's prison in Animal lover and five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close's town.",
"Animal lover and five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close was so moved by the impact of the program that Animal lover and five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close called \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" herself to share this story.",
"\"We know the bond that can be created between humans and animals.",
"And there is common knowledge that it's a healing quality,\" she says.",
"\"The bond that's created between inmates -- who never knew love, never knew responsibility, have only been told that they're worthless -- and the bond that they then train their dogs to establish with these wounded returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan is changing their lives.\"",
"Oprah.com: 10 inspiring pets .",
"Roberto is an inmate whose life has been changed by the program.",
"Convicted of second-degree murder, Roberto has been in prison since Roberto was 17.",
"\"I am now 33 years old.",
"I wish I could turn back the hands of time for the hurt and pain that I've caused so many people, especially Roberto's victim's family,\" Roberto says.",
"Roberto was chosen for Puppies Behind Bars and immediately bonded with Roberto's yellow lab, Frankie.",
"\"From the moment I got Frankie, it was amazing,\" Roberto says.",
"\"There was some beautiful moments in here that I shared with my puppy.\"",
"Eventually, Frankie had to move on -- and Roberto had to say goodbye.",
"\"The first night I was without Frankie, I have to say it was a long night,\" Roberto says.",
"\"It was hard for me to realize that the next morning I was going to wake up and not actually feed Frankie that morning.\"",
"Since leaving Roberto, Frankie has become a lifeline for Sgt. Allen Hill, who suffers from traumatic brain injury and severe combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder after he was hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq.",
"Frankie helps Sgt. Hill overcome his paralyzing, violent flashbacks by kissing his face.",
"After a few months together, Sgt. Hill and Frankie return to Fishkill to meet Roberto.",
"When Frankie sees Roberto, Frankie takes off running.",
"\"Frankie looks beautiful,\" Roberto says.",
"Sgt. Hill thanks Roberto for all that Roberto's done.",
"\"Frankie has been there for me.",
"Frankie's been my rock when I've needed Frankie to help me out with a flashback or a nightmare.",
"I can do things that for a year and a half I couldn't do,\" Sgt. Hill says.",
"Roberto is moved.",
"\"This is an overwhelming feeling, and to see you is breathtaking,\" Roberto says.",
"\"And to see what Frankie had done in your life.\"",
"Oprah.com: Animals that are working hard every day .",
"Now paroled, Roberto is expected to be released from prison this summer, but what Roberto learned from Puppies Behind Bars will stay with Roberto forever.",
"\"Being able to be involved in the puppy program has taught me to be a responsible person,\" Roberto says.",
"\"It has taught me patience.\"",
"Sgt. Hill, Roberto's wife, Gina, say Frankie has changed their lives.",
"\"The biggest difference that Frankie has made in my life was, one, Frankie allowed me the opportunity to go back to church,\" he says.",
"\"And, two, Frankie's helping me gain my independence back so I'm not so reliant on Gina and other family members.\"",
"Gina says Gina's starting to see Gina's husband's playful, energetic side come through once again.",
"\"We're starting to see that side of Roberto again that we haven't seen in the year and a half Roberto's been home from Iraq,\" Gina says.",
"\"Frankie has brought my sons my sons's daddy home.",
"Frankie has lit the light back in Roberto that had been so dark.\"",
"Perhaps the greatest legacy of Puppies Behind Bars is the lesson of love each inmate learns.",
"Jesse, another prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility, is currently training Joy, his third dog.",
"\"Frankie brought forth in me the ability to love again.",
"It had been so dormant in me for so long because of the cold place that I'm in,\" he says.",
"\"I didn't know that I could love again, and we all get to see how greatly the dogs affect the lives of the people that the dogs touch.\"",
"From The Oprah Winfrey Show 2009 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
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"TM & © 2009 Harpo Productions, Inc.",
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"MINGORA, Pakistan (CNN) -- Gen. Nadeem Ahmad swirls the helicopter over Pakistan's ground zero.",
"Below is Swat Valley.",
"A Pakistani soldier patrols a ruined street in MINGORA.",
"From the air, Swat Valley looks undisturbed.",
"Green fields amid clusters of drab houses.",
"A closer look at Swat Valley reveals how well the Pakistani Army fared in the Pakistani Army's military campaign to wipe out Taliban militants.",
"The cost of success: massive destruction that is sure to hamper the lives of already suffering residents just starting to trickle back to the homes residents fled.",
"A few months ago, ferocious battles between Pakistan's Army and Taliban fighters erupted here -- in Swat Valley, Buner and Lower Dir districts.",
"War's remnants serve as a constant reminder.",
"A destroyed bridge.",
"Pockmarked houses.",
"Hotels that look like they've been abandoned for years.",
"Nadeem maneuvers the chopper to circle Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley.",
"From the hilltop the Pakistani Army sentry posts that come into view, soldiers survey the ground below, hard won from Taliban fighters.",
"Taliban militants, Nadeem says, have fled to nearby mountains.",
"On the ground, Nadeem shows off a cache of weapons seized in the fighting.",
"soldiers are keen to boast soldiers's victory.",
"Mingora remains on high alert.",
"A curfew has been lifted for morning hours, although soldiers keep close watch on those who venture out.",
"MINGORA's pain is plainly evident on MINGORA's scarred, deserted streets.",
"Many shops are shuttered or destroyed.",
"Watch Stan Grant tour the shattered streets of Mingora » .",
"The United Nations estimates that 375,000 Swat Valley residents fled 375,000 Swat Valley residents's homes during the fighting.",
"In all, 2.5 million Pakistanis were displaced in what was said to be one of the largest human migrations in recent history.",
"About 260,000 people have been living in 21 refugee camps in neighboring Mardan, Swabi, Nowshera, Peshawar and Charssada districts, but the The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees say the \"vast majority\" of internally displaced Pakistanis have been staying with host families, rented houses or in schools.",
"The government plans to return people first from the camps and then focus on those living elsewhere.",
"But this week, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that as many as 1 million people could remain displaced until December because of the widespread destruction in as many as 1 million people's home towns, such as MINGORA.",
"Relief agencies have reported dire humanitarian conditions in MINGORA: hospitals without electricity that are inundated with patients, an erratic supply of water and natural gas.",
"One resident, who identified himself only as Abdullah, told CNN that returning people are facing shortages in food, water and basic supplies for survival.",
"Some displaced families also expressed concerns about schooling for Some displaced families's children, reported the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), the U.N. news agency focusing on humanitarian issues.",
"Louis-Georges Arsenault, emergency office director for UNICEF, said 1 million children were at risk of not starting school by September, mainly due to Taliban militants's widespread destruction of schools and that 4,000 existing schools continue to shelter displaced people.",
"Businessman Muhammad Khan, 40, who recently returned to MINGORA, voiced the despair of returning residents.",
"Businessman Muhammad Khan, 40, who recently returned to Mingora told IRIN that \"everything is in ruins.\"",
"\"Everything is in ruins,\" IRIN quoted Khan as saying.",
"\"It will take months for life to return to normality.\"",
"But that normality will no longer include Taliban militants, Pakistani soldiers say.",
"The fight was hard, but The fight was victorious, Pakistani soldiers say.",
"Pakistani soldiers point to an area in the city where Pakistani soldiers say Taliban militants displayed the bodies of their victims, some beheaded.",
"It became known as \"Slaughter Square.\"",
"Slaughter Square's name may be outdated for the time being, but residents like Abdullah say it will be a long time before life in MINGORA returns to what it once was.",
"\"I don't like army.",
"I don't like Taliban militants,\" Abdullah says, standing among the ruins of what used to be a thriving market.",
"\"I only want peace.\""
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"It will take months to return to normality\""
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"(CNN) --",
"An unusual exhibition is confusing and amusing tourists and locals in central Copenhagen this month.",
"Strange signs from around the world can be seen in Copenhagen, Denmark.",
"\"Signspotting\" is a collection of more than 100 signs found by travelers around the world and recreated by Doug Lansky.",
"\"I wanted it to look as if we'd stolen the sign or someone with a professional camera had taken a really good picture of it,\" he told CNN.",
"See pictures from Signspotting in Copenhagen.",
"Doug Lansky started travel writer Doug Lansky's collection almost 17 years ago, encouraged by friends who found Doug Lansky's photos of strange signs more compelling than Doug Lansky's treasured holiday snaps.",
"As a travel columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Doug Lansky set about collecting photos of as many bizarre signs as Doug Lansky could.",
"Interest in the project became so big that Doug Lansky eventually used them to replace the column itself.",
"Signspotting Weekly was taken up by six papers, and before Doug Lansky knew it people began to send Doug Lansky pictures of signs people'd seen, eventually enough to fill a floor-to-ceiling cabinet.",
"The photos filled two volumes of Signspotting books for Lonely Planet.",
"Doug Lansky chose the best for the first exhibition in Stockholm last year.",
"\"I felt bad I hadn't seen them.",
"I knew I wasn't going to go around the world to track it down so I thought I'd do it this way,\" Doug Lansky said.",
"Creating the exhibition took hours of painstaking work to digitally enlarge the photos so they looked like the real thing.",
"\"When most of these people sent these signs in they were on a postcard-sized photo and the actual sign was about the size of a postage stamp.",
"To blow them up to this size was tricky,\" Doug Lansky said.",
"the photos were then mounted onto real signs on metal poles standing in concrete bases.",
"the exhibition opened in Copenhagen, Denmark last week and will move to Arhus, Denmark on July 1st.",
"Doug Lansky is currently building a second exhibition for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August."
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"The \"Signspotting\" street exhibition opened in Copenhagen last week .",
"Reproducing the life-sized signs from tiny photographs is a painstaking task .",
"Each sign was digitally enlarged and mounted on metal poles ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"President-elect Barack Obama will invoke God when President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office January 20, despite a lawsuit filed by atheist and non-religious groups, according to an attorney for Chief Justice John Roberts, who will administer the oath.",
"President-elect Barack Obama has asked to invoke the phrase \"so help me God\" at the end of President-elect Barack Obama's oath.",
"atheist and non-religious groups have sued in federal court to block any mention of God during the inaugural ceremonies.",
"Chief Justice John Roberts, who will administer the oath was among those named in the suit.",
"However, President-elect Barack Obama wishes to conclude the oath of office with the phrase \"so help me God,\" Jeffrey Minear, an attorney and administrative assistant for Chief Justice John Roberts, who will administer the oath, told a federal court in documents Friday.",
"The Constitution mandates the exact language to be used in the 35-word oath of office: \"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.\"",
"Some chief executives have embellished the oath of office with \"so help me God.\"",
"It is not constitutionally required, unlike in other federal oaths.",
"Historians have been at odds over whether George Washington established precedent by invoking the phrase on his own at the first inaugural in 1789.",
"The Library of Congress Web site says he did.",
"Most presidents have used the phrase.",
"iReport.com: Your photos from the inauguration .",
"Inaugural officials and presidents or presidents-elect usually coordinate behind the scenes on whether the judge or government official administering the phrase will invoke the phrase.",
"Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association, claims in Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association's lawsuit that \"so help me God\" violates the constitutional ban on government \"endorsement\" of religion.",
"Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association asked a federal judge to intervene and block references of God or religion in the formal ceremonies.",
"his lawsuit also opposes the traditional invocation and benediction to be delivered by pastors invited by President-elect Barack Obama.",
"\"There can be no purpose for placing 'so help me God' in an oath or sponsoring prayers to God, other than promoting the particular point of view that God exists,\" according to his lawsuit.",
"The federal government revealed in The federal government's response that President-elect Barack Obama wants to use the phrase.",
"The declaration was apparently aimed at blunting Newdow's concession that President-elect Barack Obama could add the phrase on President-elect Barack Obama's own but that Roberts or any government official should not force or prompt President-elect Barack Obama to say it.",
"Among those named in his lawsuit besides the 53-year-old chief justice are the Presidential Inauguration Committee; the Joint Congressional Committee on Inauguration Ceremonies and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inauguration Ceremonies's chairwoman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California); and the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee and its commander, Maj. Gen. Richard Rowe Jr.",
"Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association said December 31 that Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association did not name President-elect Barack Obama in Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association's suit because in addition to participating as a government official in the ceremony, President-elect Barack Obama possesses rights as an individual that allow President-elect Barack Obama to express religious beliefs.",
"\"If President-elect Barack Obama chooses to ask for God's help, I'm not going to challenge President-elect Barack Obama,\" Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association said.",
"\"I think it's unwise.\"",
"A decision from the federal judge is expected in the next few days.",
"The high court ruled against Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association in 2004 after Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association tried to block the Pledge of Allegiance from being recited at Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association's daughter's Sacramento, California-area public school because it contains the phrase \"under God.\"",
"Michael Newdow, supported by several groups including the American Humanist Association argued the case himself before the justices, making an impassioned plea that the teacher-led pledge forces religion on impressionable youngsters and carries the stamp of government approval."
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"(CNN) --",
"For Morris Murenzi, a visit to Morris Murenzi's native Rwanda always includes attending a gacaca court -- a local tribunal of villagers set up to try suspects in a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000.",
"The gacaca courts, as seen here in 2003, are inspired by old village tribunals used to settle disputes.",
"At the proceedings, Morris Murenzi sits with Morris Murenzi's countrymen.",
"Some tearfully confront their attackers and testify against their attackers, their scars from a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 still visible.",
"Others -- like Morris Murenzi -- quietly listen, their emotional scars invisible.",
"They wait and hope for answers about how their relatives died as a nine-member panel questions suspects.",
"\"Some of the witnesses who ask questions are disfigured, others are disabled,\" said the Dallas, Texas, resident whose last gacaca trial was in Kigali two years ago.",
"\"The attackers have no place to hide.",
"The attackers are forced to address what The attackers have done to the victims.\"",
"Morris Murenzi is one of thousands of people who attend gacaca courts all across Rwanda on any given day.",
"Hearings are held in open fields in neighborhoods where the attacks occurred.",
"There are no lawyers and no judges in robes.",
"A panel of local villagers with no legal experience conducts the proceedings.",
"\"For me, gacacas help me find closure and healing,\" Morris Murenzi said.",
"\"I am able to see up close how remorseful The attackers are.",
"... You never see that in real court.\"",
"Gacaca courts were introduced in the central African nation after the April 1994 genocide, which raged for 100 days.",
"The victims were mostly from the Tutsi ethnic minority, who were targeted by Hutus over a rivalry that dates to colonial days.",
"Some moderates from the Hutu majority who support Tutsis were also killed.",
"Morris Murenzi, a Tutsi from the capital, Kigali, lost most of Morris Murenzi's extended family in a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000.",
"During the attacks, Morris Murenzi was in neighboring Uganda with Morris Murenzi's parents, where Morris Murenzi attended school at the time, the 37-year-old said.",
"\"My mom's sisters, brothers, my uncles, My mom's sisters, brothers, my uncles were all killed and buried in mass graves,\" Morris Murenzi said.",
"The gacacas were originally formed to resolve minor disputes among villagers but were reinvented to hand out justice to the perpetrators of a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 and help fast-track reconciliation efforts in the central African nation.",
"\"You had about 130,000 people in jail.",
"And there were many more outside,\" Rwandan President Paul Kagame said recently on CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS.\"",
"the central African nation's justice system and the International Criminal Tribunal set up to try genocide suspects were overwhelmed, and handling all the cases in those courts would have taken hundreds of years, according to Rwandan President Paul Kagame.",
"Watch Rwandan President Paul Kagame justify gacacas » .",
"\"If you went technically to try each one of them, as the law may suggest, then you would lose out on rebuilding a nation, on bringing people back together,\" Rwandan President Paul Kagame said.",
"\"That's why we had to say, let's categorize responsibilities.\"",
"The leaders and masterminds of the genocide are tried in ordinary courts, and civilians who contributed to attacks or loss of life directly or indirectly go to gacacas, Rwandan President Paul Kagame said.",
"The tribunals are lacking and fraught with problems, critics say.",
"\"We've had serious concerns about the gacaca process and whether the gacaca process meets international fair trial standards,\" said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director for Human Rights Watch, which has offices in Rwanda.",
"Some witnesses have been targeted for revenge after testifying, and due process falls short, Georgette Gagnon, Africa director for Human Rights Watch, which has offices in Rwanda said, adding that the organization has suggested changes to the system to ensure basic human rights are met, but they have not been enforced.",
"\"It is time for the process to end.",
"And there needs to be a frank announcement on whether it has led to reconciliation,\" Georgette Gagnon, Africa director for Human Rights Watch, which has offices in Rwanda said.",
"Paul Rusesabagina, whose effort to save hundreds of Tutsis was featured in the 2004 movie \"Hotel Rwanda,\" calls gacacas \"the worst idea ever.\"",
"\"Gacaca traditionally means justice on the grass.",
"Elders sitting on the grass, handing justice to someone who stole a neighbor's goat,\" Rusesabagina said.",
"\"Judges are people who never went to school ... who do not know anything about law.\"",
"Today, justice is dealing with people who have committed a genocide, which is a much bigger issue, he said.",
"There have been calls to abolish the tribunals, which have tried about 1.5 million cases since 1.5 million cases started in 2001, according to the Integrated Regional Information Networks, a U.N. agency.",
"The government in June postponed plans to close gacacas.",
"Some analysts say the gacaca process has the gacaca process's advantages, by reducing congestion in prisons and allowing survivors to hear first-hand what happened to survivors's loved ones.",
"Morris Murenzi said Morris Murenzi does not have all the answers about Morris Murenzi's relatives' deaths, and Morris Murenzi plans to attend more gacacas -- including during a trip to Rwanda at the end of the year.",
"Despite the lack of information, Morris Murenzi said, watching suspects struggle to come to terms with the attacks has brought an unusual form of comfort.",
"\"They will never know peace.",
"They have to live with the fact that they killed their neighbors for the rest of their lives,\" Morris Murenzi said.",
"\"While the survivors can move on, they (attackers) probably never will.\""
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"A surrogate mother gave birth to twin girls for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, a publicist for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick said.",
"Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are the new parents of twin daughters.",
"\"The babies are doing beautifully, and the entire family is over the moon,\" the publicist said, adding that the girls were born Monday afternoon.",
"Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, revealed in April that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were expecting twins \"with the generous help of a surrogate.\"",
"It was not said whether a surrogate was the genetic mother of the twins or whether embryos from Sarah Jessica Parker, 44, had been transferred to her.",
"\"Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick weighed five pounds, 11 ounces and Tabitha Hodge Broderick weighed six pounds,\" the publicist said.",
"\"Both Hodge and Elwell are family names on Sarah Jessica Parker's side.\"",
"Sarah Jessica Parker is best known for the popular television series and movie \"Sex and the City,\" while Broderick gained fame as the main character in the movie \"Ferris Bueller's Day Off.\"",
"They have a son, James Wilkie, 6.",
"He was named after Broderick's father, actor James Broderick."
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"(WIRED) --",
"The wind blowing through the streets of Manhattan couldn't power New York, but wind machines placed thousands of feet above New York theoretically could.",
"A prototype of a high-altitude wind turbine made by Magenn Power.",
"The first rigorous, worldwide study of high-altitude wind power estimates that there is enough wind energy at altitudes of about 1,600 to 40,000 feet to meet global electricity demand a hundred times over.",
"The very best ground-based wind sites have a wind-power density of less than 1 kilowatt per square meter of area swept.",
"Up near the jet stream above New York, the wind power density can reach 16 kilowatts per square meter.",
"The air up there is a vast potential reservoir of energy, if The air up there's intermittency can be overcome.",
"Even better, the best high-altitude wind-power resources match up with highly populated areas including North America's Eastern Seaboard and China's coastline.",
"\"The resource is really, really phenomenal,\" said Christine Archer of Cal State University-Chico, who co-authored a paper on the work published in the open-access journal Energies.\"There is a lot of energy up there, but it's not as steady as we thought.",
"It's not going to be the silver bullet that will solve all of our energy problems, but it will have a role.\"",
"For centuries, we've been using high-density fossil fuels, but peaking oil supplies and climate concerns have given new life to green technologies.",
"Unfortunately, renewable energy is generally diffuse, meaning you need to cover a lot of area to get the energy you want.",
"So engineers look for renewable resources that are as dense as possible.",
"On that score, high-altitude wind looks very promising.",
"Wind's power -- energy which can be used to do work like spinning magnets to generate electricity -- varies with the cube of its speed.",
"So, a small increase in wind speed can lead to a big increase in the amount of mechanical energy you can harvest.",
"High-altitude wind blows fast, is spread nicely across the globe, and is easier to predict than terrestrial wind.",
"These properties have led inventors and scientists to cast their hopes upward, where strong winds have long been known to blow, as Etzler's dreamy quote shows.",
"During the energy shocks of the 1970s, when new energy ideas of all kinds were bursting forth, engineers and schemers patented several designs for harnessing wind thousands of feet in the air.",
"The two main design frameworks engineers and schemers came up with are still with us today.",
"The first is essentially a power plant in the sky, generating electricity aloft and sending it down to Earth via a conductive tether.",
"The second is more like a kite, transmitting mechanical energy to the ground, where generators turn mechanical energy into electricity.",
"Theoretically, both approaches could work, but nothing approaching a rigorous evaluation of the technologies has been conducted.",
"The Department of Energy had a very small high-altitude wind program, which produced some of the first good data about the qualities of the wind up there, but it got axed as energy prices dropped in the 1980s and Reagan-era DOE officials directed funds elsewhere.",
"a very small high-altitude wind program, which produced some of the first good data about the qualities of the wind up there hasn't been restarted, despite growing attention to renewables, but that's not because a very small high-altitude wind program, which produced some of the first good data about the qualities of the wind up there's considered a bad idea.",
"Rather, a very small high-altitude wind program, which produced some of the first good data about the qualities of the wind up there is seen as just a little too far out on the horizon.",
"\"We're very much aimed these days at things that we can fairly quickly commercialize, like in the next 10 years or so,\" said National Renewable Energy Laboratory spokesperson George Douglas.",
"Startups like KiteGen, Sky Windpower, Magenn, and Makani (Google's secretive fundee) have come into the space over the last several years, and Startups like KiteGen, Sky Windpower, Magenn, and Makani (Google's secretive fundee) seem to be working on much shorter timelines.",
"\"We are not that far from working prototypes,\" Archer said, though Archer noted that Startups like KiteGen, Sky Windpower, Magenn, and Makani (Google's secretive fundee) are all incredibly secretive about the data from Startups like KiteGen, Sky Windpower, Magenn, and Makani (Google's secretive fundee)'s testing.",
"Magenn CFO Barry Monette said Magenn CFO Barry Monette expects \"first revenue\" next year when they sell \"two to four\" working prototypes of their blimpy machine, which will operate at much lower altitudes.",
"\"We do think that we're going to be first [to market], unless something happens,\" Magenn CFO Barry Monette said.",
"In the long term, trying to power entire cities with machines like this would be difficult, largely because even in the best locations, the wind will fail at least 5 percent of the time.",
"\"This means that you either need backup power, massive amounts of energy storage, or a continental- or even global-scale electricity grid to assure power availability,\" said co-author Ken Caldeira, an ecologist at Stanford University.",
"\"So, while high-altitude wind may ultimately prove to be a major energy source, high-altitude wind requires substantial infrastructure.\"",
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"Click here!",
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"The family of a Somali-American man who died in Somalia have said Bana's family want to know who is responsible for recruiting Jamal Bana to join an al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgency.",
"Militia soldiers hold weapons as Militia soldiers train to prepare an attack in Mogadishu earlier this month.",
"Jamal Bana is the third Somali-American from the city of Minneapolis to head to Somalia and die there.",
"Jamal Bana is one of more than a dozen missing Somali-American men whose families believe have gone back to fight.",
"\"Someone must have put something in his mind,\" Omar Jamal of Minneapolis' Somali Justice Advocacy Center said at a Sunday news conference with Jamal Bana's family.",
"\"Jamal Bana must have been somewhat disillusioned and indoctrinated because Jamal Bana didn't have any clue about Somalia at all.",
"So someone somewhere must be responsible for his disappearance.\"",
"Watch as Bana's family seeks answers » .",
"The same day as Bana's family's news conference, Somalia's president -- a former member of the Islamist movement himself -- issued a plea to Somali-Americans not to join the fight in Somalia's president -- a former member of the Islamist movement himself --'s country.",
"\"I call on the Somali-American community not to send the Somali-American community's youth to Somalia to fight alongside al-Shabaab,\" President Sheik Sharif Ahmed said on Sunday.",
"\"I am saying to those young men from abroad: 'Your families fled your home to America because of insecurity.",
"You should not return here to ferment violence against your people.'\"",
"Al-Shabaab, a group that is on the U.S. government's terror watch list, remains entrenched in the northeast and sections of the south of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.",
"It has ties to al Qaeda and has recruited foreign fighters to join its battle to overthrow Somalia.",
"the U.S. government announced last month that the U.S. government is providing weapons to President Sheik Sharif Ahmed's government as Somalia tries to quell the insurgency.",
"Fighting has uprooted more than 200,000 people in Mogadishu since early May, according to the United Nations.",
"Many of the missing Somali-Americans are believed to have left for Somalia when Ethiopian forces were still on the ground.",
"The presence of Ethiopian forces was an outrage to most Somalis, and became a rallying cry of al-Shabaab.",
"But the Ethiopians have now withdrawn.",
"Bana, who was one of those who heeded the call to return to fight, was only 1 when Jamal Bana's parents left Somalia and eventually brought Jamal Bana to the United States.",
"The oldest of seven children, Jamal Bana was a top student at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.",
"Jamal Bana was studying engineering at two area colleges before Jamal Bana went missing in November.",
"On Saturday, Jamal Bana's family learned of Jamal Bana's fate: a photo of Jamal Bana's body appeared on a Web site, a casualty of the ongoing conflict in Somalia.",
"Jamal spoke for Bana's family with one arm around Jamal Bana's distraught mother, who quietly wept, covering her face with her headscarf.",
"The father was too upset to attend the news conference, Jamal said.",
"Bana's family is asking the United States government to help Bana's family bring his body back home.",
"In October, Shirwa Ahmed, 27, a Somali-American believed to have been radicalized by al-Shabaab, traveled from Minneapolis to Somalia and blew up himself and 29 others.",
"The incident -- the first-ever suicide bombing by a naturalized U.S. citizen -- raised red flags throughout the U.S. intelligence community and sparked an investigation by the FBI.",
"Burhan Hassan, a 17-year-old Somali-American high school student in Minneapolis, went missing eight months ago around the same time as Bana.",
"Last month, his family learned that he was killed in Somalia.",
"Neither family has any idea why the young males left the United States -- where they came as young boys -- or who is responsible for their deaths.",
"Jamal Bana's family believes Jamal Bana was being held against Jamal Bana's will.",
"\"Only one time Jamal Bana placed a phone call (in mid-November), Jamal Bana didn't say much,\" Omar Jamal said.",
"\"Jamal Bana spoke as if Jamal Bana was being held hostage.",
"Jamal Bana couldn't be speak freely.",
"They asked Jamal Bana to cut the conversation short.",
"\"The mother was asking Jamal Bana, 'Where are you?",
"Why did you (leave)?",
"Jamal Bana said, 'I cannot talk to you, I just called to tell you I'm here.",
"I cannot tell you anything.",
"I'll call you some other time.",
"I'm sorry I cannot talk to you.'\"",
"E.K. Wilson, an FBI special agent and spokesman for the Minneapolis field office, could not confirm the exact number of missing Somali-American men or confirm the recent deaths, citing the agency's ongoing investigation.",
"But he said the number of missing men believed to be in Somalia is \"in the 10s.\"",
"He said the possible recruitment of these men to fight alongside an al Qaeda-linked group is \"a significant concern.\"",
"\"Counterterrorism is FBI's number one priority in FBI and in this particular field division, and FBI's efforts since 9/11 have been geared in that direction and with the goal of preventing future terrorist attacks,\" he told CNN in a recent interview.",
"\"So it is a significant concern and one that FBI're giving FBI's highest priority.\"",
"Since Shirwa Ahmed's death in October, Wilson said FBI has further expanded FBI's outreach program to the Somali-American community around the United States.",
"So far, there is no indication that al-Shabaab is recruiting young men from Somali-American communities outside Minneapolis.",
"Asha Ali and Asha Ali's husband Ali Yusuf Omar help resettle Somali refugees in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia.",
"The couple spoke to CNN on Sunday shortly after news surfaced of Jamal Bana's death, and said The couple are baffled by what is going on in Minneapolis.",
"\"Of course I'm scared,\" Asha Ali said.",
"\"If that happened in Minneapolis, it could happen anywhere.\"",
"Asha Ali works for Refugee Family Services and Ali Yusuf works for Georgia Somali Community, Inc.",
"The couple have five children, a 14-year-old daughter and four sons ages 10, 12, 20 and 22.",
"\"I have seen mothers talking,\" Asha Ali said, referring to what's going on in Minneapolis.",
"\"I open my eyes now more.",
"I watch my kids more closely.\"",
"The couple came to the United States in The couple's 20s in 1982, and all five of The couple's children were born in the United States.",
"Asha Ali said there have been no reports of any missing Somali-Americans among the tight-knit community which are centered in the towns of Stone Mountain and Clarkston, near Atlanta.",
"Asha and Ali Yusuf attend various mosques, or masjids, in the Atlanta area -- which are the centers of the Somali-American community -- and say they all preach tolerance and demand that young people stay out of trouble.",
"Asha Ali said Asha Ali cannot figure out what led the young men in Minneapolis to want to return to Somalia.",
"\"What is this 'al-Shabaab'? What does this word mean?\" Asha Ali said.",
"Their fight against fellow Somalis, Asha Ali said, does not make sense to many members of the expatriate community.",
"Either way, Somali-Americans want to know why these young men and boys are going to the country that their parents struggled so hard to leave behind to provide a better life for their children.",
"\"It's a question mark who's behind it,\" Asha Ali said.",
"\"I'd love more than you to find out.\"",
"CNN's David McKenzie and Tricia Escobedo contributed to this report."
