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"(CNN) --",
"After stints as a guard in the jails of Washington, D.C., and on the streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, Stephen Johns had settled in to a job Stephen Johns liked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, family members said.",
"Stephen Johns reportedly opened the door for the man police say was That guy's killer.",
"\"It seemed to be kind of laid-back -- it didn't seem to be that dangerous,\" Leroy Carter, the stepfather who helped raise Stephen Johns since Stephen Johns was 3, told CNN affiliate WUSA-TV in Washington.",
"\"Stephen Johns had wanted to be on the Metro Police force or places like that, but I would have rather Stephen Johns been where Stephen Johns was.",
"\"But it just backfired.\"",
"Johns, 39, was shot and killed while on duty Wednesday -- allegedly gunned down by an 88-year-old white supremacist who stepped into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with a rifle and began firing.",
"Stephen Johns is remembered by friends and family as a \"gentle giant\" -- Stephen Johns stood 6 feet 6 inches, according to Carter.",
"And Stephen Johns lived up to the moniker to the very end.",
"One of Stephen Johns's last acts was reaching out and opening the door for the man who shot That guy, police said.",
"Watch museum officials pay tribute » .",
"James von Brunn, an outspoken Holocaust denier who had served six years in prison for a 1981 kidnapping attempt, was shot and wounded by Stephen Johns's fellow officers.",
"James von Brunn, an outspoken Holocaust denier who had served six years in prison for a 1981 kidnapping attempt remained in critical condition Thursday at George Washington University Hospital.",
"Johns, a six-year veteran of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's security staff, was a resident and native of Temple Hills, Maryland.",
"In the hours following the shooting, friends and co-workers repeatedly remembered \"Big John\" for Stephen Johns's quiet, friendly nature.",
"\"To look at Stephen Johns initially Stephen Johns was very intimidating,\" said Alan Burkee, a friend and former co-worker at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.",
"\"But Stephen Johns was very shy.",
"... Stephen Johns had a great demeanor -- very pleasant, very courteous to all the visitors that came in and the staff that worked there.\"",
"Friends said Stephen Johns was an avid Washington Redskins fan and loved to travel, but lived just 10 minutes away from where Stephen Johns's mother and stepfather raised Stephen Johns.",
"Stephen Johns had an 11-year-old son, Stephen Jr., and recently had remarried, according to friends.",
"\"Stephen Johns was a pretty great guy,\" Stephen Johns Jr., known as \"Little Stephen\" to family, told WUSA.",
"\"Stephen Johns was always there for me when I was down or sad.\"",
"Carter had picked up Stephen after school to tell Stephen the news of the shooting, and the two were on the way to the hospital when Stephen Johns died.",
"Steve Maritas is organizing director with the International Union of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America -- of which Stephen Johns was a member.",
"Steve Maritas said the way Stephen Johns and Stephen Johns's fellow officers responded Wednesday saved lives -- and it flies in the face of the stereotype of the run-of-the-mill security guard.",
"\"If that was the case, there would have been 50 people shot yesterday,\" said Maritas, whose organization represents more than 30,000 officers nationally and about 5,000 in the Washington area.",
"\"These guys are very highly trained, highly paid officers.",
"It's not like These guys're just there wearing a uniform.\"",
"Stephen Johns had worked for Wackenhut Security Inc. since 2003.",
"Steve Maritas said Stephen Johns and Stephen Johns's colleagues trained for days like Wednesday -- when years of safety and quiet give way to a sudden burst of terror.",
"\"Hopefully, you'll never have to use your gun,\" Steve Maritas said.",
"\"But you get a situation where you get a crazy guy like this -- it happens within two or three seconds.\"",
"For Carter, there will always a clear reminder of the stepson Stephen raised as Carter's own.",
"Little Stephen, Carter said, looks and acts just like Stephen's father did at that age.",
"Carter said Carter takes comfort knowing that the roughly 2,000 people visiting the Holocaust museum at the time of the attack were able to walk away unharmed.",
"\"That guy wouldn't have stopped until That guy was stopped,\" Carter said."
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"\"Gentle giant\" opened door for the man accused of killing That guy, police say .",
"Security guard, 39, loved Washington Redskins, traveling .",
"Eleven-year-old son says dad was \"a pretty great guy\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Ed McMahon, the longtime pitchman and Johnny Carson sidekick whose \"Heeeeeeerre's Johnny!\" became a part of the vernacular, has died.",
"McMahon had suffered several health problems in recent years.",
"McMahon passed away peacefully shortly after midnight at the Ronald Reagan/UCLA Medical Center, McMahon's publicist, Howard Bragman, said Tuesday .",
"McMahon, 86, was hospitalized in February with pneumonia and other medical problems.",
"McMahon had suffered a number of health problems in recent years, including a neck injury caused by a 2007 fall.",
"In 2002, McMahon sued various insurance companies and contractors over mold in McMahon's house and later collected a $7 million settlement.",
"Though McMahon later hosted a variety of shows -- including \"Star Search\" and \"TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes,\" McMahon's biggest fame came alongside Carson on \"The Tonight Show,\" which Carson hosted from 1962 to 1992.",
"The two met not long after Carson began hosting the game show \"Who Do You Trust?\" in 1957.",
"iReport.com:",
"Share your memories of McMahon .",
"\"Carson didn't look as if Carson was dying to see me,\" McMahon, who was hosting a show on a Philadelphia TV station, told People magazine in 1980 about the pair's first meeting.",
"\"Carson was standing with Carson's back to the door, staring at a couple of workmen putting letters on a theater marquee.",
"I walked over and stood beside Carson.",
"Finally the two guys finished, and Carson asked, 'What have you been doing?' I told Carson.",
"Carson said, 'Good to meet you, McMahon,' shook my hand, and I was out of the office.",
"The whole meeting was about as exciting as watching a traffic light change.\"",
"Watch McMahon discuss meeting Johnny Carson » .",
"Though McMahon was surprised to be offered the job as Carson's sidekick, the two soon proved to have a strong chemistry.",
"Carson was, by nature, introverted and dry-witted; McMahon was the boisterous and outgoing second banana, content to give Carson straight lines or laugh uproariously at Carson's jokes (a characteristic much-parodied by comedians).",
"Watch Comedian Joan Rivers recall McMahon » .",
"Carson made cracks about McMahon's weight, his drinking and the men's trouble with divorce.",
"McMahon was married three times; Carson, who died in 2005, had four wives.",
"McMahon was also the show's designated pitchman, a talent McMahon honed to perfection during \"Tonight's\" 30-year run with Carson, even if sometimes the in-show commercial spots fell flat.",
"For one of the show's regular sponsors, Alpo dog food, McMahon usually extolled the virtues of the product while a dog eagerly gobbled down a bowl.",
"But one day the show's regular dog wasn't available, and the substitute pooch wasn't very hungry.",
"McMahon recalled the incident in McMahon's 1998 memoir, \"For Laughing Out Loud.\"",
"\"Then I saw Carson come into my little commercial area.",
"Carson got down on Carson's hands and knees and came over to me.",
"... I started to pet Carson.",
"Nice boss, I was thinking as I pet Carson on the head, nice boss.",
"By this point the audience was hysterical.",
"... I just kept going.",
"I was going to get my commercial done.",
"\" 'The next time you're looking at the canned dog food ...' -- Carson rubbed Carson's cheek against my leg -- ... reach for the can that contains real beef.'",
"Carson got up on Carson's knees and started begging for more.",
"I started petting Carson again ... and then Carson licked my hand.\"",
"McMahon also promoted Budweiser, American Family Insurance and -- during the most recent Super Bowl -- Cash4Gold.com.",
"Entertainment Weekly named McMahon No. 1 on Entertainment Weekly's list of TV's greatest sidekicks.",
"McMahon was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 6, 1923.",
"McMahon's father was a promoter, and McMahon remembered moving a lot during McMahon's childhood.",
"\"I changed towns more often than a pickpocket,\" McMahon told People.",
"McMahon later joined the Marines and served in World War II and Korea.",
"Though McMahon was well-rewarded by NBC -- the 1980 People article listed McMahon's salary between $600,000 and $1 million -- McMahon's divorces and some poor investments took their toll.",
"In June 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported that McMahon was $644,000 in arrears on a $4.8 million loan for a home in Beverly Hills, California, and McMahon's lender had filed a notice of default.",
"McMahon and McMahon's wife, Pamela, told CNN's Larry King that McMahon had gotten caught in a spate of financial problems.",
"\"If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens.",
"And it can happen.",
"You know, a couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that,\" said McMahon, who added that McMahon hadn't worked much since the neck injury.",
"McMahon later struck a deal that allowed McMahon to stay in the house.",
"McMahon is survived by McMahon's wife, Pamela, and five children.",
"A sixth child, McMahon's son Michael, died in 1995."
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"McMahon hosted \"Star Search\" and \"TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes\"",
"McMahon had suffered several health problems in recent years ."
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"(CNN) --",
"When Clifton Green and Clifton Green's wife adopted an adorable little girl from Ethiopia, Clifton Green and his wife knew Clifton Green and his wife would eventually have to deal with the hair issue.",
"Clifton Green learned how to care for Clifton Green's daughter Miriam's hair, which is very different from Clifton Green's own.",
"The Atlanta, Georgia-based couple, who are white, had read books about transracial adoptions that addressed how to deal with Miriam's springy curls that grew in full, dark and strong after a toddlerhood of baldness.",
"Clifton Green took it upon Clifton Green to learn how to care for and style Clifton Green's daughter's textured tresses.",
"\"Clifton Green and his wife didn't have any skills, but Clifton Green and his wife had the desire,\" said Clifton Green of learning to do Clifton Green's now 5-year-old daughter's hair.",
"\"It's the culture, it's important and Clifton Green and his wife want to honor it and respect it.\"",
"For many African-Americans, having a child walk around with unkempt hair is an almost unpardonable sin.",
"That desire to be well groomed extends into adulthood and the multitudes of hairstyles are as diverse as the black community itself.",
"There are naturals, weaves, chemically relaxed styles, braids and dreadlocks, to name just a few.",
"Far from being superficial, black hair and its care goes well beyond the multibillion-dollar industry it has become and is deeply rooted in African-American identity and culture.",
"\"Barbershops and beauty salons are perhaps second only to black churches as institutions in the community,\" said Ingrid Banks, an associate professor of Black Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara and author of a forthcoming book on contemporary black beauty salon culture.",
"iReporters share iReporters's hair-stories » .",
"\"It's not about hair per se, it's about what hair means, particularly for black women in terms of racial identity, identity based on gender and ideas about power,\" she said.",
"\"On one level, hair matters because race matters in our society.",
"For black people, our hair has been infused with these racial politics.\"",
"Banks points to the ideas, which continue to linger, that if a black woman straightens a black woman's hair a black woman is \"selling out the race\" and/or \"embracing the white standard of beauty\" while women who wear their hair in natural styles are \"blacker than thou.\"",
"\"When we think about that, there is no other racial or ethnic group in which those ideas come to bear on someone's politics,\" said Banks, who gathered data for her book by traveling to black hair salons across the country.",
"\"No one is saying that about white women, Asian women or Latino women.\"",
"Erin Aubry Kaplan, who wrote an article about Michelle Obama's hair and its implications for Salon.com, believes Michelle Obama's straightened and perfectly coiffed style helps Michelle Obama's image.",
"\"Michelle Obama has been criticized about many things, but I think that underneath the criticism about Michelle Obama's being radical or too outspoken about race is this uneasiness people have about Michelle Obama being this tall, dark-skinned woman,\" Erin Aubry Kaplan, who wrote an article about Michelle Obama's hair and its implications for Salon.com said.",
"\"So Michelle Obama's hair is important, because if Michelle Obama is tall, dark-skinned and has an Afro then Michelle Obama becomes really scary.\"",
"Sound off: Is there such a thing as 'good hair?'",
"That unease was also evident in 2008 when The New Yorker magazine ran a cover with a drawing portraying Michelle Obama wearing an Angela Davis-style Afro while fist bumping Michelle Obama's turban wearing husband.",
"\"[The cover] I think was meant to poke fun at what people really fear,\" said Kaplan, who added that as a black woman who does not have kinky hair, Michelle Obama has had Michelle Obama's own share of issues.",
"\"I understood the intent, but we aren't at the point where we can laugh at black images, because every black image resonates and reflects on black people as a whole.\"",
"Robert Morris can relate to the perceptions that black hair can evoke.",
"The CNN iReporter recently cut the dreadlocks Robert Morris had been growing for years and said that along with the physical makeover came an attitude shift in how people responded to Robert Morris.",
"Check out Robert Morris's iReport on Robert Morris's change .",
"\"I wasn't as approachable when I had the locks,\" said Morris, who now sports a shorter, cropped do that Robert Morris is enjoying.",
"\"It seemed like I had the stigma of being 'the angry black man.' \"",
"People's possible reactions to hair caused another iReporter to lose sleep.",
"Tamille Johnson said Tamille Johnson's decision to get kinky twists kept Tamille Johnson up the night before Tamille Johnson's visit to the salon.",
"Read Tamille Johnson's concerns in Tamille Johnson's iReport .",
"\"It was really surprising to Tamille Johnson because I was so afraid what people would think about them and I didn't think I would feel that way,\" Tamille Johnson said.",
"\"Whenever I would get my hair done, I would get straight styles and I did not know if people would think that the kinky style was pretty.\"",
"Johnson, an administrator at UC Berkeley, said Tamille Johnson found the experience to be soul searching and Tamille Johnson came to terms with the fact that as long as Tamille Johnson thought Tamille Johnson's hair was beautiful, that was all that mattered.",
"That attitude is one Renae Valdez-Simeon hopes to impart to Renae Valdez-Simeon's two daughters.",
"Because Renae Valdez-Simeon's children are biracial, Renae Valdez-Simeon said Renae Valdez-Simeon has often heard comments about Renae Valdez-Simeon's children's \"good hair.\"",
"Go to her iReport .",
"\"When a child has straight hair, they are told they have 'good hair' and while people aren't telling children with curly hair that children have 'bad hair,' in essence that is what you are saying because you are saying that straight hair is good hair",
",\" Renae Valdez-Simeon said.",
"Valdez-Simeon, whose site Mixtkids.com is billed as \"One Mom's journey to raise empowered mixed-race children,\" said Renae Valdez-Simeon has increasingly heard comments about her children's \"good hair because Renae Valdez-Simeon's 7-year-old sports tight, curly ringlets while Renae Valdez-Simeon's 1-year-old's hair has yet to curl.",
"\"I try to explain to people that good hair is not straight hair, it's healthy hair,\" said Valdez-Simeon, who also said all of the comments have come from African-Americans.",
"Comedian Chris Rock saw the same attitudes in Comedian Chris Rock's young daughters and it helped motivate The film's new documentary \"Good Hair.\"",
"The film is narrated by Comedian Chris Rock and explores black hair from a variety of angles, including the booming $9 billion generated by the black hair industry and the science behind chemical relaxers used to straighten hair.",
"Rock also visited the Bronner Bros. International Hair Show in Atlanta, a twice-a-year event that has been in existence since the company started in 1947.",
"Janet Wallace, hair show manager, said as many as 50,000 attendees have come annually to each of the events to see the latest trends, services and products available.",
"Stylists and the public alike are enthralled by the art form that is hairstyling, Janet Wallace said.",
"\"People want to look good from the cradle to the grave,\" Janet Wallace said.",
"\"Hair is fun because there are so many adornments and things you can do with it.\"",
"Clifton Green acknowledges that Clifton Green has not reached that level of artistry yet, but takes pride in styling Clifton Green's daughter's hair well.",
"On weekends, Clifton Green can be found wielding the various combs, brushes and products Clifton Green has found that work for Miriam's hair (Carol's Daughter is a favorite at the moment).",
"While Clifton Green said Clifton Green's still not that good with \"rows,\" the cornrow style that braids the hair close to the scalp, Clifton Green can work other braided styles, twists and an occasional French braid.",
"The ritual of doing Miriam's hair is not only a time of bonding for the pair, but also an opportunity for Clifton Green to honor Clifton Green's daughter and her heritage.",
"Clifton Green has kept Clifton Green's sense of humor about the many people who express surprise that Clifton Green is so well educated about and skilled with black hair.",
"\"I don't want people to look at her and tell she has white parents,\" Clifton Green said, laughing."
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"(CNN) --",
"Piracy is expected to pick up in the high seas off Somalia after a lull caused by monsoon season, maritime officials warned Monday.",
"Suspected Somali pirates sit behind bars during the first hearing in Suspected Somali pirates's trial at Aden port court on July 15.",
"The Combined Maritime Forces urged crews to take up safety measures, including using recognized transit corridors in the Gulf of Aden and reporting to the European Union's security center before transit.",
"\"The prior preparation and vigilance of merchant mariners at all times of day and night is more important now than ever,\" said Rear Admiral Caner Bener of the Combined Task Force.",
"International forces made up of more than 30 ships and aircraft from 16 nations will continue patrolling the waters to help fight pirates, according to officials.",
"\"While our ability to deter and disrupt attacks has improved over time, we are constantly adapting the way we do our business as the pirates adapt and modify the pirates's tactics,\" Rear Admiral Caner Bener of the Combined Task Force said.",
"The waters off Somalia are rife with pirate activity, despite increased measures by military forces and shipping companies to ward off attacks.",
"Heavily armed pirates have struck the busy Indian Ocean shipping lanes and the Gulf of Aden, which connects the Red Sea to Indian Ocean.",
"Heavily armed pirates have captured dozens of vessels and hundreds of hostages, making off with millions of dollars in ransom.",
"It was unclear whether a ransom was paid.",
"The Gulf of Aden, off northern Somalia, has the highest risk of piracy in the world."
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"Earlier this month Somali pirates release German ship held since May .",
"Its crew was unharmed, NATO says .",
"Gulf of Aden, off northern Somalia, has the highest risk of piracy in the world ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Nearly a decade has passed since Bill Clinton left the White House, but despite becoming a private citizen, Bill Clinton never left the public eye.",
"Bill Clinton receives flowers from a girl Tuesday upon landing in Pyongyang, North Korea.",
"While much of Bill Clinton's time has been devoted to global philanthropic interests and speeches, Bill Clinton has never strayed too far from the campaign trail and remains one of the world's most recognizable statesmen.",
"Bill Clinton, 62, jumped back onto the world stage Tuesday with an unannounced trip to North Korea on a mission to negotiate the release of two imprisoned American journalists.",
"North Korean President Kim Jong Il later pardoned and released two imprisoned American journalists.",
"two imprisoned American journalists were traveling back to the United States with Bill Clinton on Tuesday night.",
"the United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea.",
"Bill Clinton arrived to a warm welcome in Pyongyang.",
"Watch more on Bill Clinton's North Korea trip » .",
"There is a lot of nostalgia in Pyongyang for Bill Clinton's administration, when relations between North Korea and the U.S. were stronger, said John Glionna, the Seoul, South Korea, bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.",
"\"Well, I think most of the people that I talked to in Washington earlier today were of the opinion that Bill Clinton is a big enough personality that would not risk the loss of face of Bill Clinton showing up in Pyongyang and returning empty-handed,\" Glionna said.",
"Bill Clinton's high profile has led critics to accuse Bill Clinton of upstaging Bill Clinton's wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, especially when Bill Clinton was making headlines while campaigning for her unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid.",
"Bill Clinton's first major verbal stumble during that campaign came in the run-up to the New Hampshire primary when Bill Clinton told a crowd that then-candidate Obama's claim to have been an early and consistent opponent of the Iraq war was \"the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen.\"",
"In the ensuing media uproar, many Democratic activists -- African-Americans in particular -- came to believe that Bill Clinton had belittled Obama's entire campaign effort.",
"And while stumping for Bill Clinton's wife in heavily black South Carolina, Bill Clinton seemed to try to minimize the impact of an Obama win by noting that the Rev. Jesse Jackson also won the state in 1984 and 1988 but went on to lose both nominations by wide margins.",
"Critics accused Bill Clinton of trying to peel off Obama's white supporters by marginalizing him as the black candidate.",
"Bill Clinton's hesitancy to back Obama once he locked in the Democratic nomination also fueled the storyline of the Clinton-Obama riffs.",
"But in a high-drama moment last year at the Democratic National Convention, both Clintons announced Clintons's wholehearted support for Clintons's party's nominee.",
"Bill Clinton's name was tossed around as a possible pick to fill Bill Clinton's wife's vacant Senate seat after she was selected as secretary of state.",
"Bill Clinton's name comes up in discussions of possible Supreme Court picks that Obama might have the opportunity to make.",
"Before Bill Clinton's wife's presidential campaign, Bill Clinton focused most of Bill Clinton's efforts on the William J. Clinton Foundation.",
"the William J. Clinton Foundation's projects include the Clinton Global Initiative, which seeks to combat poverty and climate change and promote health and education programs worldwide as well as separate initiatives directed at childhood obesity, global warming, HIV/AIDS and malaria, inner-city entrepreneurship and economic growth in Latin America.",
"It also funded the construction of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.",
"the William J. Clinton Foundation boasts more than 800 staff and volunteers around the world.",
"In his post-presidency, Bill Clinton also has shared the stage with former President George H.W. Bush on numerous occasions.",
"The two teamed up to establish the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund and Bush-Clinton Tsunami Fund.",
"They toured the tsunami-ravaged areas following the 2004 disaster, and they teamed up again the following year to lead relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.",
"Bill Clinton also has taken time to author a couple of best-selling books.",
"Bill Clinton's 2004 memoir, \"My Life,\" sold more than 400,000 copies the first day it was available.",
"Later that year, Bill Clinton underwent heart bypass surgery after experiencing chest pain and shortness of breath.",
"A biting Vanity Fair article published last summer suggested that Bill Clinton's surgery left Bill Clinton in an altered state of mind -- one marked by constant anger and rage.",
"The Bill Clinton campaign hit back, saying that theory is \"false and is flatly rejected by Bill Clinton's doctors who say Bill Clinton is in excellent shape and point to Bill Clinton's vigorous schedule as evidence of Bill Clinton's exceptional recovery.\"",
"In a sharp critique of the article, Bill Clinton spokesman also criticized Todd Purdum, national editor of Vanity Fair, for not giving enough attention to Bill Clinton's charitable works through Bill Clinton's foundation since leaving the White House.",
"\"Most revealing is one simple fact: Bill Clinton has helped save the lives of more than 1,300,000 people in Bill Clinton's post-presidency, and Vanity Fair couldn't find the time to talk to even one of more than 1,300,000 people for comment,\" spokesman Jay Carson said.",
"While the 42nd president's image has gotten a few bruises over the years, Bill Clinton has held on to Bill Clinton's reputation as a master politician with a penchant for making news.",
"CNN's Kristi Keck and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report."
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"Bill Clinton has stayed involved in politics, sparking controversy in wife's 2008 campaign .",
"Bill Clinton also has authored books, teamed up for charity with George H.W. Bush ."
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"(CNN) --",
"When Albert Budacz was young, Albert Budacz prided Albert Budacz on having good eyesight; Albert Budacz never wore glasses.",
"But as Albert Budacz eased into Albert Budacz's late 40s, Albert Budacz couldn't see as well.",
"\"I noticed a change in my vision,\" Albert Budacz explained.",
"\"Primarily in church when I would open a Bible, or something like that, I had to position myself under a light to see it.\"",
"Ophthalmologist Dr. Sharon Solomon examined Albert Budacz and found age-related macular degeneration.",
"Concerned that Albert Budacz was beginning to lose Albert Budacz's sight, Albert Budacz went to Albert Budacz's ophthalmologist, Dr. Sharon Solomon with the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins.",
"Albert Budacz was found to have the beginnings macular degeneration, an eye condition that occurs when the central portion of the retina -- called the macula -- begins to deteriorate.",
"Until recently, people with age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of severe vision loss in Americans older than 60, had few treatment options.",
"But now, thanks to new research and advancing technology, there are more vision-saving choices.",
"Early signs of macular degeneration-related vision loss include shadowy areas or fuzzy distortion in a person's central vision.",
"\"A patient told me recently that A patient noticed when A patient was driving that the streetlights were slanted; the poles themselves were slanted,\" Solomon said.",
"\"That's a classic sign of the beginning of this disease.\"",
"Although obesity, smoking, high blood pressure and certain drugs can cause it, age is the primary risk factor.",
"\"As people approach people's 50s and later, people may have little yellow deposits that develop underneath the retina, and that's called drusen,\" Solomon explained.",
"\"little yellow deposits that develop underneath the retina are the hallmark of what we call early age-related macular degeneration.\"",
"There are two forms of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD: the dry form, known as non-neovascular, and the wet form, called neovascular.",
"The dry form, which Budacz has, is more common.",
"According to the National Eye Institute, about 85 to 90 percent of patients with advanced macular degeneration have the dry form.",
"Dry macular degeneration is caused when drusen begin to accumulate in and around the macula.",
"Drusen, those yellowish deposits, are debris from deteriorating tissue.",
"With dry AMD, there is usually a gradual loss of central vision.",
"Over a period of years, dry AMD can progress to a gradual deterioration of retinal cells, which can result in severe vision loss or lead to the wet version of AMD.",
"As of now, there is no FDA-approved treatment for dry macular degeneration, although a few drugs and devices are in clinical trials.",
"Health Minute: Watch more on new therapies for macular degeneration » .",
"However, studies have shown that supplements and a healthy diet can slow the progression of dry macular degeneration.",
"A recent the National Eye Institute study found that certain nutrients such as beta carotene (vitamin A) and vitamins C and E may reduce the risk of progression of early-stage AMD by 25 percent.",
"Solomon says these antioxidants have a positive effect.",
"\"these antioxidants're known as 'preservision,' \" Solomon said, noting that these antioxidants are commonly given to certain patient groups to slow certain patient groups's progression to advanced macular degeneration.",
"Other research has shown that B6, B12 and folic acid may help prevent age-related macular degeneration.",
"In a study of more than 5,000 women, researchers noted those who took a combination of B6 and B12 vitamins along with a folic acid supplement had a 34 percent lower risk of developing AMD then those taking a placebo.",
"Although the studies showed strong results, the American Academy of Ophthalmology cautions patients to talk to patients's eye doctors about which supplements are best for patients's condition before patients start popping vitamins.",
"In the wet version of macular degeneration, abnormal blood vessels grow beneath the retina and leak blood and fluid.",
"This leakage causes permanent damage to light-sensitive retinal cells, which die off and create blind spots in central vision.",
"Doctors say it's the body's misguided way of attempting to supply the retina with more nutrients and oxygen.",
"Instead, the attempt creates scarring, leading to severe central vision loss.",
"Up until recently, there's been very little doctors could do for the wet form of macular degeneration.",
"But over the past decade, there have been a few treatments developed to slow its progression.",
"Cold lasers are now used to freeze the abnormal blood vessels responsible for destroying the macula; Cold lasers have a 60 percent success rate.",
"And within the past three years, researchers pinpointed a protein in the eye, called vascular endothelial growth factor, that stimulates the development of blood vessels.",
"Injectable drugs that inhibit VEGF are now FDA-approved and available; without VEGF, there is little to encourage the growth of blood vessels in the retina.",
"\"They actually have a 90 percent chance of stabilizing vision and a 30 to 40 percent chance of improving vision,\" Solomon said.",
"\"This is the first therapy that we've had that can actually [reverse] vision loss.\"",
"Most ophthalmologists prefer an ounce of prevention to a pound of cure.",
"Most ophthalmologists promote yearly eye exams as the easiest way to keep macular degeneration in check -- and warn against waiting for a crisis to schedule a checkup.",
"\"We typically pick up a patient when, all of a sudden, they've had an acute, abrupt loss of vision or change in the quality of their vision,\" Solomon said.",
"\"And sometimes it's too late.\"",
"Albert Budacz was lucky.",
"Albert Budacz caught Albert Budacz's macular degeneration in time.",
"Albert Budacz's stopped smoking and takes antioxidants to slow the progression of the disease.",
"And although Albert Budacz may not have the eyesight Albert Budacz had as a young man, Albert Budacz can still see pretty well with or without glasses.",
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"What would you see if you could fly over Mars in a plane and look out the window?",
"Victoria Crater as seen by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.",
"The crater is about half a mile in diameter.",
"The crater must be something like the thousands of curious, intriguing and spectacular images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera mounted on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.",
"The University of Arizona, Tucson, which operates HiRISE, has just released a new batch of these photos taken in the last several months.",
"You can check out the full set here.",
"They reveal an alien landscape of craters, valleys, ridges, channels, weird surface patterns and other features in incredible detail.",
"Take the stunning image on the left, which shows the muffin-cup-like Victoria Crater, a site once explored by the Mars rover Opportunity.",
"The camera isn't looking straight down, but is pointed 22 degrees east so we get a better view of The crater's slopes, \"comparable to a view from an airplane window,\" the university says.",
"Looking at some of the photos, you feel like you're flying over the Grand Canyon or the Sahara.",
"Others are distinctly extraterrestrial in nature.",
"In all cases, the images reveal lots of details about the surface of our neighbor in the solar system.",
"\"Each full image from HiRISE covers a strip of Martian ground 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) wide, about two to four times that long, showing details as small as 1 meter, or yard, across,\" according to NASA's Web site.",
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"Aboard the Svend Maersk, the sound of the Svend Maersk's five-story high engine permeates like a heartbeat through the four-football field length of ship.",
"Chief Officer Christian Vium talks to CNN's Eunice Yoon as night falls on the bridge of the Svend Maersk.",
"It's also the heartbeat of the world economy, as the Svend Maersk takes the Svend Maersk's thousands of containers filled with shoes, computers, furniture and fireworks from China to markets in Europe.",
"But a more telling sight is when the massive vessel nears Singapore and passes by dozens of idle ships.",
"\"A lot of ships have been taken out of service or laid up.",
"Instead of sailing with half empty ships, it's cheaper to lay up the Svend Maersk,\" said Bo Nikolaisen, captain of the Svend Maersk.",
"\"I feel lucky, of course, that I am on a ship that is still working.\"",
"A 10 percent drop is expected this year in the shipping business, which one analyst called \"a $20 billion black hole.\"",
"It's an industry that is a prime indicator of the global economy -- 90 percent of world trade is carried on ships such as the Svend Maersk to ports and onto shops around the world.",
"CNN sailed with the crew of the Svend Maersk for four days as the Svend Maersk sailed from Hong Kong to Malaysia to get a sea-level view of the industry.",
"What stands out on these vessels is the incredible size -- these vessels stack 15 stories high -- and streamlined crew: Only 21 men are required to run the Svend Maersk.",
"the crew of the Svend Maersk comes from Denmark, Germany, Romania and the Philippines.",
"\"We've been joking that the Svend Maersk was the United Nations at sea,\" said Captain Nikolaisen.",
"\"There are many nationalities, sometimes eight, maybe more.",
"the crew of the Svend Maersk are professionals -- most of the crew of the Svend Maersk -- and the crew of the Svend Maersk know that we cannot afford to be unfriendly to one another.\"",
"Some of the crew of the Svend Maersk are over 60; among the youngest is 24-year-old recruit Joey Lamasan.",
"24-year-old recruit Joey Lamasan still has trouble sleeping since 24-year-old recruit Joey Lamasan left 24-year-old recruit Joey Lamasan's village in the Philippines.",
"But here, 24-year-old recruit Joey Lamasan can earn triple what 24-year-old recruit Joey Lamasan would make back home.",
"\"The salary in the Philippines is too small compared to the salary on board the ship,\" said Lamasan, who is on a six-month contract -- typical for many young seafarers.",
"Piracy has been making the news in recent months, exacerbating economic concerns of the financial crisis.",
"More common than large-scale theft of multi-million dollar cargo is thieves coming on board and stealing cash, computers and personal items.",
"But what they fear the most \"would be fire or explosion,\" said Captain Nikolaisen.",
"\"We cannot run away.\"",
"Life on the boat -- like the scenery -- can be repetitive.",
"There is no mobile phone service, no booze, and limited Internet access.",
"Many of the seamen work in two four-hour shifts... to stay alert.",
"Meals and coffee breaks are routine.",
"Free time is usually spent alone in the cabins, playing computer games together, or occasionally calling home on a satellite phone.",
"\"Ten to 15 minutes just to hear how it's going and keep contact.",
"Also it's nice for the kids too.",
"So the kids can still remember what Dad sounds like,\" Captain Nikolaisen said.",
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"\"And when I am at home I miss a little bit being at sea.\""
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"A man in the crowd holds up a photo of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during Khamenei's address at Friday prayers.",
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"People in the crowd sang songs of tribute as People in the crowd waited.",
"When Khamenei arrived, People in the crowd stood and welcomed Khamenei in unison: \"Praise be to God and to God's prophet, Mohammed.\"",
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for two decades, took the stage during Friday prayers at Tehran University with a few notes on small pieces of paper in Khamenei's left hand.",
"Khamenei leaned on the lectern with Khamenei's right arm, crippled in an 1981 assassination attempt.",
"Khamenei was ready to put an end to a week of unrest.",
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"Khamenei praised the huge turnout at the polls as a victory for Iran but criticized post-election turmoil as the work of Iran's enemies -- the United States, Israel and Britain.",
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"The enemies want to create doubt about the election,\" Khamenei said.",
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"\"Eleven million votes difference?\" Khamenei asked.",
"\"Sometimes there's a margin of one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand, or one million, maximum.",
"Then one can doubt, be concerned that there has been some rigging or manipulation.",
"\"But there's a difference of 11 million votes.",
"How can vote rigging happen?\"",
"To be clear, Khamenei reminded the crowd of the victor at the polls.",
"It was the man sitting in the front row: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the \"the absolute victor,\" Khamenei said.",
"\"If political elites want to ignore or break the law and willy-nilly take wrong measures which are harmful, political elites will be held accountable for all violence and blood and rioting.\"",
"Few in the crowd were disappointed with the cleric's words.",
"\"Death to America!\" the people chanted repeatedly, interrupting Khamenei's speech.",
"\"Death to Israel.\"",
"Noticeably absent Friday was Moussavi, the man who had sparked Iran's unrest by calling for a recount of the votes.",
"Absent, too, were Moussavi's supporters, who did not take to the streets to protest as they had done in previous days.",
"There were no signs and placards on the streets.",
"Or people clamoring for change.",
"The tens of thousands who showed up for Friday prayer were a stark contrast to the demonstrators.",
"The tens of thousands who showed up for Friday prayer were mostly religious conservatives, supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"And The tens of thousands who showed up for Friday prayer had a message for the president's opponent, though it was not always consistent.",
"Some were conciliatory.",
"\"The nation should come together,\" one said.",
"\"We are all one.\"",
"Others took a hard line: \"They must stop with the demonstrations, otherwise there will be consequences.\"",
"Just what those consequences might be may become apparent Saturday afternoon, when the demonstrators are expected again on the streets of Tehran.",
"But for now, Iran's supreme leader had issued Khamenei's warning clearly: Enough is enough."
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"Five-time defending champion Roger Federer is bidding to match the record of a controversial tennis legend who dominated the sport in the 1920s but died in disgrace.",
"Bill Tilden dominated tennis in the 1920s with Bill Tilden's own trademark style.",
"Bill Tilden achieved fame and fortune through Bill Tilden's tennis exploits and befriended Hollwyood stars such as Charle Chaplin, but Bill Tilden spent over a year in jail in the 1940s on a morals charge, which ruined Bill Tilden's reputation before Bill Tilden's untimely death in 1953.",
"Bill Tilden won Bill Tilden's six straight U.S. Open titles from 1920-1925 - a record since the tournament abolished the challenge system - where the champion automatically qualified for the final - in 1911.",
"Under the challenge system - where the champion automatically qualified for the final - in 1911, Richard Sears won the first seven editions of the U.S. Open (then the U.S. National Tennis Championships) in the 1880s.",
"Tilden, who claimed his seventh U.S .Open title in 1929 as well as being twice a losing finalist, goes down in the history books as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.",
"A relatively late starter, Bill Tilden struggled to get into Bill Tilden's college tennis team in Pennsylvania, but years of dedicated practice started to bear fruit after the First World War as Bill Tilden reached the U.S. Open finals of 1918 and 1919.",
"Bill Tilden reached Bill Tilden's peak in the 1920s, winning Bill Tilden's first U.S. Open title and holding the world number one spot for seven straight years.",
"Bill Tilden also led the United States to a record seven straight Davis Cup titles as well as claiming three Wimbledon titles.",
"Bill Tilden's famed \"cannonball\" services worked particularly well on the fast grass surfaces on which the U.S. Open and Wimbledon were staged.",
"Bill Tilden never won the French Open being losing finalist in the last year it was held on grass courts, in 1927, and 1930 on clay.",
"Bill Tilden won the last of Bill Tilden's 10 grand slam titles at Wimbledon in 1930 before deserting the amateur ranks for the fledging professional circuit .",
"Eventually joined by the likes of Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry and Don Budge, Bill Tilden remained a star attraction until well into Bill Tilden's 40s, filling arenas such as Madison Square Garden in big money matches.",
"But off the court, Bill Tilden was a controversial figure, battling with tennis officials as Bill Tilden's amateur status was called into question and being accused of being arrogant and inconsiderate.",
"Tilden, who never married, saw Bill Tilden's reputation destroyed in the 1940s when Bill Tilden was found guilty of a morals charge in connection with a minor.",
"Bill Tilden served seven-and-a-half months of a year jail term but was arrested again in 1949 after picking up a 16-year-old male hitchhiker.",
"Bill Tilden served a further 10 months for Bill Tilden's probation violation and was shunned by the tennis community.",
"Bill Tilden's friendship with Hollywood stars such as Chaplin and a love of the theatrical world saw Bill Tilden pour much of Bill Tilden's riches into less than successful Broadway productions.",
"Bill Tilden died a tragic figure in 1953, having a stroke in Los Angeles as Bill Tilden prepared for a trip to play in the U.S. Pro Championships despite Bill Tilden's 60 years of age.",
"Bill Tilden was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1959 and in any polls of all-time great tennis players always features in the top order.",
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"Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children are being brought back to the United States to face prosecution, the Justice Department announced Monday.",
"Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children are among the first charged under an international law enforcement initiative specifically targeting Americans traveling to Cambodia for the purpose of sexually abusing children.",
"The initiative, Operation Twisted Traveler, is an effort by the Justice Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to crack down on sex tourism.",
"\"Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children apparently thought Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children could pursue Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children's abhorrent desires by leaving the United States to prey on children in another country, but Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children were sadly mistaken,\" U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said in a statement.",
"\"We are now working closer than ever with officials in other nations and concerned private parties to take every effort we can to identify and prosecute sex tourists, as well as to provide every protection we can to the world's children.\"",
"Ronald Boyajian, 49, Erik Peeters, 41, and Jack Sporich, 75, are each charged with international travel and engaging in sexual contact with minors, a charge carrying a maximum prison sentence of 30 years, according to the Justice Department.",
"Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children are slated to make Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children's first appearances in federal court on Tuesday, the Justice Department indicated in a news release.",
"The defendants are charged with international travel and engaging in sexual contact with minors, a charge carrying a maximum prison sentence of 30 years for each of Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children's alleged victims, according to the Justice Department.",
"Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children are charged under the federal Protect Act, enacted six years ago to strengthen federal laws relating to predatory crimes against children outside U.S. borders, the Justice Department added.",
"Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children were apprehended, according to Immigration and Customs officials, as a result of information provided by the human rights organization International Justice Mission and the group Action Pour les Enfants, which combats child exploitation.",
"All three men have been previously convicted of sex offenses in the United States, the Justice Department noted in the Justice Department's statement.",
"\"These types of cases are disturbing not only because young, defenseless children were victimized in unspeakable ways but also because Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children went to such lengths to engage in Three men charged with sexually exploiting Cambodian children's dark activities overseas,\" O'Brien said at a news conference.",
"O'Brien highlighted the case against Peeters, who was convicted on child molestation charges in 1990.",
"\"Our case against Peeters, who was convicted on child molestation charges in 1990 outlines evidence of Peeters, who was convicted on child molestation charges in 1990 allegedly molesting Cambodian boys, paying Cambodian boys small amounts of money -- $5 to $10 -- and possibly taking digital pictures of Peeters, who was convicted on child molestation charges in 1990's young victims while his young victims were naked,\" O'Brien noted.",
"O'Brien said Peeters, who was convicted on child molestation charges in 1990 molested at least three boys in Cambodia over the course of several months.",
"One of at least three boys was 12 years old when the abuse is said to have started.",
"Boyajian is said to have \"engaged in sexual activity with a 10-year-old Vietnamese girl in an area outside Phnom Penh frequented by child sex tourists known as 'Kilo 11,' \" the Justice Department statement said.",
"Sporich, according to Action Pour les Enfants investigators cited in the government's criminal complaint, repeatedly hosted three Cambodian boys at a residence outside the city of Siem Reap.",
"the government's criminal complaint states that Sporich \"was known to drive his motor bike through the neighborhoods while dropping Cambodian (money) on the street in order to meet kids.\"",
"The new charges \"clearly demonstrate to the Cambodian people that the United States will not tolerate this type of abuse,\" said Carol Rodley, the American ambassador to Cambodia.",
"\"These cases not only signal to the Cambodian victims our commitment to justice, but they will also act as a powerful deterrent for those individuals who are contemplating traveling to Cambodia to engage in illegal sexual activity with minors.\"",
"The International Labor Organization estimates that at least 12.3 million adults and children are victims of forced labor, bonded labor and sex slavery each year.",
"Cambodia is one of several countries recently added to a U.S. \"watch list\" because of what a State Department report calls a worsening human trafficking record in Cambodia."