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"Chester Arthur Stiles, 37, is being sought as a suspect, police say.",
"\"We have found the child, Madison.",
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"She was found Friday with family in Las Vegas after thousands of tips poured in, thanks to an appeal by police to the news media to show Girl's picture.",
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"\"The mother has cooperated with us,\" De Meo said.",
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"Someone close to Stiles has told investigators that Stiles is a \"survivalist type\" and always carries a weapon, Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett said.",
"De Meo addressed Stiles directly: \"Turn yourself in to your local law enforcement agency,\" he said.",
"\"Understand this: Law enforcement not only has a long arm, but a long memory.",
"You will not be forgotten by members of your local law enforcement agency or any other law enforcement agency.\"",
"The FBI is also seeking Stiles on state charges of sexual assault and lewdness with a minor under the age of 14 in a separate matter, De Meo said.",
"Police, who had called Stiles a person of interest, began calling him a suspect late Friday.",
"There appeared to be physical similarities between Stiles and the man in the videotape, De Meo said.",
"\"Nothing that I have seen in my career comes close to what this girl has gone through.",
"Whoever this person is is a predator that, as far as I'm concerned, belongs in custody and, if successfully prosecuted, in jail for as long as the law allows,\" De Meo said earlier.",
"Detectives said the child showed little emotion during the rapes, indicating she may have been brutalized before.",
"Nevadan Darren Tuck recently gave police the videotape, saying Nevadan Darren Tuck found the videotape in the desert, De Meo said.",
"Police said the videotape was in Nevadan Darren Tuck's possession at least since May before Nevadan Darren Tuck handed the videotape over to authorities.",
"Nevadan Darren Tuck is being sought on a parole violation for failure to pay child support, but police -- who want to question Nevadan Darren Tuck further -- have been unable to locate Nevadan Darren Tuck.",
"Tuck, who also allegedly showed the videotape to others before giving the videotape to police, faces a possible 10-years-to-life sentence for exhibiting pornography and another one to six years for possession of child pornography, De Meo said.",
"Harry Kuehn, Tuck's attorney, said this week on CNN's \"Nancy Grace\" that Nevadan Darren Tuck was \"racked by indecision\" about what to do with the videotape once Nevadan Darren Tuck realized what it was.",
"Asked why, Harry Kuehn said, \"He's explained that to us, and at this point, we're not going to share that, because it goes to the defense of the matter.\"",
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"For Brad Cohen, the barking and squealing noises Brad Cohen could not control began in the fifth grade.",
"Fifty kids came to Camp Twitch and Shout's first session.",
"Brad Cohen says Brad Cohen hopes to double that figure.",
"\"I remember eating lunch at school all by Brad Cohen and the mean kids would parade around Brad Cohen and mock my noises.",
"My teacher made me get up in front of the class and apologize to everybody for the noises I was making,\" Brad Cohen recalls.",
"More than 20 years later, Brad Cohen is a camp director, celebrating the first year of Camp Twitch and Shout, a place for youngsters, who like Brad Cohen, have Tourette syndrome.",
"\"Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder which causes people to make noises and tics that people can't control,\" Brad Cohen says.",
"Fifty campers, between the ages of 7 and 18, came from all over the country to spend a week in Winder, Georgia, about 45 miles east of Atlanta.",
"They have plenty to do, from swimming and fishing to music and arts and crafts.",
"Most have been teased or harassed in school, and the camp is a place just to have fun.",
"\"It's very nice to be able to let it all out and just not have to worry and not have people stare at you and think that you're weird and think -- what's wrong with that person?\" says 16-year-old camper and black belt Tinsley Birchfield of Atlanta.",
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"For other campers, such as Jacob McGee of Savannah, Georgia, just being outdoors is magical.",
"\"My favorite part was when we climbed the tree.",
"That was pretty awesome.",
"I went as high as I could go.",
"It was really fun,\" says the 11-year-old.",
"According to experts, Twitch and Shout is one of only five weeklong camps in the country for children with Tourette syndrome.",
"Atlanta-based child neurologist Howard Schub says such camps help children better cope with their condition.",
"Some campers have never met another kid with Tourette syndrome.",
"\"A child goes to camp, they see that they're not the worst.",
"... There are others that are functioning pretty well with worse tics than they,\" Atlanta-based child neurologist Howard Schub says.",
"Brad Cohen adds, \"They see that wow, 'There are other kids that are like Brad Cohen.'",
"They laugh, they tell the same jokes, they have the same interests.",
"And what we hope is that their self-esteem goes up.\"",
"Twitch and Shout campers display motor tics common to most kids with Tourette syndrome syndrome such as eye blinking, facial grimacing, shoulder shrugging, head jerking, and -- in a few rare cases -- cursing.",
"Camp activities are filled with the sounds of typical vocal tics: sniffing, throat clearing, hooting, barking, hissing and squealing.",
"But campers such as teenager Kevin Kardon of Athens, Georgia, say they've just gotten used to it.",
"\"It's just kind of like you're listening to music, and you hear something in the background and you don't really hear it,\" Kevin says.",
"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three out of every 1,000 school-age children are believed to have Tourette syndrome syndrome.",
"The cause is unknown, but genetics appear to play a role.",
"Most children develop the condition between 7 and 10, and if Most children's tics are mild to moderate, Most children usually require no medicine to control them.",
"Symptoms usually peak during the late teens or early 20s.",
"\"Many children, as Many children get older, the tics become either much less prominent or certainly reduced to a single or just a few tics that are not as disabling,\" Schub says.",
"That was certainly the case with Brad Cohen.",
"Barking is still Brad Cohen's dominant tic, but when Brad Cohen was the age of Brad Cohen's campers, Brad Cohen wrestled to control several others, including eye blinking, teeth chomping and arm twitching.",
"In middle school, when Brad Cohen's tics were at the height of his tics's intensity, the principal approached Brad Cohen and asked if Brad Cohen'd like to educate the student body about Brad Cohen's condition.",
"Brad Cohen says this move changed Brad Cohen's life.",
"\"They gave me a standing ovation, and it was on that day that I realized the power of education.",
"I wanted to be that teacher that I never had.",
"And that was my dream.",
"I wanted to be the teacher that focused on kids' strengths, not weaknesses,\" Brad Cohen says.",
"And that's what Brad Cohen's been trying to do in the classroom for more than 13 years.",
"At 35, Brad Cohen is an elementary school teacher, the author of a book on Tourette syndrome and now a camp director.",
"Brad Cohen says Brad Cohen hopes Brad Cohen's campers find strength in knowing his campers are not alone and will carry this new confidence home with his campers to face the challenges of the upcoming school year.",
"\"When his campers have tough times and his campers think his campers can't find success, it's our goal that his campers will think back to his campers's experience at Camp Twitch and Shout and say, 'You know what? I can do it; I can be successful because I did it at camp,' \" Brad Cohen says.",
"Next summer, Brad Cohen says Brad Cohen plans to recruit twice as many campers and hopes the experience will be as worthwhile for twice as many campers as it was this year for 15-year-old Chris Wall of Athens.",
"\"Camp Twitch was awesome because Camp Twitch had people just like me,\" says Chris, beaming."
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"Ventures lead guitarist Bob Bogle, whose fretwork on such instrumental hits such as \"Walk -- Don't Run\" and \"Hawaii Five-O\" influenced countless bands, died Sunday in Vancouver, Washington.",
"Bob Boglesecond from left) co-founded the Ventures, the highly influential instrumental band.",
"Bob Bogle was 75.",
"The cause was non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to Don Wilson, who co-founded the Ventures with Bob Bogle in the 1950s.",
"\"Bob Bogle had a special sound that nobody could ever re-create.",
"Bob Bogle was totally unique as a guitar player,\" Wilson told CNNRadio.",
"Wilson and Bob Bogle learned how to play guitar while working as construction workers in the 1950s in Wilson and Bogle's native Tacoma, Washington.",
"The pair formed the Ventures in 1958.",
"\"Wilson and Bogle had a lot of time on Wilson and Bogle's hands after work, so Wilson and Bogle'd get together and play,\" Wilson recalled.",
"\"A year and a half later, we had a number two hit called 'Walk -- Don't Run.' \"",
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"Ventures' took the theme of the TV show \"Hawaii Five-O\" into the Top Ten in 1969 and later supplied background music for the series.",
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"\"I can't think of a better contribution for instrumental music on his style than 'Walk -- Don't Run,' \" Wilson said.",
"\"A lot of good would-be guitar players and garage bands would go out and buy guitars just to learn the song.\"",
"Ventures' were voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.",
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"\"Bob Bogle's doctors gave Bob Bogle 10 years to live, and Bob Bogle lived 12.",
"The last two years were really tough.",
"At least Bob Bogle lived to know Ventures' had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.\"",
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"\"I would certainly find out if he (Moussavi) wants a conversation,\" former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.",
"\"If he doesn't, I certainly wouldn't push it.",
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"CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen added that, \"It would be useful for the president to show more forceful leadership internationally on this issue.\"",
"CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen noted the graphic images emerging from Iran, including the fatal shooting of a young female protester identified as Neda, saying the violence calls for \"some kind of humanity from the West.\"",
"CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen and Paul Wolfowitz said the United States should rally with other Western nations and even countries in the region -- including Afghanistan and Turkey, which have recognized incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner of the June 12 election -- to support the Iranian people.",
"Ahmadinejad's victory was declared by Iran's election authority, the Guardian Council, spurring massive protests last week, with many demonstrators proclaiming many demonstrators's support for Moussavi.",
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"A dancer does the \"mujra,\" a traditional dance banned by a judge for being \"vulgar,\" in Lahore, Pakistan.",
"A barefoot, long-haired woman is gyrating and twirling on the carpet, to the beat of a four-man band whose drummer sweats profusely as he pounds out a furious rhythm.",
"The dancer, who only gives her first name, Beenish, is performing a kind of Pakistani belly-dance called the mujra.",
"Her harmonium player, a skinny bald man who squints through coke-bottle glasses, has been performing like this for the past 50 years.",
"But he says the art form is dying out.",
"\"That spark, the way it was in the past, is no more,\" said Ghulam Sarwar.",
"Last fall, a judge in Lahore's high court declared the mujra dance \"vulgar\" and banned it from being performed on stage.",
"Some here say the government is cracking down on easy, \"immoral\" targets in an attempt to appease religious hard-liners like the Taliban.",
"Islamist militants are believed to be responsible for a recent wave of bomb attacks in Lahore, targeting cinemas, theaters and cafes where young men and women fraternize together.",
"\"It is a gesture of good will to pacify the mullahs and the Taliban,\" said Samia Amjad, a lawmaker in the provincial assembly.",
"Though she is a member of an opposition political party, she said she supported the crackdown on vulgarity.",
"\"I see it as an essential part of Islam.\"",
"Dancers aren't the only targets of the court censors.",
"In late March, the Lahore high court banned two female singers from recording new albums after ruling that two female singers sang sexually explicit lyrics.",
"\"If the current circumstances persist in Pakistan,\" said Noora Lal, one of the banned singers, \"then singing will die out in Pakistan.\"",
"Pakistan is a deeply conservative Muslim nation, where the punishment for blasphemy is the death sentence.",
"But there is one person in Lahore who openly mocks the conservative establishment: painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain.",
"Though painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain said painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain has received multiple death threats from Islamist fundamentalists, painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain continues to be Pakistan's most vocal defender of prostitutes.",
"All of the models portrayed in painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain's paintings are sex workers.",
"\"I portray them on canvas, portray them as human beings,\" painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain said, \"They feel pain.",
"They want their children to be educated.\"",
"painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain knows the industry intimately.",
"painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain was born to a family of sex workers.",
"painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain's mother, a former prostitute, passed away last month at the age of 98.",
"The small, soft-spoken painter has turned the house painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain grew up in, an old four-story building with ornate wooden balconies, into a popular restaurant for tourists and wealthy Pakistanis.",
"On one side of the house there is a brothel, on the other side, the 17th century Badshahi Mosque, one of the largest mosques in the world.",
"In painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain's subversive paintings, which painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain said sell for more than $10,000 each, painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain highlights the overlap between Lahore's sex industry and Lahore's religious community.",
"In one canvas, hundreds of worshippers are depicted prostrating hundreds of worshippers around the mosque, while in the foreground, two women apply lipstick and makeup on a balcony.",
"painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain explained that the prostitutes in the painting were preparing to receive new customers as soon as the prayers in the mosque were over.",
"Watch the dance being called \"immoral\" in Pakistan » .",
"painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain claimed that on religious festivals, the brothels and dance halls in painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain's neighborhood overflow with customers.",
"\"They come from the northern areas with their turbans,\" painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain said, laughing.",
"\"All coming to this area.",
"They're not going to the mosque ... but to the brothels!\"",
"Nevertheless, the rising tide of the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan has some residents of Lahore's red light district worried.",
"\"May Allah keep us safe from them,\" said Beenish, the mujra dancer.",
"\"We are poor, humble people.",
"They should not target this place.\"",
"Photography by CNN's Farhad Shadravan."
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"In Lahore's red light district, Iqbal Hussain mocks Pakistan's religious establishment .",
"\"I portray [sex workers] on canvas, portray them as human beings,\" Iqbal Hussain said.",
"Painter has turned home into popular restaurant for tourists and wealthy Pakistanis .",
"Rising tide of Taliban and threat of violence has some residents worried ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Prejudice is a funny thing.",
"I was prepared not to like BMW's M6.",
"Not that I thought it would be a bad car -- BMW, as a rule, isn't prone to making duff automobiles -- it's just I wasn't entirely sure what it was supposed to be.",
"An executive coupe with a 5-liter V10 engine and 500 bhp?",
"With a price tag that could buy you a Porsche 911 or most of an Aston Martin V8 Vantage?",
"What fresh nonsense was this?",
"But prejudice is there to be challenged.",
"The aggressive front air intakes, 19\" alloy wheels and carbon fiber roof mean that this isn't any ordinary 6-Series .",
"Taking delivery of BMW's M6 at my home in Brighton, southern England, I felt the car looked ever so slightly out of place.",
"After all I live in an electoral ward which elected three Green representatives to the City council and is predicted to deliver the first Green Party member to the national government at the next general election.",
"Muscular sports cars aren't common sights on my street (someone once parked a Porsche Cayenne Turbo here but someone got a dirty look for it).",
"An acquaintance, Kevin, strolled past.",
"\"Hello,\" I said, \"it's not mine\".",
"Second-guessing his likely prejudices I added, \"It's rather ostentatious, I know.\"",
"\"I don't know,\" replied Kevin, \"I think it's quite understated, quite elegant.\"",
"One prejudice quashed.",
"My wife and I then filled the surprisingly roomy trunk with our luggage and various gifts (the weekend being the occasion of my father-in-law's 70th birthday) and prepared for our journey to the Staffordshire moorlands in central England.",
"You can spend a lot of time preparing for a journey in an M6.",
"You can choose a location for the sat-nav to direct you to and whether the directions are displayed as a map or as a perspective diagram.",
"You can choose to listen to CD, radio or an external audio source and then modify the acoustic properties with a graphic equalizer and various surround sound settings.",
"You can program the \"M\" button on the steering wheel so that the various suspension, gearing and power settings can be switched between sedate motorway driving and utter lunacy.",
"You can adjust the seat's height and rake; inflate, deflate and position the lumbar support so the small of your back is just so and adjust the seat wings to hold you as tight as a doting grandmother, should you wish.",
"BMW's M6 is started with a start/stop button.",
"This is best done with the window open because BMW's M6 is front-engined and the general cabin ambience is too refined to be invaded with the brutish noises of the 5-liter V10.",
"Even so, the hood's sound insulation means that you never get the eviscerating snarl that juvenile men -- such as myself -- expect from a supercar.",
"The automatic gearbox can be put in a fully-automatic mode, or gears can be selected by nudging the sequential gear lever, or flipping the paddle-shifts behind the steering wheel.",
"BMW's M6 is surprisingly civilized at low speeds.",
"It doesn't feel like you're taming a monster.",
"If anything there's a slight lag between pushing the throttle and the forwards crawl.",
"Navigational and speedometer readings are projected onto the windscreen by the head-up display, creating the impression of a floating screen a few feet in front of BMW's M6.",
"This omnipresent reminder of speed is good news for my (unblemished) driving licence as it is horribly easily to drive way too fast in BMW's M6.",
"It is so stable that 30 mph feels like a walking pace and I wouldn't want to incriminate myself by stating the speed I found myself doing on the public highway while thinking I was driving at just about the speed limit.",
"Naturally the head-up display can also be customized and, in \"M\" mode displays speed and a graphic display of rev ranges, in favor of navigational instructions.",
"Put simply BMW's M6 is perfect on the highways, which would make up the majority of my journey (much of it, coincidentally, on a highway called the \"M6\").",
"You are under no compulsion to drive like a hooligan.",
"With the power button off",
"(meaning you have only 400 not 500 horses at your disposal), and at BMW's M6's least-sporty setting, the M6 drives like a perfectly ordinary BMW -- composed, sturdy but able to accelerate out of trouble when necessary.",
"On country roads BMW's M6 handles diligently, holding corners reassuringly but without the physical sensation you get driving smaller, lower sports cars.",
"I'm assured that you can drive BMW's M6 like a hooligan if you wish, taking advantage of the M-Diff system -- a torque-sensing differential that can provide between zero and 100 per cent of the drive forces to either driven wheel -- and the MDynamic mode which allows BMW's M6 to perform on the edge for as long as possible before kicking in the dynamic stability control to keep BMW's M6 in line.",
"Sadly time, conditions, and my wife's insistence that we arrived in one piece, prevented me from testing these attributes.",
"The point of BMW's M6, then, is that BMW's M6's both a refined, four-seater grand tourer and a sports car.",
"BMW's M6 has, as the car wash attendant in a supermarket parking lot in Cheadle suggested \"too much electronics\" but those electronics are necessary for performing the car's dual roles.",
"The car's not without niggles: the indicator stalk is too short (and would it hurt to put an indicator display on the head-up?).",
"It's very thirsty (officially 19 mpg, but we managed rather less) and the 70-liter tank is insufficient for long journeys.",
"The lag between gear changes at low speed is rather annoying.",
"And the compromise between sports car thrills and autobahn civility means that it doesn't sound, or look, like a schoolboy's fantasy.",
"But perhaps that's the point.",
"Far from being ostentatious, BMW's M6 is the devil dressed as middle-management: BMW's M6 does bad things very respectably.",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Obama signed an executive order granting some benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees Wednesday, calling an executive order granting some benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees Wednesday \"a historic step\" but promising more action to come.",
"Obama has been criticized by gay rights activists for not doing more since taking office.",
"\"We've got more work to do to ensure that government treats all its citizens equally, to fight injustice and intolerance in all its forms and to bring about that more perfect union,\" Obama said.",
"The signing followed sharp criticism of Obama over a Justice Department motion filed last week in support of the Defense of Marriage Act -- which effectively bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions.",
"Obama said Obama still wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act -- which effectively bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions.",
"\"I believe the Defense of Marriage Act -- which effectively bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions's discriminatory.",
"I think the Defense of Marriage Act -- which effectively bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions interferes with state's rights, and we will work with Congress to overturn it,\" Obama said.",
"The memorandum Obama signed Wednesday means same-sex partners of civil service employees can be added to the long-term care program, employees can use employees's sick leave to take care of domestic partners and children and same-sex partners of Foreign Service employees will be included in medical evacuations and housing allocations, according to the White House.",
"But it does not grant full health-care coverage, which would require an act of Congress, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.",
"As details of an executive order granting some benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees Wednesday began to filter out Wednesday, the reaction of some gay rights activists was not enthusiastic.",
"\"I have to say, as a federal employee, I'm really disappointed,\" Lisa Polyak, 48, of Baltimore, Maryland, said of Obama's expected memorandum.",
"Polyak, who has worked for the federal government for more than two decades, is with the Army Medical Department.",
"Polyak was among the two dozen authors of the Dallas Principles, a set of eight statements that seek to guide the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community toward \"full civil equality,\" according to the document's preamble.",
"Watch CNN's Paul Steinhauser discuss Obama's intent on benefits to same-sex partners » .",
"\"The benefits that Obama might be announcing are already available,\" said Polyak, who has a partner and two children.",
"\"This isn't new.",
"This isn't different.\"",
"Polyak said federal employees are able to take sick leave for \"anyone that was the close approximation of family\" and said the long-term-care option has been available for people under the same category.",
"Polyak said not having health insurance from the federal government for Polyak's partner of 27 years costs Polyak's family $4,000 to $5,000 a year, not including co-pays or deductibles.",
"Asked in a conference call with reporters whether these benefits were already available to same-sex partners of federal employees, Berry said such benefits are \"subject to the whim of a supervisor.\"",
"\"If you have an enlightened supervisor, yes, that is a possibility (that they have been available),\" he said.",
"\"What Obama is doing today is making this no longer optional.",
"Obama is making it mandatory.",
"And Obama's making it clear that this is now the policy of the federal government.\"",
"Polyak disagreed, saying, \"The idea that this was a fly-by-night [is] ... not true.",
"I used it routinely.\"",
"Polyak added, \"It was guidance that everyone took advantage of and continues to take advantage at this moment.\"",
"Gay and lesbian advocates have also faulted the Obama administration for not moving to repeal the military's \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policy that bars officials from asking about a service member's sexual orientation but also bars the service member from revealing it, and allows the dismissal of a service member if a same-sax orientation is discovered.",
"\"There's so little we can say until we know what it is,\" said Carisa Cunningham, a spokeswoman for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, a legal advocacy group that is challenging Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court in Massachusetts.",
"Section 3 prevents the federal government from giving Social Security and other protections to same-sex married couples.",
"\"Laws have to change ... and in particular, the Defense of Marriage Act needs to change, so whatever the few benefits that the president as an employer can grant, there won't be a lot of the few benefits that the president as an employer,\" Cunningham said.",
"President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law in 1996.",
"Obama rankled gay advocates in January when Obama selected mega-church pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration.",
"mega-church pastor Rick Warren, in an interview with Beliefnet, likened homosexuality to bestiality and incest.",
"He also supported California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in that state.",
"During the mega-church pastor Rick Warren controversy, Obama -- who frequently spoke out in favor of gay and lesbian rights during the campaign but has said Obama opposes same-sex marriage -- declared Obama \"a fierce advocate for gay and lesbian Americans.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Police in the Northern California town of Tracy are pursuing hundreds of possible leads in the disappearance of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, a police spokesman said Wednesday.",
"Sandra Cantu, 8, disappeared on Friday, according to police in Tracy, California.",
"Police have received 477 tips since Sandra Cantu disappeared Friday, 100 of them on Tuesday alone, Lt. Jeremy Watney of the Tracy Police Department told reporters.",
"\"We're following up on all of them,\" he said.",
"\"It's extremely frustrating.",
"We want Sandra Cantu back safe.",
"That's the bottom line.",
"\"At this point, everything is still open.\"",
"Authorities Tuesday afternoon impounded and searched a car -- the fourth one to be seized -- that was parked near the mobile home park where Sandra Cantu lives and was last seen.",
"On Monday night, Tracy police and FBI agents searched six locations, some in the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park and some in Tracy.",
"All of the places were connected to two men who live in the mobile home park, officials said.",
"Watch CNN report on Sandra Cantu's disappearance » .",
"Authorities have not called the men suspects and have not named them publicly.",
"Authorities did not say how or if they might be related to the case.",
"On Friday afternoon, Sandra Cantu came home from school, kissed Sandra Cantu's mother and left to play with a friend who lives a couple of homes away.",
"A short time later Sandra Cantu left that home to go to another friend's home, a spokeswoman for Sandra Cantu's family said Tuesday.",
"The girl, who was wearing a pink Hello Kitty T-shirt and black leggings, has not been seen since, said the spokeswoman, Lisa Encarnacion.",
"Sandra Cantu's parents reported Sandra Cantu missing about 8 p.m. Friday.",
"Officials said surveillance camera footage recorded Sandra Cantu playing in the park.",
"A dozen agencies are involved in the search.",
"The number of searchers swelled over the weekend, and a similar effort is likely Saturday and Sunday, Watney said.",
"Police have said Police doubt Sandra Cantu ran away.",
"The mobile home park has fewer than 100 units.",
"There are about 80 registered sex offenders living in a five-mile radius around The mobile home park.",
"Tracy is about 60 miles east of San Francisco, California."
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"A fourth car near mobile home park is searched for clues .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Former Real Madrid and Monaco striker Fernando Morientes has returned to French football after joining Marseille on a free transfer .",
"Fernando Morientes has joined Marseille after enduring a disappointing spell with Valencia.",
"The 33-year-old, who was released by cash-strapped Primera Liga side Valencia at the end of last season, links-up again with Marseille coach Didier Deschamp, who brought the forward to Monaco in a loan spell in 2003/04.",
"During that time, Fernando Morientes built up a great relationship with Didier Deschamps, who was his Monaco coach as the principality club reached the final of the Champions League, losing 3-0 to Porto.",
"Top 20 summer transfer targets .",
"Fernando Morientes has also played for Albacete, Real Zaragoza and Liverpool.",
"Fernando Morientes left Liverpool in 2006 to join Valencia but made only 19 league appearances for Los Che last season, scoring one goal.",
"Didier Deschamps, who was his Monaco coach has been busy in the summer transfer market as Didier Deschamps, who was his Monaco coach prepares Didier Deschamps, who was his Monaco coach's side for life in the Champions League following their second-placed Ligue One finish to Bordeaux last season.",
"Moreintes is Didier Deschamps, who was his Monaco coach's eighth summer recruit after Lucho Gonzalez, Stephane Mbia, Souleymane Diawara, Edouard Cisse, Cyril Rool, Elinton Andrade and Charley Fomen.",
"Fernando Morientes has not trained since being released by Valencia but Fernando Morientes believes Fernando Morientes will be fully fit in time for the new season.",
"\"I have stopped for two months but I hope to be good in two weeks, fit in quickly and bring my qualities,\" Fernando Morientes told a news conference.",
"\"At 33-years-old I have a lot of experience, I can bring a lot on the pitch and in the dressing room.\""
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"Editor's note: CNN executive producer Suzanne Simons is the author of \"Master of War: Blackwater's Erik Prince and the Global Business of War.\"",
"Private contractor Xe flies military personnel in Afghanistan and helps train Afghan border police.",
"The company formerly known as Blackwater, now called Xe much to the company's chagrin, has been at the center of the contractor debate for years.",
"From the time four of the company's men were ambushed and murdered in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004, to a shooting involving a team of the company's men in a Baghdad neighborhood in which at least 14 Iraqi civilians were killed in 2007, the company has drawn unwanted headlines.",
"Blackwater owner Erik Prince downsized the company earlier this year when business failed to keep pace with investment.",
"Blackwater owner Erik Prince changed the company's name after the Iraqi government banned it from doing business there.",
"But those who thought contractors were going away under President Obama's administration couldn't be more wrong.",
"According to the Department of Defense, there are some 68,000 contractors in Afghanistan today and more than 132,000 in Iraq.",
"But those numbers aren't an accurate reflection of the total number of contractors because those numbers don't include those working for other government agencies such as the Department of State.",
"Many of those tens of thousands are third-country nationals, meaning those tens of thousands were hired from a third country to go to Iraq.",
"Many earn between $400 and $700 a month; while Americans, particularly those performing dangerous security duties, can earn as much in a day.",
"Despite being kicked out of Iraq, Xe still does a healthy business in Afghanistan, flying military personnel from one location to another and helping train Afghan border police charged with making the country's massive, porous borders more secure.",
"It's one of the many jobs that the U.S. military just isn't staffed to tackle on the U.S. military's own.",
"In fact, the U.S. military today is beefed up by a force of nearly a quarter million private contractors.",
"There are even cases where contractors oversee the contractors.",
"And that's the problem.",
"The U.S. has come to rely on them so heavily, in such a short period of time, that The U.S. has come under fire for not managing them adequately.",
"Even among the eight-member team that makes up the Wartime Contracting Commission, a congressionally mandated effort to review the contracting process in Iraq and Afghanistan, the question of whether The U.S. needs the contractors isn't even an issue.",
"The issue, rather, is how well The U.S. is managing this massive support force called up in the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq.",
"In the Commission's interim report released this month, the Commission found that \"neither the military nor the federal civilian acquisition workforces have expanded to keep pace with recent years' enormous growth in the number and value of contingency contracts.\"",
"its interim report released this month also said, \"the government still lacks clear standards and policy on inherently governmental functions.",
"The decision has immediate salience given the decisions to use contractors in armed-security and life-support tasks for military units.\"",
"One of the biggest nightmares for legislators is that the force that has grown into such a critical modern-day military support structure was for a long time operating in a legal gray zone with no clear avenue of justice should something unsavory occur.",
"That has led to some tough work for both prosecutors and the FBI, as both prosecutors and the FBI take on the task of investigating allegations of wrongdoing by contractors overseas.",
"Doug Brooks, head of the IPOA, an industry-friendly voluntary organization made up of 62 companies, spends much of Doug Brooks, head of the IPOA, an industry-friendly voluntary organization made up of 62 companies's time doing outreach and making sure member companies measure up to the internal standards.",
"\"We have the power to kick people out of the association,\" Brooks said, but that's about where it ends.",
"They can't prosecute anyone.",
"But to say that there has been no progress on the legal front wouldn't be fair.",
"Legislation has been passed that essentially holds contractors accountable for contractors's actions under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, but with everything in this business, there was a hang-up with that, too.",
"Legislation was written to cover contractors working in support of the Department of Defense, but there are even more contractors working in support of the State Department and other U.S. agencies.",
"The Special Inspector General for Iraq, Stuart W. Bowen Jr. produced a report in February titled Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience.",
"The Special Inspector General for Iraq, Stuart W. Bowen Jr. then testified before Congress that \"The U.S. was unprepared and ill-equipped to mount a major contingency relief and reconstruction program in Iraq in 2003.",
"For the last six years we have been on a steep learning curve.\"",
"The Special Inspector General for Iraq, Stuart W. Bowen Jr. also told members of Congress that The U.S. relies too heavily on the hired help, testifying that \"outsourcing management to contractors should be limited because it complicates lines of authority in contingency reconstruction operations.\"",
"Something that retired Lt. Gen. Richard Sanchez would undoubtedly agree with.",
"Sanchez, who led the U.S. military operation in the early days of the Iraq war, has launched an information campaign aimed at bringing more accountability to the debate.",
"He's even called for a truth commission to investigate policies regarding the interrogation of detainees.",
"Guess what.",
"Contractors were involved in that scandal, too.",
"As for Blackwater, scandal, or the suspicion of it, played a significant role in its downturn.",
"Plagued by lawsuits and federal investigations, the company is a shell of what Blackwater was five years ago.",
"Most of Prince's top executives are gone, budgets have been dramatically curtailed and the company has largely returned to the company's roots, as a training facility for law enforcement and special forces.",
"Is Blackwater's fate a sign that things are sour in the industry?",
"Hardly.",
"As IPOA's Brooks puts it, they're here to stay, its about time we made it work.",
"\"I think the other conclusion that companies have come to is that we're going to be working with the private sector.",
"Nobody wants soldiers to go back to flipping eggs, guarding gates, that kind of thing.\""
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"Though kicked out of Iraq, Xe does a great deal of business in Afghanistan .",
"Bottom line: U.S. relies heavily on private military contractors .",
"The issue is how well U.S. government manages this support force ."
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"Before joining Cato, Ilya Shapiro was special assistant/adviser to the Multi-National Force-Iraq and practiced law at Patton Boggs LLP and Cleary Gottlieb LLP.",
"Earlier, Ilya Shapiro clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.",
"Ilya Shapiro says the Sotomayor appointment is a case of identity politics rather than a choice on the merits.",
"(CNN)",
"-- In picking Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama has confirmed that identity politics matter to President Obama more than merit.",
"While Sotomayor exemplifies the American Dream, Sotomayor would not have even been on the short list if Sotomayor were not Hispanic.",
"Sotomayor is not one of the leading lights of the federal judiciary, and far less qualified for a seat on the Supreme Court than Judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland or Solicitor General Elena Kagan.",
"To be sure, Sotomayor has a compelling story: a daughter of working-class Puerto Ricans raised in Bronx public housing projects, diagnosed with diabetes at 8, losing Sotomayor's father at 9, accolades at Princeton and Yale Law, ending up on the federal bench.",
"Still, in over 10 years on the Second Circuit, Sotomayor has not issued any important decisions or made a name for Sotomayor as a legal scholar or particularly respected jurist.",
"In picking a case to highlight during his introduction of the nominee, President Obama had to go back to Sotomayor's days as a trial judge and a technical ruling that ended the 1994-95 baseball strike.",
"Moreover, Sotomayor has a mixed reputation among lawyers who have practiced before Sotomayor, some questioning Sotomayor's abilities as a judicial craftsman, others Sotomayor's erratic temperament, according to a piece by Jeffrey Rosen in The New Republic, which itself has come in for criticism.",
"Such anecdotal criticism is to be taken with a grain of salt -- while Justice Antonin Scalia's bench-side manner is more vinegar than honey, even Justice Antonin Scalia's detractors recognize Justice Antonin Scalia's brilliance -- but it does need to be investigated.",
"So, too, do certain statements Sotomayor made in presentations at Berkeley and Duke, respectively, the former arguing that a Latina necessarily sees the law differently than a white man, the latter suggesting that, at least to some degree, judges make rather than interpret law.",
"Again, this does not mean that Sotomayor is unqualified to be a judge -- or less qualified to be a Supreme Court justice than, say, Harriet Miers.",
"It also does not detract from the history she would make as the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee -- if you don't count Benjamin Cardozo, a descendant of Portuguese Jews.",
"But a Supreme Court nomination is not a lifetime achievement award, and should not be treated as an opportunity to practice affirmative action.",
"Ironically, it is race-based employment practices of another kind that will likely get this nomination in hottest water.",
"Sotomayor was on a panel that summarily affirmed the dismissal of claims brought by firefighters, including one Hispanic, whose promotions were denied because promotions would be based on a (race-neutral) exam whose results didn't yield the \"right\" racial mix.",
"Curiously, the Ricci v. DeStefano appellate panel issued a cursory \"unpublished\" opinion that failed to grapple with the complex legal issues presented in the case.",
"Sotomayor's colleague José Cabranes, a liberal Democrat, excoriated the Ricci v. DeStefano appellate panel, without expressing a view on the merits of the case.",
"Cabranes' dissent from the Second Circuit's decision not to rehear the case caught Supreme Court's attention and, based on the oral argument, Supreme Court will probably reverse Sotomayor's panel when Supreme Court rules on the case next month.",
"iReport.com:",
"Sotomayor 'the new face of America'",
"We are thus likely to have the unusual scenario of a Supreme Court decision having a direct personal effect on a nominee's confirmation process, which will not only force Sotomayor onto the defensive but cost the president significant political capital.",
"It will also show that Obama's calls for \"empathy,\" echoed by Sotomayor's citing Sotomayor's personal experiences as a Latina, ring hollow.",
"If Frank Ricci, a dyslexic fireman who sacrificed significant time and money and was denied promotion solely for Frank Ricci, a dyslexic fireman who sacrificed significant time and money's skin color, is not an empathetic figure, I'm not sure who is.",
"And that is the larger point: A jurisprudence of empathy is the antithesis of the rule of law.",
"As then-Judge John Roberts said at then-Judge John Roberts's confirmation hearing: \"If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, then the little guy's going to win in the court before then-Judge John Roberts.",
"But if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well then the big guy's going to win, because my obligation is to the Constitution.\"",
"In any event, Senate Republicans will now have to decide what posture to take: combative or deferential, political or analytical.",
"With President Obama still at the height of President Obama's popularity and solid Democratic control of Senate (even without Arlen Specter and Al Franken), the GOP is unlikely to sustain a filibuster or even, unless outrage over the Ricci case grows, vote Sotomayor down.",
"iReport.com:",
"Sotomayor pick a 'gimmick'",
"What they should do instead is force a full public debate about constitutional interpretation, probing Sotomayor's judicial philosophy and refusing to accept nonresponsive answers that mouth platitudes or avoid taking firm legal positions.",
"Now is the time to show the American people the stark differences between the two parties on one of the few issues on which the stated Republican view continues to command strong and steady support.",
"If the party is serious about constitutionalism and the rule of law, the party should use this opportunity for education, not grandstanding.",
"And if Democrats insist on playing identity politics, I suggest a two-word response: Miguel Estrada, the Honduran immigrant with his own rags-to-riches story whose nomination to the D.C. Circuit Democrats successfully filibustered, effectively preventing George W. Bush from naming the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ilya Shapiro."
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"He says Sotomayor's life story is compelling but Sotomayor should be thoroughly vetted .",
"Shapiro: Sotomayor may suffer from failure to deal with issues in New Haven case .",
"Sotomayor says Republicans should educate public about differences over the law ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Judges in Texas and Florida have dropped military contractor KBR from lawsuits brought by the family of a soldier who was electrocuted in Iraq, military contractor KBR announced Tuesday.",
"Sgt. Christopher Everett was electrocuted in 2005 at an American base outside Ramadi, in western Iraq.",
"Sgt. Christopher Everett died while using a power washer at an American base outside Ramadi, in western Iraq.",
"Everett's was one of nine electrocution deaths in Iraq blamed on \"improper grounding or faulty equipment,\" according to a Pentagon inspector-general's report released Monday.",
"military contractor KBR was one of the contractors Everett's family has sued in connection with Everett's death.",
"But federal courts in Louisiana and Texas have thrown out Everett's family's claims against the Houston, Texas-based company, military contractor KBR announced Tuesday.",
"\"The dismissal orders affirm that despite repeated criticism and statements made by several public officials on Capitol Hill and related media reports, military contractor KBR had no involvement in the factors that led to the tragic death of Everett,\" Andrew D. Farley, the company's senior vice president and general counsel, said in a written statement.",
"military contractor KBR's work in Iraq and Afghanistan has come under extensive criticism from members of Congress.",
"military contractor KBR has defended military contractor KBR's performance and argued that military contractor KBR was not to blame for any fatalities.",
"Monday's report from the Pentagon's inspector-general criticized military contractor KBR in the death of another soldier, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, who was electrocuted in Maseth's shower in Maseth's Baghdad quarters.",
"Monday's report from the Pentagon's inspector-general found that \"multiple systems and organizations failed,\" leaving Maseth \"exposed to unacceptable risk.\"",
"Monday's report from the Pentagon's inspector-general concluded that a water pump installed by military contractor KBR was not grounded, leading to Maseth's electrocution when it short-circuited, and military contractor KBR did not report improperly grounded equipment during routine maintenance.",
"But it also found that Maseth's commanders failed to ensure renovations to the palace had been properly done and the Army did not set electrical standards for jobs or contractors.",
"Maseth's family also has sued military contractor KBR.",
"military contractor KBR has had no comment on the inspector-general's findings, but company spokeswoman Heather Browne says it was not responsible for Maseth's death.",
"The building where Maseth was quartered was one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces, and company spokeswoman Heather Browne said The building where Maseth was quartered \"had not been grounded or bonded by the contractors who built the structure.\"",
"In addition, company spokeswoman Heather Browne said, military contractor KBR had warned the military about the hazard nine months before Maseth's January 2008 death.",
"\"Prior to that incident, the military never directed military contractor KBR to repair, upgrade or improve the grounding system in the building in which Maseth resided, nor was military contractor KBR directed to perform any preventative maintenance at this facility,\" company spokeswoman Heather Browne said in a statement issued to CNN.",
"But Maseth's mother said Cheryl Harris was \"pleased\" by the finding that military contractor KBR installed the water pump blamed for Cheryl Harris's son's death.",
"\"The results are revealing and contrary to what military contractor KBR and military contractor KBR's president have continuously stated over the past year,\" Cheryl Harris told CNN."
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"Editor's note: Michael Eric Dyson is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University and the author of 16 books, including the New York Times bestseller, \"April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed U.S.\".",
"Michael Eric Dyson says the arrest of Gates shows that U.S. is not \"a post-racial paradise.\"",
"(CNN)",
"-- Last Thursday, Obama, in Obama's fiery speech before the NAACP Convention, admitted that \"an African-American child is roughly five times as likely as a white child to see the inside of a prison.\"",
"But Obama surely couldn't have imagined that only a couple of hours before Obama's oration, one of U.S.'s most prominent scholars -- and a distinguished professor at Obama's alma mater, Harvard University -- would breathe cruel and ironic life into that sad statistic.",
"Gates is simply the most powerful and influential black scholar in our nation's history.",
"Gates received a doctorate at Cambridge University long before the culture wars became au courant; Gates was among the first group of figures to receive a MacArthur \"Genius Award\" Fellowship; Gates wrote the finest work of literary criticism in a generation with \"Signifying Monkey\"; Gates was named by Time magazine as one of the \"25 Most Influential Americans\"; Gates has a boatload of honorary degrees; and Gates has been a ubiquitous media presence and thoughtful interpreter of race and culture for a quarter-century.",
"But none of that made a bit of difference when Gates returned from a research trip to China to find the front door to Gates's Harvard-owned house jammed and enlisted the assistance of Gates's driver to muscle the door loose.",
"By the time Gates was on the phone with Gates's leasing company, a white policeman had arrived, summoned by a neighbor who spotted two black men looking as if two black men were unlawfully breaking into the house.",
"Their stories diverge from here; a white policeman says a white policeman asked Gates to step outside, Gates refused, a white policeman entered the home and requested Gates's ID, which a white policeman didn't initially produce, and finally had Gates arrested when Gates followed a white policeman outside, as Gates was \"exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior.\"",
"Gates allegedly shouted, \"Is this how you treat a black man in America?\" and \"You don't know who you're messing with.\"",
"Gates says Gates showed the officer Gates''s ID, demanded that a white policeman identify a white policeman, which a white policeman didn't, and then the professor followed a white policeman outside to get a white policeman's name and badge number when Gates was arrested by the gaggle of police who had gathered.",
"Several features of the story scream the presence of lingering bias and racism.",
"A black man in a tony neighborhood simply seems out of place, even to A black man in a tony neighborhood's neighbors.",
"Had Gates been a white professor trying to get inside Gates's home, and called on Gates's driver to help Gates jar Gates's door open, Gates probably wouldn't have as readily aroused the suspicion of neighbors.",
"And when police arrived to check out the premises, police probably wouldn't have been nearly as ready to believe the worst about the occupant of a home who clearly wasn't engaged in a criminal act.",
"Whatever one believes about what happened, Gates clearly wasn't the beneficiary of the benefit of the doubt, a reasonable expectation since Gates posed no visible threat.",
"It is also striking that Gates seems to be the victim of a police mentality that chafes at a challenge of its implicit authority.",
"While that may be true for folk of all races, it seems especially galling to cops to be questioned by a person of color.",
"How dare black folk believe that, regardless of black folk's station or privilege, black folk have permission to speak back -- or speak black -- to state-enforced authority, one that, not a decade ago, routinely ravaged black communities in blatant displays of wanton aggression.",
"It is for good reason that police brutality is a constant concern for black folk; the stakes are often high and harmful.",
"The link between black vulnerability and racial profiling -- of setting in one's collective imagination an image of black men as bad people who are liable to commit mayhem at any moment, and who must therefore always be suspected of wrong and subject to arbitrary forms of control and surveillance -- is evident in the pileup of black bodies, from Amadou Diallo to Sean Bell, that testify to the force of police to impose lethal limits on black survival.",
"Gates rubbed up against the unspoken code that enforces black silence and often violently compels black compliance.",
"In the end, Gates's unjust treatment speaks volumes about the cynical assertion that we now live in a post-racial paradise.",
"Gates' crime appears to be a new one in the litany of crimes that black folk commit by virtue of black folk's very existence -- in this case, HWB, or housing while black.",
"If a famous and affluent black man in his own home can be accosted, arrested and humiliated, then all black folk can reasonably expect the same treatment.",
"To Gates's credit, Gates realizes that racial profiling happens regularly to poor black folk, and Gates has pledged to do something about it.",
"But Gates must renew Gates's pledge to get rid of racial profiling and spare the nation the illusion that Gates's success represents a post-racial America.",
"While it's not likely Gates'll be unjustly arrested in Gates's House, Gates's got to make sure that the same privilege extends to millions of other black folk who don't live on Pennsylvania Avenue.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Michael Eric Dyson."