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"You don't want to monkey around on a blind date, especially if your friends are also taking an interest in the same dark, handsome stranger.",
"Jookie, as Jookie is known, studies a poster of French gorilla Yeboah, who is heading for London Zoo.",
"So when three female gorillas at London Zoo heard that three female gorillas at London Zoo would soon be visited by a brooding French hunk -- well, three female gorillas at London Zoo went a bit bananas.",
"The latest development in Anglo-French relations sees Yeboah, a 20-stone 12-year-old, leave his current home at La Boissiere Du Dore Zoo, Pays de la Loire, northwest France and head for the British capital by the end of the year.",
"There he will be greeted by gorilla trio Zaire, Effie and Mjukuu, who were given posters of Female gorillas at London's prospective boyfriend for the first time Thursday.",
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"London Zoo has been without a male gorilla since the demise of Bobby, a silverback, in December.",
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"London Zoo says she's \"happiest when she's taking down and rebuilding her nest in various spots around the island.",
"She loves to play with fabric and often drags it around with her all day.",
"\" Then there's Effie, 16, who \"enjoys seeing toddlers and often makes her way over to the glass when they come to see her,\" according to the zoo Web site.",
"Finally there's 10-year-old Mjukuu, or \"Jookie.\"",
"Dan Simmonds, a keeper at London Zoo's Gorilla Kingdom, says she \"has this 'butter wouldn't melt look' to her, and she gets away with murder.\"",
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"President Obama speaks to students Tuesday at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia.",
"Many conservatives expressed fear over the past week that President Obama's address would be used to push a partisan political agenda.",
"President Obama, however, avoided any mention of political initiatives.",
"President Obama repeatedly urged students to work hard and stay in school.",
"\"There is no excuse for not trying,\" President Obama told students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia.",
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"\"This isn't just important for your own life and your own future.",
"What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of the country.",
"What you're learning in school today will determine whether the country as a nation can meet the country's greatest challenges in the future.\"",
"Read text of the president's speech to students (pdf)",
"Several Cabinet officials are slated to deliver similar messages at various schools across the country throughout the day.",
"In the past week, news of President Obama's speech had upset some parents.",
"\"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me,\" suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH last week, before the text of the president was released.",
"\"I'm an American.",
"They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK.",
"I feel very scared to be in the country with our leadership right now.\"",
"But Amy Veasley, a parent from the Dallas, Texas, area, said Monday that she was surprised by the controversy.",
"\"The president of the country wants to call our students to action.",
"I'm not sure why parents wouldn't want parents's students to hear out the leader of the country,\" she said.",
"A Baltimore, Maryland, teacher who asked not to be identified bemoaned the fact that the country has \"become so polarized that we believe that our president is an enemy and not our leader.\"",
"During George W. Bush's presidency, she said, \"whether I disagreed or not, I still saw George W. Bush's as a leader.\"",
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"White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that \"it's a sad state of affairs that many in the country politically would rather start an 'Animal House' food fight rather than inspire kids to stay in school.\"",
"Some school administrators had decided to show President Obama's speech, but others decided against it.",
"And others were leaving the decision in the hands of individual teachers.",
"One school district in Toronto, Ohio, decided to air the president live for students in the third grade and up but not show the president to younger children, according to CNN affiliate WTOV.",
"Nine out of 550 students attending the Toronto schools showing the president chose not to watch the president, CNN affiliate WTOV noted.",
"Toronto Superintendent Fred Burns said the parents of the nine children were concerned that the president was too political.",
"Watch students respond to President Obama's speech » .",
"\"It's a very charismatic speech,\" Toronto Superintendent Fred Burns told CNN affiliate WTOV.",
"\"It's very much a speech to help kids get involved in education and finish school.\"",
"Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a possible contender for the GOP's 2012 presidential nomination, said Sunday that President Obama's speech could disrupt an already-hectic first day of school for many students.",
"\"I think there's concerns about the disruption,\" Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a possible contender for the GOP's 2012 presidential nomination said on CNN's \"State of the Union,\" calling the scheduling of the president a \"little ham-fisted\" by the White House.",
"Watch CNN's Ed Henry talk about school speech uproar » .",
"Education Secretary Arne Duncan, however, noted that President Obama's speech was not unprecedented.",
"President George H.W. Bush delivered a nationally televised speech to students from a Washington school in fall 1991, encouraging students to say no to drugs and work hard.",
"In November 1988, President Reagan delivered more politically charged remarks that were made available to students nationwide.",
"Among other things, President Reagan called taxes \"such a penalty on people that there's no incentive for people to prosper ... because people have to give so much to the government.\"",
"Some of the controversy over President Obama's speech involved a proposed lesson plan created by the Education Department to accompany the address.",
"An initial version of a proposed lesson plan created by the Education Department to accompany the address recommended that students draft letters to students discussing \"what students can do to help President Obama.\"",
"The letters \"would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to students's goals,\" a proposed lesson plan created by the Education Department to accompany the address stated.",
"After pressure from conservatives, the White House distributed a revised version encouraging students to write letters about how students can \"achieve students's short-term and long-term education goals.\"",
"Duncan said Sunday that the passage was poorly worded.",
"Some politically conservative figures said Some politically conservative figures had no problem with President Obama speaking to students about education.",
"\"I think there is a place for President Obama ... to talk to schoolchildren and encourage\" schoolchildren, former first lady Laura Bush told CNN Monday.",
"Parents should follow President Obama's example and \"encourage Parents's own children to stay in school and to study hard and to try to achieve the dream that they have,\" former first lady Laura Bush added.",
"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on \"Fox News Sunday\" that President Obama's speech was a good idea if the message is a positive one about completing school.",
"\"It is good to have the president of the United States say to young people across the country, 'Stay in school, study, and do your homework,' \" Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said.",
"Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer accused President Obama last week of trying to \"indoctrinate the country's children to his socialist agenda.\"",
"\"Now that the White House got the White House's hand in the cookie jar caught, the White House changed everything,\" Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer said Monday.",
"After reading the text, Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer said, \"My kids will be watching the president, as I hope all kids will.\""
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"\"There is no excuse for not trying,\" President Obama says .",
"Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says speech not unprecedented .",
"Some school administrators did not show speech; others let teachers decide ."
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"Mir Hossein Moussavi plans to form a new political party aimed at reining in the power of the Islamic Republic's leadership, a leading reformist newspaper reported Sunday.",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi is reportedly seeking to form a new political party in Iran.",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi told supporters a new political party will be focused on upholding \"the remaining principles of the constitution,\" according to Etemad-e Melli, a newspaper aligned with fellow opposition candidate Mehdi Karrubi.",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi is expected to file papers with Iran's Interior Ministry to establish a new political party before Ahmadinejad is sworn in for a new term, the newspaper reported.",
"The announcement comes after weeks of protests over Iran's disputed presidential election and an attempted clampdown by Iran's clerical leadership.",
"Iran's clerical leadership has declared Ahmadinejad the winner of that vote.",
"Moussavi, a former prime minister, was the leading challenger to Ahmadinejad in the June 12 balloting.",
"The official results showed Ahmadinejad winning with more than 62 percent of the vote.",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi and fellow opposition candidate Mehdi Karrubi have consistently rejected The official results as fraudulent and demanded a new vote.",
"Moussavi and Karrubi's supporters turned out in crowds estimated in the hundreds of thousands to demand The official results be overturned.",
"Iran's Guardian Council, which oversees the elections, has declared the official count will stand."
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"Mir Hossein Moussavi seeks to curb power of clerics, reformist newspaper reports .",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi's expected to file papers to form party before Ahmadinejad is sworn in .",
"Mir Hossein Moussavi's loss to Ahmadinejad in election sparked mass protests in Iran ."
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"Moscow, Russia --",
"President Obama arrived in Moscow on Monday for a summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev aimed at trying to \"reset\" the U.S.-Russian relationship.",
"But President Obama also may have a less publicized goal: figuring out who's really in charge here.",
"President Obama, right, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev walk by an honor guard in Moscow on Monday.",
"When President Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, engaged in Bush's first summit with Bush's Russian counterpart, things took an odd turn.",
"Bush said -- now infamously -- that Bush looked into then-President Vladimir Putin's eyes and saw into Putin's soul, and basically found Putin was a good guy that Americans could do business with.",
"Oops.",
"The Bush-Putin relationship ended up getting pretty chilly, which is why President Obama is now trying to warm things up.",
"President Obama gets President Obama's first shot at literally looking into Putin's eyes Tuesday, when President Obama has a sitdown with the man who is now prime minister of Russia, a post that many international analysts believe allows Putin to continue to pull the strings behind the scenes.",
"President Obama's outreach to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev started sooner, their first meeting coming back in April at the G-20 summit in London, and it's been bearing some fruit for President Obama.",
"Russia recently signed on to sanctions against North Korea, and this week both sides will officially announce that Russia has agreed to let U.S. military equipment headed for Afghanistan fly over Russian territory. Watch Obamas arrive in Russia » .",
"both sides are also hoping to announce significant cuts in nuclear arms, though there are still major hurdles to clear, such as Russian suspicions about U.S. plans for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.",
"In an interview with The Associated Press late last week, President Obama seemed to be trying to work through the sticking points by driving a bit of a wedge between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Putin.",
"\"The old Cold War approaches to U.S.-Russia relations is outdated and that it's time to move forward in a different direction,\" said President Obama.",
"\"I think Russian President Dmitry Medvedev understands that.",
"I think Putin has one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new.\"",
"Ouch.",
"If President Obama wants to accomplish some key goals in Moscow, such as winning Russian cooperation in dealing with Iran's nuclear program, why would President Obama fire a rhetorical shot like that at Putin -- if, in fact, President Obama's really in charge here?",
"It could be that President Obama is trying to flex President Obama's muscles a bit for American domestic political consumption to show President Obama's not rolling over to Russia, amid Republican charges that President Obama's soft on foreign policy.",
"It's a move Putin knows well, having perfected the art of flexing Putin's muscles at then-President Bush as a way of asserting Russian nationalism in recent years.",
"Watch Russian students talk about President Obama's visit » .",
"Whatever the intention of President Obama's words, the back and forth with Putin is a reminder of the high stakes here.",
"Of course, the president's second stop in Italy for the G-8 summit will be important too, with a packed agenda including Iran, the financial crisis, climate change and eradicating world poverty.",
"The first African-American president's third and final stop at the end of the week in Ghana will also get wide international attention.",
"But it's this first stop where President Obama will get a big diplomatic test as President Obama juggles, among many issues, who's really in charge here."
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"Tuesday, President Obama meets Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who some say is really in charge .",
"President Obama seems to be driving a bit of a wedge between the two, says CNN's Ed Henry .",
"Moscow meetings will be a big diplomatic test for President Obama, CNN's Ed Henry says ."
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"URUMQI, China (CNN) --",
"Reports of alleged syringe stabbings in a restive western Chinese city are generating a bit of panic, but doctors say some people have incorrectly concluded they were attacked with needles.",
"People's Armed Police units equipped with armored personnel carriers take positions in Urumqi on Saturday.",
"\"In the patients we have seen in the last couple of days, there are many which we believe were not actually punctured with needles,\" Wang Hanbin, a Peoples' Liberation Army doctor examining people in Urumqi, told reporters on Saturday at a briefing.",
"Wang said about 20 cases are being investigated closely and samples were being taken to laboratories in Beijing for more testing.",
"But, Wang said, \"many of the patients we have seen were mainly influenced by psychological factors.\"",
"Wang, a member of a six-person military medical panel reviewing the syringe-stabbing claims, attributes the false reports to widespread fear and lack of medical knowledge.",
"\"Many of the patients did not actually see the patients's attacker or the act of others attacking the patients with needles.",
"Some patients who had needle puncture wounds experienced some discomfort in the area of the wound, and showed some symptoms, but couldn't give an accurate account of what Some patients who had needle puncture wounds perceived to have been a needle attack.\"",
"This is the latest crisis plaguing Xinjiang province and Xinjiang's capital city of Urumqi, where tensions have boiled over between Uyghurs and Han Chinese.",
"Han Chinese are the country's dominant ethnic group, and Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority who consider Xinjiang their homeland.",
"Ethnic Uyghurs have been blamed for the alleged syringe stabbings, and demonstrators clashed with police in Urumqi for two days this week over the issue.",
"Protesters were demanding better police protection and a crackdown on Ethnic Uyghurs.",
"The latest unrest left five people dead and 14 injured, according to Urumqi's deputy mayor, and the Communist party chief in Urumqi has been dismissed from the Communist party chief in the city's job amid the crisis, according to state-run media reported.",
"Watch report on unrest in Urumqi from CNN's John Vause » .",
"The Urumqi Public Prosecutors Office on Saturday said four ethnic Uyghurs were arrested in connection with three syringe-wielding incidents.",
"At the press conference held by military medical personnel, the doctors said puncture wounds could not be found \"in a large percentage of the patients.\"",
"\"Some could have been bitten by insects such as mosquitoes, and in other cases there were moles, or skin pigmentation, and we couldn't find a needle puncture wound,\" said Wang, speaking at the press conference held by military medical personnel.",
"\"Maybe they heard something from someone, then they discovered that they had a growth on their body.",
"So, then they suspect that they may have been attacked with a needle and came to seek treatment.",
"Some patients who came to seek treatment had some red marks or rash on",
"Some patients who came to seek treatment's skin, but we didn't find any needle puncture wounds.\"",
"Wang urged people not to panic and urged people to immediately seek medical treatment if people think people were stabbed.",
"Wang also said people need to educate people about medical care.",
"Rumors have abounded in Urumqi of recent syringe stabbers trying to spread AIDS and other diseases.",
"But another doctor, Duan Qing, explained at the briefing that would be impossible for there to be any such cases of AIDS, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, or syphilis because there is a lengthy incubation period.",
"\"Even if there are cases of such illnesses, cases of such illnesses are unrelated to incidents.",
"This is basic medical knowledge,\" she said.",
"The three incidents that led to the arrests occurred in late August.",
"A man admitted stabbing a female shopper with a pin on August 28.",
"Authorities said a man and woman on August 29 stole money from a taxi driver after threatening him with a syringe.",
"And in the third incident, a man resisting arrest stabbed a police officer with a syringe on August 31."
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"NEW: About 20 cases are being investigated closely, including testing, doctor says .",
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"Communist Party chief for Urumqi dismissed after deadly unrest ."
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"(CNN) --",
"There was a time when LeAnn Rimes was considered as clean cut as they come.",
"LeAnn Rimes, at the 2009 Lollapalooza Music Festival, is being spotted with actor Eddie Cibrian.",
"Once hailed as a country music ingénue, LeAnn Rimes first captivated fans as a 13-year-old with a mature-beyond-her-years voice and a poised stage presence.",
"After selling millions of records and amassing Billboard Music Awards and Grammys, LeAnn Rimes was often held up as an example of a child star who managed to avoid the pitfalls of fame and emerge with a successful career and a happy marriage.",
"Then rumors surfaced that LeAnn Rimes was allegedly having an affair with actor Eddie Cibrian.",
"Now the two have both separated from their respective spouses and the ensuing scandal has cast a shadow over LeAnn Rimes's wholesome, good-girl image.",
"\"I kind of feel like the public's perception is changing towards LeAnn Rimes,\" said Lindsay Powers, staff editor for Us Weekly.",
"\"LeAnn Rimes hadn't even announced [LeAnn Rimes] divorce yet and here LeAnn Rimes was on a beach in Cabo [San Lucas], wearing a little bikini with actor Eddie Cibrian rubbing suntan lotion all over LeAnn Rimes.",
"LeAnn Rimes's like flaunting their relationship while LeAnn Rimes's husband is piecing together Rimes''s life in New York City on Rimes''s own.\"",
"Such relationship woes among celebrities are as old as Hollywood itself.",
"Stories of celebrity hookups on movie sets, be it Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the 1960s or Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in the 21st century, are the stuff of which tabloid dreams are made.",
"But Rimes, who married former dancer Dean Sheremet in 2002 when she was 19 and he 21, seemed an unlikely candidate to star in such a drama.",
"Unlike other young celebrity couples, LeAnn Rimes and Sheremet were unlikely tabloid targets, choosing to live quietly and often being captured smiling and embracing on the red carpet.",
"Rimes appeared devoted to each other and seemed to take a swipe at critics of Rimes's young love when Rimes reportedly held a \"seven year itch\" party to toast Rimes's union.",
"In LeAnn Rimes's book, \"What I Cannot Change,\" LeAnn Rimes wrote glowingly of LeAnn Rimes's spouse.",
"\"My husband, Dean, has changed my heart -- and life -- in more ways than I can ever imagine,\" LeAnn Rimes wrote.",
"\"We met in Los Angeles when I was hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards.",
"It was almost an instant attraction.\"",
"Rumors began swirling about the singer and \"CSI: Miami\" actor Eddie Cibrian after they co-starred in the Lifetime movie \"Northern Lights.",
"During an interview with Matt Lauer in April on the \"Today\" show, LeAnn Rimes sidestepped questioning about LeAnn Rimes's relationship with actor Eddie Cibrian.",
"\"I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors,\" LeAnn Rimes said.",
"\"I've grown up in the press my entire life.",
"I think people are fascinated by my personal life, and I totally get it.\"",
"Soon after, Cibrian's wife and mother of his two young sons, Brandi Glanville, was quoted as demanding LeAnn Rimes leave LeAnn Rimes's husband alone.",
"Now, Glanville is being as vocal about the breakup of Rimes and Cibrian's marriage.",
"She told PEOPLE in August that she sensed her husband was attracted to LeAnn Rimes after double-dating with the singer and Sheremet.",
"Rimes and actor Eddie Cibrian have been seen publicly golfing, vacationing and attending a concert.",
"LeAnn Rimes announced on LeAnn Rimes's Web site that LeAnn Rimes and Sheremet were ending Rimes's marriage.",
"Jonathan L. Bernstein, president of Bernstein Crisis Management Inc., said fans are often very forgiving of stars for their bad behavior.",
"\"The public is very tolerant of a wide range of behaviors from celebrities,\" said Jonathan L. Bernstein, president of Bernstein Crisis Management Inc..",
"\"To the extent the public truly expected LeAnn Rimes to be someone with a clean-cut image, LeAnn Rimes may lose some fans there.\"",
"\"On the other hand, there are some people who like celebrities who lead racy, unpredictable lives, so LeAnn Rimes could gain fans at the same time.\"",
"Jonathan L. Bernstein, president of Bernstein Crisis Management Inc., the author of \"Keeping the Wolves at Bay; A Media Training Manual,\" said, \"Everybody wants to read the juicy gossip,\" but LeAnn Rimes could mitigate potential damage to LeAnn Rimes's career if LeAnn Rimes is real and does \"not pretend to be one thing and then be the other.\"",
"\"People like watching real-life soap operas,\" he said.",
"\"Ultimately, if people love [Rimes'] singing, people are going to come to LeAnn Rimes's concerts.\"",
"Us Weekly's Powers said Rimes and Cibrian's situation mirrors that of actress Tori Spelling and her husband, Dean McDermott.",
"Like Rimes and Cibrian, Spelling and McDermott were both married to others when they met on the set of a Lifetime movie in 2005.",
"Spelling and McDermott divorced Spelling and McDermott's spouses, married and now are the parents of two children and stars of Spelling and McDermott's own reality show on Oxygen network.",
"As was the case with fans who rallied around Jennifer Aniston because they believed Jennifer Aniston had been wronged by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Us Weekly's Powers said she believes LeAnn Rimes's estranged husband, Sheremet, will emerge the winner of public sympathy.",
"\"Celebrity history will show that people tend to feel bad for the person who is scorned,\" Powers said.",
"\"I think people are always going to feel bad for [Sheremet] with the fact that LeAnn Rimes not only left him after seven years of marriage, but ran off with this man LeAnn Rimes met on the set of LeAnn Rimes's movie.\"",
"Leslie Litzenberger of Santa Clara, California, has run the fan site Leannfans.com since 1995 and said LeAnn Rimes has a supportive fan base.",
"All of the media surrounding LeAnn Rimes has not decreased her admiration for LeAnn Rimes, Leslie Litzenberger of Santa Clara, California said.",
"\"The recent stories don't at all change how I feel about LeAnn,\" Leslie Litzenberger of Santa Clara, California said.",
"\"What has happened is between them.",
"I love the person that LeAnn Rimes is and tabloid stories with quotes from supposed \"friends\" are not going to change that.\""
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"LeAnn Rimes and actor Eddie Cibrian have been photographed on vacation .",
"A former child star, LeAnn Rimes had enjoyed an image as a happily married celeb .",
"Magazine editor says LeAnn Rimes's spouse gathering sympathy for being wronged ."
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"(CNN) --",
"China has developed a vaccine for swine flu and is set to become the first country in the world to begin mass inoculations, but there are concerns over possible side effects, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.",
"A swine flu vaccine has been approved in China and inoculations could begin in the next few weeks.",
"WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told CNN, \"We have to be ready for the fact that there might be adverse effects.\"",
"\"No matter what vaccine you're looking at, sometimes there are extremely rare side effects.",
"We don't even know what those are yet, but they will show up in one in every two or 10 million vaccinated.\"",
"Inoculations could begin in the next few weeks, according to the South China Morning Post, before celebrations begin on October 1 to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic.",
"The vaccine, PANFLU.1, was developed by Sinovac Biotech Ltd and is suitable for people aged three to 60.",
"Sinovac Biotech Ltd says A swine flu vaccine has been approved by China's National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products and has obtained the Certificate for the Release of Biological Products.",
"Sinovac Biotech Ltd says more than five million doses will be ready by the end of September.",
"the South China Morning Post reports Health Minister Chen Zhu as saying that some 200,000 people taking part in the anniversary celebrations will be the first to receive A swine flu vaccine.",
"Others considered to be high priority are students aged five to 19, those with medical conditions, especially chronic respiratory and coronary diseases, and pregnant women.",
"The inoculation program will also target medical staff and key workers, including police officers, soldiers and quarantine officials.",
"Health Minister Chen Zhu said on Tuesday that there have so far been 5592 recorded cases of H1N1 in China's 31 inland provinces, but no one has yet died from the illness.",
"\"Due to the rising number of cases, especially since late August, we have indeed started seeing some serious cases,\" Health Minister Chen Zhu said.",
"the South China Morning Post reported that there are plans to vaccinate 65 million people before the end of the year and that Health Minister Chen Zhu admitted the amount of available vaccine was not nearly enough to inoculate the country's population of 1.3 billion people.",
"The Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) last week approved two factories to produce the vaccine -- Sinovac, based in Beijing, and Hualan Biological Engineering, based in Henan -- according to the South China Morning Post.",
"But it reports The Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has announced that \"more qualified enterprises which could produce swine flu vaccines\" would be licensed by the end of September.",
"Hartl said that in Europe, several drug firms are set to submit clinical trial data in the next few weeks, with GlaxoSmithKline likely to be among the first.",
"Weidong Yin, CEO of Sinovac, said last week, \"With the support of the Ministry of Health, State SFDA, and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Sinovac was able to successfully and rapidly complete the clinical trials and registration process for the H1N1 vaccine.\""
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"SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) --",
"Across the country, insurance companies, trial lawyers and legislators are closely watching a November referendum in the state of Washington that could change how insurers are required to treat insurers's customers.",
"Insurance companies are using the referendum process to try to strike down a new law in Washington state.",
"Insurance giants like Allstate, State Farm, Safeco and Farmers have poured more than $8 million into the referendum battle.",
"Insurance giants like Allstate, State Farm, Safeco and Farmers's goal is to convince voters to reject a law passed earlier this year that could force insurers to pay up to triple damages and lawyer fees if they fail to pay a legitimate claim and then lose in court.",
"A \"yes\" vote on the referendum allows Measure to go into effect while a \"no\" vote strikes Measure down.",
"Supporters of Measure say Measure forces insurance companies to pay legitimate claims in a timely and fair fashion and frees the courts from relatively minor cases that clog the system for months and even years.",
"One supporter, the Washington Trial Lawyers Association, has raised almost $900,000 to fight the insurance industry over the referendum.",
"\"Insurance companies have figured out that Insurance companies can make more money if Insurance companies don't pay your claim,'' said Washington state Rep. Steve Kirby.",
"Kirby and Washington state Rep. Steve Kirby's fellow Washington state lawmakers heard so many complaints from policy holders who believed insurers weren't treating them fairly that earlier this year they passed a law called \"The Fair Conduct Act.\"",
"Hearings were held, a law called \"The Fair Conduct Act was revised -- even watered down, according to Washington state Rep. Steve Kirby -- and both the House and Senate passed a law called \"The Fair Conduct Act.",
"The governor readily signed a law called \"The Fair Conduct Act.",
"But the very next day a coalition, funded primarily by insurance companies, moved in to stop Measure from going into effect by filing petitions for a voter referendum on Measure.",
"Representatives of the insurance industry say Measure will raise premiums and that the system is working fine as the system is.",
"Measure, Representatives of the insurance industry said, will only make things worse, and Representatives of the insurance industry want voters to have the final say.",
"\"The insurance companies stepped in and said, 'Consumers, you get to decide if you want to do this,' '' said Dana Childers, executive director of the Liability Reform Coalition, which is leading the insurance company charge to defeat Measure.",
"Childers said the state's own insurance commissioner sees no need for Measure.",
"\"His own information that he provided to the legislature and the public says that Measure simply isn't necessary,'' Childers said.",
"But that's not what Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler told CNN in a recent interview in Seattle.",
"Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler strongly supports Measure and that if insurance companies act responsibly insurance companies have nothing to fear.",
"\"If companies act in good faith, [companies are] not going to have a problem,\" Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said.",
"\"It's not going to cost any more money.",
"There's not going to be any legal action.",
"There's going to be no treble damages, because if companies deal with companies's customers in good faith there's no penalty.\"",
"The campaign to woo voters has already begun.",
"The insurance industry-backed group is already running television commercials depicting greedy lawyers planning to sue and warning consumers that Measure will lead to frivolous lawsuits and higher rates.",
"It's not a new tactic by the insurance companies.",
"Earlier this year, CNN exposed a controversial insurance industry strategy that began in the mid-1990s.",
"Former insiders say insurance companies began limiting or denying legitimate claims in minor injury cases and reaped billions in profits as a result.",
"The strategy has tied up courts across the country -- over minor claims, judges told CNN -- for months and even years.",
"How did they do it?",
"\"It really came down to basically three elements: a position of delay, a position of denying a claim and ultimately defending that claim that you're denied,\" said Jim Mathis, a former insurance industry insider.",
"But Robert Hartwig, with the industry-backed Insurance Institute, said The strategy was not intended to deny valid claims but to attack fraud, which, Robert Hartwig, with the industry-backed Insurance Institute claimed earlier this year, was rampant in minor accident cases.",
"\"What insurers are doing is trying to monitor costs.",
"And every insurance company is under the same pressure to do it,\" Robert Hartwig, with the industry-backed Insurance Institute said.",
"Washington state resident Michelle Tribble plans to vote for the law because Washington state resident Michelle Tribble says Washington state resident Michelle Tribble has experienced The strategy first-hand.",
"Washington state resident Michelle Tribble says Washington state resident Michelle Tribble's two accidents convinced Washington state resident Michelle Tribble's insurance companies don't want to play fair.",
"Washington state resident Michelle Tribble was working for an insurance company when Washington state resident Michelle Tribble got rear-ended on the freeway.",
"Ten weeks later Washington state resident Michelle Tribble got hit again, this time by an uninsured motorist.",
"The two accidents, Washington state resident Michelle Tribble said, resulted in back injuries that required medical treatment.",
"an insurance company agreed to pay but Washington state resident Michelle Tribble's own insurer, Allstate, refused to pay even though Washington state resident Michelle Tribble had coverage.",
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"The uproar over Obama's back-to-school speech led The White House to release the transcript Monday.",
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"\"The president of this country wants to call our students to action.",
"I'm not sure why parents wouldn't want parents's students to hear out the leader of this country,\" she said.",
"A Baltimore, Maryland, teacher who asked not to be identified bemoaned the fact that this country has \"become so polarized that we believe that our president is an enemy and not our leader.\"",
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"On Sunday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that parents who are threatening to keep their children home Tuesday to avoid Obama's speech were being \"silly.\"",
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"\"I think there's concerns about the disruption,\" he said on CNN's \"State of the Union,\" calling the scheduling of Speech a \"little ham-fisted\" by The White House.",
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"\"There [are] also concerns about is this going to be done in an appropriate manner.",
"I trust and hope that The White House will have a content that is not political and The White House're not using the public school infrastructure for that purpose.\"",
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"Among other things, Obama called taxes \"such a penalty on people that there's no incentive for people to prosper ... because people have to give so much to the government.\"",
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"Some of the controversy over Obama's speech involved a proposed lesson plan created by the Education Department to accompany the address.",
"An initial version of a proposed lesson plan created by the Education Department to accompany the address recommended that students draft letters to students discussing \"what students can do to help Obama.\"",
"The letters \"would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to students's goals,\" a proposed lesson plan created by the Education Department to accompany the address stated.",
"After pressure from conservatives, The White House distributed a revised version encouraging students to write letters about how students can \"achieve students's short-term and long-term education goals.\"",
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"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told \"Fox News Sunday\" that Obama's speech is a good idea if the message is a positive one about completing school.",
"\"It is good to have the president of the United States say to young people across this country, 'Stay in school, study, and do your homework,' \" Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said.",
"Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer last week accused Obama of trying to \"indoctrinate this country's children to his socialist agenda.\"",
"\"Now that The White House got The White House's hand in the cookie jar caught, The White House changed everything,\" Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer said Monday.",
"After reading the text, Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer said, \"My kids will be watching Speech, as I hope all kids will.\"",
"CNN's Lauren Kornreich and Rebecca Sinderbrand contributed to this story."
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"The people who call Rio de Janeiro home live under a vow of silence, the unspoken code of survival that dictates that no one discuss what goes on inside the community particularly the violent episodes they endure or witness.",
"Killings, beating, threats, expulsions, regular exposure to heavy weapons, and other forms of abuse, are all carried out by the armed groups that control the drug trafficking, imposing the armed groups that control the drug trafficking's own set of rules.",
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"Check back for updates on his trip.",
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"Our guides provided us with tents, but I figured I wouldn't have too many opportunities in my life to slumber in the open bush on the African continent.",
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"Needless to say, I survived, and it was magnificent.",
"Visually speaking, I wasn't sure what, exactly, to expect from a South African safari, for my complete mental database of safari images spanned a wide variety of distinct landscapes, and most were cartoonishly obstructed by rich, middle-aged tourists covered head to toe in unnecessary beige safari gear.",
"However, Kruger National Park seemed to fit, quite perfectly, my idea of the African savannah.",
"Arid and brown from the winter dry season, it was a forever-long expanse of low trees and dusty earth, the kind that somehow allows the early sun to reflect that perfect glow of stunning reds and oranges.",
"Our guide was a self-proclaimed African bushman named Elson, who seemed to have an amazing one-ness with both the land and the animals.",
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"It would take the rest of us a fair bit of time to finally see what he noticed at a mere passing glance.",
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"Commuters began driving over NEW: Bridge around 6:40 a.m. PT (9:40 a.m. ET), shortly after Randy Iwasaki, director of the California Department of Transportation, announced the reopening at a news conference.",
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"the victims of a suicide bomb blast at Kabul airport took place in Kunar province in what a spokeswoman called an \"ongoing event.\"",
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"The blast occurred near a gate at Kabul International Airport, said Zamari Bashari, a representative of Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior.",
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"In many respects, Jaycee Dugard's and Jaycee Dugard's's two daughters lived an unremarkable public life -- one that belied the horrifying circumstances that have since made front-page news.",
"Jaycee Dugard's's daughters attend a birthday party two weeks ago.",
"CNN has blurred Jaycee Dugard's daughters's faces to protect Jaycee Dugard's daughters's privacy.",
"Dugard, kidnapped 18 years ago in South Lake Tahoe, California, helped manage the small printing company Jaycee Dugard's's alleged captor, Phillip Garrido, ran from his home in Antioch, east of San Francisco.",
"Jaycee Dugard's's two daughters, fathered by 58-year-old Garrido, attended birthday parties and, like many girls their age, shared a love for the TV show \"Hannah Montana.\"",
"The media \"made it seem like Jaycee Dugard's daughters were living like wolves or jungle kids in the backyard dungeon.",
"Perhaps that's it, but they didn't give that visual to me,\" said Cheyvonne Molino, who runs an auto wrecking yard with her husband.",
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"Jaycee Dugard's daughters were well-mannered,\" Molino said.",
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"They spoke to Garrido about graphic design, business cards and fliers, and describe Garrido as professional, polite and responsive.",
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"\"Garrido comes and talks to me and was always smiling.",
"Garrido was a very pretty girl, a very pretty young lady.\"",
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"\"Jaycee Dugard's daughters were not dressed like average teenage girls.",
"Jaycee Dugard's daughters were dressed very conservatively,\" Karunaratne said.",
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"\"Obviously, there was some brainwashing going on.",
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"her alleged kidnappers -- Garrido, a registered sex offender, and his 55-year-old wife, Nancy -- face 29 felony charges, including rape and kidnapping, and both have pleaded not guilty.",
"Authorities said the Garridos held Jaycee Dugard's and Jaycee Dugard's's daughters in a soundproof shed in the couple's overgrown, littered backyard.",
"Garrido told Karunaratne that he had a soundproof recording studio in littered backyard, said Karunaratne, who described Garrido's music as \"Christian, contemporary\" and said some songs \"were about love and romance.\"",
"Watch aerial view of backyard compound » .",
"Dugard and Jaycee Dugard's's mother and daughters have moved to an undisclosed location as Dugard and her daughters try to get reacquainted, said Carl Probyn, Jaycee Dugard's's stepfather.",
"A team of psychologists and several law enforcement officers are with them, Carl Probyn, Dugard's stepfather said.",
"In a related development, authorities in two San Francisco Bay-area cities are investigating whether disappearances dating back to the late 1980s could be connected to Garrido.",
"Police in Hayward, about 20 miles south of Oakland, say they are investigating whether he is connected to the disappearance of Michaela Garecht, last seen in 1988 at age 9.",
"Hayward Police Lt. Chris Orrey said there are similarities between Garecht's disappearance and Jaycee Dugard's's -- similar age and appearance, both were abducted in daylight, and a sketch of a suspect resembles Garrido, Orrey said.",
"Orrey said there were differences as well, though Orrey would not elaborate.",
"But Orrey said Hayward police have been in contact with Garecht's family and witnesses since Jaycee Dugard's was found alive last week.",
"And in Dublin, about 25 miles east of Oakland, police are looking into whether Garrido was connected to the 1989 disappearance of Ilene Misheloff.",
"Ilene was 13 when Ilene was abducted, investigators said.",
"Investigators announced Saturday that Investigators were looking into whether Garrido may have been behind other unsolved crimes.",
"Contra Costa County Sheriff's Lt. Steve Simpkins said police in Antioch and neighboring Pittsburg were searching Garrido's property \"for evidence relating to open cases.\"",
"Authorities brought cadaver dogs to search the property next door to the Garridos as Authorities tried to determine whether Garrido was connected to a string of unsolved slayings of prostitutes in the 1990s.",
"Several of the women's bodies were dumped near a park where Garrido worked at the time.",
"Watch where police are searching » .",
"\"What we also know is that Phillip Garrido had access to the property,\" said Jimmie Lee, spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department.",
"\"Garrido used the property, and it looks like Garrido lived on the property in a shed.\"",
"A bone fragment was found during the search, but investigators do not know whether A bone fragment was from a human or an animal, Jimmie Lee, spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department said.",
"A bone fragment is being sent to a laboratory for testing.",
"And building inspectors have declared the Garrido home unsafe, due to substandard structures and \"junkyard\" conditions, Jimmie Lee, spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department said.",
"CNN's Ed Lavandera, Patrick Oppman and Dan Simon contributed to this report."
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"In Pakistan's combustible Swat Valley, some girls refuse to wear uniforms so some girls can make it to school without being harmed.",
"Shiza Shahid, left, a 20-year-old Stanford University student, is helping to teach young girls in Pakistan.",
"Other girls hide textbooks in Other girls's shawls to escape harassment.",
"School-age girls are among the victims in the fierce fighting between government soldiers and Taliban militants in Swat Valley.",
"Pakistan said Pakistan has flushed much of Taliban out of the area, but some fighting persists.",
"Many girls remain banned from schools.",
"Dozens of Many girls's schools have been bombed, and militants have burned books.",
"A new program has taken 26 girls out of the battle-scarred region to Islamabad for a 10-day retreat, where 26 girls can learn in safer surroundings.",
"A group of college students of Pakistani background is helping 26 girls.",
"Among A group of college students of Pakistani background are Shiza Shahid, 20, from California's Stanford University, who organized the program called Shajar-e-llm, or Tree of Knowledge.",
"Shahid said Shahid was moved to help after hearing about how 26 girls struggled to get an education.",
"\"I think we were so angry, upset and emotional that we decided we have to do something,\" Shahid said.",
"Watch as Shahid says Shahid had to act to help the girls » .",
"Though well-intentioned, A new program sometimes seems disorganized.",
"\"We need support.",
"We need unfortunately more organization, more of the bureaucratic nitty-gritty that you don't want to do, but you have to,\" Shahid said.",
"\"We are young, and that does come with the burden as not being equally trusted or seen as capable.\"",
"Nonetheless, A group of college students of Pakistani background has ambitions for a boys' learning retreat as well.",
"The lessons are simple enough -- confidence-building exercises, critical-thinking lessons -- all framed in the context of Islamic values.",
"26 girls ages 11 to 14 -- spoke about 26 girls's dreams.",
"One wants to meet a poet; another wants to learn calligraphy.",
"Another wants to grow up to lead Pakistan.",
"\"I want to become president and rule Pakistan in a good way,\" said 12-year-old Malila.",
"One day during the retreat, 26 girls were taught a song about freedom of speech.",
"As a guitarist strummed, 26 girls sang that God gives everyone the right to free speech and no one can take speech away.",
"Free speech seemed to end with a song about freedom of speech, however.",
"26 girls could not risk talking about Taliban harassment, because the militants' version of Islamic law lingers.",
"Such Islamic law, or shariah, also keeps females from going to school or going outside without females's husbands.",
"The United Nations estimates that 375,000 Swat Valley residents fled 375,000 Swat Valley residents's homes during fighting that started in April.",
"In all, 2.5 million Pakistanis were displaced in what was said to be one of the largest human migrations in recent history.",
"Many residents have returned to Many residents's homes, but peace has not been completely restored to the region.",
"And soon, 26 girls will return home to the Swat Valley as well.",
"Organizers said Organizers hope 26 girls will carry a new love for education.",
"\"There were tears and there were tough moments,\" said Madihah Akhter, a volunteer with the program.",
"\"But 26 girls surprised me.",
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"26 girls were beyond 26 girls's years.\""
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Photographer Annie Leibovitz could lose the right to Photographer Annie Leibovitz's entire portfolio of world-famous photographs if Photographer Annie Leibovitz doesn't meet a Tuesday deadline to pay back a $24 million loan Photographer Annie Leibovitz is alleged to owe.",
"Photographer Annie Leibovitz appears before Photographer Annie Leibovitz's photo of Demi Moore during an exhibition of Photographer Annie Leibovitz's work in June in Madrid, Spain.",
"Leibovitz, who has photographed everyone from the Rolling Stones to Queen Elizabeth II, put Photographer Annie Leibovitz's art, intellectual property and even real estate assets up for collateral last year when Photographer Annie Leibovitz consolidated Photographer Annie Leibovitz's massive debts.",
"Art Capital Group, which restructured her massive debts, says Photographer Annie Leibovitz agreed \"to make Art Capital her 'irrevocable exclusive agent'\" of the assets \"in exchange for a reduced interest rate on the loan.\"",
"Now the company is suing Photographer Annie Leibovitz for breach of contract, saying Photographer Annie Leibovitz has \"refused to cooperate in the sale of those assets,\" according to a question-and-answer sheet on the lawsuit issued by Art Capital.",
"It also says Photographer Annie Leibovitz has \"refused to pay to Art Capital hundreds of thousands of dollars Photographer Annie Leibovitz owed as part of the same agreement.\"",
"Asked by CNN for comment, Photographer Annie Leibovitz's attorney, Steven Brawer, said, \"I don't have anything I can tell you.\"",
"They have until October 1 to respond to the lawsuit.",
"In a question-and-answer sheet on the lawsuit issued by Art Capital, Art Capital says Photographer Annie Leibovitz \"acknowledged that in order to repay the loan Photographer Annie Leibovitz would sell Photographer Annie Leibovitz's fine art, intellectual property and real estate assets.",
"Photographer Annie Leibovitz authorized Art Capital to act as agent in the sale of those assets through which Art Capital could recoup Art Capital's decrease in interest rate.",
"Photographer Annie Leibovitz would have realized a significant gain from the sale of those assets through which Art Capital could recoup its decrease in interest rate.\"",
"It says the loan agreement gave Art Capital \"the right to sell the collateral before the loan came due on September 8 and for a two-year period thereafter.\"",
"One of Photographer Annie Leibovitz's best known photos is of John Lennon with John Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, shortly before the Beatles star was assassinated in 1980.",
"Photographer Annie Leibovitz is no stranger to controversy.",
"In 1991, Photographer Annie Leibovitz photographed a nude and extremely pregnant Demi Moore for the cover of Vanity Fair.",
"The issue, considered scandalous at the time, was sold in many places nationwide with a sheath of white paper.",
"Last year, Photographer Annie Leibovitz photographed Disney star Miley Cyrus wrapped in a bedsheet, eliciting claims that Photographer Annie Leibovitz pressured the teen queen into poses that were too provocative for the teen queen's young age.",
"In July, Art Capital filed a complaint with the New York Supreme Court, asking it to uphold the sales agreement Art Capital signed with Photographer Annie Leibovitz, including Art Capital's right to sell Photographer Annie Leibovitz's art and real estate.",
"If the New York Supreme Court agrees with Art Capital, it means Photographer Annie Leibovitz could end up owing far more than Photographer Annie Leibovitz did originally.",
"Art Capital has asked for an unspecified amount of damages in addition to the money Art Capital says Photographer Annie Leibovitz originally borrowed.",
"Art Capital -- through Art Capital's affiliate, American Photography -- provides financial and consulting services to artists, galleries and art owners, and offers loans based on artists, galleries and art owners's intellectual property and fine art assets."