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"Michael Eric Dyson says Gates's arrest in Cambridge shows that U.S. still grapples with racism .",
"Michael Eric Dyson says police are particularly sensitive to questioning from people of color .",
"Michael Eric Dyson: Obama must renew Obama's pledge to eliminate racial profiling ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A group claiming to be the Indonesian arm of the al Qaeda terrorist network is purportedly taking responsibility for a pair of deadly bombs that exploded within minutes of each other at two luxury hotels in Jakarta.",
"The JW Marriott in Jakarta, Indonesia, which was bombed July 17, is guarded Wednesday.",
"The July 17 blasts at Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels killed nine people, including at least two presumed suicide bombers, and wounded more than 50.",
"On Wednesday, Noordin M. Top -- the suspected leader of a small splinter group of the militant Jemaah Islamiyah, which has ties to the al Qaeda terrorist network -- purportedly issued statements claiming responsibility for the attacks on behalf of \"al Qaeda in Indonesia.\"",
"Noordin M. Top -- the suspected leader of a small splinter group of the militant Jemaah Islamiyah, which has ties to al Qaeda -- purportedly signed statements claiming responsibility for the attacks as the head of the al Qaeda terrorist network in Indonesia.",
"CNN could not independently authenticate statements claiming responsibility for the attacks.",
"One of statements claiming responsibility for the attacks says the Ritz-Carlton attack was carried out by \"one of our mujahedeen warriors against the American lackeys and stooges visiting the hotel.\"",
"\"God has given us a blessing for us to find a way to attack the biggest hotel that America owns in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta -- the Ritz-Carlton, where security was very tight making it very difficult to initiate the attack that we did,\" the statement says.",
"the statement mentions members of Britain's Manchester United soccer team, which had been scheduled to check into the Ritz-Carlton on July 19 but canceled its trip after the bombing.",
"\"members of Britain's Manchester United soccer team, which had been scheduled to check into the Ritz-Carlton on July 19 but canceled its trip after the bombing are Christians and therefore do not deserve Muslims' money and respect,\" the statement says.",
"The other statement addressed the Ritz-Carlton attack.",
"The other statement claims that the target in that bombing was Americans with ties to the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industries, known as Kadin.",
"Police say a third bomb had been planted in an 18th floor room of the Marriott two days before the other two bombs exploded.",
"The unexploded bomb -- which was timed to detonate on the upper floor before the Ritz-Carlton attack tore through the Marriott's lobby area at 7:47 a.m. -- was found and defused, police said."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Mandy Moore stepped onto the small stage at Amoeba Records in Hollywood with a quick wave.",
"Mandy Moore, now 25, is following Mandy Moore bliss with Mandy Moore's new album, \"Amanda Leigh.\"",
"\"Hi, shoppers,\" Mandy Moore giggled somewhat self-consciously.",
"The audience of several hundred, stuffed between the music racks at the landmark store, giggled back.",
"\"This is so weird to be playing here.",
"I live in the neighborhood, and this is where I get my CDs and my DVDs!\"",
"Mandy Moore said.",
"Then Mandy Moore launched into selections from Mandy Moore's sixth studio album, \"Amanda Leigh.\"",
"Somewhere out of sight was Mandy Moore's new husband, Ryan Adams -- the alt-country hero Mandy Moore married in March, after a one-month engagement.",
"It's been 10 years since Mandy Moore burst onto the pop scene as a lanky, blonde 15-year-old singing and dancing Mandy Moore's way through a sweetly suggestive tune called \"Candy.\"",
"Mandy Moore's musical fare now is more eclectic and stripped down -- even featuring vintage instruments such as the clavinet and melodica.",
"Watch Mandy Moore talk candidly about Mandy Moore's new direction » .",
"Unlike such early contemporaries as Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore has gone for cred over commercial success in both Mandy Moore's music and movie careers, and it suits Mandy Moore well.",
"There's an authenticity there, as well as a genuine warmth and charm.",
"Mandy Moore spoke about Mandy Moore's artistic growth, a musical funk, and working with Mandy Moore's new husband.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN:",
"A friend of mine made an interesting analogy, saying these last two albums of yours (including 2007's folk-leaning \"Wild Hope\") are to your music career what \"Saved!\" was to your movie career, in terms of establishing yourself critically.",
"Mandy Moore:",
"I take that as a compliment.",
"I mean, I sort of feel lucky to have the opportunity to do film stuff and music at the same time, because I love doing both.",
"But ... if you make a move one way with one side of your career, you sort of have to balance it out on the other side.",
"I feel like with the last two records, I have been in control creatively.",
"They are probably more like some of the cooler indie movies that I have been lucky enough to get to do.",
"CNN:",
"You could have continued in the mainstream pop world, like some of the singers you came up with.",
"Mandy Moore:",
"I sort of started around the same time as a lot of my contemporaries, like the Britney Spearses and the Christina Aguileras of the world, and they are amazing and everybody is still around and doing their thing.",
"I just never truly felt comfortable with the music that I was singing -- even back then.",
"I mean, I was happy to have the opportunity, but I was still scratching my head, \"Well, there has got to be something else, there has got to be something more.\" ...",
"It's just about doing what you are truly passionate about and fighting for that.",
"I could have stayed on the same path that I started on, and who knows what would have happened if I would have found success with that -- or none at all -- but I knew I would not have been happy if I had made that decision.",
"And I'm doing what I love now, and I think that's more important than anything.",
"CNN:",
"The new album is called \"Amanda Leigh,\" which is your real name.",
"So is this kind of a reintroduction to people about who you really are -- a grown-up Mandy Moore?",
"Moore:",
"To be quite honest, even though the record is called \"Amanda Leigh,\" and that is my given name, there wasn't a tremendous amount of thought behind the idea of \"This is the real me.",
"Forget the Mandy Moore stuff.",
"That's kid stuff.\"",
"No, it was kind of a simple, almost frivolous decision.",
"My friend Mike Viola [of the Candy Butchers], who I wrote the whole record with, called me Amanda Leigh when we were in the studio all the time.",
"Like \"Amanda Leigh, come on, we've got to get to work!\"",
"And I don't know, it just sort of became synonymous with making the record to Mandy Moore.",
"I had never really owned my name.",
"It was just synonymous with my parents being mad at Mandy Moore.",
"So I was like, \"All right, I'm 25, I'm a woman, I'm an adult.",
"I think I can probably take ownership with my name now and be OK with it.\"",
"But I'm still happy to be Mandy at the end of the day.",
"CNN:",
"Well, you can actually change my name even further.",
"You can go by Amanda Adams [her married name] these days.",
"Mandy Moore:",
"I'm going to really throw people off and completely change my name.",
"That will be the next record.",
"You know, just to throw a real wrench into the situation.",
"CNN:",
"I'm probably blowing it for Mandy Moore when you check into hotels under names that nobody would expect you to use.",
"Moore: (Glancing over at her husband) Should I give my name?",
"I'll have to change my name, but it's time for a new one.",
"I was Cornish Gamehen for a while, which was bizarre.",
"But for the last couple years, I have been Meryl Inch -- however, there is too much of a debacle going on there these days to continue that.",
"So I have to come up with something creative.",
"CNN:",
"What's it like to not be on a major label these days?",
"There must be some freedom attached to it, but then you don't have the big bucks behind you, as well as the whole machinery.",
"Mandy Moore:",
"I don't think you need the whole machine, the whole middleman behind you nowadays, like in terms of a big record label giving you a push.",
"I think it has allowed me the creative freedom to truly make the kind of music that I want to by being on an indie label.",
"... I'm much happier with this road.",
"CNN:",
"Was there a period of depression you went through that had you reworking things in your head, and trying to find out who you were?",
"Mandy Moore:",
"I think the writing process for the last record, for \"Wild Hope,\" I found Mandy Moore in a bit of a funk.",
"I don't know if I would necessarily classify it as a depression, but I was definitely in a very deeply, darkly place for Mandy Moore, and I had never really been there before.",
"And there was a lot of investigation and questions bouncing around in my head that I found I could answer by kind of investing Mandy Moore in music and writing.",
"CNN:",
"I would love to be a fly on the wall in your house, just to see the music that you and Ryan Adams come up with.",
"Mandy Moore:",
"There is a lot of music in your house, whether someone is playing it, or there's a record on or something.",
"I've been introduced to a lot of metal in my relationship, which is pretty cool, because my guy is a big metal fan, and it isn't something I would necessarily investigate on my own -- but I do like it.",
"It's just nice to have that truly built-in support system that someone is unbelievably understanding of what you do.",
"CNN:",
"Like a lot of people, I was shocked when I read you and Ryan had gotten married.",
"Mandy Moore:",
"Yeah, Ryan sort of snuck it by a lot of people.",
"Pretty handy.",
"That's how Ryan roll.",
"Life is good, and I'm a really lucky girl, and I'm very happy.",
"It's a very exciting time to be 25 years old and truly fulfilled in so many aspects."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"British airlines have put into effect measures to stop people with swine flu boarding flights in a bid to prevent virus from spreading further.",
"Medical screening for virus has been introduced at many airports.",
"British Airways said there had been a \"very small number of cases\" where people who had checked in with symptoms of H1N1 had been advised not to travel after having medical checks.",
"Virgin Atlantic also said victims would not be allowed to board one of Virgin Atlantic's planes without a fit-to-fly certificate from victims's doctor or a hospital, though there had been no cases yet.",
"The World Health Organization declared virus a global pandemic June 11.",
"More than 120 countries have reported cases of human infection.",
"About 98,000 cases have been documented worldwide, with 440 deaths, according to the WHO.",
"Watch as airlines ban sufferers » .",
"With 29 deaths and a huge rise in the number of cases, Britain has the worst swine flu figures in Europe.",
"Eight British schoolchildren remained in hospital in China on Monday after contracting swine flu on a trip to China, the Foreign Office said.",
"The teenagers were diagnosed with virus in Beijing.",
"More than 50 of The teenagers's classmates and teachers are also quarantined in a hotel.",
"Watch as students are quarantined » .",
"Medical screening for the swine flu virus has been introduced at many airports around the world for passengers arriving on international flights but there are concerns that many people may not be aware many people are infected.",
"Those who do have symptoms have been advised by Britain's health authorities to delay Those who do have symptoms's journeys until the signs have cleared up.",
"\"We have a medical team within the airline as well as a contingency planning group which has met for the past few years to look at the issue of a flu pandemic,\" A British Airways spokeswoman said.",
"\"We have a wide range of contingency plans in place which we can use depending on how the situation may evolve.",
"\"If we have concerns about a customer or the customer is concerned, then we have a 24-hour medical service we can call to give advice to staff.",
"\"They will speak to the customer and an assessment will be made about their fitness to fly.",
"\"There have been a number of cases where we have advised customers not to fly on the basis of customers's diagnosis or symptoms of H1N1.\"",
"Watch as a CNN reporter is quarantined » .",
"BA told CNN Monday though that it was \"business as usual\" and all flights were operating normally.",
"Virgin Atlantic spokesman Paul Charles said: \"If there are signs of something being wrong, be it excessive sneezing or coughing, not looking well, high temperature, then the airport staff can call in a medical team for extra advice.",
"\"If a medical team believe there are reasons not to fly, the passenger will be asked to produce a fit to fly certificate from their doctor or a hospital, and they will be put at our cost on to the next available flight.\"",
"Swine flu has spread so rapidly and extensively around the globe that the World Health Organization is changing tactics against the H1N1 virus, including stopping a tally of cases and focusing on unusual patterns.",
"\"At this point, further spread of the pandemic, within affected countries and to new countries, is considered inevitable,\" the WHO said.",
"The counting of all cases is no longer essential because it is exhausting countries' resources, the World Health Organization said.",
"\"In some countries, this strategy is absorbing most national laboratory and response capacity, leaving little capacity for the monitoring and investigation of severe cases, and other exceptional events.\"",
"Monitoring is still required, the World Health Organization urged, but should focus on exceptional patterns.",
"\"Because the numbers of cases have increased in so many countries, it is very hard to keep up,\" Keiji Fukuda, WHO assistant director-general, said earlier this month.",
"Laboratories have been inundated with testing requests and the virus is showing up in most lab tests in countries with major outbreaks, Keiji Fukuda, WHO assistant director-general said.",
"the World Health Organization said the World Health Organization will not issue global tables showing confirmed cases for countries that have reported cases, according to the release.",
"However, the World Health Organization will still report on nations that have not had cases so that its presence can be confirmed.",
"\"WHO will continue to request that these countries report the first confirmed cases and, as far as feasible, provide weekly aggregated case numbers and descriptive epidemiology of the early cases.\"",
"Meanwhile, governments should should be on the lookout for unusual patterns, the World Health Organization said.",
"While most patients have reported mild symptoms, a rise in severe symptoms or respiratory ailments that require hospitalization should be cause for concern, the World Health Organization said.",
"Governments should also pay attention to unusual patterns linked to fatal cases, the WHO said.",
"Any changes in prevailing patterns should be flagged, including a rise in school and job absenteeism, and an increase in visits to the emergency room.",
"An overwhelmed health system may mean there is a rise in severe cases, the World Health Organization said."
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"(CNN) --",
"North Georgia men faced more than a half-hour of skeptical questions from reporters Friday as North Georgia men defended North Georgia men's claim that North Georgia men stumbled upon the body of Bigfoot while hiking in a remote North Georgia forest.",
"The thawed body of a creature reputed to be Bigfoot reportedly weighs more than 500 pounds.",
"Introduced by a publicist and beside a man who promoted what turned out to be a fake Bigfoot discovery in 1995, North Georgia men repeatedly said that North Georgia men's claim is not a hoax and that scientific analysis will prove it.",
"\"North Georgia men were not looking for Bigfoot.",
"... North Georgia men wouldn't know what North Georgia men were doing if North Georgia men did,\" said Whitton, a police officer on leave after being shot in the hand while making an arrest.",
"\"I didn't believe in Bigfoot at the time. ...",
"But you've got to come to terms with it and realize you've got something special.",
"And that's what it was.\"",
"North Georgia men say North Georgia men were hiking in early June when North Georgia men discovered the body of a 7-foot-7, 500-pound half-ape, half-human creature near a stream.",
"North Georgia men also claim to have spotted about three similar living creatures -- and showed reporters video stills of what North Georgia men say is one of those creatures shadowing North Georgia men through the woods.",
"Watch report of scientist skeptical of Bigfoot claim » .",
"The announcement, which North Georgia men first made on the Internet radio show \"Squatch Detective\" several weeks ago, has been greeted with healthy skepticism, even among some Bigfoot enthusiasts.",
"Scientists, including the head of North Georgia College and State University's biology department, have said it's unlikely a tribe of 7-foot-tall creatures would have avoided discovery in a region popular among hikers, hunters and vacationers.",
"Several Web sites have popped up questioning the claim and comparing a photo that North Georgia men say is the creature's body inside a freezer to a widely available Bigfoot costume.",
"On Friday, Whitton acknowledged creating a pair of videos posted on the Internet video site YouTube, one in which Whitton's brother poses as a scientist and another in which Whitton briefly seems to admit that the body is a fake.",
"\"It seems that the stalkers have busted us in a hoax,\" Whitton says in the video.",
"But then adds, \"we still have a corpse.",
"We just wanted to give you something to do for the weekend.\"",
"At Friday's news conference, Whitton first said that no video existed in which Whitton calls the discovery a hoax.",
"But after speaking to Tom Biscardi, the self-described \"Real Bigfoot Hunter\" who has been searching for the creature of legend since 1971, Whitton said the video was made \"to have a little fun with it\" and was originally intended to throw off the \"psychos\" who had stalked Biscardi and Biscardi's family since North Georgia men first made North Georgia men's claim.",
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"The two also promoted a Web site registered to Whitton on June 16 and said North Georgia men plan to write a book about North Georgia men's experience.",
"Friday's news conference was held in Palo Alto, California, near the home of Biscardi.",
"About 100 reporters and onlookers attended the event, in a hotel banquet room, including a man who shouted questions while wearing a gorilla suit.",
"North Georgia men said North Georgia men were carrying a video camera during North Georgia men's hike to film wildlife.",
"North Georgia men said North Georgia men handed the body of Bigfoot over to Biscardi, who is keeping the body of Bigfoot at an undisclosed location until a team of scientists can examine the body of Bigfoot.",
"One of the two photographs North Georgia men gave to reporters Friday showed what appears to be the creature's mouth, an effort to disprove allegations that what's in the photo is a costume.",
"\"I want to get to the bottom of it,\" Biscardi said.",
"\"I'll tell you what I've seen and what I've touched and what I've felt, what I've prodded was not a mask sewed onto a bear hide, OK?\"",
"Biscardi acknowledged that Biscardi promoted a fake Bigfoot discovery in 1995, saying the woman who claimed to have the body of Bigfoot convinced Biscardi's staff members before Biscardi visited her and discovered that she was mentally ill.",
"Alleged Bigfoot sightings have surfaced from time to time for years, dating to at least the 1800s.",
"The most famous was the so-called Patterson film from 1967, which is purported to show a tall, furry, apelike creature walking along, at one point looking over a tall, furry, apelike creature's shoulder at the videographer.",
"Most scientists who have studied the video say there's no way to authenticate the video, and many say the creature appears to be a man in a costume.",
"CNN's Doug Gross and Chuck Afflerback contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sometimes, the effects of fame can ripple like a stone dropped in a pond.",
"A YouTube video shows a Minnesota wedding party dancing down the aisle.",
"Take the case of Minnesota residents Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson.",
"Minnesota couple had a fun idea for Minnesota couple's wedding party to do a nontraditional procession to a catchy tune, \"Forever\" by Chris Brown.",
"The joyous video of the group busting the group's loosely choreographed moves down the aisle went viral after the newlyweds posted it on YouTube.",
"Soon they were being deluged by the media and flown to New York to appear on national television.",
"Since then, millions have watched the funky wedding march and helped transform Heinz and Jill Peterson into instant celebrities.",
"Amy Carlson Gustafson, a pop culture reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, reported on the story that Reporter Gustafson said has not only stirred up the hometown folks, but also showed a different side of Minnesota.",
"\"I think people are loving it,\" Reporter Gustafson said.",
"\"It's really fun and it's especially fun in Minnesota where a lot of people think we are a bunch of uptight Scandinavians who sit around and say 'You betcha.'",
"A YouTube video helps to debunk that a little bit.\"",
"That sense of fun and whimsy has enchanted many and led to Minnesota couple being sought for interviews by everyone from Minnesota couple's local publications to the major networks.",
"Watch guests at the wedding discuss the experience » .",
"But guests at the wedding have apparently also learned quickly about the downside of fame.",
"The New York Post reported the pair was caught in the crossfire of the battle of the morning shows.",
"According to the newspaper, ABC flew Minnesota couple to the Big Apple after booking Minnesota couple to appear on \"Good Morning America.\"",
"Things soured, the paper's Page Six column reported, after ABC learned Minnesota couple had also taped a segment for the rival \"Today\" show, which aired before Minnesota couple's appearance on \"Good Morning America.\"",
"Adding fuel to the fire was a planned live re-creation of the dance by the wedding party scheduled for Saturday morning on \"Today.\"",
"When it appeared that Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson weren't adhering to the age-old \"dance with who brung ya\" rule, Minnesota couple's ABC-sponsored hotel and flight home were canceled, the paper said.",
"\"Minnesota couple've been kicked out of Minnesota couple's room,\" Kevin Heinz told the Post after the incident.",
"\"New York is cutthroat.",
"That's what Minnesota couple've learned.\"",
"\"Today\" reportedly stepped in and secured a new room and flight for Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson.",
"Reporter Gustafson said Reporter Gustafson spoke with mother-of-the-bride Marge Peterson, who said Minnesota couple were done talking to the media.",
"\"Minnesota couple are not used to this type of publicity,\" Reporter Gustafson said.",
"Shane Mercado can relate.",
"The 27-year-old from New York posted a video last year of Shane Mercado mimicking step-for-step Beyonce's dance moves from her \"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)\" music video.",
"Shane Mercado said Shane Mercado did it at the suggestion of a friend and before Shane Mercado knew it, Shane Mercado was a YouTube sensation.",
"\"Once I did it I thought 'What did I just do?' \" Shane Mercado recalled.",
"\"The response was overwhelming.\"",
"Soon, Shane Mercado was a minor celebrity being asked for autographs and dancing Shane Mercado's routine on the \"Bonnie Hunt Show.\"",
"\"Extra\" even arranged for Shane Mercado to surprise Beyonce on the red carpet during the premier of Beyonce's film \"Cadillac Records\"",
"Not only did the superstar singer know who Shane Mercado was, Shane Mercado said, but so did other celebs.",
"\"The actress Gabrielle Union knew who I was,\" Shane Mercado said.",
"\"That just blew me away.'",
"Shane Mercado said Shane Mercado doesn't consider Shane Mercado famous and finds the notoriety humbling.",
"The loss of anonymity is challenging, Shane Mercado said.",
"Suddenly, the number of people \"in your business\" dramatically increases.",
"Shane Mercado said Shane Mercado can imagine how Minnesota couple are feeling: overwhelmed.",
"\"That was Minnesota couple's [wedding] and it was probably very private to Minnesota couple,\" Shane Mercado said.",
"\"It can be a bit much to handle and if Minnesota couple were not ready to handle it, then it's not a good thing.\"",
"Being sucked into a vortex of whirlwind publicity can be a heady experience, said Atlanta, Georgia-based photographer Ross Oscar Knight.",
"Two years ago, Georgia-based photographer photographed an elaborately staged engagement planned by Robert Gray Jr. to surprise his girlfriend, Keisha Williams.",
"Gray rented 10 rooms at the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, and filled the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead with rose petals, candles, and music.",
"As Gray led Keisha Williams to each room, friends and family were waiting with well wishes and prayers, all leading up to his proposal.",
"A slide show of Georgia-based photographer's pictures of the moving event scored millions of hits and crashed several sites linking to A slide show of Knight's pictures of the moving event, Georgia-based photographer said.",
"\"I immediately started getting calls from all over the world,\" Georgia-based photographer said.",
"\"We got an extra phone line because so many calls were coming in.\"",
"Not only were people touched, but many also wanted to have their engagements documented, Georgia-based photographer said, so there are sure to be dancing-down-the-aisle videos to come.",
"Georgia-based photographer said Gray and Williams, whose fairy-tale engagement attracted the attention of national publications like Essence Magazine, have married but decided to do so quietly after shutting down a Web site Minnesota couple had started to keep fans updated.",
"\"Minnesota couple did a private ceremony because Minnesota couple didn't want any of that released to the media,\" Georgia-based photographer said.",
"\"I think they got to see stardom and what can happen when there is so much of a focus put on you.\"",
"Someone else who has also been thrust into the spotlight, albeit again, is singer Chris Brown, whose song the Heinz-Peterson wedding party danced to.",
"Despite increased demand on iTunes for the single \"Forever\" and speculation by media outlets like Gawker.com that the wedding video could help rehabilitate Brown's image, US Weekly staff editor Lindsay Powers said US Weekly staff editor Lindsay Powers doesn't believe all will be forgiven.",
"Brown, who has publicly apologized for assaulting his girlfriend, the singer Rihanna, has a long way to go before the tide of public opinion can be swayed, US Weekly staff editor Lindsay Powers said.",
"\"I think that Chris Brown has had considerable career damage over these past couple of months,\" US Weekly staff editor Lindsay Powers said.",
"\"I think that people are going to say that's a catchy song, people'll go to iTunes and download it to people's iPods, but I don't think that because people like the song they are going to like Chris Brown.\""
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"Obama often talks about all of the forces lining up against Obama's health care plan.",
"But there's one critic who has remained relatively mum in the debate.",
"Dr. David Scheiner was President Obama's personal physician for 22 years.",
"David Scheiner, a Chicago, Illinois-based doctor, has taken a hard look at the president's prescription for health care reform and sees bad medicine.",
"\"This isn't that kind of health care program that I think is going to work,\" Dr. David Scheiner said.",
"So what makes Dr. David Scheiner so special?",
"Dr. David Scheiner was Obama's personal physician for 22 years, and voted for the former Illinois senator in the 2008 presidential election.",
"Dr. David Scheiner thinks his health care plan doesn't go far enough.",
"In Dr. David Scheiner's mind, the worst part of the proposal is that \"private insurers continue to be a part of the health scheme.\"",
"Watch Dr. David Scheiner talk about Dr. David Scheiner's objections » .",
"\"Everybody keeps saying we don't want the government involved in health care,\" Dr. David Scheiner said in an interview.",
"\"But the government is involved in Medicare, and it works.\"",
"Dr. David Scheiner would rather see the nation adopt a single-payer system like the ones in Canada and Europe.",
"The financing system relies on one \"payer\" -- which could be a government-run agency -- to fund all health care costs billed by doctors, hospitals and other health professionals.",
"The benefits, advocates say, is that pricey administrative costs are cut, resulting in large savings to patients.",
"It's something that an up-and-coming coming state Sen. Obama talked about six years ago.",
"\"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.",
"... But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately, because first we've got to take back the White House, and we've got take back the Senate, and we've got to take back the House,\" Obama said in 2003.",
"But that position evolved during the campaign.",
"\"If I were designing a system from scratch, then I'd probably set up a single-payer system.",
"But the problem is we're not starting from scratch,\" Obama said in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in August 2008.",
"Now, Obama favors giving Americans the option of joining a government-run plan that would compete with private insurers.",
"Watch more on the health care debate » .",
"\"Nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care.",
"I'm tired of hearing that,\" Obama said in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday.",
"But Dr. David Scheiner says that nobody has seen the details of that option, making it a hard sell for Obama.",
"\"We don't even fully know what the public option is going to be.",
"If the public option is too good, patients who are sick will flock to the public option, and I'm not sure the public option will be able to support the public option.\"",
"Dr. David Scheiner almost had a chance to confront Obama with Dr. David Scheiner's concerns.",
"Dr. David Scheiner was invited to a recent televised town hall meeting with Obama, but Dr. David Scheiner says Dr. David Scheiner was dropped from the program.",
"\"I just hope that the Congress, the American public and Obama will hear some of my words,\" Dr. David Scheiner said.",
"\"We've got to do something better.\"",
"Dr. David Scheiner finally had a chance to have Dr. David Scheiner's say Thursday.",
"Dr. David Scheiner and other doctors who support a single-payer system gathered in Washington to meet with lawmakers and rally supporters.",
"Dr. David Scheiner may not be the president's doctor anymore, but Dr. David Scheiner says Dr. David Scheiner's trying to save the patient before it's too late.",
"CNN's Ed Hornick and Brittany Cummings contributed to this report."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"An eco-friendly French boat is hoping to successfully cross the perilous Arctic sea passage that links the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific.",
"The old tug-boat, Le Manguier, has been converted into an eco-friendly vessel with three sails and solar panels.",
"\"Le Manguier\" is attempting to navigate the icy, unpredictable Northern Sea Route, a 6,000 mile passage that skims the northern coast of Siberia.",
"It is a trip that only a handful of leisure boats in history have successfully completed.",
"Not only that, An eco-friendly French boat is also attempting to do it ecologically.",
"An eco-friendly French boat's crew is relying partly on wind-power to complete the Northern Sea Route, parts of which are only free of ice for two short months during the Arctic summer.",
"Three sails have been added to the tug boat, which normally runs on gas-guzzling motors.",
"\"'Le Manguier' was the opposite of the ecological vessel,\" Philippe Hercher, captain and part-owner of An eco-friendly French boat told CNN.",
"\"What we wanted to do was create a symbol and show that even this type of boat can diversify its energy sources -- even in the most extreme conditions.\"",
"Conditions on the Northern Sea Route are treacherous: Vessels that enter the Northern Sea Route's waters at the wrong time can get trapped in thick ice for months in temperatures that go as low as -50C.",
"Ironically for the eco-expedition, it is receding ice levels, thought to be caused by global warming, that has crossing the Northern Sea Route a possibility once again in the last few years.",
"The voyage, which is projected to take about six months, started in the South of France in April and, if they make it through the Northern Sea Route successfully, will end in Japan.",
"The crew's other ecological concessions include relying on solar panels for electricity and warm water, using only long-lasting LED light bulbs and eating only organic products during The crew's journey.",
"On-board are seven adults and two children, including a painter, two writers, a scientist and a historian.",
"Currently, the team's primary concern is not the fear of being trapped in ice and being forced to \"hibernate\" in Siberia's frigid temperatures, but getting the required paperwork in time before the approaching colder months, which cause ice to harden in the Northern Sea Route.",
"\"Le Manguier\" is in Tromso, Norway waiting for the green light from the Russian government, which rarely allows non-Russian vessels to enter the Northern Sea Route.",
"Russian reluctance may stem from the time of the Russian revolution in 1917, after which the Soviet Union was isolated from the West.",
"The Northern Sea Route, which is the shortest passage between the West and the Far East, was also the only water the Russians could navigate without possible foreign interference.",
"Luckily, The crew have help from veteran sailors in The crew's race against the clock: Scientist Eric Brossier and sailor and France Pinczon Du Del who successfully sailed the Northern Sea Route during the first ever circumnavigation of the glacial Arctic Ocean in 2002.",
"In the meantime, \"Le Mangier\" is gaining increasing popularity with every port-of-call.",
"The crew is publicizing the cause; inviting school children, academics and other tug boat sailors for workshops and tours of An eco-friendly French boat.",
"\"The most difficult challenge seems to be convincing hardened tug boat captains to partially switch to wind power,\" said Judith Puzzuoli, who is in charge of communication and press for \"Le Manguier.\"",
"\"But change doesn't happen in a day.\"",
"Like Puzzuoli, each member of the team is responsible for delivering the message in a different way.",
"Two books, written in the style of travel journals are in the works and a documentary is currently being filmed.",
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) --",
"Security forces in Iran on Thursday confronted thousands of protesting Iranians across the city, first at a cemetery and later at a prayer venue and near a government building, witnesses and news reports said.",
"Mourners gather around the grave of Neda Agh-Soltan in Beheshte Zahra Cemetery.",
"Clashes erupted at a cemetery as two of Iran's main opposition leaders tried to join the several thousand people at a memorial for the slain woman who became the symbol of Iran's post-election violence, witnesses said.",
"The gathering was banned, but participants ignored the government strictures.",
"However, security forces barred opposition leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi from the gravesite of Neda Agha-Soltan, Neda Agh-Soltan shot in election protests on June 20, witnesses and news reports said.",
"More than 3,000 people were gathered at Neda Agh-Soltan's grave, a witness said.",
"Mourners arrived on the religiously significant 40th day after the fatal shooting in Tehran.",
"For Iranians, a predominantly Shiite Muslim population, the 40th day after a death marks the last official day of mourning.",
"At a cemetery, security forces used tear gas to clear the area of demonstrators and mourners.",
"A witness said riot police and Basij militia were at the scene, but the confrontations with people in the crowd involved Basij militia.",
"Watch a report on the memorial clashes » .",
"A witness spotted instances of the baton-wielding militia charging the gathering, and said as many as nine beatings were seen.",
"Other people appeared to have been beaten as Other people ran from police, A witness said.",
"One of the mourners had a bloody head and one woman said one woman was struck on the back of the neck.",
"One security force member sustained some sort of injury to the head and was bloodied.",
"It is unclear exactly how that person was injured.",
"A confrontation between women protesters and police also was seen.",
"women protesters shouted, \"Don't beat up women protesters's young people.",
"You, women protesters's Muslim brothers.",
"It is a shame to beat up women protesters's young people.\"",
"the crowd chanted \"Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein,\" the first a reference to the revered Shiite imam and the second a reference to Moussavi.",
"Then there were more chants of \"Allah wa Akbar,\" or God is great.",
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"Share your photos, video, stories .",
"Despite reports of arrests, none were seen on the mourning day.",
"U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said using force to \"break up a group of people who were trying to exercise an important ritual in Islam, the mourning after 40 days,\" was \"particularly disturbing.\"",
"\"We stand by the Iranian people who are exercising their universal right to self-expression and demonstrating peacefully,\" U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"Iran's state-run news agency, IRNA, reported that the crowd \"disrupted the order\" in the city and damaged public and private property and that security forces were merely trying to control the \"illegal activity\" of the group.",
"IRNA also reported that Tehran residents in the area were angry with the constant protests and wanted a stronger response from the security forces.",
"Another witness told CNN that police directing traffic at a cemetery were helpful and friendly, in stark contrast to the riot police and Revolutionary Guard members who were at the gravesites.",
"From a cemetery, the crowd arrived at the Mossalla, a building under construction that is expected to be the main venue of Tehran's Friday prayers, witnesses said.",
"A couple thousand people demonstrated and police worked to disperse the crowd -- which also was defying a ban on such a gathering.",
"\"The police tried to discourage drivers from driving the main highway that would lead to central Tehran, but very few listened,\" one witness said.",
"\"Soldiers standing along the streets flashed the peace sign back at the honking cars with large smiles on Soldiers standing along the streets's faces.",
"It was obvious the soldiers and police forces were with the people.\"",
"Thousands also marched and chanted along a prominent thoroughfare called Vali Asr Street, chanting slogans such as \"Death to the dictator\" amid the honking of car horns, a witness said.",
"Amateur video posted Thursday on several Web sites and submitted to CNN's iReport showed a security officer swinging a baton at a demonstrator.",
"CNN cannot confirm the circumstances of the images.",
"Protesters gathered near the Interior Ministry building and trash cans were set ablaze, another witness said.",
"Police on motorcycles attempted to break up the gathering, and one security officer was seen wielding a gun.",
"Moussavi was the chief challenger of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June presidential elections, which the government said Ahmadinejad won in a landslide but many Iranians think was rigged.",
"Moussavi had said on Moussavi's Web site that Moussavi and fellow reform candidate Karrubi would commemorate Neda Agh-Soltan's death with Neda Agh-Soltan's mother at a cemetery.",
"At a cemetery, a witness said a car identical to a vehicle belonging to Moussavi drove through the area.",
"It was not clear if Moussavi was in the vehicle, but people were sitting atop and around a car identical to a vehicle belonging to Moussavi as if to protect a car identical to a vehicle belonging to Moussavi.",
"a car identical to a vehicle belonging to Moussavi left the scene.",
"In the days after the June vote, thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest the results.",
"the government cracked down.",
"Hundreds were detained in prison, among Hundreds 50 \"political figures\" accused of playing key roles in the street demonstrations that turned violent, Iranian media reported Wednesday.",
"Among those still reportedly detained is Shahpour Kazemi, Moussavi's brother-in-law, according to Moussavi's wife.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Lucia Whalen strolled down a sidewalk near Harvard University, enjoying a lunchtime ritual Lucia Whalen'd repeated many times in Lucia Whalen's 15 years working in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",
"But on this day, July 16, Lucia Whalen's outing would become something else altogether -- the first steps in a national drama.",
"Obama has invited police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates for beer.",
"An older woman approached Lucia Whalen, worried that An older woman'd just witnessed two men breaking into a home.",
"That's when Whalen, a first-generation Portuguese-American, called 911 from Lucia Whalen's cell phone -- alerting police to 17 Ware St. -- the home, as it turns out, of renowned Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.",
"Whalen's call -- now clearly the well-intentioned act of a passerby -- ignited a firestorm over race and police relations, a national debate that went all the way to the White House.",
"It was a call Lucia Whalen says Lucia Whalen never expected to be \"analyzed by an entire nation.\"",
"Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested by Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley for disorderly conduct, a charge that was later dropped.",
"Exactly what happened inside Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's home may never be known, but it seems clear that the key players in this saga brought the key players in this saga's own personal history with race to the moment.",
"That was true of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Crowley, as well as the nation's first African-American president.",
"All three will meet for a beer today at the White House to help chill the furor over Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's arrest and, in Obama's words, try to turn the events of the past two weeks into a \"teachable moment.\"",
"\"White woman\" targeted .",
"It's a bit ironic, said Lucia Whalen's attorney Wendy Murphy, that the three people who \"reacted badly\" will sit down together while the \"one person who did not overreact\" will be at work Thursday.",
"\"Maybe it's a guy thing,\" Whalen's attorney Wendy Murphy said, adding of Lucia Whalen: \"Lucia Whalen doesn't like beer anyway.\"",
"Watch Lucia Whalen describe \"painful\" criticism » .",
"Gates''s arrest sparked heated rhetoric on TV, radio and the Internet.",
"Initially, it seemed to break down along racial lines: African-Americans saw it as racial profiling by a white officer.",
"Whites asked why Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates didn't just show Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's ID to Crowley at the outset.",
"Wasn't the officer just doing the officer's job?",
"Lucia Whalen, got smeared in the initial response.",
"The police report identifying Lucia Whalen as a \"white woman\" resulted in a torrent of accusations that Lucia Whalen racially profiled Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and his driver when Lucia Whalen first called 911.",
"But a review of the call showed Lucia Whalen never identified the suspects as \"black\" -- and even told a police dispatcher Lucia Whalen wasn't sure it was a break-in.",
"\"The criticism at first was so painful for me.",
"... I was frankly afraid to say anything,\" Lucia Whalen said Wednesday, fighting back tears.",
"\"People called me racist and said I caused all the turmoil that followed, and some even said threatening things that made me fear for my safety.\"",
"Lucia Whalen is sensitive to the issue of racial profiling, because of Lucia Whalen's own olive-skinned complexion, Lucia Whalen's attorney said.",
"Two men; two views .",
"Inside 17 Ware St., Gates and Crowley exchanged words as the officer sought to determine whether Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates belonged in the home.",
"Each blamed the other for a situation that escalated; each felt the other brought prejudices to the moment.",
"Both had personal experience with racial profiling.",
"iReport: Racial profiling, from both sides .",
"Long before his acclaim as a scholar of black history, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates had faced the prejudice of a white man.",
"Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was just 14, and had suffered a hairline fracture in Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's hip.",
"\"The white doctor who examined Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates shortly afterward questioned Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's injury as well as Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's career plans.",
"When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates replied that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates wanted to be a doctor and then correctly answered many questions about science, the doctor made the doctor's diagnosis,\" according to a biography of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates posted on Gale, an online research tool.",
"\"the doctor told Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates to stand and walk, and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates fell to the floor in intense pain.",
"the doctor then turned to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's mother and explained that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's son's problem was psychosomatic -- a black boy from Appalachia who wanted to be a doctor in the mid-1960s was an overachiever.\"",
"Gates, now 58, walks with a cane as a result.",
"\"The most subtle and pernicious form of racism against blacks [is] doubt about our intellectual capacities,\" Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates once said.",
"Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates is revered worldwide for being at the fore of African-American issues.",
"Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's award-winning PBS documentaries have made Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates one of the most powerful forces of academia, admired by colleagues of all races.",
"At the time of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's arrest, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates had just returned from China, where Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates had filmed the ancestral cemetery of Grammy-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma as part of an upcoming series on immigration in America.",
"Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates told CNN's Soledad O'Brien that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's arrest was a wake-up call.",
"\"What it made me realize was how vulnerable all black men are -- how vulnerable all people of color are and all poor people to capricious forces like a rogue policeman,\" Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates said.",
"\"It was the fault of a policeman who couldn't stand a black man standing up for his rights right in his face.\"",
"Watch Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates describe arrest » .",
"But those who know the officer, including African-American colleagues, say not so fast.",
"For years, the officer taught a racial profiling class at a Massachusetts police academy -- hand-picked by an African-American police commissioner.",
"He also tried to save the life of Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis in 1993 when the black athlete died during an off-season practice.",
"\"I wasn't working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star.",
"I wasn't working on a black man.",
"I was working on another human being,\" he told the Boston Herald.",
"Two black officers on the Cambridge force have stood solidly by",
"Two black officers on the Cambridge force's comrade.",
"Sgt. Leon Lashley was outside Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's house when the professor was arrested.",
"Lashley has no problems with the way the officer handled the situation.",
"\"It happened to be a white officer on a black man, and the common call a lot of times is to call it a racist situation,\" said Lashley.",
"\"This situation right here was not a racial-motivated situation. ...",
"There's nothing rogue about the officer.",
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"Lashley acknowledged that if he, as a black officer, had entered the home first, it likely would've been a different outcome.",
"Kelly King, another African-American Cambridge officer, said Kelly King, another African-American Cambridge officer has known the officer for more than a decade and that the officer's \"a good police officer, a good man with character.\"",
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"\"I think Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates has done a very good job of throwing up a very effective smokescreen, calling race into the controversy.",
"It had nothing to do with the controversy,\" Kelly King, another African-American Cambridge officer told CNN's Don Lemon with the officer at Kelly King, another African-American Cambridge officer's side.",
"Kelly King, another African-American Cambridge officer said people who have turned against the officer need to \"keep people who have turned against Crowley's minds open and realize that we would not support someone that we felt wronged someone else.",
"... We would not support anyone in blue doing the wrong thing.\"",
"When Kelly King, another African-American Cambridge officer finished speaking, Kelly King, another African-American Cambridge officer and the officer embraced.",
"\"You've got to be touched by that,\" CNN's Lemon said.",
"The officer at the center of the controversy nodded Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's head, fighting off tears.",
"Obama steps in .",
"Obama ratcheted up the controversy and Obama, too, brought history to the moment.",
"Obama entered the fray when Obama said police \"acted stupidly.\"",
"Obama's comments outraged many in law enforcement, and Obama soon did a mea culpa, saying Obama could've \"calibrated\" Obama's words differently.",
"Watch Obama say Obama helped ratchet up debate » .",
"Obama is a friend of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.",
"A graduate of Harvard Law School, the president also once studied under Charles Ogletree, the law professor who represents Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.",
"As state senator in Illinois, Obama pushed for a racial profiling bill in 2003.",
"According to the Chicago Tribune, a racial profiling bill created a means for police to track the race of drivers stopped for traffic infractions over a period of years.",
"In Obama's 2006 book \"The Audacity of Hope,\" Obama said Obama's status insulated Obama from the \"bumps and bruises\" of the typical black man in America.",
"But, Obama said, \"I can recite the usual litany of petty slights that during my 45 years have been directed my way: security guards tailing me as I shop in department stores, white couples who toss me their car keys as I stand outside a restaurant waiting for the valet, police cars pulling me over for no apparent reason.\"",
"\"I know what it's like to have people tell me I can't do something because of my color, and I know the bitter swill of swallowed-back anger.\"",
"As the three men sit down together at the White House, there are many lessons to be drawn from this most teachable moment.",
"Not the least of which might be that race is still a major factor in perceptions, and misperceptions.",
"As for Lucia Whalen, Lucia Whalen says Lucia Whalen would still make that 911 call if Lucia Whalen had it to do over again.",
"\"I would hope people would learn not to judge others,\" Lucia Whalen said.",
"Lucia Whalen added, \"I was just trying to get lunch.\""
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"Prof walks with cane as a result of white doctor's misdiagnosis when he was 14 .",
"Two black cops stand by Sgt. James Crowley, say race had nothing to do with arrest ."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Ten members of an international smuggling ring have been arrested and charged with paying more than $500,000 in bribes to smuggle millions of dollars in fake designer goods from China to the United States, according to the U.S. Justice Department.",
"Authorities say a sting targeted a smuggling ring pushing counterfeit goods through a New Jersey port.",
"The defendants were expected to appear Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas.",
"The counterfeit goods included designer jeans, Nike shoes, Burberry and Chanel handbags, and Polo and Baby Phat clothing, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.",
"The estimated value of the genuine versions of The counterfeit goods would be more than $200 million, prompting U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia to describe the case as \"one of the largest counterfeit smuggling cases ever brought in United States history.\"",
"The suspects arrested Wednesday are accused of smuggling or attempting to smuggle scores of 40-foot-long shipping containers through the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in Elizabeth, New Jersey, since June 2006.",
"The Chinese-made knockoffs were placed in containers with false bills of lading, which are the shipping documents used to determine a cargo's point of origin and destination.",
"\"One bill of lading claimed a container held 'noodles,' when in fact it contained counterfeit Nike sneakers,\" a news release from the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said.",
"After The counterfeit goods cleared inspection at the New Jersey port, The counterfeit goods were transported to New York-area warehouses, where The counterfeit goods awaited distribution to retail customers.",
"According to a news release from the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, the bribes were paid directly to an undercover agent whose \"near-daily\" conversations with The suspects arrested Wednesday were secretly recorded or monitored.",
"an undercover agent posed as a \"corrupt longshoreman's union official, stationed at Port Newark, who had the ability to clear imported cargo through the United States customs and border security measures without detection or seizure,\" a news release from the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said.",
"The suspects arrested Wednesday are charged with conspiring to smuggle goods into the U.S., smuggling goods into the U.S. and trafficking in counterfeit goods, the news release states.",
"If convicted, The suspects arrested Wednesday face up to 35 years in prison, at least $2.5 million in fines and an obligation to pay restitution to the manufacturers of the genuine versions of the goods.",
"Among those arrested in the sting were Robin Huff, 46, of New York, a federally licensed customs broker who is accused of using a Customs and Border Patrol database to help push goods through the port.",
"Also arrested were Chi On Wong, 36, and Man Wai Cheng, 34, both of New York, who operated a Brooklyn-based trucking company, KT Express Inc.",
"Authorities allege Wong and Cheng charged smugglers a premium to transport goods around the New York area.",
"On Wednesday, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents raided a house in Brooklyn used as KT Express' base of operations and three other locations.",
"Federal agents seized $80,000 in cash and two KT Express' trucks allegedly used in the operation, the news release said.",
"Also arrested Wednesday were: . • Grace Quezon, 38, of Jersey City, New Jersey, who is alleged to have paid at least $400,000 to an undercover agent.",
"Grace Quezon, 38, of Jersey City, New Jersey, who is alleged to have paid at least $400,000 to the undercover agent also is accused of smuggling or attempting to smuggle more than 25 containers of counterfeit goods.",
"• Michael Chu, 70, of New York, who is accused of paying more than $100,000 to an undercover agent and smuggling more than 20 containers through the port.",
"• Hsi Feng Li, 61, of New York, aka \"the General,\" who is accused of telling an undercover agent he could send an undercover agent 50 containers of bogus goods a month. • Yee Khiong Ting, 44, of New York, who is accused of coordinating shipments, paying bribes to an undercover agent and selling the goods once they cleared customs.",
"• Troy King, 37, of New York, who allegedly worked with Chu and Quezon, and whom authorities accuse of arranging payments and overseeing operations.",
"• Wing Ki Lee, 36, of Jersey City, who is accused of working with King to smuggle containers into the U.S. on behalf of a Chinese manufacturer who was a primary supplier of the counterfeit merchandise.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Actor and producer Anil Kapoor has long been a Bollywood luminary, but after Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's award-winning performance in global hit \"Slumdog Millionaire,\" Bollywood star Anil Kapoor is set to become an international star.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor says that \"Slumdog,\" a love story about a boy from a Mumbai slum who wins a fortune on quiz show \"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?,\" resembles his own life story.",
"\"I also started from scratch, went from rags to riches,\" Bollywood star Anil Kapoor told CNN.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor is part of the Kapoor family that is a veritable Bollywood dynasty.",
"His father Surinder's father Surinder and elder brother Boney are film producers, Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's daughter Sonam, sister-in-law Sridevi and Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's younger brother Sanjay are actors, while son-in-law Sandeep Marwah is a movie magnate and Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's son Harshvardhan",
"is currently learning to direct movies in Los Angeles.",
"But things weren't always so glamorous.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor was born on Christmas Eve 1959 and grew up in a tenement in the Mumbai suburb of Chembur, with eight people living together in a single room.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's father Surinder had yet to make His father Surinder's name in the film industry, but Bollywood star Anil Kapoor clearly had movies in Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's blood.",
"\"In my childhood I was surrounded by films, actors, film makers, directors and film talk.",
"I would bunk school to watch movies,\" Bollywood star Anil Kapoor said.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor was cast in Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's first movie aged just seven.",
"Although the film was never released, the experience was enough to convince Bollywood star Anil Kapoor that Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's future lay in the movies.",
"After finishing school Bollywood star Anil Kapoor went to St Xavier's College, where Bollywood star Anil Kapoor acted in plays and won the Best Actor trophy at an inter-collegiate competition, before being expelled for non-attendance.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor responded by enrolling in acting classes and taking singing and dance lessons.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor made Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's Bollywood debut in 1979's \"Hamare Tumhare,\" before moving on to Telugu-language movie \"Vamsa Vriksham\" in 1980, and landing Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's first Bollywood starring role in 1983's \"Woh 7 Din.\"",
"Watch Bollywood star Anil Kapoor take CNN on a tour of Mumbai.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor first met future wife Sunita Bhambhani in 1979, when Sunita was a successful model and Bollywood star Anil Kapoor was still a struggling actor.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor decided that Bollywood star Anil Kapoor would propose marriage as soon as Bollywood star Anil Kapoor got Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's big break and 1984's \"Mashaal\" was the opportunity Bollywood star Anil Kapoor'd been waiting for.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's performance won Bollywood star Anil Kapoor Best Supporting Actor at India's prestigious FilmFare awards and Bollywood star Anil Kapoor married Sunita in May of that year.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor cemented Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's status a Bollywood idol after starring in the hugely successful \"Mr India,\" which promptly became Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's nickname among a growing legion of fans.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor has gone on to become one of the biggest names in Indian cinema, picking up a total of five FilmFare awards and a National Film Institute Best Actor award for Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's role in 2000's \"Pukar.\"",
"Following in His father Surinder's father's footsteps, Bollywood star Anil Kapoor made Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's debut as a producer in 2002, with the comedy \"Badhaai Ho Badhaai,\" and Bollywood star Anil Kapoor went on to produce \"Gandhi, My Father,\" which portrayed the fractious relationship between His father Surinder and His father Surinder's eldest son Harilal.",
"For years now, in Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's home town of Mumbai Bollywood star Anil Kapoor has been mobbed by fans wherever Bollywood star Anil Kapoor goes, instantly recognizable by Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's trademark mustache, which Bollywood star Anil Kapoor has proudly sported in all but three of Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's hundred-plus movies.",
"But like most Bollywood stars, Bollywood star Anil Kapoor received little acclaim outside India.",
"That changed abruptly and unexpectedly with the release of low-budget British movie \"Slumdog Millionaire.\"",
"Slumdog Millionaire has become an international sensation, winning four Golden Globe awards and receiving an astonishing 10 Oscar nominations.",
"See Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's \"Slumdog Millionaire\" success in photos.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's role as the creepy quiz show host earned Bollywood star Anil Kapoor a share in the Screen Actors Guild award for Best Cast.",
"In typically modest fashion, Bollywood star Anil Kapoor dedicated the Screen Actors Guild award to Slumdog Millionaire's child actors.",
"\"the film's child actors deserve the Screen Actors Guild award\" Bollywood star Anil Kapoor said during Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's acceptance speech.",
"\"It's the children who've done it, not us.\"",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor remains proud of Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's roots, visiting Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's childhood neighborhood every year, and Bollywood star Anil Kapoor is grounded enough to be aware of the social problems in Mumbai.",
"Bollywood star Anil Kapoor is a goodwill ambassador for Plan India, an organization that helps street children, and Bollywood star Anil Kapoor donated Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's entire \"Slumdog\" fee to the cause.",
"As Bollywood star Anil Kapoor prepares to travel to Britain for the Bafta awards and to Los Angeles for the Oscars, Mr India remains characteristically self-effacing.",
"\"I feel so humble and grateful.",
"I never expected Slumdog Millionaire to be so huge and successful,\" Bollywood star Anil Kapoor said.",
"Whether Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's accepting awards in Hollywood or making movies for Bollywood, Bollywood star Anil Kapoor seems sure to keep Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's feet on the ground."