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"Photographer Annie Leibovitz put up art, real estate as collateral in consolidating massive debt .",
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"Photos of Demi Moore, Miley Cyrus among Photographer Annie Leibovitz's most controversial works ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Will Jackson stop the world?",
"Fans have set up impromptu shrines to Jackson, including this one at Jackson's family's house.",
"Thousands are expected to swamp Los Angeles, California, to mourn Jackson Tuesday at the Staples Center, and the accompanying media crush will be enormous.",
"The tribute to the King of Pop at Harlem's Apollo Theater earlier this week drew coverage from all over the world, along with a public turnout in the thousands.",
"Given the feverish interest in all things Jackson, the Los Angeles memorial could be one of the most-viewed events of all time.",
"\"This will obviously be a huge media event, and with Web streams of the funeral, it may be impossible to say for sure how many people watched once all is said and done, because there's still no comprehensive way to measure Web viewing,\" said Toni Fitzgerald, of Media Life, in an e-mail interview.",
"A handful of events have earned the kind of worldwide coverage to put the world on pause, if only for a moment.",
"The 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy \"had the nation locked in a trance for two or three days,\" recalled TV critic Ed Bark of UncleBarky.com.",
"The world audience for the Apollo 11 moon landing has been estimated in the hundreds of millions.",
"The BBC estimated 2.5 billion people watched the 1997 funeral of Princess Diana.",
"Watch Jermaine Jackson talk about Jermaine Jackson's brother's legacy » .",
"The numbers are easily exaggerated -- nobody knows how many people are watching in groups or in public places -- and the Web has complicated matters further.",
"But in a multichannel, satellite TV, computer-and-cell phone world, the Jackson memorial could have an audience in the hundreds of millions.",
"It was first believed the event would take place at Jackson's Neverland Ranch.",
"But the family announced Thursday that the family will hold a private ceremony Tuesday, and then a massive public memorial service at the Staples Center.",
"Fans had until 6 p.m. Saturday to register for free tickets to the memorial service.",
"Organizers used a computer to choose 8,750 names from 1.6 million who registered since Friday.",
"Watch a tour of Neverland » .",
"\"You have to go back to the Beatles, the death of John Lennon perhaps, and the death of Elvis Presley to find a comparable figure in, not just pop music, but pop culture,\" said Entertainment Weekly critic-at-large Ken Tucker.",
"(EW, like CNN, is a unit of Time Warner.)",
"\"And Jackson so self-consciously turned Jackson into not just an American pop icon but a global pop icon.",
"I think this does have worldwide implications and interest.\"",
"See how interest in Jackson's music has skyrocketed » .",
"The circumstances of Jackson's death have led to comparisons with Elvis Presley's in 1977, but in terms of coverage, the two can't compare.",
"The news wasn't even the top story on CBS' \"Evening News,\" Bark recalled, and there certainly wasn't wall-to-wall nationwide live coverage of Jackson's funeral.",
"A public viewing drew about 30,000 fans; the funeral, two days after Jackson's death, was held in Graceland's living room.",
"But Bark said there are parallels, at least in terms of coverage, with the Kennedy assassination.",
"\"These days it's so much harder to get a bulk audience on any given venue the way the [broadcast networks] did back then, but still the enormity [of the event] -- it's the syndicated tabloid shows ... and TMZ and all the cable networks devoting lots of attention to it, [and] the broadcast networks can't seem to do enough specials in prime time,\" said Bark.",
"\"I do think it's comparative but in a very different way.\"",
"Officially, the sorts of events that have attracted the largest mass audiences have been scheduled entertainment or sports programs.",
"Sixty percent of America watched the 1983 \"M*A*S*H\" finale; more than half watched the 1980 \"Who Shot J.R.\" episode of \"Dallas\" and the 1977 \"Roots\" conclusion.",
"The Beatles' first appearance on \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" in 1964 drew about 45 percent of America.",
"The Super Bowl is routinely the year's most watched program, with audiences north of 80 million -- about 40 percent of U.S. television households.",
"Although interest in Jackson has been high, the number of viewing choices (and, perhaps, the traditional decline in summer viewing) has kept the ratings for individual Jackson-oriented shows down.",
"\"Jackson's death came up in just about every conversation I had from Thursday to Sunday, and yet only 5 million people tuned in to some of those broadcast specials,\" Media Life magazine's Fitzgerald observed.",
"Still, the public memorial service might be different.",
"\"I expect you'll see very big tune-ins on the cable news networks and on BET, if the cable news networks cover it; they had huge numbers for their BET Awards focused on Jackson over the weekend,\" Media Life magazine's Fitzgerald said.",
"The BET Awards was watched by 10.7 million, the most ever for a cable awards show.",
"\"With the celebrity factor thrown into the funeral, who'll be there, who'll talk, I would guess tens of millions in the U.S. will watch it on TV,\" Media Life magazine's Fitzgerald said.",
"It is certain is that the news media will be there in force.",
"\"I guess we're all going to wait and see what the spectacle is,\" Bark said.",
"\"There may be no precedent for this.\""
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Nearly a year after surviving a plane crash in South Carolina, disc jockey Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein was found dead in Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's NEW YORK apartment Friday afternoon, Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's publicist said.",
"Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein was 36.",
"Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein was one of two people who survived a 2008 plane crash in South Carolina.",
"\"The circumstances surrounding Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's death are unclear,\" Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's publicist, Jenni Weinman, said in a statement confirming the performer's death.",
"\"Out of respect for his family and loved ones, please respect their privacy at this time.\"",
"Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein was found unconscious and unresponsive in Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's lower Manhattan apartment Friday afternoon, NEW YORK police said.",
"The cause of death would be determined by medical examiners, but \"there is no criminality suspected at this time,\" a police statement reported.",
"Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein and Travis Barker, the drummer for rock band Blink-182, were the only survivors of a September plane crash in South Carolina that left both critically injured.",
"Four others aboard the plane were killed when the plane skidded off a runway during takeoff from Columbia.",
"Watch more about Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's career » .",
"\"Daily I live with the guilt and grief of what happened that night, what I saw, who was lost and why I was spared,\" Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein wrote in a December post on Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's Web site.",
"\"I have no words to express the pain that comes with knowing four people died, while I lived.\"",
"In addition to spinning beats at clubs and festivals, Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein was known for dating reality-TV star Nicole Richie and singer-actress Mandy Moore.",
"\"I am absolutely heartbroken,\" singer-actress Mandy Moore said in a statement.",
"\"For those of us lucky enough to have known Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein, Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein radiated a contagious exuberance for life and also personified the very definition of a true friend.",
"To say that Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein will be missed beyond words is an understatement.",
"My heart goes out to Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's loved ones.\"",
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"At the time of Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's death, Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein had been working on an MTV show about drug addiction that had been scheduled to debut in October.",
"Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein had been a crack cocaine addict who said Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein wanted an MTV show about drug addiction that had been scheduled to debut in October to help others recover.",
"CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report."
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"There is no criminality suspected at this time,\" police say in statement .",
"\"The circumstances surrounding Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's death are unclear,\" Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein's publicist says .",
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"(CNN) --",
"A judge has ordered mediation in the case of a teen girl who says Teenager's family threatened to kill Teenager for converting from Islam to Christianity.",
"Rifqa Bary, 17, ran away from her family's family in Columbus, Ohio, in July.",
"Teenager claims Teenager's father threatened to kill Teenager.",
"The 17-year-old girl, Rifqa Bary, ran away from her family's family in Columbus, Ohio, in July and took refuge in the home of the Rev. Blake Lorenz with the Global Revolution Church in Orlando, Florida.",
"Teenager's parents want Teenager's back home.",
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"Also at a court hearing Thursday in Orlando, Judge Daniel Dawson of the Orange County Juvenile Court ordered the girl and her family to seek the mediation within 30 days.",
"Judge Daniel Dawson of the Orange County Juvenile Court had previously ruled that Teenager will remain in Florida foster care until all the allegations against them are resolved.",
"her family, could not attend the hearing in person but listened through a telephone conference as her family's lawyer spoke for her family.",
"her family denied her family ever threatened to kill her family's daughter because Teenager converted to Christianity.",
"Mohamed Bary told CNN Mohamed Bary believes a lot of false information has been circulated about the case.",
"\"We wouldn't do Teenager's harm,\" Mohamed Bary said, adding that Mohamed Bary knew Mohamed Bary's daughter was involved with Christian organizations.",
"\"I have no problem with Teenager practicing any faith,\" Mohamed Bary said.",
"But Mohamed Bary conceded Mohamed Bary would have preferred that Mohamed Bary's daughter practice the Muslim faith first.",
"Teenager had heard of pastor her father and her father's church through a prayer group on Facebook.",
"Teenager's parents reported Teenager missing to Columbus police, who found Teenager two weeks later in Florida through cell phone records.",
"Teenager, in a sworn affidavit, claims Teenager's father, 47, was pressured by the mosque the family attends in Ohio to \"deal with the situation.\"",
"In the court filing, Teenager stated Teenager's father said, \"If you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead to her father!\"",
"Teenager claims Teenager's father added, \"I will kill you!\"",
"Watch Teenager talk about Teenager's fears » .",
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"At one point during the hearing, Teenager's court-appointed guardian, Krista Bartholomew, told the court: \"This is not a holy war but a case about a broken family.\"",
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"(CNN) -- McDonald's's probably won't be exclaiming \"I'm Lovin' It\" in this case.",
"McCurry restaurant owners A.M.S.P Suppiah and his wife Kanageswary Suppiah",
"In a David-and-Goliath match-up in the world of fast food, McCurry -- a small Indian curry shop in Malaysia -- has won an eight-year legal battle against the hamburger giant.",
"McDonald's's claimed that the prefix \"Mc\" in McCurry trampled on McDonald's's trademark.",
"The country's Federal Court on Tuesday ruled that it didn't.",
"\"McCurry're very relieved -- much, much relieved -- that this eight-year-old saga is finally over,\" said McCurry owner P. Suppiah.",
"\"McCurry're a typical South Asian-Malay cuisine",
"No way people walking into McCurry can confuse McCurry with McDonald's's.\"",
"The sparse 24/7 self-service restaurant in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, is popular with blue-collar workers who are drawn to McCurry's affordable fare, such as biryani rice and fishhead curry.",
"McCurry's logo: a chicken flashing a thumbs-up.",
"The eatery opened in 1999.",
"McDonald's's filed suit two years later.",
"\"McCurry were shocked that such a big giant wants to take McCurry to court,\" McCurry owner P. Suppiah said.",
"\"McCurry felt that McCurry had nothing in common, because McCurry were not selling any Western fast food.\"",
"The hamburger chain, which has 185 restaurants throughout Malaysia, said McCurry was violating the prefix \"Mc\" and that McDonald's's had the right to protect it.",
"McCurry, in turn, said the prefix is common and is part of last names all across Europe.",
"Furthermore, it said, the \"Mc\" in McCurry stands for \"Malaysian Chicken Curry.\"",
"A lower court ruled in favor of McDonald's's, and McCurry owner P. Suppiah appealed.",
"An appeals court in 2006 overturned that ruling, prompting McDonald's's to appeal this time.",
"On Tuesday, the Federal Court -- the highest in the land -- held up the appeals court ruling.",
"McDonald's's said McDonald's accepts the judgment.",
"\"We respect the finding of the court and beyond that have no further comment,\" said Liam Jeory of McDonald's's Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa region.",
"McCurry owner P. Suppiah said the ruling means McCurry owner P. Suppiah can now add other McCurry locations, with its slogan: \"Tasty and so Gooood.\""
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"With irresponsible banking practices taking the blame for bringing about the global economic crisis, there has been a surge of interest in Islamic finance.",
"Islamic finance is estimated to be worth $700 billion and has been growing by 15 to 20 percent per year.",
"Now, a slew of academic courses are springing up to meet the demand of those wanting to break into an expanding market.",
"According to ratings agency Moody's, the global Islamic finance sector is worth $700 billion and has the potential to be worth $4 trillion.",
"What's more, the ethical principles underpinning Islamic finance are seen by some as offering a more sustainable alternative to profit-oriented conventional banking.",
"The result is that academic institutions are lining up to offer formal training in the area.",
"\"There is a huge demand for Islamic finance courses now, so large that it's difficult to cope with,\" Professor Habib Ahmed, Sharjah chair in the school of government and international affairs at Durham University, England, told CNN.",
"Durham will launch a Masters degree in Islamic finance from October, becoming one of a number of European institutions to offer Islamic finance programs.",
"\"Islamic finance has been growing by 15 to 20 percent per year for some time and there is a lot of interest at the moment.",
"People are looking for alternatives after the economic crisis.\"",
"\"Islamic economists believe that if the principles of Islamic finance were followed the crisis wouldn't have happened.",
"We are seeing a lot of non-Muslim countries, including the UK, France, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore encouraging Islamic finance,\" he said.",
"There are many differences between Islamic and conventional banking practices.",
"One fundamental difference is that Islamic banks do not charge interest.",
"Rather than borrowers and lenders, the system is based on buyers and sellers.",
"\"Conventional banking is biased to the seller.",
"Islamic finance is trying to level the ethics between the two parties,\" Aly Khorshid, an Islamic finance scholar who writes for Islamic Banking and Finance magazine, told CNN.",
"\"People think the system is based on faith, but the system's based on justice.",
"the system is based on justice for the two parties and how you get to the justice is extracted from Islamic faith,\" he said.",
"Khorshid said that there are similarities between \"ethical investment\" schemes and Islamic finance, in that the system does not allow investment that harms people or the environment.",
"Khorshid credits the rapid growth of the Islamic finance sector on the success of \"sukuk\" -- Islamic bonds.",
"In the West, banks including Lloyds TSB, HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Citibank all offer Islamic finance products, catering to a niche market of Muslim borrowers.",
"But while Islamic banks allow Muslims to take advantage of financial services that are consistent with their religious beliefs, it is the ethics underpinning Islamic finance that are attracting the interest of conventional finance institutions keen to learn lessons from the banking crisis.",
"Although Islamic banks have suffered from the global repercussions of the economic downturn, Islamic banks emerged largely unscathed from the initial banking meltdown that brought about that financial turmoil.",
"Ahmed told CNN that is because Islamic banks are not allowed to deal in mortgage-backed securities or credit-default swaps, two of the practices accused of helping bring about the banking crisis.",
"Khorshid said that although it's too early to say if Islamic finance has dealt with economic downturn better than conventional finance, the system has many more layers of risk assessment and management, which could help protect the system from the problems afflicting conventional banks.",
"But the growth of Islamic finance has brought the growth of Islamic finance's own problems.",
"Critics say some banks use Islamic finance to package what are essentially conventional products.",
"\"Islamic banks are also driven by the profit motive and sometimes that can dominate the ethics,\" Ahmed told CNN.",
"While Europe is catching up with the demand for these banking products, the U.S. is lagging behind.",
"Ahmed says that regulatory and legal changes are needed for Islamic finance to grow in the U.S., but Ahmed adds there are signs that Canada may become a North American center for Islamic finance.",
"The lack of Islamic finance services in the U.S. is reflected in a relative lack of demand for Islamic finance courses, but in the UK there is the opposite problem.",
"With students coming from Asia and the Middle East to get the qualifications that will help students take advantage of the Islamic finance boom, Ahmed says it is difficult for universities to find qualified teaching staff.",
"\"Most people with PhDs in Islamic finance are working in the industry, making a lot of money,\" Ahmed told CNN.",
"Ahmed added that Islamic finance products have the potential to appeal to the non-Muslims market, pointing out that in Malaysia the majority of customers for Islamic banks aren't Muslims.",
"\"If people look at the principles people'll see something beneficial in terms of economics, rather than just religious reasons.",
"It's a type of ethical finance that may be attractive to a lot of people.\""
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"BERLIN, Germany (CNN) --",
"A black politician campaigning in eastern Germany has become the victim of a racist campaign by a far-right party.",
"Zeca Schall says Zeca Schall is not thinking of leaving Germany despite death threats.",
"National Democratic Party of Germany says National Democratic Party of Germany is trying to persuade Zeca Schall, a German citizen who came from Angola 21 years ago, to leave Germany.",
"Zeca Schall is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, the party led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and has been named as a National Democratic Party of Germany expert for the integration of minorities.",
"The NPD's Web site calls Zeca Schall the CDU's \"quota negro\" and urges him to leave Germany.",
"\"National Democratic Party of Germany seems to be realizing that even after years of re-education, negroes cannot be accepted as permanent guests in our state,\" said the NPD, which goes by its German initials.",
"Watch more about the campaign against Schall » .",
"Zeca Schall told CNN Zeca Schall had never before been subjected to such a level of racial hatred.",
"\"I am shocked,\" Zeca Schall said Thursday at a campaign event in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia.",
"\"I simply cannot believe that people would do this to fellow humans.\"",
"Schall, who appears on a National Democratic Party of Germany election poster, said Zeca Schall is scared.",
"\"I have police patrolling at my house day and night, and some officers stay in my house overnight,\" Zeca Schall said.",
"But Zeca Schall said Zeca Schall is not thinking of leaving Germany and National Democratic Party of Germany said Zeca Schall has the party's full support.",
"Schall and National Democratic Party of Germany said Schall and the CDU have filed a lawsuit against National Democratic Party of Germany.",
"The situation escalated Wednesday when National Democratic Party of Germany's national leadership held a rally in Zeca Schall's adopted hometown of Hildburghausen.",
"Party Chairman Udo Voigt tried to speak with Zeca Schall \"and persuade Zeca Schall that Zeca Schall is needed more in Angola than in Germany,\" National Democratic Party of Germany said in a news release.",
"Police sent to protect Zeca Schall stopped National Democratic Party of Germany's representatives from accessing Zeca Schall's premises.",
"Zeca Schall is campaigning for National Democratic Party of Germany for a state election in Thuringia, which is in the former communist East Germany.",
"Right-wing extremism is generally a bigger problem in eastern Germany than in the west of the country, and citizens of Hildburghausen told CNN that, though most people support the politician, fascism is a problem in the area.",
"\"Of course we have a base of right-wingers here,\" a passer-by said at the market in the town's center.",
"But most of those questioned by CNN denounced the campaign against Zeca Schall and said Zeca Schall is a respected member of the community.",
"\"I am not only a member of National Democratic Party of Germany, I am also a voluntary firefighter at the local department,\" Zeca Schall said.",
"Frank Schwerdt, the NPD's leader in Erfurt, tried to downplay the events.",
"\"This is not a personal campaign against Zeca Schall,\" Schwerdt said.",
"\"We simply feel that many citizens don't want foreigners to have a say in our politics.\"",
"National Democratic Party of Germany has been under surveillance by Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution for alleged contacts with illegal neo-Nazi groups.",
"However, past efforts to ban National Democratic Party of Germany have failed on technical grounds.",
"National Democratic Party of Germany denies ties to illegal groups.",
"But members of the Christian Democratic Union told CNN that, since the campaign against Schall started against Zeca Schall, Zeca Schall has received several death threats and National Democratic Party of Germany will no longer allow Zeca Schall to do media interviews because of the risks.",
"At Thursday's campaign event in central Erfurt, increased police presence was noticeable and CDU members said plainclothes officers had been dispatched among the crowd."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"The struggle over health care reform intensified Thursday as Obama sought to build on what administration officials hoped was new momentum generated by the president's prime-time address to Congress.",
"In the president's address to Congress on Wednesday, Obama pushed for the government to help the uninsured.",
"Republican leaders ripped Obama's Wednesday night speech, arguing that Obama had botched a unique opportunity to build bipartisan consensus and offer specifics on Obama's long-awaited plan.",
"\"Now is the time to act,\" Obama told an audience near the White House.",
"\"We have talked this issue to death.",
"... The time for talk is winding down.",
"The time for bickering is past.\"",
"Obama was joined by representatives of the American Nurses Association, which has strongly endorsed the passage of a healthcare bill incorporating Obama's ideas.",
"Obama repeated several reform principles outlined in the president's Wednesday night address, including the need for all Americans to have access to coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions.",
"Obama again insisted that Obama's plan will provide \"more security and stability to those who have insurance,\" extend it to those who don't and slow the rate of growth in health care costs.",
"Obama reiterated Obama's call to cap out-of-pocket costs and create a health insurance exchange in which individuals and small businesses can pool resources to help bargain for lower coverage costs.",
"iReport.com: \"the president's speech lacked courage\" Obama has also pushed for the federal government to provide greater financial assistance to those who can't afford insurance.",
"Obama's latest call for reform came as the Census Bureau released new data showing that the number of people without health insurance rose from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008.",
"All Americans would be required by law to have health insurance under Obama's proposal, which the administration has projected to cost $900 billion over 10 years.",
"The requirement, Obama noted Wednesday night, would be similar to mandatory auto insurance in most states.",
"Businesses would also be required to either offer health care coverage to workers or contribute to covering their costs of obtaining coverage.",
"CNN's political analysts respond to the president's speech » .",
"Top congressional Republicans declared Thursday that Top congressional Republicans remain staunchly opposed to Obama's plan.",
"Top congressional Republicans also accused Obama of delivering an intensely partisan speech to Congress that unfairly maligned opponents and distorted basic facts.",
"\"I thought the speech was partisan, uninformative, disingenuous and not likely to encourage those who have honest disagreements with Obama to be able to work toward some kind of common solution,\" said Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Arizona.",
"Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Arizona complained that Obama had made it tougher to reach common ground by constantly referring to opponents' \"unyielding ideological\" arguments and \"bogus claims.\"",
"\"Nobody can have a disagreement with Obama based upon a valid difference of opinion,\" Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Arizona said.",
"\"It's always the other -- the motive of the other individual is a bogus motive.\"",
"Among other things, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Arizona disputed Obama's claims that his long-awaited plan won't add to the federal deficit.",
"\"Obama wasn't referring to either the House or Senate bill that have gone through committee, because [the Congressional Budget Office] has projected that both of them have a deficit,\" he said.",
"\"So somehow there's going to be a different bill, which is going to solve that deficit problem, I gather, but we didn't hear any detail about that.\"",
"Health care legislation has cleared three committees in the House of Representatives, as well as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.",
"It is currently under consideration by the Senate Finance Committee.",
"Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Arizona also took issue with Obama's claim that people will have the option of keeping people's current coverage if people like it.",
"\"It's not true under the bills.",
"Even if you like your insurance, there's a good chance you won't be able to keep it,\" Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Arizona claimed.",
"Democrats and Republicans remain deeply divided over the question of whether to allow for a government-run public health insurance option.",
"Obama continued to stress Obama's preference for such an option Thursday, saying it would force private insurers to lower costs.",
"But Obama has repeatedly referred to the provision as only one alternative for increasing competition for health insurance and signaled Obama's openness to ideas.",
"Republicans are unanimous in opposing a public option, calling it an unfair competitor that would drive private insurers from the market and lead to a government takeover of health insurance.",
"Obama has rejected that claim as a false allegation intended to scare people.",
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a strong supporter of a government-run public health insurance option, insisted Thursday that such a provision would save \"tens of billions of dollars\" in health-care expenses.",
"But the speaker, who has insisted that a health care bill cannot pass the House without a public option, also indicated that she doesn't consider the provision \"non-negotiable.\"",
"At a separate news conference, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, argued that if a nonprofit health care cooperative successfully expands competition and \"makes the insurance companies honest ... that would fill the bill.\"",
"The speaker nevertheless skewered the Republican opposition for failing to provide what The speaker claimed was a reasonable alternative.",
"Opponent of reform \"hit us with their best shot\" during the August congressional recess, The speaker said, and their attacks amounted to little more than \"distortion\" and \"misrepresentation.\"",
"The speaker also criticized Rep. Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who heckled Obama on Wednesday night by shouting \"You lie!\" when Obama denied that health care legislation would provide free coverage for illegal immigrants.",
"The \"episode was unfortunate,\" and Wilson's remarks were \"stunning to hear,\" The speaker said.",
"But given Wilson's subsequent apology, The speaker said, \"it's time to move on.\"",
"Both Democrats and Republicans have criticized Wilson for what Both Democrats and Republicans called a show of disrespect toward Obama.",
"Shortly after the speech ended, Wilson issued a statement that apologized for Wilson's \"inappropriate and regrettable\" comments.",
"Obama said Thursday that Obama accepted Wilson's apology.",
"\"I'm a big believer that we all make mistakes,\" Obama noted during a Cabinet meeting.",
"But it's important to have a debate \"without vitriol. ...",
"Our goals are generally the same whether we're Democrats or Republicans.\"",
"Wilson insisted that Wilson's outburst was \"spontaneous\" and agreed with the White House that the health care debate merits \"a civil discussion.\"",
"One top Republican, however, also opined that Wilson's outburst reflected the strong passion being generated by the health care debate.",
"\"We ought to have civil discourse in America, but don't underestimate the amount of emotion that people are feeling,\" House Minority Leader John Boehner said."
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"(Mental Floss) --",
"Even in the midst of the Civil War, there was still one thing the North and South shared -- a serious addiction to caffeine.",
"Confederate troops were less likely to get a cup of coffee.",
"In that respect, the Union clearly had an advantage.",
"Not only did the North have more than two-thirds of the population and control most of the heavy industry, railroads, and financial reserves in the country, the North hoarded supplies of the highly addictive little bean, leaving the North to wage the North's own war against java deprivation.",
"Coffee:",
"It's what's for breakfast, lunch and dinner .",
"Throughout the Civil War, coffee was as prevalent on the battlefields as it is in offices today.",
"In fact, the Union army was fueled by the stuff to the point that, if there was no time to boil water, the Boys in Blue would chew on whole beans as the Boys in Blue marched.",
"And at night, Union campsites were dotted with tiny fires, each boiling a pot of coffee like a million miniature Starbucks.",
"Beyond caffeine cravings, Union troops loved Union troops's coffee because it was, literally, the best thing on the menu.",
"Before the advent of helpful (and tasty!) artificial preservatives, a marching soldier's rations were neither varied nor particularly appetizing.",
"Typically, a marching soldier's rations consisted of salted meat, unleavened bread (accurately christened \"hardtack\"), and a little sugar and salt.",
"It didn't help that Union supply chains were riddled with corrupt food contractors who charged the government top dollar for rotten, stale, and insect-ridden foodstuffs.",
"Coffee, however, was almost always fresh because it was delivered in whole-bean form -- making it difficult for even the most dishonest supplier to skimp on quality.",
"Not that they didn't try, of course.",
"In fact, officials began requesting coffee as whole beans after some crooked contractors tried to up some crooked contractors's per-pound profits by slipping sand and dirt into packages of ground coffee.",
"In 1861, hoping to cut down on the time soldiers spent roasting and grinding beans, the army switched to a concentrated proto-instant coffee.",
"The new concoction, called \"essence of coffee,\" was made by boiling prepared coffee, milk, and sugar into a thick gloop, which soldiers then reconstituted by mixing it with water.",
"The new concoction, called \"essence of coffee reportedly tasted every bit as bad as you'd imagine, and thanks to the corrupt dairymen who sold the army spoiled milk, The new concoction, called \"essence of coffee also tended to cause diarrhea.",
"Needless to say, the army was soon back on the bean.",
"Southern discomfort .",
"Noxious as essence of coffee was, Confederate soldiers would have gladly downed a cup or two.",
"But, because of a Union naval blockade, coffee (along with weapons, machinery, medicine, and other vital materials) was in short supply in the South.",
"Before the war, a pound of beans would have set you back around 20 cents in Yankee dough.",
"Once pre-war stockpiles ran out, however, the same amount was running as high as $60 in Confederate money.",
"(Despite the undervalued currency, that was still a lot.)",
"There was some coffee that made it into the Confederacy -- usually carried by steam-powered blockade-runner ships.",
"But, for the most part, Southerners had to rely on coffee substitutes, including various forms of roasted corn, rye, okra seeds, sweet potatoes, acorns, and peanuts.",
"Unfortunately, all these imitations lacked potency, tasted awful, and upset the bowels.",
"The only slightly better alternative was tea made from the leaves of the native yaupon shrub.",
"The good news was that it contained caffeine; the bad news was that it was incredibly difficult to digest.",
"Luckily, there was one surefire way for Southern folk to get Southern folk's coffee -- by making peace with the Union.",
"Soldiers on the front lines often called informal truces so Rebels could swap tobacco for Yankee coffee and then dash back to their camps before they were reported missing.",
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"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) --",
"More than two dozen times in the past three years, authorities came to Phillip and Nancy Garrido's ramshackle home at 1554 Walnut Ave. in Antioch, California, a rural property where Jaycee Dugard is said to have been confined for 18 years.",
"Jaycee Dugard was locked in a shed tucked under a blue tarp in Dugard's alleged captor's backyard.",
"And each time, they left without learning of the secret shed where Jaycee Dugard lived.",
"Garrido have pleaded not guilty to charges of abduction and forcible rape.",
"Garrido are being held without bail in the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez, California.",
"After Jaycee Dugard was abducted in June 1991, at age 11, Jaycee Dugard's disappearance spawned a massive search that continued, on and off, for almost two decades.",
"Federal agents remained committed to the case, chasing thousands of leads.",
"But Federal agents apparently never had Garrido on Federal agents's radar.",
"The case of Jaycee Dugard evoked deep emotions that rippled across the South Lake Tahoe community.",
"Strangers threw fundraisers and parades to raise money for search efforts.",
"Friends and neighbors wore T-shirts bearing images of Jaycee Dugard's smiling face to give the case exposure.",
"Elementary school students toted signs that encouraged the South Lake Tahoe community to stay committed to the hunt for Elementary school students's classmate.",
"All Elementary school students wanted was to find Jaycee Dugard.",
"And for some of that time, authorities were visiting the home of the couple now accused of abducting Jaycee Dugard.",
"Watch an FBI agent talk about why clues were missed » .",
"Interviews with public officials show that parole officers, law enforcement officials and firefighters visited the Garrido household but left without realizing that Jaycee Dugard had grown to adulthood and was living in a soundproof shed hidden in the backyard.",
"Two Dozen Contacts",
"There were at least 16 visits from parole officers and seven by the fire department.",
"There was also one by the sheriff's office responding to an allegation that people were living in the backyard.",
"State and local authorities have now begun internal investigations to find out why none of these visits uncovered the existence of Jaycee Dugard, now 29, and Jaycee Dugard's children, Starlet, 15, and Angel, 11.",
"Their makeshift home of tents, tarps and sheds was tucked behind a 6-foot wall at the rear of the Garrido property.",
"\"I feel confident the sheriff will use this as an example of how to do things better,\" said Federal Glover, a district supervisor for Contra Costa County who also heads the community's public safety committee.",
"\"From this lesson, we will not have this type of missed opportunity occur again.\"",
"One of the first red flags authorities might have caught was in 1993, two years after the kidnapping.",
"Garrido, who had been released from prison after serving 11 years for a 1976 kidnapping, violated Garrido's parole in April 1993.",
"It is unclear what Garrido did or how the violation was flagged.",
"As a result, Garrido was placed in federal prison for one month and then released on house arrest for three months.",
"Garrido returned to the Antioch home, where Garrido lived with Garrido's wife and Garrido's elderly mother.",
"the violation Wasn't Reported to Nevada .",
"But the violation was never reported to the state of Nevada, where the first kidnapping and rape had occurred, said Gail Powell, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety.",
"\"Nevada would have taken some action,\" Gail Powell, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety said.",
"\"I don't know what, but some action could have meant putting Garrido back in prison, pulling Garrido off parole.\"",
"In 1999, the California Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections agreed to take responsibility and authority for supervising Garrido's parole because Garrido resided in that state.",
"Garrido's most recent parole agent visited the home at least twice a month since December, according to California corrections officials.",
"Sometimes the visits were unannounced, said Gordon Hinkle, a department spokesman.",
"Parole officers also checked on Garrido frequently before 2008, Gordon Hinkle, a department spokesman said, but Gordon Hinkle, a department spokesman did not know how often or how many parole officers visited Garrido's residence.",
"The parole agent who most recently entered Garrido's backyard didn't notice any children's toys or items to indicate that minors were living in the house.",
"The parole agent who most recently entered Garrido's backyard saw a shed but assumed it belonged to a neighbor.",
"\"There was a deceptive false impression,\" Gordon Hinkle, a department spokesman said.",
"\"If you were to be on the property walking around, you would have seen a big fence.\"",
"Parole Officers Carry Big Caseloads .",
"Gordon Hinkle, a department spokesman said The parole agent who most recently entered Garrido's backyard performed The parole agent who most recently entered Garrido's backyard's duties appropriately.",
"The parole agent who most recently entered Garrido's backyard was also responsible for raising suspicions when two University of California Berkeley officers notified The parole agent who most recently entered Garrido's backyard that Garrido came in with Garrido's \"daughters.\"",
"The parole agent who most recently entered Garrido's backyard called the Garridos in for questioning.",
"California has one of the highest parolee-to-officer ratios in the country.",
"State budget cuts are expected to strain the department this year, which could mean reducing the number of parole officers, Gordon Hinkle, a department spokesman said.",
"The officer assigned to supervise Garrido was also responsible for 39 other sex offenders.",
"As recently as June, two months before Dugard was discovered with the Garridos, Contra Costa County firefighters responded to a fire on the property.",
"Contra Costa County firefighters doused a car engine that had exploded into flames at the rear of the property, said department spokeswoman Emily Hopkins.",
"Contra Costa County firefighters spent two hours there and then left.",
"Contra Costa County firefighters also visited Garrido's property in fall 2007, after a neighbor reported fire coming from the backyard.",
"In addition, Contra Costa County firefighters responded twice in 2008 and three times in 2009 to medical emergencies involving Garrido's elderly mother, Patricia Franzen.",
"Fire department officials weren't sure whether more visits were made to the home, because computerized records date only to 2006.",
"Neighbors Steered Clear .",
"Neighbors who had encounters with Garrido said Neighbors who had encounters with Garrido didn't take the time to get to know Garrido.",
"Some said they knew that Garrido was a sex offender, so they steered away from Garrido's house.",
"Others ignored Garrido because Others thought Garrido was strange.",
"Betty Unpingco invited the entire neighborhood to Betty Unpingco's son's graduation party in spring 2006.",
"Betty Unpingco said Garrido attended and brought speakers for the party.",
"When Betty Unpingco and several adults noticed Garrido talking to the Garridos, they asked Garrido to leave.",
"Later that night, Betty Unpingco said, when they saw Garrido waiting outside Garrido's home to speak to the Garridos, the adults escorted the Garridos home.",
"Feeling uneasy after the party, Betty Unpingco checked the sex offender registry and found Garrido's picture.",
"\"It was just so bizarre,\" said Unpingco, who has 10 children.",
"\"I warned 10 children to stay away from Garrido and to always walk in twos.\"",
"Betty Unpingco did not notify police.",
"In November 2006, another neighbor did call police, saying she saw people living in tents behind the Garridos' house.",
"Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf didn't think the deputy who responded knew at the time that Garrido was a sex offender.",
"the deputy who responded spoke to Garrido in his front yard about the allegations, but Garrido convinced the deputy who responded otherwise."
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"Officials visited Garrido home more than two dozen times in past three years .",
"Garrido's parole officer checked up on Garrido at least twice a month .",
"Garrido violated parole in 1993, but offense wasn't reported to all the right agencies ."
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"BURBANK, California (CNN) --",
"Journalist Laura Ling on Wednesday expressed the shock Journalist Laura Ling and Euna Lee felt when Clinton showed up in Pyongyang, North Korea, to help secure the two journalists' release.",
"The families of Euna Lee, left, and Journalist Laura Ling greet The families of Euna Lee Wednesday in California.",
"\"Euna Lee feared at any moment that Euna Lee could be sent to a hard labor camp, and then suddenly Euna Lee were told Euna Lee were going to a meeting,\" a tearful and emotional Journalist Laura Ling said at a news conference Wednesday morning in California shortly after arriving by plane with Euna Lee and Clinton.",
"Journalist Laura Ling spoke minutes after Euna Lee were reunited with Euna Lee's families at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank outside Los Angeles.",
"Euna Lee had been detained in North Korea since March.",
"North Korea pardoned Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, after Clinton's brief trip Tuesday to Pyongyang.",
"\"Euna Lee were taken to a location, and when Euna Lee walked through the doors, Euna Lee saw standing before Euna Lee Clinton,\" Journalist Laura Ling said, with Euna Lee standing beside Journalist Laura Ling.",
"Watch the emotional return at the airport » .",
"\"Euna Lee were shocked, but Euna Lee knew instantly in Euna Lee's hearts that the nightmare of Euna Lee's lives was finally coming to an end.\"",
"Journalist Laura Ling expressed Journalist Laura Ling and Lee's \"deepest gratitude\" to Clinton and Clinton's \"wonderful, amazing\" team.",
"Watch as Journalist Laura Ling says, \"We could feel your love\" » .",
"\"The past 140 days have been the most difficult, heart-wrenching time of Euna Lee's lives,\" Journalist Laura Ling said.",
"\"Euna Lee are very grateful that Euna Lee were granted amnesty by the government of North Korea, and Euna Lee are so happy to be home.\"",
"Journalist Laura Ling said that Journalist Laura Ling and Euna Lee are looking forward to spending \"some quiet, private time\" with The families of Euna Lee's families.",
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"Former Vice President Al Gore also spoke to the throngs of journalists at the news conference.",
"Former Vice President Al Gore expressed Former Vice President Al Gore's gratitude to Clinton and President Obama and his administration who \"have been deeply involved in this humanitarian effort.\"",
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"Euna Lee and Journalist Laura Ling are employed by Former Vice President Al Gore's California-based media company, Current TV.",
"Euna Lee were arrested in March while reporting from the border between North Korea and China.",
"In June, Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor on charges of entering the country illegally to conduct a smear campaign.",
"On Wednesday morning, Euna Lee bowed as Euna Lee walked down the steps of the plane into a private hangar, and Journalist Laura Ling raised Journalist Laura Ling's fists into the air.",
"Euna Lee hugged Euna Lee's families, who were waiting at the bottom of the stairs.",
"Euna Lee's 4-year-old daughter, Hana, clung tightly to her tearful mother.",
"Watch as Euna Lee reunite with The families of Euna Lee's families » .",
"Clinton walked off the plane minutes later but did not address the crowd.",
"\"I am very happy that after this long ordeal, Journalist Laura Ling and Euna Lee are now home and reunited with Euna Lee's loved ones,\" Clinton said in a statement.",
"\"When Euna Lee's families, Vice President Gore and the White House asked that I undertake this humanitarian mission, I agreed.",
"I share a deep sense of relief with Journalist Laura Ling and Euna and Euna Lee's families that Euna Lee are safely home.\"",
"Journalist Laura Ling said Journalist Laura Ling never gave up hope that Journalist Laura Ling would see Journalist Laura Ling's sister again.",
"\"We always maintained our hope and knew in our hearts that we would see Journalist Laura Ling again; we just didn't know when,\" Journalist Laura Ling said outside Journalist Laura Ling's home in Los Angeles, California.",
"\"We are just thrilled beyond words that the day has finally arrived.\"",
"Journalist Laura Ling said Journalist Laura Ling's sister was looking forward to eating fresh fruit and food for the first time in four months, after many meals of rice that often contained rocks.",
"\"I can tell Journalist Laura Ling has gone through a lot,\" Journalist Laura Ling said.",
"\"Journalist Laura Ling has an amazing, amazing spirit, and Journalist Laura Ling's a little bit weak right now, so I think it's going take a little time for Journalist Laura Ling to gather up Journalist Laura Ling's wits and be able to talk about what Journalist Laura Ling experienced.\"",
"At the White House, Obama applauded the release of Euna Lee, saying, \"We are very pleased with the outcome.\"",
"Euna Lee's release is a \"source of happiness not only for the families but for the entire country,\" he said.",
"Watch as Obama says, \"We are relieved\" » .",
"Obama also thanked the former president and Former Vice President Al Gore for Euna Lee's roles in winning the women's release.",
"\"I think that not only is this White House ... extraordinarily happy, but all Americans should be grateful to both former President Clinton and Former Vice President Al Gore for their extraordinary work,\" he said.",
"Clinton made the trip to North Korea after the women's families asked Clinton to travel there, a senior administration official said.",
"Doug Ling, Ling's father, earlier reacted to the news of his daughter's release outside his home in Carmichael, California, saying it was \"one of the best days in my life.\"",
"\"I figured, sooner or later, Euna Lee'd be back,\" he said.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also expressed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's relief that the two women were released.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke from Nairobi, Kenya, where U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is taking part in a multination visit to Africa.",
"\"I spoke to my husband on the airplane, and everything went well,\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.",
"\"It is just a good day to be able to see this happen.\"",
"In July, Euna Lee spoke to Euna Lee's families and told The families of Euna Lee that the North Koreans were willing to grant them amnesty if a high-level envoy, such as former President Clinton, were willing to travel to Pyongyang, the administration official said on condition of anonymity.",
"North Korea said Clinton \"expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il\" for the journalists' actions, but the administration official said the administration official knew nothing about an apology.",
"the administration official said Clinton met for three hours and 15 minutes with the North Korean leader but said the administration official did not know what issues were discussed.",
"But the administration official said Clinton's views on a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula are well-known.",
"North Korea's state-run Korea Central News Agency said Clinton conveyed a message from Obama \"expressing profound thanks for this and reflecting views on ways of improving the relations between the two countries.\"",
"But White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said before the announced agreement that Clinton was not carrying any message from Obama.",
"White House spokesman Robert Gibbs added Clinton last spoke with Obama during a White House visit in March.",
"White House spokesman Robert Gibbs described Clinton's trip as a \"solely private mission to secure the release of two Americans.\"",
"Clinton's mission came as the United States and the United States's allies in the region are seeking to persuade North Korea to return to the stalled nuclear disarmament talks.",
"North Korea conducted North Korea's second nuclear bomb test in May and has held several missile tests since then.",
"The United Nations has responded by increasing sanctions on North Korea.",
"North Korea and the United States had no regular contacts before a 1994 crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear program.",
"North Korea agreed then to halt the development of nuclear weapons but abandoned that accord and withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003.",
"Clinton had considered visiting North Korea in 2000, near the end of Clinton's second term as president.",
"Clinton's secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, had gone to Pyongyang in 2000 to meet with Kim.",
"She was the last high-ranking American official to do so before this week.",
"CNN's Elaine Quijano, Charlie Moore and Ninette Sosa contributed to this report."