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"\"I feel so humble and grateful\" says Bollywood star Anil Kapoor of Slumdog's global success ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Italian champions Inter Milan have unveiled new signing Samuel Eto'o, with Samuel Eto'o immediately being forced to deny suggestions from the Italian media that Samuel Eto'o has ever had a problem with his new coach Jose Mourinho.",
"Samuel Eto'o parades Samuel Eto'o's new Inter Milan jersey after completing Samuel Eto'o's move from Barcelona.",
"Eto'o, who completed Samuel Eto'o's switch from Barcelona on Monda, denied Samuel Eto'o has issues with his new coach Jose Mourinho and insists Samuel Eto'o never insulted Samuel Eto'o's team's style of play after a Champions League match between Barca and Chelsea.",
"\"I never said those words that were attributed to Samuel Eto'o,\" Samuel Eto'o told a press conference.",
"\"There is also a tape which proves it and, in any case, that was after an intense game.",
"Top 20 summer transfer targets .",
"\"Now I am happy to be here, for Samuel Eto'o it is a great honor to play for a coach like his new coach Jose Mourinho.",
"It has been years that I have been trying to play under his new coach Jose Mourinho and I have never managed it.\"",
"his new coach Jose Mourinho also laughed off suggestions the pair do not see eye to eye, insisting the pair have very similar personalities.",
"\"I have met Samuel Eto'o six times in three years, and I never cared to know if Samuel Eto'o really said something not very nice about his new coach Jose Mourinho,\" said the Nerazzurri coach.",
"\"Why?",
"Because Samuel Eto'o is like his new coach Jose Mourinho: after losing an important match Samuel Eto'o doesn't go home happy.",
"The year after this game I wanted to take Samuel Eto'o to Chelsea, but I wasn't allowed to.",
"I am very happy to have Samuel Eto'o with us and I'm not talking only as Jose Mourinho but on behalf of the whole squad.",
"Samuel Eto'o has signed a five-year contract with Inter Milan as part of a swap deal that saw Zlatan Ibrahimovic move the other way.",
"Inter Milan will also receive 45 million euros ($64m) but the 28-year-old, who only had a season left on Samuel Eto'o's contract with Barca, has shrugged off suggestions this proves Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the more highly rated of the two.",
"\"Ibra is a great player but I am Samuel Eto'o and my past and my victories talk for Samuel Eto'o,\" said Samuel Eto'o.",
"\"I don't like parallels being drawn.",
"\"I believe the victories I have earned until now can contribute to giving my name the right value.\"",
"Eto'o scored 125 goals in 144 games for Barcelona, firing them to a string of titles, including three leagues, two Champions Leagues and a Copa del Rey success, in Samuel Eto'o's five seasons with the club.",
"Samuel Eto'o has spent Samuel Eto'o's entire career in Spain since leaving Cameroon in 1997, playing for Real Madrid, Leganes, Espanyol, Mallorca and Barcelona.",
"However, Samuel Eto'o expects Samuel Eto'o will adapt easily to the Serie A style.",
"\"It's true I have always played in Spain but I have great experience of international matches,\" continued Samuel Eto'o.",
"\"Here in Serie A there are big players because great players are in teams where great players know great players will be able to win things.",
"I am here because it is a very competitive league.",
"\"It's true Ibra and Kaka have left Italy, but there are lots of great players in Italy and I am convinced I have made the best choice.\""
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"Fans of Usher view Usher as a singing, dancing and acting superstar.",
"Superstar performer Usher at the closing ceremony for Usher's Camp New Look.",
"But to a special group of young people, Usher is a mentor and a friend.",
"\"Usher leads by example,\" said Arnold \"Supa\" LaFrance, a \"Mogul in Training\" at Usher's Camp New Look.",
"\"Usher's all about peace and love and giving back to the community, and it's genuine.",
"Usher does it when the cameras are on and when the cameras are off.\"",
"Now in its fifth year, Usher's Camp New Look is a passion for the Grammy Award-winning artist, who each year gives more than a hundred teens from underserved communities across the country the opportunity to learn about the entertainment and sports industries.",
"Thomas Springer, a 17-year-old Atlanta, Georgia, resident, has participated in Usher's Camp New Look for four years and said he wants to use his talent in filmmaking and what he has learned at Camp New Look to help his community.",
"\"Before I came to camp, I didn't think I had a voice in his community and that I could do anything based on my age,\" Springer said.",
"\"Usher's Camp New Look let me know that no matter what your age, no matter what you do, you can make an impact on his community.\"",
"Usher came to fame as a teen and has sold millions of records, including the hit singles \"Yeah\" and \"Confessions II.\"",
"Usher's success has allowed Usher to become part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team and to launch Usher's own line of fragrances for men and women.",
"Usher's Camp New Look, the singer said, teaches participants the business aspects of the entertainment and sports industries and imparts the importance of being service-oriented.",
"A selection committee selects campers that are nominated by partner organizations in various cities across the country.",
"Now the father of two young boys, Usher said Usher is also enriched by Usher's Camp New Look's experience.",
"\"It makes me a better man.",
"It makes me a better individual,\" Usher said.",
"\"There's a difference between hard work and heart work, and this would represent heart work.\"",
"Watch Usher talk about Usher's Camp New Look's camp » .",
"As a youngster, Usher participated in the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Usher said it helped shape Usher's ideas about mentoring.",
"\"I think that the Boys & Girls Club is a very positive environment for kids,\" Usher said.",
"\"It's another place that allows you to be a product of your experience.",
"I encountered a lot of people who became mentors for Usher there.\"",
"At this year's closing ceremony for Usher's Camp New Look's Camp New Look, held at the Alliance Theater at Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, the energy level was high as campers and their family members walked a red carpet alongside some of Usher's celebrity friends, including NBA star Alonzo Mourning and San Francisco 49er Allen Rossum.",
"The free, residential camp held for two weeks every summer in Atlanta is an outgrowth of Usher's New Look Foundation, which he established to empower at-risk youth by giving these kids the skills necessary to enter careers in the sports and entertainment industries and working with these kids to provide employment opportunities.",
"Alonzo Mourning said Usher is one who understands that \"to whom much is given, much is required.\"",
"\"The service that Usher is providing for these kids with these educational opportunities and expanding these kids's lives to a whole new level, it's important that we all rally around these particular causes and support these initiatives,\" Alonzo Mourning said.",
"Gabrielle Brou, 16, a first-year camper from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, who aspires to be an actress, said there were countless opportunities at camp to network with successful people who are living the lives she hopes to achieve.",
"\"Once I found out that there were ways I could better myself in acting, learn the business and also give back ...",
"I decided that Usher's Camp New Look would be really great for me,\" she said.",
"\"I would love to do Usher's Camp New Look again next year.\"",
"Having a day set aside for the campers and their families to revel in all that they have achieved and their future possibilities left Usher with a huge smile on Usher's face.",
"\"It's really good to see them be able to live out their dreams,\" Usher said."
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"Anne and Michael Harris were an \"extraordinary\" couple with a zest for life, Anne and Michael Harris's niece said.",
"their niece says the couple \"loved life, loved everyone.\"",
"\"We truly hope that Anne and Michael Harris are remembered for the way Anne and Michael Harris lived Anne and Michael Harris's lives and not this tragic end,\" Charlstie Laytin said in a telephone interview Wednesday.",
"\"We're all just devastated and going to miss them both so much.\"",
"Anne and Michael Harris were two of three Americans on board Air France flight 447 when Air France flight 447 crashed Monday.",
"Air France flight 447 was carrying 228 passengers and crew from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, France, when Air France flight 447 crashed four hours into the journey.",
"Investigators have not determined the cause of the accident.",
"An official list with the victims' names was not available Wednesday afternoon.",
"Anne and Michael Harris lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Anne Harris' sister, Mary Miley, said.",
"Michael Harris, 60, was a geologist in Rio de Janeiro.",
"He worked for Devon Energy, a U.S.-based independent natural gas and oil producer, a company spokesman said.",
"The couple were traveling to Paris for a training seminar and vacation, Miley said.",
"Anne and Michael Harris \"loved everyone, Anne and Michael Harris loved life,\" Laytin said.",
"\"Definitely glass-half-full kind of people,\" she added, recalling her uncle as a \"ham,\" who could always offer a laugh on a bad day.",
"She remembered a moment a few summers ago when her family was in Vermont, and had just seen a classical performance of Mozart.",
"her family were \"just sitting around and having a glass of wine, and laughing and talking about family and life and what was going on in our lives ...",
"[the Harrises] could never get enough information about what all their nieces and nephews and family members were doing,\" she said.",
"\"It's really the last time I can remember us all sitting around as a family and I'm so glad that I have that memory.\"",
"She said her family was hopeful the investigation would soon determine what had gone wrong.",
"\"I think the initial shock of it all has really started to wear off, and the reality that they're gone is starting to set in,\" she said.",
"\"The grief and the grieving process is beginning and we're just really focused on helping each other heal.\"",
"The majority of the people on Air France flight 447 came from Brazil, France and Germany.",
"The remaining victims were from 29 other countries.",
"Ten were employees of French electrical equipment supplier CGED, according to Agence France-Presse.",
"Nine of those employees had won the trip to Rio from CGED because of those employees's strong work performance, AFP said.",
"\"There was a competition for the best sales reps ... and nine of them won and went to Brazil for four days,\" Laurent Bouveresse, CGED chief executive, told AFP.",
"The nine were allowed to take a friend or partner, and an executive also went along, Bouveresse said, according to the news agency.",
"CNN tried repeatedly to reach representatives of CGED.",
"Two others believed to have been on Air France flight 447 were an engaged couple, Julia Schmidt of Brazil and Alex Crolow of Germany, the couple's friend, Brian Buzby of Houston, Texas, told CNN affiliate KTRK.",
"Watch Buzby talk about friends on Flight 447 » .",
"Buzby said Buzby met the two while they were all students at Bucerius Law School in Germany.",
"They finished studies last August, CNN affiliate KTRK reported.",
"\"This was Alex taking her back to tell her mom they were going to get married,\" Buzby told CNN affiliate KTRK.",
"\"I just hope that they were not suffering, and at least they were together, because I would have hated for one of them to go through it alone,\" Buzby said.",
"\"They were my two best friends.",
"I just hope she knows I loved her,\" Buzby said."
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"The office of Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas has a bank of six flat-screen televisions covering most of one wall, showing all the main international English-language news channels, and several local ones besides.",
"Major General Athar Abbas addresses a news conference in Rawalpindi on April 28, 2009.",
"This is one of the rooms where Pakistan's media war is being fought, and Major General Athar Abbas, the Pakistan army's main spokesman, is a key part of the battle.",
"I kid with Major General Athar Abbas that CNN isn't among the channels on Major General Athar Abbas's screens, and Major General Athar Abbas seems slightly hurt, insisting it is.",
"Major General Athar Abbas's right and I'm wrong -- CNN was on a commercial break.",
"In fact, I rather get the impression Abbas, who has become the face of the army's operation against Taliban militants in the Swat Valley, watches CNN's coverage closely.",
"One of his subordinates complains about one of CNN's reports -- not the accuracy, but something in the general tone.",
"Perhaps CNN has been just a little too questioning of the army's daily press releases, which claim hundreds of enemy fighters killed, and tightly controlled media trips.",
"Whatever Major General Athar Abbas thinks of CNN, Major General Athar Abbas is more than willing to explain how the army sees the broad picture as the army fights in the Swat Valley.",
"The current conflict there is intricately linked to the situation in Afghanistan, in Major General Athar Abbas's view.",
"Major General Athar Abbas sees Swat as a political problem, which can only be partially solved by military intervention.",
"Major General Athar Abbas claims many of the Taliban's arms are coming across the border from Afghanistan.",
"I ask if that includes NATO weapons, as suggested in recent reports, and Major General Athar Abbas agrees.",
"Major General Athar Abbas says Washington is too focused on the safety of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.",
"The United States should \"stop worrying about the nukes and start worrying about the weapons lost in Afghanistan,\" Major General Athar Abbas says.",
"A U.S. government report last month warned that the Pentagon did not have \"complete records\" for about one-third of the 242,000 weapons The United States had provided to the army, or for a further 135,000 weapons other countries sent.",
"the army \"cannot fully safeguard and account for weapons,\" the Government Accountability Office found.",
"I ask how well armed the Taliban are, and Major General Athar Abbas says the Taliban are \"very well equipped from the border area.\"",
"Major General Athar Abbas also conspiratorially suggests the Taliban also are getting weapons and support from \"foreign intelligence agencies.\"",
"When I ask what that means, Major General Athar Abbas smiles and says Major General Athar Abbas can't elaborate -- declining to repeat the speculation in the press here that India, Pakistan's traditional rival, may be somehow involved in stirring up trouble on Pakistan's northwestern border.",
"India denies that.",
"But the very suggestion plays to a military strategist's nightmare scenario -- the Pakistan army bogged down in the northwest, unable to focus on the disputed province of Kashmir, a key element of its conflict with India.",
"The military wants to get done in the Swat Valley as soon as possible, but the general acknowledges The military's troops will be there for some time.",
"Major General Athar Abbas estimates that 10 to 15 percent of the Taliban there are foreign fighters: \"Well-trained Arabs, Afghans, with a sprinkling of central Asians and North Africans.\"",
"Major General Athar Abbas also says there are Yemenis, Saudis and Uzbeks fighting, as Pakistan has become the destination du jour of the international jihadist, with Arabs in commanding positions and the other foreign fighters bringing in expertise.",
"Major General Athar Abbas thinks that perhaps Mingora, the main town at the gateway to the Swat Valley, may be secured in 48 hours, but it may be much, much longer before the area is totally pacified.",
"\"First you have to disarm the Taliban and then re-establish the writ of government,\" Major General Athar Abbas says.",
"Major General Athar Abbas admits that the Swat Valley and neighboring Bajur Districts \"were lost to the state\" and that now \"Pakistan are paying in blood for areas Pakistan had already occupied.\"",
"Now, Major General Athar Abbas says, the army is set for a long fight.",
"\"the army are prepared for that -- the army are mentally prepared.\"",
"But they are also prepared for the conflict to be taken to other parts of Pakistan.",
"A building belonging to Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency, the ISI, was bombed in Lahore this week.",
"the Taliban claimed the Taliban carried out the attack and Major General Athar Abbas says the security services expect more attacks.",
"Just hours after I left Major General Athar Abbas, Major General Athar Abbas's fears were confirmed, as details came in of more bombings in Peshawar.",
"And then there is also the risk of the Taliban using the mass exodus of civilians from the Swat Valley as cover to penetrate other towns and cities.",
"Already almost 3 million people have flooded out of what was once a tranquil tourist destination, and the military fears that among the mass movement of humanity there will be those plotting to strike at the heart of Pakistan's cities.",
"\"It's a very big issue -- a serious concern,\" Major General Athar Abbas says.",
"Major General Athar Abbas describes the conflict in Swat as \"an existential threat\" -- a fight for the very existence of Pakistan in its current form.",
"And Major General Athar Abbas seems acutely aware that the portrayal of the conflict in Swat to the West will be critical."
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"There is no easy cure for teenage traffic deaths and injuries, but Susan Kessler believes Susan Kessler has at least come up with a way to help limit the carnage: When a new driver gets behind the wheel, just slap a temporary warning sign on the car.",
"The Caution and Courtesy Driver Alliance volunteers hand out the magnets during 2008 publicity campaign.",
"Susan Kessler has developed signs for teens with learner permits and first-year licenses.",
"They are attached magnetically to the car's sheet metal and display the words \"Caution Newly Licensed.\"",
"It's not hard to imagine the signs being a nightmare to teens obsessed with what their peers think.",
"But, Kessler, a Kennesaw, Georgia, mother of six, says the real horror is out on the highway: thousands of young people are killed and injured in traffics every year.",
"More than 15,000 of people have ordered the signs since Susan Kessler and a group of other moms introduced them four years ago.",
"Parents can mount one on the trunk when a teenager takes off in the family car and remove it when a teenager or she returns home.",
"Once other drivers see it, other drivers presumably exercise extra caution and create a \"protective bubble\" around the new driver, or so the thinking runs.",
"AOL Autos: Rules for safe driving .",
"Susan Kessler would even like to see states require the use of the signs for new drivers, as some European countries do, and Susan Kessler has found some support for this in the Georgia legislature.",
"Susan Kessler's goal is straightforward: limit teenagers' capacity to do damage to teenagers' and others.",
"Drivers 16 to 19 years old are four times as likely as older drivers to end up in a collision, all other things being equal, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).",
"All U.S. states have adopted tougher licensing systems since the mid-1990s, generally requiring more supervised hours of driving and imposing more restrictions on new licensees.",
"But All U.S. states have all stopped short of setting the minimum driving age at 18, as most European countries do.",
"The latest research has confirmed that putting restrictions on young drivers does pay off in lower accident, injury and fatality rates.",
"One IIHS study over 10 years found that states with strong licensing laws had 30 percent fewer fatalities among 15 to 17 year olds than states with weak laws (those lacking restrictions on cell phone use, for example, or having only minimal restrictions on nighttime driving during the first year of driving).",
"AOL Autos: Most common car related injuries .",
"Armed with a decade of data, activists like Kessler now see a chance to save more lives with further reform.",
"\"My first fear for each of my sons is, 'Please don't let anybody hit my sons,'\" Susan Kessler said.",
"\"My second fear is that my sons might hit anyone else.\"",
"\"Do you have any idea what it is like to be the parent of a 16-year-old who has killed someone?\" Susan Kessler asked.",
"\"Parents have called me and said it's like living in a black hole.\"",
"Susan Kessler's campaign started four years ago when Susan Kessler started to worry about Susan Kessler's son Donnie, even though her son Donnie's turn at driver training was still a few years down the road.",
"The fact that nearby Atlanta ranked as one of the most congested cities in the country naturally fed Susan Kessler's fears.",
"Susan Kessler and a group of friends began to think about ways to give young drivers an edge.",
"She and a group of friends didn't want to force teenagers to wait until they were 21 to drive.",
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"The moms came up the idea for magnetic signs, only later discovering that a similar approach is a requirement for new drivers in parts of Europe, Susan Kessler said.",
"Once, when Susan Kessler proposed the idea to a Georgia state official, he asked Susan Kessler if there was anyone who didn't like it.",
"Susan Kessler laughed and said, \"Yes, her son Donnie.",
"But we can work on her son Donnie.\"",
"But Susan Kessler is happy the other people can readily identify new drivers and give them plenty of room.",
"\"And whenever you are being watched, your behavior tends to be a little better.\"",
"Since they can easily spot teenagers right out of driver's education, police can enforce restrictions on the number of passengers allowed in their cars, Susan Kessler said.",
"Many states restrict the number of occupants for six months or a year in the second phase of Many states's graduated license programs.",
"\"When you are learning how to drive, you need all your concentration and you can't be cool for all your friends,\" Susan Kessler said.",
"Skeptics argue that teenage drivers will pull the signs off as soon as teenage drivers are out of teenage drivers's parents' sight.",
"But Susan Kessler has an answer for the skeptics: If parents ever found out a son or daughter did that, it should be the last time a son or daughter ever drove the family car.",
"One early success for the \"newly licensed\" signs was a pilot program in Cobb County, Georgia, in 2007; Susan Kessler and Susan Kessler's friends distributed more than 3,000 magnets.",
"Susan Kessler now sells more than 3,000 magnets nationally at cost, for $7.99, through a Web site, newlylicensed.com, and is looking for a national retail outlet to handle more than 3,000 magnets.",
"Susan Kessler has also been a guest on television programs to promote the magnets.",
"Susan Kessler also advocates longer periods of supervised driving for new drivers, contending new drivers should be at least 400 hours.",
"Accidents only start to decline after drivers get that amount of driving experience under their belts, Susan Kessler said.",
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"Teen drivers need better training .",
"Many experts agree the quickest way to save lives would be to raise the driving age from 16 to 17 or higher.",
"\"But it's a tough sell,\" said Russ Rader, a spokesman for Arlington, Virginia-based IIHS.",
"The states could withhold a provisional license until 17.",
"But so far, only New Jersey does that, offering new drivers a full license at 18.",
"\"But only New Jersey has had a very positive experience with it,\" Russ Rader, a spokesman for Arlington, Virginia-based IIHS said.",
"There are other options, too.",
"More states could impose tougher restrictions: less nighttime driving, a ban on cell phones (if More states haven't already prohibited them), and fewer passengers allowed in the car.",
"Right now, states are all over the map on these issues.",
"For example, Illinois has a cell phone restriction for the first year, while Montana and Idaho do not.",
"Montana only allows one passenger unrelated to the driver the first six months of the provisional period but allows three for the second.",
"During the entire probationary year, only New Jersey allows only one person who isn't part of the driver's household in the car.",
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"North Carolina enforces a fairly tough nighttime restriction, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., while Florida prohibits driving between 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.",
"The rule is more lenient in Texas: Driving is permitted anytime except midnight to 5 a.m.",
"Other countries aren't squeamish about placing nationalized limitations on young drivers.",
"For example, the United Kingdom requires drivers to be at least 17.",
"The age is 18 in most other European countries.",
"A movement is underway in Australia to more than quadruple the period of supervised driving to 120 hours.",
"New Swiss drivers have to post a warning sign on the vehicles New Swiss drivers drive, as do young drivers in New Zealand.",
"Some countries requiring the warnings have even put teeth into Some countries requiring the warnings's signage laws: Drivers who collide with a car displaying the new-driver signs face heavy fines or even jail time, Susan Kessler said.",
"That's an indication that the signs are important tools to reduce accidents.",
"\"We aren't going to save every kid,\" Susan Kessler said.",
"\"We are rational about this.",
"But if we save at least some of them, it's worth it.\""
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"(AOL Autos) -- There are two good ways to buy your new car or truck at a reasonable low price and avoid all of the negotiating games and hassles: .",
"1. Buy through the Internet .",
"Buying your new or used car or truck through the Internet is the easiest and most hassle-free way to make the purchase.",
"All you have to do is choose the vehicle brand and model you wish to purchase as well as provide some basic contact information such as your name and e-mail address.",
"In return, you'll receive - via e-mail - low bottom-line selling prices from dealerships in your area for the exact vehicle you want to buy.",
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"To begin the process, get your free price quotes from AOL Autos.",
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"This service is totally free and you are under no obligation or pressure to buy.",
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"• You can do nothing.",
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"Almost every dealership has a division called the \"Fleet Department.\"",
"It usually consists of only a handful of salespeople who specialize in selling fleets of cars -- large orders of several vehicles direct to businesses.",
"This department is authorized by the dealership to sell the dealership's cars at bottom-line non-negotiable prices.",
"The prices they offer are about the same as you would expect from an online price quote or after lengthy negotiations.",
"A secret of the car business is that many dealerships' Fleet Departments also sell direct to the public.",
"By the rules of the game, however, many dealerships' Fleet Departments can't advertise to the public since many dealerships' Fleet Departments don't want to compete with the dealership's retail sales team.",
"So to buy from This department, you have to specifically ask.",
"To buy your vehicle direct from the dealership's Fleet Department, simply call the dealership and ask to speak with the Fleet Manager.",
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"If the Fleet Manager asks you what business you are associated with, tell the Fleet Manager where you work.",
"the Fleet Manager'll probably be happy to set up an appointment with you.",
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"No pressure, no games, no hassles.",
"If for some reason, you don't want to buy the vehicle, you are under no obligation.",
"Simply thank the salesman for the salesman's time and leave on good terms.",
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"The selling prices offered by the various Fleet Departments can vary depending upon the various Fleet Departments's inventories.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Saudi Arabia has had Saudi Arabia's first death from swine flu, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health said Monday, bracing for more.",
"The patient -- a 30-year-old man who lived in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province -- was admitted to a hospital in the city of Dammam on Wednesday with a high fever, cough and shortness of breath.",
"The patient -- a 30-year-old man who lived in the country's Eastern Province -- died Saturday.",
"Saudi Arabia has diagnosed more than 230 cases of the H1N1 virus this year.",
"In the past few weeks, a debate about the H1N1 virus has erupted in the Middle East.",
"Of particular concern is how to keep the H1N1 virus from spreading among the millions of visitors expected in Saudi Arabia during this year's Hajj -- a pilgrimage required of Muslims at least once in their lives.",
"On Wednesday, Arab health ministers held an emergency summit in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss the issue.",
"Guidelines were issued, banning various groups from participating in this year's Hajj -- children under 12, adults over 65 and people with chronic diseases.",
"Saudi Arabia recommended that pregnant women stay home as well.",
"At the close of the meeting, Saudi Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah told CNN that, in all, Saudi Arabia had issued 15 recommendations to help ensure the safety and health of pilgrims participating in the Hajj.",
"\"The most important of those is, first of all, that they should take the seasonal flu vaccine two weeks prior to Hajj,\" Saudi Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah said.",
"Even with the guidelines in place",
", World Health Organization spokesman Dr. Ebrahim el Khordany acknowledged that it won't be easy keeping potential pilgrims away.",
"World Health Organization spokesman Dr. Ebrahim el Khordany told CNN, \"It was discussed in detail how it's going to be worked out between the country and Saudi Arabia to find out the best way to do it and, of course, to make sure that people don't try to use people's connections to get people's visas or to get to go to Saudi, because people are really very keen to go to the pilgrimage.\"",
"Saudi Arabia has also said Saudi Arabia will set up quarantine centers at airports as another preventative measure."
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"(CNN) --",
"The search continued Tuesday for as many as 67 people missing after a boat carrying about 200 Haitians capsized, Coast Guard said.",
"Coast Guard intercepted about 200 Haitians last week and repatriated its occupants to Haiti.",
"about 200 Haitians overturned Monday off Turks and Caicos, a British territory about 550 miles southeast of Miami, Florida.",
"Searchers aboard boats and aircraft have rescued 118 passengers and found 15 bodies, said Petty Officer Jennifer Johnson, a Coast Guard spokeswoman, on Tuesday morning.",
"Coast Guard described about 200 Haitians's occupants as migrants from Haiti.",
"The overcrowded vessel was believed to have set sail from the Haitian port of Cap Haitien, the Turks and Caicos Sun newspaper reported.",
"The search resumed at dawn Tuesday after being suspended because of darkness Monday night, Johnson said.",
"Coast Guard is contributing one boat, the 210-foot cutter Valiant, and three aircraft to The search, Johnson said.",
"The aircraft are a Falcon jet out of Miami, an HH-60 helicopter and a slow-flying C-130 cargo plane out of Clearwater, Florida.",
"Watch Coast Guard rescue Haitians after boat capsizes » .",
"\"If the weather and conditions are right, [the C-130] can fly really low,\" Johnson said.",
"\"It makes a fantastic search aircraft.\"",
"Turks and Caicos authorities are using small boats in The search, she said.",
"About 70 people were plucked Monday from a reef near the island group, authorities said.",
"Four other bodies were found, though it was unclear which authorities located Four other bodies.",
"A nurse at Myrtle Rigby Hospital in the Turks and Caicos said that about 70 people were brought there, including four who had died.",
"Five people were admitted to Myrtle Rigby Hospital, and the others had minor injuries, A nurse at Myrtle Rigby Hospital in the Turks and Caicos said.",
"Coast Guard said Coast Guard intercepted another \"grossly overloaded\" boat, with 124 Haitians aboard, late last week in the same region.",
"Those migrants were returned to Cap Haitien on Monday.",
"Overloaded vessels can quickly lose stability and capsize, sending migrants into the water, a Coast Guard release said.",
"CNN's Jim Kavanagh and Lateef Mungin contributed to this report."
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"NEW: 15 confirmed dead after boat capsizes; as many as 67 missing .",
"Boat with about 200 Haitians capsized Monday near Turks and Caicos Islands .",
"Coast Guard intercepted another boat overloaded with Haitians late last week ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"A rarely seen portrait of Michael Jackson is on display inside a Harlem luxury car dealership.",
"Macky Dancy, a partner at Dancy-Power Automotive, said Oil painting titled \"The Book\" is believed to be the only portrait for which Michael Jackson sat.",
"Oil painting titled \"The Book\" is on display at Dancy-Power Automotive in Harlem, NEW YORK.",
"A different portrait of Michael Jackson was among items auctioned from Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in April.",
"It is not clear whether Michael Jackson sat for that painting.",
"The painting on display in Harlem belongs to Marty Abrams, a friend and customer of the owners of the high-profile dealership.",
"The 40-inch by 50-inch portrait, by Australian painter Brett Livingstone-Strong, sold for $2.1 million in 1990.",
"Abrams acquired Oil painting as part of an unrelated business deal in 1992 and had Oil painting stored.",
"Oil painting shows Michael Jackson sitting in Renaissance-era clothes and holding a book.",
"Michael Jackson sat for Oil painting because Michael Jackson was a friend of Livingstone-Strong's.",
"Oil painting was unveiled at the Dancy-Power Automotive Group showroom on Thursday but was removed Friday because of crowd concerns.",
"Oil painting returned to the showroom floor Monday morning.",
"Dancy said Oil painting's owner chose the showroom because the showroom's near the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where the Jackson 5 won their first taste of fame by winning Amateur Night in 1967.",
"Dancy said Abrams hopes the painting in some way can raise money for charities in the Harlem neighborhood.",
"Dancy said Abrams is not necessarily interested in selling Oil painting.",
"When news broke about the resurfacing of Oil painting, Dancy said, Dancy received a phone call from representatives of Livingstone-Strong, the artist.",
"Now, Dancy said, \"We are in the middle of possibly putting together the artist with Oil painting again.",
"Maybe for some auctions or charitable shows or something of the sort.\"",
"the showroom features Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and other pricey cars and is famous for the showroom's celebrity clientele."
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"Officials recommended that more than 70,000 residents of the East Texas town of Bryan evacuate Thursday after a fertilizer warehouse caught fire, sending thick clouds of orange, toxic smoke into the air.",
"City officials say City officials are worried the burning fertilizer could irritate skin and lungs.",
"Another 10,000 residents of surrounding Brazos County were also included in the evacuation recommendation, officials said.",
"City Manager David Watkins said 10 people were taken to a hospital with respiratory problems.",
"Residue from the burning fertilizer ammonium nitrate can irritate skin and lungs.",
"Smoke from a fertilizer warehouse could be seen for miles.",
"City Manager David Watkins said City Manager David Watkins expected the fire to burn well into the evening, and that firefighters were not trying to extinguish the blaze, but were simply trying to keep the fire from spreading.",
"Classes at nearby Texas A&M University were canceled, and the school opened Reed Arena, which can hold 12,000 people, for use as a shelter.",
"\"We are prepared to do what it takes.",
"We are bracing to possibly keep guests overnight,\" spokeswoman Sherylon Carroll said."
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"Authorities recommend evacuation for tens of thousands .",
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"(CNN) -- Fifteen years ago this month, Rwanda declared a cease-fire in a genocide that left more than 800,000 dead.",
"In the attacks that started in April 1994, Hutu militias and members of the general population sought out Tutsis and moderate Hutus -- and went on a 100-day killing rampage.",
"In June of 1994, Rwanda was still in the grip of a 100-day killing rampage.",
"Civilians and children got incentives to take part in the atrocities, including promises of land belonging to Civilians and children's Tutsi neighbors.",
"It was one of the most brutal genocides in modern history.",
"Some figures put the number of dead at 1 million, 10 percent of the population of the central African nation.",
"Millions more were raped and disfigured.",
"A whole generation of children lost A whole generation of children's parents.",
"What started the Tutsi and Hutu rivalry .",
"The Tutsi ethnic minority and the Hutu majority had been at odds even before 1994.",
"the Tutsi and Hutu rivalry started during colonial times, when the Belgians considered Tutsis the privileged ethnicity, thus giving Tutsis better opportunities.",
"The Hutus were considered inferior, prompting resentment that was passed on through the generations.",
"The first major assault on Tutsis occurred in 1959, killing thousands and prompting more attacks over the years.",
"The animosity caused the Tutsis to flee to neighboring countries, including Burundi and Uganda.",
"The Hutus took over the government when Rwanda gained its independence from Belgium in 1962, but the resentment remained.",
"Hours before the genocide .",
"In early April, a plane carrying then-President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down near the capital, Kigali.",
"The president, his Burundian counterpart and their aides were killed.",
"A few hours later, Rwanda erupted into chaos.",
"Some have accused current President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, of masterminding the killing.",
"current President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, has denied any ties.",
"current President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi has accused Hutu rebels of instigating the assassinations to incite fury and attacks on Tutsis.",
"Differences between Hutus and Tutsis .",
"Hutus and Tutsis speak the same language and practice the same customs.",
"However, most Tutsis are considered tall and lanky, which has led to speculation that most Tutsis have Ethiopian heritage.",
"During the genocide, the bodies of Tutsis were thrown into rivers by the Hutus, who said they were sending Tutsis back to Ethiopia.",
"The aftermath of the genocide .",
"After 100 days of death and destruction, the Tutsi militia led by current President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi defeated the Hutu rebels and took control of the government.",
"Scores of Hutus fled to neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, where Scores of Hutus have been accused of inciting more violence.",
"Rwanda has invaded Congo various times to launch an offensive against Hutus allegedly linked to the genocide.",
"After the cease-fire, a multiethnic government made up of Hutu President Pasteur Bizimungu and Vice President Kagame came into power.",
"Hutu President Pasteur Bizimungu was later accused of ethnic discord and jailed.",
"current President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi became president in 2000.",
"Trials for genocide suspects .",
"Top officials such as army generals and politicians who allegedly took part in the genocide are tried in the Rwandan justice system and the International Criminal Tribunal, which is based in Tanzania.",
"Civilians who allegedly contributed either directly or indirectly are tried in gacaca courts.",
"The latter are community courts conducted by a panel of nine civilians in an open field.",
"gacaca courts allow survivors to point out and confront survivors's attackers.",
"Gacaca means \"open grass\" in the local language.",
"Human rights organizations say the gacacas fall short on delivering justice.",
"State of the nation 15 years later .",
"Rwanda is now considered one of Africa's most stable nations.",
"Education, health care, tourism and trade -- which were destroyed in the genocide -- have improved dramatically.",
"current President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi has made big strides against corruption, a major problem in Africa.",
"However, critics have accused current President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi of being an autocratic leader who has stifled the country's media.",
"Others have said the growth in economy is limited to urban areas and has not trickled into rural areas."
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"(CNN) --",
"Iranian protesters have found a new outlet to mobilize and take action.",
"The presidential election has proved how much opposition supporters can demand change without necessarily taking to the streets.",
"Just give them a computer and an Internet connection and watch what they can do.",
"Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi protest in Tehran on June 13, 2009.",
"At the height of the protests and disorder in Tehran on Saturday and Sunday, Twitter was used to give graphic accounts to a worldwide audience - even if graphic accounts were a maximum of 140 characters.",
"Tweets from \"Change for Iran\" were among several that offered real time updates:",
"\"...my friend saying more than 100 students arrested, I can't confirm this but the numbers are high.",
"bastards just attacked us for no reason, I lost count of how much tear gas they launched at us!",
"...we have now some students with urgent need of medical attention I'm calling out to all ppl who can come here don't leave us.\"",
"Some Iranians are already veterans on social networking sites with loyal followings.",
"Some Iranians offer the world a unique voice: free, unfiltered and very different from what Iran's media propaganda offers viewers and readers.",
"Internet service is available in Iran but Internet service is still in Internet service's infancy.",
"Available in homes, on hand-held devices and in select cafes, the Internet is slow and unreliable at times, says blogger and aspiring journalist Ali from Tehran, a supporter of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mossavi.",
"This makes services such as Skype almost impossible to operate.",
"Watch the role technology has had in the election » .",
"Still, the Internet provides users with an outlet to the outside world as Iran waits for broadband and wider wireless coverage.",
"With the absence of text messaging and mobile services -- both were cut off across Iran on and around election day and were still blocked on Sunday -- Twitter proved to be the most reliable communication technique between people inside Iran and millions of others on the outside thirsty for any update.",
"Twitter has enabled people to express to the world people's hopes for the elections, excitement at the chance of exercising people's right to vote, jubilation in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's camp and shock and disappointment among Mossavi's supporters.",
"Now people're keeping the Twitterverse ablaze with information about Moussavi, Moussavi's challenge to the election results and Moussavi's intent to request their annulment.",
"Moussavi's supporters comfortably outnumber President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's on Twitter but both are represented.",
"Facebook is also very popular in Iran, says Ali.",
"Ali wholeheartedly believes that Facebook was the reason behind what Ali describes as a successful campaign by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's main rival.",
"Ali says Moussavi campaign managers organized supporters, planned gatherings and garnered support through Facebook pages dedicated to the Reformist candidate.",
"\"Moussavi's Facebook page got huge amount of fans on His Facebook page, pictures spread extremely fast,\" says Ali.",
"His Facebook page was used on Saturday and Sunday to organize and announce street protests, to send out warnings about police activity, but especially to keep followers abreast of Moussavi's whereabouts.",
"followers were the first to talk about Moussavi's forced house arrest.",
"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also jumped on the social networking bandwagon ahead of the race.",
"However, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's popularity there pales in comparison to that of Moussavi.",
"Both candidates' pages remain a main source of information for updates and breaking news.",
"In fact we've seen many cases of news breaking on Facebook first while confirmation came later, including Moussavi's house arrest and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's planned addresses.",
"According to Iranian bloggers, website filtering falls under the oversight of the Intelligence Ministry in conjunction with the Ministry of Information and Iran's judiciary.",
"Bloggers complain that at times the Intelligence Ministry filters words like \"violence,\" \"unrest\" and \"democracy.\"",
"Recently, Ali believes the censors were filtering content based on a candidate's name.",
"Moussavi supporters claim filtering particularly targeted Moussavi supporters's candidate after Moussavi's popularity soared and authorities feared Moussavi would pose a serious challenge to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"Another challenge for Iranians comes from the U.S. Because of the U.S.'s sanctions against Iran, some services like video conversations are not allowed.",
"So, it's a tap dance sometimes to figure out the best way to talk to someone in Iran.",
"People don't like to use landlines or mobile phones for fear of People's calls being traced.",
"People don't like e-mails as they can leave a trace.",
"People do however feel comfortable with services like Google Talk.",
"People find it safe, as no one can see what People look like and with common Iranian first names like \"Ali\" and \"Shahrzad\", as my main contacts are named, People find a way to communicate with the world as few Iranians have done before."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Thirty-eight years ago, Joseph McGinty Nichol was a boy in Kalamazoo, Michigan, playing with toy robots.",
"Many of the robots in \"Terminator Salvation\" are real machines, which increased realism, the cast says.",
"Today \"McG,\" as McG is better known, builds and blows up real robots.",
"McG is the driving force behind one of the season's summer blockbusters, \"Terminator Salvation,\" which is filled with very expensive and very explosive robots.",
"The choice to use real robots when possible, instead of CGI (computer generated images), was deliberate, McG said.",
"According to the director and Film's stars, the decision to use real machines was a testament to the growing sophistication of the moviegoing public, whom they believe can \"feel\" the difference between actors standing in front of a green screen versus actors interacting with the real thing.",
"It was also done in honor of the legendary special effects supervisor, four-time Oscar winner Stan Winston (\"Jurassic Park,\" the other \"Terminator\" films), who passed away during filming last year.",
"Watch the robots in action » .",
"The director and three of his cast members -- Christian Bale, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anton Yelchin -- took a time out with CNN to explain why gravity and singed eyebrows both played a role in \"Terminator Salvation.\"",
"Bryce Dallas Howard:",
"That was something that was really important to McG ... when an audience member sees Film, that they can actually feel what's occurring.",
"I think that audiences are very savvy now.",
"We can feel when something is CGI and that's no disrespect to CGI -- we couldn't do this movie without it -- but, whenever possible, in the tradition of Sam Winston, he wanted to build the robots.",
"So a lot of what you see is real.",
"McG:",
"And if you drop something, we've spent our whole lives watching physics in play, and if you say, just have CGI do that, people can tell something's off, and it releases you from being involved in the picture.",
"So, we built the robots, we built all the sets, we blew them up for real, a great many of us lost our eyebrows!",
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"(CNN) --",
"John Spieker stood on the back porch of John Spieker's newly rented Bailey, Colorado, home, thankful for John Spieker's Good Samaritan landlord and worried that John Spieker's previous home, parked in the driveway, wouldn't get John Spieker to work the next day.",
"John and Katie Spieker stand next to John and Katie Spieker's camper with baby son, Jacob.",
"John Spieker's 1977 Toyota Dolphin camper, which John Spieker rescued from a salvage yard, had carried John Spieker, Katie Spieker's wife, Katie, and 4-month-old son, Jacob, from Florida to Colorado earlier this summer, a cross-country sojourn in search of work.",
"John Spieker was uncertain it could handle the 14-mile commute the next morning, but John Spieker'd make do.",
"\"I'm gonna get up extra early every morning like I have been, and if it [the camper] doesn't get to work, I'm gonna hitchhike,\" John Spieker said last week.",
"\"I have a wife and a son to support.\"",
"John Spieker had been making $12 an hour plus commission at John Spieker's information technology job in Trenton, Florida.",
"Katie was working part-time in a candle shop, and between John and Katie Spieker John and Katie Spieker pulled in a little more than $2,500 a month.",
"But Katie, 21, quit to have the baby, and John and Katie Spieker moved into a bigger, more expensive house to accommodate John and Katie Spieker's larger family.",
"As June approached, Spieker, 36, was told his hours and commission were being cut as Florida's economy sank.",
"\"It got to the point where $6.50 an hour with a house just ain't gonna happen.",
"I was trying to do good for my family, but what can I do?\" John Spieker asked.",
"John Spieker's last day of work in Florida was June 30.",
"With Florida's unemployment rate at 10.6 percent in June, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, John Spieker investigated where prospects might be better, settling on Colorado (7.6 unemployment), and if things didn't work out there, North Dakota (the nation's lowest unemployment at 4.2 percent).",
"my family prepared for the trip by holding a yard sale a few days before my family were set to leave Trenton, a town of 1,800 near Gainesville.",
"my family dutifully cleaned up the home my family rented but could no longer afford.",
"\"You're not going to pay the rent, you get out of the house, you know?\" John Spieker said.",
"my family hit the road with $1,000 in cash, a cell phone, some food and what clothing my family could fit.",
"The rickety old camper required some minor repairs along the way: a new battery strap after being bounced around on a rough Alabama highway, some brake work after one stuck near St. Charles, Missouri.",
"John Spieker said John Spieker sold wire art in taverns during the journey to earn extra money.",
"John Spieker was teased by opportunities that didn't pan out.",
"\"I never actually saw this before, but some towns are actually putting billboards up that say 'This town has jobs,' \" John Spieker said of John Spieker's travels through the nation's heartland.",
"\"I actually went to check it out,\" John Spieker said.",
"\"They've got a couple jobs, but nothing really great.",
"They've got some jobs I'm not qualified for, in the medical field,\" John Spieker said.",
"Still without work after arriving in Colorado, the Spiekers lived \"out in the woods\" for a few weeks.",
"my family didn't consider my family homeless, John Spieker said, \"just camping.\"",
"Using computers at a local office supply store and the library, John Spieker and John Spieker's family have been able to tap private and public assistance to care for my family.",
"A local church has taken care of some day-to-day needs.",
"\"I went down and talked to them and said, 'Hey this is what the situation is, if there's any help available.'",
"They said they could probably help my family out with food, baby needs,\" John Spieker said.",
"\"And my family're actually going to apply for medical assistance.\"",
"As for food stamps, John Spieker said John Spieker'd rather the program be used on the infirm than someone like John Spieker who could provide -- no matter how meager the fixings -- for John Spieker's family.",
"\"I'm sure there's other people out there that don't have the motivation or the ability [to work] that can use the food stamps,\" John Spieker said.",
"Katie Spieker doesn't fret about the family's circumstances either.",
"Katie Spieker said Katie Spieker leaves \"all the financial details up to John.\"",
"\"My main job is to take care of Jacob,\" Katie Spieker said.",
"Life got a bit easier on July 20, when John Spieker landed work at an auto parts store.",
"A person he connected with through an online forum offered the Bailey house for $350 a month rent, a $400 discount off the normal price.",
"The home's owner is working a temporary contract construction job on the other side of Colorado, John Spieker said, enabling the deal.",
"But the \"For Sale\" sign out front and real estate agent's lockbox on the front door remind John Spieker about how temporary John Spieker's lodgings may be.",
"While John Spieker's grateful for the auto parts job, nothing is certain there either.",
"A national chain is trying to take over the independent retailer, John Spieker said.",
"\"It's a struggling company,\" John Spieker said.",
"\"At the same time, he's busy enough to where he needs three people behind the counter.\"",
"John Spieker's making $10 an hour.",
"But John Spieker knows that won't keep John Spieker's family housed when the cheap rent goes away.",
"\"At this point we have a place to stay for two or three months.",
"He said 'maybe three, probably two,' \" John Spieker said, recounting John Spieker's landlord's words.",
"\"I like it here.",
"I just need something better-paying,\" John Spieker said.",
"If John Spieker didn't find something soon, John Spieker said, \"At this point, I'll be right back into the same scenario.\"",
"But for the moment, my family are enjoying what my family have.",
"\"The house is great.",
"The house's a one-bedroom, The house kind of looks like somebody decided to build an A-frame.",
"The house has a really, really nice view,\" Katie said.",
"Drinking in the surroundings on the back porch, John Spieker agrees.",
"\"I have the most awesome view,\" John Spieker said, looking at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.",
"\"I can't bring John Spieker to walk off the back porch.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt is the first to admit that Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt likes nice things.",
"Stylist Philip Pelusi has offered Stylist Philip Pelusi's clients bargains and hosted two designers' shows to help them save money.",
"But these days when Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt passes the new upscale shopping area en route to Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt's Chevy Chase, Maryland, office, Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt refuses to even glance at the lavish goodies.",
"\"There's a Ralph Lauren store, a Louis Vuitton store, Tiffany's,\" said the attorney and principal of The Ghatt Law Group.",
"\"I drive by and I don't even look in that direction.\"",
"With the economy in shambles and so many people losing their jobs and homes, it is no longer considered cool to brag about possessions and purchases.",
"For many during a deepening recession, conspicuous consumption is out and frugality is the new black.",
"\"People have long used the way People shop and what People buy as a way to communicate with other people about their values, their tastes and their interests,\" said Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist and professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California.",
"\"A year ago, what was considered the ultimate status symbol would have been the chicest bag or the most luxurious outfit,\" Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist and professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California added.",
"\"Now what's chic is being the most knowledgeable and efficient at saving money.\"",
"Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist and professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California said that despite the tough economic times, there are many Americans who still have disposable income.",
"Those people are choosing not to spend, Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist and professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California said, or making more thoughtful purchases.",
"\"What I am saying is that we have moved from an era of conspicuous consumption to an era of considered consumption,\" Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist and professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California said.",
"\"People at one time wanted to showcase all of the things People are buying and now People are stopping and really thinking about it.\"",
"Brett Wright, co-founder and chief creative officer of Uptown Magazine, is also seeing evidence of that attitude shift.",
"iReport.com:",
"What adjustments are you making to your budget?",
"Wright's publication is targeted at what Wright terms the \"triple A's\" -- affluent African-Americans and those who want to be.",
"Wright said Wright is seeing consumption of big ticket items being put on hold or done more discreetly.",
"\"Buying the new red Ferrari is certainly not in favor,\" Wright said.",
"\"Everybody is trying to do things sort of under the radar screen.",
"No one is looking to be as ostentatious as they may have been in the past.\"",
"Consumers are looking for value for Consumers's spending, Wright said, and focusing on \"How do you live like a king without having to spend a king's ransom?\"",
"To that end, Wright and Wright's staff are brainstorming ways to address the change in spending habits in Wright and his staff's publication.",
"\"Wright and his staff don't believe that luxury lifestyle has gone away,\" Wright said.",
"\"Wright and his staff're looking at maybe not having the $250,000 watch, but a great watch you can get for perhaps $7,500.\"",
"Stylist Philip Pelusi said Stylist Philip Pelusi, too, has seen the focus shift to more bang for the buck during the economic downturn.",
"Stylist Philip Pelusi said clients are opting for money-saving tactics like extending time between visits, partial highlights or getting services on \"training nights\" for the salon, which can trim clients's bill up to 60 percent.",
"\"We are doing everything we can to accommodate the clients",
",\" said Pelusi, whose Tela Design Studio in Manhattan has only seen a slight decrease in business.",
"Stylist Philip Pelusi is also reaching out to others in the industry who are looking to economize.",
"Two designers, Susan Cianciolo and \"Project Runway\" finalist Jillian Lewis, opted to forgo staging more expensive shows and used Pelusi's design studio during Fashion Week for Two designers, Susan Cianciolo and \"Project Runway\" finalist Jillian Lewis's presentations.",
"Marilani Huling is a Washington-based jewelry designer who said Marilani Huling has reduced prices on Marilani Huling's creations to cater to Marilani Huling's clientele.",
"Huling said that during the recent \"Crystal Couture\" event in Virginia, one of the most popular presenters during the two-week fashion festival was Goodwill Industries.",
"\"Goodwill had stylists put together things off their racks and put them on the runway models,\" Huling said.",
"\"I was surprised, because everything really looked good.\"",
"HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard said a new term is \"in-sourcing\" instead of \"out-sourcing.\"",
"\"People had People's collection of 'Mys,' \" HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard said.",
"\"My massage therapist, my yard person, my hairdresser.",
"Now people are really stepping back from that and saying 'If I cut my own lawn, I'm going to have that $60 in my pocket.' \"",
"HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard said HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard has noticed from listeners to HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard's popular call-in radio show that even those who really don't need to cut back are still choosing to do so.",