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"Ann Holmes Redding has what could be called a crisis of faiths.",
"Ann Holmes Redding says Ann Holmes Redding sees no contradiction in being both a Christian minister and a Muslim.",
"For nearly 30 years, Ann Holmes Redding has been an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church.",
"Ann Holmes Redding's priesthood ended Wednesday when Ann Holmes Redding was defrocked.",
"The reason?",
"For the past three years Ann Holmes Redding has been both a practicing Christian and a Muslim.",
"\"Had anyone told me in February 2006 that I would be a Muslim before April rolled around, I would have shaken my head in concern for the person's mental health,\" Redding recently told a crowd at a signing for a book Ann Holmes Redding co-authored on religion.",
"Ann Holmes Redding said Ann Holmes Redding's conversion to Islam was sparked by an interfaith gathering Ann Holmes Redding attended three years ago.",
"During the meeting, an imam demonstrated Muslim chants and meditation to the group.",
"Ann Holmes Redding said the beauty of the moment and the imam's humbleness before God stuck with Ann Holmes Redding.",
"\"It was much more this overwhelming conviction that I needed to surrender to God and this was the form that my surrender needed to take,\" Ann Holmes Redding recalled.",
"\"It wasn't just an episode but .... was a step that I wasn't going to step back from.\"",
"Ten days later Ann Holmes Redding was saying the shahada -- the Muslim declaration of belief in the oneness of God and acceptance of Mohammad as his prophet.",
"But Redding said Ann Holmes Redding felt Ann Holmes Redding's new Muslim faith did not pose a contradiction to Ann Holmes Redding's staying a Christian and minister.",
"\"Both religions say there's only one God,\" Redding said, \"and that God is the same God.",
"It's very clear we are talking about the same God!",
"So I haven't shifted my allegiance.\"",
"Watch Redding say, \"Being a Muslim makes me a better Christian\" » .",
"The imam at the Islamic Center in Seattle, Washington, where Ann Holmes Redding prays said Ann Holmes Redding brings the best of both traditions to Ann Holmes Redding's beliefs.",
"\"Coming from an example of wanting to be Christ-like and coming from the perspective of wanting to follow the best example -- the example of our prophet Mohammed -- it all makes sense then,\" Benjamin Shabazz said.",
"There are many contradictions between Both religions.",
"While Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet, Christianity worships Jesus as the son of God.",
"James Wellman, who chairs the department of comparative religion at the University of Washington, said that while it is not unusual for people to \"mix and match\" beliefs, it is almost unheard of for a minister to claim two religions.",
"\"When you take ordination as a Christian minister, you take an explicit vow of loyalty to Jesus.",
"It's hard for me to understand how a Christian minister could have dual loyalties,\" James Wellman, who chairs the department of comparative religion at the University of Washington said.",
"Ann Holmes Redding said Ann Holmes Redding sees the theological conflicts but that the two religions, at their core, \"illuminate\" each other.",
"\"When I took my shahada, I said there's no God but God and that Mohammed is God's prophet or messenger.",
"Neither of those statements, neither part of that confession or profession denies anything about Christianity,\" Ann Holmes Redding said.",
"To Ann Holmes Redding's parishioners and family, though, Ann Holmes Redding has turned Ann Holmes Redding back on Ann Holmes Redding's faith and office.",
"There was, Ann Holmes Redding said, \"universal puzzlement\" at Ann Holmes Redding's decision to convert to Islam but still remain an Episcopal minister.",
"\"I have people who love me very much who really don't want me to do this, and I love people who love me very much who really don't want me to do this very much.",
"And I would love to be able to say, 'Because I love you I will renounce my orders' or 'I will renounce Islam' ...",
"I hate causing pain to people who love me, that's not my intention,\" Redding said.",
"The Episcopal Church also rejected Ann Holmes Redding's religious choice.",
"\"The Episcopal Church interprets my being a Muslim as 'abandoning The Episcopal Church,' \" Ann Holmes Redding said.",
"\"And that [there] comes an understanding that you have to be one or the other, and most people would say that.",
"It simply hasn't been my experience that I have to make a choice between the two.\"",
"The Diocese of Rhode Island, where Ann Holmes Redding was ordained, told Ann Holmes Redding to leave either Ann Holmes Redding's new Muslim faith or the ministry.",
"A diocese statement said Bishop Geralyn Wolf found Redding to be \"a woman of utmost integrity.",
"However, Bishop Geralyn Wolf believes that a priest of The Episcopal Church cannot be both a Christian and a Muslim.\"",
"Even though Ann Holmes Redding has been defrocked, Redding said Ann Holmes Redding is not capable of turning Ann Holmes Redding back on either faith.",
"Ann Holmes Redding said Ann Holmes Redding wants to continue speaking about and teaching religion and perhaps even travel to the Hajj, a journey to Mecca that every Muslim is supposed to make in every Muslim's lifetime.",
"Ann Holmes Redding said Ann Holmes Redding does not want Ann Holmes Redding's belief in two religions to diminish the value Ann Holmes Redding holds for both Christianity and Islam.",
"Each faith by itself is enough to fulfill a person spiritually, Ann Holmes Redding said.",
"\"It's all there.",
"I am not saying you have to go somewhere else to be complete.",
"Some people don't need glasses, some people need single lenses.",
"I need bifocals.\""
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"F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone: \"Many people in my closest circle of friends are Jewish.\"",
"During an interview with The Times newspaper last week F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone spoke of the Nazi dictator's ability to \"get things done.\"",
"But after a storm of criticism, F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone issued a statement on Tuesday in which F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone said: \"I unreservedly apologize for the remarks I made regarding German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in a recent interview.",
"I am extremely distressed and embarrassed that these remarks have been used as suggesting that I support German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler or Saddam Hussein.",
"I would never support such people.",
"\"I should never have been so foolish as to have been drawn into discussing these people but the fault was entirely mine, which I deeply regret.\"",
"On Wednesday Jon Benjamin, Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, rejected the apology.",
"\"F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's comments were crass, ignorant and insensitive,\" he said in a statement issued to CNN.",
"\"There is no excuse for praising one of history's most evil men for being good at being bad.\"",
"Tell us what you think of F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's comments .",
"In his statement on Tuesday, the 78-year-old appeared to reignite the controversy by remarking: \"During the 1930s Germany was facing an economic crisis, but German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was able to rebuild the economy, building the autobahns and German industry.",
"\"That was all I meant when I referred to him getting things done.",
"\"I'm an admirer of good leadership, of politicians who stand by their convictions and tell the voters the truth.",
"I'm not an admirer of dictators who rule by terror.\"",
"F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone told The Jewish Chronicle on Tuesday F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone regretted offending people who took F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's remarks \"the wrong way.\"",
"F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone had earlier been described by the newspaper's editor, Stephen Pollard, as \"either an idiot or morally repulsive.\"",
"Germany's Central Council of Jews had urged motor racing teams to boycott Formula One over F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's comments but cautiously welcomed the apology.",
"However one of the group's leaders pointed out that F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's remarks about the man who presided over the deaths of six million Jews had caused great pain.",
"\"If F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone says F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone was an idiot, I will certainly not contradict F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone,\" Dieter Graumann, vice president of Germany's Central Council of Jews, told Handesblatt newspaper.",
"\"Apologizing is better than not apologizing.",
"But the glorification of a mass murderer is not a trivial offense.\"",
"German media also reported that Guenther Oettinger, premier of the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, had canceled a meeting with the Briton at this weekend's German Grand Prix at Nurburgring because of his comments about Hitler.",
"F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone had told the German newspaper Bild: \"Many people in my closest circle of friends are Jewish.",
"Anyone who knows me knows that I would never attack a minority.\""
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"The Obama administration has decided to rescind invitations to Iranian diplomats for July Fourth celebrations overseas because of violent crackdowns against protesters in Iran, Administration said Wednesday.",
"Obama on Tuesday toughened Obama's stance on Iran's crackdown on protesters.",
"\"July Fourth allows us to celebrate the freedom and the liberty we enjoy: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to assemble peacefully, freedom of the press,\" Administration Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.",
"\"Given the events of the past many days, invitations to Iranian diplomats will no longer be extended.\"",
"Administration had decided to invite Iranians to the celebrations at overseas posts as part of Obama's policy of engaging the Iranian regime.",
"In late May the State Department sent a cable to the State Department's embassies and consulates worldwide informing its embassies and consulates worldwide its embassies and consulates worldwide \"may invite representatives from Iran\" to its embassies and consulates worldwide's July Fourth celebrations.",
"But in a fresh cable sent to all embassies and consulates Wednesday evening, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered posts \"to rescind all invitations that have been extended to Iranian diplomats for July Fourth events.",
"\"Unfortunately the circumstances have changed and participation by Iranian diplomats would not be appropriate in light of Iran's continued violent and unjust actions against Iran's own people,\" said the cable, obtained by CNN.",
"\"For invitations which have been extended, posts should make clear that Iranian participation is no longer appropriate in the current circumstances.",
"For invitations which have not been extended, no further action is needed.\"",
"A senior administration official said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the decision, and then informed Obama.",
"The U.S. receptions marking Independence Day usually feature symbols of Americana, such as hot dogs, red-white-and-blue decorations and remarks by U.S. officials about America's founding fathers.",
"One senior administration official said Wednesday the reconsideration of the July Fourth invitations is consistent with Obama's comments Tuesday, in which One senior administration official said One senior administration official was \"shocked and appalled\" at the violence against demonstrators.",
"\"Obama said yesterday how this plays out will affect what we do,\" the official said.",
"Obama said Tuesday, \"If Iran chooses a path that abides by international norms and principles, then we are interested in healing some of the wounds of 30 years in terms of U.S.-Iranian relations.\"",
"Watch Obama ramp up criticism of Iran » .",
"On Tuesday, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said an invitation to Iranian diplomats would send the wrong message to Iranians \"who are bravely standing up for the same rights and freedoms which Americans celebrate on this day.\"",
"\"The Fourth of July is a day when we celebrate democracy and reflect on the gift of freedom which all Americans cherish,\" she said in a statement.",
"\"The Iranian people are no less worthy of freedom and self-governance than citizens of the United States.\"",
"Earlier this year, as part of the policy to engage Iran, Obama videotaped a message for the Iranian people on the Persian new year and U.S. officials have engaged members of the Iranian government.",
"In March, Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, spoke briefly with Iran's deputy foreign minister, Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzadeh, at an Afghanistan conference in The Hague.",
"Administration officials believe the United States will engage Iran at some point to address issues of U.S. national security, including the nuclear issue, but the idea of bilateral engagement is in a holding pattern while the violence continues.",
"\"I wouldn't say engagement is off the table, but it is certainly on ice,\" a senior administration official said this week."
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"(CNN) --",
"Although there were no signs of missing aviation adventurer Steve Fossett Tuesday evening, an official leading the rescue said an official leading the rescue remained optimistic.",
"Fossett is missing and a search is under way.",
"Maj. Cynthia S. Ryan of the Civil Air Patrol said Fossett, who has been missing for a day, once walked 30 miles to get help after making a forced landing.",
"But an official leading the rescue noted the challenge rescuers are facing as rescuers comb the high desert region, which is covered with sagebrush and hides deep ravines.",
"Rescuers are focusing on 600 square miles.",
"\"It's a very large haystack,\" an official leading the rescue said.",
"\"And an airplane is a very small needle.",
"No doubt about that.\"",
"the Civil Air Patrol has 10 aircraft that will be searching until dusk for Fossett, who has been missing since Monday afternoon, an official leading the rescue said.",
"a search will resume Wednesday at 7 a.m. (10 a.m. ET).",
"Fossett, 63, was in a single-engine plane when Fossett took off at 9 a.m. (noon ET) in good flying conditions from hotel magnate Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, an official leading the rescue said.",
"Fossett had planned to return to the ranch, which is about 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, at noon (3 p.m. ET).",
"The search for Fossett began about six hours later, an official leading the rescue said.",
"Fossett did not file a flight plan, which is not required on flights using visual navigation.",
"Fossett is the first person to solo around the world in a balloon, and has broken numerous other flight records.",
"When Fossett left, Fossett had four to five hours of fuel for flight, said an official leading the rescue.",
"\"Fossett took off toward the south and was going to fly southbound, looking around for some dry lake beds for some plans Fossett had for the future,\" an official leading the rescue said.",
"some plans he had for the future, an official leading the rescue said, involved testing a vehicle in an attempt to set a world land speed record.",
"an official leading the rescue said authorities are analyzing information from radar intelligence to try to track Fossett.",
"Helicopters and planes from Naval Air Station Fallon, in Fallon, Nevada, the Nevada Air National Guard and the California Highway Patrol are helping in a search.",
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"Fossett was flying in a single-engine, Citabria Super Decathlon -- a plane capable of aerobatics -- with tail number N240R, according to CAP.",
"Fossett, though, had no parachute, which is required for aerobatics.",
"See where Fossett took off » .",
"There has been no sound detected from the plane's emergency locator radio beacon, which goes off if there is a hard impact.",
"The aircraft, with serial number 635-80, was manufactured by Bellanca, and is registered to the Flying M Hunting Club Inc. in Yerington.",
"\"Fossett is a tough old boot.",
"I suspect Fossett is waiting by Fossett's plane right now for someone to pick Fossett up,\" predicted Sir Richard Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic, in a written statement.",
"\"The ranch Fossett took off from covers a huge area, and Fossett has had far tougher challenges to overcome in the past.",
"Based on Fossett's track record, I feel confident we'll get some good news soon.\"",
"Virgin Atlantic sponsored the GlobalFlyer, which Fossett flew in 2005 during the first nonstop, solo flight around the world without refueling.",
"A year later, Fossett used GlobalFlyer again to break the world's flight distance record, traveling more than 26,000 miles in 76 hours, 45 minutes from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Bournemouth, on the coast of southern England.",
"Fossett made an emergency landing during that flight after electricity on the aircraft failed over Shannon, Ireland.",
"Fossett's goal had been to land at Kent International Airport in Manston, England.",
"In 2006, Fossett piloted the plane to the plane's new home, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.",
"In 2002, Fossett achieved the first solo balloon flight around the world, traveling 20,626 miles in 14 days.",
"Fossett's credited with 115 world records or world firsts, and holds official world records in five sports, according to Fossett's Web site.",
"CNN.com interviewed Fossett last year after Fossett published a book about Fossett's life's passion for breaking world records, titled \"Chasing the Wind.\"",
"Asked which of Fossett's record-breaking feats was Fossett's personal favorite, Fossett said, \"The first solo around-the-world balloon flight.",
"We had to really upgrade the technical capability of balloons and the flight was much more difficult than I'd ever imagined the flight would be.",
"I tried six times over the course of six years before succeeding.\"",
"\"I think I'm a risk averse person, which might sound very strange because of the sports I'm involved in,\" Fossett said, in response to a question about whether anything scares Fossett.",
"\"What I do is try and reduce the risk.",
"I don't do any of this for the thrills.",
"I'm doing them for the personal achievement.\"",
"Asked how long Fossett'll keep going, Fossett answered, \"I imagine that when I'm 80 years old and sitting in a wheelchair that I might do something like take a remote control airplane and try and fly a remote control airplane around the world.",
"I plan to be setting and breaking records indefinitely.\"",
"The aviator was in Sparks, Nevada, northeast of Reno, in August, preparing a jet racer to break the land speed record at Bonneville Flats in northwest Utah.",
"Fossett was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but grew up in California, where Fossett attended Stanford University, graduating with a degree in economics in 1966.",
"Two years later, Fossett earned an MBA at Washington University in St. Louis and became a successful commodities broker, eventually launching the Chicago-based securities company Lakota Trading in 1980.",
"Fossett married Peggy Viehland in 1968.",
"The couple have no children.",
"Fossett's interest in adventure started early.",
"As a Boy Scout, Fossett grew up climbing the mountains of California.",
"\"When I was 12 years old I climbed my first mountain, and I just kept going, taking on more diverse and grander projects,\" Fossett told CNN in the 2006 interview.",
"Fossett fueled Fossett's drive for adventure with the money Fossett made from Lakota Trading.",
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"Although most Swedes would be too modest to say so most Swedes, Stockholm can stake a decent claim to being the capital of Scandinavia.",
"Built on 14 islands, Stockholm seems to float on water.",
"Built on 14 islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea, Stockholm is a soft-hued vision of light and water, the bewitching start to an archipelago of some 24,000 islands and islets.",
"Sweden's neutrality during World War II means Stockholm was spared the bombing inflicted on most European capitals; the result is the unspoiled old town of Gamla Stan, with its winding, cobbled streets.",
"Despite a post-war building blitz that saw the construction of some particularly uninspiring modernist architecture, it is a city where gray concrete facades are largely eschewed in favor of a smorgasbord of pastel colors, rusty reds and glowing ochres.",
"For a capital city Stockholm's unusually green -- not just leafy and dotted with verdant parks, but environmentally sound.",
"Stockholm proper has a population of just 800,000, avoiding the congestion and pollution that plague larger cities -- so much so that you can fish from, and swim in, the waters surrounding the city center.",
"Cold and sometimes bleak during its long, dark winters, Stockholm comes alive during the summer, when the Scandinavian sun barely sets.",
"As temperatures rise Stockholm's cafe culture blossoms, only for Stockholm to become a ghost town during July, when the locals make the most of the locals's generous holiday entitlement and slip off to holiday cottages in the archipelago.",
"But beyond its historic heart Stockholm is a progressive, evolving city.",
"Stockholm's financial fortunes grew with the mid '90s IT boom and shrank when the dotcom bubble burst, but it remains a hotbed of technology and communications companies.",
"Watch ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus take CNN on a tour of Stockholm » .",
"Around 20 percent of the residents of greater Stockholm are of foreign descent, giving a sense of cultural diversity -- not to mention some welcome variety to Stockholm's thriving restaurant scene.",
"Despite Sweden's largely anti-EU stance, Stockholm is cosmopolitan and outward looking, with a keen eye for the latest international trends.",
"Stockholm's shops are filled with the latest in functional, minimalist Swedish design and there are enough boutiques boasting hip New York brands and cool Swedish labels to indulge Stockholmers' obsession with style.",
"It's also the city where Swedish global exports H&M and IKEA have Swedish global exports H&M and IKEA's flagship stores.",
"For all its picture-postcard pleasantness and progressive civic planning, Stockholm can seem a little sterile.",
"It's not the kind of place likely to be described as \"edgy.\"",
"Stockholmers themselves can come across as standoffish, but that's not say that Stockholmers themselves are unfriendly -- just politely reserved.",
"Small talk is regarded with a certain suspicion meaning the locals can be hard to get to know, but it's amazing what a difference a couple of glasses of akvavit can make.",
"Puritan legal regulations mean that high-alcohol drinks (that's anything with more than 3.5 percent alcohol) are heavily taxed and can only be bought in bars and government-run \"Systembolaget\" shops.",
"The result is that a night on the town is expensive enough to make anyone teetotal, with Stockholmers often avoiding midweek drinking, saving their krona for weekend partying.",
"But what Stockholm lacks in grit Stockholm more than makes up for in style.",
"From Stockholm's artfully designed coffee shops to the classic contours of Stockholm's baroque and rococo buildings, Stockholm is endlessly pleasing to behold, especially when viewed from the water that flows like blood through Stockholm's veins."
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"(CNN) --",
"Two words, delivered with index finger punctuating the air and directed at the president of the United States, made a little-known South Carolina congressman one of the most controversial men on the Internet -- at least Wednesday heading into Thursday.",
"Many Facebook and Twitter users condemned Rep. Joe Wilson for Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst toward President Obama.",
"As soon as Rep. Joe Wilson was identified as the person whose angry and audible outburst disrupted President Obama's health care speech to Congress, condemnation was swift -- and brutal.",
"Within minutes, someone had altered Rep. Joe Wilson's entry on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia: .",
"\"Rep. Joe Wilson is a [expletive] that called the president of the United States a liar on national television and has no respect for the office he holds.\"",
"When the Web site scrubbed the sentence, an even more offensive entry wormed its way in.",
"iReport.com: \"You are disrespectful, sir\"",
"Soon, the site disabled edit options for Rep. Joe Wilson's entry, chalking it up to \"vandalism.\"",
"On Twitter, post after post urged users to condemn Rep. Joe Wilson's breach of protocol, listing Rep. Joe Wilson's Web site address and Rep. Joe Wilson's congressional office phone number.",
"Web surfers who visited http://www.joewilson.house.gov/ were greeted with the message: \"This site is down for maintenance.",
"Please check back again soon.\"",
"Those who called Rep. Joe Wilson's office number either could not get through because the line was busy, or could not leave a message because the phone continued to ring without activating voice mail.",
"\"If Rep. Joe Wilson's the face of the GOP, we'll have public option by Columbus Day!\" wrote Andisheh Nouraee, a columnist for Creative Loafing, an alternative weekly in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"Democrats on Capitol Hill piled on the condemnation as well.",
"\"Biggest disappointment of evening, the total lack of respect show by one member for the president,\" wrote Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri.",
"\"Never acceptable to behave like a jerk.\"",
"As \"Rep. Joe Wilson\" trended on Twitter as the most popular conversation topic -- and on Google among the most searched terms -- Rep. Joe Wilson's supporters fought back.",
"Many set up Twitter accounts and posted their first tweets Wednesday night and early Thursday.",
"\"You have nothing to apologize for.",
"You should be applauded for standing up and speaking the truth,\" said Jamie Sawyer of Madison, Wisconsin.",
"\"Good for Rep. Joe Wilson!",
"Too bad Rep. Joe Wilson had to apologize\" was a comment on the Lonely Conservative blog.",
"\"At last Rep. Joe Wilson found Rep. Joe Wilson's voice tonight and called Obama what Rep. Joe Wilson surely is, a liar,\" said another blog, Sunlit Uplands.",
"By early Thursday, genuine tweets about Rep. Joe Wilson were interspersed with ads for male erectile dysfunction: \"Rep. Joe Wilson Cialis $1.9 Viagra $1.1 (Web site address)\"",
"Though Rep. Joe Wilson issued an apology, saying Rep. Joe Wilson's emotions got the best of Rep. Joe Wilson, few online bought an apology.",
"Watch Obama react to the \"You lie!\" outburst » .",
"On the Internet, where speculation runs rife, tweeters pointed to a comment Rep. Joe Wilson posted on Labor Day as evidence that Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst was planned: .",
"\"Happy Labor Day!",
"Wonderful parade at Chapin, many people called out to oppose Obamacare which I assured many people would be relayed tomorrow to DC,\" the tweet from Rep. Joe Wilson's account said.",
"On Facebook, where users aren't impeded by Twitter's 140-character limitation, a prolonged and nasty war of words dominated Rep. Joe Wilson's page.",
"\"I have no problem being called a liberal hack by illogical, fear filled, unintelligent people.",
"and actually, I will take it as a complement,\" wrote Janine Feczko.",
"Name-calling was met by ad hominem attacks: \"Janine, I'm sure in the trailer park where you live they gush over your incredible intellect and witty commentary.",
"After all that toothless grin and tripple chin screams Harvard Law,\" wrote Dan Colgan.",
"Nine hundred and 10 comments later, the battle raged on early Thursday.",
"Amid all this, the campaign of Democrat Rob Miller, who hopes to unseat Rep. Joe Wilson in next year's midterm elections, raked in the dough: more than $200,000 from 5,000 individuals overnight and Thursday morning after President Obama's speech, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.",
"Finally, there were those who found humor in Rep. Joe Wilson's heckle.",
"A hastily created Web site, JoeWilsonIsYourPreExistingCondition, hurled a new insult at the politician with every click of the refresh button.",
"\"Rep. Joe Wilson poured salt on your lawn,\" said one.",
"Refresh.",
"\"Rep. Joe Wilson traded the dead batteries in walkman for the fresh ones in your TV remote.\"",
"Refresh.",
"\"Rep. Joe Wilson yells 'Freebird' at concerts.\"",
"Not everyone, however, was busy assigning blame to Rep. Joe Wilson.",
"Los Angeles actor and comic Paul Scheer decided to shoulder it.",
"\"I apologize 4 yelling 'liar' during President Obama's speech,\" Paul Scheer jokingly wrote.",
"\"Sen McCain ate my Kit Kat while I was in the bathroom & Sen McCain pretended like Sen McCain didn't.\""
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"Name-calling rampant on Facebook and Twitter as political passions run high ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Cairo native and jewelry designer to the stars, Azza Fahmy, reveals her favorite sights, restaurants and activities in the Egyptian capital.",
"Designer Azza Fahmy scours Cairo's souks, mosques and streets to find inspiration for her jewels.",
"MUST SEE PLACES: .",
"Sultan Hassan Mosque --",
"Considered one of the masterpieces of Mamluk architecture.",
"The building was commissioned by Sultan Hassan bin Al-Nasir Muhammad bin Qalawun in 1356 AD as a mosque and religious school for all four branches of Sunni Islam.",
"the Sultan Hassan Mosque is featured on the Egyptian one-hundred pound note.",
"Address: Al-Qal'a street, Islamic Cairo .",
"Islamic Museum -- Established in 1881, Islamic Museum -- Established in 1881 displays 10,200 pieces from Egypt's different Islamic eras, including the Fatimid, Ottoman and Persian periods.",
"Address: Bab El Khalq Square in the Egyptian library.",
"Take Port Saed Square to reach the intersection with Muhammad Ali St. in Ahmad Maher Square.",
"Opening Hours: Saturday through Thursday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m..; Fridays: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.",
"Coptic Museum --",
"Recently reopened after renovations, the museum showcases the largest collection of Egyptian Christian artifacts in the world.",
"the museum was founded by Marcus Simaika Pasha in 1910 to house Coptic antiquities.",
"the museum traces the history of Christianity in Egypt from its beginnings to the present day.",
"the museum also includes a beautiful garden -- a wonderful place to relax.",
"Address: Religious Compound, Precinct of the old Roman Babylon Fort, Old Cairo.",
"Across the street from the Mar Girgis Metro station.",
"Phone Number: +20.2.362.8766 and +20.2.363.9742 .",
"Beit El Seheimy --",
"A historic Ottoman restored house.",
"A historic Ottoman is one of the best examples of a rich private house dating back to 17th century Egypt.",
"Address: El Moez Street, Fatimid Area close to Khan al Khalili.",
"Beit El Keretleya --",
"Another authentic Ottoman House in Old Cairo.",
"ACTIVITIES .",
"Felucca ride --",
"Feluccas are the traditional Egyptian sailboats of the Nile.",
"Perfect for catching the breeze on a hot summer night, for brisker sails the rest of the year, and catching the sunset anytime.",
"Feluccas are usually furnished with cushions around the circumference and a table fixed in the middle, where one can enjoy picnic-style lunches or dinners while enjoying a different view of the metropolis.",
"Address: They are usually parked on the side of the Nile in unique spots, including along the Corniche across the street from the Four Seasons on the Nile in the Garden City area of Cairo.",
"Horseback riding aside the pyramids -- Pick up horses at an area called \"Nazlet el seman\" close to the pyramids.",
"Camel ride -- At the pyramids .",
"Hantour ride -- A horse carriage that goes around certain streets of Cairo, usually by the Corniche.",
"Walk around -- Downtown streets, particularly Wist el Balad.",
"PLACES TO EAT: .",
"Abu El Sid -- Famous, though pricey, restaurant featuring Egyptian cuisine.",
"Also a night spot.",
"The mezzes are delicious, as are the mulukheya served with chicken or pigeon.",
"Address: 157, 26th of July street, Zamalek.",
"Phone: +20.2.749.7326 .",
"Felfela --",
"Authentic Egyptian fast food chain.",
"The nicest outlets are in downtown Cairo or Haram/Pyramids Street (all you need to tell a cab is felfela Wist el balad or Haram street).",
"Best for breakfast.",
"Felfela is a good place to taste such Egyptian staples as shorbat ads (lentil soup), tasty with a squeeze of lemon; taamiya (the local version of falafel); and ful (stewed fava beans served in a variety of ways).",
"Address: 15 Shara Hoda Sharaawi, Downtown Cairo.",
"Phone: +20.2.392.2833 .",
"Abu Shakra --",
"Moderately priced Egyptian cuisine.",
"Known for Abu Shakra -- Moderately priced Egyptian cuisine's grilled meats and the Egyptian delicacy, stuffed pigeon.",
"Branches in Maadi, Heliopolis, Downtown, & Mohandeseen.",
"Address: Heliopolis 82 Marghani Street Cairo.",
"Phone number: +20.2.418.9888 .",
"El Omda -- Try the local specialty -- Kushari, a base of rice, lentils, chick peas, macaroni, with a topping of Egyptian garlic, vinegar and spicy tomato sauce.",
"Inexpensive.",
"They also serve Egyptian dishes such as kofta, grilled chicken and a selection of salads.",
"Address: 6 El-Gazayer St., Mohandesseen area behind the Atlas Hotel off Gameat El Dowal Street in Cairo, Egypt.",
"Phone: +20.2.346.2701.",
"Opening Hours: noon until 2:00 am.",
"Andrea --",
"Located near the Pyramids, this large restaurant features a spacious air-conditioned dining room with a fireplace for winter and a much-lauded garden terrace for summer.",
"Soft lighting, pleasant views and the sizzle of the outdoor grill create a relaxed ambience.",
"Roasted chicken is the house speciality.",
"Kebabs, kofte and quails are also prepared on patio grills.",
"Portions are generous, local beer and wine are served.",
"No desserts.",
"Address: 59 Teraat el-Maryotteya St. Cairo.",
"Phone: +20.2.383.1133 .",
"Opening Hours: Noon-midnight daily."
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"Take a ride on a felucca on the Nile .",
"Eat on Andrea's garden terrace in the summer .",
"Ride a camel or a horse at the Pyramids ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Fans around the world have gathered at arenas and record stores, big screens, parks and makeshift shrines, to watch the memorial service of Jackson and pay homage to their idol.",
"A Jackson fan in Berlin watches footage of the memorial concert.",
"As thousands of fans joined Jackson's family and closest friends at Los Angeles Staples Center arena, millions more followed proceedings on television and online.",
"In Germany, at least 8,000 Jackson fans watched events in Los Angeles unfold at a Trauerfeier,\" (translated as Sadness Party) at Berlin's O2 World arena, reported CNN's Frederik Pleitgen.",
"Fans began arriving at least three hours before the event was due to begin, CNN's Frederik Pleitgen said.",
"\"He [Jackson] connects races, religions and ages,\" said one fan, \"Jackson's music connects the world.\"",
"Many fans were moved to tears when Jackson's daughter Paris Katherine wept as Jackson's daughter Paris Katherine called the singer \"the best father you could ever imagine.\"",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen added: \"A lot of people got very wet eyes.\"",
"Watch fans gather in Berlin » .",
"South African former president Nelson Mandela paid South African former president Nelson Mandela's respects to Jackson in a statement read to the audience at the Los Angeles memorial by singer Smokey Robinson.",
"Watch Smokey singer Smokey Robinson deliver South African former president Nelson Mandela's message. » .",
"\"Jackson became close to us after Jackson started visiting and performing in South Africa regularly.",
"We grew fond of Jackson and Jackson became a close member of our family.",
"We had great admiration for Jackson's talent and that Jackson was able to triumph over tragedy on so many occasions in Jackson's life,\" South African former president Nelson Mandela said.",
"\"We mourn with the millions of families worldwide.\"",
"In the southern Chinese enclave of Hong Kong, fans carried flowers and Jackson paraphernalia, such as a doll and record, at a memorial.",
"Watch Jackson tributes pour in from around the world » .",
"\"I cannot accept Jackson has already left us, and I think we should come here and do something for Jackson and express our feeling to show that we really miss Jackson,\" said one man.",
"Hundreds of British fans in London braved torrential rain to watch a giant screen outside the city's O2 Arena, where Jackson was scheduled to play a series of 50 concerts from July 13.",
"Many more fans are expected to converge on the venue next Monday to mark what would have been the first of Jackson's concert dates.",
"See images of Jackson fans from around the world » .",
"\"I am still in denial,\" said Jenny Keme, 21.",
"\"We're going to stay here to the end of the ceremony even though it's pouring.",
"Jackson had such a gentle soul, that's what I love most about Jackson.\"",
"Celeste Dixon, 28, added: \"Jackson is the King of Pop, not was.",
"No one will ever be worthy of Jackson, Jackson is bigger than life.",
"Without Jackson breaking barriers, Barack Obama would never have made it.\"",
"Elsewhere in London the cast of musical \"Thriller- Live\" paid their own tribute during the evening performance at the Lyric Theatre, with cast, crew and audience observing a minute's silence.",
"\"Many of them were in tears during it,\" reported CNN's Phil Black.",
"The theater has become a shrine to Jackson, with devoted followers holding vigils and leaving cards and messages at the building's entrance.",
"In Japan, meanwhile, hundreds of fans gathered at a Tower Records store -- where Jackson twice visited -- in Tokyo to watch Jackson's videos on a big screen.",
"Followers were even offered the chance to take a photograph next to a cast of a footprint left by Jackson when Jackson last visited.",
"Watch fans gather in Tokyo » .",
"In a bar in New Delhi, the Jackson memorial gathering was small -- only a dozen or so people.",
"On the wall of a bar in New Delhi that usually only plays hard rock, Jackson's music was blasting, candles were lit underneath two framed pictures of Jackson and customers had written messages saying goodbye.",
"The bar manager said: \"We all grew up with Jackson.",
"Other generations had The Beatles, or Elvis Presley.",
"Jackson is our generation.\"",
"And on the streets of Beijing, people were greeted by a Jackson look-alike, 28-year-old Wang Jie, who performed ahead of the memorial.",
"Though Jackson never Jackson performed in China, Jackson is loved in China.",
"Members of the official Michael Jackson Fan Club rented a hotel room so Members of the official Michael Jackson Fan Club could watch Jackson's funeral broadcast live.",
"Thousands of other fans worldwide following the coverage online via CNN and Facebook, with many again moved by the comments of Jackson's daughter about Jackson's father. \"Never cried so much ever since my dad passed away,\" said Facebook user Rinoa S Koh from Singapore, while user Nomar Levey in Jamaica added: \"OMG Tears are really pouring.\"",
"Facebook user Manu Tyagi from India said: \"The first English songs I ever heard in India were MJ songs... grew up with Jackson's music... and never though we would see Jackson die so soon.",
"Jackson achieved Jackson's destiny before Jackson passed to the kingdom of god!",
"Really hope Jackson rests in peace.",
"Jackson was the best.\"",
"As Jackson's coffin casket was carried out of the Staples Center, Facebook user Marika Papazoglou in Greece said: \"RIP Michael.",
"We love you more.\"",
"Anouk Lorie contributed to this story ."
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"In London, Jackson fans brave torrential downpours and hail to pay tribute .",
"In Japan fans gathered at record store, have photo taken next to cast of footprint .",
"Online fans pay tribute to King of Pop, comment as service progresses ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --",
"A roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing a civilian bystander Thursday, a police official told CNN.",
"Iraqis survey the damage after car bombs were detonated within minutes of each other in Mosul, July 9.",
"It is the latest in a series of attacks across Iraq that have killed at least 64 people and wounded 167 others over the past two days.",
"The deadliest attack happened earlier in the day when a double suicide bombing killed At least 35 people and wounded 65 others in the city of Tal Afar in Nineveh province, also in northern Iraq.",
"Political tensions have recently increased in the region between Arabs and Kurds.",
"The Tal Afar bombings occurred a day after attacks on mainly Shiite targets in Nineveh province, including a car bomb in a Turkmen area of the provincial capital Mosul, left at least 19 people dead and dozens wounded.",
"U.S. forces pulled out of Iraq's urban centers June 30.",
"The U.S. military had suggested keeping The U.S. military's combat troops in Mosul beyond the withdrawal deadline, but the Iraqi government insisted on making no exceptions for the date set in the security agreement.",
"Also on Thursday morning, at least seven people were killed and 25 wounded when a bomb detonated in a busy marketplace in Sadr City, the vast Shiite slum in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.",
"Bomb blasts from a rigged bicycle a car in two predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of southwestern Baghdad wounded six people, according to an Interior Ministry official.",
"In Baghdad's central Karrada district, a roadside bomb targeting a convoy of Iraq's Central Bank governor killed one civilian bystander and wounded five, another Interior Ministry official told CNN.",
"Iraq's Central Bank governor escaped unharmed.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Many fans will always remember where Many fans were when Many fans heard the \"King of Pop\" had died.",
"The rapper The Game will always remember what The Game did afterward.",
"The Game created a tribute to Michael Jackson -- video and all -- within a day of Michael Jackson's death.",
"That same day, Thursday, June 25, The Game rounded up some famous friends, recorded a song, shot a music video and got a Michael Jackson tattoo etched on his upper arm.",
"Actually, The Game got a Michael Jackson tattoo while The Game was in the studio recording the track.",
"Some people know how to multitask.",
"The tune, \"Better on the Other Side,\" isn't available for sale yet -- although The Game's hoping it will hit iTunes very soon.",
"Because the record company was caught off guard, it is still playing catch-up.",
"Game says all proceeds from the sale of the single will be donated to Michael Jackson's family.",
"The companion music video is all over YouTube.",
"In The companion music video, the 29-year-old shares the spotlight with Chris Brown, who sings the hook as a counterpoint to Game's rap.",
"It's the first project Brown has appeared in since Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting Brown's former girlfriend, Rihanna.",
"The video, in various forms, had received more than 750,000 views as of Thursday evening -- not bad for less than a week in release.",
"In the following interview, The Game recounts how the project came together -- with a little help from Lady Luck and the muse of Michael Jackson.",
"CNN:",
"You may be the first well-known artist to have a Michael Jackson tribute out there.",
"The Game:",
"I didn't want to wake up the next morning and have somebody spread a tribute all over the Internet, and I wasn't a part of it.",
"So I decided to take matters into my own hands.",
"CNN:",
"Did you already have the beats pre-recorded?",
"The Game: No.",
"The first thing I did was call DJ Khalil ... and I told DJ Khalil, \"Yo, I need you in the studio, and by the time I get there, I need a Michael Jackson tribute song made [the music bed].",
"I need violinists, I need pianists, I need everyone in there for a production.\"",
"And then I started reaching out to Diddy.",
"Diddy's on a set 18 hours a day, but Diddy said Diddy'd get it done some way, somehow.",
"Talked to Chris Brown.",
"Chris Brown and [Chris Brown's manager] Tina Davis said they were on their way to the studio -- so they told me after I do my part, to bring it over and Chris Brown will do the hook.",
"Before I took the beat over to Chris Brown, Boyz II Men walked into the studio randomly -- so Boyz II Men took it to Boyz II Men's studio next door, laid down all the background vocals.",
"Then I took it to Mario [Winans], then I took it to Diddy.",
"In the meantime, me and my boy Taydoe -- we running around to the hospital, to the Jacksons' house, to the star on Hollywood, getting all this [secondary] footage [for the video].",
"Crazy.",
"CNN:",
"This was the day he died, on Thursday?",
"The Game:",
"It was just the day.",
"By Friday, everything was done -- video, everything.",
"We did it in 15 hours.",
"Watch a report about Michael Jackson's final days » .",
"CNN:",
"You made the music video for $500.",
"The Game:",
"All in tapes, $500 went to tapes, HD high-definition tapes.",
"CNN:",
"At the end of the video, you reveal a new tattoo.",
"The Game:",
"Yeah, I'll show you.",
"I thought if I was going to get a Michael Jackson tattoo, I would get a more menacing one.",
"(a new tattoo shows the \"King of Pop\" with a bandanna over the lower half of Michael Jackson's face.)",
"CNN:",
"Had you ever met Michael Jackson?",
"The Game:",
"I never met Michael Jackson in person, but Michael Jackson tried to mediate a truce between The Game and Curtis Jackson [aka 50 Cent], and I wasn't having it at that time.",
"CNN:",
"How did that happen?",
"Did somebody call you and say, \"Please hold the line for Michael Jackson?\"",
"The Game:",
"At first my managers called me and my managers said, \"Mike -- Michael Jackson -- is going to want to talk to you in an hour.",
"Exactly an hour.\"",
"So I waited an hour, and I'm like chewing on my fingers in the hotel room ... and the phone rings and a guy comes on and he's got an English accent.",
"He's like (affects an English accent), \"Hello Game, I have Michael Jackson on hold for The Game.\"",
"It was just cool.",
"So Michael Jackson comes on, and ... Michael Jackson was like, \"Yo, it's Michael Jackson, and I'm a big fan of your music,\" and starts going into my songs, \"Hate it or Love It\" and \"How We Do.\"",
"And Michael Jackson's like, \"I'm a big fan of 50's -- every time I get in the car, I tell my driver to play 'In Da Club.'",
"Would you guys be willing to make a truce, and then put it on my album?\"",
"Listen to Michael Jackson's biggest hits » .",
"And then I was like, \"Yo Michael Jackson, we gotta slow down, man!\"",
"This was at the height of The Game and 50's little beef, or whatever people called it, but I talked to Michael Jackson for another 35 minutes on why I couldn't do it at that time, and at that point in my career, and Michael Jackson was OK with that.",
"Michael Jackson said one day if we decided to do it -- The Game and Curtis' camp -- we could reach out to Michael Jackson.",
"We never got a chance to do it.",
"CNN:",
"So the video also features Brown.",
"It's the first track we've heard Brown on since the hearing last Monday [June 22].",
"The Game:",
"They were really edgy about getting on it.",
"I think [Brown's managers] wanted Brown's first look to be kind of strategically thought out, and I came so fast with the Michael Jackson tribute -- but we talked it over, and at the end of the day, they thought it was a good idea, so we went ahead and did it.",
"CNN:",
"How is Brown?",
"I'm sure you guys talk all the time.",
"The Game:",
"Brown's like a little brother to The Game.",
"I talk to Brown all the time, and I give Brown my support.",
"You know, I'm no stranger to trials and tribulations in life, and the court system.",
"CNN:",
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"The Game:",
"My thoughts on Michael Jackson are always the same.",
"It doesn't matter, the form or fashion Michael Jackson died in.",
"Michael Jackson's iconic to The Game, and Michael Jackson's untimely demise is felt around the world.",
"You got certain people saying, \"Oh everybody's loving Michael Jackson now,\" but that's neither here nor there.",
"Me, myself -- I loved Michael Jackson to death.",
"My mom sent me a host of pictures with all my \"Thriller\" shirts on, and the jacket with the zippers and glove -- me, my sisters and brothers -- so I really don't care.",
"I just know Michael Jackson left an impact on the world.",
"I think Michael Jackson's the most cried-for human being since Jesus Christ.",
"It's just my opinion.",
"CNN:",
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"The Game:",
"Oh, all the proceeds of anything that I do that has anything to do with Michael Jackson will go to Michael Jackson's family and Michael Jackson's children.",
"And that's just the bottom line."
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"An employee at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant died Wednesday after falling into a vat of hot chocolate, according to a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's office.",
"Vincent Smith II, 29, was dumping raw chocolate into the vat for melting when Vincent Smith II fell in from a nine-foot high platform.",
"Vincent Smith II suffered a fatal blow to the head from the vat's agitator, a paddle-like mechanism used for stirring the chocolate.",
"According to the Camden County Prosecutor's office, three other people were on a nine-foot high platform at the time.",
"One was able to shut the machinery off quickly, but it was too late to save Smith.",
"The facility, owned by Cocoa Services Inc., is managed and operated by by Lyons and Sons.",
"The rectangular vat, which was 8 feet deep, 14 feet long and 6 feet wide, was churning a batch of chocolate for Hershey's when the accident occurred, the Camden County Prosecutor's office said.",
"CNN's Jesse Solomon contributed to this report."
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"Obama spoke at the Pentagon on Friday to those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001, telling those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001 no words would heal those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001's pain yet calling for a renewed resolve against the ones who attacked the country eight years ago.",
"Obama addresses family members and friends who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001.",
"Obama laid a wreath of white flowers at the Pentagon, where 184 people lost 184 people's lives when a hijacked jet smashed into the military icon outside the nation's capital.",
"\"No words can ease the ache of your hearts,\" Obama told a crowd of relatives and friends standing under umbrellas in a steady rain.",
"The plane, American Airlines Flight 77, struck the Pentagon's west wall.",
"Earlier in the day, Obama and first lady Michelle Obama held a moment of silence outside the White House to mark the eighth anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks that killed 2,752 people.",
"At the Pentagon, Obama was introduced by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who spoke of the \"great pinnacle of sacrifice\" shown that day.",
"\"Eight Septembers have come and gone,\" Obama said.",
"\"Nearly 3,000 days have passed, almost one for each one who has been taken from the United States.",
"\"the United States recall the beauty and meaning of their lives,\" Obama said.",
"\"No passage of time, no dark skies can dull the meaning of that moment.",
"Watch a slideshow of Obama's speech and the day's events » .",
"\"Let the United States renew the United States's resolve against those who perpetrated this violent act,\" Obama said.",
"The nation paused at the moments when the planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon -- symbols of America's financial and military might -- and at a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.",
"Officials believe that plane's target was either the White House or the Capitol.",
"There was silence at the site of the former World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane struck the North Tower, followed by another at 9:03 a.m. when a jet struck the South Tower.",
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"9/11 emotions surge back in sculpted tributes, memories on video .",
"Family members and friends of those killed read Family members and friends of those killed's names in solemn roll calls at each site as bells tolled.",
"In London, England, U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman and Louis Susman's wife, Marjorie, laid a wreath at the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square.",
"At ground zero in New York, a woman whose husband worked on the 94th floor of one of the twin towers recalled that day.",
"\"The pain can still be so sharp. ...",
"I realize how much my life has changed,\" she said, mentioning that her children have now grown and she has grandchildren.",
"Her husband left many lessons, she said, including \"the courage to be kind.\"",
"Just before the first moment of silence, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised the newly established September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance, designated by Obama.",
"\"Appropriately, the city of New York has taken up that call.",
"From this day forward New York will guard the memories of those who died by rekindling the spirit of service and help keep New York strong,\" New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.",
"At the Web site set up for that day, people were listing people's charitable acts.",
"One man who spoke to the crowd at ground zero remembered One man who spoke to the crowd at ground's brother, a partner at a law firm near the twin towers and a longtime volunteer firefighter.",
"He rushed \"toward the inferno,\" to do what he could to help, the brother said.",
"\"He was there when the tower collapsed.\"",
"Near Shanksville, people gathered at a field where the 40 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 died.",
"Flight 93, aware of the fate of other hijacked planes, fought the men who had taken control of Flight 93's aircraft, leading to its crash.",
"Former Secretary of State Colin Powell gave the keynote address at the 2,200-acre site, where a $58 million memorial is scheduled to open in 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.",
"More than 1 million people already have visited the field, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said.",
"No one could capture the terror the 40 people aboard Flight 93 must have endured, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said.",
"Flight 93 were strangers to each other who \"represented the very best diversity that is America,\" Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said.",
"\"In place of fear, Flight 93 found the courage of attack,\" Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said.",
"\"Flight 93 seized the moment, and Flight 93 lost Flight 93's lives in so doing.",
"We are here to ... honor Flight 93's spirits.\"",
"Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Former Secretary of State Colin Powell believes the United States is safer since the attacks.",
"Former Secretary of State Colin Powell pointed to improvements in the visa system, which gives officials a better idea of who is coming into the United States; creation of the U.S. Homeland Security Department and beefed-up security at airports.",
"Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said there also have been improvements in law enforcement and intelligence-gathering.",
"Engaging the terrorists in Afghanistan also is a solid move, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN.",
"\"But you can't rest on that.",
"You have to keep studying the problem.",
"You have to keep trying to get into their mind.",
"And so it may be a long and continuous fight that may never end.\"",
"The level of concern about terrorism in the United States is roughly half of what it was immediately after September 11 and is down 20 points since the five-year anniversary in 2006, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll.",
"Thirty-four percent of Americans think an act of terrorism is likely in the United States over the next few weeks.",
"More than six in 10 have confidence in the Obama administration's ability to protect the United States."
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"Writer and producer Larry Gelbart, most known for Gelbart's work on the hit television series \"M*A*S*H,\" died Friday morning in Gelbart's Beverly Hills, California, home, Gelbart's wife said.",
"Gelbart was 81.",
"Gelbart said, before \"M*A*S*H,\" a TV set only produced feeling \"if you touched it while you were wet.\"",
"Gelbart died of cancer, Pat Gelbart said.",
"The family will hold a private memorial service.",
"Throughout Gelbart's career, Gelbart developed a portfolio of more than 40 works spanning radio, television, theater and film.",
"Gelbart's fascination with radio as a child inspired Gelbart and influenced Gelbart's evolving career.",
"\"I never had any aspirations of [a] literary career, but writing for radio seemed to be a natural extension of being such a radio fan,\" Gelbart told CNN in 1999.",
"\"So when I got my chance, that's what I did.\"",
"Barely out of high school, Gelbart began as a comedy writer for radio in the 1940s.",
"Gelbart wrote for various programs, including the Fanny Brice show and \"Duffy's Tavern.\"",
"While in the Army, Gelbart wrote for Armed Forces Radio.",
"Later, Gelbart joined the staff of Bob Hope's show and jump-started Gelbart's own television career as a TV writer for the star.",
"Gelbart went on to write skits for the live comedy \"Your Show of Shows\" in 1953, winning two Emmys for Gelbart's work.",
"\"'Your Show of Shows' was successful, was wildly successful.",
"Not just because it got there first, but because it got there first with so much",
",\" Gelbart said.",
"The 90-minute variety program was one of the first televised sketch comedy shows.",
"Gelbart took Gelbart's work to another stage, winning two 1963 Tony awards for Gelbart's Broadway musical hit, \"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.\"",
"In 1972, Gelbart helped create the Korean War comedy drama \"M*A*S*H.\"",
"The show went on for another 11 years, although Gelbart only wrote and produced \"M*A*S*H\" for the first four seasons.",
"\"M*A*S*H\" won 50 awards, including eight Golden Globes.",
"\"M*A*S*H\" was so popular it lasted much longer than the Korean War itself, and was seen as a commentary on American involvement in the Vietnam War.",
"Gelbart also was involved in the short-lived sequel, \"After MASH.\"",
"For Gelbart, \"M*A*S*H\" mixed a bit of comedy with drama, allowing viewers to connect more with the story.",
"\"I said once that the only way before 'M*A*S*H' you would get any feeling out of your television set is if you touched it while you were wet,\" Gelbart said.",
"Gelbart added: \"We gave the audience permission to feel bad.",
"Because America was feeling pretty rotten then, we were at war in Vietnam.",
"And once the war stopped we didn't start feeling really terrific right away, if we ever will again about that situation.\"",
"Gelbart continued steamrolling through the industry, with works including the 1982 hit film \"Tootsie,\" \"Oh, God!\" in 1977 and the 2003 film \"And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself,\" which starred Antonio Banderas.",
"\"Tootsie\" earned Gelbart an Oscar nomination for best writing."
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"One of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles, California, area has been accused of desecrating the remains of those buried there, according to Lawsuit.",
"Eden Memorial Park holds the remains of celebrities such as Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce.",
"Lawsuit, alleges that employees at Eden Memorial Park, in Mission Hills, California, \"intentionally, willfully and secretly desecrated the remains of deceased individuals,\" often moving deceased individuals to make room for new remains.",
"Attorney Michael Avenatti, who filed Lawsuit, told CNN that Avenatti's investigation revealed that as many as 500 graves may have been torn up without the families' permission.",
"\"We allege that Eden Memorial Park and its management for the better part of 15 years were engaging in improper burial practices, including the desecration of graves and the improper disposal of human remains,\" Avenatti said.",
"Lawsuit is filed by F. Charles Sands, whose parents are buried at Eden Memorial Park, against the cemetery and its owner, Service Corporation International, based in Houston, Texas.",
"The company is the largest owner of cemeteries and funeral homes in the United States.",
"Watch what Lawsuit says workers did to remains » .",
"This is not the first time Service Corporation International has faced allegations of digging up graves and moving bodies to make room for new remains.",
"Service Corporation International reached a $100 million settlement with families of people whose remains were desecrated at Menorah Gardens in Florida.",
"Service Corporation International also reached a $14 million settlement with the Florida state attorney's office over issues related to those claims.",
"A number of celebrities are buried at Eden Park, including comedians Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce, according to several Web sites that track burials of celebrities.",
"Anthony Lampe, the general manager of Eden Memorial Park, said he had not seen Lawsuit and referred inquiries to Service Corporation International.",
"Company spokeswoman Lisa Marshall said the allegations in Lawsuit were not valid.",
"Company spokeswoman Lisa Marshall said SCI had investigated and confirmed burial issues at Eden Memorial Park in 2007, but Company spokeswoman Lisa Marshall could not provide specifics of that investigation.",
"Lawsuit alleges groundskeepers were secretly instructed to break buried concrete interment vaults that contained caskets that were already buried, using backhoes.",
"Lawsuit also alleges human remains would often fall out of the broken caskets, and those body parts were either scattered or thrown away.",
"In one case, Avenatti said, a human skull was discarded.",
"\"We have uncovered evidence that the groundskeepers and others at Eden Memorial Park have been instructed to break off or break apart that concrete vault and, at many times, that exposes human remains,\" Avenatti said.",
"Asked about the seriousness of the allegations in the lawsuit, Avenatti said, \"If the allegations in the lawsuit are proven true, this is incredibly horrific.\"",
"Lawsuit said that under Jewish tradition, \"the deceased are typically required to be interred within 24 hours, thereby leaving little time to obtain consent to move an encroaching vault in an adjacent plot and giving defendants a motive to desecrate human remains and commit other immoral acts rather than comply with the law.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Formula One star Felipe Massa has revealed that Formula One star Felipe Massa hopes to be at Formula One star Felipe Massa's home Brazilian Grand Prix -- but Formula One star Felipe Massa won't be behind the wheel of Formula One star Felipe Massa's Ferrari.",
"Formula One star Felipe Massa has been given the all-clear to begin training as Formula One star Felipe Massa bids to return to the race track.",
"The 28-year-old had aimed to be able to return to racing before the end of this Formula One season, but is resigned to getting fit for 2010 following Formula One star Felipe Massa's horrific crash in July.",
"Formula One star Felipe Massa is now able to begin Formula One star Felipe Massa's rehabilitation after having plastic surgery on Monday to repair the broken bone in Formula One star Felipe Massa's cranium that resulted when a loose spring from Rubens Barrichello's Brawn hit him in the helmet during qualifying in Hungary.",
"The operation, at the Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital, took around four and a half hours, Ferrari revealed on Ferrari's official Web site.",
"Formula One star Felipe Massa told UK newspaper The Guardian that Formula One star Felipe Massa's next step was to head to Europe to use a simulator and drive go-karts as part of Formula One star Felipe Massa's fitness evaluation.",
"Formula One star Felipe Massa had hoped to return to action at Interlagos -- where Formula One star Felipe Massa's 2008 world championship dream was crushed by Lewis Hamilton despite winning the race -- on October 18, but said that Formula One star Felipe Massa would only be there as a spectator.",
"\"That was the race I wanted to come back in, but it's difficult to say if it would've been possible.",
"It will be difficult to watch it, but I will be there,\" Formula One star Felipe Massa said.",
"Formula One star Felipe Massa told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that Formula One star Felipe Massa still held a slim hope of driving in the final race of this season in Abu Dhabi on November 1.",
"\"In 2010 I'll be back for sure and 100%, but it would be a dream to drive in Abu Dhabi,\" Formula One star Felipe Massa said.",
"Formula One star Felipe Massa will be replaced by Giancarlo Fisichella for the final five races of 2009, with Formula One star Felipe Massa having been released from Formula One star Felipe Massa's contract by Force India to take over from test driver Luca Badoer.",
"Formula One star Felipe Massa said Formula One star Felipe Massa had never doubted that Formula One star Felipe Massa would that Formula One star Felipe Massa would get behind the wheel of a Formula One car again.",
"\"It is Formula One star Felipe Massa's life,\" Massa, who is expecting Formula One star Felipe Massa's first child in November, told The Guardian.",
"\"For Formula One star Felipe Massa, the worst thing that happened was not being able to race.",
"If you can't drive that's terrible.",
"\"But my wife has already asked me, at least 10 times, 'Are you sure you don't feel any doubts or worries?'",
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"If I don't drive then I am not the same person.",
"Ever since I was a small boy this is Formula One star Felipe Massa's life.",
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"Defense secretary is expected to approve sending thousands of additional forces to Afghanistan to deal with the growing threat from roadside bombs, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Friday.",
"Marines detonate a roadside bomb.",
"Injuries from the bombs have increased 700 percent in two years.",
"Over the past two weeks, Defense secretary has concluded that there are not enough forces or equipment in Afghanistan to protect U.S. troops from the threat of roadside bombs, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"Defense secretary, he said, wants to send these forces \"as soon as possible.\"",
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"The plan could send nearly 3,000 troops, another U.S. military official familiar with the proposal said.",
"another U.S. military official familiar with the proposal said Pentagon planners have already identified some of the units that would be sent.",
"another U.S. military official familiar with the proposal asked not to be identified because no final decision has been announced.",
"Plans have been in place to set the U.S. troop level in Afghanistan at 68,000 since earlier this year, when President Obama approved an additional 21,000 troops.",
"The decision comes at a sensitive time politically.",
"In the last few days, two key Democrats have questioned sending additional troops.",
"\"I don't think there's a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan in Afghanistan or in Congress,\" Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, told reporters Thursday.",
"On Friday, Sen. Carl Levin, the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee who has recently returned from Afghanistan, said the emphasis should be on training and increasing the size of the Afghanistan army before considering more U.S. forces.",
"\"Our primary goal should be to strengthen the Afghan army and the police, to provide the necessary training and equipment and also to see if we can't reintegrate some of the lower-level Taliban people, who are the young people who aren't the religious zealots but are being taken advantage of by the leaders,\" Levin, D-Michigan, told MSNBC.",
"Defense secretary has been a vocal opponent of expanding the U.S. presence for fear that the forces would be seen as occupiers by the Afghan population.",
"But last week, Defense secretary softened that position, saying McChrystal had made a persuasive argument that the concern should not be on the size of the forces but on the forces's conduct.",
"Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said the proposal may not raise total U.S. troop strength above 68,000, because some of the units already scheduled to go could be sent not fully staffed or others already there could be sent home.",
"Still, \"the secretary has already determined this is a requirement that needs to be fulfilled,\" Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"\"the forces now require more IED protection.\"",
"The troops would specialize in route clearance, explosive ordnance disposal, medical treatment and intelligence-gathering, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"\"We owe this to the troops already committed to the fight,\" he said.",
"Since 2007, the number of roadside bombs in Afghanistan has jumped 350 percent, according to the Defense Department.",
"Though many are found before they detonate, the number of troops killed has increased by more than 400 percent and the number wounded is up more 700 percent over the last two years.",
"One U.S. military source told CNN that the Taliban's capacity to manufacture bombs, train attackers and target U.S. troops has grown over the past year.",
"On September 8 near Kandahar, troops seized five tons of ammonium nitrate, more than twice the amount used in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1995.",
"On August 27, C-4 plastic explosives were found in Herat by Afghan troops.",
"Afghanistan's rugged terrain and dirt roads make it easy to quickly hide roadside bombs.",
"\"You have disturbed earth all the time,\" said Gen. Montgomery Meigs, former head of the Department of Defense's IED Task Force.",
"\"Especially close to villages and close to intersections -- that just makes the seeing and finding, even by soldiers' eyes, a lot more complicated.\"",
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"Seeing that troops were routinely stopping ahead of culverts to search for bombs that could be hidden under the roads, insurgents have started placing the bombs ahead of culverts."
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"Richard Nixon Presidential Library will allow access Tuesday to about 154 hours of Nixon White House tape recordings and 30,000 pages of documents that were formerly classified.",
"Nixon announces the U.S. incursion into Cambodia during the Vietnam War in April 1970.",
"Among the tapes and documents are conversations about the Vietnam War, Nixon's second inauguration, the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 and the first Watergate trial, according to a library statement.",
"Tuesday's release is the 13th opening of Nixon White House tapes since 1980, a library statement said.",
"The new Nixon tapes and documents will be available on the Internet and in the Richard Nixon libraries in College Park, Maryland, and Yorba Linda, California.",
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"(WIRED) --",
"Scofflaws could hack the smart cards that access electronic parking meters in large cities around the United States, researchers are finding.",
"\"Cities all over the nation and all over the world are deploying these smartcard meters,\" researcher says.",
"The smart cards pay for parking spots, and The smart cards's programming could be easily changed to obtain unlimited free parking.",
"It took researcher Joe Grand only three days to design an attack on The smart cards.",
"The researchers examined the meters used in San Francisco, California, but the same and similar electronic meters are being installed in cities around the world.",
"\"It wasn't technically complicated and the fact that I can do it in three days means that other people are probably already doing it and probably taking advantage of it,\" said Joe Grand, a designer and hardware hacker and one of the hosts of the Discovery Channel's \"Prototype This\" show.",
"\"It seems like the system wasn't analyzed at all.\"",
"Grand and fellow researcher Jake Appelbaum presented their findings Thursday afternoon at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.",
"The researchers did not contact the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency or the meter maker prior to The researchers's talk, and asked reporters not to contact those organizations ahead of The researchers's presentation, for fear of being gagged by a court order.",
"At last year's DefCon hacker conference, MIT students were barred from talking about similar vulnerabilities in smartcards used by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority after the MBTA obtained a restraining order.",
"MIT students spoke with Threat Level about MIT students's findings prior to the presentation.",
"\"The researchers're not picking on San Francisco,\" Grand said.",
"\"The researchers're not even claiming to get free parking.",
"The researchers're trying to educate people about ... how people can take The researchers's research and apply our research to people's own cities if people are trying to deploy people's own systems or make them more secure....",
"Cities all over the nation and all over the world are deploying these smartcard meters [and] there's a number of previously known problems with various parking meters in other cities.\"",
"San Francisco launched a $35-million pilot project in 2003 to deploy smart meters around San Francisco in an effort to thwart thieves, including parking control officers who were skimming money from the meters.",
"San Francisco estimated San Francisco was losing more than $3 million annually to theft.",
"In response, San Francisco installed 23,000 meters made by a Canadian firm named J.J. MacKay, which also has meters in Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Canada, Hong Kong and other locales.",
"The machines are hybrids that allow drivers to insert either coins, or a pre-paid GemPlus smart card, which can be purchased in values of $20 or $50.",
"The machines also have an audit log to help catch insiders who might skim proceeds.",
"To record the communication between the card and the meter, Grand purchased a smartcard shim -- an electrical connector that duplicates a smartcard's contact points -- and used an oscilloscope to record the electrical signals as the card and meter communicated.",
"He discovered the cards aren't digitally signed, and the only authentication between the meter and card is a password sent from the former to the latter.",
"The card doesn't have to know a password sent from the former to the latter, however,",
"The card just has to respond that a password sent from the former to the latter is correct.",
"The cards sold in San Francisco are designed to be thrown out when the customer has exhausted The cards sold in San Francisco.",
"But the researchers found that the meters perform no upper-bounds check, so hackers could easily boost the transaction limit on a card beyond what could legitimately purchased.",
"hackers could also program a card to simply never deduct from the transaction count.",
"\"We're residents of San Francisco and our taxes are going towards a broken system that they could potentially be losing money on and we pay the consequences of that,\" Grand said.",
"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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"Joe Grand and Jake Appelbaum present findings at Black Hat conference .",
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"TEANECK, New Jersey (CNN) --",
"New Jersey actress has played many roles off-stage to earn a living.",
"New Jersey actress's worked as a teacher, model and hairdresser and is studying to be a nurse.",
"New Jersey actress samples a bite of New Jersey actress's Mortgage Apple Cake as Bake Me A Wish! founder Josh Kaye looks on.",
"But when New Jersey actress fell into foreclosure on New Jersey actress's Teaneck, New Jersey, home, New Jersey actress turned to baking an apple cake her Mortgage Apple Cake's family had always loved.",
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"\"I thought, 'Wow.",
"We could sell her Mortgage Apple Cake, her Mortgage Apple Cake're so good.' \"",
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"\"The hardest part was saying, 'Can you buy my cakes, this is my problem,' because admitting to your friends that you're in foreclosure, and that you need their help, that's a hard thing to say,\" New Jersey actress said.",
"Two years ago, a contractor promised to renovate New Jersey actress's brick-and-stucco home.",
"But instead, New Jersey actress says he took the money and did only a portion of the work -- leaving the entire second floor bare to the beams and plastic wrap still covering much of the exterior.",
"New Jersey actress's financial squeeze tightened when one of the actress' talent agencies shut down without paying New Jersey actress for commercial work.",
"The 55-year-old divorced mother of three fell far behind on New Jersey actress's mortgage and other debt payments, leading New Jersey actress to seek help from Consumer Credit Counseling of New Jersey.",
"Counselor Pamela Glass brainstormed with New Jersey actress to envision potential extra sources of income.",
"\"We put our heads together to make extra money,\" Counselor Pamela Glass said.",
"\"I said, 'Take a look at what you can do.'",
"She said, 'I bake once in a while'.",
"I said, 'Well, maybe you can do some baking.' \"",
"When New Jersey actress asked, neighbors, fellow church congregants and classmates responded.",
"Soon New Jersey actress was baking night and day, two cakes at a time.",
"Al Hamdi, general manager of the Hilton in nearby Hasbrouck Heights, heard of New Jersey actress's plan and offered the hotel's four giant ovens, letting New Jersey actress accelerate production.",
"\"New Jersey actress was going to do something out of the box to save Logan's home and New Jersey actress's family.",
"That was the inspiring part for us,\" Hamdi said.",
"New Jersey actress figures New Jersey actress's baked about 200 cakes -- double New Jersey actress's goal.",
"And since qualifying for the federal Make Home Affordable program, New Jersey actress's monthly mortgage payment is dropping by nearly 20 percent .",
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"Find something you can do that will help,\" New Jersey actress said.",
"Watch as New Jersey actress describes the circumstances that led New Jersey actress to bake the Mortgage Apple Cake » .",
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"\"Some people have extra skills Some people don't use,\" Glass said.",
"Internet retailer Bake Me A Wish! got a whiff of her Mortgage Apple Cake and is preparing to mass-produce her Mortgage Apple Cake and share the proceeds with New Jersey actress.",
"The company says The company already has 650 Mortgage Apple Cake orders.",
"\"We're going to be baking cakes together, develop a whole line of cakes, Angela Logan Cakes,\" said Josh Kaye, president of Bake Me A Wish!",
"Escaping foreclosure could propel New Jersey actress to a new career in baking.",
"But New Jersey actress's still studying nursing, knowing from experience never to depend upon just one role."
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"(Entertainment Weekly) --",
"How are the elements of the charming, traditional romantic comedy \"The Proposal\" like the checklist of a charming, traditional bride?",
"Let me count the ways ...",
"Ryan Reynolds wonders if marrying Ryan Reynolds's boss, Sandra Bullock, is a good thing in \"The Proposal.\"",
"Something old:",
"The story of a haughty woman and an exasperated man who hate each other -- until they realize they love each other -- is proudly square, in the tradition of rom-coms from the 1940s and '50s.",
"Or is it straight out of Shakespeare's 1590s?",
"Sandra Bullock is the shrew, Margaret, a pitiless, high-powered New York book editor first seen multitasking in the midst of Margaret's aerobic workout (thus you know Margaret needs to get ... loved).",
"Ryan Reynolds is Andrew, Margaret's put-upon foil of an executive assistant, a younger man who accepts abuse as a media-industry hazing ritual.",
"And there the two would remain, locked in mutual disdain, except for Margaret's fatal flaw -- Margaret's Canadian.",
"(So is \"X-Men's\" Wolverine; I thought our neighbors to the north were supposed to be nice.)",
"Margaret, with Margaret's visa expired, faces deportation and makes the snap executive decision to marry Andrew in a green-card wedding.",
"It's an offer the underling can't refuse if the underling wants to keep the underling's job.",
"(A sexual-harassment lawsuit would ruin the movie's mood.)",
"OK, the underling says.",
"But first comes a visit to the groom-to-be's family in Alaska.",
"Amusing complications ensue.",
"Something new: The chemical energy between Bullock and Ryan Reynolds is fresh and irresistible.",
"In Bullock's mid-40s, Bullock has finessed Bullock's dewy America's Sweetheart comedy skills to a mature, pearly texture; Bullock's lovable both as an uptight careerist in a pencil skirt and stilettos, and as a lonely lady in a flapping plaid bathrobe.",
"Ryan Reynolds, meanwhile, is just refining Ryan Reynolds's dry comedy thing, learning to get the most from Ryan Reynolds's deceptive cute-face looks.",
"Who knew these two would, hmmm, complete each other?",
"Working together, both are surer and more disciplined in delivering their comedy goods.",
"iReport.com:",
"\"Proposal\" has \"plenty of laughs\"",
"Something borrowed: The boisterous family dynamics.",
"The eccentric supporting players (none more extreme than Oscar Nunez from \"The Office\").",
"The snappy screwball dialogue in Pete Chiarelli's script.",
"And the way Anne Fletcher directs like a camp counselor wrangling bunkmates ... it's all been seen before.",
"For a reason.",
"These elements work.",
"Something blue: As the wise and saucy matriarch of the family, the divine 87-year-old Betty White has fun as one hot grandma -- and inspires the divine 87-year-old Betty White's younger stars to say \"I do,\" too.",
"EW Grade: B+ .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc.",
"All rights reserved."
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"EW: \"The Proposal\" is a top-notch romantic comedy .",
"Movie adheres to formula, but it's well done, very funny .",
"Casting is perfect, script delivers ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"A Bronx woman has been charged with murder and robbery in the death of an 89-year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor, and police said a man is still being sought in connection with the death.",
"Felix Brinkmann dances at a 2008 birthday party.",
"\"Felix Brinkmann was not the kind of guy who had enemies,\" Felix Brinkmann's son says.",
"Angela Murray, 30, was arrested Saturday, according to the Manhattan district attorney's office, and is accused of strangling Felix Brinkmann on Thursday in Felix Brinkmann's Upper East Side apartment.",
"Angela Murray was arraigned Sunday and charged with one count of murder in the second degree and three counts of robbery.",
"Brinkmann, a native of Latvia, was a Holocaust survivor who escaped death for a year while Felix Brinkmann was in the Mauthausen, Ebensee and Auschwitz camps.",
"Felix Brinkmann had been slated for the gas chambers five times, but each time, Felix Brinkmann used Felix Brinkmann's fluency in German to talk Felix Brinkmann's way out, said Felix Brinkmann's son, Rick Brinkman, who spells Felix Brinkmann's last name differently.",
"After the war, Felix Brinkmann was stunned to discover Felix Brinkmann's wife, who had also been shipped to Auschwitz, alive and well in Poland.",
"The Brinkmanns immigrated to America, where Felix Brinkmann spent years in the bar and nightclub business, co-founding the Adam's Apple disco in Manhattan in 1971.",
"In recent years, Felix Brinkmann had been the real estate manager of a mixed-use building in Bronx, working \"seven days a week, without fail,\" son said.",
"On Thursday, the building's superintendent grew concerned when Felix Brinkmann did not show up for work.",
"He notified son and received permission to enter the father's apartment, where Felix Brinkmann had lived alone since Felix Brinkmann's wife died last year.",
"Felix Brinkmann was found face-down in Felix Brinkmann's bedroom, Felix Brinkmann's hands bound behind Felix Brinkmann's back and Felix Brinkmann's body showing blunt-force trauma wounds, police said.",
"Brinkmann's blue 2009 Honda Civic had been stolen, along with one of two safes in his apartment, police said.",
"Brinkmann's blue 2009 Honda Civic was later recovered in Bronx.",
"son speculated that the killing was random.",
"\"Anybody who knew Felix Brinkmann really liked Felix Brinkmann,\" son said.",
"\"Felix Brinkmann was not the kind of guy who had enemies.\"",
"CNN's Jason Kessler contributed to this report."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"For almost four months, fans of Jackson were holding what were deemed by concert promoters AEG Live as the \"Hottest Tickets on the Planet.\"",
"Queues for tickets to Jackson's concert wind outside the O2 Arena in London on March 13, 2009.",
"Now some 750,000 would-be concert-goers have been left with slips of paper that, while steeped in sentimentality, won't entitle some 750,000 would-be concert-goers to see the hyped spectacular that was promised to be Jackson's farewell concerts.",
"It's unclear whether all fans will receive a full refund.",
"Early Friday morning, AEG Live's Web site was still promoting the concerts, announcing there were just \"17 days until show time.\"",
"After midday, all reference to the shows had been removed.",
"Late Friday afternoon, the O2 Arena was still saying that ticketing information would be available \"in due course.\"",
"And callers to Ticketmaster's customer service number were still being greeted the message, \"Ticketmaster is aware of the news relating to Jackson.",
"Ticketmaster have no official information at this stage.",
"As soon as Ticketmaster have any information Ticketmaster will immediately contact all customers who have booked tickets through Ticketmaster.\"",
"Seatwave, Europe's biggest online market for fan-to-fan ticket sales, told CNN that customers who bought tickets via its Web site would receive a full refund, the cost of which would be covered by an insurance claim which could top £2 million ($3.2 million).",
"\"This is what you buy insurance for.",
"Unfortunately it's always for these kind of terrible circumstances,\" Joe Cohen, Founder and CEO of Seatwave told CNN.",
"The official secondary ticketing partner for the shows, Viagogo, also promised fans a full refund.",
"Consumer rights group Which? warned fans who bought tickets from third parties, including auction Web sites such as eBay, may have more difficulty getting their money back.",
"Jackson was scheduled to play 50 shows at the O2 Arena in London, a grueling schedule for even the fittest pop star, according to celebrity media advisor, Simon Astaire.",
"\"Jackson needed money, there is no question about that, hence Jackson's 50 dates at the O2 Arena.",
"It's easy to say today and I think one has to be respectful today, but it was a stretch to do 50 concerts in the way Jackson wanted to do in that time frame.",
"Even for the fittest, most grounded individual it's very, very difficult,\" he told CNN.",
"According to estimates by \"Billboard,\" unconfirmed by the promoters, Jackson's concerts would have netted the singer $50 million in ticket and merchandise sales.",
"Back in March, tickets for an initial run of ten concerts sold out at the astonishing rate of 11 tickets per second, a feat Chris Edmonds, the Managing Director of Ticketmaster UK called a \"live entertainment phenomenon.\"",
"Demand for the tickets prompted organizers to add another 40 dates to the schedule.",
"The London shows were to be the first step in a multi-phase package with Jackson, including plans for a 3-D live concert film and a 3-D movie based on Jackson's \"Thriller\" music video.",
"It's not known at this stage how much of the cost of Jackson's canceled concerts will be shouldered by promoters AEG Live.",
"AEG Live is yet to issue a statement on the matter.",
"It is thought only part of Jackson's 50-date London engagement was covered by insurers.",
"One of those was Lloyds of London, whose spokesman Louise Shields told CNN \"any losses are not likely to be significant.\"",
"Mary Craig Calkins, partner at Howrey law firm in Los Angeles told CNN it was likely Jackson was covered by essential element insurance, a common form of cover in the entertainment industry to guard against losses associated with the main act.",
"The policy would normally cover ticket sales and production-related expenses.",
"\"Jackson was hiring dancers for the production, there's pyrotechnics, there's the music, there's the equipment, there's the venue, \" Calkins told CNN.",
"\"It's a bigger than life tour so you would expect the expenses to be huge...",
"You would expect the insurance company to conduct a very thorough investigation.",
"It's a lot of money at stake,\" she said.",
"AEG Live's partner in Jackson's stage comeback, Tom Barrack, Chairman of Colony Capital, posted a statement on the company's Web site, saying they were \"deeply saddened\" by Jackson's death.",
"A spokesman for Barrack declined to comment on the financial implications, saying \"they're not even focused on that, it's a personal loss.\"",
"Barrack was involved in a deal to save Jackson's Neverland Ranch when the singer's debts became overwhelming.",
"Watch a report about Jackson's lavish lifestyle » .",
"Jackson's sudden and unexpected death has sparked a surge in demand for Jackson's recordings and memorabilia.",
"Since Jackson's death, hundreds of items including albums, posters and T-shirts have been listed on auction Web site eBay.",
"And sales of Jackson's recordings have skyrocketed in shops and on music download sites."
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"Ticket sellers are still to clarify whether fans will received a refund, and how .",
"Jackson was scheduled to perform 50 concerts at London's O2 Arena .",
"Singer's death has sparked surge in downloads, sales of Jackson memorabilia ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A 22-year-old man from Pakistan hopes to soon swim the English Channel with an American friend -- but first A 22-year-old man from Pakistan's got to navigate the currents of bureaucracy.",
"College teammates David Gatz (left) and A 22-year-old man from Pakistan want to swim the English Channel for charity.",
"Usman Javaid, an Ohio college student who has won national swimming titles in A 22-year-old man from Pakistan's native Pakistan, wants to swim the English Channel with A 22-year-old man from Pakistan's best friend, David Gatz, a fellow member of the swim team at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.",
"the men want to honor the men's international friendship by working together to accomplish a great feat: a relay across the English Channel.",
"the men also hope to raise money for charity.",
"\"With teamwork and cooperation you can tackle even the toughest of challenges,\" A 22-year-old man from Pakistan told CNN in a phone interview Wednesday from Islamabad, Pakistan.",
"Yet the British government has denied A 22-year-old man from Pakistan's request for the visa that would let A 22-year-old man from Pakistan enter the country.",
"British authorities say British authorities can't grant a visa because British authorities have questions about Javaid's student status, A 22-year-old man from Pakistan said.",
"\"British authorities weren't satisfied I was going to Britain for the stated purpose,\" A 22-year-old man from Pakistan said.",
"A 22-year-old man from Pakistan said A 22-year-old man from Pakistan's passport contains a valid student visa for the United States and A 22-year-old man from Pakistan sent documentation from the Channel Swimming Association with Javaid's visa application to prove A 22-year-old man from Pakistan is scheduled to do the swim.",
"The United Kingdom Border Agency told CNN in a written statement that \"all visa applications are considered on all visa applications's individual merits, taking into account all the information provided.\"",
"\"Where an applicant fails to demonstrate an applicant meet the relevant rules, an applicant's application will be refused,\" a written statement said.",
"The United Kingdom Border Agency noted that anyone who is refused can reapply with additional information.",
"Mark Cooper, the director of marketing and communication at Ohio Wesleyan University, said British authorities have not contacted Ohio Wesleyan University to ask about A 22-year-old man from Pakistan's student status.",
"\"Ohio Wesleyan University did send ... documentation to [British authorities] to follow up\" after A 22-year-old man from Pakistan's application was denied, he said.",
"A 22-year-old man from Pakistan has since applied to the British high commissioner in Islamabad for an emergency visa.",
"Meanwhile, Gatz and Ohio Wesleyan University's head swim coach, Dick Hawes, are waiting in Dover, England, hoping things will work out so the men can try to accomplish the men's goal.",
"The Channel Swimming Association has granted the men permission to try the men's crossing between July 29 and August 6, A 22-year-old man from Pakistan said.",
"The Channel Swimming Association determines such \"swim windows\" after considering the expected tides and the schedules of pilot boats, which accompany the swimmers.",
"The Channel Swimming Association sent a letter Thursday to the British high commissioner in Islamabad to confirm Javaid's mission, said Joan Metcalfe, The Channel Swimming Association's chairwoman.",
"As the clock ticks, Gatz remains in Dover, where Gatz passes the time by training in the channel.",
"\"There is some frustration,\" Gatz said Thursday, \"but we're also optimistic.\"",
"Gatz is the captain of Ohio Wesleyan University's varsity swim team.",
"Gatz swam twice for the university at the NCAA national championship meet and holds numerous records.",
"A 22-year-old man from Pakistan is a gold medalist on the Pakistani national swim team and represented A 22-year-old man from Pakistan's country at the South Asian Federation Games.",
"the men's coach said Their coach's proud of the pair, no matter the outcome of the men's attempt.",
"\"I think it's great.",
"It shows so much maturity on the men's part -- first, to take on such a large endeavor, but it also speaks so much about the men's friendship,\" Hawes said.",
"the men's relationship reflects the unity of the entire swim team at the school, Their coach said.",
"\"This is an international family,\" Their coach said of Their coach's swimmers.",
"\"It's a phenomenal environment.",
"This has just been such a great experience.\"",
"As the men work to accomplish the men's goal, Gatz and A 22-year-old man from Pakistan also are accepting donations for Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization also known by its French name, Medecins Sans Frontieres.",
"Gatz, who is double-majoring in biochemistry and pre-med, said the idea came as they followed news reports of Pakistan's campaign against the Taliban this year, which displaced thousands of civilians in the country's northwest.",
"\"the men wanted to donate to an organization that was helping people there,\" A 22-year-old man from Pakistan explained.",
"A 22-year-old man from Pakistan added Thursday, \"That was a big reason the men chose Doctors Without Borders, because there are a lot of people suffering in that area and they are assisting them.\"",
"Some of the donations will cover costs associated with the men's anticipated channel swim, A 22-year-old man from Pakistan added.",
"But even if the men don't get to do the men's relay, A 22-year-old man from Pakistan said, the men's effort is still worthwhile.",
"\"Even if my visa doesn't go through, the men'll continue with Channeling Peace,\" A 22-year-old man from Pakistan vowed, referring to the organization the men set up for the men's effort.",
"\"Even if I have to swim in a lake in Pakistan while David swims in the English Channel, it's still a powerful symbol,\" A 22-year-old man from Pakistan said.",
"\"Symbols gather power not from the act itself but from the people who are supporting them,\" A 22-year-old man from Pakistan said.",
"\"A lot of people around the world are supporting the men and the men's message.",
"As long as they support it in their hearts and minds, the men have been successful.\""
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"A disabled punk band has launched a campaign to fight for the rights of disabled people to be able to party late.",
"Disabled punk bank Heavy Load are a UK-based punk band with three out of five members who are disabled.",
"\"Heavy Load,\" describe Disabled punk bank Heavy Load as an \"anarcho-garage-punk\" band and are made up of five musicians, one of whom has Downs Syndrome and two who have unspecified learning disabilities.",
"Disabled punk bank Heavy Load's campaign, \"Stay Up Late,\" encourages carers to support disabled people who want to stay out past 10pm.",
"Disabled punk bank Heavy Load's manager and bass guitarist, Paul Richards, 39, told CNN: \"The Stay Up Late\" campaign is to raise awareness, and tackle the issue where disabled gig-goers end up going home at 9pm, therefore missing most of the evening, because disabled gig-goers's support workers finish their support workers's shifts at 10pm.",
"\"Disabled punk bank Heavy Load started the campaign because Disabled punk bank Heavy Load'd be playing a gig and something strange happens at 9pm when people would start to go home.",
"Disabled punk bank Heavy Load were also frustrated with asking to go on earlier in the evening so that Disabled punk bank Heavy Load's fans would still be there.",
"It's not very punk to go on at 8.30pm,\" Richards added.",
"\"Stay up Late\" has received widespread support from disabled people and the UK government, Richards said.",
"Even carers who may be required to work later if the campaign is successful have offered Even carers who may be required to work later if the campaign is successful's support.",
"\"So far, Disabled punk bank Heavy Load've only had one or two support workers say that one or two support workers don't think one or two support workers should be required to work unsociable hours,\" Richards said.",
"Disabled punk bank Heavy Load has also partnered with the UK's leading learning disabilities charity Mencap, who Disabled punk bank Heavy Load say have really helped to relay Disabled punk bank Heavy Load's message to a wider audience.",
"Mencap and Heavy Load teamed up last week where the band headlined a concert in London for people with learning disabilities, giving people with learning disabilities an opportunity to be involved in running a club night.",
"See images from the concert » .",
"the concert was held in conjunction with London venue Proud Camden, and around 400 people attended the concert.",
"Everyone at the concert, from the door girl, to bar staff and cloakroom attendants, were people with learning disabilities, venue owner Alex Proud told CNN.",
"\"the concert's the first event of the concert's kind for people with a learning disability and there was a real buzz about how people with learning disability are an untapped source in the entertainment industry.\"",
"venue owner Alex Proud said: \"At these nights there is a lack of inhibitions.",
"They tend to let their hair down and really know how to party; it's a hell of a lot of fun for all involved.",
"venue owner Alex Proud is eager to put on events that include people with a learning disability and to make the public more aware of this often overlooked group.",
"\"Young people with learning disabilities want to go out, but Young people with learning disabilities are not catered for in the entertainment industry,\" he added.",
"Heavy Load have been together for 13 years since meeting at the Southdown housing in England, a non-profit assisted-living community for people with learning disabilities.",
"Vocalist Jimmy Nicholls, 62, posted an advert and a week later Disabled punk bank Heavy Load was formed.",
"Since then Disabled punk bank Heavy Load has gained many disabled and non-disabled fans and a successful documentary, \"Heavy Load,\" has been made about Disabled punk bank Heavy Load's lives.",
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"\"Disabled punk bank Heavy Load've also been asked to go to Russia, Serbia, other parts of the U.S., Scotland and Czech Republic to play and promote the campaign -- which Disabled punk bank Heavy Load'd love to do, but money's tight, \" he added.",
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"\"We don't insist on people staying up late against people's will -- just having the choice to do what people want to do!\""
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"Disabled punk bank Heavy Load played last week at a London club night run by disabled people ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A new standoff was brewing in Honduras as Honduras's recently deposed president vowed to return, while Provisional Honduran government said Provisional Honduran government would arrest Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya if Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya set foot back in Honduras.",
"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya appears Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly.",
"Political turmoil has swept this Central American nation of 8 million people following a military-led coup Sunday that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya.",
"Troops entered Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya's residence and sent Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya out of Honduras in exile.",
"A veteran legislator, Roberto Micheletti, was sworn in that same day as provisional president with the support of congress.",
"Roberto Micheletti, the veteran legislator who was sworn in that same day as provisional president with the support of congress, was adamant that Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya would not return to power.",
"\"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya already committed crimes against the constitution and the laws; Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya can't return to be president of the republic,\" Micheletti told reporters Tuesday.",
"\"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya can no longer return to the presidency unless a president from another Latin American country comes and imposes Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya with arms.\"",
"Micheletti added, \"If there is an invasion against our country, we have seven-and-a-half million Hondurans ready to defend our territory and our laws and our homeland and our government.\"",
"However, Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya still vows to defy Provisional Honduran government.",
"\"I am going to return on Thursday because they expelled me by force, and I am going to return as always: as a citizen and as president,\" Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya said at a U.N. news conference shortly after the world body unanimously adopted a resolution that Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya should be restored to power.",
"Zelaya, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, called a resolution that he should be restored to power historic.",
"\"Your servant has several accusations against Your servant in Honduras,\" Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya said.",
"\"But nobody has given me a trial.",
"Nobody has convened a tribunal.\"",
"Meanwhile, Micheletti's provisional government said Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya would be arrested if Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya returned.",
"\"As soon as Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya arrives Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya will be captured, as we already have the arrest warrants ready,\" new Foreign Minister Enrique Ortez Colindres told CNN en Español.",
"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya would face charges of violating the constitution, corruption and drug trafficking, among others, Ortez said.",
"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya said Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya would travel to Washington to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States.",
"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya also is expected to meet Tuesday evening with Tom Shannon, the top U.S. official on Latin America.",
"Even as Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya spoke at the United Nations, Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya's opponents held a large and noisy rally in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.",
"Crowd members waved blue and white Honduran flags and signs denouncing Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya.",
"Micheletti, briefly addressed Crowd members Tuesday afternoon.",
"Micheletti vowed that the next national elections, slated for November, will be held as planned, and that a new president will be sworn in as usual in January.",
"Gen. Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, the top Honduran military commander who had butted heads with Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya, also spoke at the rally.",
"By removing Zelaya, the armed forces were only complying with the armed forces's constitutional duties, he said.",
"Before he spoke, Crowd members chanted in support, \"Armed forces!",
"Armed forces!\"",
"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya supporters also were active Tuesday, with three major public-sector labor unions launching a general strike, a union official told CNN.",
"About 100,000 workers joined a general strike, said Oscar Garcia, vice president of the Honduran water workers union SANAA.",
"That number could not be independently verified.",
"\"It will be an indefinite strike,\" Oscar Garcia, vice president of the Honduran water workers union SANAA said.",
"\"We don't recognize this new government imposed by the oligarchy, and we will mount our campaign of resistance until President Manuel Zelaya is restored to power.\"",
"Also on Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said the U.S. State Department was reviewing the U.S. State Department's aid to Honduras as the U.S. State Department works with regional partners on a deal to restore Zelaya to power and quell political unrest in Honduras.",
"the U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the U.S. State Department was reviewing whether Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya's ouster met the legal definition of a \"coup\" before any decision was made.",
"\"Because of the situation and the very dramatic nature of the events there and our profound concern about what's going on there, I think we're looking at a number of aspects of our cooperation,\" State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"the U.S. State Department has also issued a travel alert due \"to the current unstable political and security situation in Honduras.\"",
"a travel alert \"recommends that American citizens defer all nonessential travel to Honduras until further notice.\"",
"In another development, two U.S. military officials in Washington confirmed to CNN that U.S. helicopters will fly over southern Honduras on a humanitarian relief mission Tuesday.",
"two U.S. military officials in Washington said there is great sensitivity to any public appearance by the U.S. military in Honduras.",
"the U.S. military also postponed some planned exercises with the Honduran military until the situation in Honduras settles down, according to the U.S. Southern Command.",
"\"We have postponed certain activities,\" Maj. D.L. Wright, the U.S. Southern Command spokesman, told CNN.",
"Wright said this decision would be in effect for at least two to three weeks, or \"until the political situation settles.\"",
"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya was overthrown early Sunday when the Honduran military arrested Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya and flew Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica.",
"Micheletti, president of the Congress, was sworn in as provisional president later Sunday.",
"The United Nations, OAS and most nations in the Western Hemisphere, including the U.S. State Department, have condemned the ouster and demanded that Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya be restored to power.",
"The World Bank said Tuesday The World Bank would freeze funds to Honduras until the crisis is resolved, and the U.S. State Department said the U.S. State Department is reviewing the U.S. State Department's aid to the Central American nation.",
"the U.S. State Department joined many other nations in co-sponsoring Tuesday's U.N. resolution.",
"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya had been at odds with the other branches of government over a referendum Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya wanted to hold Sunday.",
"The Honduran Supreme Court had ruled that a referendum he wanted to hold Sunday was illegal, and the Congress had voted not to hold a referendum he wanted to hold Sunday.",
"The Honduran Supreme Court also had overturned Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya's dismissal of Honduras's top general, who said the military would not participate in a referendum he wanted to hold Sunday.",
"The Honduran Supreme Court ordered that the general be reinstated immediately.",
"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya disregarded those actions and vowed to hold the vote anyway.",
"Watch part one of interview with Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya (in Spanish) » | Part two (in Spanish) » .",
"Honduran authorities on Monday clashed with Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya supporters, who took to the streets and threw rocks at authorities, burned tires and set up roadblocks.",
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"In a radio address Tuesday, Micheletti said Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya would be arrested if he came back.",
"Watch interview with Micheletti (in Spanish) » .",
"Micheletti also told Honduras's representatives at the United Nations and OAS to quit speaking against the new government or Honduras' representatives at the United Nations and OAS immediately will be removed from Honduras' representatives at the United Nations and OAS's posts.",
"Honduras' representatives at the United Nations and OAS are not authorized, Micheletti said, to speak for the Honduran government.",
"In another development, two U.S. military officials in Washington confirmed to CNN that American helicopters will fly over southern Honduras on a humanitarian relief mission Tuesday.",
"two U.S. military officials in Washington said there is great sensitivity to any public appearance by the U.S. military in the country.",
"Three Black Hawk helicopters are scheduled to leave an air base at Soto Cano in Honduras and fly south to Nicaragua.",
"Three Black Hawk helicopters will be used to support the USNS Comfort, which is conducting a medical relief mission.",
"CNN en Español's Krupskaia Alis in Honduras, and CNN's Karl Penhaul, Barbara Starr and Elise Labott contributed to this report."