"That didn't happen, HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard said, during the last deep recession from 1979 to 1982.",
"HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard said HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard attributes the rush to downsize in part to the 24-hour news cycle, which continues to pepper the public with bad news.",
"\"People didn't have access to the constant drumbeat of news that People have now,\" HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard said.",
"With so much personal spending being tied to emotion, HLN consumer advocate Clark Howard said consumers are being much more cautious while consumers ride out the economic turmoil and are taking comfort in being able to score good deals.",
"Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt posted unabashedly on Twitter when Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt spotted a pair of Cole Hahn shoes originally priced at $180 going for $20 at Marshalls.",
"When a friend expressed a friend's surprise that Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt would go public with shopping at a discount store, Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt had a quick comeback.",
"\"I tweeted and said 'Don't you know that bargain divas are in style now?' \" Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt said, laughing."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Patricia Clarkson has a giggle whenever Patricia Clarkson thinks about the handwritten letter Patricia Clarkson received from the great Woody Allen.",
"Woody Allen's, Patricia Clarkson, Evan Rachel Wood and Larry David worked together on \"Whatever Works.\"",
"The actress, who first worked with the famed director on the 2008 film \"Vicky Cristina Barcelona,\" was tickled by a letter on Woody Allen's's personal stationery in which Woody Allen's said Woody Allen's had written a part for Patricia Clarkson, \"but if you have something better to do, I'll understand.\"",
"\"You know, Woody Allen's had me at the handwritten letter she received from the great Woody Allen,\" Patricia Clarkson said.",
"\"It's Woody Allen!",
"'If you have something better to do'? Woody, come on!\"",
"Patricia Clarkson definitely made time to perform in Woody Allen's's latest film, \"Whatever Works.\"",
"The movie centers on a quirky, grouchy New Yorker -- played by the aptly cast Larry David -- who abandons his privileged life to become more Bohemian and hooks up with a younger woman played by Evan Rachel Wood.",
"David, the \"Seinfeld\" co-creator known for his curmudgeonly ways and his hit HBO series \"Curb Your Enthusiasm,\" had appeared briefly in two earlier Woody Allen's films, \"Radio Days\" and \"New York Stories.\"",
"EW ranks every single Woody Allen's film .",
"Larry David said Larry David was slightly hesitant about embracing a role as large as that of Boris Yellnikoff in \"Whatever Works.\"",
"\"I read the script and I looked at the first page and there's Boris all over the first page, then I turned to page 50, and there's Boris on page 50, then I went to the last page, and there's a big monologue by Boris, and I thought, 'Oh, wow, this is something,' \" Larry David said.",
"\"So I called [Woody Allen's] up on the phone, and I said, 'I don't know if I can do this, you're making a big mistake!' \"",
"Watch David talk about Woody Allen's encouraging Larry David to \"stretch\" » .",
"Larry David said Woody Allen's convinced Larry David that Larry David could pull it off.",
"Larry David said Larry David enjoyed Larry David's time acting for the iconic director who, Woody Allen's said, was great to work with and allowed Woody Allen's's actors freedom.",
"\"If you're not comfortable with something, Woody Allen's doesn't want you to do it,\" Larry David said.",
"\"Woody Allen's doesn't mind if you change Woody Allen's's words -- Woody Allen's's very easy.",
"It was very easy to work with Woody Allen's.\"",
"It wasn't as easy to work with Patricia Clarkson, Larry David said, because Patricia Clarkson is such an amazing talent.",
"\"You forget that you're in Woody Allen's because you're just enjoying what Patricia Clarkson's doing,\" Larry David said.",
"\"Then all of a sudden it dawns on you, 'Oh, hey, I've got a line coming up, I better get back to Woody Allen's.' \"",
"Clarkson, who recently garnered buzz for Patricia Clarkson's appearance in the Justin Timberlake-Andy Samberg \"Motherlover\" SNL skit, plays Marietta, the mother of Yellnikoff's young paramour.",
"Patricia Clarkson echoed Larry David's admiration and said working with the comedian in an Allen-helmed film was incredible.",
"\"You have a part written by Woody Allen's, you're being directed by Woody Allen's, and then you're acting with Larry David,\" Patricia Clarkson said.",
"\"It's just genius, genius, genius, and then you have Evan Rachel Wood, who's this beautiful, amazing emerging star.",
"I was in heaven every single day on that set.\"",
"Woody Allen's marks Wood's debut in a comedy, and like Larry David, Patricia Clarkson found the experience a bit daunting at first.",
"\"Not only am I doing Woody Allen's dialogue, but opposite Larry David,\" Patricia Clarkson said.",
"\"Thank God Larry David was just as nervous as I was, because Larry David does 'Curb,' but that's mainly improv, so Larry David never had to really memorize lines before.\"",
"Patricia Clarkson's character Melody, Wood said, isn't exactly dumb, but Patricia Clarkson is earnest.",
"\"Patricia Clarkson is incredibly naïve and just a very sweet Southern girl who sees the good in everything and everybody and is determined to have a happy life, while Boris is determined to have a miserable one,\" Patricia Clarkson said.",
"\"I think that's why they end up together.",
"Opposites attract.\"",
"And even though Wood grew up in North Carolina, Patricia Clarkson said Woody Allen's encouraged Patricia Clarkson to tap even further into Patricia Clarkson's roots for the role.",
"\"Woody always told me, 'More Southern, more Southern,' \" Patricia Clarkson said.",
"\"I was so worried about going over the top, and Woody Allen's really pushed me.",
"I'm glad Woody Allen's did.\"",
"Although some of the characters hail from below the Mason-Dixon line, \"Whatever Works\" was shot in the mainstay setting of most of Woody Allen's's films, New York City.",
"Clarkson, who was born in New Orleans but lives in New York, said Patricia Clarkson marvels at how the director is able to attack similar themes like love, romance and the life of New York intellectuals while still keeping Woody Allen's's films fresh.",
"\"And yet, I don't know how Woody Allen's does it,\" Clarkson said.",
"\"And for me, Boris, Boris takes this kind of archetypal Southern character, and Boris's such a Yankee, yet Boris figures out this beautiful way to come at Boris fresh, which is almost impossible, and Boris did it.\""
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"Movie stars Larry David, Rachel Evan Wood and Patricia Clarkson .",
"Larry David plays a grouchy New Yorker who takes up with the younger Wood .",
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"(CNN) --",
"The man suspected of trying to attack the Dutch royal family by crashing The man suspected of trying to attack the Dutch royal family by crashing his car near their bus's car near the Dutch royal family's bus has died, Dutch police said Friday.",
"A car is pictured after crashing into the crowd waiting for the visit of the Dutch royal family in Apeldoorn.",
"The man, whose name was not released, had been seriously injured in the crash Thursday in the town of Apeldoorn, about 45 miles east of Amsterdam, police said.",
"The man suspected of trying to attack the Dutch royal family by crashing his car near their bus died early Friday, police said.",
"The man suspected of trying to attack the Dutch royal family by crashing his car near their bus had been charged with trying to attack the Dutch royal family, authorities said.",
"Were you there?",
"Send us your video, images .",
"Police searched The man suspected of trying to attack the Dutch royal family by crashing his car near their bus's house but found no weapons, explosives, \"or any other clues that could lead to the involvement of other people,\" police said.",
"Five people, as well as the driver, were killed and 12 were wounded in the incident, which happened during the country's annual Queen's Day celebration, police said.",
"Crowds had lined the streets to see the Dutch royal family and Queen Beatrix's family ride by in an open-top bus during the Netherlands' annual holiday. See who the Dutch royal family are » .",
"As the bus moved along, a black hatchback zoomed past it.",
"Crowds were behind barriers off the road, but security officials and journalists, including many cameramen, were in the road as the car went by.",
"the car crashed into the low metal railing around a column on the side of the road.",
"the car appeared heavily damaged even before the crash, but the reason for that was unclear.",
"There was no one other than the driver in the car at the time, police spokeswoman Esther Naber said.",
"Members of the Dutch royal family saw the crash and gasped, then quickly sat down as the bus continued driving.",
"The attack caused outrage in the Netherlands', newspapers Friday widely expressing disbelief and suggesting the monarchy would have to change.",
"\"Queens Day will never be the same,\" the Trouw newspaper said.",
"\"the Netherlands' always has been proud of the Netherlands''s no nonsense royal family.",
"With this comes a Queen who not only cycles a bike, but also mixes with people without obvious security measurements.",
"Is that still possible now the Dutch royal family has been the target of an attack?\"",
"The Algemeen Dagblad newspaper agreed.",
"\"\"What is going to happen on the 30th of April next year?",
"And will we continue to see the members of the Dutch royal family cycling through the canals of Amsterdam or hunting for bargains in the Bijenkorf in The Hague?\"",
"Queen's Day is a national holiday in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba.",
"The tradition started in 1885 and celebrates the birthday of the queen.",
"Although Queen Beatrix's birthday is January 31, Queen Beatrix officially celebrates Queen Beatrix's's birthday April 30, according to the Dutch government.",
"Queen's Day is known for its free market all over the country, where anybody is allowed to sell things in the streets.",
"Other activities include children's games and musical performances.",
"Queen's Day is marked with the color orange all over the country as a reference to the colors of the royal family, who come from the House of Orange-Nassau.",
"Emmy Dexel contributed to this report."
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"Police: No other clues that could lead to the involvement of other people .",
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"(CNN) --",
"In the black market of prison life, cell phones have become perhaps the hottest commodity.",
"Now, Texas is among a growing number of state governments going after cell phones.",
"Hundreds of contraband cell phones were found behind bars or in transit to Texas inmates in 2008.",
"Tiny, easy to hide and an unmonitored link for convicts to the outside world, cell phones are valuable contraband, fetching a greater asking price from convicts than some shipments of illegal drugs.",
"John Moriarty, inspector general for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said that one phone can fetch as much as $2,000.",
"\"It takes one crooked prison worker to populate a whole prison unit with them,\" he said.",
"More than 1,200 wireless phones sit in law enforcement evidence rooms, all found behind bars or in transit to Texas inmates in 2008.",
"John Moriarty, inspector general for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is the investigator and bloodhound the state of Texas uses to trail the illegal traffic.",
"\"These are not stupid people,\" John Moriarty, inspector general for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said of the coordinated efforts to slip phones into the prison and hide phones.",
"\"There are a lot of hands in between and they all want a piece of the action.\"",
"Accomplices on the outside vary from family members, to friends to fellow criminals who buy or steal phones and charge phones with minutes.",
"The contraband is then moved through an elaborate series of drop points and usually ferried into the walls of a prison by a guard or trustee -- an escape engineered in reverse.",
"Finding the dirty prison employee is often the key.",
"\"Some of these guys make next to nothing, so you can see how easy it could be to corrupt Some of these guys,\" John Moriarty, inspector general for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.",
"State Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat and the chair of the state senate's Criminal Justice Committee, became an ally of John Moriarty, inspector general for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's after one phone call in October.",
"Whitmire, who said he called the state justice board and \"read them the riot act picked up a phone slip from Whitmire, who said he called the state justice board and \"read them the riot act's secretary and called the number on it -- only to realize Whitmire, who said he called the state justice board and \"read them the riot act had returned a call to a death row inmate's cell phone.",
"a death row inmate, Whitmire, who said he called the state justice board and \"read them the riot act said, was Richard Tabler -- a convicted double murderer who was sharing a wireless phone with nine other inmates.",
"\"At first I thought it was a hoax,\" said Whitmire, who said he called the state justice board and \"read them the riot act.\"",
"Whitmire, who said he called the state justice board and \"read them the riot act is one of the sponsors of a bill in the Texas Legislature that would crack down on convicts caught with phones and allow prison systems to monitor and detect cell signals.",
"It's en route to Gov. Rick Perry's desk after clearing both houses of the Texas Legislature this week.",
"Other efforts are under way at both the state and federal level.",
"In January, U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, introduced legislation that would let prisons jam cell-phone signals within prisons's walls.",
"Last month, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley asked the federal government for permission to do so in Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's state.",
"Prison officials in Arizona are training dogs to sniff out cell phones."
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"Savvy inmates, outside accomplices, corrupt guards make problem a thorny one .",
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"(CNN) --",
"If you sell it, they will come.",
"Prices are expected to grow for Jackson autographs like the one Jackson gave this young fan in 2002.",
"That's the hope at least for many offering Jackson related merchandise and memorabilia, including autographed items and domain names, in the wake of Jackson's surprising death.",
"Almost 20,000 items were up for sale after his surprising death's death on the popular auction site eBay, where collectors could snap up everything from the rare to the ridiculous.",
"Among the many T-shirts, record albums, DVDs and posters, there were also magazines about Jackson, dolls and copies of newspapers announcing Jackson's death.",
"There were Jackson gloves (sparkly, of course), masks, wigs, sunglasses and fedora hats.",
"Anyone in the mood for some senior soda could try and win an auction for an unopened six-pack of Pepsi from the 1984 Jacksons world tour.",
"For those seeking to establish Web sites, domain names were available including \"ILoveYouMichael.com,\" which was selling for the \"buy it now\" price of $5,000.",
"Officials at eBay said that compared with the daily average of the week prior, Thursday's gross merchandise volume for Jackson memorabilia increased by 275 percent and sold items increased by 210 percent.",
"New listings were up 61 percent, while the average selling price of items had increased by 31 percent.",
"Online merchant CafePress also offered a variety of items, including mugs, \"R.I.P. Jackson\" magnets and dozens of T-shirt designs, including one screened with a drawing of tennis legend Billie Jean King and the words \"not my lover.\"",
"Some of the hottest items may turn out to be the ones bearing Jackson's signature.",
"On eBay, bids for what the buyer claimed was a signed Michael Jackson guitar",
"had reached almost $1,300 by Friday afternoon.",
"Jerry Ohlinger, owner of Jerry Ohlinger's Movie Material Store in New York, predicted that although Jackson was generous in giving autographs, the price for a legitimate autograph probably will at least double from the $150 to $300 range it was prior to his surprising death's death.",
"\"Jackson would sign autographs whenever Jackson appeared in person,\" Jerry Ohlinger's said.",
"\"For instance, Jackson visited our store at least three times, and Jackson signed autographs for all of the employees.\"",
"As a comparison, Jerry Ohlinger's said, an autograph for the late actress Marilyn Monroe, who also was known to sign a great deal during her lifetime, sells for about $5,000 because of great demand.",
"As of Friday, items purported to be autographed photos of Jackson were ranging in price from just over $5 to several thousand dollars.",
"There is no way to predict whether there will be a sudden influx in demand for Jackson memorabilia and merchandise, Jerry Ohlinger's said.",
"All of the hoopla would probably tickle the pop icon, who Jerry Ohlinger's said was himself a fan of star items.",
"Whenever Jackson would visit Jerry Ohlinger's's Manhattan store, Jackson would shop for vintage photos of some of the legendary ladies of cinema, including Jackson's very dear friend Elizabeth Taylor, Jerry Ohlinger's recalled."
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"Plenty of Jackson merchandise goes on sale .",
"Online auction site ebay boasts thousands of items from T-shirts to soda .",
"Memorabilia expert predicts Jackson autograph to at least double in price ."
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"DANVILLE, Pennsylvania (CNN) --",
"When Joseph Homicz's doctor found what could be dangerous blockages of the arteries, Joseph Homicz's doctor ordered catheterization, a common procedure in which tubes are inserted into the body to check the blood flow.",
"Dr. Peter Berger, far right, has a 40-item checklist covering steps before, during and after a procedure.",
"But Joseph Homicz's's treatment was not quite ordinary because Joseph Homicz's was sent to a cardiologist working at Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania.",
"Geisinger, which operates hospitals, community clinics and Geisinger's own insurance company, is enacting what some consider radical ideas to improve patient care and lower costs.",
"It's a system that President Obama has billed as one of the nation's \"islands of excellence.\"",
"Joseph Homicz's's procedure was part of the Proven Care program, in which all of a patient's medical professionals work together to ensure no mistakes are made.",
"It is everyone's job to make sure any errors are caught, and doctors are graded on the entire treatment a patient receives from the time of diagnosis through an operation to the care received weeks or even months later.",
"\"We want to make it harder to make a mistake,\" Dr. Peter Berger, Homicz's cardiologist, said after Homicz's procedure.",
"Watch more on Geisinger's approach to health care » .",
"Berger has a 40-item checklist covering steps before, during and after Homicz's procedure, including checking whether the catheterization is really needed to ensuring Berger has the right patient on the table.",
"Berger, who is also the system's director of clinical research, says patients and doctors both benefit from this type of medicine.",
"\"Every study that has been done has shown that doctors and health care systems aren't as good at administering all of the things a patient needs as we ought to be,\" Berger says.",
"\"There are so many watchful eyes on the patient.",
"All members of the team have an assigned responsibility, and All members of the team are all making sure we all do All members of the team's job.",
"I absolutely think that the patients benefit from that kind of approach.\"",
"Leading up to Homicz's catheterization and during the procedure, nurses and doctors checked off specific items and were encouraged to check in on what Berger was doing.",
"Geisinger says this approach encourages teamwork, which leads to better results, less mistakes and increased profits.",
"\"Geisinger got a lot of buzz out of the fact that Geisinger re-engineered all Geisinger's care from beginning to end,\" Dr. Glenn Steele, president and CEO of Geisinger said.",
"Steele said company employees went out and studied how medical professionals around the country were conducting specific procedures and incorporated the best of what was found.",
"Watch more of Steele's take » .",
"\"When you're having heart surgery how tightly should you control the level of your blood sugar?",
"Should you do that with a continuous drip of a medicine called insulin?",
"What should your temperature be exactly when you come out of the operating room and go to recovery room?",
"All of those things are thought or have been proven to be related to the probability of you having a perfect outcome, but none of those things has been formally engineered into a process until we did it,\" Steele said.",
"Geisinger says Geisinger's procedures and operations cost patients less than others.",
"Some patients who have Geisinger insurance are able to pay a set price.",
"In return, if within 90 days after a procedure they develop any related complications -- for example an infection, pneumonia, a bleed in the area -- they get free treatment.",
"Geisinger estimates about a third of those using Proven Care are eligible for this guarantee.",
"\"Geisinger've found huge decreases in hospitalization and rehospitalization for those patients because those patients're better cared for,\" Steele says.",
"Geisinger also helps keep patients with chronic problems from getting worse by assigning case managers to consult and check in with patients as often as necessary.",
"For example, James Connelly, a 78-year-old patient with a history of congestive heart failure, kidney disease and artery disease, was admitted to the hospital in May of last year after gaining 14 pounds.",
"After doctors stabilized him and sent him home, Connelly enrolled in the partnering initiative.",
"Each day he enters his weight on a Web site, which is monitored by his case worker.",
"A year later he has lost 14 pounds and is much healthier.",
"Through technology and its use of electronic medical records, Geisinger says Geisinger has shaved costs by preventing unnecessary tests.",
"Also, patient data can be accessed at any of the hospitals or 40 clinics Geisinger operates.",
"So can the Geisinger system be replicated nationwide?",
"Geisinger executives say not all of what Geisinger executives have put in place will work elsewhere, however, Geisinger executives say a good portion -- more reliance on electronic records and a greater emphasis on collaboration -- will help dramatically improve health care.",
"\"I think what we can do over the next few years is rather than to try to come on the right formula, the right template for all of the reform, I think what we can do is scale this thing up,\" Steele said.",
"\"I don't think we have to push the Geisinger system off the cliff because...there is a lot that is designed out there that couldn't do what we are doing.\"",
"CNN national political correspondent Jessica Yellin contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"When it came to second bananas, Ed was second to none.",
"Ed turned being a sidekick into art.",
"McMahon, known to generations of Americans through \"Tonight,\" \"Star Search,\" \"TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes\" and as a commercial pitchman, died Tuesday.",
"Ed was 86.",
"For 30 years on the \"Tonight Show\" -- and several years more beforehand -- Ed was Johnny Carson's trusty sidekick, introducing Johnny Carson's, feeding Johnny Carson's straight lines, making the guests comfortable on the couch.",
"It was a job that generally aimed the spotlight at Johnny Carson's, the host.",
"But it made Ed a star nonetheless.",
"\"Ed was a star in Ed's own right.",
"Being a sidekick didn't mean Ed was any less,\" Doc Severinsen, the longtime \"Tonight\" bandleader, told CNNRadio.",
"\"Johnny Carson's defined what the host should be and Ed defined what the sidekick was.\"",
"David Letterman, whose \"Late Night\" followed Johnny Carson's's show on NBC from 1982 to 1993, said in a statement: \"Ed's voice at 11:30 was a signal that something great was about to happen.",
"Ed's introduction of Johnny Carson's was a classic broadcasting ritual -- reassuring and exciting.",
"Ed was a true broadcaster, and an integral part of Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show.'",
"We will miss Ed.\"",
"Gallery: Ed through the years » .",
"McMahon, known to generations of Americans through \"Tonight,\" \"Star Search,\" \"TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes\" and as a commercial pitchman, died Tuesday.",
"Ed was 86.",
"While Johnny Carson's could be insular and shy off camera, Ed was always possessed of an outsized, hail-fellow-well-met attitude, comedian Joan Rivers -- a frequent \"Tonight\" guest and guest host -- told CNN.",
"\"I remember Ed with great affection, and I remember Ed [as] very solid whenever I hosted Tonight Show. ...",
"When you needed Ed, Ed was a rock.",
"A real rock,\" recalled Rivers.",
"\"Ed went beyond Tonight Show and had Ed's own identity and America liked Ed very much.",
"Ed was a good guy.",
"Ed was the neighbor.\"",
"Watch Rivers' memories of McMahon » .",
"Dick Clark -- who really was Ed's neighbor in 1950s Philadelphia, when Clark hosted \"American Bandstand\" and Ed was a local TV star -- remembered McMahon's \"Bloopers\" co-host as a man with \"a really big heart.\"",
"\"Fifty years ago, Ed and I were next-door neighbors.",
"Over the years, our friendship grew while Ed became one of America's favorite television personalities,\" McMahon said in a statement.",
"\"We were together for years.",
"Ed was a big man, had big talent and a really big heart.",
"We'll all miss Ed.\"",
"Rivers remembers Ed as someone who was always willing to reach out.",
"After she left the Carson show -- which she had hosted frequently in Johnny's absence -- for her own late-night show, she remembered becoming persona non grata with many in Hollywood.",
"But not Ed.",
"\"Ed always, whenever Ed would come in a restaurant or see me anywhere, would make it Ed's business to come over and say hello,\" Rivers said.",
"\"And that was going against, quote-unquote, 'boss' orders.' \"",
"Watch Ed recall the invention of \"Carnac the Magnificent\" » .",
"The boss, however, knew The boss's sidekick's value.",
"In vaudeville vernacular, a \"second banana\" was the guy who played off the star comedian (the \"top banana\").",
"He was the straight man, the set-up guy, the performer who smoothed the way and occasionally got in his own line, all in the service of the lead.",
"And few were better than Ed.",
"\"Ed was the best at what Ed did and will never be replaced,\" said Don Rickles, a longtime friend, in a statement.",
"\"Another giant is gone.\""
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"Ed's outgoing public persona was in contrast to that of Ed's boss, Johnny Carson .",
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"More than 2,500 Nigerians caught in the fighting between Islamic militants and government forces have fled More than 2,500 Nigerians caught in the fighting between Islamic militants and government forces's homes in the northern part of the country, a Red Cross spokeswoman said Wednesday.",
"Mothers and their children take refuge this week at a police office in Maiduguri.",
"More than 400 people have been killed, and 150 bodies were lying in the general hospital at Maiduguri, according to Aliyu Maikanu, a Red Cross disaster officer in the northeast.",
"Most of the violence has been on the outskirts of Maiduguri, officials said.",
"\"It's a terrible situation for me.",
"It's a very serious battle -- something I have not seen in my life,\" Maikanu said.",
"Maikanu said only security personnel were free to move around due to the risks.",
"Up to 1,000 militants are holed up at to 1,000 militants's base of operations in Maiduguri, and police have cordoned off the area, Maikanu said.",
"National police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said Wednesday that police were able to free 187 women and children whom police claim were being held in the compound of the Islamic militants' leader, Mohammed Yusuf.",
"Under the sect's strict form of sharia law, the group that was released was shielded from public view, National police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said.",
"National police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said 100 arrests have been made across the north.",
"Shehu Sani, president of the Civil Rights Congress, a human rights organization based in northern Nigeria, said people were seeking refuge in police and military barracks and in hospitals.",
"to 1,000 militants disagree with Nigeria's teaching of Islam in the region, maintaining that Nigeria allows Nigeria to be influenced by Western values.",
"to 1,000 militants have been targeting high-profile government institutions, police and Islamic clergy, National police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said.",
"The operation to defeat to 1,000 militants is ongoing, National police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said, and police have been deployed in all northeast and northwestern states.",
"There is a history of religious violence in central Nigeria, where majority-Muslim North Africa meets largely Christian sub-Saharan Africa.",
"Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 1,000 people were killed there in riots in 2001.",
"Last week the human rights organization alleged that police and soldiers killed at least 133 people during two days of riots last year between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria.",
"Most of the victims were young Muslim men, often unarmed, the human rights organization said in testimony before a state commission.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"More than 2,500 flee fighting between militants, government in northern Nigeria .",
"More 400 people killed in Nigerian violence, Red Cross official says .",
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