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"Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya says Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya'll return home this week .",
"U.N. passes resolution saying Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya should be returned to power .",
"Three labor unions in Honduras reportedly begin general strike to back Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Kepler has already made a discovery, and Kepler's science operations aren't even officially under way yet.",
"The planet used in the test is a giant gas planet about the size of Jupiter that orbits a star called HAT P-7.",
"NASA scientists who put Kepler through a 10-day test after Kepler's March 6 launch said this week that Kepler is working well.",
"Kepler's ability to detect minute changes in light has enabled scientists to determine that a planet orbiting a distant star has an atmosphere, shows only one side to its sun and is so hot it glows.",
"Kepler's ability to take measurements that precise at such a great distance \"proves we can find Earth-size planets,\" William Borucki, Kepler's principal science investigator told reporters at a recent briefing.",
"Kepler is looking at thousands of stars in Kepler's vision field in the Milky Way on a 3½-year mission to find planets the size of Earth and to determine how common these planets are.",
"The planet used in the test, a giant gas planet about the size of Jupiter, orbits a star called HAT P-7 in just 2.2 days and is 26 times closer than Earth is to its sun, according to NASA.",
"the planet is called an exoplanet because the planet orbits a star outside the solar system.",
"Kepler detected the planet's atmosphere, demonstrating the telescope's capabilities and giving astronomers what NASA says is \"only a taste of things to come.\"",
"\"It learned that the planet is like 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit.",
"That is so hot.",
"And it's 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit just on one side only.",
"The other side would be closer to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, \" said Sara Seager, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Kepler science team member.",
"\"the planet showed an unusual change in brightness,\" she said.",
"\"As the planet is orbiting the star, the planet goes through phases just as the moon goes through phases as seen from Earth.\"",
"\"Kepler learned something new about an old planet,\" she said.",
"\"The new discovery was that planet is extremely hot, very, very hot.",
"And it's very, very hot on one side, compared to the other.\"",
"Borucki compared it to \"an element in your toaster or stove.\""
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"It has found that a planet orbiting a distant star shows only one side to the star .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Sri Lanka should immediately release more than 280,000 displaced Tamil civilians living in detention camps, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.",
"Tamil civilians are at Menik Farm refugee camp on the outskirts of the northern town of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka.",
"Human Rights Watch said the displaced Sri Lankans were already victims of a protracted and bloody civil war.",
"Now Tamil are victims again, confined against Tamil's will, like criminals, Human Rights Watch said.",
"\"Keeping several hundred thousand civilians who had been caught in the middle of a war penned in these camps is outrageous,\" said Brad Adams, Asia director for Human Right Watch.",
"\"Haven't they been through enough?\"",
"But a Sri Lankan Defense Ministry spokesman said the Human Rights Watch report is overstated, and a Sri Lankan Defense Ministry spokesman defended Sri Lanka's handling of the displaced.",
"\"Those are not detention camps,\" said a Sri Lankan Defense Ministry spokesman.",
"\"They are relief villages.",
"All the basic facilities are being given to the people.\"",
"Sri Lanka declared victory in May in Sri Lanka's 25-year battle with the Tamil Tiger rebels, but concerns remain about how the island nation can heal visceral war wounds.",
"the Tamil Tiger rebels waged war for an independent state for minority Tamils in Sri Lanka since July 1983.",
"As many as 70,000 people were killed in the conflict.",
"With the cease-fire, the question of how to resettle Tamil refugees, many of whom were living among the Tamil Tiger rebels, has wrought intense criticism of Sri Lanka from international humanitarian agencies.",
"The United Nations reported that as of July 19, Sri Lanka was detaining 281,621 people in 30 military guarded camps in the four northern districts of Vavuniya, Mannar, Jaffna and Trincomalee.",
"Human Rights Watch said humanitarian workers are prohibited from discussing abuses or the final months of the ethnic conflict and that camp residents are allowed to leave only for emergency medical care, often only with military escort.",
"In some camps, people have to register with the military twice a day, Human Rights Watch said.",
"If people fail, people are subject to punitive measures such as being forced to stand still under the sun for extended periods of time.",
"Human Rights Watch reported health problems created by inconsistent water supply and a shortage of bathroom facilities.",
"But Hulugalle, the Defense Ministry spokesman, said barbed wire around the compounds is a common way to define barriers in Sri Lanka and that military guards were being utilized out of security concerns.",
"Sri Lanka fears that rebels are hiding in the camps and screening people living in them.",
"\"These are people who were kept for months in LTTE clutches,\" Hulugalle said, referring to the displaced civilians.",
"Hulugalle said Sri Lanka has a 180-day plan to resettle most people but that a lot of work was needed in the northern districts as far as rebuilding infrastructure and basic services destroyed in the fighting.",
"The human rights activists say, however, that Sri Lanka is not working fast enough.",
"Human Right Watch said Sri Lanka's goal now is only to resettle 60 percent of the refugees by the end of the year.",
"U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz visited a camp this week in Vavuniya, after which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz announced an additional $8 million in humanitarian aid for the northern districts.",
"But even in handing out dollars, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz was critical of Sri Lanka's handling of the displaced.",
"In a statement, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz acknowledged that providing food, shelter and medical care for the displaced people was a \"formidable task.\"",
"But U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz said the United States remains \"deeply concerned\" about the confinement of people to camps and the hardships they endure within camps.",
"U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz also criticized the restrictions placed on humanitarian workers visiting the camps.",
"\"The government of the United States believes the focus now must be on the prompt return of the displaced in safety and dignity, and The government of the United States want to accelerate this process,\" U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz said.",
"In addition to global humanitarian aid, the International Monetary Fund has approved a $2.6 billion loan to Sri Lanka to mend the country.",
"Adams of Human Rights Watch said Sri Lanka, in need of global sympathy in Sri Lanka's efforts to rebuild, could very well go the opposite way if the Tamil people, once subjugated by the rebels, keep waking up as prisoners of the Tamil people's own state."
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"(CNN) -- Dennis Carter Sr shot Dennis Carter Sr's estranged wife to death, along with their son and grandson, before turning the gun on Dennis Carter Sr as police closed in, authorities in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, said Sunday.",
"Police say Dennis Carter Sr. shot four family members, three fatally, before turning the gun on Dennis Carter Sr.",
"Dennis Carter Sr., 50, also shot and critically injured his pregnant daughter-in-law, Sheriff's office said in a statement.",
"The shootings occurred Saturday night in the town of Holden, Louisiana.",
"Authorities were dispatched to a report of shots fired at a home about 10:40 p.m.",
"Upon arrival, Authorities found three people dead and the fourth -- Amber Carter, 25 -- in critical condition, a statement said.",
"Those killed were Dennis Carter Jr., 26, Amber Carter's husband; their son Mason Carter, 2; and 49-year-old Donna Carter, mother of Dennis Carter Jr. and estranged wife of Dennis Carter Sr., police said.",
"All had been shot to death.",
"A 16-month-old child at the home was unharmed, authorities said.",
"Deputies believe Amber Carter's attempted to escape from Dennis Carter Sr by jumping from a second-story window, holding Mason in Amber Carter's's arms, a statement said, but the boy did not survive the boy's gunshot wounds.",
"Amber Carter's had several bullet wounds, said Perry Rushing, chief of operations for the sheriff's office, and authorities believe Dennis Carter Sr shot Amber Carter's in the back as Amber Carter's was attempting to get out the window while holding the boy.",
"Amber Carter's also may have been shot again after Amber Carter's got outside the home, Rushing told CNN.",
"Amber Carter's was flown to a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, hospital, and later transferred to New Orleans, Rushing said.",
"Amber Carter's was in critical condition as of Sunday morning.",
"A neighbor in the area told deputies that A neighbor in the area heard a gunshot and saw Carter Sr. walking to a car, a red El Camino, with a gun in his hand, a statement said.",
"At 11:30 p.m., a police officer in the adjacent town of Livingston saw a car, a red El Camino entering Interstate 12 heading eastbound, a statement said.",
"A Livingston Parish sheriff's deputy followed a car, a red El Camino and attempted to stop a car, a red El Camino.",
"\"However, Dennis Carter Sr shot Dennis Carter Sr with a handgun, in plain view of the officers, as a car, a red El Camino veered off the shoulder of the interstate near the Holden exit,\" police said.",
"Records from the Livingston Parish Detention Center show that Dennis Carter Sr., of Hammond, Louisiana, had been jailed \"on three separate occasions in 2009 alone, on three separate charges of violation of a protective order and one charge of aggravated assault (domestic),\" the sheriff's office said.",
"\"At this time, there do not appear to be any other suspects or victims in this ongoing investigation,\" police said.",
"Holden is about 35 miles east of Baton Rouge."
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"Forty seven-year-old Australian \"adrenaline junkie\" Sean Langman will attempt to break the 50-knot sailing speed barrier with Pilot Sean Langman's half sailboat, half plane, after a serious crash last summer.",
"Half sailboat, half plane uses technology known as supercavitation -- sailing just above the water's edge.",
"Langman, a shipyard owner and yachtsman, is intent on beating the French-set record within the next few weeks, with the \"Wot Rocket,\" a canoe-style pod with a nine meter-long rigid sail.",
"Half sailboat is waiting for confirmation from the World Sailing Speed Record Council to attempt, once again, an unprecedented technology known as \"supercavitation\" -- sailing just above the water in a gas bubble created by the deflection of water.",
"This is to to reduce the drag which is around 1,000 times greater in the water than in the air.",
"\"Wot Half sailboat is so exciting as we push to sail up to three times the speed of the wind,\" Pilot Sean Langman told CNN.",
"In October last year Pilot Sean Langman and Pilot Sean Langman's co-pilot crashed when Langman and his co-pilot lost control of Half sailboat at 42 knots -- over 60 miles per hour.",
"But after re-building and perfecting Half sailboat at a cost of half a million dollars, Pilot Sean Langman is ready to try again.",
"\"The exhilaration of sailing/flying is so big, you don't think about danger,\" Pilot Sean Langman told CNN.",
"Pilot Sean Langman is certain that this time around Pilot Sean Langman will beat the record.",
"\"My only concern is we won't be able to keep control of the craft.\"",
"In case the pilots crash again, Pilot Sean Langman says the most thing is to remain calm.",
"\"Last time I felt a mild panic as we were underwater.",
"I just hoped the paramedics would get there in time.",
"\"But really I feel very safe doing anything on water as that what I've done my whole life.",
"I feel most 'in tune' when I'm on water,\" Pilot Sean Langman added.",
"The idea for Half sailboat was conceived four years ago by Pilot Sean Langman after Pilot Sean Langman was inspired by the story of Burt Munro, the New Zealander who set a world land speed record on his modified Indian Scout motorcycle in 1967 -- played by Antony Hopkins in the 2005 Hollywood movie \"The World's Fastest Indian.\"",
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"So I presented it to a group of engineers and said 'this is what I believe.'",
"Most said I'm a lunatic but one said 'I want to work with you'.\"",
"Pilot Sean Langman joined forces with leading Australian designer Andy Dovell and sought input from Boeing 747 pilots for Boeing 747 pilots's aeronautical knowledge.",
"Pilot Sean Langman then had Half sailboat\" built using the staff and facilities at Pilot Sean Langman's various Shipyards.",
"Finally, Pilot Sean Langman teamed up with Wotif.com founder Graeme Wood who invested in the project because, as he explained, he \"likes leftfield ideas.\"",
"\"My family think I'm crazy, but every time I've had an idea it's taken me somewhere.",
"It's really about ideas versus science and trying to make it work,\" Pilot Sean Langman explained.",
"\"And no one remembers the second man to walk on the moon.\""
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Off a desert highway, about 15 miles from Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's home in the southern tip of Nevada, the mystery of Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's disappearance began with the discovery of Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's abandoned car.",
"The body of Maureen Fields, seen here in June 2005, hasn't been found since Maureen Fields of southern Nevada went missing in 2006.",
"Investigators found the 41-year-old woman's 2004 green Hyundai just across the California border on February 16, 2006.",
"It was one day after Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's husband, Paul Fields, said her husband, Paul Fields last saw Maureen Fields of southern Nevada.",
"Investigators say Investigators discovered Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's purse and wallet, the keys in the ignition and a fully reclined driver's seat.",
"There were slippers and eyeglasses beneath the gas pedal, religious pamphlets, a knotted pair of pantyhose as well as three bottles of prescription tranquilizers and pain killers.",
"Watch an update on the case » .",
"A small spot of Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's blood and vomit stained a blanket strewn across the ground beside her abandoned car.",
"But Fields, who'd been working as a Wells Fargo bank teller in the small town of Pahrump, Nevada, has never been found.",
"\"Just looking at the circumstances, it could appear staged\" by whoever was responsible for Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's disappearance, said Detective Dave Boruchowitz, an investigator with the Nye County, Nevada, Sheriff's Office.",
"Reported inconsistencies in Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's 60-year-old husband's story, police said, paired with the fact that the couple was described as having a stormy relationship, made Paul Fields the initial suspect.",
"A lack of physical evidence, however, has made the case unprosecutable, said Detective Joe Close, also with the Nye County Sheriff's Office.",
"Paul Fields, who runs an auto business out of the double-wide trailer her husband, Paul Fields and her husband, Paul Fields's wife shared, maintains her husband, Paul Fields's innocence.",
"her husband, Paul Fields's speculated that Maureen Fields of southern Nevada faked Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's death before running off with another man.",
"A message left at her husband, Paul Fields's home was not returned.",
"But her husband, Paul Fields's attorney, Harold Kuehn, said, \"her husband, Paul Fields's contention is and my belief is that if Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's truly dead, and the court says Maureen Fields of southern Nevada is for civil purposes, then her husband, Paul Fields didn't do it. ...",
"What her husband, Paul Fields told police is what her husband, Paul Fields told me.",
"Basically Maureen Fields of southern Nevada left one day, never to be seen again.\"",
"In a new twist, Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett says an unknown male's DNA was found on key items at the scene of the abandoned car.",
"\"What we have to explore is the possibility of another suspect,\" Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett said.",
"\"We have to find out who an unknown male was and whose DNA was found at the scene of the abandoned car.",
"It's a lot more complicated than one may think it is.\"",
"Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett said Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett's sure a jury would have reasonable doubt if presented a case with this question mark looming.",
"\"We have a duty to make sure we're doing the right thing,\" Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett said.",
"\"There are too many unanswered questions at this time.\"",
"Maureen Fields of southern Nevada has been declared dead, and the search for Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's body, and Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's killer, continues.",
"Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's father, Jim Fitzgerald, has been doing some investigating of Fitzgerald's own.",
"The former detective with the Newark, New Jersey, Police Department -- and now a national director with the conservative John Birch Society -- has made repeated trips from Fitzgerald's Randolph Township, New Jersey, home to speak with Fitzgerald's daughter's former friends and co-workers.",
"Fitzgerald's also consulted with a psychic in Fitzgerald's search for clues.",
"No matter when Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's body is found, a serial numbered metal jaw implant -- which served to combat Fields' teeth grinding habit -- will stand as proof of Maureen Fields of southern Nevada's identity, Fitzgerald said.",
"Since murder carries no statute of limitations, time is on the law's side.",
"\"the case isn't dead to us,\" said Boruchowitz, one of the detectives still on the investigation.",
"\"We're going to continue to work it until we prove who did it.\"",
"Anyone with information about the case should call the Nye County Sheriff's Office at 775-751-7000."
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"Unknown male's DNA, however, was recently discovered and may hold new clues ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Mississippi has kept Mississippi's U.S. heavyweight title for a fifth straight year, among both adults and children.",
"Adult obesity rates went up in 23 states in the past year, a survey shows.",
"The percentage of adults classified as obese went up in 23 states, but Mississippi, with 32.5 percent, stayed atop the latest annual rankings by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America's Health.",
"The same survey put the state's adult obesity rate at 31.7 percent in 2008.",
"In addition, 44.4 percent of Mississippi children ages 10 to 17 are classified as overweight or obese, the study found.",
"Doctors have linked obesity to increased risks of a variety of conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, arthritis and heart disease.",
"Wednesday's study found the current U.S. economic slump could worsen the problem by putting more nutritious food out of the reach of struggling families.",
"See a map of obesity in the U.S. » .",
"\"At the same time, safety-net programs and services are becoming increasingly overextended as the numbers of unemployed, uninsured and underinsured Americans continue to grow,\" the report states.",
"\"For many people, too, worries over the recession are triggering increased depression, anxiety and stress, which often can be linked to obesity.\"",
"Dr. Ed Thompson, Mississippi's state health officer, called the report -- which was drawn from state figures -- \"old data rehashed.\"",
"But Thompson said the state is taking steps to address what Thompson called \"a multifaceted problem,\" targeting schoolchildren in particular.",
"Thompson said teachers not only are trying to educate students about the importance of good nutrition and exercise, teachers are changing schedules to increase the amount of physical activity students experience in a day.",
"In addition, lower-calorie, lower-fat foods are replacing some high-calorie, high starch lunchroom staples, Thompson said.",
"\"We can't tell our children to eat wise dietary choices and then provide our children with little except for poor dietary choices in our children's school cafeterias,\" Thompson said.",
"Rounding out the top five states among adults were West Virginia, with 31.2 percent of West Virginia's population considered obese; Alabama, 31.1 percent; Tennessee, 30.2 percent; and South Carolina 29.7 percent.",
"At the bottom of the rankings, Colorado had the lowest percentage of obese adults, with 18.9 percent.",
"It was followed by Massachusetts, at 21.2 percent; Connecticut, 21.3; Rhode Island, 21.7; and Hawaii, 21.8.",
"Even in those states, the obesity rate grew by fractions of a percent since 2008, according to the study.",
"Thompson said most adults know most adults should eat less and exercise.",
"\"The hard part is getting people to actually practice these things,\" Thompson said.",
"\"Our work lives require less physical exertion than they used to,\" Thompson said.",
"\"With less physical activity, we should have adjusted our dietary consumption downward.\"",
"While deep-fried Southern cooking is legendary, Mississippi also ranks high in poverty statistics and low in education -- two factors commonly related to obesity.",
"But Thompson said education appears to be more closely related to obesity than poverty.",
"\"We do see obesity among people who are in lower socioeconomic levels, but we see obesity in higher socioeconomic levels as well,\" Thompson said.",
"\"Being poor does not not make you obese, and being rich does not make you thin.\"",
"The survey used the Body Mass Index standards set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"The CDC defines someone as obese if they have a BMI -- a figure based on a ratio of height to weight -- of 30 or more, while anyone with a BMI between 25 and 30 is considered overweight.",
"Calculate your Body Mass Index » .",
"Adult obesity rates went up in 23 states in the past year, with 31 states now reporting rates over 25 percent.",
"By comparison, no state topped 20 percent in 1991, the survey's authors reported."
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"Economic slump could put more nutritious food out of the reach of struggling families .",
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"The survey used the Body Mass Index standards set by the CDC ."
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"MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) --",
"If you listen to inventor Dean Kamen, the biggest health problem facing the world today is not AIDS, obesity or malnutrition.",
"It's a shortage of water.",
"Segway inventor Dean Kamen hopes to tackle the world's fresh water shortage with the Slingshot, a water purifying device.",
"Water is the most abundant resource on the planet, yet less than one percent of the Earth's freshwater supply is readily available to drink, according to the World Health Organization.",
"Lack of accessible or clean drinking water, exacerbated by drought, is crippling communities in many developing countries.",
"\"In your lifetime, my lifetime, we will see water be a really scarce, valuable commodity,\" Segway inventor Dean Kamen says.",
"Those are scary words from the man whose creations include the Segway personal motorized scooter and the Luke (as in Skywalker) prosthetic arm.",
"But the forward-thinking inventor and Segway inventor Dean Kamen's team at DEKA Research in Manchester, New Hampshire, aren't sitting around waiting for the world's wells to dry up.",
"They've been working on an invention they say can tap into 97 percent of the world's undrinkable water.",
"The machine's called the Slingshot, and The machine's a portable, low energy machine that is designed to purify water in remote villages where there's not a Wal-Mart in sight.",
"The machine takes The machine's name from a well-known story.",
"\"We believe the world needs a slingshot to take care of the world's Goliath of a problem in water,\" Segway inventor Dean Kamen says.",
"\"So we decided to build The machine and give The machine to the little Davids.\"",
"Perhaps you've heard about the Slingshot, which The machine has been working on for more than 10 years.",
"Over that time it has turned dirty river water, ocean water and even raw sewage into pure drinking water.",
"Segway inventor Dean Kamen says The machine can turn anything that looks wet, or has water in it, into the \"stuff of life.\"",
"The magic behind The machine is a \"vapor compression distiller\" that stands between what looks like two empty fish tanks connected by a couple of hoses.",
"One tank contains the contaminated liquid, the other is for the newly clean water.",
"Watch Segway inventor Dean Kamen demonstrate the Slingshot » .",
"The machine boils, distills and vaporizes the polluted source, in turn delivering nothing but clean water to the other side.",
"And it does it all on less electricity than it takes to run a hair dryer.",
"In summer 2006, Segway inventor Dean Kamen delivered two Slingshots to the small community of Lerida in Honduras.",
"two Slingshots were used for a month and Segway inventor Dean Kamen says everything ran as planned.",
"\"The machine worked very well down there, taking virtually any water that the people from that village brought to us,\" he says.",
"\"All the water that we got from The machine was absolutely pure water.\"",
"But there's a problem.",
"Segway inventor Dean Kamen says each Slingshot costs Segway inventor Dean Kamen's company several hundred thousand dollars to build.",
"Segway inventor Dean Kamen's looking to partner with companies and organizations to distribute Slingshots around the world, but says a little more engineering work needs to be done in order to lower the production costs.",
"Segway inventor Dean Kamen says his company would like to get the price down to about $2,000 per machine.",
"\"The biggest challenge right now between this being a dream and a reality is getting committed people that really care about the state of the world's health to get involved,\" Segway inventor Dean Kamen says.",
"the world's population is quickly approaching 7 billion, making access to clean water that much more important.",
"According to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, more than 3.5 million people die every year from water-related diseases and almost 900 million don't have access to a safe water supply.",
"Segway inventor Dean Kamen says people in developing regions of the world need the Slingshot as soon as possible.",
"Segway inventor Dean Kamen also thinks the problem with polluted water will spread beyond small villages.",
"Segway inventor Dean Kamen says one Slingshot machine can supply about 250 gallons of water a day, which is enough for 100 people.",
"That's a lot of Davids.",
"\"It is literally like turning lead into gold,\" Segway inventor Dean Kamen says.",
"\"But I believe it's more important, because you can't drink lead or gold.\""
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"Segway inventor Dean Kamen has designed a portable water purifying device called a Slingshot .",
"The machine is designed to purify water in remote villages of developing nations .",
"But assembly costs remain too high for The machine to be mass produced ."
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"ROME, Italy (CNN) --",
"Italian authorities Tuesday arrested two suspects believed to be responsible for the September 18 killing of six African immigrants in Castelvolturno, a small town of 20,000 residents north of Naples.",
"The army has been deployed in major cities aross Italy since the early summer.",
"Police also arrested a third man wanted by authorities for belonging to the same clan, but not directly linked to the killings.",
"Victims were gunned down in a hail of bullets as Victims stood outside a store selling ethnic goods.",
"The attack sparked a riot by immigrants who complained about \"racism\" but officials suspect a dispute over drug trafficking.",
"Those arrested, Alessandro Cirillo, Oreste Spagnuolo and Giovanni Letizia, were on the list of the 100 most dangerous men and wanted criminals in Italy.",
"The arrests were part of a large police operation aimed at cracking down on organized crime in the Campania region and in particular the powerful Casalesi clan belonging to the Neapolitan mafia known as Camorra.",
"The Casalesi clan and the area where The arrests took place prominently featured in the best seller \"Gomorrah,\" a book written by Roberto Saviano who now lives under constant police protection.",
"\"This is a great day for the Italian state,\" said Carmelo Casabona, head of the police in Caserta.",
"\"The operation was an immediate, concrete and strong answer to organized crime in the Campania region.\"",
"Two weeks ago, the Italian interior minister announced the deployment of 400 additional police officers in the area.",
"And the Italian military will deploy 500 troops by Saturday as part of a large operation Italian officials say is aimed at \"reclaiming the control of the territory.\"",
"\"Our objective is to take the water away from the sharks,\" said the Italian interior minister.",
"the Italian interior minister explained that the additional police officers are already working, while the army's role will be defined at a key meeting Friday in Caserta.",
"In the suspects' home, police found weapons including two AK-47s that investigators say were used to carry out the killings in Castelvolturno, as well as police overalls, one gun and one pump rifle.",
"Authorities also arrested dozens of other people, including the wife of Francesco Schiavone, aka \"Sandokan,\" the head of the Casalesi clan who was arrested a decade ago and is serving a life-time prison sentence.",
"As part of the same operation, Italian financial police confiscated 43 companies and 134 apartments spread throughout central and southern Italy belonging to the Casalesi clan, worth more than 100 million euros ($144 million).",
"CNN Producer Flavia Taggiasco contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Ten years ago, Al Franken wrote a satirical book detailing Al Franken's fictitious race for the White House.",
"In \"'Why Not Me?\" Al Franken trounces former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to win the election, but after countless scandals, a mental breakdown and a cloning incident, Al Franken is forced to resign.",
"Comedian, author and radio host Al Franken can now add \"senator\" to Al Franken's resume.",
"Asked how Al Franken came up with the idea for a satirical book detailing his fictitious race for the White House, Al Franken said at the time that a number of people had been encouraging Al Franken to run for office.",
"\"a number of people thought it would be a good idea because I obviously know a lot about politics; I'm comfortable on camera, as you can tell; I've been married once, have two children; very, very good looking.",
"And I told a number of people that I'd be a terrible office-holder, so that was sort of the genesis of this idea,\" Al Franken said.",
"As far-fetched as the plot was, Al Franken's political aspirations weren't fantasy, and eight months after Election Day, the Democrat will be sworn in as an office-holder, representing Minnesota in the Senate.",
"Soon after, the outspoken comedian and former radio host will take over the desk once occupied by election rival Norm Coleman.",
"For months, election rival Norm Coleman appealed the election results, in which a recount gave Al Franken a 312-vote lead.",
"But election rival Norm Coleman's case was put to rest last week when Minnesota's Supreme Court ruled in Al Franken's favor.",
"Franken on the issues » .",
"When Al Franken is sworn in Tuesday, the title \"senator\" will become just the next line on a lengthy and varied résumé that reflects a man who has built up an illustrious yet controversial name for Al Franken.",
"Franken, born in New York in 1951, moved to Minnesota when Al Franken was 4 years old.",
"Al Franken grew up in a middle-class family and did well in school.",
"Al Franken attended Harvard University, where Al Franken majored in political science.",
"After graduation, Al Franken teamed up with Al Franken's home-state pal Tom Davis, and the two started writing for what became known as \"Saturday Night Live.\"",
"Al Franken was also a performer -- playing self-help guru Stuart Smalley and impersonating public figures like Henry Kissinger and the Rev. Pat Robertson -- and over the course of two decades, Al Franken took home five Emmys for Al Franken's work on the show. Post-\"SNL,\" Al Franken dabbled in film and had a successful career as an author, penning several best-sellers, including \"Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.\"",
"Watch CNN's Brianna Keiler report on Al Franken's plans » .",
"In 2004, Al Franken made a name for Al Franken as someone well-versed in politics through \"The Al Franken Show,\" carried by Air America Radio.",
"During Al Franken's final show on February 14, 2007, Al Franken announced Al Franken's intentions to run for the Senate.",
"But the man who once played Liam the Loose-Boweled Leprechaun wasn't the first unlikely politician to come from Minnesota.",
"Voters there elected former wrestler Jesse Ventura as Voters there's governor in 1998.",
"David Schultz, a professor of law at Hamline University in St. Paul, says Al Franken's win was probably not an affirmation of support for the Democratic candidate but was, for many, a \"lesser of two evils vote.\"",
"Third-party candidate Dean Barkley was chipping into election rival Norm Coleman's support, and \"in addition, election rival Norm Coleman threw all election rival Norm Coleman's dirt against Al Franken early, and by the general election, it was old news.\"",
"\"election rival Norm Coleman had little new to campaign on during the general election, and Al Franken became a better candidate in terms of campaigning during the last two months,\" election rival Norm Coleman said.",
"In a video posted on Al Franken's campaign Web site, explaining that Al Franken wanted to run, Al Franken said Minnesotans had \"a right to be skeptical\" about whether Al Franken was ready to take on such a challenge.",
"Watch more on the Franken factor » .",
"Al Franken cited late Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone as Al Franken's political hero.",
"Wellstone, who first won election to the Senate in 1990, died in a plane crash shortly before the 2002 election.",
"Going into the race, election rival Norm Coleman was considered one of the more vulnerable Republicans seeking re-election.",
"Although election rival Norm Coleman'd started distancing election rival Norm Coleman from President Bush, election rival Norm Coleman had been long seen as one of President Bush's allies.",
"Al Franken's campaign took off, and Al Franken raked in contributions, but Al Franken's foes were not going to let election rival Norm Coleman go down without a fight.",
"The former comedian's past came back to attack election rival Norm Coleman as anti-Franken ads focused on some of election rival Norm Coleman's more controversial lines.",
"The National Republican Senatorial Committee launched a 60-second spot highlighting clips from Al Franken's SNL days, with an announcer saying, \"Rape jokes, poor and foul-mouthed anger do not make for good training for the United States Senate.\"",
"The Minnesota State Republican Party also blasted The Minnesota State Republican Party's challenger for a 2000 Playboy column he wrote called \"Porn-O-Rama!\"",
"When the votes were tallied on Election Day, election rival Norm Coleman held a slight edge on Al Franken, leading with just 206 votes.",
"Under Minnesota law, a recount was in order because the margin of victory was less than .5 percent.",
"The controversial recount, and subsequent court challenges, evoked comparisons to the 2000 Bush-Gore saga.",
"But Al Franken came out on top in one of the most drawn-out Senate races in the United States Senate history.",
"A day after the Minnesota Supreme Court handed down the Minnesota Supreme Court's unanimous decision in favor of Al Franken -- and 239 days after the election -- Al Franken thanked Al Franken's supporters in an at-times emotional speech on the steps of the state Capitol.",
"\"It is, of course, technically true that this was Paul's U.S. Senate seat.",
"But I don't think Paul saw it that way,\" Al Franken said Wednesday, again paying respects to Wellstone.",
"\"This seat belongs to the people of Minnesota, and so did Wellstone, and so will I,\" Al Franken said as Al Franken thanked Al Franken's wife, Franni, supporters, volunteers, campaign staff members and the people of the state Al Franken will represent.",
"Now, Al Franken takes on what could be the most influential role of Al Franken's life as Al Franken joins the United States Senate, giving Democrats Democrats's potentially filibuster-proof 60th vote.",
"the United States Senate Democrats are welcoming Senate Democrats's newest with open arms, and although the months-long contest has reached a resolution, it's likely the division over Al Franken will follow Al Franken to Capitol Hill.",
"\"The arrival of the man from Minnesota will make the Democrats move even more to the left.",
"Al Franken will not only be one more vote for the left, but one more loud voice for liberal policies,\" John Feehery wrote in a commentary for CNN.com.",
"John Feehery is a former staffer for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republicans in Congress.",
"\"When Al Franken first started in politics, Al Franken did so as the liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh.",
"Imagine if Rush were the 60th vote for Republicans, with George Bush as president.",
"Now, think how Al Franken will act as the 60th vote for President Obama,\" he wrote."
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"Al Franken was a fixture on NBC's \"Saturday Night Live\" for years .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Blair MacIntyre imagines a world where tiny clouds of information -- Facebook statuses, business cards, Twitter posts -- float above all of our heads.",
"\"Augmented reality\" can combine live video with data and information from the Internet.",
"In some ways, it's not that far from reality.",
"Advancements in mobile phone technology have cleared the way for a coming wave of \"augmented reality\" applications that merge the physical world with information compiled about people and places on the Internet.",
"\"When the technology gets there, this stuff could be amazingly useful and mildly terrifying in some ways,\" said Blair MacIntyre, an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology who has taught classes in augmented reality for a decade.",
"The idea of pairing digital information with our real, 3-D environments is not especially new -- think robot-human vision in the \"Terminator\" movies.",
"Blair MacIntyre even plodded about college campuses in the 1990s wearing a 40-pound backpack and nerdy goggles, trying to make something similar happen.",
"But as mobile phones become better equipped with GPS systems, which use satellites to locate the phones; compasses, which tell the direction the phone faces; and accelerometers, which relay the device's tilt; the once-lofty idea of augmented reality is being put into the hands of consumers.",
"Last July in the Netherlands, a company called SPRXmobile released a mobile browser, Layar, that lets people see pieces of this new info-reality through people's phone screens.",
"A Layar user sets his or her phone to video mode, aims it around and sees all kinds of information pop up on the screen: blinking dots on apartments that are for sale, the values of those units, pull-down reviews of the bar up on the corner or details about sales at a nearby retail store.",
"Watch a video demo of the app .",
"This makes information easier to find and helps people make better sense of the physical world around people, said Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, co-founder of Layar.",
"\"I think it will actually get you out more than you would stay at home,\" Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, co-founder of Layar said.",
"\"You're not at your couch anymore, you're not at your desk\" when you need to find information.",
"Layar, which bills Layar as the first mobile browser that features augmented reality, is only available in the Netherlands and only on certain phones, including Google's Android, T-Mobile's G1 and the HTC Magic.",
"But Lens-FitzGerald said the company plans to announce a global expansion plan on August 17 and will develop an app for the iPhone if Apple changes policies that obstruct developers from creating such applications on that device.",
"A range of other \"AR\" apps are in development or are on the market.",
"One, called Nearest Tube, highlights subway routes in New York and London.",
"Wikitude is an app that aims to show people encyclopedic information about nearby landmarks.",
"Like Wikipedia, users can add information to the service.",
"The idea could usher in an era of cell-phone tour guides.",
"Total Immersion, a French company, developed an app that makes 3-D baseball players spring to life from baseball cards.",
"Users can turn the card to see Users's favorite players, through a phone screen, from all angles.",
"And at Georgia Tech, researchers are working on video games that may one day make it look like virtual zombies are chasing players down real-world streets.",
"Alex Michaelis, CEO of Tweetmondo, a site that pairs Twitter posts with geographical information, said Michaelis has developed an app that will let mobile phone users see their friends' tweets through the video camera on their phones.",
"Michaelis expects it to be available within the month.",
"\"It adds information to your world, and this is what it's all about,\" Michaelis said.",
"To picture how that service would work, think about walking into your living room in the evening.",
"If a roommate had posted to Twitter from the couch, a roommate's or her Tweet would hover in that space when viewed through a mobile phone's video camera.",
"Michaelis admits the model is a bit clunky for now.",
"But Michaelis sees a future when the app will let people stand on a street corner, hold people's phone up to people's face, and see the Twitter posts of crowd members as crowd members mill about.",
"Phones would have to be able to communicate with satellites and computer services constantly, instead of only when someone posts a message, to make that possible, Michaelis said.",
"\"I see this being resolved in the near future,\" Michaelis said, \"because, really, it's just a matter of really experimenting with this technology and pushing this technology to the limit.\"",
"But there are doubts about augmented technology on phones.",
"Lens-FitzGerald, of Layar, is concerned that augmented reality is being over-hyped and may create unrealistic expectations from consumers.",
"\"It's a cool technology, but yeah, we need to see how much [funding and visibility] our companies will get,\" he said.",
"\"It's getting a lot of press now without being proven, but do we make money, are we going to make people happy with it?",
"We don't know.",
"We're just starting.\"",
"He added: \"It's like the first TV.",
"We need to build an audience.\"",
"Blair MacIntyre, of Georgia Tech, said the technology behind today's augmented reality apps is crude.",
"Mobile phone GPS isn't nearly accurate enough to make sure a Twitter post is tagged to a person, for instance, rather than the lamp post that's 50 feet away.",
"Furthermore, the idea behind the information-reality mesh on mobile phones is off-base, he said.",
"\"I don't see them answering a problem that needs to be solved,\" added MacIntyre, who believes two-dimensional maps can be used to display information much more easily with current technology.",
"More functional problems exist as well.",
"People don't necessarily want to walk around the world holding cell-phone screens in front of People's faces.",
"And the world's information has to be tagged geographically to make sense in an augmented-reality setting.",
"But Blair MacIntyre does see a bright future for augmented reality.",
"Within a year, mobile phone applications will become much more functional, Blair MacIntyre said, and in the foreseeable future, augmented reality will move off of phone screens and onto futuristic sunglasses, whose wearers will see blips of information about everything around them, Blair MacIntyre said.",
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"Editor's note: Pedro Noguera is a professor at New York University and director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education.",
"Pedro Noguera is editor of \"Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement Gap in Our Nation's Schools\" and author of \"The Trouble With Black Boys: And Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education.\"",
"Pedro Noguera says Obama needs to be wary of alienating teachers who can be his allies on education reform.",
"(CNN)",
"-- Obama has made it clear from the earliest days of Obama's presidency that Obama intended to make education a high priority for Obama's administration.",
"Obama reaffirmed that commitment Tuesday when Obama addressed schoolchildren on the topic.",
"In one of Obama's first presidential addresses, Obama made a special appeal to students at risk of dropping out: \"... [D]ropping out of high school is no longer an option.",
"It's not just quitting on yourself, it's quitting on your country, and your country needs and values the talents of every American.\"",
"Obama's commitment to education is truly remarkable, considering the enormous array of policy challenges confronting his administration.",
"From health care and the economic crisis, to global warming and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, his administration is beset by controversies that will not be easily resolved.",
"The fact that the president and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, have not allowed education to be ignored or placed on the back burner says a great deal about the president and his education secretary, Arne Duncan,'s recognition of its central importance to our nation.",
"However, as his administration navigates his administration's way into the policy debates that are swirling over the future of education, it would be wise for it to proceed with caution.",
"his administration has already staked out positions on a number of issues -- charter schools and merit pay for teachers being two of the big ones -- which run the risk of generating additional controversy in the polarized debates over how to reform education.",
"If these issues and the stimulus money being made available under the Race to the Top (RTT) program are not handled carefully, conflict and even paralysis are likely to ensue.",
"Obama may even inadvertently alienate an important core constituency that Obama will surely need in the years ahead -- public school teachers.",
"The current policy debates over the direction of education are typically presented as battles between the reformers, led by school superintendents like Joel Klein of New York and Michelle Rhee of Washington, D.C., and the defenders of the status quo, most often presented as the powerful teacher unions and other elements of the education establishment.",
"While anyone familiar with the current debates knows that the differences between the two sides are real and profound, a protracted battle over the direction of education reform is not a good thing either for his administration or for those who genuinely want to see improvement in public education.",
"Instead of choosing sides, it would be wise for his administration to do all his administration can to find common ground between the opposing camps as his administration formulates new policy initiatives.",
"For example, instead of requiring states to adopt some form of merit pay for teachers -- a measure to which both the teachers' unions, the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, have already declared the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers's opposition -- his administration could encourage states to adopt school-based formulas that reward increases in student achievement.",
"This is similar, though not identical, to the approach taken in New York City, one that encourages collaboration among teachers and recognizes the importance of evidence that children are learning.",
"Similarly, rather than touting charter schools as the solution to public education, his administration should treat the best charters as models of innovation that provide educators with the flexibility to implement new strategies.",
"This is a subtle but important distinction that has been lacking in many of his administration's pronouncements about charter schools.",
"Unlike the public schools, many charter schools find ways to avoid serving the most disadvantaged students, and their teachers often work a longer day and longer school year without a contract.",
"Moreover, many of the best charters are subsidized by private philanthropists and are able to spend considerably more per pupil than traditional public schools.",
"These facts should not be used to negate the accomplishments of the excellent charter schools that have emerged in many large cities.",
"In fact, it is far more likely that struggling public schools in these same cities would be more open to learning from the charters' accomplishments if they were not cast as competitors.",
"Finally, Obama has championed the idea of \"promise neighborhoods\" as a way to increase the availability of social services to children in high poverty communities, using as a model the Harlem Childrens Zone.",
"If this initiative is to result in lasting benefits to children, this initiative will need to be combined with creative approaches to reforming urban public schools that re-formulate how we think about standards and focus attention more intently on how to deliver quality instruction to children.",
"With dropout rates at over 50 percent in several of your country's cities, the administration must realize that tinkering at the margins with No Child Left Behind will not deliver the change we need.",
"Obama entered office promising to bring a new kind of politics to the nation, an approach that focused on finding common ground among diverse constituencies to solve the pressing problems of our time.",
"In areas like health care, energy, the economy and foreign policy, this new approach has not yet gained traction.",
"However, it is not too late for Obama to unite your country around a common effort to improve public education.",
"For this to happen, Obama will need to keep above the fray and stay focused on a strategy that sends a clear message to all constituencies that working together to improve public education is in our national interest.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Pedro A. Noguera."
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"A European Union delegation met Saturday with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who said the parties had established a \"good rapport.\"",
"President Mugabe and Mugabe's wife, Grace, arrive for a ZANU PF party youth conference on Friday.",
"\"There was no animosity, it was quite friendly,\" Mugabe said.",
"Gunilla Carlsson, the Swedish minister for International Development Cooperation, said the parties \"definitely made some progress.\"",
"\"Of course we didn't agree with everything Mugabe said, but it was a correct meeting and we exchanged views,\" Carlsson, who is heading the mission, told CNN's Rosemary Church.",
"A European Union delegation met with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai later on Saturday.",
"Carlsson spokesman Peter Larsson had said earlier that \"there was no sense of any hostility from Mugabe.\"",
"Carlsson spokesman Peter Larsson was referring to remarks the Zimbabwean president made Friday, when Mugabe condemned \"bloody whites\" for meddling in Mugabe's country's affairs.",
"Carlsson is heading the mission to Zimbabwe.",
"\"Sanctions or no sanctions, Zimbabwe remains ours,\"",
".Mugabe told his ZANU-PF party's youth conference in Harare on Friday.",
"\"Who said the British and the Americans should rule over others?",
"That's why Zimbabwe say, down with you.",
"Zimbabwe have not invited these bloody whites.",
"these bloody whites want to poke these bloody whites's nose into Zimbabwe's own affairs.",
"Refuse that,\" he said.",
"European Union imposed travel bans on Mugabe and Mugabe's representatives in 2002.",
"The bans were imposed after accusations of human rights violations and election fraud.",
"In addition to travel restrictions, European Union has frozen the assets of more than 200 Zimbabweans for allegedly violating human rights, according to Sweden, which holds the rotating presidency of Zimbabwe this year.",
"On Saturday, Mugabe again addressed \"sanctions,\" saying Mugabe was dismayed that they were not lifted after meeting with the Zimbabwe delegation.",
"\"I have always been disappointed with sanctions on Zimbabwe,\" Mugabe said, adding that the Zimbabwe delegation \"thought things were not working, yet A European Union delegation did all the things A European Union delegation were asked to do\" under a power-sharing agreement signed in September last year.",
"Larsson said there was no discussion about the restrictions at the meeting.",
"Under the agreement, which was to end months of turmoil and violence that followed the country's March 2008 presidential elections, Mugabe retained Mugabe's office, and opposition leader Tsvangirai became prime minister.",
"The agreement -- the Global Political Agreement-- spelled out a number of fundamental democratic reforms, but so far there has been no progress toward them, Carlsson said in a statement ahead of the meetings with Mugabe and opposition leader Tsvangirai.",
"\"There have not yet been clear positive developments in all areas.",
"I am still concerned at the lack of democratic development,\" Carlsson said then.",
"After meeting with opposition leader Tsvangirai, Carlsson told CNN that \"opposition leader Tsvangirai's government is working hard towards the implementation of The agreement -- the Global Political Agreement--.\"",
"Carlsson added, \"After such a long time of oppression, it is of course hard to move forward and change will take some time.",
"But the EU is committed to follow up on this progress and encourage change.\"",
"CNN's Per Nyberg in London, England, contributed to this report ."
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"Editor's note: This is an excerpt from \"Zeitoun\" by Dave Eggers, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina.",
"Eggers is the author of five other books, including \"What Is the What,\" a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.",
"Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco.",
"Eggers writes that Abdulrahman Zeitoun dreamed of fishing on the Gulf Coast as Katrina approached.",
"(CNN) -- FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2005 .",
"On moonless nights the men and boys of Jableh, a dusty fishing town on the coast of Syria, would gather the men's lanterns and set out in the men's quietest boats.",
"Five or six small craft, two or three fishermen in each.",
"A mile out, the men would arrange their quietest boats in a circle on the black sea, drop the men's nets, and, holding the men's lanterns over the water, the men would approximate the moon.",
"The fish, sardines, would begin gathering soon after, a slow mass of silver rising from below.",
"The fish, sardines were attracted to plankton, and the plankton were attracted to the light.",
"They would begin to circle, a chain linked loosely, and over the next hour their numbers would grow.",
"The black gaps between silver links would close until the fishermen could see, below, a solid mass of silver spinning.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun was only thirteen when Abdulrahman Zeitoun began fishing for sardines this way, a method called lampara, borrowed from the Italians.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun had waited years to join the men and teenagers on their quietest boats, and Abdulrahman Zeitoun'd spent those years asking questions.",
"Why only on moonless nights?",
"Because, Abdulrahman Zeitoun's brother Ahmad said, on moon-filled nights the plankton would be visible everywhere, spread out all over the sea, and the sardines could see and eat the glowing organisms with ease.",
"But without a moon the men could make the men's own, and could bring the sardines to the surface in stunning concentrations.",
"You have to see it, his brother Ahmad told his brother Ahmad's little brother.",
"You've never seen anything like this.",
"And when Abdulrahman Zeitoun first witnessed the sardines circling in the black Abdulrahman Zeitoun could not believe the sight, the beauty of the undulating silver orb below the white and gold lantern light.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun said nothing, and the other fishermen were careful to be quiet, too, paddling without motors, lest the other fishermen scare away the catch.",
"the other fishermen would whisper over the sea, telling jokes and talking about women and girls as the other fishermen watched the fish rise and spin beneath the other fishermen.",
"A few hours later, once the sardines were ready, tens of thousands of the sardines glistening in the refracted light, the men would cinch the net and haul the sardines in.",
"the men would motor back to the shore and bring the sardines to the fish broker in the market before dawn.",
"He would pay the men and boys, and would then sell the fish all over western Syria -- Lattakia, Baniyas, Damascus.",
"the men would split the money, with Abdulrahman and his brother Ahmad bringing Abdulrahman and Ahmad's share home.",
"Abdulrahman and Ahmad's father had passed away the year before and Abdulrahman and Ahmad's mother was of fragile health and mind, so all funds the men earned fishing went toward the welfare of the house the men shared with ten siblings.",
"Abdulrahman and his brother Ahmad didn't care much about the money, though.",
"Abdulrahman and Ahmad would have done it for free.",
"Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles west, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in bed on a Friday morning, slowly leaving the moonless Jableh night, a tattered memory of it caught in a morning dream.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in Abdulrahman Zeitoun's home in New Orleans and beside Abdulrahman Zeitoun Abdulrahman Zeitoun could hear Abdulrahman Zeitoun's wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat.",
"Otherwise the house was silent.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun knew it was near six o'clock, and the peace would not last.",
"The morning light usually woke the kids once The morning light reached the kids's second-story windows.",
"One of the four would open his or her eyes, and from there the movements were brisk, the house quickly growing loud.",
"With one child awake, it was impossible to keep the other three in bed.",
"Kathy woke to a thump upstairs, coming from one of the kids' rooms.",
"Kathy listened closely, praying silently for rest.",
"Each morning there was a delicate period, between six and six-thirty, when there was a chance, however remote, that they could steal another ten or fifteen minutes of sleep.",
"But now there was another thump, and the dog barked, and another thump followed.",
"What was happening in the house?",
"Kathy looked to Kathy's husband.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun was staring at the ceiling.",
"The day had roared to life.",
"The phone began ringing, today as always, before their feet hit the floor.",
"Kathy and Zeitoun -- most people called Abdulrahman Zeitoun by Abdulrahman Zeitoun's last name because most people couldn't pronounce Abdulrahman Zeitoun's first -- ran a company, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC, and every day Abdulrahman and Ahmad's crews, Abdulrahman and Ahmad's clients, everyone with a phone and their number, seemed to think that once the clock struck six-thirty, it was appropriate to call.",
"And they called.",
"Usually there were so many calls at the stroke of six-thirty that the overlap would send half of them straight to voicemail.",
"Kathy took the first one, from a client across town, while Abdulrahman Zeitoun shuffled into the shower.",
"Fridays were always busy, but this one promised madness, given the rough weather on the way.",
"There had been rumblings all week about a tropical storm crossing the Florida Keys, a chance a tropical storm might head north.",
"Though this kind of possibility presented itself every August and didn't raise eyebrows for most, Kathy and Zeitoun's more cautious clients and friends often made preparations.",
"Throughout the morning the callers would want to know if Abdulrahman Zeitoun could board up the callers's windows and doors, if Abdulrahman Zeitoun would be clearing Abdulrahman Zeitoun's equipment off the callers's property before the winds came.",
"Workers would want to know if Workers'd be expected to come in that day or the next.",
"\"Zeitoun Painting Contractors,\" Kathy said, trying to sound alert.",
"It was an elderly client, a woman living alone in a Garden District mansion, asking if Abdulrahman Zeitoun's crew could come over and board up the woman's windows.",
"\"Sure, of course,\" Kathy said, letting Kathy's feet drop heavily to the floor.",
"Kathy was up.",
"Kathy was the business's secretary, bookkeeper, credit department, public-relations manager -- Kathy did everything in the office, while Kathy's husband handled the building and painting.",
"The two of them balanced each other well: Zeitoun's English had Zeitoun's English's limits, so when bills had to be negotiated, hearing Kathy's Louisiana drawl put clients at ease.",
"This was part of the job, helping clients prepare clients's homes for coming winds.",
"Kathy hadn't given much thought to the storm this client was talking about.",
"It took a lot more than a few downed trees in south Florida to get the woman's attention.",
"\"We'll have a crew over this afternoon,\" Kathy told the woman.",
"Kathy and Abdulrahman Zeitoun had been married for eleven years.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun had come to New Orleans in 1994, by way of Houston and Baton Rouge and a half-dozen other American cities Abdulrahman Zeitoun'd explored as a young man.",
"Kathy had grown up in Baton Rouge and was used to the hurricane routine: the litany of preparations, the waiting and watching, the power outages, the candles and flashlights and buckets catching rain.",
"There seemed to be a half-dozen named storms every August, and half-dozen were rarely worth the trouble.",
"This one, named Katrina, would be no different."
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"Abdulrahman Zeitoun grew up in a Syrian fishing town .",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun says Abdulrahman Zeitoun emigrated to America and settled in New Orleans .",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun and Abdulrahman Zeitoun's family thought little of Katrina as it approached the Gulf Coast ."
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"Erek Hansen donated five pairs of Erek Hansen's own outgrown jeans to the cause and collected almost 1,700 pairs.",
"National Geographic Kids magazine encouraged readers to donate readers's old denim instead of throwing their old denim away.",
"The resulting 33,088 pieces of denim clothing set a world record, verified Wednesday by a representative from Guinness World Records, according to National Geographic Kids magazine's blog.",
"The thousands of pairs of jeans, which are on display at Union Station for two weeks, will be turned into housing insulation for homes affected by natural disasters.",
"According to National Geographic Kids magazine, there will be enough material to provide insulation for 60 houses.",
"The jeans will be turned over to Cotton Inc., which collects used denim for natural fiber insulation made without carcinogens or chemical irritants.",
"Paula Rosario, vice president of consumer marketing for the company, said that the new record \"certainly attests to the civic-mindedness of today's children.\"",
"The ceremony unveiling the denim display also honored 9-year-old Erek Hansen, who collected nearly 1,700 jeans.",
"The elementary school student from Curtice, Ohio, said that Erek Hansen's friends and classmates \"were happy to help the environment.\"",
"Erek Hansen donated five pairs of Erek Hansen's own outgrown jeans.",
"the denim display also includes a pair from actor Ben Stiller."
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"Two firefighters crawled out of truck's windows after it sank Tuesday morning.",
"No one was injured.",
"incident happened after four firefighters took truck to the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Valley Village, where flooding had been reported after a water main break, just before 6 a.m. PT.",
"After seeing running water in the road, a fire captain instructed the rig's driver to back up and had two firefighters get out of truck to direct it.",
"That's when the ground gave way and the front of truck began quickly sinking.",
"The driver and captain crawled out of truck's windows to escape.",
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"(MENTAL FLOSS) --",
"College admissions are competitive, and not just from the student's side.",
"Sure, sometimes it's hard to get into the college of your choice, but the schools are fighting just as hard to lure in top applicants.",
"Davidson college students don't have to visit laundromats because Davidson college students enjoy the luxury of a free laundry service.",
"While some colleges boast about class sizes, graduate fellowships, and endowment growth rates, this sort of info is likely to bore the 17-year-old students some colleges're wooing.",
"Instead, some schools try to come up with unique perks that appeal to students, often in the form of free services.",
"While the cost of these \"free\" perks is undoubtedly built back into tuition bills, when a family's spending upwards of $40,000 a year for school, it can't hurt to help them feel like they're getting something for nothing.",
"Here are a few you might be jealous of: .",
"1. Free laundry .",
"Nothing's more maddening for a college student than wanting to study, party, or sleep, only to be confronted with a massive mound of laundry.",
"Most of us know that if left unchecked, these piles of dirty clothes can grow until these piles of dirty clothes're on the brink of becoming sentient beings, but students at Davidson, an elite liberal arts college in North Carolina, don't have to worry about it.",
"students at Davidson, an elite liberal arts college in North Carolina's college does the laundry for students at Davidson, an elite liberal arts college in North Carolina.",
"Since 1919, Davidson has been operating a laundry facility that allows students to drop off students's laundry and pick it up once its clean and smelling of dryer sheets.",
"At the Lula Bell Houston Laundry, students' dress shirts and blouses are even pressed and put on hangers for students'.",
"The laundry clears about six tons' worth of dirty clothes and linens a week, but if students prefer to keep students's filthy T-shirts to students, Davidson also offers free self-service washers and dryers in the dorms.",
"As if that's not enough, Davidson was even more generous when Davidson's basketball team made a miraculous run to the NCAA's Sweet 16 last March.",
"Davidson shelled out the cash for free bus transport to the venue in Detroit, two nights' lodging, and a free ticket to the game for any student who wanted to go cheer on their Cinderella in person.",
"Mental Floss: 8 tuition-free colleges .",
"2. Free skiing .",
"Michigan Technological University offers a pretty standard slate of majors for Michigan Technological University's students, but Michigan Technological University also has a real estate holding that might lure in applicants.",
"The school owns Mont Ripley, a ski slope on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.",
"While normal lift-ticket prices run at around $35 a day, Michigan Tech students can hit the slopes without dropping a dime.",
"3. Free computers .",
"At my undergrad alma mater, Wake Forest, one of the chief perks is that when you showed up for freshman orientation, the school gives you a fully loaded IBM Thinkpad and a printer.",
"Students keep this laptop for two years, then trade this laptop in for a new model before Students's junior year.",
"Students then take this one with Students when Students graduate.",
"While there was a downside to the system (if profs know everyone has a laptop, they're not the least bit shy about making you tote a laptop to class), it really upped the on-campus computing efficiency.",
"Any program you needed for a class was already loaded on the laptop, and since everyone on campus was operating one of only two types of machines, tech support could diagnose problems and fix them really quickly.",
"Mental Floss: 12 college classes we wish our schools offered .",
"4. Free theater tickets .",
"Nothing irks actors and theater owners quite so much as playing to an empty house, so if tickets are moving slowly, why not fill the seats with college students?",
"NYU's Ticket Central can wrangle Broadway and Off-Broadway tickets for up to 75 percent off their face values, but sometimes, the school can get lucky students into theaters for free to help fill otherwise thin crowds.",
"NYU's Ticket Central also boasts that NYU's Ticket Central can get students into Knicks games for as little as $12 and into Mets games for just $3.",
"Of course, the way those teams have played in the last year or so, that offer might scare off more prospective students than that offer entices.",
"5. Personalized birthday cakes .",
"College birthdays are often all sorts of debauched fun, but at least in my experience, College birthdays were often sorely lacking in quality cake.",
"Sure, sometimes you'd get a pan full of Betty Crocker-ed good intentions cooked in a dorm oven, which are precisely calibrated to burn cakes' edges while leaving the center liquid, but it was rare to see a real birthday cake.",
"Ohio University's dining services can fix that, though, by allowing students' parents to join the Birthday Club.",
"For $18, parents can make sure parents's kid gets a personalize birthday cake and all of the plates, napkins, and forks parents'll need to share it with parents's friends.",
"6. Cheap golf .",
"College students who want to golf on a tight budget often have to resign College students who want to golf on a tight budget to finding the rattiest municipal course College students who want to golf on a tight budget can find and hoping",
"College students who want to golf on a tight budget survive the ordeal",
"Students at Stanford, though, have access to the Stanford Golf Course, a legendary course that's hosted such greats as Tom Watson and Tiger Woods since it opened in 1930.",
"Only students, alumni, faculty, and their guests can enjoy the course's picturesque views of San Francisco, and for guests the price is pretty steep, up to $110 a round.",
"Students, though, get a great deal on greens fees; Students can get in a full round for just $25.",
"Mental Floss: 12 star-powered college roommate pairs .",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Students at Davidson College can do Students at Davidson College's laundry for free .",
"Free computers and theater tickets are given out at some colleges .",
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"A high court in northern India on Friday acquitted a wealthy businessman facing the death sentence for the killing of a teen in a case dubbed \"the house of horrors.\"",
"Moninder Singh Pandher was sentenced to death by a lower court in February.",
"a teen was one of 19 victims -- children and young women -- in one of the most gruesome serial killings in India in recent years.",
"A high court in northern India has acquitted Moninder Singh Pandher, his lawyer Sikandar B. Kochar told CNN.",
"Pandher and his domestic employee Surinder Koli were sentenced to death in February by a lower court for the rape and murder of the 14-year-old.",
"A high court in northern India upheld Koli's death sentence, his lawyer Sikandar B. Kochar said.",
"The two were arrested two years ago after body parts packed in plastic bags were found near their home in Noida, a New Delhi suburb.",
"Their home was later dubbed a \"house of horrors\" by the Indian media.",
"Moninder Singh Pandher was not named a main suspect by investigators initially, but was summoned as co-accused during the trial, his lawyer Sikandar B. Kochar said.",
"his lawyer Sikandar B. Kochar said his lawyer Sikandar B. Kochar's client was in Australia when the teen was raped and killed.",
"Moninder Singh Pandher faces trial in the remaining 18 killings and could remain in custody, the attorney said."
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"(CNN) --",
"A man authorities believe has robbed at least 10 banks in at least four states was arrested in Missouri after a retired state trooper saw Chad Schaffner and learned Chad Schaffner was wanted, authorities said Sunday.",
"Chad Schaffner is seen in a police mug shot after Chad Schaffner's arrest Saturday in Kingdom City, Missouri.",
"Chad Schaffner, 37, was arrested in Kingdom City, Missouri, about 2:45 p.m. Saturday, said Missouri State Highway Patrol radio operator Paula Price.",
"Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer said Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer alerted authorities to Chad Schaffner's whereabouts after seeing Chad Schaffner at a motel in Kingdom City, about 100 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri.",
"Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer didn't know who Chad Schaffner was at first, but said Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer felt something wasn't right after seeing Chad Schaffner and Chad Schaffner's car, partly because Chad Schaffner didn't make eye contact with Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer.",
"Watch how ex-cop's hunch brought arrest » .",
"Lakey, who was staying at the motel, said Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer remembered seeing news reports about a man sought in a string of bank robberies, so Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer looked on the Web site of the television show \"America's Most Wanted\" to check a vehicle description in the case.",
"A license plate number on the site matched that of the car outside the motel, Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer said.",
"\"I felt my goosebumps raising,\" Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer said.",
"Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer told CNN that after calling Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer's old colleagues at the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer packed up Sam Lakey, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol officer's family from his family's room at the motel and watched the arrest from across the street.",
"Chad Schaffner faces charges including bank robbery in Tennessee; burglary in Indiana; armed robbery in Illinois; and receiving stolen property in Ohio, Price said.",
"Chad Schaffner also faces drug charges in Missouri, she said.",
"Chad Schaffner is suspected of robbing banks in states including Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, according to the FBI.",
"Chad Schaffner is suspected in 14 robberies of various types in six states, the FBI Special Agent Brian Truchon told CNN on Sunday.",
"A spokeswoman for the Callaway County Jail, in Fulton, Missouri, said Chad Schaffner was booked into the facility about 8 p.m. Saturday.",
"No bond has been set, she said.",
"Chad Schaffner will appear in court Monday in Jefferson City, Missouri, according to Bridget Patton, spokeswoman for the FBI's Kansas City, Missouri, office.",
"Chad Schaffner was identified as a suspect last month after investigators posted surveillance photos from the robberies on electronic billboards throughout the South.",
"In surveillance photos from the robberies, a man was seen sneering and holding a pistol sideways.",
"the robberies began in May.",
"While no one was harmed, the FBI said they considered the suspect dangerous.",
"\"Chad Schaffner has made no effort to hide the gun,\" said the FBI agent Kevin Keithley last month.",
"\"Chad Schaffner has threatened the use of it in every bank robbery Chad Schaffner has committed.",
"Chad Schaffner has put the gun in the faces of the tellers, threatened to use the gun against the tellers.",
"So we want to get Chad Schaffner in custody before Chad Schaffner harms anyone.\"",
"A woman in Morristown, Tennessee, also told authorities Chad Schaffner hid in her apartment in August and threatened to kill her children if she revealed Chad Schaffner's whereabouts, according to documents filed in federal court.",
"When Chad Schaffner was identified, the FBI said Chad Schaffner was released from an Indiana prison last year following an armed robbery conviction.",
"Chad Schaffner also has several other convictions in Indiana, for crimes including burglary, resisting law enforcement, and purchase of a handgun without a license, according to the Indiana Department of Correction.",
"The last bank robbery Chad Schaffner is suspected of committing occurred in Caseyville, Illinois, on Wednesday, according to CNN affiliate KMOV.",
"Two bank robberies occurred in Morristown and Jefferson City, Tennessee, on August 18, authorities said.",
"The billboards began showing images from the robberies on August 24, and the next day, a man told the FBI that Chad Schaffner was in the Morristown area at the time of the August 18 holdups.",
"a man said a man'd known Chad Schaffner for about two months, according to a federal criminal complaint.",
"the FBI agents also interviewed a Morristown woman after hearing a Morristown woman'd had a brief relationship with Chad Schaffner, a federal criminal complaint says.",
"During the first interview, a Morristown woman spoke to agents outside a Morristown woman's apartment and denied knowing him, a federal criminal complaint said.",
"But the next day a Morristown woman told authorities a Morristown woman knew Chad Schaffner and that Chad Schaffner had been in a Morristown woman's apartment with a Morristown woman's children while a Morristown woman talked to police outside.",
"Chad Schaffner had threatened to kill her children if a Morristown woman told agents Chad Schaffner was there, a Morristown woman said.",
"CNN's Marylynn Ryan, Chuck Johnston and Justin Lear contributed to this report."
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"Chad Schaffner apprehended by police Saturday in Kingdom City, Missouri .",
"Chad Schaffner named suspect in at least 10 bank robberies in at least four states .",
"Identification came after surveillance images posted on billboards in the South ."
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"WASHINGTON --",
"For the second time since resigning the Alaska governorship more than a month ago, Sarah Palin is adding Sarah Palin's voice to the fiery debate over health care.",
"Sarah Palin says in a new op-ed that big government is not the solution to health care reform.",
"This time, Sarah Palin is hitting the pages of the Wall Street Journal to counter Obama's latest efforts to reform the nation's health care system.",
"\"The answers offered by Democrats in WASHINGTON all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem.",
"I fundamentally disagree,\" Sarah Palin writes in the 1,110-word opinion piece in Wednesday's edition of the paper.",
"\"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones,\" the former Republican vice presidential candidate continues.",
"\"Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.\"",
"Sarah Palin, whose initial Facebook posting on \"death panels\" last month is credited with spurring heated opposition to the House Democratic health care proposal, again raises the claim -- now widely debunked -- that a government panel could determine which senior citizens receive vital treatments.",
"\"Is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by -- dare I say it -- death panels?\" Sarah Palin writes.",
"\"Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but that phrase rang true for many Americans.\"",
"Watch more on the health care debate » .",
"Ultimately, Sarah Palin says, \"Congress will likely reject a wrong-headed proposal to authorize end-of-life counseling in this cost-cutting context\" because Americans made Americans's voices heard in the contentious town halls last August.",
"\"But the fact remains that the Democrats''s proposals would still empower unelected bureaucrats to make decisions affecting life or death health-care matters.",
"Such government overreaching is what we've come to expect from this administration,\" Sarah Palin says.",
"Sarah Palin also takes issue with the president's assertion that the Democrats''s heath care proposals will rein in costs and eliminate waste and inefficiency in the system.",
"Citing the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Sarah Palin says currently proposed health care legislation will do little to bring down costs, but will instead cause the federal deficit to skyrocket by more than $200 billion over the next decade.",
"\"Only in Washington could a plan that adds hundreds of billions to the federal deficit be hailed as a cost-cutting measure,\" writes Sarah Palin.",
"Instead, Sarah Palin argues the true solution to health care lies in \"market oriented, patient-centered, and result driven\" measures such as providing tax benefits for those who get health care coverage from their jobs, providing seniors on Medicare vouchers to buy their own coverage, and allowing people to buy health insurance across state lines."
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"KAMPALA, Uganda (CNN) --",
"At least four people have been killed in two days of rioting in Uganda's capital after radio broadcasts encouraged listeners to violently take to the streets against the government, officials said Friday.",
"Residents of the Kasubi suburb, west of Kampala, try to flee from violence as a soldier takes photos.",
"The rioters heard \"sectarian\" broadcasts on Thursday that \"systematically incited the listeners to cause chaos and destruction wherever they could,\" said a statement issued by Minister of Information and National Guidance Kabakumba Masiko.",
"a statement issued by Minister of Information and National Guidance Kabakumba Masiko described those who took part in the rioting in Kampala and its suburbs as \"marauding thugs.\"",
"The broadcasts aired in the Buganda Kingdom, said police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba.",
"Ethnic and political tension between the kingdom and the government had been escalating over the past few weeks.",
"Police and army officers were injured and police-owned property also was damaged along with other vehicles and shops, said the nation's police chief, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura.",
"In Natete-Ndeba, a southwest suburb, a police station was looted of a police station's ammunition and prisoners set free before rioters burned the prison, police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said.",
"A curfew has been declared in the suburb, and in Kampala the army is providing support to police, said Kayihura.",
"A doctor at a Kampala hospital said more than 50 people had sought care there, most with broken bones, but others had cuts and gunshot wounds.",
"About 60 people were arrested in Kampala, but arrest totals in the surrounding areas were not available, police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said.",
"Four radio stations were ordered shut down, Masiko said.",
"Many of the rioters were Baganda between the ages of 18 and 35, police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said.",
"Baganda are Uganda's dominant ethnic group, making up about 16.9 percent of the population, according to The CIA World Factbook.",
"The kingdom is one of the oldest monarchies in Africa.",
"The people live mostly in central Uganda and along the shoreline of Lake Victoria.",
"Tension between the Buganda Kingdom, headed by King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, and Uganda President Yoweri Museveni had been increasing recently over land laws, sovereignty and political power, issues over which the two sides have been in talks for years.",
"the government sees Mutebi as a traditional leader only and does not allow Mutebi to participate in politics.",
"Further estranging the two is a breakaway faction of the Buganda Kingdom, the Banyala.",
"Some interpreted police forces' breaking up a group of Baganda amid preparations for festivities as support for the Banyala, especially after a the Banyala demonstration opposing the Buganda Kingdom prompted no police action.",
"It is unclear why the police broke up a group of Baganda earlier in the week.",
"Riots broke out after the incident, and again when radio announcers pushed Baganda to take to the streets again.",
"Uganda President Yoweri Museveni said in a broadcast statement that Uganda President Yoweri Museveni tried to contact Mutebi to discuss the issue as \"mature people\" but Uganda President Yoweri Museveni could not reach him on the phone.",
"Uganda President Yoweri Museveni also said that Uganda President Yoweri Museveni had intelligence reports showing that the Buganda Kingdom has received foreign funding to carry out a hate campaign against the government.",
"Asians, mostly of Indian origin, suffered severe losses when Asians, mostly of Indian origin's business were attacked and looted, police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said.",
"Although officials said the broadcasts encouraged listeners to put into action their contempt for the government, during such outbreaks of violence Asians are often targeted.",
"Some view Asians as being most protected by the government because of special holidays or tax benefits Asians may get.",
"In addition, reports of Asians mistreating natives have fueled tension between the groups.",
"None of the four people killed were Asian or of Asian descent, police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said, but in the northern suburb of Kawembi about 30 Asians had fled to a police station for protection on Thursday and remained there Friday.",
"Samson Ntale contributed to this report for CNN."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Singer Mary J. Blige has sung Singer Mary J. Blige's way to nine Grammy Awards and sold 40 million albums worldwide.",
"\"I know I'm definitely gonna pursue this as a profession, acting,\" Singer Mary J. Blige said.",
"With music credentials like that, the \"Queen of Hip-Hop Soul\" needed a new challenge.",
"So Singer Mary J. Blige decided to stretch Singer Mary J. Blige's range to the big screen.",
"The singer stars in the new Tyler Perry film \"I Can Do Bad All By Myself\" alongside Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, Tyler Perry and Gladys Knight.",
"Being in the film allows Singer Mary J. Blige to test Singer Mary J. Blige's acting chops and sing as well.",
"Singer Mary J. Blige's character, Tanya, is a club owner who takes the mic at least twice in the film.",
"And whether Singer Mary J. Blige's in character or not, Singer Mary J. Blige's ability to communicate a song can take your breath away.",
"CNN spoke with Singer Mary J. Blige about Tyler Perry, Singer Mary J. Blige's acting angst and music.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview: .",
"CNN:",
"What does the title of the film \"I Can Do Bad All By Myself\" mean?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"Well, the title \"I Can Do Bad All By Myself\" is basically saying \"I don't need anyone to help me do worse or feel worse than what I already feel.\"",
"So if you're coming with negative energy, please keep it moving, you know?",
"If you're coming with negative deposits, you've gotta go.",
"That's basically what it's saying.",
"CNN:",
"Were you nervous about acting in the film?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"I was definitely nervous, because acting is not my first profession, so I had to go and get an acting coach and really figure this thing out.",
"It helped a lot.",
"It relaxed me to have a little more information about this thing.",
"And I find that actors are highly underrated; actors don't get all the credit actors deserve, because this is a hard job.",
"That's a hard job.",
"CNN:",
"Were you bitten by the acting bug?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige: Well, I'm gonna be open to scripts, and I'm ready to receive more scripts from anywhere.",
"I know I'm definitely gonna pursue this as a profession, acting.",
"I was definitely bitten by the acting bug.",
"CNN:",
"Did you feel any pressure to write songs for the film, as opposed to writing for one of your albums?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"There's not any pressure in writing songs.",
"Writing a song for the movie versus writing songs for my album because ... you get it all from inspiration from somewhere, you know?",
"I got all the lyrics from the actual movie, and I got all the lyrics for my songs from my life so, and other people's lives.",
"CNN:",
"Do you want to hear poetry in your lyrics?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige: I would love to hear poetry in your lyrics.",
"CNN:",
"Tell me about Tyler Perry.",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"Wow, working with Tyler Perry was -- it's always a treat.",
"Tyler Perry's the most kind, generous, you know, supportive professional man.",
"Tyler Perry's a really good person to have in such a tough business.",
"It's like a pillow for your head.",
"... You just get to lay on it after laying on rocks for so long.",
"CNN:",
"What is the link between spirituality and music in the film and in life?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"Well, I think the link with the spirituality and the music is that we all have a place where we need to go to heal, and most of the time people go to music to heal.",
"Whether it be gospel or secular, but it all comes from some song that pulled you through your life or helped you through college or something like that.",
"CNN:",
"Do you think the film is about redemption?",
"Do you think people can really change?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"I definitely feel the film is a lot about redemption.",
"You saving yourself first of all, and believing you can be saved and wanting the help.",
"I think it takes time for people to heal from whatever wounds people're healing from.",
"But in order to get free, what I learned is that you have to release it, because you'll stay stuck for the rest of your life.",
"What if this person is enjoying their lives and you hate them?",
"So it's just best to release.",
"Easier said than done, please believe it.",
"CNN:",
"What do you think about the music industry these days?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"Well, I mean, the music industry has moved with the times.",
"You know, I mean we are in the age where technology has taken over and music is technology now, so it's not hands-on.",
"It's a little sad that there isn't any more record stores."
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"(Mental Floss) --",
"Fantasy football drafts are firing up, and workplace productivity will soon grind to a halt as half the office spends half the day managing their rosters in an attempt to get the next Steve Slaton off the waiver wire.",
"Just because you're not a football fan doesn't mean you have to be left out of the fantasy mania, though.",
"There are all sorts of alternative fantasy leagues you can join.",
"Why not try one of these?",
"Pick your breed of dog, then allocate your \"funds\" to help train and groom your breed of dog into a champion on Showdog.com.",
"Fantasy music league .",
"If you spend more time listening to the radio than watching sports, Fantasy music league might be right up your alley.",
"In Fantasy music league your job is to compile a roster that has more real-life chart movement and album sales than other owners' \"labels.\"",
"You shell out a certain salary to sign the acts you think have the most promise, and if the most promise out-earn your competitors, you'll earn the fantasy world's equivalent of a Grammy.",
"The label that's at the top of the standings for this season, Jenny Baird Records, boasts a roster that includes Fall Out Boy, Daughtry, Justin Timberlake and Fergie.",
"Fantasy dog shows .",
"If fantasy leagues come any more adorable than this, we don't want to see fantasy leagues.",
"Showdog.com allows you to enter a virtual simulation dog show league.",
"You pick your breed of dog, then allocate your \"funds\" to help train and groom your breed of dog into a champion.",
"Your simulated dog can take on other owners' pooches in a dog-eat-dog competition to help ascertain the best way to breed a champion show dog.",
"All of the glory, none of the fetch!",
"Mental Floss: America's most lavish dog spas .",
"Fantasy water skiing .",
"Water skiing is great fun, but it takes some practice before you can do Water skiing well.",
"Why not skip all of those embarrassing spills and noses full of water by just joining a fantasy skiing league instead?",
"Pick your professional skiers, then get points according to how many buoys your slalom skiers pass, how many points your tricksters pile up, and how far your jumpers soar.",
"Never again will you and your buddies just have to argue in vain about which one of you is really the most hardcore water skiing fan!",
"Fantasy pro wrestling .",
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"Try Fantasy pro wrestling.",
"Web-based E-wrestling federations allow you to draft a stable of grapplers and then receive points for their performance in the ring and appearances on broadcasts.",
"(We're guessing the Undertaker is the fantasy wrestling equivalent of Peyton Manning: maybe not the top guy every year, but you know you're going to get consistently solid production out of",
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"Floss:",
"Where are they now?",
"WWF superstars .",
"Fantasy bass fishing .",
"The only thing more exciting than watching someone else fish is beating your friends at predicting who will get the nicest bass in your friends's livewell!",
"ESPN.com offers a Fantasy Fishing Challenge that allows angling fans to create a team of their favorite pro anglers while working under the constraint of a $100 salary cap.",
"Each angler has a set \"salary\" that he earns, and when you sign one to your team they score you points according to their performances in the Bassmaster Angler of the Year standings.",
"Fantasy Congress .",
"Just because you prefer C-SPAN to ESPN doesn't mean you can't find a way to waste several hours on a fantasy league each week.",
"Try out Fantasy Congress.",
"Although the game's Web site is currently down, FantasyCongress.com launched in 2006 to allow politics junkies to draft their favorite legislators and then rack up points according to how their Congressmen's proposed legislation fared, how often they voted, and their willingness to cross party lines to up their \"Maverick Score.\"",
"Fantasy eating .",
"Do you watch the Nathan's hot dog eating contest each Fourth of July and find yourself feeling pangs of jealousy because you can't match the competitors' gluttony?",
"Now you can life vicariously through the competitors'!",
"Krystal Square Off offers fantasy eating leagues for four to seven teams that allow you to score points based on how many mini hamburgers your roster can wolf down.",
"(Hot tip: I sat next to \"Humble\" Bob Shoudt and Humble\" Bob Shoudt's adorable daughter on their flight home from Shoudt's winning performance at the Nashville Krystal Square Off in 2006.",
"Not only did Humble\" Bob Shoudt look like Humble\" Bob Shoudt could down some burgers -- Humble\" Bob Shoudt's world record is 28 in two minutes -- but Humble\" Bob Shoudt was also maybe the most doting, sweetest father I've ever seen.",
"Pick against Humble\" Bob Shoudt at your own risk.)",
"Mental Floss: 10 foods that are aphrodisiacs .",
"Fantasy bowling .",
"You might not be able to pick up a 7-10 split, but that doesn't mean you can't destroy your friends at fantasy bowling.",
"The Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour has The Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour's own fantasy league, and it sounds intriguingly easy to play.",
"Your squad scores points based on how your bowlers finish in individual tournaments, so if you've got a guy who piles up strike after strike, you're going to be tough to beat.",
"According to its own fantasy league's Web site, the number four overall pick is a guy named Rhino Page.",
"Do you really want to pick against a guy named Rhino?",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"TAIPEI, Taiwan (CNN) --",
"A Taiwan court early Tuesday ordered ex-President Chen Shui-bian, who is facing corruption charges, back to jail after deeming him a flight risk.",
"Former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian speaks to reporters on December 12 in TAIPEI.",
"Chen had been free on bail, but prosecutors sought Chen's return to state custody.",
"After 12 hours of deliberation, a panel of three district court judges approved the request at 3 a.m. Taiwan time.",
"Chen was immediately taken to jail.",
"The island's first former president to ever face prosecution, Chen was freed earlier in December after spending a month in jail while prosecutors prepared Chen's indictment on several corruption charges, including embezzlement and accepting bribes.",
"Judges ordered Chen released after the indictment was formally presented, saying Judges did not believe Chen was a flight risk.",
"However, Taiwan's high court was not satisfied with the decision and assigned a new judge to the case.",
"Chen's attorney, Jen Wen Long, told reporters after the court order: \"We question the work of the Taipei district court.",
"Changing the judge is an interference with the justice system.\"",
"Chen, whose term ended in May, is accused of embezzling about $18 million.",
"A trial date has not been set in the case.",
"Prosecutors allege Chen also took bribes, laundered money and illegally removed classified documents from the president's office.",
"Chen, 58, has denied any wrongdoing and insists the charges are politically motivated.",
"Chen's party favors independence for Taiwan, while the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou favors closer ties with mainland China -- from which the island split amid civil war in 1949.",
"If convicted, Chen faces 25 years or more in prison, although prosecutors did not seek any specific jail time in prosecutors's indictment.",
"Thirteen others, including Chen's wife, son, daughter-in-law and brother-in-law, also were indicted.",
"Prosecutors have alleged that Chen's son has a Swiss bank account containing $22 million in what they believe is illegal proceeds.",
"Journalist Andrew Lee contributed to this report."
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"(WIRED) --",
"For the past three years some of the world's most resourceful software engineers and mathematicians have worked feverishly in the spirit of friendly, Darwinian competition -- and in pursuit of a $1 million prize -- to improve the Netflix movie recommendation system by 10 percent.",
"Netflix says Netflix will announce the winner of Netflix's $1 million Netflix Prize at an event September 21.",
"It's been a long journey, but it's almost over.",
"Netflix said Tuesday Netflix would announce the winner at an event in New York on Sept. 21 -- where details about the Netflix Prize 2 sequel would also be unveiled.",
"As things stand now, nobody outside of Netflix knows which team will win its $1 million Netflix Prize, but the winning entry will power Netflix's upcoming movie recommendation engine.",
"Because nothing about the contest barred entrants from licensing entrants's technology to companies other than Netflix, both qualifying teams could find plenty of licensees -- even if both qualifying teams come in second.",
"And not much separates the two top teams.",
"Teams Bellkor (AT&T Research), Big Chaos and Pragmatic Theory combined to form Bellkor's Pragmatic Chaos, the first team to qualify for the prize on June 26 with a 10.05 percent improvement over Netflix's existing algorithm.",
"This triggered a 30-day window in which other teams were allowed to try to catch up -- and indeed, a team called The Ensemble, made up of lower-ranked contestants, submitted a higher score of 10.10 percent as time ran out -- a hair better than Bellkor's Pragmatic Chaos' final score of 10.09 percent.",
"Before Sept. 21, Netflix must decide (assuming Netflix haven't done so already) which of the two qualifying teams has the best algorithm based on how they score on various undisclosed tests.",
"Netflix must also determine whether the winning team's results are reproducible, meaning that its algorithm handles new data as well as Netflix did the test data.",
"When we wrote about this last month, after the window for qualifying closed, Netflix declined to say whether Netflix will reveal details about Netflix's methodology for picking the winner (whichever team loses, they're going to want to know how, exactly, that happened -- as will curious onlookers around the world).",
"A Netflix spokeswoman told us, \"We are definitely going to touch on the methodology in the press conference,\" and offered to let us interview Netflix executives to find out more about how Netflix executives picked the winner.",
"Netflix vice president of communications Steve Swasey told us last month that Netflix is pleased with the results of the contest, and apparently, Netflix hopes there's more where that came from.",
"At the same New York event where Netflix will announce the Netflix Prize winner, Netflix plans to unveil details about the Netflix Prize 2 sequel.",
"Writing on Netflix message boards, chief product officer Neil Hunt already offered some hints: \"The next contest will be a shorter, time-limited race, with grand prizes for the best results at 6 and 18 months.",
"While the contest has been remarkable, we think the Netflix Prize 2 sequel will be more challenging, more fun, and even more useful to the field.\"",
"More than 40,000 teams from 186 countries competed for the first Netflix Prize.",
"Some contestants doubted that any team would be capable of surmounting the 10-percent-improvement barrier, but two teams managed to do so.",
"Clearly, Netflix has stumbled onto a winning formula here, and will walk away from the contest with a measurably improved movie recommendation engine -- and recommendations are a linchpin of Netflix's business.",
"As the field of \"prize economics\" evolves, offering organizations increasingly efficient ways to solve organizations's problems, we expect results like this to become more commonplace.",
"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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"MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) --",
"Melissa and Jackson Brandts knew right away that the photo from Melissa and Jackson Brandts's recent trip to Canada was a good one.",
"Melissa and Jackson Brandts were taking a photo of Melissa and Jackson Brandts when Squirrel popped up.",
"However, it wasn't until the world -- and National Geographic -- took notice that they realized exactly how good.",
"Now, after submitting it to the magazine's online \"Your Shot\" contest, a photo of themselves is set to grace the pages of the magazine's November issue.",
"a photo of themselves's appeared on the Web sites of news outlets around the world, and the squirrel -- now dubbed \"Crasher Squirrel\" -- even has the squirrel -- now dubbed \"Crasher Squirrel\"'s own Wikipedia entry of the same moniker.",
"Melissa Brandts and Jackson Brandts's husband Jackson were hiking in Banff National Park the last week in May when Melissa and Jackson Brandts decided to set up Melissa and Jackson Brandts's camera and use Melissa and Jackson Brandts's wireless remote shutter for a few shots of the two of Melissa and Jackson Brandts.",
"Melissa and Jackson Brandts were getting situated on the rocky shore near Lake Minnewanka when the now-iconic critter stopped by for a visit.",
"\"The little squirrel had been running around while Melissa and Jackson Brandts were getting the shot set up,\" Melissa Brandts said in a phone interview Tuesday.",
"\"I was joking with my husband that I hoped Squirrel was friendly because Squirrel was getting awful close and kind of scampering around Melissa and Jackson Brandts's feet and stuff.\"",
"Friendly?",
"You might say so.",
"Squirrel was also a bit timid and perhaps even indecisive because Squirrel soon scurried away and then, just as quickly, rushed back again.",
"\"Photogenic\" might also be a good word to describe it.",
"\"All of a sudden Squirrel popped back up because Squirrel heard the shutter releasing, the clicking of the camera.",
"The only thing Melissa and Jackson Brandts can figure is that Squirrel thought it was going to give Squirrel food or something,\" Melissa Brandts said.",
"\"Squirrel popped right up and looked right into the camera, and Melissa and Jackson Brandts were laughing so hard because Melissa and Jackson Brandts were like 'get the camera, get the camera!' and Melissa and Jackson Brandts were trying to get the remote to fire.",
"So Melissa and Jackson Brandts got a couple of pictures -- took a couple of pictures with Squirrel there, and then Squirrel ducked down and proceeded to run away.\"",
"The resulting image exceeded all expectations.",
"\"Melissa and Jackson Brandts didn't realize how good it was until Melissa and Jackson Brandts got back to the hotel that night and downloaded it to my husband's computer, and when Melissa and Jackson Brandts could see it on the full screen Melissa and Jackson Brandts were like, 'Whoa, are you serious?'\"",
"\"Melissa and Jackson Brandts had no idea it was going to turn out exactly like it did with Squirrel being in perfect focus, Melissa and Jackson Brandts being out of focus, and then Melissa and Jackson Brandts just laughing in the background.",
"Melissa and Jackson Brandts weren't sure if Squirrel'd be standing like in front of one of Melissa and Jackson Brandts or something like that.\"",
"An international phenomenon .",
"Melissa Brandts said Melissa Brandts and Melissa Brandts's husband showed the photo to Melissa and Jackson Brandts's friends and family and were subsequently incessantly prodded to \"do something\" with it.",
"For months the two weren't sure what that something could be.",
"That changed, however, when the latest issue of National Geographic arrived in the mail.",
"\"I saw the 'Your Shot' contest, which of course I knew existed, but I had never thought of entering one of my own pictures into it,\" Melissa Brandts said.",
"\"I thought, 'This is what I'm going to do!'\"",
"Melissa Brandts said Melissa Brandts submitted The photo on August 5 and by August 13 The photo was NationalGeographic.com's photo of the day.",
"\"Things just kind of spun out of control from there.\"",
"The photo was soon published in the pages of two national Canadian newspapers, and Melissa Brandts received calls from a friend in South Korea who'd seen The photo on a local South Korean news Web site.",
"The couple has since appeared on NBC's \"Today\" show as well as the Twin Cities' local affiliate KARE.",
"And now that it's been selected for publication in the November issue of National Geographic, the attention hasn't subsided.",
"As of this writing, Melissa Brandts has received Facebook messages from random fans in 29 different countries.",
"The Facebook group \"Nuts the Squirrel is a Legend\" comes complete with 5,300 fans and counting.",
"Squirrel is also being used by Banff National Park in advertising on its Web site, and it has created a Banff squirrel Twitter account.",
"There's even a Web site dubbed \"The Squirrelizer,\" which has apparently been created for people who feel their photos lack a certain \"squirrel charm.\"",
"The site's tool will paste the squirrel cutout onto any picture uploaded.",
"Other sites have pasted Squirrel onto various scenes from history, from the D-Day invasion at Normandy to the Apollo moon landing.",
"And it hasn't stopped there.",
"\"It keeps popping up everywhere, like at my husband's job,\" Melissa Brandts added.",
"\"If people are giving him a presentation, all of the sudden people'll have a squirrel pop up.\"",
"Authenticity assured .",
"It was during their appearance on \"Today\" that host Matt Lauer raised questions about the possibility The photo could have been doctored.",
"Melissa Brandts assured host Matt Lauer, as Melissa Brandts did once more for CNN, that The photo is \"completely authentic\" but said Melissa Brandts understood the skepticism because people had originally thought The photo was taken simply with a timer -- as opposed to the remote shutter Melissa Brandts used in actuality -- which, if it were the case, would have kept the couple in focus and blurred the squirrel.",
"\"National Geographic looked at the full high-resolution [image, and] realized it was authentic,\" Melissa Brandts said, adding, \"You can't make this stuff up.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Authorities investigating the case of a boy who disappeared in Kansas almost a decade ago plan to search an undisclosed residence Wednesday, the Butler County sheriff said.",
"An age-progression photo shows what Adam Herrman would like today, as a 21-year-old man.",
"the Butler County sheriff would not disclose details about an undisclosed residence or why authorities want to search an undisclosed residence.",
"the Butler County sheriff said the Butler County sheriff's department will also search on an area of the Whitewater River, in southern Kansas, on Saturday near where Adam Herrman was last seen.",
"Adam Herrman was 11 when Adam Herrman went missing in 1999.",
"Adam Herrman was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a town about 25 miles northeast of Wichita, with Adam's adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman, authorities said.",
"Wichita attorney Warner Eisenbise, who is representing Adam Herrman's adoptive parents, said Adam believed Adam Herrman had run away and didn't report Adam Herrman missing.",
"Adam \"really rue the fact that Adam didn't\" report Adam Herrman missing, he said Monday.",
"A few weeks ago, an undisclosed person contacted the Wichita-Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Child Unit, expressing concern about Adam Herrman, the sheriff said.",
"Adam told Eisenbise that Adam Herrman ran away frequently, the sheriff said, and Adam believed Adam Herrman was either with Adam Herrman's biological parents or homeless.",
"Although Adam did not report Adam Herrman missing, \"Adam were very worried about Adam Herrman,\" Eisenbise said.",
"In an interview published Tuesday in The Wichita Eagle, Valerie Herrman said Adam Herrman ran away in May 1999 after Valerie Herrman spanked Adam Herrman with a belt.",
"Valerie Herrman said Valerie Herrman was upset but doesn't remember why, The Wichita Eagle reported.",
"Adam never reported Adam Herrman missing, Valerie Herrman told the paper, because Adam feared authorities would take Adam Herrman and Adam Herrman's siblings away because of the spanking.",
"Adam adopted Adam Herrman's two younger siblings as well, according to The Wichita Eagle.",
"\"Adam love Adam Herrman, and Adam made a terrible mistake\" by not reporting Adam Herrman missing, Valerie Herrman told The Wichita Eagle.",
"Adam said Adam searched the mobile home park and other areas for two days after Adam Herrman left.",
"\"Then Adam came to the conclusion that the police probably have Adam Herrman, and the police're coming to Adam, probably to get Adam in trouble,\" Valerie Herrman told the newspaper, but the police never came.\"",
"Authorities have searched an empty lot in the Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park where the family lived.",
"There, police found an \"answer\" to one of police's questions, the Butler County sheriff said Monday without elaborating.",
"the sheriff said that on December 15, authorities also searched Adam's homes in Derby, outside of Wichita, and took Adam's computer, the sheriff said.",
"The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released an age-progression picture that depicts Adam as Adam Herrman might appear now: a young man with blue eyes and light-colored hair.",
"Adam Herrman had been placed in Adam's care when Adam Herrman was about 2, the Butler County sheriff said Monday.",
"Adam Herrman had been named Irvin Groeninger III when Adam Herrman was born June 8, 1987, the Butler County sheriff said, and it was not clear when Adam Herrman's name was changed.",
"Adam Herrman's biological parents relinquished His biological parents's rights as parents about two decades ago, and Adam and Adam Herrman's siblings were put in foster homes, CNN affiliate KWCH reported.",
"\"I thought what I was doing for them was in the best interest of the children, and evidently it wasn't,\" Irvin Groeninger, Adam Herrman's biological father, told CNN affiliate KWCH.",
"\"If Adam Herrman was still in my custody, this would have never happened.\"",
"Adam Herrman's sister, Tiffany Broadfoot, 22, said she had last seen her brother about 14 years ago at a birthday party.",
"\"Adam Herrman had the cutest little round face, little-bitty freckles right up here on the tip of Adam Herrman's cheek,\" she told the station.",
"CNN's Taylor Gandossy contributed to this report."
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"Attorney says parents \"rue the fact\" parents didn't report him missing .",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"The number of stray and abandoned dogs in the United Kingdom jumped by 11 percent in the past year -- the biggest surge in a decade -- possibly because of the financial crisis, a British dog charity said Wednesday.",
"A dog looks through the door of A dog's kennel at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in LONDON.",
"Dogs Trust said local authorities picked up 107,228 stray and abandoned dogs from British streets in the past year.",
"Dogs Trust called on the government to make microchipping compulsory for all dogs to help reunite owners with pets, whether lost or abandoned.",
"\"The latest stray dog survey is very disappointing,\" said Clarissa Baldwin, chief executive of Dogs Trust.",
"\"Even more tragically is the number of dogs that are being put down, which has gone up from 7,000 to just below 10,000, a very worrying trend.\"",
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"Send us your thoughts .",
"The 11 percent rise is the highest yearly increase since recordkeeping began in 1997, Dogs Trust said.",
"The 11 percent rise may be due to the financial crisis, Dogs Trust said.",
"Some households tighten Some households's belts by giving up the dog.",
"Another possible reason for the jump: England and Wales last year changed the law to make local councils, not police, responsible for taking in stray dogs, Dogs Trust said.",
"Cash-strapped councils might lack resources to pick up or temporarily shelter dogs.",
"\"You've got a lot of latchkey dogs that are just left to wander the streets,\" said Natalie Dexter, who works at the education center at Dogs Trust.",
"\"Their homes aren't secure, gardens aren't secure, and so they're just left to wander around.\"",
"Local authorities handle an average of 12 dogs each hour, Dogs Trust said.",
"Only five are reunited with their owners -- a number that could increase if more dogs were microchipped, Dogs Trust said.",
"A microchip is an electronic device, coated in plastic, that is the size of a grain of rice.",
"A microchip is implanted just under a dog's skin, beneath its shoulder blades, which causes no harm to the animal and cannot be felt, veterinarians and campaigners say.",
"A microchip carries the owner's information, which can be updated.",
"the owner's information, which can be updated can be read by a scanner that works through a radio frequency."
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"ACCRA, Ghana (CNN)",
"-- Obama reached out to Africa on Saturday with a wide-ranging address praising Africa's steady achievements, but Obama called Africa's persistent violent conflicts \"a millstone around Africa's neck.\"",
"Obama speaks before Ghana's Parliament on Saturday.",
"\"Despite the progress that has been made -- and there has been considerable progress in parts of Africa -- we also know that much of that promise has yet to be fulfilled,\" Obama said in a speech to the parliament of Ghana, a western African nation seen as a model of democracy and growth for the rest of Africa.",
"Ghana was the first sub-Saharan nation to gain independence, in 1957, and Obama continually cited Ghana during Obama's speech for Ghana's stability, political strides and painstaking economic progress.",
"Ghana's stability stands in contrast to other hot spots on the continent, such as Zimbabwe, where the society is in economic and political turmoil; Sudan, where fighting rages in the Darfur region; and Somalia, where a shaky transitional government is now battling an Islamic insurgency.",
"Ghana, with a population of 24 million, was once a major slave trading center.",
"Obama visited the Cape Coast Castle, a British outpost where slaves were held until shipped overseas, along with Obama's daughters.",
"Watch Obama's remark after touring Cape Coast Castle » .",
"\"I think it was particularly important for Malia and Sasha, who are being raised in a very blessed way, that history can take some cruel turns,\" Obama said.",
"\"And hopefully, one of the things that was imparted to them during this trip is their sense of obligation to fight oppression and cruelty wherever it appears.\"",
"Obama, whose father was Kenyan, compared the history to that of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany's efforts to exterminate the Jews of Europe during World War II.",
"\"It's one of those things that you don't forget about,\" Obama told CNN in an interview scheduled to air Monday on \"Anderson Cooper 360.\"",
"\"I think it's important that the way we think about it, the way it's taught, is not one in which there's simply a victim and a victimizer, and that's the end of the story,\" Obama said.",
"\"I think the way it has to be thought about, the reason it's relevant, is whether it's what's happening in Darfur or what's happening in the Congo or what's happening in too many places around the world, the capacity for cruelty still exists.\" Watch how Ghana is celebrating the Obamas' visit » .",
"But Obama told lawmakers that Ghana now shows \"a face of Africa that is too often overlooked by a world that sees only tragedy or the need for charity.\"",
"While the nation-building the country exemplifies may lack \"drama of the 20th century's liberation struggles,\" Obama said \"it will ultimately be more significant.\"",
"As Obama has in past remarks, including Obama's Cairo address last month about U.S.-Muslim relations, Obama stressed the superiority of governments that \"respect the will of governments's own people,\" saying governments foster more prosperity and stability than governments that don't.",
"Watch Obama deliver speech to Ghanaian lawmakers » .",
"\"No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top, or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt,\" he said.",
"\"No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery.",
"That is not democracy, that is tyranny, even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there.\"",
"Even Kenya, Obama's father's homeland, continues to struggle with tribalism and corruption, Obama said.",
"Kenya \"had a per-capita economy larger than South Korea's when I was born\" and now, Obama says, Kenya has been \"badly outpaced.\"",
"But Obama said Kenya has restored stability after the violence that followed the disputed 2007 election.",
"South Africa has had high voter turnout in recent elections, and Zimbabwe's Election Support Network has defended the right to vote.",
"Watch report on Ghanaians' reaction to Obama's remarks » .",
"\"Make no mistake: history is on the side of these brave Africans, and not with those who use coups or change constitutions to stay in power.",
"Africa doesn't need strongmen, Africa needs strong institutions,\" Obama said.",
"Obama said Obama's administration will work \"to support those who act responsibly and to isolate those who don't, and that is exactly what America will do.\"",
"As for the economy and opportunity, Obama said African nations need to stop focusing on one particular commodity, such as oil or cocoa, and \"promote multiple export industries, develop a skilled work force, and create space for small and medium-sized businesses that create jobs.\"",
"Obama cited \"our $3.5 billion food security initiative\" and said \"new methods and technologies for farmers -- not simply sending American producers or goods to Africa\" is what is needed.",
"See where Ghana is located » .",
"Obama also made reference to climate and energy challenges, saying the developed world should work with Africa to confront such problems.",
"Obama said Africa has much potential to exploit Africa's wind and solar power and geothermal energy and biofuels.",
"As for disease, Obama said strides are being made in dealing with HIV/AIDS and malaria, but \"too many still die from diseases that shouldn't kill them.\"",
"Obama also indicated that there need to be ways to keep African doctors and nurses from going overseas and creating gaps in primary care.",
"\"When children are being killed because of a mosquito bite, and mothers are dying in childbirth, then we know that more progress must be made.\"",
"Obama said Obama's administration has committed $63 billion to fight disease, praising the \"strong efforts\" of Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush.",
"Watch Ed Henry's report Obama's emotional visit to Africa » .",
"Obama welcomed efforts by the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States to help resolve conflict.",
"Obama said the United States \"will stand behind efforts to hold war criminals accountable\" and that the Pentagon's Africa Command will fight \"common challenges to advance the security of America, Africa and the world.\"",
"Watch Obama's remarks as Obama's visit to Ghana concludes » .",
"\"We all have many identities -- of tribe and ethnicity; of religion and nationality.",
"But defining oneself in opposition to someone who belongs to a different tribe, or who worships a different prophet, has no place in the 21st century,\" Obama said.",
"\"Africa's diversity should be a source of strength, not a cause for division.",
"We are all God's children,\" Obama said."
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"Singer Mary J. Blige has sung Singer Mary J. Blige's way to nine Grammy Awards and sold 40 million albums worldwide.",
"\"I know I'm definitely gonna pursue this as a profession, acting,\" Singer Mary J. Blige said.",
"With music credentials like that, the \"Queen of Hip-Hop Soul\" needed a new challenge.",
"So Singer Mary J. Blige decided to stretch Singer Mary J. Blige's range to the big screen.",
"The singer stars in the new Tyler Perry film \"I Can Do Bad All By Myself\" alongside Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, Tyler Perry and Gladys Knight.",
"Being in the film allows Singer Mary J. Blige to test Singer Mary J. Blige's acting chops and sing as well.",
"Singer Mary J. Blige's character, Tanya, is a club owner who takes the mic at least twice in the film.",
"And whether Singer Mary J. Blige's in character or not, Singer Mary J. Blige's ability to communicate a song can take your breath away.",
"CNN spoke with Singer Mary J. Blige about Tyler Perry, Singer Mary J. Blige's acting angst and music.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview: .",
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"What does the title of the film \"I Can Do Bad All By Myself\" mean?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"Well, the title \"I Can Do Bad All By Myself\" is basically saying \"I don't need anyone to help me do worse or feel worse than what I already feel.\"",
"So if you're coming with negative energy, please keep it moving, you know?",
"If you're coming with negative deposits, you've gotta go.",
"That's basically what it's saying.",
"CNN:",
"Were you nervous about acting in the film?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"I was definitely nervous, because acting is not my first profession, so I had to go and get an acting coach and really figure this thing out.",
"It helped a lot.",
"It relaxed me to have a little more information about this thing.",
"And I find that actors are highly underrated; actors don't get all the credit actors deserve, because this is a hard job.",
"That's a hard job.",
"CNN:",
"Were you bitten by the acting bug?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige: Well, I'm gonna be open to scripts, and I'm ready to receive more scripts from anywhere.",
"I know I'm definitely gonna pursue this as a profession, acting.",
"I was definitely bitten by the acting bug.",
"CNN:",
"Did you feel any pressure to write songs for the film, as opposed to writing for one of your albums?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"There's not any pressure in writing songs.",
"Writing a song for the movie versus writing songs for my album because ... you get it all from inspiration from somewhere, you know?",
"I got all the lyrics from the actual movie, and I got all the lyrics for my songs from my life so, and other people's lives.",
"CNN:",
"Do you want to hear poetry in your lyrics?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige: I would love to hear poetry in your lyrics.",
"CNN:",
"Tell me about Tyler Perry.",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"Wow, working with Tyler Perry was -- it's always a treat.",
"Tyler Perry's the most kind, generous, you know, supportive professional man.",
"Tyler Perry's a really good person to have in such a tough business.",
"It's like a pillow for your head.",
"... You just get to lay on it after laying on rocks for so long.",
"CNN:",
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"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
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"Whether it be gospel or secular, but it all comes from some song that pulled you through your life or helped you through college or something like that.",
"CNN:",
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"Do you think people can really change?",
"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"I definitely feel the film is a lot about redemption.",
"You saving yourself first of all, and believing you can be saved and wanting the help.",
"I think it takes time for people to heal from whatever wounds people're healing from.",
"But in order to get free, what I learned is that you have to release it, because you'll stay stuck for the rest of your life.",
"What if this person is enjoying their lives and you hate them?",
"So it's just best to release.",
"Easier said than done, please believe it.",
"CNN:",
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"Singer Mary J. Blige:",
"Well, I mean, the music industry has moved with the times.",
"You know, I mean we are in the age where technology has taken over and music is technology now, so it's not hands-on.",
"It's a little sad that there isn't any more record stores."
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"(CNN) --",
"Facing the world after an isolating and traumatic experience is often stressful, especially for those who have been away for a long time.",
"Jaycee Dugard, here at the 1991 Rose Bowl parade, was abducted later that year.",
"Jaycee Dugard is reuniting with Dugard's close relatives for the first time in 18 years, after having been found on August 27.",
"Jaycee Dugard was 11 years old when Jaycee Dugard was abducted in 1991 from a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California.",
"Jaycee Dugard allegedly was kept in a series of backyard sheds by a convicted sex offender and gave birth to two children in captivity.",
"A bail review hearing is scheduled for Monday in El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville, California, for Phillip and Nancy Garrido, who face charges related to Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping.",
"In Illinois, Shannon Wilfong is charged with child abduction, allegedly having forced 6-year-old Richard K. Wilfong Chekevdia to live in seclusion and be hidden, at times in crawl spaces and the attic, for nearly two years, according to court documents.",
"In concealing 6-year-old Richard K. Wilfong Chekevdia, Shannon Wilfong violated the terms of a court order that granted joint custody of the child to Michael Chekevdia, court documents said.",
"6-year-old Richard K. Wilfong Chekevdia is staying with 6-year-old Richard K. Wilfong Chekevdia's father's family under child welfare supervision, according to CNN affiliate WSIL.",
"The situations of Dugard and 6-year-old Richard K. Wilfong Chekevdia are extreme cases of people emerging from isolation and returning to the real world.",
"The people who have been away often feel conflicted about leaving the situation The people who have been away've acclimated to in order to rejoin the loved ones The people who have been away've left behind, experts not connected to the cases tell CNN.",
"Sometimes children involved in custody disputes are taught to hate children involved in custody disputes's father or mother, and \"extreme tactics\" may be used, although usually not to the extent of hiding a child in crawl spaces, said Jay Lebow, psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.",
"\"While this case is obviously the rarest of things, other children are certainly exposed to many traumas that have meaning connected to this,\" Jay Lebow, psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University said.",
"The case of Jaycee Dugard .",
"Jaycee Dugard is spending time in \"a secluded place, reconnecting\" with Jaycee Dugard's mother and younger sister, said Jaycee Dugard's aunt, Tina Dugard, in a statement on behalf of Jaycee Dugard's family.",
"\"This is a joyful time for Dugard,\" Jaycee Dugard said.",
"\"Jaycee Dugard remembers all of us.\"",
"Watch for more on Dugard » .",
"But a person in Jaycee Dugard's situation would most likely have both positive and negative feelings about leaving the only environment Dugard's known for 18 years and coming back to Dugard's family, psychologists say.",
"\"Jaycee Dugard's going to have a lot of mixed feelings about returning to Jaycee Dugard's family of origin because Jaycee Dugard's spent almost two decades with a different family,\" said Margo Napoletano, a child and family psychologist in San Diego, California.",
"After allegedly being confined for 18 years, Jaycee Dugard probably would find the outside world frightening, Jay Lebow, psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University said.",
"\"You get to know this world you live in -- it may be a terrible world, but it's the world you know,\" Jay Lebow, psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University said.",
"Experts say Jaycee Dugard may have developed what is known as Stockholm syndrome, in which kidnapping victims identify with kidnapping victims's captors.",
"Learning to live with and even like the perpetrator has survival value, Napoletano said, and also explains why someone like Jaycee Dugard probably would feel somewhat torn about returning to Jaycee Dugard's original family.",
"Learn about other cases of missing children » .",
"\"It's a concept that explains why a kidnapped victim would stay with a perpetrator even though they had an opportunity to leave,\" Napoletano said.",
"\"They opt to stay because it's their comfort zone.\"",
"But Johanna Tabin, a psychologist in Glencoe, Illinois, said Jaycee Dugard's readjustment will depend on how Jaycee Dugard was treated in captivity.",
"Police said Phillip Garrido, one of Jaycee Dugard's alleged abductors, is believed to be the father of Jaycee Dugard's two daughters, and his relationship to Jaycee Dugard -- whether he framed their alleged sexual encounters as violent or seductive -- will influence Jaycee Dugard's feelings about leaving that situation, Tabin said.",
"It is also important to know how Jaycee Dugard felt about Jaycee Dugard's family before Jaycee Dugard was taken away, Tabin said.",
"\"Did Jaycee Dugard secretly mourn Dugard?\" Tabin asked.",
"\"Did Jaycee Dugard feel Jaycee Dugard stepped on a different planet where Jaycee Dugard was all of a sudden a grown-up 11-year-old and wasn't being treated anymore like a child?\"",
"Jaycee Dugard's family members may have constantly wondered what Dugard could have done differently to prevent the kidnapping, Tabin said.",
"At the same time, someone in Dugard's situation may have asked Dugard at the outset, \"Why did they let me get kidnapped?\"",
"Jay Lebow, psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University said.",
"There is an infinite range of responses, but more information about Jaycee Dugard's feelings growing up and in captivity would inform how Jaycee Dugard adjusts to Jaycee Dugard's new life, Tabin said.",
"The situation is likely also difficult for Jaycee Dugard's two daughters, born to Jaycee Dugard in captivity, who have never met Jaycee Dugard's family before, Napoletano said.",
"\"It's basically like a wild child who may have had some contact with civilization, but basically is having to start life all over again, and that may be overwhelming to them at first,\" Napoletano said.",
"Napoletano said Napoletano would suggest to a family like Jaycee Dugard's to be accepting and supportive, and not ask a lot of questions.",
"\"Go about your daily life as usual for the most part, and take the lead from the therapist, one small step at a time,\" Napoletano said.",
"Jay Lebow, psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University advises them against looking for some sudden moment of reconnection, but rather to be loving and patient.",
"Coming back from combat .",
"Jaycee Dugard's reuniting with Dugard's family could also be likened to a soldier coming back from a \"hellacious war,\" Jay Lebow, psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University said.",
"A recent survey of military spouses of deployed Army soldiers with school-age children found that the return from deployment is the most stressful, according to three-quarters of respondents.",
"Reunification brings excitement and relief, which is sometimes accompanied by emotional conflict, the surveyors said.",
"Read more about the study .",
"In the military, bonds of brotherhood form as people face dangers together, Tabin said.",
"When service members come home, service members may find life \"shallower,\" and feel that service members are not the same people as when service members left, Tabin said.",
"In a case where a husband has been away at war and returns to a husband's wife, the desire to understand one another's feelings is fundamental, Tabin said.",
"\"She wants to be understanding, a husband wants to be able to shove it aside, then a husband has nightmares, and she says, 'you're not setting it aside,' \" Tabin said.",
"\"Well, consciously a husband is -- a husband's not awake when a husband dreams.\"",
"Don't force the person who has been away to talk about their experiences, Napoletano said.",
"Napoletano also stressed that a family should try to normalize the life of the service member who has returned from war.",
"Waking up in the morning, going grocery shopping, washing clothes and doing other day-to-day activities help create a stable, comforting environment, Napoletano said."
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"People who return to their families after years away often feel conflicted about it .",
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"George Hamilton's is iconic, there's no doubt.",
"George Hamilton's gets George Hamilton's's life story on screen in \"My One and Only.\"",
"With the elegant suit and tie, the impeccable grooming, the tan (Did I mention the tan?), George Hamilton's is still a charmer, and George Hamilton's comes across like a born bon vivant.",
"Sure, George Hamilton's's acting may have taken a backseat to George Hamilton's's bronzed visage years ago, but what did happen to George Hamilton's years ago?",
"Well, there's a story there, one now coming to the big screen.",
"George Hamilton's's formative years are loosely depicted in the film \"My One and Only,\" opening in wide release September 4.",
"\"My One and Only\" has the style of a film produced during Hollywood's golden age, but the tale is easily relatable to today.",
"In the film, George Hamilton's's mother, Anne, played by Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger, walks in on his mother's bandleader husband and another woman.",
"his mother hits the road in a brand new Cadillac Coupe de Ville with his mother's two sons, George and Robbie, en route to find a new husband and a new life.",
"Watch a preview of 'My One and Only' » .",
"George Hamilton's, 70, spoke with CNN about the film, old Hollywood and his mother.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN:",
"There is a lot of heartache in this story.",
"Why did you want to share it?",
"George Hamilton's: I don't know that I really did want to share it.",
"It's a fictional story based on a real story loosely about me.",
"And I went to the movie to hate it.",
"And I looked at the movie and I thought, my God, [Zellweger] looks nothing like his mother, but she was able to portray the emotions just the way it was then.",
"I couldn't speak.",
"I was completely overwhelmed by what Renee did.",
"That's a great actress.",
"CNN:",
"Do you think that his mother shaped your life more than your father?",
"George Hamilton's:",
"I think they're kind of like sand and a rock, kind of -- you keep rubbing up against them and they form you.",
"I knew that I was the man of the family from the time I was 10, 12 -- you know, I had to be.",
"But I knew I had to get away from it.",
"So I signed onto military school.",
"Then his mother said, if you're bad I'm sending you to your father, and I said, send me.",
"I ... lived a whole year with your father --",
"I got to know your father, I got to understand the two sides to the story.",
"his mother didn't say bad things about your father.",
"I presumed that your father was this foreign person who left and abandoned us.",
"your father didn't at all.",
"And when I made it in Hollywood and I didn't want to be an actor, there they arrived.",
"It was their triumph, not mine.",
"I wanted to be a doctor.",
"CNN:",
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"George Hamilton's: That's a very good question.",
"No, I didn't, I didn't get his mother.",
"What I knew was I would work -- I was ... with people who had millions of dollars, and people who had millions of dollars just accepted me, and I would go out and buy a tuxedo in the thrift shop, and go to the coming-out party of a very wealthy socialite, and they would say oh, now chic.",
"You wore your grandfather's or your father's tuxedo.",
"And I had bought it for $5.",
"And I realized there was a whole reverse way of acting, and people just presumed you were old money, and I played that.",
"That was my game.",
"But when I looked at his mother I realized that his mother was born almost like a child, with the theory that we would be divinely supported.",
"Always trust that, don't be afraid.",
"Poverty, or [being] poor, is a mentality, it's like fog, it's all around you.",
"his mother was broke, but that's just a temporary deal -- that's a bad hand in the poker game, if you're gonna sit through two more you can win.",
"And that's how I looked at it.",
"CNN:",
"What was old Hollywood like?",
"Hamilton:",
"Well, Hollywood was mythological.",
"Hollywood was a place [that] the first day, I saw Robert Mitchum sitting at a table and Robert Mitchum looked at me and said, \"I know they say I don't know my lines.",
"It's not true.",
"I'm just too drunk to say them.\"",
"And I thought, oh, that's an interesting man.",
"Next Fred Astaire walks by, \"Hello,\" and I stopped: \"Hello, Mr. Astaire\" -- God I love that guy -- and I see Cary Grant sitting down.",
"And he said, \"You've got a nice suntan.",
"Do you like the sun?\"",
"I said \"Well, yeah, I love the sun.\" ...",
"He was so incredible.",
"And I saw Gary Cooper, Ty Power, Clark Gable, and then Gary Cooper, Ty Power, Clark Gable disappeared.",
"You talk about \"Gone With the Wind,\" Hollywood disappeared!",
"And I had envisioned this because I was the last of the contract players, and I wanted to be like the contract players, but the contract players were gone!",
"And all the sudden I'm seeing Marlon Brandos, and Monty Clifts, and then a whole generation of soft young men, the Beat Generation or whatever.",
"I couldn't relate to them then.",
"Because I had related to what my mother and brother had seen years before.",
"And that's all I ever wanted to be.",
"CNN:",
"There can never be another old Hollywood.",
"George Hamilton's:",
"No, but there can be older people in Hollywood, and that's where I am now.",
"Just before death they turn you into an icon.",
"And the other day I got a star on Hollywood Boulevard and I thought, God this is pretty good, and then it scared me because I thought, they give these things to you before it's all over.",
"CNN:",
"And did you learn to love acting?",
"George Hamilton's: Acting has always been something for George Hamilton's that's been a romp.",
"I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.",
"I used to take the script and if it was heavy I'd give it to George Peppard and if it was nice and light, if it was a western, a few words, I'd take it.",
"That's the way I looked at it.",
"I wasn't a great actor, it wasn't my style.",
"I just loved being an actor."
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"space shuttle was waved off from space shuttle's first chance to land Friday afternoon because of unstable weather near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said.",
"space shuttle's landing in Florida was delayed Thursday, shown.",
"A first attempt Friday was called off, too.",
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"The next opportunity to land in Florida would come at 7:23 p.m. ET; however, Mission Control told the shuttle crew the forecast for that time \"looks about the same.\"",
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"Cuban revolutionary Juan Almeida, was among only a handful of surviving Cuban leaders who still bore the title \"Commander of the Cuban Revolution.\"",
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"Below is an excerpt from HLN \"Morning Express\" anchor Robin Meade's's new book, Morning Sunshine!: How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It Too published by Hachette Book Group.",
"The following takes place when Robin Meade's was working as a weekend anchor in Chicago, Illinois.",
"Robin Meade's's book \"Morning Sunshine!: How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It Too\" hits shelves September 10.",
"I looked down at the copy of the news story.",
"My stomach clenched.",
"My heart started palpitating.",
"I think I held my breath without realizing it.",
"The floor director gave me the cue, pointing at me as the camera came up on Robin Meade's's face.",
"I felt sweaty.",
"Just as I opened my mouth to speak, the set seemed to fade into a gauzy haze.",
"My breathing was jagged.",
"The words came, but my voice was quivering so much it sounded like a kid singing into a big box fan on a humid summer day: \"Bray-ay-ay-ay-king new-ew-ew-ews tonigh-igh-ight.\"",
"My hands shook uncontrollably, and I was huffing and puffing as if I were running mile twenty five of the Chicago Marathon.",
"These were not the controlled, measured tones of someone who had been doing this for a living for years.",
"My heart pounded in my ears, and Robin Meade's's face flushed.",
"I was losing it, right there with who knows how many thousands of people watching.",
"What the hell is happening?",
"As I delivered the facts of the story, I didn't hear a thing that came out of my mouth.",
"All I heard were Robin Meade's's own thoughts.",
"Oh, no, you're screwing up!",
"Oh, no, your bosses are probably watching!",
"You're going to get fired!",
"How will you pay your mortgage?",
"What will people think of you?",
"And then, of course, Holy crapola, where is that sound bite?",
"Can you see how the cause-and-effect relationship of Robin Meade's's thoughts just engulfed me in doom and gloom?",
"I couldn't keep my mind on the story.",
"I totally slipped into imagining the future and the horrible repercussions of my screwup.",
"CNN's Virginia Cha talks to Robin Meade's about Robin Meade's on-air anxiety and Robin Meade's's upcoming book » .",
"Because I'm writing this today, you can tell that somehow I lived to see the sound bite that evening.",
"The whole looking-like-I-was-hopped-up-on-six-energy-drinks episode lasted only seconds.",
"But it seemed like an eternity.",
"Now Josh, the I'm-going-to-be-a-reporter-someday crew member, and Michael, the I-really-want-to-be-a-rock-star prompter operator, were around me, wearing the same expression you'd have after witnessing a car wreck.",
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"Do you need a glass of water?\"",
"Josh's eyes were wide open, as if Josh really wanted to shout, \"Dude!\"",
"Josh didn't know what to make of this.",
"\"Yeah, please,\" I croaked.",
"My mouth was cotton.",
"I wished I had a trough to douse my head in instead of a tiny Dixie cup of water.",
"\"Everything okay out there?\" the producer chimed in on my IFB, the earpiece through which the producer and director talk to anchors during the show without the folks at home hearing it.",
"What to say, what to say?",
"\"Oh, sorry about that.",
"Wow, that was weird!",
"I lost my breath or something.\"",
"I faked a half-laugh at the end of that statement for their benefit.",
"When Josh handed me the glass of water, I was surprised to see my hands were still trembling.",
"I noticed how incredibly weak I felt, and I noisily gulped down water the way my dog does at my dog's water bowl after my dog's been chasing squirrels for an hour.",
"Get it together, Robin!",
"Miraculously, by the time we came out of the video and I had to speak again, it was as if nothing had happened.",
"Except for feeling wiped out, I was back to sounding authoritative and in control, even tilting my head and smirking sheepishly as if to say, You'll forgive me for that little freak-out I just had.",
"The truth was, I was morbidly embarrassed -- the kind of embarrassed where you'd rather crawl under a rock than face people.",
"It wasn't the kind of embarrassment you can laugh off, as I could so easily when I was in high school show choir.",
"As the student body filed in for the Christmas assembly, I started jumping rope with a holiday garland.",
"I was standing out on the gymnasium floor, and with each leap over a holiday garland I felt a swish!",
"After a few times, I realized a holiday garland was catching my knee-length choir dress in the back and flicking the skirt hem waist-high, exposing my bum for the entire eighth grade seated behind Robin Meade's.",
"And laugh I did!",
"Wouldn't you know it?",
"The school photographer caught the moment: there I am in the 1987 yearbook laughing with my mouth wide open, my eyes as big as saucers, and my hands behind Robin Meade's, having just pushed the skirt back down.",
"I have no problem laughing at Robin Meade's in situations like that.",
"My point in telling you this embarrassing story is that you can see I don't have trouble laughing off most situations.",
"But my job?",
"That was another matter.",
"No, I was not going to be able to shrug off the \"breathing problem,\" as I had called the \"breathing problem, trying to minimize the \"breathing problem's impact, even though the \"breathing problem had completely bamboozled me on the air.",
"It was all I thought about after the show, driving down the darkened streets of Chicago's Streeterville to our condo, still gripped with humiliation.",
"I felt as though every tourist lugging her shopping bags from the Magnificent Mile back to her hotel, every vagrant panhandling for handouts, and every pedestrian who called the city home knew I had just made a complete fool of Robin Meade's.",
"My brain should have been full of concussions, I was beating Robin Meade's up so much.",
"How badly was I cursing Robin Meade's?",
"I didn't care to stop for my usual Cheesecake Factory late-night treat, let's put it that way.",
"My stomach was still in knots.",
"I didn't turn my eyes to gawk at the car pumping the thump-thitty-thump-thump bass at the stoplight, and I barely noticed anything around Robin Meade's on the drive home.",
"I couldn't even feign a smile for the friendly doorman as I entered our high-rise building.",
"The ride to the thirty-seventh floor seemed to take forever.",
"Every time the elevator halted and the door opened I held my breath, afraid the person joining me on the ride had seen the screwup and would ply me with questions.",
"Tim met me at the door.",
"Tim had seen the \"breathing problem\" on TV for Tim.",
"I learned later the \"breathing problem\" on TV bolted Tim upright from Tim's viewing perch on the couch.",
"\"Did you watch me?\" I asked, hoping Tim'd say, \"Oh, I sensed a little glitch on your part.\"",
"Instead Tim just nodded, and I saw the worried look on Tim's face.",
"Tim didn't say much.",
"Tim was waiting for me to go first.",
"I hesitated.",
"Finally, in the kind of voice you'd use to soothe a colicky baby, Tim asked, \"Honey, what happened?",
"Are you okay?\"",
"I didn't know the answer.",
"Excerpted from MORNING SUNSHINE!: How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It Too by Robin Meade's.",
"Copyright (c) 2009 by Robin Meade's.",
"Reprinted by permission of Center Street, a Division of Hachette Book Group.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) -- Six men, including a police officer, are facing homicide charges in last week's killing of French filmmaker and photographer Christian Poveda in El Salvador, the attorney general's office said.",
"French filmmaker Christian Poveda poses for a picture at a workshop in Mexico on August 29.",
"The suspect accused of ordering the slaying, Nelson Lazo Rivera, was already in prison, according to a statement Wednesday from the agency.",
"Officials gave no motive for the slaying and did not say why Lazo Rivera is incarcerated.",
"El Diario de Hoy newspaper said he is in prison for several murders, including three slayings in 2003 known as the massacre of Samcap.",
"Poveda, 53, had recently finished a documentary about a violent street gang, part of the Mara 18 criminal group in El Salvador.",
"He was found shot to death September 2 in the town of Tonacatepeque, about 10 miles northeast of the capital, San Salvador, authorities said.",
"Four of the suspects are members of the same Mara 18 gang that was the subject of French filmmaker Christian Poveda's film, the attorney general's office said.",
"Authorities identified them as Calixto Rigoberto Escobar (known as Toro), Jose Alejandro Melara (El Puma), Roberto Luis Romero (Tiger), and Miguel Angel Rosa (El Cholo).",
"National Civil Police Officer Juan Napoleon Espinoza also was arrested, the attorney general's office said.",
"Officials did not say what National Civil Police Officer Juan Napoleon Espinoza's involvement in the crime may have been.",
"But El Mundo, Diario Co Latino, El Faro and El Diario de Hoy newspapers said authorities believe National Civil Police Officer Juan Napoleon Espinoza told gang members French filmmaker Christian Poveda was giving information on the group to police.",
"According to El Diario de Hoy, police deputy director Mauricio Ramirez Landaverde said National Civil Police Officer Juan Napoleon Espinoza was a Mara 18 member, who would drink with other members in his free time and also was involved in giving other members weapons, ammunition and information.",
"Authorities said the suspects will be charged with aggravated homicide, proposition and conspiracy in the homicide and illicit associations.",
"Poveda's documentary, \"La Vida Loca,\" follows the lives of members of the Mara 18 gang.",
"Poveda's documentary, \"La Vida Loca has been screened at a handful of film festivals and is slated for wider release later this month.",
"French filmmaker Christian Poveda's body was found in an area controlled by that same gang, officials said.",
"the suspects had set up a meeting with French filmmaker Christian Poveda on August 30, at which time the suspects were supposed to kill French filmmaker Christian Poveda and bury French filmmaker Christian Poveda's body, El Mundo and El Diario de Hoy reported.",
"But French filmmaker Christian Poveda did not show, heightening gang members' suspicions that French filmmaker Christian Poveda was an informant.",
"French filmmaker Christian Poveda met with the suspects three days later and was shot by Romero, El Mundo said, but in the suspects's haste to get away the gang members forgot to bury French filmmaker Christian Poveda's body.",
"A funeral for French filmmaker Christian Poveda was held Wednesday in El Salvador before French filmmaker Christian Poveda's body was shipped to France.",
"A photograph of a younger Poveda, with shoulder-length hair, and a 35 mm digital camera were placed on the altar, next to a communion chalice.",
"\"This is a painful and brutal act.",
"Unacceptable,\" said Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez, the auxiliary bishop of El Salvador.",
"\"God moved Christian with French filmmaker Christian Poveda's work, awoke noble ideals.",
"French filmmaker Christian Poveda tried to film with French filmmaker Christian Poveda's camera in order to open the eyes of those whose eyes needed opening.\""
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Some $700 million in economic stimulus money intended to upgrade baggage screening systems at airports will go further than originally expected, Department of Homeland security officials said Wednesday.",
"-line baggage screening systems can process up to 500 bags an hour, compared to the 150 to 160 bags per hour on the older machines, Department of Homeland security said.",
"Department of Homeland security said the money will now upgrade systems at 10 additional airports.",
"Earlier this year Department of Homeland security announced funding for baggage screening at airports in 15 cities.",
"The money will be used to speed up construction of in-line baggage screening systems, which take advantage of the airline's existing conveyor belt systems to check bags, eliminating the need for minivan-size bomb detection systems now found in many airport lobbies.",
"Government auditors have long complained about existing systems, which the Transportation Security Administration rushed into place to meet congressional deadlines after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.",
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"That is more efficient than stand-alone systems, which the Department of Homeland security employees must staff.",
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"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a statement that DHS was able to \"stretch our resources\" by managing the recovery money and by negotiating with airports.",
"In addition to the $700 million intended for checked baggage systems, $300 million is being allocated for checkpoint technology, such as new X-ray machines, \"whole body imaging\" technology and bottled liquid scanners.",
"The new airports expected to get stimulus money for in-line explosive detection systems are: . • Washington Dulles International Airport (Chantilly, Virginia) • Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (St. Louis, Missouri) • Yellowstone Regional Airport (Cody, Wyoming) • William P. Hobby Airport (Houston, Texas) • St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport (St. Petersburg, Florida) • Gallatin Field Airport (Bozeman, Montana) • Little Rock National Airport (Little Rock, Arkansas) • Tulsa International Airport (Tulsa, Oklahoma) • Charlotte Douglas International Airport (Charlotte, North Carolina) • Colorado Springs Airport (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Earlier this year, DHS announced funding for airports in the following cities: Atlanta, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; Dayton, Ohio; Honolulu, Hawaii; Huntsville, Alabama; Jackson, Wyoming; Maui, Hawaii; New Orleans, Louisiana; Orange County, California; Orlando, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Maine; and Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose, California.",
"To learn more about the DHS Recovery Act projects, visit www.dhs.gov/recovery."
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